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14/06/2022 05:06 GMT : First flight is scheduled to deport migrants and refugees to Rwanda today

First flight is scheduled to deport migrants and refugees to Rwanda today

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Some entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum from there.

Under the scheme, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum from there.

Today the UK is due to put into practice its much criticised new immigration policy. People arriving in the UK illegally now face being deported to Rwanda.  We'll hear from one of the controversial plan's supporters.

Uncertainty still surrounds the fate of the journalist Dom Phillips and activist Bruno Pereira who are missing in Brazil's Amazon region. We have a report on the communities that the two were working to help.

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