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top story. President Zilinski vows to
fight on as Ukraine marks its
Independence Day, but says a meeting
with Vladimir Putin could be the best
solution to end the conflict.
A message of support from the king to
Ukraine as the UK government pledges
renewed military support for Kiev.
Also tonight, a fasttrack asylum appeals
process to be introduced as unease and
protests continue over the use of
migrant hotels.
A 15year-old boy arrested with another
man over an arson attack on a restaurant
in Ilford.
Plus, color, costumes, and controversy
over safety as this year's Notting Hill
Carnival gets underway with 140 arrests
made.
Plus, Manchester United are still
looking for their first Premier League
win of the new season after being held
to a 1-1 draw at Craraven Cottage.
And we'll take a first look at
tomorrow's front pages in our press
preview from 10:30 right through to
midnight.
Good evening. The Ukrainian president
has hailed King Charles as a true
inspiration after the monarch sent him a
letter of support on Ukraine's
Independence Day. President Zalinski
hosting foreign dignitaries in Kiev
vowed today to fight on, but said that a
meeting with President Putin would be
the most effective way forward amidst
stalled efforts to end the war. We'll
have more on the UK's renewed commitment
to supporting Ukraine's military efforts
in a moment. But first, our Europe
correspondent Siobhan Robbins reports.
In Kev, the mood was defiant, proud.
Today was a celebration of independence,
of throwing off the shackles of Soviet
rule. 34 years on, as a different
Russian regime threatens their freedom.
Their president promised peace was
coming.
>> Today, Ukraine celebrates Independence
Day, fighting, defending itself against
attacks and air raid alarms. And very
importantly, we are strong and not
alone. Every day we are pushing this war
back to where it came from, to the
Russian sky and Russian soil.
But the fight for freedom has come at a
heavy cost. In Kev, Canada's Mark Carney
joined Ukraine's president in
remembering the fallen, while other
allies sent messages of support. The
British prime minister and German
Chancellor, some of many European
leaders underlining their allegiance
online, but more consequentially, a note
from a US president impatient for peace.
The people of Ukraine have an
unbreakable spirit and your country's
courage inspires many. Donald Trump
wrote, "Now is the moment to bring an
end to the senseless killing."
But peace at what cost? Some fear losing
interest. Trump will force a quick bad
deal.
>> In a video to the nation, President
Zalinski vowed not to sell them short.
The swapping of more than 140 prisoners
of war was a tiny sign of limited
cooperation. If we can do the ceasefire,
>> but the optimism about the possibility
of a peace deal from a few days ago when
Ukraine's European allies flanked
Silinski at the White House is fading.
Progress is stalling as is Russia's
foreign minister when it comes to a
possible meeting between Putin and
Zalinski. There is no meeting planned
and I am not challenging this but you
you cannot cannot I think understand
what I am saying.
Putin is ready to meet with Zilinski
when the agenda would be ready for for a
summit and this agenda is not ready at
all. If it has any hope of getting
Russia to the table, Ukraine knows it
must keep the US on side. As a show of
appreciation, Trump's special envoy was
awarded the order of meriting Keev.
>> You think so much thanks to you to
United States President,
>> but diplomacy moves slowly. For now,
Ukrainians must continue to fight to
protect the independence they cherish so
dearly. Siobhan Robbins, Sky News.
Well, as mentioned, King Charles shared
a message of support to Vladimir
Zilinski today, and that sign of
diplomatic friendship was paired with a
pledge from the UK government to
continue to train Ukrainian soldiers.
Fraser Mud reports.
>> At a British army base somewhere in the
east of England, Ukrainian soldiers
paused their military leadership
training to celebrate their
independence.
These soldiers are the latest cohort of
over 58,000 Ukrainians to have received
training in the UK as part of Operation
Interflex. They're far from home, but
their national pride and determination
is unddeinished.
>> What's really carved in my heart is this
day is a remembrance day for all the
fallen soldiers who were fighting for
our country, who are fighting for our
freedom. And this day is a remembrance
day for me. First of all,
of course, I'm very happy to be here.
But at the same time, it's quite a sad
day for me because I cannot share the
joy of the super important celebration
for us Ukrainians with my family and my
closest ones. But it is great to be here
and to have the ability to train here.
>> King Charles, who met with Vladimir
Zilinski in June, reiterated his support
for the people of Ukraine through social
media. I keep feeling the greatest and
deepest admiration for the unbreakable
courage and spirit of the Ukrainian
people, he said. I remain hopeful that
our countries will be able to further
work closely together to achieve a just
and lasting peace in Ukraine. In reply,
President Zalinski said, "His Majesty's
kind words are a true inspiration for
our people during the difficult time of
war. We appreciate the United Kingdom's
leadership in supporting Ukraine and our
just cause to defend freedom from
tyranny and ensure a lasting peace in
Ukraine and throughout Europe.
Operation Interlex involves an army of
nations, 13 in all, most of them
represented here as a sign of continuing
solidarity with Ukraine. There's a
definite value in what we're doing here
that we that we teach the basic recruits
how to be soldiers and for them that
allows them to be survivable and to be
lethal and to be resilient. So they get
back out to Ukraine, they join their
units and they can take the fight to the
enemy. Many of the soldiers here say
they take great comfort from seeing
Ukrainian Independence Day being marked
in other countries around the world. A
celebration of the history, tradition,
and culture of the country that they're
fighting so hard to defend.
It's been an emotional day for the
soldiers of all the nations represented
here. A day to acknowledge the value of
the partnerships and friendships they've
forged with their Ukrainian counterparts
who will soon be back on the front
lines. Fraser Mud, Sky News.
>> After days of scuffles and demos, the
government has promised to reform its
asylum appeals process to speed up
decisions and reduce the backlog of
cases. It follows a decision by the home
office to appeal a ruling that would
stop migrants being housed in the Bell
Hotel in Essex from September. Ashna
Harinag reports from Norwich, the scene
of another protest today.
>> Save our kids.
>> In Norwich, their flags billow in the
wind and so do their voices. They're
protesting on the doorstep of the Brook
Hotel, which for the past few years has
been home to over a 100 asylum seekers.
It's now become a beacon of unrest. How
did you feel when you saw what Eping
Council managed to do last week? Did you
think, "Oh, it's probable. We could do
this.
>> We will do it. There's no doubt we will
do it. We'll be here every week until it
is done." It's as simple as that.
>> Norfolk and Suffach are my local areas.
And I feel if Norfolk's affected by it,
then I can't just sit on the sofa and do
nothing. I've got to come out and do
something about it. Since the council in
Eping won their temporary injunction
over the closure of the Bell Hotel, the
domino effect is already in motion.
Dozens more are seeking to do the same.
Uncharted territory the government wants
to get ahead of by tackling the delays
in the courts when asylum seekers try to
overturn their rejected application. A
backlog that's booming. There are at
least 51,000 asylum appeals waiting to
be heard by judges. On average, it takes
more than a year to reach a decision.
Instead, the Home Office wants to set up
a new independent panel of adjudicators
to deal solely with asylum appeals. They
will legally be required to get to cases
within 24 weeks. Demonstrations like
this are hard to ignore. So, it's
perhaps no coincidence then that we've
seen movement from the Home Office that
they're clamping down on the asylum
appeal applications. And that's because
a lot of those who do lodge appeals are
housed at the taxpayers's expense and
many of them are in hotels.
>> Those working in the system say this
latest plan is just papering over the
cracks.
>> The whole system is wrong at the core.
It's essentially like saying you have a
house with shaky walls and a shaky
foundation. It's not going to be mended
by sticking a couple of tiles on the
roof. You need to really restore the
whole system from uh roots upwards. But
that would take time, which those in
power don't seem to have. These past few
days prove we are a nation unsettled.
The government wants to end the use of
hotels by 2029, but it's not good enough
for some whose calls are becoming harder
to ignore. Asharinag Sky News in
Norwich.
Well, our chief political correspondent
John Craig joins us now from Downing
Street. John, the government will be
hoping that their plans to speed up the
asylum appeals process will appease
those that we see demonstrating on the
streets. Is there any chance of that?
>> Well, not according to the politicians
who've been criticizing the move. Uh the
conservatives, Shadow Secretary Chris
Phelp said this is nothing like going
nothing nothing like far enough. Uh
Richard Ty from Reform UK has said it's
tinkering at the edges. The problem is
it doesn't address the fundamental
problem of uh the uh stopping the boat,
smashing the gangs as the prime minister
calls it. Now what this new plan is uh
intended to do is speed up deportations
so there are fewer people in the hotels
and saving the country money. and of
course of course obviously trying to
diffuse the tensions and the uh the uh
arguments the clashes that we've seen
outside hotels over this weekend. Um now
the problem is of course even these
these so-called experts the adjudication
panels uh who will speed the process up
may allow some of the appeals to go
through uh it may end up with not that
many more people being deported even
though some of them will be deported
more quickly. So, it's a gamble.
Obviously, it's something the government
is pinning its hopes on along with the
one-in-one scheme that the prime
minister agreed with President Mron of
France. But as for stopping the boats,
well, no. Um, the the government is
planning this week another propaganda
campaign over on the French coast uh
with leaflets, videos, all sorts of
plans to try and deter people from
coming over. So far, those just have not
worked. Now there are some uh
politicians uh one Labour pier for
example Lord Glasman saying it's time to
send in the army and drones. Now Boris
Johnson brought sorry the navy I beg you
pardon bring in the navy. Now Boris
Johnson tried this in 2022. Um uh he he
put the Navy in charge of trying to stop
the boats rather than border force. But
there was squabbbling between the
Ministry of Defense which always
resisted the move and the home office
and Rishi Sunnak scrapped it. Um so uh
and when it's been raised in parliament
in recent months uh the uh Ministry of
Defense has said no the job of the Navy
is to uh monitor and monitor war foreign
warships not keep uh not not stop the
boat. So that doesn't look as though
it's likely to happen. But the
government is getting to the point where
it's going to have to do something
pretty radical. The Tories and the
Reform UK want to get pull Britain out
of the European Convention on Human
Rights. Some Labor politicians, David
Blunkett and Jack Straw, former Labour
home secretaries have added their voices
to that. But this prime minister, of
course, with his uh background as a
human rights lawyer is not likely to do
that. So, it's the problems get worse.
This will help, but critics say it's not
enough. John, thank you very much.
Israeli air strikes have targeted
Yemen's capital city, SA. The IDF say
they struck Houthi targets, including a
military site where the presidential
palace is located and two power
stations. Israel says the strikes were
carried out in response to repeated
attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi
rebels against Israel in recent days.
The Houthi run health ministry say at
least four people have been killed and
67 wounded.
More international aid has been air
dropped into Gaza two days after the
world's leading authority on food crisis
declared parts of the strip are
experiencing famine. It comes as
witnesses claim four Palestinians
looking for aid were shot by Israeli
forces while traveling through a
military zone south of Gaza City to a
food distribution site.
A 54 year old man and a 15year-old boy
have been arrested on suspicion of arson
with intent to endanger life after a
restaurant fire in East London on Friday
night. Two people remain in a critical
condition in hospital following the fire
in Ilford. The restaurant suffered
extensive damage in the fire.
>> Ignition and liftoff. Go Falcon. Go
Dragon.
Space X has successfully launched a
rocket carrying supplies to the
International Space Station. Later
tonight, Elon Musk Space X will be
attempting a 10th test flight of its
Starship vehicle and Superheavy booster
3 months after the last attempt ended in
failure.
>> Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's biggest
street party, got underway in West
London today. And alongside the familiar
scenes of celebration, a controversial
police operation to ensure public
safety. This evening, the Metropolitan
Police confirmed that they had made 140
arrests at the carnival and in the
surrounding area. Our arts and
entertainment correspondent, Katie
Spencer, sent this report from Notting
Hill.
The sights and sounds of the Notting
Hill Carnival have always been about
bringing people together, but how you
keep safe the 2 million that come here
is divisive in itself.
Campaigners particularly objecting to
the use of facial recognition cameras
this time around, but after two murders
here last year, police argue it's
needed.
>> This is about protecting the public from
um you know, people who are coming to
Carnival who pose a risk to public
safety. Um, we absolutely hear the
concerns, but for live facial
recognition, it's been tested. Um, and
we do not feel there's any bias or
discrimination in its use. Um, so we'll
continue to use it.
>> It is the biggest policing event that
the Met Police carries out each year. At
their special operations room, they're
processing what's being fed in from
those on foot. Intelligenceled
interventions in the run-up have placed
either police bail or probation license
conditions on over 200 people not to
come to Carnival.
While crime lays on the shoulders of
police, managing crowds is down to
organizers who had a last minute
scramble just a few weeks ago to find a
million pounds worth of extra funding to
provide extra safety and infrastructure
measures.
>> The message we put over matches what the
stewards are saying might be a message
that's needed in the area.
>> From signs to steer people away to
improved means of talking to those out
on the sound systems. What we agreed
with the police was that we needed the
we needed the police to stand back. So
they focused on their primary
responsibility was crime and we would
step up and take responsibility for the
event and the crowding. Now to do that
we had to have extra resources on that
we could compensate for some of the
things that police were previously
doing.
>> Staging such a big event on ordinary
streets is challenging. From its 60s
roots in resistance against racism, the
carnival has snowballed in size. The
challenge for organizers is how you
attempt to control and manage something
that is all about at its heart
representing freedom.
>> As for those who suggest that what
happens here could be better supervised
in an area like Hyde Park.
>> It's a convenient way to box off black
people as usual. So no shouldn't be
moved to Hyde Park. Why would you? Why
would you? This is about us recognizing
each other and seeing on two days
how much we have in common.
>> True celebration of soaker, different
cultures, different music, people coming
together and young and old mixing. So
it's really important.
While it is often crime that sadly makes
headlines here, there are many who feel
the reasons behind the Notting Hill
Carnival are as important to mark today
as they ever were. Katie Spencer, Sky
News.
>> The Democratic governor of the state of
Illinois has criticized Donald Trump
after the president revealed his
intention to send the National Guard to
Chicago. Governor JB Pritska told called
the plans an abuse of power that would,
in his words, create chaos. It's
understood the Pentagon is looking to
deploy the US Army as part of Mr.
Trump's promise to crack down on crime,
homelessness, and undocumented
immigration. It comes after a similar
deployment in Washington DC. Emma
Burchley reports.
must go now.
>> In the US capital, this was the response
from some at least to the National Guard
taking to the streets.
A move by Donald Trump to tackle crime
that he's described as out of control.
And now growing concern and anger that
the Republican president is planning the
same in another city run by Democrats,
this time Chicago.
>> Chicago is a mess. You have an
incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent.
And uh we'll straighten that one out
probably next. That'll be our next one
after this. Uh and it won't even be
tough. And the people in Chicago, Mr.
Vice President, are screaming for us to
come. They're wearing red hats just like
this one. When we're ready, we'll go in
and we'll straighten out Chicago just
like we did DC.
>> But there, as in Washington, violent
crime is actually falling. The sense of
emergency certainly wasn't too evident
on the streets.
>> I feel very safe, you know. I mean, it's
like lovely. The weather's good.
>> I've been here for just over a week now
and I haven't had any problem. I don't
think that we need military in Chicago,
New York, DC.
>> The response from the governor of
Illinois said it all. There is no
emergency that warrants the president of
the United States federalizing the
Illinois National Guard, deploying the
National Guard from other states, or
sending active duty military within our
own borders. Donald Trump is attempting
to manufacture a crisis, politicize
Americans who serve in uniform, and
continue abusing his power to distract
from the pain he's causing working
families.
And it's a plan described by the city's
vilified mayor as uncoordinated,
uncalled for, and unsound.
But none of that will stop the president
intent on showing he'll stop at nothing
to clear the streets of crime. Emma
Burchley, Sky News.
Questions are being asked about whether
the UK's decision to establish relations
with Syria's new government means that
former jihadis who have been stripped of
their British citizenship will be
allowed to return home. Our data and
forensics correspondent Tom Chesher
reports on the possible fate of the
so-called stateless citizens.
Hayat Tar al-Sham or HTS went from a
jihadist movement once aligned to
al-Qaeda
>> to forming the official government of
Syria. A monumental transformation for
them, their country, and the wider
Middle East, but potentially too for
British people who went to Syria and who
were stripped of their citizenship as a
result on the grounds of national
security. I am in Damascus. Allah Akbar,
the Bashar regime has fallen.
>> Toki Sharif, better known as Tox, went
to Syria in 2012 as an aid worker.
>> As you can see, there's uh even still
lots of artillery um that has been
captured.
>> He was accused of being part of a group
affiliated with al-Qaeda, which he
denies, and the then home secretary
deprived him of his British citizenship
in 2017. As of now, I am
deprived of my UK citizenship, but I'm
not a convicted terrorist. Uh, and the
reason for that is because we refused,
we boycotted the SAK secret courts, um,
which don't allow you to see any of the
evidence presented against you. Um, and
one of the things that I always called
for was, look, put me in front of a
jury. Let's have an open hearing. It's
very humbling to be here.
>> HDS is still a prescribed terrorist
organization, but the British government
has established relations with it. The
foreign secretary traveled to Damascus
to meet the jihadist turned president,
the man who swapped his nom dear of Al
Jalani for Ahmed al-Shar. If the British
government takes HTS off the terrorist,
what does that mean for those who lost
their citizenship after being accused of
being part of it? We're talking about a
significant number of people. According
to the Joint Committee on Human Rights,
the UK uses deprivation of citizenship
orders more than almost any country in
the world. The peak was in 2017 at the
height of Islamic State in Syria when
scores of people left the UK for that
country. And because people cannot be
made entirely stateless and need a
second nationality, there are worries of
racism. Countries like Pakistan and
Bangladesh offer dual nationality where
other nations don't. We made a freedom
of information request to the Home
Office to ask for a breakdown of figures
by nationality but were twice refused on
national security grounds. That makes
the whole thing a bit opaque. The Home
Secretary has tremendous power to remove
people's citizenship and it's hard for
people to appeal that. The independent
reviewer of terrorism legislation thinks
things should be clearer. I do think
there is a a problem when you have
people whose relationship with the
country that they're left with is really
technical and they may never have
realized that they had a relation, you
know, had that citizenship before and
may never have gone to that country. Me
and my predecessors have all said owing
to how frequently this power was used.
It should be something that the
independent reviewer should have the
power to to review. Even if the
government does remove HTS from the
terror list, it wouldn't automatically
invalidate decisions to deprive people
of their citizenship.
>> Decisions that have been made years ago
um in the interest of the British public
have to remain. We can't sort of go
through previous cases, nitpicking
through it, wasting time and money. for
those that have a secondary citizenship
um and those who do fall under uh the
category of being able to have their
British citizenship removed, then I
think that is an entirely appropriate
thing to do um when when we consider the
the dreadful risk that they pose to the
public.
But those born and raised in Britain who
joined the same cause and lost their
citizenship as a result might reasonably
ask why that should remain the case. Tom
Chesher, Sky News.
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Sorry, I just have a German passport.
>> Hopefully, I can convince them and show
them and prove them that I'm proud to be
the English manager.
For only the third time in history, the
FA have turned to a foreign manager to
take charge of the men's England team.
>> Thomas Tukul follows in the footsteps of
Svenure and Erikson.
>> If we don't do results, of course, they
will try to hang me. But even if if I
was an Englishman, they hang me. So
that's
>> and Fabio Capello, a winner with a
capital W. That was the template. This
is the man.
When the news about Tul broke, there was
a mixed media reaction.
Some in Tukul see a Champions League
winning manager and the best candidate
available if you want to win a World
Cup. That's certainly how the FA bosses
view it. But for others, there's a more
fundamental principle here. They believe
that an Englishman should be in charge
of England.
>> Well, I was hoping we'd get an English
manager, but when you look at the
choices, they're very few, aren't they?
The jobs are so prestigious and there's
so much money in the job that people are
tempted to spread the netwide.
>> There's nothing in the water that stops
it. It's all about opportunity. I think
it's probably a little bit simplistic
just to put it down to national borders.
>> On whichever side of the debate you
fall, there is one fact which is
indisputable. The pool of English
coaches at the elite level of the game
is pretty shallow. And the key question
is why? what we are deemed as as English
coaches, we are responsible for.
>> Do you feel like to get a job in the
Premier League as an English man, you
have to be promoted to the division?
>> I would say 99 times out of 100.
>> You can't just give people jobs.
>> I want to try and help in any way that I
can produce more English managers.
I'm at St. George's Park opened in 2012.
The FA intended this place to be a
center of excellence and a destination
of choice for players, coaches,
administrators, and officials alike. Why
have the FA turns to the continent to
replace an English manager who's been
the most successful in the top job since
Sir Ralph Ramsey? Well, to answer that
question, you have to look much deeper
within the game. Before the birth of the
Premier League, the English first
division was won predominantly by teams
with British managers. 38 Englishmen, 10
Scotsman, and an Irishman in Bob Kyle.
The Premier League was formed in 1992,
and that date coincides with the last
time an English manager was in charge of
a team that won the top division.
If I'd said to you back in 1992 that no
English manager would win the top
division for another 33 years and
counting, you'd have been shot, wouldn't
you?
>> No. My first response would have been,
"Don't be stupid." based on what I saw
at the time. Don't be stupid. It's not
sadness. It's just a lot of that
sentimentality. But sometimes you
because you're good to be sentimental.
My desire
is or would be it's the England team. We
need an England coach. But what I think
of as ideal has to then be placed in
perspective with regard to the reality.
And the reality being, do we think there
are people around who can take the
England team to where we'd like it to be
in terms of position? And if they decide
that they don't think that's possible, I
don't see that they have any can make
any other decision. Football, as we all
know, has changed. And I think that now
particularly with regard to football and
the Premier League in this country, this
country's possibly become the
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>> Well, that was Sky News at 10. Coming
up, we'll take a first look at
tomorrow's newspapers in the press
preview. Tonight, we're joined by
President of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews, Phil Rosenberg, and
Politico journalist, Bethany Dawson.
Amongst the stories, we'll be discussing
this on the front of the Financial
Times. Its headline, United Front,
Carney shows key solidarity. We'll be
right back. Do stay with us.