Aircraft at airport in california. Good morning. It is wednesday, february 22. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The government has won its legal battle to Stop Thousands of british citizens from bringing their foreign husbands or wives to live in the uk without a Minimum Income. For the last five years, the uk based spouse has had to prove they earn at least £18,600, for them to support their migrant spouse. That figure is £22,000 for couples with a child. But the Supreme Court also ruled that the rules, as they currently stand, are defective and need to be changed, because they do not take enough account of the welfare of children affected by them, and do not take all sources of earnings into consideration when calculating income. 0ur Correspondent Dominic Casciani is at the Supreme Court. It is not an entirely clear decision . No, it is very complicated. There is a belief that the couples have been degraded by this fear income rolling. The Supreme Court has in practice ruled in favour
Or do you know . Guest there will be difficult decisions and we need to go through every part of the welfare budget but we believe as we save 20 billion in welfare in this parliament we will be able to find a further 10 billion in welfare savings. Let me give you some more examples. We will cut the welfare caps no family should get more than 26,000 pounds a year in welfare and reduce debt to 23,000. We think that is the right thing to do. When it comes to young people, younger women need schools. They should be either earnings or learning or doing an apprenticeship looking at higher education. They should not be able to go straight home to Unemployment Benefits and housing benefits. All of these things, changing welfare is not just about saving homes but trying trying to host you talk about transparency but dont tell us what you are going to do. Let me ask you a simple thing about Foreign Policy. What is your biggest Foreign Policy disaster . Guest other people i am sure will highlight
Least. Foreign secretary, quizzing you . Thank you rngs foreign secretary. Do you agree that peace keepers will be needed in libya . And, if so, has the u. N. Government made any commitments . We havent made any commitments. Weve discussed on friday and saturday. I think we recognized in discussing this European Union that there would be a strong expectation that the European Union would take the lead in providing peace keepers. That is not to say a military force to subdue the warring factions. But more of the policing force to maine tan a peace that had been established. Libya is very much a step in business with roots through to the gulf of guinea, which is the source of many of these things. Its very much in europes interest to help to secure libya and ensure that the soit earn coast of the mediterranean is properly policed all the way along. So clearly theres some steps in the Peace Keeping force. All im saying is that i think there is a recognition across the European Union that
Hypnotic state where the people with guns are basically running the country are going bankrupt. I think there is calls for some moderate optimism. But i wouldnt put it any higher than that. I dont think to be an expert on libya. But those who are tell me that the principle protagonists. If people are really fighting over territory and money and oil. It is easier to find solutions which divide the riches. And this is a rich country. So i would be moderately optimistic, but no more than that. Cautiously optimistic but there could be a chance of the government of national unity. I do think that the presence of isil in the country, the inevitability that there will be continued intervention that is able to deal with the problem itself. I do think those are helpful points of oppression on the sides of the civil war to think very hard about whether its in their collective best interests to try and resolve their differences and work together. Foreign secretary, can we turn to iran and the Nuc