uk prime minister rishi sunakfaces a crucial vote tonight on his plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda. this is the scene right now in the commons as mps are due to vote very shortly on the prime minister s landmark bill. we ll bring you the results as soon as we have them. also tonight pakistan recalls its ambassador to iran in response to a missile and drone attack on its territory. (boxed attack on its territory. and president biden invites congressional leaders to the white house to talk about giving aid to ukraine. our panel tonight to discuss all this is chris bruce, attorney and political strategist and susie boniface, daily mirror columnist also known as the fleet street fox. the british prime minister is facing another test of his authority today, over plans to send migrants to rwanda. rishi sunak is trying to revive government proposals to send some asylum seekers to the east african country, arguing it will deter people from crossing the english channel in smal
this rain in eastern areas will slowly tend to peter out and we will get some sunshine coming through and we could generate some showers all the way through yorkshire to the west midlands and into the west country. there will be some warm sunshine for many parts of the country and temperatures on the whole very similar to what we had today, but it may well be a bit warmer in scotland particularly in the east because we will see more sunshine. this area of low pressure is storm nino and it could bring more rain into italy and perhaps more rain into italy and perhaps more flooding, dominated by high pressure although there is this stripe of cloud in from the atlantic. i think on saturday looks quite cloudy for much of scotland and northern ireland, not much rain at all and most of the cloud quite thin and high. more on the way of sunshine for england and wales, that a fair weather cloud, one in the sunshine, temperatures 20 or 21, holding at 16 or 17 for scotland and northern i
the head of the un has called on the security council to do these on the security council to do are live pictures of ita citizens these are live pictures of italian citizens arriving in rome, the italian capital. as we have been saying here on bbc news, it s been difficult for many countries to evacuate their citizens with a growing list of countries having chartered flights, brought on ships to evacuate diplomats and citizens from the sudan capital khartoum as the fighting continues there, into its second week in fact. there has been some criticism of the uk government response to uk citizens in particular the fact that the uk government evacuated diplomats and their families government evacuated diplomats and theirfamilies but government evacuated diplomats and their families but has yet to start to properly evacuating british citizens from khartoum. bbc understands a small british military team has landed in sudan to assess potential evacuation options. what we are seeing
this historic fight. we hope that this year the 2023 will become a year of victory, this unprovoked and criminal, russia s waragainst ukraine and against the whole world. in other news, the family of nicola bulley describe their agony as police find a body in the river near the place she went missing. scotland s finance secretary, kate forbes, becomes the third candidate to enter the leadership contest to replace nicola sturgeon as first minister. bbc analysis shows that some of britain s local bus networks have been slashed by more than a third. and after a tour of the uk, dippy the dinosaurfinds a new home in coventry. good afternoon. welcome to the bbc news channel. us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first to ukraine since russia invaded almost a year ago. he met ukraine s president, volodmyr zelensky and both men visited a memorial for ukraine s war dead. at a news conference mr biden announced more military, political and financial support for