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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will not allow the European Court of Human Rights to block the government's planned policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda. Speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful, he says he will introduce "emergency legislation" to designate Rwanda a safe country. "If the (European Court of Human Rights) chooses to intervene against the express wishes of parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get the flights off" he says. SOUNDBITE
The National Rejoin March II kicks off in London, UK, in a protest calling for the UK to rejoin the European Union. The protestors met outside Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, near Hyde Park, before heading towards Pall Mall. IMAGES
Images show a picket line in front of UCL hospital in London as junior doctors begin a 3-day strike over pay at the start of a week that will also see teachers, train staff and civil servants walk out in the lastest of a wave of UK industrial action. The strike by junior doctors -- who are not senior specialists but can still have decades of experience -- is the longest they have ever staged. The British Medical Association, the body representing them, says junior doctors have suffered a 26% real-terms paycut since 2008/09 and are demanding a 35% wage hike to combat this. IMAGES
Images of British nurses staging a second unprecedented strike to demand pay rises and better working conditions in front of St Thomas' Hospital in London. The strike, which began last week, comes against a backdrop of multiple walkouts in the UK, where inflation is running at over 10%. IMAGES
Images show nurses in front of London's St Thomas' Hospital amidst unprecedented walkouts. Up to 100,000 nurses around the UK are staging a one-day strike as a "last resort" in their fight for better wages and working conditions. IMAGES