be banned. after that, batley grammar school teacher was targeted three years ago in a sit down with gb news. and next up, a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing on a train in south london yesterday and two men are in a critical but stable condition after an accident just a few miles away last night. what can we do about knife crime 7 what can we do about knife crime .7 next up, queen camilla has attended the royal maundy thursday service at worcester cathedral. without the king and a pre—recorded message. the king reaffirmed his coronation pledge not to be served, but to serve . not to be served, but to serve. and would you believe that some british students are so utterly stupid that they'll happily sign a petition backing the huti terrorists? yeah, we did a nice sting on them and that's all coming up in your next hour.

welcome to the show. always an absolute joy to have your company with a cracking show coming up ahead today, christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor, sat down with sir keir starmer. we put some questions to him that no other broadcaster would, particularly about the batley grammar teacher , batley grammar school teacher, stick around for that knife crime. the cancer of knife crime, a scourge on british society . what can we do about society. what can we do about it? whatever we're doing now isn't working. we've got some great solutions from activists and coppers who know what works. and that sting . yeah, we sent and that sting. yeah, we sent somebody down to king's college london. can you believe it? they signed a petition backing the houthi rebels, spoiler alert. they're a proscribed terrorist organisation. that's all in the next hour. but first, it's time for your headlines with aaron armstrong . armstrong. >> very good afternoon to you. it's 3:02. i'm aaron armstrong. michael gove has described the

management of thames water as a disgrace. the firm's bosses have admitted it could face the risk of emergency nationalisation , of emergency nationalisation, even as its funding crisis deepens. it comes after shareholders refused to give the troubled company half £1 billion of extra money, describing a rescue plan as uninvestable. instead, they want the off off what? the regulator to increase customers bills by up to 40% over five years, which has so far been resisted. the communities secretary says thames water must take responsibility for its failings. >> for years now we've seen the customers of thames water taken advantage of by successive management teams that have been taking out profits and not investing as they should have been. so the answer is not to hit the consumers. >> the answer is for the management team to look to their own approach and ask themselves why they're in this difficult situation, and of course, the answer is because of serial mismanagement for which they must carry the can.

>> teenagers being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a knife attack on a london train yesterday afternoon, it happened between shortlands and beckenham just before 4:00. the victim, in his 20s, suffered life threatening injuries from the attack, which was recorded and shared on social media. it shows a masked man attacking another man with a large knife in front of passengers , who can in front of passengers, who can be heard telling him to stop and calling for help . meanwhile, calling for help. meanwhile, a man has been arrested in connection with the death of the gogglebox star george gilbey, who died on wednesday after a fall at work. he was best known for appearing in the channel four series, which takes viewers inside the homes of people while they're watching television . he they're watching television. he also appeared on celebrity big brother in 2014. essex police have detained a man in his 40s on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. sir keir starmer says britain wants change and he's vowed to revive levelling up for regions during labour's

local election campaign. speaking at an event in the west midlands , sir keir said he had midlands, sir keir said he had hoped to be there to launch a general election campaign but accused the prime minister of bottling it . accused the prime minister of bottling it. he's pledged a national renewal, promising to axe zero hours contracts and give local mayors new powers to rejuvenate the high street. >> stability with labour or more chaos with the tories . unity or chaos with the tories. unity or division? renewal or decline a changed labour party ready to serve the interests of working people or a conservative party that has forgotten how to serve any thing other than itself. >> now plans to reform britain's leasehold property laws have been criticised by peers who say the bill doesn't go far enough. leaseholds are a form of ownership that allow home owners to live in a property for a set number of years, while paying service charges. however, there has been mounting criticism of the system, with many residents seeing their charges rise

dramatically, often with little explanation. it means home owners locked into costly owners can be locked into costly contracts with little right to redress . the government dropped redress. the government dropped its pledge to scrap leaseholds last year. a labours housing spokesperson , baroness taylor, spokesperson, baroness taylor, called the government's current proposal a shell of a bill that won't offer the security. home. owners were promised . the owners were promised. the archbishop of canterbury has called on people to pray this easter weekend for the jailed journalist, evan gershkovich . a journalist, evan gershkovich. a good friday marks a year since the wall street journal reporter was detained in russia on charges of spying . no evidence charges of spying. no evidence has been presented to back up the allegations . he's the first the allegations. he's the first us journalist to be arrested in russia since the cold war. justin welby says journalists around the world should be protected and should be free to hold those in power to account . hold those in power to account. millions of people are being urged to metre readings to urged to send metre readings to their energy supplier to ensure they don't overpay . the average they don't overpay. the average household bill is to fall to its lowest point in two years from

next month, after ofgem lowered its price cap. it drops 12.3% from next monday , lowering those from next monday, lowering those typical yearly bills from £9,900 to just under 1700, an average saving of about £20 per month . saving of about £20 per month. and you might want to think twice if you're planning on travelling this easter weekend, or perhaps set your clock or perhaps set your alarm clock early . the rac is or perhaps set your alarm clock early. the rac is warning of shock, horror, long delays on the roads, with journeys on some of the most popular routes taking twice as long as normal. it's the bank holiday coinciding with the easter holiday, so some 14 million journeys are expected. much of the congestion will start this evening, so you if you're planning to travel, are being advised to travel outside peak times and a personal message from the king has been broadcast to worcester cathedral, marking the royal maundy service. the queen was in attendance as his majesty told the service britain's blessed by

services that exist for our welfare. he paid tribute to those organising and their selfless staff, saying we all benefit greatly from those who offer us friendship. he also renewed his pledge to continue to serve and not be served . get to serve and not be served. get the latest on all of our stories by scanning the qr code for gb news alerts. information is also available on the website. now it's to . it's back to. martin. >> thank you very much, aaron. now we'll have the latest on those incidents in london very shortly. but with our shortly. but we start with our brand new interview with sir keir starmer and the labour leader's told gb news. the protests outside of schools should be banned. a batley grammar school teacher is still in hiding, of course, three years after he was targeted for showing a caricature of the prophet muhammad during a ory lesson. a report out this week said that protests should be

banned within 150m of schools , banned within 150m of schools, and sir keir spoke about a wide range of topics, with gb news political editor christopher hope. >> sir keir starmer thanks for joining gb news here in dudley. you mentioned zero hours contracts in your speech there. you said yes , we will ban them. you said yes, we will ban them. when asked directly. rachel reeves, though , says only reeves, though, says only exploitative ones. which is it? reeves, though, says only exp you tive ones. which is it? reeves, though, says only exp you going|es. which is it? reeves, though, says only exp you going to. which is it? reeves, though, says only exp you going to banich is it? reeves, though, says only exp you going to ban her? it? are you going to ban her? because people do like are you going to ban her? becauzero people do like are you going to ban her? becauzero hours)eople do like are you going to ban her? becauzero hours contracts, like these zero hours contracts, don't they? >> you're >> well, if you're trying to find between rachel reeves find a gap between rachel reeves and afraid you're not and me, i'm afraid you're not going , what we've said the going to, what we've said is the low commission low wage low commission a low wage commission, as you know, has looked into this and it said basically after 12 weeks looked into this and it said basihave after 12 weeks looked into this and it said basihave a after 12 weeks looked into this and it said basihave a right:er 12 weeks looked into this and it said basihave a right to 12 weeks looked into this and it said basihave a right to say, eeks looked into this and it said basihave a right to say, look, you have a right to say, look, looking at the hours that have been worked , i should have a been worked, i should have a contract on those hours. so that's the way it works. there is the equal rights for an individual . is the equal rights for an individual. say, i don't want that, so look, we're pragmatists on this , but what we want to do on this, but what we want to do is get to the heart of this exploitation of people who are on zero hours contracts, don't know the hours they're going to

work, don't know what income they're have. and that they're going to have. and that produces huge insecurity. and we need to end that. >> that's so you're >> that's right. so you're planning a new levelling up act. you've announced in dudley, you've announced that in dudley, bofis you've announced that in dudley, boris johnson's you boris johnson's idea, would you give a labour give him a job in a labour government? you've got an interesting appointment for you. >> no, definitely not, definitely not. and i'll tell you because levelling you for why. because levelling up as an idea, the sense that we need more regional equality, is really important. but in order to make that work, you need a viable plan and you need to do the hard yards of implementing it. i'm afraid borisjohnson didn't do that, but intend to didn't do that, but i intend to make sure that, every area, whether it's dudley where we are now or anywhere across the country, feels the benefit of a growing economy. i'm absolutely determined . determined. >> good idea. needing better wiring, essentially. >> well, it needs a viable plan. it needs something will actually work. but it also does, frankly, need the hard yards of delivery. and that's, i'm afraid, what we haven't seen. yeah. >> three years ago this week that a grammar school teacher in

batley , discussed blasphemy batley, discussed in a blasphemy conversation the cartoon of the prophet muhammad. he's been in hiding for three years. dame saira khan, the independent adviser to the government on this area, said it was part of the national curriculum. he has now got should he get now got ptsd. should he get compensation and how would labour stop other teachers being hounded out of their jobs? >> i feel very >> well, i do feel very concerned about individual concerned about this, individual and i do think that we need to take extremism very seriously. the strategy needs updating. i think it was last updated nine years ago. i thought the report into what happened in batley, raised some very serious issues , raised some very serious issues, most of which i agree with, particularly this idea that there shouldn't be those sorts of protests outside of our schools . so i do think serious schools. so i do think serious issue, serious recommendations , issue, serious recommendations, and i think that insofar as we can, this shouldn't become a party political issue. we've all got an interest in making sure we're tackling this, this kind of extremism , would you move any of extremism, would you move any protests 150 yards away or

metres away from the school gate, as dame sarah is arguing for? >>ido for? >> i do think that we should do that. i think it should be a buffer outside of our schools , buffer outside of our schools, schools should not be a place for protest. >> yeah . on the issue of angela >> yeah. on the issue of angela raynen >> yeah. on the issue of angela rayner, the discussion about her second home, have you seen the legal and tax report into this? into the sale? >> well, angela's answered no end of questions, have you seen it? have you seen the report, she's answered all questions . she's answered all questions. she's been very clear. she'll talk to any of the authorities that want more information. she's legal advice , and my she's taken legal advice, and my team have seen it. i have never felt the need. nor do i think it's appropriate for me personally to see it . i'm personally to see it. i'm satisfied, with the answers that she has given repeatedly now on this. but you're saying she's cleared , but you haven't asked cleared, but you haven't asked to see the actual evidence to show she is cleared. >> i don't need to. >> i don't need to. >> it's not appropriate for me to legal advice, if the to see that legal advice, if the police a formal police do launch a formal investigation, should she resign? her job. resign? stand back from her job. >> chris, i'm not going >> well, chris, i'm not going to get hypotheticals . we've

get into hypotheticals. we've been down road many, many been down this road many, many times , look, we, the times before, look, we, the police, have made their decision. they need now get decision. they need to now get on with the decision and the process that they're going through. >> if , of course, >> and if, of course, if evidence that hasn't evidence emerges that she hasn't given, given talked properly about to the about on the electoral was that an electoral register was that an issue for you? >> look, angela's given this her answers many, many times over , answers many, many times over, she's taken legal advice on it, that has satisfied her, her team and my team. i'm confident in the answers that she's given . the answers that she's given. >> it's a big weekend for easter eggs, peter manson thinks you need to lose some weight. will you be off the eggs? well all the eggs in our household go straight our children . straight to our children. >> there's no end of eggs. and to my friends and relatives , to all my friends and relatives, itake to all my friends and relatives, i take opportunity. please. i take this opportunity. please. a of some eggs for our a present of some eggs for our kids. no eggs were will be very, very welcome. they've got more than enough easter eggs already. >> an interview >> and you said an interview today that you're aware of the impact 10 downing impact of being in 10 downing

street children. how street with your children. how will protect them? will you protect them? because you you? you don't name them, do you? >> want get ahead of >> i don't want to get ahead of myself this because we've got myself on this because we've got to votes, respect to earn the votes, the respect of be to of voters, to be able to win that election . we will have very that election. we will have very daunting decisions to make because of the damage that's been done to the country. they those decisions , i'm ready for. those decisions, i'm ready for. the one thing i'm very concerned aboutis the one thing i'm very concerned about is my children, my boy is 15. he'll be 16 later this year. my 15. he'll be 16 later this year. my girl is 13, so they're young teenagers, and we have done everything we can to protect them. we never name them. we never do pictures with them . never do pictures with them. they walk to their local secondary schools, and i want to protect that, we've protected it so far, and i'm absolutely determined to protect it. >> and that will carry in >> and that will carry on in downing street. >> do about it >> but i do worry about it because, you they are because, you know, they are young , it is a because, you know, they are young, it is a difficult age. i think we're in a young teenager. and so, if there's anything keeps awake, it's worrying keeps me up awake, it's worrying about the impact on my children. >> the tories have been given a 1% of winning the general

1% chance of winning the general election professor sir election by professor sir john curtice week. it's the curtice this week. it's in the bag now, it? bag for you now, isn't it? >> we had worst general >> we had the worst general election 1935 when election result since 1935 when we lost that last election . to we lost that last election. to get from there to even a 1 or 2 seat labour majority is going to take a bigger swing than 1997. so i'm focused not on opinion polls but on the task in hand , polls but on the task in hand, which is, learning the lessons of 2019 and earning votes by putting forward a positive case. but to do it humbly , i know that but to do it humbly, i know that we must persuade people of our positive case, and i take nothing for granted. we have a positive case. i want the chance to go out there and persuade people to vote for change. turn our back on 14 years of division and chaos, and usher in this sense of a decade of national renewal, where we take the country forward. >> well, sir keir starmer, thanks for joining us today on gb news dudley. thank you. gb news in dudley. thank you. thank well, sir keir >> great stuff. well, sir keir starmer to our

starmer was speaking to our political editor christopher hope, now. hope, who joins me now. chris farrell tastic interview easter eggs angela rayner. it had a bit of everything. a special thank you to you for mentioning, of course, the batley grammar school teacher , a subject you school teacher, a subject you know is very close to my heart and the heart of gb news viewers. we convinced about what sir keir starmer said on that issue, or did he seem a bit non—committal? well >> yes. i mean, yes, of course he's here in dudley to launch the may the 2nd local election campaign . martin, not campaign. martin, not necessarily talk about issues that we're always talking about on gb news and concerned about rightly at gb news, he went further than the government. dame sarah khan earlier this week said she'd spoken to the batley grammar school teacher, said he has had suicidal thoughts, said that he had been ignored and let down by authorities and that had made it made it worse for him . he made made it worse for him. he made clear the sir keir starmer he is concerned about it and also he will he will adopt if he becomes

prime minister. one of dame sarah ideas that there sarah khan's ideas that there should this 150 metre buffer should be this 150 metre buffer zone around schools, that you can't protest at the school gate, you must withdraw 150m or so. we haven't yet seen what the government will do. the tory government. we're going to hear from before from their response before the end of july. clearly sir keir end of july. so clearly sir keir starmer going ahead that. starmer is going ahead of that. and trying to the front and trying to go on the front foot about issue of the foot about the issue of the batley school teacher. batley grammar school teacher. and him, you and also i asked him, will you try and make sure that other teachers aren't bullied out of their jobs by protests? for a teacher simply teaching what's in that national curriculum, it's on his radar. he's concerned about it. so that's probably quite promising for the teacher and other teachers concerned about this matter. >> done for putting it >> and well done for putting it on his radar. chris, you should feel on behalf of our feel very proud on behalf of our viewers for doing that. thank you very much. on angela rayner is no doubt going to be asked endless that. endless questions about that. he seemed away . seemed to bat them away. >> yeah he did. he's clearly taking angela rayner at her

word, as he should do. he said in his speech earlier when he launched this, this, campaign in questions to journalists, he made very clear he backs angela raynen he made very clear he backs angela rayner. he said that she has my full confidence and full support, of course, that prompted questions. how do you know that that there's no problem here with angela rayner? and of course, viewers might remember that she sold her home in 2015. there were claims in a biography michael ashcroft, biography by michael ashcroft, that she that she may have been living she says it's living elsewhere. she says it's a primary home. therefore no capital was due and capital gains tax was due and the electoral register was correct. greater manchester police are reviewing whether this matter needs to be looked at by officers, so it's in in flux. andrew rayner makes it very clear that she has done nothing wrong and she has had legal advice and advice to legal advice and tax advice to say point is say so. the interesting point is that sir keir starmer supports angela rayner, as he should do. his deputy, but he won't say whether he. in he says he whether he. in fact, he says he won't the advice she's won't look at the advice she's got, advice tax got, either legal advice or tax advice . some might say that's

advice. some might say that's that's interesting because of course senior course you see a very senior king's counsel and a director of pubuc king's counsel and a director of public prosecutions , if you're public prosecutions, if you're that person, you may want to look at the legal advice you received to check that it's all okay in your mind. but for him , okay in your mind. but for him, he has said no. so i think this one is going to and run. one is going to run and run. there'll pressure growing there'll be pressure growing this next this weekend from into next week, the tory week, particularly if the tory party. angela rayner party. why won't angela rayner pubush party. why won't angela rayner publish legal advice or tax publish this legal advice or tax advice? sir keir starmer said today he didn't think that today that he didn't think that was necessary. >> hope superb >> okay, chris hope superb stuff. loads more to unpick from the interview throughout the course this show. of course. course of this show. of course. fantastic now have lots fantastic stuff. now have lots more reaction to what sir keir starmer said throughout the show, and there's plenty of coverage our website news. coverage on our website gb news. com helped to make it com and you've helped to make it the fastest growing national com and you've helped to make it the fewebsite>wing national com and you've helped to make it the fewebsite in ng national com and you've helped to make it the fewebsite in the1ational com and you've helped to make it the fewebsite in the country, so news website in the country, so thank you very much. now time is running out on your chance to win our spring giveaway. there's a shopping spree, gadgets and £12,345 in cash tax free lines closed at 5:00 pm tomorrow. so

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welcome back.324 welcome back. 324 i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. as it emerges that the controversial new england football shirt is selling rather well. later in the show, i'll ask , was this the show, i'll ask, was this a brilliant piece of marketing by nike, or are they taking us all for a ride before that, a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing on a train in south london. meanwhile two people are in a critical but stable condition after a further incident at kennington station last night. well our home

security editor, mark white, is outside kennington station , outside kennington station, while ray addison is outside shortlands station . with the shortlands station. with the latest on this, shall we start with you? ray addison , what's with you? ray addison, what's the latest on the shortlands incident ? incident? >> well, the latest information. martin good afternoon. is that we know british transport police have also recovered a knife along with that arrest of the 19 year old male suspect . police year old male suspect. police being called just before 4:00 yesterday afternoon to reports of two men fighting on the train. victoria, bound between this station , shortlands and this station, shortlands and beckenham junction, now that was about a 2 to 3 minute journey, but it must have been terrifying for the passengers on board that social media footage being released online showing a man dressed completely in black and another man slumped on the floor. now when it got to beckenham train station , it was beckenham train station, it was obviously the train stopped.

police, emergency services responded and a man were told. now in his 20s, he was treated at the scene and then removed by an air ambulance to a major trauma centre. his condition is critical but stable, we're told, and police are liaising with his family, providing specialist support. >> okay, thank you for that, ryan. now let's cross to mark white outside kennington station . mark what's the latest on the situation there . situation there. >> well still an active manhunt for the attacker at the centre of this incident that unfolded at 1030 last night on the northbound platform at kennington tube station. a man was attacked by another man, stabbed, and then another commuter who was on that platform moved in, intervened very bravely to try to stop this man and help him, and then was

attacked himself. both men were taken to a major trauma centre in the area. they are described today as being in a critical condition but also stable. at this hour . condition but also stable. at this hour. now we haven't as yet from british transport police had any kind of description of the attacker or any photographs released now that might indicate that british transport police are pursuing a positive line of enquiry, and they don't yet need the help of the wider public to try to trace their suspect. only the hours ahead will tell us if thatis the hours ahead will tell us if that is a correct assumption , that is a correct assumption, but clearly a real concern surrounding this incident. as british transport police say that they do not believe that either victim knew their attacker. >> okay. thank you. mark white outside kennington station and ray addison from outside shortlands station for those

updates. i'm joined in the studio now by the former metropolitan police officer, chris hobbs. chris, welcome to studio. this isn't that uncommon, is it? studio. this isn't that uncommon, is it ? unfortunately, uncommon, is it? unfortunately, it's been called a night of carnage in the press. but you know, as well as i know that stabbings are on the increase, particularly in london, particularly in london, particularly in london, particularly in birmingham in the major cities. whatever we're doing to tackle knife crime, it ain't working. >> needs to be done >> what needs to be done is a challenge without a doubt. and these are these are the crimes that reported. there's an that are reported. there's an awful of stuff goes on that awful lot of stuff goes on that is unreported . you know, in is unreported. you know, in london the gangs even got london the gangs even have got scoreboards two gangs face scoreboards when two gangs face off, somebody points for a murder, somebody points for a stabbing. so many points for a shooting, so many points for making someone run away. but in addition the gangs , the knife addition to the gangs, the knife seems to be a go to weapon, almost accessory now almost a fashion accessory now for many people to carry around with what needs to be with them. what needs to be done? well, for a start , in done? well, for a start, in london, the met are stretched to the limit . yeah. when is it? how

the limit. yeah. when is it? how many times do you hear the met needs to do more about this. the met needs to do more. there's a whole list of things the met need to more about. knife need to do more about. knife crimes, be crimes, obviously should be a priority it's our young priority because it's our young people stabbed people who are getting stabbed in the main and there needs to be stop and search, stop and search. so i'm told, and the figures prove it is falling through the floor. yes, halved i think compared to this time last yeah think compared to this time last year. that's partly because stop and search is controversial. it can be career ending if you get a controversial stop and search in a public place draws a crowd, you have to use force to conduct your search. mobile phones are out. and then of course, if there's a complaint, you get an investigation that could possibly go for on years and could be career ending. >> but chris, it works . stop and >> but chris, it works. stop and search works where it's been put in place in violence reduction units across cities such as liverpool, glasgow , london. it liverpool, glasgow, london. it works. why can't the police be

given more powers and say to hell with people who criticise us, it works . it's effective, we us, it works. it's effective, we need it. we need to save lives. >> well, i think that is the issue.i >> well, i think that is the issue. i think the critics seem to every time you to forget that every time you take knife or a gun or a take a knife or a gun or a weapon off the and the weapon off the street and the met somewhere almost met take about somewhere almost 400 between 3 and 400 deadly weapons off the streets every month. that's potentially a life saved. and unfortunately, when you do get something, a fatal stabbing, many of which are almost under the radar, it's only if there's a particular twist that they get publicity. but you don't get the same activists coming out and saying, maybe we should have stop and search. they reserve their wrath, not for the fatal stabbing or the victim or the victim's family. they reserve the wrath for the police whenever it is a stop and search becomes controversial. >> how do we how do we break that cycle ? the bodies are that cycle? the bodies are continuing to pile up, and the facts don't lie . young black men facts don't lie. young black men or disproportionate more likely to die and young black men are

disproportionately more likely to be ones doing the to be the ones doing the stabbing ons data. it's factual. why are we having this barrier about about stop and search being racist, about policing, being racist, about policing, being racist? if we just look at things as they stand factually and being colour—blind, why can't the police just be given the tools they need to clamp down? >> i think there's an admission amongst police officers that a lot of the stabbings are linked to poorer socio economic conditions in certain parts of london. that's where you you get most of the stabbings. i think if you're a young black lad and you're constantly being told by activists that the police are brutal, racist, perverted oppressors, then even if you're quite a reasonable lad and you're stopped by police, you're probably going to bristle a bit. >> but the police also themselves tell us all the time that they're institutionally racist. does that help? >> it i don't, but we >> no, it does, i don't, but we could talk for a for an hour. why? | could talk for a for an hour. why? i don't believe police are institutional. racism has got a variety of meanings. but what it

what it boils down to. most people interpret that as police are racist. it's police who raced to of these raced to the scene of these stabbings and often save lives by rendering, because now we're very. or the police are very much better at first aid. they save lives. they save black lives. no one seems to be interested in that. what i think perhaps the public needs is a bit more shock and awe. there's a lot of controversy about the clip from the station. clip we saw from the station. should that be shown? would should that be shown? i would show personally that are show clips personally that are more graphic, bring it home to the school children and so on. this is the consequences of knife crime . when someone gets knife crime. when someone gets disembowelled by a knife is disembowelled by a knife and is innards are over the pavement, that's the horror of knife crime. and then the families who have to endure the loss of a loved one. and they're not all gang members. sometimes you get innocent lads caught up in this, this, this knife crime. so it needs a fresh approach. community policing that sort of died in many parts of london. get on those estates, get to know the gang members or the

potential gang members. it works tough . love needed. stop and tough. love needed. stop and search needed . all these things. search needed. all these things. at the moment we're struggling because the met are drowning and the cases and the bureaucracy and at the moment, there's no sign that things are going to improve dramatically over time. but they have to. >> chris hobbs, former met police officer fantastic start to the show using common sense. great stuff. there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00, and i'll speak to the man who got students to sign his fake petition. wait for it. backing hootie terrorists. but first, there's your latest news headunes first, there's your latest news headlines with aaron armstrong. >> it's 332. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom . sir keir in the gb newsroom. sir keir starmer has told gb news labour will get levelling up back on track. speaking shortly after an eventin track. speaking shortly after an event in the west midlands to launch their local election campaign, labour leader campaign, the labour leader dismissed suggestions boris johnson might a role

johnson might be giving a role in reviving the policy. >> levelling up as an idea. the sense that we need more regional equality , is really important, equality, is really important, but in order to make that work, you need a viable plan and you need to do the hard yards of implementing it. i'm afraid bofis implementing it. i'm afraid boris johnson didn't that, boris johnson didn't do that, but i intend make sure that but i intend to make sure that every area, whether it's dudley, where we are now or anywhere across country , feels the across the country, feels the benefit of a growing economy. >> meanwhile, thames water shareholders have said its business plan is uninvestable and they won't put in half £1 billion to fund it. a shareholders wanted the regulator , ofwat, to allow a 40% regulator, ofwat, to allow a 40% bill hike over five years for customers and more lenient penalties for falling foul of regulations. the extra cash was to be put in by the end of this month. the communities secretary, michael gove, has described the management of thames water as a disgrace , thames water as a disgrace, saying they should not be putting their losses onto

consumers. a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing on a train in london yesterday afternoon. it's said to have happened just before 4 pm. between shortlands and p.m. between shortlands and beckenham on a train bound for victoria station . a graphic victoria station. a graphic footage shared on social media showed a masked man attacking another man with a large knife, while passengers can while concerned passengers can be heard calling for help. the victim remains in critical but stable in hospital , stable condition in hospital, and king charles has reaffirmed his coronation pledge not to be served but to serve in a personal easter message . his personal easter message. his pre—recorded comments were broadcast at the royal maundy service at worcester cathedral. the king has stepped back from royal duties while he receives treatment for cancer. the queen attended in his absence, and you can get the latest on all of our stories by scanning the qr code on your screen for our news alerts, or go to our website .

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service, the king reaffirmed his coronation pledge not to be served but to serve a wonderful message and jewellery. now is gb news royal correspondent cameron walker. cameron, give us a full update on the royal easter festivities . festivities. >> good afternoon martin. of course it's a hugely important eventin course it's a hugely important event in the royal family's calendar , the royal maundy calendar, the royal maundy service. and it was very poignant because, as you said , poignant because, as you said, king charles could not be here. he is still undergoing cancer treatment . so queen camilla was treatment. so queen camilla was here in his place . but there was here in his place. but there was an audio message which the king recorded inside buckingham palace a few weeks ago. as you said, he reaffirmed his coronation pledge, but he started by reading a passage from the bible, from gospel of john, talking about jesus washing the feet of his disciples, which of course is routed well, that the maundy service is rooted in that particular story. so the queen, on the king's behalf, distributed maundy money to 75

men and 75 women who have served their local community. a red and white pouch were given to each of them, containing commemorative maundy money coins. it's happened every year for hundreds of for hundreds and hundreds of years. the last time it was in worcester cathedral was in the year 1980. so a long time ago . year 1980. so a long time ago. the heavens opened a bit this afternoon, and when her majesty the queen arrived, there was quite a few noisy republican protesters. there was, however, a vastly bigger crowd of monarchy supporters. and actually, when the queen had entered the cathedral, the anti—monarchy protesters retreated inside because they didn't want to be in the rain. but the monarchists were in full support of the queen and braved the elements so when she came out of the cathedral, the queen could do bit a walkabout could do a bit of a walkabout with and she got to greet with them, and she got to greet lots members crowds. lots of members of the crowds. in really overstayed in fact, she really overstayed the was meant to the time that she was meant to be departing, which just shows, i how much she was i think, how much she was enjoying the locals here enjoying meeting the locals here in and they in worcester and how much they were meeting her. there were enjoying meeting her. there was of very good wishes for

was lots of very good wishes for the the princess of the king and the princess of wales, who are continuing cancer treatments. of treatments. they are members of the public asking the queen to pass of good will. pass on messages of good will. and it shows that the queen really is holding up the fort of the royal family the moment, the royal family at the moment, with william, the with both prince william, the king and the princess of wales all we are, however, all off. we are, however, expected to see the king on easter sunday in a few days time at saint chapel in at saint george's chapel in windsor, the queen. windsor, alongside the queen. they will be attending the easter sunday service in saint george's chapel . royal. sources george's chapel. royal. sources tell going scaled tell me it's going to be scaled back the on medical back because the king on medical advice, in too many advice, cannot be in too many crowds moment. but it crowds at the moment. but it will be a scaled back service with of the close family i >> -- >> well, cameron walker looks beautiful worcester, beautiful there in worcester, outside the cathedral. there, the sun shining down maundy the sun shining down on maundy thursday . thank you very much thursday. thank you very much for that wonderful update . now for that wonderful update. now about to speak to the man who persuaded countless students in london to sign a petition supporting the houthi terrorists. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

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british vessels in the red sea, but some students in london, well, they couldn't care less. check out what happened when a contributor for website reasoned cas hussain presented them with a fake petition backing the terror group. >> it's about the hoodie rebels. >> it's about the hoodie rebels. >> if you support them against the us and the uk and israel, do you agree with it? >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i'm collecting petitions to show to the university that people who support the hoodie rebels. >> okay. do you agree or. yeah dave myers it's in support of the hoodies . do you know much the hoodies. do you know much about the houthis or not really , about the houthis or not really, i don't think so. >> no. >> no. >> just dodi politics. no, no , >> just dodi politics. no, no, the houthis are a. oh, yeah. >> yeah, yeah . >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> or do you know about the houthis? >> yeah. do you know about them? yeah. what do you think, not too sure about him. know what's sure about him. i do know what's i know , a rough idea. i know, a rough idea. >> so you support them? >> so you support them? >> i so, yeah . >> i think so, yeah. >> i think so, yeah. >> oh, good. >> oh, good. >> i'll let will you >> i'll let you go. will you sign petition? was sign my petition? sister? was it. in support of the it. it's in support of the houthis yemen. okay yeah,

houthis in yemen. okay yeah, yeah. why not? do you know much about houthis? no i don't about the houthis? no i don't know do you support them? know much. do you support them? they're arabia , they're against saudi arabia, israel and america britain. israel and america and britain. >> , i'd have to know more >> i mean, i'd have to know more about it to . personal email. about it to. personal email. yeah, yeah . yeah, yeah. >> excuse me. will you sign my petition in support of the houthis in support of the houthis in support of the houthis in support of the houthis in yemen? okay >> well, it's one of those. do you laugh or do you cry? well, the man responsible for that petition was the contributor for reasoned cas hussain. and he joins me now. welcome to the show. guest. superb sting you did there. i guess the big question is all these students actual terrorist sympathisers or are they just unbridled , wildly are they just unbridled, wildly stupid? are they the embodiment of a little education is a dangerous thing ? dangerous thing? >> well, it's deeply disturbing. i mean, people are utterly gullible, but absolutely ,

gullible, but absolutely, absolutely useful idiots. and it's concerning because they don't know what the who they stand for or and people who did end supporting them . so it's stand for or and people who did e|bit supporting them . so it's stand for or and people who did e|bit of supporting them . so it's stand for or and people who did e|bit of both. rting them . so it's a bit of both. >> i mean, i'm vigilant towards it. >> i'm petrified. but it's a bit funny are so funny that people are so gullible and it was outside king's university, which is meant to of top meant to be one of the top universities . universities in the country. >> yeah. and also king's college. there is place that's college. there is a place that's the centre for the international centre for radicalisation . i've centre for radicalisation. i've been there myself on multiple occasions, dealing with serious stories about terrorism and british links that you'd think people there would be blessed with a modicum of knowledge. i mean, none of them even aware the fact that the houthi rebels are a proscribed are actually a proscribed terrorist organisation and supporting them is a crime. >> well, the houthis, go by another name called ansar allah, which means supporter of god . which means supporter of god. and in 2003, their slogan was god is greatest, death to america, death to israel, and a curse upon the jews. so highly, highly discriminatory and the

group's dogma is a threat to our national security and the security of our allies. but, i've got a video that's coming out a part two, and i actually tell people this and they people say, yeah, i support it. and there was this one, one lady i interview, which will come, comes out in the video that i'm launching in part two, where she said supports hamas and said that she supports hamas and she'd be friends, friends with hamas person in her class. so it's, you know, people when people find out weirdly and peculiarly, they tend to support the houthis more . the houthis more. >> it's astonishing to believe that students at british campuses, in this day and age , campuses, in this day and age, knowing all we know, cass, about the houthis , knowing all we know the houthis, knowing all we know about hamas, still choose to augn about hamas, still choose to align with them. what's driving this? what's behind it? is it because it's fashionable , or is because it's fashionable, or is it something more insidious? is it something more insidious? is it actually backed up by concerning things like campus fidden concerning things like campus ridden anti—semitism ?

ridden anti—semitism? >> i think it's a mixture of all things and all these things, you know, form this unholy alliance, this horrible , callous this horrible, callous coalition, as i call it. people are desperate for a sense of belonging, sense of identity, and they get it in front of these baleful projects and stuff like that, supporting the houthis. people do it to become popular, people , you know, i've popular, people, you know, i've seen on tinder myself, people say the support of hamas just to get you know, to get a few likes, you know, to get a few likes, you know, to get a few swipe rights, people also doing it because they're disturbed you know, disturbed people. you know, people want to blame someone for the plight that they find themselves in. and it's not themselves in. and if it's not themselves in. and if it's not the it's not the the tories, if it's not the british civil service, then they'll end up, you know, finding solace comfort in finding solace and comfort in our enemies. so it's a mixture of things and partly that's universities that play cass , universities that play cass, would you, would you go a stage further and say on campuses like this, it's actually fashionable, a badge honour hate a badge of honour to hate britain ? i think it's britain? i think it's fashionable. i mean, it's popular to loathe brit and

britain's this evil place that's, you know, committed, awful things despite, you know, what, what other country what, what every other country does , i think it's to do with does, i think it's to do with this london liberal thing, you know, king's college , it know, being king's college, it doesn't university. doesn't happen in my university. i university or as my i go to hull university or as my friends call it, hell on earth university. but it happens in, you metropolitan you know, our metropolitan areas. metropolitan areas. it's this metropolitan mind, in mine. it mind, this malign in mine. it doesn't happen in old universities hull , for universities like hull, for instance. but it's a london thing. >> and cass can you just give us anidea >> and cass can you just give us an idea of the types of people that were signing? i mean, i believe said couple of believe you said a couple of them were actually politics students . and what about the students. and what about the kind of ethnic who were kind of ethnic makeup? who were the this ? the people signing this? >> it's variety of people, you >> it's a variety of people, you know this the left do not discriminate when they recruit people, when they get their marxist missionaries. it is a lot of middle class women, you know, with fancy names like henrietta jacquetta. then you have, a lot of lgbt people, despite the who these butchering lgbt people. you also have a lot of bame people. you have muslims

, i also somebody who signed the petition was also, had jewish heritage. so it was just a mixture of people. and this is what the left do. they don't discriminate when they're trying to them. they to lure people into them. they target and even they to lure people into them. they target people and even they to lure people into them. they target people turn and even they to lure people into them. they target people turn againstn they make people turn against themselves . themselves. >> that's fantastic piece of >> that's a fantastic piece of work for reason that work to sign for reason that when part two comes out, please come back on. i'd love to see it and put it out there. well done son, great piece of work. keep it thank so now it up. thank you. so now actually a few of your actually for a few of your emails subject emails before on the subject of knife has this . knife crime, jean has said this. how about parents stop and search their teenagers before they leave their home? now that might stop some of the stabbings. stop blaming the police and take responsibility for your own children. and says this the online websites selling these knives need to have much more stringent checks or stop selling them altogether. put these people in jail for selling them knives or simply far too easily accessible . now, a 19 easily accessible. now, a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

after a stabbing on a train in south london, and two people are in a critical but stable condition after an incident at kennington station last night. we'll have a full detail of that and also we have an exclusive interview with a community leader in nigerian man who works on doors in nightclubs, he says we don't need youth clubs. these youths need tough love. he says britain is simply too soft and that's why there's a vacuum which is filled with criminality. it's a fascinating interview. we'll have that after this. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel but first, it's time for your latest weather update with alex burkill i >> -- >>a >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again. here's your latest gb news weather forecast

brought to you by the met office. if you're hoping for something a little bit drier, then there is something of a respite over this weekend. but for the time being, the unsettled theme continues. low pressure firmly control pressure firmly in control like it has been through much of this week, bringing more blustery, showery weather to many places. we still have some strong winds across as we go across the south coast as we go through end of the and through the end of the day, and some rain affecting some heavy rain affecting eastern of northern eastern parts of northern ireland. a ireland. elsewhere, it's a blustery, across blustery, showery theme across many parts, though the focus of the pushing its way the rain pushing its way into more northern areas overnight with drier for with some clearer, drier for weather a time across some parts could allow for a touch of frost and a few fog patches to develop, particularly across parts ireland. parts of northern ireland. elsewhere most places starting tomorrow on a relatively mild note . otherwise, as we go note. otherwise, as we go through good friday and there will be some further showery rain around again, could see rain around again, we could see some thunder mixed some hail and some thunder mixed in with this, but we should also see dry perhaps even see some dry and perhaps even bright or spells in bright or sunny spells in between downpours . between any heavier downpours. temperatures will be a few degrees higher than today. highs of around 1314 celsius, and the

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you out there . it's 4 pm. and out there. it's 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. all across the uk. on today's show, sir keir starmer says protests outside schools should be banned after

that, batley grammar school teacher was targeted three years ago and still remains in hiding. he sat down earlier with gb news, and a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing on a train in south london yesterday. and two men are in a critical but stable condition after another incident just a few miles away last night. we'll have a full update on those cases , and the great on those cases, and the great bank holiday getaway is underway. i'll find out if we're facing easter calm ageddon. and that's all coming up in your next hour . welcome to the show. next hour. welcome to the show. always an absolute pleasure to have your company. we've got a serious problem with knife crime in britain. and whatever we're doing at the moment, it isn't working. the facts are the facts . we've simply lost control of our streets. i'm asking you

today what it can be done about knife crime. do you want to see tougher sentences ? immediate tougher sentences? immediate jail for carrying a knife . let jail for carrying a knife. let me know your solutions. because as i said, the current approach simply is failing britain as the bodies pile up. get in touch gb views at gb news. com the show has just as much yours as it is mine, but first, before all of that, it's time for your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon to you. >> well, the top story from the gb newsroom today is that sir keir starmer has told gb news labour will get the levelling up agenda back on track. >> speaking shortly after an eventin >> speaking shortly after an event in the west midlands today to launch the local election campaign , the labour leader campaign, the labour leader dismissed suggestions that boris johnson be given a role in johnson may be given a role in reviving the policy . reviving the policy. >> levelling up as an idea, the sense that we need more regional equality, is really important,

but in order to make that work, you need a viable plan and you need to do the hard yards of implementing it. i'm afraid bofis implementing it. i'm afraid boris johnson didn't do that, but i intend to make sure that every area, whether it's dudley where we are now or anywhere across the country, feels the benefit of a growing economy . benefit of a growing economy. >> michael gove has described the management of thames water a disgrace. the firm's bosses have admitted it could face the risk of emergency renationalisation as its funding crisis deepens. shareholders have refused to give the company half £1 billion of extra funding, describing the rescue plan as uninvestable instead , shareholders want the instead, shareholders want the regulator, ofwat, to increase customers bills by up to 40% over five years. mr gove says thames water has behaved in an arrogant way towards its customers and must take responsibility for its failings . responsibility for its failings. >> for years now, we've seen the

customers of thames water taken advantage of by successive management teams that have been taking out profits and not investing as they should have been. the answer is not to been. so the answer is not to hit the consumers. the answer is for the management team to look to their own approach and ask themselves why they're in this difficult situation . and of difficult situation. and of course, the answer is because of serial mismanagement for which they must carry the can. >> michael gove, let's just bnng >> michael gove, let's just bring you some breaking news. we're hearing from east sussex. we're hearing from east sussex. we're hearing from east sussex. we're hearing that police and ambulance officers are dealing with a situation at lewes prison, sussex police were told have confirmed they're assisting paramedics with several prisoners believed to have become unwell . and it turns out become unwell. and it turns out after eating the same meal, we understand the prison hasn't put into lockdown and the incident isn't believed to be related to drugs. we'll keep you posted on that one. a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a knife

attack on a london train yesterday afternoon. it happened between shortlands and beckenham just before 4:00. the victim , in just before 4:00. the victim, in his 20s, suffered life threatening injuries from the attack , which was recorded and attack, which was recorded and shared on social media. he's now in a stable condition. it showed a masked man attacking another man with a large knife in front of passengers in broad daylight, who can be heard telling him to stop and calling out for help . a stop and calling out for help. a man has been arrested in connection with the death of gogglebox star george gilbey, who died yesterday after falling at work. he's best known for appearing in the channel four series, which takes viewers inside their homes while watching television. he also appeared on celebrity big brother in 2014. essex police have detained a man in his 40s on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter after, in the united states, an entrepreneur and founder of a cryptocurrency exchange has been sentenced to

25 years behind bars for multi—million dollar fraud. sam bachman, freed's firm , ftx, was bachman, freed's firm, ftx, was valued at $32.1 billion before it went bankrupt in 2022. the 32 year old has been convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers. his sentencing today marks a dramatic downfall for the former billionaire, who was once a major political donor. in news here at home plans to reform britain's leasehold property law system have been criticised by peers who say the bill doesn't go far enough . bill doesn't go far enough. leaseholds allow homeowners to buy and live in a property for a set number of years, while paying set number of years, while paying charges for the land , but paying charges for the land, but there's been mounting criticism of the system, with many residents seeing charges rise dramatically, often with little explanation. it means they can be locked into costly contracts with little right to redress the government dropped its pledge to scrap leaseholds last year , but scrap leaseholds last year, but labour's housing spokesperson, baroness taylor, called the

government's current proposal a shell of a bill that won't offer the security that home owners were once promised . right now, were once promised. right now, the archbishop of canterbury has called on people to pray this easter weekend for the jailed journalist, evan gershkovich. good friday marks a year since the wall street journal reporter was detained in russia on charges of spying. no evidence has ever been presented for those allegations. he's the first us journalist to be arrested in russia since the cold war, and justin welby says journalists around the world should be protected and free to hold those in power to account . hold those in power to account. and a personal message from his majesty the king has been broadcast to worcester cathedral, marking the royal maundy service. the queen was in attendance as his majesty told the service that britain is blessed by local services that exist for our welfare. he paid tribute to those organisations and their selfless staff and said we all benefit greatly, greatly from those who offer us

care and friendship. that's the news. for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts . scan sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on the screen right now or go to gbnews.com. alerts . now or go to gbnews.com. alerts. >> thank you polly. now we'll have the latest on those incidents in london very shortly, but we start with our interview with sir keir starmer. and the labour leader told gb news that protests outside schools should be banned. a report out this week said that protests should be banned within 150m of schools and, of course, a batley grammar school teacher is still in hiding. three years after he was targeted for showing a caricature of the prophet muhammad during lesson. >> well, i do feel very concerned about this individual and i do think that we need to take extremism very seriously . take extremism very seriously. the strategy needs updating. i

think it was last updated nine years ago. i thought the report into what happened in batley, raised some very serious issues. most of which i agree with, particularly this idea that there shouldn't be those sorts of protests outside of our schools. so i do think serious issue, serious recommendations. and i think that insofar as we can, this shouldn't become a party political issue. we've all got an interest in making sure we're tackling this, this kind of extremism. would you move any protests 150 yards away or metres away from the school gate, as dame sarah is arguing for? i do think that we should do that. i think should be do that. i think there should be a outside our schools , a buffer outside of our schools, schools not a place schools should not be a place for . for protest. >> well, sir keir has also backed labour's deputy leader, angela rayner, as you'd expect , angela rayner, as you'd expect, and she's faced questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax on the 2015 sale of her council house and now greater manchester police has said it's reassessing its decision not to investigate allegations she gave false

information on official documents. >> well, angela has answered no end of questions, have you seen it? have you seen the report, she's answered all questions . she's answered all questions. she's been very clear. she'll talk to any of the authorities that want more information. she's taken legal advice , and my she's taken legal advice, and my team have seen it. i have never felt the need. nor do i think it's appropriate for me personally to see it. i'm satisfied, with the answers that she has given repeatedly now on this. >> but you're saying she's cleared, but you haven't asked to the actual evidence to to see the actual evidence to show cleared ? show she is cleared? >> to. it's not >> i don't need to. it's not appropriate me to that appropriate for me to see that legal , if police legal advice, if the police do launch investigation, launch a formal investigation, should resign , stand back should she resign, stand back from her job. >> well, i'm from herjob. >> well, i'm not going to >> well, chris, i'm not going to get hypotheticals . we've get into hypotheticals. we've been road many, been down this road many, many times , look, we, the times before, look, we, the police, have made their decision. they need to now get on with the decision and the process they're going process that they're going through. if, of course, if through. and if, of course, if evidence emerges hasn't evidence emerges that she hasn't given, , talked properly given, given, talked properly about to the about the about to the about on the

electoral , was that an electoral register, was that an issue for you? look, angela's given this her answers many, many times over. she has taken legal advice on it, many times over. she has taken legal advice on it , that has legal advice on it, that has satisfied her, her team and my team . i'm confident in the team. i'm confident in the answers that she's given . answers that she's given. >> well, let's get reaction to what sir keir starmer said to gb news earlier. i'm now joined in the studio by john rentoul, who's chief political who's the chief political commentator the independent. commentator at the independent. john, welcome to the studio. let's that , rayner let's start with that, rayner response. you were sniggering away . sir response. you were sniggering away. sir keir response. you were sniggering away . sir keir starmer suddenly away. sir keir starmer suddenly isn't interested in seeing evidence that seems rather unusual, as his criminal. unusual, seeing as his criminal. >> i wasn't sniggering, i was, i was i'm i'm more puzzled as to why he thinks it's appropriate for his team to have seen, her legal advice, but not for him personally to, to see it. i mean , is it is he worried that there is something in there that is contestable and therefore that if he says he's seen it,

if he if he says he's seen it, he has to sort of stand by it. >> it's not satisfactory. >> it's not satisfactory. >> it's not a line that's, that's going to going to hold. but that said, i don't know that the british great british public are too interested in in the ins and outs of angela rayner's house, house purchase a long time ago. >> well, the conservatives would like to make a big deal of it. and it's not going away. no. and i big question is, you i guess the big question is, you know, by sir keir starmer saying , 0h, know, by sir keir starmer saying , oh, you know, she's given her answers. there's more to answers. there's nothing more to say. will that wash will they say. will that wash or will they keep away. keep chipping away. >> he's , he's, he's >> no, because he's, he's, he's saying, saying she's given saying, he's saying she's given her answers but you can't see them. >> i mean that's not a satisfactory position and it can't hold. >> and he has he and angela rayner have both been so sanctimonious on this issue when it applies to conservative politicians , they, you know, politicians, they, you know, keir starmer and angela rayner both said that they would resign if they were found to have broken the law. during the coronavirus period, and so

surely that that, that that test should be applied to , to them should be applied to, to them on, on on other issues too. >> i suspect it's a topic that won't go away ahead of the general election. can i also ask you about sir keir starmer's response to the batley grammar school situation? a situation , a school situation? a situation, a conversation we've been really pushing on this channel, someone that's still in hiding three years later. we must not forget though , that this happened in a though, that this happened in a labour constituency and the teacher himself felt completely abandoned politically by the labour party . is sir abandoned politically by the labour party. is sir keir starmer suddenly taking an interest? yeah, well the teacher was felt abandoned by this. >> the school , the local council >> the school, the local council and, and the police and i think it's an absolute dreadful situation and i'm relieved that keir starmer suddenly, got got concerns about it. i mean, he could have expressed them earlier to be honest. i think he's saying the right things now , but this poor teacher has been left in limbo for, for three

years, and there's been a conspicuous silence coming from the labour party about that. >> and to be fair, i went to the by—election. i held a rally in batley and every political party there didn't want to say anything about it. so it's not just the labour party. that, that where the cat got their tongue. the conservative candidate, i believe are still maintain could have won that by—election they'd up by—election if they'd stood up for the teacher and they didn't. yeah. >> no. >> no. >> and i can understand the sensitivities know, >> and i can understand the senswant es know, >> and i can understand the senswant you know, >> and i can understand the senswant you want know, >> and i can understand the senswant you want to know, >> and i can understand the senswant you want to maintain you want you want to maintain good community relations. but as as sarah khan said in her report, this is an example of, of people, people who feel that their religious sensibility has been offended, but but not on the basis of the facts, not on the basis of the facts, not on the basis of what actually happened , and resorting to happened, and resorting to intimidation as a result of that. and i think that that was wrong. and i think, i think all politicians should the politicians should have had the courage to say. so. >> we've asking prime >> we've been asking the prime minister's week , and minister's office this week, and now sir keir starmer now we've asked sir keir starmer

this . should this teacher this today. should this teacher be compensated for what happened to him? do you think that should happen? >> well, i think it should be. he should be given whatever, whatever support he he , he wants whatever support he he, he wants because he has been treated extremely badly and he has suffered. i mean, yeah, i'm not sure i ptsd is a is a strange, a strange term to apply in this case. but i mean he's obviously had a very rough time. >> well, he had death threats and he's too afraid to work. he's afraid leave his he's too afraid to leave his house. so would be house. so that would be traumatising. think so. traumatising. yeah, i think so. >> every , every >> he deserves every, every support that can give him. >> on a final point, you feel >> on a final point, do you feel that starmer is now that sir keir starmer is now looking , like acting like looking, like acting like talking like a prime minister somebody who's ready to go? because until this point, it seemed all you to do was seemed all you had to do was just he'd win the election. >> well, i think it's >> well, no, i think it's amazing what a what a 20 point lead in the opinion polls will do for your confidence and your body your body language and your presentation. i mean, he looks he so more relaxed he looks so much more relaxed and confident in his own skin than used to be. and we saw

than he used to be. and we saw it there in the interview with christopher hope. he he didn't appear to be ruffled by any of the questions, although some of them were quite, quite tough and quite difficult. and i wasn't wholly his wholly satisfied with his answers , but he certainly looked answers, but he certainly looked as if could deal with the as if he could deal with the situation and, you know, he and angela rayner presenting themselves a united team, i themselves as a united team, i thought was a very successful, campaign launch today. >> do you think his confidence might be boosted by the fact sir john curtice, pollster, are john curtice, the pollster, are saying they, the saying that they, the conservatives, got 1% conservatives, only got 1% chance of the next chance of winning the next general well, general election now? well, christopher hope asked him about that. of he has to. he >> and of course he has to. he has to sort of deny that and disagree curtice and disagree with john curtice and say, of course he's not complacent, i think 99% is a is a very high figure , and i'm a very high figure, and i'm surprised at that one. but it doesn't it doesn't actually help keir starmer because he's trying to persuade his party not to take victory for granted. >> so the forthcoming landslide,

as many are predicting, has echoes of 1997 election that you and i will both remember well, do you think that the country has that optimism about it now? you know, blair came in off the back of a long period of tory rule, as is sir keir starmer. but the country financially is now potless. no, i think the mood is, is a bit different. >> and the economic situation and the and the state of the pubuc and the and the state of the public finances in particular are very, very different. and i think that's, that's going to be, what, what, what will distinguish this period because i think this, this government, you know, if labour do get into government , they're going to government, they're going to be in, very difficult in, in facing a very difficult situation straight away. >> but sirjohn rentoul, situation straight away. >> but sir john rentoul, thanks for in studio , of forjoining us in the studio, of course, political course, chief political commentator independent. commentator at the independent. thank you. always a pleasure to have you now time is have you in here. now time is running on your chance to running out on your chance to win giveaway. and win our spring giveaway. and that's shopping spree. gadgets that's a shopping spree. gadgets and £12,345 in cash tax free

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welcome back. it's 421. i'm martin daubney , and this is gb news. daubney, and this is gb news. now, as it emerges that the controversial new england football shirt is selling rather well later in the show, i'll ask, was it simply a brilliant piece of marketing by nike ? now, piece of marketing by nike? now, a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was stabbed on a train in south london yesterday. meanwhile two people are in a critical but

stable condition after another incident at kennington station last night. well our homeland security editor, mark white, is outside kennington station , outside kennington station, while ray addison is outside shortlands station in. ray, could i start with you? what's the latest on the situation at shawlands ? shawlands? >> well, the latest as we understand it, is that this 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and a knife has also been recovered by british transport police. it's not yet known whether that knife was in the possession of this suspect or gathered separately as part of the police investigation, but they have the two of them now, of course, police being called just before 4:00 yesterday afternoon to be told of two men fighting on the train heading towards victoria. south eastern train between this station, shortlands and beckenham junction. it's about a 2 to 3 minute journey, not a short , not

minute journey, not a short, not a long period of time, rather, but of course a terrifying penod but of course a terrifying period for all of those passengers on board that that footage filmed by somebody in the carriage released on social media showing that terrifying incident. of course, members of the public extremely concerned , the public extremely concerned, and then calling police and begging for an ambulance to come as quickly as possible. now, when it got to beckenham junction, the train, of course, we understand that eventually emergency services arrived. the suspect was no longer there. but of course the victim in this incident was a man in his 20s. we are told being treated by paramedics and then taken to a major trauma centre here in london, and he remains today in a critical but stable condition . a critical but stable condition. and specialist officers are assisting his family now. it's deeply concerned this community here in bromley in kent, members of the public telling me coming up, making a point specifically to come up and tell me how

concerned they are and how much this area has changed in recent years. they say not only is this local area to certainly much more scary for them, and much more scary for them, and much more violent incidents taking place, but also travelling on the network. the rail network as well has become a significant concern, not just for them but for their younger family members as well. now, british transport police, keen to say that they are stepping up their police presence on network rail and transport links around , transport links around, southeast london. i certainly haven't seen anybody today. i did see two police officers chase straight past me about an hour ago, chasing after a suspect in a in a presumably unrelated crime, but they're saying that they've stepping up that police presence because they do want to reassure members of the public that they're here to them. to protect them. >> thank you. ray. now let's cross to mark white outside kennington station. mark the media calling it a night of carnage. can you bring us up to speed about the situation in

kennington in. >> well, the very latest breaking news is are condition update on the two victims of the stabbing attack here in kennington. we're told by british transport police that those two men, both in their 40s, are now off the danger list. they are no longer in a life threatening condition . so life threatening condition. so some good positive news there no indication yet that they have a suspect in custody. indeed, they haven't yet put out any kind of a description or photograph of a suspect they're looking for, which might indicate that they actually have a positive line of enquiry that they're pursuing . enquiry that they're pursuing. what we have got just in the last few minutes is a statement from british transport police superintendent darren malpas, who gave us an update on the situation both in beckenham and here in kennington. >> police were called to an incident yesterday at 4 pm. at

beckenham junction train station for a fight on board the train. >> during that fight, a knife was used which has since been recovered and a 19 year old male has been arrested for attempted murder . the has been arrested for attempted murder. the victim in that case is in a critical but stable condition, that hospital, being supported by family and friends and specialist police officers. >> a separate incident occurred at kennington, london underground station at 10:30 pm. yesterday on the platform, p.m. yesterday on the platform, two men in their 40s were stabbed but are currently in hospital with non life threatening injuries. >> enquiries are ongoing in relation to both these matters. if you have seen or witnessed any of these incidents, please could you text six 101 six or telephone oh 840 5040 and report what you've seen during this weekend . there will be enhanced weekend. there will be enhanced reassurance patrols in all these areas and across south london to

support community is so superintendent darren malpass there and the metropolitan police, british transport police say they are expecting a very busy weekend because of course it is the easter weekend. many people will be out in the capital using the transport network and as you heard there from the superintendent, there will be increased british transport police patrols around the transport networks. metropolitan police commanders have also just confirmed within the last hour that they have additional resources on to patrol the city over the weekend. >> thank you. mark white, a full and comprehensive update as ever in kennington and ray addison at shawlands. thank you for joining us on the show . well, joining us us on the show. well, joining us now is an anti—knife campaigner , now is an anti—knife campaigner, matt ajith. welcome to the show, matt ajith. welcome to the show, matt . so i spoke with you matt. so i spoke with you earlier on and i was fascinated to learn that you work as a

doorman on clubs and you're more than familiar with the knife crime problem. i wanted to ask you why there are young men carrying knives and how do we stamp out this cancer? >> i honestly believe that this is a result of lack of discipline . is a result of lack of discipline. i is a result of lack of discipline . i believe that discipline. i believe that there's no discipline. like i was just covering the elianne andam story a few months ago, and there's absolutely no regard for the law. i mean, she's going to school and a young girl going to school and a young girl going to secondary school gets a knife inserted in her neck. i was running so much and what came to my attention the most was the black community. a woman was saying that we don't have enough role in the black role models in the black community. what role model do you need? we discipline and you need? we need discipline and we , we need we need stricter, we need stricter sentences, honestly, because like they're because i feel like they're getting away with too much. and i believe that this is a factor that mainly is terrorising the black community. >> see, matt, it's fascinating that you speak out like that

because so often, of course, if we level such accusations, we're accused of racism. stop and search is racism. but i'm afraid, matt, the facts speak for themselves . you're for themselves. you're disproportionate. much more likely to die or to murder somebody else. if a young black man in britain , and particularly man in britain, and particularly in london and the west midlands, why is that? and what do you think we're getting wrong? and what could the police be doing instead? are they too soft ? instead? are they too soft? >> honestly speaking, i feel like the police are way too soft, black people are very intelligent and when i say that, i mean we know where we can get away with these crimes and where we can't get away with these crimes. someone who in crimes. i'm someone who lived in nigeria years, nigeria for many years, and i went to school many , went to school with many, nigerian brits, nigerian americans, nigerian italians, nigerian germans. and when we got there, the discipline was so strict that we never thought about this kind of behaviour. it's something that doesn't happen back there. but when we come here, understand the come here, we understand the law, understand there's law, we understand there's a discounted you discounted sentence. you probably half . and,

probably just serve half. and, you know, the worst thing is when come out of jail, you when you come out of jail, you know, you're looked at as a hero in the community. you know, you've earned your stripes. so how that work ? so we how does that even work? so we need sentences. i'm need strong sentences. i'm a strong advocate for strong sentences, none of this work stuff. we're fed up with. woke kids are dying. we haven't got time for work. we've got. we need stamp our foot down. and need to stamp our foot down. and we really cracking we need to really start cracking down these tough. down on these guys. tough. i want punishment, want really harsh punishment, like, really harsh. >> and matt, what would that punishment look like ? i mean, punishment look like? i mean, would to see mandatory would you like to see mandatory sentences for anybody carrying machetes or zombie knives? like, no boom. straight no messing about. boom. straight in clink . in the clink. >> absolutely. so we need to make . once you make make an example. once you make an example of a few, it will deter the rest. so you just need to have a deterrence put in place. once you just show place. and once you just show the first 1000 people, 500 people, joking around people, you're not joking around , they're in jail. will deter , they're in jail. it will deter the carrying out , or the rest from carrying out, or potential perpetrators from carrying such attacks. we carrying out such attacks. we need way more harsh punishment. it's way too lenient in the uk

and we need to put our foot down. people are scared to go on the trains. i work alongside like some police officers. i work as a doorman, but i work alongside some police officers and like the stories that, you know, you just hear and you see what they go through as well and what's even worse about this is our officers are totally our police officers are totally disrespected . and, you disrespected. and, you know, i was even door. i just was even on the door. i just want to say this one point, i was on the door and they stopped this guys going around this group of guys going around the search. they the corner stop and search. they actually those the corner stop and search. they actuaiapparently, those the corner stop and search. they actuaiapparently, from those the corner stop and search. they actuaiapparently, from what hose boys, apparently, from what i heard, get back heard, were about to get back crime at someone else. so they literally saved a life . but no literally saved a life. but no one will ever look at police and say, oh, you're doing a good job. instead, they disrespect the and you know, they'll the police and you know, they'll try and defund the police. you know, i guess this is we're done with world culture. i'm dumb. with world culture. i'm so dumb. the dying. everyone's the kids are dying. everyone's scared. people just want to live in peace. ukrainians in the uk in peace. ukrainians have into the by have just come into the uk by many. you you wouldn't many. i bet you you wouldn't even have one ukrainian killing another. ukrainian, polish ,

another. ukrainian, polish, indian at the highest immigrant groups into the uk. when did you ever indian killed another indian or polish another indian or polish killed another polish? build better in polish? let's build better in the community, ourselves the community, hold ourselves accountable and. yeah. and then we'll start seeing results. but accountability is primary. we must be accountable first. none of stuff, none of this of this woke stuff, none of this invest into communities. we're done with the. >> okay. amazing. so refreshing to hear that anti—knife campaigner matt aj, thank you so much for joining campaigner matt aj, thank you so much forjoining us on the show. campaigner matt aj, thank you so muc pleaseining us on the show. campaigner matt aj, thank you so muc please come us on the show. campaigner matt aj, thank you so muc please come back. the show. campaigner matt aj, thank you so muc please come back. there's/v. and please come back. there's lots more still to come between now 5:00. and i'll cross now and 5:00. and i'll cross live of busiest live to one of the busiest motorways in britain shortly and ask, facing carmageddon ask, are we facing carmageddon this easter? but first, it's time for your latest news headunes time for your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst i >> -- >> and the top stories this houn >> and the top stories this hour, sir keir starmer has told gb news that labour will get the levelling up agenda back on track. speaking shortly after an eventin track. speaking shortly after an event in the west midlands to launch the local election

campaign, the labour leader dismissed suggestions that boris johnson may be given a role in reviving the old policy . reviving the old policy. >> levelling up as an idea, the sense that we need more regional equality, is really important, but in order to make that work, you need a viable plan and you need to do the hard yards of implementing it. i'm afraid bofis implementing it. i'm afraid boris johnson didn't do that, but make sure that but i intend to make sure that every area, whether it's dudley where we are now or anywhere across the country, feels the benefit of a growing economy . benefit of a growing economy. >> speaking to gb news earlier, well, michael gove has described the leadership of thames water as a disgrace. it comes as shareholders found its business plan uninvestable, refusing to put half £1 billion to fund the troubled supplier shareholders now want the regulator, ofwat, to allow a 40% bill hike over five years and more lenient penalties for falling foul of regulations. but mr gove said the company had behaved in an arrogant way towards customers

and its leadership must accept responsibility for its failings . responsibility for its failings. british transport police is enhancing patrols over the easter weekend across a number of stations in london, following two unconnected stabbings on the rail comes as a 19 rail network. it comes as a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after stabbing another passenger on a train in the capital yesterday. the attack, said to have happened just before 4 pm. on a train bound victoria on a train bound for victoria station. graphic footage emerged on social media showing a masked man attacking another with a large knife, while concerned passengers could be heard calling for help . the victim calling for help. the victim remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital , remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital, and king charles has reaffirmed his coronation pledge not to be served, but to serve in a personal easter message. his pre—recorded comments were broadcast at the royal maundy service at worcester cathedral, today being maundy thursday, of course, and the king has stepped back from royal duties while

he's treated for cancer. the queen attended the service in his absence. those are your latest top stories. for the latest top stories. for the latest you sign up to gb news alerts . scan the qr code on your alerts. scan the qr code on your screen right now or go to gb news. alerts news. common alerts. >> thank you paulie. now there's expected to be 14 million car journeys over the bank holiday weekend. always weekend. sorry. are we staring down the barrel of an easter carmageddon? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

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>> the highs, the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. >> gb news is britain's election . channel. >> welcome back. it's 4.39. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. now, later this hour with the tories been given a meagre 1% chance of winning the next general election, i'll be joined by a member of sir keir starmer's shadow to cabinet see if they've got the champagne on ice just yet. now if you're planning on travelling this easter weekend, then you might want twice about the want to think twice about the grisly prospect, rac grisly prospect, because the rac is warning of long delays. well, it is easter , they say. there'll it is easter, they say. there'll be more than 14 million leisure journeys by car over the coming days. journeys by car over the coming days . and gb news west midlands days. and gb news west midlands reporter jack carson joins me now at the spaghetti junction. jack carson , welcome to the jack carson, welcome to the show. they're calling it

carmageddon. what can we expect ? carmageddon. what can we expect? >> well, we've certainly seen a bit of congestion today where i am a few miles up from spaghetti junction on part of the m6. now southbound, we seem to be flowing pretty steadily so far. if i just step out the way, you can probably see that the traffic is flowing pretty nicely northbound. not so much. we know that near cheshire there was a bit of an accident earlier as well. here where i am around birmingham, there was a couple of accidents this morning that were to delays of about were leading to delays of about 30 40 minutes, so nothing 30 to 40 minutes, so nothing really of the ordinary really maybe out of the ordinary so far. but of course the rac , so far. but of course the rac, as you were mentioning there, martin saying that 14 million leisure journeys to leisure journeys expected to take the easter take place over the easter period, 2 million just today. and what you've got this year because of where easter is sitting, is you've got a lot of schools that breaking up for schools that are breaking up for the holiday. got the school holiday. you've got that traffic alongside that extra traffic alongside that extra traffic alongside that traffic, that commuter traffic, which is why particularly that why today, particularly that from from 2 pm. earlier this afternoon through to 7 pm. tonight, there is expected and

there are warnings, of course, that you could well end up in some serious congestion around airports as well. some families , airports as well. some families, because of those school holidays, may be trying to make a quick getaway before for those peak of prices come in good peak of prices come in from good friday tomorrow . so expect some friday tomorrow. so expect some congestion the congestion around some of the airports the country as airports around the country as well. now, if you're trying to get on a train over the easter period, you will have some problems, particularly on the west coast main from west coast main line from tomorrow. there's four days of work on the lines there between london euston and milton keynes. so east midlands railway , who a so east midlands railway, who a lot of people might use as a diversion around those areas , diversion around those areas, are saying to passengers expect the services to be particularly busy. and of course we heard and saw last year very much with the port of dover and serious , you port of dover and serious, you know, concerns there and queues there. what they're doing this year a little bit differently to try and stop that is their coach passengers particularly, they're processing them away the processing them away from the port bringing them to port and then bringing them to the for some final simple,

the port for some final simple, simple checks, which the hope is.then simple checks, which the hope is. then the port of dover can be less busy. but certainly here on the m6, from what i've seen , on the m6, from what i've seen, some congestion starting to cause. around cause. as you'd expect around this time of rush hour. the big day really though, is tomorrow . day really though, is tomorrow. 2.6 million leisure journeys expected to be taking place , and expected to be taking place, and the rac also saying that around 1 in 10 people still haven't really decided exactly when they're going to be travelling. so that could be an extra 3.3 million journeys to add to million journeys to add on to those figures. already so that advice make sure that if you advice to make sure that if you are car, you're are travelling by car, you're going to make sure that everything safe, whether it's everything is safe, whether it's tyres, washer everything is safe, whether it's tyres, all washer everything is safe, whether it's tyres, all kindasher everything is safe, whether it's tyres, all kind of er everything is safe, whether it's tyres, all kind of basic fluid, all these kind of basic checks, course, give checks, of course, to give yourself the least risk of an accident to that you can accident to mean that you can get you need to go get wherever you need to go safely. but they are warning, of course, still end course, you could well still end up congestion. up in some congestion. >> stuff as >> jack carson great stuff as ever there at spaghetti junction and a few people beeping their horns at jack made with gb horns at jack made with their gb news now show isn't news viewers. now the show isn't just about me, of course. it's about you, the blessed viewer.

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welcome back. it's 446. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news. now, a leading polling expert has given a scathing prediction for the tories in the next general election , saying they general election, saying they only have a 1% chance of winning. now you can do the maths. that means labour has a 99% chance of forming the next administration . now, professor administration. now, professor sir john curtice prediction is sirjohn curtice prediction is correct. well, i'm joined now by the shadow transport secretary, louise haigh. louise, welcome to the show . so there we go. 99. the show. so there we go. 99. you're nailed on guaranteed to be the next leading party. if he believes sir john curtice is the champagne on ice , very, very far

champagne on ice, very, very far from it. >> and , i think some of these >> and, i think some of these polls have been really quite massively overstated. >> and look, i think there is undeniably a sense in the country that they want change and that they have, been that they are really fed up of after 14 years of conservative chaos and, austerity and that , and, austerity and that, frankly, none of our public services are working in the way that they were when labour last left government in 2010. whether we think about our nhs, our education our police education system, our police service, certainly not our transport system. so people are undeniably crying out for change. but there is zero complacency in the labour ranks. and we know that elections have been lost in the past, when polls have looked this high, in the run up to it. so we know we will be working for and fighting for every single vote when rishi sunak finally gets the courage to call a general election. >> okay, louise , we've seen

>> okay, louise, we've seen we've seen, brutal stabbings on the british transport network yesterday in london. we've been contacted by many, many viewers today saying they simply believe that the transport, particularly the train networks in britain, are becoming so dangerous. people are now afraid to travel on them. in fact, even british transport police themselves, saying they often feel overwhelmed as the shadow transport secretary louise. what the labour party do to pledge to make our public transport situation safer and much more viable for the public, are getting increasingly terrified to even use it. >> i think there's such an important question, martin, and i'm a former special constable myself . if i was a police myself. if i was a police officer in brixton in south london, i know how important policing and neighbourhood policing and neighbourhood policing is, to the safety of our streets. but also what an important job the british transport police do. unfortunately they, just, like our wider police, have been subject to extraordinary cutbacks over the last 14 years

and only very recent times have those numbers started to creep up again. so yvette cooper , my up again. so yvette cooper, my colleague, the shadow home secretary, has made commitments to increasing those numbers even further still and adding 16,000 additional police officers , to additional police officers, to the streets, which include the british transport police. but look, as a woman travelling, i often feel frightened myself, especially on the train at night . and that's why we campaigned hard against the closure of ticket offices and against the removal of guards on trains . removal of guards on trains. because let me tell you, if you're travelling late at night and there are big groups of rowdy men, perhaps after, a football match or indeed men on their own that look pretty sinister. you want to know that there is a guard on the train, that there is someone that you can of, that you can can get hold of, that you can call be there call btp and they will be there at station. it at the next station. it is a really important principle , and really important principle, and the the travelling the safety of the travelling pubuc the safety of the travelling public heart of public will be at the heart of our rail reforms, which i'm setting in the coming weeks .

setting out in the coming weeks. >> and would that look like >> and what would that look like operationally? people operationally? because if people just want somebody on the trains to them safe, there's to keep them safe, there's a feeling now that crimes happen and then just put calls and then the cops just put calls out for, can you help us locate this person? here's some cctv, but how about actually getting into the networks and stopping this? we had a report on gb news. com mark white went undercover with the british transport police and we know routinely transport networks now are the arteries of county lines drug use and weapons drugs . they drug use and weapons drugs. they are absolutely endemic. they are rife on our transport networks, which is being used by drug mules heavily armed, dangerous men. that surely needs specific interventions. louise. >> that's absolutely right. and btp must work properly with wider police forces. but ultimately these issues come about because children, as you've just said, are victims of county lines themselves, and they are picked up by organised criminal gangs. so we need to make sure that we have

sufficient neighbourhood policing in our communities as well, wider youth well, as well as wider youth provision in order to protect young people from being subject to these kind of, grooming, essentially by organised criminal gangs. so it does need to be a real multi—pronged approach , and it is because approach, and it is because we've lost so many of these services in our communities that our young people are particularly but, particularly vulnerable. but, investment in and protection of staff on our rail network is absolutely essential and as i say, will be, fundamental to our rail reforms in terms of putting passengers at the heart because our privatised rail industry over the last 30 years has never put the travelling public first. and that will be at the centrepiece of what the next labour government will do on our railways. >> louise briefly , you >> and louise owen briefly, you mentioned before that you'd like the labour party to perhaps nationalise renationalise, the rail networks . is that still rail networks. is that still your option and how would that work? alongside this beefed up security presence ? security presence? >> well, labour are committed to

bringing in the private operators back into public ownership as those contracts expire and all of them are set to expire within the potential first terms of a labour government. so it would be at no cost to the taxpayer. and then we need to reform the railways further so that they actually deliver the passengers. at the moment you've got many moment, you've got so many conflicting industries across the it be the the industry, whether it be the private operators like avanti, that are letting the travelling pubuc that are letting the travelling public down on a daily basis, and are in conflict so many and they are in conflict so many ways with network rail, the infrastructure provider. so we will set out plans to reform our railways bring track and railways to bring track and train together and make sure that interests the that the interests of the passenger are at the heart, because at the moment, as i say, the passenger always comes last on fragmented on our privatised, fragmented and railway network. and fractured railway network. >> okay. great stuff. thank you very much for joining >> okay. great stuff. thank you very much forjoining us on the very much for joining us on the show today. and that's shadow transport haigh transport secretary louise haigh . some good ideas there. i think, about trying to get the transport networks safer because many have been in many of you have been getting in touch. feel

touch. you simply don't feel that trains in particular are becoming places to travel. becoming safe places to travel. you've been getting in touch in your droves about knife crime, and there's been a huge response to a guest on about half to a guest we had on about half an called matt ajayi, an hour ago called matt ajayi, and anti knife campaigner and an anti knife campaigner works as a doorman of nigerian origin. marilyn says this what an amazing young man matt ajayi is. could listen to his views all day long. prime minister material he definitely get my vote. please bring him back on as a regular guest. he's so amazing and refreshing. he put this country on the right road. marion, are you married to him, janet says this. the young man who has just been speaking to martin would make a first rate police officer intelligent and level headed, and doesn't keep banging on about the race card . banging on about the race card. stephen says this clearly knife crime big problem in the crime is a big problem in the uk, especially with teenagers. the outcome is often fatal and is devastating for families. the clearly the governments need to look at what's motivates this bad behaviour , understanding bad behaviour, understanding what teenagers consider to be

fantasy or reality. fantastic views. please keep them coming in now. a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing on a train in south london, and two people are in a critical but stable condition after an incident at kennington station last night. we'll have a full update on both those situations. we have reporters on the ground and we'll have more on that sit down interview. that's gb news did with sir keir starmer. he spoke about the batley grammar school teacher still in hiding three years on. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel. first, here's your weather forecast with alex biryukov . with alex biryukov. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello again. here's your

latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. if you're hoping for something bit drier , something a little bit drier, then there something of a then there is something of a respite weekend. but respite over this weekend. but for the time being, the unsettled continues. unsettled theme continues. low pressure firmly in control like it has been through much of this week, bringing more blustery, showery places. showery weather to many places. we some strong winds we still have some strong winds across the south coast as we go through of the day , and through the end of the day, and some rain affecting some heavy rain affecting eastern northern eastern parts of northern ireland. it's a ireland. elsewhere it's a blustery, theme across blustery, showery theme across many the focus of many parts, though the focus of the rain pushing its way into more northern areas overnight with some clearer, drier weather for some parts for a time across some parts could allow for a touch of frost and a few fog patches to develop , particularly across parts of northern ireland. elsewhere, most tomorrow on most places starting tomorrow on a relatively mild note. otherwise, as we go through good friday and there will be some further showery rain around again, we could some hail again, we could see some hail and mixed in with again, we could see some hail and but mixed in with again, we could see some hail and but we mixed in with again, we could see some hail and but we shouldnixed in with again, we could see some hail and but we should alsoi in with again, we could see some hail and but we should also see nith this, but we should also see some dry and perhaps even bright or spells in between or sunny spells in between any heavier temperatures heavier downpours. temperatures will be a few degrees higher than today. highs of around 1314

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . coming up in the next hour. sir keir starmer says protests outside schools should be banned

after, of course , the batley after, of course, the batley grammar school teacher was targeted three years ago and to this day remains in hiding in. a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing on a train in south london yesterday . and two men london yesterday. and two men are in hospital but are no longer in a life threatening condition. we understand after an incident just a few miles away. also last night at kennington . and is there a war kennington. and is there a war on easter? well in the past few weeks we've seen traditional christian traditions being changed or ignored. london's west end is covered in ramadan lights over the easter weekend. while traditional easter eggs are now being renamed as gesture eggs. are now being renamed as gesture eggs . and with the controversial eggs. and with the controversial new england football shirt apparently selling rather well , apparently selling rather well, i'll ask was all of this a brilliant piece of marketing by nike? were we all trolled?

thanks for joining nike? were we all trolled? thanks forjoining me on the thanks for joining me on the show. always an absolute joy to have your company. so knife crime , so cancer at the heart of crime, so cancer at the heart of british society. what can we do to stamp it out? we had an inspirational guest on matt ajayi shortly ago, a nigerian community leader , an anti knife community leader, an anti knife campaigner saying britain's simply too soft and that creates a vacuum for youth who disregard the law. coming out of jail, treating it as a mark of respect for carrying knives . well, that for carrying knives. well, that is the mindset. surely we need to change the way we tackle it. plus, gb news sat down with sir keir starmer and we put it to him. does the batley grammar school teacher deserve to be compensated for the disgraceful situation that sees him still three years on? living in hiding in fear of his life? we'll have all of that coming up in the next hour. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines with middlehurst .

with polly middlehurst. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon to you. well, the top story from the gp newsroom is that sir keir starmer has told gb news that labour will get the levelling agenda back on levelling up agenda back on track. speaking shortly after an eventin track. speaking shortly after an event in the west midlands to launch the local election campaign, the labour leader dismissed suggestions that boris johnson even be given a role johnson may even be given a role in reviving the policy, levelling up as an idea, the sense that we need more regional equality, is really important , equality, is really important, but in order to make that work, you need a viable plan and you need to do the hard yards of implementing it. >> i'm afraid borisjohnson >> i'm afraid boris johnson didn't that, but intend didn't do that, but i intend to make that every area, make sure that every area, whether it's dudley, where we are now or anywhere across the country, feels the benefit of a growing economy . growing economy. >> sir keir starmer talking to gb news earlier on today. now, michael gove has described the management of thames water a disgrace after calls to increase

customers bills to plug a funding hole. the firm's bosses have admitted it could face the risk of emergency nationalisation , even as the nationalisation, even as the company's cash crisis deepens. shareholders have refused to give them half £1 billion of extra financing. describing the rescue plan set out to them as uninvestable. instead, shareholders want the regulator, ofwat, to increase customers bills by up to 40% over the next five years. mr gove says thames water has behaved in an arrogant way towards its customers and must take responsibility for its failings. >> for years now we've seen the customers of thames water taken advantage of by successive management teams that have been taking out profits and not investing as they should have been. the answer to been. so the answer is not to hit the consumers. the answer is for the management team to look to their own approach and ask themselves why ? why they're in themselves why? why they're in this difficult situation. and of course, the answer is because of serial mismanagement, for which

they must carry the can. >> michael gove, now british transport police, are enhancing their patrols over this easter weekend on the rail network across many stations in london, particularly following two unconnected stabbings on the network. it comes as 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after stabbing another passenger on a train in the capital yesterday afternoon. that attack is said to have happened just before 4:00 on a train bound for london, victoria and graphic footage shared on social media showed a masked man attacking a passenger with a large knife, while concerned passengers could be heard calling for help in the background. the victim of that attack remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital, the united nations has called on rishi sunak to scrap his rwanda scheme. the organisation's human rights committee says the government's plan to send asylum seekers on a one way trip to the african nation should be

abandoned or repealed if it passes in parliament. in a report, 18 member states raised concerns of discrimination and potential violations of international law. the government is pushed back, however, accusing the un of double standards because it already sends refugees to rwanda itself . let's just bring you itself. let's just bring you some news coming to us that are just in from heathrow airport. 600 border force officials were told, are set to go on strike for four days starting from the 11th of april. in a recent vote, 90% of union members at the uk's busiest airport backed the walkout over a new shift pattern change, the pcs union suggests. now, those changes could see as many as 250 staff forced out of their jobs. they're many as 250 staff forced out of theirjobs. they're demanding for the plans to be withdrawn , for the plans to be withdrawn, calling it unprofessional and inhumane treatment of staff that are critical to national security . now a man are critical to national security. now a man has been arrested in connection with the

death of the gogglebox star george gilbey , who died george gilbey, who died yesterday after a fall at work. he was best known for appearing in the channel four television series, which takes people inside viewers homes while watching television themselves. he also appeared on celebrity big brother in 2014. essex police have detained a man in his 40s, we understand, on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. in that case in the united states, an entrepreneur and founder of a cryptocurrency exchange has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars for a multi—million dollar fraud. sam bankman—fried's firm , fraud. sam bankman—fried's firm, ftx, was valued at $32 billion before it went bankrupt in 2022. the 32 year old has been convicted of stealing 8 billion usd from his customers and his sentencing today marks a dramatic downfall for the former billionaire, who was once a major political donor. plans to reform britain's leasehold

property laws have been criticised by peers , who say the criticised by peers, who say the new bill doesn't go far enough. leaseholds allow homeowners to buy and live in a property for a set number of years, while paying set number of years, while paying charges for the land . paying charges for the land. however, there's been mounting criticism of the system , with criticism of the system, with many residents seeing charges rise drastically , often with rise drastically, often with little or no explanation. it means that homeowners can be locked into costly contracts with little right to redress. well, the government has dropped its pledge now to scrap leaseholds and labour's housing spokesperson , baroness taylor, spokesperson, baroness taylor, called the government's current proposal in its place a shell of a bill that won't offer the security that homeowners need. that's the latest news for the latest stories , do sign up to gb latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts . gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you polly. now we'll

have the latest on those incidents in london very shortly . but we start with our interview with sir keir starmer and the labour leaders told gb news that protests outside schools should be banned. reports out this week said that protests should be banned within 150m of schools. and of course , 150m of schools. and of course, a batley grammar school teacher is still in hiding, a batley grammar school teacher is still in hiding , three years is still in hiding, three years after he was targeted for showing a caricature of the prophet muhammad during lesson. >> i do feel very concerned about this individual, and i do think that we need to take extremism very seriously. the strategy needs updating. i think it was last updated nine years ago. i thought the report into what happened in batley, raised some very serious issues, most of which i agree with, particularly this idea that there shouldn't be those sorts of protests outside of our schools. so i do think it's a serious issue , serious serious issue, serious recommendations. and i think that in so far as we can, this shouldn't become a party

political issue. we've all got an interest in making sure we're tackling this , this kind of extremism. >> would you move any protests 150 yards away or metres away from the school gate , as dame from the school gate, as dame sarah is arguing for? >> i do think that we should do that. think should that. i think there should be a buffer of schools, buffer outside of our schools, schools should not be a place for protest . for protest. >> well, there we have it. sir keir starmer certainly cares about batley. and joining us now is political commentator emma webb . emma, welcome to the show. webb. emma, welcome to the show. well it's only taken the labour party three years to suddenly be concerned about the batley grammar school teacher. but i guess we should be grateful for that. right >> mean i think it's, it >> well i mean i think it's, it will play well with sensible people , but there will be many people, but there will be many people, but there will be many people i know lots of. >> there's been lots of discussion about keir starmer alienating the, muslim , voting alienating the, muslim, voting base that labour has appealed to in the past, and so perhaps they won't take too kindly to this, but yeah, of course this is it's

a good thing that keir starmer is, is finally saying that this is, is finally saying that this is unacceptable, but i do think that the idea of having a buffer zone is a bit of a sticking plaster. if we look at saira khan's, report, she calls this freedom restricting harassment. the issue is not just these protests outside of schools, which are effectively intimidating children, intimidating children, intimidating their families and teachers . this intimidating their families and teachers. this is a much wider issue to do with things like death threats, and frankly, this should have been dealt with far more robustly. this teacher is still in hiding after three years. we've already seen in france that a teacher was beheaded, after following a similar incident. beheaded, after following a similar incident . this is a similar incident. this is a completely unacceptable situation, and i don't think having a buffer zone around schools is frankly a robust enough response. >> yeah, emma, this is a topic i've been pushing on hard since the beginning. i chaired a free speech rally in batley town square this week . gb news has square this week. gb news has put this topic both of the prime minister's office and to sir keir starmer directly, and we

keep asking the same question. does the batley grammar school teacher deserve a compensation package for what he's been put through? what do you think that should like? emma should look like? emma >> goodness. well, i don't know what kind of compensation could ever enough because it's not ever be enough because it's not just him, it's his just him, it's also his children, young that children, that young family that have had go into hiding with have had to go into hiding with him so i don't think him as well, so i don't think you can. i mean, not to say that compensation should be precluded, but i don't think that compensate for that you can compensate for that. you know, this is this is also, again, it's sticking also, again, it's a sticking plaster. this is the bed that we have ourselves with the have made for ourselves with the complete and utter failure of , complete and utter failure of, of multiculturalism, that we have allowed these things to fester for so long that it's now gotten to this point where we find ourselves in a situation where we're having to ask the question of whether or not, you know, it becomes a question of tolerance. it's the classic do you tolerate intolerance ? so you tolerate intolerance? so we've got ourselves in a bit of a bind, and we have to put our foot down at some point. this

has already gone on for far too long. so yes, compensation. great i'm sure that that would be something that would be very welcome. but i don't think that any amount of compensation is enough it's just enough because it's not just about teacher batley. about the teacher in batley. this about around the this is about schools around the country where teachers are not able to even teach about the prophet muhammad. there will be so many things that teachers feel that they can't even touch on. cannot possibly be on. they cannot possibly be giving either a proper education or an education suited to a democratic society. if you have to stay away from subjects that will be so offensive to some sections of the population that teachers will receive death threats and possibly even be beheaded as a result. we saw this when there was a child who had dropped and scuffed a quran that he'd brought into school that he'd brought into school that he'd brought into school that he himself owned, and we saw , the, the parents and the saw, the, the parents and the and the and the students and the teachers be sort of being wheeled out and having to make this pathetic apology to the community that was offended.

>> i'm afraid we have to leave it there because we have some breaking news. i have to go to that. and it's this the breaking news is a man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the double stabbing at kennington tube station. he's also been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and officers were called to the station at around 10:30 pm. last night following reports of a man being stabbed on the northbound platform , and a second man was platform, and a second man was also believed to be injured. after bravely stepping in to try to prevent that attack , and a to prevent that attack, and a further member of the public later reported being groped as a suspect left the station. we'll have much more on this in the houn have much more on this in the hour. just to repeat that, breaking news, a man has been arrested a man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the double stabbing at kennington tube station, also been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. officers were called to the station at 10:30 pm. yesterday evening for

p.m. yesterday evening for a report of a man being stabbed on the northbound platform . a the northbound platform. a second man was also believed to be injured after bravely stepping in to prevent to try and prevent that attack and a further member of the public later reported being groped as a suspect left the station. much more on that story a little later in the show as it develops right now, sir keir starmer has backed labour's deputy leader angela rayner. as you'd no doubt expect , because she's faced expect, because she's faced questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax on the 2015 sale of her council house. and now greater manchester police has said it's reassessing its decision not to investigate allegations that she gave false information on official documents . documents. >> yes, she's answered all questions. she's been very clear. she'll talk to any of the authorities that want more information . she's taken legal information. she's taken legal advice. my team have seen it. i have never felt the need nor do

i think it's appropriate for me personally to see it. i'm satisfied with the answers that she has given repeatedly now on this. >> but you're saying she's cleared, but you haven't asked to see the actual evidence to show she is cleared? >> i don't to. it's not >> i don't need to. it's not appropriate for see that appropriate for me to see that legal advice. appropriate for me to see that legal theice. appropriate for me to see that legal the police do launch >> if the police do launch a formal investigation, should she resign, from her job. resign, stand back from herjob. well chris, not to get well chris, i'm not going to get into hypotheticals. well chris, i'm not going to get inthe've heticals. well chris, i'm not going to get inthe've beenals. well chris, i'm not going to get inthe've been down this road >> we've been down this road many, many times before, look , many, many times before, look, we, the police, have made their decision. they need to now get on the decision and the on with the decision and the process that they're going through . through. >> well, there we go. and to discuss this, we're joined now in by the spectator's in the studio by the spectator's political correspondent, james heale james. welcome to the studio here in westminster. will that suffice? i mean, here's a guy that normally demands evidence . he has a very evidence. he has a very professional legal background, but not. it doesn't seem but he's not. it doesn't seem that interested in seeing any evidence rayner's case. >> yes. >> yes. >> it's quite ironic, isn't it? a former director of public prosecutions , they're saying. prosecutions, they're saying. oh, further questions, your oh, no further questions, your

honoun honour. nothing to see here. >> course, keir starmer, >> and of course, keir starmer, in years he's in the four years since he's been leader, been the labour leader, has really thing being really made a thing about being the forensic of the forensic prosecutor of people etc. people like boris johnson, etc. always answers. and people like boris johnson, etc. alw apparently answers. and people like boris johnson, etc. alw apparently it's answers. and people like boris johnson, etc. alw apparently it's ansgood and yet apparently it's not good enough the enough for him to see the evidence . he's for his team evidence. he's okay for his team and and i think and that's fine. and i think what difficulty here is what the real difficulty here is that has been the what the real difficulty here is that of has been the what the real difficulty here is that of attack has been the what the real difficulty here is that of attack for has been the what the real difficulty here is that of attack for dogas been the what the real difficulty here is that of attack for dog labour the sort of attack for dog labour for the past four years, really demanding the demanding resignations at the drop here. so the fact drop of a hat here. so the fact that now facing questions drop of a hat here. so the fact that this now facing questions drop of a hat here. so the fact that this means:ing questions drop of a hat here. so the fact that this means she'suestions drop of a hat here. so the fact that this means she'suesdanger about this means she's at danger of hoisted her of risk of being hoisted by her own petard. of risk of being hoisted by her own petthere was a double >> and there was a double barrelled to today, you barrelled feeling to today, you know, rayner sir keir know, angela rayner and sir keir starmer on road together. starmer on the road together. angela been absent angela rayner has been absent from the media for a long time, perhaps deliberately . will this perhaps deliberately. will this issue go away? will it be enough to damage her, or is it just a storm in a teacup? >> well, the fact is, this story has been running on now for about 6 or 7 weeks now, and angela normally seen angela rayner is normally seen as party's best as one of the party's best communicators. that communicators. the fact that she's little, she's been out so little, i think, perhaps, of think, is sign, perhaps, of how she's to answer of she's unable to answer some of the difficult questions around this. perhaps this. and i think that's perhaps so striking when nadhim so striking is that when nadhim zahawi a similar zahawi was involved in a similar sort tax affairs last

sort of rabat tax affairs last january, angela rayner quick january, angela rayner was quick to absence from the to say his absence from the airwaves was a very damning airwaves was was a very damning indictment fact indictment of him. so the fact that been so far not that she's been so far not involved any this, involved with any of this, i think, its story. think, tells its own story. >> do think is that >> do you think there is that feeling amongst public? they feeling amongst the public? they just . and that just want consistency. and that is johnson had is when boris johnson had cake and . it was a sackable and champagne. it was a sackable offence, but the beergate incident up north was that in durham it was a feeling. there's nothing to see here. it feels echoes of that . is this about echoes of that. is this about double standards? >> well, that is the real risk, i think. and i think british i think. and i think the british pubuc i think. and i think the british public are to sometimes let public are able to sometimes let things the danger things slide. it is the danger of . and of double standards. and of course was very course angela rayner was very quick. after quick. january 2022, just after the investigation the police investigation started and to suggest and boris johnson was to suggest that should resign. now, that he should resign. now, of course, police course, if a police investigation following this reassessment greater reassessment by greater manchester police, if we get to that there be those that stage, there will be those calls in calls from the tories in particular think, on a particular who think, hang on a sec, two months. she sec, it's been two months. she hasn't these questions. hasn't answered these questions. has something now? >> a poll out today i >> a poll out today and i started to different by started to different point by sir who of course sir john curtice who of course is very highly respected is very, very highly respected to the point of the guru is very, very highly respected to these oint of the guru is very, very highly respected to these matters the guru is very, very highly respected to these matters he'she guru is very, very highly respected

to these matters he's gotiuru of these matters. he's got the tories with a 1% chance of winning. >> i think that's about the same accuracy. if you talk to tory mps right now, i think there's a lot of them quite despondent. and what's so striking say, lot of them quite despondent. an(instance,o striking say, lot of them quite despondent. an(instance,sayriking say, lot of them quite despondent. an(instance, say 19971 say, lot of them quite despondent. an(instance, say 1997 or say, lot of them quite despondent. an(instance, say 1997 or 2010 for instance, say 1997 or 2010 when there change of when there was a change of government. there's a government. right now there's a lot frankly lot of tory mps who frankly think, we don't really think, yeah, we don't really deserve so think deserve re—election. so i think that's deserve re—election. so i think ththe of and deserve re—election. so i think th the of and faith is the lack of morale and faith in conservatives their in the conservatives in their own policies. own government and policies. >> you think we're going >> and do you think we're going to walkouts? we to see further walkouts? we had mark sat that very mark francois sat in that very seat ago , and seat a couple of days ago, and he was predicting that it could look like 1997, i think. then 75 conservatives stepped down ahead of the election. so far, it's 63 and rising . do you think we're and rising. do you think we're just going to see a melting away now? a sense of inevitability approaching the election? i certainly do , and i think that certainly do, and i think that what's so difficult for the conservatives is that you often need to go for these 50, 50 balls. >> you know, you need mps to be going like angela going for things like angela raynen going for things like angela rayner. and frankly, a of rayner. and frankly, a lot of them the heart them haven't got the heart in it and therefore party going and therefore the party is going to that. to be damaged by that. >> heale, thanks >> superb james heale, thanks for in the studio. of

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welcome back. it's 524. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now. a man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder

following an alleged stabbing at kennington station last night. and early today . a 19 year old and early today. a 19 year old man was also arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was stabbed on a train in south london yesterday. well, gb news reporter ray addison is outside shortlands station, ray, what's the latest on the ground ? on the ground? >> well, i'm here at shortlands station because this is where one of those shocking incidents took place . yesterday, police took place. yesterday, police being called just after 4:00, or rather, just before 4:00, amid reports of two men fighting as they were getting on a train here at shortlands and then we saw that shocking footage on social media, which, disturbed many people , which appeared to many people, which appeared to show an attack taking place on the train as they headed towards beckenham junction. now at beckenham junction. now at beckenham junction. now at beckenham junction. one man in his 20s was treated and taken to a trauma centre. we're told he's

currently in a critical but stable condition and hearing today that a 19 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. now we also have this other case that's been taking place, british transport police, having to deal with this situation, called after 1030 last night. a man in his 30s now has been arrested on two counts of attempted murder that follows a double stabbing at kennington underground station. that's about nine miles away from where i am now , one of the victims is i am now, one of the victims is thought to have been injured when he bravely stepped in trying to stop that attack . both trying to stop that attack. both of those victims are in their 40s. they've been taken to hospital. two, they're in a stable condition with non—life threatening injuries. and we're also hearing the suspect in that case has also been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. as one man reported being groped as he left the station . now, he left the station. now, british transport police

superintendent darren malpass has issued this statement ahead of the easter weekend and much concern here in london. >> police were called to an incident yesterday at 4 pm. at beckenham junction train station in for a fight on board the train. during that fight, a knife was used which has since been recovered and a 19 year old male has been arrested for attempted murder . the victim in attempted murder. the victim in that case is in a critical but stable condition , that hospital stable condition, that hospital being supported by family and friends and specialist police officers. a separate incident occurred at kennington, london underground station at 10:30 pm. yesterday on the platform , p.m. yesterday on the platform, two men in their 40s were stabbed, but are currently in hospital with non life threatening injuries. hospital with non life threatening injuries . these threatening injuries. these enquiries are ongoing in relation to both these matters. if you've seen or witnessed any of these incidents, please could you text six 101 six or

telephone oh 840 5040 and report what you've seen during this weekend. there will be enhanced reassurance patrols in all these areas and across south london to support communities. >> well, these two incidents occur as we see the latest figures on knife crime in london. it would appear that knife crime incidents are up by about 22% in the 12 months to september of 2023, and that will be very concerning to londoners who just want to be able to travel safely on the transport network. >> arrest there. that's ray addison outside shawlands station. i'm joined now in the studio by the former detective superintendent at the metropolitan police, shabnam chowdhury . thanks forjoining me chowdhury. thanks forjoining me in the studio. a sobering statistic there. a 22% year on year increase in knife crime in london alone. shabnam. what ever we're doing now, it ain't

working. we've got to change tack. what can we do to stamp out this cancer? well, unfortunately , you see these unfortunately, you see these shocking scenes that we've seen in last couple of days are in the last couple of days are way too common across london. >> you see? so much of it being played and streamed on played out and streamed on social media. and i think exactly as you're saying, that, you know, the tactics that are being used the with being used at the moment with regards clubs and regards to youth clubs and getting, you know, charity groups to try and groups together to try and resolve these issues isn't working. there needs to be a far more, bigger, collaborative approach by communities. for examples, people need to get together and actually work with the police and actually tell them that they're concerned about their children being involved in gang or knife crime. you know, 19% increase in robberies , which means that robberies, which means that people have been robbed at knifepoint burglaries are up in terms of the numbers of knife crime, actually, london isn't the only place where knife crime is the main issue. you've got the west midlands, i think, as i understand it, did a bit of research today, but the

collaborative approach with the pubuc collaborative approach with the public health partners this isn't just about people going out and being involved in gangs. this is where people live in toxic environments. so where there's domestic abuse, where there's domestic abuse, where there's low income families, where there's absent parents, they're not necessarily absent just because it's single parents. it's because parents can't afford to stay at home with their children because they're doing three, four jobs at a time. >> but, i mean, i hear what you're saying, but this, this idea that the state step idea that the state should step to in be some sort of surrogate parent or carer or mentor , parent or carer or mentor, that's expensive and it's very slow. what about more robust policing at ground level? our reporters today at both of those stations were approached by british transport police workers and staff at the stations, who say they're afraid to go to work because they know that those train networks have been used by county gang drug smugglers. they're tooled up, they're prepared to pull blades out. and that's the currency. how do that's now the currency. how do we just short circuit that

currency ? surely that needs a currency? surely that needs a bit more toughness. >> well, there is a fear of that . and i'm not speaking on behalf of the met of the whole of the met police, but certainly lot of but certainly of a lot of officers. and i a lot of it officers. and i see a lot of it played on social played out on social media around stop and search around the stop and search agenda, it's powerful and agenda, it's a powerful tool and it's tactic. it's a very powerful tactic. but there officers that there are a lot of officers that won't out do won't actually go out and do stop and search because of the fear by, you know , fear of complaints by, you know, other members the public other members of the public because they are because they're people. they are over , you know, with, with over, you know, with, with certain sections of the community that are disproportionately stopped and searched. officers searched. but officers are now stopping from doing it from across different parts of london. there does need to be communities that need to come together. the trust and confidence in police is actually rock bottom, this has got to rock bottom, and this has got to be rebuilt in order to get that information and that intelligence to stop young people being being people from being groomed, being involved in gangs and going out and committing crimes. >> are at this impasse, >> but we are at this impasse, you know, black people, the facts or the facts are four and a half times more likely to stab somebody to death. in london.

they're half times they're three and a half times more likely to be stabbed to death. doesn't stand death. and so doesn't it stand to they should be to reason that they should be stopped and searched more if they profile glasgow they fit that profile in glasgow , where they had a violence reduction the reduction unit, where the proportion carrying proportion of people carrying knives, 93% white working knives, 93% were white working class just lived in class lads, they just lived in in those areas it was targeted police that wasn't racist , it police that wasn't racist, it was the offender profile. it's always concern about video stop and search about being called racist. it's actually a barrier. it's helping people to die. >> i think i don't agree >> well, i think i don't agree with you there, martin. i think one the main issues there one of the main issues there is that people, young black that young people, young black people yes there are issues targeted. yes there are issues around certain sections of the community when it comes to knife crime and violence, as victims and as perpetrators . but the and as perpetrators. but the bottom line is this that doesn't mean to say you have a blanket authority to out and stop authority to go out and stop every black person. no, every young black person. no, not not involved , not every young, not involved, but they're but in communities where they're disproportionate, but in communities where they're disp surely,ynate, but in communities where they're disp surely, of te, but in communities where they're disp surely, of course. but die, surely, of course. but you've got to have intelligence led you've got to led policing and you've got to ensure that you've got your grounds justifying your grounds and your justifying your stop and search in order to be

able it's not the only able to. and it's not the only tactic actually prevents tactic that actually prevents knife clubs funding knife crime. youth clubs funding all those kinds of issues are a huge problem. there's been huge cutbacks in the last 14 years as we well it, and the problem we well know it, and the problem is policing partners, nhs education are just playing catch up with regards to the amount of money that's been lost to young people. >> okay. chandan chowdhury, thank you very much for coming in. excellent. superb. thanks for joining us now. lots more forjoining us now. lots more still to come between now and 6:00. and it's good friday tomorrow. and i'll are some tomorrow. and i'll ask are some people country trying to people in this country trying to cancel easter? but first it's time for your latest news headunes time for your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst. >> martin. thank you. the top stories this hour. as we've been heanng stories this hour. as we've been hearing , police have arrested hearing, police have arrested a man in his 30s in connection with a double stabbing at kennington tube station in london overnight. it comes after another man was also arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

after a separate stabbing on a train in the capital. footage of that shared on social media showed a masked man attacking another with a large knife, as terrified passengers called for help . meanwhile, british help. meanwhile, british transport police are enhancing their patrols over the easter weekend across a number of stations in london following those unconnected stabbings on the rail network. michael gove has described the leadership of thames water as a disgrace. it comes as shareholders found its business plan uninvestable , business plan uninvestable, refusing to put half £1 billion to fund the troubled supplier in shareholders, instead warn the regulator offered to off what? rather to allow a 40% bill hike over five years for customers and more lenient penalties for falling foul of regulations. but mr gove said the company had behaved in an arrogant way towards customers and its leadership must accept responsibility for its failings . responsibility for its failings. the united nations has called on rishi sunak to scrap his rwanda

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and our beloved hot cross buns have had their crosses removed, certain supermarkets changing the symbolic cross to a tick, as you can see there. plus don't get me started on easter eggs. well a retailer in lincolnshire has received a huge backlash from christians after they renamed easter eggs gesture eggs, a decision which cadbury's says was the choice of the independent retailer and certainly not their own policy. but nevertheless it does make you think that easter is coming under a necessary attack. and joining us now to discuss this is the former chaplain to the late queen doctor, gavin ashenden. doctor ashenden, welcome to the show . on the one welcome to the show. on the one hand, this is a bit of fun. people are getting, hot and cross about buns ramadan lights. it is , after all, ramadan. but it is, after all, ramadan. but it just seems to many people that there are just too many things happening all at once. that seems to suggest an erosion

of christian values and a disrespect for, after all, which is one of the most sacred christian moments in the calendar . calendar. >> yes, martin. it's strange, isn't it? looking back over the last 50 years, we were sold a philosophical idea that we were in a society that was going to become multicultural with multi values, and it was just a matter of being polite and letting everyone have their fair share of the turf. then in a of the turf. and then in a sense, best ideas, the most, sense, the best ideas, the most, the most, helpful spiritual, religious, philosophical, political solutions could , could political solutions could, could win. but that isn't what's happened. it was a cover. what i think must be called christianophobia, because it's only the christian symbols that have been erased and although as you quite rightly say, they're not hugely significant, it's just one by one, it's death by a thousand cuts. so i think it's time for christians to say we've been fooled and, and, and particularly, as you quite rightly say, with, with oxford street full of ramadan lights, but but no equivalent in london

for lent and for christianity. it's i think it's time we ought to call bluff say, we to call the bluff and say, we know going on. we're know what's going on. we're going back . going to fight back. >> question of >> is this a question of shifting priorities, doctor ashenden, or is it something more sinister? do you? i mean, there is a feeling certainly amongst a lot of gb news viewers and on social media and on the comment sections of lots of the media outlets this week , it just media outlets this week, it just feels it just feels like a drip, drip, drip, a steady erosion of christianity . christianity. >> it is. and i don't know where it lies on the scale of conspiracy to accident it. but i'm afraid i think we have we christians have to take responsibility . we effectively responsibility. we effectively we've been all religions are mutually exclusive. after all, if christianity and islam were the same, jesus and mohammed not would not be teaching opposite things. we have to take responsibility for our own beliefs . and i'm afraid i think beliefs. and i'm afraid i think christianity has failed the conviction test, and it's time that realised if it .

that it realised that if it. >> it's frozen. it's gone. okay, not to worry. we lost doctor gavin ashenden there, but just about to get to the point about is part of the problem that the christian church doesn't seem to be very christian itself anymore anyway. it doesn't seem to stick up for christian values at all. it seems more concerned with climate change, seems more concerned with refugees welcome, seems more concerned with systemic racism, with with not enjoying what britain stands for at all. in fact, lining up to attack our values, billions of pounds being given to reparations for slavery, a feeling of self—flagellation, a feeling of self—flagellation, a feeling that they're not actually representing their flock anymore . has the church flock anymore. has the church itself lost its way , and does itself lost its way, and does that represent a weakness that allows this gradual cultural erosion to take place in the

first place? should they be stronger ? for now, we have stronger? for now, we have a statement made here, and that's from cadbury , who said this from cadbury, who said this about those eggs. this decision was made by an independent retailer. we wish to be very clear that every cadbury easter egg sold in the uk references easter on the packaging and usually multiple times. cadbury has also used the word easter in our marketing and communications for over 100 years, and continue to do so, and gb news is currently still waiting to hear from the retailer . now currently still waiting to hear from the retailer. now moving on. after all that controversy around the new england football shirt, you remember that one? it appears to be selling rather well. and that begs this question was it actually not a woke mistake , but a brilliant woke mistake, but a brilliant piece of marketing by nike themselves? of course, no strangers to controversy by martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel .

welcome back. it's 548 on the final furlong. let's get galloping. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news now. nike's new england shirts sent most of the country into meltdown last week. certainly did me because of what they did to the saint george's cross. if you recall, they made it not red, but they made it multicoloured. but was this a smart move from the sportswear giant after all? because despite the uproar, insiders were quick to see the sky rocketing sales figures, fuelling speculation about the true intentions. was this not a woke mistake or a desecration? but was it a calculated move from nike to stay relevant and shift units? well, joining me now to discuss

this is the ceo of ten yetis, a crisis management specialist . crisis management specialist. welcome to the show. so the big me. no problem at all. the big question is , is nike? of course question is, is nike? of course they are no strangers to controversy we've seen in the past with the colin kaepernick , past with the colin kaepernick, debacle, the nfl taking the knee. he became the poster boy. nike like a good controversy . is nike like a good controversy. is that what happened here, do you think? or was it a simple woke blunder? >> well, i think nike are experts at what they do. >> and this is very much, them doing what they do best, having fantastic sales, having themselves woven into the fabric of our society and, and really , of our society and, and really, it's been a huge success for them. i don't think it was a deliberate ploy to shift sales. >> i think it was just a really strong marketing move to shift the new kit. >> andy barr, the trouble >> so andy barr, the trouble with things like this is that there are backlashes. >> for example, colin kaepernick

in 2018 when he became the poster boy for taking the knee , poster boy for taking the knee, there was a huge financial hit, £3 billion was wiped off the value of nike, but they ended up 10% up year on year. and people start to say then, is this actually about shifting the demographic away from traditional punters, some of whom were burning their trainers and putting videos out on social media? is it about this social responsibility and is it about broadening their market? nike couldn't care less about england. they just want to flog units . units. >> well, i think this is about like trying to obviously sell more products. >> it's about them trying to be seen on the edges slightly in terms of how they approach their marketing . marketing. >> we're seeing something very similar germany the minute similar in germany at the minute where football team where the german football team have adidas with where the german football team have but adidas with where the german football team have but as adidas with where the german football team have but as you das with where the german football team have but as you say, with where the german football team have but as you say, saleswith where the german football team have but as you say, sales have nike, but as you say, sales have gone through the roof and that's what nike really cares about, the that you referenced the stunt that you referenced earlier , you know, their share earlier, you know, their share price dropped 2, but by the end

of the it was up by 10. of the year it was up by 10. >> so it shows that it really works it helps them resonate works and it helps them resonate with slightly younger works and it helps them resonate with and tly younger works and it helps them resonate with and there unger works and it helps them resonate with and there wasr works and it helps them resonate with and there was another audience. and there was another backlash, of course, andy, dylan mulvaney , of course, the trans mulvaney, of course, the trans activist, biological male became the face of nike's women's workout gear. >> now that did cause a huge backlash. sharon davis , of backlash. sharon davis, of course, the olympic medallist swimmer, said . course, the olympic medallist swimmer, said. i course, the olympic medallist swimmer, said . i haven't bought swimmer, said. i haven't bought nike since, so they seem to perpetually be getting themselves into these kind of pickles. and that begs the question is this actually premeditate ? premeditate? >> and, well, no, i don't think it's premeditated, but i also don't think they're really too worried that they're not going to get the pound of sharon davis. what they're worried about really wide about is having a really wide global . and that global appeal. and we see that because they're, know, because they're, you know, they're of they're in the social fabric of everything we do every how everything we do every day. how many hear people many times do we hear people saying, do it? how many saying, just do it? how many times we people times do we hear people saying swish? what swish? and that's what nikes about making sure they to about making sure they appeal to everyone they can. everyone as much as they can. >> but, what about traditional

engush >> but, what about traditional english fans ? i mean, we saw english fans? i mean, we saw there was a huge, huge backlash of this . i picked it up on the of this. i picked it up on the tuesday the kit was announced on the monday night and it started a massive, massive conversation. it to be said , many, many it has to be said, many, many fans very, very put out fans were very, very put out about this . surely this isn't a about this. surely this isn't a marketing device. when you start changing flags, flags shouldn't be changed. their flags ? be changed. their flags? >> well, i think fans will say, say something very different if we win the tournament because that's all the fans really want . that's all the fans really want. yes, if we put a dragon on there or maybe a thistle, i think then there could genuine uproar. there could be genuine uproar. but fans want. they but that's all fans want. they want us to win i'm confident want us to win and i'm confident we as i'm sure you are too we will, as i'm sure you are too . and sales do even . and nike sales will do even better. we lost against better. well we lost against brazil in that shirt the first time the england wore it, but thanks for joining us andy barr. >> that's the ceo of tinnitis , a >> that's the ceo of tinnitis, a crisis management specialist. now bunch of emails now i've got a bunch of emails i'd like to read out before we finish the show. you've been getting in touch in your droves on topic knife crime. on the topic of knife crime. after stabbings in london,

after those stabbings in london, terry says this any person 16 plus found that a public area and knife blade over four and a knife blade over four inches who uses it to injure or kill shall be charged and sentenced with murder. no manslaughter consideration should ever be brought into the fray . longer sentences please. fray. longer sentences please. we need a massive deterrent . on we need a massive deterrent. on the same point, raymond adds. this it's no coincidence that people who commit these atrocities have absolutely no fear of punishment at all. helen adds this i'm not sure where you'd check in your machete at your local youth club. seriously, we're all totally sick of hearing apologists who won't face up to the reality of gang criminality . jonathan gang criminality. jonathan quickly says this from now on, we should be scanning machines at all railway stations, just like we do at airports. and finally, final word of the show goes to barbara, who says throw more money at it. goes to barbara, who says throw more money at it . they won't more money at it. they won't change a bad attitude or poor

behaviour as it just spoils kids. so there you go. you want to see firmer action on all of this. thanks for sending in those emails. it really does help the show. well, that's all from me for now. next on gb news it's jubes and co. that's six till seven of course. but don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow morning when of course it's breakfast with stephen and anne, followed by britain's newsroom at 930. and then of course, it's emily and patrick standing in for tom with. good afternoon britain. from midday, the couple will be there together . i'll be back tomorrow together. i'll be back tomorrow at 3 pm. thank you all for your emails . getting at 3 pm. thank you all for your emails. getting in at 3 pm. thank you all for your emails . getting in touch about emails. getting in touch about a fantastic show. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now it's your weather with alex burkill . burkill. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. very good evening to you. welcome to your latest gb

news weather update brought to you by met office. there you by the met office. there will some showers will still be some showers around this weekend, but generally through the easter penod generally through the easter period to be a bit period it is going to be a bit dner period it is going to be a bit drier and a bit warmer than it has been of late. low pressure still control like it has still in control like it has been this week, been through much of this week, but the flow around the low is going a little bit, going to ease a little bit, so we will see winds easing. we will see our winds easing. that through the end that being said, through the end of blustery of today still quite blustery for of us. some heavy, of today still quite blustery for raian. some heavy, of today still quite blustery for rain affecting heavy, of today still quite blustery for rain affecting northern showery rain affecting northern areas . showery rain affecting northern areas. something a showery rain affecting northern areas . something a little bit areas. something a little bit dner areas. something a little bit drier across central drier and clearer across central parts and also northern ireland. here under clear skies could here under the clear skies could see touch of frost and perhaps see a touch of frost and perhaps even pockets mist and even a few pockets of mist and fog elsewhere, where we stick with the and showery with the cloud and the showery rain going to be a milder rain it is going to be a milder start to friday otherwise, start to good friday otherwise, and through good friday and as we go through good friday itself, a bit of brightness and as we go through good friday itselsome a bit of brightness and as we go through good friday itselsome dryyit of brightness and as we go through good friday itselsome dry weatherjhtness and as we go through good friday itselsome dry weather around at and some dry weather around at first, but outbreaks of first, but still outbreaks of showery a greater showery rain and a greater chance of catching some showers as into afternoon. as we go into the afternoon. potential for some showers turning heavy, possibly even thundery , but thundery with some hail, but there should be some bright sunny spells in between the showers and temperatures higher than highs around than recently. highs of around 14 towards

14 celsius towards the southeast. winds will be southeast. the winds will be easing and easing further as we go into saturday, which does look like it will be a calmer and drier day than of for and drier day than of late for many . still some showers around, many. still some showers around, but quite as but they don't look quite as intense as we've seen recently, though potential for heavy though potential for some heavy rain parts of cornwall rain to affect parts of cornwall later on in the day. easter day itself on sunday looks mostly dry. there are a few showers still, turning again still, but turning cooler again by . by monday. see you later. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . sponsors of boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on

the answer, then they reckon it's all about more devolution, is it? is that the answer to our woes? you tell me. and absolutely shocking scenes over this past 48 hours when it comes to knife crime in britain. and at the same time, schools have now said that kids are behaving worse and worse . it feels to me worse and worse. it feels to me like the fabric of basic society is being ripped apart at the seams. do you agree with that? and if so, what on earth do we do about it all? and speaking of crime, do you think we need to have more open justice, more court hearings to be opened to pubuc court hearings to be opened to public view or not? and last but not i've been desperate not least, i've been desperate to to you this for to talk to you about this for a couple of days now. i artificial intelligence 8 million jobs could risk. what do you could be at risk. what do you think that? is it just think to that? is it just forwarding to future, or is forwarding to the future, or is it to be concerned it something to be concerned about? i've got all that to come and more over the next hour. but

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