i >> -- >> well . good afternoon, happy >> well. good afternoon, happy monday . monday. >> it's 3:00. i'm martin daubney welcomes gb news. >> i'm here for the next three hours keeping you company. >> our story today. >> our top story today. >> our top story today. >> there no planes for >> there are no planes for rwanda. the astonishing rwanda. that's the astonishing admission that's leaked from government over the weekend. no private companies want anything to do with it in case they get cancelled by the snowflakes. and the mod has one raf base, which isn't even secure. £20 million has got to be spent on making that watertight . keep the that watertight. keep the protesters out and all of this means there's no sign of any flights taking off until may at the earliest. it's international migrant day today. isn't every day international migrant day.7 there's day international migrant day? there's a protest at downing street at the home office later on this afternoon. care for calais? the stop the war coalition? that's jeremy corbyn's mob. they want even more migrants. what planet are they go down there and they on? we'll go down there and ask question . ask them that precise question. next up, this be the

next up, will this be the dirtiest general election in history ? stormers mob or looking history? stormers mob or looking at nom dom tax status and a thinly guarded attack at rishi sunak's wife ? meanwhile, the sunak's wife? meanwhile, the tories are raking the dirt on starmer's time as the director of public prosecutions, with his involvement with terrorists and criminals. he tried to stop getting deported. gloves are off. it's going to get very, very dirty. and finally spiking. crackdown tough new laws or being announced to clamp down on 5000 people who have their dfinks 5000 people who have their drinks spiked per year. we'll speak to one young man who had his drink spiked with life changing consequences. that's all coming in the next hour. >> we're live in one of the most welcoming countries on earth, three quarters of a million came through the front door. >> 50,000 came illegally last yean >> 50,000 came illegally last year, and yet still all they want more migrants coming to this country. we're going to go

down there this afternoon and ask them why that? ask them why? why is that? why do we're a racist do you think we're a racist country when clearly people are trying die get to our trying to die to get to our shores? that's all coming in the next after latest next hour. after your latest news headlines tatiana news headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you. 3:02. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. some breaking news. a body that was found in the river wensum in norwich has been formally identify tied as missing mother of three gaynor, lord. the 55 year old went missing after leaving work in norwich city centre last friday. norfolk police said the death is not being treated as suspicious bias and found there was no indications of any third party involvement . baroness michelle involvement. baroness michelle mone has hit out at the prime minister after he said he takes the scandal surrounding her involvement with a ppe firm. incredibly seriously. posting on x , she said i was honest with x, she said i was honest with the cabinet office , the the cabinet office, the government and the nhs in my

deaungs government and the nhs in my dealings with them. the former tory peer admitted she's set to benefit from a contract between ppe firm medpro and the government, which generated a £60 million profit. lady mone told the bbc she contacted michael gove at the start of the pandemic after he made a call to arms for massive quantities of payment protection equipment. rishi says the government rishi sunak says the government has legal has launched a legal case against the company. >> situation is >> this whole situation is subject to an ongoing criminal investigation , but also the investigation, but also the government is taking action. legal action against a company involved, so there's a limit to what i can say other than to say we take all these things incredibly seriously . and that's incredibly seriously. and that's why i said the government is taking legal action. and because there's investigation there's a criminal investigation ongoing, any ongoing, i can't comment any further. >> labour leader sir keir starmer described scandal as starmer described the scandal as a shocking disgrace from top to bottom. >> every day goes past, there are more questions that need to be answered. there's now suggestions. there was early private contact with members of the cabinet that may have started this unhappy story in

the first place, so the government needs to come clean. >> it needs to make a statement about that. but needs to be about that. but this needs to be seen context. under this seen in its context. under this government, £7 billion was lost in fraud during covid. that's taxpayers money and if there were a labour government, we'd want that money back. >> conservative mp miriam cates is being investigated by parliament's standards watchdog. the member for penistone and stocksbridge is accused of causing significant damage to the reputation of the house or its members . it's not clear what its members. it's not clear what the claim relates to. she's one of eight mps currently being investigated by the standards commissioner. bp has paused oil shipments through the red sea because of the deteriorating security situation. houthi rebels have been targeting vessels launching drone attacks over the past week . the over the past week. the pro—hamas group says it's trying to disrupt ships travelling to israel. a number of other firms, including maersk, have also suspended traffic through the region . two people are in

region. two people are in hospital after a gas explosion at a home in blackburn . the at a home in blackburn. the incident happened just before 8:00 last night, with emergency services responding to calls that a building had collapsed. two people reportedly suffered minor injuries. two people reportedly suffered minor injuries . lancashire minor injuries. lancashire police says nearby homes have been evacuated. it's urging people to avoid the area while investigations continue . the investigations continue. the foreign secretary is calling for the release of media tycoon and pro—democracy campaigner jemmy lai in hong kong. the 76 year old british citizen is on trial accused of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security if convinced , national security if convinced, he faces a possible life sentence if convicted. lord cameron has condemned the charges against him and is urging chinese authorities to end what he's described as a politically motivated prosecution . a new menopause prosecution. a new menopause drug to treat hot flushes has been given the green light in the uk. the daily pill, called vjosa, alleviates symptoms by regulating body temperature for

up to 80% of women going through the menopause are affected by the menopause are affected by the symptoms, which also include disruptive sleep patterns , disruptive sleep patterns, changes to their mood and their energy levels , and xl bully energy levels, and xl bully owners have two weeks to make sure their dogs comply with new rules . from december 31st, the rules. from december 31st, the animals must be muzzled in pubuc animals must be muzzled in public and it will be illegal to breed, sell or abandon them. in england and wales , the owners england and wales, the owners have also been told they can ask a vet to put their pets down and claim compensation. the full ban on the breed comes into force in february, but owners can apply for an exemption to keep their dogs. this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now back to . martin. now back to. martin. >> thank you tatiana . let's get >> thank you tatiana. let's get stuck into the show. the first one of the week. let's get

going. and we start with the latest for skill development in the to the government's bid to send migrants to rwanda. james cleverly was in the african country month to country earlier this month to sign a treaty. of course, sign a new treaty. of course, but emerged as airlines but it's emerged as airlines have now refused used to sign contracts to take part in the government's flagship asylum policy . firms are worried about policy. firms are worried about damage their reputations from being involved in case they get cancelled by the council . cancelled by the council. culture mob and the home office says it has robust plans for flights to rwanda . despite that, flights to rwanda. despite that, well , i'm flights to rwanda. despite that, well, i'm joined now by our political editor, chris hope. chris, good afternoon to you. always a pleasure. here we go again . another round of farce . s again. another round of farce. s um, it's not surprising on the, on the face of it, that private companies don't want to be involved. of course, there'll be all sorts of clamours to cancel them. but you do think that the government would have thought about bit sooner, and got about this a bit sooner, and got about this a bit sooner, and got a few mod planes lined up from raf , don't you ? raf bases, don't you? >> well, martin, if nothing else , it's a reflection of the

uncertainty surrounding this rwanda plan . don't forget it was rwanda plan. don't forget it was subject to challenge in the supreme court after the echr ruled it out of order. that's the european court of human rights. the idea , of course, is rights. the idea, of course, is to send back legally arrived migrants who come here to rwanda, 5000 miles away, to have their to be processed , assessed their to be processed, assessed and to stay there essentially, it's deportation plan rather it's a deportation plan rather than an offshore processing plan , which other other countries in europe are trying to do. now, the reports the weekend are the reports of the weekend are that the so far no commercial operator has stepped up to agree to do this plan. and that's caused concern amongst, of course , the critics of which are course, the critics of which are many of this plan that the home office , for its part, says the office, for its part, says the following . this is not a following. this is not a reflection of reality . if and reflection of reality. if and when the bill goes through , when the bill goes through, there will be aircraft stroke flights. now, what that means is that the rwanda bill, as we know from the drama's last last tuesday in the commons when it passed second reading by a majority of 44, is facing a

committee of the whole house of commons amendments, all sorts of ways to try and weaken it by the left of the tory party and, of course, the opposition parties. that's early in january. following that , it should go following that, it should go through to the lords. the lords may it entirely, may try and reject it entirely, send it back to the commons , and send it back to the commons, and it may be an issue of ping pong between different between the two different houses. that means is this houses. all that means is this idea, this bill, this law won't come into force until probably the late spring at the earliest. now the pm, mr sunak, has told us he thinks that planes can take may time. that's take off from may time. that's late, late spring. we wait and see if that will happen and of course until then there are no contract made. i mean you, to be fair to the home office, if they sign a contract now with a commercial operator and then no flights place , how would flights took place, how would that probably worse that look? probably even worse than having no flights arranged at i of course at the moment. i mean, of course there is of course ways to make it through raf flights it happen through raf flights from airfields . right from military airfields. right now we're told that money could be being spent or may be being

spent shortly on securing the perimeter of some of these airfields, because there's no question if this goes through the house of lords , as it should the house of lords, as it should do, eventually this will become a very fight in in the early a very big fight in in the early summer, when flights may be start take off and protesters start to take off and protesters don't want them to. martin. yeah >> and chris, as you say, raf boscombe the most likely boscombe down is the most likely of the airfields. but local police say it's going to cost around £20 million to secure the perimeter because of course, these airports aren't set up to be compounds and for this be secure compounds and for this they would need to be so because of course, the world and their uncle from the liberal side of the spectrum will be down there to and stop these flights to try and stop these flights taking off. i don't we taking off. i don't think we should be having a go at rishi sunak though . i this sunak here though. i think this should sorted out should have been sorted out surely by ministers by by people lower down the food chain than him. it's all fair and well. rishi has to get the get the amendment through, get the bill through. not his job to through. but it's not his job to sort where these things take sort out where these things take off this should have been

off from. this should have been thought through clearly and thought through more clearly and we some joined thought through more clearly and we thinking. some joined thought through more clearly and we thinking. surely some joined thought through more clearly and we thinking. surely chris.e joined thought through more clearly and we thinking. surely chris. yeahzd up thinking. surely chris. yeah you might think that. >> i mean, to be fairto you might think that. >> i mean, to be fair to the government , they spent money government, they spent money now, though, martin, on commercial flights then the flights never took off. that would add to the £240 million spent already in rwanda preparing buildings, etc. and providing legal support for when they start processing migrants as they are sent back there. so i can see the problem that they've got there, but it certainly also i can see and understand from the point of view of the commercial operators. they don't want to face twitter storm from of face a twitter storm from all of their friends twitter. their best friends on twitter. having them for being having a go at them for being for not allowing these flights to take so i can see the to take off so i can see the problem. i use friends there, slightly sarcastically, because i would i think people would would be piling one trying piling in on this one and trying to people's businesses. to attack people's businesses. if they got involved too early. so i would expect that. i would expect the to take the expect the mod to take the strain initially . then as it strain initially. then as it becomes regular, these becomes more regular, these flights commercial operators to step up then and chris, we were

just showing pictures on screen there of rishi sunak talking to george maloney. >> of course, the immigration conference in italy at the weekend and the bbc have waded into this , calling it a far into this, calling it a far right right gathering. now, the bbc of course, were very slow. in fact, i don't think they still have condemned hamas as terrorists yet they're calling our own prime minister far right feels a bit below the belt, don't you think ? don't you think? >> yeah , well, the bbc has >> yeah, well, the bbc has always has issues with its reporting sometimes and trying to trying to be impartial on the issue of hamas. they won't call it a terrorist group. what they will say, it's been described as a terrorist group in the uk and other countries. that's what they say about that . it they say about that. it otherwise it's militants. normally with this situation. yeah, it was a right wing conference in the same way you might left wing labour might have a left wing labour party conference organised by giorgia , the italian giorgia meloni, the italian premier and which the pm went to speak at it. there's common

cause with, with israel as we discussing on friday, isn't a martin migration. and of martin over migration. and of course the leader of albania was there same time. i think there at the same time. i think it's quite clever politics by mr sunak. he's trying some sunak. he's trying to find some friends to to find common friends to do, to find common cause within eu bloc . cause with within the eu bloc. and italy has got its issue with, with illegal migration. we have an issue here, so why not have an issue here, so why not have one at discuss how to to how make it work better. and also got on quite well, also they got on quite well, maybe generationally same maybe generationally the same kind met at kind of age they, they met at the when i was out the g20 in delhi when i was out there with the prime minister, and on well there. so and they got on well there. so i think, you the pm doing think, you know, the pm is doing soft there and that's soft diplomacy there and that's why he's there. describe it why he's there. but describe it as right conference i as a far right conference i don't right. it's don't think is right. it's a right one. but then right wing one. yes. but then you have wings too, you you have left wings too, you know, it's a far right. far left is a bit silly. >> yeah. chris hope superb as everi >> yeah. chris hope superb as ever i totally agree. they actually called it a far right rally . and we know what they rally. and we know what they mean that. want give mean by that. they want to give it third it the echoes of the third reich. ridiculous. you can say many about rishi sunak. many things about rishi sunak. far right is not one of them. he

was there to do good was out there trying to do good by country , now on by the country, now moving on into security and into national security and border control experts henry bolton , obe joins me. henry is bolton, obe joins me. henry is always a pleasure. here we are again. another day , another again. another day, another farce. this time. there are no planes and the raf base cannot be secured from the offender. trons the protesters , who trons the protesters, who invariably will glue themselves to the runway another day . more to the runway another day. more keystone cops . keystone cops. >> indeed, martin, uh, you know, there's so many things to unpack there. >> we've got an raf base that can't be secured yet. we know that we've got war in ukraine. >> we've got the chinese active over here in espionage . in an over here in espionage. in an espionage sense. >> we've got all of this going on, and we're not securing our bases. even against, know, bases. even against, you know, that of thing, let alone, that sort of thing, let alone, uh, protests in case airfield uh, protests in case an airfield is used for sending flights to rwanda . rwanda. >> but i have been saying for since this whole rwanda plan was first mooted, i have been asking

where are the resources? >> the structures, the organisation to make this happen. >> there's the legal bit, which we've been hearing a lot about in recent weeks and months . in recent weeks and months. >> but what about the practical operational resources and structures ? i've been asking structures? i've been asking that question whenever i've had the opportunity simply because i know the government well enough. i know their track record and i know that they tend to say, we're going to do x, y, and z without having thought through it. >> and to be fair, it's not just the conservatives >> when we look at immigration and borders, everybody is saying things like we're going to stop the boats, but where is the plan? >> whether it's the conservatives, labour reform, anybody else? >> where is the plan ? how do we >> where is the plan? how do we know how this is going to be done and how can we be confident, as the british people, that we should be confident, but confident, of course. but experience tells us that government record is such. government track record is such. and the civil service that they don't plan things thoroughly. this is shocking in the fact that the prime minister has gone out there and put his whole

career on the line , and still career on the line, and still that planning hasn't been done. those and the chris has just mentioned the raf, and i think you did as well. but i know from my military experience, raf assets are booked up. many many, many months in advance , if not many months in advance, if not years. sometimes um, for exercises , for other commitments exercises, for other commitments to support allies and so on, because the uk does have a fairly significant it's not big, but a fairly significant heavy lift. and passenger lift capability. but we've also got the resupply for ukraine, we've got war in gaza, we've got to resupply our military uplift in cyprus as a result of that. and in the gulf , there's a lot going in the gulf, there's a lot going on to assume that we've got the raf assets in place at this late stage. is a highly flawed approach to planning . it is approach to planning. it is incompetent planning. martin henry, they're talking about £20 million to make the perimeter secure at raf boscombe down . secure at raf boscombe down. >> that would seem like money

worth spending to me. after all, that's what we spend in two days on . and as a statement of on hotels. and as a statement of intent and has some some intent and has some pr, some optics. we're getting on with intent and has some pr, some optijob.ve're getting on with intent and has some pr, some optijob. we're|etting on with intent and has some pr, some optijob. we're rollingon with intent and has some pr, some optijob. we're rolling upwith intent and has some pr, some optijob. we're rolling up our the job. we're rolling up our sleeves. well, let's crack on and get on with this job. >> i look to an extent i agree, martin look. but that's my point. why haven't we thought about this before? why isn't the plan in place? why haven't the assets been identified to make that plan, to turn that plan into an operational reality? why hasn't all that been done? >> and , you know, i go back to >> and, you know, i go back to the earlier point i made this is an raf base which they're now having to spend 20 grand or 20 million on, on securing. >> i would like to think that in the hostile world that we face today, our military bases are capable of being secured anyway, you might need an uplift of personnel, but that should all be catered for within a sort of. if you like, the institutional response to the threat to the global threat . um, yes. this is global threat. um, yes. this is a different threat, but

nonetheless , martin, i have i am nonetheless, martin, i have i am i've always said where is the plan? where what is the out there that can tell us that the government isn't simply grasping at headlines and doing one thing at headlines and doing one thing at a time? governor that needs to be able to multitask , whether to be able to multitask, whether it's in terms of immigration and borders or indeed running the whole country, and they've systematically , systematically systematically, systematically failed in that. and i don't think any other party would do any better. i don't see plans for them. i just see that same headune for them. i just see that same headline grabbing statements . headline grabbing statements. >> i think they need to get >> yes, i think they need to get you involved and maybe i'll get involved. why don't we go down there it ourselves? there and sort it out ourselves? henry bolton always a pleasure. thanks me on the thanks for joining me on the show. lots more. thanks for joining me on the sh

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on people's spiking drinks. but before that, sir keir starmer has urged rishi sunak to put politics aside and put patients before non—dom in order to fix the nhs . the statement is the the nhs. the statement is the latest in what many expect to be a vitriolic and fiercely fought general election campaign. many interrupted the labour leader's comments as an attack, a thinly veiled attack on the prime minister's wife, akshata murty, who famously, of course , has who famously, of course, has non—dom tax status herself. last week , the conservatives took aim week, the conservatives took aim at labour with the now infamous picture of a bbc presenter giving the camera the finger . giving the camera the finger. well, let's speak now with the political commentator peter spencer . peter, political commentator peter spencer. peter, always political commentator peter spencer . peter, always a spencer. peter, always a pleasure to have you on the show. it feels like things are going to get very sorry. what it feels like things are going to get very , very dirty. peter, in get very, very dirty. peter, in this election, a report out over the weekend that the tories have been raking through, keir starmer's history as a director

of public prosecutions, unearthing cases back as far as 2000, when he opposed the extradition of al—qaeda terrorists with the £1 million legal aid bill and this non—dom tax status thing , most people tax status thing, most people are saying that's a thinly guarded attack on rishi sunak's wife. things are going to get pretty savage, aren't they? is that the right way to do it, or is that simply not british? >> i don't think it will endear itself to the electorate when it actually comes to it because because it feels too introspective . introspective. >> somehow all the politicians seem to be doing is tearing chunks out of one another. >> and i don't know, whatever . >> and i don't know, whatever. >> and i don't know, whatever. >> cutting him into small pieces, feeding them to the birds or whatever, instead of addressing their their everyday concerns , of which there are concerns, of which there are a vast number. now to address specifically the question of putting patients before non—dom status . yeah, it's a jolly handy status. yeah, it's a jolly handy stick for beating sunak with

given that, as you rightly say , given that, as you rightly say, martin, a sunak own wife, um, benefited from these arrangements for a considerable length of time . length of time. >> and, and, you know , and sunak >> and, and, you know, and sunak is richer than the king and blah blah. >> so it goes on. but but what sunak's plan what sorry. starmer's plan is that if you aboush starmer's plan is that if you abolish the non—dom status completely, you bring in an extra 3 billion revenue, a third of which could be spent on paying of which could be spent on paying overtime to people in hospitals, thus enabling operating theatres to, to, to, to function seven days a week instead of effectively five, and thus reduce waiting nhs waiting lists. and it has to be said on this front that sunak is vulnerable because remember a year ago he said he was going to cut nhs waiting lists? well they have shrunk a bit, true, but they're still half a million higher than they were when he

made the promise. so it's a little bit like the rwanda stop the boats pledge. could do better. >> yeah. and peter, you know rishi, his wife, pays about 30 grand a year and labour are claiming she dodges or doesn't pay claiming she dodges or doesn't pay tax legally. of course it is a legal thing. she is able to potentially avoid 20 million in uk tax. a lot of people will think that's unfair, but my point is, if you're attacking somebody's wife, like no matter what you think about margaret thatcher, she always said when you attack the individual, it shows that you ran out of ideas to attack them with. and it's the same for the tories. if they're his they're going for starmer on his history as the dpp , is it time history as the dpp, is it time they just ran out of ideas as well? >> i mean, there is a great problem here that most certainly the prime minister made all those pledges a year ago and to the best of my knowledge, none of them have actually come to fruition. apart from cutting inflation, which was widely predicted to happen anyway. and

so what news? what what has he got to say that's new? well, not a lot, frankly, because he's he's still though he's stuck in this cleft stick that people have heard it all before and they're going to hear it all again. and i come back to it that there is that sense that this is a westminster bubble trying to puncture itself instead of addressing the stuff which really does impact on every body's everyday life . and every body's everyday life. and if you i mean, it's not greatly surprising that the opinion polls are so gloomy and all one could say ghastly. one could say catastrophic from the point of view of the conservative party, because they've been in power for 13 years. during which time we're living standards have stagnated, if not fallen back. likewise and the state of the economy and there is that widespread sense that that that that frankly , we've had enough that frankly, we've had enough of this lot. let's give the other side a chance. >> and peter, um, briefly, if we could, um, in america , the

could, um, in america, the politics is savage. the tv adverts go straight for the throat . they go for joe adverts go straight for the throat . they go forjoe biden's throat. they go forjoe biden's capabilities. donald trump, of course, is mercer as he attacked in short blast video adverts. do you think in britain we've played queensberry rules too long? maybe it's time for the gloves to come off and go for the over here, spice it the throat over here, spice it up bit is that just not the up a bit or is that just not the way we play things this way we should play things this side pond? side of the pond? >> think they should be >> i don't think they should be played in the played that way anywhere in the world. be perfectly honest, world. to be perfectly honest, i mean, to i get my head mean, i listen to i get my head around of trump's rhetoric mean, i listen to i get my head aromyou of trump's rhetoric mean, i listen to i get my head aromyou knowf trump's rhetoric mean, i listen to i get my head aromyou know , trump's rhetoric mean, i listen to i get my head aromyou know , this, p's rhetoric mean, i listen to i get my head aromyou know , this, this hetoric mean, i listen to i get my head aromyou know , this, this thingc and, you know, this, this thing about immigrants poisoning the blood of the americans. and there's , you know, an there's something, you know, an echo hitler's rhetoric echo of adolf hitler's rhetoric there. and there's something to my fundamentally, dystopia my mind, fundamentally, dystopia about the way america in politics is moving at present. and trump does look like the front runner to win the next election. certainly to get the nomination from the from the grand old parties side and, and i think i think there's something quite chilling about that. link it with the fact that

only today he said, ah, yeah. well, al capone was a great guy. well, al capone was a great guy. well, i mean, what planet is he on? no to answer your question, martin, we do not want to go there . there. >> okay, spencer. thank you. always a pleasure , never a always a pleasure, never a chore. but maybe that's the way it's going. anyway. maybe we need to the off now. need to get the gloves off now. there's come there's still lots more to come between now and we'll between now and 4:00. we'll cross live to the home office, where activists will protest against policy for it being immigration policy for it being too weak . but first, there's too weak. but first, there's your latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you. 331 this is the latest from the gb newsroom, a body that was found in the river wensum in norwich has been formally identified as missing mother of three gaynor lord. the 55 year old disappeared after leaving work in the city centre on the 8th of december. police say the cause of death appears to be consistent with drowning and there no indications of any

there are no indications of any third involvement . third party involvement. baroness michelle mone has hit back at the prime minister after he said he takes the scandal surrounding her involvement with a ppe firm incredibly seriously. it's after she admitted she's set to benefit from a contract between ppe firm medpro and the government, which generated a £60 million profit. posting on social media, lady mone said i was honest with the cabinet office and the nhs in my deaungs office and the nhs in my dealings with them . conservative dealings with them. conservative mp miriam cates is being investigated by parliament standards watchdog. the member for penistone and stocksbridge is accused of causing significant damage to the reputation of the house or its members. it's not clear what the claim relates to. she's one of eight mps currently being investigated by the standards commissioner. bp has paused oil shipments through the red sea because of the deteriorating security situation. houthi rebels have been targeting vessels launching drone attacks over the past week . the

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talk about your experience , what talk about your experience, what happened to you before we get on to the legislation side of things? >> yeah, sure. >> yeah, sure. >> so basically, i was out for a dfink >> so basically, i was out for a drink with a friend like any other night . other night. >> um, and he had to leave early unexpectedly . and i stayed to unexpectedly. and i stayed to finish my drink and, um, suddenly everything just started to get really hazy . and really, to get really hazy. and really, i was very dizzy and very disorientated and it it seemed to happen in minutes. i'm not really 100% sure of time because it all becomes a bit bit confused . um, but i was confused. um, but i was i blacked out eventually and i was raped and, um . yeah. and that raped and, um. yeah. and that was due to spiking . was due to spiking. >> so you've been through a harrowing ordeal, and legislation is so often very slow to catch up with, with real world crime, especially when time it was a new crime. it's taken all these years later. we are moving towards spiking, being classified as a specific offence because at the moment it isn't. that's a good thing,

right? you'd like to see this happen and the ruling i think is it later on today, later on today. >> and yes, definitely. you know, it needs, you know , people know, it needs, you know, people that are doing need to see that are doing this need to see that are doing this need to see that will punished for that they will be punished for what are doing because and what they are doing because and also and also i think it's important that people that have been spiked know that something is being done for them because so often you think, was it my fault? did you know all these kind of things that you blame yourself for? >> so and a lot of people would automatically i did automatically assume, as i did in ignorance, that this is in my ignorance, that this is predatory mainly on predatory men preying mainly on women. but of course, it's happened to you, and you think part is that a part of the problem is that a lot of men, when things like this happen to them, they feel lot of men, when things like this ashamed them, they feel lot of men, when things like this ashamed about, they feel lot of men, when things like this ashamed about goingfeel very ashamed about going forward, women of forward, as as women do. of course. barrier. course. yeah. it's a barrier. >> yeah. was a huge stigma >> yeah. there was a huge stigma and shame on one on being spiked and shame on one on being spiked and not being able to fight back and not being able to fight back and protect myself, but also on, you know, the fact that i had been raped, it was it just it just wasn't in my world, you know, that it happened to men.

um, but as the years have gone on, i've realised, you know, i've had more and more men contact say i've been contact me and say i've been through the same thing. so it definitely rise. definitely is on the rise. >> good for and part of the >> good for you. and part of the plan, um, is a multi—million pound. i'd sophia to put testing kits into nightclubs and to give to local police officers so you can just test your drink , see if can just test your drink, see if it's safe. that's surely is a good idea. >> yeah, well, the thing is, you know, all those know, putting all those resources into bars, clubs, um , resources into bars, clubs, um, any, anywhere where, you know , any, anywhere where, you know, people are drinking is important because you, we still want people to go out and have fun and enjoy themselves. but it's also about being responsible for yourself and also keeping an eye on your friends as well. is always also important. so any any resources that can be put into bars clubs is important i >> -- >> and there are about 5000 cases of this per year. but likely you know, steven, this is the tip of the iceberg because so many people have that sort of sense of you talk about sense of shame you talk about and simply keep quiet and and will simply keep quiet and won't forward. well

won't come forward. well i didn't, you know, it took me didn't, i you know, it took me many years to to, admit to what had happened. >> and um, so you know, what are the numbers you know, it's kind of scary to think, you know, if we really knew , um, a stamp out we really knew, um, a stamp out spiking and the, the, the london ambassador for that charity and we did a survey and 97% of people that had been spiked never reported it because of shame, because of stigma, because people thought , what did because people thought, what did they do something themselves . so they do something themselves. so it's yeah, the numbers are probably an awful lot higher. >> and part of the issue, of course, is that the drugs typically that are used, they pass system quite pass through your system quite quickly, so unless quickly, don't they? so unless you quite soon after you report it quite soon after the event, they'll there, the event, they'll be there, won't be the evidence there to go so what would in go ahead. so what would you in the terrible circumstances, if it did happen to somebody, what would your advice be? >> so i was spiked with rohypnol , in a way was good , which in a way was good because at least it stayed in my body for a longer period of

time. but as you see, the drugs now pass through your system so quickly that, um, really , if quickly that, um, really, if anybody is in any way thinks that they might have been spiked is get to a hospital as soon as possible because they can they can issue the tests , um, and can issue the tests, um, and see, you know , what's going on. see, you know, what's going on. >> stephen holt , thank you so >> stephen holt, thank you so much for coming in, mate. thank you. it means a lot. cheers ah. okay moving on. migrant campaigners are getting ready to demonstrate outside the home office to protest against the uk's immigration policies. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel .

michael portillo, gb news. >> britain's news channel . >> britain's news channel. >> britain's news channel. >> welcome back. 343 watching or listening to martin daubney on gb news now 4:00 have the latest on the government's never ending battle to send migrants to rwanda. and that ties in quite nicely with our next story , nicely with our next story, because a number of campaign groups will protest against the government's immigration policies this evening . the policies this evening. the demonstration will take place outside the home office. and let's cross there right now and speak to our reporter , ray speak to our reporter, ray addison, who's out on the ground. ray, always a pleasure . ground. ray, always a pleasure. thanks for joining ground. ray, always a pleasure. thanks forjoining us on the thanks for joining us on the show. so who are these people who are protesting and what do they want ? they want? >> well, it's a loose coalition of around 18 groups being organised predominantly by care

for calais . for calais. >> we've got stand up to racism and the pcs union as well is involved more on them in just a moment. >> but today's event is designed to, um, come together under the banner of stop hate and telling people that refugees are welcome i >> -- >> um, um, it km >> um, um, it falls on united nafions >> um, um, it falls on united nations international day of the migrant, and they're telling that they're followers, that they want this to be a kind of a party, a sort of a party atmosphere. there's going to be djs, there's going to be live music, going music, there's going to be speakers. corbyn, um, is speakers. jeremy corbyn, um, is supposed to be coming down here later well . later on as well. >> but the background to it all, of course, is opposition to the government, rwanda plan and the legislation that's been going through parliament. >> they describe that scheme as heinous. they say that the government has been using racist policies and rhetoric, and they're concerned that because of that, what they are describing as the far right is growing. and they cite protests outside of migrant camps and other facilities, hotels as

being part of or proof of that growth of the far right. now, although they celebrate the obviously recent sacking of former home secretary suella braverman, they're not massively impressed with james cleverly , impressed with james cleverly, her replacement. they say he's continuing, in their words , continuing, in their words, racist scapegoating . now, as i racist scapegoating. now, as i as i mentioned, pcs union is involved. they do have a number of members who work in border force. they also represent civil servants who work here in the building behind me, the home office in central london. >> they've on their >> they've called on their members to come down today and support this protest. >> in fact , their representative >> in fact, their representative who works at the home office here, he'll be speaking alongside jeremy corbyn as well. and they're keen to push people towards what they're calling their safe passage plan. now this been developed with this has been developed with care for calais by pcs union, and they want they under this scheme, they want any non eu national who is in europe with a quote claim for asylum to quote viable claim for asylum to be given a visa to be able to enter the uk where then their

asylum claim would be processed. they don't go into details that i can find of what would qualify a as being viable , but a claim as being viable, but that's the plan of course. obviously week saw the obviously last week we saw the tragic case of one man who was on the bibby stockholm barge in portland in dorset. um, we suspect it's suspected had been widely reported that they took their life, although we their own life, although we haven't seen , uh, a haven't yet seen, uh, a conclusion that . but we may conclusion on that. but we may see larger numbers here today because of that event . because of that event. >> okay. ray anderson, thank you. um things are no doubt going to get lively. lots and lots of questions for you to ask them, why is a country them, such as why is a country that welcomes 745,000 people legally . net, that welcomes 745,000 people legally. net, and the additional 50,000 illegally? how is that country racist? how is that country racist? how is that country unwelcoming? and what would they like to see? and more to the point, would they welcome the migrants to stay in their gaffes, gardens ? ray, gaffes, in their gardens? ray, i hope you ask them all those sort of questions later on. looking forward to that. now, the language used by western leaders on the wall between israel and

hamas appears to be changing. foreign secretary lord cameron has warned too many civilians have been killed in gaza supporting a call from his german counterpart for a sustainable ceasefire . here. it sustainable ceasefire. here. it comes after former defence secretary ben wallace has warned that israel's tactics will fuel the conflict for another 50 years. well i'm joined now in our studio by our reporter charlie lee peters. charlie, thanks for popping into the studio. a difference of tone here. um, more of a sense of caution, perhaps questioning the tactics used so far by israel and the idf. >> well, this morning, rishi sunak said that too many civilian lives have been lost in this conflict and did echo the language used by lord cameron over the weekend, calling for that sustainable ceasefire . what that sustainable ceasefire. what does that mean? because there are so many people have called for a pause in hostilities since this started, and the this conflict started, and the prime minister's official spokesperson clarified earlier today. spokesperson clarified earlier today . that a sustainable today. that a sustainable ceasefire is a situation in which hamas has no place in

gaza. so make no mistake about it, downing street is still supporting the overall end state ambition of the israelis in the gaza strip, which is, of course, the total removal of hamas from that coastal enclave. but at the same time, there has definitely been a softening of the language by western powers here. we've also heard from the french foreign minister over the weekend calling for an immediate and durable truce . and earlier and durable truce. and earlier today, josette borrell, the eu's top diplomat, saying that there had been an appalling lack of distinction by the idf in clearing between military targets and civilian targets. that's probably the most direct and severe statement by a western official. so far. at the same time, we do know that americans are visiting tel aviv this week to meet with the israeli government, where they are expected to call for a change in the tactics used by the idf. they want fewer munitions and armour, and they want more precise, elite special forces raids on hamas targets. but even when that's been

happening, charlie, there have but even when that's been happ israelis shot by their own army forces in terms of the pr of that domestically, is that adding to the pressure to kind of ramp things back a bit? >> there's been a lot of criticism for how the idf has handled sort of the press campaign, the messaging campaign of this conflict. if we just remember, go back to the start of ukraine when of the war in ukraine when russia invaded there , the russia invaded there, the ukrainian was praised so ukrainian side was praised so heavily for handled the heavily for how it handled the messaging. there and really won over hearts and minds of a over the hearts and minds of a global is global audience. israel is really struggling to achieve the same ambition , many analysts same ambition, many analysts saying same and the issue saying the same and the issue with the shooting of the hostages tragic hostages on friday, a tragic event where three people event there where three people reportedly waving white flags and shouting in hebrew were still killed by idf soldiers, military analysts told me this morning that he said that that sort of failure was the result, not of bad design, but of an extremely tricky operation environment. and they reminded me that so many of the soldiers

operating in the gaza strip are in very jumpy circumstances . in very jumpy circumstances. we've seen photos, haven't we, over the weekend of that serious ventilation shaft, but also the underground tunnel network where hamas had been operating big enough to drive a car through. so said the idf. enough to drive a car through. so said the idf . if you can so said the idf. if you can imagine what it's like being a soldier patrolling in those urban conditions where at any moment a hamas terrorist could p0p a moment a hamas terrorist could pop a shaft or a tunnel pop up from a shaft or a tunnel behind you, that would put you on edge to the extreme. and he said that these areas are a consequence of that situation. those very particular operational demands, but also 500,000 reservists have been activated in this army. these aren't full time professional soldiers operating on a busy operational tempo. a lot of them are seeing violence and conflict for the first time. they haven't beenin for the first time. they haven't been in the gaza strip since 2014. mistakes happen . and the 2014. mistakes happen. and the question that a lot of western leaders are asking at the moment is, can the idf afford many more of these mistakes? will they lose moral indeed

lose their moral and indeed legal legitimacy for this war in the gaza strip? okay, charlie peters, for that peters, thank you for that update . update. >> moving on now. booths >> well, moving on now. booths christmas parties, drink themed presents, and even a cheeky baileys before bedtime. alcohol is everywhere at christmas for people that have a drinking problem. however, it can make staying sober during the festive season that much harder. but the charity drinkaware says even two thirds of brits who aren't alcohol dependent overindulge at christmas. our east midlands reporter, will hollis has this reporter, will hollis has this report . report. >> alcohol took everything from lee, his job, his family and eventually his home. >> so we're outside tesco and this is what i used to sit and beg . beg. >> he spent nine months living on the streets of nottingham in the day he'd drink nine cans of strong lager. i didn't want to live. >> i didn't want to be here. i felt the lowest of the low. i felt the lowest of the low. i felt like, why don't my life just end? why don't it just stop? why don't the pain just

stop? why don't the pain just stop more than half a million brits are addicted to alcohol, but millions more drink in a harmful way . harmful way. >> at christmas, booze is everywhere. the average brit dfinks everywhere. the average brit drinks about 18 units of alcohol in a week. but at christmas time that jumps massively to at least 14 units on christmas day alone, a unit of alcohol can be half a pint of beer. a small glass of wine or a single measure of spirit . wine or a single measure of spirit. drink wine or a single measure of spirit . drink aware wine or a single measure of spirit. drink aware found wine or a single measure of spirit . drink aware found that spirit. drink aware found that half of brits think the uk has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and that two thirds overindulge at christmas . overindulge at christmas. >> i tend to drink maybe a little bit more at christmas. >> i think most people basically dfink >> i think most people basically drink to excess , tend to have drink to excess, tend to have a little bit of a baileys at christmas. >> i think it's quite of a festive thing. >> the nottingham recovery network helps anyone struggling with drink or drugs. the charity framework runs the service with council funding.

>> how is the new programme going ? going? >> a police is the director for health and social care, alcohol problems and drug problems don't happen on their own. >> they're usually a symptom of other things on, so other things going on, so it might debt, mental health, might be debt, mental health, relationship might be debt, mental health, relationsservices together to be brought services together to be able to meet the whole of that need, he says. >> there's a spike in people with problems around christmas. >> people struggle with their drinking . they struggle with drinking. they struggle with their relationships. they struggle with their mental health would health far more than they would at time of the year. at any other time of the year. >> to again. >> we get to live again. >> we get to live again. >> for help how many >> asking for help is how many people start to fix a drinking problem. asked , the problem. when lee asked, the network got him off the streets and into recovery . he's been and into recovery. he's been sober for three years now and supports others recovering too. >> i'm no longerjust, um , just >> i'm no longerjust, um, just existing. i'm actually living life . life. >> alcohol is a part of christmas and that won't change. it becomes a problem when it takes over the celebration. will hollis gb news in nottingham .

hollis gb news in nottingham. >> now if you or your loved ones are struggling with alcohol, support is on the alcoholics anonymous website and that has courses with alcoholics anonymous . dot org.uk courses with alcoholics anonymous. dot org.uk and also my home city, nottingham, there are some great initiatives there and you do see a lot more people on the streets this time of yeah on the streets this time of year. i'll be heading there friday for few sensible drinks friday for a few sensible drinks with my sister. okay the government's send government's plan to send migrants rwanda will hit migrants to rwanda will have hit another obstacle . airlines have another obstacle. airlines have refused to take to sign contracts to take the flights abroad. i'm martin daubney on . abroad. i'm martin daubney on. gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast. >> cloudy and breezy for many dufing >> cloudy and breezy for many during the rest of today. >> increasingly wet in the south overnight, but clear spells will arrive in the north behind a

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>> good afternoon, happy monday. it's 4 pm. this is gb news and i'm martin daubney keeping you company for the next two hours. we've cracker of a show we've got a cracker of a show ahead top story there's ahead of us. top story there's no planes for rwanda . that's the no planes for rwanda. that's the astonishing admission by the government over the weekend . government over the weekend. private charter companies don't want to be associated with the policy case they get policy in case they get cancelled. even raf bases cancelled. and even raf bases aren't . secure. £20 million aren't. secure. £20 million needs to be spent to keep the protesters out. another day, more bedlam on the rwanda front . more bedlam on the rwanda front. now they're moving on to our next story . it's international next story. it's international migrant day today. don't you know ? isn't every day know? isn't every day international migrant day? and international migrant day? and in about an hour's time , a in about an hour's time, a protest is taking place outside the home office. jeremy corbyn will be there . care for calais will be there. care for calais will be there. care for calais will be there. they say rwanda is heinous and britain is racist. we're going to send our man ray allison down there to

say, jeremy, how many refugees are you going to take into your gaff? moving on. the bbc has been blasted by the campaign against anti semitism who claim only 1 in 25 of british jews feel safe because of the biased broadcasting corporation attitude towards the war in israel and hamas saying they are a biased broadcaster that fails to live up to its duty of due impartial reality. and our next story , the obesity crisis is story, the obesity crisis is crashing into britain. 3000 admissions to hospital every single day . now a bigger killer single day. now a bigger killer than smoking. i'm going to say this is it. time to get tough on fat. all that coming in the next hour. fat. all that coming in the next hour . so 745,000 net hour. so 745,000 net migrants came to britain legally last yeah came to britain legally last

year. further. came to britain legally last year. further . 50,000 illegally, year. further. 50,000 illegally, 800,000 came here. and yet jeremy corbyn and care for calais still say britain is unwelcoming and racist. calais still say britain is unwelcoming and racist . what unwelcoming and racist. what planet are they on? we're going to ask them that in about an hours to ask them that in about an hour's time. but first, your latest news headlines with sophia wenzler. latest news headlines with sophia wenzler . thank you martin. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> it's 4:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom , a body that in the gb newsroom, a body that was found in the river wensum in norwich has been formally identified. >> died 55 year old gaynor lord disappeared after leaving work in the city centre on the 8th of december. police say the cause of death appears to be consistent with drowning, and there were no indications signs of any third party involvement at baroness michelle mone has hit out at the prime minister after he said he takes the scandal surrounding her involvement with the ppe firm incredibly seriously . incredibly seriously. >> it's after she admitted she's set to benefit from a contract

between ppe firm medpro and the government , which generated government, which generated a £60 million profit. posting on social media, lady mone said i was honest with the cabinet office and the nhs with my deaungs office and the nhs with my dealings with them. yesterday she told the bbc she contacted michael gove at the start of the pandemic after he made a call to arms for massive quantities of payment protection equipment. rishi sunak says the government has launched a legal case against the company. >> this whole situation is subject to an ongoing criminal investigation , but also the investigation, but also the government is taking action. legal action against a company involved so there's a limit to what i can say. other than to say we take all these things incredibly seriously. and that's why say government is why i say the government is taking action. and because taking legal action. and because there's investigation there's a criminal investigation ongoing, comment ongoing, i can't comment any further . further. >> labour leader sir keir starmer described the scandal as a shocking disgrace from top to bottom. every day goes past there are more questions that need to be answered . need to be answered.

>> there's now suggestions. >> there's now suggestions. >> there's now suggestions. >> there was early private contact with members of the cabinet have started cabinet that may have started this unhappy story in the first place, so the government needs to come clean. it needs make to come clean. it needs to make a about that . but this a statement about that. but this needs to be seen in its context under government. £7 under this government. £7 billion was lost in fraud during covid. that's taxpayers money. >> and if there were a labour government, we'd want that money back. >> conservative mp miriam cates is being investigated by parliament's standards watchdog. the member for penistone and stocksbridge is accused of causing significant damage to the reputation of the house or its members. it's not clear what the claim relates to . she's one the claim relates to. she's one of eight mps currently being investigated by the standards commissioner. bp has paused oil shipments through the red sea because of deteriorating security situations. houthi rebels have been targeting vessels launching drone attacks over the past week. the pro hamas group says it's trying to disrupt ships travelling to israel. a number of other firms,

including maersk, have also suspended traffic through the region , and two people are in region, and two people are in hospital after a gas explosion at a home in blackburn . the at a home in blackburn. the incident happened just before 8:00 last night, with the emergency services responding to calls that a building had collapsed. two people reportedly suffered minor injuries. lancashire police says nearby homes have been evacuated. it's urging people to avoid the area, while investigations continue . while investigations continue. the foreign secretary is calling for the release of media tycoon and pro—democracy campaigner jemmy lee in hong kong . the 76 jemmy lee in hong kong. the 76 year old british citizen is on trial accused of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security if convicted , national security if convicted, he faces a possible life sentence . lord cameron has sentence. lord cameron has condemned the charges against him and is urging chinese authorities to end what he described as a politically motivated prosecution . a new motivated prosecution. a new menopause drug to treat hot flashes has been given the green

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>> and thank you sophia. now we start with the latest farcical development in the government's bid to send migrants to rwanda. james cleverly was in the african country earlier this month to new treaty. but month to sign a new treaty. but it's emerged airlines have it's emerged that airlines have refused to sign contracts to take part in the flagship asylum policy. firms are worried about damage their reputations from being involved. meanwhile, the home office says it has robust plans on its governor for flights to rwanda to take off. well, i'm joined now by our political editor , christopher political editor, christopher hope.chfis political editor, christopher hope. chris and astonishing development in an ongoing bedlam saga. really at the weekend, a report came out, a senior government source said it's unbelievable . we've given £100 unbelievable. we've given £100 million to the rwandan government for a rwanda scheme and yet we have no planes to get people to rwanda . chris, people to rwanda. chris, sometimes it feels like the lunatic have taken over our asylum system . asylum system. >> yes, i've got some sympathy ,

>> yes, i've got some sympathy, martin, with the government on this, because they can't really pay this, because they can't really pay out control pacts for flights that don't actually legally exist yet . the legally exist yet. the government is some way off from flights taking off in the spring, as the prime minister told us, we know it's going to get the law, the rwanda bill, to declare rwanda a safe country to ensure that courts don't rule it offside and must start work in the commons next month and then go through the house of lords. and then we back to the and then may we come back to the commons votes. so commons for further votes. so there's on this there's no clarity on this really until. well, would really until. well, i would argue april for flights to take off in may. and so i think for the government to have committed lots on contracts now lots of money on contracts now is risky because it may well be doesn't happen at all. that's the concern the government's got. i can see why haven't got. i can see why they haven't haven't contracts yet haven't agreed contracts yet from of the airlines, from the side of the airlines, there is clearly at this stage reputational risk because of the controversy of the of the rwanda plan. there are reports already that the government is looking at strengthening security around airports, these flights

airports, where these flights might take off airfields, military air bases and the like, because no, no question, this will become a focus in early summer of protesters not wanting flights to take off, despite the fact that the idea is to try and break the business model of people these migrants people who send these migrants over to the uk south over the channel to the uk south coast . and so that's where we coast. and so that's where we are at the moment. and of course, the royal air force stands ready to to take take control of this and to fly them backif control of this and to fly them back if they have to. so there are ways forward, but yet again, it's another apparent setback for this plan. the government is trying to push forward the so—called rwanda plan, which, if it works, will yield , i think, it works, will yield, i think, electoral benefit the tory electoral benefit for the tory party, the labour party party, with the labour party insisting they will it. insisting they will axe it. >> another embarrassment >> chris, another embarrassment here, though the most likely raf base, boscombe down , that's at base, boscombe down, that's at salisbury and that is the military aircraft test and evaluation hq for the british military . yet local police military. yet local police claiming the area isn't secure in terms of the perimeter isn't

secure and it will cost £20 million to make it secure. the first question is why on earth isn't the key military testing airfield in the uk secure? already and secondly, surely £20 million in the grand scheme of things is small beer with spending that on two days on hotels, crack on with the job. chris >> well, quite or even three, three hotels. i think it's £88 million a day. unless you know, different figure, martin. but certainly this this money is money needs to be spent. if you can remove one, 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 and it gets more and more, it could hopefully mean that this, this people stop coming across the coast , to the coast, south the coast, to the coast, south coast of the uk from northern france, because they can see if you come here, that's what will happen to you. that that certainly is the hope of the uk government. but we'll wait and see can but see if that can happen. but i think, yeah, i think the government is now fully committed policy despite committed on this policy despite the labour would the fact that the labour would would i mean, it reminds would axe it. i mean, it reminds me of greenham common. martin, you don't you and i remember that, don't we, back in 80s that

we, uh, back in the 80s that that that site in in oxfordshire when there was a women's camp there women protesting there of women protesting against society of nuclear weapons on uk soil. against society of nuclear weapons on uk soil . and i think weapons on uk soil. and i think i can imagine boscombe down or wherever airfield is, is wherever the airfield is, is used to, to fly people from the uk to rwanda or become a kind of vigil for many people, because it does really offend people . it does really offend people. they think it shouldn't be happening equally. on the other they think it shouldn't be happre're equally. on the other they think it shouldn't be happre're finding on the other they think it shouldn't be happre're finding from he other they think it shouldn't be happre're finding from gb )ther they think it shouldn't be happre're finding from gb news side, we're finding from gb news viewers and in polls that people are offended jumping are offended by the jumping the queue arriving here, queue of people arriving here, not going through the legal means to arrive here, coming here, pressure here, and then putting pressure on not an easy on public services, not an easy policy. it's a contested one left and right, but the but the tory party is intent on this rwanda plan . rwanda plan. >> i think you're absolutely right, chris. i think, you know, they'll be chaining themselves to vehicles. they'll be gluing themselves runways, they'll themselves to runways, they'll be scaling the perimeter, doing anything disrupt anything possible to disrupt those leaving those flights. leaving not helped by the fact, of course, i should say . should say. >> well, i should say, martin, that cut across. but forgive me

for that. but sorry for that. but what is happening here is we are discussing flights, taking off right now. that is that is a result of last tuesday's vote, when 44 mps majority voted through the commons in a sense, that's a bit of a victory. through the commons in a sense, that's a bit of a victory . the that's a bit of a victory. the fact that people are now looking to what would happen if flights took off. it's more than we were a ago. yeah a week ago. yeah >> and i was about to say that it's not helped by the fact that the media very critical of the media are very critical of rishi sunak. i refer, of course, the media are very critical of rishis5unak. i refer, of course, the media are very critical of rishis trip k. i refer, of course, the media are very critical of rishis trip toi refer, of course, the media are very critical of rishis trip to rome of course, the media are very critical of rishis trip to rome to course, the media are very critical of rishis trip to rome to speaks, the media are very critical of rishis trip to rome to speak to to his trip to rome to speak to giorgia meloni and the albanian premier to try do something premier to try and do something about the international joined up thinking of stopping the boats sensible plan. many might think. but of course chris. the bbc branded this a far right rag . see, now you can say many things about rishi sunak, but calling him far right, that's a bit below the belt . bit below the belt. >> it's interesting. so when i worked in previous jobs i would describe corbyn. sometimes as

far left, and that also got the left upset. so i think there are connotations means let's not go further than that. saying far right, which is that's why people are upset about describing this event as giorgia meloni is a right wing politician , an elected as a politician, an elected as a premier of italy. she's holding an event. i mean, far right carries with it baggage from historically, which isn't probably fair in this situation. it's a right wing grouping meeting together. rishi sunak is the uk prime minister. he gets on with maloney. the shared interests on areas, particularly on boats crossings on on on small boats crossings on the italian the south around the italian coast . he met her. i think coast. he met her. i think there's footage there showing them the g20 in delhi them both at the g20 in delhi when i was there, getting on very well, having a glass of water together. giorgia meloni and rishi sunak. so clearly they are well it's are getting on well and it's good diplomacy, frankly, the good diplomacy, frankly, of the uk prime minister to allies uk prime minister to find allies in the, in the eu bloc and trying to find common cause with them because we haven't had issues course, the issues, of course, over the brexit talks with parts of brexit talks with other parts of the if italy is now an

the eu. so if italy is now an ally, then that's pretty good of sunak. i think . sunak. i think. >> christopher hope, superb as even >> christopher hope, superb as ever. thank you, my friend, for joining us on the show. ever. thank you, my friend, for joining us on the show . and now joining us on the show. and now former labour mp simon danczuk joining us on the show. and now formemeabour mp simon danczuk joining us on the show. and now formeme on ur mp simon danczuk joining us on the show. and now formeme on theip simon danczuk joining us on the show. and now formeme on the line.non danczuk joining us on the show. and now formeme on the line. simonnczuk joins me on the line. simon again, pleasure to again, always a pleasure to speak you it's astonishing. speak to you. it's astonishing. don't they've don't you think that they've actually admitted we've given £100 million to rwanda, and yet we haven't got any planes to take off. it just feels like this entire plan has got the curse . curse. >> well , this story says more >> well, this story says more about home office civil servants than it does the aviation industry . than it does the aviation industry. i've been in business for most of my working life , and for most of my working life, and i am in no doubt that there must be companies out there that would be pleased to win government contracts to take these , uh, illegal immigrants these, uh, illegal immigrants over to rwanda . over to rwanda. >> i think it really shows the home office civil service in a bad light . bad light. >> it shows that they don't have any business acumen. >> i can't believe for one minute there aren't companies out there that are prepared to

make these flights. >> and, you know, it's an illustration, really. it it illustrates to us why it was so easy for baroness maugham to make obscene amounts of money out of british taxpayers because civil servants quite clearly aren't capable of procuring decent contracts with the private sector. that's the reality of it. >> or the alternative is that it's home office civil servants deliberately trying to frustrate this policy. >> and we've heard that before. >> and we've heard that before. >> and we've heard that before. >> and simon, you make an excellent point there because a lot of people are being critical of rishi sunak, but it's not the prime minister's job. surely to sort out aviation contracts is his job to try and get the policy and to get it policy away and to get it through all through government and all the rest it. can't be in rest of it. he can't be in charge of minutiae of the charge of the minutiae of the paperwork on this. and so you make a great point. you think perhaps there that perhaps there are people that want these flights grounded? yes absolutely. >> it's one or the other. >> it's one or the other. >> isn't it? >> isn't it? >> uh, the civil servants aren't

capable of procuring a decent contract on this issue, and i think that's unlikely , uh, think that's unlikely, uh, because there will be many companies out there. >> i know people who work in aviation, and it won't be difficult get planes , pilots difficult to get planes, pilots coming to fly to make coming together to fly to make these flights . uh, so it's these flights. uh, so it's either that they can't procure it effectively or they are deliberately frustrating the will of the public because they want to see these flights taken off, uh, and the will of parliament, because parliament wants to see these flights taken off. >> and it could well be yet again, uh, civil, civil servants rallying against, uh, uh, democratically elected government. >> simon, don't you think it's astonishing to reveal the raf boscombe down, near salisbury , boscombe down, near salisbury, which may be the most likely raf base to be used if it goes down that route, isn't secure, its perimeter isn't secure already. it needs £20 million spent on it to make it pro test. the proof begs the question. this is an an airfield of significant interest where our military aircraft are

tested and stored and kept . how tested and stored and kept. how come it's not secure in the first place? >> well , exactly. you would have >> well, exactly. you would have thought it would have been secure enough already. and i find to believe that we find it hard to believe that we didn't already have a an airport or a landing space or a take off space to be able to make these flights. and now we're rushing around at the 11th hour, uh, to try and come up with a solution. >> surely that cannot be the case. >> the home office, the permanent secretary at the home office has to answer questions about this. this policy has been pursued by our elected, uh , pursued by our elected, uh, ministers for a considerable amount of time. and to find ourselves in this situation now would be absolutely, incredibly unbelievable. >> okay. former labour mp simon danczuk, thank you for joining us on the show. it's always a pleasure to speak to you. speaking common sense there. now we'll lots on this we'll have lots more on this story throughout show and story throughout the show and a little this hour we'll little later. this hour we'll cross light of the home office, where groups are cross light of the home office, where to groups are cross light of the home office, where to stage groups are cross light of the home office, where to stage a groups are cross light of the home office, where to stage a protest3s are cross light of the home office, where to stage a protest over; going to stage a protest over the government's immigration policies. there's also

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to martin daubney on gb news. and the bbc has come in for more criticism for its coverage of the israel hamas war. just 1 in 25 british jews are satisfied with the corporation. back in october, jewish groups protested outside broadcasting house after the bbc refused to call hamas terrorists . at the terrorists. at the demonstration. one person held a placard that said if the king can call hamas terrorists , then can call hamas terrorists, then so can you . well, join me now. so can you. well, join me now. is richard farrow, who's the editor of jewish news . thanks editor of jewish news. thanks for joining us on the show , for joining us on the show, richard. um, shocking news this that the jewish community in britain are losing faith in the bbc, but sadly, hardly surprising . surprising. >> yeah. thanks for having me on. >> it's a hefty sample. >> it's a hefty sample. >> when i looked at the stats, it's 4000 people. >> you don't usually get surveys of that sort of heft , and >> you don't usually get surveys of that sort of heft, and only 4% of british jews, according to it, are satisfied with bbc's coverage. >> considering how few jews there are in the uk. i think

that leaves roughly about six jews who actually approve of the bbc's coverage at this point. >> crikey. and when you think about the types of coverage, what specifically do you think has been the driving issues behind this absolute collapse of confidence in the bbc from the british jewish community? what were the moments that really made them say, hang on a minute, you're not with us on this one? >> look, i think there have been a number of points that have concern the jewish community and, i think people and, you know, i think people that bbc large, you that watch the bbc at large, you have to understand, half a billion people their news have to understand, half a billiothezople their news have to understand, half a billiothe bbc their news have to understand, half a billiothe bbc around|eir news have to understand, half a billiothe bbc around the news have to understand, half a billiothe bbc around the world from the bbc around the world and disinformation on the bbc has incredibly , incredibly has incredibly, incredibly catastrophic conflict . catastrophic conflict. >> i think the first issue was the attack on the allahi baptist um hospital, which was a few weeks after october the 7th. jon donnison and jeremy bowen, particularly hardly covered themselves in glory by suggesting that the entire hospital was blown up by israel , hospital was blown up by israel,

when in fact it was the car park that was damaged by islamic jihad. um, they were quite quick, i think , to look through quick, i think, to look through that and to cover their tracks . that and to cover their tracks. um, but yes, of course , um, um, but yes, of course, um, journalists get things wrong, believe it or not, gb news and my newspaper, the jewish news, gets things wrong. but you have to endeavour to get things right. and particularly when it comes bbc, because comes to the bbc, because it's so and it's taxpayer so crucial and it's taxpayer funded and richard, we are showing footage on the screen now of march against anti now of that march against anti semitism, of course, back in october, which ended up culminated outside bbc hq. >> i wanted to ask you where do you think this mindset has come from. why do you think we have have a mindset within the bbc that seems to think that hamas can't be branded terrorists, even though our own king used that word, and yet they seem very critical of anything that israel does . where does that israel does. where does that mindset come from? richard >> i think it's also related to what i was just talking about in

terms of the bbc's absolute committed and responsibility to try and get things right, because they are taxpayer funded, funded, and we are all owners of auntie , aren't we? so owners of auntie, aren't we? so i think it goes so far to the centre, uh, ever opportunity that obviously people are going to look at the bbc and their own subjective opinions are going to inform how they see bbc output if their own subjective opinions don't chime with what they feel should be the objective opinion , should be the objective opinion, they are going to accuse the bbc of being biased. so you're going to get people who, um, have don't have a nice word say don't have a nice word to say about israel would accuse about israel that would accuse the of being pro—israel. about israel that would accuse the of being pro—israel . but the bbc of being pro—israel. but i think the main issue , the i think the main issue, the fundamental point was the calling of the bbc. the bbc calling, uh, hamas, uh , calling, uh, hamas, uh, terrorist militants, you know , terrorist militants, you know, arthur scargill is a militant, hamas are terrorists . and i hamas are terrorists. and i think absolutely anybody that saw with half an eye the horror that was um, uh, that took place

on october the 7th would have no question of that at all. it is a tiny victory. i think, that the bbc now uses the terms designated terror group by the british government, which is certainly moving the dial slightly in the right direction. >> and richard, we saw a study out on friday saying 80% of british jews now think the situation is worse in britain since october the 7th, as the editor of jewish news, what kind of stories are you hearing from your readers? what are they telling you about their safety and their outlook on the uk at the moment? >> there's lot of paranoia. >> there's a lot of paranoia. um, there's a lot of concern on, um. i don't feel that the concern is as intense as it was dufing concern is as intense as it was during the corbynite years when people were obviously very , people were obviously very, very, very paranoid and worried that the next prime minister of this country would be someone who calls hamas their friends. um, i don't see that issue now. and i think things will calm down where i think it really is bubbung down where i think it really is bubbling up is on campuses. i

think that's a major issue. and i think the policing of these, um, pro palestine marches are also a cause for concern when it comes to our institutions, of which i you, of course, include the bbc police and the universities . um, and when we universities. um, and when we saw the, the three ivy league heads of the american universities only ten days ago, being quizzed and unable to come down hard on on the side of what should be a clear moral issue. i think they're the areas that the jewish community is particularly concerned about. hopefully, as these things move on, um, and, and the focus moves onto other things, the community can start to feel a little bit more comfortable and less defined by anti—semitism . anti—semitism. >> okay. richard farrow, the editor of jewish news, i wish you peace to you and all of your readers. thanks for joining you peace to you and all of your readers. thanks forjoining us on the show. now there's still lots more to come between now and 5:00 and a few minutes. we'll cross live to the home office, where activists are set to protest against the government's policy government's immigration policy because they think be because they think we should be having immigrants coming

having more immigrants coming into we'll be asking into the uk. we'll be asking them , what planet are you on? them, what planet are you on? but first is your latest news headunes but first is your latest news headlines sophia wenzler. headlines with sophia wenzler. thank you. >> martin, it's 434. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom , a wenzler in the gb newsroom, a body that was found in the river wensum in norwich has been formally identified , and 55 year formally identified, and 55 year old gaynor lord disappeared after leaving work in the city centre on the 8th of december. police say the cause of death appears to be consistent with drowning and there are no indications of any third party involvement . baroness michelle involvement. baroness michelle mone has hit out at the prime minister after he said he takes the scandal surrounding her involvement with the ppe firm incredibly seriously . it's after incredibly seriously. it's after she admitted she's set to benefit from a contract between ppe firm medpro and the government , which generated government, which generated a £60 million profit. posting on social media, lady mone said i

was honest with the cabinet office and the nhs in my deaungs office and the nhs in my dealings with them . yesterday, dealings with them. yesterday, she told the bbc she contacted michael gove at the start of the pandemic after he made a call to arms for massive quantities of payment protection equipment . payment protection equipment. rishi sunak says the government has launched a legal case against the company. she conservative mp miriam cates, is being investigated by parliament's standards watchdog . parliament's standards watchdog. the member for penistone and stocksbridge is accused of causing significant damage to the reputation of the house or its members . it's not clear what its members. it's not clear what the claim relates to. she's one of eight mps currently being investigated by the standards commissioner. investigated by the standards commissioner . a new menopause commissioner. a new menopause drug to treat hot flushes has been given the green light in the uk . the daily pill, called the uk. the daily pill, called viossa , alleviates symptoms by viossa, alleviates symptoms by regulating body temperature. up to 80% of women going through the menopause are affected by the menopause are affected by the symptoms, which also include disrupted sleep patterns and changes to their mood and energy

levels. and you can get more on all those stories by visiting our website at gbnews.com . our website at gbnews.com. >> thank you sophia. now a number of campaign groups will protest against the government's immigration policies. this afternoon and evening. the demonstration will take place outside the home office . and outside the home office. and let's cross there now and speak to our reporter, rae addison rae. simple question who are these people and what do they want ? i understand one of the want? i understand one of the speakers is jeremy corbyn. i'm assuming he'll be opening the door to chateau corbyn and letting in as many migrants as can possibly be accommodated . am can possibly be accommodated. am i right ? i right? >> well, jeremy corbyn is definitely scheduled to be speaking here today. in fact, if you can look over my right shoulder, you be able to shoulder, you might be able to see the mobile stage, which is just being manoeuvred place just being manoeuvred into place at the moment. um, for those of you are concerned about the you who are concerned about the environment be reassured is

environment, be reassured it is solar powered mobile stages for events. it's the stage bus that's being positioned into place right now . but to answer place right now. but to answer your question, it's being organised by a coalition of around 18 different groups, including regional, uh, london including a regional, uh, london based lives matter based black lives matter organisation. we've got as well stand up to racism um, care for calais and the pcs union as well of which many of their members are obviously working as civil servants, both for border force. but here at the home office as well, over my left shoulder, i think you can see some police officers there, and they've been coordinating with the stage people , and you can see we've people, and you can see we've got one police van there as well. and just further down the road as well, we've got another police van, so they're getting ready for whatever might be about to come down here. if we pan all the way over to your left, i think screen left, you'll be able to see they're setting up a couple of trestle tables down there, and we've got a number of placards. i counted roughly around 50 or 60, uh,

placards laid up there on the side of the home office bank there. so it kind of gives you an indication of how many people, how many protesters organisers are expected to come down here today. it's pretty quiet. there's around seven organisers between the stage company and the people down here with the trestle tables. i did ask if we speak to them. ask if we could speak to them. they busy putting they said they're busy putting up trestle so we up their trestle tables so we couldn't have right now. couldn't have a chat right now. but hopefully will be but they hopefully will be chatting to little bit chatting to them a little bit later of your later on. putting some of your questions to martin. of questions to them. martin. of course here because course they are here because this is united nations international of the international day of the migrant. we're going to see migrant. uh, we're going to see some djs. we're going to see some djs. we're going to see some live music. those speeches, like said , a pcs like you said, a pcs representative, well. and the representative, as well. and the reason they're here today is because they're concerned about the government's rwanda policy . the government's rwanda policy. they feel that it's heinous to put it in their words. they believe that the government is using racist policies and rhetoric and because of that, they are concerned that the far right is growing and they give

examples of the number of, um , examples of the number of, um, local community members who've protested at the use of um hotels and former military bases being used to house migrants. of course, i'm sure many people would disagree with that. they say they're just very concerned for their areas. that's why they're trying to prevent the use of certain facilities from housing asylum seekers. but as we said, pretty quiet at the moment. no protesters yet still starts at about 530. and we'll see how busy it is, how well supported it is. >> yeah, right. everybody's far right to this lot. um if you particularly want to protect your communities, your far right, you know, i think we really interesting. ray, go around with a clipboard and take around with a clipboard and take a of names addresses a list of names and addresses and we go, let's make and say, here we go, let's make and say, here we go, let's make a note of address and let's a note of your address and let's see how many seekers see how many asylum seekers you'd prepared to take in you'd be prepared to take in your spare room . ray, do you your spare room. ray, do you think up it? well think they'd be up for it? well i'll definitely put that question to them, martin, if i get the chance. >> like i said, they said they're busy right at the moment, they will find

moment, but they will find somebody to and i'll somebody to speak to me and i'll put question directly put that question directly to them. stuff, out them. beautiful stuff, ray, out of ten. >> going to lively out >> it's going to get lively out there. take of there. you take care of yourself, mate. looking forward to report. find to your next report. i just find it astonishing. 745,000 legally last year . 45,000 illegally work last year. 45,000 illegally work it out . 800,000. and yet still it out. 800,000. and yet still they're saying we're a racist, unwelcoming country. ray i can't wait for you to ask him some questions later. now, the language used by western leaders on the war between israel and hamas appears to be changing. foreign secretary lord cameron has warned too many civilians have been killed in gaza. support a call from his german counterpart for a sustainable ceasefire . it comes after former ceasefire. it comes after former defence secretary ben wallace has warned that israel's tactics will fuel the conflict for another 50 years as well. i'm joined now in our studio by our reporter charlie peters. charlie a significant change of rhetoric here and the pressure from the

international community for something approaching more of a ceasefire appears to be growing. that's right. >> and many western leaders in the last 72 hours have reiterated those calls. having said that, in the last hour, we've just wrapped up a press conference in jerusalem between yoav gallant, the israeli defence secretary, and lloyd austin, his american counterpart, where mr austin said that america's support for israel was unshakeable as they reaffirmed the commitment to the israeli mission to strike hamas within the gaza strip. there was some commentary on looking forward to the long terme strategy, which of course, has beenin strategy, which of course, has been in the minds of so many western leaders over the weekend, where gallant said weekend, where mr gallant said that there would be something different for post hamas gaza. different for a post hamas gaza. should such an outcome be achieved? not want, um, achieved? did not want, um, israel to be running that coastal enclave and they'll find some kind of allied partners in the region to support that strategy . few details offered on strategy. few details offered on how that will be achieved. and then there was that discussion

about the potential for the changing operation in the gaza strip. we do know that american officials and western officials have been pressuring israel to adapt their strategy and their military tactics in the gaza strip, in particular, a move from so—called high intensity warfare to low intensity warfare , such as a shift away from heavy armour and heavy munitions , particularly the kind of massive bombing bombing campaigns that have taken place into more targeted and specialised and small team raids on specific targets inside the gaza strip, particularly in the south, as millions of people have been forced to flee into the south of that very small part of the levant. and so with that shift taking place , many that shift taking place, many people coming out and calling on israel to change their stance on on this war. and let's not forget nearly 20,000 people have been killed in the gaza strip since october 7. those figures coming from the hamas run health ministry . so we have to, you

ministry. so we have to, you know, take them with a pinch of salt at time. also don't salt at this time. we also don't know of that 18,000 are know how many of that 18,000 are terrorists are members of the hamas group and other allied palestinian islamist organisation nations. but it's clear that the operation there has attracted the scorn and concern of many western leaders. this morning, keir starmer actually reaffirming rishi sunak statement that they wanted a sustainable ceasefire in the region . but it's sustainable ceasefire in the region. but it's i think many people were relieved to see the labour leader and the prime minister speaking from the same hymn sheet when it came to an issue of global security , of issue of global security, of course, makes for a difference when it comes to the last major conflict in the middle east, when now cameron in when we had now lord cameron in charge and corbyn in the charge and jeremy corbyn in the opposite number, very opposite number, taking very different on dealing different stances on dealing with in the region. with conflicts in the region. but it is a shift in that direction now, a sustainable ceasefire. what does that mean? well, pm's spokesperson well, the pm's spokesperson clarified earlier today that this means a situation where

hamas is not involved in any way in the gaza strip. so it's quite different to the kind of let's immediately have a ceasefire and see how it plays out. demand being made by many people in the west . it actually still has the west. it actually still has the military strategy of israel within its end state. that sustainable ceasefire . although sustainable ceasefire. although the french foreign minister calling for an immediate truce , calling for an immediate truce, slightly different language used there. but as this conversation continues, it's highly likely that regardless of the pressure being put on by western leaders, israel will continue, at least in the coming weeks. its israel will continue, at least in the coming weeks . its heavy in the coming weeks. its heavy bombardment of hamas targets. >> okay, charlie peters, excellent summary as ever. thank you very much for joining us excellent summary as ever. thank you very much forjoining us in the studio. now, more than 3000 people single day or being people every single day or being admitted to hospital because of conditioned linked to obesity. that's more than a million admissions every year. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel .

sunday mornings from 930 on gb news . news. >> welcome back 445 you're watching or listening to martin daubney on gb news now at 5:00, and the latest on the government's never ending battle to send migrants rwanda . but to send migrants to rwanda. but before that, last month , a before that, last month, a petrol bomb was thrown through the front building the front of a building earmarked for migrants in dublin . and on saturday night there was a suspected arson attack on a hotel that was set to house 70

male asylum seekers in galway and no one is believed to have been inside the building at the time, and the fire service brought the flames under control. but nevertheless a concerning incident and joining me now is author and irish political commentator kevin mark evin. thanks for joining political commentator kevin mark evin. thanks forjoining us on evin. thanks for joining us on the show. once again, tensions heightening in dublin. um, last month, of course, we saw the riots in dublin city itself after a stabbing spree. two children and a carer were hurt and leo varadkar, the premier, coming out and condemning them. as far right. and here we are again . things are heating up again. things are heating up overin again. things are heating up over in ireland . over in ireland. >> they are very much so. i mean, this attack on this hotel has gutted the place, apparently out in county galway, but there's been there have been similar attacks on premises that have been earmarked for use for part of the irish government's dispersal of asylum seekers , and dispersal of asylum seekers, and there have been attacks in

kildare, wexford, dublin and cork and donegal as well . so, cork and donegal as well. so, so, so it gives you a flavour for of irish public opinion on the issue of immigration and you know, these are these attacks are, you know, incredibly reckless, incredibly dangerous. people could have been killed , people could have been killed, workmen could have been killed, you know, you know, this this you know, you know, this is this is a very difficult and is this is a very difficult and very dangerous. uh situation at the moment. but it's driven by two things. one is ireland's, um , precedented rates of immigration that the country is taking on at the moment. 1 in 5 of the resident population of the republic of ireland is now foreign born. it's taking in, uh, a rate of immigration at around 100,000 people a year. and by the 2040s, by 2050, it's perfectly conceivable , at that perfectly conceivable, at that rate, that every other person in the republic of ireland will have been non—irish to begin with. so it's a very it's a very emotive issue. um, culturally for a lot of irish people. but there's another issue as well, which is ireland's going through an acute housing shortage at the

moment. and, you know, these moment. and and, you know, these two are playing two issues are playing straight into other. mean, just into each other. i mean, just just reflection , um, house just as a reflection, um, house pfices just as a reflection, um, house prices in ireland are eight, no, eight times the national wage. that's ten times the national wage in dublin. that's ten times the national wage in dublin . over the last wage in dublin. over the last decade, wages have risen by 27. uh uh , property prices have uh uh, property prices have risen by 75% and rents have risen by 75% and rents have risen by 75% and rents have risen by 90. so you throw a very big wave of immigration into that very febrile situation, and you can perhaps see why we are where we are. >> yeah , kevin, we can show >> yeah, kevin, we can show pictures now of those riots in dubun pictures now of those riots in dublin last month. leo varadkar very quick to condemn those involved , but much slower to involved, but much slower to condemn the man who went on the stabbing spree. and again last night , he stabbing spree. and again last night, he claimed there is no justification for violence, arson or vandalism in our republic ever. but an opposition councillor , seamus walsh, said councillor, seamus walsh, said this we have to stand back and look at it . if this we have to stand back and look at it. if this was a criminal act, what made that act happen then? it was the

senseless policy of the government and kevin, of course, he's referring to what many people think ordinary citizens think in ireland are de facto open border . and as you said, open border. and as you said, the prime ization of the required agents of migrants coming into the country in terms of housing and social resource and the rest of it. and yet we seem to have a government who are completely tone deaf to its citizens, who object very much so. 50. >> so. >> i mean, the councillor that you quote, there is a member of the fianna fail party, which is which is part of the governing coalition in dublin as well. so it's not a not a fringe figure. i ireland's got that i mean, ireland's got that classic situation and we have this, know, with lots of this, you know, with lots of issues , perhaps with immigration issues, perhaps with immigration here well, public here as well, where public opinion opinion are opinion and elite opinion are not in the same place. and that i think in a democracy is a very, very dangerous thing to have. very, very dangerous thing to have . opinion polls are showing have. opinion polls are showing very clearly that three quarters of the irish population think that immigration has now gone too far . i

that immigration has now gone too far. i think that that that's kind of reflects in the early, the early part early, perhaps the early part of, you perhaps a few of, you know, perhaps a few years , ireland, perfectly years ago, ireland, perfectly willing take in a percentage willing to take in a percentage of immigrants because this economy is doing very, very well andifs economy is doing very, very well and it's sucking in people to for economic reasons, for its economic reasons, principally . for its economic reasons, principally. but for its economic reasons, principally . but they've now principally. but they've now reached the point where they think it's too think actually, it's now too high. country 5 high. we're a country of 5 million already million people. we've already got a million people that are not irish born our not irish born within our borders, that seems like an awful lot to contend with. okay, okay, kevin , any more of it? and okay, kevin, any more of it? and that's that's that's a terrible place to be in a democratic society. okay, kevin moore, thanks for joining us. >> have to leave it there >> we have to leave it there simply because the time. it's simply because of the time. it's always thank you always a pleasure. thank you very brits are very much. now, as brits are getting having getting fatter and it's having a devastating impact the nhs, devastating impact on the nhs, the hospital the number of hospital admissions obesity has admissions linked to obesity has doubled in six years to more than 3000 people every single day , and obesity costs the nhs day, and obesity costs the nhs around £65 billion every year. well, joining me now is deborah scott, who has had type 2

diabetes and gone into remission. thanks for joining diabetes and gone into remission. thanks forjoining us on the show. deborah so you had diabetes. you're now getting much better. does this news come as any surprise to you? what do you think we should do about it ? you think we should do about it? >> it doesn't come as any surprise. >> you only have to look around and you can see the majority of people, including children , are people, including children, are overweight or obese . and it overweight or obese. and it really makes me sad. we're surrounded by ultra processed food. um ultra processed food. if you look at the labels, it's got a list of ingredients. as long as your arm, uh, many ingredients you won't even be able to pronounce. you wouldn't find them in your kitchen, and they hide sugar within those food products under 100 different names . food products under 100 different names. um, and also, i don't think people realise that, um, you know, savoury foods turn to a lot of sugar as well . and to a lot of sugar as well. and what happened to me was i started putting weight on and i thought it was the menopause, but it turns out when your body is struggling to deal with sugar

, uh, what? it can't deal with it turns to fat. so i think that's a lot of the problem out there. people need educating the guidelines need to change as well. and the nhs guidelines . well. and the nhs guidelines. when i was diagnosed and still is the case, uh, encourage you to eat a lot of starchy carbohydrates and, you know, very little fat. and they don't say that there's healthy fats, you know, fat was alienated , uh, you know, fat was alienated, uh, several decades ago . but there several decades ago. but there are so many healthy fats that don't rise. raise your blood sugars. so i tested regularly to see what food suits me. one size doesn't fit all. so go see what fits you . what suits you. and fits you. what suits you. and i just adjusted my eating habits accordingly . and i was in accordingly. and i was in remission within a matter of four five months. and i'd lost as four stone in seven months. and i've maintained that, um, andifs and i've maintained that, um, and it's just education, martin, honestly, just trying to i

worked with several local surgeries. now i've done a youtube video to help because people can't get the appointments now there's hardly any help and support out there, so i'm just trying to do my bit to highlight that, you know, savoury foods like a slice of bread can actually turn to four teaspoons of sugar. there are healthy fats out there and they're on this , uh, sugar they're on this, uh, sugar roller coaster. you know , when roller coaster. you know, when they're on this, uh, starchy carbohydrate diet so it can make them feel high, and then they come crashing down and they need to get back up again. so they'll go to the fridge and it's this constant roller coaster that, um, you know , changing just a um, you know, changing just a few simple things. uh inaya. diets can make you feel so much better and lose weight. obviously, i did . i know many obviously, i did. i know many people that have done that . uh, people that have done that. uh, there is help and support out there is help and support out there , and i just want to help there, and i just want to help her as best i can, just educate people. >> okay. deborah. well done to you. full play to your elbow very quickly . how can people get

very quickly. how can people get in touch with your youtube channel their own channel to get their own inspiration ? channel to get their own ins|okay,n ? youtube channel >> okay, my youtube channel thank you is deborah scott. and if you put slide by slide in uh, or diabetes, you'll come up with a couple of videos that i've done to help others. >> okay. you. we have to >> okay. thank you. we have to leave there. deborah. well leave it there. deborah. well done. fabulous. good done. you look fabulous. good stuff. plan stuff. now the government's plan to to rwanda have stuff. now the government's plan to another to rwanda have stuff. now the government's plan to another obstacle rwanda have stuff. now the government's plan to another obstacle .nanda have stuff. now the government's plan to another obstacle . airlines ave hit another obstacle. airlines have sign contracts have refused to sign contracts to take part the flagship to take part in the flagship asylum policy. this goes round and round. isn't it? i'm martin daubney on gb news and this is britain's news channel. >> a brighter outlook with box , >> a brighter outlook with box, the sponsors of whether on . gb news. >> hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast . cloudy and breezy for many dufing . cloudy and breezy for many during the rest of today. >> increasingly wet in the south overnight but clear spells will arrive in the north behind a couple of weather fronts, which are traversing the country

northwest to southeast. this cold fronts will pep up as we go into the evening and overnight, bringing some more extensive wet weather across wales and then into the early hours across southern and eventually southeastern parts of england. >> that rain, heavy and persistent in places further north, rain does clear, although further showers follow for the north and west of scotland. parts of northern ireland on a blustery breeze and with clear spells here. >> any sheltered spots will get close to freezing, so a touch of frost perhaps, but but in the south it will be a very mild start to tuesday. >> however, it will also be a wet start. the rain does clear eventually so that after lunch i think most places in the south will be turning drier and brighter. some decent sunny spells for england and wales, but staying blustery for scotland and northern ireland with strong winds and frequent showers. >> those showers in the cold air falling as snow and hail over the hills into wednesday. >> a cold start to the day in

places, but a bright start in the northwest. we're going to see some rain spread in, along with a strengthening wind, but it's really into thursday that the wind turns particularly strong, especially towards the northwest. places and northwest. gales in places and blustery showers that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of weather on .

gb news. >> good afternoon . it's 5:00. >> good afternoon. it's 5:00. welcome to gb news. i'm martin daubney. we've got loads coming up in the next hour, including stop the hate. that's what jeremy corbyn is about to say at a protest at the foreign office. and he he is saying we should take migrants into our homes. we're going to say to him, well, how many are you going to take? because our man ray addison will be down there. we've also got plane crazy . and that not plane crazy. and that is not a single plane is ready to take off to take migrants out of our country . and that includes an country. and that includes an raf base. anneliese £20 million spending on it. just to make that perimeter safe. what on earth is going on with this bungle plan? next up , the bbc is bungle plan? next up, the bbc is under fire. it's slash armed rishi sunak as attending a far right rally at the weekend in rome with italian premier giorgio meloni and also the

albanian premier. and here's a corporation that wouldn't even call hamas to terrorist. well, the earth is going on at the biased broadcasting company. next up , it's biased broadcasting company. next up, it's a nice day for a woke wedding . that's right. woke wedding. that's right. because methodist ministers have banned the words husband and wife at marriage ceremonies in case, of course, you've guessed it , it upsets gender neutral it, it upsets gender neutral guests and don't even think about singing, for he's a jolly good fellow. all that in the next hour . yeah. you couldn't next hour. yeah. you couldn't make it up . 745,000 migrants make it up. 745,000 migrants came to the uk legally last yeah came to the uk legally last year. an extra 50,000 illegally. and yet jeremy corbyn still is saying this country is unwelcoming and racist. our man ray addison is going to get amongst there. the cat among the

pigeons and ask them how many asylum seekers are you guys going to take in to your place ? going to take in to your place? that's coming up all in the next houh that's coming up all in the next hour, but first, your latest news headlines sophia news headlines with sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> thank you martin. it's 5:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . a body was found in newsroom. a body was found in the river wensum in norwich, and it's been formally identified . it's been formally identified. 55 year old gaynor lord disappeared after leaving work in the city centre on the 8th of december. police say the cause of death appears to be consistent with drowning and there are no indications of any third party involvement . russell third party involvement. russell brand has been questioned by police for a second time over alleged sexual offences. the actor and comedian was interviewed under caution last week over six allegations after being questioned last month over three other claims. the 48 year old has been accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse

between 2006 and 2013 following a joint investigation by the sunday times. the times and channel 4 dispatches. he strongly denies the claims . strongly denies the claims. baroness michelle mone has hit out at the prime minister after he said he takes the scandal surrounding her involvement with the ppe firm incredibly seriously . it's after she seriously. it's after she admitted she's set to benefit from a contract between ppe firm medpro and the government, which generated a £60 million profit. posting on social media, lady mone said i was honest with the cabinet office and the nhs in my deaungs cabinet office and the nhs in my dealings with them. yesterday she told the bbc she contacted michael gove at the start of the pandemic after he made a call to arms for massive quantities of payment protection equipment. rishi sunak says the government has launched a legal case against the company. >> this whole situation is subject to an ongoing criminal investigation , but also the investigation, but also the government is taking action. legal action against a company involved. so there's a limit to what i can say other than to say

we take all these things incredibly seriously, and that's why the government is taking legal because legal action. and because there's investigation there's a criminal investigation ongoing, any ongoing, i can't comment any further . further. >> labour leader sir keir starmer described the scandal as a shocking disgrace from top to bottom. >> every day he goes past, there are more questions that need to be answered. there's now suggestions. there was early private contact with members of the cabinet that may have started this unhappy story in the first place, so the government needs to come clean. it needs to make a statement about that. but this needs to be seen in its context. under this government, £7 billion was lost in fraud during covid. that's taxpayers money. um, and if there were a labour government, we'd want that money back. >> conservative mp miriam cates is being investigated by parliament's standards watchdog . parliament's standards watchdog. the member for penistone and stocksbridge is accused of causing significant damage to the reputation of the house or its members. it's not clear what the claim relates to. she's one

of eight mps currently being investigated by the standards commissioner for junior doctors in wales will stage a 72 hour strike in the new year . they'll strike in the new year. they'll walk out from january the 15th after voting overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a dispute over pay. that's as the government and british medical association reached an agreement on reforms for specialist doctors. the offer, which will be put to members, proposes an additional pay rise of between 6.1 and 9.22, meaning while labour has been calling for more funding for overtime doctors, sir keir starmer is offering the party's promise to end the non—dom tax status as a way to fund it. labour has also promised a reduction in wait times for nhs appointments under their government. it comes as wes streeting and the labour leader visited a leeds hospital today. the shadow health secretary says there will be a serious reduction after five years labour government at bp years of labour government at bp

has paused. oil shipments through the red sea because of deteriorating security situation. houthi rebels have been targeting vessels launching drone attacks over the past week. the pro hamas group says it's trying to disrupt ships travelling to israel. a number of other firms, including maersk, have also suspended traffic through the region and a new menopause drug to treat hot flashes has been given the green light in the uk , the daily pill, light in the uk, the daily pill, called viossa , alleviates called viossa, alleviates symptoms by regulating body temperature. up to 80% of women going through the menopause are affected by the symptoms, which also include disruptive sleep patterns, changes to their mood and energy levels . this is gb and energy levels. this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car , on your digital radio your car, on your digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news now it's back to . martin back to. martin >> thank you sophia. now we start with the migrant crisis

and a number of campaign groups will protest against the government's immigration policies later this hour . the policies later this hour. the demonstration will take place outside the home office. and let's cross there right away and speak to our reporter , ray speak to our reporter, ray anderson. so ray , the people anderson. so ray, the people protesting today aren't saying there are too many migrants coming to the uk. they're saying there aren't enough and that we're racist and unwelcoming. who are these people and what do they want ? they want? >> well, it's a coalition of 18 organisations which are organising today's event here outside the home office due to get started about 530 and it's getting a little bit busier here now. the stages is set up. you might just be able to see over to the camera right there . and to the camera right there. and we've got a number of people here well. organisers from here as well. organisers from the various groups, including care i'm actually care to calais two. i'm actually joined now by weyman bennett. he's national he's the joint national secretary stand up to racism. secretary of stand up to racism. raymond, thanks so much for joining why is this protest joining me. why is this protest taking why taking place today and why outside office ? outside the home office? >> doing because we

>> we're doing it because we believe politics has been believe that politics has been poisoned britain. poisoned in britain. >> being >> instead of refugees being treated in a humane way, they're being treated as a catastrophic problem. when actually they're a relatively minority problem in britain takes a minority of the refugees across the world, and we believe that immigration is being pumped as an issue to being pumped up as an issue to misdirect the british, the british population , to say that british population, to say that the crisis in the nhs , the the crisis in the nhs, the crisis in our transport system or the crisis in our education is not due to underinvestment. >> due to, um, refugees and >> it's due to, um, refugees and particularly actually black refugees or muslim refugees, because if you're a refugee from ukraine, you make a plan of how to get here, and there's an agreement of how to plan here. >> and what we're arguing for is that safe passage plan should be allowed rather than man united allowed rather than a man united crisis of refusing to deal when people apply for refugees status and treat them in a reasonable way. >> reading through some of the literature for today , um, urging literature for today, um, urging people to come down and support this event outside the home

office, it gave the impression that you believe that people who are concerned about illegal migration are predominant racist. is that correct ? well, i'io. 110. >> no. >> what we're saying is that racism is being mobilised in order to misdirect people from deaung order to misdirect people from dealing with real problems. you see, the war in ukraine, nobody would say the war in ukraine is caused by people simply wanting to exploit britain. in fact, because people want that war in that way. there or they're prepared to be involved in that. that's a good war. but places like the middle east, iraq, afghanistan are old wars in which places were blown up, and then people seek some kind of sanctuary afterwards . even sanctuary afterwards. even dennin, who used to be the head of the british army, said that many of the interpreters who were supposed to give sanctuary to haven't been sanctuary to haven't been given sanctuary to. we say is that that to. and what we say is that that should be an organised process. at the moment. the government has process as has no organised process as organised chaos and then says, look at these small boats arriving. this is the biggest

problem that britain faces . problem that britain faces. >> so, so some of the rhetoric you feel is, is incendiary and, and pandas. i've read it to the, to the far right as some organisations would put it. but in terms of solutions and practical practicality, what can be done if people shouldn't be housed in hotels, if people shouldn't be housed on former military bases, people military bases, if people shouldn't housed barges, shouldn't be housed on barges, where housed? where should they be housed? should them should people be welcoming them into homes ? into their own homes? >> the end of the >> you know, at the end of the second world war, we took more refugees on after war, after refugees on after the war, after britain had been broken and destroyed . and that's the reason destroyed. and that's the reason why it a migrant . it took why it took a migrant. it took a migrant workers plan , a safe migrant workers plan, a safe passage to places for passage plan to places for people to go, stops a crisis. the government is enjoying this crisis. there was not a crisis around ukraine. refugees but so the ukrainian refugees are obviously welcomed into people's homes, where should these refugees should they go? >> would you welcome a migrant into your home? >> listen, i would i've helped migrants in my own home. i've

helped other people. let's helped other people. but let's be about it. be absolutely honest about it. the government's playing on the fact that some refugees fact that some of the refugees are black and muslim. right and blue people blue eyed, blonde haired people from that's fine . yeah. from ukraine. that's fine. yeah. people that not looking like people that are not looking like that. there's a whole the whole things that's not said in between . they're a threat. between. they're a threat. they're as criminals. they're presented as criminals. right. it's not true. when einstein ran away from the nazis. right. it's true that the daily mail presented jewish people escaping from the nazis as being criminals, as being rapists, as being thieves. right. that's actually true. and it's a disgrace. >> but do you not do you not think that people would be able to get on board with protests such yours and organisations such as yours and organisations such as yours and organisations such as yours and organisations such as the 18 that have helped such as yours and organisations su plan the 18 that have helped such as yours and organisations su plan today? that have helped to plan today? >> they weren't being told >> if they weren't being told that legitimate that they're legitimate concerns, . concerns, were just racism. >> no. what what are the legitimate the legitimate concerns? the legitimate concerns? the legitimate are the legitimate concerns are the question are, firstly , they're question are, firstly, they're told that all you have to do is rock up and you'll be given a house, rock up and you'll push everybody out of the way and you'll go the first in the

you'll go to the first in the front of the nhs hq. those are blatant lies. so why is the government saying blatant lies? because instead of saying to people, we are not giving you proper nhs care because we cut the budget by 27, not somebody arriving in a boat did that. the british government did that. they said they were going to level up, but they levelled down and now they want to blame refugees. we're saying , why refugees. so we're saying, why can't we have a grown up discussion and we want to discussion and said we want to cut by 27, stop cut the budget by 27, stop blaming refugees for that. and secondly, telling lies about migrant workers is dangerous. every icu unit in this country see at least a quarter of the people working in them are migrant workers. that means if you want grandma to die this christmas , then you get those christmas, then you get those workers not working there and there's even less provision for people. so unless you start working out on a serious grown up adult thing, you know , to, to up adult thing, you know, to, to be honest with you, the fact that our government has sent someone to a semi—fascist

festival in italy, you know, my great my grandfather was in el alamein. he was told that mussolini was a bad person , and mussolini was a bad person, and he had to pick up a rifle in order so that we could have democracy . yeah. now i see my democracy. yeah. now i see my prime minister sitting down with somebody who says my derivative is mussolini , and it's a good is mussolini, and it's a good thing . what point can we not thing. what point can we not speak out and say , why are you speak out and say, why are you blaming people who are refugees? and why aren't you dealing with the real problems ? the real problems? >> thank you very much. joint national secretary of stand up to racism. obviously there's a range of different opinions down here. we'll be chatting to more people here at the event. we've got the dj stage has been set up and jeremy corbyn is due down as well. okay >> thank you. ray didn't answer the question did he, about will he take any refugees into his house? let's quickly move on. ray will come back to you later in the show and it's emerged that have reportedly that airlines have reportedly refused to sign contracts fly refused to sign contracts to fly asylum seekers to rwanda. firms are to

are worried about damage to their reputations from being involved flagship scheme, involved in the flagship scheme, but home office says it has but the home office says it has robust flights to robust plans for flights to rwanda. and i'm joined now by our political editor, christopher . chris, here we christopher hope. chris, here we are again . christopher hope. chris, here we are again. um, no christopher hope. chris, here we are again . um, no flights are again. um, no flights already . we don't have any already. we don't have any planes, no commercial airline wants to get involved because of reputational risk. they'll get cancelled. of course . and raf cancelled. of course. and raf boscombe isn't secure. and these £20 million spending on it, when it should be secure in the first place, another day, another headache. >> yeah, a headache, but i do feel a bit, uh, sorry if i can say that, to martin, you for the government. i think if they've gone too far ahead of where the law is and commissioned, um , law is and commissioned, um, companies to provide this service before it's even made legal, and then it didn't happen for whatever reason, because of wasting more millions of wasting even more millions of pounds of taxpayers money on this scheme. essentially, this migrant , the rwanda plan, migrant policy, the rwanda plan, is to getting through is subject to getting through the house of commons. then the house lords, probably back to

house of lords, probably back to the and the lords again the commons and the lords again might by april, when the the commons and the lords again minglights by april, when the the commons and the lords again minglights take april, when the the commons and the lords again minglights take off ril, when the the commons and the lords again minglights take off in when the the commons and the lords again minglights take off in may,| the first flights take off in may, the pm insisting, and that's the pm is insisting, and that's what trying do. so to go what he's trying to do. so to go ahead to try and ahead of that to and try and commission, um , companies commission, um, companies to take part this in this plan take part in this in this plan is early . there is also a is a bit early. there is also a reputational issue, question . reputational issue, no question. for some these companies, for some of these companies, there be a left will there would be a the left will be about when be very cross about when these flights take off. going flights take off. they're going to a greenham to probably stage a greenham common protest outside common style protest outside raf boscombe or wherever they're going to try and secure, make these flights take off. i can only imagine it'll be the royal air force will shoulder the burden the beginning then burden at the beginning and then as more of a normal as it becomes more of a normal process, what happens, process, if that's what happens, then commercial then it'll become a commercial issue . um, the then it'll become a commercial issue. um, the pm then it'll become a commercial issue . um, the pm there, mr issue. um, the pm there, mr sunak, is just just from sunak, is just just back from a weekend in italy at a right wing festival with giorgia meloni, the leader of albania was there. there's a bit of fury amongst tory mps because the bbc called it a far right, um, uh, rally , it a far right, um, uh, rally, uh, a far right political festival . this uh, a far right political festival. this is language which, um, those who were there, the right would not accept that .

the right would not accept that. of course, it has connotations from the past. you had an interview there with a protester there, uh, something saying something similar, saying it was semi—fascist. well it wasn't that it was a right wing event, but the bbc, its staff but it seems the bbc, its staff there. so that's a far right issue. and that's annoyed some, some conservative mps. um, but but you know, mr sunak not mincing his words the weekend making very clear he understands the pressure that migration is putting on public services here on doctors and nurses. uh, and trying to sort of get getting treated health treated on the health service and housing, housing queue and the housing, housing queue and the housing, housing queue and trying to a cheaper, and trying to get a cheaper, cheaper property. um, he understands that he's trying to deal with that . but again, it's deal with that. but again, it's an issue across the board. and maloney key ally of mr maloney is a key ally of mr sunak. they met at the g20 when i was there there in delhi i was there out there in delhi with them um, are the with them. um, they are the same, same same kind of same, same age, same kind of outset. outlook big issues with the coast and illegal the italian coast and illegal crossings there. we have the same don't we, in the uk border. so he's trying to find ally allies in the eu and that is to

be uh, to be welcomed. frankly, i think he needs to find friends in the eu after this brexit wars i >> -- >> okay, exam >> okay, chris, thank you for joining and i'm now joined joining us. and i'm now joined by mp james james by conservative mp james james daly. james, um, perhaps could by conservative mp james james daly. on nes, um, perhaps could by conservative mp james james daly. on that um, perhaps could by conservative mp james james daly. on that point erhaps could by conservative mp james james daly. on that point .rhaps could by conservative mp james james daly. on that point . rishi could by conservative mp james james daly. on that point . rishi sunaki start on that point. rishi sunak went to italy at the weekend doing his level best to get an immigration plan to stop the boats with giorgia meloni and the albanian premier bbc the albanian premier and the bbc referred to it as a far right rally. what would you say to that ? that? >> well, i'm sorry to be so blunt about things, but it's garbage, isn't it? >> it is, uh, concerned politicians, um, across europe, coming together, acting on the concerns of the people who put them in power in the first place and trying to find common cause and trying to find common cause and common, um, plan to tackle, um, the levels of immigration that we're seeing at this moment in time . um, i mean, it's in time. um, i mean, it's a little bit like martin, what we just saw with the person you interviewed outside the home office political office and that the political calling the left . calling card of the left. >> is anybody who this has >> is that anybody who this has been last 30 to 40 been for the last 30 to 40 years, who's raised any

years, anybody who's raised any concern regarding levels of immigration is either racist immigration is either a racist or and is garbage or a fascist, and it is garbage of highest order. of the highest order. >> yeah, i mean, a lot of people would agree with that. james, what about the, um, allegations at the weekend that we can't get any planes take off to take any planes to take off to take migrants, asylum seekers to rwanda? uh, government source was quoted as saying this. it's unbelievable . all but given £100 unbelievable. all but given £100 million, the rwandan government for rwanda scheme. and yet we have no planes to get people to rwanda. where does the buck stop i >> -- >> well, i agree with what chris hobbs just said in respect of this, but this story appears, martin, be based upon, uh, martin, to be based upon, uh, a piece in the times. >> that piece in times comes >> that piece in the times comes from home office, from leaks from the home office, and i can only assume home office officials. now, i, together my friend lee together with my friend lee anderson, of anderson, have the pleasure of being select being on the home affairs select committee been committee and if anybody's been watching the last watching that over the last couple of weeks, you'll know how the office officials the home office officials can't get right on the record, get facts right on the record, let the record. so let alone off the record. so there is no , as far as i can

there is no, as far as i can see, credence to this whatsoever. um, and so there's not really very much to say except to say when a policy is announced the government, um, announced by the government, um, it will very robust, as it will be very robust, as i think said at the of think you said at the start of this, the government have said we place we have a robust policy in place to planes will be to ensure that planes will be taking off to rwanda. and i think quoted as think you've just quoted may as the marty . i can't the date. i'm not marty. i can't get if we have have get into if we have if we have debates on office debates based on home office leaks, be here till not leaks, we'll be here till not this next christmas. leaks, we'll be here till not thiswell, next christmas. leaks, we'll be here till not thiswell, james, iext christmas. leaks, we'll be here till not thiswell, james, iext chri to nas. leaks, we'll be here till not thiswell, james,iext chri to simon >> well, james, i spoke to simon danczuk earlier on and he was saying that these saying there's no way that these kind contracts couldn't kind of contracts couldn't be sorted competent home sorted out by a competent home office, competent civil office, a competent civil service, and therefore he was saying there is saying perhaps there is resistance the civil resistance within the civil service to this plan, even getting off the ground in the first place. well perhaps simon has a point. >> um, i think it has been clear that the government's intent has been challenged at times from within the home office . but i within the home office. but i don't know that simon doesn't know that. um, i think what we have is a prime minister who has given his undertaking, has said that he will do what's necessary

to get these planes off to rwanda. but this is only one of a suite of policies that we have to migration numbers. so to tackle migration numbers. so you know, at least now you know, after, uh, you know, after some others who talked the talk , this others who talked the talk, this prime minister is going to deliver , he's come up with a deliver, he's come up with a clear martin, and i'm clear plan, martin, and i'm absolutely we're absolutely certain that we're going planes taking off absolutely certain that we're goimay. planes taking off by may. >> okay, james. thank you very much frank and much for your frank and forthright opinions. the tory mp forthright opinions. the tory mp for bury north, need bit for bury north, we need a bit more that in politics. thank more of that in politics. thank you very much for joining on you very much for joining us on the show . now can your the show. now you can start your new year with £10,000 in cash, a £500 shopping spree and a brand new iphone. sounds amazing right 7 new iphone. sounds amazing right ? well, here's how you could make all of those prizes yours . make all of those prizes yours. >> this is your chance to win three amazing prizes that will get your new year off to a great start. first, there's a terrific £10,000 in cash to won . be £10,000 in cash to won. be imagine what you could do with that. imagine what you could do with that . we'll also give you a tech that. we'll also give you a tech update with the very latest iphone 15 pro max plus £500

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>> ah, sure. it's nice . >> ah, sure. it's nice. de—banking >> oh, only on gb news shoes. >> oh, only on gb news shoes. >> so i joined gb news because i was sick and tired of not heafing was sick and tired of not hearing my views. uh, hearing the views of the people that i know and love. never hearing them represented. i felt sometimes like i was going mad. surely i cannot be the only person that thinks this way. and of wasn't ever the of course, i wasn't ever the only person. it was just that the media were barely picking up the media were barely picking up the kind of and

the kind of views and perspectives that i and people that co that i knew had dewbs& co weeknights from six. >> welcome back. it's 526. you're watching or listening to martin daubney on gb news. now, later this hour, i'll take you back to that protest against the government's immigration policies in central london. ray addison will be our cat amongst the pigeons . now, there are some the pigeons. now, there are some stories that just make me utterly despair . and this is one utterly despair. and this is one of them. a man and woman getting married going to ask if married are going to ask if they're happy to be called husband and wife , because it husband and wife, because it might upset gender neutral people in the audience . the people in the audience. the guardian has been given to methodist ministers and joins us now. is the director of the common sense society, emma webb . common sense society, emma webb. emma, please give us some common sense because this to sense because this seems to be like more utter madness . like yet more utter madness. >> so the methodist this time rather than the church of england, which is what we've come to expect, and this is also so, um, it's in a way it's sort

of theologically unsound because of theologically unsound because of course, genesis says that a man leaves his mother and his father and cleaves his wife, father and cleaves to his wife, and of one flesh. and they become of one flesh. um, so this is yet another example of, uh, christian churches putting these sort of extraneous ideologies before their own doctrines. and i think their own doctrines. and i think the reason why the church is so susceptible to this kind of nonsense is because christianity obviously has an emphasis on, on, um, those who are weak, blessed are the meek and the mild. um, it also . so i think mild. um, it also. so i think christians want to be nice. they want to do the right thing . and want to do the right thing. and as a society, this kind of strain range pandering has become the way to be viewed as kind. and so i think that they're being pulled into this sort of , like i they're being pulled into this sort of, like i said, this strenuous ideology . it's from strenuous ideology. it's from the outside of christianity. it's certainly not something that's coming from the inside, from christian theology or

doctrine . um, so but it's even doctrine. um, so but it's even more exaggerated somehow when a church does it, because you would think that churches is, um, having a more grounded understanding. i think of, um, things like human anthropology and so on would be a bit more tethered to common sense and tradition than, um, but clearly thatis tradition than, um, but clearly that is not the case. >> no. emma and the 11 page pamphlet also contains advice warning against the use of exclusive words such as brothers and sisters, guys and don't even think about singing, for he's a jolly good fellow. that would probably be a hate crime. and also it says they're not even allowed to say we now please stand to sing in case it's ableist. i thought church were about miracles. i thought churches were about places where good things happen. the most mealy mouthed thing i've heard all year that i thought that the, um, guidance to not use the

terms stand if you're able was quite an interesting one, because that's come to be something that and i've heard it myself, actually used um, in one church. >> it's come to be the, the way that that , um, whoever's leading that that, um, whoever's leading the service, whether it's the vicar or some one else, um, is actually trying to be a bit progressive by saying stand if you are able. so it's accommodating those who may not be able, but this guidance is basically arguing to use progressive terminology, that this is centre ring. um, being able and that's not the language that they use. but that's the sort of woke terminology for it , sort of woke terminology for it, um, that it's making out that being able bodied is the is the standard, it's the norm. and so this is also problematic. so as we've seen in so many other examples as well, these things constantly eat themselves . they constantly eat themselves. they it's one criticism on top of another criticism. and ultimately there's no solid ground. and that's why it's so

surprising that christianity is falling prey to this. because christianity should be all about truth and all about finding solid ground. um but there's absolutely none of that anywhere to be found in this guidance. >> absolutely . thank you very >> absolutely. thank you very much for joining >> absolutely. thank you very much forjoining us. emma webb much for joining us. emma webb was director of the common sense society. it's a nice day for a woke wedding. now there's still lots more to come between now and 6:00. we'll cross live to that protest being staged by campaigners angry at the government's immigration policies. not because there is too much immigration, but because they think there's not enough immigration. corbyn's due to speak and also care for calais. ray addison will be our cat among the pigeons. but first, here's your latest news headunes first, here's your latest news headlines with sophia wenzler. thank you martin, it's 530. >> i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom , a body that was found newsroom, a body that was found in the river wensum in norwich has been formally identified as

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on the decks there you can see unity, not division . um, the unity, not division. um, the flag there. and, uh , stand up to flag there. and, uh, stand up to racism as um, i'm joined racism as well. um, i'm joined by connors, associated by connor connors, associated with the tsa union. connor, why are you here today? >> well, we're here today to show our support and solidarity with care for calais and stand up with care for calais and stand up to racism. we have members right across the uk that deliver safe passage on the railways , on safe passage on the railways, on buses and ferries. safe passage on the railways, on buses and ferries . and if the buses and ferries. and if the home office and this government had half the integrity that our members have in delivering safe passage, then we wouldn't be seeing people dying in the channel. and we're here to call for safe passage, safe routes , for safe passage, safe routes, for safe passage, safe routes, for people to be able to come into this country. >> what does safe passage practically mean? how does that work? >> well, we've seen these schemes already. we have them in place for people coming from ukraine. um and it's quite simple. we shouldn't have to have people making the perilous journey across the channel we shouldn't have to demonise people for trying to survive. we

see civilians dying in conflicts , in war, and we associate it with sympathy and empathy with that. and yet, when these people are trying to seek safe passage in the uk, suddenly just because they die when they're crossing they die when they're crossing the channel suddenly their their classes are legal, you know, and that empathy and that feeling that empathy and that feeling that we have just seems to dissipate and go away. i mean, of course, the ukraine scheme was a legal scheme . was a legal scheme. >> it was something that was appued >> it was something that was applied for before people came over and then they housed over and then they were housed with people. whereas crossing, crossing a small crossing the channel in a small boat without a visa in place beforehand, is illegal. we beforehand, that is illegal. we are , you know, that is a legal are, you know, that is a legal migration or a regular migration, the government migration, as the government would you looking for would say. are you looking for people who want to the people who want to come to the uk across the channel instead, to be given places in people's homes? what's the solution? >> i mean, look , there is no >> i mean, look, there is no easy solution and this is part of the problem. but all the while at the moment any , any while at the moment any, any sort of conversation that's

being had around migration or whether it's to do with refugees, anything , the refugees, anything, the conversation at the moment, it's negative and it's demonised and it's dehumanised people. and this is part of the problem. >> so you're criticising the language, but what's the what's the solution? like anyone can criticise on either criticise the language on either side and criticise the government's language. you can criticise, stand for racism , criticise, stand up for racism, saying don't like saying that if you don't like this of migration this type of migration then you're but what is the you're a racist. but what is the actual solution? what's the practical solution? >> we have practical , >> yes. so we have practical, practical solutions in place as it at moment. it stands at the moment. and i've referenced that in i've just referenced that in terms doing as terms of what we're doing as a country people like from ukraine. >> so a home scheme . >> so a home scheme. >> so a home scheme. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so being able to access , >> so being able to access, being able to access um and apply being able to access um and apply for asylum in the uk, onune apply for asylum in the uk, online making it accessible, making it fair. online making it accessible, making it fair . we have these making it fair. we have these processes in place . but the uk processes in place. but the uk government has been so selective in who can who can have access to it. it baffles me that we put people all on this, on this

pyramid . and um, depending on pyramid. and um, depending on which country you're from or which country you're from or which conflict that you're coming from determines whether you can get in to this country or not. and would you personally take people into your home? >> yeah , well, i live in i live >> yeah, well, i live in i live in a studio flat, you know, so no . 110. >> no. >> well, i live in a studio flat . can i provide safe accommodation to someone in, in in my specific circumstance? no, because i live in ma studio flat . i'd love to be able to do flat. i'd love to be able to do that. and to be able to provide that. and to be able to provide that. um, but this is where my work in an organisation like the ron todd foundation for example. right. the work we're doing for that charity to alleviate poverty, we're creating safe spaces for people across the country to be able to open up their homes, to be able to deliver support. so whether it's a cup of tea, whether it's helping provide advice , whether helping provide advice, whether it's trying to get housing and

helping in that practical support , that's how i'm able to support, that's how i'm able to contribute . and that's how i can contribute. and that's how i can advocate people who aren't able to open homes to be to open up their homes to be able to. you can help in different ways. >> let's talk about the event just quickly. let's just really quickly. but let's talk event right now. talk about the event right now. is started. it's is it's obviously started. it's coming up to 540. it's not a huge turnout. are you a bit disappointed with this so far? >> no. so uh, as i >> not really. no. so uh, as i mentioned, the demonstration hasn't started yet with 530 planned. we've got a lot planned for this demonstration , so we've for this demonstration, so we've organised it to be a fun event. we're going to have live music on the go. i think there's some plans for some, uh, some non—alcoholic mulled wine. we've got a whole host of jackets that have been picked up here for, uh , refugees that are landing on our shores to keep people warm. there's placards, there's a really good crowd so far , and a really good crowd so far, and a lot more to come. >> conor, thanks very much for giving us your views. i really do appreciate it. uh, so, yes, starting to bit busier starting to get a bit busier here around . about what? maybe, here around. about what? maybe, maybe 100 people,

maybe just under 100 people, i think. obviously, as uh, think. and obviously, as uh, connor saying, there, they connor was saying, there, they expect lots more people to turn up. >> okay. thank you. ray. allison non—alcoholic with jeremy non—alcoholic wine with jeremy corbyn. tempting. isn't it? and isn't it funny how, once again, it's like these people are fleeing war zones. their perilous journeys. they're in fear of their lives . yeah, they fear of their lives. yeah, they wouldn't be safe in a studio flat london. but with that flat in london. but with that fella there, because he couldn't offer them safe accommodation. it's always somebody else's issue to pick up, isn't it? it's always somebody else's problem. and wonder how many people and i wonder how many people jeremy corbyn is going to offer to into chateau corbyn to take into chateau corbyn tonight. house of course, paid for by the british taxpayer. anyway. thank you very much . ray anyway. thank you very much. ray anderson . now the bbc has been anderson. now the bbc has been at it again when he's been criticised for saying rishi sunak attended a far right rally over the weekend. of course, it's always the far right. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel .

>> only on gb news, the people's channel >> only on gb news, the people's channel, britain's news channel . channel, britain's news channel. >> welcome back. it's 543. you're watching or listening to martin daubney on gb news. now i've lost count of the number of times the bbc has shown bias earlier in the show, i talked about their controversial coverage of the israel—hamas war. remember they refused to call hamas terrorists , but that call hamas terrorists, but that bias was on show again over the weekend , and it described the

weekend, and it described the events in italy that rishi sunak attended as as a far right rally. tory mp brendan clarke—smith said it was incredibly disrespectful to the prime minister and accused the bbc of hypocrisy. well, joining me now is paolo diana, who is an italian political commentator and a great friend of the show. paolo. we spoke on friday about this . the bbc paolo. we spoke on friday about this. the bbc had shown its paolo. we spoke on friday about this . the bbc had shown its true this. the bbc had shown its true colours. they cannot resist anything. they don't agree with is far right . what's your take is far right. what's your take on it ? on it? >> i know, martin, i think it's highly disrespectful and it's inflaming people's minds. >> it's not the truth. absolutely not the truth. first of all, giorgia meloni , she's a of all, giorgia meloni, she's a prime minister, so they should be respectful towards the prime minister. on the other nation. >> i would say, and also , uh, >> i would say, and also, uh, her party is not far right is a centre right party who is held in a very moderate government . in a very moderate government. >> she's actually following many of the european commission's

advice . she's just been strong advice. she's just been strong for what are the interests of italians? but this is not being far right. this is not dangerous for democracy . i think it's for democracy. i think it's appalling the way they want to polarise the political debate. and also i give you a news that here in the uk , people don't here in the uk, people don't know at this at rac meeting that is for the young people , uh, is for the young people, uh, following giorgia meloni and her party, usually also the leaders of the centre left , he used to of the centre left, he used to go not only them, but also the leaders of the far left. we had in fact, birch , not the leader in fact, birch, not the leader of the communist party , uh, of the communist party, uh, going to the same rally a few years ago and no one was shouting that he was a dangerous far right rally. well and it's interesting, paolo, we just there's a protest outside the home office as we speak. >> we spoke to somebody there from the campaign against racism, and they referenced giorgia meloni. they referenced rishi sunak going out there. of course, they said , um, that

course, they said, um, that giorgia meloni , um, idolises giorgia meloni, um, idolises mussolini . and of course they mussolini. and of course they they always throw that out there. the shorthand being far right rally basically implying everybody who disagrees with them is a fascist . them is a fascist. >> no, it's terrible. they're just using some excuses to attack people. they don't agree with. but this is what the left has become. and this is quite scary. i tell you, giorgia meloni, she doesn't idolise , uh, meloni, she doesn't idolise, uh, mussolini at all. she she didn't do that or not either. when she was young. only few people in her party used to say that he did something good. but now they rejected what they said . and no rejected what they said. and no one is talking about mussolini anymore . you know, we moved on. anymore. you know, we moved on. italy is moving on. it's a different time . it's a full different time. it's a full democracy . uh, people should democracy. uh, people should show some respect . right? show some respect. right? >> and we know , paolo, that the >> and we know, paolo, that the bbc, we know that the western liberal media are critical of anybody who wants to control borders . what kind of treatment

borders. what kind of treatment does giorgia meloni get in italy from the domestic italian media? is she lambasted and pilloried there, or is she considered a moderate and a centrist ? moderate and a centrist? >> well, she's not attacked as much as she is here. i tell you the truth, of course, the left is criticising her, but in a in a normal democratic way. but she everyone knows that she's actually doing a very good job and keep in mind that draghi, the former prime minister is one of her admirers and he helped her, giving her a lot of advice. she's following his advice and there's no scandal. she's actually a job for italy. well done. giorgia meloni . done. giorgia meloni. >> and, um, briefly , if we >> and, um, briefly, if we could. paola, how optimistic are you that there could be an agreement between italy and the uk to try and control our borders internationally and join up together ? up together? >> i know this book about that . >> i know this book about that. uh, the two prime ministers, and i'm actually in favour of an agreement. i think they should

move on and do something. uh positive in order to help these people where they're coming from , because we can't help all of them in our countries. we need to find a way to help them where they are. and not to let them die. during this horrible travels that are sold to them by these people smugglers . so that, these people smugglers. so that, in my opinion, they're horrible, like terrorists . yes. like terrorists. yes. >> okay. paolo, diana , italian >> okay. paolo, diana, italian political commentator and friend of the show. thank you very much for show today for joining us on the show today . now, for decades, women have suffered debilitating sickness dufing suffered debilitating sickness during pregnancy, but recent signs of developments offer hope for a potential cure. the delay highlights this pregnancy side effect has been left without treatment for too long, which itself raises questions about gender biases in medical research. or does it? well, with me now is izzy montagu, who's a medical clinician . thank you for medical clinician. thank you for joining us on the show. so yeah, first of all, last week , izzy, first of all, last week, izzy, morning sickness was blamed on men. in many ways it said that

the genetic profiling of men could be a factor that was news to me as a man who's had a wife who's had terrible morning sickness twice, i felt guilty. it was my fault. and secondly, now we're hearing about the bias in drugs to affect this . with in drugs to affect this. with one columnist in the paper today saying, you can bet your bottom dollar if men experienced more morning sickness, this would have been solved years ago. what's your take on that ? what's your take on that? >> i don't believe that that's the case. >> i think it's genuine. >> i think it's genuine. >> only the fact that people just believed that this was just normal for women to have , um, normal for women to have, um, morning sickness , um, it is just morning sickness, um, it is just past, you know, it's like period pains. >> people just feel that it was just the. you know, just normal . just the. you know, just normal. um, but i think the new finding of what it could be, uh, i don't know , i'm sceptical about it, to know, i'm sceptical about it, to be honest, but i definitely wouldn't say that we should blame men, you know, for this. that's ridiculous . um, anything

that's ridiculous. um, anything that suggest that if men that would suggest that if men had this issue, it would have been done a lot sooner. i just think it's just, you know , think it's just, you know, complete, utter. you know, like feminism gone crazy. >> well, i'm glad that you said that and not me a—z, because if i'd have said that, i'd get in a lot of hot water, especially as somebody who spent half of my life making toast, life making tea and toast, peanut butter, milk shakes through my level. to best help my wife, my missus, through two difficult pregnancies. um, i don't think it's very helpful to sort of make this into a gender war. we should all together war. we should all pull together on . on it. >> exactly . i think, you know, >> exactly. i think, you know, it's always divide of, you know , it's always divide of, you know, it's always divide of, you know, it genuinely. everybody believed that this was just normal . and i that this was just normal. and i think that, you know, it's good that we look further into things . but i think to try and see as another way to attack , you know, another way to attack, you know, you know, the male and female andifs you know, the male and female and it's just ridiculous. like we can't understand science without having to go , you know,

without having to go, you know, blame men or women for not finding things out sooner. why can't we just accept that this is just something that we, you know, we have found an interest in and we should, you know, we should, you know, welcome. and it's brilliant news. what? why are we trying to, you know, blame men, you know, for this i've never, you know, heard of anything more ridiculous in my life. and it's also clinically, um, untrue because of course, we saw with phyllida and attempts to control morning sickness back in the 70s with catastrophic impacts. >> and maybe actually, there's a good reason that companies stay away from trying to develop a cure for before morning sickness , because it's very risky. it's not about gender war at all. it's about trying to keep mothers safe . mothers safe. >> exactly. and i think that's the thing that i think men would probably welcome something to help with her morning sickness. i mean, i and i say this, you know , not not against, you know , know, not not against, you know, other women, but a lot of the

time, you know, within pregnancy , we lose a lot of hours, um, for pregnant , you know, um, for pregnant, you know, um, sickness , um, which we, you sickness, um, which we, you know, we call hg because it is a reason why women get signed off work very early , um, in work very early, um, in pregnancy. and i'm sure a lot of, you know, you know, companies, businesses would love to welcome this for women . um, to welcome this for women. um, but so it's got nothing to do with you know, a gender. while it is more to do with, like, exactly what you said , people exactly what you said, people just want to stay clear of it because of the dangers of the thalidomide. and you know what it can mean? only recently we see, um, morning sickness, um, tablets being , you know, tablets being, you know, basically prescribed throughout the whole length of pregnant kc. and we know that it's safe . but and we know that it's safe. but pfior and we know that it's safe. but prior to that, we were all really sceptical of prescribing it. so it is something that, you know, it's more to do with the safety aspect as to why no one has touched this subject before.

>> superb. great bit of common sense to end the show with. there is imotski. thank you for joining us. medical clinician and of common and another bit of common sense to with. i've been to end the show with. i've been joined in the studio by the one and michelle juby. well and only michelle juby. well hello menu? >> um, lots tonight >> um, well lots tonight actually, if i may be so bold , actually, if i may be so bold, but one of the things i want to get this rumoured pay get into is this rumoured pay rise mps , 7.1% would take rise for mps, 7.1% would take mps pay. >> get this everyone, are you sitting comfortably? >> 92,731 pence. so i'm asking , >> 92,731 pence. so i'm asking, is that a good deal? >> is that too much money? too little money? should they be paid less or what? paid more or less or what? >> whole 7.1, there's >> and this whole 7.1, there's a lot of people that's been striking that would, uh, uh, be very pleased to accept a 7.1% pay very pleased to accept a 7.1% pay rise. >> so i want to get into that. i also want to talk michelle moran as well, whether or she as well, whether or not she should be in the house of lords. i'm you've covered that one i'm sure you've covered that one as and search as well. and stop and search section 60 when there's basically non—suspicious stop and search. call it . um, and search. they call it. um, people are now saying that this

is uh, is discriminatory, uh, disproportionate targets, black people, etc. so should this be, um, a practice that's permitted? is it time to get rid of it or what? i want to get into that. what are the police watchdog said that they weren't support. it also ask about this it also want to ask about this new threshold. but is it new income threshold. but is it fair? £8,700. that's what you've got to earn to bring your loved ones in. is that harsh or fair? i've got so much i want to talk about. and also, are we going to end like venezuela if we, um, end up like venezuela if we, um, elect keir starmer? yes or no question. >> that's dewbs& co after the break. i'll be back same time tomorrow. stick around jubes tomorrow. stick around for jubes after the break. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast. >> cloudy and breezy for many dufing >> cloudy and breezy for many during the rest of today. increasingly wet in the south overnight, but clear spells will arrive in the north behind a

couple of weather fronts which are traversing the country northwest to southeast east. this cold fronts will pep up as we go into the evening and overnight, bringing some more extensive wet weather across wales. and then into the early hours across southern and eventually southeastern parts of england. >> that rain, heavy and persistent in places further north, the rain does clear, although no further showers follow. for the north and west of scotland. parts of northern ireland on a blustery breeze and with clear spells here. >> any sheltered spots will get close to freezing, so a touch of frost but in the south frost perhaps, but in the south it will be a very mild start to tuesday. however, it will also be a wet start. >> the rain does clear eventually so that after lunch i think most places in the south will be turning drier and brighter some decent sunny spells for england and wales , spells for england and wales, but staying blustery for scotland and northern ireland with strong winds and frequent showers. those showers in the cold air falling as snow and hail over the hills into

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acheson said that if britain votes him in essentially our country will become like venezuela for the next 20 years. do you agree with that? harsh or true and get this everybody. mps could be set for a massive 7.1% pay could be set for a massive 7.1% pay rise, taking their pay. are you sitting comfortably to . you sitting comfortably to. 92,731 pence? get tell me this. do you think that is too much money? just shy of £93,000. too much or too little ? ah. does it

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