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hello and welcome. as israel continues its offensive in gaza, it says today s clashes are the heaviest since hostilities began. fighting continues in the south in khan yunis, and in the north, where israeli forces have surrounded a refugee camp they say hamas uses as a base. the head of the norwegian refugee council says what s happening in gaza now ranks among the worst assaults on any civilian population in our time and age . we ll be speaking to someone from the organisation in the programme. the uk is still hoping to send migrants who come into the country illegally to rwanda, despite the supreme court ruling the policy against the law. home secretary james cleverly visited kigali to sign a new treaty with rwanda. we ll be live in westminster to find out how important the success of the policy is for the government. and it s been won by world famous british artists like damian hirst and grayson perry. and in the past few minutes, we ve discovered who won this year s turn ....
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government has signed a new deal with rwanda today, the latest attempt in plans to send some migrants there. the supreme court ruled the last version of the policy was against the law as migrants sent to rwanda would then be at risk of being sent back home dangerous countries. today the home secretary james cleverly insisted the new deal addressed those issues. but he couldn t guarantee that any flights carrying asylum seekers would take off before the next election. our political editor chris mason travelled with him to rwanda. this was james cleverly s first foreign trip as home secretary, but hang on a minute, a spot of east african deja vu. priti patel came here as home secretary in april of last year and suella braverman was here in march. three home secretaries making it to rwanda before a single migrant. last month, the supreme court said the rwanda plan was unlawful. this is what the government s hoped for sol ....
commentator: there goes another one! studio: and moeen ali takes six wickets as england beat south africa in their first test of the summer. wickets as england beat south africa good evening. the iraqi government said today that the city of mosul has been liberated from so called islamic state, three years after it was first occupied by the extremists. the second largest city in iraq was where is declared its caliphate in 2014. was where is declared since then, its grip on territory has been gradually reduced in iraq and in syria. has been gradually reduced in the last nine months has been gradually reduced it s been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army backed by us and coalition air strikes. and has lost ground, street by street. tonight, the defence secretary sir michael fallon congratulated the iraqis and highlighted the role played by the raf. but as our defence correspondent jonathan beale has seen in mosul, victory has come at a cost, with an estimated 800,000 ci ....
grip on the territory has been degraded in iraq and syria. in the last nine months it has been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army, backed by us and coalition airstrikes. victory has come at a cost with an estimated eight thousand civilians driven from home and stop what was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble. every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. we joined the search and rescue teams looking for survivors. but more often, they are just recovering bodies. with the heat, there is also the strong smell of decay. ali is hoping against hope that his brother and his family are still alive. their house was hit in an air strike just a few weeks ago. it was being used by islamic state fighters. ali says that he spoke to his brother on this phone while he was trapped somewhere under the rubble. and then, he stopped answering. all they find here is decaying corpses. it s a similar story everywhere they go. while that was happening, the iraqi pri ....
the iraqi government says the city of mosul has been liberated from so called islamic state, three years after it was first occupied by the extremists. the second largest city in iraq was where is declared its caliphate in 2014. since then, its grip on territory, seen here in red, has been gradually reduced in iraq and in syria. in the last nine months its been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army, backed by us and coalition air strikes, and has lost ground street by street. but as our defence correspondent jonathan beale has seen in mosul, victory has come at a cost, with an estimated 800,000 civilians driven from their homes. what was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble, every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. we joined the sea rch and rescue teams looking for survivors. but, more often, they are just recovering bodies. with the heat, there is also the strong smell of decay. ali s hoping against hope that his brother and his family are s ....