for routine treatment in england is now almost 6 million. the scottish government delivers its budget with the fiannce secretary insisting it will provide people with stability and support as the country seeks to recover from coronavirus. and after 17 years it s back we look ahead to the return of the iconic sex and the city to uk screens tonight. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is facing yet more scrutiny today over claims of other christmas parties and now fresh questions over whether he misled an investigation into how refurbishments to his downing street flat were paid for.
in england are the worst on record nhs leaders say patients are being put at risk. the snp s finance secretary delivers the scottish budget kate forbes insists it will provide people with stability and support as the country seeks to recover from coronavirus. a bbc investigation finds british rubbish is being illegally shipped to romania and dumped. and after 17 years it s back. we look ahead to the return of the iconic sex and the city to uk screens tonight.. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government has confirmed the investigation into a party in downing street last december will also look at two other gatherings, allegedly held while restrictions on meeting indoors were in place.
contact with the smuggler. an automatic message came out saying, thanks for the communication. souza the iraqi at your service. so i m going to ask him the possibilities to cross from france to uk. soon after, driving towards calais, there s a message from the man calling himself souza the iraqi. so now he s back writing to me and his response was, walaikum assalam, darling. and he wrote also 2,000 euros each person. and, unprompted, he sends us video after video. migrants being rescued by border force, on an english beach, shouting his praises. the arabic text reads, reached britain, thank god, souza the iraqi.
have often arrived here first. after what s happened, a lot of the smugglers are lying low. but we ve been given a phone number for a man who s offering to get migrants across the channel to the uk still. i m going to team up with a colleague to try and get in touch with this man. i meet our arabic speaking colleague in a paris suburb. because of his continuing work investigating the gangs, he doesn t want to be identified. he s now ready to make contact with the smuggler. an automatic message came out saying, thanks for the communication. souza the iraqi at your service. so i m going to ask him the possibilities to cross from france to uk. soon after, driving towards calais, there s a message from the man calling himself souza the iraqi. so now he s back writing to me and his response was, walaikum assalam, darling. and he wrote also 2,000 euros each person.
and i think we are seeing huge scenes of desperation play out, but the west should hang its head in shame. we are taking afghanistan to another civil war after two decades. lise war after two decades. use because the war after two decades. use because the chair war after two decades. use because the chair the - because the chair the parliamentary defence committee, you have been in parliament for 16 years, on the conservative benches, the conservative benches, the conservative party has been running the uk foreign policy for more than half of the period in which uk troops have beenin period in which uk troops have been in afghanistan, so when you talk about shame, when you talk about failure, do you acknowledge that your own party must own that failure when it comes to uk policy? we must own that failure when it comes to uk policy? we need to ut this comes to uk policy? we need to put this into comes to uk policy? we need to put this into perspective - comes to uk policy? we need