as further allegations against the presenter emerge tonight, we ll ask where this crisis goes next. and there are further questions for the sun including why will no one from the newspaper talk to us? today, the bbc s director general did speak. clearly these are damaging to the bbc. it is not a good situation. also tonight. the government faced down mps who wanted to dilute its illegal migration bill. but could there be more challenges to come? we ll talk to a conservative former minister who wants downing street to compromise. and in the last few minutes the government has said the g7 s going to announce, quote, a significant international framework for ukraine s long term security arrangements at the nato summit tomorrow. will president zelensky be satisifed with that for now? we ll talk to his former defence minister. good evening. as we came on air last night we tried to be really clear with everyone watching about the limits to what we actually know as fact in t
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 governments 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 cant go to rwanda because the Supreme Court ruled it was unsafe and there are now nearly 52,000 Asylum Seekers whose claims simply cant be dealt with here. So what the government did to try and get around this last year
A labour peer says colleagues must stand up for the interests of the young. This house should be urging a rethink on this whole project. This house should be saying, not in our name. But a conservative offers peers this reassurance on brexit even if theres no deal. There is no greater nonsense than the claim that in the absence of a trade deal with the eu we shall be falling off a cliff edge. There is no cliff edge for the simple reason that there is no cliff. Also on the programme some powerful speeches and surprising revelations during a debate about donald trump. Which one of us has not made some ridiculous sexual comment sometime in our past . Well, in private, you know, let. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. All right . But first, the Bill Authorising the government to start the formal process for leaving the eu has been approved by the commons. Now its the turn of the House Of Lords to chew over the legislation. In a Marathon Debate over two days, there were 184 spe
The House Of Lords weighs into the arguments over brexit. A labour peer says colleagues must stand up for the interests of the young. This house should be urging a rethink on this whole project. This house should be saying, not in our name. But a conservative offers peers this reassurance on brexit even if theres no deal. There is no greater nonsense than the claim that in the absence of a trade deal with the eu we shall be falling off a cliff edge. There is no cliff edge for the simple reason that there is no cliff. Also on the programme some powerful speeches and surprising revelations during a debate about donald trump. Which one of us has not made some ridiculous sexual comment sometime in our past . Well, in private, you know, let. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. All right . But first, the Bill Authorising the government to start the formal process for leaving the eu has been approved by the commons. Now its the turn of the House Of Lords to chew over the legislati