breaking news story, emergency services are responded to an incident in south wales, police have asked residents to avoid the area following assault of a serious assaultjust following assault of a serious assault just after nine following assault of a serious assaultjust after nine o clock following assault of a serious assault just after nine o clock this morning. let us cross live to the newsroom with the latest. bring us up newsroom with the latest. bring us up to day with what we know about this incident. as you see, this incident began around nine o clock this morning. armed police officers were cold to the area to dry and deal with the incident. some schools have closed because of this ongoing incident. a nearby school said in a statement to parents, they want to reassure you that as a precaution they are keeping people safe inside the building, and all perimeter gates are locked. of course this would be are locked. of course this would be a worrying time for anyone liv
bbc sport centre. marc is there with the latest. thank you, matthew. we will start with football. manchester united manager erik ten hag says his squad are together , dimissing suggestions he has a split dressing room. united are seventh in the premier league and bottom of their champions league group. adding to the mix, the club took the unusual step of excluding four media organisations from their scheduled news conference on wednesday after reacting furiously to reports up to half of the squad were either unhappy with ten hag or his training and tactics. they should come to us first and not go around our back. printing articles, that is not the right thing. i think we have another relationship and they can give that to us beforehand. we have a normal and a professional discussion and debate about it. there are always, in every team, players who are less playing, less happy, but this is no different as normal. we have seen our first premier league sacking of the season. we
britain and rwanda have signed a new treaty aimed at getting the uk government s flagship asylum policy operational, following a series of legal challenges. the policy first announced in april 2022 would see some asylum seekers sent to rwanda to claim asylum there. but it hit legal setbacks and was blocked in its previous form by the uk supreme court. after signing the agreement during a visit to kigali, the home secretary james cleverly said he believed the new treaty addressed all the concerns raised by the supreme court. he said he can t see any credible reason to question rwanda s human rights record, and hopes the first migrant flights will go there in spring 202a. £140 million has already been paid by the uk to rwanda for the implementation of the policy. fundamentally the supreme court raised two issues. one was about the capacity of the rwandan judicial system. we have been working on that for over a year. we started to address that at the time of the appeal co
and coming up on bbc news: qualification at stake for britain at the olympics. we ll tell you why it matters for england and scotland later at hampden. good afternoon. the home secretary james cleverly is in rwanda signing a treaty this lunchtime on the controversial plan to send some asylum seekers there. downing street hopes it will remove legal obstacles to the scheme after the supreme court ruled last month that it s unlawful. the rwanda plan is aimed at deterring migrants coming to the uk on small boats. mr cleverly is the third home secretary to visit the country, but so far not a single migrant has actually been sent there. in a moment, we ll hear from our political editor chris mason, who s in rwanda with the home secretary, but first, this report from helen catt. the home secretary, touching down in rwanda this morning. it s where the government still hopes to send some people who arrive in the uk illegally to seek asylum. despite the supreme court ruling last month