Green light for Rwanda flights?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at a government win in the Commons with plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Adam and Chris talk through what this means for Sunak’s flagship policy, who the Tory rebels were, and what the Rwandan president said about the plans.
But what happens now the bill has passed? Legal correspondent Dominic Casciani tells us whether courts will ever allow flights to take off.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Josh Jenkins and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's gone 10 PM on Tuesday night. |
| 0:07.4 | Should we listen into the sound of Chris Mason getting ready to analyze some |
| 0:11.6 | breaking political news for us as he enters the studio. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello? |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, how you doing? |
| 0:19.0 | I'm all right, thank you. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm all right. |
| 0:21.0 | Sorry, I'm just sending a thing. Yeah, sorry, that's done. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, yeah, no, I'm okay, I'm all right. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, I know what you were just sending it? |
| 0:30.0 | It was the line from the number 10 spokesperson congratulating themselves that the |
| 0:34.3 | Rwanda legislation has passed its final stage in the House of Commons? |
| 0:37.3 | Yes indeed so. |
| 0:39.1 | And what's the opposite of a breaking news klaxen for when something undramatic has happened. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, it's funny, isn't it? |
| 0:46.0 | Because I'm really conscious, you know, for newscasters and when I'm on the telly or the radio |
| 0:52.0 | whatever, that I never want sort of people to think as much as anyone gives much of a thought about what I might be saying to think hang on it many he makes a load of noise about stuff and then and then kind of nothing happens |
| 1:04.4 | or the less surprising or newsworthy thing happens but the curious thing with the |
| 1:08.9 | last couple of days is that we have had 60-odd conservative MPs saying that big chunks of this policy kind of in their view |
| 1:15.1 | kind of don't work or aren't likely to work and yet in the end come that crucial vote there was only |
| 1:20.4 | 11 of them and that's kind of the story of it because you know the other |
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