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Pressure mounts on British Prime Minister David Cameron after he admitted he once had a stake in his late father's offshore trust, and distracts from his campaign to keep Britain in the EU ahead of a June referendum. Kirsty Basset reports.
Canada's Prime minister Justin Trudeau announces new sanctions against 10 people he says were "complicit" in the "unjustified" invasion of Ukraine, which he says "put increased pressure" on Russia's leadership and President Vladimir Putin's inner circle. SOUNDBITE
ON DVD & DIGITAL TO OWN OR RENT FROM MARCH 23 2015 The night before a high profile operation on the Prime Minister, the surgeon due to perform the procedure, Yael, is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of Yael and her family and order her to kill the Prime Minister on the operating table in the morning, or else they will kill her family, who are now their helpless hostages. Yael does her best to manage the situation, and buy her precious family some time, by injecting the Prime Minister with medication to disrupt his nervous system giving her medical grounds to delay the operation. Under constant pressure from her captors to perform the fatal surgery, Yael lives daily with the very real and growing threat to her family. An atmosphere of increasing mistrust and paranoia develops between the hostages and the Kidnappers whilst Yael balances the preservation of her family against the life of the Prime Minister in this gripping and twisting ten-part part drama.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions in Parliament. Johnson is under pressure following the resignation of two Cabinet ministers and several more junior members of government. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says that he will "not allow" the European Court of Human Rights to block flights deporting illegal migrants to Rwanda from the UK, under a new bill being introduced in parliament. Previous attempts to send migrants to Rwanda have been stymied by court rulings against the UK government, and the prime minister is now under pressure from his own party to come up with a working policy to deter illegal migration. SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne says her government "stands by the people of Mayotte", at the start of a visit to Mayotte, France's poorest department, which is facing severe drought, migratory pressure from neighbouring Comoros and growing insecurity. SOUNDBITE
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