killed when a tree fell on his car while driving in gloucestershire . and now there's gloucestershire. and now there's more rain on the way , with more rain on the way, with people to expect people warned to expect more travel tomorrow . travel disruption tomorrow. doctors warned that medical doctors have warned that medical professionals vanish from professionals may vanish from the nhs unless pay is dramatically improved , and six dramatically improved, and six days of industrial action began this morning after talks between the and the bma union the government and the bma union broke down. some of those striking have warned that countries, including australia , countries, including australia, are with are targeting them with advertising in an attempt to attract british doctors jobs attract british doctors to jobs overseas . junior doctors want overseas. junior doctors want a 35% pay rise, which they say would restore their real earnings to levels seen in 2008. the government says that's unaffordable but insists the door remains open to further negotiations . a 15 year old boy negotiations. a 15 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a stabbing in north london on new year's eve 16 year old harry pitman died following what police say was an altercation as crowds gathered on primrose hill to watch the fireworks. posting on social media, his sister described him as a good boy with a heart gold and said he

a heart of gold and said he wasn't part any gang and wasn't part of any gang and wouldn't have been involved in violence there have been two violence. there have been two explosions at a memorial ceremony in iran, killing more than 100 people. iranian state tv showed footage of crowds running as ambulances rushed to the scene . officials described the scene. officials described it as a terrorist attack as people gathered to commemorate the death of a senior commander four years ago. so far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack and eurostar has been given a warning by the advertising watchdog after promoting special fares that were available to very few people. the train company ianed people. the train company invited customers to soak up every second of summer with a european getaway for just every second of summer with a european getaway forjust £39. european getaway for just £39. but the advertising standards authority found only a very small portion of seats available at the price. describing the promotion as misleading. eurostar says it takes complaints seriously and will ensure it doesn't happen again . ensure it doesn't happen again. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on your digital radio and on your smart speaker

by saying play gb news now it's back to . nigel. back to. nigel. >> good evening . now no one's >> good evening. now no one's pretending that being a junior doctor is easy because it is not. they can often have to work under very stressful conditions and they're paid a huge and they're not paid a huge amount of money. and the hours can be tough . but of course, in can be tough. but of course, in many ways, what they're doing is they're serving an apprenticeship , albeit sometimes apprenticeship, albeit sometimes quite a long apprenticeship. but once they do get up the ladder , once they do get up the ladder, then they're on good money for then they're on good money for the rest of their working lives. and in many cases , able to work and in many cases, able to work privately on the side as well . privately on the side as well. in the 75 years of the national health service, there has never been a strike on this scale. as junior doctors go out today for six full days , weighs up to 1 six full days, weighs up to 1 million appointments and procedures will be missed. patients will suffer . and bear patients will suffer. and bear in mind, we discussed yesterday

that excess deaths for last year were 53,000 people. there is no doubt this junior doctor strike will lead to some excess deaths , will lead to some excess deaths, but their pay demand is that they're making to the government. is completely out of kilter and wholly unreasonable. not only is inflation coming down, but supermarket inflation last month fell by quite a long way. we're moving into a different stage of the economic cycle , and to say we need a 35% cycle, and to say we need a 35% pay cycle, and to say we need a 35% pay rise is because our money has fallen behind since 2008. well, that's not really the fault of this government . that's fault of this government. that's more, i think, the fault of the british medical association, who perhaps should have been pushing for pay rises many, many years earlier. i'm not wholly unsympathetic to the plight of junior doctors , but this 35% pay junior doctors, but this 35% pay demand is totally and utterly ridiculous. now victoria atkins, who is the conservative minister

in charge, has said stop the strike. let's sit down and talk. but given that they got 9% last yean but given that they got 9% last year, they're being offered another 4% this year. and frankly , they're not going to frankly, they're not going to get much more this is a long running dispute. it is doing great harm to the health of people. and my question is very simple. should they be doing it.7 give me your view . farage gb give me your view. farage gb news. com or tweet hashtag farage on gb news. i do not believe this should be happening . well, i'm joined now by doctor laurence buckman, former gp committee chair at the british medical association . and i'll medical association. and i'll start with you, laurence . um, as start with you, laurence. um, as i've said, i'm not wholly unsympathetic. it's not an easy job. it's very stressful , but i job. it's very stressful, but i see it as a long apprentice ship to a relatively a relatively well paid md or actually quite well paid md or actually quite well paid md or actually quite well paid career in the end.

isn't 35% an unreasonable demand 7 .7 >> 7- >> if it was 7_ >> if it was 35% 7 >> if it was 35% in one lump as a pay >> if it was 35% in one lump as a pay demand, i think that would be unreasonable. but it's actually a restoration of where they were from 2008, and i don't think anybody seriously believes that they're going to get a 35% pay that they're going to get a 35% pay rise. that's just not going to happen. but there are ways of negotiating that would alter the pay negotiating that would alter the pay structure so that the lowest paid would eventually get near to where they're asking for. obviously, the people in the most senior, quote, junior positions wouldn't get such a rise, but it's the it's the most junior that we're interested in. so i think i understand why they're why they feel this way. i wish they wouldn't have taken strike action. i don't like the idea of strikes in the nhs, but the fact is they felt there was no alternative. and i think the sooner both sides get round the table without any preconditions, just talking is where they will begin to move towards where they

both want to end up, which is the health service that works, and doctors that stay in the uk . and doctors that stay in the uk. >> but we can't say , you know, >> but we can't say, you know, this problem goes back to 2008. we're dealing with a government that's in now. we're dealing with an economy that bailed out the banks and economy that paid for furlough and for lockdown. we've got a national debt , you we've got a national debt, you know, which is going up every year exponentially. we simply can't afford this kind of money. and i put it to you, tom, that maybe this is as much the fault of the bma themselves for allowing junior doctors to fall so far behind . so far behind. >> yes, i'd love it if it was that simple. um, unfortunately , that simple. um, unfortunately, we, um, we we've been protesting about use the use of the public sector employees as an economic regulator for over 20 years. when they first started doing this, which was several

governments ago , we've passed governments ago, we've passed through several different political shades since then . i political shades since then. i said that inevitably we would end up with diverging science from where we were to where we are now. so it's not surprising that this has happened. it's not not even really news. um it was obvious to all of us that this was going to happen at some point. and i remember , along point. and i remember, along with other people who were negotiating with governments at the time saying , negotiating with governments at the time saying, you negotiating with governments at the time saying , you can't go negotiating with governments at the time saying, you can't go on doing this with it's not just doctors and nurses , it's all the doctors and nurses, it's all the other people who work for the state, all of them have been used as regulators and now now, surprise, surprise, the gap is so big that they're saying we want a significant pay rise. i don't think really 35% is credible as a single step, but clearly some of the some of the people have fallen down such a long way that really we shouldn't allow this. and i don't think the junior doctors, by the way, are a special case. we can chuck in the police, the

army , the judiciary and all the army, the judiciary and all the other people who work for society. >> and that's the problem. and that's the problem that if we were to give a 35% pay rise to all the public sector workers, that's billion. that's almost £100 billion. i mean, that's problem . um, mean, that's the problem. um, the got but the government's got but lawrence a final lawrence just had a final thought. would you say .7 or lawrence just had a final timean,. would you say .7 or lawrence just had a final timean, what would you say .7 or lawrence just had a final timean, what would! you say .7 or lawrence just had a final timean, what would alou say .7 or lawrence just had a final timean, what would a junior! .7 or i mean, what would a junior doctor to me tonight when doctor say to me tonight when i say that my 88 year old father is unwell, is in hospital, is in need of real medical care. he might not get it for the next few days. >> oh, i think he's going to get it. he's going to get it from people who are there, which includes all the doctors who are not junior ers, uh, which includes consultants , which includes consultants, which includes consultants, which includes staff grades . there are includes staff grades. there are plenty of people working in the health service. indeed i'm one of them. and, um , you know, of them. and, um, you know, there's plenty of people who are at work and have been at work today and will be and your elderly relative , they will get elderly relative, they will get the care they quite rightly need and deserve . but we still have

and deserve. but we still have to think how on earth can we stop this happening again? because it was obvious it was going to. and here we are . okay. going to. and here we are. okay. >> all right. no laurence buckman, i hear you loud and clear. and i thank you for that reassurance. and i very much hope that you are right. joining me next is doctor tom goodfellow , retired nhs consultant radiologist tom, the sight of doctors as on picket lines is i mean, they're not quite shouting scab at workers that go in but it's not exactly befitting is it i >> -- >> no, it's lam >> no, it's not fitting at all. and i must admit i find the whole thing very disturbing. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> can i start? i i've never been a member of the gmc . i was been a member of the gmc. i was a member of the hospital consultants and specialists association , which i think was a association, which i think was a far more ethical organisation . i far more ethical organisation. i think a lot of the problems have been of the been directly as a result of the bbc the gmc, the bma's bbc of the gmc, of the bma's activities, which i think

laurence buckman really implied . laurence buckman really implied. nice to see him again, by the way, after a long time. >> yeah, i mean, this is the point, isn't it, that that, you know, bma perhaps know, the bma should perhaps have standing forjunior have been standing up forjunior doctors many ago doctors pay many, many years ago if they fallen far behind if they fallen so far behind since 2008. and now they're taking a sort of very militant line at a time when our national finances have never been worse . finances have never been worse. >> it's not just not just the pay, >> it's not just not just the pay, it's also the whole aspect of training and how they work in, um, when was it when in 2009, the working time director, the european working time directive was introduced and implemented. the bma's support. and that was a disaster because when i trained, when i was a junior doctor, we worked in firms and teams with consultants, registrars , senior consultants, registrars, senior registrars, houseman it was very supportive and we had good accommodation, good support. we felt valued. the working time directive and suddenly they're all on shift working and suddenly they're not part of a

team. they're often feeling isolated, unsupported , abused, isolated, unsupported, abused, directed by managers , and they directed by managers, and they have no ongoing knowledge of the patients because they're on shifts and so that they don't know the patients and the patients don't know them. the whole continuum of care is lost. and that's been a disaster. >> remember this very, very >> i remember this very, very well, tom, of course, because i was member the european was a member of the european parliament through this parliament all through this period. and i remember these debates, working debates, dates and the working time directive was going to stop junior making medical junior doctors making medical errors. to stop errors. it was going to stop slave conditions. i remember all of the arguments, but now we've got brexit. there a chance got brexit. isn't there a chance here to unravel it? well you'd have hoped so, wouldn't you? >> but the bma have done absolutely nothing to alleviate this situation. as bob buckman has said, it is obvious that this was going to happen . has said, it is obvious that this was going to happen. um, and, you know, quite clearly , and, you know, quite clearly, the bma and the government should have addressing should have been addressing these not just of pay, these issues not just of pay, but also of the whole way they work for example, a few years

ago, the, um, bma were in the high court with the government against their own junior doctors to impose a contract which the junior doctor did not want. to impose a contract which the junior doctor did not want . and junior doctor did not want. and that's caused huge damage and loss of professionalism . ah, i loss of professionalism. ah, i can barely know what to say about it. it was dreadful decision and despite what a mess tom, despite what a mess this is i >> clearly, as you say, it's not just about money, it's about the way we organise ourselves within the national health service, within the doctors profession . within the doctors profession. but despite all of that, should they be going on strike for the next six days, the general medical council, which is really the ruling body of doctors and ethics , say the first thing they ethics, say the first thing they say is you must make the care of your patient, your first concern. >> now that seems to have been lost . my generation. i think we lost. my generation. i think we would have struggled to support this strike because this was a

really ingrained into us. make the care of your patient your first concern. people are going to die because of this strike. and though i am very sympathetic to the case of the doctors unions, i think they have a case. but this is too far. >> yeah, i think i agree with that. 100, tom. thank you very much indeed forjoining us this much indeed for joining us this evening here on gb news. well, folks, that was a very interesting debate. wasn't it? and a lot of the blame being laid , actually, with the bma laid, actually, with the bma themselves and think themselves selves. and i think that does actually stick. however tough it is for junior doctors, they should not be doing and whilst laurence doing this. and whilst laurence buckman may be right that for a day two, the consultants and day or two, the consultants and others can cover for the strike, i'm not sure they can keep it up for the next six days. a major strike took place in lebanon yesterday , and it led the yesterday, and it led to the foreign minister lebanon foreign minister of lebanon saying simply cannot saying that you simply cannot beat hamas militarily because it is an ideology . and that made me is an ideology. and that made me sit up and think , is he right? sit up and think, is he right? we'll debate that with tobias

ellwood in just a moment.

radio. >> the junior doctors be going on strike. should they be doing it ? i asked for your reaction. it? i asked for your reaction. ron says doctors should not be going on strike. they should be paid much more than they are so they would not have to strike. it is highly paid management and they're stupid ideas that should be paid less with the money given to the doctors nurses given to the doctors and nurses and ron, this whole growth of middle within the middle management within the national health service, the vast amounts of money wasted through the pfi contract , through the pfi contract, remember that from mr blair a few years ago . and as we just few years ago. and as we just heard from tom goodfellow , heard from tom goodfellow, actually the implementation of european union directives , european union directives, damaging working practices, there is so much wrong with the nhs , and yet nobody seems to nhs, and yet nobody seems to really have the will to want to

get to grips with it. jack says. junior doctors who strike should be barred from practising as a doctor, as they obviously have no compassion patients and no compassion for patients and this goes back to a point in our debate a moment ago. you know, the medical council say the general medical council say the general medical council say the doctors, their first priority patients. priority should be to patients. well, they're not well, you know what they're not going for the next six going to be for the next six days and think about this. they may be complaining about their pay ' may be complaining about their pay , but we ourselves as pay, but we ourselves as taxpayers invest a huge amount of money in training these people. in the end, they get highly paid jobs. many of them, in fact, take those highly paid jobs off to australia and elsewhere. they should not be going on strike now. yesterday there was an air strike in beirut, killing the deputy leader of hamas. beirut, killing the deputy leader of hamas . uh, yup. leader of hamas. uh, yup. i mean, this man, saleh al farooqi, has been organising hamas attacks from deep inside lebanon. the israelis have neither confirmed nor denied that they were behind the

attack. but frankly, who else could it be? but what really interested me was the reaction that we got from the foreign minister of lebanon and he simply said, you cannot defeat hamas. hamas is an ideology. hamas. hamas is an ideology. hamas is a view supported by huge numbers of people in that part of the world. and that really got me thinking, because, you know, ever since the 7th of october, i very much taken the view that israel absolutely has to do its best to get rid of these terrorists. otherwise they'll come back into israel and do things on perhaps an even bigger scale. but i'm beginning to think that going into gaza and the deaths of 22,000 civilians actually , i wonder civilians actually, i wonder whether this may actually act as a recruiting sergeant for hamas in the years to come. i am deeply concerned . burned by it. deeply concerned. burned by it. i'm joined down the line by tobias ellwood , conservative

tobias ellwood, conservative member of parliament for bournemouth east, former defence minister and a former captain in the royal green jackets. that's the royal green jackets. that's the most important bit. um, tobias, i was reading that you take a rather similar view on this that even though we feel immensely sorry for the situation that israel and netanyahu find themselves in, i mean, they're surrounded by countries that want to wipe them off the face of the earth. i mean, it's a it's a very difficult place to live. and instinctively, i feel they should fight back as best they can, but does the does the foreign minister of lebanon perhaps have a point that you simply can't? military beat hamas ? hamas? >> yeah. i mean, you raise such important issues, which i don't think have been really explored, uh, by by israel. absolutely we stand by israel's right to defend itself. but the tactics deployed do not suggest a strategy as to where this takes, because, as you say, we're deaung because, as you say, we're dealing with an ideology . i

dealing with an ideology. i spent a bit of time in the middle east recently, and i came away , i'm afraid, with away, i'm afraid, with a different view as to where i thought this was going to go. i want to see, uh, hamas removed. they've lost any right to represent the 2 million people in gaza. but what i got from the arabic nations in the region was get used to the idea that hamas is not going to disappear, and in fact, they have become more popular because of this war, more popular in the west bank as well, and because there isn't a clarity as to what israel is trying to achieve militarily. and i said this at the very, very start, what does victory look like? you pile your tanks in there, you destroy the infrastructure. you've got this massive collateral damage , which massive collateral damage, which is causing problems in internationally as well, with thousands and thousands of civilians being caught up in all this. and it's not clear as to where this goes . and what we've where this goes. and what we've doneis where this goes. and what we've done is actually enhance hamas's positioning in the middle east

and further afield. and if i can just add, it's not only been a tough year in 2023 for the middle east, but also 2024 is the same. we've got, uh, nobody in control, no alliance, no stakeholder, no single country in full control of events . in full control of events. certainly not israel, not hamas, not iran, and not the west . they not iran, and not the west. they are all pursuing, uh , are all pursuing, uh, conflicting agendas that will see this complex, complex conflict escalate, in my view. well that was my worry. >> also, tobias , was that if we >> also, tobias, was that if we think about it, we've got hezbollah. of course, again , hezbollah. of course, again, back with iranian money. and there they are in southern lebanon firing rockets in to israel. we've got the houthi rebels in yemen threatening shipping coming into the red sea and up indeed through the suez canal. we've got the royal navy who this week shot down a drone the first time they've taken such action for 30 years. and i think growing underreported, frankly , in british media, is frankly, in british media, is there a danger that if israel

were behind this attack yesterday, that there that that there is a risk that we provoke quite a widespread regional war? >> well, i think we need to not blink. we shouldn't be risk averse. we should stand up for what we believe in. let's just take those things separately of what you mentioned . very, very what you mentioned. very, very important. what's going on in the sea? we're seeing the red sea? we're now seeing all containers, all those shipping containers, all those shipping containers, all that oil and gas that we get from the middle east have to go around for 40 extra days around africa for 40 extra days on those journeys that will impact on our on inflation in the uk, impact on the cost of living, uh, you know, impact , living, uh, you know, impact, uh, on our economy . yes. it's uh, on our economy. yes. it's right that we're sending destroyers or a single destroyer to the region to take out those drones or missiles. if they come over the head, but the houthis are breaching into national law. let's take out the silo infrastructure. let's remove the missiles in their entirety . missiles in their entirety. maybe not when they're absolutely in the air. and this shows how perhaps soft the west has become in being so cautious

about that escalatory ladder. and you touched on somebody else as well, general . uh, and you touched on somebody else as well, general. uh, soleimani, who is the fourth anniversary of his killing . you know, i know his killing. you know, i know he's a friend of yours. i didn't agree much with donald trump when he was in office. the one thing did do, which was quite thing he did do, which was quite totemic, was to take out this leader that had such a proxy influence in the middle east, but we didn't follow it up. we've allowed iran to ratchet its influence across the middle east, and we're now , i'm afraid, east, and we're now, i'm afraid, paying east, and we're now, i'm afraid, paying for that paying dividends for that now, because we've become so risk averse, not just i'm afraid in the middle east, but also in ukraine look where that ukraine as well. look where that war is going. we've become too timid. world is changing timid. the world is changing fast and threshold the fast, and the threshold for the west to perhaps be in control of all events is severely all these events is severely being tested right now. >> well, it is, and we've got weak american leadership. and i'm back donald weak american leadership. and i'm i back donald weak american leadership. and i'm i really back donald weak american leadership. and i'm i really am,3ack donald weak american leadership. and i'm i really am, because donald weak american leadership. and i'm i really am, because it1ald trump. i really am, because it was that said, was trump, of course, that said, you got this wrong. you guys have got this wrong. you clinton, the european you know, clinton, the european union, british government union, the british government the whole iran nuclear deal was

a con from the start. we freed up tens of billions of dollars , up tens of billions of dollars, which iran, of course, have used it was trump that broke that deal , but it it was trump that broke that deal, but it was trump that deal, but it was also trump that brokered the incredible historic abraham accords . i also worry to abraham accords. i also worry to bias what is going on. i wonder whether the abraham accords can survive because they were significant, weren't they? >> well, it's the abrahamic countries that were telling me , countries that were telling me, get used to the idea that hamas will stay. they gave the example of the ira and sinn fein saying eventually they matured into being part of the political solution in northern ireland. now, for me, that's a huge reach. and for many israelis that would be unacceptable. but that's the dilemma we face. that's where you began this conversation as to what we should do. i absolutely right, though , you need to go to the though, you need to go to the source of this matter. what is funding hamas? it's iran . what funding hamas? it's iran. what is funding it's iran. is funding hezbollah? it's iran. what is funding the yemenis and the houthis there as well? it's

iran . and as i say, trump took iran. and as i say, trump took out , uh, iran. and as i say, trump took out, uh, soleimani, the main proxy supporter here. but we then left it at that, and it's now time to wake up and recognise that we need to be more robust in what we stand for. what are we willing to defend, what we need to do and the of our armed forces? the size of our armed forces? and i've been saying this again and and again is just too and again and again is just too small for what we're dealing with. where we're going, you know, in the beginning of the or the of the gulf war , we had the time of the gulf war, we had 50 and destroyers . 50 frigates and destroyers. we're down to 17 today. we had four divisions. we're down to one. uh, today we had 36 fast jet squads . we're down to about jet squads. we're down to about six today. we are not prepared for the cold war, which will be different from the last or a world at war, which will be different from the last, which is coming over the horizon. i promise you on that. >> mr ellwood. you and i are fully aligned on everything else, but on that we are fully aligned. and thank you for aligned. and i thank you for coming and joining this coming on and joining me this evening. well, that very

evening. well, that was a very interesting with tobias interesting debate with tobias ellwood desperately ellwood and it is desperately sad that that coming together in the middle east is being destroyed . now, the last time destroyed. now, the last time there was an absolute sensation at the world darts event was all the way back in 1983, when keith deller, a 23 year old who was pretty much an unknown, won the world championship . in a minute world championship. in a minute he'll join me live . live from he'll join me live. live from alexandra palace as luke littler, the 16 year old goes into the world darts final tonight and you know what he's odds on? favourite with the bookies after an absolutely mind blowing performance last night. in a moment . blowing performance last night. in a moment. keith deller from

radio. >> well, he's a former guest of mine on talking pints. he's just been awarded an m.b.e. for services to the community and in particular for the money that he's managed to raise for charities and he was , in 1983,

charities and he was, in 1983, a 23 year old who stunned the darts world by winning the world dans darts world by winning the world darts championship against eric bristow, who was the dominant player in the game at that time. nobody could believe that keith deller had become world champion. i think perhaps even including keith deller himself. well he joins me right now from alexandra palace as something quite sensational, maybe about to happen. keith, congrats on the m.b.e. thanks very much, nigel. >> no. well that's thoroughly deserved. >> you've had a heck of a lot for your community now, keith . for your community now, keith. you know, i well remember i watched you win this 40 years ago, but this luke littler, this 16 year old from runcorn , i 16 year old from runcorn, i mean, this is astonishing, isn't it ? it? >> it's unbelievable. nigel when you think he's only 16 years old, we know he looks a little bit older than that. but at the end of the day, he is 16. but the performance is he's done in this tournament at 103, average

105, 106. last night . but he this tournament at 103, average 105,106. last night. but he is playing luke humphries, who's now the new number one in the world, who had 109 last night. so whatever happens tonight you know the future for our sport looks absolutely fantastic. and for luke to do what he's done with all the media attention because it's not easy. i had a lot that at the time, and it lot of that at the time, and it can be distracting sometimes because just to play because you just want to play darts time. but for me, darts all the time. but for me, he's done fantastic this week and he has a great chance of winning. >> get in there . >> get in there. >> get in there. >> you've got a bit of help there, but that's all right. that's darts. people love to get involved and have fun and loads and loads of energy. i but the one that stunned me, luke , the one that stunned me, luke, the one that stunned me, luke, the one that stunned me, luke, the one that stunned me and maybe we should explain this for non darts fans was he had 132 to finish on one of the legs and he goes bull , finish on one of the legs and he

goes bull, bull double 16. i mean that's almost unheard of isn't it . mean that's almost unheard of isn't it. it's a mean that's almost unheard of isn't it . it's a fantastic shot. isn't it. it's a fantastic shot. >> the reason they go that way is because the other player was on a finish. so the idea is if you if you go for the bullseye, yeah, you do need another one. but if you hit a 25, the semi bull you've got the treble 19 for the bull. so in a way if you go for the treble 20 and a go for the treble 20 and hit a single, you can't do anything else. so a bull puts you in a good position. the 25 gives you another chance and it's a great finish. we always that's finish. we always think that's the really. not finish. we always think that's the 170 really. not finish. we always think that's the 170 because really. not finish. we always think that's the 170 because sometimesiot finish. we always think that's the 170 because sometimes they block it and they go treble 14 tops. so a spot and last night you've got to really watch the eyes. but it's a great finish. it looked good. it was really close up and it just shows what a player he is. nigel a fantastic player he is. nigel but look as well when but if you look as well when he's 180 is but if you look as well when he's180 is three. darts is so close together that shows how good and the accuracy he has got. and as i said he's got a fantastic chance tonight . but fantastic chance tonight. but this should be the hardest test

he'll have. >> yeah well i mean he is favourite with the bookmakers but that's because of course you know people are just piling money on him because they want him it does look be him to win. it does look to be a very, very even contest . keith, very, very even contest. keith, i was there . i'd love to i wish i was there. i'd love to be there. it's going be an be there. it's going to be an amazing thanks for amazing event. thanks for joining us and come back tomorrow and tell what tomorrow and tell us what happened. >> we'll do . nigel. >> we'll do. nigel. >> we'll do. nigel. >> lovely. thanks. ever so much . >> lovely. thanks. ever so much. and you see, it's funny, isn't it? you know, rishi sunak thinks we should all stay school and we should all stay at school and do 18. you don't need do maths to 18. you don't need to play darts . it's to just go and play darts. it's the best thing possible for your mental arithmetic and i listen. may the best man win this evening. but i've just got this feeling that the fairy tale ending is going to happen. i haven't had a bet. i promise you. now. my what the farage moment this morning. this is sort of driving me potty. is that if you sell goods on ebay, on a variety of other platforms, let's say you're selling old

clothes. let's say you're, i don't know, selling a book collection or whatever it may be. now if you sell more than £1,000 worth on one of these platforms over the course of a year , the company will have to year, the company will have to inform the tax authorities. they'll have to inform hsi mrc . they'll have to inform hsi mrc. now, this just strikes me as being absolutely bonkers because let's say you've got a dress collection that you've paid quite a bit of for , money but quite a bit of for, money but you think you know what? i'm getting a bit old for that. i'm going to sell it and you might sell it for, i don't know, £1,500 or a couple of thousand, but knows what you might but who knows what you might sell for . but who knows what you might sell for. then you're going sell it for. then you're going to be reported the tax to be reported to the tax authorities. now, been authorities. now, we've been assured by leading accountants that this tax, this potential tax is only designed at those people that are designated as traders, those people that are

regularly buying and selling things on ebay or any other platform. but frankly , once the platform. but frankly, once the tax authorities have been told that you've earned a couple of grand here, a couple of grand there , i wouldn't trust them not there, i wouldn't trust them not to simply put this money on your bill, and you've then got to go through an accountant, spend money on the accountant and try to get a rebate. it seems to me we're being taxed on selling goods that we've already bought with taxed money. it's a risk of double taxation . why would we do double taxation. why would we do something so ridiculously intrusive ? well, research tells intrusive? well, research tells us that once again , it's the us that once again, it's the great globalist conservative party who signed up to this agreement with 27 other countries through the oecd and it doesn't really matter, does it? whether it's the un, the oecd, the echr, we still, despite it being brexit britain, we still have a conservative

party and a government who were more than prepared to sign up to global agreements. it really isn't good enough in my view. now i talked a lot yesterday about statistics and in particular some of the stats being used by the home secretary , mr cleverly , and indeed by , mr cleverly, and indeed by rishi sunak as well. well, today we learn that the office of statistics, regulation , the statistics, regulation, the rather sinister sounding auser, has launched an investigation because when they claimed yesterday to have cleared the historic backlog, well, they haven't of course, because there were 4500 cases that they describe as being complex . that describe as being complex. that word often used to cover a multitude of sins. now, look, i'm quite sure the lsr is absolutely part of the remainer obstructionist bloc that we have in whitehall, but it all goes to show again and again and again.

this government are overegging the pudding with statistics , the pudding with statistics, which i think is rather stupid of them. now we don't hear much about the liberal democrats, which is surprising in one way, because they are the by—election specialists. they've won over the course of the last 18 months for pretty spectacular by elections from the conservative party. yet in the national opinion polls, they're not really moving. they're stuck at around 7 or 8, and they appear to be going nowhere. but their leader, sir ed davey, was out in guildford today. they're attacking the tory blue wall and here he was wearing a hi viz orange jacket pointing to his next poster . and here it is. ed next poster. and here it is. ed davey's tory removals times up. um i don't know what you think about that. i think it's really pretty cringe making and pretty ghastly. and yes, ed davey might

be trying , but he's really very be trying, but he's really very wide of the mark. and you just thought what the government in this amount of trouble , the lib this amount of trouble, the lib dems would be soaring the dems would be soaring in the polls. they're not, uh, i don't think people really large numbers of people really want a party that could threaten to take us back into the european union or force a second referendum upon us and maybe, just maybe , sir ed davey hasn't just maybe, sir ed davey hasn't quite got what it takes. perhaps he hasn't quite got the fizz is now in a moment we're going to talk about the war on motorists . talk about the war on motorists. and it is actually a very, very big debate about electric vehicles and i've wondered why so , so many people in parliament so, so many people in parliament seem to be hugely supportive of targets that i believe to be totally unsustainable . all totally unsustainable. all right. rishi sunak slip this target from 2030 to 2035, when no new cars sold will not be evs . but i wonder who's influencing

parliament. could it be big international global money? answers in a moment

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harder. more aggravation , 20 harder. more aggravation, 20 mile an hour. speed limits coming all over the place. wales. i mean, 450,000 people in wales. i mean, 450,000 people in wales have signed a petition against these 20 mile an hour limits. driving in london a nightmare. you get fined all the time. you often don't even know what you've done wrong. it's what you've done wrong. but it's all being done in the name of the environment. and we know how important this has become as a political issue in westminster. what i perhaps hadn't quite realised until today was how influential certain groups were within the thinking of the conservative party, not just those at the top, but those on the backbenches. well, an article today that i read by chris morrison of the daily sceptic really made me sit up and think the conservative environment network is very innocuous sounding group. tell us a bit more about it and who's in it? >> well, it about half the backbenchers of the conservative party and a number of peers,

about 150 in total. and we looked into it. we've been looking into many of the people who fund many of these organisations , uh, are people organisations, uh, are people who seek to influence journalists, academics , journalists, academics, politicians, and we found that they this the conservative environment network, cnn is funded by the usual suspect, if you can call it that. we have the european climate fund, which is funded partly by sir christopher home, the children's investment fund, who funds, of course, uh, extinction rebellion , uh, we have the clean air fund. it's another fund that home puts his money into . and home puts his money into. and also supported by mike bloomberg, which is the bloomberg, which is the bloomberg philanthropies, which is the political former mayor of new york, former mayor of new york, of course, um, and that's that's the vehicle that he uses to fund his political, um, all of which is perfectly legal, all perfectly legal, except the same people crop up elsewhere . so you people crop up elsewhere. so you see, for instance, the c40 , see, for instance, the c40, which is this group of, uh, city mayors, 100 city mayors,

including sadiq khan. yes, by firework impresario sadiq khan . firework impresario sadiq khan. uh, and, uh , uh, i mean, his uh, and, uh, uh, i mean, his many talents , uh, again funded many talents, uh, again funded by bloomberg and home. home. in fact, gb news disclosed this gave c40 , uh, um, a £45 million. gave c40, uh, um, a £45 million. you're talking about vast sums of money. >> c4 t are very much trying to encourage us not to use motor cars in cities. basically. yes i mean, that's where we're going with this, isn't it? yes. i mean, c40 is really provides the firepower behind people like khan. >> this is where the, um, clean air, the thing comes from. >> this is where the, um, clean air, tilook thing comes from. >> this is where the, um, clean air, tilook forthing comes from. >> this is where the, um, clean air, tilook for the,| comes from. >> this is where the, um, clean air, tilook for the, um,1es from. >> this is where the, um, clean air, tilook for the, um, is from. >> this is where the, um, clean air, tilook for the, um, i think]. they look for the, um, i think it's 30% reduction in car use . it's 30% reduction in car use. they look for cities to gradually without necessarily democratic. none of this is actually tends to be put to a vote so close in roads, low traffic neighbourhoods, 20 mile. uh, yeah. but it's important to know what they were. >> it's important to understand what influences are and up what the influences are and up to 150 senior members of the conservative party, as you say in the commons and the lords are

part of this. i do find that very, significant. i'm very, very significant. i'm joined by ed thomas, founder of ev drives and world ev day . now, ev drives and world ev day. now, ed, you know , westminster , ed, you know, westminster, they're obsessed that we can make a very big difference to carbon dioxide emissions. make a very big difference to carbon dioxide emissions . the carbon dioxide emissions. the evs are the answer are wholly unrealistic plan that in this country there would be no sales of cars after 2030 that weren't evs . that's now slipped to 2035 evs. that's now slipped to 2035 but still a commitment that 80% should be isn't one of the problems here. and they're great to drive. i mean, you know, if you've got the char they're great to drive. but here's one of the problems with it that, you know, it's estimated that ev drivers are about to get a £500 hit. that's partly because insurance for evs is going up. and because tony blair, our old friend tony blair is saying, well, we can't have all these people driving around, not paying people driving around, not paying fuel duty, we'll have to put an extra road tax on them

and i think i'm right in saying that if you fill up, um , if you that if you fill up, um, if you fill up your electric charge on britain's motorways, it's now the same price as unleaded . i the same price as unleaded. i mean, the one thing i just want to start with this driving an ev is not cheaper, is it? >> uh, well, if you're fortunate enough to charge at home, it's a whole lot cheaper. >> it's £0.02 a mile for a volkswagen id3 . the combustion volkswagen id3. the combustion car equivalent is about £0.16 a mile. so it's a world cheaper if you're fortunate enough to charge at home. >> if you live in a block of >> but if you live in a block of flats, quite to flats, it's quite difficult to charge flats, it's quite difficult to chayeah, but the of the >> yeah, but the 40% of the installed public charging infrastructure installed public charging infrastruc during 2023. there's installed during 2023. there's a lot charging infrastructure lot of charging infrastructure going yesterday there was going in. yesterday there was a story not enough's in story that not enough's going in at service areas, but at motorway service areas, but there's still lot going in there's still a lot going in nationwide. you really nationwide. well, you get really npped nationwide. well, you get really ripped don't you don't ripped off. you don't you don't have the vat advantage with pubuc have the vat advantage with public charging. you do with with domestic charging. but there's a bit of a perverse argument with this tony blair approach to evs. like ev approach to evs. it's like ev evs are bad because evs are good.the evs are bad because evs are good. the success of evs in this

kind narrative is suggesting kind of narrative is suggesting that that's going that somehow that's going to lead cars on the road. >> well, he was suggesting gridlock , wasn't he? but gridlock, wasn't he? but but even an ev to begin even when we buy an ev to begin with, they're more with, they're a lot more expensive aren't expensive, aren't they? >> currently degree >> they currently are a degree more there's a more expensive, but there's a whole really, really whole bunch of really, really inexpensive on the inexpensive models coming on the market this year. so renault are releasing ev . the releasing a sub 20 grand ev. the very well recognised chinese brand byd are bringing in a sub £10,000 ev. not sure when it's going to come to the ev to the uk yet, but it's coming and so there will be really, really remarkable inexpensive cars coming way, we? coming our way, aren't we? >> strategic only just giving the new world to china on a plate? you know, we learned today that byd , the big chinese today that byd, the big chinese manufacturer, has overtaken tesla in terms of number of cars that it's manufactured and sold in the last half of 2023. china the streets ahead of all the rest of us on ev. i mean, evs are batteries or wheels, aren't they? basically. i mean , i mean, they? basically. i mean, i mean, are we strategically just giving this all to china? >> there was a bit of a moment

when brexit didn't do the best job for the indigenous manufacturing base of this country, so the likes of jlr have lost a couple of years because of all the concerns over brexit. and where that leaves indigenous manufacturers. >> i heard the same when we didn't join euro, by the didn't join the euro, by the way. i mean, that's is way. but i mean, that's that is a debate. we're a separate debate. but we're giving this to china on a plate, aren't giving this to china on a plate, areiwell, china, china are taking >> well, china, china are taking advantage a in time, advantage of a moment in time, a shift to clean energy to electric vehicles. they're doing what economies have done throughout human history. right. take advantage of a moment . take advantage of a moment. >> no. they're adapting. they're adapting. behind. do adapting. we're miles behind. do you that by 2035, the you think that by 2035, all the new cars sold in britain will be evs? >> at the moment, there's a mandate that 80% of all cars will need to shift to no ev. whether i said, do you think it's going to happen? >> i think the technology is superior. >> your brother being an ev driver would attest to this . um, driver would attest to this. um, you know, at the moment there's some debate around the charging infrastructure technology, but that will change rapidly. and when when got

when you've got when you've got something better , something that's simply better, it's going the thing that it's going to be the thing that consumers turn to. >> chns consumers turn to. >> chris morrison, i'm >> well, chris morrison, i'm sure conservative sure the conservative environment listen sure the conservative en edynment listen sure the conservative en ed thomas listen sure the conservative en ed thomas and listen sure the conservative en ed thomas and say, listen sure the conservative en ed thomas and say, well, listen sure the conservative en ed thomas and say, well, thisn to ed thomas and say, well, this is absolutely marvellous stuff, to ed thomas and say, well, this is a it's utely marvellous stuff, to ed thomas and say, well, this is a it's uteirather/ellous stuff, to ed thomas and say, well, this is a it's uteirather unrealisticzf, to ed thomas and say, well, this is a it's uteirather unrealistic , but it's all rather unrealistic, isn't it? >> the trouble is, it is an inferior product. and we all know that it's there isn't enough children in the congo quite frankly, to mine all the cobalt you need. and they decided that the royal society decided that the royal society decided recently that you can't use batteries to back up intermittent wind and solar. yeah. uh, and they are going for hydrogen, which is a silly idea. um, highly explosive , very expensive. >> why do you think , chris, that >> why do you think, chris, that evs are not as good as combustion? >> if i want to drive to cornwall, i can't get there. >> can't get there. no range. >> can't get there. no range. >> i can't get there. >> i can't get there. >> there's no range. and they lie. i'm busy person. lie. i'm a busy person. >> i'm a busy person. i travel around the country, i drive or i'm been i'm someone who's been driven a huge miles. huge number of miles. >> you think you can't >> why do you think you can't get ev call? get an ev to call? >> because. because the range is there generally there are advertised, generally disappoint there are advertised, generally

dis'the int infrastructure >> the charging infrastructure in the world. in that area of the world. cornwall is going in at pace. there of don't want there are lots of i don't want to to drive and get to stop, i want to drive and get there. i'm not. i'm not sure it's possible to drive for that distance to distance without needing to stop for breaks. for certain breaks. >> diesel car i can from >> my diesel car i can go from almost as east in england almost as far east in england and down the ports in and to down the ports in cornwall, and get nearly all the way back again on tank of way back again on one tank of diesel. can't do that an diesel. i can't do that with an ev. >> have a very, very >> you must have a very, very good bladder because when i go to cornwall i certainly need to stop. i don't i don't, stop. how will i don't i don't, i'm pleased to say there's another there's another problem with them. >> there's the batteries. they catch yeah. i mean i think catch fire. yeah. i mean i think within years they won't within five years they won't be allowed or. allowed on car ferries or. >> well is a they are >> well there is a they are heavier. more. is heavier. there is more. there is a risk damage roads. there a risk to damage to roads. there are about the fire in are questions about the fire in luton airport. there are questions them. questions around them. >> answers . >> there are there are answers. that caused by a not an that fire was caused by a not an ev by a combustion or a diesel vehicle. that's that's the clear answer that. answer to that. >> think you'll find that >> i think you'll find that it was a hybrid. it might have had a battery that was far away. a battery that was not far away. let's that, let's not row about that, gentlemen. we don't know the

gentlemen. you we don't know the answer to things. thank answer to these things. thank you. huge amount of you. there's a huge amount of passion debate, there passion in this debate, as there should is very, very should be. this is very, very important. right important. getting this right really does matter . and this is really does matter. and this is not just the debate about climate change. it is a debate actually about industrial strategy. it is a debate about what the right options are, what is life is for certain is that life for motorists is being made a complete and utter misery by parties of all colours , and the parties of all colours, and the conservative environment network, i think, have a fair bit to blame. that's it from me . bit to blame. that's it from me. let's hope the weather is better than last night when i got home to get another power cut. uh, up next richard tice first next is richard tice first though, let's have a look at this all important weather looks like things are heating up . like things are heating up. >> boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news is . weather on gb news is. >> good evening, i'm alex deakin. this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb tomorrow. for office for gb news tomorrow. for most places, a dry and a bright day , a few scattered showers, day, a few scattered showers,

but potential for some very but the potential for some very wet weather across the far south. storm henk is disappearing away to the east, but this little weather front is going to generate some wet weather across the south tomorrow. still got low pressure up north scotland as up to the north of scotland as well. of showers packing well. plenty of showers packing in here this evening. quite a wet evening across eastern scotland but elsewhere scotland, but elsewhere the weather bit drier. weather is turning a bit drier. plenty showers still across plenty of showers still across northwest of course, northwest england. of course, any extra rain falling because it's been wet could cause it's been so wet could cause some further issues . some further issues. temperatures mostly holding up a few above freezing. few degrees above freezing. bright start, then across the midlands, south wales and indeed the south—east england to the south—east of england to elsewhere. of cloud, elsewhere. quite a bit of cloud, some showers over some showers still over northwest and northern northwest england and northern parts of scotland, but to down the south we are looking at this next area of rain coming in some uncertainty how quickly it uncertainty about how quickly it gets parts devon gets in, but parts of devon and somerset turn wet by somerset may well turn wet by lunchtime then that lunchtime and then that rain likely to spread towards the likely to spread up towards the southeast during the day, could be quite heavy. of course, be quite heavy. and of course, again falling again because it's falling onto saturated ground, likely to cause some issues, it may be a

little bit further north, may be a little bit further for south many, it stays dry and many, though, it stays dry and bright through with bright through thursday with some sunny spells and temperatures a above temperatures a little above average. rain should scoot average. that rain should scoot away on friday, then we're left with few showers, but the with a few showers, but the weather drier and weather is turning drier and calmer through the weekend. but also a bit colder . also a bit colder. >> goodbye a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on .

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prime minister's salary . but prime minister's salary. but performance is lacking and the junior doctors surprise, surprise, they're striking for fairer pay . we've also got fairer pay. we've also got a look at government claims. they've cleared the asylum backlog. the statistics authority doesn't agree. we'll be talking about that. and the home secretary claimed asylum numbers were going down. nothing to the weather and all to do with the weather and all to do with the weather and all to do with their hard work. you can't believe some of this stuff. outraged stuff. campaigners outraged after the un women's charity in the has chosen a trans woman the uk has chosen a trans woman as the uk's champion. the uk has chosen a trans woman as the uk's champion . plus, as the uk's champion. plus, tomorrow night you are not going tomorrow night you are not going to want to miss this and exclusive that i've got with a woman who's facing potential prison sentence as she battles with the child maintenance services . services. and i'll be joined by a somewhat shy and retiring panel. the former editor of the sun , kelvin former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, and the historian and

broadcaster tessa dunlop. and of course, don't forget to email me. i want to hear your views. mail mog at gbnews.com but first of all, before all of that, it's time for the news of the day with sophia wenzler. >> thank you richard. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . wenzler in the gb newsroom. another yellow weather warning for heavy rain is on its way for tomorrow after storm henk battered parts of the uk last night. the west midlands ambulance service is warning people to take extra care after several people had to be rescued from cars caught in flood waters. parts of birmingham, leicestershire and north hampton are already flooded. a family was left terrified more than 400ft in the air while riding the london eye when strong winds npped the london eye when strong winds ripped the hatch off their pod. meanwhile a 50 year old man was killed when a tree fell on his car while driving in gloucestershire. there's gloucestershire. and now there's more on way, with more rain on the way, with people warned to expect more travel disruption tomorrow , travel disruption tomorrow, though not, hospitals have