after they went missing. and, the wait is almost over super fans are poised online as tickets for eurovision go on sale later. hello and welcome to bbc news. welcome to viewers here in the uk and around the world. britain s home secretary, suella braverman, has accepted the government is pushing the boundaries of international law with new legislation aimed at stopping asylum seekers crossing the english channel in small boats. it s thought the measures, being introduced in parliament today, and which put a legal duty on ministers to remove anyone who enters the uk illegally would face legal challenges. here s our political correspondent, iain watson: five years ago, fewer than 300 migrants attempted to cross the channel in a small boat. last year, more than 16,000 undertook the hazardous journey. and as the numbers grew, so too did the political pressure on the government. so injanuary this year, the prime minister made this pledge. we will pass new laws to stop small
this invisible hand. it s pretty obvious he s talking about the us there. but the accusation of this invisible hand wanted the conflict to continue in ukraine for its own geopolitical ends. so this is a very serious allegation being levelled at the us that it wants the war there to keep going. you know, in recent times we ve had a lot of tension between washington and beijing and it does seem to continue to deteriorate. it seems it was not that long ago that there was to be this visit by the us secretary of state to beijing to try to repair relations. and yet now we have this tension increasing and even more dire warnings coming from the chinese side as to what this tension could lead to. 0ur asia pacific editor, celia hatton is here.
criticism of washington saying that the balloon incident is just one of a series of american actions which show that the us is trying to encircle and contain his country. it appears to be part of a concerted effort by the chinese leadership, which is gathered in beijing for the national people s congress. 0ur china correspondent, stephen mcdonell explains how the chinese foreign minister says the west encircling china is proving to be a serious threat. this has been a very high profile, two pronged attack on the us from the chinese government, not only involving the foreign minister but also the supreme leader, xijinping, no less. he made a speech in which he said that the west, as led by the us, was encircling and containing china and that this represented a serious threat for this country. now we don t know a lot more about what he said
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what celia hatton is here. are your thoughts on the language what are your thoughts on the language being used by china here? shocking language, really, when it is coming directly from the mouth of xijinping. the most powerful man in china. it was so surprising to read those words coming out of his mouth that i had to double check that it really was his name attributed to these quotes. in my career of watching china, 20 years now, i have never seen him use such, are any chinese leader use such direct language to release single out the united states play so much blame on the united states for what was going wrong inside china. very shocking language from xijinping wrong inside china. very shocking language from xi jinping today. mitt; language from xi jinping today. why then what language from xi jinping today. why then what will the impact be? i will display out? display out? wide? i think really the language display out? wide? i think really the language was display out? wide? i