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UK presses ahead with plan for migrant deportation flight to Rwanda despite critics

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Britain's first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was set to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning that anyone who avoided it through last-minute legal challenges would be put on a later plane despite an outcry from critics. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Armen Georgian tells us more.

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