Newscast – (Another) Plan to Close Migrant Hotels
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Today, hundreds of asylum seekers can be housed at two military sites in Inverness and East Sussex as the government tries to end the use of hotels. Ministers are considering housing 900 people at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex. There are currently approximately 32,000 refugees sheltered in hotels. Adam and Chris discuss whether this will help with the government’s commitment to end the use of asylum hotels by 2029. There are also fears of mass murder as the civil war in Sudan appears to have reached a major turning point. More than 150,000 people have died in conflicts across the country and nearly 14 million have fled their homes. Adam is joined by chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet and Kholood Khair, a Sudanese political analyst and director of Khartoum think tank Confluence Advisory. You can now listen to the News Broadcast on your smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play the News Broadcast”. Works on most smart speakers. You can join our online Newscast community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscord Contact Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes are published every day. If you’re in the UK, listen to BBC Sounds for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd The News feed gives you daily analysis of the latest political news from the BBC. The host was Adam Fleming. Produced by Jack Maclaren with Lucy Gape. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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