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hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in poland where president zelensky of ukraine has made his first official visit to the country since russia invaded ukraine. the polish president, andrzej duda, has told his ukrainian counterpart that poland will urge nato to give kyiv additional security guarantees. ukraine s leader has been welcomed by president duda at the presidential palace and he s expected to thank the polish people at the royal castle in warsaw later. poland has been one of the most outspoken and generous supporters of kyiv since the war started in february last year. it s taken in millions of refugees and sent more than 300 tanks. it was also one of the first countries to send fighter jets to ukraine. this is the shot we are getting live from poland of the president zelensky and the commentary is in polish and ukrainian but i can tell you they are about to give a statement to the cameras imminently. this is a hugely important and symbolic visit for presid ....
And, crucially, the government wants to do something to try to deter the number of people crossing the channel in small boats. about 115,000 people made that perilous journey last year and it thinks one solution is to try to make the accommodation that asylum seekers are housed in less attractive, that is how they would frame it and one option they have gone for is hiring a vessel and this is the first announcement, the first one they have decided to hire, it is a three storey vessel that they are leasing and, as you said, it is going to be moored off the dorset coast, it will be operational in a few months time and according to the home office will house around 500 adult men who are seeking asylum. this is controversial, for a lot of reasons, not least locally, the tory run council in portland is opposed to these measures, it has said this afternoon it has real questions for the home office about how this will work in practice, the ....