On the rocks directly in front of where we are now. I can confirm that eight people have been declared dead, and according to the health services, they were all reportedly adult men. The foreign Secretary David Lammy gave his reaction to the deaths on the Laura Kuenssberg show. Its awful. It is a further loss of life. What i can say is actually, before i left for ukraine, with tony blinken, i sat with the Prime Minister, the home secretary, the Attorney General and others at the national Crime Agency actually looking at the awful Rubber Dinghies that people are coming across the channel with. Many of them, of course, not able to make it in these contraptions, discussing how we go after those gangs, in Co Operation upstream with other european partners. And i know that the Prime Minister will be in italy tomorrow with the italian Prime Minister discussing these issues and the work that they have done particularly with albania. Our Paris Correspondent Hugh Schofield has more. The prefect
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year s annual bastille parade? and we will talk movies, a glut of new releases currently at the cinema, but if the actors join the writers on the hollywood picket line, what will winter look like at the box office? all that to come, but lets start, shall we, on a positive note. the four teaching unions in england have called off their proposed strikes, after the prime minister honoured the recommendations of the pay review bodies. rishi sunak has ruled out any further borrowing to increase the salaries of public sector workers, which means that today s announcement, which goes well beyond the 3.5 percent deemed affordable by the treasury, will need come from existing budgets. mr sunak said government departments will need to reprioritise spending to fund the increase raising fears of cuts across public services. the prime minister said this was a final offer, and there would be no further negotiation. it would not be right to increase taxes on everyone to pay some people
hello, welcome to the programme. number 10 say britain needs a deterrent against illegal migration, the draught bill clearing its final hurdles in the commons this evening. we will discuss what s in it. did the british government get it right in sudan? uk nationals urged to make their own way to an airstrip north of khartoum, through countless checkpoints and under their own steam . eight flights left today. but still several thousand to evacuate. also tonight. reports ukraine is getting ready for the next major assault against russian forces. we will look at the current situation on the ground, and assess just how well equipped they are to do that. and where is the government s strategy on semi conductors? the uk is losing ground to rival countries in a crucially important sector. we will speak to the director of one start up who is threatening to relocate his operations to the united states. but first, to westminster, where mps have been voting this evening on the illegal
to get her british citizenship back. we begin in moscow, where china s top diplomat, wang yi, has met president putin, and reaffirmed their close relationship. the trip to russia by wang yi comes just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. here s the meeting between the two. during their talks, mr putin said relations between his country and china were reaching new milestones . he also called on the chinese president xi jinping to visit. earlier, wang yi also met his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, where he said the relationship between the two countries could not be influenced by other nations. let s hear some of what wang yi had to say: translation: i look forward to reaching new agreements. our consultations on strategic security are highly effective between our two countries. they play an important role in strengthening trust and cooperation in a shifting international situation. much is being made of the seating arrangements for president