his coalition, ensemble , lost around a hundred seats, with major gains for both marine le pen s far right party and a new alliance led by far left leaderjean luc melenchon. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was conside
by indian politicians. at least three people were killed. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steel manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules of the world trade organization. the cod
international law in- australia is not adhered to. and they then began to turnj back the boats, to tow them back to indonesia. they put them in orangel lifeboats and said, it s up to you if you get back safely. they would be given enough fuel to make it to indonesia. - so that s ultimately in australia s case i what stopped the boats. so in the end, international law didn t count for anything because they were signatories to all these conventions but they decided, for their domestic political reasons, that was going to be. but it s fair to say, as you said, the policy worked in its own terms. absolutely. it stopped people coming, it made it so unpleasant, the chances of ever getting to australia. i think this is an - important distinction. deterrence didn t - completely stop boats. there is lots of research i and statistics to show this, because even after labor. unwound the pacific solution then tried to reinstate it, that still never - stopped the boats. it was messaging and campaign
they put them in orangel lifeboats and said, it s up to you if you get back safely. they would be given enough fuel to make it to indonesia. - so that s ultimately in australia s case i what stopped the boats. so in the end, international law didn t count for anything because they were signatories to all these conventions but they decided, for their domestic political reasons, that was going to be. but it s fair to say, as you said, the policy worked in its own terms. absolutely. it stopped people coming, it made it so unpleasant, the chances of ever getting to australia. i think this is an - important distinction. deterrence didn t - completely stop boats. there is lots of research i and statistics to show this, because even after labour. unwound the pacific solution then tried to reinstate it, that still never - stopped the boats. it was messaging and campaigns in all these areas to tell - people not to come on a boat, you won t get to australia, - you could die. it didn t stop them.