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scotland we are looking at clear skies and a frosty start. in southern scotland, england and wales, a cloudy start with rain, but brightening up later from the west. i will have the details throughout the programme. it s tuesday the 5th of december. the home secretary james cleverly is on his way to rwanda this morning. he s due to sign a new deal which he hopes will mean that the uk government will then be able to send some be able to send some asylum seekers to the the east african country. the visit comes just hours after mr cleverly announced a series of measures to reduce the levels of legal migration into the uk. our political correspondent peter saull has the details. immigration has long been a tricky issue for the government. successive conservative prime ministers have promised and failed to bring the numbers down. the new plan a ban on foreign care of workers bringing family members with them. an increase in the minimum salary for skilled workers of almost ....
hello. there have been more calls for rishi sunak to suspend his conservative candidates who are being investigated for alleged bets on when the general election would be held. insisting that multiple independent investigations are now under way. independent investigations are now underway. but independent investigations are now under way. but he said last night that any tories found to have broken betting rules would be booted out of the party. in the last couple of hours mr snack has been at the launch of the welsh conservatives manifesto. he once again promised to take action against anyone found to have broken gambling laws. there are multile have broken gambling laws. there are multiple investigations have broken gambling laws. there are multiple investigations currently - multiple investigations currently happening, it is right that those investigations are allowed to proceed. they are independent, necessarily confidential, as you would appreciate. there is also a cri ....
nigel farage, the leader of reform uk, has told the bbc that europe and nato provoked russia s invasion of ukraine. he also said that, while he disliked him as a person , he admires vladimir putin as a political operator because he s managed to take control of running russia. the interview comes as the latest bbc poll of polls suggests reform uk has continued to gain support. the party now sits at i7% on our tracker, which takes into account a wide range of polling data. that is just four points behind the conservative party on 21%. labour still well in front with 41%. there have been more calls for rishi sunak to suspend two conservative candidates who are being investigated for alleged bets on when the general election would be held. this morning, the prime minister wouldn t be drawn on whether he was aware of other candidates or party officials who had placed a bet. labour has accused rishi sunak of a total lack of leadership . the latest donation figures have be ....
obviously, therefore, it s a kind of punishment for this gap between the two groups of people. i would remind you that these people were very well treated, respected and never humiliated. that s why i m so shocked by this ruling. the bbc s anbarasan ethirajan gave me this analysis on the case. what we know is that three employees, former employees of the hinduja family, this is regarding their employment with them, and according to the court documents, they were paid only $8 a day, more than 90% less than what the swiss average or minimum wage is in that country. now, the court ruled, they ve given them various jail sentences. at the same time, they were cleared of these very serious charges of human trafficking because they were accused of withholding the passports of their employees. now, the interesting thing is the prosecutors pursued the case even though there was an out of court settlement with the employees we don t know how much amount it was paid but accord ....
is going to pick up their phone behind the wheel today without even thinking about it? don t do it because picking up a phone, no matter how nice you are or good you are, accidents like this can happen to anyone on the road by using a phone. and a test which is almost 100% accurate in telling mums to be whether the child they re carrying has down‘s syndrome is being made available on the nhs from next year. this morning there are yet more warnings it could lead to an increase in the number of abortions. we ll get reaction. hello and welcome to the programme. we re live until iiam. throughout the morning, we ll bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories. a little later in the programme we ll ask what s going on with ukip and hopefully speak to nigel farage who is annoyed that his only mp allegedly tried to block him getting a knighthood. should mr farage get a knighthood? tell me what you think. our top story today, drivers caught using their phone behin ....