big claims from >> good evening big claims from the government who tell us the asylum backlog has been dealt with. sadly their spin is getting them into very big trouble once again . storm henk trouble once again. storm henk is wreaking havoc across the uk. i'll be joined by legendary weatherman john kettley to discuss. has this been the wettest , discuss. has this been the wettest, windiest christmas holidays ever .7 and nhs excess holidays ever? and nhs excess deaths are still running at 1000 a week and cancer rates are increasing . are we paying a long increasing. are we paying a long terme price for lockdowns and the pandemic ? all of that after the pandemic? all of that after the pandemic? all of that after the news with polly middlehurst . the news with polly middlehurst. >> nigel thank you. our top story from the gb news room. a senior hamas official has been killed by an airstrike in beirut in lebanon. saleh al—arouri was the leader of the terrorist group's military wing in the west bank. he also had close links to hezbollah, which has been involved in cross—border attacks on israel's north in

recent weeks . the lebanese prime recent weeks. the lebanese prime minister has within the last hour condemned the blast which killed him and it was reportedly the result of an israeli drone strike. israel yet to comment on this now, as you've been hearing, a new storm is on the radar. it's called storm henk and a woman has been taken to hospital after being struck by a falling tree in london. an after storm henk barrelled through. train operators tonight are urging people to not travel because a very strong winds . because a very strong winds. pictures here of waterloo train station in london, which was described as chaos by some train operators advising passengers not to leave london and stay in central london if they could. because of the strong winds and heavy rain across much of southern england and wales, the met office has issued amber and yellow weather warnings . coastal yellow weather warnings. coastal areas expecting to see gusts of up to 80 miles an hour. as well. forecasters warning a chance of power cuts , damage to buildings power cuts, damage to buildings that travel disruption and a

chance of injury or loss of life from flying debris . we'll be from flying debris. we'll be keeping tabs on storm henk right through the night here on gb news is now, the home secretary insisted today the government has cleared a backlog of migrant asylum applications, as critics accuse the government of fiddling the figures . the number fiddling the figures. the number of asylum case decisions made last year was the highest since 2002, as the government insisted its commitment to clearing the backlog has been delivered. labour said, though, that was false and reports suggest the reduced figure may be in some part due to legacy cases being moved to other categories . james moved to other categories. james cleverly was insistent , however, cleverly was insistent, however, saying the number is coming down. we have processed every single one of those applications actions in the vast majority. >> a final decision has been made and in a small number there are complications, but the point is we have now got a much, much faster process which is why 50

hotels that were being used for housing asylum seekers are now being given back to the commercial world so they can be put back into use as hotels. we're reducing the need to accommodate asylum seekers and will be processing much more quickly going through 2024. james cleverly speaking earlier and more on farage's programme. >> coming up on that subject now, the number of people buying a home for the first time is believed to have been at its lowest point in a decade, according to data from the yorkshire building society. the number of first time buyers across the uk shrank by a fifth in 2023. it comes after a string of interest rate rises pushed up borrowing costs , the building borrowing costs, the building society saying cost of living pressures and high house prices have led to a decline across all types of borrowing as customers struggle to meet affordability requirements. struggle to meet affordability requirements . that's the news on requirements. that's the news on gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker for this

is britain's news channel . good evening. >> those that follow me on social media and watch this programme will have noticed that over the last few days i've been coming increasingly frustrated with this government. too much soft history, too much playing games with numbers and goodness gracious me, they were at it again today, but this time they really have been caught out. here was the home secretary, james cleverly , doing the media james cleverly, doing the media rounds this morning. >> the backlog refers to cases that were put in before the 28th of june, 2022. there was a change in legislation at that point, which meant that they were process under a former set of criteria . the and the prime of criteria. the and the prime minister committed to clear that backlog in 2023. and we did that well , that's okay. well, that's okay. >> but of course, the problem is that that they really weren't

putting that out on their own social media sites. they were really giving us the idea that somehow had been somehow the whole thing had been sorted out and twitter or x as it's now known, put out a community note on the prime minister. rishi sunak , which minister. rishi sunak, which said this. the backlog has not been cleared. the prime minister's pledge was to process 92,000 pre—june 2022 two applications by the end of 2023, around 100,000 cases have since entered the system , which have entered the system, which have not been processed . an not been processed. an additional 4000 pre 2022 applications remain unsolved. oh dear oh dear oh dear. well one thing elon musk did say was that whilst x would be a platform for free speech, he would correct people if they said things that were wholly untrue . but if you were wholly untrue. but if you delved more deeply into the figures , you find some very figures, you find some very interesting things that 112,000

applications were processed . on applications were processed. on which 77,000 decisions were made . of the 77,000 decisions, 67% have been allowed to stay . so have been allowed to stay. so you come by boat across the engush you come by boat across the english channel, you have no passport, no means of saying or proving who you are , and you've proving who you are, and you've got a 70% chance of staying. compare this to france , where compare this to france, where last year they their approval rate was 25. i wonder is rishi's solution for pretty much everyone to stay ? is that how we everyone to stay? is that how we clear the backlog? is that how we deal with the problem ? we we deal with the problem? we would welcome your thoughts on that rather sarcastic question. although don't think i'm although i don't think i'm wrong. farage nick gibb news.com. so the whole thing is driving me bonkers. it would also appear that 17,000 people have simply disappeared just disappeared. i can only guess

they've joined criminal gangs or whatever else it may be. but whatever else it may be. but what is for certain is that this whole issue of illegal immigration and legal immigration and legal immigration is rapidly climbing up towards the top of the list of political priorities in this country. as i always thought it would . yes, the unfashionable would. yes, the unfashionable views of nigel farage now have to be recognised by the mainstream . christopher hope, mainstream. christopher hope, our political editor, joins us. i did enjoy, i rarely say that i enjoy what labour put out, but i did enjoy when they said, stop the boasts, you're jealous, you're jealous, aren't you ? it's you're jealous, aren't you? it's a brilliant line. >> you're jealous. a brilliant line. >> you're jealous . that is a >> you're jealous. that is a good line. by yvette cooper. not the obvious, not normally that political on this stuff. and she she did actually land a blow on that. i think labour's right that. and i think labour's right because say , as the because you can't say, as the twitter account did the pm, twitter account did for the pm, that you have cleared a 92,000 strong backlog when there's 4500 complex cases remaining. and what is confusing is the 113,000

you mentioned there. that's the calendar year 2023. so the figures are different numbers altogether. apples and pears 92,000 is the frozen in time number pre—june 2022. yes . number pre—june 2022. yes. 113,000 is the calendar year figure for the year just 113,000 is the calendar year figure for the yearjust gone, figure for the year just gone, of which, as you say 67% of those two thirds are allowed to remain. that's a fall from three quarters the year before and 72% the year before that. now, i asked number 10 to say, why is that? are you being a bit tougher here? are you going towards the french model? where are you to 25. they are you down to 25. they couldn't give a clear indication of was things vary. of why it was and things vary. um, is a mess. the figures um, it is a mess. the figures are complicated. hard to are complicated. it's hard to understand viewers, let understand for viewers, let alone viewers on alone explain it to viewers on our behalf. >> are they deliberately trying to confuse us with numbers? >> don't deliberately, >> i don't think deliberately, but is but i think it is. it is overwhelming. and do see and overwhelming. and we do see and we repeatedly on gb news, we report repeatedly on gb news, these numbers coming across the on by small boats. you started the reporting of that didn't you, you you, before you, before you joined news, you were joined gb news, you were out

there your, video there with your, your video camera. the numbers are down camera. um, the numbers are down by third. uh, on the small by a third. uh, on the small boats crossings, there's been no crossings since december the 16th because me finish. i 16th because let me finish. i know merely saying to you know i'm merely saying to you what is happening, nigel, before you your eyebrows. all you give me your eyebrows. all right . yes, you're. of course right. yes, you're. of course you're right to give the eyebrows, but are . we said eyebrows, but they are. we said today. isn't that bad. today. well, isn't that bad. whether figures out whether they've got figures out showing red days last year. showing the red days last year. that's when you can't that's the days when you can't travel or whatever or travel to stormy or whatever or cold are the same, but 106 days to 102 days the year before. so they're saying it is down to deals with albania and the like. and better, uh, enforcement . but and better, uh, enforcement. but there is no there is no, no no no no, no, there is no doubt that the albanians are not coming in the numbers. >> they were. no, there's no question about that. but they should have allowed question about that. but they sh come have allowed question about that. but they sh come in have allowed question about that. but they sh come in the ave allowed question about that. but they sh come in the first allowed question about that. but they sh come in the first place. lowed to come in the first place. there also doubt that the there is also no doubt that the hundreds of millions that we've given the french the given the french and the hundreds of millions more we've promised is having promised the french is having some effect on the beaches again, question that. again, no question about that. but you know, rishi but i mean, you know, rishi

sunak very, very clear that sunak was very, very clear that the five pledges were to be met in 2020. >> he wasn't. that's the point. >> he wasn't. that's the point. >> very clear. well he was my promise is for 2023. well, yes . promise is for 2023. well, yes. >> but the only one time limited was halving inflation. the other four are rolling on into 2024. but when over 30,000 people come and remember , it is over 30,000 and remember, it is over 30,000 because the under 18 are not included in the figures. >> right? so it is over 30,000. and when something like 26,000 are undocumented, young males , are undocumented, young males, it's still a massive number to have crossed the english channel. >> and the way we're going to deal with this is the rwanda bill. now we revealed on gb news today in this the today that, in fact, this the heanng today that, in fact, this the hearing on the floor of the house of commons, a so—called committee whole committee stage, the whole house, happen now. house, that won't happen now. probably week, maybe probably not next week, maybe the after week after the week after or the week after that. that's some time away. that. so that's some time away. now with that is the now the problem with that is the government majority government has got majority in house of commons, nigel, but not in of lords. this this in the house of lords. this this bill will forward into the bill will go forward into the house where will be house of lords where it will be pulled apart if they can get away with the peers and

away with it by the peers and they want to see then there they want to see and then there might some, some ping pong, might be some, some ping pong, as and the as they call it. and the government today said it is still intent on getting the first rwanda in first flights off to rwanda in the which we think is the spring, which we think is may. the spring, which we think is maneah. they've got to >> yeah. well, they've got to get through not just house get through not just the house of the courts as well. of lords but the courts as well. and the echr and all the rest of it. labour a big it. now, labour making a big push. mean, both parties push. i mean, both parties talking immigration a lot. talking about immigration a lot. they those key they realise is in those key swing wall constituencies. swing red wall constituencies. this issue is absolutely the this issue is absolutely at the top the people are top of the list. people are furious. they perceive it to be totally unfair. um, have labour made ground on or not? made some ground on this or not? they haven't got an answer on this yet. >> and what is happening and developing they view rwanda developing is they view rwanda as a deporting scheme, whereas they are looking at offshore processing , which is germany are processing, which is germany are doing italy are doing with albania the idea of processing offshore away from this country, not in. so not allowing them stay in hotels because having migrants staying in hotels is like an almost like an invitation to come here for those of those intents costing

£8.2 million a day. >> by the way, a day, a day living in tents across the channel so you can see the pull factor there and but the fear in a red wall is right. >> i just wonder whether i've done some forecasting gb news done some forecasting on gb news website today, whether net migration might fall this year. i mean, there are some suggestions it could halve because factors of hong kong because the factors of hong kong is coming here. who will be allowed to legally come here? ukrainians coming here legally. mhm. >> um, but if it halved it would still be higher than the highest year blair. yes it year under tony blair. yes it would. that's the point. and would. and that's the point. and it's what. >> and this lack control of >> and this lack of control of sovereignty control the sovereignty and control of the border what drives drove the border is what drives drove the brexit the places brexit vote. and the places you're talking about were brexit. >> and of course labour need to brexit. >> .backf course labour need to brexit. >> .back those se labour need to brexit. >> .back those 2019 )our need to brexit. >> .back those 2019 conservative win back those 2019 conservative voters wall seats. voters in the red wall seats. and curtis, you know, who's and john curtis, you know, who's very good stuff saying very good at this stuff saying that actually for every two votes the conservatives are losing the red wall, one's losing in the red wall, one's going to labour but one's going to reform. reform not just to reform. so reform not just richard tice, not just posing a problem for the tories, but potentially for labour to eating

into their support. >> well, your >> that's right. well, your lifetime of party. >> that's right. well, your lifeyou've of party. >> that's right. well, your lifeyou've got of party. >> that's right. well, your lifeyou've got an of party. >> that's right. well, your lifeyou've got an interestparty. >> that's right. well, your lifeyou've got an interest in rty. so you've got an interest in that one. i am, but it is. and what curtis says is often proved right in the final analysis. but reform yeah. if they reform around 910. yeah. if they can double that, push it 20, can double that, push it to 20, they'll be a real problem. but right now, as know, we saw right now, as we know, we saw the figures in those by elections last year. the numbers were reform were were voting for reform were enough tories a win in enough to give tories a win in all those big seats. all three of those big seats. yeah and that's perception. yeah and that's the perception. >> i'm making is >> but the point i'm making is the point i'm making is that labour need those 2019 conservative voters, but they're not yet. nigel not cutting through yet. nigel labour through labour are not cutting through on they. they on this, are they. and they don't a credible don't really have a credible plan. offshore processing. well where equally you where how um and equally you know, getting tough the gangs know, getting tough on the gangs . very different to the . not very different to the conservatives really. conservatives policy really. >> they're not clear at all >> no. they're not clear at all about it. and indeed we'll hear more from keir starmer this week. we're week. a big speech we're expecting this week thursday. is it. possibly thursday. and it. yeah possibly thursday. and again more from um from rishi sunak, the prime minister. he'll be out meeting people, answering questions, maybe a speech next week. sure yet. it's

week. we're not sure yet. it's all ironed out. we're all being ironed out. we're waiting a year waiting to hear we're a year from now from those five pledges. of course, as you say, we were led to believe or we thought we thought we understood. this understood. they were for this for just gone. but no for the year just gone. but no bev turner saying today that in fact, it's only one of the targets was last one. well, targets was the last one. well, too much spin in my view. >> and been called out >> and they've been called out today, on twitter and today, corrected on twitter and using chris, who using figures. and chris, who puts very neutral puts stuff in a very neutral way, making the point they deliberately apples deliberately comparing apples with moment storm with pears in a moment storm hank wreaking havoc across hank is wreaking havoc across the country, actually just the country, but actually just think about the weather over the course of the last couple of weeks has this been the wettest, windiest christmas period on record? legendary john record? the legendary john kettley will answer that in just a moment

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care that the backlog has been cleared. i want to know how many applicants have been granted the right to stay. well, the answer very clearly, graham, is that 67% of those applications that have been properly processed have been properly processed have resulted in people staying compared with 25% in france . compared with 25% in france. interestingly, a couple of you say , you know, one of you are say, you know, one of you are saying here, i would like to know the number of illegal immigrants that have been deported, clearing the backlog and are two different and deporting are two different things. government say things. now, the government say that year, 24,000 people that last year, 24,000 people were deported, of which 5 or 6000 went back to albania . what? 6000 went back to albania. what? i'm not clear about is what the grounds for deporting action were. were these people who were within the criminal justice system in britain. we just haven't got the full details and that's really been the story of the day, is that the government makes these big, bold claims, puts out some numbers when you try to examine them. getting to the bottom of it's not easy. now now, the biggest subject of conversation over christmas

certainly in our family and i would guess probably in yours, was the wretched weather. it would appear storm after storm, gale after gale, rain after rain. and we're in a position today with storm hank where many trains have stopped running across the country. there's a huge number of flood warnings over a vast part of england. winds touched, i believe, as high as 94mph on the isle of wight. well right now, if the weather maps are right, lincolnshire is pretty much in the eye of the storm, which is exactly where john kettley, weather consultant is right now . weather consultant is right now. john, good evening . are you in john, good evening. are you in the eye of the storm? >> well, it doesn't feel too bad, nigel. actually, it's pounng bad, nigel. actually, it's pouring with rain and has been for about eight hours. so my garden is virtually underwater. but the winds haven't been too bad here. i think it's mainly across the norfolk coast in the next 2 or 3 hours, where things will be very bad, but we've seen

some very severe gales across the of england as well. the south of england as well. dufing the south of england as well. during at during the afternoon over at heathrow airport, miles an heathrow airport, 69 miles an hour and down at portland hour gusts and down at portland earlier on it was up at 71 miles an there and i think the an hour. there and i think the highest i've seen was 81 at exeter airport, 74 down at saint mawgan , which is now newquay mawgan, which is now newquay airport. so we've seen some very severe gales across the south of england. there a slow process england. there is a slow process going on now where the strongest of are moving away of the winds are moving away into north sea, we will into the north sea, so we will not too long from now start to see the back of this storm. but there'll still be some blustery showers sweeping for the rest showers sweeping in for the rest of and again of tonight and again through tomorrow, over more tomorrow, especially over more western uk. but western parts of the uk. but yeah, nasty storm. this yeah, nasty little storm. this one. say. hank it did one. i have to say. hank it did develop very quickly down across the southwest this morning around cornwall and around about devon, cornwall and into the bristol channel and since then it's trekked north eastwards right across the midlands, bringing heavy rain and some of those gales with it. but of course, even behind it there's been some sunshine returning across parts of southern despite southern england, despite the fact had those damaging

fact we've had those damaging gusts as well. nigel. >> yeah, i mean storm hank okay, fine. it's a storm. it develops quickly. get big winds, we quickly. we get big winds, we get that of itself, it get rain. that of itself, it seems to me, john, is not particularly unusual. what does seem me to be very unusual is seem to me to be very unusual is that, i mean, certainly talking from kent, where i was over the christmas holidays, it seemed we had a gale of 40 miles an hour virtually every single day, and heavy rain. just how exceptional has this period been? it just it sort of it feels that it's almost unending . almost unending. >> well, you're probably right. it does feel that way, but it isn't unprecedented by any means. i think we can go back into the second half of the 1990s in particular, round about to 2000, and it was just the same then round about the christmas period running up to new year's eve. we did see some heavy gales across many days for several of those years, so we did see that sort of pattern before. it just depends really, how the jet stream gets locked in across the country and what's

happening now, of course, is the jet stream, is really the jet stream, which is really the dynamic force behind the powerful winds and the heavy rainfall that we see across this country. that jet stream is just further south than we'd like it to be, but it isn't unusual. and although it's been more across the south at the moment, you know, we've in previous years, 2005 nine, perhaps cumbria has been more badly affected than the south of england. >> no , john, i'm sure you're >> no, john, i'm sure you're right. i'm sure we have been through this before. it just doesn't particularly feel like it. right at this in it. right at this moment in time. but was a very warm time. but it was a very warm christmas day, wasn't it? >> yeah. mild again, not the mildest. we saw very mild 1 in 2016. i think that's when we did see temperatures of around 15 to 16 degrees. but it was varied across the country because some places did actually have a white christmas there was christmas in the end, there was snow over northern snow falling over northern scotland during christmas day, afternoon and evening. so it was much colder up in the north and that's one of the things that's been happening today as well. we've storm developing we've seen this storm developing very intense, little storm

sweeping that's sweeping eastwards, and that's because contrast in the because of the contrast in the temperature across southern temperature across the southern part 13 part of britain, up to 13 degrees across southern england, nine manchester, nine degrees in manchester, seven up around seven degrees up around scotland. it's that contrast scotland. so it's that contrast in temperature, nigel, which you i'm aware of . in temperature, nigel, which you i'm aware of. um, it in temperature, nigel, which you i'm aware of . um, it is i'm sure are aware of. um, it is the change from the cold in the north to the mild in the south that these nasty little that brings these nasty little intense across uk . intense storms across the uk. >> now, once these gales have gone , i think wind settles gone, i think the wind settles into the north and we're going to have a very cold week next week. that right? week. is that right? >> nothing severe . i think >> yeah. nothing severe. i think we're looking at fairly widespread frost rather than, uh, big heavy snowfall. i don't think there's any sign of that at the moment. so we'd probably be looking in 2 or 3 days time at high pressure coming in across the country instead of the pressure, which is the low pressure, which is bringing and with the low pressure, which is brin high and with the low pressure, which is brin high pressure, and with the low pressure, which is brinhigh pressure, it and with the low pressure, which is brinhigh pressure, it meansrvith the low pressure, which is brinhigh pressure, it means to1 the high pressure, it means to say that it will be much colder, probably more around by probably more sunshine around by day. difficult, day. that wouldn't be difficult, would it? uh, so we going to would it? uh, so we are going to see big change in the weather, see a big change in the weather, and know in 2 and you never know in 2 or 3 weeks time i might come in back

on the programme and talking to you, saying, where's you, nigel, and saying, where's all the rain gone? it's just high now. we're looking all the rain gone? it's just higglorious now. we're looking all the rain gone? it's just higglorious sunshine.e're looking at glorious sunshine. everybody's the spring everybody's feeling the spring like forward to like feeling looking forward to spnng like feeling looking forward to spring and march and all the rest of it. and this is a big change from what had just a change from what we had just a few weeks ago. that could happen. ever happen. yet john, as ever a great pleasure. >> thank you for coming back on the program. >> thank you for coming back on the prograyou nigel. >> thank you nigel. >> thank you nigel. >> well, there we are. john kettley telling me that i'm wrong, that actually the weather has it's has not been as bad as it's felt. we've been through this in 2005, 2009 and in the late 90s. then about you. i've been pretty cheesed off by the whole thing in a moment. we've looked today at some excess death figures suggesting that a thousand people a week more are dying than should be, according to our population. and it's age. what the hell is going on? we'll also talk about cancer and clearly a shortage of funding for many of the cancer charities and a worrying stat in the times newspaper today that by 2040 will be diagnosing one cancer

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done, you can't say you've cleared that backlog . excess deaths. >> they were figures that we focussed on very heavily during the pandemic. it would appear we're still suffering from excess deaths as of about a thousand a week. for the course of the last year. now you know, bearin of the last year. now you know, bear in mind we do have an ageing population. we do have a rapidly growing population. but these figures are adjusted to deal with that. but i'm joined by angus dalgleish , professor of by angus dalgleish, professor of oncology at saint george's , oncology at saint george's, university of london, and i'm wondering about this angus , wondering about this angus, because i'm looking at excess deaths during the pandemic. but equally, before that, i mean, clearly the rate of death in britain will grow with an ageing population. ian. >> yes, it will, but these figures are meant to be adjusted for that. they're meant to be.

it meant to be adjusted for that. and aged justice as well. and i mean, i've seen the very raw figures and they are they are quite worrying because there's deaths the there's excess deaths and the younger going not younger people going on, not just in the older population, but in the people under 40 and the real peaks between 40 and 64, 65. now this, this is something that is highly unusual and highly alarming. it was initially dismissed as due to people not getting statins. remember chris whitty said this, which i thought was really quite alarming because you don't get offered statins until you're over 55, 60, so it can't possibly be involved with that group. now the one major thing we said was lockdown. the effect of lockdown and everything it did. this would go bang on to excess deaths due to cancer and various other things because of misdiagnosis, a misdiagnosis is a mistreatments everything but there's something far worse than this . now there's something far worse than this. now when you there's something far worse than this . now when you actually look this. now when you actually look at these, these figures that we have, they're the same in in europe, in australia, in other

places too. and one of the things that i flagged up and nobody's taken any real notice of, and it's even more pertinent now , is that others have pointed now, is that others have pointed out this excess deaths start at and correlates with the vaccine programme. so it doesn't mean to say it's associated. but why hasn't it been looked at? why hasn't it been looked at? why hasn't it been really, really suddenly looked at? and it hasn't because myself and other colleagues have raised this ad nauseam and we get absolutely nothing but to say it's all expected . expected. >> i mean, the claim is angus, the claim is from the establishment claim is that having the vaccine saved a huge number of lives and that whilst there are some who suffer from side effects, they are a tiny percentage that is what they claim. >> well, i personally don't believe it at all because one of the things that you get taught when you're at medical school, if two people with if you know two people with a condition, then very condition, then it's very common. well, find it very common. well, i find it very difficult to find people who don't know someone who's had an adverse from the vaccine

adverse effect from the vaccine campaign. the vaccine programme and the bottom line, it wouldn't matter so much if the vaccines were doing something against something was killing us. something which was killing us. but it's not the covid against which the vaccines were against. it's long since left the earth . it's long since left the earth. it's long since left the earth. it left the possibly getting on two years ago and but hang on a second, we're told that covid's coming back and but it's a different one and it will not be affected by the vaccine. whatever they tell you, they the companies tell that they've companies tell you that they've got vaccines, which got a bivalent vaccines, which will protect against the vaccine. well i can assure you they don't. i mean , they got they don't. i mean, they got passed mice and i mean, passed in eight mice and i mean, you can't tell anything from eight only when you can do eight mice only when you can do those programs properly in a community can you make those sort of claims. well, i disagree that any of those claims can be justified. >> does your scepticism about this vaccine make you a pariah in academic and medical circles? >> yes, of course it does. it does because there is a groupthink that thinks is accepted. it's very good, and

it's safe and effective when i was trained as a clinical scientist to look at the facts to and constantly change my opinion depending on the facts, and this is what's going on. the facts are changing, and at some stage i point out in the big america and flu vaccine, flu crisis of 1977, when they were dying people, soldiers were dying people, soldiers were dying in their 30s. they rushed out of vaccine program. 42 million people were vaccinated and then there were reports of guillain—barre, which is disassembling paralysis , which disassembling paralysis, which is not uncommon with a lot of vaccines, and instead of denying it, they sent people out into the field and they came back and said, yes, it definitely goes. and do you know what they did? they turned around. they said, well, no one's dying of the flu anymore. let's get rid of the vaccine. we should have done that, i believe, a couple of years ago. >> angus, it's fascinating. as i say, know, i could a lot say, you know, i could get a lot of people on from academia and the who take the medical world who take a very view. and i've

very different view. and i've had on this trying had them on this program trying to convince me to get the booster. but let's move on to your absolutely field your absolutely specialist field of now the times of oncology. now the times newspaper very big today. newspaper going very big today. yes, on on several issues to do with cancer . the first one we with cancer. the first one we touched on a moment ago, lack of diagnoses for cancer during the pandemic . how serious is that ? pandemic. how serious is that? >> i think it was very, very serious. and that's why i said at the time with lockdown that anybody's lives saved from lockdown would more than lockdown would be more than tripled in people who died because of lockdown and if they'd had the services , i mean, they'd had the services, i mean, they'd had the services, i mean, the became a covid service, the nhs became a covid service, so everything was shut down and we know that within cancer getting early diagnosis is absolutely for cure. absolutely crucial for cure. i mean, it's really amazing how well we've improved over the last 20 years. we can cure a lot of cancers that couldn't be cured before, but only if we get them early and what we are witnessing is people who've actually had the symptoms , as actually had the symptoms, as they've tried to get tests and they've tried to get tests and they've been cancelled 2 or 3

times, and then by the time it's sorted and they go for their treatment, they're being treated for a stage three, stage four cancen for a stage three, stage four cancer, when they should have been stage two potentially completely curable. and that is the problem . now, the other the problem. now, the other thing come on that we're thing that's come on that we're deaung thing that's come on that we're dealing with is the number of people who are now being susceptible cancer because of susceptible to cancer because of their lifestyle. and one of the biggest is actually obesity . i biggest is actually obesity. i mean, recognised this this mean, we've recognised this this obesity for a long, long time, but it is a major cause. it was picked up initially with renal cancen picked up initially with renal cancer, then endometrial cancer. but actually when you look back it's all cancers . and there was it's all cancers. and there was a report in the times that it was costing us 100 billion, which is nearly the cost of the nhs a year. yeah we're going to have start tackling this sort have to start tackling this sort of thing to bring down the cancer rates. >> i mean, they were suggesting and and could and it's modelling and it could be wrong, they be completely wrong, but they were suggesting by 2040 there could be one diagnosis per minute united kingdom. minute in the united kingdom. so, the, the regularity , so, so the, the, the regularity, the percentage of cancers as a

percentage of the population is growing in our country. >> without a doubt. when i started doing oncology, it was 1 in 10 people were going to get cancer and needing treatment. and then within 20 years it was 1 in 3 and now 1 in and then within 20 years it was 1in3andnow1in2 and then within 20 years it was 1 in 3 and now 1 in 2 patients will get cancer in their lifetime. so the demand just from the current population, let alone the excess population , uh, alone the excess population, uh, is just enormous. and i don't feel that we've actually planned to deal with that. that's the other thing. >> there are two points here. one is how we deal with it. we're clearly going be huge we're clearly going to be a huge problem. the other is, of problem. but the other is, of course, best medicine all course, the best medicine of all is the that can is the medicine that can actually people and stop actually educate people and stop them the first them getting it in the first place. we fought huge battles with and excess, with drinking and excess, drinking, smoking, ing. but you're actually diet you're suggesting actually diet is playing as big a factor is now playing as big a factor as anything else ? as anything else? >> i know there are some experts more expert than me in these fields who actually say that the diet and obesity is now a bigger cause of cancer than smoking and anything else but together. so we it's beholden on us not to

ignore that and to act our policies because it could save us so much in the long terme in the long run . and it's not just the long run. and it's not just cancen the long run. and it's not just cancer. you get obese, you get all the other things that go with it. diabetes hypertension, everything, etc. no , no. everything, etc. no, no. >> well, i think the education system has got a very big role to play. angus never boring. thank you for coming on and joining us on gb news. now i want to do what the farage is here that are very important. i think the first one is and this is quite funny , um, just is really quite funny, um, just outside little town of outside reading little town of theale. um, and they're building a footbridge over the railway line , and it took ten years to line, and it took ten years to plan , but now just to build this plan, but now just to build this footbridge has taken longer than it took to build the 102 storey empire state building, which was once considered one of the wonders of the world. but there you are. that's modern day bureaucracy for you. now, more seriously, there are announcements coming out from most of the banks that they

most of the big banks that they will be closing more branches around the country over the course of 2024. the numbers now are comparatively small, but think about this over the course of the last decade , 50, in fact, of the last decade, 50, in fact, slightly over 50% of all high street banks have closed . and we street banks have closed. and we know the massive inconvenience that is, especially for small businesses who take cash. yes, there are still some of those people out there and a feeling that the banks have been letting people down. and i said to you right at the start that my campaign on to do with banking wasn't just about the way that i wasn't just about the way that i was stroke natwest. was treated by stroke natwest. but how the country but how actually the country feels being treated. there feels it's being treated. there is a solution to this and the solution is the hub bank concept , where all the big banks and big clearers would have a little desk in one big office in a market town or wherever it is , market town or wherever it is, and a couple of people there would be able to receive and pay

out money. there are now 31 of these hubs up and running and established around the country, and where they are, they are hugely useful to consumers, to small businesses, but it's only 31. the banks have said openly they're going to back the hub system , and yet they're not system, and yet they're not doing so. and i want our mps , doing so. and i want our mps, particularly our mps, representing the smaller towns, the more rural areas, to start giving the banks a bit more of a kicking on this. the hub concept makes sense and it works. you'd have seen on the news on gb news and elsewhere that the number of first time buyers has fallen to the lowest level in a decade , the lowest level in a decade, but i want to put just a little sense of perspective on this. yes, that's right, sense of perspective on this. yes, that's right , they have yes, that's right, they have fallen to the lowest in a decade . but then the number of people buying houses has fallen to the

lowest in a decade, as a percent , the number of first time buyers is actually very similar to before . so people are getting to before. so people are getting far more nervous about entering the property market. people are finding it more difficult to sell houses at numbers they would hope to get, and we're beginning to see the effects of rising interest rates. it's taken a long time. there's been a lag, and even if rates come down once or twice this year , down once or twice this year, they're still very much higher than they were 3 to 4 years ago. this will be a massive year for people's fixed terms mortgages are coming to an end, so we're going to see a depressed property market for some time to come . but and here's my come. but and here's my prediction . the middle and prediction. the middle and bottom layers of our housing market will not fall very far. do you know why a massively rising population means that actually there is a huge level of demand and if prices fall right in a moment, well, it was

the suez canal in 1956 that brought down a british prime minister. but today in the red sea , heading into the suez canal sea, heading into the suez canal , we have the houthi rebels there are for the first time in 30 years, the royal navy shot down an enemy object, a drone, put up by the houthi rebels . put up by the houthi rebels. there are military hawks suggesting we should get more heavily involved. just how important is the red sea and what could it mean for your pocket? all of that in just a moment

bibby stockholm patrick christys tonight, 9 to 11 pm. >> the government claims to have cleared the asylum backlog . cleared the asylum backlog. nigel farage joins us to blow the lid off that. who are we letting in? where are they living and what is the cost to the taxpayer? the jeffrey epstein files are set be epstein files are set to be released today. speak to a released today. i speak to a source close to epstein source very close to the epstein investigation. should king

charles abdicate the queen of denmark has done so. is it time for charles to make way for william and kate? and will labour turn britain into a woke hellscape ? cash strapped labour hellscape? cash strapped labour councils are checking businesses, lgbtq+ credentials to make sure that they fit their agenda. all of that and more on patrick christys tonight 9 to 11 pm. p.m. >> it's a funny old world, isn't it? it's just a few years ago that president obama, the european union and with huge support from the brits said no, no, no, no, no. iran aren't that bad at all. we can work with iran. we can have a nuclear deal with iran. do you know what we'll do? we'll free up tens of billions of dollars for them, and in return, they'll promise not to nuclear weapon. not to build a nuclear weapon. and what could possibly be wrong with that? and of course, those of me and the european of us, me and the european parliament time that were parliament at the time that were deeply about this, now parliament at the time that were deewere about this, now parliament at the time that were deewere the about this, now parliament at the time that were deewere the bad about this, now parliament at the time that were deewere the bad dudes.his, now parliament at the time that were deewere the bad dudes. we now parliament at the time that were deewere the bad dudes. we were we were the bad dudes. we were the well, now we the warmongers. well, now we have foreign secretary have a british foreign secretary in lord cameron,

in the shape of lord cameron, you wagging his finger at you know, wagging his finger at the of course, we the iranians. and of course, we do that wherever we look, do know that wherever we look, whether it's hamas, hezbollah or indeed the houthi rebels in yemen , who are going to come to yemen, who are going to come to in just a moment that actually iran has used much , much of this iran has used much, much of this money freed up to money that's been freed up to sponsor terrorism, right? throughout the region. now, we now have a major problem in this area. i'm going to put a map up on the screen just to sort of remind you where the red sea is, what the countries are around it, and where, of course it leads into the suez canal , which leads into the suez canal, which the british and french attempted to take in 1956, which led to the resignation of a british prime minister. ship faces very major problems shipping is facing major increase costs, and it may not just be the red sea where we face this problem and it matters. it matters because it's potentially inflationary . it's potentially inflationary. it matters in lots of ways . most it matters in lots of ways. most of the goods that you consume

are in your home. come around the world by sea. well, i'm very pleased to be joined by marco forgione, director general of the institute of export and international trade . marco, this international trade. marco, this one, this whole story leading to the royal navy shooting down a drone leading to the us navy, actually sinking three boats that were , you know, attacking that were, you know, attacking a container ship . um, it is the container ship. um, it is the first time since the early 90s that the royal navy have actually used their weapons in angerin actually used their weapons in anger in this way, and it's kind of crept up on us through insurance premiums . um, are we insurance premiums. um, are we do you think we're yet fully understanding how much this matters? let's just begin. let's just begin . how important is just begin. how important is this route? well the suez canal is a major artery for global trade , as you said, a vast trade, as you said, a vast amount of what british consumers have in their homes have

transited through the suez. >> about 30% of global container shipping goes through suez, about 12, 10% between 10 and 12% of global oil transits through the suez. and then there are all the suez. and then there are all the other commodities in ingredients and components that ship through. and so the blockade that is occurring at the current de facto blockade that's taking place is going to have significant issues for consumers , either through price consumers, either through price increases , through increases, through shrinkflation, or indeed through availability. so what's happening has significant ramifications, not just here but globally. >> so we can't use suez. we have to go all the way around the bottom of africa , which i think bottom of africa, which i think about an extra 5000 miles, something like that. >> 3500 nautical miles in, in one direction. and about an additional two weeks of transit time with all the associated costs that go with that . costs that go with that. >> so we have these houthi rebels . we know they're funded

rebels. we know they're funded by the iranians . what are they? by the iranians. what are they? i mean, what are they seek? what are they trying to do by firing missiles at global shipping? >> well, they're using drones primarily. they have used some ballistics, and they're using piracy , and they've been very piracy, and they've been very clear. they want to establish a de facto blockade of israel. in fact, , trade into the port of fact, uh, trade into the port of eilat is down by 85. so they're having a real impact on that. but in the process are snarling up the broader global shipping routes. and we've seen, as you've said, the costs of insurance for the ships going through the roof, the cost of container rates going through the roof. there's a delay as well. if you take that additional 3500 nautical mile, uh, transit route. but it's coinciding with problems in the panama canal where there is reduced capacity and in fact, hapag—lloyd, the big german shipper, had a couple of weeks before this started to kick off, said that they were going to divert their shipping from panama to use suez, and now both

are blocked off. >> yeah . no, these are big, big >> yeah. no, these are big, big problems, let alone in who knows in this uncertain world we live in, what could happen with china and so basically global and taiwan. so basically global shipping is facing major, major problems. it's the global supply chains. >> but but they are a result of a broader issue. that's taking place. and all the conversations as the announcements recently show, that we are in a period of global trade war. you we've had announcements from india that they are imposing export restrictions on commodities and components , including on rice, components, including on rice, china has put export restrictions on minerals and components, particularly for e batteries and just recently we had the announcement that the netherlands has imposed an export restriction on chip manufacturing equipment going to china. so we are in a period of significant political instability, and you have to tear into that, that the issue currently in the red sea is a

political issue and a military issue . and the us led operation issue. and the us led operation prosperity, guardian . yeah. is prosperity, guardian. yeah. is i think, uh , going to cause think, uh, going to cause several problems. as we've seen maersk who because of prosperity garden , agreed to reopen and to garden, agreed to reopen and to ship a stopping. >> yeah. prosperity guardian . >> yeah. prosperity guardian. this is the naval operation. naval and keep the red sea clear. basically >> yeah, but the issue with that , i mean, we can't just we can't just stand by, can we, and allow these houthi rebels to just disrupt shipping. >> i mean, we have to do something. >> there has to be a clearly defined, uh, target , an defined, uh, target, an objective to what prosperity guardian is seeking to achieve because it can't in perpetuity, either provide escort services for shipping going through or continue to fire multi million dollar missiles at $2,000. drones >> so, yeah, there is a yeah, a couple of million dollars for a missile, $2,000 for a drone. i get that . but you know, we had get that. but you know, we had the somali pirates issue a few

years ago. we and we've pretty much beaten that off. is it going to be harder to be to beat the houthi rebels? oh, yeah. >> absolutely. because there is a objective what a political objective to what the houthi rebels are doing. and a political objective to what theyou'vei rebels are doing. and a political objective to what theyou've mentioned doing. and a political objective to what theyou've mentioned already, ind as you've mentioned already, they supporting and they are supporting and encouraged . and in fact, encouraged by iran. and in fact, iran has now sent a naval vessel into the red sea themselves . so into the red sea themselves. so this is escalating quickly. and the bab al—mandab strait is very constrained. areas only 20 miles wide. the entrance to the red sea, very narrow. >> gosh, we've got a few problems here, haven't we? and it's not going to go away in a hurry. mark, i thank you for coming in and giving us some expert advice on all of that. and yeah, i think it is genuinely disturbing and genuinely quite disturbing and quite worrying. in fact, actually, whole global actually, the whole global situation, shipping, it situation, be it shipping, be it military be or whatever, is disturbing. farage at disturbing. now, the farage at large christmas special in birmingham a lovely evening birmingham was a lovely evening and we surprised anita in the audience. she'd no idea, but she'd been looking after an ex army veteran because he was on

his own at christmas , and for his own at christmas, and for the last four years she'd ianed the last four years she'd invited him round for christmas dinner. so absolutely , he wasn't dinner. so absolutely, he wasn't going to be alone . um, but she's going to be alone. um, but she's also followed up from that surprise bouquet of flowers that igave surprise bouquet of flowers that i gave her by giving selwyn a present to is a retired police officer, and a few years ago, four years ago, she came across an army veteran in sheltered accommodation , and he was going accommodation, and he was going to be on his own, having a microwave christmas dinner. and then about you. but i think so many too many of our ex—servicemen find themselves in difficult circumstances and find themselves homeless . but anita themselves homeless. but anita decided she'd do something about it and she invited him round for christmas lunch . and he's now christmas lunch. and he's now been coming for christmas lunch for the last four years. and anita visits him every week and buys his shopping . how about that? >> he's watching tonight so you

could say hello to him, right? and he's a high is actually watching this programme now, are you. >> usually goes to bed early but he is staying up tonight to watch his programme. so i'd like to say a huge hello to selwyn. >> selwyn there we are. very good now . mark mark, you sent good now. mark mark, you sent this in. i mean it is. she's clearly a very kind hearted woman . woman. >> truly kind. she's she's bankrupted . us. bankrupted. us. >> she's larger table for christmas dinner and everything. we've had to buy a larger table for christmas dinner. and he has three courses. the he eats like a king on christmas day. and he has a pint of john smith's as well. nigel. so nothing wrong with that. >> no, nothing wrong . no, >> no, nothing wrong. no, nothing wrong with that. >> i send him and he >> and i send him home and he has got about 20 presents under the christmas already . the christmas tree already. yeah. >> i'm one of his presents. was one of the presents selwyn got

one of the presents selwyn got on christmas day was a gb news mug, which we're very pleased about. very pleased indeed about which is good. okay. we are really going through the most peculiar times. you know, i have been predicting for years that this whole issue of what was happening in channel, but happening in the channel, but also the sheer population increase in this country was going have very dramatic going to have very dramatic effects on british politics. we've got a very big game we've now got a very big game being played between the conservative party the conservative party and the labour on these issues. labour party on these issues. who you believe the most, i guess, is entirely up to you. i just increasingly have the feeling that actually we're kind of just lost control . well, that of just lost control. well, that we don't have a political class . we don't have a political class. we've actually got the courage to do the right things. that's my don't believe we my feeling. i don't believe we solve of this until we deal solve any of this until we deal with echr. that's enough for with the echr. that's enough for me today. back with you tomorrow. coming next state tomorrow. coming up next state of nation with jacob of the nation with jacob rees—mogg. looks like things are heating up . heating up. >> boxt boilers spot of weather on gb news is .

on gb news is. >> hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast storm. henk is now moving through wind easing and rain clearing to showers overnight, but it does stay blustery into wednesday and the next few days. in as low pressure in fact, as low pressure continues to dominate. but this was storm henk earlier on tuesday . it's now moving into tuesday. it's now moving into the north sea. the worst of the conditions then easing across the uk. but we'll see further rain eastern england for rain across eastern england for a and the north and east a time and the north and east scotland will see further persistent rain, with snow for shetland. meanwhile, blustery showers push in to the rest of the uk. of course, the wind keeping things frost free overnight for shetland, overnight except for shetland, where we've snow building up where we've got snow building up over hills. and for many of over the hills. and for many of us it is a blustery start to wednesday. gales for the far southwest exposed coastal parts, but the wind be as strong but the wind won't be as strong across southern parts of the uk compared with tuesday . those compared with tuesday. those showers will make their way from west between the west to east. in between the showers, will some showers, there will be some sunny those showers sunny spells, but those showers will winds, will be lively. gusty winds, perhaps thunder and

perhaps even some thunder and hail the southwest and hail towards the southwest and some longer spells of wet weather in the far north where it will feel cold mid single figures here, mild the south, figures here, mild in the south, 11 12 degrees. a bright start 11 or 12 degrees. a bright start in the on thursday, but in the south on thursday, but further up across the further rain turns up across the south southwest as we go south and southwest as we go into the morning. some sunshine clinging the clinging on across wales, the midlands and east anglia into the for scotland the afternoon. but for scotland and northern ireland, it's cloudy further showers. cloudy with further showers. friday a few showers in friday sees a few showers in many places, but by saturday higher pressure will lead to dner higher pressure will lead to drier weather across the uk . drier weather across the uk. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on .

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filling in this week for the wonderful sirjacob rees mogg on wonderful sir jacob rees mogg on state of the nation. well the rules have already started because tonight we're going to look at the extra ordinary home office backlog figures revealed today. if you can get hold of them, make sense of them. well done. you not easy. i tell you what. here's another scandal. unbelievable 6 million ghost gb paid agents. that could be fraud . up to £1 billion a year. and here's a thing. labour have unveiled an online tax calculator for voters ahead of the national insurance company. and, well, i suppose it's probably no surprise that champagne sales in the house of lords have hit a record some £90,000. state of the nation starts now. for the next hour with me. richard tice will also be joined in my studio . be joined in my studio. fantastic. stupendous panel . fantastic. stupendous panel. we've got a barrister, i've got former conservative mp gerry hayes and the former labour special adviser paul richards. of course, i want to hear from

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