gb news. >> hello and welcome to gb news saturday! yes, i'm richard tice for the next three hours i will be keeping you company on tv, onune be keeping you company on tv, online and of course on digital radio. we've got all the latest stories that really matter to you. this new year's eve weekend. in the first hour, we're going to get stuck into the new year's honours list. the good, the bad, and frankly, the ugly. the good news wetherspoons owner and boozy brexiteer my friend tim martin quite rightly gets knighted . but for heaven's gets knighted. but for heaven's sake, why is a lockdown fanatic also being knighted? i'm not going to pull any punches whatsoever about some of the weirder, most egregious choices. plus, at the end of the year polling, we've got some special exclusive polling for gb news that reveals more bad news for

the conservatives. labour open up a 22 point massive lead over the tories . can they turn it the tories. can they turn it around in the new year? i've got around in the new year? i've got a fantastic panel . conservative a fantastic panel. conservative mp, former minister for london, not quite sure why he's not still minister, but there we are. paul scully and of course the great political commentator from the left, matthew stadlen. it could get a little bit fiery and spicy, something to look forward we're also going to forward to. we're also going to shine light on the true cost , shine a light on the true cost, the horrific cost of incorrect claimed child maintenance payments with two people whose families have literally , families have literally, tragically been torn apart by the faulty cms schemes. do you get in touch today? i want to hear you and also know your new year's resolutions. there is, after all, only sleep to go after all, only one sleep to go before new year. send them before the new year. send them to me gb views at gb news. com or send a message on the socials at and at gb news. but first of all, it's the news with aaron

armstrong . armstrong. >> hi there, it's a minute past 12. ivan armstrong here in the i2. ivan armstrong here in the gb newsroom. heavy rain, strong winds and snow are causing more festive disruption and are threatening to spoil people's new year's plans. the met threatening to spoil people's new year's plans . the met office new year's plans. the met office says yellow warnings are in place until 3 am. tomorrow, with travel delays likely for masters are expecting around 20cm of snow in scotland , 20cm of snow in scotland, residents have been warned of possible power cuts and loss of mobile phone coverage . mobile phone coverage. meanwhile, a flooded tunnel under the thames has caused the cancellation of all eurostar services from london. today. thousands of passengers have been stranded at saint pancras station as a result. south eastern rail says its high speed services to ashford are also cancelled . travel expert simon cancelled. travel expert simon calder says that it's throwing many people's new year's plans into disarray. you're star says they are hoping to run some trains today. >> they will be with severe delays, but some people will get

there as it is. delays, but some people will get there as it is . we've had there as it is. we've had i calculate , 28 trains from london calculate, 28 trains from london to paris, brussels and amsterdam and in the other direction cancelled so far today that represents about 20,000 people who are not going to get where they need to be. >> around 86% of crimes reported this year have gone unsolved. in many cases because police have failed to find a suspect, new figures reveal. 4.7 million crimes went unsolved this year, a 1.7 million of which were of a violent nature. a further million were due to criminal damage or arson . labour says the damage or arson. labour says the conservatives record on solving crimes is disgraceful , conservatives record on solving crimes is disgraceful, and accused the government of letting criminals off and letting criminals off and letting victims down. the uk is accused russia of deliberately targeting civilians in ukraine after its most devastating air attack since the invasion began . attack since the invasion began. ukraine says the brutality of the strikes , which killed 31 the strikes, which killed 31 people, shows there can be no talk of a truce with moscow and

most of the united nations security council condemned the violence last night during an emergency meeting . the uk's emergency meeting. the uk's representative to the un, barbara woodward, said russia's attacks were deliberately designed to kill innocent people with including with targets including a maternity hospital . a man's been maternity hospital. a man's been remanded in custody following the death of a 46 year old father, who was hit by a car in sheffield. chris marriott had been out for a walk with his wife and two young sons on wednesday in the burngreave area of the city, when he stopped to help a woman who was lying on the unconscious. he the road unconscious. he was killed when ploughed into killed when a car ploughed into a crowd. 23 year old a small crowd. 23 year old hassan jahangir has been charged with and five counts of with murder and five counts of attempted . mr marriott's attempted murder. mr marriott's family the tragic family say the tragic circumstances of his death show the sort of man he was . liz the sort of man he was. liz truss's resignation honours list has been described as a slap in the to face working people. britain's shortest serving prime minister handed out 11 peerages to political allies, tory donors and former aides, which amounts

to around one for every four days in office. labour says honours should be for public service, not rewarding tory failure. liz truss resigned last october after 49 days amid economic turmoil sparked by her so—called mini—budget meanwhile, dame shirley bassey has been given the highest award in the king's new year's honours list. the legendary singer became the 64th living member of the order of the companions of honour. it's in recognition of her services to music. she sold 135 million records in her career. that list is limited to 65 members at any one time. glastonbury festival founder michael eavis and the wetherspoons boss tim martin are amongst those to be knighted. there are damehoods for author jilly cooper and the labour mp siobhan mcdonagh . household siobhan mcdonagh. household bills are set to rise in the new year despite record levels of consumer debt. the energy regulator's price cap will be increased by 5% from monday, which will add around £94 to the

average bill. ofgem, the regulator, says the rise is dnven regulator, says the rise is driven by the cost of wholesale gas, which is particularly impacted by the conflict in ukraine. the lift in the price cap comes as energy companies look to recover around £3 billion due to debts owed by customers who can't afford to pay customers who can't afford to pay their bills. more than £330,000 of taxpayers money has been spent in just 18 months on taxis to replace cancelled trains in scotland . scotrail, trains in scotland. scotrail, which was taken into public ownership last year , spent ownership last year, spent £40,000 in june alone . the £40,000 in june alone. the single most expensive journey was a fare of almost £800 from wick to inverness for an eight seater taxi. transport scotland, though, says criticism is misplaced . they claim there have misplaced. they claim there have been fewer services cancelled since scotrail was nationalised . since scotrail was nationalised. well, that is it for the moment. i'll be back with more in just under half an hour's time. and now it's over to richard .

now it's over to richard. >> aaron, thank you very much indeed. good afternoon folks. yes, it's gb news saturday. i'm richard tice with you for the next three hours looking at a whole host of extraordinary topics , and i've got fantastic topics, and i've got fantastic panellists . i've got panellists. i've got conservative mp paul scully, who's sitting on my left slightly strangely , and the slightly strangely, and the political commentator matthew stadlen sitting on my right. but the new years honours list, it always causes a bit of excite , always causes a bit of excite, isn't a bit of controversy. every year , and i suspect all of every year, and i suspect all of us have our differing views about the rights, the wrongs , about the rights, the wrongs, what you approve on and what you don't approve of. to tell don't approve of. i have to tell you, delighted by the best you, i'm delighted by the best news of all that, my friend. the extraordinary entrepreneur. now, sir tim martin. arise, sir tim, he's been quite rightly knighted in this year's honours . now, in this year's honours. now, just i'll give you a little sort of life story about him. he

trained amazingly as a barrister , and the moment he qualified , , and the moment he qualified, he decided that actually, maybe that wasn't really the way forward . perhaps that would be forward. perhaps that would be a bit dull, a bit boring. so he went and bought a pub , i think went and bought a pub, i think he thought, well, that's going quite well, so he do a bit quite well, so he might do a bit more. and he bought another one and he's grown and another one, and he's grown the most extraordinary business, which is now listed stock which is now listed on the stock exchange, wetherspoons plc. it's got over 800 pubs. he's probably genuinely britain's favourite publican , employing over 40,000 publican, employing over 40,000 people, all paying taxes to the treasury. gratefully received. every year, hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds. and all of those employees, of course, many of them will have families. children depend on those jobs . i families. children depend on those jobs. i have families. children depend on those jobs . i have to say families. children depend on those jobs. i have to say i'll be quite open and transparent. i've been into a number of those pubs. not all the 800, but a good number as i'm touring the country and i have to say they're always very consistent , they're always very consistent, very good value. you know what you're and

you're getting. and so absolutely delighted that tim has been recognised for it. there's another reason why i think that it's totally appropriate, because of course , appropriate, because of course, tim was one of those entrepreneurs who bravely, when it wasn't easy as a business person , particularly in a stock person, particularly in a stock market listed company, said actually, he was pro—brexit. he said that before the referendum and then after the referendum, when i set up a lobby group called leave means leave and we were holding big rallies up and down the country , and tim would down the country, and tim would come to them and it was remarkable because one of his sort of his traits with his pubs to check up on them is , is that to check up on them is, is that he goes around them and literally unannounced and very often he's just walks. he arrives in a town and by train, and he'll walk from pub to pub and he'll walk from pub to pub and he'll walk from pub to pub and he would do this on the day with our rallies. and then in the evening he'd come to our rally and if it was the summertime or the autumn, there he was. he'd walk miles and miles day, visiting

miles during the day, visiting some and rock up 1000 some pubs and he'd rock up 1000 people the rally in his people in the rally in his shorts anorak and it's shorts with his anorak and it's sort of, you know, some form of satchel or a rucksack. and he'd bnng satchel or a rucksack. and he'd bring them onto the stage with him and just rock up on stage in his and would chat him and just rock up on stage in his he and would chat him and just rock up on stage in his he an(entertaind chat him and just rock up on stage in his he an(entertain the at and he would entertain the crowd. absolutely so crowd. absolutely brilliant. so committed was my friend tim to the that actually his the cause that actually his whole pub chain, he instructed the buyers of the booze that actually they couldn't buy booze from the european union, so they had to buy wine from the new world. they had to find other places that grew, that developed an equivalent for example, of brandy. who knew you could get an australian version of brandy? well, that's what i learnt. so that was tim's commitment to the cause , to prove that actually cause, to prove that actually free trade could take place all over the world. so i think he's been an absolutely a remarkable entrepreneur, a great employer, so many tens of thousands owe their jobs, families and so many tens of thousands owe theirjobs, families and their their jobs, families and their livelihoods to now sir tim

martin. he's done very well for shareholders and he's been a great proponent of the brexit cause. so that for me is the great news. i got to be honest, not such good news is professor john edmunds , who is one of what john edmunds, who is one of what i would call one of the pro—lockdown scientists who was very, very influential in the whole lockdown period. i actually call him professor u—turn . i think he's done more u—turn. i think he's done more to u—turns than a driving instructor. frankly because originally he said that we needed herd immunity. and then he said we didn't. and then he said we were too late for lockdowns and then he wanted more lockdowns . and then he more lockdowns. and then he spent the whole of summer 2020 when he was essentially employed to government on the to advise the government on the committee called sage . but when committee called sage. but when he wasn't doing that , he was he wasn't doing that, he was first on the airwaves, on the tv studio, on radio four. today programme, in a pub personal

capacity in inverted commas. how can you be in a personal capacity when you're advising the government in a professional capacity, saying he wanted more lockdowns than the government was getting it all wrong? it was. i thought it was very destructive stuff. he complained about the eat out to help out scheme , and so it went on. and scheme, and so it went on. and then 2021, he said that then in 2021, he said that actually, you know, we should lock down for longer, but like sir keir starmer saying that coming out of lockdown in mid 21 would be reckless. their advice was consistently, profoundly wrong . and finally, he did admit wrong. and finally, he did admit that maybe lockdown towns hadn't taken account of the economic factors as the society impact the impact on children constantly wrong , constantly constantly wrong, constantly u—turning . i'm afraid i'm not u—turning. i'm afraid i'm not a fan of his appointment, but that's the nature of it . fan of his appointment, but that's the nature of it. i'm going to turn to my panel to get their views on the new year's honours list. first of all, i'm going ask matthew. so there

going to ask matthew. so there you are. do you agree with me , you are. do you agree with me, sir? tim martin, a fantastic , sir? tim martin, a fantastic, deserving cause, a great entrepreneur . sir, you may not entrepreneur. sir, you may not agree with the brexit bit , but agree with the brexit bit, but someone who employs that many people running a great pub chain. i mean, i'm surprised it's taken so long. >> i mean, you can just imagine, can't you? the some of the remainers all remainers, remainers not all remainers, many generous many are very generous hearted, but will be but some remainers will be tearing their hair this tearing their hair out this morning, they will morning, won't they? they will be spitting their cornflakes be spitting out their cornflakes at one of these at the idea of one of these icons of brexit actually being knighted . i'm someone who voted knighted. i'm someone who voted remain , but i think he does remain, but i think he does deserve his knighthood. as you say, he has been responsible for the most enormous amount of money being pumped into the exchequer. he's responsible for huge numbers of people being able to put food on the table of their families, and a able to put food on the table of theirfamilies, and a lot able to put food on the table of their families, and a lot of people enjoy their experience of his pubs up and down the country. i i have to, i have to ihave country. i i have to, i have to i have to admit, i've only ever once been. it was when i was making a film for a tv programme a long time ago. the thing i'm

really excited about, richard, is next year, we is this time next year, we may be here you could be sitting here and you could have been knighted yourself. so richard ? for services richard tice, why? for services to the labour party ? well, no, to the labour party? well, no, but the reason i say it is because as as i've said before and i interviewed you for my podcast, in your hands in is the majority that keir starmer may win already. sir keir starmer. well i'll tell you what though. next general election. but here's the thing. >> i mean paul, you've done lots of good work for the conservative party politician. i mean, hoping , you know, mean, i was hoping, you know, when well, when i sort of said, well, let's have guests i wanted have a panel of guests i wanted lord and wanted sir lord stadlen and i wanted sir paul scully. gentlemen, you've let me down. i'm disappointed. what's we're notably absent >> i know we're notably absent on the on the new year's honours list. interesting, though, on the on the new year's honours list. you'veeresting, though, on the on the new year's honours list. you've picked], though, on the on the new year's honours list. you've picked those gh, on the on the new year's honours list. you've picked those two to that you've picked those two to highlight because i the highlight because i was the hospitality minister during lockdown. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> know tim martin, >> and so, you know tim martin, obviously he it's s great for him as a businessman getting that uh getting a knighthood. >> also also i think it >> but also also i think it represents the pressures on the whole of the hospitality sector

as well , what they had to go as well, what they had to go through and how they've had to bounce back. then the cost of, um, living, um, issues with the energy prices that still energy prices that they still facing even whereas as you facing even now. whereas as you say, you rightly say about professor john say, you rightly say about professorjohn edmonds, say, you rightly say about professor john edmonds, you know, congratulations to him. i mean, would thought this mean, he would have thought this would bit of work would be for a wider bit of work than just that, but nonetheless, it was that kind of viewpoint that was really dragging down the at the the hospitality sector at the time. and when tim put his self—cert him, uh , put his neck self—cert him, uh, put his neck on the line about brexit, that's what entrepreneurs do . they what entrepreneurs do. they absolutely stick their neck out and so well done him on that . and so well done him on that. and i'm sure he'll be celebrating listening to captain beefheart as we speak. >> oh absolutely . and what was >> oh absolutely. and what was remarkable about tim remarkable about sir tim is actually he would have beer mats, pro—brexit beer in mats, pro—brexit beer mats in the pubs. the newsletter was full of the pros of brexit. i mean, so he really did wear it, you know, on his heart sleeve and his business. and john and in his business. and john edmund we you know, we disagree with of others though, uh, with lots of others though, uh, pretty extraordinary. amanda blank , the chief executive of

blank, the chief executive of the big insurer aviva , who was the big insurer aviva, who was quite controversial just recently when she said that , uh, recently when she said that, uh, any senior management appointments within aviva of white males could only be approved with her personal consent . so, i mean, that consent. so, i mean, that strikes me as as a bit sexist and discriminatory , frankly. and discriminatory, frankly. but, um, so she's been also given a damehood for services. i get this can i just jump to business? gender equality and net zero? matthew, you must be delighted just jump in on this. >> look, i think it's much better when these honours come out to celebrate the successes of those who have achieved an honour rather than to begrudge those who we might disagree with for whatever reason. but in the case of amanda . blank and amanda case of amanda. blank and amanda blank, amanda blank bank blank. yeah. you are. >> and isn't it that her surname is french for white? and yet she doesn't want to appoint white

male management? >> it's not that she doesn't want to appoint them. what she is saying effectively as i understand it, is that there is a sexism. there's a lot a lot of sexism. there's a lot of discrimination in in the city. trying city. and she is trying to redress . of course, redress that balance. of course, you want the man or you always want the best man or woman for job, but sometimes woman for the job, but sometimes we the best man or we know that the best man or woman doesn't get the job because sexism or because of because of sexism or because of other forms of discrimination. so she's trying to say, hang on, let's this the let's not make this about the old tie. let's not just old school tie. let's not just mean if you want to get a job at high up at aviva, we'll ring one of your mates and get in of your mates and get them in andifs of your mates and get them in and it's bloke. no, she's of your mates and get them in and itto bloke. no, she's of your mates and get them in and itto bland no, she's of your mates and get them in and itto bland sort she's of your mates and get them in and itto bland sort thiss of your mates and get them in and itto bland sort this out. going to try and sort this out. and i think that's rather impressive. just to give you an example, at some of the shareholders meetings, a shareholders meetings, a shareholder said criticism of shareholder said in criticism of her right her she was not the right man for job. don't want to for the job. we don't want to live a society where people live in a society where people of that sort influence just of that sort of influence just look like us. we've to look like us. three we've got to have of diversity . have a bit of diversity. >> right. but also, >> absolutely right. but also, i believe meritocracy . believe in a meritocracy. >> well, if she was if she was appointing second rate women rather than first rate man, then i'd have an issue with it.

>> and actually, the people who would have an issue would be her, shareholders her her, the shareholders of her business. and i guess ultimately the will holding the shareholders will be holding herso she needs to the shareholders will be holding her so she needs to just the shareholders will be holding herso she needs to just because >> so she needs to just because she's putting it in, needs she's putting it in, she needs to sure she's still putting to make sure she's still putting first people i used first rate people there. i used to when was business to do when i was business minister, and minister, you used to try and encourage more female entrepreneurs, actually entrepreneurs, and actually you did mindset did need to change the mindset of vcs , etc. because of investors, vcs, etc. because they tended to people tend to invest in something that is around them. >> but she was also not only was she, uh, given the knighthood for gender equality, but also for gender equality, but also for net zero views as well, for her net zero views as well, i was quite interesting. i mean, i was quite interesting. i mean, i anybody is going i can't imagine anybody is going to form of recognition to get any form of recognition if they've got question marks. >> to say, i, i >> well, i got to say, i, i suspect what done she's suspect what she's done is she's making the aviva business model greener . and that's something greener. and that's something you would support. you do it with your own businesses, don't you? you you put up panels you? you you put up solar panels or the importance or you understand the importance of it. >> but there's difference >> so but there's a difference between net zero and between being pro net zero and pro supporting our own pro sort of supporting our own environment and reducing certain emissions. there's a big difference there. others that

have the boss of the have come up the boss of the passport office, abby tierney . passport office, abby tierney. yeah. been . given the yeah. um, has been. given the i'm sorry companion order of the bath , which is just below bath, which is just below a damehood . damehood. >> uh, initially i did baulk at this because we all remember the absolute fiasco of the passport office and i think boris johnson was furious at the scale of the disaster when he was prime minister but you read below the headune minister but you read below the headline read beyond the first few paragraphs. i think she was responsible woman for responsible this woman for actually speeding up. >> that after was >> but that was after she was also she was also at the home office the asylum office when the asylum claims backlog soared. >> you're you're acting, mr scrooge. christmas is already gone, isn't it? >> i am, i'm celebrating the good, but i'm sure about all good, but i'm not sure about all of this stuff. >> the passport office, home office a long, long office for a long, long, long time has, been pretty time has, uh, been pretty dysfunctional uh , with dysfunctional with, uh, with these mean, these backlogs. i mean, i remember coalition remember when the coalition government came in, had government came in, we had a legacy to tackle legacy unit set up to tackle 250,000 backlog of, uh, of cases. and so there is , again, cases. and so there is, again, a long history of, uh, senior civil servants getting, uh , uh,

civil servants getting, uh, uh, awards and honours , uh, as awards and honours, uh, as opposed to higher pay . we're opposed to higher pay. we're talking of talking, but you shouldn't you shouldn't reward failure. >> and there's lots of other things actually, nominations that we should celebrate. dame shirley bassey , jilly cooper, shirley bassey, jilly cooper, people outside the world, someone i'm really impressed by is kevin sinfield. >> he had an incredible rugby >> so he had an incredible rugby league career . there's a bit of league career. there's a bit of a southern bias, isn't so a southern bias, isn't there? so the usually the focus is usually on rugby union. rugby man union. i'm a rugby union man myself did brilliant myself but he did brilliant things for great britain as a league . then coached, league player. then he coached, helped, coached england to the point a world cup rugby union point of a world cup rugby union final. but most important, he has work on has done incredible work on pubuchy has done incredible work on publicity for mnd and there's some other great names. >> we're going to get back to you later in the show, but we need to move on to exclusive need to move on to an exclusive poll, from people's polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb from people's polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb news,| people's polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb news, which .e's polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb news, which is; polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb news, which is pretty1g for gb news, which is pretty remarkable. you'll have some thoughts this, gentlemen, thoughts on this, gentlemen, because says that more than because this says that more than half the country, 54% feel worse off compared to just a year ago . off compared to just a year ago.

only 9% feel better off. so that doesn't feel as though the government's making life any better. 28% feel no difference . better. 28% feel no difference. uh, and so for the prime minister that clearly is not good news. and here's the thing 66% think that it's time for a change in westminster. i'm going to come to you first, paul, on that. i mean, that's not good for you and your colleagues. no it's been a tough year, clearly. >> uh, um, for everybody. and at the moment when we're looking at interest rates and there is hopefully an end to it, uh, in the, in the future, but not in the, in the future, but not in the next few months. and what we've got to do when rishi this time last year, rishi sunak this time last year, rishi sunak this time last year , he put out his time last year, he put out his five pledges, which again, i see in detail of your, uh, poll, in the detail of your, uh, poll, are the kind of things that people, viewers are looking people, your viewers are looking at about at here about the economy, about the stopping the the nhs and about stopping the boats. got to finish boats. but he's got to finish getting those done and we can debate about the come to that later . but also debate about the come to that later. but also he's debate about the come to that later . but also he's got to set later. but also he's got to set out a vision because what people

will be thinking because he's got a 22 point deficit to laboun got a 22 point deficit to labour, the are labour, i mean the numbers are remarkable, but they're not tested yet. remarkable, but they're not testlabour not labour are not >> labour are not labour are not tested. >> labour are not labour are not testwe got a vision yet. >> we haven't got a vision yet. so matthew, articulating labour's poll , i labour's 45% on this poll, i think sort of mirrors a number. >> the conservatives 23, the lib dems at 10. reform also at 10. so sort of equal third. but that consistent 2022 point lead for labour going into the new year is it reinforced what we've had in recent. >> none of this means there will be a landslide labour victory . be a landslide labour victory. it just doesn't because we know not to trust the polls don't we? you think back, do you remember when david cameron won his overall majority in 2015? the exit poll came out. david dimbleby it was gasp dimbleby announced it was a gasp across the nation. there was a gasp the nation when you gasp across the nation when you guys won brexit. so we've got to take this with a very heavy pinch salt. but this figure pinch of salt. but this figure about , than of about people, more than half of the population worse off about people, more than half of the |than ation worse off about people, more than half of the |than ation a worse off about people, more than half of the |than ation a year worse off about people, more than half of the |than ation a year ag0'se off about people, more than half of the |than ation a year ago .e off about people, more than half of the |than ation a year ago . i off now than even a year ago. i mean, horrifying news mean, this is horrifying news for the prime minister because it is the economy, what

it is the economy, stupid. what people about people really, really care about much think, than they much more, i think, than they care the small which care about the small boats which they're care about, they're told to care about, is whether put food whether they can put food on the table , how much heating is table, how much their heating is costing, is bad costing, and this is very bad news. fact , the cost of news. in fact, the cost of living crisis, think is the living crisis, i think it is the same. polling by gb news shows that that is the one that that is the number one concern for voters. >> think that consistently >> and i think that consistently comes the polls. and comes up in the polls. and the reality why people reality is that's why people feel worse off, paul. and that's i mean, prime minister's, i mean, the prime minister's, he's somehow got turn that he's somehow got to turn that round. this about, uh, round. this talk about, uh, potential tax cuts. but it's actually just it's it is literally it's the cost of energy, the utility bills relentlessly up in my relentlessly going up in my view, because of many of the reasons being the cost of net zero. but we'll come back to that later. but the prime minister has not got long to turn this around. >> absolute key. we've had >> no absolute key. we've had three issues now, one in a century, you've had the century, events. you've had the financial meltdown, 2008. century, events. you've had the financi had eltdown, 2008. century, events. you've had the financi had 15 down, 2008. century, events. you've had the financi had 15 years 2008. century, events. you've had the financi had 15 years ago.2008. you've had 15 years ago. >> you can't blame that now. >> you can't blame that now. >> but it meant that when we got to covid, when put £408 to covid, when we put £408 billion out the door to billion of money out the door to support was support businesses, that was already of a depleted stock

already out of a depleted stock of cash, and then straight into the war. so there's been one thing after another, what you're finding world the finding around the world at the moment. right. moving moment. this isn't right. moving to left, moving to to left or left, moving to right. it's incumbents actually taking of the taking a hit on some of the difficulties. what we've got difficulties. so what we've got to do what prime minister to do what the prime minister and have got to do is and the party have got to do is articulate positive articulate that positive vision, continue along the way of trying to economy. to repair the economy. >> anything specific >> is there anything specific that can do in the that you think he can do in the next three months to make people feel better off, as opposed to worse off? >> yeah, i think in terms of the budget, he's got to be looking at tax thresholds. he's got to be looking at, um, why you know, why as people as possible to make he can actually put make sure he can actually put some money in their pockets some money back in their pockets rather going round rather than just going round niche tax as pernicious niche tax cuts as pernicious as those might be, uh, fascinating. >> well, i'll ask matthew in a moment we are. moment about that. there we are. that's panel. feisty first that's my panel. feisty first session about that. we'll be getting into lots of other issues with them coming up, folks, the break, though. folks, after the break, though. we've also going be talking we've also going to be talking about the uk on the global stage, because we've got the

regional conflicts . all around regional conflicts. all around the world. what's going to happen? i'll be talking to the director general, former director general, former director general, former director general at ministry director general at the ministry of admiral of defence, rear admiral chris parry, on how we're going to tackle essentially, i hate to say it, but a world almost at war next and shine war next year and we shine a light in this hour light also later in this hour on the true cost of the child maintenance service errors . and maintenance service errors. and we talked to two people's families who've been literally tragically devastated by this issue. but first of all, we'll take a look at the weather. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gp news, weather forecast i'm craig snell looking ahead to new year's eve. for many of us really we're going to see a mixture of spells and mixture of sunny spells and heavy still quite heavy showers. still quite windy. and all courtesy windy. and that's all courtesy of this of pressure, of this area of low pressure, which only to slowly which is only going to slowly move the country as we go move across the country as we go through note . the through this weekend. note. the tightly packed isobars, especially across the south, so some strong and gusty winds, especially as we go through the course of today and tonight as we go into the evening, this band of heavy squally rain

band of heavy and squally rain will its way eastwards. will spread its way eastwards. behind of clear behind it, a mixture of clear spells and scattered showers that rain quite persistent. later on in the night across shetland and orkney , but for shetland and orkney, but for many temperatures still above freezing could just see a touch of frost across scotland , where of frost across scotland, where we still will see a little bit of sleet and snow into new year's eve itself. german a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers mainly focussed across the west initially before transferring their way eastwards during the course of the day . some heavy, course of the day. some heavy, possibly thundery showers too and note across shetland and orkney that rain continuing to persist . best of the conditions persist. best of the conditions as we see at 2023, it looks likely to be across the far north of scotland . new year's north of scotland. new year's day itself for many southern areas, actually a much better day to come. some sunshine here, good opportunity to get out and about further north. continuation of the sunshine and showers theme and that continues as we go through the first days of year . of the new year. >> goodness me, it's a pretty

gusty few days after the storms of recent days and weeks . loads of recent days and weeks. loads more coming up folks. on the show with conflicts tragically in ukraine and gaza still ongoing, raging on. how's the uk going to navigate ourselves in a world that is almost at war? what we need to review our defence capabilities as well. i'll be discussing all of that with former nato commander and former director general at the mod, rear admiral chris parry. he'll weigh in on all of these issues next. all that much more to come. i'm richard tyson. you are, course, watching gb news

especially yours. gb news is the people's channel, britain's news channel. >> hi there it is. channel. >> hi there it is . 1231. i'm >> hi there it is. 1231. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom . the uk is bracing newsroom. the uk is bracing itself for more bad weather and travel disruption with rain, wind and even snow on the way. the met office says yellow warnings are in place until 3 am. tomorrow. new year's eve. a.m. tomorrow. new year's eve. travel delays are likely. forecasters are also expected around 20cm in parts of scotland , 20cm of snow and meanwhile a further ,15 star. services from london have now been cancelled because of a flooded tunnel under the thames. the company's apologised to customers after cancelling a total of 29 trains today. cancelling a total of 29 trains today . services are expected to today. services are expected to be affected for the rest of the day . southeastern rail is also day. southeastern rail is also cancelled. all of its high speed services to ashford , so services to ashford, so thousands of passengers have been stranded at saint pancras

station , even those travelling station, even those travelling by rail today are advised to check with their provider as bad weather continues to impact the trains right across the country , trains right across the country, around 86% of crimes reported this year have gone unsold and in many cases, police have failed to find a suspect. new figures reveal 4.7 million crimes went unsolved this year , crimes went unsolved this year, 1.7 million of which were of a violent nature . labour says the violent nature. labour says the conservatives record on solving crime is disgraceful , conservatives record on solving crime is disgraceful, and it's accused the government of letting criminals off and letting criminals off and letting victims . down hustle letting victims. down hustle bills are set to rise in the new yeah bills are set to rise in the new year. that's despite record levels of consumer debt . the levels of consumer debt. the energy regulator's price cap will be increased by 5% from monday , adding around £94 to the monday, adding around £94 to the average bill. ofgem says it's dnven average bill. ofgem says it's driven by the cost of wholesale gas, which is affected by the conflict in ukraine. dame shirley bassey has been given the highest award in the king's new year honours list. the

legendary singer has become the 64th living member of the order of the companions of honour. it's in recognition of her services to music. there can be only 65 members at any given time . glastonbury festival owner time. glastonbury festival owner michael eavis , the wetherspoons michael eavis, the wetherspoons boss tim martin they're amongst those to be knighted, while there are damehoods for author jilly cooper and the labour mp siobhan mcdonagh . we'll be back siobhan mcdonagh. we'll be back with more in about half an hours with more in about half an hour's time. and there's more on our website now gbnews.com now it is back over to richard . it is back over to richard. aaron thank you very much indeed. >> well, i'm with you for the next 2.5 hours, folks. we've got a great panel. of course, we've just had with paul scully and matthew stadlen. now i only want just had with paul scully and mthearrv stadlen. now i only want just had with paul scully and mthear from dlen. now i only want just had with paul scully and mthear from you. now i only want just had with paul scully and mthear from you als01 i only want just had with paul scully and mthear from you also your ly want to hear from you also your thoughts, your views by two questions. day to go questions. so just a day to go before new year 2024. what are your new year's resolutions? have you thought about them? have you thought about them? have you thought about them? have you that far ? i really

have you got that far? i really want to hear from you that. want to hear from you on that. also what are your thoughts on the new year's honours list? i've given some thoughts earlier on like martin and on people like tim martin and professor john on people like tim martin and professorjohn edmunds, but i want to hear from you what your thoughts are as well. coming up, of course, later in this hour we're talking we're going to be talking about a important issue that a really important issue that has serious concerns for family, for parents and children. the child maintenance service and some shocking stories. how it's affected two families really, really tragically. but first of all, we need to talk about matters international. we've got the israeli military saying that its navy and air force has hit targets throughout the gaza strip in the last 24 hours. troops are engaging in fierce battles . forces in gaza city are battles. forces in gaza city are quote accordingly , according to quote accordingly, according to the idf, have killed dozens of terrorists over the past few days. so we've got war raging in the middle east and of course, we've got the conflict continuing in ukraine. we're now

approaching the second anniversary almost 24 months of war in ukraine and the impact of these two regional conflict acts for the uk on the world stage is really , really significant. and really, really significant. and with hugely consequential elections next year in 2024, both in the us, here across the eu, there's some big issues to discuss and we could potentially be quite exposed. so i'm delighted to be joined by former nato commander , former director nato commander, former director general of the mod, rear admiral chris parry. good afternoon, great to see you, chris. this is this is a significant point. uh, a significant 12 months ahead, chris, these regional conflicts are are horrific for our for the victims, for everybody , uh, victims, for everybody, uh, geographically , uh, in those geographically, uh, in those locations, those areas so much tragedy and also horrific for the consequences elsewhere in the consequences elsewhere in the world. but feels to me that

the world. but feels to me that the uk, chris, is quite exposed , the uk, chris, is quite exposed, uh, because, you know, we're we're very supportive politically of israel . but it politically of israel. but it feels to me, the international sense is moving . feels to me, the international sense is moving. uh, feels to me, the international sense is moving . uh, away from sense is moving. uh, away from supporting israel because of the continuing, uh, relentless bombing in gaza , the ukraine bombing in gaza, the ukraine wars . uh, i bombing in gaza, the ukraine wars. uh, i think much more of a struggle for ukraine than perhaps , uh, they thought. what perhaps, uh, they thought. what are your thoughts ? uh, firstly, are your thoughts? uh, firstly, let's touch on the ukraine war. how is it going, chris? you've been following it very closely. and what do you see happening over few months ? well over the next few months? well in ukraine, i think the ukrainians are very much on the back foot at the moment . back foot at the moment. >> i think every time that congress and the united states delays provide them with the necessary munitions to carry on the fight, it gives the russians a boost . i also think the failed a boost. i also think the failed , uh, counteroffensive that didn't reach the black sea or the sea of azov earlier in this yean the sea of azov earlier in this year, uh , has really sort of

year, uh, has really sort of stalled the process. and we're seeing a frozen conflict along those lines of fortification that the russians have put in place. um, we're also seeing the russians saying, look, we're not averse to , uh, some sort of averse to, uh, some sort of negotiations right now . and i'm negotiations right now. and i'm afraid this is not the time for the free world to weaken in support of ukraine. we will simply reward the aggressor and you'll see vast chunks of ukraine, uh, passing into the basically the territory of russia. and ukraine will not be a viable state either economically or strategically , economically or strategically, uh, into the future. but i guess if you've if we've got potential , uh, former president trump potentially being re—elected in november next year , saying that november next year, saying that he can resolve the ukraine war in a matter of days. >> well, he's always talked bullishly, but is there a risk even before then, chris, that actually the us restricts the funding to ukraine and that

leaves the eu nations , us and leaves the eu nations, us and ourselves ? uh, we're going to be ourselves? uh, we're going to be sort of potentially floundering in the wind because we just we're in no way able to match the, the us level of funding and, and equipment . and, and equipment. >> yeah. the united states needs to come back into the world again . i'm afraid since the again. i'm afraid since the obama regime failed to take action, uh, all these regional conflicts have sort of popped out. uh, the iranian nuclear program, the war in syria, um, the advances of china in the south and east china sea , south and east china sea, ukraine, all these can be laid at the foot of the obama regime. and its total inability to do anything , and its total inability to do anything, um, that has been inherited by the biden regime. and i'm afraid our enemies, russia , china, iran and north russia, china, iran and north korea have seen that weakness . korea have seen that weakness. and together and i do believe it's a coordinated coalition they've decided to put pressure on where we think, uh , whether on where we think, uh, whether where they think that we're vulnerable. so essentially ,

vulnerable. so essentially, you've seen russia push on ukraine to advance its regional interests. iran has done the same with regard to israel. i think this year you're going to see all over the south and see china all over the south and east china sea with its maritime militia and coastguard and militia and armed coastguard and i suspect also north korea will make bellicose noises about south korea or i think, yeah , south korea or i think, yeah, all of that is pretty scary, chris. >> and then going to gaza, the horrific events there. um, what's your sense of how how this pans out over the next few months in 2024, in the middle east? it's, uh , can you see any east? it's, uh, can you see any form of , uh, progress east? it's, uh, can you see any form of, uh, progress or is it are we just going to tragically just see more of the same? >> well, we're going to see more of the same. i mean, israel has its objectives in gaza, and despite what the world says, it will continue to try and achieve those objectives. i don't think we should doubt the emotional and existential crisis that has occurred in israel as a result

of the 7th of october. um its enemies have seen its vulnerabilities, and i'm afraid unless israel strikes back very hard against hamas. and i have to tell you, richard, i think they also are going to have to deal with hezbollah in the north as well at some stage. uh then you're not going to see peace in the east. people talk the middle east. people talk about being , you a about gaza being, you know, a prison. think israel is going prison. i think israel is going to be very much a prison over the years they try the next few years as they try and their borders and stabilise their borders and keep away. the one thing keep threats away. the one thing we should have in the back of our minds is that iran is probably going to get nuclear probably going to get a nuclear device in 2025 that will enable iran to misbehave. yeah that's that's what, uh, the jcpoa , voa, that's what, uh, the jcpoa, voa, headed by obama said they could have and they said after ten years, you can have a nuclear device as long as you don't have one now, not while i'm in office. yeah >> uh, that is not something to look to at all. chris, look forward to at all. chris, thank you so much indeed for your i'm afraid. your thoughts. i'm afraid. fairly and gloomy on fairly difficult and gloomy on the international scene with

these regional conflicts. that's former rear admiral chris parry there. well, you've been sending some emails, folks. there. well, you've been sending some emails, folks . thank you some emails, folks. thank you very indeed. keep them very much indeed. keep them coming . says new year coming. lisa says happy new year to you all. i hope that you've been able to, uh, get some candidates all over the country. anne says , uh, please ask anne says, uh, please ask where's nigel's recognition ? where's nigel's recognition? that's a very good question. where is nigel's recognition ? where is nigel's recognition? makes an sick, uh, let's see what john says . uh, john says, what john says. uh, john says, uh , i fully support tim martin's uh, i fully support tim martin's , uh, being knighted. i think. forget the politics. he's a good businessman. employed thousands of people. that's absolutely right, john. you're quite right. indeed. well folks, we'll get back to other comments later in the show. they'll keep those coming on your views, keep them coming on your views, keep them coming in. what are your new year's resolutions? what do you think to the honours list coming up the break, though, up after the break, though, we're going to talking about we're going to be talking about the child maintenance service, we're going to be talking about the rights,naintenance service, we're going to be talking about the rights,nainwrongs service, we're going to be talking about the rights,nainwrongs and/ice, we're going to be talking about the rights,nainwrongs and the the rights, the wrongs and the tragic consequences when they

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news. who's . news. who's. welcome back. >> my friends, to gb news saturday with me, richard tice on your tv, online and on digital radio. now of course, we all know in an ideal world, families and children stay

together and two parents is the best way for children to grow and develop. but that's not essentially what happens, is it ? essentially what happens, is it? tragically, parents often separate divorce and we have to have the consequence of organising a very sort of sensitive emotional and financially challenging time . financially challenging time. who pays for what when parents split up very often , is split up very often, is organised privately and often it's organised with the governments agency, which was called the child support agency, now called the child maintenance service, and many of the time in the hundreds of thousands of cases , that all works okay. but cases, that all works okay. but there are also many instances where they get the assessments. the calculations wrong . so wrong the calculations wrong. so wrong that actually this has been raised in the house of commons, in select committees . just take in select committees. just take a listen, folks, to what the director of fraud and proprietary at the national audit office, joshua reddaway , audit office, joshua reddaway, what he told the department of work and pensions select

committee just over a year ago, in november 2022, i received, as i suspect a number of us have, quite a few , um, angry emails. quite a few, um, angry emails. >> i'm forwarding you case details . the child maintenance details. the child maintenance service has been awarded a liability order for a fictitious debt. there are many thousands of cases like this one in your report. i notice you've put a figure of 99.35% on the accuracy fee of the child maintenance calculations . are you satisfied calculations. are you satisfied that the large number of people saying that they're is a fictitious debt, or a mistaken that no, we're not satisfied with that? >> you know , we wouldn't >> you know, we wouldn't necessarily use the word fictitious . fictitious. >> however, it is. it does mean that people are being pursued for debts, that there is not the evidence to substantiate, that they owe . they owe. >> so there we are, that was the national audit office saying

about the errors, the mistakes . about the errors, the mistakes. it's now i've got here the accounts for 20, 22 and 2023 from the national audit office about the child maintenance service. and when you read it, it's quite extraordinary. there is what's called an adverse accounting opinion , which accounting opinion, which basically means it can't be signed off as a true and fair record. just listen to this. and i think we've got this on the screen . uh, the aggregate total screen. uh, the aggregate total outstanding maintenance arrears balance is £196 million. absolutely extraordinary. as at march 23, these balances are misstated as a result of a number of factors. most significant urgently due to errors in the historic underlying assessment calculations and adjustments to arrears balances in preparing this account that makes further errors like me now, i mean, that is really significant. a £196

million. the consequences of thatis million. the consequences of that is individual cases will of course vary. some might be small, some might be very large. but if individual rules actually are constantly faced with arrears, errors that are way too high, then the tension, the pressure, the inability to pay when it's directly taken out of your your wage packet is huge , your your wage packet is huge, and i'm joined in the studio now by two people whose family, who've had family members who've tragically taken their own lives because of the pressures from from these arrears from the child maintenance service. um jo smith and ian briggs , welcome to smith and ian briggs, welcome to the studio . in a sense, with the the studio. in a sense, with the greatest respect, i'd rather we weren't having this discussion because, jo, you lost your brother. um, johnny and ian, you lost your son, gavin. um, can we

just talk jo to you first? yeah, about about, uh, about johnny. just just, um, the circumstances is sort of what happened. first of all. and then what you'd like to see, learn from this. >> yeah. yeah. okay >> yeah. yeah. okay >> um, he's struggled for years with the child maintenance service. >> um , you can see throughout >> um, you can see throughout his his records, his transcripts that we were lucky enough to get hold of, um, how frustrated he was . um, i hold of, um, how frustrated he was. um, i think where it all started to go wrong was when it changed from the child support agency over to the child maintenance service. so he had a private arrangement in place to start with where he paid cash, um, evidence of that, a phone call that the csa held was lost when it went over to the child maintenance service. now, he couldn't prove that that arrangement had been in place. and as i look back through the telephone records , he's telephone records, he's constantly asked to provide

proof that he's paid cash . yeah, proof that he's paid cash. yeah, that's impossible to do . you can that's impossible to do. you can you can prove you've been to the bank at certain times, but you can't prove where it's gone. so there was that that added arrears. um then all of a sudden i think it was £4,230 landed on his account . i think it was £4,230 landed on his account. um, that were arrears which , which obviously arrears which, which obviously then inflated his monthly payments. they were then retracted later down the line because the cms said, oh, sorry , because the cms said, oh, sorry, we put these on in error and he questioned, well, where's that money that i've paid? so he was he was he was challenging the numbers. >> yeah. questioning it wasn't getting the right answers . um, getting the right answers. um, and tragically, it became became too much for johnny and. >> yeah. and i think the calculations as well. so the i think they did three assessments in one year, um, one was based when he had a lot of overtime after he'd been furloughed. and then that kind of projected his income next 12 months, income for the next 12 months, which higher than what which was way higher than what it was actually on. >> so he, um, what would you

>> so, so he, um, what would you like see? joe as we talk like to see? joe as we talk about these issues , what would about these issues, what would you like to see the lessons learned from the cms? >> i'd like people to be able to challenge and get through to the cms. so were taking cms. so they were taking illegally over 40% of my brothers wage. so this point about the challenge, um, ian, let's i think it's really significant. >> you tragically lost your son, gavin . just a the circumstances gavin. just a the circumstances of gavin and the cms. >> so , um, the first thing >> so, um, the first thing i knew about it was, um, gavin never came home on wednesday , never came home on wednesday, the 1st of july 20, 20, we spent three days waiting to try and find him and the police found his body on the evening of the 3rd of july. it wasn't until i started going through his paperwork that i knew why he took his own life, and in going through his paperwork, i discovered that he had had deaungs discovered that he had had dealings with the cms . now the

dealings with the cms. now the cms assessed gavin and they they carried out an assessment on him. he was a trained mechanic and he earned about £50,000 a year income . year income. >> um, and they, they over assessed his income. yeah. >> the cms inflated his income by 50. >> and coming back to joe's point about the challenge, ian was he able to challenge this? he challenged it. >> i know he challenged it twice and the cms wouldn't listen to him. so when he got the final third assessment, basically the cms were going to be taking £2,669 off of gavin a month in child maintenance, leaving him roughly about £150 a month to survive on. >> and so it became tragically too much for gavin. so what would you like to see sort of come out of this? what going into the new year? what's going to happen? >> there's got to be a public inquiry into the cms, the way it operates . it cannot carry on operates. it cannot carry on taking people's lives the way it does. nobody should have to go

through what through . through what i've gone through. >> know i can hear the emotion >> i know i can hear the emotion in of your voices. it's in both of your voices. it's >> and we know that we lose thousands people the thousands of people a year. the statistics are out there that say we lose approximately 1000 people a year to cms to the suicides , as a as a paying suicides, as a as a paying parent, the mortality rate is 14% higher than the national average , which we've i mean, average, which we've i mean, it's is heartbreaking. >> and there's a serious issue about this challenge because as i understand , and if the i understand, and if the secretary of state issues a liability order to anybody dodi, um, then actually that cannot be challenged, even if it's proven to be incorrect, it can't be challenged in court. no no, they're not able to challenge they're not able to challenge the numbers, which seems completely against the sort of the justice. the rules of natural justice. yeah, no justice. yeah, there is no justice. >> know, it's the judge is >> you know, it's the judge is not allowed to see what can relations the cms has carried out to enforce that liability order. so how can the judge make

a fair statement and make a fair judgement on the liability order? >> that just seems completely wrong to it seems just wrong to me. it seems just against all rules of natural justice. um, look , again, thank justice. um, look, again, thank you so much for sharing . uh, you so much for sharing. uh, such a difficult, sensitive issue with us and our viewers . issue with us and our viewers. uh, we will no doubt get lots of responses , uh, from viewers on responses, uh, from viewers on this issue . um, after the break, this issue. um, after the break, we'll be and the news. i'll read out a statement from the department of work on pensions. um, in fact, i've just got it now. child maintenance payments , now. child maintenance payments, uh, they help around 160,000 children out of poverty each yeah children out of poverty each year. we continue to improve the cms through automating simple processes and spending more time with the vulnerable customers and cms payments are calculated so there are reasonable and affordable for paying parents. decisions can be appealed. they say, well , that i don't think is say, well, that i don't think is always the case. so these are big important issues. hearing from joe and from ian, you know, it can end up in absolute

tragedy . thank you very much to tragedy. thank you very much to both of you for that. lots more coming up after the show of course. but first of all, we're going to be going to the weather and the

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with very, very successful . with very, very successful. consequences. get in touch. send us your thoughts. of course. vaiews@gbnews.com message us on the socials as well. but first of all, it's the news with aaron armstrong. >> good afternoon to you. it's a minute past one i'm aaron armstrong heavy rain, strong winds and snow are causing more festive disruption. are threatening to spoil people's new year celebrations . the met new year celebrations. the met office says yellow warnings are in place until 3 am. tomorrow. travel delays are likely. forecasters are expecting around 20cm of snow in scotland , with 20cm of snow in scotland, with residents warned of possible power cuts and loss of mobile phone coverage . meanwhile, phone coverage. meanwhile, a further 15 eurostar services from london have been cancelled because of a flooded tunnel under the thames. the company's apologised to customers after cancelling a total of 29 trains, with services expected to be badly affected for the rest of the day. so the south eastern

rail has also cancelled all of its high speed services to ashford, so thousands of passengers have been stranded at saint pancras station. those planning to travel anywhere by rail today are advised to check with their service provider as the bad weather continues to impact trains across the country . around 86% of crimes reported this year have gone unsolved. in many cases because police fail to find a suspect , new many cases because police fail to find a suspect, new figures reveal. 4.7 million crimes went unsolved this year. a 1.7 million of those were of a violent nature . a further violent nature. a further million were due to criminal damage or arson. labour says the conservatives record on solving crime is disgraced and it's accused. the government of letting criminals off and letting criminals off and letting victims down. the uk has accused russia of deliberately targeting civilians in ukraine after its most devastating air attack . since the invasion attack. since the invasion began. you've brain says the brutality of the strikes on friday, which killed 31 people, shows there can be no talk of a

truce with moscow president volodymyr zelenskyy says russia used everything in its arsenal, firing around 110 missiles at targets, including a maternity hospital. the un security council has condemned the violence , with the uk's violence, with the uk's representative , barbara representative, barbara woodward, accusing russia of deliberately killing innocent people . people. >> these missiles were aimed at population centres across . population centres across. ukraine at kyiv , lviv to dnipro , ukraine at kyiv, lviv to dnipro, odesa, kharkiv , kaminski and odesa, kharkiv, kaminski and many more cities . many more cities. >> they struck homes , apartment >> they struck homes, apartment buildings , shopping centres and buildings, shopping centres and metros as a maternity hospital and a regional oncology centre have been damaged and in short , have been damaged and in short, civilian infrastructure . man's civilian infrastructure. man's been reprimanded in custody following the death of a 46 year old father who was hit by a car

in sheffield . in sheffield. >> chris marriott had been out for a walk with his wife and two young sons on wednesday in the burngreave area, when he stopped to help a woman who was lying unconscious on the road . he was unconscious on the road. he was killed when a car ploughed into a small crowd. 23 year old hassan guy anker has been charged murder and five charged with murder and five counts of attempted murder . mr counts of attempted murder. mr marriott's family say the tragic circumstances of his death show the sort of man he was . liz the sort of man he was. liz truss's resignation honours list has been described as a slap in the face to working people. britain shortest serving prime minister handed out 11 peerages to political allies, tory donors and former aides . that amounts and former aides. that amounts to around one for every four days she spent in office. labour says honours should be for pubuc says honours should be for public service, not rewarding tory failure. liz truss resigned last october after 49 days amid economic turmoil sparked by her so—called mini—budget dame shirley bassey, meanwhile , has shirley bassey, meanwhile, has been given the highest award in the king's new year's honours

list. the legendary singer became the 64th living member of the order of the companion of honoun the order of the companion of honour. it's in recognition of her services to music . she sold her services to music. she sold 135 million records worldwide , 135 million records worldwide, and her list is limited to 65 members at any one time. glastonbury festival founder michael eavis and wetherspoons boss tim martin are amongst those knighted. there are damehoods for author jilly cooper and mp siobhan mcdonagh . cooper and mp siobhan mcdonagh. household bills are set to rise in the new year despite record levels of consumer debt . the levels of consumer debt. the energy regulator's price cap will be increased by 5% from monday, adding around £94 to the average bill. ofgem says the rise is driven by the cost of wholesale gas , and that's been wholesale gas, and that's been affected by the conflict in ukraine. the lift in the price cap comes as energy companies look to recover around £3 billion due to debts owed by customers who can't afford their bills , and life coaches and

bills, and life coaches and running clubs will be recommend to those on long terme. sick leave to get people back into work. doctors, employers and job centres will be encouraged to suggest therapeutic recreation such as gardening or cooking clubs, in an effort to reduce the number of people signed off work. currently, there are 2.2 million people claiming universal credit with no work requirements. universal credit with no work requirements . a pilot scheme requirements. a pilot scheme called work well will see the concept tested in 15 areas before it's expanded nationally . before it's expanded nationally. we're live across the uk on tv , we're live across the uk on tv, on digital radio. if you want us on digital radio. if you want us on your smart speaker, say play gb news. that's it for the moment. now it is back to richard . richard. >> aaron, thank you very much indeed. it'sjust >> aaron, thank you very much indeed. it's just after 1:00. well, i've already got your audience reaction on both on the honours list, but also that extraordinary segment there where we heard from the cms campaigners, ian briggs and jo smith about the importance of

getting the numbers right. they tragically , ian lost his son tragically, ian lost his son gavin and jo lost her brother johnny . it was powerful stuff. johnny. it was powerful stuff. we could have talked about it for an hour, but let's just get some of your thoughts here. stephen says, uh, where are all these supporters? these palestinian supporters? why marching against why aren't they marching against russia's of ukraine on, russia's invasion of ukraine on, uh, good point. there stephen. patrick says congratulations to all of those on the new year's honours list . but where is sir honours list. but where is sir for nigel services to banking and for watching the public who don't have a voice is a massive injustice, frank says no advocate of lockdowns should have honoured . was shown to have been honoured. was shown to be a failure and james says everyone's new year's resolution should be to fix britain by getting conservatives out of getting the conservatives out of office. not paul scully getting the conservatives out of officwelcome: paul scully getting the conservatives out of officwelcome: comment, ly getting the conservatives out of officwelcome: comment, but will welcome that comment, but there then we've there we are. um, then we've already some of your already got some of your comments that segment. john comments on that segment. john says 2020, i had says in november 2020, i had almost £20,000 taken directly from my bank account for fictitious child support agency arrears dating back some 20

years to 1999, had kept all of the original documents, but the cms ignored this, which left john suicidal and della says, um, i'd like to see a new year's dishonours list. that's interesting. stacey coming back to this segment says, i've got fictional arrears story of over £45,000, never accepted the evidence . um, and stacey evidence. um, and stacey believes that it's a corrupt service. hamis says that the cms have created a false calculation of over £7,000 for a period of time for hamas's son taking an extra £100 a month, and they collected and pay simply because the father challenged the arrears. i mean, these are significant stories and some of you will have been no doubt affected by this. or if you know friends who've been affected, there is actually a dedicated website. and, uh, ian and jo , website. and, uh, ian and jo, they support this service called cms suicide watch.org. and we'll put that strap up, uh,

throughout the rest of the show from time to time . if you want from time to time. if you want to get in touch, uh, if you've been affected or know people who would benefit from some support and help that. so my panel is and help on that. so my panel is back with me, paul scully , back with me, paul scully, conservative mp matthew stadlen, political commentator . this is political commentator. this is not an issue that is very often discussed. i'll come to you first, matthew. but i mean desperate. you could hear the emotion in in um, in both of ian and jo's voices. emotion in in um, in both of ian and jo's voices . we all want our and jo's voices. we all want our pubuc and jo's voices. we all want our public services to do. well, i guess what this highlights is there are some areas where actually the importance of getting it right and the ability to check and double check is so critical. >> i mean, no one watching that. and we were paul and i were watching that in the green room with some of the relatives of ian and jo. no one watching that could be, could, could remain untouched by horror of it untouched by the horror of it and the tragedy of it and the

sadness of it. and, you know, more power to their elbows for bringing this to wider attention. and also credit to you, richard, for discussing it. these are really , really these are really, really important stories to tell, and it terrifies me that the state is capable of getting it wrong as badly as it seems to have donein as badly as it seems to have done in these cases, and we need a far more rigorous approach to making sure that this simply doesn't happen again. and it sounds to me that this is the tip of an iceberg, and that a lot of people are affected by it. and mel stride, who's the secretary of state for work and pensions, need to get a grip on this very, very urgently because you've got the national audit report there . report there. >> i mean, to have an adverse opinion in the auditor's report . opinion in the auditor's report. almost £200 million as at march 2023, basically because of errors, not because of sort of lost the money, but it's actually errors in the underlying assessments . and

underlying assessments. and stephen timms and the select committee have obviously addressed it. paul i mean, these numbers are huge . and i mean, numbers are huge. and i mean, the cms i read out their statement, you know, they're trying improvements. trying to make improvements. but for yourself, how for example, you yourself, how often do you hear about it from constituents or colleagues, constituents or colleagues, constituents as an issue? >> i do hear about this. unfortunately, too often and often actually, i was speaking to my office, uh, team this morning , uh, knowing that i was morning, uh, knowing that i was coming on to talk about this and what they were saying to me as they were dealing it the they were dealing with it on the day day, that it does tend to day to day, that it does tend to be resolve any of be very slow to resolve any of these which is obviously these issues, which is obviously what you've just from what you've just heard from ian. and joe. heart out to and joe. my heart goes out to them, their and their them, uh, and their and their families, because you can understand this has been set understand why this has been set up the way it's been set up. when it changed to the from the child agency to the child support agency to the child service it child maintenance service, it was and speed up child maintenance service, it wasprocess, and speed up child maintenance service, it wasprocess, trying d speed up child maintenance service, it wasprocess, trying d make up child maintenance service, it wasprocess, trying d make it! the process, trying to make it more um which has more efficient. um which has been doing there's around 100,000, people 100,000, uh, estimated people that are wilfully not paying the right amount. but you can

clearly see in these kind of examples when it goes wrong, it goes horrendously wrong. and so government cannot afford these mistakes. >> i think that's right. and i'm sure everybody's got the best of intentions, but i also really troubled by this fact that it there's no even if they prove there's no even if they prove the errors, the appeal system, this appeal system if the secretary of state or the people who work in the system ask for a liability order, even though there's actual proof in the court to the barristers, there's nothing they can do about it. the judge has to grant it that surely defies natural justice. >> i mean, i'm mindful of what the cms said in that statement that you read out, and i'm clearly not an expert on this. this i've come this is the first time i've come across but if it correct across it. but if it is correct that appeals can't that appeals in reality can't properly made, that is properly be made, that is nothing short of disgraceful . nothing short of disgraceful. and it's all clarified. >> it's section 33.44 of the 1991 child support act that if it goes to court, then the judge has to grant it. it goes to court, then the judge has to grant it . look, something has to grant it. look, something needs to be done about this as a

matter of urgency. >> it's this is not a sort of headune >> it's this is not a sort of headline grabber necessarily, but the effects that it has had on people's lives are devastating as as we've seen , we devastating as as we've seen, we have to have natural justice. yes. you have to have a proper right of appeal. if anyone has ever found the state up against them, that is a horrible place to be. i mean, criminals have the state up against them rightly. but then when innocent people find themselves on the wrong and they've got the evidence, that's that's really bad. >> and think, look, i, i'm >> and i think, look, i, i'm sure there's no mal intent . they sure there's no mal intent. they want to do this properly, but, but it's taking too much time and look i'll read out again the dwp's statement on this. they said that child maintenance payment payments help around 160,000 children out of poverty and the average year, and they continue to improve the cms through automated , simple through automated, simple processes and spending more time with vulnerable customers . that with vulnerable customers. that is a critical point. i'll carry

on reading, but i think that's a fundamental point that we need to make progress on. they then go on to cms payments are go on to say cms payments are calculated so they're reasonable and affordable for the paying parent be parent and decisions can be appealed. there are appealed. similarly there are appealed. similarly there are appeal for paying parents appeal rights for paying parents where the cms intends to take enforcement action. well, i've seen it. i've read the cases in court section 33.4 of the 1991 child support act actually goes beyond that statement from the dwp. i'm going to keep abreast of it. keep your thoughts and views coming in on this folks. i've got shows next week. we'll come back to this issue. it's really . we've got to really important. we've got to try and make progress. finally, no one is saying that child support critical. support isn't critical. >> it is. imagine >> of course it is. imagine a child's without it, and the child's life without it, and the vast majority of cases are probably organised and paid properly. sorting it out where there is an error that's gone wrong so that we don't live in an infernal, interminable bureaucracy. but it can be sorted quickly sorted out quickly and efficiently. >> better data >> it should be better data exchange government. it's exchange within government. it's

only that hmrc only two years ago that hmrc actually started tell the cms actually started to tell the cms when people left full time education. if any of your viewers are affected, please do get in touch with their mp or citizens. >> it's really important to get in touch. folks if you families, friends you know of, we've got to try and make progress on this vital issue because otherwise it can absolute tragedy . as can end in absolute tragedy. as we heard there earlier from ian and joe. now to move on brand new polling data exclusively carried out for gb news result gives a pretty fascinating insight into what's going on. the state of the nation. when people were asked , uh, what do people were asked, uh, what do they want the government to prioritise in 2024? well, the most important amongst voters number one, the cost of living crisis . number one, the cost of living crisis. number two, improve the nhs and number three, stopping the boats . well, let's just, um the boats. well, let's just, um come on. i mean, we touched earlier on the cost of living actually i guess number and there's probably no surprise. do any of those three surprise you,

matthew in the order go very briefly through them all the cost of living really affects all of us. >> most of us on a daily basis. so it's no surprise that that is the number one priority. it's not a sexy thing to talk about. it's very rarely, it seems to me, to be in the headlines, but this difference to this makes a difference to people's i think the people's lives. and i think the result of the election could people's lives. and i think the result on the election could people's lives. and i think the result on the nhs tion could people's lives. and i think the result on the nhs similarly! people's lives. and i think the result on the nhs similarly so hinge on it. nhs similarly so many of the many of us have stories of the nhs working properly for nhs not working properly for them . thirdly, boats, i them. thirdly, the boats, i suspect , although it is suspect, although it is important to get on top of illegal immigration and it is important to get our asylum system right and but system right and humane but efficient . i think the reason efficient. i think the reason thatis efficient. i think the reason that is number three is because the right wing media continue to tell us daily that it matters. >> so what's interesting about thatis >> so what's interesting about that is actually i, in it's interesting that the order of those three, we've been talking a lot about the boats and lawful immigration. actually, paul , a lot about the boats and lawful immigration. actually, paul, in a sense, the focus on the nhs record waiting lists amongst all the other things being discussed in the last couple of months, i

think it's probably much less i mean, is it a point where actually the political class is westminster village is almost just sort of given up on the nhs and said it's just too difficult . it needs reform, but no one quite knows what to do. it feels to me there's not enough discussion about such a critical issue. >> well, you're right, there's not discussion about it. >> well, you're right, there's nthink discussion about it. >> well, you're right, there's nthink in discussion about it. >> well, you're right, there's nthink in termsussion about it. >> well, you're right, there's nthink in terms ussthe about it. >> well, you're right, there's nthink in termsussthe order it. >> well, you're right, there's nthink in terms ussthe order of i think in terms of the order of those events, there was no accident that rishi sunaks pledges were that pledges a year ago were in that order. the economy for order. it was the economy for the first three halving inflation, the inflation, growing, growing the economy, then economy, reducing the debt. then it the nhs, reduced the it was the nhs, reduced the waiting then it was waiting list and then it was stop they were stop the boats. they were deliberately that deliberately in that order. >> only succeeded one >> he has only succeeded on one of absolutely no. of those. no, absolutely no. >> going to defend that >> i'm not going to defend that because but the they are really challenging. but but that does reflect as challenging. but but that does reflyeconomy as challenging. but but that does reflyeconomy nhs as challenging. but but that does reflyeconomy nhs and as challenging. but but that does reflyeconomy nhs and then as challenging. but but that does reflyeconomy nhs and then illegal the economy nhs and then illegal immigration. but the nhs is a hugely complicated, complicated situation that we've treated. and we again , matthew and i were and we again, matthew and i were just talking about this before. wes streeting has been talking about it. don't treat it like a, you know, on a shine and you know, put it on a shine and

treat it as a religion. sometimes there are things that the we sometimes there are things that the necessarily we sometimes there are things that the necessarily say, we sometimes there are things that the necessarily say, because we can't necessarily say, because we'd be castigated for we'd just be castigated for saying we are saying it, but i think we are all agreement the all in agreement that the nhs needs to better organised, it needs to be better organised, it needs to be better organised, it needs to be better organised, it needs to be better managed. there's amount of money there's a record amount of money going something going into the nhs, something like remember like 180 billion, if i remember rightly moment, it's 40 rightly at the moment, it's 40 billion than was a billion extra than it was just a few ago. so, um, but few years ago. so, um, but nonetheless , don't know. nonetheless, we don't know. i bet you that money is going so, so the prime minister's recently changed again. >> the secretary of for state health. i mean, where's this? where's impetus for serious where's the impetus for serious radical reform? because it's i would argue, matthew , it's not would argue, matthew, it's not about the quantity of money. i think we spend about an average per head relative to, uh, to the european average. it's about the outcomes which are woeful. >> yeah. first of all, i think doctors and nurses work incredibly hard. it doesn't mean that they don't mistakes . that they don't make mistakes. and it's exciting that and i think it's exciting that we've got someone who will become the health secretary. wes streeting, saying that we shouldn't treat it as a shrine. we should treat it as a public service. it needs to be held to

account, it needs to be properly managed. i challenge paul managed. i would challenge paul on idea that it's on this. this idea that it's being record funded. don't forget care needs are forget health care needs are growing. an ageing growing. we've got an ageing population . don't forget population. don't forget inflation in all of this. it's easy to say , oh, it sucks in easy to say, oh, it sucks in lots of our money. it doesn't give the results. if we don't pay give the results. if we don't pay for our public services, we don't get decent. yeah, but i think we all accept the nhs needs reform because the average spend head about the spend per head is, is about the european average. >> about the oecd >> i think about the oecd average. the outcomes are amongst in the list. amongst the lowest in the list. the is how you go the question is how do you go about reforming what's about reforming it? what's interesting streeting interesting is wes streeting seems talk about it seems more able to talk about it or more willing to talk about some reforms. some some key reforms. >> mean, think , i >> i mean, look, i think, i think that just nature of think is that just the nature of politics, that the politics, or is that the conservatives weak it? conservatives being weak on it? paul hinted there that for a laboun paul hinted there that for a labour, for a labour politician is easier to challenge. the nhs , is easier to challenge. the nhs, and perhaps it is for a tory. i think three us, knowing think all three of us, knowing our roughly as they our politics roughly as they are, think that it should be free on the point of delivery. but all three and i think but all three of us, and i think the majority of the population

would open , obviously, to would be open, obviously, to improvements. question would be open, obviously, to imprdoements. question would be open, obviously, to imprdo yomts. question would be open, obviously, to imprdo you improve|uestion would be open, obviously, to imprdo you improve it?;tion how do you improve it? >> i think it needs >> but it's i think it needs radical reform. well, we could talk about that all day, folks. radical reform. well, we could tallhaven'tthat all day, folks. radical reform. well, we could tali they're all people that were seen to be doing stuff and actually that's what people are crying at the moment. crying out for at the moment. they results. they they want to see results. they want to see. they you they want to see. they you know, they want to see. they you know, they want changes want to see changes in the pubuc want to see changes in the public that we've just public services that we've just been having been talking about having come out difficult out of some really difficult situations. mean, you situations. i mean, you know,

you the parlour game. you can play the parlour game. as christmas parlour game, as to christmas parlour game, which those you would which one of those you would like? you can't really like? uh you can't really translate want 1983 translate it. do you want 1983 margaret thatcher? do you want 1990 margaret for thatcher example. it's complicated . example. so it's complicated. they are specific challenges that we're facing that the that we're facing now that the different dragons that margaret thatcher 80s. different dragons that margaret thayeah, 80s. different dragons that margaret thayeah, i 80s. different dragons that margaret thayeah, i guess 80s. different dragons that margaret thayeah, i guess they're 80s. different dragons that margaret thayeah, i guess they're sortios. different dragons that margaret thayeah, i guess they're sort of.. >> yeah, i guess they're sort of prime ministers of their time. uh, would probably be the uh, would would probably be the issue. um arguably. um, arguably. uh, sir tony blair, i mean, he might be trying to make a sort of back door comeback a bit like lord cameron. i mean, this is the age of the comeback. >> i don't think there's any back door comeback. all three of those electorally those politicians electorally were extremely successful. although, winston although, don't forget, winston churchill although, don't forget, winston ch|helped us win the second he helped us win the second world but thatcher won world war. but thatcher won three elections. did she not? tony blair won three elections. these were people who knew how to win. and you contrast that now to the age of the revolving door at number 10. since you guys won the last election in

2019, we had boris johnson , who 2019, we had boris johnson, who was prime minister at the time of the election. then we had liz truss. now we've got rishi sunak, got some tories sunak, we've got some tories saying you saying we should get rid of, you should rishi sunak should get rid of rishi sunak before the next election. compare that to the success of those other leaders. the duration those duration of those prime ministers duration of ministers and the duration of politics actually , um, people politics actually, um, people who positions of state who hold positions of state foreign secretaries, chancellors seem to last a lot, lot longer than now. >> it does seem sort of like it's hard to keep up now, paul. yeah, absolutely. >> oh, look, we need to take a step back in politics in general, rather than having people just suddenly, you know, being promoted, promoted, promoted in the years gone by, you be secretary you wouldn't be a secretary of state, member, unless state, a cabinet member, unless you've parliament you've been in parliament for 20 years. hairs years. you need those grey hairs back think back a little bit. i think winston churchill was a really good example. as matthew alluded to, ultimate to, he was the ultimate example of that did of someone that people did not say they were say thank you to. they were looking for the next five years about. and, you attlee was about. and, you know, attlee was promising to build houses. he was those was promising all of those those, things the those, those things for the future. whereas um, winston churchill just won an churchill had just won an

amazing victory in a war. >> i think the reality is, i'm not sure that the voters ever say you to our prime say thank you to our prime ministers all seem end ministers they all seem to end up almost all of them end up almost almost all of them end up almost almost all of them end up in failure. >> actually, an argument >> actually, there's an argument to winston churchill to say that winston churchill wasn't that successful electoral, he's extremely electoral, though he's extremely successful politician. successful as a politician. i would just and i were would just say paul and i were having conversation again in having a conversation again in the age of the green room about the age of social and impact social media and the impact that might having on this idea of might be having on this idea of a revolving door at 10. a revolving door at number 10. the scrutiny that the daily scrutiny that politicians such as paul. but of course, prime course, even more so, prime ministers not from ministers get not just from national press, also from us national press, but also from us individuals, so intense. individuals, is so intense. >> although actually, in fairness to tony blair, of course, he actually left. um, he was sort of voluntarily pressured, but he did leave at the timing of his own choice, rather than being booted out by the voters. so i suppose. >> and then there of >> and then there was, of course, gordon took course, when gordon brown took over without election and over without an election and could have, could have called a general election in two thousand and seven. but didn't because of that thing of that inheritance tax thing of george he bottled it. that inheritance tax thing of ge(bottled he bottled it. that inheritance tax thing of ge(bottled and e bottled it. that inheritance tax thing of ge(bottled and e bottle never he bottled it, and he was never forgiven electorate . forgiven by the electorate. >> it's fascinating. absolutely

fascinating we'll fascinating by that. well, we'll come with my come back to that with my brilliant panel later in the show. much brilliant panel later in the show. to much brilliant panel later in the show. to discuss much brilliant panel later in the show. to discuss . much brilliant panel later in the show. to discuss . but much brilliant panel later in the show. to discuss . but first�*nuch brilliant panel later in the show. to discuss . but first of ch more to discuss. but first of all, it's the whether you are, of course, with me gb news saturday, it's richard tice lots and lots more coming up. we've got the weather first and the news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gp news, weather forecast i'm craig snell well looking ahead to new year's eve for many of us really going to see of us really we're going to see a sunny spells and a mixture of sunny spells and heavy showers. still quite windy. that's courtesy windy. and that's all courtesy of area of low pressure of this area of low pressure which to slowly which is only going to slowly move country as we go move across the country as we go through this weekend . note the through this weekend. note the tightly packed isobars, especially across the south, so some strong winds , some strong and gusty winds, especially we go through the especially as we go through the course tonight as course of today and tonight as we go into the evening, this band of heavy and squally rain will spread its way eastwards. behind it, a mixture of clear spells and scattered showers that rain quite persistent. later on in the night across shetland and orkney , but for shetland and orkney, but for many temperatures still above freezing could just see a touch

of frost across scotland , where of frost across scotland, where we still will see a little bit of sleet and snow into new year's eve itself. generally a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers mainly focussed across the west initially before transferring their way eastwards during the course of the day . some heavy, course of the day. some heavy, possibly thundery showers too, and note across shetland and orkney rain continuing to orkney that rain continuing to persist . best of the conditions persist. best of the conditions as we at 2023, it looks as we see at 2023, it looks likely to be across the far north of scotland. new year's day itself for many southern areas actually a much better day to come. some sunshine here. good opportunity get out and good opportunity to get out and about further north. continuation of the sunshine and showers theme and that continues as we go through the first days of the new year. >> thank you very much for the weather. not much good news there. well, we've been discussing all sorts. keep your thoughts and coming thoughts and views coming in, your resolutions, your new year's resolutions, your new year's resolutions, your experiences on your thoughts and experiences on the child maintenance service coming up though a tyrannical assault on voters rights. that's what donald trump has described.

the latest state of maine. their decision to disqualify him from the primary ballot in his bid to get back into the white house. all of that much, much more to come. i'm richard tice and you are, of course, watching gb news. britain's news channel .

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>> hi there. it's coming up to 1:30. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. heavy rain, strong wind and snow are causing more festive disruption and it's threatening to spoil people's new year celebrations. the met office says yellow warnings are in place until 3 am. tomorrow, with travel delays likely. forecasters are expecting around 20cm of snow in scotland , with 20cm of snow in scotland, with residents warned of possible power cuts and loss of mobile phone coverage . meanwhile, phone coverage. meanwhile, eurostar has apologised after cancelling cancelling at least 29 services from london because of a flooded tunnel under the thames. it serves , as are thames. it serves, as are expected to be affected for the rest of the day. southeastern rail has also cancelled all of its high speed services to ashford, so thousands of passengers have been stranded at saint pancras station . those saint pancras station. those planning to travel by rail today are advised to check with their service provider. the bad weather continues to impact trains right across the country around 86% of crimes reported this year have gone up, solved in many cases because police

failed to find a suspect. new figures reveal 4.7 million crimes went unsolved this year 1.7 million of which were of a violent nature . labour says the violent nature. labour says the conservatives record on solving crimes is disgraceful , conservatives record on solving crimes is disgraceful, and it's accused the government of letting criminals off and letting criminals off and letting victims down. household bills are set to rise in the new year despite record levels of consumer debt . the energy consumer debt. the energy regulator's price cap will be increased by 5% from monday, adding around £94 to the average bill. ofgem says the rise is dnven bill. ofgem says the rise is driven by the cost of wholesale gas, which is particularly impacted by the conflict in ukraine. dame shirley bassey has been given the most prestigious award in the king's new year honours list . the 86 year old honours list. the 86 year old has become the 64th living member of the order of the companions of honour. in recognition services to recognition of services to music, there can be only 65 members at any one time. glastonbury festival founder michael eavis and wetherspoons boss tim martin are amongst those knighted. there are

damehoods for jilly cooper, the author and the labour mp siobhan mcdonagh . more on all of our mcdonagh. more on all of our stories on our website gb news. com now it's back to richard . com now it's back to richard. >> thank you and welcome back to gb news saturday with me, richard tice, where i'm on your tv online and of course on digital radio. now, we've just been hearing about the weather across the country , serious across the country, serious weather warnings for rain, snow andice weather warnings for rain, snow and ice everywhere . but i tell and ice everywhere. but i tell you what it is serious in western wales. we've actually got our own reporter for jack carson who is live from porthcawl , uh, telling us what porthcawl, uh, telling us what is actually going on. jack, a, uh, probably a bit of a noisy, windy, wet afternoon to you there. what's going on? >> yeah, it's certainly quite blustery here. uh, richard, not up to those 75 mile an hour

winds which were forecast overnight. one of the reasons why of course , this part of why of course, this part of wales and also part of southwest england, is currently in a yellow weather warning by the met office. but certainly a kind of standing wind of around 3035 miles an hour. but then every so often these big often you're getting these big gusts here on the coastline of 40, an hour, which 40, 50 miles an hour, which really do kind of push you back a little bit if you are standing where i am now. of course, there is also yellow weather warning is also a yellow weather warning for particularly around is also a yellow weather warning for and rticularly around is also a yellow weather warning for and southwest|round as wales and southwest england, as well. now here where i am, we've not had any rain yet today, but of course that doesn't mean other parts of wales. it hasn't been raining um, at all. we do possibly with this possibly expect with this weather latest up to weather latest possibly up to two inches of rain. that means that there are lots localised that there are lots of localised flood alerts . not flood warnings flood alerts. not flood warnings yet, course those flood yet, but of course those flood alerts be upgraded to flood alerts can be upgraded to flood warnings of uh, warnings. um, if parts of uh, rivers across this do rivers across this country do burst their banks now, scotland, particularly is having probably the worst of it today with snow already falling on the ground and lots of gritters trying to,

of course, clear those transport routes with people trying to get to and from places new to and from places for new year's and new year's, new year's eve and new year's, new year's eve and new year's, new year's day, of course, to celebrate, start of the celebrate, um, the start of the new year that will be causing some back in some disruption back here in wales particularly, know the wales particularly, we know the train going be train lines are going to be disrupted of disrupted until monday. and of course , we've been hearing course, we've been hearing today, we, danny saint today, haven't we, danny saint pancras, the issue with one of the high speed tunnels under the thames. now, we do know a tanker has arrived there to try and pump the water out of that tunnel. but the eurostar, confirming earlier that there will running will be no services running from london. saint london. uh, on from london saint pancras today . so that pancras today. so that is causing some disruption for people on to people trying to get back on to the continent. now, of course , the continent. now, of course, there's lots of advice, particularly from the rnli , as particularly from the rnli, as this weather really kicks up a bit of a storm here on the coast, particularly around being careful around water and around the water's edge. we know on new year's day, of course, one of the big things that lots of people go on a bit people like to do is go on a bit of a new year's day swim. of a of a new year's day swim. now, so i've not seen any now, so far i've not seen any events cancelled but of

events cancelled so far, but of course the rnli are a big part of sure those events are of making sure those events are safe. they'll certainly be keeping making sure keeping an eye on making sure those events can go ahead safely. there were some those events can go ahead safely. here |ere were some those events can go ahead safely. here today, re some those events can go ahead safely. here today, re sonis runners here today, which is supposed if they mind supposed if they don't mind running wind and running in a bit of wind and a bit of blustery weather, that's okay. but, um, yeah, not so fast. hour winds fast. 75 mile an hour winds here today, but certainly a bit blustery. um, here on the welsh coast. >> uh, jack , thank you so much. >> uh, jack, thank you so much. indeed. lots of bluster and wind storms and disruption everywhere . it seems that was jack carson in porthcawl in wales. talking of new year's day swim, i have to be honest, i did swim on new year's day, uh, in january 2023, in the isle of wight. i was hoping on monday also to have a new year's day swim, but maybe it's going to too be rough. talking of rough, we're going to head the united states head west to the united states because of course , a second because of course, a second state, maine , has state, the state of maine, has removed donald trump from the 2024 primary election ballots . 2024 primary election ballots. make it the second state. as i say, looking to disqualify the

former president in his bid to get to the white house. well, he responded in a fairly typical bullish , noisy way, a tyrannic bullish, noisy way, a tyrannic assault on voting rights and labelling the secretary of state in maine, shenna bellows , as in maine, shenna bellows, as a dictator. he doesn't mince his words well, delighted to be joined by professor of international politics scott lucas, to discuss this . scott, lucas, to discuss this. scott, uh, this seems like it's going to sort of just run on and on. there's 50 states. are they all going to go through this process? we've had two have rejected him. three, i think have said it's okay. and this is just the primary ballots, isn't it? it's not the end ballots. it's the republican primary ballot. >> yeah. richard it's really important to the facts important to get to the facts because there's a of polemic important to get to the facts becemisinformation of polemic important to get to the facts becemisinformation around.amic and misinformation around. so you off with the fact that you start off with the fact that in united states , the in the united states, the federal government doesn't oversee elections, because oversee elections, uh, because of nature of, of the state of the nature of, of the state system, each of the 50 states runs their own elections, including the presidential election. so that's why you're getting these patchwork of outcomes come out ,

getting these patchwork of outcomes come out, as outcomes that come out, as you've mentioned, the colorado supreme court and the maine state government have disqualified trump for the moment, pending appeal, uh, from the republican ballot, moment, pending appeal, uh, from the republican ballot , the the republican ballot, the minnesota and michigan courts and the california uh, state government have said he can stay on the ballot. but what's interesting is that in all of those cases, the courts and the state officials have said , yes, state officials have said, yes, the evidence is has been established that trump did, uh, incite or at least had a role in insurrection on where the rulings differed was whether state courts and state executives have the authority to disqualify someone from the ballot, like trump . because of ballot, like trump. because of that , uh, insurrection, because, that, uh, insurrection, because, scott, this is really important. >> i think he's right in saying that in some cases, it's a judge in a court making the decision . in a court making the decision. but in maine, for example, it's the secretary of state for maine who's an elected democrat. well, it's no surprise she's she's not going to be very supportive of a

republican nominee. i mean, that's just how does this work? it seems bizarre to most of us. >> well, again, i think it's important to emphasise that when the colorado supreme court decision came down, lot of decision came down, a lot of people said, oh, you know, the judges majority were judges in the majority were appointed by democrats. appointed by the democrats. therefore political therefore it's just a political decision. fact , the decision. in fact, the republicans who dissented in that , it was four three that decision, it was four three said, no, it wasn't a political decision. it was a legal decision. it was a legal decision. didn't matter who decision. it didn't matter who appointed the case of appointed us in the case of maine, you know, you know, okay, a secretary state a democratic secretary of state but fact is, is that there's but the fact is, is that there's a 38 page document which sets out backs up out the evidence, which backs up that what happens. and that scott was what happens. and scott, what again. >> yeah. what happens here from from here scott i mean if this goes state by state surely isn't it just better to apply a bit of common sense rush it up the common sense rush it up to the federal supreme court and make a decision on this? otherwise, we're have primaries we're going to have primaries that the place. that are all over the place. >> i mean, this will go to the supreme court, richard. i mean, i doubt will to i have no doubt this will be to the court. um, and

the supreme court. um, and probably before , for example, probably before, for example, the and maine primaries the colorado and maine primaries , which are on march the 5th, uh, which is called super tuesday. that's when most of the votes take place during the nomination see nomination process. so we'll see how court rules. it has a63 how that court rules. it has a63 conservative majority . three of conservative majority. three of the judges were appointed by trump, two of them very controversial . um, but it is not controversial. um, but it is not a given that the us supreme court will back trump in december 2020. i mean, when he tried to go to the court and support the claims that the election should be overturned, they tossed the case without even hearing saying even hearing it, saying there was evidence fraudulent. was no evidence fraudulent. >> is so significant. if >> that is so significant. if the top supreme court, because each state, i think has supreme courts, if the top supreme court of the united states said that trump couldn't be on the ballot papers, i mean, what happens next if he can't be on the ballot papers, richard, he can still run in the general election. >> he can run as an independent. but i think realistically, what you're looking at here is

because remember that all 50 states have decisions here. i think the majority of states , think the majority of states, uh, will not remove trump from the ballot. you know, especially those states that tend to be republican like my native state of alabama . so i think we're of alabama. so i think we're only going to see a few states that remove trump from the ballot. um although 1 or 2 of them could significant. could them could be significant. could be states. uh, what i be the swing states. uh, what i think also going add to think is also going to add to this and this is an unprecedented election is, of course, have got four course, we have got four criminal cases with 91 felony indictments against trump. and what the trump team's strategy here is , is not to have the case here is, is not to have the case heard quickly. not like you're saying that we need clarity before the primaries and before saying that we need clarity bef(election. imaries and before saying that we need clarity bef(election. they're and before saying that we need clarity bef(election. they're actuallyyre the election. they're actually going to stall and delay. going to try to stall and delay. so those criminal so that none of those criminal cases , uh, actually reaches cases, uh, actually reaches a resolution before november's election because , as trump election because, as trump himself has said, if he's re—elected president, he will immediately to quash the immediately try to quash the prosecutions , at least the prosecutions, at least the federal prosecutions. scott thank you so much. >> indeed, i'm absolutely convinced we're all in the wrong business. be lawyers business. we need to be lawyers

in united states of america, in the united states of america, and an absolute and we will make an absolute fortune. this goes on and on that lucas, thank you very that scott lucas, thank you very much for that. that will much for that. that story will just run and run loads more coming up , folks, on today's coming up, folks, on today's show chock a lockup, prisons in the uk dangerously close to capacity , some 98. all spaces capacity, some 98. all spaces full. we need urgent penal reform . we talk about community reform. we talk about community sentences, but also offences are going up there doesn't seem to be a deterrent factor. i've got two people in the studio who actually are doing some fantastic work. uh, we're coming up all of that much, much more. you're watching and listening to gb news. it is, of course, britain's news channel

evening. gb news the people's. channel. >> welcome back. my friends. gb news saturday with me richard tice on your tv, online and on digital radio. well, the prison system is nearing capacity, which there's no deterrent to stop shoplifters and knife crimes which are soaring. we're all wondering , how do we get all wondering, how do we get through this talk of community sentenced is let me look at trying some some good news and thatis trying some some good news and that is that obviously we're trying to reduce the amount of reoffending . well, there's a reoffending. well, there's a charity out there called tempus novo where two individuals, they set up this charity and they've actually really helpful and actually been really helpful and significant mass of improvements in reducing the reoffending rate, getting prisoners into jobs rather than reoffending.

i'm delighted that they're both here with me in the studio. steve fryer and val vavreck great to see you guys. look, i know you've been working for many years now, val, when did you set up tempus novo in leeds? >> uh, we set up in 2014. uh, that was a result of working in the prisons for 30 years and saying that these people in prison don't even have a chance in life. >> never mind a second chance. >> never mind a second chance. >> they come from poverty. >> they come from poverty. >> they're brought up in dysfunctional . dysfunctional families. >> don't know anything else >> they don't know anything else , they've never , basically. and they've never had the chance a job. and had the chance of a job. and when we said we were setting this we're talking to this up and we're talking to prisoners, they were so excited. >> it were people a bit >> it were giving people a bit of that hasn't there for >> that hasn't been there for a long time. >> that's because because both of prison of you were former prison officers steve. so officers yourself, steve. so over that years, roughly over that nine years, roughly how many, uh, prisoners would you have placed in jobs and what's the success rate in terms of not really sending going back to crime? >> so currently, i think we're placed 950. so we're very much quality quantity. otherwise

quality over quantity. otherwise it wouldn't work for the employers. yeah we need to know that they're going into work working hard and staying there. um, and the return to custody rate is a consistently under 5. >> so 95% success rate. >> so 95% success rate. >> yeah. that's remarkable compared to the national government statistics , which say government statistics, which say that i think 40% of people will reoffend within 12 months of release from custody . release from custody. >> so a 10th of that. >> so a 10th of that. >> wow. so i mean that really is dramatic. so that in terms of actual 20th of the cost. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> it's 20 of the cost because the average, um, prison place costs, what, 50,000 a year? >> 46,500. >> 46,500. >> so , so your work is actually >> so, so your work is actually saving the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds? >> well, i can tell you exactly how much. >> so of the 950 that we've placed at the government state that half of them will succeed anyway and not go back to prison . so we work out that of the 475 cost to keep them in prison, you can work that out.

>> it's 22 million. and what are the main sort of industries that you're able to work with to place offenders in? >> man , logistics, if >> well, man, logistics, if we're honest, it's the growing economy. >> but we have placed in construction, we've placed in several different areas wind cleaning , for instance, we've cleaning, for instance, we've done there's lots of different areas and engineering areas that qatar and engineering because actually it's really important listeners important for listeners and viewers. >> e p— e say, well, well, >> they might say, well, well, i wonder i could or i know wonder if i could help or i know a friend who's business a friend who's got a business who could, could help and you operate do you operate now, where do you operate? in leeds, operate? you operate in leeds, pretty the country pretty much across the country now. country. now. across the country. >> yeah. yeah yeah. >> yeah. yeah yeah. >> you the biggest >> and are you the biggest charity doing this or who else ? charity doing this or who else? they're not competitors. >> we're the only charity doing what we do right . with the what we do right. with the expertise we've got . expertise that we've got. because obviously 60 years plus the staff you've got on board was a lot of them are ex prison officers and you need to know you need to know and understand the worlds that these people come from, be able to support come from, to be able to support them and help them. of the them and help them. one of the key that we do, richard, key things that we do, richard, is actually offer support to is we actually offer support to each 12 months

each individual for 12 months and business. right, and to the business. right, which vital . the which is which is vital. the companies work with us companies wouldn't work with us if didn't do that. if we didn't do that. >> so that's nicest >> so that's in the nicest possible you've been around >> so that's in the nicest pos block you've been around >> so that's in the nicest pos block fewyu've been around >> so that's in the nicest pos block few times, aen around >> so that's in the nicest pos block few times, 50! around >> so that's in the nicest pos block few times, so you und the block a few times, so you know how works. you know know how it works. yeah you know the minuses and pitfalls. >> and when not soft on >> and when we're not soft on crime, by the way, either we don't work with certain types of offenders to don't work with certain types of offen it rs to don't work with certain types of offen it workable to don't work with certain types of offen it workable for to don't work with certain types of offen it workable for the to keep it workable for the businesses. and their businesses. yes. and their reputation everything to us, reputation is everything to us, as safety . as is safety. >> i think a message to the government is this it costs the government is this it costs the government 46,500 keep government 46,500 pounds to keep someone for a year. it someone in prison for a year. it costs 10% over 3500 pounds to take an ex—offender , place him take an ex—offender, place him in work and keep him in work for a year. i ask you, do they want to pay 46.5 or do they want to pay? >> pay-7 >> absolutely. i mean, your work is absolutely vital, particularly at a time when , uh, particularly at a time when, uh, you know, when prisons are full, bursting , absolutely bursting. bursting, absolutely bursting. and there's more talk about community sentences. you know, maybe actually, i might say, well, maybe should take well, maybe we should take people the streets people straight off the streets if shoplifting if they're shoplifting three month guys month boot camp. you guys rehabilitatewith fitness, education, with fitness, with with of learning how to get

with sort of learning how to get into work well and that would be a much better way forward. >> the definition of insanity is keep doing the same thing and expect results. expect different results. so maybe right. maybe you're right. >> you're absolutely right. gentlemen much gentlemen thank you so much for sharing these thoughts. absolutely . absolutely vital work you do. uh, on behalf of us all, thank you you. keep you very much. thank you. keep up work. keep growing you very much. thank you. keep up and work. keep growing you very much. thank you. keep up and keep keep growing you very much. thank you. keep up and keep stoppingywing you very much. thank you. keep up and keep stopping ,ring you very much. thank you. keep up and keep stopping, um, and, uh, and keep stopping, um, ex—offenders from re—offending . ex—offenders from re—offending. val. thank you very much, steve. thank you so much. indeed. well, moving on to a different topic , moving on to a different topic, but a really important. you won't believe this. this is like a of what the madness a sort of what the madness moment nations has moment the united nations has labelled been labelled two—faced . and accused of hypocrisy of the highest level for operating its refugee program, sending scores of asylum seekers hundreds to rwanda, no less . hundreds to rwanda, no less. despite adamantly opposing britain's own rwanda scheme , un britain's own rwanda scheme, un officials in rwanda have pulled back the curtain, revealing that some 153 additional asylum seekers have, under the united nafions seekers have, under the united nations high commissioner for refugees program , been sent

refugees program, been sent there, bringing the total to over 2000. and here's what the home secretary, james cleverly , home secretary, james cleverly, said about the migrant crisis in the past week. i'm not going to aim for an arbitrary point in time. we're working on this as quickly as possible . i visited quickly as possible. i visited the team of border force officials at luton airport earlier , um, who are returning earlier, um, who are returning people to their countries of origins. >> the people who should not be here, the people who have come here, the people who have come here illegally, we are sending them home. >> we intend to make sure we get the rwanda legislation through as as possible, make as quickly as possible, make sure we have that deterrent and continue working with the international partners with whom we fantastic relationships . we have fantastic relationships. well, that was james cleverly, the home secretary. i'm joined now by broadcaster paula london in the studio. paula, this is madness . i in the studio. paula, this is madness. i mean, what's gone on here? it seems like the greatest hypocrisy you could imagine . hypocrisy you could imagine. >> it's unbelievable. randall zava safer. >> it isn't. >> it isn't. >> it isn't. >> i mean, it's just impossible. what's happening? even arsenal have on their, you know,

football rwanda. have on their, you know, foo itall rwanda. have on their, you know, foo it doesn't rwanda. have on their, you know, foo it doesn't say rwanda. have on their, you know, foo it doesn't say visitanda. have on their, you know, foo it doesn't say visit rwanda >> it doesn't say visit rwanda unless you're a refugee. >> so it's absolutely crazy . >> so it's absolutely crazy. >> so it's absolutely crazy. >> i'd like to know what lawyers they're using the united nations because a good point i because that's a good point i think is very, very dodgy going on. like we're under on. and i feel like we're under love they've already love our money. they've already had at million, but had at least 240 million, but they want our refugees, they do want our refugees, possibly because they know they're genuine. lot of they're not genuine. a lot of they're not genuine. a lot of the people arriving from libya are genuine. women and are genuine. they're women and children. think that's a children. so i think that's a big issue as well. children. so i think that's a big so ue as well. children. so i think that's a big so ,e as well. children. so i think that's a big so , so s well. children. so i think that's a big so , so actually the united >> so, so actually the united nafions >> so, so actually the united nations legal team to nations hired a legal team to prepare a document for our supreme court saying that rwanda wasn't safe , but they're sending wasn't safe, but they're sending refugees . they're sending refugees. they're sending refugees. they're sending refugees from libya, which is where they've come over the ended up here. they're sending them and they've come from sudan , sudan, somalia , eritrea, , sudan, somalia, eritrea, ethiopia and south sudan, who were all told are the genuine, deserving cases when they arrive over the english channel here. yeah, i think it could be, um, punishment for brexit as well. >> i think that's quite important. could be

>> i think that's quite lmlesueil. could be >> i think that's quite imjissue .. could be >> i think that's quite imjissue . and could be >> i think that's quite imjissue . and i could be >> i think that's quite imjissue . and i think could be >> i think that's quite imjissue . and i think they.d be an issue. and i think they should be concerning themselves more with war that's going more with the war that's going on. don't seem to want to on. they don't seem to want to condemn but they're very condemn hamas, but they're very angry with israel for retaliating. wish they'd retaliating. i just wish they'd stay out business, to be stay out of our business, to be honest with you . and something's honest with you. and something's very going i say, very weird going on as i say, they want our money, but they don't refugees a don't want the refugees like a huge don't want the refugees like a huglt's hard imagine this >> it's hard to imagine this level of hypocrisy . they tell us level of hypocrisy. they tell us not to send them rwanda, not to send them to rwanda, but they're them themselves they're sending them themselves from the same countries. >> the problem is , in this >> the problem is, in this country, we have so many naysayers that are more concerned with the happiness of refugees than they're concerned about our security. in this country. it's substantial . country. it's now substantial. so i don't think there's any other country where we've got all far. lefties making all of these far. lefties making such a storm about it. so such a big storm about it. so maybe that's where they've got their reservations. but people need worry about their need to worry about their safety, not about the happiness of that economic of people that are economic migrants. that's they don't migrants. that's why they don't want . want to leave. >> feels me, paula, thank you >> feels to me, paula, thank you very once again, very much indeed. once again, it's the lawyers who are making off like absolute bandits. i

mean, i was talking about it in the united states here we've got lawyers and lawyers here making off and we're business. we we're in the wrong business. we should in the legal business. should be in the legal business. don't anywhere, we've should be in the legal business. donthe anywhere, we've should be in the legal business. donthe weather, re, we've should be in the legal business. donthe weather, re, news, ile've should be in the legal business. donthe weather, re, news, ands got the weather, the news, and then hour with me. then the final hour with me. richard tice a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsor of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest dup news, weather forecast i'm craig snow well looking ahead to new year's eve for many of us really we're going to see mixture of sunny going to see a mixture of sunny spells and heavy showers. still quite and that's all quite windy. and that's all courtesy this area of low courtesy of this area of low pressure, which only going pressure, which is only going to slowly move across the country as go through this weekend. as we go through this weekend. note the tightly packed isobars, especially across the south, so some and winds , some strong and gusty winds, especially through the especially as we go through the course today tonight as course of today and tonight as we go into the evening, this band of heavy and squally rain will spread its way eastwards. behind it , a will spread its way eastwards. behind it, a mixture of clear spells and scattered showers that rain quite persistent. later on in the night across

shetland and orkney , but for shetland and orkney, but for many temperatures still above freezing could just see a touch of frost across scotland , where of frost across scotland, where we still will see a little bit of sleet and snow into new year's eve itself. generally a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers mainly focussed across the west initially before transferring their way eastwards during the course of the day. some heavy, possibly thundery showers too, and note across shetland and orkney that rain continuing to persist . best of the conditions persist. best of the conditions as we see at 2023, it looks likely to be across the far north of scotland , and new north of scotland, and new year's day itself . for north of scotland, and new year's day itself. for many southern areas, actually a much better day to come. some sunshine here. good opportunity to get out and about further north. continuation of the sunshine and showers theme and that as we go through that continues as we go through the first days new year. the first days of the new year. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> thank you very much. well,

loads more coming up in the final hour of today's show. an incoming labour government has suggested it will out the suggested it will roll out the red for strikers, red carpet for strikers, something to look forward to. our militant unions just warming up getting started all of up and getting started all of that much, much more. i'm richard tice you're watching and of course listening to gb news, britain's news channel .

here. hello and welcome to gb news saturday, i'm richard tice, and for the next and final hour, i'll be keeping you company on tv, online, and of course on digital radio. up to date on the stories that really matter. loads coming up. labour union. utopia. oh, this is unbelievable. suggestions that they're going to roll out the red carpet for strikers great britain. we're going to kneel to the militant unions and then also fees at universities whilst they whine about fees. they're increasingly dependent on overseas student fees and bills. well it seems all right. if you're at cambridge, they're hiring an expert to look after you get this. its finest clarets and to assist with wine selection. serious glee and parts of the country facing up to 70 mile an hour gusts of wind inches and inches of rain over this new year weekend. massive

trail disruption, train disruption , travel disruption disruption, travel disruption across the country . well, what's across the country. well, what's it like to be trapped with the in—laws this new year ? that's in—laws this new year? that's something to look forward to get in touch. send me your thoughts. we'll get to your emails of course. gb views at gb news. com loads of them coming in and what also is your new year's resolution? send me an email. well, first of all it's our own with the . news with the. news >> very good afternoon . to you. >> very good afternoon. to you. at a minute past two i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. now let's get you up to date with top story. that is the with our top story. that is the heavy rain, strong wind and snow across is across the country which is causing disruption causing more festive disruption andifs causing more festive disruption and it's threatening to spoil new year's celebrations. there's the met office is the picture. the met office is yellow. warnings are in place until 3 tomorrow, with until 3 am. tomorrow, with travel likely. travel delays likely. forecasters are expecting significant levels of snow in parts of scotland. a residents have been warned about possible power cuts and loss of mobile

phone signal. meanwhile all eurostar services from london have been cancelled because of a flooded tunnel under the thames. the company's apologised to customers after cancelling trains with services expected to be affected throughout the weekend. south eastern rail has also cancelled all of its high speed services to ashford . speed services to ashford. around 86% of crimes reported this year have gone unsolved , in this year have gone unsolved, in many cases because police failed to find a suspect. new figures reveal 4.7 million crimes went unsolved this year as at 1.7 million, of which were of a violent nature. a labour says the conservatives record on solving crime is disgraceful , solving crime is disgraceful, andifs solving crime is disgraceful, and it's accused the government of letting criminals off and letting victims down in the uk is accused russia of deliberately targeting civilians in ukraine after its most devastating air attack since the invasion began. ukraine says the brutality of the strikes, which killed 31 people, shows there can be no talk of a truce with

moscow now its president, volodymyr zelenskyy says russia used everything in its arsenal, firing more than 100 missiles at targets, including a maternity hospital at the un security council condemned the violence last night, with the uk's representative , barbara representative, barbara woodward, accusing russia of deliberately killing innocent people . people. >> these missiles were aimed at population centres across ukraine, at kyiv , lviv to dnipro ukraine, at kyiv, lviv to dnipro , odesa, kharkiv , kaminski and , odesa, kharkiv, kaminski and many more cities . they struck many more cities. they struck home us apartment buildings , home us apartment buildings, shopping centres and metros and maternity . hospital and a maternity. hospital and a regional oncology centre have been damaged and in short , been damaged and in short, civilian infrastructure . no . no, civilian infrastructure. no. no, a 23 year old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of chris marriott, who was hit by a car in sheffield.

>> the father of two was with his family when he tried to help a unconscious in the a woman lying unconscious in the street wednesday. he was street on wednesday. he was killed when car ploughed street on wednesday. he was kismall hen car ploughed street on wednesday. he was kismall crowd. :ar ploughed street on wednesday. he was kismall crowd. :ar plougoldl a small crowd. 23 year old hassan guy anker facing hassan guy anker is also facing five counts of attempted murder. he's due to appear sheffield he's due to appear at sheffield crown court on tuesday . two men crown court on tuesday. two men have been killed in a house fire in south london. emergency services were called to an address on sanderstead road in croydon just before 11:00 last night. two men were pronounced dead at the scene . another two dead at the scene. another two men are in a life threatening condition in hospital, while a fifth person has been discharged. the cause of the fire is being investigated . liz fire is being investigated. liz truss resignation honours list has been described as a slap in the first face to working people , and britain's shortest serving prime minister handed out 11 peerages to political allies, tory donors and former aides, which amounts to around one for every four days in office. a labour says honours should be for public service, not for rewarding tory failure. liz

truss resigned last october after 49 days amid economic turmoil sparked by her so—called mini—budget meanwhile, dame shirley bassey has been given the highest award in the king's new year honours list. the legendary singer has become the 64th living member of the order of the companions of honour. in recognition of her services to music, it's limited to 65 members at any one time. glastonbury festival founder michael eavis, along with the wetherspoons boss tim martin, have been knighted and there are damehoods for author jilly cooper and labour mp siobhan mcdonagh . the household bills mcdonagh. the household bills are set to rise in the new year and that is despite record levels of consumer debt . the levels of consumer debt. the energy regulator's price cap is to be increased by 5% from monday , adding around £94 to the monday, adding around £94 to the average bill. it comes as energy companies look to recover some £3 billion. that is due to debts

owed by customers who can't afford their bills. the advice is to read your metre and report at those numbers . before the 1st at those numbers. before the 1st of january. and life coaches and running clubs will be recommended to those on long terme sick leave to try to get people back into work. doctors employers and job centres will be encouraged to suggest therapies . recreation such as therapies. recreation such as gardening or cooking clubs in an effort to reduce the number of people signed off work, a pilot scheme called workwell will see the concept tested in 15 areas before it's expanded nationally . before it's expanded nationally. this is gb news. we're on tv, on digital radio and on your smart speaker two that's it for the moment. now back to richard . moment. now back to richard. >> aaron, thank you very much indeed. it'sjust >> aaron, thank you very much indeed. it's just after 2:00. we're in the third and final hour of this busy, busy show and it's been busy also with the

emails. thank you very much for all of those loads of you. been getting in touch, particularly about the segment the child about the segment on the child maintenance , sam said. about the segment on the child mai|hadance , sam said. about the segment on the child mai|had ace , sam said. about the segment on the child mai|had a very , sam said. about the segment on the child mai|had a very similarsam said. about the segment on the child mai|had a very similar issueaid. about the segment on the child mai|had a very similar issue .d. i've had a very similar issue. mike's had to them mike's partner had lied to them regarding until regarding overnight stays until i prove that that i was i could prove that that i was liable for costs , philip says. liable for costs, philip says. thank you for highlighting the shortcomings of the cms. they're not working for the child. they're working for the person in custody. well, there's so many other issues here. uh, to get on top of . i'm going to be get on top of. i'm going to be presenting shows throughout next week and we will try and pick up more of those stories. meanwhile while a lot of people concerned also about, uh, donald trump, ian says it appears that a single left wing activist has decided remove donald trump decided to remove donald trump from main ballot. imagine from the main ballot. imagine the outcry , ian says, if the outcry, ian says, if a republic secretary of state of a state decided to follow that sort of precedent , decide that, sort of precedent, decide that, uh, joe biden has got dementia and therefore is not fit and proper to be on the democrat ballot, that would be a complete

uproar. i think it's a fair, fair point in unbelievable . uh, fair point in unbelievable. uh, on the, uh, the prison story, pete says the government could release and tag all offenders of low level crimes and confine them to their homes, and their families would then be responsible for their upkeep, taking care of them and removing the burden from the taxpayer. i think that's a nice thought, pete, but i'm not sure that in reality is, uh , is going to sort reality is, uh, is going to sort of cut it. i suspect . anyway, of cut it. i suspect. anyway, keep those messages and thoughts coming in. loads of creative , coming in. loads of creative, uh, observations. there now, my panel are back in. we're working them hard today . so much to get them hard today. so much to get through. um welcome, gents. in this third hour, paul, through. um welcome, gents. in this third hour, paul , this this third hour, paul, this story about the united nations sending 153 refugee g's from some african nations to rwanda after they had spent money hiring a legal team to say that rwanda wasn't safe. if the same nafions rwanda wasn't safe. if the same nations refugees that were in the uk. i mean, this is this is

farcical . i don't know where to farcical. i don't know where to start or finish on this. >> no, i'm absolutely it shows the hypocrisy. it shows the fact that it seems to they us that it seems to be they want us in western world to take one in the western world to take one view. it's for okay africans to move around the african continent. you know, we can see that rwanda is a safe country. we can see that the rwanda , uh, we can see that the rwanda, uh, policy has to go through. it's not a be all and end all in itself. it's not a single strand that's suddenly going to stop the boats coming up, but it's a really important one. it's a really important one. it's a really important one. it's a really important deterrent that we get through. i have we have to get through. i have to say i'm not convinced it's a deterrent all, but it and i deterrent at all, but it and i suspect, um, matthew , you suspect, um, matthew, you probably agree that, but probably agree with that, but but a bit hypocrite of the but it is a bit hypocrite of the united nations. >> they do some good >> i mean, they do some good work, can they be work, but how how can they be sending people from the sending people from from the likes of somalia and south sudan that should here that they say should stay here in if they're in in the uk, but if they're in libya, then it's okay to send them. well, it does, on the face of it, look a bit odd, doesn't it? odd >> but my answer to this, and i'm certainly not a spokesman for united nations in any

for the united nations in any shape but looking at shape or form, but looking at this, there's clearly a difference safety. difference between your safety. if you're in and i don't if you're in libya and i don't think anyone's very safe in libya, if you've libya, and your safety if you've managed to get to the uk. so if i personalise it, if i was an asylum seeker in libya right now, i might very well choose rwanda over libya. if i was an asylum seeker in the uk, i would not choose rwanda over, over the uk. and let me just explain why i disagree very strongly with paul on this one. not paul on this one. i do not believe rwanda is a safe country. two country. i'll give you two examples 2018. many examples in 2018. how many asylum it who were asylum seekers was it who were shot by security shot dead by by by security forces there in rwanda when they were protesting conditions were protesting their conditions 7 guy were protesting their conditions ? guy who runs ? and secondly, the guy who runs the that runs the country the joint that runs the country president, he was elected with 99% of the vote last time out . 99% of the vote last time out. imagine if rishi sunak or keir starmer got 99% of the vote in this country . starmer got 99% of the vote in this country. so we starmer got 99% of the vote in this country . so we call it this country. so we call it a dictatorship. wouldn't we? >> you've got arsenal football club saying visit rwanda on their on their shirts. so for tourists it's okay. it seems

it's okay for um for refugees to go from libya to i mean i'll answer that. >> i'll answer the arsenal point. i'm not an arsenal fan. if you are a tourist and you go to rwanda to go on a wildlife expedition to see the gorillas . expedition to see the gorillas. beautiful country, no doubt. lovely people living there that you're unlikely to come on the wrong side of the government because you're bringing in money, aren't you? you're a tourist. different . if tourist. very different. if you're on your luck . asylum you're hard on your luck. asylum seeker. different indeed . seeker. very different indeed. you say that. >> but actually i read the 2022 report from the un. uh, on rwanda and humanitarian issues. and because they had over 100,000 asylum seekers from elsewhere in africa, and it was actually praising rwanda for its educational programs, getting people into employment and so it just feels very hypocritical. >> richard. it is run by a president who's been in power for 20 years and he's getting 99% of the vote. do you want to

live in a country like that? would you feel safe in a country like that? >> that's not the point, though. the point is the hypocrisy of the united nations, that i've answered that by saying, answered that point by saying, if richard, found yourself if you, richard, found yourself in i've in libya, god forbid, i've actually libya actually been to libya years ago, yourself ago, but if you found yourself in would you in libya now, where would you rather be? >> rwanda or libya? rather be? >> yeah.!a or libya? rather be? >> yeah.!a 0|actually. but >> yeah. but actually. well, but that's um, it's a lot that's the point. um, it's a lot safer to rwanda, i would safer to go to rwanda, i would suggest, the very suggest, and take the very treacherous journey across the mediterranean through europe, across channel to across the english channel to end up in asylum seekers don't see, we could talk about this isn't choice, isn't isn't a choice, isn't it? >> matthew says, would >> when matthew says, oh, would you in rwanda? you choose to live in rwanda? well, is a choose to the well, this is a choose to the country you're leaving country that you're leaving rather than necessarily the destination that you're going to. >> my issue that gm than m that i don't >> my issue is that i don't think rwanda scheme is think the rwanda scheme is a deterrent, but nevertheless we need move because of need to move on because of course, prime minister course, the brief prime minister liz truss, has just announced her new year's honours list, coincidentally announced coincidentally being announced at . sort of good at the same time. sort of good time to bury interesting news. i guess. you've got the guess. um, and you've got the likes matthew elliott and likes of matthew elliott and john moynihan. uh being being

appointed as peerages and someone called ruth porter. i'm not sure anybody's heard of an executive assistant to the former prime minister. uh, i mean, what do we think about it? >> so my answer to this is, i clash very politely with your colleague here at gb news, jacob rees—mogg , on this issue of rees—mogg, on this issue of peerages . and he said that all peerages. and he said that all peerages. and he said that all peerages through history have been result of cronyism . i been the result of cronyism. i disagree with him on that. but it is interesting here because i think people feel think people will feel particularly strongly about the idea of a prime minister who was in fewer than 50 days, in power for fewer than 50 days, and wrought untold and many believe, wrought untold damage economy. damage on the british economy. he a position he is nonetheless in a position to elevate people to the house of kwasi of lords. one relief kwasi kwarteng therese coffey and others who served in administration have not been elevated. >> so you're getting >> okay, so you're getting very personal so so how many personal on that. so so how many daysis personal on that. so so how many days is suitable? is100 days is 365 days. you've quantified it in days. matthew, i've quantified it in days. >> well, i think 50 is too few. >> well, i think 50 is too few. >> maybe the best thing of all, actually. rather than have lord stadlen is not to have a house

of lords at all, because it's all if you donate a all cronyism. if you donate a certain amount. paul, you get elevated to the house of lords. i hate the thing. i want to aboush i hate the thing. i want to abolish it. >> yeah, what do you do with >> yeah, but what do you do with it? do you have a what? do you have a second chamber? tony have a second chamber? what tony blair talking about tony blair we were talking about tony blair we were talking about tony blair blair blair earlier on. tony blair destroyed. up destroyed. you know, broke up the lords. the house of lords. the hereditaries . but he didn't know hereditaries. but he didn't know what place. that's what to put in its place. that's what to put in its place. that's what revising system that the house is. we're house of lords is. we're well capable of good enough. house of lords is. we're well capwe're»f good enough. house of lords is. we're well capwe're»f goccapable h. sorting >> we're well capable of sorting it have citizens it out. we have citizens assemblies, sorts. assemblies, all sorts. >> no, i'm just saying >> i mean, no, i'm just saying you actually need to have a solution before you start breaking something need solution before you start br.minister. you're ally, you're not imagination. >.minister. you're ally,bound not imagination. >.minister. you're ally,bound byt a minister. you're not bound by collective do collective responsibility. do you we should keep the you think we should keep the house of lords, or do you think we should reform or abolish it in its current form and reform

it with something much better to keep a house of lords? >> uh, i think we need reduce keep a house of lords? >> numbers.< we need reduce keep a house of lords? >> numbers. definitely. reduce keep a house of lords? >> numbers. definitely. there's e the numbers. definitely. there's 800. second biggest 800. i think it's second biggest chamber in the world. yeah, a second after who ? second after. after who? chinese. second after. after who? chiilzse. second after. after who? chlii mean, farcical. >> i mean, it's farcical. >> i mean, it's farcical. >> so absolutely, you've to >> so absolutely, you've got to reduce there are reduce the numbers. there are people that are people in there that are appointed their appointed because of their business acumen and experience, because sporting , ah, because of their sporting, ah, background, cultural background , background, cultural background, scientists the like in there scientists and the like in there that do good work. but obviously you get a lot of people who you then get a lot of people who are propping up their own. >> honestly, i do not think that there is a perfect solution to this because i think having a scrutinising second chamber to hold the legislative toes of ministers to the fire is actually quite useful. how you populate that . do you have a populate that. do you have a second democratically elected chamber? obviously, that sounds like the ideal. how would that work in practice? would we want further elections ? what would be further elections? what would be the enemy of the good? >> i think it was michael gove who once said that , um, but but who once said that, um, but but would you, would you keep it as is or would you abolish it in

its current form and replace it? stroke reform it with something else? >> i mean, as i say, as democrats and i hope we're all democrats, i really it should be democratically elected . but then democratically elected. but then you have a slightly odd situation where you have two sets elections . you're sets of elections. you're electing some people for the house of and some people house of commons and some people for of lords. arguably for the house of lords. arguably it the moment . a it works okay at the moment. a lot of people do. >> that's where it went wrong in terms of trying to reform it before, people couldn't before, because people couldn't decide primacy in that. >> yeah, but that's easy. you just say they can't they can't generate i mean, generate legislation. i mean, you a house of you want basically a house of wise, experienced, successful folk who, maybe have been folk who, yes, maybe have been elected , maybe have time limits. elected, maybe have time limits. but how do you how do you ensure, the primary ensure, scrutinise the primary legislation of the house of commons? >> how do you ensure that those who put themselves up for election are sufficiently wise? >> you said, nothing's >> well, as you said, nothing's perfect. what i hate about perfect. but what i hate about the current system is the cronyism, the fact that some big donations, cosying up . to a few donations, cosying up. to a few mates and all of a sudden i think you're, uh, jacob had a

point . point. >> you're a peer where jacob had a point. ironic ali. the old hereditary system sort of worked because they had less because actually they had less skin the game in terms of the skin in the game in terms of the day politics. not that i day to day politics. not that i would that back by any would bring that back by any stretch of imagination. >> can't we all agree that's not, you know, the idea of that. >> but we could have some citizens assemblies to work this up. think need a deadline up. i think you need a deadline on it. people make on it. people will make decisions with decisions and come up with a better answer. you've got better answer. when you've got a deadline. so what's the deadline. but so what's the labour party? what's keir starmer's position on this, or is he going be is actually he going to be rather to use that power rather tempted to use that power of as leverage to get of patronage as leverage to get people in the labour party mps? what do they say about to do the right thing? what do they say about to do the rigiwhatig? what do they say about to do the rigiwhat do they about power >> what do they say about power corrupting absolute power corrupts absolutely going corrupts absolutely. going back to in rwanda , you're to our friend in rwanda, you're not saying keir starmer is going to be as bad him, but i hope not. >> but, um, but it is a risk, isn't it? actually then keir starmer finds a useful starmer finds it quite a useful sort of risk. but it has been troublesome. >> keir starmer has been >> mps keir starmer has been known to flip 1 or known to flip flop on 1 or 2 issues. really >> goodness me. what do you

think? do you think keir think? what do you think keir starmer think? what do you think keir starrthink if he comes in, i >> i think if he comes in, i think will a million think there will be a million and other things will think there will be a million and to other things will think there will be a million and to do 1er things will think there will be a million and to do an things will think there will be a million and to do an electoral will think there will be a million and to do an electoral reform want to do an electoral reform and, constitutional and, and, and constitutional reform won't be heavy up there. >> yeah , i, i think it's wrong. >> yeah, i, i think it's wrong. i think it needs to change. the sooner the better. well 2024 is just around the corner. one more sleep to go. the continuation of industrial action by doctors as cardiff refuse workers , cardiff refuse workers, merseyside fire control school support staff, the list goes on and on in the north east and of course, the transport unions continue to shout and bark and whine, arguably, i might say. anyway the tories are on the ropes. labour and miles ahead in the polls, including the latest gb poll. so what would a labour government do? will they solve all issues will they all these issues or will they just cow towel the unions or just cow towel to the unions or are they better placed to negotiate ? what are we really negotiate? what are we really think this ? i mean, think about this? i mean, matthew, on. uh let's be matthew, come on. uh let's be honest . the matthew, come on. uh let's be honest. the unions are their mischief making. or arguably

they're just doing a good job for their members, causing all sorts of trouble. but are all these issues going away these issues going to go away if there's a labour government elected with a reasonable majority? let's very strongly hope that they will go away. >> i mean, ijoked yesterday hope that they will go away. >> i mean, i joked yesterday on twitter that under a labour government var, the var system might improve. it's not going to be it can't get any worse. it's not going to be nirvana under keir starmer and actually that's a point that vince cable made to me in same podcast me in this same podcast i interviewed for recently. interviewed you for recently. his worry that when and his worry is that when and i think he said when, not if, keir starmer deliver after think he said when, not if, keir staryears, deliver after think he said when, not if, keir staryears, there 'er after think he said when, not if, keir staryears, there coulder think he said when, not if, keir staryears, there could be a two years, that there could be a serious lurch hard or the serious lurch to the hard or the far right in this country. so make no mistake, the challenges facing are very facing keir starmer are very serious on the issue of the strikes, about you ask , i strikes, about which, you ask, i just hope that a labour government will do better in getting around the table, talking face to face with the people who lead the strikes. one of the funniest things. >> so that's a key point actually. is there a sort of an instinct mental pressure , instinct of mental pressure, racial amongst the union

racial bias amongst the union leaders to try and do a deal with their own troubles? >> the all us who >> the hope for all of us who want services to run want our services to run smoothly that , yes, there is, smoothly is that, yes, there is, and this is a point i've made when it comes to tackling the gangs and tackling the flow of migrants seekers migrants and asylum seekers from northern . the hope is northern france. the hope is that keir starmer will have more cachet, will have more credit in the with european leaders the bank with european leaders and try to persuade them to do a better job on their side. on the question of the strikes, the funniest thing about all this is we've had a conservative administration, certainly tory prime ministers in number 10 for 13 years, and yet the tories . 13 years, and yet the tories. try, don't they, on social media and elsewhere, to pin the blame on. >> so you think you think the labour will do better with the unions and that the tories haven't getting the haven't been getting around the table enough? >> you asked >> i mean, you asked the question would the sit question would the unions sit better party? better with the labour party? i think sort of looking at it think it's sort of looking at it from the direction, from the opposite direction, actually. think unions actually. i think the unions have set fair try and have set a fair to try and destroy the conservative party have set a fair to try and detryyy the conservative party have set a fair to try and detryyy thyrid)nservative party have set a fair to try and detryyy thyrid the rvative party have set a fair to try and detryyy thyrid the country’arty have set a fair to try and

detryyy thyrid the country of ty to try and rid the country of the conservative party. that's their that's their dynamic. it's that of politics of envy. that sort of politics of envy. it's that negative politics it's that that negative politics rather uh, necessarily positive. >> but but the reality is there's no growth. there's no growth anywhere, whether it's under the, the current regime. i'm not sure how keir starmer is going to create if you don't get growth, there's no extra money to pay . people want more money. to pay. people want more money. but if you look at services, pubuc but if you look at services, public sector workers want more money. >> that's absolutely true. if you looked productivity over you looked at productivity over in the public sector in the lead up the lead up to covid, it was in the lead up to covid, it was in the lead up covid. it was actually up to covid. it was actually going fallen going up. it's fallen off a cliff in the public sector. in the private sector, yes, it has been flat and we've got no hang outs the other way around. >> the private >> no, in the private sector it's going up for 20 years. it's been going up for 20 years. and i in and the public sector, i mean in the last few years, it was it was public sector. >> it was going up just before was public sector. >> it thenjoing up just before was public sector. >> it thenjoingoff) just before was public sector. >> it thenjoingoff aust before was public sector. >> it thenjoingoff a cliff, efore was public sector. >> it thenjoingoff a cliff, uh,a covid then fell off a cliff, uh, through the so—called austerity years, coalition early years, the coalition and early and cameron's time. but and david cameron's time. but in the private you're the private sector, you're right. going steadily, right. it was going up steadily, but it wasn't going up nearly enough. been the true enough. and that's been the true across remember

across europe. if you i remember arguing for brexit in the lead up to the referendum. so the only continent that had slower growth than europe was the antarctica. um so, you know, the big question is how do we create growth and i would say this very simply and straightforward , even simply and straightforward, even if not simple or if it's not simple or straightforward to implement, we need manufacturing need to invest in manufacturing in country . in this country. >> you can't do that when you've got uncompetitive energy costs because of your beloved net zero. well in the end, >> matthew. well in the end, i think there's a near consensus that net zero is going to be good for our economy. there there's so many jobs in the green sector, but is it not, you know, not coincidence. i know, not a coincidence. can i make point about make my point about manufacturing? really manufacturing? it's really important. you on important. i agree with you on that. of those northern that. think of those northern heartland heart heartland as the beating heart of this nation for so many decades. arguably for centuries. let's re—energize those areas of the country. lovely. let's not export our manufacturing . export our manufacturing. >> thousands of apprenticeships, thousands decent , skilled thousands of decent, skilled manufacturing jobs in the steel industry being destroyed as industry are being destroyed as we speak. >> then, because of the drive towards net zero, they can go

into the green industry because guess what? there is money in green, but it's also advanced, which by all the 80% of which is owned by all the 80% of the offshore farms the of the offshore wind farms are overseas investors the of the offshore wind farms are many overseas investors the of the offshore wind farms are many theerseas investors the of the offshore wind farms are many theerseas jobs.tors the of the offshore wind farms are many theerseas jobs are and many of the green jobs are actually overseas jobs doesn't mean aren't jobs in the mean there aren't jobs in the green economy in this country. but talk about steel, but but you talk about steel, but there's jobs there's many more skilled jobs being than being created. >> that's my concern also about advanced manufacturing. >> that's my concern also about advancydo manufacturing. >> that's my concern also about advancydo amazinguring. >> that's my concern also about advancydo amazing work with >> we do amazing work with aerospace, automotive, with aerospace, with automotive, with with battery technology, with with battery technology, with with semiconductors. we are, you know, one of the we have the first compound, uh, semiconductor cluster in the world newport in south wales. world in newport in south wales. we design these things where? well, should do well, yes, we should do manufacturing. we shouldn't do all . you've got to be competitive. >> you've got to have competitive as well. paul competitive edge as well. paul and matthew, we'll get you back later but first of later on folks. but first of all, coming up. let's all, loads more coming up. let's take a quick look at the weather. >> there. welcome to your >> hello there. welcome to your latest weather forecast latest gp news, weather forecast i'm looking ahead to i'm craig snell looking ahead to new for many of us new year's eve. for many of us really to see really we're going to see a mixture of sunny spells and heavy showers. still quite windy. that's courtesy windy. and that's all courtesy of area of low pressure,

of this area of low pressure, which only going to slowly which is only going to slowly move across the country we go move across the country as we go through weekend. the through this weekend. note the tightly isobars, tightly packed isobars, especially across the south, so some gusty winds , some strong and gusty winds, especially through the especially as we go through the course of today and tonight as we go into the evening, this band of heavy and squally rain will spread its way eastwards. behind it, a mixture of clear spells and scattered showers that rain quite persistent. later on in the night across shetland and orkney , but for shetland and orkney, but for many temperatures still above freezing could just see a touch of frost across scotland , where of frost across scotland, where we still will see a little bit of sleet and snow into new year's eve itself. generally a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers mainly focussed across the west initially before transferring their way eastwards during the course of the day. some heavy, possibly thundery showers too, and note across shetland and orkney that rain continuing to persist . best of the conditions persist. best of the conditions as we see at 2023, it looks likely to be across the far north of scotland. new year's day itself for many southern

areas actually a much better day to come. some sunshine here. good opportunity to get out and about further north. continuation of the sunshine and showers theme and that continues as we go through the first days of the new year. thank you very much indeed. >> loads more still coming up on the show. yes, we'll be talking to coyte about the year's to paul coyte about the year's sporting highlights gone to paul coyte about the year's sporof] highlights gone to paul coyte about the year's sporof course ghts gone to paul coyte about the year's sporof course we've gone to paul coyte about the year's sporof course we've gotjone out. of course we've got english, premier league, scottish premier league in action today , all of that. much, action today, all of that. much, much more to come. i'm richard tyson, you are of course, watching gb news, britain's favourite

sunday mornings from 930 on gbh. news. >> hi there, it's almost 2:30. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. thousands of people's new year's plans have been thrown into chaos as all eurostar trains between paris and london have been cancelled. the company's apologised after what it said was unprecedented flooding in a number of tunnels, including under the thames. a customers were only informed this morning, meaning thousands were saint were left stranded at saint pancras a south—easter pancras station. a south—easter and rail has also cancelled all of its high speed services to ashford , and forecasters are ashford, and forecasters are warning people to take care ahead of their new year celebrations. a heavy rain and strong winds are expected in many parts of the country, with scotland warned of significant levels of snow . the met office levels of snow. the met office says yellow warnings will remain in place until 3 am. tomorrow.

all right, 86% of crimes reported this year have gone uncie solved in many cases, police have failed to find a suspect. new figures reveal 4.7 million crimes went unsolved. this year, almost half of which were of a violent nature. labour says the conservatives record in solving crime is disgraceful and it's accused the government of letting criminals off and letting criminals off and letting victims down. household bills are set to rise again in the new year, despite record levels of consumer debt . the levels of consumer debt. the energy regulator's price cap will be increased by 5. that's from monday , adding around £94 from monday, adding around £94 to the average bill. ofgem says the rise is driven by the cost of wholesale gas and that's been particularly impacted by the conflict in ukraine. more on all of stories on our website of our stories on our website gbnews.com now it's back to richard . richard. >> i bumped into at someone's. >> i bumped into at someone's. >> thank you very much indeed. welcome back to gb news saturday. i'm with you on tv ,

saturday. i'm with you on tv, onune saturday. i'm with you on tv, online and on digital radio. the emails have been pouring in, peter says on new year's resolutions, i have to say i love this. i made a resolution on new year 36 years ago, says peter. and i've not broken it ever since. the resolution was never make another new year's resolution feels a bit of a cop out. keep those coming in, david says. if the labour party really wants to see what a slap in the face to working people looks like, all they need to do is look in the mirror. words look in the mirror. harsh words james liz truss prime james says about liz truss prime minister's honours list. all you need says matches her time as prime minister. no respect , no prime minister. no respect, no skill and no thank you. there we are, daniel says about the house of lords. all peerages and knighthoods, sirs, must be scrapped. it's 18 century politics that needs updating . politics that needs updating. interesting. there we are. well talking of updating, we need to update ourselves on the latest news on the sports. delighted to be joined by the expert. of course , our very own gb news

course, our very own gb news sports reporter coyte for sports reporter paul coyte for a quick round up. so i suppose we better ask paul what was the highlight of 2023? i'm a little concerned about your answer. before looking forward to 2024. >> i know it's so tricky to try and work out. >> there's been so much going on, hasn't there? >> there was the women's world cup, course, with england cup, of course, with england running runners running out, being the runners up, followed by the up, and then followed by the luis , uh, up, and then followed by the luis , uh, which we luis rubiales kiss, uh, which we certainly couldn't as certainly couldn't see as a highlight, but kind of highlight, but it's kind of shadowed that went on shadowed everything that went on at the women's world cup. we had the rugby world cup, which england didn't do. >> as would have >> so well as we would have liked um. there's been so liked to in, um. there's been so much city, but much manchester city, but i think the first one i want to say, richard, is are you a golf man? you strike me as a golfer. >> i'm sort of semi retired from golf at the moment. i got down to sort of bandy handicap of to a sort of bandy handicap of about realised i'd about 13 and then realised i'd have to invest loads more time to get any lower so that was the best i got to. and you're a man that takes his golf seriously as well because i, you know, i

don't imagine that you would go out swinging and fun i >> -- >> it's a game to win and you would seriously. would take it seriously. >> absolutely right. it's so frustrating. but frustrating. i love my golf, but it's frustrating. it's too frustrating. >> it is incredibly frustrating. well, frustrating. well, it wasn't frustrating. >> you know where we're going with this ? with this? >> going to talk about >> i'm not going to talk about the open. >> going to talk about, >> i'm not going to talk about, uh, liv golf. >> but what going to talk >> but what i am going to talk about ryder cup, which about is the ryder cup, which i thought was just terrific and so enjoyedenjoyed it probably more thought was just terrific and so enjoyusualoyed it probably more thought was just terrific and so enjoyusual because robably more thought was just terrific and so enjoyusual because europe more thought was just terrific and so enjoyusual because europe didre than usual because europe did win again . win again. >> uh, the americans had it last time and absolutely dominated europe. but then it came back to italy. it was the last weekend in september. >> luke donald was the man. there we are. we can see some of the great players there. there's luke donald middle now. luke donald in the middle now. >> the captain now. >> he was the captain now. >> he was the captain now. >> from henrik >> he took over from henrik stenson, stenson was stenson, now henrik stenson was voted captain of voted to be the captain of europe this year. >> but due to the fact that he joined liv golf, it was decided that it wouldn't really be the right thing to do. so brit, luke, donald comes in, takes over as captain and my goodness, what a great job. he's done. uh,

zach johnson was the american . zach johnson was the american. >> and after the first session, uh, the friday four nil up uh, on the friday four nil up and stayed in the lead throughout the whole thing. >> there's jose maria olazabal throughout the whole thing. >> tithat; jose maria olazabal throughout the whole thing. >> tithat worked.aria olazabal throughout the whole thing. >> tithat worked with olazabal throughout the whole thing. >> tithat worked with him. bal throughout the whole thing. >> tithat worked with him. uh, there that worked with him. uh, there's the rest the team, there's the rest of the team, young european team, rory mcilroy. you can see there three and from the end and he scored four points. >> just a terrific, >> it was just a terrific, terrific weekend of golf. >> absolutely >> they did absolutely brilliantly. i um, rather than remind the remind us who won the uh the premier league, what have we got to look forward to paul in 2024 at home and abroad? >> well, there's two things, really, richard . really, richard. >> the first one is the olympics. now that starts at the end of july through to august. always love the olympics. i don't think the olympics people will take as much notice, will take quite as much notice, which worries me and which it really worries me and upsets is maybe they would upsets me is maybe they would have done the past because have done in the past because there's sport tv, there's so much sport on tv, whereas the world would as whereas the world would stop as soon olympics came. soon as the olympics came. there's that. now that is the flame going the cen. >> there's actually going to be swimming in the cen this year. so got these

so they're actually got these special trying to special pumps that are trying to keep for the olympic games. >> uh, so it's going to be happening at the end of july. >> um, i'm very much looking forward i just love it. forward to it. i just love it. >> love the athletics. >> i love the athletics. >> i love the athletics. >> i love to watch every dance sport and we'll be all over it as on gb news. >> on gb news. >> on gb news. >> so that's one thing to >> um, so that's one thing to look forward to. the other look forward to. and the other and should mention, you and also i should mention, you know, where rich, know, know, where the rich, you know, where surfing is where the where the surfing is going right? know, going to be, right? you know, where going the where they're going to have the surfing. >> tell us it's actually >> oh, do tell us it's actually going to be in tahiti because the waves in france probably are on the english channel, not quite as big as they should be. >> so they're actually going to have over tahiti, have the surfing over in tahiti, because can we create wave because can we create some wave machines or something? >> mean , you'll have sort of >> i mean, you'll have sort of we send people to we can do, we can send people to the moon. surely we can create a, wave machine in the a, a small wave machine in the send to have bit of local send to have a bit of local surfing paris. send to have a bit of local sur'you paris. send to have a bit of local sur'you pari think so. >> you would think so. >> you would think so. >> spending billions on >> they're spending billions on making clean. so maybe making the send clean. so maybe that's the answer. like those old to get in old wave machines used to get in swimming the swimming pools in the 80s. i don't know they still do don't know whether they still do those have that along the sand. i don't know.

>> anyway, they're >> but anyway, they're going to have yeah >> but anyway, they're going to have year. so have it in tahiti this year. so it's furthest any outside it's the furthest any outside sport, as you would has sport, as you would imagine, has been going to been away from the i'm going to been away from the i'm going to be cynical, but i mean, be a bit cynical, but i mean, surely we could have had the surfing in in cornwall, some of the in uk would the waves in, in the uk would have but maybe the have worked, but maybe the french like that. french didn't like that. >> paul, how do you think the french would have the french would have felt by the olympic there, the ioc olympic committee there, the ioc saying, listen, we've had olympic committee there, the ioc sayidea. listen, we've had olympic committee there, the ioc sayidea. listyou ne've had olympic committee there, the ioc sayidea. listyou fancy had olympic committee there, the ioc sayidea. listyou fancy having an idea. how do you fancy having some events in england? some of your events in england? >> it's not going go is >> it's not going to go well, is it to go think it not going to go well? i think we could do rather well in the olympics. what the euros olympics. what about the euros in i'm very hopeful about >> i'm very hopeful about the euros really i'm. euros, i really am. i'm. >> i'm thinking after we were runners up last time, where of course, we've never won an outside of the women. of course the one the euros was the closest the men have ever got to anything is well, if we look at the final, the year before last, euro 20, which became euro 21, and then . winning it in 66 in and then. winning it in 66 in the world cup, so 14th of june to 14th of july, 24 teams in in with slovenia, denmark and

serbia. obviously that's going to be the easy to obviously to be the easy bit to obviously to be the easy bit to obviously to of. but i am very to get out of. but i am very hopeful. i think now especially after getting knocked by after getting knocked out by france, again in the france, france again in the world cup, i've got a very good feeling about the euros this yeah feeling about the euros this year, so i really so, so come on paul year, so i really so, so come on paul, good year. paul, very good year. >> you predicting >> are you are you predicting live on air? and i'm not going to let you forget that england are win the euros for are going to win the euros for the first time. we're going to beat beat us last beat france who beat us last yeah beat france who beat us last year. is it possible? >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> i think we're going to win the euros this year. >> and you know, goodness me, i'm going to stand by it until we get knocked out by slovenia in that third game in the qualifying group. but until then i'm saying i'm going to ask the question . question. >> mr coyte, your job depends on this answer. are we going to win the ? the euros? >> it does. you know what? >> it does. and you know what? it so does yours. >> quite frankly , richard, >> quite frankly, richard, because is on your show . so because this is on your show. so if going down, you're going if i'm going down, you're going down absolutely priceless. >> bringing it closer to >> now bringing it closer to home. what about this afternoon

and tomorrow in the in the football in the premier league. >> well , chelsea football in the premier league. >> well, chelsea had a bit of shock. >> i mean, this is only just finished. they were away at luton and went three nil up against luton. luton came back to uh that's just to three two. uh that's just finished so. so chelsea have finished. so. so chelsea have got their three points but they certainly uh certainly got a shock there. uh this aston are this afternoon aston villa are playing last time playing burnley i mean last time uh they were beaten by manchester which manchester united which was which fans and which manchester united fans and people around united are saying this turnaround this is the big turnaround now after they were two nil down against aston villa and won three two that i'm not so sure about, but aston against about, but aston villa against burnley, afternoon . burnley, that's the afternoon. and uh man play sheffield and uh man city play sheffield united. that's only going to go one way and i'll put my hang my hat on that one. uh wolves against everton a couple of losses for everton but they're okay. wolves are looking losses for everton but they're okaygood.es are looking losses for everton but they're okaygood.es i are looking losses for everton but they're okay good. es i that's)king very good. so i think that's going be wolves win. and going to be a wolves win. and this is the one we're this is the one that we're really to. it's really looking forward to. it's manchester united again. so have they actually turned a corner now richard now as a liverpool fan richard i'm that now as a liverpool fan richard i'm hoping that now as a liverpool fan richard i'm hoping they1at now as a liverpool fan richard i'm hoping they haven't. you're hoping that they haven't. and imagine that they

and don't imagine that they have. that fair. have. is that fair. >> that is fair. and i have >> well that is fair. and i have to say i'm going to make a prediction. i am praying new prediction. i am praying my new year's is for liverpool year's prayer is for liverpool to win the league, but i'm not going make a prediction. paul going to make a prediction. paul coyte so indeed coyte thank you so much indeed for thoughts heard it for those thoughts you heard it here has here first. paul coyte has predicted his jobs on the line that the uk england we're going to win the euros next year. let's not forget that prediction. loads more coming up on the on the show until nana akua at 3:00. but uh, you're watching and listening to gb news with me richard tice on britain's

isabel monday to thursdays from. six till 930. >> it's 242. welcome back to gb news saturday. i'm richard tice of course, have been for the whole show. always will be. we're online. we're on tv, digital, radio now. we are going shortly crossing shortly to be crossing to basingstoke , where a man who's basingstoke, where a man who's parked a tank outside wickes in protest at apparently shoddy kitchen insulation. we're going to be talking to him. absolutely extraordinary but first extraordinary story. but first of another extraordinary of all, another extraordinary thing is yet another yellow weather warning in parts of the uk. so we need to hear from jack carlson down in porthcawl for the latest updated weather there. jack, what's going on? we spoke earlier. is it any easier or is it getting worse? it's definitely getting worse in terms of the wind, richard really starting to batter this coastline here in uh here in porthcawl, of course it's now

we're at low tide at the moment. >> the wind really sweeping uh, across the coast here. we know that yellow weather warning for wind, here in wales that yellow weather warning for win(parts here in wales that yellow weather warning for win(parts of here in wales that yellow weather warning for win(parts of south—west,es that yellow weather warning for win(parts of south—west, has and parts of the south—west, has been place here since 11:00 been in place here since 11:00 this morning, has also been yellow warnings across yellow weather warnings across this the part of the this part of the part of the country from 10:00 rain. now country from 10:00 for rain. now we've not had rain here yet, we've not had any rain here yet, although is expected to start although it is expected to start raining there raining here from 3:00. there has also been rain across different parts of wales. the forecasted um weather for in terms of the rain was possibly up to two inches and there are multiple flood alerts around the country to ask people to prepare if they are around specific rivers to whether they can rivers as to whether they can make sure that they are prepared for any flooding that might take place. warnings yet , place. no flood warnings yet, but course, those flood but of course, those flood alerts still in place. alerts are still in place. there are reports , from are also reports, um, from certain that we may certain forecasters that we may have certain conditions for mini tornadoes. of course, they are only reports, and those tornadoes would low level tornadoes would be low level tornadoes. very much like we've possibly seen in greater manchester recently. course , manchester recently. of course, where weather conditions where the weather conditions there develop out into such

strong winds that some roofs were ripped off top of were ripped off the top of houses. so the wind conditions here, certainly not 75 miles an houh here, certainly not 75 miles an hour, but it's certainly feeling like it. the different parts of the have been the country have also been battered and there's battered as well. and there's disruption we've seen, particularly transport particularly on the transport networks london, saint networks down at london, saint pancras, of high pancras, where one of the high speed under the thames speed tunnels under the thames has meaning that there has flooded, meaning that there is down in london. >> jack, thank you so much indeed. sounds like, frankly , indeed. sounds like, frankly, you better stay at home because it's not easy getting and it's not easy getting around and the now , so you the weather is grim now, so you might to see a tank on might expect to see a tank on a training zone or in a war zone. did you expect to see one outside the basingstoke branch of wickes . you might have been of wickes. you might have been a bit confused because a disgruntled customer of wickes is on a mission to force the company to sort out their snagging on his kitchen that cost £20,000, and it has accused them of a bodged job. surely not because he occupied a parking space at wickes with nothing else than in his own tank. well, i'm delighted to say we're

joined by none other than the paul gibbons himself . paul, a paul gibbons himself. paul, a very good afternoon to you. that is a picture of you with your tank behind us. um, let's be clear. i'm presuming wickes are not selling tanks . you've got not selling tanks. you've got a bit of an issue with them. what's going on? >> the issue is with kitchen, i purchase a kitchen in february , purchase a kitchen in february, they started fitting the kitchen on the 31st of march. >> i've been complaining for several weeks of april and it's still not sorted out. the tank, by the way , is from tanks a lot by the way, is from tanks a lot up near silverstone . up near silverstone. >> uh, paul, thank you very much. um so the issue, you've been ten months waiting for this to be sorted . the audio on the to be sorted. the audio on the line is not great, but the picture is fantastic of your tank in front of the wickes store . how are wickes store. how are wickes responding? are they going to rush around and get this sorted? paul >> no, no, they haven't been in touch since wednesday , so.

touch since wednesday, so. >> but that's what happens . >> but that's what happens. >> but that's what happens. >> they say they're going to do something. they say they're going to send somebody round and it going on and on. it just keeps going on and on. they've doing this since they've been doing this since june. >> how long has your tank been parked outside their store? paul >> it's been here since 6:00 wednesday morning . and they can wednesday morning. and they can stay here for as long as it takes. >> wow . so it's been there for >> wow. so it's been there for three days. you've sort of turned wickes into a tank museum . it seems to me for the moment, over the new year, if they're not getting in touch, goodness me . well, that they all that me. well, that they all that i've looking for is for them to do what they should have done . do what they should have done. >> what they should have done was put a kitchen in that fitted and safe now. it's falling and is safe now. it's falling apart. it's not safe. i want my money back. i want compensate for the money that i've lost, nothing else. that's what i've lost. and the expenses is taken. that's all i've been looking for. and they won't even discuss

that. >> we're. we're losing the lime , >> we're. we're losing the lime, paul >> we're. we're losing the lime, paul. but thank you very much indeed for coming on gb news. i really do appreciate it. and we have , of course, approached have, of course, approached wickes for a statement and they said, we'd like to apologise for any inconvenience that's been caused visiting this caused to shoppers visiting this store. our customer relations team is in contact with the customer to discuss their installation and help to resolve the issue . it doesn't sound to the issue. it doesn't sound to me like they're going to rush to get this sorted. maybe they quite like the tank being outside. i don't it's sort outside. i don't know, it's sort of reverse form of publicity by panel of back. i'm working them hard . um, matthew, have hard today. um, matthew, have you tank outside you ever seen a tank outside a diy store? >> i was going to say never, never mess with a man with a tank. but actually, as never mess with a man with a tani> you might think they'll have instantly. >.water might think they'll have instantly. >.water tankt think they'll have instantly. >.water tank down< they'll have instantly. >.water tank down inhey'll have instantly. >.water tank down in weeks1ave a water tank down in weeks or something but on an something like that, but on an actual tank. did he actually say he tanks r us or he got it from tanks r us or something? quite something? i couldn't quite hear the don't know where the line, but i don't know where

you the tank that from you get the tank like that from aldershot the road, aldershot is only down the road, but on, wickes, thanks a but come on, wickes, thanks a lot.apparently. thanks lot. >> apparently. thanks a lot. thanks a there you are. thanks a lot. there you are. unbelievable moving on unbelievable um, moving on to other slightly humorous other sort of slightly humorous items finish the show. items as we finish the show. so cambridge university college, corpus christi has just success. fully recruited a cellar worker to look after its finest, most delicious clarets and assist with wine selections. reporting to the college's fellows butler. of course, every university should have a butler. the assistant will be in charge of managing stocks, making sure the right vintages are served up to students and staff . the past students and staff. the past a part time recruit will be paid almost £13,000 a year forjust almost £13,000 a year for just under 22 hours a week at matthew, as someone from the left, you must be appalled at this. or actually, is there something you secretly admire about it? it's a very odd scene at cambridge. >> i mean, i would on a serious point, i would encourage people to go to state schools, definitely cambridge definitely to apply to cambridge because fantastic

because it's a fantastic university with so many opportunities you went to opportunities that you went to yourself. went to myself . i yourself. i went to myself. i was privately educated, but i want and more state school want more and more state school kids to there. so did you. >> did you enjoy their wine cellar? there were it was cellar? i did there were it was a very tradition called a very odd tradition called formal hall, where all formal hall, where you all dressed up basically, sort dressed up basically, and sort of tie , and you'd of almost black tie, and you'd go different colleges and go to different colleges and you'd drink and people would put pennies your pennies in your glass. >> it was very anti. >> it was very anti. >> have literally we have the >> we have literally we have the living experience of a champagne socialist. to me . paul, socialist. it seems to me. paul, did you go and have a which university do you go to or perhaps none. maybe the university knocks. university of hard knocks. >> i bummed out of reading university having done chemistry and i spent and food science, but i spent most of the time doing food most of the time doing the food science, was actually trying to find uh, find the cheapest, uh uh, alcohol, around redding . so alcohol, uh, around redding. so no, very different experience, i'm afraid . no, very different experience, i'm thisid . no, very different experience, i'mthisid extraordinary, >> this is extraordinary, though. mean, the idea though. i mean, just the idea that you've got sort of a cellar assistant to choose the vintages, and they spend fortunes in this. do you think that every college has something similar ? similar in cambridge? >> i suspect not. i mean, i think king's college, which was

a very heavily weighted towards state school students, probably didn't you call me didn't. by the way, you call me a socialist definitely a champagne socialist definitely wasn't and i don't wasn't champagne. and i don't think i was paying for it. he was more he was more. >> it was a free socialist. >> it was a free socialist. >> socialist, >> what he kremlin socialist, more socialist. >> what he kremlin socialist, more it socialist. >> what he kremlin socialist, more it was:ialist. >> what he kremlin socialist, more it was sortt. >> what he kremlin socialist, more it was sort of. now, of >> maybe it was sort of. now, of course, english course, you'd have english sparkling the sparkling wine because the, the quantity english is quantity of english wines is growing. that a that is growing. that is a that is a good point. >> great brexit >> that's a great brexit opportunity, isn't my opportunity, isn't it? my wedding. first wedding. whisper it. my first wedding. whisper it. my first wedding. have the very wedding. we did have the very finest sussex sparkling wine. no champagne for us. backing the local economy. excellent >> and some of it's very, very good. very good. and record quantities english wine and quantities of english wine and sparkling wine being developed. so, we're almost at the so, gents, we're almost at the end of the show. um, i need to know how new year's resolutions you can't cop out and need something from from both of you. uh, paul, news, resolutions. >> spending more time with my partner, maxine. and also, i'm running the london marathon for in the royal marsden is actually keep on going for runs a week. >> four runs a week. have you

run it before? yeah it'll be my third time. >> goodness me. i'm the first of the mps get a guaranteed entry. so i'll make the most of it. and hang guaranteed hang on, you're get a guaranteed entry. do, we do. still entry. yeah we do, we do. still got it. you know, it's another perk, folks. absolutely it is. but yeah perk, folks. absolutely it is. butyou've yeah perk, folks. absolutely it is. butyou've still yeah perk, folks. absolutely it is. butyou've still runh perk, folks. absolutely it is. butyou've still run it. >> you've still got to run it. >> you've still got to run it. >> you've still got to run it. >> you've to run 26 miles. >> you've got to run 26 miles. but know i was first of the but you know i was first of the fat mps . so i came third fat old mps. so i came third overall after alan cairns and dan wow overall after alan cairns and dan now wow trying to come >> so now you're trying to come first. many mps generally first. how many mps generally run first? >> just little faster? >> just a little bit faster? probably about, uh, about uh, maybe more a dozen. maybe no more than a dozen. about dozen. fantastic about a dozen. fantastic >> good. so paul is >> uh. very good. so paul is going run the new going to run the new york marathon. london. sorry, marathon. london. london sorry, the marathon. marathon. london. london sorry, the hats marathon. marathon. london. london sorry, the hats offmarathon. marathon. london. london sorry, the hats off to rathon. marathon. london. london sorry, the hats off to paul. |. marathon. london. london sorry, the hats off to paul. that >> hats off to paul. that seriously, to shame. and >> hats off to paul. that seriou done) shame. and >> hats off to paul. that seriou done a shame. and >> hats off to paul. that seriou done a marathon, and >> hats off to paul. that seriou done a marathon, although never done a marathon, although it for charity. it did raise money for charity. £6,000 over £6,000 for walking over a marathon . i was doing steps. marathon. i was doing steps. i wanted to do 50,000 steps is a cop out. i would to do a cop out. i would love to do a marathon one i to marathon one day, so i want to do steps this year. i want do more steps this year. i want to be a better person. prime merrily. specifically, if someone attacks me or is not nice want to be cooler nice to me, i want to be cooler in my response. i think that's important isn't because that in my response. i think that's imp(includen't because that in my response. i think that's imp(includen't social.e that in my response. i think that's

imp(includen't social media. in my response. i think that's imfi'mzluden't social media. in my response. i think that's imfi'm going�*t social media. in my response. i think that's imfi'm going to social media. in my response. i think that's imfi'm going to challengeia. in my response. i think that's imfi'm going to challenge you on >> i'm going to challenge you on that called social media. >> think actually, >> i think actually, i think you've a little bit. you've calmed down a little bit. >> we've had some civilised exchanges. >> what else? eat meat. >> what else? eat less meat. good the for good for the good for the environment. very environment. oh, that's very dance. >> teach, teach. dance. >> tea little ach. dance. >> tealittle ach. who's >> my little boy who's a toddler. football cricket. toddler. football and cricket. i've him to test i've already taken him to test matches first of matches in his first year of life. make 200th life. and make my 200th appearance on gb news. >> 200th wow >> whose 200th appearance? wow um. actually, also um. but actually, it is also a story veganuary is not good story of veganuary is not good for your health. according to the journal nutrients, says the journal nutrients, that says you more meat and you need to eat more meat and that's better for you. well, i'm i'm you believe that. i'm not sure you believe that. you've always got something to say. >> absolutely gents, >> absolutely right, gents, you've panel >> absolutely right, gents, you'afternoon. panel this afternoon. >> thank you so much. in deed. so what's my own years resolution? sorts of things resolution? all sorts of things have crossed through the mind. maybe at maybe i shouldn't have one at all, actually , i have got all, but actually, i have got one. i like eat a bit one. i quite like to eat a bit more meat just counter more meat just to counter matthew's meat. no , matthew's less meat. but no, seriously, i need to get fitter. we've got a busy year ahead. there could be elections there could be some elections and i could be involved in this. ineed and i could be involved in this. i need to get fitter . i need to i need to get fitter. i need to do more runs, more cycles, more fitness, more steps with out

question folks. anyway, it's been a fun show. thank you very much indeed for being with us. coming up, of course, we've got the great nana akua for the next few hours. she will have a full on show of that. i'm absolutely sure. as i say, thank you very much indeed, paul . absolutely much indeed, paul. absolutely brilliant. any last thoughts ? brilliant. any last thoughts? another your another change to your resolution. on, you're resolution. come on, you're persuaded now are you going to eat meat? come on. eat more meat? come on. >> my resolution is to keep beating you in arguments. richard >> you mean for the first time. >> you mean for the first time. >> it's always the first time. >> it's always the first time. >> there's always a first time. anything else? no. brilliant. thank very much. nana's thank you very much. nana's up next. i'll see next. it's been great. i'll see you tomorrow. next. it's been great. i'll see you t> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gp news, weather forecast i'm craig snell, looking ahead to new year's eve. for many of us really we're going to see a mixture of sunny spells and heavy showers. still quite windy. and that's all courtesy

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north of scotland, and new year's day itself. for many southern areas, actually a much better day to some better day to come. some sunshine here. good opportunity to get out and about further north. continuation of the sunshine and showers theme and that continues as we go through the days of the new year . the first days of the new year. >> warm feeling inside from >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler oilers, sponsors of weather on .

gb news. >> hello, good afternoon and welcome to gb news on tv online and on digital radio. i'm nana akua and for the next few hours, me and my panel will be taking on some of the big topics hitting the headlines right now . hitting the headlines right now. this about opinion this show is all about opinion on it's mine, it's theirs, and of course it's yours. we'll be debating discussing it. at times. disagree , but no times. we will disagree, but no one will be cancelled . so one will be cancelled. so joining me in the next hour, broadcaster and author christine hamilton and also broadcast on columnist danny kelly. but before we get stuck in, let's get your latest news with aaron armstrong . it's 3:00. armstrong. it's 3:00. >> good afternoon to you. i'm aaron armstrong. thousands of people's new year's plans have been thrown into chaos after eurostar cancelled all trains to and from london. the company has apologised after what it said

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