Hour. England ride their luck to reach the womens world cup quarterfinals. But theyll be without laurenjames, whose one match ban could be extended, following her sending off against nigeria. And we have a north south split in the weather today. In the north, largely dry with some sunshine, but wind increasing in the far north east. In the south, turning cloudy and murky with some patchy light rain. All the details later. Its tuesday the 8th of august. Our main story. 15 Asylum Seekers have spent their first night on the governments controversial Accommodation Barge, after a series of delays over safety concerns. Ministers want to move hundreds more onto the Bibby Stockholm in dorset this week, but some have already refused to go, launching legal challenges. All this comes as the home Office Announces a new taskforce to crack down on Rogue Lawyers who may be helping migrants to remain in the uk, underfalse claims. Ellie price reports. The first Asylum Seekers move into their new tempor
This programme contains some Strong Language and some discriminatory language. Election night fever, as bbc gets ready to bring you the results of the last big vote before the General Election. Will it be boom time for starmer . Or will it be doom time for sunak . The bbc s Election Programme kicks off in an hours time. You can see just a few of their many live points warming up. With a pick n mix of votes under the count tonight, to discuss them well be joined by the chair of the labour party, a Senior Cabinet Minister and the personification of political analysis, professor sirjohn curtice. Well also talk to the person most likely to be the new First Minister of scotland, john swinney, now that kate forbes has thrown her weight behind him. And with the looming prospect of deportation flights to rwanda, a warning you will hear strong and discriminatory language as a protestor is racially abused attempting to stop Asylum Seekers being moved out of hotels by government contactors. Shout
there were any migrants on board. that was the story yesterday, to be honest. this is a working port after also security is tight, we can t go all the way in and we cant stand outside the barge so it is difficult to see who is getting on or off. and only 15 people did get on and 20 people refused based on those legal challenges. you heard that accommodation for these migrants, these asylum seekers, is offered on a no choice basis. exactly what that means in practice, if you refuse to get on, what does it mean for where you then have to go, that is presumably what those legal arguments will be today and presumably we will hear more about that. we expect more migrants to be brought here today. the ambition was to bring about 50 this week but quickly move up to the capacity of the barge, which is 500. that is the centre of the controversy around it, it was designed originally to have