nick's here. we're heading for round four of pin pong — four of ping pong — where where are we tonight? we are in a lengthy session of parliamentary ping—pong, that is the process when the two houses of parliament cannot agree, so the legislation passes to and fro. to keep the analogy going, we have got two balls in play. the first one is the house of lords saying, we want to exempt afghan veterans. the second one is to allow a monitoring body established by the government to rule in future whether rwanda is a safe country. supporters of that amendment see that currently under the bill, if it passes, rwanda would be deemed by parliament to be safe in perpetuity. so, why is this continuing? essentially because labour peers are supporting these two amendments. if they stop supporting them, they would fall. labour saying they are being constructive, they have withdrawn two amendments, but the one in particular they are supporting is the one on those afghan veterans. that is being put forward by