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whole, it is a quieter story. write with some sunny spells around. the only exception is done in the far southwest and i will give you all the details on that and more coming up the details on that and more coming up shortly. good morning to you. it s sunday february 24. our main story: the former conservative deputy chairman, lee anderson, has admitted the prime minister had no option but to take action over comments he made about the mayor of london. mr anderson has been suspended from the party, but has not apologised for his claims about sadiq khan. our political correspondent iain watson has the latest. this man isn tjust the mp for ashfield in the east midlands, he has a second job as a gb news presenter, and that s where he made his controversial comments. i don t actually believe that these islamists have got control of our country, but what i do believe is they ve got control of khan and they ve got control of london. the remarks could raise tensions in londo ....
yesterday in order to vote for changes they said would toughen up the legislation. here s our political correspondent hannah miller a plan that aims to stop dangerous channel crossings like this. a key pledge that s become rishi sunak s biggest parliamentary challenge. the ayes to the right 68. the noes to the left 529. last night, 60 of his own mps tried and failed to make changes to the rwanda bill. among them, three who resigned their roles to vote against the government. the now former deputy chairmen of the conservative party, lee anderson and brendan clark smith, and jane stephenson, who had been a pps, or ministerial assistant. i don t think i could carry on in my role as deputy chairman of the conservative party when i fundamentally disagree with the bill. i think most of the bill is sound. i think it can work. but we needed it beefing up. we needed it strengthening over the next few days. and i can t be in a position to vote for something which i don t believe in. th ....
that in letter to staff that has just been released. independent commissioners were brought in to help the authority plug at £300 million gap over the next two years. so just to recap that news, birmingham city council saying that “p birmingham city council saying that up to 600 jobs could be made redundant as it struggles with those huge debts that are now starting conversations with unions and staff. more on that as it it comes into us. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, marc. hello from the bbc sport centre lets start in melbourne where it s been an excellent day for the british contingent down under with four out of five progressing to the second round of the australian open, including both british number ones. meanwhile after a nightmare year where she has struggled with injury. former us 0pen champion emma raducanu says it was extra sweet to mark her grand slam comeback with a confident win. 0ur correspondent natalie pirks reports. not ....
to have suffered minor damage. let s start by hearing from the us national security adviserjake sullivan, who called on all countries to join together to stop the houthis from what he said was hijacking the world. he was in speaking in the last few minutes. we speaking in the last few minutes. - anticipated the houthis would try to hold this at risk, and we continue to reserve the right to take further action. but this needs to be an all hands on deck effort. this comes down notjust do the decisions of the countries that took strikes last week, but the broad set of countries, including those with influence in tehran and other capitals in the middle east, making this a priority to indicate the rejection of wholesale that a group like the houthis can hijack the world as they are doing. the us has struck and destroyed four missiles that were a prepared to launch from houthi controlled territory in yemen. barbara slavin is a distinguished fellow at the stimson center in wa ....
carley: it s great point. thank you so much for joining us. always. thank you. carley: the second hour of fox & friends starts right now. don t stop believing hold on to that feeling streetlights people. carley: good morning. don t stop believing. all across america and especially in providence rhode island where it is also a rainy day and also a city i would look at and not know it was providence. griff: no. journey is maybe one of the greatest bands. i feel that song don t stop believin the most popular song ever. never goes away. rocking and always is great? i think it s probably the greatest karaoke song. i feel like i have sang that song with five to 50 marines maybe in a bar at least a dozen, two dozen times all over the world in japan and we didn t have cameras back then. probably good for you that there were no cameras back then. see where i was going with that? carley: no photographic evidence. griff: we begin this hour as the bid ....