tom symonds, thank you for now. we will _ the boats. tom symonds, thank you for now.e _ the boats. tom symonds, thank you for now. we will have more - the boats. tom symonds, thank you for now. we will have more from - for now. we will have more from dover shortly. for now. we will have more from dovershortly. first, for now. we will have more from dover shortly. first, let's talk about the politics. after months of gridlock the government's rwanda asylum bill is finally set to become law. plans to send some asylum seekers to africa have been met with fierce criticism, but the bill — which designates rwanda a safe country — was approved overnight. the prime minister said the first flights will leave the uk in ten to 12 weeks. here's our political correspondent peter saull. further along the french coast from where five migrants lost their lives this morning, and at first light, dozens of people try to find a scrap of rubber to perch on. thisjourney was halted, but they will no doubt try again, a stark reminder of what the recent wranglings in westminster have been all

here's tom symonds.itive picture, pouria zeraati is said to be all too aware he could have been killed. police searching the street where he lives, where he was approached by a man asking for money, another grabbing his arms, the first stabbing his legs, before they ran off. an eyewitness who was just down the road told me that he was walking along here when they came running towards him — two young men in their early 20s wearing black hooded tracksuits. he said they looked casual — calm, even. they got into a waiting car and drove off. but he got the number plate. the attack happened in wimbledon. police were able to track the car, a blue mazda — possibly using automatic number plate cameras and cctv — to new malden, where they found it abandoned. it is being forensically examined. from there, the three suspects travelled to heathrow airport. there are regular buses. it's also possible to get a train. scotland yard said they caught a flight out of the uk. detectives will have their passport details and

tom symonds, bbc news, south london. ellis, a cyber security expert and founder of company nextjen security. how common is it for any of us to be a victim of this type of crime? it is frighteningly common. there are estimates that fraud course the uk economy upwards of £200 billion, so that's how common it is. not all of that's how common it is. not all of that will be cyber fraud, not all of it will be using these technical platforms, but increasingly they are, whether it is phone calls or text messages or websites, in the case of labhost, and it is big business. this is a big industry we are talking about, people are falling victim to.— are talking about, people are falling victim to. this particular crime grow) — falling victim to. this particular crime group which _ falling victim to. this particular crime group which had - falling victim to. this particular crime group which had been i falling victim to. this particular- crime group which had been broken up, how common is that to have an organisation, like labhost,

here's tom symonds.he could have been killed. police searching the street where he lives, where he was approached by a man asking for money, another grabbing his arms, the first stabbing his legs, before they ran off. an eyewitness who was just down the road told me that he was walking along here when they came running towards him — two young men in their early 20s wearing black hooded tracksuits. he said they looked casual — calm, even. they got into a waiting car and drove off. but he got the number plate. the attack happened in wimbledon. police were able to track the car, a blue mazda — possibly using automatic number plate cameras and cctv — to new malden, where they found it abandoned. it is being forensically examined. from there, the three suspects travelled to heathrow airport. there are regular buses. it's also possible to get a train. scotland yard said they caught a flight out of the uk. detectives will have their passport details and say they've been identified. the getaway car found in this

tom symonds, bbc news, south london.are keeping an eye on that court case with former president donald trump. they are down from the seven they had picked to six after one juror feeling intimidated after details which were on thejury became intimidated after details which were on the jury became public. intimidated after details which were on thejury became public. there will also thought they could lose another jury will also thought they could lose anotherjury and be down to five. so we are keeping an eye on proceedings there in new york and we will bring you the latest here on proceedings there on bbc news. do stay with us. plenty more from new york. let's turn to events in westminster, where a conservative mp has been suspended by the parliamentary party after claims he misused campaign funds. the times newspaper alleges he used local party funds to pay off what he reportedly called "bad people" who had locked him in a flat. mark menzies "strongly" disputes the allegations. the conservative party was made aware of th

just hours after the bill passed, the bbc�*s tom symonds witnessed migrants on a beach in calais in franceg to get on boats and cross the english channel. these are some of the latest pictures from our team there. joining us now on the line, the bbc�*s tom symonds — who has been in calais in northern france this morning. let's start with what has happened in the last few hours and those deaths. what more do we know? we're 'ustt in: deaths. what more do we know? we're just trying to — deaths. what more do we know? we're just trying to work _ deaths. what more do we know? we're just trying to work this _ deaths. what more do we know? we're just trying to work this out. _ deaths. what more do we know? ,, just trying to work this out. they were perfect conditions for the channel. flat seas and very clear visibility. a large number of boats have tried to get away. there were three potentials crossing is that it started. we think that it was at wimereux which is between boulogne and calais, where the migrants both live and try to escape to get to the uk, we have some details of those. the people

tom symonds, bbc news.h floods and causing disruption to flights at the world's second—busiest airport. about 300 flights were cancelled at dubai international airport on wednesday, with hundreds more delayed, after the united arab emirates experienced its largest rainfall event since records began 75 years ago. the airport, which serves as a major hub for connecting flights to every continent, is warning recovery will take some time. in australia, a new report is due to be handed down into the spread and threat of one of the world's most invasive species, fire ants. the ants are thought to have entered the country in shipping containers from south america about two decades ago. they pose a threat to people and livestock. let's speak to phil mercer is sydney. how new, urgent and widespread as the threat?— as the threat? well as you say the ants were _ as the threat? well as you say the ants were first _ as the threat? well as you say the ants were first detected i as the threat? well as you say the ants wer

our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports. too aware he could have been killed. police searching the street where he lives, where he was approached by a man asking for money, another grabbing his arms, the first stabbing his legs, before they ran off. an eyewitness who was just down the road told me that he was walking along here when they came running towards him — two young men in their early 20s wearing black hooded tracksuits. he said they looked casual — calm, even. they got into a waiting car and drove off. but he got the number plate. the attack happened at wimbledon. police were able to track the car, a blue mazda, possibly using automatic number plate cameras and cctv, to new malden, where they found it abandoned. it is being forensically examined. from there, the three suspects travelled to heathrow airport. there are regular buses. it's also possible to get a train. scotland yard said they caught a flight out of the uk. detectives will have their passport details and say they've been identified. but for now, the pol

here's tom symonds.te the positive picture, pouria zeraati is said to be all too aware he could have been killed. police searching the street where he lives, where he was approached by a man asking for money, another grabbing his arms, the first stabbing his legs, before they ran off. an eyewitness who was just down the road told me that he was walking along here when they came running towards him — two young men in their early 20s wearing black hooded tracksuits. he said they looked casual — calm, even. they got into a waiting car and drove off. but he got the number plate. the attack happened in wimbledon. police were able to track the car, a blue mazda — possibly using automatic number plate cameras and cctv — to new malden, where they found it abandoned. it is being forensically examined. from there, the three suspects travelled to heathrow airport. there are regular buses. it's also possible to get a train. scotland yard said they caught a flight out of the uk. detectives will have their passport de

tom symonds, bbc news, wimbledon.h the country still in a state of limbo after the prime minister was forced to resign, leaving an interim government in place. gangs are still attacking businesses in the capital every day, torching pharmacies and vandalising schools. access to hospitals in the capital is dire, leaving many with no option but to flee. the un says 53,000 left port—au—prince between the 8th and 27th of march. many of them are fleeing to rural regions which the un has warned are not equipped to deal with such a large influx of displaced people. let's cross over to port—au—prince and speak to etienne cote—paluck, the editor—in chief of haiti weekly magazine. thanks very much for being with us, etienne. just described the situation there at the moment. we feel like situation there at the moment. - feel like in a ghost city, in some ways. most of the city, there's not much cars and motorbikes, like there used to be. all the schools are still closed. all the offices are closed, most of them at least most of s

questions was given by another reporter who was also on a beach in northern france on tuesday morning — tom symonds to newscast later that day. this is a 70—kilometer coastline here. it's very hard to know where these boats are going from. and we just got lucky. so the boats did come and people ran across and jumped into it and the police seemed to come at us and say, "you knew that this was going to happen." and they took our ids and they were quite angry, really. and so i think they were thinking that somehow we'd done a deal with the migrants to film them leaving. we absolutely didn't. and we wouldn't do that. we wanted to discuss those issues further with one of the reporters on the spot there, or an editor in charge, but no one was available for interview. instead, we were given this statement... monday's edition of panorama, along with shorter reports on that day's bbc one bulletins showed how the technology behind england's so—called "smart motorways" regularly malfunctions with potential consequences for the safety of drivers and passengers. we found that on a regular basis, much of the saf

our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports.was one of a series of co—ordinated raids targeting cybercrime in 17 countries, masterminded from the uk. one man was arrested here and 23 others around the country. and this all began about two years ago when security experts for the banking industry spotted on the dark web criminals offering other criminals a service, a way to make money using phishing, with a "ph". labhost, freely available on the internet, provided technology and training to other criminals so they could carry out phishing attacks sending fraudulent text messages to trick 70,000 people into handing over personal information. technology is enabling crime to be delivered at scale in an almost industrial fashion. and these crimes—as—a—service, or fraud—as—a—service, are allowing people into this criminal marketplace who don't have necessarily technical skills but they can get these crime—as—a—service capabilities off the shelf — they can buy it online. as the arrests were taking place, including at luton and mancheste

that was tom symonds in calais. let's speak to the bbc�*s simonjones, who's in dover. welcome back. the channel in which we understand at least five people have died today? another reminder of the danger of crossing the world's most dangerous shipping lane in these small boats. we talk about small boats, in this incident a boat set out at around 5am with, we are told, more than 110 people on board. that would be exceptional in terms of numbers, the average per boat is around 50. we are told the boat got stranded on a sandbank shortly after setting off from a beach in wimereux in northern france along the coast from calais, more towards boulogne. after being struck on the sandbank it managed to relaunch into the water but there was some sort of incident involving the crowd, as french authorities call it, on board the boat, and we are told five people lost their lives, among them three men, a woman and a young child. another reminder that even though it looks very calm out there in the channel, and you can see france in the distance pretty clearly, when things go wrong they can go dra

our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, reports.n. police! this was one of a series of co—ordinated raids targeting cybercrime in 17 countries, masterminded from the uk. one man was arrested here, and 23 others around the country. and this all began about two years ago when security experts for the banking industry spotted on the dark web criminals offering other criminals a service — a way to make money using phishing, with a "ph". labhost, freely available on the internet, provided technology and training to other criminals so they could carry out phishing, attacks sending fraudulent text messages to trick 70,000 people into handing over personal information. these crimes—as—a—service, or fraud—as—a—service, are allowing people into this criminal marketplace, who don't have necessarily technical skills but they can get these crime—as—a—service capabilities off the shelf — they can buy it online. as the arrests were taking place, including at luton and manchester airports, police were also contacting 25,000 victims of the scammers.

tom symonds, bbc news, south london. target of reducing greenhouse gas emission by 75 percent by 2030. the bbc understands that the government's annual climate targets could also be scrapped, but the final goal of reaching net—zero by 2045 will remain. our scotland editor james cook explains. the scottish government, led by humza yousaf, prides itself on ambitious climate targets, pledging to reduce emissions to net zero by 2045, five years earlier than the uk government. that 2045 target will remain. but this afternoon the scottish government is expected to confirm that it's scrapping an interim target of a 75% cut in emissions by 2030. even before the formal announcement, one snp minister expressed her disappointment. the committee said that they had their concerns on it. i'm disappointed, i have to say. i have to admit that i am disappointed by that. disappointed with that. the move comes after an independent report said the scottish government's policies and plans to hit the 2030 target fell far short of what is need

tom symonds, bbc news, south london.with record rainfall pounding the united arab emirates and neighbouring countries in recent days. the airport is one of the busiest in the world and there have been hundreds of flights delayed or cancelled. after a storm on tuesday, flash floods have killed 20 people in oman and one in the uae. frances read reports. it's normally a dry, arid landscape, but northern 0man has been transformed. completely submerged from an unforgiving storm that has claimed the lives of both adults and children. rescues take place in the most difficult of conditions and save those they can. yesterday, a hair—raising hoist, the only way to safety. this is not an area used to this kind of rainfall. 1,400 people have had to seek shelter elsewhere. a few hundred kilometres north, dubai is also affected, its main airport is filled with crowds and queues as it tries to restore operations. some inbound flights have started again, but the backlog from hundreds of delays and cancellations mean people rest where th

detectives believe the suspects travelled to heathrow airport and fled the uk — our correspondent tom symondsspoke to eyewitnesses who describe two people running away in dark clothing and somebody driving them off in a car. we know there's cctv in the area. we know that the police would have had access to the number plate because that was given to them by an eyewitness. and tonight, the met�*s counter—terrorism command has said that this was an attack involving two men in this residential street. the car that drove them off was a blue mazda three, which was found three or four miles away in new malden. and from there, they tracked these suspects to heathrow airport, where they left the country. now, of course, at some point, a passport in somebody�*s name would have been used. so they do say we have identified three suspects. what they haven't said is what the motive for this attack was. now they say that there could be a number of explanations and that they're keeping an open mind. but this is being investigated by the counter—terrorism police. as for pouria zeraati, he says that the suspec

our home affairs correspondent tom symonds is here. what more can you tell us?fore three o'clock —— pouria zeraati was a time. this was in a residential street in wimbledon and witnesses saw two people running off in dark clothing and then being driven off in a car. there is cctv in the area and police would have had access to the number plate as well, and the net's counter terrorism command said this was an attack involving two men in this residential street —— the metropolitan police. the car was found three or four miles away in your bolt on and from there they tracked the suspects to heathrow airport where they left the country. airport where they left the country. a passport in somebody�*s name would have been used so they say they have identified three suspects, but what they have not saved is what the motive for this attack was. —— what they have not said. they say there could be a number of explanations and they are keeping an open mind but this is being investigated by the counterterrorism police. pouria zeraati said the suspects purposefully planned th

detectives believe the suspects travelled to heathrow airport and fled the uk — our correspondent tom symondslothing and somebody driving them off in a car. we know there's cctv in the area. we know that the police would have had access to the number plate because that was given to them by an eyewitness. and tonight, the met�*s counter—terrorism command has said that this was an attack involving two men in this residential street. the car that drove them off was a blue mazda three, which was found three or four miles away in new malden. and from there, they tracked these suspects to heathrow airport, where they left the country. now, of course, at some point, a passport in somebody�*s name would have been used. so they do say we have identified three suspects. what they haven't said is what the motive for this attack was. now they say that there could be a number of explanations and that they're keeping an open mind. but this is being investigated by the counter—terrorism police. as for zarate, he says that the suspects purposefully planned this attack. he will have spoken to liaison officers

let's speak to the bbc�*s tom symonds — who's in calais in northern france. bill being passed you have been witnessing migrants boarding small boats, trying to head to the uk? that's right, we turned up quite early, it is a beach just north of calais, a well—known beach that migrants often use for trying to get to the uk, and we watched as a small boat that was half full payment towards the shore, the police were here and a group of a0 migrants came out of the dunes, walked briskly to the water's edge and about a0 got on that boat. we counted about 67 when the boat finally left and it had a tiny, tiny outboard motor attempting to pateljon propel the boat. there are some waves here today. the police stopped the migrants as far as they could get into the boat, but they did not stop the boat. they seemed quite angry we were there and we wondered whether they might have perhaps made more effort to stop the boats. we know in the past the police have used knives and slashed up police have used knives and slashed up the boat to try to deflate it so it can't be used

our home affairs correspondent tom symonds is here. what does the police saying?e his home close by in daylight in a residential street by two men and we understand one of them grabbed him from behind and pinned his arms and the other stabbed him in the lower body. i spoke to one eyewitness who saw the men running off wearing hooded tops and black tracksuit tops and one had and black tracksuit tops and one had a beard and they seemed very calm. they got into a car that appeared to have been waiting and they drove off straightaway with a third man in the car. police then tracked the car probably using the number plate which the eyewitness gave them, automatic number plate recognition cameras and cctv to about three or four miles away in new maldon where they found the car dumped and then they found the car dumped and then they tracked the men to heathrow airport where they left the country. so that tells us that they will have some kind of passport details. or otherwise for these three suspects in the second thing is they know which country they have flown too. the

tom symonds, bbc news, south london.fice announced that 534 had crossed the channel on sunday, the highest number on record this year. i am joined the highest number on record this year. iamjoined now the highest number on record this year. i am joined now byjournalist and author sally hayden who has researched extensively the treatment of refugees. thank you forjoining us on the programme. the uk government says rwanda is a safe country to allow these migrants to go to, what is your view on how safe rwanda is?— go to, what is your view on how safe rwanda is? yeah, i have been asked this a lot and — rwanda is? yeah, i have been asked this a lot and i _ rwanda is? yeah, i have been asked this a lot and i always _ rwanda is? yeah, i have been asked this a lot and i always say _ rwanda is? yeah, i have been asked this a lot and i always say the - rwanda is? yeah, i have been asked this a lot and i always say the same l this a lot and i always say the same thing. rwanda is a police state, it is a dictatorship, it is a place

tom symonds, bbc news, south london.flation in the uk has been brought under control. after the rate of price rises dropped to its lowest level in two and a half years. mr hunt said the uk economy had now turned a corner but labour said families were worse—off after 14 years of conservative government. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam, reports. i think all central banks have a very difficultjob. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, is talking up the british economy here in the us to anyone he can see — from investors to fellow finance ministers and bankers. many commentators think we may still hit the bank of england's target in the next couple of months. and what that says is that the very difficult decisions that we took when inflation was over 11% have borne fruit. and we now need to stick with that approach, which is clearly working. but mobile broadband prices are going up. living costs, housing... that's going up, too. it's still quite tough for people out there. it is very tough. and we've been through a very tough peri

tom symonds reports from france. a desperate journey right from the start. flimsy inflatable. other migrants say they were mainly iraqi kurds. laterthree migrants say they were mainly iraqi kurds. later three men, women and a seven—year—old girl died in the water. we have been told herfather survived. one man was arrested on the beach, inquiries continue on both sides the channel. the national crime agency in the uk is investigating illegal immigration offences. it has already questioned 55 people who were on the boat and made it across. three men have been arrested, two from sudan and one from south sudan. it happened on a beach close to the seaside town where we saw more migrants openly heading for the beach with life jackets and a folded boat in the middle of the day among people taking their lunch break. translation: i am taking their lunch break. translation: iam reaching taking their lunch break. translation: i am reaching a breaking point. injanuaryi translation: i am reaching a breaking point. injanuary i alerted the authorities and we had five death

our home affairs correspondent tom symonds was on a beach near calais this morning and watched as migrantsy places will stay chilly, particularly across the east of the country. we will have more cloud. but in fact, the next few days, temperatures will be below par for the time of year with the best of any sunshine out towards western areas. this arctic air has been working its way southwards across the country this week and it's going to loiter around until we get into the weekend. then we start to see something a little bit warmer moving up from the south, but it'll be moving up from the south with low pressure. here's the pressure system today — high pressure to the west, lower pressure out towards the east, feeding in a lot of cloud on this northerly wind into the eastern side of the country. best of the sunshine, western scotland, northern ireland, western wales and this is where we're likely to see the mid teens here, but distinctly chilly along the north sea coast. single figures i think for most, 6—9 celsius. similar story as we head into tonight. we hold onto the breeze across nor

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our home affairs correspondent tom symonds is in calais.l boat appear over the horizon almost, coming around the headland out at sea, about half full and unusually, a group of migrants appeared from the sand dunes. this is what they look like, they are easy to hide in. migrants ran across the beach and onto the sea front. they got into the water. police came in behind them. they tried to stop them getting onto the boat. we counted about 30 climbing onto the boat making about 67 on board as they started a small outboard motor and headed out to sea. interestingly, the police did not try to stop them. we are not sure it was because we were there. often the police try to puncture the boats with knives and that could have seen people falling into the water. the police seemed angry we were on the beach to witness this. this is going on all the time and there is another incident down the coast, witnessed by another bbc team down there. the conditions are perfect today. is the boat issue going to be stopped by the rwanda act when it passes? i think

let's speak now to our home affairs correspondent tom symonds, who's in calais.at today. no way of getting a rubber boat with small outboard motor out on the wave so no police on the beach, no migrants, nobody is going across right now. it was here yesterday morning where a boat was launched. we watched about 30-40 boat was launched. we watched about 30—40 clamber on board. that boat got away and we think it possible that was one of the boats that was able to get across the channel, contributing to 300 people who according to unofficial figures made it to the uk yesterday. as you say, and as reported just then, down the coast, earlier yesterday morning, was the incident when a small boat was the incident when a small boat was stuck on a sandbank with 115 or so on board. as people moved around to try to get the boat off the sandbank and it got free, people fell into the water and three people, three men died, a woman died and a seven—year—old girl. french authorities are investigating that tragedy. they do not have causes of death at this stage. they are looking a