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in a major blow to the prime minister tonight, the minister responsible for immigration, robertjenrick, has resigned at the very moment legislation on asylum seekers was being announced to the commons. his resignation came over a bill attempting to enable the government s policy of sending some migrants to rwanda to go ahead after the supreme court ruled it unlawful. mrjenrick said it didn t go far enough and it would not end what he called the merry go round of legal challenges which risked paralysing the scheme. our political editor chris mason is here. a huge embarrassment this for rishi sunak? it this for rishi sunak? is a huge embarrassment. bu quite it is a huge embarrassment. but quite the thing to do so in the very week that you are attempting a reset on, yes, you guessed it, immigration policy. on monday we had government plans to cut legal immigration adjuster the home secretary james cleverly went to rwanda to set out part of the approach on illegal immig ....
glasgow and edinburgh, five for liverpool and then this is what we call anomaly map so it tells us whether it will be above or below average for the time of year. much of the continent below average in spain and portugal slightly warmer. cold weather is with us to stay and you can on newsnight, abigail s parentsjoin other bereaved families calling for a national inquiry into maternity care in england. speaking exclusively to newsnight, katie fowler and robert miller, whose baby abigail died at royal sussex maternity unit, talk about the trauma they went through, and claim that nobody is taking failures in maternity care seriously. also tonight. are we heading for a standoff between the home secretary and the immigration minister over migration policy? the former immigration minister joins us from westminster. and there s to be a two day extension of the ceasefire in gaza to allow more hostages and prisoners to be swapped, but is there anything to suggest the violence wi ....
degrees. we start next week with dry weather, more unsettled towards the end of the week, but nothing as stormy as we have had over the last few days. thanks, ben. and that s bbc news at ten. newsnight is just getting under way on bbc two. here on bbc 1, it s time tojoin our colleagues across the nations and regions. but from the ten team, it s goodnight. prime minister netanyahu refuses an american request for pauses in israel s offensive, unless hamas releases more hostages. in a long awaited speech, the head of hezbollah blames america for the current crisis, and says his movement will not be intimidated by us military deployments. we ask the pentagon whether it s hezbollah who blinked first. we do see that, broadly speaking, a broader regional conflict has been deterred. and so we ll continue to do that. we do not seek any conflict. and we speak to one of the british passport holders staying in gaza. i m exhausted. it s been 27 days, i think, of struggling for survi ....
i am on the conservative campaign bus which had its launch event today and previously viewers have seen us aboard what we have been calling campaign buses and they may not have actually been the properly branded bus but we are now on that after it was unveiled in redcar earlier today and we are now heading back down south towards the capital and earlier the prime minister, rishi sunak, did get on the bus for it s kind of inauguraljourney as the campaign coach but he is not on it now so it is basically just reporters and journalists who have been tracking the prime minister and the conservative campaign over recent days and we have gone to a variety of places, sort of middle to late in the week, including buckinghamshire, and as i say, we went to redcar and we were in the north west yesterday as well and there have been a variety of announcements over those days and the one we had today, as you mentioned a moment ago, was this idea of kind of extending the levelling up f ....
bbc news. president trump has arrived in saudi arabia this morning, but he leaves behind more controversy in washington. the us media is reporting that he told senior russian officials that the fbi director, james comey, was a nutjob whose sacking had relieved great pressure on him. the claim not denied by the white house came as he set off for his first foreign trip since taking office. our washington correspondent, laura bicker, reports. a red carpet welcome for president trump, who s touched down in saudi arabia. he was met by the king, on his first foreign visit since taking office. he tweeted that he will be strongly protecting american interests, that s what i like to do. but he might be glad to leave washington for a while, after the week he s had. it started with the accusation that he d leaked classified information to the russians. then reports of a memo which claimed president trump asked the fbi director to drop an investigation into his former natio ....