we ve got our own show to make, so let s get on with this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s james here in the studio in westminster. and it s chris in westminster, too. here we are, and one story that s dominated this week, chris, hasn t it, which has been this post office scandal? but there s one story going to dominate next week, i think, quite likely, in so much as we can forecast. what s that? it is rwanda. so it s the return of the conversation about how you deal with illegal migration. and the government is keen to have this idea of sending folk to rwanda. as newscasters will be aware, it s been getting relatively long in the tooth as an idea, but it hasn t yet happened for a million and one legal reasons. there are also very transparent differences of opinion within the conservative party about how you do it, how you make it work, can you make it work, and what s the best way of making it work? there was a bit of a to do before christmas
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. volodymyr zelenskyy s tour ends with a promise of more missiles and more drones but ukraine s big skiz still tbd. he wants fighter jets. plus ron desantis plays the every man in iowa while neither snow more rain nor heat does not apply when it comes to scheduling a trump rally. the former president does find a way to remind us who he is and what he believes. and real or not real. the white house sounds hopeful about avoiding a debt ceiling cliff and the president calls the negotiation a negotiation. a first for us, though, two pleas from ukraine s president to the west. the first for patience and for trust that a big counteroffensive is coming. we will be ready, you know, in some time. i won t to be honest with you, i can t share with you some days. i just don t want to prepare not for our friends, secrets from our friends, but secrets from our neighbors. the
terrified of something from breakfast to bed. there is no good news office. yesterday the administration seemed awkward maybe sheepish when they announced the best news of all. the covid era has passed. for three years the u.s. has lived under a government designated covid emergency. now nobody can look back and agree on the point. any case it s ending for good or bad. technically the emergency will go onto may. so bide not can shovel more tax dollars. that s it the last gas of the rona scare. we re done. above all we can get to the second part of the program, where we hold the people accountable for doing what they did to us. first is joe biden. he has the function al iq of office furniture. his viciousness is intact. biden when he was in office wasted no time blaming americans for a virus china created. then using the pandemic to pit neighbors against one another. the cruel he was thick a president has done to their own country. if you forgot what it looks like, here you go
of staff at the homeland security department during the trump administration. welcome to the programme. the votes are being counted in israel, in the fifth election the country has staged in under four years. the voters have before them two coalitions the hard right bloc led by benjamin netanyahu, and a coalition of right, leftist and arab parties led by the current prime minister yair lapid. netanyahu, remember, is still facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and yet, in spite of it all, the first exit polls that emerged in the last hour suggest he could be on the brink of a record sixth term. this is how the coverage began. showing netanyahu s likud party on 31 seats, against yair lapid predicted 2a seats. we bring in our middle east correspondent. let s bring in our middle east correspondent tom bateman. as says that the exit polls are a good start. how trustworthy of the exit polls in israel? exit polls in israel? they tend to be broadly exit polls in
Into the night they are still going now and maybe into the early hours, its the latest, the last showdown between mps and peers over the governments rwanda bill, but it is expected to be passed tonight. Stay with us for live coverage. The stand off continues peers sent the safety of rwanda bill back to the commons for a fifth time where mps are voting. Today the Prime Minister was in determined mood. He now says multiple flights to rwanda will take off thisjuly. If that happens, will they act as a deterrent . And what will all this do for rishi sunak s electoral fortunes . Well ask this conservative and our Newsnight Panel are here too. Could there be a Summer Election even if flights do take off . Donald trump on day one of his trial in new york accused of covering up hush money paid to Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels. Its the first time a us president current orformer has faced a criminal trial. Good evening. It could be a long night for mps in the House Of Commons and peers in the ho