in its current form. our political correspondent hannah miller reports. a plan that aims to stop dangerous channel crossings like this. a key pledge that's become rishi sunak�*s biggest parliamentary challenge. the ayes to the right 68. the noes to the left 529. last night, 60 of his own mps tried and failed to make changes to the rwanda bill. among them, three who resigned their roles to vote against the government. the now former deputy chairmen of the conservative party, lee anderson and brendan clark—smith, and jane stephenson, who had been a pps, or ministerial assistant. i don't think i could carry on in my role as deputy chairman of the conservative party when i fundamentally disagree with the bill. i think most of the bill is sound. i think it can work. but we needed it beefing up.

we needed it strengthening over the next few days. and i can't be in a position to vote for something which i don't believe in. the bill aims to send some people who arrive in the uk illegally to rwanda. their asylum case would be heard there and, if successful, that's where they'd stay. the policy was first announced by borisjohnson nearly two years ago. two months later, the first deportation flight was cancelled minutes before take—off, after the european court of human rights intervened. it then went through several legal challenges and, in november last year, the supreme court ruled the policy as it stood then to be unlawful. so now the government's put together a new bill that declares rwanda to be a safe country. refugee rights are human rights! but rebels aren't happy that it still allows individual legal challenges in the uk courts, and they want it strengthened to explicitly state that

international law can't be used to block people from being removed. given the scale of the rebellion, some are still pinning their hopes on negotiations with government today. we want a bill that works. that's the fundamental point. we think there needs to be all of what we're suggesting, but let's have that conversation. are you willing to vote against the bill if nothing changes? well, i am willing to vote against the bill. but on the other side of the conservative party are those who think the prime minister's got this right. what would your message to rishi sunak be at this point? 0h, stand firm. i think the government should stand by the legislation it's put forward. it hasn't put any of its own amendments forward and i'm glad about that. and i think that we've seen the high watermark of the rebellion. labour, the snp and some other opposition parties reject the whole rwanda plan, which is described by downing street as the toughest legislation ever brought before parliament to tackle illegal migration. but the question hanging

over westminster now is can the government get its flagship policy through? hannah miller, bbc news, westminster. live now to our deputy political editor vicki young. we had quite an eventful day yesterday without debate. what are we expecting today? we yesterday without debate. what are we expecting today?— we expecting today? we will have another several _ we expecting today? we will have another several hours _ we expecting today? we will have another several hours of - we expecting today? we will have another several hours of debate l another several hours of debate about the real detail of this bill and as we were hearing there, a lot of the conservative concern is being aired and there will be more attempts to try to change that bill, to try to stop those individual appeals which many tory mps think will scupper this whole policy but i think it is really still unlikely that those amendments will change or go through because the opposition parties will vote against them so if there are no changes we move onto there are no changes we move onto the third reading. this is the final vote in the house of commons about whether you agree or disagree with

the entire policy. the bad news for rishi sunak is that a 60 of his own mps decided yesterday that they were unhappy, there is a huge number. it is a real threat to his authority. the good news for him is that if you look for example at those three we heard about their resigned from their posts, all three of them have said they will vote for the government at that final stage at the third reading. if that is what most of them decide to do, then it will sail through the house of commons. there will be problems potentially in the house of lords but for today, that will be very good news for rishi sunak. there are talks still going on about this but as we know, what he is trying to do with this is to balance those two very different views in the conservative party. there are those who think he cannot go any further because you got to respect international law and lots of tory rebels who think this has got to work and the only wayjimmy could happen is to ignore some of those

international laws. [30 happen is to ignore some of those international laws.— happen is to ignore some of those international laws. do you imagine that there are _ international laws. do you imagine that there are lots _ international laws. do you imagine that there are lots of _ international laws. do you imagine that there are lots of talks - international laws. do you imagine that there are lots of talks going . that there are lots of talks going on at the moment to try to make sure that the conservative party is looking unified in what is going ahead with this deal? it looking unified in what is going ahead with this deal?— looking unified in what is going ahead with this deal? it would be a bit late for that, _ ahead with this deal? it would be a bit late for that, isn't _ ahead with this deal? it would be a bit late for that, isn't it? _ ahead with this deal? it would be a bit late for that, isn't it? if - ahead with this deal? it would be a bit late for that, isn't it? if you - bit late for that, isn't it? if you look at the ability of the conservative party in recent years to fight with itself, you get the impression if the tory mp was in a room on their own, there would be an argument. that is the big problem that successive conservative leaders have really been wrestling with. they know that divided parties do not do well when it comes to voters looking at them so there is that potential problem about some of them will say, these are really important, heartfelt policy differences and it is rishi sunak�*s job to try and deal with all of that. there are still talks going on, there was one suggestion today from a minister saying they will try

and tweak the civil service code. there is really no detail we can find out about this at the moment so it is hard to see how this would work. already the union that represents senior civil servants is worried about this. the idea that civil servants might be told that they can somehow ignore international law so we will have to see if that comes into play. but if the government is confident it can get it through and these rebels, many of them are willing to back the bill, because in the end of they don't vote for it tonight, that is the end of it. they're having to make a decision, do they accept this bill even though they are not completely happy with it and give it a go? 0r completely happy with it and give it a go? or do they kill it completely. that would be a huge step, nothing like that has happened since 1977 and if it were to happen, took about authority with rishi sunak, he would be in real trouble. 0ne authority with rishi sunak, he would be in real trouble. one of his big flagship priorities when it comes to policy would have been defeated and i think most don't expect that to happen. two qatari military planes carrying

medicines for hostages in gaza have arrived in egypt. the consignment will be transferred to the territory under an agreement between israel and hamas. france played a role in brokering the deal, the united nations says the war has displaced roughly 85% of gaza's 2.4 million people, many of whom have been forced to crowd into shelters and struggle to get food, water, fuel and medical care. under the deal, the humanitarian supplies will leave the qatari capital, doha, for egypt later today. the aid will then be taken to gaza, to be delivered to civilians, while medicines are yet to reach israeli captives. more than 132 hostages are thought to be still held in gaza. these are live pictures from the rafah crossing. earlier it seemed we were seeing aid trucks going in. it looks as though that was happening.

residents of khan yunis in southern gaza tell us that they have been experiencing some of the most intense israeli air strikes since the start of the war and actually in videos posted on social media. you can see the orange flames that leap up from some of these israeli bombs that hit. you can hear gunfire reverberating around the city as hamas fighters fight with israeli soldiers at close quarters. that has led to displaced people and there have been thousands of them sheltering at the nasser hospital, one of the main hospitals in the city now heading out of the city on foot. one man told us it had been a night of terror. people were panicking. he said the kids had been screaming and crying nonstop. a localjournalist told us that people were heading westwards, not really knowing what fate awaited them. at the same time, there's a lot going on diplomatically with qatar now having mediated this deal that will see medicines going in for israeli hostages being held by hamas in gaza in exchange for an increase in medicines being

taken in for palestinian civilians. that's been seen as a very positive sign. and at the same time, we've had the white house saying that qatar is mediating here what it's calling very serious, intensive discussions for a possible new hostage release deal. it said that it looks hopeful. at the world economic forum in davos, the us�* top diplomat anthony blinken was asked whether israeli lives matter more than palestinian lives. no. period. for me, i think for so many of us, what we're seeing every single day in gaza is gut—wrenching, and the suffering we're seeing among innocent men, women and children breaks my heart. the question is, what is to be done?

iran has carried out another air strike beyond its borders, this time in neighbouring pakistan. iranian state media said the strikes hit two sites linked to the militant groupjaish al—adl in the south—western pakistani province of balochistan. earlier this week iran hit targets in iraq and syria. the government in islamabad warned of potentially serious consequences in response to what it said was a deadly violation of its airspace. we originally got some of this information from the iranian state media. they talked about the fact that this had been an attack that the iranian military had carried out using drones and rockets and that they said this was to attack the headquarters of the militant groupjaish ul—adl, a sunni militant group that has previously claimed attacks on iranian soil, including an attack on a police station back in december. so it is difficult because iran has not made an official comment on this to say exactly why iran decided

to do this. we are slightly reading between the lines here. but i think the suggestion is that at the moment they are looking at threats around the region and looking at particularly these groups and militant groups that they say they think will pose a threat to iran and then showing that they will try and hit them now. what was tehran trying to hit? according to the state media, they were targeting and hitting the pakistan headquarters of this groupjaish ul—adl, this group they refer to as a terror group, also designated a terror group by the united states. we have also heard from the pakistan foreign ministry here, and in response they have strongly condemned it, said it is an unprovoked violation of its airspace by iran and they say the strike resulted in the death of two children and three further were injured as well.

at the moment we are waiting to hear what will happen from pakistan. they have talked about this having serious consequences but we haven't been told what those consequences are yet. has this happened before with iran hitting pakistan? iran and pakistan have a relatively cordial but very delicate relationship. there has previously been incidents where there have been skirmishes on the border. despite the cordial relationship, both sides accuse the other of harbouring militants within that border area that then come across the border and attack the other country. iran has previously been accused by pakistan of flying a drone over its territory which was shot down. there have been accusations iran has previously sent a rocket into these border areas as well. we also know that iran has sent previous security personnel across the border into pakistan, too. yes, there has been but it all happens on the same day that pakistan's prime minister met

with iran's foreign minister in davos. so a complicated relationship between iran and pakistan and more complicated by the matters overnight. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. the rate of inflation unexpectedly rose to 1t% in december, the first increase in ten months, up from 3.9% in november. the office for national statistics says tobacco and alcohol had the biggest impact on prices. the chancellor insists the government's plan to bring down inflation is working. it is precisely because we are concerned about what's happening in the red sea that the united kingdom has taken action with the united states and our other allies to secure freedom of navigation. we are obviously watching the situation very carefully.

but when you have a very volatile world, thatjust shows the importance of having a plan to tackle inflation and sticking to that plan. and our plan has halved inflation, more than halved inflation, since rishi sunak became prime minister. we are going to stick to that plan because we know that is the way we will reduce pressure on families up and down the country. there are plenty more stories on our website and we will of course be following the rwanda debate in the house of commons and also the post office inquiry into the horizon scandal. we can bring you some breaking news now and musicians at the english national opera are to go on strike from 1 february. the move comes as the opera plans

to axe 19 posts in its orchestra and make the orchestra and music staff part time. the musicians claimed the moved threatens�* musicians livelihoods. more now on our main story — mps are due to vote later on the government's latest rwanda bill — a day after rishi sunak faced his biggest rebellion since becoming prime minister. we're joined now by general secretary for the first division association, the union for public service professionals, dave penman. the government says it's considering new rules for civil servants to ignore international court injunctions to block deportation flights to rwanda — how are your union members feeling about this potential rule change? what the government is doing is trying to resolve an unresolvable conflict within the conservative

party over the european convention on human rights.