Welcome to todays verified live. This will be one of the central dividing lines at the next general election. Labours sir keir starmer has pledged to scrap the governments Rwanda Scheme straight away if his party wins the general poll. The Labour Leader says he would use money saved to hire specialist investigators to tackle small boats crossing the channel. Well have more on that in a moment. But this is happened as the bbc has tracks down one of europes most wanted people smugglers Barzan Majeed nicknamed the scorpion. Speaking from northern iraq, he defended arranging for thousands of people, to travel to the uk, in small boats and lorries, arguing migrants are begging him for help. Our reporter sue mitchell is part of the team that tracked him down. She says Barzan Majeeds phone number was found on the phones of migrants coming to britain in small boats. My partner in this investigation is rob lawrie. Hes former british army and he has a lot of contacts in the migrant camps in bo
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Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We start this hour in ukraine because president zelensky says, a fierce battle is under way in the kharkiv region, after russia launched a surprise attack. Small groups of troops with armoured vehicles pushed through the front line military sources say they advanced a kilometre, before being pushed back there are reports of sustained russian shelling. Ukraines Defence Ministry says, reinforcements have been sent to the region. Heres president zelensky. Russia started a new wave of Offensive Actions in the kharkiv region. Ukrainianforces Offensive Actions in the kharkiv region. Ukrainian forces met them there with brigades and artillery fire. It is important to understand that they can increase and bring more forces in this direction. It is a fact. Lets get the latest from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. This appears to have taken ukraine by surpri
Interviews and reaction. Sir keir starmer is promising to set up a new Border Security command to crack down on people smugglers if his party wins power. Lets have a look at what the labour party is doing to do. Sir keir starmer is promising to set up a new Border Security command to crack down on people smugglers if his party wins power. He is also pledging to hire hundreds more Specialist Investigators and cross border police. Meanwhile, Counter Terror powers would be extended to cover organised immigration crime, including the power to search people suspected of being involved in people smuggling, close bank accounts, restrict their travel and trace their movements before an offence has taken place. And he says £75 million of the money allocated for the first year of the Rwanda Scheme would fund its plans. We will set up a new command with new powers, resources and a new way of doing things. Border security command. This is about leveraging the power and potential of dynamic govern