#LondonCalling: What is the Rwanda Bill? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
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#LondonCalling: What is the Rwanda Bill? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/five-migrants-feared-dead-english-channel-crossing-ngqm76r39
1962 RWANDA
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. I'm John Batser with Joseph Sternberg, my colleague, he's a member of the |
| 0:38.4 | editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London, he writes political |
| 0:41.4 | economics, and we discuss life in London he writes political economics and we discuss life in London and it includes |
| 0:45.5 | mysteries that I read from this side of the Atlantic. This one is especially challenging. |
| 0:51.3 | The UK Parliament has finally passed a contentious |
| 0:54.2 | bill that will allow the government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for |
| 0:59.6 | their claims to be considered by the East African Nation. |
| 1:03.0 | Prime Minister Sunak's efforts had been stuck between opposition and the Houses of Parliament |
| 1:08.0 | and challenges in the British courts as lawmakers and activists have sought to scupper the legislation on human rights |
| 1:15.0 | ground. Scuppers a wonderful word I've never used it without reading it. We |
| 1:19.8 | come to a tragedy within these hours that strikes me as connected to the Rwanda bill. |
| 1:26.0 | Girl among five dead in channel migrant dinghy crash. |
| 1:29.8 | Inanimate bodies were found on a French coast beach hours after the Rwanda bill was passed in Westminster. |
| 1:36.0 | Joe, I come to you on this because it looks like this is the Times of London connecting the report to the BBC. The Rwanda bill looks like it's |
| 1:46.2 | something to do with people risking their lives and their children's lives to |
| 1:49.9 | cross the channel. As I crudely understand it, if you take this risk and an overloaded |
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