child safe phones would have saved her daughter's life. it feels like such a waste of life and if i can make things better for all the young people , then, for all the young people, then, then i'll keep working in order to do that. >> don't miss that interview. very powerful . and the home very powerful. and the home office has accused the church of undermining the asylum system system after accepting the clapham chemical attacker, abdul ezedi faith conversion was genuine, even though he failed a christianity test and he was a convicted sexual offender, and britain's sewage scandal sewage has spilt to a record high last yeah >> this needs sorting out. we're going to be talking to two prominent campaigners, actor james murray and former pop star feargal sharkey. this morning . feargal sharkey. this morning. >> murray, of course, is in the crown and the conservatives, well, they're in crisis. rishi sunak another little mini reshuffle after the departure of two government ministers. another they're on the

ropes. >> and of course, if you were with us yesterday, you saw this footage emerging, the six people missing after the baltimore bridge collapse are now presumed dead. we're going to have the very latest. so we've got a lot in the show today. there's a lot to get through this interview with esther ghey, the mother of brianna. really important. and she's really putting all of her energy because, see, on that clip there, the energy that she's putting now into trying to change the relationship between children and smartphones. yeah. >> and that access to the internet and the dark net, that's the point, getting touches this morning. weren't you gbviews@gbnews.com.7 don't go anywhere. firstly your latest news with tatiana sanchez . news with tatiana sanchez. >> beth, thank you very much for

the top stories. public satisfaction with the nhs has fallen to its lowest level since records began 40 years ago. with waiting times among the biggest concerns. a poll found that difficulty accessing gps is also a major worry , with the number a major worry, with the number of people satisfied with the health service now just 24. that's down from 70% in 2010. rates of dissatisfaction are roughly the same across both major political parties . the major political parties. the report found that tightening funding and chronic workforce shortages over the past decade has left britain's health service in a continual state of crisis . the search for survivors crisis. the search for survivors following yesterday's bridge collapse in baltimore has been suspended, with six people presumed dead. video footage captured the moment a cargo ship crashed into the francis scott key bridge at around 130 yesterday morning, local time. the collision plunged cars, their drivers and construction workers into the water below. now, if you're watching on tv,

this is the scene in baltimore this is the scene in baltimore this morning where it's just after 5:30 am, you can see the wreckage of the bridge and that cargo ship still in the water. the city's port, one of the busiest in the east of the us, is now closed indefinitely. we a part of the river thames that's to be used for the historic oxford bridge oxbridge boat race this weekend, has been found to be contaminated with e coli. the bacteria can cause serious infections and symptoms, including stomach cramps and nausea, river action says. tests suggest the pollution is from thames water discharging sewage directly into the river. thames water told gb news that it's the result of higher than average long term rainfall. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now back to andrew and . bev.

now back to andrew and. bev. >> very good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> so the home office said churches are now running the risk of undermining the integrity of the asylum system. that's right. >> it's been revealed that the chemical attack at abdul ezedi was in the uk by was allowed to stay in the uk by a judge who accepted he was a christian convert, despite very serious concerns that the sex offender was a liar. >> immigration files, which have been released by the home office . i have to say, after pressure from media organisations, show that ezedi remember he was the one who the chemical attack on a young mother and her daughter was backed by a baptist church minister. no fewer than four times. >> well, tim dieppe is from christian concern. good morning tim, and this story is of grave concern. what do you make of it.7 who is responsible here?

>> well, i think that it is a reputation , damage to the reputation, damage to the church, isn't it? that, a christian minister has vouched for his conversion and clearly that was absolutely crucial in him obtaining, asylum permission to stay here, in this country . to stay here, in this country. and that the government relied the home office relied on this baptist ministers testimony. and as we know , he was later telling as we know, he was later telling friends, i'm still a good muslim and buying halal meat from the local butchers and all this kind of thing. and now he's had a muslim funeral as well. it clearly was a fake conversion. and i think the ministers need to alert this. obviously, to be alert to this. obviously, we've well. reverend we've had as well. reverend matthew firth say that he's seen like conveyor belt like a kind of conveyor belt system through, system of people coming through, getting baptised and then, you know, getting a getting a certificate and using that to claim asylum. and clearly that is happening churches . is happening in some churches. his and i think the church needs to take a more to take a bit more responsibility to be fair. i think, you know, i'd like to see churches saying, i to churches saying, i want to see

this showing this person, showing some evidence change, life evidence of change, change life being part of the community, holding himself accountable to other in small other christians in small fellowship groups, praying regularly them , studying regularly with them, studying the bible with them over a penod the bible with them over a period of, say, a year or something. and then say, well, now really has now i'm convinced he really has changed is, a changed and really is, a believer and so on. and i also think churches ought to think that churches ought to require, a convert to renounce their previous faith as part of their previous faith as part of the baptism system. you say i renounce islam. muhammad is a false prophet. i no longer believe the quran. the quran is not inspired by god at all. and and, you know, christianity is the only true religion , and i the only true religion, and i think that should be a normal part of a baptism service for a convert from another faith. and that would be a lot harder for somebody who's still trying to remain a muslim to say and to i >> k- k the real concern here is >> tim, the real concern here is not that couldn't answer not just that he couldn't answer very basic questions when he'd so converted to so say, converted to christianity, but the church would him , this would not allow him, this baptist church, to go into the church alone unless he was escorted, because they knew he

was a threat to women . and yet was a threat to women. and yet this baptist church minister argued four times he should be allowed to remain in this country when they knew he was a threat to women in their own church. it is shameful that this happened. >> well, i think that is, you know, the fact that he had a conviction and was regarded as a danger to women and so on is something else. obviously, that clearly counts against him. and, and i think that you know, that people here people who commit crimes here should allowed to stay in should not be allowed to stay in the country, and, you know, he clearly lied as well about his background multiple times. and the judge understood that and saw well. that's another saw that as well. that's another reason shouldn't have, reason why he shouldn't have, been to stay in the been allowed to stay in the country well, and, know, country as well, and, you know, he was recognised as a risk to his own local people and women around him and so on. and the church took quite , extreme church took quite, extreme measures to protect them, as it should done , but obviously should have done, but obviously still witness and testified that he a christian ought to be he was a christian ought to be allowed stay in the country. allowed to stay in the country. and think that's kind of, you and i think that's kind of, you know on on their

consciences. >> now, i'm sure if tim, if this baptist church minister was here, be arguing that here, would he be arguing that what was what he was demonstrating was just compassion just forgiveness and compassion and therefore every soul deserves a second chance at a safe existence ? safe existence? >> i wouldn't want to second guess what he would say if he was here. i imagine he really believed this chap was a genuine convert. otherwise he's, you know, he's lucky. integrity. obviously, he must have believed it, but but, now he obviously realises he was wrong, and i hope that he changes his practice. and i hope that many other church members change their practices too, and decide they to greater they need to see greater evidence longer firm evidence and longer firm evidence. actually evidence. if somebody actually really adopting the faith and adopting changed lifestyle and adopting a changed lifestyle and seeing prayers and seeing answers prayers and expecting answers to prayers and expecting , you know, increased knowledge and the faith and understanding of the faith and understanding of the faith and fruits of the and growing in fruits of the spirit. >> yeah. all right. thank >> yeah. okay. all right. thank you. tim tim, up there from christian concern. also, i don't care if he's a christian or if he worships easter eggs or i

don't care what he worships. he can worship martians. he was a sex offender and they shouldn't have been here. >> they wouldn't allow him in the church unaccompanied because they with they didn't trust him with women. and this wretched women. and yet this wretched baptist argued for baptist minister argued for different different times. different for different times. he here because he'd he should stay here because he'd converted christianity converted to christianity to appalling. thing, why appalling. the other thing, why was he on a third appeal? quite. why are we allowing three appeals for failed asylum seekers? one is enough and if you fail it, you lose it out. >> yeah, three seems a lot when you have a track record of sex offences. extraordinary. >> and we shouldn't forget what he did. that woman has life changing injuries as a result of the chemicals he threw over her. he took his own life. i have to say this. i'm not sorry. >> and there were at least ten. if you remember, from that occasion in clapham, passers by who to who also who went to help, who were also injured, little girl was injured, and a little girl was hurt too, by that caustic substance and substance that, and significantly, when was significantly, bev, when he was the got body back. the family, got his body back. >> they insisted on a muslim funeral. yeah, funny that gb views news. funeral. yeah, funny that gb vie'com news.

funeral. yeah, funny that gb vie'com is news. funeral. yeah, funny that gb vie'com is the zws. funeral. yeah, funny that gb vie'com is the email address. let >> com is the email address. let us know thoughts. us know your thoughts. >> now this is a huge story front page of guard today. front page of the guard today. they've got a sniff of this literally being being the literally being sniff being the operative, pun. operative, you pardon the pun. it's of sewage it's the extent of the sewage scandal in our rivers record high spills. we think it's going to the equivalent of to be the equivalent of 4,000,000 of raw just 4,000,000 hours of raw just been announced. 4,000,000 hours of raw just been aanhiszed. 4,000,000 hours of raw just been aanhis minute date of 2023, >> this minute date of 2023, a 54% increase in the number of sewage spills compared to 2022, and a 13% increase compared to 2020. in just a minute, we're going to hear from james murray. he's an actor who's facial know well, and he's the host of the last salmon podcast . he's also last salmon podcast. he's also recently featured in masters of the air. here he is talking to toby willison, who's a strategy director of wessex water. >> you and i can probably remember , you know, as kids remember, you know, as kids swimming in the sea, and being surrounded by, floating faecal faecal material. i've certainly i've experienced that now. >> not not as kids. you look at

the quality of our of our bathing waters now, and it is unrecognisable from, from 20, 25 years ago. >> and that is a direct result of the massive amount of investment that water companies have put into, you know, the networks . networks. >> remarkable. >> remarkable. >> well, i don't believe any of that. >> well, james murray joins us now to explain. morning, james. great to see you. when you're talking to somebody there like toby willison, what's going through your mind when you're interviewing ? does he genuinely interviewing? does he genuinely think he's right or is it just is he just deluded ? is he just deluded? >> i think what's going through my mind the same thing that's my mind is the same thing that's going for the my mind is the same thing that's going company for the my mind is the same thing that's going company that for the my mind is the same thing that's going company that he for the my mind is the same thing that's going company that he works1e my mind is the same thing that's going company that he works for ? water company that he works for? yeah, i think they read from scripts, i think wilkinson scripts, i think toby wilkinson was hired that job at the was hired in that job at the time of that interview was, he was working for my water provider, southern water, and he used to work, would you believe, for the environment agency? he crossed rubicon. and they crossed the rubicon. and they are mouthpieces. he's now shifted off to wessex water because he's he's run out of

because his he's he's run out of propaganda, shall we say, with us down here at southern water. so, yeah, sadly, there is a systemic culture of lying, in a lot of these water companies. that said, i know that there is also some progress being made in some new faces involved, but there is there is a lot of rotten apples that need to be stripped out. >> so what is happening in these rivers? i mean, i would never swim in a river now it has to be said james. what is this? what impact is this having on marine life? all this pollution gushing in from these storm flows ? in from these storm flows? >> huge impact, it everybody knows now because it's so topical and has been in the news fantastically for the past, you know, two, three, 4 or 5 years, even that, the ea and the government bodies are woefully failing in their duty to us and to the environment. and it has massive impacts on on wildlife, on the endangered atlantic salmon, as bev said , is salmon, as bev said, is a passion of mine, all flora and

fauna, any a plethora of wild animals that that that need to thrive off a healthy river are being hugely compromised and sadly, the system isn't fit for purpose as the water companies will be the first to tell you. but because they haven't been regulated for so long, we are at where at now. it's an where we're at now. it's an acute situation. >> are there too many agencies, james, that don't work together? you mentioned the environment agency there. who else is partly responsible? and is it when there's so many agencies, is it just too easy to blame each other ? other? >> that's exactly right. you got defra just off the top of my head. you got defra, ofwat, natural england, the environment agency, all these, all these stupid bodies set up to, to talk to each other about. well i want this. no you can't have that unless we have this. and in the meantime rome burns as they're fiddling as to as to who who deserves what from the water companies. which regulations are the most important? which should get priority? the whole system

is as creaky as the infrastructure it's set up to. to regulate and govern. and it needs absolutely stripping down to the core and starting again. >> so 54% increase, james in the number of sewage spills. this is just broken now. last year 2023 compared to 2022. is it is it a stupid question to just ask why? why is this happening? stupid question to just ask why? why is this happening ? is it why is this happening? is it that we've got more rain? is it that we've got more rain? is it that the rivers aren't being dredged? is it that what is it? well it's i mean, it is a bit because we have more rain climate change or whatever you believe in certainly has meant that we have had a lot of rain over the last few years, specifically this year, and the systems cannot cope with that. >> the csos are being abused when we have, a surge in, in water on the on the on the infrastructure . but that said, infrastructure. but that said, we are england. we are a damp island in the middle of the, of the of the north atlantic. it

rains here, you know, it always has rained here. it's always going to rain here. we should have the defences. already there, you know, in situ to deal with this . we shouldn't be with this. we shouldn't be scrabbling around at the expense of our rivers . of our rivers. >> james, can you explain about the storm overflows which are supposed to be used only in extreme weather, but they're being increasingly now, being used increasingly now, evenin being used increasingly now, even in on dry days? can you explain how that is making this situation so much worse ? situation so much worse? >> absolutely. well, the storm overflows are exactly that. when there's a storm, they are meant to be an emergency so to be an emergency measure so that the often contaminated groundwater due to due to , you groundwater due to due to, you know, an abundance of rain can gets drained off directly into rivers and oceans, which nobody wants . that's raw sewage, wants. that's raw sewage, untreated sewage going into in into rivers and oceans. but but the water companies cannot cope, with the with the, with the sewage that they're meant to cope with and treat. so they are abusing that, those csos and

they're using them , whether rain they're using them, whether rain or shine, to dump sewage, and completely me completely disregard the permits that the epa and the defra and, and all the all the government bodies that i've mentioned there, have regulate and put in place regulated and put in place for them to adhere to completely disregarding them because they know that they will not be held accountable and that's where the rub lies. >> just ask you about the boat race on saturday. the organisers have been this great have been told this great british tradition, english tradition, be tradition, the boat race. be careful falling because careful about falling in because there's a lot of e.coli in the thames. yeah, the e.coli levels are off the charts. >> i think i read ten times past the, the safe limit. absolutely. i mean, i wouldn't if i was a, if i was a rower for, for oxford or cambridge, i wouldn't be going anywhere near a boat this weekend. i wouldn't be going anywhere near the thames for fear of, you know, for fear of being hospitalised. amazing james, see you. james, great to see you. >> murray there. his >> james murray there. his podcast the last it

podcast is the last salmon. it is brilliant. very good. get it wherever get podcasts. wherever you get your podcasts. and as we just heard, and he's also, as we just heard, masters of , the earth is the masters of, the earth is the air. sorry must of the air. sorry, james. must of the air. i've not seen it yet. i will, i'll watch it. >> i have it's very good. >> i have it's very good. >> oh, have you well done. right cheers, james, now, just a minute. we're going to, we've got an exclusive. actually, we've got an amazing exclusive interview with esther ghey, the mother murdered teen. mother of the murdered teen. brianna, we're going to bring that in just a moment. >> powerful, moving. >> very powerful, very moving. so for that. so stay tuned for that. >> right.

good morning. so you might have been watching yesterday . we did. been watching yesterday. we did. forget it. bring you these extraordinary stories yesterday . extraordinary stories yesterday. this was the bridge in baltimore that collapsed , the latest this that collapsed, the latest this morning is that the search has

been suspended. there were six construction workers. we were speculating yesterday, weren't we? as to how many people were actually working on the bridge? that was 130 in the morning. they've now been presumed dead. >> have great relief >> and we have the great relief that a may day alert from that the a may day alert from the tanker was picked up. the tanker ship was picked up. so the authorities on the land stopped. more vehicles going on that bridge, because otherwise it could have been horrific . it could have been horrific. >> well, joining us absolute joining us now is civil engineer malcolm hanky . good morning malcolm hanky. good morning malcolm, good see you, you malcolm, good to see you, you would have looked at this event yesterday through slightly different to rest of different eyes to the rest of us, because you understand a lot more these structures. was more about these structures. was it be expected that it would it be expected that when concrete pillar on when the concrete pillar on a structure like that is hit, that the entirety of that structure would collapse , well, there's a would collapse, well, there's a there's a couple of factors to answer that question , i suppose. answer that question, i suppose. bev, i think the first issue is you've got to remember , this you've got to remember, this bndge you've got to remember, this bridge was conceived back in 1977, and the standards of bndge 1977, and the standards of bridge design at that particular point were very much different

to, to the than they are today, one thing that that i would note from the, from the pictures that we saw is that the, the structures and the supports for the bridge didn't appear to have any protective infrastructure, which would be the norm for a bndge which would be the norm for a bridge of that particular type. and that size crossing shipping lanes. you would to assume lanes. you would tend to assume that there would be some protective, barriers preventing a direct strike on or at least minimising the impact of a direct strike. however, what you've got to imagine is the size of this, this shipping and shipping vessel, particularly , shipping vessel, particularly, container ship of this nature is such that it would almost be impossible to design a bridge that wouldn't collapse, or certainly wouldn't take a significant structural failure being hit by, by a vessel of this size, because malcolm itself is a is a continuous steel, steel frame structure , steel, steel frame structure, and it's, it's very much classed as a it's a dependent structure across all three lengths of its span. across all three lengths of its span . so what you've what you span. so what you've what you find is that every single

element of that structure is dependent on each other. so if you get a failure of one element of the structure, it then tends to result in a in a progressive collapse of the whole structure, similar to house of cards. similar to a house of cards. effectively that ship, of course, is a monster the size of it. >> and the weight it's carrying. and bridge was built and when that bridge was built in 1977, you didn't have container ships of that scale or anything like it. malcolm. >> absolutely . andrew. yeah, >> absolutely. andrew. yeah, yeah.the >> absolutely. andrew. yeah, yeah. the age of a super sized container ships is obviously, you know, was never even conceived at the point when that bndge conceived at the point when that bridge was designed saying that it would be very difficult to design any bridge, in terms of the practical and economic limits that would normally apply to bridge design , that would be to bridge design, that would be able to withstand a strike from a, from a ship of that size, and certainly at the speed it was potentially covering up. >> malcolm, are there any comparisons to bridges in this country and should people be concerned about something similar happening here, very difficult to say. i mean,

obviously , i would imagine that obviously, i would imagine that this will this will link to a number of different, surveys that will probably already happened and people will be investigating, the structural surveys that have already occurred on a lot of the bridge stock in the uk, i know from, from the us, this is particularly , i suppose brought particularly, i suppose brought brought a lot of shone a light onto the debate about the condition of bridges in the us as an example, i think something like 30% of bridges are structurally classed as structurally classed as structurally deficient in the us. so i think that equates to something along the lines of about 43,000 bridges. i know where joe biden has pledged about £110 billion back in 2021 to, to improve the road and building stock, but okay, malcolm, thank you so much, structural engineer. >> malcolm, hank, you there ? >> malcolm, hank, you there? right field. still to come, we've got an exclusive interview with the mother of brianna ghey , with the mother of brianna ghey, the trans teen who brutally the trans teen who was brutally killed. this is killed. don't miss it. this is britain's newsroom >> a brighter outlook with boxt

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central southern parts of england and wales could be heavy at so a cloudy night here at times, so a cloudy night here but clearing skies across northern ireland and scotland. a touch of frost and some fog here as temperatures fall close to, if freezing. north if not below freezing. so north south split to start thursday. wet and windy across wet and windy weather across parts wales and england. parts of wales and england. brighter skies northern ireland and and then these and scotland and then these weather systems slowly push northwards as we through the northwards as we go through the day. wet and windy day. further wet and windy weather pushing central weather pushing into central southern england gales along some southern coasts, at times two to the best of the drier weather, holding on across northern scotland, for most northern scotland, and for most temperatures or 13. temperatures around 12 or 13. see you soon! >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of

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britain's newsroom, the mother of murdered transgender of the murdered transgender teenager ghey told us teenager brianna ghey told us how believes child safe how she believes child safe phones have saved her phones would have saved her daughter's life. >> it feels like such a waste of life and if i can make things better for all the young people, then, then i'll keep working. in order to do that . order to do that. >> amazing woman. britain's sewage scandal . sewage spills sewage scandal. sewage spills rose to a record high last year. clean water campaigner fergal sharkey will join us after 11 more evidence of the crisis in the tory party. >> rishi sunak had to do a mini reshuffle after two ministers quit. he's on the ropes, isn't he ? he? >> and is christianity under attack or just being ignored? first the cross on a hot cross bun was changed to a tick and now easter eggs are under threat. they're being called gesture eggs . we'll be gesture eggs. we'll be discussing that. >> nhs not fit for purpose. satisfaction with the health service falling to an historic low . it's all because you can't

low. it's all because you can't see a gp, maybe even your dentist . what do you think? dentist. what do you think? >> and is it okay to call people fat? the fitness coach, mr motivator , says that people take motivator, says that people take criticism about their weight too personally and brits have become lazy. he will be joining us very . soon. >> i'm hoping he's going to give me some gym tips. >> mr motivator, you don't need them all. he's all muscle. ladies and gentlemen , gb views ladies and gentlemen, gb views gb news. com is the email address. do stay tuned because i'm going to eat a lot of easter eggs this weekend, so i might i might need a few tips, mr motivator. right. first though, your very latest news with tatiana . tatiana. >> beth, thank you and good morning. the top stories, public satisfaction with the nhs has

fallen to its lowest level since records began 40 years ago, with waiting times among the biggest concerns. a poll found that difficulty accessing gps is also a major worry, with the number of people satisfied with the health service now just 24. that's down from 70% in 2010. rates of dissatisfaction are roughly the same across both major political parties. the report found that tightening funding and chronic workforce shortages over the past decade has left the nhs in a continual state of crisis. we asked people in manchester for their thoughts on britain's health service once you get there, yes, but it's actually getting through the gp to getting to the nhs. >> i think there's a lot of money is wasted talking to people that work or have worked within the nhs . the amount of within the nhs. the amount of waste is phenomenal. so i think they need to look at the management, it needs to start at the top. >> thankfully i don't use it a

lot, but i'm currently on the waiting list for one of the hospitals in for manchester 12 andifs hospitals in for manchester 12 and it's a 52 week wait. >> we should make it like a more accessible thing. >> i satisfied because >> i am satisfied because there's a lot of hard working nurses, doctors, surgeons like you see the care they give you. plus i had three of my children here and the care i received was perfect . perfect. >> the search for survivors following yesterday's bridge collapse in baltimore has been suspended, with six people presumed dead. video footage captured the moment a cargo ship crashed into the francis scott key bridge at around 130 yesterday morning. local time. the collision plunged cars, their drivers and construction workers into the water below. if you're watching on tv, this is the scene in baltimore this morning where it's just after 5:30 am, you can see the wreckage of the bridge and that cargo ship still in the water. the city's port, which is one of the busiest in the east of the united states, is now closed

indefinitely . there was a 54% indefinitely. there was a 54% increase in sewage spills in england last year, compared to 2022. the environment agency says it's due to storm overflows with untreated sewage dumped into rivers and seas. it comes amid rising concerns for the state of england's waterways, with a part of the river thames. that's to be used for the historic oxbridge boat race this weekend. found to be contaminated with e coli. thames water told gb news it's the result of higher than average long term rainfall. giving out free vapes in emergency departments could help thousands quit smoking, according to a new study. academics from the university of east anglia conducted a trial in six emergency departments across the uk. one group of daily smokers were handed a free vape with guidance , while the other group guidance, while the other group were only given written information on how to stop smoking after the six months. those vapes and a referral those given vapes and a referral were 76% more likely to have

quit . the london mayor has quit. the london mayor has unveiled the new election pledge to put around 1300 extra neighbourhood police officers and special constables on the streets of the capital. the pledge comes in the wake of the baroness kc review, finding the capital no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service. sadiq khan made the pledge alongside shadow home secretary yvette cooper, while out on patrol with officers from the met police in southwest london. the mayor says it's a moment of opportunity for our introduced at london police and brought really important in relation to transport and accountability of the police with fast tracking disciplinary case against a police officers. >> we're funding the domestic abuse sexual offences line, the anti—corruption line is still open. we're lobbying the government to change the regulations so it's easier to get rid of bad officers, but also to change the culture within the police service by improving vetting . it's really improving vetting. it's really important, though, that we have a government with a labour government working with the with the police, working with the mayor. don't

mayor. at the moment, we don't the government not given us the government has not given us a of support relation a penny of support in relation to the transformation that's required police service. >> and finally, wales has missed out on qualifying for the euro 2024 football tournament. that's after losing to poland in a penalty shoot out in cardiff last night. poland won that shoot out five four and it means they're now through to their fifth successive european tournament. the defeat for wales comes after they secured a41 victory over finland in the play off semi—final last thursday . off semi—final last thursday. for the latest stories sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts now back to andrew and . back to andrew and. bev. >> 1006 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson, bev turner. >> now we can bring you britain's newsroom exclusive. do you remember the transgender teenager ghey teenager brianna ghey was murdered , stabbed 28 times by

murdered, stabbed 28 times by 215 year old she thought were her friends. >> well, her mother, esther, has spoken to show and is spoken to this show and is campaigning for child safe campaigning now for child safe phones for under 16, which she believes have saved her believes would have saved her daughter's life. our reporter, eleanor smith brings us this exclusive report. >> with the soul of the party, i suppose. and she was, she was so outgoing and she was so out there and. >> yeah , she was also very, >> yeah, she was also very, like, defiant. and she would she would do whatever she wanted to do . do. >> this is the last time transgender teenager brianna ghey left her house. she was murdered in february last year, stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife by scarlett jenkins and eddie ratcliffe, 215 year olds she thought were her friends . she thought were her friends. brianna's mum esther thinks all of this could have been avoided if social media safeguards had blocked her daughter's killers from looking at torture and murder online. >> children have access to

absolutely everything that's in the world now. the content that they might access and the content that they're then referred through the algorithm, it's kind of radicalising children and it wasn't just scarlett and eddie that were accessing dangerous content online. >> esther believes that part of the reason brianna was so vulnerable was because she was addicted to her phone. >> when brianna was with us, it was a massive argument point in our house. i was worried about what she was accessing online. i've lost brianna at a very young when she was very young , young when she was very young, and i wish that we didn't have all of those arguments . i wish all of those arguments. i wish that it was, i just i kind of wish that i had that support as a parent in the first place. and if not, and esther's not alone. >> tory mp and child safety campaigner miriam cates believes smartphones are damaging a whole

generation of children. >> it's becoming increasingly clear that, smartphones and social media have had a very detrimental impact on children and childhood . and childhood. >> and if you look at any measure of children and teen wellbeing, so whether that's depression, anxiety, actual suicide, all of those measures have gone off a cliff since 2010, 2012, when smartphones and social media became ubiquitous for children. we've got to stop it quickly. otherwise we are condemning, a further generation to that kind of, mental health problem. >> while it's too late for brianna. esther says she won't stop campaigning to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> she struggled for a couple of years before she passed away, and for me, that just feels like such a waste of life . and, if i such a waste of life. and, if i can make things better for all the young people, then, then i'll keep working in order to do that.

>> eleanor. >> eleanor. >> she's remarkable, and i'm obsessed . me as a mum watching obsessed. me as a mum watching that because. >> and it's the scourge of these smartphones and the dark web and the internet . we've got the the internet. we've got the conservative peer covid range here. powerful moving stuff . the here. powerful moving stuff. the mum's right, isn't she? these kids are too young to be exposed to horrific stuff about to this horrific stuff about murder torture . yes. sadism. murder and torture. yes. sadism. >> absolutely. and your heart goes out to the mother. but. but all of us, as parents who have this challenge, i'll have it in a few years time. but i have a niece who's a teenager and they all phones there. there's a all have phones there. there's a purpose there. there's, you know, how they get stay in touch . but the content that's coming through, how we've heard for many years now, social media companies saying they're going to do better, they never do. and we seeing these kinds of we keep seeing these kinds of tragic incidences. so we know there's a lot of scrutiny on this. the online harms bill has gone a long way to look at how we can enforce something. but i think, you know, there's more and more we have to put the

pressure on on better control, know, you know what, all know, you know what, you all have a pair and you have have to grow a pair and you have to ban these phones for the under 16 seconds. >> stop. because you've >> full stop. because you've seen brianna's there seen brianna's mother there crying. tears when crying. i am in tears when i think about this. you don't know how hard it for us to deal how hard it is for us to deal with our children with this tech. we you help tech. we need you to help us. and fan of banning and i'm not a fan of banning anything, but when my children wouldn't their seatbelts on wouldn't put their seatbelts on in as youngsters in the car as youngsters and i would say, you've got to put your on because your seatbelt on because the policeman cross at policeman will be cross at mummy. yes, you need to help us and need say you're not and you need to say you're not allowed these phones until 16. >> you're right. need the >> you're right. we need the strong of the law right? strong arm of the law right? because you the law on your because you have the law on your side there. you could. and it's hard children because hard with children because you've got to explain. but yes, we to at do under 16 we need to look at do under 16 year olds really need their phones? is purpose that phones? what is the purpose that they're it for? there's they're having it for? there's something about the hardware, you phone you know, the actual phone itself. content itself. then there's the content side it's both of these side of it. it's both of these things. >> it's the addiction. >> it is. it's the addiction. >> it is. it's the addiction. >> yes. >> yes. >> but wouldn't it be politically, the tory party are heading the heading for a destruction at the polls would this be

polls and would this be something not just clever and innovative ? it would be popular. innovative? it would be popular. it would be, i think, to say we're going to ban kids under 16 because we think it's bad for their health. yes, we've got one side we understand smoking. side we understand 16 smoking. yes. bad for the health drinking. that's bad. these this is bad their mental health. is bad for their mental health. >> i think there's a generational shift obviously around that's happening. generational shift obviously aroun your children are young. covid yes, but if you had a 15 year old, would you allow that 15 year old to have

smartphone? >> personally, at this point, i wouldn't want the 15 year old to have a smartphone. but then you have a smartphone. but then you have this whole my friends got it. that's right. they've been excluded from the because excluded from the group because i part. i can't be part. >> and that's why to >> and that's why you need to ban because ban them. that's why. because parents struggling parents really are struggling with of us are. i'm with this all of us are. i'm a tough mum, you know, my kids have their restrictions on their phones. got power to phones. i've got the power to switch it off. but but it's still really hard. it seeps back in and they and they can always work the system . the kids are work the system. the kids are always one step ahead of us. so just make it so socially unacceptable. it has to become socially unacceptable to see a three year old in a pram, on a smartphone , because you see them smartphone, because you see them all the time being pushed down the street. >> yes, i think that that even i will say at some stage i'm guilty. look, we've got two very young children. at some point we give let give them the tablet and let them yeah, so that we them play. yeah, so that we can get a five, minute break get a five, ten minute break from you know. so there's from them, you know. so there's the balance of we use this, the balance of how we use this, the balance of how we use this, the kit, what they're to do the kit, what they're able to do on it, and then the social media side of it which exposes them to

all kinds of horrible things. >> to saying >> it's pointless to keep saying we're the social we're going to get the social media companies be more media companies to be more responsible, they keep responsible, because they keep saying and they saying they will, and they don't. where cameron don't. and where cameron was fighting prime fighting this when he was prime minister. perhaps there minister. so perhaps if there were legislators the were more legislators in the commons covid who commons and the lords covid who had yeah, may had teenage kids. yeah, they may say, we this. they say, well, we need this. they don't get it because my 13 year old, only way to stop the old, the only way to stop the rest of my class is yes, none of the class can have one, because that's law of the land. that's the law of the land. >> you're you're right. and i think is going think this is going to be a generational conversation for parliamentarians. what's parliamentarians. and what's coming in the next generation that digital natives. that aren't digital natives. forget word digital, forget the word digital, the words digital they're words digital natives, they're just technology world. just in the technology world. they've born and bred they've been born and bred there. we who've been there. and we who've been through that era and understand the power of this now have to apply right way, the right apply the right way, the right laws, the right legislation going forward. we're having going forward. and we're having those it is those debates now. it is challenging because i think there a shift there is a shift in parliamentarians age , which, you parliamentarians age, which, you know, we have a lot of conversations about people retiring the of retiring from the house of commons and even from the house

of i think turnover of lords. i think that turnover of lords. i think that turnover of bring new people of people does bring new people like recently come like myself who've recently come in different viewpoint. in with a different viewpoint. >> too many old who >> it's too many old men who have no idea what it's like to have no idea what it's like to have seven, eight, year have a seven, eight, nine year old ask you 20s this old have to ask you for 20s this shocking discharge of sewage into a 59% increase into our rivers, a 59% increase in one year. >> this is on a tory government's watch. i wouldn't government's watch. i wouldn't 9° 9° government's watch. i wouldn't go go sailing at in go go sailing at walk in the river, race this river, the boat race this weekend. they've warned weekend. they've been warned about in the thames. about the e.coli in the thames. >> we all care for our >> if we all care for our country, we care for our rivers, our streams, the beauty of it, the and when we hear the nature. and when we hear about this, what really want, about this, what we really want, andrew, people to be andrew, is we want people to be held we want held to account. yeah, we want the agency to do the environment agency to do what right say when these what is right to say when these things are going wrong, for things are going wrong, not for it to have to be exposed by. i think it was in this case, sky's investigation into this. that isn't should finding isn't how we should be finding out these things. so i out about these things. so i think questions need think strong questions need to be asked and held be asked and people held accountable. and not only accountable. and then not only that, stop this happening. that, let's stop this happening. >> and that from my understanding, had understanding, and we've had a couple got fergal couple of we've got fergal sharkey huge campaigner sharkey who's a huge campaigner on the show shortly

on this on on the show shortly we james murray earlier. we had james murray earlier. it's people it's taking people from different areas of life to raise awareness of this because the politicians don't seem to awareness of this because the politithes don't seem to awareness of this because the politi the shareholderseem to awareness of this because the politi the shareholders getting care. the shareholders getting loaded on us paying money and we can't go for a swim in the sea. this stuff is tangible. this is what your voters are going to see. our inbox is full of people saying, i can't let my dog go in the river when we go for a walk because he gets ill. >> yes, look, good politicians should the public's should solve the public's problems. let's get our problems. yeah, so let's get our politicians. the politicians. let's get the government this solve government on to this and solve the well, you do for us >> well, you do it for us personally. will you promise us? >> raise it. i will raise >> i'll raise it. i will raise it whatever . it with whatever. >> it's very popular with the voters. if you can fix this right. good right. kulveer ranger. good to see always. see you, as always. >> still to come, public >> well, still to come, public confidence nhs. another confidence in the nhs. another problem tories. only problem for the tories. only 1 in 4 people are satisfied because they can't to because they can't get to a doctor. they can't get to an nhs dentist. and let's not forget the haven't helped. dentist. and let's not forget the that's haven't helped. dentist. and let's not forget the that's right, haven't helped. dentist. and let's not forget the that's right, recordt helped. dentist. and let's not forget the that's right, record lowlped. >> that's right, record low satisfaction nhs . are satisfaction with the nhs. are you one of them? this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> what is the time? it is 1020. britain's news gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner. the panelis andrew pearson. bev turner. the panel is here. stephen pound. politically. not to my right. sitting my right, not to sitting on my right, not to anybody . former labour and of anybody. former labour mp and of course, parry, the course, mike parry, the broadcaster. they are. course, mike parry, the bro right:eh they are. course, mike parry, the bro right gentlemen.y are. course, mike parry, the bro right gentlemen. what do we >> right gentlemen. what do we want with a post office want to start with a post office story. that isn't the story. yeah. that isn't the scandal. it now ? scandal. what is it now? >> well, it's all about forged stamps. >> okay. and you'd say that's rather odd. what can you how can you have forged stamps? i've been a victim of this. i've been a victim of this terrible scandal. i still pay some of my bills by paper because i prefer to have control. good for you. thank and i don't want thank you. and i don't want people hacking into my computers all time. all the time. >> check the post. >> check in the post. >> check in the post. >> yes, do, you? right now, >> yes, i do, do you? right now, let you, i send a cheque let me tell you, i send a cheque in post to barclaycard, in the post to barclaycard, okay? and on the day when you're

supposed pay your crown, you supposed to pay your crown, you get little message saying get a little text message saying you get a little text message saying you pay get a little text message saying you pay before you may wish to pay before midnight this can't midnight tonight. and this can't happen. ago. anyway, happen. three weeks ago. anyway, i to barclaycard . they i got on to barclaycard. they said we haven't had your payment and it was a couple of thousand quid or something, you know, and i thought, this is very, very strange . so i made arrangements strange. so i made arrangements to the following morning to pay it the following morning i a letter from my local i got a letter from my local post office collecting office to say, you have been using forged stamps on your on your mail. so we have therefore, not only have we have therefore, not only have we not delivered them, we've informed the authorities. you're putting forged stamps on it. and then i had to pay something like £4.80 for the benefit of them coming back to me. >> and where did you buy the forged stamps from? >> i bought mine in my local newsagents. but the story that's highlighted it this morning says they came direct from the post office and the people who manufacture them. >> news first exposed this. >> news first exposed this. >> we did, didn't we? >> yes, we did, didn't we? >> yes, we did, didn't we? >> right. and the mail's >> right. and then the mail's doneit >> right. and then the mail's done it again. has done it

today. yeah, very worrying. mike. what can you tell if it's forgery? >> well, i think what happens is when it goes through the franking machine, you see i franking machine, you see what i mean? office, mean? inside the post office, some off or some light goes off or something. says, no, we something. it says, no, no, we can't tell. no, no. here's the thing. >> yeah, the post office do not have an absolutely brilliant reputation it. reputation when it comes to it. let's establish that it's absolutely true. nobody knows whether devious whether there's some devious gang who have given gang of people who have given up forging blacks. you forging penny blacks. and you know, guinea, know, those know, guinea, you know, those rare and actually doing rare stamps and actually doing these could well, these ones. what it could well, easily be a simple easily be is a simple malfunction of the identification computer program. as because at as simple as that. because at the moment, if people are buying them from the corner shop, if they're being supplied by the post office, i'm sorry, is post office, i'm sorry, that is not some great criminal conglomerate. forging conglomerate. you know, forging these shouldn't have had to >> mike shouldn't have had to pay a >> mike shouldn't have had to pay a fine or know. >> exactly, exactly . it came >> exactly, exactly. it came back with one of those in good faith, of course. i get a yellow sticker on it. yeah, a yellow sticker on it. yeah, a yellow sticker coming back saying you haven't postage haven't paid for your postage and i had paid my and all that. i had paid my postage. unfortunately, it was a false alarm and the costs of

stamps days now an stamps these days now anyway, an outrage. it is an outrage. when i a kid, it was about £0.05 i was a kid, it was about £0.05 or £0.06. it's now £1.65 or something. i i've had to something. i mean, i've had to cut down my christmas card output 50 i really output to 50 because i really sorry . that's just an excuse. sorry. that's just an excuse. no. well, well no no no i got one one year. yeah. no. in fact all my friends are either dying or don't want to know about me anymore. but don't. but that's that's another story. but what i'm saying is you are. now you expect a bit of service for a £1.65 stamp. you don't expect the people at the post office to accuse you of being a thief. >> you've got a very nice christmas card last week which was sent in the first week in december. >> god, my god rishi >> oh my god, my god rishi wasn't it, just i'm not. wasn't it, he just i'm not. >> yes. >> yes. >> gb news interested in >> gb news are interested in this story about the stamps. if you have been by that, you have been impacted by that, would mind emailing us? but would you mind emailing us? but it's different address. it's a different email address. it's gb .uk. if it's money at gb news .uk. if you mike money at you ran that down. mike money at gb uk, we to know your gb news uk, we want to know your stories because we are looking into this. >> is this has happened to >> this is this has happened to

a lot people. mike. a lot of people. mike. >> it is and on a larger >> oh it is and on a larger scale, i mean, you know, stephen has very raised the has very rightly raised the issue problem starts issue of when a problem starts inside office where inside the post office where doesit inside the post office where does it all end, doesn't it? and, you know, we've got a massive great example of the injustices and the incompetency of the post office company has suppued of the post office company has supplied the it equipment. >> could it possibly be to blame fujitsu? >> well , in fujitsu? >> well, in the absence of anything else, i haven't paid anything else, i haven't paid any compensation. >> you want >> i'm surprised that you want to talk about this, gentlemen, but on list. so kc but it's on the list. so kc price, formerly known as jordan, has spoken out and said that girls shouldn't plastic girls shouldn't get plastic surgery when she's built a career. >> stephen, on how she's built her career on plastic. >> stephen, on how she's built her she'sr on plastic. >> stephen, on how she's built her she's she's lastic. >> stephen, on how she's built hershe's she's made a fairly >> she's she's made a fairly powerful case against plastic surgery. to say. you know surgery. i have to say. you know the woman who invented the trout pout? actually the woman who invented the trout pout?way, actually the woman who invented the trout pout?way, way actually the woman who invented the trout pout?way, way actilook, gone way, way too far. look, what's awful about doing my own. gone way, way too far. look, viki'iow awful about doing my own. gone way, way too far. look, viki'iow avful about doing my own. gone way, way too far. look, viki'iow a lot about doing my own. gone way, way too far. look, viki'iow a lot of)out doing my own. gone way, way too far. look, viki'iow a lot of young ing my own. gone way, way too far. look, viki'iow a lot of young girls, y own. gone way, way too far. look, viki'iow a lot of young girls, 13, wn. i know a lot of young girls, 13, 14, you know, obviously grandchildren in my case, you know, who actually talking know, who actually start talking about, oh, not about, you know, oh, i'm not beautiful enough, you know, i need to fillers. i need to need to have fillers. i need to have plumpers. need you have plumpers. i need to, you know, that sick. and then you

know, that is sick. and then you have these people who have exploding buttocks oh, exploding buttocks lumps. oh, no, no, these people exploding buttocks lumps. oh, no, people no, these people exploding buttocks lumps. oh, no, people who , these people exploding buttocks lumps. oh, no, people who g01ese people exploding buttocks lumps. oh, no, people who g01es> oh, my god, she's a freak. i see that's the word. >> sophia there, mike. >> sophia there, mike. >> that's the andrew. >> that's the word andrew. >> that's the word andrew. >> mental dysfunction. >> mental mental dysfunction. >> mental mental dysfunction. >> i'm sorry. >> oh i do, i'm sorry. >> i use a more pejorative word. that's that's free. >> it's unfortunately getting very, very normal. >> she's got boobs size of >> she's got boobs the size of barrage balloons. >> and honestly, that's >> and i mean, honestly, that's a being who's got huge a human being who's got huge mental health because if mental health issues. because if you change what you look you want to change what you look like, change your shape and all that, being driven by you that, you're being driven by you know, the from society. know, the approval from society. do the original one do you remember the original one was bride of wendelstein? do was the bride of wendelstein? do you this woman who's in you remember this woman who's in the end, her face looked so

ghastly. people used to recoil in the street from looking at her and that kind of stuff. in a wind tunnel. yeah she did. now now, point is for katie now, the point is for katie price get involved this price to get involved in. this is a anachronism about is a complete anachronism about what store is all about, what the store is all about, because she's been the biggest influencer young women over influencer to young women over the years to try and improve your body. >> i would have thought it would have put young women off doing it she looks a it because she looks like a freak show. >> well, maybe that's why it's good that is saying, well, good that she is saying, well, maybe follow my example, maybe don't follow my example, because i was a tabloid journalist a paper journalist and worked at a paper where to naked where we used to put naked pictures of women on page three. >> i remember first >> i remember the very first pictures of price when she pictures of katie price when she was with greatest was jordan and with the greatest respect she was a slim respect to her, she was a slim woman and she went from she went from to be to from wanting to be slim to wanting to be, you know, enormously curvy woman. and then went up and down over the years. i mean, was horrendous, honestly. >> i mean, i haven't actually studied price's studied katie katie price's grand they say in grand balcon as they say in france, but looking at that, it looks like a dead heat in a zeppelin race. i've never seen such ones. dude,

such enormous ones. dude, there's attractive about that. >> and can i can i borrow that? >> and can i can i borrow that? >> yeah, yeah, and i won't give any credit. >> and can i just say, with both being the only one on this, on this table of four men, the only woman i, as three men. >> can you count? >> can you count? >> i said three men and. no no no no no , i said, bev is on a no no no, i said, bev is on a table of four three men. that's right. anyway, anyway, i'll stop using these anyway. >> the point is, mike, who who do you identify? >> the point i was going to make was as a heterosexual male, i find no appeal whatsoever in a woman who's had extensive plastic surgery. i honestly recoil because i think there's nothing real about you. >> i'm not joking. there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth throughout the lad. >> well, i should imagine there will be. >> i've spent 40 grand having them inflated, and mike perry won't me a second look. won't give me a second look. >> what you, stephen? do >> what about you, stephen? do you it hard to be attractive? >> good god, no, no, i always thought plastics. thought about it, but plastics. well, it's very often well, i mean, it's very often been suggested me. yeah,

can't. >> yeah, but i'll tell you whether it's a serious issue. >> i think a stocking over my head, something about talking to you boobs, you three about fake boobs, which giving me the which is really giving me the giggles. we're we're new giggles. yeah, we're we're new men. >> e new men. absolutely >> you are new men. absolutely right. shall we talk about. >> she is just awful. just forsake. >> well, should we just talk? sorry. >> before you go on. but >> just before you go on. but i'm just going say sorry. i'm just going to say sorry. >> who's in charge here? >> who's in charge here? >> various boobs. >> no, no. various fake boobs. >> no, no. various fake boobs. >> times over the last >> various times over the last couple years, i've honestly couple of years, i've honestly looked clips that are put looked at the clips that are put out when i'm on tv show, and out when i'm on a tv show, and i've honestly thought to myself, do i'm getting do you know what? i'm getting uguer do you know what? i'm getting uglier day and thought, uglier by the day and thought, what maybe i've got what is it? oh, maybe i've got too many chins, but i've never been to the point of i'm been driven to the point of i'm having plastic surgery. >> then are men to the >> but then you are men to the same rules don't apply. >> you know that. >> you know that. >> unfortunately, to >> unfortunately, we have to adhere of adhere to a different level of attractiveness, which didn't, attractiveness, which we didn't, but we did. >> the sadly not. >> that is the sadly not. >> that is the sadly not. >> you didn't have to, but it's true, right. can we can look rugged, right. >> eggs. >> easter eggs. >> easter eggs. >> you don't. >> but you don't. >> but you don't. >> gentlemen. easter weekend coming so nhs doctor, coming up. okay, so nhs doctor, a medical director from

a medical medical director from the andrew kelso, has the nhs doctor andrew kelso, has given important given us a very important warning your health. >> oh shut up. do not eat an easter egg in one go, he says. >> stephen. >> stephen. >> yeah, well, i can, depends on how the egg is. how big the egg is. >> if you look at this easter egg, yes, you could just about scoff honestly, scoff that. yeah, the honestly, have come to this? have we really come to this? has the world to such the world descended to such ludicrous depths where people are that we are actually saying that we shouldn't egg shouldn't shove an easter egg into one go? into our boat race in one go? i'm if you want to do i'm sorry. if you want to do that once a year, go for it. your dentists will. >> thank you, i totally agree and if you've got a greedy big brother, you have to eat it quick in case he it. quick in case he pinches it. >> you but the problem >> will you do? but the problem is, easter eggs have so is, easter eggs have shrunk so much easily eat in much you can easily eat them in one. helping. i have, one. helping. now, now i have, i have, diabetes two. okay. and so i avoid chocolate. except for two the year. boxing day two days of the year. boxing day when i eat a box of quality street. very nice and good friday weekend i devour an friday weekend when i devour an easter buttons easter egg and the buttons inside sunday. not inside the easter sunday. not well . i inside the easter sunday. not well. i usually inside the easter sunday. not well . i usually start friday or well. i usually start friday or saturday. friday or saturday, you the you you know, that's the day you should good friday. should be. heretic. good friday.

well yeah, i know. what was that fish on good friday. so chocolate. chocolate compliments it but no. yeah but suppose but the point i'm making is that , the point i'm making is that, stephen is absolutely right. of course you can go to excess once course you can 90 to excess once a course you can go to excess once a year without damaging yourself. and these do gooders who are trying to tell us how to run our lives, i say a pox on them. >> and also because the other story that we'll get to in the next hour is how low satisfaction is in the nhs. if doctor kelso, you us to be doctor kelso, you want us to be healthy, help improve the nhs in your position as a as a mouthpiece for organisation mouthpiece for that organisation on strike. >> this is david cameron saying about having chocolate about not having chocolate oranges checkout isn't it? >> w.h. smith. >> w.h. smith. >> right. his of >> right. all his talk of chocolate me need chocolate is making me need a cup tea and a piece of chocolate. >> so we can enjoy that while you enjoy your news with tatiana sanchez. >> beth. thank you. the top stories. public satisfaction with the nhs has fallen to its lowest level since records began 40 years ago, with waiting times

among the biggest concerns in a poll found that difficulty accessing gps is also a major worry, with the number of people satisfied with the health service now just 24. that's down from 70% in 2010. rates of dissatisfaction are roughly the same across both major political parties. the report found that tightening funding and chronic workforce shortages over the past decade has left the nhs in a continual state of crisis . the a continual state of crisis. the search for survivors following yesterday's bridge collapse in baltimore has been suspended, with six construction workers presumed dead. video footage captured the moment a cargo ship crashed into the francis scott key bridge, plunging cars and people into the water below the city's port, one of the busiest in the east of the united states, is now closed indefinitely . there was a 54% indefinitely. there was a 54% increase in sewage spills in england last year compared to 2022, the environment agency says it's due to storm overflows

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gb news. very good morning. 1037. i'm very wound up about this sewage story. >> you know who wouldn't be? >> you know who wouldn't be? >> and i like a swim in the outdoors. i swim in rivers and seas. no, it's not really your cup of tea, is it? >> i swim in the sea. >> yeah, but even now you think. keep your mouth shut. >> yeah, well, jen has said we live in dymchurch. i'm not sure where that is, jen, i can't lie. and since last year we've had issues with the water. there's a meeting the town hall in new meeting in the town hall in new romney. go with romney. oh, there we go with southern water, our mp damian collins, month, sewage collins, next month, the sewage is so we've had whales and is so bad. we've had whales and sea washed up, dead . our sea life washed up, dead. our dogs with bad tummies, dogs get sick with bad tummies, local swimmers don't swim anymore . our village traders anymore. our village traders rely summer trade rely on the eastern summer trade and discreet signs up and having discreet signs up saying swim are useless saying don't swim are useless and the families and drive away. the families that come our children's that come to our children's paradise, said. it's paradise, she said. it's heartbreaking . of course it is. heartbreaking. of course it is. >> and if you look into the water, companies planned to

eradicate this problem , it's eradicate this problem, it's currently they will have got a grip of it by, i guess, when 2050. that's another 26 years. >> mark has got in touch. morning mark saying it's interesting to hearjames murray interesting to hear james murray suggest about some that need to be cleared out. the problem that's grown in this country is the reward system. the top dogs in companies, not just in these companies, not just waters, rewarded waters, are rewarded unconditionally with huge salaries get salaries and bonuses. they get the because the the reward because the expectation on them. but when they not only are they don't deliver, not only are they don't deliver, not only are they they're they not penalised, they're often huge payoff. often outed with a huge payoff. well infuriating. mark. >> just mark, i tell you, >> just mark, i just tell you, water bosses last year were paid £10 million in salary and they've got a further £10 million in bonuses. and two directors severn trent which directors at severn trent which put sewage into the river put put sewage into the river 45,000 times last year, two of them got paid £3.5 million. they shouldn't be paid anything. they shouldn't be paid anything. they should be facing potentially criminal prosecution because it should be criminal to uploading all this pollution into our rivers. >> where are the adults? >> where are the adults?

>> where are the adults that are meant to be running this country? so complete deficit of accountability. jim says on many occasions i have on many occasions i have on many occasions intimated to your good selves about this problem to no avail. we talk about avail. well, we talk about it whenever we jim, why are we whenever we can. jim, why are we not building any farms not building any sewage farms for all the houses we're building, all being connected to existing building, all being connected to ex which victorian? of which are victorian? it's a very good point. david also raging, raising the issue of ageing victorian sewers. graham saying, is it about overpopulation? we can't keep up with the sewage. well, yes, to some degree i think it is the fact that we've got so many more people now and also the sewage pipes are, too small. >> they're not up to it and they should have been replaced years ago. and they haven't been because they've too because the they've spent too much their direct on much money on their direct on the director's, bonuses, shareholders bonuses. >> , you are all in >> well, you are all in agreement with us as to what a mess this is. >> now we throw this little earlier, a cadbury shop has been accused of erasing easter by advertising eggs advertising chocolate eggs as. guess guess what guess this. guess guess what they're them gesture eggs >> that's right. cadbury's had

used easter in its marketing for more years, but now at more than 100 years, but now at the discount shop in the brands discount shop in lincolnshire, they're displaying signs customers a two signs offering customers a two for £10 deal on what they're calling gesture for eggs. >> i can't stand it. further proof, isn't it, that britain's no longer a country of kristian niemietz? just a couple of weeks ago on this program, we talked about the of the hot about the demise of the hot cross let's rid the cross bun. let's get rid of the cross bun. let's get rid of the cross a cross bun. let's get rid of the cross. a question cross. we'll put a question mark, tick, a tick. well, mark, a tick, a tick. well, let's talk to former let's talk to the former chaplain to late queen, chaplain to the late queen, who's great friend of this who's a great friend of this program, doctor gavin ashenden. good to and happy good morning to you and happy easter doctor ashenden. good morning to you and happy eas happy doctor ashenden. good morning to you and happy eas happy easter ctor ashenden. good morning to you and happy eas happy easter to »r ashenden. good morning to you and happy eas happy easter to you henden. good morning to you and happy eas happy easter to you too.ien. >> happy easter to you too. >> happy easter to you too. >> convinced this just >> i'm convinced this isn't just a marketing i just feel a marketing ploy. i just feel now there is a move to just keep downgrading christianity and heaven for heaven forbid if anybody tried to do that with perhaps the muslim faith . perhaps the muslim faith. >> i think at the very least it seems to be completely unfair. i'm sure, i'm sure you're right, easter has a wonderful message. it says that the intelligence that lies behind the universe is loving and merciful, and death

is not the end. these are some wonderfully good things to tell people. apart from celebrating the chocolate, the idea that there's a kind of mental frame of mind that says, we want to silence that, reasonably, unfairly and unjustly is astonishing. and i simply think that we've come to a point in our society where we need to fight back in some way. we say, no, we're not. we're not going to have that we want. we want a level playing field where everybody can share their views and their ways of interpreting life. the christian is life. the christian way is a fantastic way. it's about forgiveness love and peace fantastic way. it's about forgijoy ess love and peace fantastic way. it's about forgijoy and love and peace fantastic way. it's about forgijoy and everlastingd peace fantastic way. it's about forgijoy and everlasting life.3ce fantastic way. it's about forgijoy and everlasting life. we and joy and everlasting life. we don't want to be cancelled by whoever it is that lies behind this particular act of censorship. >> ashton and the >> and doctor ashton and the eggs, are a symbol. they eggs, they are a symbol. they are symbolic easter to do are symbolic of easter to do with resurrection and rebirth . with resurrection and rebirth. >> yes they are. christians have complained most lifetime , complained most of my lifetime, saying there's a slight ambiguity eggs and spring ambiguity with eggs and spring and easy to confuse. the easter message of hope with spring. but actually spring is just the right time with new birth to

conflate the two together. so, the fact that we want to invite people to move from spring and eggs to the risen jesus and the living relationship with god is a good thing, or we didn't expect was to be cancelled. i think, gavin, as i'm just sort of looking at this as a mum as well, is that if i ask my children, what's christmas? >> they're very clear about why we celebrate christmas. but if i ask them, why do we celebrate easter? that's a bit of easter? i think that's a bit of a gap in their in their knowledge and their education as well. >> yeah, i'm afraid you're right. i was a parish priest for a long time, and i always thought that the church hadn't made enough of easter because christmas. doesn't made enough of easter because christ ifas. doesn't made enough of easter because christ if easter doesn't made enough of easter because christ if easter isn't doesn't made enough of easter because christ if easter isn't true. sn't work. if easter isn't true. yeah, you know, jesus wasn't born in a stable to help us, and he didn't rise from the dead. so i'm afraid i think this is partly the church's fault, so we should put our hands up. but nonetheless, this is an opportunity people know. opportunity to let people know. so thanks to the gesture, so thank thanks to the gesture, people. given a people. they've given us a chance tell the truth about chance to tell the truth about easter. jesus rose from the

dead. forgive sins. dead. he'll forgive your sins. you and live you can know him and live forever. it's a great message, absolutely. find and for you >> do you find and for you personally, doctor ashton, it personally, doctor ashton, is it a enriching time for you? a very enriching time for you? easter. find it very easter. do you find it very spiritually enriching ? spiritually enriching? >> most wonderful time. >> it's the most wonderful time. i'm getting now, i've i'm getting old now, and i've lost lot of people to death, lost a lot of people to death, including friends family , including friends and family, and the relationships need to carry the death. i carry on past the death. i really do need a philosophy of life that makes sense of this odd, odd experience of sort of standing between birth and death. well, having all these longings and the capacity for love. it the reason easter matters so much is it gives a framework to interpret what i'm doing here. and make sense of everything good and worthwhile. it's a wonderful time of year and i'm very grateful for it. i don't know what i do without the meaning of easter. >> yeah, and of course, you were the former chaplain the late the former chaplain to the late queen. had the news queen. and we've had the news that king charles queen that king charles and queen camilla be at the easter camilla will be at the easter service weekend. how service this weekend. how important is that? do think ? important is that? do you think? >> i think it's very important. we have to be profoundly

sympathetic the royal family, sympathetic to the royal family, who shadow of death who have the shadow of death hanging them this hanging over them with this diagnosis two cancers. but diagnosis of two cancers. but once again , if there is no life once again, if there is no life after death, then we're. which is like, you know, running out of a sort of time on a parking ticket before before the end comes, we can face cancer. we comes, we can face cancer. we can comes, we can face cancer. we can face death because we know that preparing for that we're preparing for something even more wonderful. so think it matters much so i think it matters very much that the king is able to go to easter. and if you like, you know, put put his body where his faith is and it will encourage a lot people, if there's lot of people, if there's any good coming out of this good of coming out of this diagnosis of cancer, good does come of bad. it's in other come out of bad. it's in other people who've got cancer will be encouraged. they're not alone. and the fact we're talking about easter allows us to say death is not end. we're all going to not the end. we're all going to die. but death is not the end. >> will you be having an easter egg this this easter, i'm slightly overweight, need slightly overweight, so i need to myself. but but i'm to watch myself. but but i'm afraid. i'm afraid i can't. i i'll have a little one. yes. >> well , have i'll have a little one. yes.

>> well, have you i'll have a little one. yes. >> well , have you chocolate and >> well, have you chocolate and then go for a nice long walk in then go for a nice long walk in the spring sunshine afterwards. that's my advice. >> good advice. >> good advice. >> i'll do that. thank you. >> i'll do that. thank you. >> okay, doctor gavin ashenden, thank joining thank you so much for joining us. so reply from us. so right of reply from cadbury's. a spokesman for mondelez international they own cadbury. >> cadbury says nothing. it's nothing owned britain british nothing owned by britain british companies it's nothing companies anymore. it's nothing owned anymore. >> capri's. owned anymore. >> cadbury's has used the word easter marketing and easter in our marketing and communications for over 100 years, will continue to years, and will continue to do so with our new easter products range. claim anything range. to claim anything otherwise is factually incorrect. >> why did you call him gesture eggs then? >> don't know. we're getting to the bottom of it. i think we're sending a reporter up there to find why that's in the find out why that's in the window the cadbury's outlet. window of the cadbury's outlet. right now if you're right up next. now if you're struggling to get a on the struggling to get a foot on the housing ladder, you must stay tuned this because may be tuned to this because it may be your or your your children or your grandchildren, because could grandchildren, because you could now pound now buy a half million pound house just a £5,000 deposit. >> we'll tell you

>> lots of you are absolutely incensed about this conversation we had with kulveer ranger about mobile phone use with kids and particularly in relation to brianna ghey. his mother, esther, who gave an exclusive interview to gb news. if you missed it, we're going to play it again. in fact, she gave an exclusive interview to this show. we're going to play it again after 11:00, lots of you saying responsibility. saying it's our responsibility. danny. what danny. i hear what you're saying, bev, but they will find a or pc for schoolwork. a tablet or pc for schoolwork. so how police if so how do you police that? if parental not parental controls are not enough, to a way to enough, we need to find a way to manage the devices better. dennis, it's you that should grow pair stop your child grow a pair and stop your child from smartphone if you from having a smartphone if you don't to have one. don't want them to have one. i tried that, dennis, but when you are only child in a class of are the only child in a class of 30 not have them, the 30 that does not have them, the social outcasting happens social outcasting that happens when are organising when all the kids are organising all their play dates whatever all their play dates or whatever it phones. mine didn't get it is on phones. mine didn't get them till they to high them till they went to high school. was unusual in that, school. i was unusual in that,

john, i totally agree with brianna's however, do john, i totally agree with bria stop; however, do john, i totally agree with bria stop children iowever, do john, i totally agree with bria stop children copying do you stop children copying parents regularly on parents who are regularly on their such good their phones? it's such a good point, and phil in yorkshire, it's responsibility the it's the responsibility of the parents to their parents to educate their children. phones need children. phones don't need banning. to bring banning. parents need to bring their better their children up better chastise sanction your chastise and sanction your children appropriately in view of their age and if needs be, put on websites. the put blocks on websites. the parents are paying for the phone. do something it. phone. do something about it. fill it. >> so good hard. >> so such a good hard. >> so such a good hard. >> now on with this >> now moving on with this a little early program. first time buyers can now get a mortgage on properties up half £1 properties worth up to half £1 million, deposit of million, with the deposit of just £5,000. >> yorkshire >> extraordinary yorkshire building new scheme building society's new scheme is available looking to available for those looking to get property ladder get on the property ladder without big deposit. without a big deposit. >> but is it responsible, though, for people potentially to to of to borrow up to 99% of a property's value? well, let's speak founder speak to the founder of the young money is iona young money blog, who is iona bain? this is effectively bain? iona this is effectively they're going taking on they're going to be taking on a huge debt. if they've only got a £5,000 deposit and interest rates are low ish, but who knows, they could start going up again. >> well, just to take that last point about interest rates, if

we look at the bank of england base rate at the moment it's 5.25% and it looks as if it is going to be coming down this year and next year. yes, that process will probably be quite gradual . and look, people gradual. and look, people shouldn't buy properties based just on what the interest rates are and there should be a whole number of other factors at play. and i think one of the reasons why young people still want to get on the housing ladder, and this has been the case throughout the whole time that i've been writing young i've been writing the young money that has money blog, one thing that has remained is that young remained constant is that young people want to their own people want to own their own homes, that's not just homes, and that's not just because the security and the because of the security and the stability provides. stability that that it provides. it's because there are significant advantages significant financial advantages to not to being a home owner, and not least because can pay down least because you can pay down your costs over time by your housing costs over time by reducing your mortgage in a way that just not possible with that is just not possible with renting. you don't want renting. and yes, you don't want young people taking on large debts that are going to take a long to pay off. however, long time to pay off. however, the alternative that young the alternative is that young people will be renting for the

rest of their lives and that situation is far from ideal as they head into retirement. so look, this new product from yorkshire is yorkshire building society is really a really interesting. i think a deposit £5,000 could deposit of £5,000 could potentially speed up process potentially speed up the process of getting on the housing ladder for many young people, especially in london and the south east, and those parts of the country that remain really expensive. and yes, we've said to young why don't you to young people, why don't you think moving to cheaper think about moving to a cheaper part the country? but for part of the country? but for a lot of those young people, they want stay where their want to stay where their families their communities families and their communities are. think it's in all our are. and i think it's in all our interests that try level interests that we try to level the make it the playing field and make it more for people more affordable for those people to the communities and to remain in the communities and areas that they grew up in. >> what it cost the >> what would it cost the average does a average if somebody does buy a half million property with half £1 million property with a deposit of £5,000, what is the mortgage repayment be mortgage repayment going to be on think? on average, do you think? >> well, i think it's >> iona well, i think it's probably more to look at probably more helpful to look at what average first time what the average first time buyer mortgage is in somewhere, you know, the country where you know, in the country where it's more like £200,000. mean, it's more like £200,000. i mean, then looking at a loan to then you're looking at a loan to value mortgage of 97.5. and so i

can't give you the exact figures on how much the mortgage repayment would be per month, because that depends on, you know, various factors. but i think it's certainly worth looking at if you are in a part of the country where potentially it's going to take you many, many years to get on the housing laddeh many years to get on the housing ladder. mean, if you look at ladder. i mean, if you look at london south it's going to london south east, it's going to take, know, over seven years take, you know, over seven years in other parts of the country that weight a lot shorter. that weight is a lot shorter. you're looking the you're looking at, say in the nonh you're looking at, say in the north more like north west, a wait of more like three years to get on the housing ladder. but still, i think of your older think a lot of your older viewers, if they think back to when on the housing when they got on the housing laddeh when they got on the housing ladder, that a lot ladder, that that wait was a lot shorter it was easier for shorter and it was easier for it's never been easy to save for your own home, but i think probably we're all in agreement that never been difficult. >> i'm thinking about the kind of that might want put of people that might want to put a £5,000 deposit on a half £1 million i'm guessing million house, i'm guessing wannabe landlords. it's going to be i can't pay be people who think i can't pay those mortgage repayments. i don't income to have don't have enough income to have saved deposit. so what saved a bigger deposit. so what i'm going is i'm going to

i'm going to do is i'm going to buy a load of houses with a £5,000 deposit, and then i'm going tenants them going to put tenants in them to pay going to put tenants in them to pay massive mortgage. pay my massive mortgage. does that with this scheme? >> well, as far as i know, this is only available on residential mortgages. so you wouldn't be able out buy to let able to take out buy to let mortgages with this scheme. well i you've got to have i think yeah, you've got to have those place. those kind of checks in place. and think that, you know, the and i think that, you know, the reason kind of product reason why this kind of product is being launched is because at the does seem to be the moment there does seem to be some reluctance among lenders to lend time buyers in a lend to first time buyers in a way that strikes that way that that strikes that balance between being responsible also being responsible but also being flexible them that flexible and giving them that leg up. >> okay. iona iona bain, they're founder of the young money blog, which my children which i will direct my children to a look at. now, don't to have a look at. now, don't go anywhere. britain's anywhere. in a britain's newsroom to newsroom exclusive, we spoke to the murdered the mother of murdered transgender brianna ghey. transgender teen brianna ghey. stay tuned. it heartbreaking. stay tuned. it is heartbreaking. don't it. don't miss it. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. the weather remains very lively. heavy downpours across much of the uk today. it's still pretty gusty and blustery as well. and here's the reason why. low pressure continues to dominate these weather fronts. spiralling bands of across the uk. it's been of rain across the uk. it's been particularly wet in northern ireland, where the warning in place until three this place here until three this afternoon, of rain afternoon, a line of rain working way into eastern working its way into eastern england. of that have england. ahead of that we have seen some sunshine, some sunny spells following, also spells following, but also a whole of blustery showers whole host of blustery showers blown a gusty wind and the blown in by a gusty wind and the wet weather across scotland falling levels, falling as rain at low levels, but snow over the higher but some snow over the higher routes possible here. cold feeling day in northern scotland , 6 or 7 elsewhere well just about digits, but still about double digits, but still feeling chilly for the end of march. more heavy showers will spread overnight and spread northwards overnight and this of weather will be this zone of wet weather will be again mostly rain at low levels but could provide some snow, particularly across parts of the west up towards north west midlands up towards north wales, down towards gloucestershire for tomorrow morning. going to turn

morning. it's going to turn windy again through tomorrow as well, particularly from the south—west, as further rain comes it will a comes in here. it will be a chilly night in scotland, a touch frost here, but touch of frost here, but northern scotland should see some during some sunny spells during thursday. band of rain thursday. another band of rain then from the south then swings up from the south and blustery conditions and very blustery conditions along the south coast. there's a met yellow warning in met office yellow warning in place those gusty winds, and place for those gusty winds, and again from mid—morning onwards, it's another day of heavy showers and again feeling on the chilly side. 10 to 12 at best. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> good morning. 11 am. on wednesday, the 27th of march. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so speaking exclusively to britain's newsroom, the mother of murdered transgender teen brianna told us how she

brianna ghey told us how she believes that child safe phones would have saved her daughter's life. >> it feels like such a waste of life and if i can make things better for all the young people, then, then i'll keep working. in order to do that . order to do that. >> britain's sewage scandal, odour spills rose to a record high last year. clean water campaigner feargal sharkey. he's going to give us his view . going to give us his view. >> and is the nhs simply not fit for purpose? satisfaction with the health service has fallen to a historic low, and the difficulty to see a gp is the biggest annoyance. i'm sure you've had a similar experience. if so, let us know . if so, let us know. >> and is it okay to call people fat? the fitness coach , mr fat? the fitness coach, mr motivator? yes, he's still around, he says. people take criticism at their weight far too personally. he also says brits are lazy. he's going to join us soon. >> and is christianity under attack ? first, a cross on a hot

attack? first, a cross on a hot cross bun was changed to a tick and now easter eggs are under threat with some calling them gesture eggs. is that okay? no . gesture eggs. is that okay? no. we have smashed open the egg. >> did they do it just to get cheap headlines? because i think they're damaging headlines for them. for cadbury's, i actually don't understand it. >> we're trying to get to the bottom why this particular bottom of why this particular cadbury's outlet it is cadbury's outlet store it is would advertised saying the would be advertised saying the eggs as gesture eggs because actually we discussed earlier didn't we? the easter doesn't really have a very strong christian association. it should, it should. >> it's like christmas. >> it's like christmas. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's as it's probably more important. it's the death and resurrection that's the whole underpinning of the entire christian faith. yeah. >> so let us know your thoughts. gb views at gb news.com. first though, the very news

though, the very latest news with tatiana sanchez. >> beth thank you. the top stories this hour. public satisfaction with the nhs has fallen to its lowest level since records began 40 years ago, with waiting times among the biggest concerns. a poll found that difficulty accessing gps is also a major worry, with the number of people satisfied with the health service now just 24. that's down from 70% in 2010. rates of dissatisfaction are roughly the same across both major political parties. the report found that tightening funding and chronic workforce shortages over the past decade has left the nhs in a continual state of crisis. gb news asked people in manchester for their thoughts on britain's health service. >> once you get there, yes , but >> once you get there, yes, but it's actually getting through the gp to getting to the nhs. i think that a lot of money is wasted talking to people that work or have worked within the

nhs. the amount of waste is phenomenal, so i think they need to look at the management, it needs to start at the top. >> thankfully i don't use it a lot, but i'm currently on the waiting list for one of the hospitals in for manchester 12 andifs hospitals in for manchester 12 and it's a 52 week wait. >> we should make it like a more accessible thing. >> i am satisfied because there's a lot of hard working nurses, doctors, surgeons like you see the care they give you and plus i had three of my children here and the care i received was perfect . received was perfect. >> the search for survivors following yesterday's bridge collapse in baltimore has been suspended, with six people presumed dead . video footage presumed dead. video footage captured the moment a cargo ship crashed into the francis scott key bridge at around 130 yesterday morning, local time. the collision plunged cars, their drivers and construction workers into the water below . if workers into the water below. if you're watching on tv, this is the scene in baltimore this

morning . you can see the morning. you can see the wreckage of the bridge and that cargo ship still in the water. the city's port, which one of the city's port, which is one of the busiest the east of the the busiest in the east of the united states, is closed united states, is now closed indefinitely . there was a 54% indefinitely. there was a 54% increase in sewage spills in england last year compared to 2022. the environment agency says it's due to storm overflows with untreated sewage dumped into rivers and seas. it comes amid rising concerns for the state of england's waterways, with a part of the river thames. it's to be used for the historic oxbridge boat race this weekend , oxbridge boat race this weekend, found to be contaminated with e coli, thames water told gb news that it's the result of higher than average long time rainfall . than average long time rainfall. a review has found that a ten month old baby, who was murdered by his parents just weeks after being handed back to them, should have been in protective care. finlay boden's parents, shannon martin and stephen boden, inflicted over 100 injuries on their son before he died at his family home in

chesterfield, derbyshire , on chesterfield, derbyshire, on christmas day in 2020. they were given life sentences in may. a safeguarding review found practices in the local authority were inadequate. it said that while finlay's parents were responsible for his death, professor interventions should have protected him . the london have protected him. the london mayor has unveiled a new election pledge to put around 1300 extra neighbourhood police officers and special constables on the streets of the capital. the pledge comes in the wake of the baroness kc review finding the baroness kc review finding the capital no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service. sadiq khan made the pledge alongside shadow home secretary yvette cooper , home secretary yvette cooper, while out on patrol with officers from the met police in southwest london. the mayor says it's moment of opportunity. it's a moment of opportunity. >> introduced a london policing board really important in relation to transparent accountability of the police with fast tracking disciplinary case against police officers . case against police officers. we're funding the domestic abuse sexual offences line . the

sexual offences line. the anti—corruption line is still open. we're lobbying the government to change the regulations so it's easier to get rid of bad officers. but also to change the culture within police service by within the police service by improving vetting. it's really important, we have important, though, that we have a government working with a labour government working with the working with the police, working with the mayor. the moment, don't mayor. at the moment, we don't the government's giving the government's not giving us a penny of in relation to penny of support in relation to the transformation that's required met police required in the met police service. >> and wales has missed >> and finally, wales has missed out qualifying for the euro out on qualifying for the euro 2024 tournament. that's 2024 football tournament. that's after losing to poland in a penalty out in cardiff penalty shoot out in cardiff last night. they won five four, putting them through to their fifth successive european tournament. the defeat for wales comes after they secured a41 victory over finland in the play off semi—finals last thursday . off semi—finals last thursday. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts now back to andrew and . bev.

back to andrew and. bev. >> what's the time? it is. 1107 britain's newsroom here on gb news, ipsis and bev turner. >> so we want to bring you now britain's newsroom exclusive last february. of course, you will remember transgender teenager brianna ghey was murdered. she was stabbed 28 times by 215 year olds that she thought were her friends . thought were her friends. >> her mother, esther, has spoken to this show and is campaigning for child safe phones 4u under 16, which she says would have saved her daughter's our reporter daughter's life. our reporter elena brings brings elena smith brings you, brings us this really, really, moving , us this really, really, moving, really important report. >> so have a listen with the lang cat soul of the party, suppose. >> and she was, she was so outgoing, and she was so out there and. yeah, she was also very, like, defiant. and she would she would do whatever she wanted to do . wanted to do. >> this is the last time transgender teenager brianna ghey left her house. she was murdered in february last year, stabbed 28 times with a hunting

knife by scarlett jenkinson and eddie ratcliffe. 215 year olds she thought were her friends . she thought were her friends. brianna's mum esther thinks all of this could have been avoided if social media safeguards had blocked her daughter's killers from looking at torture and murder. >> online children have access to absolutely everything that's in the world now. the content that they might access and the content that they're then referred through the algorithm, it's kind of radicalising children. >> and it wasn't just scarlett and eddie that were accessing dangerous content online. esther believes that part of the reason brianna was so vulnerable was because she was addicted to her phone. >> when brianna was with us, it was a massive argument point in our house. i was worried about what she was accessing online. i've lost brianna at a very young when she was very young,

and i wish that we didn't have all of those arguments. i wish that it was, i just i kind of wish that i had that support as a parent in the first place. >> and if not, and esther's not alone. >> tory mp and child safety campaigner miriam cates believes smartphones are damaging a whole generation of children. >> it's becoming increasingly clear that, smartphones and social media have had a very detrimental impact on children and childhood . and if you look and childhood. and if you look at any measure of children and teen wellbeing, so whether that's depression, anxiety, actual suicide, all of those measures have gone off a cliff since 2010, 2012, when smartphones and social media became ubiquitous for children. we've got to stop it quickly. otherwise, we are condemning , otherwise, we are condemning, our further generation to that kind of, mental health problem. >> while it's too late for brianna, esther says she won't stop campaigning to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> she struggled for a couple of

years before she passed away, and for me, that just feels like such a waste of life . and, if i such a waste of life. and, if i can make things better for all the young people, then, then i'll keep working in order to do that. >> eleanor smith gb news amazing woman moving every day must be. >> how do you get through it? to lose? to lose a child anyway, but to lose a child in such horrific , brutal circumstances? horrific, brutal circumstances? and she is convinced, isn't she, that if those kids hadn't had access to the dark web on their phones, she'd still have a daughter? >> and also, as she says there, her relationship with with brianna was troubled because they about the phone all they thought about the phone all they thought about the phone all the time. and i can relate. i mean , lots of you out there are mean, lots of you out there are saying, leon said. i say they a lot, but when i say that, i mean that people are telling what politicians what to do. they will be thrilled that teenagers

are addicted to smartphones as apps in has been apps and signing in has been planned their futures planned for all of their futures . parking your car will let . even parking your car will let people where are, how people know where you are, how long you were there for. you've got no chance discouraging got no chance of discouraging youngsters an youngsters from technology at an impressionable some impressionable age, there's some truth to that, but i think they can at 16. i think they should be allowed access to smartphones. and until then, i think what, brianna's mother was talking about, where she was talking about, where she was talking about, where she was talking about then, is this idea that they're safe phones that they're a child safe phones so the technology companies so that the technology companies make children? in make a phone for children? in fact, are some charities fact, there are some charities working this have working on this that have certain things they might need. they a to find . they might need a map to find. they might need a map to find. they might need a map to find. they might need a bus app. what time? the is kids time? the next bus is my kids used manage you know, used to manage before, you know, i did, but unfortunately i know we did, but unfortunately you pick up a paper you could pick up a paper timetable to see when your bus would they don't exist would be. they don't exist anymore. would be. they don't exist anythey. to be. >> they used to be. >> they used to be. >> they used to be on the bus, at the bus stop. >> my kids have on exactly >> and my kids have on exactly on their phone. they will have their day's their timetable for their day's work. they'll have their homework app on homework posted onto an app on microsoft which is on microsoft teams, which is on their phone. so it's as

their phone. so it's not as simple as just saying don't let them have it. >> schools are part of the problem. are they are massive of >> are they are massive part of the but they are also the problem, but they are also suffering the problem. suffering with the problem. i talk teachers this talk to teachers about this regularly and teachers say we are we don't want are struggling. we don't want the kids these phones, the kids to have these phones, but unfortunately leadership in this that nobody this country is such that nobody really face really cares. i mean, let's face it, is the biggest it, rishi sunak is the biggest technocrat country got. technocrat this country has got. his jeremy hunt is the his mate jeremy hunt is the same. are just up their same. they are just up to their necks in the technology industry. >> it's quite interesting seeing those ghey those images of brianna ghey each a phone in her each time she had a phone in her hand. >> know, and that's what >> i know, and that's what they're like. unfortunately. they the like they walk down the road like this and we're not teaching them. what i can with my them. i try what i can with my kids, but then the schools are also aren't teaching them about digital about meeting a not just about meeting a stranger watching stranger online or watching a murder it's many, many murder video. it's many, many other layers of poor , dark other layers of poor, dark influence on our next generation right now. >> moving on. this is appalling, andifs >> moving on. this is appalling, and it's going to make you very angry. i'm sure. sewage spills into england's rivers and seas by more than by water companies more than doubled year. doubled last year. >> record high. it's >> that's a record high. it's the worst that it's ever been,

according to the environment agency, 3.6 million agency, there were 3.6 million hours spills. that's raw hours of spills. that's raw sewage into the rivers, nearly 4,000,000 hours across a year, compared to 1.7 5,000,000 hours in 2022. >> i'm delighted to say we're going to talk to the clean water campaigner feargal sharkey, who joins us now. >> good morning to you. good to talk as always. look, talk to you as always. look, we've talked about this before, but to be getting but it seems to be getting worse, not better, looking at these figures that been these figures that have been released this morning. >> well, it and it just >> well, it is, and it just proves yet again what a complete and utter shambles this whole thing has become. quite frankly, in my opinion, government has lost control of this. they've tried several times to wrestle with it. they have failed . the with it. they have failed. the regulators have yet again proved that they're simply not up to the task that we've been giving them. and the water companies are now, in reality, treating us, the customers, the regulators and the environment with complete contempt and are quite prepared to carry on doing

what they're doing simply enough. they've learned that it pays to pollute. it's profitable for them to pollute, and they're going to carry on doing that until the system changes. >> and feargal, i read that thames water, which is our largest water company, is planning to raise the to water the water bill to their customers by 40. and they say thatis customers by 40. and they say that is of course, to deal with pollution. so they're passing on the cost of their own negligence and mismanagement out to the punters. >> well, i will remind our thames water and every other water company, the regulator has now confirmed it. and indeed water companies admitted it. we have actually provided them with all of the money and all of the funding they ever needed for the last 33 years to build a properly functioning sewage system, which is what the legally supposed to be doing. so they've admitted they've had the money. the question we should be asking what happened to our money? where's it gone? when can we get a refund ? and as for

we get a refund? and as for thames water's 40% increase, i would drop everybody's attention to the idea that thames water in particular is currently £18.3 billion in debt. there are rumours circulating it may actually go bankrupt at some point over the next couple of months. the simple truth of that is they need this price increase to refinance a company that they themselves have driven to the bnnk themselves have driven to the brink of bankruptcy. again the regulator sat there and did nothing, presumed only the shareholders have taken a similar pay cut in this time of desperate need. >> fergal , you would like to >> fergal, you would like to think that as it transpires , think that as it transpires, water companies have paid their shareholders £72 billion in dividends over the last 33 years. >> that's your money. perhaps some of that should have been used to fix the sewage system. >> and how much? it's an interesting figure, isn't it ? 72 interesting figure, isn't it? 72 billion. i mean, these are huge

numbers, fergal. but if that money had been used for, improving sewage distribution , improving sewage distribution, then could this problem have been avoided altogether? >> oh, listen completely. the truth is , water companies have truth is, water companies have a legal obligation to build, operate and maintain a properly functioning sewage system. and that does not mean spending . that does not mean spending. over the last five years, almost 14,000,000 hours, dumping sewage into our rivers . and i'm happy into our rivers. and i'm happy to repeat it. the regulator has now owned up , to repeat it. the regulator has now owned up, and in fact, it was kind of an attempt by the regulator to pass the buck back onto the companies. we've given them all of the funding. they've had our money to meet that legal obligation. they've clearly spent it on something else . the spent it on something else. the truth is, the whole system is utterly dysfunctional political racket. the regulators aren't up to the job. and you are right, beth. the water industry has now become a legalised rip off. and we, the customers, have been had. >> fergal, what can customers

do? what should we do? because i know gb news viewers are particularly good at making their voices heard when we need to. what can people do at the moment ? moment? >> oh, listen, we have and the biggest, overarching concept and all of this, it's missing one very simple ingredient that's called leadership. leadership from government, leadership from the regulator. we already know from the polling data. you are right. currently 56% of voters are not indicating the sewage scandal will alter and influence how they voted the next election. 69% of voters now want to renationalise the entire industry. i would strongly urge your viewers remember all of this. remember your outrage and the anger, and remember that when you're next at the ballot box, because that's going to be a matter of weeks, if not days, if not months away. >> remind me, hasn't labour decided not now, to take the

water companies back into public ownership? they were going to. but mr you turned himself . keir but mr you turned himself. keir starmer has now said he can't do that because it's too expensive . that because it's too expensive. >> well, here's the thing. i will warn and caution every government. there's another angle to this complete incompetence of the regulators. london as we've discussed before, we now have clarity. last week, government announced we are going to have to find another 5,000,000,000l of water per day within the next 20 years. otherwise, london is going to start running out of water. that's 35% more water than we currently have. and that, according to the national infrastructure commission, is going to cost £60 billion just to keep london's taps running. any government, the next government is going into managing the water industry, whether it likes they do or not. okay, we cannot have london's taps run dry. >> all right. feargal sharkey, former singer , current water

former singer, current water clean water campaigner and frankly, give that man a seat in the house of lords. yeah, that's what i say. because he could knock a few heads together and get things to change, i'm sure. fergal, thank you so much for joining us this morning. obviously we do to the obviously we do have to say the water companies here to water companies aren't here to defend we've given defend themselves. we've given them hard time this them a very hard time this morning. come on. do. morning. do come on. do. >> on. >> come on. »- >> come on. >> did last build >> when did they last build a new reservoir in the southeast? not 40 years. not for 40 odd years. >> decades, they aren't here to defend they would defend themselves. they would probably with probably say we are trying with victorian infrastructure, a victorian infrastructure, with a change are doing change in climate. we are doing our and we're sorry our best and we're very sorry that you seeing £2 billion that you are seeing £2 billion in the river. >> the shareholders right still to come. >> after all that fuss about the england and the to change england kit and the to change the george have a look. the george cross, have a look. right. that playing last right. who's that playing last night? which would night? which which country would you that was? andrew. you say that was? andrew. >> the only reason i know that's belgium the blue and brown is belgium in the blue and brown is because it's colour of because it's the colour of tintin. of belgium's most tintin. one of belgium's most famous exports. but i would not know. >> that's so random. and so england, that is the england kit.

>> i'm sorry. what? grey black gold numbers. how is that? the england kit? we're going to be talking about that

i >> -- >> 1123. m >> 1123. you're with britain's news. when gb news andrew pearson bev turner in the noisy. panellists are back. stephen pound and mike parry. >> extremely well—behaved. actually, this story actually, we covered this story about eggs. about easter eggs. >> is about the shop >> and this is about the shop thatis >> and this is about the shop that is selling discount. cadbury's. cadbury's. we go cadbury's. cadbury's. here we go . so we've heard from mondelez international owned international who owned cadbury's. very good morning to you.thank cadbury's. very good morning to you. thank you. >> snort with derision. >> snort with derision. >> why cadbury's not still british. >> now they are saying that they licensed the brand to fresh store run the cadbury store who run the cadbury discount store. this is in the springfields outlet in lincolnshire and fresh store operates completely independent. so they say that all of the promotions are not cadbury initiatives and they say they've

had no involvement with them. and we also understand that fresh be fresh store are going to be taking down. i, taking their posters down. i, for one wearing my cadbury's purple, delighted to hear purple, are delighted to hear that because i have a very special place in my heart. >> is cadbury purple? yeah. >> is cadbury purple? yeah. >> so hang on a second. >> so hang on a second. >> i love cadbury's so i'm glad we've cleared that up. >> is it called a cadbury discount? >> it is called a discount anyway, isn't it? >> w- >> it's cadbury, yes, but they've just that it's they've just clarified that it's been it's owned an been owned it's owned by an independent store called fresh store. said they're going >> and they said they're going to move on. they to take them down. move on. they said little bit complicated, right. >> is only $1- % down because >> is only coming down because another try like this, we do have to to quiet about another try like this, we do have please, to quiet about another try like this, we do have please, right, quiet about another try like this, we do have please, right, could about another try like this, we do have please, right, could you ut this, please, right, could you strict should about. strict should we talk about. i have to be strict with you. >> we're going talk about >> we're going to talk about a boys school. >> are going to talk about >> are we going to talk about the fact that servants are the fact that civil servants are costing the country £20 billion a year? >> servants? >> w— 5 year from the >> £20 billion a year from the office, problem office, well, the problem is, because read report because the i've read the report , because they won't go back to work, output civil work, they output of civil servants, which in my servants, which was never, in my view, exceedingly high, is now incredibly low. so we're not

getting value for money out of our very highly paid civil servants who get pensions. they get waiting around london, waiting allowances and all that kind of stuff. and the reason is because their productivity, which was never great, has sunk to all time low depths. and it's been estimated by top independent economists. it could be costing the country £23 billion a year, because they won't put on their shoes, go out of their house and go back to the office and serve the country, because it's very difficult to be productive if you've sat in your back garden drinking or should in drinking tea, or should be in the if you're on your peloton the or if you're on your peloton and you're watching something. the or if you're on your peloton an(you1're watching something. the or if you're on your peloton an(you remember1g something. the or if you're on your peloton an(you rememberjust»mething. the or if you're on your peloton an(you rememberjustimcouple of do you remember just a couple of weeks ago, there was a report which said that the huge which said that when the huge closed heathrow airport closed down at heathrow airport happened summer, one of the happened last summer, one of the reasons 90 minutes to reasons it took 90 minutes to even try to fix it was because all the people working for the national agency that controls airports were working from home, and the nearest one was 90 minutes away. >> do you remember that? what margaret thatcher said when

dennis thatcher said, i wonder how many people work in the civil you remember civil service? do you remember what can't remember what she said? i can't remember about them. about half of them. >> that's right. >> yes, that's right. >> yes, that's right. >> and stephen, you've worked you for a long time. you were an mp for a long time. you've dealt with civil servants. some of are very servants. some of them are very conscientious. some them are conscientious. some of them are very but not all very hard working. but not all of them, course. in november, of them, of course. in november, an went out from an edict went out from government saying, you will do a minimum in the office. so minimum of 60% in the office. so on the third anniversary , on the third month anniversary, i for the mail. the i checked for the mail. the worst , foreign office. worst offender, foreign office. there's wars going europe. there's wars going on in europe. yeah, treasury and the home office, which is supposed to be deaung office, which is supposed to be dealing with a migrant problem. yeah with 50. yeah you're with them 50. >> well, was there was >> well, there was there was a very noble minister of state, a man called jacob rees—mogg, i remember, who's my remember, who's also my archewell tip the next archewell my tip for the next james by the way, and he james bond, by the way, and he used to go around the home office little notes on office putting little notes on people where people saying i was here. where are the terrifying are you? yes. but the terrifying thing this, andrew, thing about this, andrew, is they say if they increase they say that if they increase their productivity by that their productivity by 5, that would save the country 20 billion. what? are they billion. what? how much are they costing us? if is 20 billion? costing us? if 5% is 20 billion? >> yeah. no, i told you.

>> yeah. no, i told you. >> what i don't understand, mike, is why ministers don't grip this and say you will. well, come back into the office. >> well, won't they? >> well, won't they? >> listen, andrew, you know better than me that the discipline and authority within every civil service department is run by their union. of course, they've got a very strong union. and this where strong union. and this is where a number of bullying complaints have surfaced. when minister have surfaced. when a minister has to get heavy, like has tried to get heavy, like you've just suggested, isn't it strange that within a few weeks there's, tittle tattle there's, you know, tittle tattle about and i remember about bullying and i remember the home secretary. >> absolutely. an official report said she was bullying. but boris, to be fair to her, refused to move her because he said he wants more ministers to bully senior civil, exactly three different units. >> union that actually >> the union that actually intrigued was i was when i intrigued me was i was when i had to go and meet some ministers and i was working, doing stuff the home doing some stuff in the home office, they they're office, and they said they're from the first division association. and i said, well, you've footballers here. you've got footballers here. they said, no, it's actually they said, no, no, it's actually a called the first. a union called the first. >> talking of which, you >> talking of which, thank you for gear change. stephen for that gear change. stephen pound, england.

pound, first division england. >> segway the way >> mike, the segway by the way i liked was wonderful. liked that was wonderful. >> england last night played belgium okay, here's a picture i didn't watch. which team is quite clearly england. which are that stephen. well what do you think of this kit? >> i happen to know who the england team are in this particular case, but i have to say i was very, very disappointed with the whole thing. let me just tell thing. look, let me just tell you very important you something very important about cross george. about the cross of saint george. this about this is this business about where have decided to where nike have decided to produce of produce this sort of multicoloured back in the multicoloured thing back in the 70s the the 70s and the 80s, the anti—christian religion. by the way, agree with you. but way, i agree with you. but there's another the far there's another point. the far right the right took ownership of the cross george, and cross of saint george, and people sensible people. people are the sensible people. patriotic people patriotic christian people wanted actually reclaim the patriotic christian people wanteof actually reclaim the patriotic christian people wanteof saintjally reclaim the patriotic christian people wanteof saint george. laim the patriotic christian people wanteof saint george. and the cross of saint george. and i think large, did. think by and large, we did. we reclaimed was no longer reclaimed it. it was no longer seen something you only saw seen as something you only saw on bnp. and fact with all on bnp. and the fact with all that work we've done that we've established point about the established this point about the christian basis of our patron saint. now fool in saint. and now some fool in some, know, some probably some, you know, some probably wearing glasses and wearing green glasses and wearing green glasses and wearing has decided wearing red braces has decided that york, new york, they that in new york, new york, they will decide that they're going

to a multicoloured. to make a multicoloured. >> that a black or grey? >> is that a black or grey? they're wearing indigo. >> what it is? >> is that what it is? >> is that what it is? >> yeah, yeah, yeah, indigo. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, indigo. >> and out go. >> and out we go. >> and out we go. >> and out we go. >> a famous england you go. but it's all about marketing. of course, means that any kid course, it means that any kid who there last who saw who was there last night who saw england yes. oh, england playing this. yes. oh, daddy, want to remind daddy, i want a shirt to remind me my trip to wembley. £26 me of my trip to wembley. £26 a time and yes. and all that, just to develop stephen's point before lost the flag of saint before we lost the flag of saint george. union george. we did lose the union jack. look any jack. if you look at any picture, 1966 cup picture, the 1966 world cup final, the flags are the union jack. and that nicked by the jack. and that got nicked by the right. flag in george. right. then flag us in george. that by the right. that got nicked by the right. we've that back. we've got that back. >> reclaimed it i think. >> we reclaimed it i think. >> we reclaimed it i think. >> but the people who are most at fault here without shadow at fault here without a shadow of are the people who of a doubt, are the people who run the ea. which idiot signed off ridiculous off that ridiculous and ludicrous the of ludicrous parody of the flag of saint there have saint george? there will have been involved. of been some money involved. of course would have been course there would have been money involved were money involved if it were percolate down in percolate down to clubs in division four. won't. you're division four. it won't. you're absolutely andrew. absolutely right, andrew. i think deal between the fa think the deal between the fa and runs the hundreds and nike runs into the hundreds of of pounds. right. and nike runs into the hundreds of when of pounds. right. and nike runs into the hundreds of when everybody;. right.

and nike runs into the hundreds of when everybody knows . and nike runs into the hundreds of when everybody knows stephen and when everybody knows stephen knows as well as anybody he who pays the piper calls the tune. and that's what's happened on this, doubt about this, this case, no doubt about it. and it was a home match. >> it a wembley . >> it was a wembley. >> it was a wembley. >> it was two. >> it was two. >> or, by the way, if you're interested, it was just a friendly, wasn't it. >> yes. >> yes. >> it was a friendly. yeah. >> it was a friendly. yeah. >> it was a friendly. yeah. >> i knew there was an england match because i'm on the my tube line towards wembley. line goes to towards wembley. and smell the and yes the smell in the carriage. i like i was in a carriage. i felt like i was in a brewery really because this was the who'd been drinking the fans who'd been drinking since 2:00. >> disgraceful. >> absolutely disgraceful. >> absolutely disgraceful. >> produce >> belgium does produce some very, very good beer. >> does? >> it does? >> it does? >> yeah. this is true. yeah, but it is. >> it's the national side. it's the national religion, isn't it? football. >> absolutely unrecognisable. >> george was from syria i >> -- >> much 5mm >> much worse. turkey, i think. much even than night much worse even than last night was that brazil came was the fact that brazil came and visited us in the last game . and visited us in the last game. and brazil's strip is the most famous the world. yeah yellow famous in the world. yeah yellow shirt, blue shorts and white socks green flashes. and do socks and green flashes. and do you know what changed it? they did change it when they played england. wasn't england. and so it wasn't like

watching was like watching brazil. it was like watching brazil. it was like watching somebody else because they second kit, they played in their second kit, which dark blue. you which is dark blue. you explained to me. know, explained that to me. you know, somebody goes see brazil, you somebody goes to see brazil, you expect famous 1970 expect to see that famous 1970 pretty every day. pretty much every day. >> can't explain to >> things we can't explain to ourselves. mike, well as you, ourselves. mike, as well as you, we our best though. thank we try our best though. thank you both so much forjoining me. >> you can change these things. >> you can change these things. >> i you've changed >> i mean you've changed cadbury's. can actually do cadbury's. you can actually do this. got the power. this. you've got the power. >> yeah that fuss is why that post has come down. >> yeah that fuss is why that posohas come down. >> yeah that fuss is why that posohas > yeah that fuss is why that posohas > on of course it is. >> gb who won it. it's the >> gb news who won it. it's the gb news. what won it? >> tatiana sanchez is waiting very for us. we did it very patiently for us. we did it with latest . news. with your latest. news. >> bev. thank you. the top stories this hour. public satisfaction with the nhs has fallen to its lowest level since records began 40 years ago, with waiting times among the biggest concerns. a poll found that difficulty accessing gps is also a major worry, with the number of people satisfied with the health service now just 24.

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price of gold is £1,737.48 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 7904 points. >> rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> it's that time they're here, emily and tom. what's happening guys, have you heard about these, brits who have gone to russia to fight? >> we haven't talked about them, but yet putin well, fight on his side of the war. they're two brits. they've got a very sketchy past , judging by what sketchy past, judging by what they've told the mirror newspaper. and we want to ask what should happen with these british men who go off to fight for putin's army? there's a, i think, should they be shamima begum? >> yeah, i like that. >> yeah, i like that. >> this has become a term that we can deploy. shall we begum these brits? yeah. and i think that it's a it's an interesting point. >> it's more sympathetic to bacon than me. i think she can

rot out there in syria. thinks we should be with shamima. >> right. >> right. >> she was a dual citizen. so we're making her stateless we're not making her stateless by removing her citizenship. and i would bev, that it i would agree, bev, that it would wrong to make someone would be wrong to make someone stateless of hang on, stateless and sort of hang on, putin can give them so, so , so putin can give them so, so, so right. question is if they right. the question is if they if they putin's russia. so if they love putin's russia. so much, goodness, go, go get much, my goodness, go, go get citizenship and good citizenship in russia. and good riddance. enjoy the vodka. yeah. enjoy. >> one of these guys was in the national front and was done for a racist attack here in this country. another has another interesting past, let's say, so strong thing to do though, if you don't have a russian connection. >> i mean, they're clearly bananas, right? >> this is this is not a large number of people. this is these are two lunatics who have gone, in search for thrills and guns. >> and they play with guns, don't they? yeah. >> are they promoting themselves on social media? have they got there? do you know whether they have their own social media? yeah, there's a clip. >> that's been >> there's a clip that's been shown one of the guys shown of one of the guys essentially , you know, showing essentially, you know, showing off with guns and his

off with his guns and his ammunition and, and saying how much putin waving the much he loves putin waving the flag , the kremlin all. flag, the kremlin and all. >> just very edgy guy, right? >> just a very edgy guy, right? he just wants to be sort of riling people up. >> i think a lot of men, you riling people up. >> they1ink a lot of men, you riling people up. >> they looka lot of men, you riling people up. >> they look to )t of men, you riling people up. >> they look to putin.ien, you riling people up. >> they look to putin. well,yu know, they look to putin. well, not of men, but i'm sure not a lot of men, but i'm sure there are men who look to putin and think, this a strong and think, this is a strong leader. i want to fight for his army. but the question is a strong leader. >> do not sit within five >> do we do not sit within five metres he's so scared >> do we do not sit within five m> do we do not sit within five m> a deranged despot. >> it's a deranged despot. >> it's a deranged despot. >> that's what is anyway. >> that's what he is anyway. what should happen to these guys? that's the question. >> i want them back. >> i want them back. >> no, we don't. and i think >> no, no we don't. and i think i think to begum. i think we can we can coin this. we can coin this as an action. yeah, we can coin a verb. shall coin this as a verb. yeah, shall we begum brits? that's our big. >> they could always go and live in syria with her. >> what about that? yeah. >> what about that? yeah. >> well, there go. there's >> well, there you go. there's an idea. yeah. we'll, we'll float one. float that one. >> i mean if they, if they >> yeah. i mean if they, if they love sort of strong men, love their sort of strong men, misogynistic society, perhaps they'd misogynistic society, perhaps the we have that and a lot more >> we have that and a lot more no doubt, on good afternoon

britain from midday. don't go anywhere got anywhere though. we've still got anywhere though. we've still got a more to here

>> 1140 britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner. >> so, maths teacher kevin lester, you might remember this story was fired for gross misconduct after misgendering a student . student. >> what he did, he just refused to acknowledge the child wanting to acknowledge the child wanting to use a different pronoun. that's what he did. why is that misgendering? but anyway, he's taken college in my hometown taken the college in my hometown of employment of swindon to an employment tribunal, and it's last day today. >> so our southwest reporter, jeff moody is there with the latest jeff , just remind us what latest jeff, just remind us what happened this teacher and happened to this teacher and when expect a result of when might we expect a result of this hearing ? this hearing? >> well, we're due to get the result any moment now. the court was it's been in session since 10:00 this morning, so we are expecting the result any moment

now. but it was back in september 2022 that kevin lester, who as you said was a maths teacher at new college in swindon, was fired for gross misconduct after a complaint from two students. apparently, one of the students, who was always referred to in the tribunal as student a, decided and announced to the school in september 2021 that they wish to be referred to by a boys name, and they wish to use boys pronouns he and him and his and, the kevin lester , we were told, the kevin lester, we were told, has refused to address the child in that manner and has often , in that manner and has often, instead of using any terms at all, just pointed at the student, but also on one occasion, apparently wrote the student's birth name. the student's birth name. the student's girls name, what's known as a dead name wrote that on the whiteboard, saying that she could sign up, that they

could sign up for, a girls maths competition. well, the tribunal has heard that about the distress that this had caused to the student and the principal, carol kitching, who was the college's principal and chief executive at the time , told the executive at the time, told the heanng executive at the time, told the hearing it was the way that mr lester's gender critical beliefs, as they were described , beliefs, as they were described, were manifested that led to his dismissal not the actual beliefs themselves. referring to that incident with the whiteboard, miss kitchen said well , this was miss kitchen said well, this was humiliating for the student and i don't understand why you wrote the name on the whiteboard when all you had to do was to ask them to go and see another teacher, miss kitchen went on to say you were suspended for failing to treat student a with respect by constantly humiliating them in your class, by your refusal to treat them with dignity and respect, which is required by all members of staff. well, mr lester said that

when he found out that the student was identifying as transgender , he raised a transgender, he raised a safeguarding issue at the school and that the principal said that this they didn't feel this was appropriate either, that it's not a significant reason to launch a safeguarding protocol in a school just for something like this. but mr lester says, well, you know, he compared it to isis. he said, if i had a student that was getting involved with isis and beginning to be indoctrinated with isis views that would be a safeguarding issue. why isn't it a safeguarding issue when there's a student who is feeling that that is possibly being indoctrinated by views about their gender? so it's been a very fraught trial, lots of emotions over the last few days in this hearing. and we should hear whether the tribunal upholds his complaint and whether he keeps his job any moment now. >> okay. thank you very much, jeff. jeff moody there in

swindon. >> i think actually he's in the caucuses in bristol and of course, kevin lester is going to be in the studio tomorrow with bev, tomorrow . and i'm hopeful bev, tomorrow. and i'm hopeful one hoping he wins. >> where are you tomorrow ? >> where are you tomorrow? >> where are you tomorrow? >> i will be in cyprus, not cyprus. >> so bev and ben malta , bev and >> so bev and ben malta, bev and ben will be here tomorrow. >> that's right. we are going to be talking to the man in question there, kevin lister , question there, kevin lister, fascinating to hear what he says. >> and i'm sorry , i don't >> and i'm sorry, i don't believe i don't accept that. it's called it should be even called misgendering. he just refused to acknowledge this child. what now wants to be acknowledged? had the child got approval from their parent? >> the mood of the nation is behind common sense. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and there with kevin lister situation and that and that college is just up the road from where my family where i was brought up in swindon. >> oh. very nice, very interesting. >> yeah. right. you've all been getting absolutely incensed about this sewage situation. i'm not surprised the same not surprised we feel the same here. says . why surface here. rosemary says. why surface rainwater same as rainwater in the same drain as sewage hedging and ditching was

always done in october and march to the roads clear. today's to keep the roads clear. today's household drains contain gallons of which just weren't of chemicals, which just weren't used previously. big used previously. that is a big problem , and where was the one problem, and where was the one i this was this was. problem, and where was the one i this was this was . gary, no this was this was. gary, no sewage should enter waterways and see. it should be treated and see. it should be treated and controlled on land . we need and controlled on land. we need to keep the human waste to ourselves and not just disperse it into the environment. >> but these storm overflows, which are supposed to be used on rare occasions, are being used sometimes day and even on sometimes every day and even on dry days. and they're a big part of the problem. >> yeah, you all feel very strongly about this, and we're being short changed, aren't we? and a lot of you suggesting you being short changed, aren't we? and take: of you suggesting you being short changed, aren't we? and take itf you suggesting you being short changed, aren't we? and take it up)u suggesting you being short changed, aren't we? and take it up)u suyourting you being short changed, aren't we? and take it up)u suyour wateryu just take it up with your water companies write to your mps, companies and write to your mps, let them know. >> when it's about race, >> and when it's about race, we've all laughed sometimes, haven't boat sank haven't we? when the boat sank and boat race is this and the boat race is this saturday, cambridge versus oxford, sad for oxford, you'd feel very sad for the boat this the if the boat sinks this time because and they throw because it means and they throw the in the water, they do. the cox in the water, they do. because who'd that? because because who'd want that? because you'd go in nose, mouth

you'd have to go in nose, mouth close hope you don't swallow anything. >> right. >> right. >> you be able 5 you be able >> should you be able to call people fat, motivator, people fat, mr motivator, remember

>> is it okay to call people fat? i won't call them fat because she isn't. she won't call me fat because i'm not. but the fitness fanatic derek evans. you might know him better as 90s icon mr motivator recently told a podcast. diabetes beats have gone through the roof. you should be able to call people fat. >> well, he joins us now. good morning derek. good morning . morning derek. good morning. good morning. great to see you. so i think what you're getting at this idea that we've at is this idea that we've become so polite about weight that we're ignoring the elephant in the room. if you'll forgive the forgive the phraseology there. and actually , sometimes there. and actually, sometimes you've to be cruel to be you've got to be cruel to be kind . kind. >> well, actually, you know, this has been taken out of all context. i actually didn't say

you're entitled to call people fat. what i did say is that in the 80s and 90s, i remember the way i got into television, there was a gentleman walking at reception while i was waiting for i was training, for the people i was training, and some reason i got up and and for some reason i got up and i prodded him in the belly and i said to him, you need to deal with that. that was fat. are he didn't objection to it. didn't take objection to it. what said is , he went off. he what he said is, he went off. he said, who the hell do you think you are telling about losing you are telling me about losing weight? stop me. weight? that didn't stop me. what the day was what i did the next day was wheel bike into his office wheel my bike into his office and started training he was and started training him. he was the controller of gmtv. the program controller of gmtv. but what i said that things but what i said is that things have changed, and we now need to respect the fact that you have a choice. you can whether choice. you can decide whether in you want to be small, in fact you want to be small, thin, fat , whatever like in thin, fat, whatever you like in the i come from the the culture. i come from the black culture. culture we embrace fat. what they do is they it fluffy and they they call it fluffy and they think comfortable. all think it's comfortable. all right. you see someone who's right. if you see someone who's very tall, you call him lanky. if he's got no teeth, you're calling cummington. you say what you unfortunately it's

you see, but unfortunately it's all taken out of context. all been taken out of context. but the point i want to make is this we have a nation where obesity, diabetes is killing every one of us. and unless we take responsibility for our health, rather than waiting for government to do this , government to do this, government to do this, government to do that, it is our responsibility right, to look after our independence and our health. and as we get older, it's even more critical right ? it's even more critical right? and that's why i'm here as an example, saying to you, listen, i'm 71 years of age and movement is medicine, and you can't sit around watching television and not going out to the gym or wherever. you will never , ever wherever. you will never, ever be able to look after your family and everything you've worked for. you will lose it. i have never seen a hearse. sorry a deposit account behind a hearse. i've no matter what you work for, the most important thing you can do with your life is every hour. do something active . active. >> every hour, every hour . >> every hour, every hour. >> every hour, every hour. >> you know, i'm sitting here on a on a chair. in fact, it's a

bouncing ball to do all my work at my desk. but my desk lifts up every hour. i set my timer to remind me, even if it's on, to stand up and sit down. because when you work in the society we have nowadays we spend so have nowadays where we spend so much the desk , it's much time at the desk, it's important, right, that what you do invest in your health do is you invest in your health and movement. otherwise this is what happens your body . yeah, what happens to your body. yeah, the muscles collapse, they lose their their strength. and i believe that every one of us right now, you guys sitting down right now, you guys sitting down right now, you guys sitting down right now can change the way you sit. you. andrew. right. what you should be doing is imagine there's an orange between your shoulder blades. squeeze out the juice the orange juice in the orange automatically. better automatically. you look better already . right, bev? same already. right, bev? the same thing. if all practice that thing. if we all practice that every hour, it will change our outlook on life and you don't have to do much. >> and do you think there's too much obsession, derek, with just being thin? because i may not be fat, but i'm not that fit. and actually we need to work on fitness and then the size and

being more comfortable will come first. >> listen, at the end of the day, right. there's nothing wrong with being a size 1015 2018. call it what you like as long as you're fit and healthy and you can be because you can be a large person who is as active as everyone else, and you will live. listen, you take someone who's 20 stones. if he's fit and active, he will outlast anybody. who else? who is a 20 stones in weight? yeah, who don't exercise . so the important don't exercise. so the important thing is exercise. and you know, i started out physically trying to engage people and get them to start moving. and i now realise after all these years that the mental side of what we do is critical. if that isn't engage, no matter what you do when you go to a gym or wherever, you're neveh go to a gym or wherever, you're never, ever going to see improvement. and i tell you, what's a crime? we got all these gyms and clubs and all these, all these places of interest, and yet still there's not a queue at the door waiting to go in. you're right.

>> isn't that right derek? >> isn't that right derek? >> thank you so much. motivating and looking great. the for world decades now. 731 look at him. he's amazing isn't he a great role model derek keep it up. amazing. thank you so much. and actually this mental health crisis we about all the crisis we talk about all the time. been massively time. we've been massively improved if just more improved if we just moved more right that it from britain's right that is it from britain's newsroom this morning. next newsroom this morning. up next good britain good afternoon britain with emily here are. emily and tom. here they are. >> it mr motivator was >> what was it mr motivator was saying about something? an apple behind was trying behind my shoulder i was trying to i can't i'll have to to follow. i can't i'll have to listen again, but on the show today, did know that today, today, did you know that today, three the first three three months, the first three months of this year, the highest number of small boats crossings on down last year, on record down last year, seemingly this year , seemingly up again this year, yes . yes. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. the weather remains very lively , heavy

remains very lively, heavy downpours across much of the uk today. it's still pretty gusty and blustery as well. and here's the reason why low pressure continues to dominate these weather fronts. spiral bands of rain across the uk. it's been particularly wet in northern ireland, where the warning in place here until three this afternoon, a line of rain working its way into eastern england. ahead of that we have seen sunshine, sunny seen some sunshine, some sunny spells following, also spells following, but also a whole of blustery showers whole host of blustery showers blown in by a gusty wind and the wet weather across scotland falling low levels, falling as rain at low levels, but snow the higher but some snow over the higher routes possible here. cold feeling day in northern scotland, or 7 elsewhere. well scotland, 6 or 7 elsewhere. well just about digits, but just about double digits, but still chilly for end still feeling chilly for the end of march. more heavy showers will northwards overnight will spread northwards overnight and this zone of wet weather will be again mostly rain at low levels but could provide some snow, particularly across parts of the west midlands, up towards nonh of the west midlands, up towards north wales, down towards gloucestershire for tomorrow morning. it's going turn morning. it's going to turn windy again tomorrow as windy again through tomorrow as well, particularly from the southwest, rain comes southwest, as further rain comes in here. it will be a chilly

night in scotland. a touch of frost but northern frost here, but northern scotland should see some sunny spells thursday . another spells during thursday. another band then swings from band of rain then swings up from the very blustery the south and very blustery conditions the south conditions along the south coast. met office coast. there's a met office yellow warning place for yellow warning in place for those winds and again from those gusty winds and again from mid—morning onwards, it's another day of heavy showers and again feeling on the chilly side. 10 to 12 at best. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

gb news. away. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on wednesday, the 27th of march. and h.s. dismay. >> just 1 in 4 of us are satisfied with the performance of the nhs. new figures reveal this is the lowest level of satisfaction on record. are you still proud of our nhs and

spills of raw sewage into england's rivers and seas? >> there at the worst on record, new figures show that there were more than 3,000,000 hours of spills last year. but who's to blame ? is it all actually blame? is it all actually sewage? and what can be done? >> and brits fighting for putin in ukraine? we asked the question should these traitors receive the shamima begum treatment and be stripped of their british citizenship? >> should these traitors be begum and i begum? you begum, they begum. and it's actually shamima begum. >> but anyway, that's the time we need to use on this one. should they be shamima begum? should they be shamima begum? should they be shamima begum? should they have their citizenship stripped from them? or do you actually think you know they're not going to work for a terrorist organisation ,

for a terrorist organisation, some