Asylum seekers in the UK will face the prospect of being relocated 4,500 miles away to Rwanda. The planned government crackdown on unauthorized immigrants has been described as “shameful” by Labor. Enver Solomon, the council’s chief adviser on refugees, said the government chose “control and punishment over compassion” when every Conservative prime minister from Churchill had given “a fair hearing on British soil for asylum seekers”. . The prime minister is expected to announce measures, including the placement of the Channel’s naval operations manager, and a reception center instead of hotels to house people – the first at a former RAF base in Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire. The deal with Rwanda, which reportedly will cost 120 120m initially, follows three years of Priti Patel promises to outsource asylum processing and failures to reach deals with Albania and Ghana. According to a 2020 report by Human Rights Watch, detainees in Rwanda suffer from arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and torture in official and unofficial facilities. Yvette Cooper, the shadow interior minister, said Rwanda’s proposal was “unworkable, immoral and blackmailing”. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it expects to see a bilateral agreement, but “the UNHCR does not support the outsourcing of asylum.” The Partygate is not over – Boris Johnson is facing three more possible fines, according to senior sources, as he suffered his first Partygate resignation – of Lords Justice Minister David Wolfson. A police source said that an assessment by Met detectives that the prime minister had broken the rules more than once meant that the level of the fine would rise in any case. A Tory MP said they were deeply concerned about a “drip” of revelations ahead of the local election and Sue Gray’s final report. “Each of them will come like a hammer to the nail of the Tories coffin and what the prime minister is doing is involving all the deputies in it. We are on a long, slow death march. ” By Wednesday afternoon, tensions seemed to be running high among Tory lawmakers preparing to oust Johnson, although several confirmed they had sent letters of no confidence to the 1922 party commission. Others rushed to his defense. Subway Arrest – A man suspected of shooting more than 30 shots at a New York subway train is in custody on a federal terrorism charge. Frank R. James, 62, was arrested Wednesday night in Manhattan by two patrols without incident. Officials said James was arrested thanks to information coming from a McDonald’s on First Avenue where a member of the public took photos and called the Crime Stoppers. “We took him”: The wanted man was arrested for shooting in the Brooklyn subway, the officials announce – video Police patrolled the area and found James. “We could not have done this without the help of the public,” said an FBI official. At least four students aged 12 to 16 are believed to be among the 29 injured passengers in need of medical treatment after suffering bullet wounds, smoke inhalation, falls and panic attacks. Five of the 10 people shot were reported to be in critical but stable condition. another 19 were injured, although no one was reported to be in a life-threatening condition. Russian warship “serious damage” – The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been mutilated and its crew evacuated after an explosion. A Ukrainian official had earlier claimed, without providing any evidence, that his forces had hit Moscow with rockets. The governor of Odessa, Maksym Marchenko, said: “It has been confirmed that the Moskva cruiser today went exactly where it was sent by our border guards to Snake Island.” On the first day of the invasion, the guard of the small island refused the calls to be delivered, saying to the ship “to fuck”. More than 1,000 Ukrainian Marines defending Mariupol have surrendered and the port has been seized, Moscow said as the presidents of four countries bordering Russia arrived in Kyiv in support of Ukraine. This morning, defense author Dan Sabbagh records how the use of indiscriminate Russian weapons has exploded to the depths, including the possible but still unconfirmed release of a chemical agent in Mariupol. Follow all the current developments on our live blog. Easter Travel Troubles – Vacationers are warned of disruption whether they are traveling by air, rail, road or sea. Staff sickness and staff shortages have already wreaked havoc on airline passengers, with ferry companies struggling to meet demand as P&O Ferries remain suspended. Easter weekend is the first public holiday after almost all Covid travel restrictions have been lifted. Transport Secretary Grand Saps told the BBC he would be “extremely busy on our roads, possibly in our ports, especially in Dover”. Network Rail has advised passengers to travel on both sides of the weekend as it closes parts of the system for engineering – more details in our full story. Drivers may also face traffic jams as the RAC estimates that there will be 21 million leisure car trips this weekend. Covid is approaching – Surgeries are being canceled across England as Covid is causing a “major upset” in the NHS, said the country’s top surgeon. Six million are on the waiting list for hospital care, including more than 23,000 waiting more than two years. Boris Johnson hailed in February “the largest coverage program in the history of health care,” but in the same month dropped any domestic restrictions on Covid. Now, more than 28,000 NHS employees are out of work every day because of Covid, and more than 20,000 patients are being treated with it. “We have heard that scheduled surgery is being canceled again in various parts of the country because staff are infected with the virus,” said Professor Neil Mortensen, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The British Medical Association has accused the government of failing to understand Covid’s threat to the NHS, its outstanding goals and the wider society. NHS England said staff “continue to make every effort” to address the delays. Another Brexit dividend – Environmentalists in Gibraltar say the island was almost flooded with rubbish because of Brexit. The waste from the territory was usually treated in the Spanish province of Cadiz, but things got stuck with Britain leaving the EU. Soon six thousand tons of garbage had accumulated. Equipment was hastily imported from the United Kingdom to shred and compact the rubbish. Gibraltar Garbage Mountain. Photo: Verdemar-Ecologists in Acciòn They were thinking of storing it all in the underground tunnels of Gibraltar, but in the end Madrid signed that they would continue to process the garbage from the outpost. The last pieces of rubbish were cleared as Gibraltar was hit by a severe storm and swells of more than four meters. “If we had such a strong storm when there was garbage, we would be talking about plastic scattered in the Strait of Gibraltar,” said Antonio Muñoz, of a local ecological team.
Today on the Focus podcast: Is Johnson coming out?
He says he will pay the fines imposed by the Met police, but he is not resigning – at least not yet. Are Tory MPs willing to oust the prime minister? Today at Focus
Beginning of the end for Johnson?
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Read at noon: Climate and food – the coming crisis
Global farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them most vulnerable to climate change. Our food system is not ready for the climate crisis. Illustration: Rita Liu / The Guardian
Sport
It was full, it was suffocating, it was full body – as predicted – and it erupted in the 89th minute with a massive hand-to-hand battle between the players of both Atletico Madrid and Manchester City, including many substitutes. At the center was Satan Phil Fontaine, who beat Diego Simeone in his own game before Pep Guardiola claimed he had never criticized Atletico’s style. Benfica saved the pride at Anfield, while Liverpool kept the dreams for a seventh European crown and an unprecedented quadruple. Jürgen Klopp will consider it a decent exchange. One of Britain’s most famous women’s cycling races is on the verge of being saved 24 hours after its longtime sponsor withdrew in protest of British Cycling’s suspension of its trans policy. Montpellier and former Bath striker Jacques Mercer thought he had closed too early for England and the top 14 status as an unlikely outsider. Kenny Shiels’s talk about “emotional” women is unacceptable. The Northern Ireland Women’s Director’s comments send a bad message and were not adequately addressed with his apology.
Business
Asian stocks mostly climbed Wall Street today. Traders expect a meeting of the European Central Bank later in the day. There were gains in the markets of Australia, China and the Nikkei, while the Kospi index of South Korea fell after the central bank unexpectedly increased its policy rate to 1.5%, the highest since August 2019, as it tries to stifle inflation. Futures trading has the FTSE open higher at the time of retirement, while the pound is at $ 1,313 and € 1,204 at the moment.
The papers
In our Guardian today, the main story is “Johnson could face three more fines in a party scandal” ….
