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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government wins the backing of the elected House of Commons for his controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda. The government fended off right-wing Conservative rebels to win the final vote on the legislation in the parliament's lower chamber by 320 votes to 276. SOUNDBITE
UK lawmakers vote in favour of the government's latest plans for sending migrants to Rwanda, which has split Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservative party. A knife-edge parliamentary vote in the House of Commons sees 313 MPs vote for the so-called Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, with 269 against. IMAGES
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
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK and Rwanda are eyeing a new deal on asylum seekers, after Britain's highest court ruled that removing migrants to the African country was unlawful. "If it becomes clear that our domestic legal frameworks or international conventions are still frustrating plans at that point, I am prepared to change our laws and revisit those international relationships," he tells lawmakers during the weekly prime minister's questions in parliament. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls a US Supreme Court ruling ending the federal right to abortion "a big step backwards". Johnson, in Kigali for a Commonwealth heads of government meeting, said the court's rulings have "massive impacts on people's thinking around the world". SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).