on newsnight at 10:30pm: another blow to the prime minister s so called small boats week , as migrants are taken off the bibby stockholm barge after legionaires bacteria caused problems. how will the government reboot its migrant policy? good evening. hawaii is said to be facing the largest natural disaster in its history, after wildfires ripped through the land and destroyed most of the beach front town of lahaina. at least 55 people are known to have died but many are still missing. just look at how the landscape has been ravaged. whole roads and neighbourhoods have been blackened and flattened as hurricane strength winds fanned the deadly flames. the blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke. here s our north america correspondentjohn sudworth reporting from maui. the town of lahaina, home to 12,000 people traced its history back centuries. all but wiped from existence in a few short hours. the intensi
good evening. days after asylum seekers went aboard the bibby stockholm barge on the dorset coast, all those housed on it are being evacuated after legionella bacteria was discovered in its water supply. the government says it is a temporary measure, and the news comes as the latest figures showed more than 750 people crossing the channel in small boats yesterday, the highest daily number so far this year. our home editor mark easton is here what do we know of what s been happening on board the barge? well, we have spoken to one of the 39 asylum seekers and he was still on board this afternoon, he, but the occupants had been told not to use running water for washing or showering, he spoke of his own concern, he said a number of the migrants have said they had got sore throats, he himself said he had breathing difficulties, the home office insists that none of on board have shown the symptoms of legionnaires disease but make no mistake this is a serious embarrassment for the
the prime minister says the first flight carrying asylum seekers to rwanda will leave in 10 to 12 weeks time come what may . he says an airfield is on standby and charter planes are booked. rishi sunak had originally promised the first flight would take off this spring, but his timetable now suggests a delay until the summer. he says peers and mps will have to sit through the night tonight if necessary to pass the government s controversial rwanda legislation. our political correspondent, helen catt is in westminster. helen. new statistics out this morning show one of the reasons why rishi sunak might be so keen to get those flights off soon, last year parliament passed a law that said that some asylum cases could only be dealt with by being removed from the uk. but they can t go to rwanda because the supreme court ruled it was unsafe and there are now nearly 52,000 asylum seekers whose claims simply can t be dealt with here. so what the government did to try and get around
has experienced extreme trauma, and also torture. a lot of people call libya hell when they come across. it is absolutely unacceptable for people to send people back to libya. claire seaward of oxfam, thank you. let s find out how the weather is looking. hello. just about to show you some ona hello. just about to show you some on a plate, what a superb picture from yet another of our weather watchers in derbyshire. so the week ahead, can we keep that sort of thing going? no, of course we can t. there will be rain for some on tuesday. it will turn warm and humid as well. write widely across the greater part of england and wales, it really was a case of summer today. i will show you the western side of scotland because it looked a lot more like that. the 2nd ofjuly, it did not look like it, did it? that ll came from a weather front which will ease its way out of scotla nd which will ease its way out of scotland and northern ireland bringing rain from the north west of england a
the defence of his wimbledon title tomorrow. the mail says young drivers are being tempted into high levels of debt by car dealers offering them new vehicles for no money upfront. and the mirror says 69 refugees have drowned this year while trying to reach spain from africa. let s have a look through those papers. starting with the guardian, the uk ditches its cake and eat it brexit stands. going on about brexit and cake, and you despair sometimes as to how this will all turn out but according to the guardian government insiders are reporting a dramatic change of mood. the idea of cake and eat it is controlling your own borders and the sort of stuff and having access to the single market. and the suggestion is you cannot, and it is going to be difficult and messy. one year on, i gone from denial, centred on theresa may saying you can have your cake and eat it, and now we are into bargaining, which is what side do you want. hopefully we can skip the anger and depression but re