the home secretary says the uk will do whatever it takes to tackle the crisis of people trying to cross the channel in small boats. speaking in the commons after the deaths of at least 27 people yesterday, priti patel warned mps, there were no quick fixes , and said the uk would have to rely on the help of other countries. let s go over to my colleague, ben boulos at the port in doverfor us. the discussion is very much about the human tragedy at the centre of what happened yesterday, but equally, a political discussion about what can be done to deal with the problem, which normally by this time of the year, numbers of people trying to make the crossing from the northern french coast to hear, the numbers would normally have dropped but the recent mild and calm weather has kept those numbers high, and in fact 25,000 so far have made the crossing, which is triple the number of the previous year and today the commons the home secretary talked about doing whatever it takes to ta
explored for the first time. on bbc london. the football on newsnight at 10:30pm. does a fatal plane crash north of moscow mean that to vladimir putin has killed the wagner leader, yevgeny prigozhin, once his closest acolyte, in revenge for his insurrection government department sent him letters he could not read. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. first tonight the news that has been developing from russia all evening, the plane crash that appears to have killed a man whose mercenary fighters have attacked ukraine and who just two months ago led a mutiny against vladimir putin. in the last hour, it s been confirmed that yevgeny prigozhin head of the wagner group was on board a private jet that crashed near moscow. this is still very much an evolving situation, one that the uk government says it is monitoring. in the us president biden has said there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind. our first report is from our russia editor steve rosen
this footage which has been cleared by the bbc verify team appears to show the burning remains of the plane, in a field in russia s tver region. mr prigozhin gained global notoriety injune after leading a failed mutiny. it was widely seen as a challenge to authority. he is now presumed dead. russian aviation officials say mr prigozhin was on board with his right hand man, dmitry utkin. and it s believed all ten passengers and crew died immediately. us presidentjoe biden said that there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind . but mr putin, who spoke by video link today at a summit in south africa, made no mention of the crash or mr prigozhin. will vernon has this report. ukraine has denied any involvement. will vernon has this report. the crash site today in russia s tver region. investigators say they ve recovered the bodies of all ten people that were on board. the key question now what caused the crash? officials say they re examining a number o
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