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number one side. good evening. a last minute legal challenge at the european court of human rights has cast doubt on whether the first flight this evening sending asylum seekers from britain to rwanda will go ahead. the court in strasbourg has issued an order blocking the removal of one of the handful of individuals expected to be on board, among them iraqi kurds and iranians. the bbc understands that the home office in london now thinks that the court could prevent any planned removals today. the government insists the flights are necessary to deter people trafficking gangs helping thousands cross the channel. here s our home editor mark easton. the flight to an uncertain future is ready for take off. just a handful of asylum seekers will be forced to board this evening, seven at most, each with a one way ticket to rwanda, a country they have never been to and don t wish to go to. awnd this is why, this morning more than 300 people arrived in dover having attempted to cr
Evidence yet of the so called rwanda deterrent, according to groups who support asylum seekers in kent. from talking to people who have made thisjourney, they say it wouldn t have acted as a deterrent to them so i think this is more about, about looking tough, about looking like you are being really tough. ministers insist it is only once people start arriving in rwanda that the real deterrent effect will be seen but for now, the numbers arriving in dover look set to dwarf the numbers sent to east africa. simonjones, bbc news, dover. our correspondent anne soy is in the rwandan capital kigali and told us what the authorities have been saying there. they have been responding to some of the criticisms against the steel, they said this programme is not immoral. neither is it a punishment to send people to live or rewind off listen to it the government spokeswoman and there was really a sense of pride as she spoke about
The migrant dinghy is going in all different directions. to try to stop loss of life at sea, the military has now taken operational command in the channel, increasing surveillance wary, though, of being accused of becoming a taxi service for migrants. but there appears to be little evidence yet of the so called rwanda deterrent, according to groups who support asylum seekers in kent. from talking to people who have made thisjourney, they say it wouldn t have acted as a deterrent to them so i think this is more about, about looking tough, about looking like you are being really tough. ministers insist it is only once people start arriving in rwanda that the real deterrent effect will be seen but for now, the numbers arriving in dover look set to dwarf the numbers sent to east africa. simonjones, bbc news, dover. the numbers crossing the channel have more than trebled in the past two years. close to 29,000 asylum seekers reached these shores by boat last year alone.