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
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 code says ministers should not break the law. downing street was considering suspending it and asked for his advice. for lord geidt, this was the last straw. on friday, borisjohnson escaped these domestic distractions to spend the day in kyiv. these domestic distractions he is one of the allies of ukraine championing international law as a tool to bring to account rations for actions taken nations for actions ta
crimes, the fact is it was a war crime to invade in 2014. full stop, yeah. it was a war crime to shoot down a civilian airliner, it was a war crime to take crimea, and it s a war crime to go back in again. the whole act is a war crime as well as all the individual atrocities we have seen left, right and centre. can i get a bit of clarification on geography because i m not clear about this and i suspect a lot of people listening won t be, either. the donbas region is that basically the area that includes both luhansk and donetsk, the two self decla red republics? it s an eastern area, it s quite mining, heavy industry, used to be quite prosperous. the two oblasts, luhansk which is nearly captured apart from this tiny pocket of resistance around severodonetsk and another cityjust over the water, and then donetsk. but even in donetsk, the trenches i visited injanuary, in a place called avdiivka, which is a few miles away from donetsk, still they are fighting over this
after their heroic fight against this invading power and the atrocities and when we talk about war crimes, the fact is it was a war crime to invade in 2014. full stop, yeah. it was a war crime to shoot down a civilian airliner, it was a war crime to take crimea, and it s a war crime to go back in again. the whole act is a war crime as well as all the individual atrocities we have seen left, right and centre. can i get a bit of clarification on geography because i m not clear about this and i suspect a lot of people listening won t be, either. the donbas region is that basically the area includes both luhansk and donetsk, the self declared republics? it s an eastern area, it s quite mining, heavy industry, used to be quite prosperous. the two oblasts, luhansk which is nearly captured apart from this tiny pocket of resistance around severodonetsk and another cityjust over the water, and then donetsk. but even in donetsk, the trenches i visited injanuary, in a place called