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price for the defence of bakhmut. and tributes continue to pour in following the death of the queen of rock and roll tina turner at 83 years old. hello. we start here in the uk, where new figures show net migration the difference between the number of people coming to live in the uk and the number leaving hit a record high in 2022. it rose to 606,000 last year, driven by people from non eu countries arriving for work and study after the pandemic. that s up from 488,000 in 2021. the figure includes people coming to the uk under resettlement schemes from both ukraine and hong kong, with many more visas being issued following a political crackdown in the former british colony. britain has long been a popular destination for migrants from nigeria. earlier i spoke to the bbc s mayenijones who is in lagos and also our correspondent in hong kong martin yip. first, a little bit on the figures. among those 606,000 people who moved to the uk in the past year. hong kon ....
It s a very unique situation with regards to hong kong and like you say that beijing imposed national security law. we mentioned in the introduction that nigeria is in the top ten for countries, for people coming to the uk. what is the draw for people, say, in lagos, for example, for wanting to come to britain? i think for a lot of nigerians, there are long standing cultural ties between nigeria and the uk. english is the lingua franca here. this used to be a british colony and there s a large number of nigerians who have relatives in the uk it s only a six hour flight from where i am in lagos to london. and so for a lot of nigerians it s very attractive to uk has some of the best universities in the world. this is a country where education is very highly prized and amongst those new migration figures, the highest number is young nigerians who have gone to the uk to study at a higher level ....
Britain has long been a popular destination for migrants from nigeria. earlier i spoke to the bbc s mayenijones who is in lagos and also our correspondent in hong kong martin yip. first, a little bit on the figures. among those 606,000 people who moved to the uk in the past year. hong kongers took up 52,000 places, so 52,000 people moved and they saw because of the national security law imposed by beijing, not something from the hong kong legislature, being imposed on the 30th ofjune 2020. seen as a very draconian law on political crimes such as sedition, subversion and terrorism activities. and so people were fearing about. 0r still fearing about the lose of their own freedom. ....