to stop rishi of lords threatens to stop rishi sunak's flagship rwanda policy, as the home office admits more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk . our political missing in the uk. our political correspondent olivia utley has more . yes rishi sunaks plea to more. yes rishi sunaks plea to peers to hurry up and get the rwanda legislation through seems to have backfired . to have backfired. >> does he now stand any chance of seeing planes take off to rwanda by the spring? >> tax cuts incoming chancellor jeremy hunt says lower taxes are the direction of travel. could this be a vote winner for the tories ? tories? >> a new study shows that removing the largest glass of wine from the menu cuts the amount of alcohol oil that we consume . consume. >> a call to arms, a top nato chief issues a stark warning that civilians should prepare themselves for an all out war with russia over the next two decades. how would you feel about young people being forced

to serve for their country . to serve for their country. >> yes. how would you feel about the younger generation serving for this country? do let us know what you think about that. gb views at gb news.com. but before we get into any of that, let's get a news bulletin for you . get a news bulletin for you. >> pip. ellie, thank you very much. and good morning from the gb newsroom. the headlines at just after 930. well, more than 3000 jobs are at risk as steel giant tata is expected to press ahead with its plans to close furnaces in south wales. the job losses are understood to be uk wide, but most will be from the south wales site. a large proportion of workers could be gone by september. proportion of workers could be gone by september . its gone by september. its executives and unions are holding talks, with the company set to announce a decision later

. the home office has admitted that more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. it comes as members of the house of lords outlined plans that could stall rishi sunak flagship rwanda policy . the group of rwanda policy. the group of peers, led by a former labour attorney general, wants to delay the treaty until the government can show that rwanda is safe for asylum seekers . new ofsted asylum seekers. new ofsted guidance will allow school visits in england to be paused, as if staff show any signs of distress. the announcement comes after a coroner called for a change following the death of headteacher ruth perry. heidi connor says there is an almost complete absence of training for inspectors to look out for signs of distress in school leaders. the former headteacher at caversham primary school took her own life in january last year after her school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate , and a senior nato inadequate, and a senior nato official has warned that there could be an all out war with russia within the next 20 years. dutch naval officer admiral rob

bauer says that although the military alliance is preparing for a conflict, civilians must also prepare. it comes after defence secretary grant shapps said that the threat could be sooner and more wide reaching, involving russia and china , iran involving russia and china, iran and north korea . and as ever, and north korea. and as ever, you can get more on all of those stories and many more by visiting our website, gbnews.com . good morning to you. >> it's 934 now. more than 3000 jobs are at risk at steel giant tata . this in port talbot in tata. this in port talbot in wales . we are expecting the wales. we are expecting the official announcement at about 11:00 this morning. so we will be across that all morning. we're also talking to stephen kinnock aren't we. who's the local mp in port talbot. and we're going to be speaking to him about that in the next few minutes. as well. >> first, piers, led by a >> but first, piers, led by a former labour attorney general,

have outlined plans that could threaten to delay rishi sunak's rwanda policy. yes, it seeks to halt the treaty until the government can that the government can show that the country for asylum country is safe for asylum seekers. now all this comes as the home office has admitted to losing 6000 asylum seekers. well, joining now is our well, joining us now is our political correspondent , olivia political correspondent, olivia utley. olivia rishi sunak, he's already seems to be pitting himself against the peers in the house of lords. and now they are threatening to throw a right spannerin threatening to throw a right spanner in the works. tell us more about it. >> well , exactly. rishi sunak is >> well, exactly. rishi sunak is walking a very thin tightrope between the mps on the right of his party, who feel that the rwanda legislation doesn't go far enough and only reluctantly voted it through at third reading and the peers who are mixture of labour conservatives and crossbenchers, the conservatives do not have an overall majority in the lords, who essentially think that the bill goes too close, strays too far into the territory of breaking international law. now

rishi sunak tried to head off any sort of lords rebellion . any sort of lords rebellion. yesterday he did a press conference to journalists where he basically issued a message to the house of lords saying that they must do the right thing and hurry basically, approve hurry up, basically, and approve the legislation. peers the rwanda legislation. peers have hit back and said, no, they won't be up at all. won't be hurrying up at all. they they've set out they will. they've set out a timetable to scrutinise the legislation that timetable is two they're due to two months. they're due to ratify it if they're happy on the 12th of march, and to throw a further spanner into the works. lord goldsmith, who's the former attorney general for laboun former attorney general for labour, has said that he would like to see the government do more checks and balances to make sure that the treaty, which designates rwanda a safe country, is actually robust . and country, is actually robust. and he suggests that it's incomplete . this treaty that rishi sunak has put forward and that he would like to strengthen up that legislation even more before the treaty is ratified. now the government can overrule what the lords decide on this . but of lords decide on this. but of

course, if they do so , it will course, if they do so, it will leave them open to accusations that they don't believe that rwanda is a safe country. so there's no option, really, for there's no option, really, for the prime minister which is easy now. and of course, his plan to get planes off the ground to rwanda by the spring is looking increasingly unlikely. if the lords are only going to think about ratifying this legislation on the 12th of march. yeah, and time is not on the prime minister's side, olivia. >> and whilst we've got you, i did want to ask you about this story this morning. about 6000 asylum seekers are missing. now there are fears that this number is because people on the list, people waiting on the list, these asylum seekers are not being fully assessed . and this being fully assessed. and this is to help rishi sunak target of clearing the legacy backlog of asylum cases is how how true. do you think that is ? you think that is? >> well, it does look like it's a pretty big problem for the prime minister he said at the beginning of the year that he was going to clear the asylum

legacy backlog. those are claimants who came in between . claimants who came in between. 2021 and 2022, a couple of weeks ago, he came out victoria saying that he'd done exactly that . but that he'd done exactly that. but but actually it looks as though a report from the select committee finds that actually about 6000 migrants, 5900 and something seem to have just disappear and they've had no contact with the home office since they arrived in the uk. now, michael tomlinson , the now, michael tomlinson, the immigration minister, has not really denied this. so this looks like a very live, active problem for the prime minister in his rush to try and clear that backlog , he's ended up that backlog, he's ended up losing track of about 6000 migrants. it's absolutely remarkable, isn't it ? remarkable, isn't it? >> olivia utley there for us in westminster . >> olivia utley there for us in westminster. thank you very much indeed. well joining us in the studio is conservative mp for shipley, philip davies . shipley, philip davies. >> good morning to you . hi. >> good morning to you. hi. let's get real here. this this expectation that flights will get off to rwanda before the

election . it's it is now more election. it's it is now more skule that chance isn't it ? skule that chance isn't it? >> well, i don't know. let's see. well especially in what we're hearing about this. >> never before used motion by peers. >> well, we all know that the i mean, you know, this is the toughest piece of immigration legislation that any government has introduced . i mean, even on has introduced. i mean, even on the front of the bill, i got the bill here at the front of the bill. uh the government has to say whether or not it it's, uh, it's, um, complies with the european convention of human rights on the very front of the bill. it'sjames rights on the very front of the bill. it's james cleverly makes a statement that says, i'm unable to say that this complies with convention of human with the convention of human rights, the convention rights, the european convention of the of human rights, but the government nonetheless wishes of human rights, but the gov bill, ent nonetheless wishes of human rights, but the gov bill, ent house,aless wishes of human rights, but the gov bill, ent house, to ss wishes of human rights, but the gov bill, ent house, to proceeds the bill, the house, to proceed with bill. so we know that with the bill. so we know that the house lords, is you the house of lords, which is you know, government no know, the government has no majority house of lords. majority in the house of lords. it's know, sort of it's full of, you know, sort of worthy lefties, frankly, we know that they're to hate this that they're going to hate this bill and that they're going to do everything they to can block it. you know, we've got

it. but, um, you know, we've got we're going to have to shame them into approving because them into approving it because at the end of the day, the unelected house, an unelected, unrepresentative house of lefties should not be able to block something that's so important to british people. important to the british people. >> well, it's not all an unrepresentative house of lefties. the point lefties. i mean, i see the point you're to make, but is you're trying to make, but it is largely they're not affiliated. what there are, though, is there are we are there are archbishops who we know have serious concerns, including the archbishop of canterbury, doesn't he? who says that god doesn't want this ? that god doesn't want this? >> yeah. well, look, you know, we're not i'm not here to represent god. i'm here to represent god. i'm here to represent the british people and my constituents and my constituents want us to sort out the problem of illegal immigration. and we're going to have whether whether he likes have to whether whether he likes it or not, is going to be it or not, uh, is going to be tough. we know that tough. so, look, we know that the are going to cut up the lords are going to cut up rough, at the end the rough, but at the end of the day, the and they'll put day, the house and they'll put down amendments, no doubt down their amendments, no doubt to bill. we all know this is to the bill. we all know this is coming it's house of coming and it's the house of commons to overturn commons will have to overturn those amendments and send it back say, look, had

back and say, look, you've had your the elected house must your say. the elected house must have the have its way. but it's the timescale, isn't it? >> ping pong that >> and it's the ping pong that that can that can be played. i mean, do you honestly hand on heart, think there will be heart, think that there will be a that goes before the a flight that goes before the election? philip genuinely election? philip i genuinely don't election? philip i genuinely dorand i don't know how long the >> and i don't know how long the house are to mess house of lords are going to mess about all that's out of about with it. all that's out of the minister's he the prime minister's control. he can what he can do. he's can only do what he can do. he's passed this legislation. everybody accepts that the everybody accepts that it's the toughest any toughest legislation that any government has introduced government has ever introduced on immigration, on illegal on immigration, on an illegal immigration, disregards the immigration, it disregards the human it disregards human rights act. it disregards decisions court decisions by the european court of human rights. it doesn't it's not compatible with the european convention rights it is convention on human rights it is as tough as anyone could ever imagine doing and imagine a government doing and so, of course, the house of lords are not going to like it. but we've got to stick with it. and and the time scales of the election are out of the prime minister's control. can minister's control. we can only do what can do. and he's do what we can do. and he's doing the best he in the doing the best he can in the time he's got. time scales he's got. >> i want to ask you >> philip, i want to ask you about another big problem for the government. this the government. and it's this

omission from the home office that asylum are that 6000 asylum seekers are missing from the system, and they where they they don't know where they are. i mean, how is this allowed to happenin i mean, how is this allowed to happen in 2024? mean, this is happen in 2024? i mean, this is potentially 6000 people who have gone underground gone into the underground economy, even economy, potentially even criminal . criminal gangs. >> yeah, this is nothing new. this been happening for this has been happening for years donkeys you years and donkeys years and you know, inevitable. know, and it's inevitable. i mean, would to see mean, i would like to see personally when people come here claiming asylum , um, i'd like to claiming asylum, um, i'd like to see them detained until they're, until application is until their application is processed. i mean, if they're genuinely fleeing persecution, i don't see there's any harm in them being safely detained. they're fleeing persecution until can properly assess until we can properly assess their application. if their application. and if they're can be they're genuine, they can be allowed the community. and allowed into the community. and if they're not, they can be if they're not, then they can be deported. you don't have that deported. if you don't have that system, it's pretty inevitable that falsely that people who are falsely claiming asylum, bogus asylum seekers, if you like, are going to disappear into the economy because they're not going to want to have their application process they know process because they know it's going be rejected. the going to be rejected. so the course is going to disappear. is this been happening for years

and years and years? >> system working though, >> is the system working though, philip? criticism >> is the system working though, phil morning criticism >> is the system working though, phil morning is criticism >> is the system working though, phil morning is that criticism >> is the system working though, phil morning is that these ;m this morning is that these asylum seekers are not being fully assessed, that are fully assessed, that they are being, taken off the being, you know, taken off the list try and meet list too to soon try and meet the set by rishi sunak the targets set by rishi sunak trying that backlog. trying to clear that backlog. >> again, this is a >> well, again, this is a problem that that rishi sunak inherited backlog of inherited a massive backlog of applications. in applications. and that's why in many couldn't be many respects people couldn't be detained the detained because the applications taking applications were taking so long. detain people applications were taking so lonthat detain people applications were taking so lonthat length detain people applications were taking so lonthat length time. n people applications were taking so lonthat length time. um,ople applications were taking so lonthat length time. um, soe applications were taking so lonthat length time. um, so , for that length of time. um, so, you know, the prime minister was right to say, need to get right to say, we need to get down the backlog. but look, you know, the thing of i remember this being an issue 20 years ago, um, about about you've been in power, people in power for 13 years to try and fix it. >> and still this asylum system is in chaos , continuing chaos. is in chaos, continuing chaos. >> know exactly which is why we need this bill. that's that's the whole point. that's why we need this to bill try and sort it out. i just want to pick you up slightly on this thing where we've been in power for 13 years. i mean, it's a slight misnomer. i mean, the first five

years we in coalition with years we were in coalition with the so we weren't we the lib dems, so we weren't we were never going be able to were never going to be able to do anything tough on immigration when do anything tough on immigration wh> but you were still in government. >> but we didn't have >> yeah, but we didn't have a majority parliament. there's majority in parliament. there's no were going to do no way that we were going to do that. so that a we want that. so that was a we want a very small majority in 2015, which most that parliament very small majority in 2015, whitwo nost that parliament very small majority in 2015, whitwo years that parliament very small majority in 2015, whitwo years wast parliament very small majority in 2015, whitwo years was taken ament very small majority in 2015, whitwo years was taken am with for two years was taken up with the brexit referendum in 2017, we our majority. we so we we lost our majority. we so we had in parliament. had no majority in parliament. then first time actually then the first time we actually had of majority had any kind of majority was in 2019 within months of 2019 and within three months of that, we the covid pandemic. that, we had the covid pandemic. so idea that had this so this idea that we've had this sort huge conservative sort of huge conservative majority for 14 is just majority for 14 years is just not true. we've had a conservative majority since 2019, in effect, and that was taken okay taken up mainly by covid. okay okay. taken up mainly by covid. okay okayou've your point, >> you've made your point, philip. don't go anywhere because you want you to make further shortly. will further points shortly. we will talk to again. you. talk to you again. thank you. philip talk to philip davis. now let's talk to will hollis who is in lincolnshire for us this morning. this is just the most heartbreaking, heartbreaking story this week. >> really is. yes, of course it's two year bronson it's of the two year old bronson battersbee the sister of battersbee and the sister of

bronson battersbee has said she does not blame social services for death . for his death. >> yes, sir. bronson body was found in a property in skegness and he's believed to have starved to death after his dad suffered a fatal heart attack. >> well, joining us now is our reporter, will hollis. very good to see you this morning. will and give us the latest. we've we've had these remarks now from the sister of bronson battersbee i >> -- >> yes. for the last few days, the news around this has been dominated by bronson . the news around this has been dominated by bronson. his mum, a lady called sarah who didn't live at home here in prince alfred avenue . she'd split from alfred avenue. she'd split from bronson , his father. kenny, of bronson, his father. kenny, of course , who? bronson was found course, who? bronson was found in the arms of both, tragically died over that period at christmas . and the blame has christmas. and the blame has squarely been from bronson's mum on social services . but now on social services. but now we're hearing a different story from the family, from melanie battersby, who's been speaking

to the bbc. now she's a bronson's older sister , much bronson's older sister, much older in her late 30s, and she's, uh, kenny's. her father , she's, uh, kenny's. her father, but not the same mother as bronson. and she's been telling the bbc she believed social services and the police did what they could within the powers that they had . she also went on that they had. she also went on to say that while her dad was born to be wild and not an angel born to be wild and not an angel, he really loved his children , a stark contrast to children, a stark contrast to what we've been hearing, at least in regard to the social services angle. this is something that has been described as a tragic incident by social services at lincolnshire county council, who was having regular visits to bronson at home here in skegness. now they've ordered a rapid review, something that should take about two weeks and will involve all sorts of different agencies, including the police. that's going to come in in about the results from that are going to come in about

the second of, of february. so we should hear from that one fairly soon. but what we've also been hearing from the lincolnshire police is that they've referred themselves to they've referred themselves to the iopc . kc, that's the police the iopc. kc, that's the police watchdog, which is a standard procedure for whenever there's a death relating to police involvement in deaths that could be deemed to be preventable. and the iopc has said that they've received that . the other story received that. the other story that we've been hearing around this is that only hours after the home was discovered and the bodies were discovered, thieves broke in to steal a wallet and pills. tramadol that's something that was first reported in the daily mail. but was since confirmed by lincolnshire police . now they said that they are investing waiting because offenders appeared to have broken in through a window to gain entry. so at a time when the nation is mourning, when people in skegness are incredibly saddened in this

quite sleepy seaside town, at least over winter , some people least over winter, some people were taking an opportunity city to steal from people that had only within recent days lost their lives . their lives. >> well, some of the details that we've been reading, they are just so appalling . and you are just so appalling. and you can maybe expand on this, but little bronson being just two inches too short to be able to reach up for food and emaciated dog found at the scene as well. the pet dog that i think survived but was in very poor way . i mean, what that that way. i mean, what that that individual must have walked in on, you know, beggars belief, doesn't it ? doesn't it? >> yes. well, it was social services that were trying to make repeated visits since the end of christmas time , the last end of christmas time, the last time that bronson was seen alive was on the 26th. on, on boxing day. and despite two other occasions when social services tried to get a response by

knocking on the door, police being communicated to that none response, it was only after a third visit in late january, around the 9th of january. so at least two weeks later, since bronson had been found and it was that social services team, as well as the landlady and also shortly after the police , as shortly after the police, as well as paramedics that went in, um, and it's really quite shocking to hear of those details, isn't it, about the young age, two years old, incredibly vulnerable, so small that he couldn't get inside to get the fridge where there was leftovers that had been there since christmas ? we were told in since christmas? we were told in media reports that there was definitely chicken in there because the family didn't like turkey . there was no snacks on turkey. there was no snacks on the lower cupboards because bronson loved his snacks so much. his chocolates and his cnsps much. his chocolates and his crisps raised to crisps that they were raised to a level . so it just shows a higher level. so it just shows the circumstances that if things had bit different, had been a little bit different, maybe if social services had been get quickly, been able to get access quickly, if there was food and water in a way that the young toddler was

able to grab it, then maybe he would been alive. but would have still been alive. but what hearing from bbc what we're hearing from that bbc report from his much older sister that they don't blame social services . and i think social services. and i think what a lot of organisations are saying is this is a really tragic incident and we will hear from that review if there is any process that could be better in the future to stop this from happening . but certainly happening. but certainly whenever you have children in, whenever you have children in, whenever you have a shocking case like this, it really does pull on the heartstrings of the nafion pull on the heartstrings of the nation . nation. >> it certainly does. will hollis there for us in skegness? thank you very much indeed . steel. >> sorry, ellie. there you go. steel giants tata is expected to press ahead with its plans to close blast furnaces on its port talbot site in south wales, and it could result in the loss of 3000 jobs. that announcement is expected imminently. yes, the company is set to announce a decision this morning. >> we're expecting about 11 am.

onwards after a meeting between its executives and the unions broke down. well, joining us now in the studio again is conservative mp for shipley, philip davies . very good to see philip davies. very good to see you, phil. um not good news, though for those in port talbot, we're expecting job losses of about £3,000 this morning. i mean, it's got absolutely decimate the community there isn't it. no >> it's terrible terrible news for people who work who work there. well, look , the fact of there. well, look, the fact of there. well, look, the fact of the matter is is the the matter is this is the inevitable consequence of this mad rush to net zero. let's be let's be honest about what this is about. this is about decarbonising, uh , the plant . decarbonising, uh, the plant. this is about the fact that people don't want all these carbon emissions, particularly on the left of politics. we'll have stephen kinnock, no doubt, soon as from the labour party actually, as you say those words, he is here waiting actually, let's, let's talk to him. >> shadow immigration minister and mp stephen and the local mp stephen kinnock. you ever so much kinnock. thank you ever so much for joining us this morning. do forjoining us this morning. do you believe that there could

still be time to pull back for tata to pull back from this announcement ? what other announcement? what other solution do you want to see? yes i do believe there's time. >> the statutory consultation procedure will be 45 days. it will be triggered, uh, tomorrow. i think . and that time for tata i think. and that time for tata steel to get back round the table with the unions and look again at the compelling, uh, multi—union plan, which was about keeping one of the blast furnaces going and combining that with electric arc furnace and having time then to invest in direct reduce iron capability, which would be a bndge capability, which would be a bridge to the future that we need to have rather than the cliff edge that they have done a deal with the uk government, £500 million of taxpayers . money £500 million of taxpayers. money for 3000 redundancies and making the uk the only country in the 620 the uk the only country in the g20 no longer has the ability to

create its own steel from scratch. that does not sound like a good deal to me, and i hope that we're urging tata steel to get back round the table and look at the trade union plan again. >> i mean, you can you can feel the impact on the ground, can't you, mr kinnock? you can feel it in your constituency. but i do want to ask you, labour want to go green they. promising want to ask you, labour want to go spend they. promising want to ask you, labour want to go spend £28 they. promising want to ask you, labour want to go spend £28 billion promising want to ask you, labour want to go spend £28 billion on mising want to ask you, labour want to go spend £28 billion on greeni to spend £28 billion on green projects if win the next projects if you win the next election, but you are seeing job losses here, potentially we're going about thousands going to hear about thousands of jobs is this the jobs going today. is this the cost of going green ? and lots of cost of going green? and lots of viewers watching this right now would that this would would fear that this would become sight under become a common sight under a labour government . labour government. >> well, there's two things i say to that. one is we clearly are facing a climate crisis . i are facing a climate crisis. i mean, most people could see with all the extreme weather events and many other issues around the world that there is the planet is burning. but the other key point is from a commercial point of view, the customers are voting with their feet. customers are now looking for cleaner, greener products . with

cleaner, greener products. with a lower carbon footprint. so we have to recognise that. and then the question is how you get there. you know, the world is moving, train is leaving the moving, the train is leaving the station , we've get on it. station, we've got to get on it. but many, many of but there's many, many ways of doing and there is a huge doing that. and there is a huge opportunity to, as i say, invest in technologies like direct reduced iron. uh, and um , reduced iron. uh, and um, combine that with electric arc furnaces and you can keep your current customer, customer base and, and be ready to embrace the opportunities of the future without cutting us off. and that , i think, is what the labour, uh, £3 billion clean steel fund is all about. it's all about having industrial strategy, which supports , uh, steel makers which supports, uh, steel makers to buy and construct the assets they need to get us get us to that better . that better. >> stephen, i'm so sorry. >> stephen, i'm so sorry. >> we are absolutely out of time. really appreciate you joining us on gb news. and we will, of course, bring you the latest very shortly .

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>> good morning. >> good morning. >> it is 10 am. on friday, the 9th of january. you are watching and listening to britain's newsroom on gb news with ellie costello and pip tomson >> tata steel job cuts around 3000 jobs are at risk today as the steel giant pushes ahead with plans to close furnaces in south wales . south wales. >> another rwanda roadblock , the >> another rwanda roadblock, the house of lords threatens to stop rishi sunak's flagship policy ,

rishi sunak's flagship policy, as the home office admits more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. >> bad behaviour in school, missing in the uk. >> bad behaviour in school , the >> bad behaviour in school, the ofsted chief warns in some schools there are no go areas for teachers. this comes as the education watchdog vows to make changes to the system following the headteacher, ruth perry, taking her own life . taking her own life. >> capital fare freeze travel fares in london have been frozen for a year. london's mayor sadiq khan, says he wasn't prepared to stand by while passengers pay more for public transport and a call to arms . call to arms. >> a top nato chief issues a stark warning that civilians should prepare themselves for an all out war with russia over the next two decades. how would you feel about young people being forced to serve for their country?

>> plenty to get your teeth into there. and we will, of course, bnng there. and we will, of course, bring you that announcement from tata steel, where it's expected that 3000 jobs will go. we will bnng that 3000 jobs will go. we will bring you that announcement live here on gb news. let's get your headunes. here on gb news. let's get your headlines . a full round up now headlines. a full round up now with sam francis . with sam francis. >> pep ali, thank you very much and good morning from the gb newsroom. the headlines at just after 10:00. well our top story today is that more than 3000 jobs are at risk with steel giant tata expected to press ahead with their plans to close furnaces in south wales. the job losses are understood to be uk wide , but most will be from the wide, but most will be from the port talbot site. it's considered to be the country's single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, and the cuts come as the company moves to a greener way of working. unions are holding talks executives holding talks with executives later try to save jobs . later to try to save jobs. shadow immigration minister stephen kinnock says the closure

will hurt the economy. >> they have done a deal with the uk government at £500 million of taxpayers money for 3000 redundancies, and are making the uk the only country in the g20 that no longer has the ability to create its own steel from scratch. that does not sound like a good deal to me, and i hope that we're urging tata steel to get back round the table and look at the trade union plan again . union plan again. >> meanwhile, the home office has admitted that more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. it comes as members of the uk. it comes as members of the house of lords outlined plans that could stall rishi sunak's flagship rwanda policy. the group of peers, led by a former labour attorney general, wants to delay the treaty until the government can show that rwanda is safe for asylum seekers . new ofsted guidance seekers. new ofsted guidance will allow school visits in england to be paused if staff show any signs of distress . the show any signs of distress. the announcement comes after a coroner called for change following the death of headteacher ruth perry. she took her own life in january last

year after caversham primary school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate . the outstanding to inadequate. the coroner said there was an almost complete absence of training for inspectors who were looking out for signs of distress in school leaders . a senior nato official leaders. a senior nato official has warned that there could be an all out war with russia within the next 20 years. dutch naval officer admiral rob bauer says that although the military alliance is preparing for conflict, civilians must also be ready. it comes after defence secretary grant shapps said the threat could be sooner and more wide reaching, possibly involving russia and china, iran and north korea . defence editor and north korea. defence editor at the evening standard , robert at the evening standard, robert fox, told gb news earlier there's a real risk of the conflict spreading . conflict spreading. >> grant shapps said he thought we were lucky. if we've got five years and this is certainly what the baltic countries estonia, latvia, lithuania are warning us because they say after ukraine,

where russia is on a roll again, it's going to be us and we're all going to be involved . all going to be involved. >> well, meanwhile, a ban on the islamist group hizb ut—tahrir comes into force today. that's after mps backed the plan to ban the group as a terrorist organisation after the home secretary put an order before parliament, making it an illegal to join that group . james to join that group. james cleverly has branded the group anti semitic and says that it actively promotes and encourages terrorism . travel fares in the terrorism. travel fares in the capital have been frozen for a yean capital have been frozen for a year, has cost customers avoid a 14% price rise. the freeze will apply to pay as you go fares for bus, tube, dlr and tram journeys and the majority of london overground trips. sadiq khan, who chairs transport for london, said he wasn't prepared to stand by while passengers pay more for pubuc by while passengers pay more for public transport. the mayor of london has said that the price freeze will be paid for by allocating £123 million of funding from the greater london

authority . one third of adults authority. one third of adults will run out of money by the end of this month. that's according to new data finance firm karma says the high cost of christmas is to blame for the sting. in january budget, as many people wait longer to get paid and they're coping with expensive winter energy bills . the credit winter energy bills. the credit company also found that more than half of people strapped for cash will spent their cash will have spent their entire month's income by 20th of january to help balance budgets. figures suggest that more than a quarter people plan to avoid quarter of people plan to avoid socialising while almost half of us will hold off from purchasing any tech or gadgets . this is any new tech or gadgets. this is gb news for more , we're on tv, gb news for more, we're on tv, on digital radio and on your smart speaker. just say play gb news now though, it's back to ellie and . pip. ellie and. pip. >> thanks, sam. so many of you getting in touch this morning. thank you so much for your company. of course. huge reaction to port talbot and tata

steel and potentially thousands ofjob steel and potentially thousands of job losses being announced this morning. susan good morning to you. says britain should work towards being self—sufficient amid all of this worldwide tension. it just doesn't make sense not to depend on any country. ron says. >> we should definitely keep our own steel production. when russia invaded ukraine, we couldn't afford to heat our homes . it best to not depend homes. it is best to not depend on anyone . on anyone. >> one yeah, and marge says the welsh government must explain how we lose our ability to produce steel . 3000 lost produce steel. 3000 people lost their because they deem their jobs because they deem it's not green yet. we also import steel made somewhere else in the world, which must be increasing carbon emissions. increasing our carbon emissions. ian's very interesting point, and also , danny, good morning to you. >> you say , why are we closing >> you say, why are we closing the steelworks at the cost of 3000 jobs, when the steel will be imported from china, who will still put the same amount of co2 into if not more ? then into the air, if not more? then there's the extra co2 from shipping it all the way here. it makes sense at all. makes no sense at all. >> yeah. no. thank you so much

for your views. do keep them coming of the stories coming in on any of the stories that we are talking about this morning. vaiews@gbnews.com steel morning. vaiews@gbnews.com ste> as we are saying, tata are expected to press ahead with plans close blast furnaces on plans to close blast furnaces on its port talbot site in south wales , resulting in the loss of wales, resulting in the loss of an expected 3000 jobs by the end of the year . of the year. >> well, the site is considered to be the uk's biggest single emitter of carbon dioxide, and a move to a more greener way of working could see wales cut emissions by a fifth, joining us is economics editor liam halligan. >> good morning to you liam . so >> good morning to you liam. so we are expecting that announcement in the next hour or so . just explain to us this has so. just explain to us this has been a steelworks since , what, been a steelworks since, what, 1900? how devastating is the impact going to be to people there? i'm sure you've been talking to a number of them . it talking to a number of them. it is a bright, crisp and sunny south wales morning here in port talbot , pip.

talbot, pip. >> but the mood locally is anything but. this is britain's biggest steelworks. britain is , biggest steelworks. britain is, of course, the country which in the 18th and 19th century pioneered the use of blast furnaces using coking coal to make what we call virgin steel steel from scratch and for a lot of that period, britain was the predominant steel maker in the world. we've got four blast furnaces in this country now, two at scunthorpe, two here in port talbot , our two at scunthorpe, two here in port talbot, our biggest steelworks and it seems that all four are now going to be closed down. 8000 people work for tata , down. 8000 people work for tata, the indian conglomerate in steel making in the uk. the indian conglomerate in steel making in the uk . 4000 of them making in the uk. 4000 of them here at port talbot. as we speak behind me, you see the two blast furnaces in that steelworks. tata bosses are talking to a gobsmacked workforce . it seems gobsmacked workforce. it seems that we could see here at least

3000 jobs losses of the 4000 people that work at this plant and some job losses elsewhere at tata sites around the country. this is a steel town in its bones. this is a steel town in its bones . people here have talked bones. people here have talked to me about the smell of the blast furnaces, the sound of the blast furnaces, the sound of the blast furnaces, the sound of the blast furnaces being there , blast furnaces being there, sense of home steelmaking. it is a dirty business. it is a rough business. but for people here, it's their life blood and has been for generations. a lot of people here find it very difficult to understand and why we should be closing down steelworks in this country when we won't be able to make our own steel afterwards . only scrap steel afterwards. only scrap steel afterwards. only scrap steel using so—called arc furnaces, which are greener but employ far fewer people. and they wonder why it is that britain is making these huge sacrifices when in countries like china, they're building coal fired power stations ever more. every year.

>> well, this is the thing, liam . many people would say it's short sighted. i mean, you mentioned there the blast furnaces at scunthorpe also are set to close down. it would leave the uk as the only g20 country, i believe that cannot make steel from raw materials . i make steel from raw materials. i mean, how sensible is that when we're seeing headlines like the front of the daily telegraph today saying nato warns of war with russia next 20 with russia in the next 20 years, you would think that british industry and investing in our own industries is more important ever. important now than, than ever. >> look, we are largely a service sector economy in the uk. 80% of our gdp of our economy is service is legal services, financial services , services, financial services, creative services, hospitality and all the rest of it. but that doesn't mean that steelmaking isn't important . isn't, you isn't important. isn't, you know, you want to build a building, you need steel. you want to build arms, you need steel. so many processes have steel. so many processes have steel at their heart. and as these four blast furnaces close , these four blast furnaces close, as you rightly say, we can only

then make steel from recycled steel from scrap steel, from relying on imported steel, which of course involves huge carbon emissions . of course involves huge carbon emissions. using of course involves huge carbon emissions . using green friendly, emissions. using green friendly, environmentally friendly so—called arc furnaces rather than blast furnaces that rely on coke and coal as an economist, as somebody who studied the steel industry for years and years and years, as somebody who is steeped in geo politics. i'm a former moscow correspondent . a former moscow correspondent. it does strike me as pretty short sighted to completely remove all our independent steelmaking , not just capacity, steelmaking, not just capacity, but expertise. the men and women who work in the steel plant behind me, they make some of the highest quality specialised steel anywhere in the world, using processes that often their fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers helped to implement this is a hugely symbolic story.

it combines regional policy , it combines regional policy, clashing with environmental policy , clashing with the lives policy, clashing with the lives and livelihoods of ordinary men and livelihoods of ordinary men and women here in this part of the uk. a proud steel community who this morning are feeling completely bereft and put upon this is being done to them , in this is being done to them, in their view, by a political and media class that promotes environmentalism above everything else at their expense i >> -- >> these people are saying , >> these people are saying, couldn't the closure of one of the blast furnaces have been deferred? it didn't have to be done so quickly. and why not switch to maybe a hydrogen furnace ? furnace? >> indeed, the trade unions . >> indeed, the trade unions. i've been in touch with the trade unions about this story for many, many months. you'll remember in my on the money programme on gb news, we often spoke to steel makers representatives of the steel industry, the confederation of british metal formers who use

british metal formers who use british steel, who you want to prioritise british steel, even though it's a little bit more expensive than some the expensive than some of the imported steel because it is such high quality. there are lots and lots of jobs here at stake . there are strategic stake. there are strategic imperatives here at stake. there's also a lot of money at stake. tata the indian conglomerate that owns this plant here that owns scunthorpe . plant here that owns scunthorpe. they say they're putting in two. £2.5 billion in order to close down these blast furnaces and move to these arc furnaces that rely not on coking coal, but they're getting a £500 million from the british government. so taxpayers are actually paying for this transition. and that is another thing that's so galling to the local community here in port talbot. not only is this being done to them against, in their view or logic, as taxpayers , they're also having taxpayers, they're also having to pay for it. this is going to be a very difficult thing politically. rishi sunak is backing this move. his

government is putting up the £500 million that tata have insisted on. otherwise they'll close down steelmaking here completely. what's the labour government going to say ? it's government going to say? it's going to be very difficult for them because they have their sort of pro green credentials that they want to flaunt to their metropolitan voters. and yet here we are in south wales, traditionally a labour heartland . i'm i expect a lot of dancing on pinheads by the labour leadership in response to this , leadership in response to this, and i expect a great deal of anger from the trade union movement when news finally breaks. we're expecting an announcement at 1130. pip and as i say as we speak in the steelworks behind me, a bereft workforce is being addressed by the management of tata . the management of tata. >> liam , thank you so much for >> liam, thank you so much for that update . we will of course, that update. we will of course, come back to you when that announcement is formally made. our economics and business edhon our economics and business editor, halligan, there . editor, liam halligan, there. >> home office has >> now, the home office has

admitted more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. >> this comes as a labour peer outlines a potential roadblock that could stall rishi sunak's flagship rwanda policy. joining us in the studio is political commentator john oxley . good commentator john oxley. good morning to you, john. good to see you. but rishi sunak does seem to be pitting himself against the house of lords, where of course we know there's no overall all tory majority. we were talking to philip davis a little earlier , conservative mp, little earlier, conservative mp, who it is full of worthy who said it is full of worthy lefties . do you agree with that lefties. do you agree with that and do you think this is the house of lords are going to be very, very difficult and this ping very, very difficult and this ping pong could go on for a long time. >> i mean, the house of lords is going to be very difficult. >> i mean, at the moment, the way the lords has been set up is so no party has a majority. you have a lot of crossbenchers and you do have a lot of tory lords, but enough carry but not enough to carry something through. the real something through. and the real issue sunak is the issue for rishi sunak is the mechanisms that normally mechanisms that are normally there override

there for parliament to override there for parliament to override the the commons the law for the commons to override lords do exist, but override the lords do exist, but one is something the one is something called the salisbury convention, in which you use if you're you can only use if you're talking about something was talking about something that was in rwanda plan in a manifesto rwanda plan wasn't. in the 2019 manifesto, and got the and then you've got the parliament but the way parliament acts. but the way they work you have to send they work is you have to send something to the lords. multiple times over the space of more than a year. so it's simply not possible for that to happen to force things through in the lords. so if this is going to become law, he's going to have to find a way to get enough peers on side to vote it through. think it's going through. so i think it's going to very passage in to be very difficult passage in the particularly, you the lords particularly, you know, not a lot of know, there's not a lot of parliamentary time left between now potentially now and when there's potentially going election. now and when there's potentially 90111] election. now and when there's potentially goiii mean, election. now and when there's potentially goiii mean, we election. now and when there's potentially goiii mean, we could)n. now and when there's potentially goiii mean, we could see months >> i mean, we could see months of parliamentary ping pong, as it's called. do you think that we will flights off we will see flights take off before election? we will see flights take off bef i 'e election? we will see flights take off bef�*i think election? we will see flights take off bef�*i think it's election? we will see flights take off bef�*i think it's veryection? we will see flights take off bef�*i think it's very unlikely at >> i think it's very unlikely at this stage. i think it's going to be very hard to get act to be very hard to get the act through parliament. then, through parliament. even then, you to implement the thing . you have to implement the thing. there still potential for there is still potential for some you some legal challenges when you start , start to move someone through, you know, if we're looking

you know, and if we're looking at an election 7 or 8 months away, um, sort of maximum, that's a very difficult timetable to stick to. >> and we were talking to philip davis about, you know, come on, we still see these high numbers. we're talking about the number of people, um, 6000 asylum seekers that have been lost in the system. and i put it to philip davis that hang on, you've been in power since 2010. you've long time to try you've had a long time to try and fix this. and he said, well, we were in coalition part of we were in coalition for part of that i mean, does does that time. i mean, does he does he have point that the tories he have a point that the tories haven't actually had free rein to out to an extent . to sort this out to an extent. >> you play the hand you're >> but you play the hand you're deau >> but you play the hand you're dealt and, you know, one of the big problems know, big problems with, you know, asylum missing and asylum seekers going missing and the use the hotels is we the use of the hotels is we weren't building sufficient detention centres, we weren't creating anywhere to put these. and that's not necessarily, i think, something you blame. think, something you can blame. the coalition for. it was a spending and spending cuts thing. and it is partly we've seen in the last partly as we've seen in the last 18 months when the tories have tried to raise this again. it's

deeply unpopular. whenever you try to take over a site and try to make it into an asylum detention centre. i think really when you look at some of these problems, the conservatives haven't, know, haven't haven't, you know, just haven't addressed them, pushed addressed them, haven't pushed through the things you needed to get in place this to work. get in place for this to work. um, you know, and talk about um, you know, and you talk about the coalition, it's also , you the coalition, it's also, you know, it's now been 7 or 8 years since the conservatives stopped being coalition. they had a being in coalition. they had a majority they had majority in 2015. they had a confidence and supply which gave them majority. after 2017. and them a majority. after 2017. and you know, for four years now, they've had a majority of 80. i think it's a bit rich to sort of say that that's the problem. and, you know, and fundamentally, if you wanted to fix these things, you should have won the election properly. >> covid covid was another reason came out with as to reason he came out with as to why got to grips why they haven't got to grips with more quickly. i think with it more quickly. i think governments stuff to governments have hard stuff to deal the time. deal with all the time. >> can look through. >> you can look through. you know, all of examples know, all, all sorts of examples from the past, you know, um, you know, you had a us president, george w bush, who's a us

president, came in and eight months happened. and months later, 9/11 happened. and it completely changed the trajectory presidency . trajectory of his presidency. you know, point of being in you know, the point of being in power you deal power is, you know, you deal with as they come up and with things as they come up and you get your plan through. i think it's a bit to sort of think it's a bit rich to sort of sit back and say, oh, well, okay, we've been power 14 okay, we've been in power for 14 years, technically can't years, but technically we can't fix these things. i mean, what's the point of being power? the point of being in power? it's going to be hard. it's always going to be hard. you're going to you're always going to have to have political negotiations. um, if can't get stuff done, if you can't get stuff done, then if you can't get stuff done, the i if you can't get stuff done, thei mean, we talk about the >> i mean, we talk about the system all the time, don't we? and the backlog that and we describe the backlog that we're our in our we're seeing in our in our asylum system. but ultimately, ultimately, have ultimately, we need to have a system that actually works system that that actually works because what looking at because what we're looking at here from the here is this admission from the home there are 6000 home office that there are 6000 people don't know people who they now don't know where could be in where they are, could be in criminal gangs, could be in the underground the underground economy, and the criticism papers this criticism in the papers this morning that is all down morning is that this is all down to pressure the system to the pressure on the system trying people through trying to hurry people through without them to without fully assessing them to try and clear these backlogs. >> don't the >> exactly. we don't have the resources the home office. resources in the home office. and, know, going back to the

and, you know, going back to the point, making about point, i was making about detention one the detention centres, one of the big is we have big problems is we don't have anywhere to put these people. we don't have anywhere secure to. and what doing is and so what you're doing is you're in hotels or you're putting them in hotels or temporary accommodation when there's temporary accommodation when therthere's reports they're and there's reports that they're being from one hotel being moved from one hotel to another hotel maybe miles another hotel maybe 70 miles down road. down the road. >> yeah. that saving >> yeah. how is that saving money? mean , it's not it's money? i mean, it's not it's just sort juggling things through. >> but the big risk for that is, you there's no really you know, there's no one really at making sure they at these hotels making sure they stay and if you you stay there. and if you are, you know, one of these asylum seekers you want to sort of seekers and you want to sort of disappear, um, it's very to easy and equally, these criminal gangs that prey on them and exploit them, it's very easy for them to come into contact with these asylum seekers because there's um, looking there's no one, um, looking after them, whether it's sort of guarding them or whether it's keeping an eye out for them and they're stuck there for they're being stuck there for months waiting for decisions , months waiting for decisions, years, know, it's years, maybe. you know, it's hardly some are just hardly surprising. some are just dropping the radar. dropping off the radar. >> oxley, very good to see >> john oxley, very good to see you morning. thank you very you this morning. thank you very much with us. watching and

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news . news. >> good morning. you're watching britain's newsroom. the time is 1025 and you're with pip tomson and me, ellie costello ofsted chief inspector, has vowed to make changes to the system in the wake of the tragic death of headteacher ruth perry. >> well, joining us now is our reporter, ray addison. >> good to see you this morning, ray. so describe for us, if you will, the changes that the ofsted chief inspector is vowing to make to the system . to make to the system. >> well, people here telling me that they very much welcome the changes that are being introduced and saying that they hopeit introduced and saying that they hope it will stop what they describe as a culture of fear over these school inspections . over these school inspections. uh, the first thing that was announced, the major announcement , announced, the major announcement, is that announced, the major announcement , is that there will announcement, is that there will be now an independent inquiry into how ofsted has responded to the coroner's report . report. the coroner's report. report. now, of course, there's also a

number of other changes as well. apologies for the band saw that's just started behind me. number of other changes include one key element being the head masters. head mistresses will be able to stop in inspections, pause in sections if they have concerns over the mental health of their staff . inspectors have of their staff. inspectors have also been given mental health awareness training to be able to identify any signs of distress in teachers whilst they're carrying out those inspections . carrying out those inspections. there's also going to be an expert panel being put together , expert panel being put together, a wellbeing panel, if you will, to be able to talk directly with head teachers and see how they're responding and reacting to those inspections. something called the big listen is being introduced as well. that's going to be involving parents alongside other stakeholders. as they say , and they're going to they say, and they're going to be having a conversation about all of these things that are being introduced, and they'll

have their chance to say whether they believe more to they believe that more needs to be now , of course, um, be done now, of course, um, ofsted plans have been welcomed by mrs. perry's family. her sister, professor julia waters , sister, professor julia waters, has said that the changes were encouraged thing, but the culture of school inspections still needs a radical overhaul . still needs a radical overhaul. unions have also weighed in the association of school and college leaders said that these um actions by ofsted are positive. they're in the right direction, but they do not address all of the problems. and of course, parents here saying that, many of whom have sent their own children to this school over the years, saying that a lot of these new ideas do sound very, very encouraging . sound very, very encouraging. but they have come obviously too late. i think i just want to, um , to look at with you as well, is this use of a single word , is this use of a single word, word to, to describe a school to, to critique a school ? to, to critique a school? >> because in ruth perry's case, caversham primary was downgrade

graded from the highest level outstanding to the lowest that was inadequate. and i know that's something that ruth's sister, she has a real problem with, doesn't she ? because she with, doesn't she? because she says it's just simply too, too simplistic . simplistic. >> yes, i believe there was. i mean, the school was was was rated , uh, very highly in all rated, uh, very highly in all categories apart from leadership. i understand . and leadership. i understand. and the particular concern there was in relation to the process of, of safeguarding. and i think there are serious concerns among headteachers across the, across england that these single use terms can be very misleading. they can give the wrong impression to local community parties and can have a very detrimental impact upon the school and i am sure that is something that the big listen panel of parents and other stakeholders will be wanting to weigh in on and hopefully we will see some announcements of changes potentially towards

those terms. >> ray addison, thanks very much i >> -- >> well, joining us now is maths teacher and author bobby seagull . good to see you this morning bobby. i hope you were listening across ray addison's report. just then, but he was describing the changes to the system that have been mentioned by the ofsted chief inspector, including the right for head teachers to pause inspections if they feel like it's in detriment to any of their staff's mental health. and there's also going to be mental health awareness training for ofsted inspectors. what what do you make of those those changes . those changes. >> yeah. so good morning ali and pip. and obviously firstly again this is a really tragic, um and shocking death of ruth perry, clearly head teacher . clearly dedicated head teacher. again her. and again condolences to her. and her and her school her family and her school community. um, but in terms of ofsted's new report, i guess based on the coroner's findings, i think it is welcome with a new head of ofsted, sir martin oliver. you get a sense that he is trying to change things,

trying to be committed towards reform is reform and mental health is something that's really important. ten, important. and, you know. ten, 15 when i joined 15 years ago when i joined teaching ten years it teaching ten years ago, it wasn't concern. whereas wasn't really a concern. whereas now society , we have moved now as a society, we have moved forward. so if head teachers feel as there is immense pressure being put on their staff , it is a welcome measure staff, it is a welcome measure that ofsted can temporarily pause. that ofsted can temporarily pause . um, the proceedings. but pause. um, the proceedings. but again , it is a tough thing again, it is a tough thing because ofsted, they're ultimately there for the community and for children and parents so they can make the best assessment whether this school is right for their child. but that's obviously in tension against school teachers trying to deliver this curriculum. and you want something fair you want something that's fair to communities , but to both the communities, but also as well . also the teachers as well. >> what do you think of the suggestion that there are some schools , as this has been schools, as this has been reported today , where the reported today, where the behaviour of pupils was so bad that there were no go areas and teachers had to lock themselves in for their own safety . is that in for their own safety. is that anything that that you've heard aboutin anything that that you've heard about in your experience or.

yeah, what can you tell us about that? does it happen ? that? does it happen? >> but in my experience, i've been okay in the schools. i've been okay in the schools. i've been teaching for a decade. um, but what i will say is this is true. there are cases of my friends who are teachers who've had difficulty had real difficulty with behaviour and i think behaviour issues, and i think this is one thing where schools are a reflection society. you are a reflection of society. you know our society's homes , know, our society's homes, broken homes, children coming from these into school environments. if they don't respect their family home, parental environment, why are they going to respect someone externally a teacher ? and externally in a teacher? and again, trying to think again, if we're trying to think about about about rishi sunak talked about education being the silver bullet to solving many of our country's woes . if that really country's woes. if that really is the case, then our schooling system has to be really solid . system has to be really solid. and if we've got places where teachers afraid their teachers are afraid for their own wellbeing, then you know that recruitment and retention crisis we're always hearing crisis that we're always hearing about, secondary about, you know, secondary schools, primary schools failing to teachers in to fill up their teachers in terms then stories terms of staffing, then stories of these are just going to perpetuate that. and it perpetuate that. and make it more difficult people to more difficult for people to join teaching profession .

join the teaching profession. >> very challenging indeed . >> very challenging indeed. bobby seagull very good to speak to morning. you to you. this morning. thank you very much . and as was very much. and as bobby was saying there, heartbreaking news about ruth perry, who died last january. if you have been affected content that affected by the content of that story happened to ruth story and what happened to ruth perry, to you perry, do speak to someone you can trust you can call the can trust or you can call the samaritans at any time for free. the is 116123. it's on the number is 116123. it's on your screens for you. >> now let us bring you bang up to date with all the latest news headlines. we have got plenty more to come , so do stay with more to come, so do stay with us. but now, here's a round up with francis . with sam francis. >> pip, thank you very much and good morning from the gb newsroom . the headlines are just newsroom. the headlines are just after half past ten. while our top story today more than 3000 jobs are at risk with steel giant tata expected to press ahead with its plans to close furnaces in south wales. the job losses are understood to be uk wide, but most will be from the

port talbot site. it's considered to be the country's single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. the cuts come as the company moves to a greener way of working unions are holding talks with executives to try to save jobs . meanwhile, the home save jobs. meanwhile, the home office has admitted more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. it comes as members of the house of lords outlined plans that could stall rishi sunak's flagship rwanda policy. the group of peers, led by a former labour attorney general, wants to delay the treaty until the government can show that rwanda is safe for asylum seekers . new ofsted guidance seekers. new ofsted guidance will allow school visits in england to be paused if staff show signs of distress . s the show signs of distress. s the announcement comes after a coroner called for change following the death of headteacher ruth perry . she took headteacher ruth perry. she took her own life in january last year after caversham primary school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate , and a outstanding to inadequate, and a senior nato official has warned there could be an all out war

with russia within the next 20 years. dutch naval officer admiral rob bauer says that although the military alliance is preparing for a conflict, civilians must also be ready. it comes after defence secretary grant shapps said the threat could be sooner and more wide reaching, involving russia and china, iran and north korea . the china, iran and north korea. the and you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com . website, gbnews.com. >> for stunning gold and silver coins, you'll always . value coins, you'll always. value rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . the gb news financial report. and here's a first look at the markets. >> this morning. the pound will buy you $1.2684 and ,1.1654. the price of gold is £1,601, and £0.58 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is currently at 7496 points.

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that i knew had dewbs& co weeknights from six. >> good morning. it's 1039. >> good morning. it's1039. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with pip tomson, and me, ellie costello and we are joined also by political commentators matthew stadlen. >> good morning and emma webb, good morning to you. and let's discuss first of all this warning from a nato boss that civilians must prepare for war with russia in the next couple of decades. matthew, what do you make of this? >> well, he's not mincing his words, is he? we know that putin is a massive threat, and when they invaded ukraine for the second time, because don't forget, they've invaded for the first time in 2014 and were allowed to get away with it. i mean, we were all quite concerned that there might be some sort of nuclear conflict, whether might use a strategic whether he might use a strategic nuclear locally in, in

nuclear missile locally in, in ukraine or whether things could spiral out of control. so this article will do do nothing to sort of quell those fears. and actually, i think it's going to make some people start to worry again. well you can understand that, can't you? >> people would really quite >> people would be really quite worried reading headlines. worried reading these headlines. it this it comes after grant shapps this week that we'd be week describing that we'd be lucky to have five years without war. yeah i mean, it's also it sends the it sends probably the wrong message to russia as well . wrong message to russia as well. >> the that um, this >> the thing that i, um, in this story find kind so naive story that i find kind so naive is , um, david cameron's comments is, um, david cameron's comments , the now foreign secretary, lord cameron , um, saying that lord cameron, um, saying that ukraine is the struggle of our generation now, in the context of this article, i think that like i said, i think that's very naive because we have no idea what's to come . and that's the what's to come. and that's the sort of thing that you can only really know with hindsight. and i've supportive sending i've been supportive of sending a aid and help and military assistance to ukraine, but we have to think about these things in terms of balance and what's come out of this story is also

that european countries , other that european countries, other european countries are self included , have depleted our own included, have depleted our own weapons, supplies because we're sending to ukraine. so sending them to ukraine. so i think have to have the think we have to have the foresight naivety foresight and avoid this naivety of thinking that, you know, the struggle between russia and ukraine going to be, as david ukraine is going to be, as david cameron said, the struggle of our generation, whilst hang on one second, whilst ignoring the fact that we are in the midst of a really complicated geopolitik situation, things could very easily go badly wrong. i'm worried about and i'm sure many people are as well. >> matthew know the arguments against that russia and against that is that russia and putin, who is a monster, has already planted russian bombs all over ukraine on the eastern fringes of europe. and we saw what happened when we didn't act or deter him. in 2014. he was embolden ed and he did it again. and if we simply appease him and this is what cameron is talking about, then the worry is he's going to feel further

emboldened. is it wise for david cameron to sort of invoke the idea of appeasement? 1930 style. when chamberlain appeased hitler ? possibly not because he's our most senior diplomat, but what he's trying to do in no uncertain terms, is explain the price of inaction , the price of price of inaction, the price of saying to this authoritarian ruler in russia who has invaded a democratic state, a sovereign state in the form of ukraine. this is just not an acceptable thing to be doing. and it's not acceptable to be doing it on our continent . continent. >> i don't disagree with you. i've made that point myself many times before, but i think that we also have to consider that we as a country and other european countries too, have limited countries too, do have limited resources. we need to support resources. so we need to support ukraine in fighting against putin with the intention of shoring up our own geopolitical interests , because this is, um, interests, because this is, um, our support for ukraine isn't just simply an act of benevolence. this is also in our

interest to do this and in our security interests to do this. but we also have to balance that with other considerations as well, that are all like, we have to remember what i'm suggesting is that we have to remember our the objective here, the objective of is our own security . and if that means that we have to reconsider how we balance our limited resources , because i limited resources, because i think we should be putting a lot of a lot more money into our military. i think that that that's something that we need to take very seriously. and frankly , we need to wake up to the fact that we have enemies in the world. power is important in protecting peace, and we have to start taking these things seriously because we've i think in many ways we've imagined that we are, as fukuyama put it, at the end of history , we, um, the end of history, we, um, following the cold war. but the reality is that history is ongoing and we don't know what lies in store for this generation . as this nato leader

generation. as this nato leader is suggesting. >> forward a little bit. matthew how prepared should we be in the next few years to be mobilised? should civilians be prepared to for conscription? >> well, this is what this nato leader i mean, it's not the overall chief. he's not jens stoltenberg , but this is what stoltenberg, but this is what he's suggesting. mean, whether he's suggesting. i mean, whether we're actually going to see that i highly doubt there i highly i highly doubt there are two are two things are two there are two things here. one is how flexible are we in armed forces? we've seen in our armed forces? we've seen with houthi rebel attacks in with the houthi rebel attacks in the sea that we probably the red sea that we probably need to have a stronger navy than we already it's than we already do because it's very expensive to do what we're doing, and we've got recruitment issues. have to be able to issues. we have to be able to respond flexibly to those events. so if the houthis, for example decide upgrade their example, decide to upgrade their attacks , then we will be able to attacks, then we will be able to deal with it. will we? i don't know the other issue is nuclear war and this is what this we're not mincing our words as we've already said, this is what this story is about. and on the face of it, it seems like a

sensationalist headline. but what it reminds us is that we live in a very, very dangerous world and this is nothing to do with whether we've got enough sailors to man our, our destroyers. this is way, way up the scale. this is about is there going nuclear there going to be nuclear conflict act? yes. we've got a deterrent . but all it requires deterrent. but all it requires is for putin to get even madder and possibly even madder than he already is. and we're in serious dangen already is. and we're in serious danger. we just hope that the czechs and balances in russia are sufficient. but this these this is a real worry. it's just we can't all live our lives every day worrying about it. or we would go mad. >> we would. absolutely. let's move shall we? to a story in move on, shall we? to a story in the guardian today. emma, the home office to allow eu citizens who miss their residency deadune who miss their residency deadline stay in the uk . deadline to stay in the uk. >> it's a complicated situation because on the one hand, i think it's unreasonable for the home. i mean, it seems unreasonable that the home office should be the ones to make that decision. this is the civil service making a decision that i think should be a decision of the government.

a decision that i think should besomebodyi of the government. a decision that i think should besomebody has, he government. a decision that i think should besomebody has, umjovernment. a decision that i think should besomebody has, um ,yvernment. a decision that i think should besomebody has, um , theirnent. a decision that i think should besomebody has, um , their prior if somebody has, um, their prior to that deadline, they had permanent residency, even though it was very widely publicised that there was this deadline coming up where european citizens who under the brexit agreement have a right to stay in the uk if they'd already been living here, um , they had to living here, um, they had to apply living here, um, they had to apply for settled status . so apply for settled status. so it's, it's plausible that there are some people who already had permanent status and had permanent status and had permanent status, permanent residency cards , who maybe residency cards, who maybe didn't think that they needed to apply. um, but given how widely publicised that was , was, publicised that was, was, i don't think at this point that was the deadline was in 2021. at this point, it's really reasonable to say , oh, well, you reasonable to say, oh, well, you just simply didn't know that you were supposed to apply. um, so ultimately, i think it's it seems odd to me that this is a decision that will be taken by the home office and not by the government. >> matthew, what do you make of this significant u—turn? well, the home office is part of the

government, so this won't have been this decision won't have been this decision won't have been ministerial approval. >> course i understand >> look, of course i understand that you have a deadline and that if you have a deadline and it's ignored, and then you say, well, actually okay. we well, that's actually okay. we didn't our deadline didn't really mean our deadline as principle in life and in as a principle in life and in the functioning of government . the functioning of government. it's brilliant one. on the it's not a brilliant one. on the other hand, when you then look at the, the misery at the, the human misery suffered by people whose businesses have turned businesses have been turned upside because their bank upside down because their bank accounts frozen or accounts have been frozen or whatever, because what, you know, missed, they did know, they missed, that they did miss they weren't miss the deadline. they weren't paying paying attention. they didn't think to i am think it applied to them. i am absolutely on the side of clemency, and i would support this the problem is this move. the problem is there's wrinkle here, that there's a wrinkle here, and that is campaigners say the home is that campaigners say the home office gone the full hog, office hasn't gone the full hog, and it is fudging its language. so look, my message to the home office is these people have made huge contributions to this country. yes, some of them may have the and have missed the deadline and they shouldn't done. but they shouldn't have done. but allow stay because allow them to stay because i just think the human cost is too big. >> matthew just need to pause you for the prime minister

because there's a little earlier, rishi sunak was speaking the press about to speaking to the press about to tres port talbot plant steel furnace closure. this is what he had to say . had to say. >> it will be a worrying time for everyone affected and because it's a commercially sensitive matter, people appreciate there's a limit to what i can say, but what i can tell you is we are absolutely committed to steelmaking in the uk and that's why the government provided half £1 billion to support . the alternative, support tata. the alternative, by way, was the entire by the way, was that the entire plant would be closed and all 8000 jobs would be lost. but the government worked with the company, provided half £1 billion. the company is investing order to investing more money in order to safeguard thousands of jobs, and that's something uk that's something that the uk government the welsh government has done. the welsh government participate government did not participate in that's because we in that, and that's because we cared about those jobs and the future of steelmaking in wales and uk. but i said there's and the uk. but i said there's and the uk. but i said there's an announcement and an announcement coming later and it's we for it's important that we wait for that. okay >> house of lords apparently >> the house of lords apparently set down legislation set to lay down legislation which delay the passing which will delay the passing of the treaty . what do you the rwanda treaty. what do you think of that and your own tory

peen think of that and your own tory peer, davidson, says dogs peer, ruth davidson, says dogs in street know that it's in the street know that it's never going to happen. well i think it's really important that we stop the boats. >> it was one the priorities >> it was one of the priorities i set out for the country last yeah i set out for the country last year. that our plan year. i'm pleased that our plan is and that we're making is working and that we're making progress. the numbers last year were down by over a third. that hasn't that hasn't happened before, so that shows that we can make a difference but order to difference here. but in order to fully this problem, fully solve this problem, we need deterrent so that need to have a deterrent so that if come here illegally, if people come here illegally, they to stay and they won't be able to stay and will removed. that's why the will be removed. that's why the rwanda scheme is so important, and i'm determined to and that's why i'm determined to see parliament, see it through parliament, get it as quickly as it up and running as quickly as possible so that can properly possible so that we can properly solve this problem. because it's about it's not about fairness. it's not fair that illegally, that people come here illegally, and pressure on and it also puts pressure on pubuc and it also puts pressure on public services and communities. and it also puts pressure on pwant services and communities. and it also puts pressure on pwant to rvices and communities. and it also puts pressure on pwant to sees and communities. and it also puts pressure on pwant to see an nd communities. and it also puts pressure on pwant to see an nd cyto munities. and it also puts pressure on pwant to see an nd cyto that.ties. i want to see an end to that. we've got a plan. the plan is working. if we stick with it, we can the change that can deliver the change that people want to see because ultimately alternate give is ultimately the alternate give is that back square one that we go back to square one because the labour have no because the labour party have no plan at all. plan on this issue at all. >> it's not a waste of time

>> so it's not a waste of time and money. it's absolutely the right thing do, people right thing to do, and people can speaking to the can have sunak speaking to the press a bit earlier on press a little bit earlier on this morning on the rwanda roadblock. >> and of course, the news that we're expecting from port talbot in hour or so in the next half an hour or so expecting 3000 job losses at the tata steel plant there. matthew expecting 3000 job losses at the tata emmaplant there. matthew expecting 3000 job losses at the tata emma are |t there. matthew expecting 3000 job losses at the tata emma are stillere. matthew expecting 3000 job losses at the tata emma are still withiatthew and emma are still with us. matthew, make of matthew, what did you make of that? rishi sunak the that? so rishi sunak saying the government is absolutely committed to british steelmaking, but we are facing potentially 3000 job losses in the so. the next week or so. >> the first thing to say is that this is a horrible, horrible situation for all those people families and people and their families and the impact of and impact people and their families and thetheiract of and impact people and their families and thetheir local and impact people and their families and thetheir local communities pact people and their families and thetheir local communities is ct on their local communities is it's difficult to know how sitting here, whether it is the right commercial decision and it's difficult to know whether for the environmental reasons . for the environmental reasons. cited justify the loss of those jobs. i mean, partly this takes me back to the 1980s and to thatcher's war on on the miners. so i think you might have a lot of conservative minded people now worrying about these job losses on the grounds of net zero and so forth, but actually

would have supported thatcher's war and miners in the 80s. war and the miners in the 80s. >> very interesting you >> well, very interesting you say because local say that because the local councillor talbot councillor in port talbot speaking actually speaking this morning, actually made a similar reference point to saying that he to that, saying that he's he thinks talbot now is thinks that port talbot now is going be like the mining going to be like the mining communities he's communities of the 1980s. he's described decimating described it as decimating communities, doesn't communities, and he doesn't think to think they're ever going to recover this . recover from this. >> yeah, and that's a massive worry. just parts worry. and it's not just parts of parts of the of wales, it's parts of the north england, which arguably north of england, which arguably haven't fully recovered from the sort of sense of community and the vibrancy that they had when there when there were coal there were when there were coal mines think mines operating. so i think i mean, if you use the sort of a wild analogy and you think of the iraq war and the way that we failed in the piece after iraq , failed in the piece after iraq, iraq, when these sorts of decisions are made, you have to have a plan in action. now, that might not be the responsibility of the particular business, but it is the responsibility of government and local government. >> emma, prime minister says absolutely committed to british steel making. but those words sound very hollow and he's never

going to understand what those people are going through. >> yeah. i mean , his words >> yeah. i mean, his words sounded quite hollow on rwanda as well. um hell must be freezing over because i actually agree with matthew. i think that the consequences of deindustrialisation , like you deindustrialisation, like you said, in areas of wales across the north that happened in the 19805, the north that happened in the 1980s, that those communities are still living with the impact of that, the economic impact, those industries haven't been properly replaced . the sense of properly replaced. the sense of community was lost. and what we've learned from that is that if you do lose industry like this in an area, then you need to have something in place. there needs to be some kind of plan for all of, because that is a radically large number of job losses for an area to cope with. um, and we have all sorts of other issues that we're facing as a country at the moment, including the cost of living. you need to have something sustained , viable in place. and sustained, viable in place. and i don't mean sort of give a man a fish. i mean teach a man to

fish. you need to have some kind of long tum plan to ensure that those areas aren't just sort of laid waste. >> i'm very briefly based on what our previous conversation was, talking about all what our previous conversation waswar talking about all what our previous conversation waswar with talking about all what our previous conversation waswar with withlking about all what our previous conversation waswar with with russia. out all what our previous conversation waswar with with russia. 1511 all what our previous conversation waswar with with russia. is itall out war with with russia. is it the time to leave us exposed in terms of not being self—sufficient in. >> couldn't more. >> couldn't agree more. you actually mind, ellie, actually read my mind, ellie, because really because this is really important. actually this, important. actually that this, um, um, spokesman also um, this nato um, spokesman also made this point, which is that, you we have the you know, we don't have the industrial capacity in western countries order support countries in order to support a war effort. and so we shouldn't be doing industrial rising, think. >> okay. thank you very much. emma and matthew , stay with us. emma and matthew, stay with us. christopher hope's heated showdown uk's showdown with reform uk's richard , as he takes the richard tice, as he takes the leader to task on immigration. you don't want to miss it. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb solar sponsors of weather on. gb news morning. >> alex back. you're here again with your latest gb news weather forecast. watch out for some icy patches and freezing fog in

places this morning. otherwise it is going to a mostly sunny it is going to be a mostly sunny day for many but across day for many of us. but across parts of scotland in particular day for many of us. but across parts we scotland in particular day for many of us. but across parts we are land in particular day for many of us. but across parts we are likelyn particular day for many of us. but across parts we are likely to�*articular day for many of us. but across parts we are likely to see :ular day for many of us. but across parts we are likely to see some here, we are likely to see some further outbreaks of rain, sleet and some significant snow to could cause some problems, especially on the roads elsewhere. said , lots elsewhere. and like i said, lots of sunny weather around and of fine sunny weather around and mostly light winds , but it is mostly light winds, but it is still going to feel quite chilly. temperatures may be up a degree or compared to late, degree or so compared to late, but a little bit the but still a little bit on the low side even for the time of year and feeling colder in year and feeling even colder in the north, where we have that wintry weather and some strong winds through evening and winds through this evening and overnight, with overnight, staying dry with largely across largely clear skies across southeastern as a result, southeastern parts as a result, we likely see a touch of we are likely to see a touch of frost here further north and west, though, turning increasingly cloudy winds increasingly cloudy, the winds will and we are going will strengthen and we are going to see some rain, perhaps even some hill snow pushing as we some hill snow pushing in as we go the early hours of go through the early hours of tomorrow that tomorrow morning and all that unsettled weather our unsettled weather will lift our temperatures compared to recent nights saturday morning, then a nights. saturday morning, then a touch frost in southeast. touch of frost in the southeast. first thing staying here first thing staying dry here through of the day, but through much of the day, but increasing of clouds increasing amounts of clouds

elsewhere. cloudier picture. elsewhere. a cloudier picture. further outbreaks of rain, some of these could be heavy at times, particularly over higher ground west and it ground towards the west and it is going to be windy too, with ground towards the west and it is grisk to be windy too, with ground towards the west and it is grisk of be windy too, with ground towards the west and it is grisk of coastaldy too, with ground towards the west and it is grisk of coastal gales. with the risk of coastal gales. temperatures higher than they have been recently, though on sunday milder , sunday it's looking even milder, likely to get into double figures, but is to be figures, but it is going to be wet very windy. potentially wet and very windy. potentially stormy too. by by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> do stay with us. that announcement from tata steel's port talbot plant is imminent. we will be hearing whether they are going to lay off thousands of employees at the steel plant. people are warning that port talbot will become a ghost town

>> good morning. it's 11 am. on friday, the 19th of january. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with pip tomson and me, ellie costello . ellie costello. >> tata steel job cuts around 3000 jobs are at risk as the steel giant pushes ahead with plans to close furnaces in south wales. is this the cost of going green ? an announcement is green? an announcement is imminent. our business and economics editor , liam halligan, economics editor, liam halligan, has the latest .

has the latest. >> bright skies down here in south wales . but >> bright skies down here in south wales. but a grim atmosphere among the port talbot community. britain's biggest steel plant, industrial heritage at stake , 3000 jobs at risk . at stake, 3000 jobs at risk. another rwanda roadblock. >> the house of lords threatens to stop rishi sunak's flagship rwanda policy, as the home office admits more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. >> a call to arms a top nato chief issues a stark warning that civilians should prepare themselves for an all out war with russia over the next two decades would you sign up to serve your country . serve your country. >> capital fare freeze travel fares in london have been frozen for a year, with london mayor sadiq khan saying he wasn't prepared to stand by while passengers pay more for public .

transport >> so lots to be talking about this morning to be debating. do let us know what you think. we do love to read your views. gb news or even gb views gb news. com let's get your latest headunes com let's get your latest headlines with sam francis now . headlines with sam francis now. >> pip and ellie, thank you very much. and good morning from the gb newsroom . our top story at 11 gb newsroom. our top story at 11 . more than 3000 jobs are at risk with steel giant tata expected to press ahead with their plans to close furnaces in south wales. the job losses are understood to be uk wide, but most will be from the port talbot site. it's considered to be the country's single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and the cuts come as the company moves to a greener way of working unions are holding talks with executives to try to save jobs. prime minister rishi sunak says the government is

absolutely committed to british steel making. >> the government provided half £1 billion to support tata, the alternative, by the way, was that the entire plant would be closed and all 8000 jobs would be lost. but the government worked with a company, provided half £1 billion. the company is investing more money in order to safeguard of and safeguard thousands of jobs, and that's something the uk that's something that the uk government has done. welsh government has done. the welsh government that, government did not part in that, and because we cared and that's because we cared about jobs and the future about those jobs and the future of steelmaking in wales and the uk. i said there's an uk. but i said there's an announcement later and uk. but i said there's an annimportantt later and uk. but i said there's an annimportant that later and uk. but i said there's an annimportant that we later and uk. but i said there's an annimportant that we waitr and that. >> well, some breaking news >> well, in some breaking news just coming to us here in the newsroom, police are trying to trace a mother after a newborn baby was found in a shopping bag in east london. the child was wrapped in a towel and was discovered by a dog walker in newham is now being cared for in hospital. the little girl was uninjured and is safe and well. police say they're now extremely concerned for the welfare of the baby's mother , and they're baby's mother, and they're appealing for to find her appealing for help to find her

elsewhere . the home office has elsewhere. the home office has admitted more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing across the uk . it comes as members of the uk. it comes as members of the house of lords outlined their plans that could stall rishi sunak's flagship rwanda policy . sunak's flagship rwanda policy. the group of peers, led by a former labour attorney general, wants to delay the treaty until the government can show that rwanda safe for asylum rwanda is safe for asylum seekers . new ofsted guidance seekers. new ofsted guidance will allow schools to visit , will allow schools to visit, will allow schools to visit, will allow school visits in england, rather to be paused if staff show any signs of distress . the announcement comes after a coroner called for a change following the death of headteacher ruth perry . she took headteacher ruth perry. she took her own life in january last year after caversham primary school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate . the outstanding to inadequate. the coroner said there was an almost complete absence of training for inspectors to look out for signs of distress in school leaders , a of distress in school leaders, a senior nato official has warned there could be an all out war with russia within the next 20

years. dutch naval officer admiral rob bauer says that although the military alliance is preparing for a conflict, civilians must also be ready. it comes after defence secretary grant shapps said the threat could be sooner and more wide reaching, involving russia and china, iran and north korea. defence editor at the evening standard, robert fox, told gb news earlier there's a real risk of the conflict spreading. >> grant shapps said he thought we were lucky . if we've got five we were lucky. if we've got five years and this is certainly what the baltic countries uh, estonia, latvia, lithuania are warning us because they say after ukraine, where russia is on a roll again, it's going to be us, and we're all going to be involved . involved. >> one third of adults here in the uk will run out of money by the uk will run out of money by the end of this month. that's according to new data. finance firm karma says the high costs of christmas are to blame for the sting. in january, budgets ,

the sting. in january, budgets, as many people wait longer to get paid and cope with expensive winter energy bills. the credit company also found that more than half of people strapped for cash will have spent their entire month's income by the 20th of january to help balance budgets, figures suggest. more than a quarter of people plan to avoid socialising, while almost half of us will hold off from purchasing or purchasing any new tech or gadgets . and a weather warning gadgets. and a weather warning has been issued . with storm isha has been issued. with storm isha set to hit the uk this weekend, it's only the second time in a storm season that a storm has been named, with the letter i. forecasters say wind gusts of up to 80 miles an hour are expected, and power cuts and damage to buildings are also possible. the warnings come into effect evening until effect from sunday evening until monday morning . that's the monday morning. that's the latest from the gb newsroom. for more, we're on tv, on digital radio and of course, on your smart speaker two now though, more from ellie and . pip.

more from ellie and. pip. >> thanks, sam. you're watching britain's newsroom and thank you so much for your company this morning. loads of you getting in touch, of course, on that tata steel announcement, which we are expecting imminently, potentially go potentially 3000 jobs to go there, is it there, bernard says. is it possible for us to start making our steel that way? we don't have depend on any other have to depend on any other country right ? country right? >> no, i was going to say that graham has got in touch. good morning. you say you think steel should remain privatised? we were already losing foreign investment cannot afford to investment and cannot afford to lose more. investment and cannot afford to los

thought there was time for everything to be pulled back from the brink. what's your analysis ? i think there's been analysis? i think there's been a lot of discussion between government, tata and trade unions over months and even years, and it's all coming to a head pip. >> i do fear that there will be thousands of job losses announced imminently , as you announced imminently, as you say, not just here at port talbot, britain's biggest steelworks , but also elsewhere steelworks, but also elsewhere in the country , possibly corby, in the country, possibly corby, hartley paul, wolverhampton , hartley paul, wolverhampton, shotton and elsewhere . and the shotton and elsewhere. and the atmosphere is incredibly grim. don't be, you know, don't don't be confused by the wonderful sunshine and the beautiful south wales hills and scenery that surrounds me. i can see you see behind me the two blast furnaces . only two of four blast furnaces still in the uk, two in scunthorpe, owned by tata, two here in port talbot. our biggest

steelworks, owned by tata . the steelworks, owned by tata. the issue is that blast furnace behind me, they make so—called virgin steel . steel from iron virgin steel. steel from iron ore. you need coking coal for that process . and coking coal that process. and coking coal emits lots of carbon. tata say that they're going to use instead so—called arc furnaces. they can only rely on scrap steel, recycled steel. so we lose our strategic ability to make steel from scratch. we become increasingly reliant on imported steel and of course, importing steel from elsewhere. that means we import the carbon that's embodied in that steel, plus the diesel to ship the steel and move it, and all the carbon emissions that that involves. the trade unions have been making that point very, very coherently for months and even years in my view. and yet it hasn't swung the argument within government or within tata. tata the indian conglomerate, say they're spending two, £2.5 billion converting these blast furnaces to arc furnaces saving a

thousand or so of the 4000 jobs that are here. the alternative give, as prime minister rishi sunak has been stressing, is to close down steelmaking here altogether, despite it being one of the pioneering steel plants of the pioneering steel plants of the pioneering steel plants of the world. tata say with those arc furnaces they can keep steelmaking going here in . south steelmaking going here in. south wales. but the workforce here and i've heard it a lot this morning, pip, and there's going to be a lot more to come. the workforce are saying why is this being done to us? don't those people up there in london, in the circles, they the metropole, in circles, they want their green want to stress their green credentials. this is our credentials. but this is our lifeblood. this is our livelihood. what's the point livelihood. and what's the point in closing down these blast furnaces you've got china furnaces when you've got china built using coal fired power stations by the dozen as we speak , and people, i'm sure speak, and people, i'm sure would also be saying, i mean, you look at the headlines today, leo, liam, nato, no warning of war with russia in the next 20

years. >> i mean, you would think that would leave the uk very exposed, being the only g20 country that cannot now make steel from its raw materials. if this and scunthorpe blast furnaces are to be shut, as we're expecting them to be, surely self—sufficiency in our industries is more important now than ever. >> i think what this story embodies, ellie, i think you're completely right. what this story embodies is a clash of cultures, almost a clash of civilisations , and a clash of civilisations, and a clash of world views . and why is that? world views. and why is that? because you have coming down from parts of the conservative party, certainly from big parts of the labour party and from much of our media class. of the labour party and from much of our media class . you much of our media class. you have this view that we must come what may lower our carbon emissions. even though the uk . emissions. even though the uk. crikey, not so long ago , 40% of crikey, not so long ago, 40% of our electricity was from coal fired power stations. that's now 2. we've lowered our carbon emissions proportionately very, very decisively compared to

many, many other western countries . so you've got this countries. so you've got this worldview that we need to lower our carbon emissions. on the other hand, you've got a view here from the south wales valleys and across a lot of what we call the red wall, not just here in wales, the here in south wales, the midlands, the north of england, parts scotland, even parts of parts of scotland, even parts of the west country where is the west country where there is industry manufacturing and industry and manufacturing and people on that for their people rely on that for their lives and livelihoods . they lives and livelihoods. they can't fathom why it is that steel plants like this are moving away from blast furnaces , moving away from blast furnaces, given that the uk has done so much in their view in terms of lowering carbon emissions, and we account for such a small proportion of carbon emissions around the world, so you've got around the world, so you've got a real clash of cultures and civilisations here that you've got that security question that you so rightly posed as we look around the world and there's more and more geopolitical angst, do we really want to rely on china for steelmaking, which now dominates world steelmaking, and then also you have this issue that a lot of people here

just feel misunderstood and they feel put upon. and this is being done to them . it will be very done to them. it will be very interesting to see what the labour party says. of course, stephen kinnock, the son of the former welsh labour leader, he is an mp from these parts he will be stressing the need for government intervention and keeping these blast furnaces going. but a lot of the rest of the labour party, certainly those with metropolitan seats in london and elsewhere, will be won't be saying anything because they be appealing to they want to be appealing to voters stress net zero and voters who stress net zero and environmentalism above everything. there are very strong arguments on both sides of this , but the people here in of this, but the people here in port talbot, here in south wales, they know that their economic lifeblood , their very economic lifeblood, their very communities, are being threatened here today as we wait in anticipation for what is likely to be bad news, the loss of thousands of jobs here at britain's biggest steel plant. okay liam halligan, thanks very much for bringing us that update. >> we will, of course, return to

you when that confirmation or that announcement does come in. >> now , do stay with us still to >> now, do stay with us still to come. we're going to be speaking to our political editor, christopher hope, who has sat down with reform uk's richard tice. that's after this short

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with ellie costello and pip tomson. >> now, as the home office has admitted, more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk and the house of lords are threatening to thwart rishi sunak's rwanda policy . threatening to thwart rishi sunak's rwanda policy. our political correspondent christopher hope, has sat down with richard tice from reform uk and asked him about his plan to stop the boats. let's take a listen . listen. >> what one in, one out of on net migration? how on earth does that work? you know jolly well you can't be as simple as that in terms of numbers. you can't just say , right, one in, one just say, right, one in, one out. if you if someone leaves, we person arrive we give that person can't arrive at you absolutely can say our >> you absolutely can say our policy on immigration simplistic nonsense that won't work . but nonsense that it won't work. but you've asked me a question. give me the courtesy answering it me the courtesy of answering it right. we will freeze non—essential immigration. one in, one out. you can quite absolutely easily do that over an electoral cycle about , absolutely easily do that over an electoral cycle about, on average, 450,000 people leave the country every year. so you can welcome smart immigration of a similar number every year,

right? where you've got genuine skill shortages. let's just remind people, net immigration in the 1980s and 1990s in this country, net was less than 50,000 a year. it's currently running at three quarters of a million a year. now, back then, we didn't have huge waiting lists. we were using uk citizens as trained up in health care and social care to fill our health jobs. we should be going back five years. as your point, you do it in an average over five years. and here's the point you could. you've to be to could. you've got to be to prepared new things. that's prepared try new things. that's what do in the world of what we do in the world of business. here's the thing. what we do in the world of bbelieve here's the thing. what we do in the world of bbelieve that here's the thing. what we do in the world of bbelieve that runninghe thing. what we do in the world of bbelieve that running the hing. i believe that running the country is bigger version of country is a bigger version of running big business. it's running a big business. it's about i'm sorry. i about nonsense. i'm sorry. i don't it really don't accept that. and it really angers i'll tell you why. angers me. i'll tell you why. because we're not growing, chris. we're running out of money. so something's gone badly wrong. don't we try wrong. so why don't we try something different? >> boats. big issue >> stop the boats. big issue this . illegal migration. this week. illegal migration. what plan illegal what is your plan for illegal migration? how you stop migration? how would you stop the two. the boats? there's two. >> plan, >> we've got a six point plan, but key components is but the two key components is we've got to leave the european

convention on human rights. i'd like that. we'd like a referendum on that. we'd win the country win it hands down. the country is sick and tired of foreign judges overseas telling us a sovereign, independent nation. >> the judges in a court in strasbourg, which we sign up to. it it a foreign it doesn't make it a foreign court a foreign judge. court or a foreign judge. >> is a foreign court because >> it is a foreign court because it's not in the united kingdom. that literally definition that is literally the definition of chris. and they are of foreign, chris. and they are judges overseas makes judges from overseas that makes them we're them foreign, right? and we're a sovereign, independent nation. >> out the echr >> then pulling out the echr that's first point. that's the first point. >> point you've >> the second point is you've got you know works. got to do what you know works. it works in australia. we need in the in the english channel. we need safely pick people we need to safely pick people up out dinghies into our out of the dinghies into our border cutters instead of border force cutters instead of bringing them, instead of bringing them, instead of bringing dover, take bringing them to dover, you take them to dunkirk and calais, which entitled to do. which we're entitled to do. >> do returns with >> you can't do returns with france. >> you're asking questions, owens, completely false owens, with the completely false premise here, the answer we're entitled two entitled to do that under two international treaties international legal treaties that i have read, i know exactly the clause is, and no one has disputed it . disputed it. >> well, joining us live now from westminster is our political editor , christopher

political editor, christopher hope. well, chris, that was a feisty two minute tease. but we hear there's a full nine minute version to come. i mean, what does that entail? >> he was knackered after all that. >> but he was . that. >> but he was. i think we that. >> but he was . i think we both >> but he was. i think we both had our weetabix that day. >> yeah, that was this week. >> yeah, that was this week. >> i think, you know, it's a duty on gb news to make sure we hold all leaders of parties who pretend to run the country or want to run the country to account. >> now you reform uk is in the news this week. it went from eight points to 12 points in a yougov poll, and in the interview you'll hear playing out at 1:00 in full. richard tice says it might go to 13 points. now there really are biting at the heels of the tory party but i think i do feel that we haven't a lot of journalists haven't given enough scrutiny to the policies of this party, and that was the idea of that meeting. um, and that that interview there with richard tice, of course, he's a co—presenter of you guys at gb news. he's been on gb news a

lot. um, he has his position there and can and can sets out his views. but equally, he's a leader of a political party which is running ahead of the liberal democrats in in the opinion polls and therefore we have to give them this kind of scrutiny. >> and it is right that reform , >> and it is right that reform, they are making a lot of noise and they could have quite an impact on the general election, could they not? chris >> yeah , and that's right. >> yeah, and that's right. >> yeah, and that's right. >> that's totally right. um, pip pip >> that's totally right. um, pip pip and what i what is a worry i think for voters or might be is that we are facing a kind of 2015 general election. it's the first planned election since that year. and it's worth noting what happened to ukip, 3.88 million people voted for ukip . million people voted for ukip. they got just one mp, douglas carswell, down in clacton . now carswell, down in clacton. now the concerns will be for voters that if that reform is attractive, it's seductive . it attractive, it's seductive. it offers straightforward policies .

offers straightforward policies. one in, one out on immigration, as you heard there, richard tice says they can do a return agreement, um, and take boats back, maybe to france, despite the fact that the european union is negotiate ing is the negotiate ing counterparty , not france in that counterparty, not france in that situation. but he thinks he's found legislation the safety at sea treaty 1974, the un convention on the law at sea, 1982, that will circumvent that. he wants to try new ideas . but he wants to try new ideas. but the problem is, a lot of these new ideas have been looked at, and what he's got to and that's what he's got to convince voters that it's worth taking a risk. problem is taking a risk. the problem is that build up literally that they may build up literally millions votes and get zero millions of votes and get zero mps, and maybe allow labour in as a bigger party than it might have been. and that may worry people who vote for reform, because reform is to the right of the tory party. okay christopher, us christopher, hope there for us in westminster. >> thank you very much indeed. and full nine and you can catch the full nine minute you want minute interview. you won't want to it good afternoon to miss it on. good afternoon britain and emily this britain with tom and emily this afternoon . afternoon. >> we're joined in the >> soon we're joined in the studio editor of studio now by deputy editor of conservative home, henry hill.

good morning. what did you what did you think of that interview and richard tice suggestion about this one in, one out policy, which christopher hope said, is that not to not simplistic. >> i mean, i cannot fathom how you would run a one in, one out policy, right? >> i mean, do you just have a live dashboard that says we've created a space because somebody left? one person gets come in left? one person gets to come in and they waiting somewhere for notification is notification that their space is coming he coming into the country. he said. was averaged out over a said. it was averaged out over a five year parliament. but but no, think the fundamental no, i think the fundamental problem to change problem is if you want to change immigration country and immigration in this country and you want to seriously bring down immigration, do immigration, that means you do have reckon with have to reckon with how dependent this country has become immigration social become on for immigration social care, services. care, nhs, other services. i think it's a worthwhile mission, but can't it but you can't just do it overnight. you snap your overnight. if you just snap your fingers overnight and close the borders. awful things borders. an awful lot of things that currently depend on immigration do immigration would fail. we do need transition them away need to transition them away from that dependence, but we can't immediately. is can't do that immediately. he is in of every minor in the position of every minor party being just say party of being able to just say whatever he likes because he knows that he's never going to

have deliver it. have to deliver it. >> well, how much threat do >> well, how much of a threat do you reform uk are to the you think reform uk are to the tories, especially in the next general election? as christopher hope opinion hope was saying, some opinion polls ahead of the polls putting them ahead of the lib dems, a lot of reforms, polling tends to be a bit of an artefact. >> they never really manifest it in any election because they in in any election because they don't team, they don't have a ground team, they don't have a ground team, they don't large membership don't have a large membership and on. so it's often very and so on. so it's often very hard translate that hard for them to translate that headune hard for them to translate that headline figure. i think the big question for is whether question for reform is whether or farage it comes back to or not farage it comes back to lead them personally or to contest because has contest the seat, because he has a proven ability to just sort of snap fingers and conjure snap his fingers and conjure parties air, as he parties out of thin air, as he did the brexit party. if did with the brexit party. if that think that doesn't happen, i think reform hurt the tories reform they will hurt the tories in the post. in the first part of the post. they need to take a few they only need to take a few hundred potentially hundred votes to potentially cost but cost the tories a seat, but they're in the place they're in the wrong place politically. you know a lot of you at reforms, polling you look at reforms, polling policies, sort policies, it's kind of sort of thatcherite economics and then kind self—serving kind of obviously self—serving lib constitutional kind of obviously self—serving lib and constitutional kind of obviously self—serving lib and consnottional kind of obviously self—serving lib and consnot where the reform and that is not where the big british politics is. big gap in british politics is. thatis big gap in british politics is. that is sort of the right on culture, slightly left on culture, slightly more left on economics. hurt the economics. they'll hurt the tories, but how much

economics. they'll hurt the tories they but how much economics. they'll hurt the tories they actually how much economics. they'll hurt the tories they actually help much economics. they'll hurt the tories they actually help labour? could they actually help labour? um, there close um, they'll if there is a close fought the tories fought seat between the tories and labour take few and labour and reform take a few hundred a couple of hundred votes or a couple of thousand the thousand votes off the off the tories, then that could let a labour mp we saw that happen labour mp in. we saw that happen with the brexit party in 2019, in seats where they didn't strike the strike a deal with the conservatives, the conservatives lost of seats. lost a fair number of seats. i think less reform, think by less than the reform, the reform so could the reform vote, so they could hurt. not going hurt. they're not going to make the difference, but they could hurt. >> got to ask you, whilst we've got about this got you here, henry, about this latest delay to rwanda plan. got you here, henry, about this latest cthey to rwanda plan. got you here, henry, about this latest cthe house rwanda plan. got you here, henry, about this latest cthe house r'lords plan. got you here, henry, about this latest cthe house r'lords led n. got you here, henry, about this latest cthe house r'lords led by now in the house of lords led by lord goldsmith be lord goldsmith could be a significant roadblock, this one. do you think that we will ever see a plane take off in rwanda? >> i don't suppose i don't. i suspect won't one. this suspect we won't see one. this side of election. the house side of the election. the house of can actually just kill of lords can actually just kill the bill we don't have the bill because we don't have time use parliament act time to use the parliament act because close because we're close to so close to election so they can put to the election so they can put in house in amendments. and if the house of commons to accept of commons refuses to accept them, bill will fall on them, then the bill will fall on what's called double insistence. at in february at some time in february or march. has march. and then rishi sunak has nothing, that he nothing, which means that he potentially has to negotiate. potentially he has to negotiate. he either has to negotiate he he either has to negotiate with the lords a version

with the lords for a version of the that will accept, the bill that they will accept, or if he's thinking politically, he lets them block it and then he lets them block it and then he in the election. the he runs in the election. on the lords blocking bill, and lords blocking the bill, and that gives cover for that gives him some cover for not having it. >> we will to leave >> henry, we will have to leave it there we to go it there because we need to go to halligan our to the liam halligan our business economics editor in to the liam halligan our busiitalbot economics editor in to the liam halligan our busiitalbot , economics editor in to the liam halligan our busiitalbot , liam omics editor in to the liam halligan our busiitalbot , liam tata.; editor in to the liam halligan our busiitalbot , liam tata. they)r in port talbot, liam tata. they have made the announcement that so many people are dreading . so many people are dreading. >> indeed, three 4000 people work at the steel plant behind me. tata have just announced that the plan put forward by trade unions is, quote , not trade unions is, quote, not feasible or affordable . the gmb feasible or affordable. the gmb and community unions , of course, and community unions, of course, they wanted to keep these blast furnaces open. two of just four blast furnaces now in the uk, while transitioning to a greener production method. so tata have literally in the last couple of minutes , announced that 2800 minutes, announced that 2800 jobs will be lost and 2500 of those jobs will be cut out in the next 18 months. that's

despite the british government funding tata, a massive indian conglomerate, to the tune of £500 million of taxpayers money. the gmb union have said. these job losses are a crushing blow to port talbot and uk manufacturing in general, and many people will agree very strongly with that. i'm afraid there aren't details yet. i'm looking of where else there will be job cuts across the tata empire . here in the be job cuts across the tata empire. here in the uk be job cuts across the tata empire . here in the uk there are empire. here in the uk there are production facilities at corby , production facilities at corby, at hartlepool, at wolverhampton , at hartlepool, at wolverhampton, at hartlepool, at wolverhampton, at shotton and elsewhere , as at shotton and elsewhere, as well as their other flagship steel making plants in scunthorpe . it does now seem pip scunthorpe. it does now seem pip and i say this with regret as somebody who's covered economics and business and industry and manufacture in this country for many years , it does now seem many years, it does now seem that britain is going to be the only g20 country, the only major advanced economy without the ability to make what we call

virgin steel. steel from scratch, from iron ore, using coking coal. we're going to instead here in port talbot, be using what are called arc furnaces, which basically recycle all scrap steel . and recycle all scrap steel. and it's generally of pretty low quality. this is an incredibly sad day for british industry. it's an incredibly sad day for british manufacturing, but it's a particularly sad day for the people of port talbot here in south wales, which for years and years and years was literally the flagship steelmaking plant of the world, a place where many of the world, a place where many of the world, a place where many of the modern techniques . that of the modern techniques. that use are used to make high quality steel were pioneered , quality steel were pioneered, but not just by the workers, but behind me, but by their predecessor . over two, three and predecessor. over two, three and four generations. this is a story about a clash of cultures and civilisations as an environmental movement that wants to put environmentalism above all and ordinary men and

women in many parts of the uk that depend on manufacturing processes which that environmental movement feel are now behind the times and indefensible. a very, very difficult situation here in port talbot . more news is breaking talbot. more news is breaking and i'll bring you more when i have it. >> i mean, absolutely devastating news. the 2800 people who are going to lose theirjobs. liam but we've also got to think about their families , their businesses, the families, their businesses, the local economy . this is going to local economy. this is going to impact so many more people, isn't it, than just the 2800 jobs that we are describing this morning ? morning? >> you know, i hear so much , i >> you know, i hear so much, i read so much in my newspapers and i hear so often on the television and radio about this green jobs revolution . and yeah, green jobs revolution. and yeah, there are plenty of green jobs in consulting, and there are plenty of green jobs in the tech sector, and there are plenty of green jobs for, frankly, professional men and women . and professional men and women. and they tend to be in city centres.

there are green manufacturing jobs too, but they are only very slowly coming on tap and for many people here in port talbot, in scunthorpe, the other major tata steelmaking facility where blast furnaces are also going to be closed, it seems these green jobs are just pie in the sky. they're miles away. they're not for them. they are completely unabashed , winnable and they unabashed, winnable and they currently don't exist. look, there's a major debate going on in britain across the western world, and indeed across the entire world about becoming less dependent on hydrocarbons , on dependent on hydrocarbons, on oil and gas, becoming less dependent on processes that emit carbon because of the environmental impact . almost environmental impact. almost everyone i know wants a cleaner atmosphere, wants to bequeath a cleaner planet for their children and grandchildren . yet, children and grandchildren. yet, on the other hand, in the here and now that this rush to net zero by 2050, there are real casualties, there are ordinary people whose lives and

livelihoods are not just threatened by this, but are destroyed. people who have lived here in port talbot and places similar across the uk , proud similar across the uk, proud communities, communities they've been manufacturing for generations and they will feel complete , bereft this morning at complete, bereft this morning at this news that 2800 jobs are to go this news that 2800 jobs are to 9° ' this news that 2800 jobs are to go , and the vast majority of go, and the vast majority of them here, here in port talbot, this is a very, very sad day for a very, very proud and distinguished part of the united kingdom . kingdom. >> liam, thank you very much for bringing us that breaking news that tata has confirmed plans to cut 2800 jobs across the uk. many of those jobs at port talbot and tata. we understand , talbot and tata. we understand, is the most economically important private sector company . in wales. so that gives you an idea of the impact it's going to have on so many people and so many families, so many businesses as well.

>> more on that and your >> for more on that and your other headlines, let's now to other headlines, let's go now to sam . sam. >> pip and ellie, thank you very much. and good morning from the gb newsroom. the headlines just after 11:30. well as we've been heanng after 11:30. well as we've been hearing that breaking news that tata steel has confirmed up to 2800 jobs will be affected as it plans to close blast furnaces in south wales. the job losses are understood to be uk wide , but understood to be uk wide, but most of them will be from the port talbot site. it's considered to be the country's single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide , and the come as dioxide, and the cuts come as the moves to a greener the company moves to a greener way of working. we understand the steel maker plans to close way of working. we understand thetwo el maker plans to close way of working. we understand thetwo blastker plans to close way of working. we understand thetwo blast furnaces to close way of working. we understand thetwo blast furnaces in close way of working. we understand thetwo blast furnaces in the se way of working. we understand thetwo blast furnaces in the uk its two blast furnaces in the uk by end of this year. the by the end of this year. the home office has admitted more than 6000 asylum seekers are missing in the uk. it comes as members of the house of lords outline plans that could stall rishi sunak's flagship rwanda policy. the group of peers, led

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and people that i knew had dewbs & co weeknights from six. >> welcome back . you are with >> welcome back. you are with britain's newsroom on gb news andifs britain's newsroom on gb news and it's fast coming up to 2211. let's see what you've been saying to us at home. of course, that breaking news in the last few moments tata has announced, uh, well , 3000 job losses, most uh, well, 3000 job losses, most of them in port talbot, but they are across the uk. >> yeah, loads of you getting in touch on that. andrew says it's not just the 3000 jobs that have been lost. all of the jobs that

were indirectly affected by the chaos be chaos at tata could also be looked here. and as liam looked at here. and as liam halligan was, was just reflecting there. who's our business editor is business and economics editor is the local economy, the local businesses that will also be impacted by this. it's not just the 2800 people that we're talking about that are very sadly their jobs or they sadly lost their jobs or they will losing in the next will be losing them in the next 18 it is that that local 18 months. it is that that local community talbot , yeah, community in port talbot, yeah, people living there are saying it a it could be it could become a ghost town. >> a doug, good morning to you . >> a doug, good morning to you. you say to stop making virgin steel south wales would a steel in south wales would be a huge disadvantage as huge disadvantage to the uk as we head towards a new phase of nonh we head towards a new phase of north sea oil production, we will require a lot of steel for this as well. let's get the thoughts of our contributors this morning. thoughts of our contributors this morning . political this morning. political commentators matthew stadlen and emma webb. matthew, first of all, what's your reaction to this news? i mean, rishi sunak said this morning we're committed to british steelmaking and then we've got this announcement this morning. >> so tata says for its part and this, this has been a debate and

argue point that's been going on and on, hasn't it. they say for their part, that this sort of helps to maintain britain's ability to produce its own steel . it also says it's going to cut 1.5% of the uk's overall emissions. as i understand it, that's their viewpoint. what i would say is, before we go anywhere for this is two, these are 2800 jobs. okay so and how many dependent outs are there people relying on those people bringing money home, putting bread on the table. what will be the knock on impact on local communities ? because if you communities? because if you haven't got people earning the sort of money these guys were, then that's going to affect food stores, supermarkets , car stores, supermarkets, car retailers. i mean, the knock on effects in a relatively small community are enormous. >> the prime minister said. the alternative was that the entire plant would go, and then 8000 jobs would have gone . jobs would have gone. >> well, it's just difficult to know, sitting a know, isn't it? sitting in a studio in london, who is who's

telling the truth on this? that's why it's so helpful to have liam out there actually trying to gauge reaction on the ground. i mean, this does bring up the spectre of the 1980s, doesn't it? and of thatcher taking on the coal miners . be taking on the coal miners. be really interesting to see how this plays out electorally, because is committed to because labour is committed to net and yet here you have net zero. and yet here you have kinnock saying , stephen kinnock kinnock saying, stephen kinnock saying that this shouldn't have happened. says, yeah , we, we happened. he says, yeah, we, we absolutely have to meet our environmental targets effectively . but what, what effectively. but what, what matters is how we get there. so the devil is in the detail of this stuff. >> and do we really want to be in a country? emma with everything that's going on, turbulent times we're in, turbulent times that we're in, in a country can't make its in a country that can't make its own steel ? own steel? >> yeah, i think there's a real, um, involved with with um, risk involved with with deindustrialisation and particularly you see this push for net zero, which obviously has an impact on any industry. um, and i think the fear is that we will become dependent point on other countries in an

increasingly turbulent and unreliable geopolitical situation mission. i don't think that we should be deindustrialising with net zero in mind. so i would also be interested to see, um , how interested to see, um, how labour handled this, because obviously as as matthew was said, it's a lot of people who are losing their jobs, but are losing theirjobs, but labour are pushing for net zero, which is going to have a huge impact on people's jobs all over the country . so there's the country. so there's a conflict there that at some point they're going to have to deal with. >> i mean, many of those workers i'm sure this morning, matthew will be thinking , why did we will be thinking, why did we have fall off a cliff edge have to fall off a cliff edge like mean, i know it's like this? i mean, i know it's going months for all going to take 18 months for all of jobs to go, that of those jobs to go, but that many of them i'm sure, will be saying, why couldn't we have closed spent the closed one furnace and spent the next years kind of winding next ten years kind of winding down there? down the operation there? because halligan because as liam halligan was saying amongst of saying earlier, amongst all of this do we this geopolitical angst, do we really be relying on really want to be relying on china our steel? china for our steel? >> i mean, tata would say that actually the process that they're on is going to

they're engaging on is going to convert the existing steelworks to a system that is more environmentally friendly. and they're saying that that will fewer workers it needs fewer workers and therefore is more efficient. i mean, this isn't this is not not a problem. that is only facing these 2800 people. massive though it is, andifs people. massive though it is, and it's not just an environmental question as we as we continue to move into a world that will be more and more dominated by ai , there are going dominated by ai, there are going to be these sorts of questions coming up again and again and again . we waste so much time. again. we waste so much time. i think. i don't mean us here, but we waste as a as a sort of political conversation. so much time . i'm talking about rwanda , time. i'm talking about rwanda, which is important, but compared to these sorts of issues is dwarfed in significance . dwarfed in significance. >> there is some reaction now coming in unite general secretary sharon graham. she's saying that unite's ready to use everything in its armoury to defend steelworkers and our steel industry . tata's plan to steel industry. tata's plan to close the blast furnaces is

simply industrial vandalism on a grand scale, some really strong words from her and a uk government spokesperson has just spoken, saying they're determined to secure a sustainable and competitive future for the uk. uk steel sector, which is why we've committed 500 million of uk government support that will transform the site and protect thousands of jobs at port talbot and in the uk supply chain. but the problem is, is that thousands of people are just feeling like, yeah, the government have done that, government might have done that, but we've been chucked government might have done that, but w like were saying >> yeah. and like we were saying earlier, you need to make sure that those that , know, that those that, you know, particularly area particularly that local area doesn't become a ghost town because it's not just those people are affected , like people who are affected, like you it's other you were saying, it's other businesses in that area too. this is a hugely important business in the welsh economy. um so the impact of this , it um so the impact of this, it will be like a butterfly effect . will be like a butterfly effect. right? um, and you know, i think like we were saying , it's the

like we were saying, it's the same same with unite. i think that we have to face up to the fact that considerations around net zero do have implications for people's lives. and as you were saying, also in terms of, um, automate and reliance on al, there's also a security threat involved in that as well in terms of industrial sabotage. >> but what's the i do think an important question here is what is what are what are people suggesting? is the alternative winding them furnace. yeah. the way why has this company not doneit way why has this company not done it and you know we live in a sort of very rigorously capitalist society and the conservative party tend to be the champions of that. i'm certainly not a member of the conservative party. but what should the state have done here? what should sunak have done beyond what he claims to have done, is put £500 million done, which is put £500 million into this whole thing ? should into this whole thing? should the state take over tata still should. should we not allow foreign businesses, foreign owned foreign firms to own british interests? these are all perfectly legitimate, interesting questions. but they

need to be. we need to face them, rather than simply saying that these 2800 jobs should definitely not have gone well. >> do stay with us, both of you, because we have just had a statement from the leader of the welsh conservatives, andrew rt davies, said this today davies, who has said this today is incredibly difficult day is an incredibly difficult day for wales. my thoughts are with those steelworkers and subcontractors who will be losing their jobs in the coming months, and for their families. the situation must be handled with all. decision with care by all. decision makers confident makers involved. i'm confident that the transition board will achieve this , and it goes on to achieve this, and it goes on to say i remain unconvinced that a blast could not be kept blast furnace could not be kept open during the transition to the arc furnaces that tata have agreed protecting jobs agreed to protecting many jobs in the short to medium tum. >> this needs to be explained fully as to why this hasn't been done company . many, fully as to why this hasn't been done company. many, many done by the company. many, many thousands have been thousands of jobs have been protected with record investment from the conservative from the uk conservative government the story of port talbot steel is far from over, with its sustainable future secured hmm'hmm .

secured hmm'hmm. >> okay, what do you what do you make of that? emma >> well, i don't know what the right decision in in this in this circumstance is. um, ultimately is for the company to decide what's in their interests as a company and for their business. um, but i do think that that all of the questions that that all of the questions that have been raised perfectly legitimate, um , and it remains legitimate, um, and it remains to be seen whether or not it is the right decision. but regardless , it still is going to regardless, it still is going to have a huge impact on those people who have lost their jobs and economy. um, so and on the local economy. um, so that something, you that is still something, you know, regardless of whether or not it was the thing to do not it was the right thing to do that need consider, that we need to consider, you know, you going to, know, how how are you going to, you know, how are you going to shore against the shore up against the implications shore up against the imfso ations shore up against the imfso something i think is >> so something i do think is important. i mean, i could important. and i mean, i could live to a thousand and not and not vote for richard tice reform party. i think it is helpful party. but i think it is helpful full that he is part of a discussion on here because he is putting pressure pressure on the established , on the two established parties, on the two main parties, on decision makers as at the moment. now as they exist at the moment. now sunak probably later this year.

starmer say, okay, net zero starmer i'd say, okay, net zero is all very well. i mean, tice doesn't agree with net zero, i don't think, but it's you don't think, but it's how you get there . labour a new get there. labour as a new government will be forced to face this question because, as i say, for different reasons, what we're seeing tragically in port talbot, and it is tragic because this is a brutal news story, is going to repeat itself again and again. fine. let's commit to net zero. but then we have to work very hard to scramble backwards and work out how we're going to do that without an enormous amount of pain, often experienced by those on the lowest incomes. >> yeah, i think if anything, this just shows, isn't it? how challenging this is going to be politically board. politically across the board. i mean, kinnock mean, we had stephen kinnock from labour party are very from labour party who are very pro saying that this is pro green in saying that this is not something that he wanted to see. it has now see. of course it has now happened.then see. of course it has now happened. then we've got a leader of the welsh conservatives saying he was unconvinced couldn't conservatives saying he was uncorbeened couldn't conservatives saying he was uncorbeen kept couldn't conservatives saying he was uncorbeen kept open.yuldn't conservatives saying he was uncorbeen kept open. we're also have been kept open. we're also very, have been kept open. we're also venlf you want net zero, we're >> if you want net zero, we're also getting views. also getting your views. >> you very much. keep >> so thank you very much. keep them coming in. mark says. what

a situation. the a ridiculous situation. the pending blast pending closure of the blast furnaces is will not do anything to save the environment . don't to save the environment. don't you say mark? because we'll have to save the environment. don't yo importiark? because we'll have to save the environment. don't yo importiark'stuffause we'll have to save the environment. don't yo importiark'stuff from ne'll have to save the environment. don't yo importiark'stuff from china|ave to save the environment. don't yo importiark'stuff from china .ve um. >> peter says so sad to hear the closure of the steelworks and the devastation that it will cause and businesses. cause families and businesses. we can find £2.5 billion for ukraine, but it seems we can't invest and save a necessary steel producing company. >> and billy says coming from south wales, just down the road from port talbot, in one way it definitely would be a shock for many the steelworks closed on many if the steelworks closed on the other hand, it could create new what could the other hand, it could create neian what could the other hand, it could create neian attractive what could the other hand, it could create neian attractive area what could the other hand, it could create neian attractive area forat could the other hand, it could create neian attractive area for new jld be an attractive area for new businesses with far less pollution . ian, is that a that's pollution. ian, is that a that's that's well, this is yet a very important point to raise . important point to raise. >> and as we endure these sorts of stories moving forward , i of stories moving forward, i come back to what i'm saying . come back to what i'm saying. there has to be a plan . wherever there has to be a plan. wherever it is possible, there has to be a plan so that we do not allow the communities that are affected by these sorts of

decisions simply to disintegrate before our eyes in the ways that we experienced in the 1980s in wales and elsewhere in the country, particularly in the north, it has to be joined up thinking of where the government can get involved to stimulate growth, to stimulate the green economy . if that's what's going economy. if that's what's going to replace this , then that is to replace this, then that is essential . essential. >> um, emma, i want to pick up on peter's point on the email there that we can find £2.5 billion for ukraine, but we can't invest and save a necessary steel producing company. i mean, surely we need to be able to find money for both. don't we? in this climate in the world defence and self—sufficient, it goes to the point was making earlier point that i was making earlier that all of these things that this is all of these things are a balance. >> you know, there's no sort of extreme solution to anything. you just throw your money into, into particular goal and into one particular goal and then will fine. then everything will be fine. you make decisions. you have to make decisions. evans toss between evans and toss ups between different, um, considerations. evans was also a evans um, i think it was also a very important point that somebody made there that, um, you know , in reaching net zero

you know, in reaching net zero in this way, all you're doing is outsourcing the production to another country. you're not you're not doing anything overall to improve the situation. meeting net zero when you we are such a small you know we are such a small proportion of global polluters, is it really going to make much of difference? i actually of a difference? i actually think commitment think that this commitment to net um, is extreme. and net zero, um, is extreme. and when we actually have to have whichever government it is face up to the reality of what net zero means, they'll realise that this is not something that you can achieve without deindustrialisation. it's not something that people will want. >> we're being to >> and we're being led to believe that steel will continue to in this to be manufactured in this country, not going country, that that's not going to stop. i mean, whether it's true or remains to be seen . true or not remains to be seen. but tata says that this is helping to safeguard making. >> well , we have what tata says >> well, we have what tata says because statement, because there is a statement, matthew, bring matthew, which we want to bring you. and says this plan is you. and it says this plan is intended to reverse more than a decade of losses and transition from the blast furnaces from the legacy blast furnaces to a more sustainable green steel business. >> the transformation would secure most of tata steel's uk's

existing product capability and maintain the country's self—sufficiency in steel making, whilst also reducing tata steel's uk's co2 emissions by 5 million tons per year and overall uk country emissions by 1.5. so matthew , back to you. 1.5. so matthew, back to you. what do you. yeah, what do you make of that? >> that's what i was saying at the at the outset point of our little here. the little segment here. the question they're question is whether they're right and how how can we judge that right now? the hope is that they are right, but we can't get away today from the fact the 2800 human beings have lost theirjobs. 2800 human beings have lost their jobs. and that's devastating. >> yeah. it doesn't take away from human impact of from the very human impact of this all. and that's how the workers will be feeling today. >> yeah. i mean, like say, >> yeah. i mean, like i say, remains seen whether remains to be seen whether or not the decision . not this is the right decision. i'm sure what the right i'm not sure what the right decision is for their business. and against, know, and i'm not against, you know, making companies making decisions independently decisions as, um, independently to do what's best for their company make their

company or to make their operations more efficient. um, but regardless of all of that, there is a human side to this story , and that is that there story, and that is that there will be a huge number of people, their families , their local their families, their local community who are going to have to with the implications of to deal with the implications of this and that. those implications. this and that. those implications . are also in implications. are also in a broader context of people facing real difficulties and already facing real difficulties in wales. so i think that the human side of this story is it's important if those if the green economy does manage to replace these jobs and that that is the hope they're not necessarily going to happen in, in port talbot, they're not going to be located necessarily port located necessarily in port talbot, family is talbot, which means family is having pay for mothers , having to pay for mothers, fathers commute, fathers having to commute, potentially great distances, maybe families having uproot maybe families having to uproot and move elsewhere. >> and that's what can create ghost towns. >> matthew, thank you much. >> matthew, thank you so much. thank . that it from thank you emma. that is it from us newsroom thank us on britain's newsroom thank you company. you for your company. >> afternoon . britain >> yeah. good afternoon. britain is next with and emily. is up next with tom and emily. bye bye. >> it is indeed. bye bye. >> it is indeed . well, our top >> it is indeed. well, our top story today has got to be the

2800 job losses at tata 2800 odd job losses at tata steel. we're going to be asking is the push to decarbonise asian to blame? >> also nicola sturgeon unveiling something covid inquiry . what is it? stick inquiry. what is it? stick around a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news morning. on. gb news morning. >> alex burkill here again with your latest gb news weather forecast. watch out for some icy patches and freezing fog in places this morning . otherwise places this morning. otherwise it is going to be a mostly sunny day many of us, but across day for many of us, but across parts in particular, parts of scotland in particular, here we are likely to see some further outbreaks of rain, sleet and some significant snow to could problems , could cause some problems, especially the roads especially on the roads elsewhere . and like i said, lots elsewhere. and like i said, lots of sunny weather around and of fine sunny weather around and mostly winds, but it is mostly light winds, but it is still going to feel quite chilly. temperatures be up chilly. temperatures may be up a degree or so compared to late, but still a little bit on the low side even for the time of year feeling colder year and feeling even colder in the where have the north, where we have that wintry some

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