abroad for safety. evan s friends collect and translate letters of support for him from all over the world, helping keep his spirits up and their own. evan is not a spy. evan is a journalist. and my greatest hope is that evan is released as soon as possible and can go home, can go back to work and go back to his family, can come and spend time with all of us again, as he should be doing right now. that s the greatest hope. the conditions in the camp have declined seriously. the barracks have black mold. but paul whelan is now facing his fifth christmas as a prisoner. are you worried that there s going to be another deal that you re going to be left behind again? yeah, i am worried that there ll be a deal to leave me here. with each case, my case is going to the back of the line that s being left in the dust. it is russia that put him here, but paul whelan wants america to push harder to get him home. sarah rainsford, bbc news. some breaking news. the irish government has deci
new laws are intended to limit asylum seekers coming into the eu. eu member states and the parliament have agreed on this overall law on an approach to asylum seekers. it is intended to speed up and standardise the amount of people coming into the black. it proposes to do that with five new eu laws. the first of which would be the speedier vetting of arrivals using biometrics. that could be facial recognition technology, fingerprinting. which could be done at one of these new border detention centres that are being thirdly, an accelerated consideration of asylum cases, so the eu wants to speed up the time it takes to determine whether a migrant has a valid asylum claim. they want to do that in six months or less, if it s not a valid claim, they say they will accelerate the deportation of that person. finally, and crucially, allows its proposed for solidarity measure. this is a way for countries in the eu to financially support or even to help with an influx of migrants by acc
siro in italy later. manchester city or real madrid await the winner of the the second champions league semi final which sees ac milan play inter milan, the first meeting between the two city rivals in the competition since 2005. they share the stadium, but ac milan are the home team for this leg. they ve been sweating on the fitness of rafael leao, their star forward trained away from the group on tuesday. inter s attack looks to be back to its best ahead of what they re calling the euroderby . translation: we know - we are playing in the semifinals of the champions league. this is the derby, not a derby. we are not hiding the importance this match has for us, for the fans, for the club. we want to face it in the best possible way. a derby in the semifinal doesn t get much bigger. we are really excited for it. the last round against napoli, a lot of people were counting us out for it and we managed to put two great performances, we played three times in ten days and we di
for eight days after his arrest on corruption charges. his detention has sparked protests across the country and at least eight people have died in clashes during the ongoing violence. this has happened in different cities across pakistan, and the conviction would disqualify imran khanfrom and the conviction would disqualify imran khan from standing for election. our correspondence sent this report from islamabad. burning into the night. protests from lahore, karachi, peshawar. this was the singed aftermath, the reaction to imran khan s arrest yesterday. but the unrest is far from over. morning in islamabad. police blocked roads into the compound where imran khan was due to appear in front of a judge. some party officials were stopped at the gates. have you spoken to him since yesterday? no, we have no access. that is why i m demanding access. we are being denied access. beyond the boundaries of the compound, imran khan s supporters began to gather. this is the path through t
illegal migration built as immoral. proposed illegal migration laws. they re being debated in the upper house of parliament and would see some migrants being sent to what are described as safe third countries, such as rwanda, to have their asylum claims processed. ministers say it s the best way of deterring people from risking their lives crossing the english channel in small boats. here s archbishopjustin outlining why, in his opinion, the uk government s proposals don t tackle the long term and global nature of the problem. evenif even if this bill succeeded in temporarily stopping the boats, and i do not think it will, it will not stop conflict or climate migration. they forecasted that climate change by itself, let alone the conflicts it s already causing, will lead to at least 800 million more refugees a yearin at least 800 million more refugees a year in total by 2050. and what of other countries follow suit? the uh in sea arps believes the bill could lead to the c