under pinned by kingdom under pinned by democratically accountable and locally elected leaders is the surest way to safeguard this precious union. chris heaton—harris well, the home secretary today conceded that the number of asylum seekers likely to be sent to rwanda under the government's £240 million scheme could actually be quite low. >> answering questions at the home affairs select committee this morning, james cleverly admitted he couldn't say how many of the 33,000 asylum seekers identified as eligible would eventually be sent to rwanda. meanwhile gb news understands 200 illegal migrants have been rescued after their boat got into difficulties in the english channel today, attempting to cross from france in poor weather conditions. four small boats were brought ashore by border force officials following their rescue so far this year. around 1200 migrants have made the crossing roughly the same number as this time last year . the same number as this time last year. nicola sturgeon the same number as this time last year . nicola sturgeon says last year. nicola sturgeon says her biggest regret during the

pandemic was not locking down earlier. the former first minister gave evidence at the covid inquiry today , where she covid inquiry today, where she also admitted to deleting whatsapp messages, insisting she acted in line with scottish government policy. miss sturgeon appeared emotional as she recounted that part of her wished she hadn't been first minister when the pandemic took hold in the united states. donald trump is said to discover whether his legal claim of reputational damage from sex allegations can go to court. reputational damage from sex allegations can go to court . the allegations can go to court. the former us president is seeking compensation from a consulting firm founded by a former british mi6 firm founded by a former british m16 officer concerned over allegations he took part in sex parties and bribed russian officials . christopher steele officials. christopher steele was the author of the so—called steele dossier , which included steele dossier, which included allegations that mr trump had been compromised by the russian security service, the court is due to rule on that tomorrow. and lastly , labour says it's and lastly, labour says it's going to set out plans to renationalise britain's railways next month. the party announced

the news last year but speaking exclusively to gb news earlier on today, the shadow transport secretary said the public will find out more detail on the plans in 2 or 3 weeks time for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or by going to gb news. com slash alerts . alerts. >> good evening. four years ago, i was in parliament square . i was in parliament square. there was the most enormous party. we were leaving the european union at 11 pm. and it really was quite a moment. but hey, here we are, four years on. got to ask the question is life getting better? well, i think most people would say that life isn't getting better, but not because of brexit and despite the negativity that we get from many commentators, as if everything from the weather to the economy that we can blame is to be blamed on brexit, i think the truth of it is that if we look back at what happened four

years evening , it look back at what happened four years evening, it was years ago this evening, it was a gigantic victory , an gigantic victory, an extraordinary victory of ordinary folk against an establishment who did their damnedest after the referendum to stop it from ever being enacted. now, i think four years on, constitutional , the position on, constitutional, the position has changed and there is no going back. even keir starmer won't possibly talk about rejoining the european union. that would be an electoral disaster for him many , many disaster for him in many, many seats, especially in the midlands of the north of england. but but as somebody who was a brexiteer before, many viewers were even born and who campaigned for it for over a quarter of a probably most of you, of you may baby david, i'll introduce you in a moment, i promise. the there are great senses of disappointment, and i think perhaps one of the key areas is migration. one of the reasons the turnout was 73, at least 10% more than the experts thought was because there was a realistic expectation we'd get back genuine control our back genuine control of our borders . and chosen to not

borders. and we've chosen to not exercise that. right. so i feel a great sense of disappointment, but i also feel a sense of achievement that constitutionally, we've made the change and there is no going back. i'm joined by david davis now. i'm sorry i got that wrong. he's now sir david davis. we have to get that right. member of parliament for the conservative party or what's left of it for haltemprice and howden and of course, the former brexit secretary and mike goldsworthy, chair of the european movement uk and founder of scientists for eu. david you were out there on the road, passionate believer that brexit was the right thing to do and do you understand the disappointment many people feel? >> yeah, but also i think a lot of it's based on just non—stop propaganda. i mean, put aside immigration for a second. all the other things we were told, i mean, you and i were fighting against, you know, you're going to have a million more unemployed. no, 150,000 to have a million more unem unemployed.o, 150,000 to have a million more unem unemployed. you're)00 to have a million more unem unemployed. you're going fewer unemployed. you're going to have no exports europe. to have no exports to europe. actually, grown 14. actually, they've grown by 14. you can have export generally

you can have no export generally got service exports gone up got the service exports gone up by 17. all time record . your by 17. all time record. your growth rate is going to be crushed. actually, we're doing better italy better than germany and italy and the things and france on all the things that those were about. that those were talking about. then the most of the opponents are talking about we're right, they're wrong. and that's despite the fact. remember, i resigned as brexit secretary because because i thought theresa may was not doing it properly . indeed, today's stuff properly. indeed, today's stuff on northern ireland is sort of the rescue of what she got wrong . so even though we didn't do it brilliantly , we which i is my brilliantly, we which i is my view actually is turned out not bad at all. >> i agree with you david. you look at the gdp figures, etc. it's not been a disaster. however you know there are 5.5 million men and women out there running small businesses. they million men and women out there runninexpected)usinesses. they million men and women out there runninexpected regulationsthey really expected regulations would ease. they'd be freer to run their lives . they haven't been. >> if they are, that's going to take time, to be frank. i mean, hang on, nearly, you know, how long did vote to leave? long ago did we vote to leave? never mind. mean, you know. never mind. i mean, you know. yeah, but the but the

regulations take take time to move. i mean, they're not going to change dramatically overnight, but we've got the right i mean, frankly, to put it bluntly, we've got the right to make mistakes. yes yeah. make our own mistakes. yes yeah. and talked about and what you talked about earlier something it earlier, something that it probably own probably us making our own mistake and we can fire mistake and at least we can fire the who do it. mistake and at least we can fire thei who do it. mistake and at least we can fire thei always vho do it. mistake and at least we can fire thei always arguedit. mistake and at least we can fire thei always argued in the >> i always argued in the referendum it gave us the right to mismanage own future, not to mismanage our own future, not have somebody else. to mismanage our own future, not have goldsworthy,mebody else. to mismanage our own future, not have goldsworthy, what dy else. mike goldsworthy, what was interesting referendum mike goldsworthy, what was inteipeople referendum mike goldsworthy, what was inteipeople david endum mike goldsworthy, what was inteipeople david davis] mike goldsworthy, what was inteipeople david davis and was people like david davis and i were arguing, look , you know, i were arguing, look, you know, we can be self—governing. we can do this, we can do this, we can do this, we can do this, we can do this. we'll have bigger do this. we'll have a bigger place etc. place in the world, etc. we didn't actually spend much time in referendum saying how in the referendum saying how awful we've done awful brussels was. we've done that in the years before that perhaps in the years before . what interesting the . what was interesting about the remain , when it was all remain campaign, when it was all and david's alluded to this, it was you're going to be was all you're going to be poorer, you're going to be broke . catch infectious . you could catch infectious diseases because medicines won't come in. i all stuff, come in. i mean, all this stuff, at i ever hear at no point did i ever hear a senior figure in the remain campaign lay out a vision of what was good about the european

union. and i want to ask you now, you know, we're four years on. we've left. you guys would like us to rejoin . i mean, for like us to rejoin. i mean, for example, last week we saw a senior figure, the leader of the epp group, the biggest political group, saying he wanted the european union to have its own nuclear weapons . what kind of nuclear weapons. what kind of european union? what's your vision for the european union ? vision for the european union? is it this big united states of europe ? europe? >> no, because the united states of europe would then be a country like that , that that country like that, that that wouldn't make sense. and that's not what the countries want . um, not what the countries want. um, and i certainly take your point about the britain stronger in europe campaign. they they were hopeless . europe campaign. they they were hopeless. um, and it was completely missing any inspiration vision for any sector of the economy or any demographic in it. it did my headin demographic in it. it did my head in from scientists for you because in science we can tell all the nice stories about collaboration , what we did and collaboration, what we did and how that provides added value. and i was saying to them, we need to run with this. and they

told me, no, we're just doing economic threats. you do economic threats. you do economic threats. you do economic threat to and we just want to get it over the line. and that's our job done. now, i and that's ourjob done. now, i know where this comes from. um, because advisers to because one of the advisers to cameron back in 2015, um , peter cameron back in 2015, um, peter wilding, said, we need to talk. we need to talk about leading in europe. we haven't really done that properly . we've of that properly. we've sort of been grumbling it, but been grumbling about it, but there where we there are things where we can really and cameron really lead. and david cameron said no , no, um, i won said to him, no, no, um, i won scotland on economic threat. i've just got back into power and economic threat. it's what works. we're going with economic threat, negative, negative, negative and maybe in scotland. furthermore, and furthermore, he had time to build up a had no time to build up a positive case because he decided that he was just going to do it in about a four month dash. and the why and i got this the reason why and i got this actually from, from alan johnson of the labour remain campaign. he was the first one who told me and i said, but he said that, you he would have

you know, he would have a referendum before the end of 2017. why why is he rushing it now ? and he said two reasons. now? and he said two reasons. one, he thinks that the leave campaign is split between , um, campaign is split between, um, leave eu and vote leave. and so he thinks that he can catch him in chaos . and secondly, he wants in chaos. and secondly, he wants to have it before the summer. because if you remember, in 2015, you had the migrant 2015, when you had the migrant crisis across the channel he didn't want that and he wanted to get the vote down before that. he just that. so basically he just rushed and out vision rushed it and put out no vision and he got punished for it. >> migrant then was and he got punished for it. >> mediterranean, then was and he got punished for it. >> mediterranean, to then was and he got punished for it. >> mediterranean, to thefair,|s the mediterranean, to be fair, not . but, you not the challenge. but, you know, we don't want know, you say we don't want a country, to cooperate. country, we want to cooperate. you scientist. but country, we want to cooperate. y0|why scientist. but country, we want to cooperate. y0|why have scientist. but country, we want to cooperate. y0|why have they:ientist. but country, we want to cooperate. y0|why have they:ientisflag? why so why have they got a flag? why have they an anthem? why do have they got an anthem? why do they weapons have they got an anthem? why do they own? weapons have they got an anthem? why do they own? independentons have they got an anthem? why do they own? independent their own their own? independent their own independent nuclear weapons ? independent nuclear weapons? >> this is a great question about the and anthem. about the flag and anthem. and i would demand the same of would like to demand the same of liverpool what do they think liverpool fc. what do they think they're doing their they're doing with their own flag and their own anthem? do they are. know they think they are. you know that's they're that's ridiculous. yeah, they're trying over the world, trying to take over the world, but they're people but they're lots of people have different flags now.

>> is not superior >> their law is not superior over manchester. and that's the point yeah. point. yeah. >> also with the the >> but also with the flag, the football flag, everyone, everyone says yes, everyone says it's eu flag. it's not. it it's the eu flag. it's not. it was it was put together in 1955, you know, in the whole surge of passion that came out of stood in winston churchill and others and was adopted . and was adopted. >> i've stood in the european parliament with them all standing ramrod to attention. i was there during the constitutional convention 20 years ago. they are building a state, a global superpower . why state, a global superpower. why should we rejoin it ? should we rejoin it? >> it's not because you're in denial . denial. >> you see, you're in denial. even now, when i give you the chance to give me the positive vision for why we should . vision for why we should. >> no, i'll give you the positive vision. but i'm not going to accept that it's going to be one country because the nafion to be one country because the nation in nation states are still in control . not for nothing. nation states are still in coni'ol . not for nothing. nation states are still in coni mean,t for nothing. nation states are still in coni mean, one nothing. nation states are still in coni mean, one pointng. nation states are still in coni mean, one point on on the >> i mean, one point on on the flag and the and the anthem, i was there in taormina when they first introduced it. i mean, i committed a solecism by refusing to stand up. there's no room . i

to stand up. there's no room. i thought thrown out. thought i could be thrown out. the , but but you the foreign office, but but you know, other say to know, the other thing i say to you, you know, what you, mike, is, you know, what a tragedy actually wasn't tragedy we actually it wasn't positive vision versus positive vision because once you start a negative attack, we had to defend negative defend against the negative attack. , it would have attack. you know, it would have been say this been brilliant to say this is what the alternative futures of britain are. >> and this is also where i think the bbc let us down hugely. and probably not hugely. and you're probably not going like this, but all going to like this, but all i saw on the bbc was old white conservative males for leave versus old white conservative males for remain. i versus old white conservative males for remain . i thought when males for remain. i thought when i started scientists for you, priti patel, i come on, look there were data done it as well. there were stats on about who the dominant talking heads dunng the dominant talking heads during that period. but no, but you want positive vision. this is hoped that the is what i'd hoped that the referendum campaign was going to be. you get farmers in a room and they talk about farming. what's important to farming and whether in the eu or whether being in the eu or outside of it would be advantageous to them from a community perspective . similarly

community perspective. similarly with fishing, similarly with tech, similarly with science. that's what i thought it was going to like that you going to be like that you really, you know, go into the country, interrogate country, you interrogate different communities about what's for them. what's what's working for them. what's not is immigration bad for them or good for them ? my ultimate or good for them? my ultimate goal or good for them? my ultimate goal, ultimately, is good for them or bad for me. >> what's interesting is this them or bad for me. >> whesaid,teresting is this them or bad for me. >> whesaid, weesting is this them or bad for me. >> whesaid, we must is this them or bad for me. >> whesaid, we must remain in london said, we must remain in the country, said we must leave. we've left. we're four years on. do you accept we're not rejoining? >> no, we aren't going to. we are going to go back and down again for sure. well, look at the demographics. i mean, right now, about the demographics. i mean, right now, people about the demographics. i mean, right now, people want about the demographics. i mean, right now, people want to about the demographics. i mean, right now, people want to rejoin or whether people want to rejoin or want stay out , it's pretty want to stay out, it's pretty solid 60% for joining want to stay out, it's pretty solid 60% forjoining again, 40% for staying out. don't interrupt me here because here's the kicker. here's the kicker. you break that down by age and you see that big millennial wave coming in. i'm sorry boomer guys. but they view our uk eu relationship very differently. >> fascinating because marine le pen is now leading in the under

30s. yeah the afd are leading in the under 30s. yeah. giorgia meloni support is young not middle aged and older. and what i do pritt stick i don't do any harm really interesting. >> i'm glad i haven't come across that yet. right across europe youth right europe it's the youth right across europe are saying we across europe who are saying we don't vision. across europe who are saying we dorwe vision. across europe who are saying we dorwe don't vision. old >> we don't want these old unelected brussels unelected people in brussels running our lives. actually, it's youth and the whole it's the youth and the whole european is falling european structure is falling apart. they're arguing like cats and dogs over migration , saying and dogs over migration, saying this for decades now it's every day now. >> it's going to fall apart any day it's happening. this politician going politician who it's going to fall but it's fall apart tomorrow. but it's not more robust not it's actually more robust than actually, thanks than ever. and actually, thanks to to brexit, you to you and thanks to brexit, you actually saw chaos in the eu from 2008 onwards because of the euro crisis , because of the euro crisis, because of the immigration crisis across the mediterranean. and they were at sixes and sevens. but when they had to negotiate against the uk , had to negotiate against the uk, there was incredible cohesiveness that come then amongst governments. i

governments mike. >> yes, but the point i'm making is there's a younger generation in europe viewing this in a very different way. have no different way. they have no memory the second world war. memory of the second world war. they project they don't see it as a project for perhaps their for peace, as perhaps their parents and grandparents did. the labour party see it as the labour opportunity. the labour party opportunity. the labour party opportunity. the labour party opportunity. the labour party for exchanges, for working on all of that working together on all of that without a political union, the labour party, you can do it later when you're working as a better the labour party better team. the labour party may rules and when may mirror eu rules and when some could argue the tory party have not diverged from have not diverged enough from them, prospect of them, there's no prospect of starmer into the starmer taking us back into the eu. there? eu. is there? >> no, no, not with starmer, certainly first time. certainly not in the first time. but at the moment starmer has no interest in that debate because he is trying to take the heat out of all of it. and basically he wants to focus on quite frankly, david, that the mess that the conservatives have made across the country and lots of dimensions , there was austerity, dimensions, there was austerity, then brexit, then covid, and all three have been mismanaged. i don't think so .

three have been mismanaged. i don't think so. his three have been mismanaged. i don't think so . his priority is don't think so. his priority is the come in and say i'm a safe pair of hands tidy this how am i starmer won't take us out. >> it's done david isn't it. we've left. it's not, it's not. >> look i mean starmer i mean two things. firstly your cohort you're about , two things. firstly your cohort you're about, uh, grew you're talking about, uh, grew up these fearsome up with all these fearsome threats. you know, you're going to your job. it's going to to lose your job. it's going to be future in science, for be no, no future in science, for example. all that turning example. all that it's turning out said who ever said that? >> osborne. there's no cameron . >> osborne. there's no cameron. >> osborne. there's no cameron. >> they didn't say there's no future in science. know future in science. they know i was leaving sciences for a year under the last word to david davis on this. >> but but so that's going to change. and what we're saying what you're saying is it's not going for ten years. going to happen for ten years. in going in ten years, they're going to learn like . learn what freedom feels like. and going to be and that's actually going to be good of the good irrespective of the government, matter government, doesn't matter which government, doesn't matter which government have government they're going to have to their own decisions, to make their own decisions, their mistakes their own mistakes sometimes. but what will happen over that time there's time is they'll realise there's nothing and nothing to fear outside and everything gain. and that's everything to gain. and that's what we're playing right ? what we're playing for, right? >> we are. that's >> well, there we are. that's the our debate. four the end of our debate. four years on from brexit night, i have we're not going have to say we're not going to rejoin. disappointed

have to say we're not going to rejchaven't disappointed have to say we're not going to rejchaven't broken appointed have to say we're not going to rejchaven't broken appoi|further we haven't broken away further in a moment. houthis are not in a moment. the houthis are not giving up. is it time to send one of our carriers from southampton water to the red sea

radio. >> i asked you earlier, have things got better for years on from brexit? steve says things have not got better because the remainers have sabotaged brexit. they claim to be leavers but they want to rejoin . i don't they want to rejoin. i don't trust any of them. steve i think that's a comment on the political class more than it's a comment on brexit itself . ryan comment on brexit itself. ryan says no since the early 2000, our quality of life has significantly worsened , mainly significantly worsened, mainly due to mass immigration. when we voted brexit to secure our borders instead , the tories have borders instead, the tories have opened the floodgates . ryan, opened the floodgates. ryan, thatis opened the floodgates. ryan, that is exactly the point that i was making last night. i think

our quality of life has diminished for all of us as a result of a massively, rapidly increasing population. and chris says the best thing that ever happened , nigel, happened, nigel, constitutionally, chris, i agree with you. i'd like to make more of it. now. there is no sign of the houthis giving up their attacks. the iranian funded who is giving up their attacks on ships, including british ships in the red sea. they've signalled today they will continue with these attacks because they say it's an act of self—defence and quite why we thought a couple of strikes from the americans and the brits would end the whole problem. when the saudis have been attacking and bombing the houthis for last eight houthis for the last eight years, beyond me. but where years, is beyond me. but where do we go from here? and what do we do? because there's talk of us sending one of our two great carriers from southampton water. well, i'm very pleased to be joined by lieutenant general general jonathan riley, retired british army officer, military historian . are the houthis are historian. are the houthis are well dug in, well organised.

they can't just be taken out , they can't just be taken out, can they? >> uh, well, indeed we've been, we've been. we and others have been having a go at them for decades. been having a go at them for decades . the british conducted a decades. the british conducted a campaign in what was then the aden protectorate in the aden protectorate back in the 60s very similar people . 60s against very similar people. yeah. uh, they are very religious, very well motivated . religious, very well motivated. and of course, they're now extremely well armed. they have a great barrage of iranian suppued a great barrage of iranian supplied weaponry, plus what they took from the, uh, the yemeni government . they have yemeni government. they have very harsh terrain , uh, which is very harsh terrain, uh, which is very harsh terrain, uh, which is very remote . uh, and just very remote. uh, and just finding them, uh, is, is a challenge. but before you ever strike them, the saudis, of course , uh, spent a long time , course, uh, spent a long time, uh, attacking them, relying almost entirely on american intelligence to do so . and intelligence to do so. and i suppose you could argue that the saudis just didn't have enough intelligence and just didn't do it. didn't big time. it. didn't do it big time. enough or for long enough. >> but it's never easy, it? >> but it's never easy, is it? >> but it's never easy, is it? >> to you know , if >> it's to fight, you know, if you army in the field

you have an army in the field against a different against you in a different coloured uniform or ships at sea, you know your sea, and you know what your fighter what fighter planes, you know what the . the enemy is. >> yeah. when you have an enemy , >> yeah. when you have an enemy, you know, mixed with you know, mixed in with a civilian population living, as you terrain , it's you say, in rough terrain, it's very, hard. i'm assuming very, very hard. i'm assuming that this goes on for a very long time . long time. >> uh, well, it either goes on for a long time or we do what the saudis did , which was to the saudis did, which was to make a deal with iran. however um, that looks a bit tricky. i mean , the saudis are in almost mean, the saudis are in almost impossible, uh, impossible position . um, the houthi attacks position. um, the houthi attacks are damaging the investments they're making in tourism in the red sea, and they're damaging their trade infrastructure there. but if they strike the houthis, they're lining up with israel. they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. >> going to happen , >> that isn't going to happen, jonathan. are there jonathan. you know we are there with americans, with the americans, and it's often and americans often the brits and americans that stuck in the french, that do get stuck in the french, of nothing do of course, want nothing to do with any of it . should we send with any of it. should we send one of our carriers? we've got these two carriers in southampton water built at a

cost of the british taxpayer, of a stunning £6 billion. should we send one? and if we do, just how vulnerable would they be? >> yeah. well you know, i'm, i have to put my hand up. i'm not a naval officer, but i personally couldn't understand the logic of doing it at a time when we were backing away from expeditionary operations and refocusing on europe . why do you refocusing on europe. why do you need an expeditionary air capability? but we've got it. and in a sense, it's use it or lose it. and in order to pay for and man those, we've disposed of almost everything else . uh, so almost everything else. uh, so if it is sent, explain what you mean by that. >> you say we've disposed of everything else. explain to the audience what you mean to find everything else. explain to the aud money'hat you mean to find everything else. explain to the aud money for you mean to find everything else. explain to the aud money for the| mean to find everything else. explain to the aud money for the carriers:o find everything else. explain to the aud money for the carriers and|d the money for the carriers and to find the crews for the carriers , we had to reduce from carriers, we had to reduce from plus of 20 frigates and destroyers to 8 or 9. >> and about nine submarines. so what that means is that the package that has to go with an aircraft carrier is going to be tncky aircraft carrier is going to be tricky to find . and even if the

tricky to find. and even if the ships can be found, the crews are going to be tricky to find. you can't send an aircraft carrier on its own unprotected. it has to have a package of capabilities of air defence, electronic , electronic warfare, anti—submarine and so on, specially ships and how do we do? we have these . can we man do? we have these. can we man them? are we going to be relying on an american package ? we're on an american package? we're certainly going to be relying on american aircraft. we don't have the squadrons to on the squadrons to put on the aircraft carriers. they're nowhere near operational capability just yet. so these are big, i think given given everything you've just said, ah, my instinct would be would my instinct would be it would be madness and very dangerous to send one of our carriers would be very high risk. and you take a risk if you need to do so. uh, to, fulfil the mission and if to, to fulfil the mission and if you can stand the consequence of failure. >> um, and in general, failure. >> um, and in general , the >> um, and in general, the americans, of course, they've just had three service personnel killed. injured, killed. they've had 34 injured, some very seriously. and some of them very seriously. and a huge debate here. what should the americans do? you know, the hawkish members of the senate

saying we've got to hit iran, hit the mainland hard , and hit the mainland hard, and others saying, well, actually , others saying, well, actually, you know, the iranians may be sponsoring hezbollah and hamas and the houthis, but they're not directly involved in this, or that would do is to provoke greater conflict in the region. and even saudi arabia not going soft, but but but not encouraging america to hit the mainland. what if you were an american? if you were an american? if you were an american general sitting in a meeting trying to decide how to respond to three of your service personnel being killed, what do you think you do? you think you would do? >> what i would say is that >> um, what i would say is that you you can't reward bad behaviour . you you can't reward bad behaviour. you can't leave bad behaviour. you can't leave bad behaviour unpunished. and they have consequences. but but have to be consequences. but but these have to be these consequences have to be proportionate. so a massive attack on the iranian mainland in response to the very regrettable death of three servicemen and wounding of others , is that proportionate ? others, is that proportionate? um, it could it could lead to a regional or even a wider global war. uh, does what the houthis did justify that even though

iranian fingerprints are all overit? iranian fingerprints are all over it? yeah they they didn't necessarily give the orders. they supplied the wherewithal and then said, go out there and make trouble . but they didn't make trouble. but they didn't say do that. so you would urge i would always urge, uh, caution . would always urge, uh, caution. sleep on it. yeah. um, have a, have a long hard think , uh, rely have a long hard think, uh, rely on good multi—source intelligence and select a target thatis intelligence and select a target that is proportionate and that will hurt and is in keeping with what was done. >> meanwhile , british merchant >> meanwhile, british merchant shipping and others will continue to be attacked in the red sea. continue to be attacked in the recyeah. adding, uh, week of >> yeah. adding, uh, a week of transit 3000 miles to the to the trade route and all the costs that that go with it. indeed >> jonathan roddy, thank you for coming in. i have a feeling, folks, this one is going to run and run . there to be no and run. there is going to be no quick rapid solution of quick rapid solution to any of this. i wish there was in a moment . well, the northern moment. well, the northern ireland assembly at stormont is coming back. the dup are happy, sinn fein are happy. the government appear to be happy.

but it wasn't until after prime minister's questions that we got any details at all about what was done, and there were some in northern ireland who are going to argue that actually this changes nothing and there are some on the mainland that worry to have made the dup happy . does to have made the dup happy. does it mean that we have to stay in deeper regulatory alignment with the european union and all of that on this day? four years on from leaving the european union

>> you're listening to gb news radio . radio. >> well, the what? the farage moment today was a really quite big one. an eagle eyed viewer that likes to keep me up to speed because i can't follow everything was watching the home affairs select committee this morning, and this is really, really interesting because can you remember back in march last year , the prime minister, rishi year, the prime minister, rishi sunak , stood on a podium , um, sunak, stood on a podium, um, behind a stop the boat slogan,

introducing the concept of the illegal migration bill. and this is what the prime minister had to say . to say. >> that is why today we are introducing legislation to make clear that if you come here illegally , you can't claim illegally, you can't claim asylum , you can't benefit from asylum, you can't benefit from our modern slavery protections . our modern slavery protections. >> you can't make spurious human rights claims, and you can't stay . we will detain those who stay. we will detain those who come here illegally and then remove them in weeks , either to remove them in weeks, either to their own country , if it is safe their own country, if it is safe to do so , or to their own country, if it is safe to do so,orto a their own country, if it is safe to do so , or to a safe third to do so, or to a safe third country like rwanda . and once country like rwanda. and once you are removed , you will be you are removed, you will be banned as you are in america and australia from ever re—entering our country . our country. >> so once again, they were doing it. if you come by boat, you can't stay. you will be got rid of. you will not be able to enter the asylum process. the

prime minister was perfectly clear. well, we've heard this sort of thing from the conservatives over and over and oven conservatives over and over and over, and they seem to get away with it. time after time. well, on that very day of march the 7th last year, this was my response on the very same day on gb news. it's all about politics. they know this policy isn't going to work, but rishi sunak tells you how impossible the situation is, doesn't take any responsibility for it, doesn't accept that many of us have been screaming at them over the course of the last three years to do something about it. it doesn't accept for a moment that, of course, boris johnson said, if you come here illegally, you won't stay. david cameron you come here cameron said if you come here illegally , you won't stay. now illegally, you won't stay. now this all projecting forward. this is all projecting forward. we are on your side. is we are on your side. that is what sunak is saying . well i was what sunak is saying. well i was sceptical today was really, really interesting . we saw really interesting. we saw conservative member of parliament for worthing, tim loughton , asking the question loughton, asking the question since the illegal migration act

became law in july last year, have people been refused if they cross the channel to enter the asylum process ? watch this. asylum process? watch this. >> and what is the status of those people who have come across the channel since the illegal migration act came into force ? how many of them are force? how many of them are there and what is their actual status ? their status ? status? their status? >> is there a claiming asylum and they are they are in different stages of the of the asylum caseload . asylum caseload. >> under the terms of the illegal migration act. they're not entitled to apply for asylum , are they? they're entitled to apply. >> but then they are then then then we have different process under that act for dealing with their claims. >> well, they're not entitled to apply under the terms of the act. so they can apply. but that application not recognised application is not recognised within normal asylum within the normal asylum procedures is correct. so what is status ? is their status? >> is their status that they are

they are they have sought to claim asylum. and we are , uh uh, claim asylum. and we are, uh uh, continuing to manage the they are they are in the asylum caseload, but they aren't. >> but they can't they're not recognised as asylum seekers . so recognised as asylum seekers. so how are they in the asylum caseload ? uh, if i may, they are caseload? uh, if i may, they are inadmissible , as you say, mr inadmissible, as you say, mr lawton, to our system . lawton, to our system. >> as you know, at the moment, we do not have a safe country of return for the vast majority of those individuals. so return for the vast majority of those individuals . so they are those individuals. so they are here on bail, uh, pending the conclusion of the safety of rwanda bill. and then the movement forward . movement forward. >> so there we are. we saw sir matthew rycroft there. yes. kc mg cbe , an absolute pillar of mg cbe, an absolute pillar of the establishment, running the home office, making it perfectly clear that whatever the act said, when it was passed in july of last year makes absolutely no difference at all. if you cross

the english channel illegally on a dinghy, you've a young man that's paid a trafficker to do so . you enter the asylum process so. you enter the asylum process and this takes us back really, to why have we lost trust in this government? why do we not believe a word that they say? why do so many people openly , why do so many people openly, openly now call our leaders a bunch of liars? strong words? well well, did rishi sunak, when he stood up on the 7th of march last year, saying that? did he actually believe it or was it a deliberate, wilful attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the british public? i think it was the latter and not the former. i think they are wilfully trying to mislead us and they seem to get away with it every time. every time they make a tough speech about how we're going to deal with illegal immigration, conservative supporting newspapers say hurrah ! supporting newspapers say hurrah i none of it is true . they have i none of it is true. they have no intention of sorting this problem out because we're signed up . we're signed up to hire

up. we're signed up to hire legal authorities elsewhere in brussels and in the united nations. brussels and in the united nafions.so brussels and in the united nations. so we have a situation here where the stormont assembly is going to come back after two years. sinn fein will provide a first minister, sinn fein seemed very pleased with this. the dup seemed very pleased with this or at least pleased that the british government has promised £3.3 billion for northern ireland and from northern ireland, secretary from the prime minister we've had precious little detail , but prime minister we've had precious little detail, but an 80 page report was produced this afternoon from what i can see, pretty much nothing has changed whatsoever here. yes, of course there are a variety of assurances of permanent, unfettered access for northern ireland businesses to the uk market, but that i think , only market, but that i think, only works if the european if the uk doesn't diverge at all from european union rules. so i think

what is going on here isn't just the continued sell—out of northern ireland. i think in regulatory terms it's a bit of a sell out for the uk. that is my view. as somebody who is not happy at all with this is jim alister , leader of the alister, leader of the traditional unionist voice . jim, traditional unionist voice. jim, from what i can see, there's lots of fine words. people saying they're very happy. what's actually changed, jim ? what's actually changed, jim? >> well, sadly, not enough . you >> well, sadly, not enough. you know, the fundamental problem here that has devolved northern ireland from the rest of the united kingdom is the fact that the conservative party surrendered sovereign dodi over much of northern ireland to the eu. they did that in in two primary ways . they did that by primary ways. they did that by putting northern ireland under the eu's customs code, which of course operates in the basis that gb, because it's not an eu member , is a foreign country, member, is a foreign country,

whereas northern ireland is treated as a eu territory, so that then creates the border. and second thing was that they left northern ireland under a vast swathe of . eu single market vast swathe of. eu single market laws, whilst we don't make laws, we can't change and today's deal doesn't change either of those things. it still puts gb as a foreign country in terms of trade and still leaves northern ireland colony like , subject to ireland colony like, subject to foreign jurisdiction, not just of their laws but of their court in everything that touches upon our goods economy. so i don't see the progress that restores to us a place within the united kingdom . kingdom. >> no, i have to say, jim, i don't. so i mean speculate for me why in that case, would sir jeffrey donaldson, leader of the dup, accept this situation, go back into stormont and allow sinn fein to have the first minister? well and of course, in doing that, he's surrendering the only leverage he had to force further change from the british government and or the eu

, because by he's now going back into stormont to implement the protocol and to implement a situation where gb is treated as a foreign country, etc. and that i think is quite disastrous for unionism. >> why did he do it? i think he succumbed to the pressure of the great and the good, uh, to, to get stormont up and running, whatever the cost. and he's paid party price far too high a price. and of course, it comes with the booby prize of a sinn fein first minister, someone who is in business to extract northern ireland out of the united kingdom and therefore is not there to make northern ireland work as of ireland work as part of the united but to advance united kingdom, but to advance the of irish unity as she the cause of irish unity as she sees it. which, of course, the protocol helps them do, because the sets in motion the the protocol sets in motion the creation of an all—ireland economy. >> on the other hand, jim , it's >> on the other hand, jim, it's pretty clear that most people in northern ireland, you know, have learned to accept compromise as ever since the good friday agreement even though some of them have very difficult

them have been very difficult and they actually stormont and they actually want stormont back functioning . back functioning. >> well, some do, but, you back functioning. >> well, some do, but , you know, >> well, some do, but, you know, you mentioned back to the belfast agreement, it's always rather strange and odd to me that it's always the unionists who have to make the compromise . who have to make the compromise. and here we have something that is fundamental to our position as an integral part of the united kingdom. there's nothing more fundamental than by rule, by laws of your own country, not by laws of your own country, not by foreign laws . you see the by foreign laws. you see the situation now in northern ireland is are ireland is we are constitutionally a condominium. we're part by uk laws we're ruled in part by uk laws and we're ruled in part by eu laws. that's totally incompatible with our position incompatible with our position in the uk . so faced with that, in the uk. so faced with that, i don't think unionism has any room to compromise because we're now accepting that never again will northern ireland be a full part of the uk . never will northern ireland be a full part of the uk. never again. yeah, because we're not accepted that eu jurisdiction runs . that eu jurisdiction runs. >> i remember very well four years tonight, jim, we were years ago tonight, jim, we were on stage in parliament on the stage in parliament square , none friends square, but none of our friends from ireland were

from northern ireland were with us a good us because it wasn't a good night . jim allister, night for them. jim allister, thank joining us. well, thank you for joining us. well, folks, we'll find out more . have folks, we'll find out more. have we the united kingdom we committed the united kingdom to regulatory alignment to stay in regulatory alignment with to pacify northern with the eu to pacify northern ireland? moment, i'll be ireland? in a moment, i'll be joined dame pretty patel. joined by dame pretty patel. i'll ask her four years on how she's feeling about brexit and what she makes of the illegal migration act not being any use at all. >> on patrick christys tonight, 9 to 11 pm, i'll reveal the shocking truth about britain's broken borders that the government doesn't want you to know. plus, it's sturgeon on the stand. ex—deputy tory chairman lee anderson wades in on that. i've got a big exclusive for you about taxpayer funded legal aid being given to a sex predator and murderer so that he can reduce his prison sentence. why are we paying for these monsters and former mumford and sons guitarist turned freedom fighter winston marshall joins me live in the studio. it's a brand spanking new patrick christys

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i >> -- >> well, i m hum >> well, i must tell you, this brexit anniversary , four years brexit anniversary, four years on, started off very well for me . i was a restaurant at 730 . i was in a restaurant at 730 this morning in the city of london, getting ready for an early breakfast meeting, and there arrived on the table in front of me a very large glass of champagne . i was really quite of champagne. i was really quite shocked. i said, look, i know what they think about me, but i don't normally start this early. and chap who sent and then i met a chap who sent the champagne over, and the glass of champagne over, and he to start the day he wanted me to start the day properly, celebrate four years on from brexit. so that wasn't a bad start to the day. and i wonder, dame priti patel, four years on, i mean, you were huge brexiteer. absolutely. i mean you involved with the you were involved with the referendum before the referendum party before the conservatives and it was an amazing event and we'd overturned . we'd stop the overturned. we'd stop the remainers , the blockers for remainers, the blockers for years . on how are you feeling

years. on how are you feeling about it? so look, i wouldn't change around brexit. change anything around brexit. >> the campaigns we held and the case that we made. i believe in the sovereignty of our country, our independence. you've our independence. and you've asked years on, you know, asked for years on, you know, sort are we actually sort of where are we actually look at the health and well—being economy, well—being of our economy, highest levels of employment. you doing trade you know, we're doing trade outside eu . the world is outside of the eu. the world is also changing, nigel, as we know with geopolitics and it's important that we can stand on our own. two feet. and i think we're doing that doesn't mean it's no way. it's all done. no way. there's so to but i think, so much more to do. but i think, you know, at end the day, you know, at the end of the day, the public, they got the british public, they got sick to basically that sick to death, basically of that institutional governance . and we institutional governance. and we can talk a bit about this can talk a bit more about this in know, the size of in a bit. you know, the size of the these of the state, all these types of things. we've lot more to things. we've got a lot more to do. and but we've got to show that institutions that our institutions are working for them and they start to benefits brexit. to feel the benefits of brexit. i world stage we do to feel the benefits of brexit. i taller world stage we do to feel the benefits of brexit. i taller. world stage we do stand taller. >> i think the aukus deal leadership in ukraine, whether you it or not, we've you agree with it or not, we've shown and think of shown it and i think all of those things are but, you those things are true. but, you know, from a family know, you come from a family that's run small business and

5.5 million men and women out there running small businesses. they really thought with brexit, life would get easier. it hasn't, regulatory hasn't, in fact, in regulatory terms, worse and terms, many. it's got worse and then the many millions who voted on that day back in 16, who never voted before, who genuinely thought we'd take back control of borders and we've control of our borders and we've chosen not to use it. and that's the priti patel isn't the problem. priti patel isn't it . finally, it constitutes. finally, i absolutely with we've absolutely agree with you. we've done right thing. i think done the right thing. i think the european union is becoming a basket the european union is becoming a baswell, you do have to look at >> well, you do have to look at what's in the continent. >> absolutely. and they're at each on each other's throats on migration sharing migration targets and sharing bird big thing. bird migration is a big thing. >> . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> about voters here? you >> what about voters here? you know, if i'm someone who know, if i if i'm someone who rarely i out and rarely votes. but i went out and voted referendum , um, i voted in the referendum, um, i then voted conservative in 2019 for the first time in my life, genuinely believing the numbers coming uk would fall. how coming to the uk would fall. how am i feeling now people have am i feeling now so people have got disillusioned got to feel very disillusioned about got to feel very disillusioned abothat's they're >> that's if they're just looking pure numbers, , you looking at pure numbers,, you know? actually on migration, know? but actually on migration, there are some strong things that we have done both on the legal did say you'll be

legal side, we did say you'll be able to count people in, count people digitalisation able to count people in, count peo borders digitalisation able to count people in, count peo borders ,iigitalisation able to count people in, count peo borders , all:alisation able to count people in, count peo borders , all of sation able to count people in, count peo borders , all of that's very the borders, all of that's very important for business, trade, etc. that's legal migration and obviously point space immigration system. we know who's coming here, what kind of skills. >> hang on a second. so hang on a second. you know, i was making the an australian style the case for an australian style point system years before in public, anyone in the conservative party dared do it. all . we lowered the all right. we lowered the barriers initially in terms of what qualifications people needed, what income they needed , needed, what income they needed, and legal net migration. last year was three quarters of million. >> but that's also because of the ukraine schemes. afghanistan varne and bono. now even without that, even without that, it would have been over 300,000. so okay, so there are two points here. one on legal migration . here. one on legal migration. ian, we are still bringing too many people over to work in our economy. what does that tell us? it tells we're training it tells us we're not training people enough. have people enough. we don't have a labour market strategy now. that's something have been labour market strategy now. that'son mething have been labour market strategy now. that'son about|g have been labour market strategy now. that'son about for have been labour market strategy now. that'son about for over�* been labour market strategy now. that'son about for over five n going on about for over five years, and believe years, and i believe the treasury be that. treasury should be doing that.

even raising that even today. i was raising that in parliament. need a labour in parliament. we need a labour market because quite market strategy because quite frankly, sectors in frankly, there are sectors in this country you know, this this country and, you know, this because i've seen you campaign on this and you've gone over, you've out and about you've been out and about talking know , talking about this, you know, businesses, businesses , businesses, some businesses, some sectors automatically go for that sort of default lever of let's just bring low cost migrants over to the united allowing. >> but brexit britain's allowing them to do it. >> so we need to do that. but business needs step up on business needs to step up on this and i know this as well. and you and i know we've have the right we've got to have the right incentives in place for businesses then on businesses to do that. then on illegal think that illegal migration, i think that is absolutely the biggest challenge that we have. and it's problematic . i saw your clip problematic. i saw your clip earlier on of, um, the home affairs committee. affairs select committee. >> by this >> we were promised by this prime minister stood behind stop the boats, the illegal migration act as it became. you won't be allowed to stay . and there we allowed to stay. and there we saw matthew rycroft , you saw sir matthew rycroft, you know, sort of chinless know, typical sort of chinless wonder country wonder that runs this country saying , no, nothing's changed saying, no, nothing's changed at all. everyone that comes goes into asylum system . this into the asylum system. this isn't good enough. so are the

conservative deliberately conservative party deliberately lying to it? >> no, i would say not. i've got my own views about the illegal migration act also, because i tell you where things have gone wrong i think a wrong and i think i'm in a position to this where some wrong and i think i'm in a po myyn to this where some wrong and i think i'm in a po my colleaguesis where some wrong and i think i'm in a po my colleagues aren't.a some of my colleagues aren't. i fundamentally believe the last piece legislation i brought piece of legislation i brought in the nationality and in was the nationality and borders had borders act that's where we had differentiation of migrants coming our system, which coming into our system, which meant that we get them meant that we could get them ready go rwanda. could ready to go to rwanda. we could process claims fast process their claims fast through the courts. we would bnng through the courts. we would bring stop shop. we'd bring in the one stop shop. we'd have the age verification have all the age verification and age assessment systems in place. afraid by by place. i'm afraid by by literally having another piece of legislation on the illegal migration moved all migration act that moved all that to the left hand side , and that to the left hand side, and the government has not implemented now , that's a big implemented it now, that's a big problem you can't keep problem because you can't keep on and starting, and on stopping and starting, and the that. the government has done that. that's problem . that's a really big problem. they're now bringing in they're only now bringing in those from the those measures from the nationality my nationality and borders act. my own nigel, i'm very, own view. and nigel, i'm very, very fervent about this with the prime minister as well . we have prime minister as well. we have to fast track these measures because it's only once you start

processing claims through the courts fast time, and courts fast in fast time, and you can then start to remove people. >> i mean, pretty let's face it, it hasn't happened. let's face it, whatever we do in parliament, the courts in this country, the judiciary are going to use echr people will make their claims. we will never solve illegal migration. all the while, i don't believe that. >> i don't believe that. >> i don't believe that. >> so you support us continuing staying in the echr? >> i would put forward >> i would not have put forward the act of the nationality act of parliament, nationality and borders act knowing that, you know, would just be know, it would just be a spunous know, it would just be a spurious measure and the courts would not act. we introduced they're doing it now. the government are introducing the one you literally get one stop shop. you literally get one stop shop. you literally get one chance put your cases one chance to put your cases through and quite through the courts. and quite frankly, you cannot keep using echr. the cases have to go through a very vigorous process. that whole point of that is the whole point of differentiation of asylum claims. i'm afraid , ed, that claims. and i'm afraid, ed, that changed last year and they put that to one side. >> so you're we in echr? >> look, if there's case be >> look, if there's a case to be made, and i have discussed made, you and i have discussed this before, nigel, let's be honest . it's not. honest. it's not. >> our audience are hot

>> our audience are really hot on this. >> w t- g is the country >> so the country is the country is because you and is alive to this because you and i is alive to this because you and | , is alive to this because you and i , like brexit, you can't i know, like brexit, you can't just say we're going leave just say we're going to leave and going and it's all going to be automatically . things will automatically. things will change it'll be change overnight. it'll be complex. to get it complex. we'll have to get it out legislation and out of lots of legislation and i think it's important we take the country in the public with on country in the public with us on this. think public this. i think the public and i would that. can would work to do that. i can tell you would absolutely tell you now, i would absolutely work that. work to do that. >> well, i think the public are work to do that. >> walready.�*|k the public are work to do that. >> walready. priti e public are work to do that. >> walready. priti patellic are work to do that. >> walready. priti patel ic are work to do that. >> walready. priti patel i cane there already. priti patel i can talk hours. thank talk to you for hours. thank you. secretary dame you. former home secretary dame priti for priti patel. well, jacob, for years and think we've years on and i think we've discussed this pretty you know, we're all very happy institutionally that it's done. it's going to be reversed. it's not going to be reversed. and you discussing tonight? >> going be talking >> i'm going to be talking about the celebration. the four year celebration. >> funny. the four year celebration. >> that funny. the four year celebration. >> that and funny. the four year celebration. >> that and a funny. the four year celebration. >> that and a gb funny. the four year celebration. >> that and a gb news'. the four year celebration. >> that and a gb news piece of work that's discovered 4500 directives that we haven't adopted, that if you place them end to end, would get you from somerset to scunthorpe and back. right along our motorway system . right along our motorway system. um, and what we're going to be talking about, the money we've saved £191 billion, we've saved by not being in the covid

recovery. >> there we are. there are some benefits. you see, folks, it's not all bad news, but i'll be back with you tomorrow night at 7:00. live here in the westminster studio. but before 7:00. live here in the west|let's er studio. but before 7:00. live here in the west|let's haverdio. but before 7:00. live here in the west|let's haverdilooklt before 7:00. live here in the west|let's haverdilook atyefore 7:00. live here in the west|let's haverdilook at the �*e that, let's have a look at the all important weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> alex deakin here with your latest weather update . good latest weather update. good evening. a dry and a bright day for many. tomorrow though certainly in the south a cooler feel . it's been quite certainly in the south a cooler feel. it's been quite mild today. it's also been very be very windy today. those winds continuing to ease down at the moment . a storm system heading moment. a storm system heading its to norway. this weather its way to norway. this weather front's southwards , front's been sinking southwards, bringing but bringing a band of rain but still very blustery in northern scotland . plenty of showers scotland. plenty of showers packing that rain packing in here. that rain will spread parts of spread across southern parts of wales and southern england before tending to fizzle out through . the early hours, so through. the early hours, so most places become dry and clear through the night. it's still very blustery, though, with showers the far a showers across the far north. a

hint touch of frost, maybe hint of a touch of frost, maybe over midlands and over parts of the midlands and central parts wales where we central parts of wales where we keep the clearer skies. but for most we'll start at about 3 or 4 celsius in the morning, and for most it's a fine day tomorrow. early rain over the channel clouds still clouds clearing away. still plenty northern plenty of showers in northern scotland. quite windy scotland. it's still quite windy here, the winds will here, although the winds will ease before more wet ease for a time before more wet weather pushes into the weather then pushes into the highlands western isles highlands and the western isles later on. for most, it's dry and bright, sunshine, bright, hazy sunshine, temperatures today , temperatures lower than today, certainly across the south. 7 to 9 c. friday will be a very mild day. we will still have outbreaks of rain in western scotland. some drizzly conditions over the hills of west england and west wales at times, but for most, friday is just dry and cloudy, quite blustery again . but it will be, blustery again. but it will be, as i said, very mild with temperatures in double figures. some places climbing into the teens. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> hello, good evening , it's gb news. >> hello, good evening, it's me jacob rees—mogg on state of the nafion jacob rees—mogg on state of the nation tonight. well let me begin by wishing you all a very happy day , as today happy independence day, as today marks four years since we escaped from the tyrannical yoke of the european union. and in a gb news exclusive, we can reveal that we have avoided 4500 bossy eu directives . which equates to eu directives. which equates to 450 miles of paper , the 450 miles of paper, the equivalent to a journey from somerset to scunthorpe and back . somerset to scunthorpe and back. a journey as it happens, i'll be making tomorrow . so time to making tomorrow. so time to uncork champagne . meanwhile, uncork the champagne. meanwhile, the lachrymose former sultanah of holyrood , nicola sturgeon, of holyrood, nicola sturgeon, has faced her inquisition at the covid inquiry in edinburgh and told lawyers a part of her wish she had never been first minister during the covid events , as she also belatedly apologised for saying her whatsapp would be revealed

knowing she'd already deleted them. the latest figures have revealed that the uk population is set to exceed 70 million by 2026. a decade earlier than expected, mainly because of our record breaking mass migration numbers. but this is not what the british people voted for last, an exhibition of masochism is on display at the royal academy as it reveals its own historical links with the slave trade. but are they merely accusing these figures of being products of their time? state of the nation starts now. i'll also be joined by a particularly pugnacious panel this evening. former editor of the sun , kelvin mackenzie, and the sun, kelvin mackenzie, and the contributing editor to novara media, michael walker. as always, i want to hear from you. it's a crucial part of the programme. me programme. email me mailmogg@gbnews.com . but now mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's what you've all been waiting the news of the day waiting for. the news of the day with polly middlehurst . jacob

with polly middlehurst. jacob >> thank you and good evening to you. let's begin this bulletin with some breaking news just into in the last ten minutes into us in the last ten minutes or tell you the us or so. we can tell you the us military has struck and destroyed a houthi missile, which they was prepared to which they say was prepared to launch yemen , the us launch from yemen, the us central command saying forces identified surface to air identified a surface to air missile in a houthi controlled area of the country and determined it presented an immediate threat to us aircraft. well, that news just in to us. and of course, earlier on today, to add some context, yemen's houthi said they would continue targeting any us or british warships , for that matter, in warships, for that matter, in the they said, in the red sea. they said, in self—defence. so the us has struck and destroyed a houthi missile, which was , they say the missile, which was, they say the americans prepared to launch itself from yemen at american military targets. we'll bring you more on that of course, if there's any reaction now , in the there's any reaction now, in the main news of the day today, there's going to be no