a record breaking heatwave sweeps spain as temperature hit 43 degrees celsius. authorities are on alert for thje possibilty of wildfires. in the wake of russia s invaion of ukraine, nato shares it comcerns about vulnerable members in eastern europe, we have a special report on the extremely close encounters ith the russian military. encounters with the russian military. and, a buzz lightyear animated film, featuring a same sex kiss, is banned in 14 middle eastern and asian countries. hello and welcome. the first flight taking migrants who entered the uk illegally to be resettled in rwanda is set to leave today. about seven people are expected to be on board, although three of them are understood to be planning to appeal. the head of the un refugee agency said the policy set a catastrophic precedent. our home editor mark easton has the story. dozens more asylum seekers arrived on the kent coast today, 37 men who the government says should potentially face removal to rwanda
number one side. good evening. a last minute legal challenge at the european court of human rights has cast doubt on whether the first flight this evening sending asylum seekers from britain to rwanda will go ahead. the court in strasbourg has issued an order blocking the removal of one of the handful of individuals expected to be on board, among them iraqi kurds and iranians. the bbc understands that the home office in london now thinks that the court could prevent any planned removals today. the government insists the flights are necessary to deter people trafficking gangs helping thousands cross the channel. here s our home editor mark easton. the flight to an uncertain future is ready for take off. just a handful of asylum seekers will be forced to board this evening, seven at most, each with a one way ticket to rwanda, a country they have never been to and don t wish to go to. awnd this is why, this morning more than 300 people arrived in dover having attempted to cr
from taking dangerous and unnecessaryjourneys from safe countries and will undermine the criminal operations of people smugglers. it is in the public interest, she says. but ministers believe that even if only a single asylum seeker is aboard, the flight could be a game changer in dealing with what they call illegal immigration. mark easton, bbc news, at the court of appeal. our correspondent anne soy is at the hope hostel in the rwandan capital, kigali where the migrants will stay. reparations have going on here in rwanda and how the government says it is ready to receive asylum seekers from the uk. the first group to arrive will be hosted here, the hope hostel. the government says this is not a detention facility. asylum seekers can leave the premises, interact to the local community and we asked them how free will they be and the answer i got is, as free as any rwandan. as long as
is taking what we assume are those asylum seekers into the base ready for that flight tonight. it was seven, it was going to be three iranians, two iraqi kurds in albanian and vietnamese, we don t know which nationality is now not on that flight. it spun down from 76, as a result of this intervention by the european court of human rights. one imagines this is very much a still life legal matter and for their injunctions issued by this european court of human rights could follow, that number could dwindle even further from sex. maybe down below that, but so far, as we understand officially, the fight is due to take off on it 6300 mile journey from here arriving in rwanda for asylum seekers on board. for asylum seekers on boa rd. sometime for asylum seekers on board. sometime early tomorrow morning, and they are destined after that to a place called the hope hostel. duncan, thank you very much for that update and we will stay right across