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Newshour: 23/04/2024 13:06 GMT: Controversial Britain-Rwanda asylum bill passed

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23/04/2024 13:06 GMT

23/04/2024 13:06 GMT: Controversial Britain-Rwanda asylum bill passed

Controversial Britain-Rwanda asylum bill passed

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The British Parliament passes a bill to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda

The British Parliament passes a bill to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

A new law in Britain aims to send people arriving on small boats to Rwanda to have their asylum claims processed. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the plan made clear that people who arrived in Britain illegally would not be able to stay. The United Nations says the bill is the wrong solution and sets a dangerous precedent. 

Also in the programme: What Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline think about the supply of new American weapons; and Aboriginal people reclaim spears taken from Australia by Captain Cook in 1770. We speak to one of them.

(Photo: Legal challenges meant the first Rwanda flight was cancelled shortly before take-off in June 2022. Credit: Reuters)

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