Evening Briefing Monday 17th November

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0:47Shabana Mahmood is telling MPs that Britain needs a new approach for refugees arriving on small boats. The Home Secretary plans to impose visa bans on some African countries if they fail to take back illegal migrants. She's also to make asylum status temporary, inspired by a policy in Denmark. The senior backbencher Stella Creasy told Times Radio she feared of Donald Trump-style immigration raids in the UK. If you've been here for 10 years and your children have gone to school in these communities, that you've managed to get a job, you've managed to build some sort of life, and then we suddenly say to you, we've unilaterally decided, even though you're a victim of torture, you can go home now, it's very hard to see why anybody would comply with that request willingly.

1:30The chairman of the BBC says it's determined to fight the planned lawsuit from Donald Trump, insisting there's no basis for a defamation case. The US president's threatening to sue for up to$5 billion over the panorama edit of his speech ahead of the Capitol riots in January 2021. The corporations apologise for what is called an error of judgement. Meanwhile, Mr Trump says he wants Republicans to vote to release the files relating to Jeffrey Epstein because he says the party has nothing to hide. It marks a significant new turn for the president who previously dismissed demands to publish the Justice Department documents.

2:07Former ABC News correspondent Tom Rivers told Times Radio Mr. Trump is willing to burn figures on both sides of the political divide. He says he is he's innocent he hasn't done anything wrong the fact that there could be some Republican donors that he may be wanting to protect we don't know, but we are heading toward the stage of let the chips fall where they may. And this is going to burn people on both sides of the political divide in America if in fact all of this information gets out into the public domain. The ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, who's been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, says the verdict is biased and politically motivated.

2:47A court revealed conversations of Sheikh Hasina directing security officers to drop bombs from helicopters on protesters at a student-led uprising last year. David Bergman is a journalist in Dhaka and told Times Radio she's unlikely to face the punishment. The Indian government has absolutely no intention of sending her back to Bangladesh and so and it's very difficult to imagine the circumstance where that could happen. So even though she's got the death sentence imposed upon her and it may have symbolic impact for many people it's not something that's actually going to be implemented. And agency workers have joined Birmingham's bin strikes.

3:24The Unite Union says the walkouts could continue beyond May's local elections unless a deal is reached. Staff refuse collectors have been staging all-out action since March in a row over jobs and pay. Birmingham City Council says the service needs to be transformed. And remember you can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and you can listen live to Times Radio Online.

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