Good evening. Rishi Sunak is to challenge a Court of Appeal judgment that ruled the Government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.

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The Prime Minister said he “fundamentally disagreed” with the Court of Appeal judgment that Rwanda was not a safe country and that the deportation of migrants to the east African state to claim asylum was therefore unlawful. 

The three appeal court judges ruled by two to one that there was a real risk asylum seekers relocated to Rwanda would be wrongly returned to their home countries. 

Suella Braverman said she will not take a “backward step” on the Government’s plans to tackle the small boats crisis despite the setback. 

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The top Russian general who is said to have known about the Wagner rebellion in advance has reportedly been detained and his deputy fired from the Russian army. 

Sergei Surovikin, the head of Russia’s air force and known as “General Armageddon” from his time in Syria, had operated as a point of contact between the private military company and Moscow.

 Dominic Nicholls reports that one of the Russian warplanes reportedly shot down during the Wagner rebellion was a “special mission aircraft” with a key role in the war in Ukraine. And new satellite imagery suggests that Russia has created a dam on the outskirts of Tokmak, one of the key targets of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, to flood the area and complicate Kyiv’s efforts to reclaim it.