prince william and his wife kate mark the fifth anniversary of a catastrophic tower block fire in london in which 72 people died. in beijing, thousands of people are being locked down and millions face compulsory testing after a surge in covid i9 cases. music plays and could the best be yet to come? after nine years together, the k pop supergroup bts announce they re taking a break to focus on their solo careers. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. a last minute intervention by the european court of human rights has blocked the uk government s plan to send seven asylum seekers to rwanda, under a controversial new policy. the home secretary, pritti patel, said she was disappointed but would not be deterred and preparations for a second flight were under way. mark lobel reports. going nowhere. boris johnson s reminder going nowhere. borisjohnson s reminder plan to curb immigration grand canal. this flight was
Kids, so this is a huge disaster. for all of these reasons, you have to think about it. from the government s perspective. you cannot have these thousands of children out of school. you just cannot and this is going to be resolved. right it s not like school is ending now. so fast forward two days, three days a week. whatever it is, it s going to be resolved, so just do it now. i mean, you just can t have all of this going on the government. you know the city of los angeles, the state of california. they just need to get this done so that the tough part here is budgetary constraints because you listen to that gentleman speak and you feel for me. you think that shouldn t that shouldn t take place. but the flip side is a school district is not like the federal government. they can t print more money. they ve got a budget they have to work within. legally constrained by the statutes and say you have to balance your budget. you can t overspend. you can t go into deficit spend. so what? i w
This bitterly contested migration battle over sea and sky crossings continues. mark lobel sky crossings continues. mark lobel, bbc news. earlier, i spoke to human rights barristerjessica simor and had her take us through the legal developments. if we go to what happened today, there was an application today, there was an application to the human rights court in strasbourg, which has the power to ask a state north to make a deportation. and the court effectively had two reasons why it said this shouldn t take place. first of all, it said that there were, the english court itself, had accepted that there were dangers in rwanda and they were concerned about procedures in rwanda. and because the english court had, in fact, found that it was a serious tribal issue, whether or not rwanda was in fact a