campaign funds. >> yes, as if rishi sunak didn't have enough to contend with one of his mps and a trade envoy, mark menzies, has now had the whip removed under very strange circumstances indeed. find out more with me very soon. >> travel carnage continues in dubaias >> travel carnage continues in dubai as flash flooding flash flooding devastates the city. we'll be speaking to an expat over there . over there. >> law enforcement bust an illegal website used by cyber criminals to defraud thousands of uk victims. >> 70 asylum seekers are moved out of an ex—raf base after major safety risks emerge . major safety risks emerge. >> prince harry officially names the us as his primary residence in a move that signals the duke is distancing himself further from the royals. >> with smoking set to be banned for those born after 2009 over health risks , is it time that health risks, is it time that the government get tougher on

alcohol and the sport? >> this morning the champions league is now premier league less after manchester city and arsenal both go out. emma raducanu is on a roll. she's beaten the former world number one and ronnie o'sullivan opens his snooker academy in saudi arabia. i wonder why that is. >> it's a beautiful start out there for many places and there's more sunshine to come this weekend, but before that happens there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. >> good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on . gb news. breakfast on. gb news. now, i just wanted to , give now, i just wanted to, give a shout out to take that. oh this morning. they're in trouble today, and i think it's unfair. >> why? >> why? >> because they're doing they're doing concerts and things again at the minute. and the sun is not happy. yeah, because someone

in the crowd has noticed that they they have a teleprompter at they they have a teleprompter at the back, which is basically just a massive screen with the lyrics on it, like what we have here. well, yes. but are these scripts aren't, you know, we don't know the 30 years old that we've learned off by heart. so, so they're being they're being nasty about take that saying, why will they, why do they have to have a teleprompter. why will they, why do they have to have a teleprompter . yeah to have a teleprompter. yeah i mean i found heaven. mean how mean i found heaven. i mean how long ago was that? i think i was at university when that came out. it's a very long time ago, darling, 30, 32 years ago. so they've the words for them. they've got the words for them. >> let me get close to this . oh, >> let me get close to this. oh, it really does have all of the lyrics there. i think that's fair enough. and it's definitely for them, not for the audience. oh, it's for them. >> yeah. it's not facing the audience. it's facing the stage, darling. but you, you know, you need that. think it's need that. i think it's perfectly sensible. >> they've obviously >> well yeah, they've obviously got a lot of content to remember. >> lots of lyrics to remember.

>> lots of lyrics to remember. >> so there you go. >> so there you go. >> it's a fair play. >> it's a fair play. >> so i think, you know, take that. you hang on in there, boys. >> don't take it to heart. although i have seen, a video of them. you might come for me now if i say this. i did think they were looking a bit. well, a bit like old man dancing on the stage. >> yeah, yeah, i would agree. okay >> it was, it was looking a little bit like cruise ship entertainers. >> i mean, to be you. the idea that they were a boy band in your 50s, i think is, is pushing it a little bit. yeah. but nevertheless they're still hugely successful. hugely. oh they are. >> yeah. well the same thing for blues. you know the band blue. oh yeah. yeah. so they are touring again and they're just it's they're not really giving a lot the stage. it really is. lot on the stage. it really is. that's that's as far as they go . that's that's as far as they go. and it's a similar thing i think i've seen videos on tiktok and it's younger generation it's the younger generation seeing the first time. seeing them for the first time. they're old they're like, who are these old men dancing to? >> well, know, the knees go, >> well, you know, the knees go, don't you? you get little bits of arthritis your joints.

of arthritis in your joints. >> yeah . >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> like you're like me, like me. me his finger is me fingers, his little finger is quite isn't it. very sore . quite sore, isn't it. very sore. i think it's osteoarthritis but i think it's osteoarthritis but i might be wrong. >> enough self. oh you've diagnosed yourself have you? i'm on to the gp. >> well i've booked an appointment. good. 2027. i'm in anyway , less of that and more on anyway, less of that and more on this because plenty of politics around today. there's going to be lots of politics every day in the run up to this general election. just you wait and see because people are desperate for it. it gets it gets another , it. it gets it gets another, lease of life. any old political story when there's an election on. anyway, unfortunately for the conservative party, it's bad news for them this time round because one of their mps, mark menzies, has lost the whip over the alleged misuse of campaign funds. >> yes number 10 have launched an investigation into the matter . menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the house of commons.

>> yeah, he's the mp for fylde. his issued a statement saying i strongly dispute the allegations put to me. i've complied with all the rules and declarations. there's an investigation ongoing, so i'm not commenting any further. but what are all these allegations, i wonder? >> well, let's put that to our political correspondent olivia utley, who can tell us more good morning to you, olivia. so another scandal to hit the tory party in an election year. this is a headache for rishi sunak, isn't it ? isn't it? >> it is a massive headache for rishi sunak. and this has the whiff of quite a big scandal, mark menzies , who's the mp for mark menzies, who's the mp for flied and a parliamentary, government trade envoy, has had the whip removed after allegations of fraud. what happened was, mark menzies was at home when , at 315 in the at home when, at 315 in the morning, he called his former constituency local manager, a 78 year old woman, and demanded that she transfer £3,000 of

campaign money from his campaign fund because, he said, he was being locked up by bad people , being locked up by bad people, and the only way he could get out was if he paid them this money. the woman refused and in the morning, mark menzies went to his current campaign manager, a woman called shirley green, and asked her to transfer the money. but by this point, the sum had been raised to £6,500. she transfer the money and she did transfer the money and mark menzies was then released , mark menzies was then released, but it's not at all clear whether he paid back that money. and that isn't the only allegation. over the last couple of years, mark menzies has demanded that money be transferred over to his own personal bank account to pay for various medical procedures, at one point demanding £35,000 to be transferred . there was a time be transferred. there was a time when there was no money left in the campaign fund coffers, and party volunteers were paying their own personal savings. one woman cashed in her isa to help

mark menzies out. now, it's not clear exactly what was going on, but it sounds like blackmail. mark menzies has never confirmed his sexuality, but it's rumoured that he's gay, and at one point he was accused of , being, paying he was accused of, being, paying a male rent. boy, that was back in 2014. so this isn't the first scandal to hit this mp and it's thought that what happened was he went he met a man on a dating app' he went he met a man on a dating app, went home with the man, got into some sort of difficulty and then money was demanded from him. so it's a pretty big scandal. it's not going to go away any time soon. and it is the seventh conservative mp that rishi sunak has lost in the last few years. >> okay , olivia, for now, thanks >> okay, olivia, for now, thanks very much indeed. well, the conservative party have issued a statement saying we're investigating allegations was made regarding a member of parliament. this process is rightfully confidential. the party takes all allegations

seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them . them. >> now, dozens of suspected cyber fraudsters have been arrested across the uk after authorities brought down an illegal website used by thousands of criminals to defraud victims worldwide. >> well, police have identified at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone as sophisticated online enablers train criminals to set up fake websites to scam victims into handing over personal details, mark white has the story for you this morning . story for you this morning. >> across the uk, dozens of suspected cyber criminals had a rude awakening as law enforcement here and around the globe moved in to smash a multi—million pound online scam that defrauded many thousands of victims . multiple addresses were victims. multiple addresses were raided and some suspects were pulled off flights at manchester and luton airports have been

identified as involved in lab host, an online phishing platform which allows users to set up fraudulent websites in order to impersonate online services such as banking. this is now the front page greeting any would be cyber criminal trying to access the services of this illegal online site . the this illegal online site. the website labour seat is part of a hugely worrying development in cyber crime. it aimed to provide an easy step by step guide on how to download and use fake sites your page has installed, and you're ready to spam . and you're ready to spam. >> make sure to check that it works before starting your spam . works before starting your spam. stay safe and good! >> spamming unsuspecting members of the public would then believe those sites were pages from legitimate businesses like banks and retailers, all with the aim of phishing or fooling victims into revealing personal details

which would be used to commit fraud. there are unfortunately many enabling services to fraud . many enabling services to fraud. >> however, together with our law enforcement partners, we are tackling them to take out an enabler means that we are able to take it out at source and this, we hope, will send out a message to those using similar services that we can get their data and we will be onto them . data and we will be onto them. >> law enforcement have identified at least 70,000 victims of this latest cyber scam in the uk alone. the lab host site made more than £1 million from 2000 criminals who subscribed to download its services. those attempting to access the site now are faced with a bit of online trolling from law enforcement. >> you've targeted victims all around the world. the police. there may not be too happy with you . think carefully about where you. think carefully about where you. think carefully about where you go on holiday next. that was your 2023 lab host wrapped lab

host is dead now with that illegal site now infiltrated and disrupted by authorities , dozens disrupted by authorities, dozens of those. >> it was training and equipping in the art of cyber fraud are in police custody and likely facing prosecution. mark white, gb news. >> well, at 6:11, let's take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. well the government's flagship illegal migration policy, the rwanda bill, had another major setback, suffering another major setback, suffering a fourth defeat in the house of lords peers, maintaining pressure on the government over the deportation plan with continual demands for reassurances in the form of amendments, house of lords ignored ministerial calls to back down and insisted on further revisions to the safety of rwanda. >> bill. >> bill. >> prince william is to return to official public duties today for the first time since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis. he is set to

visit a surplus food distribution charity, surplus to supper following, followed by a youth centre in west london, which benefits from the organisation's deliveries. >> samantha davies, founder of the dwarfism charity little people uk . she's the wife of the people uk. she's the wife of the actor warwick davis . she's died actor warwick davis. she's died at the age of 53. in a statement , mr davis paid tribute to his favourite human. the couple met on the set of the film willow in 1988 and married three years later. >> now there's been chaos in the uae as thousands of uk travellers are struggling to get home after dubai international airport was closed due to flash flooding. >> yes, some pretty serious flooding as well . passengers flooding as well. passengers told to stay away unless absolutely necessary after it was hit with more than a year's rainfall in just 24 hours.

>> well, one man has tragically lost his life as a result of the torrential weather. >> let's talk to british expat chris bryant, who's there for us this morning. chris bryant, who's there for us this morning . great to see you, this morning. great to see you, kyrees. what's the situation ? kyrees. what's the situation? what's been going on? >> oh my goodness. it has been chaos indeed. we've seen so much happening in 24 hours. i think we're still in shock. the roads have been flooded, cars are still stranded in the streets , still stranded in the streets, you can see the aftermath of blown down, signs and boards all over the city. unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. some people's homes have been flooded . it homes have been flooded. it really has been a very scary time for us all here. >> kyrees how have you been affected as your apartment been flooded? have you been able to get out and about? >> oh goodness no. in the words of batten down the hatches, we was closing the windows and doors with all of our force

barricading ourselves in with towels , it's safe to say some of towels, it's safe to say some of the older apartments in dubai have not been built for this weather, so we have a very big laundry bill, coming our way for the towels and blankets used to stop the rainfall coming in. >> i mean, presumably somewhere like dubai just isn't built for this. hasn't got the, i don't know, even the sort of the drain edge to deal with this level of rainfall in such a short amount of time. >> correct? i mean, we are in the middle of the desert, and the middle of the desert, and the sewage systems have been thought about. it's something that a lot of people have reached , researched. but you reached, researched. but you must remember, if it's not going to filled with water, it will to be filled with water, it will be filled with sand. so we have to have a compromise. was to have a compromise. we was never expecting type of never expecting this type of rainfall. been over 75 rainfall. it's been over 75 years we've had such years since we've had such rainfall the uae and 75 years rainfall in the uae and 75 years ago. what you see now was just a vision , just a dream. vision, just a dream. >> and what the authority's been telling you there. i mean, we're heanng telling you there. i mean, we're hearing about the airport there and the disruption to people

trying to get out, but what advice are you being given? >> the advice we've been given from our local authorities, has been to stay safe and stay indoors for as long as possible to stock up on all utensils and food just to make sure you are safe if you are trapped anywhere. and also just to kind of look out for one another as well . well. >> okay. and look. kyrees. really good to see you this morning. that's what things improve, pretty quickly. thanks very much indeed. heck, have you seen the videos? oh, it's terrible. >> i mean, honestly awful . >> i mean, honestly awful. >> i mean, honestly awful. >> i mean, you see that little if you're watching on the tv, there's one of the videos, there's one of the videos, there's a little cat i thought that would affect you hanging on to little timmy, hanging on to a car door handle. right up waters, right up there. thank heavens someone there pick heavens someone is there to pick him her up. him up or her up. >> looks like a little timmy, >> it looks like a little timmy, doesn't bless it. i mean, it doesn't it? bless it. i mean, it is such, such a worry for people living because, as living there because, as you say, the infrastructure just

isn't designed for level of isn't designed for that level of rainfall. there's rainfall. no. and there's so many expats living many people, expats living out in koresh. and i was in dubai like koresh. and i was starting to see the videos on social media. have been a social media. must have been a few it was, oh few days ago now. and it was, oh please, it's just storm, but please, it's just a storm, but it has obviously, as we can see from the pictures on the screen, become quite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec�*past quite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec�*past couple uite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec�*past couple ofe serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec�*past couple of days ous in from the pictures on the screen, bec�*past couple of days , us in the past couple of days, flooding across dubai and it's affected a lot of people's homes. you can't even get around. a lot of people have lost their cars in the water, awful . awful. >> yes. pretty grim. thankfully. whatever we want about the weather over here, it's not as bad as that at the moment at least. let's get the forecast with aidan mcgivern . with aidan mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a chilly start in many places today. cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this

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624. good morning. it's emerged prince harry has now declared the united states as his new country of residence in official documents. i'm not sort of. i mean , yeah, no, i lived there mean, yeah, no, i lived there for years. >> i wasn't shocked by this. no but no. critics have warned that the move signals the duke is distancing himself further from his family. >> well, he's lived in california with his wife since 2020, so i don't think i mean, if he'd put his country of residence as the uk had a bit a bit miffed. >> anyway, we're joined now by foreign correspondent sarah firth. good to see you this

morning, sarah. so what do you make of this? is it much of a story prince harry's lived in the usa since 2020 for years. i mean, it's right, isn't it, that he should declare the united states as his country of residence ? residence? >> yes. good morning to you both. you're absolutely right. it's not new information because, of course, in 2020, when the duke and duchess of sussex stepped back from their royal duties, prince harry left the uk and he came and eventually made a new home in, meghan markle's home of meghan markle's home state of california. so the duke and duchess of sussex have been living there , where they are now living there, where they are now with their young family. but this the first this is the first sort of official documents that have been seen , in filings for one of been seen, in filings for one of the duke of sussex's companies. it's a sustainable tourism initiative that he has a 75% stake in called travalyst. and these are documents, documents that were filed with companies house back in the uk. and so it's the first time that it's been seen, as the change

officially on those documents , officially on those documents, you've got where it says new country of residence states usually resident. he's got the usa now instead of the uk now. the duke of sussex has actually listed his, date of residence in the usa as june 2023. but as we've said , he has been here we've said, he has been here a little bit longer. so it's not new information, but it's these formal documents that have been filed with the uk's companies house for his business, clearly the duke of sussex, you know, making it known that he feels comfortable here in the usa in his new home. >> i mean, so as you say, this is now on formal documents. it does feel somewhat official, even though, as you say, it's not new information. critics are saying that it creates more of a distance between him and his family. how true do you think thatis family. how true do you think that is ? thatis? >> well, it's a difficult one because the relationship has been very fraught. and of course, back home right now, you've got his family dealing

with a number of very difficult health situations, both with king charles and with princess catherine. so it's a difficult moment for sure. for the royal family you've had, as we said, the duke and duchess of sussex stepping back and really being away from the uk for a large amount of that time since 2020, when they stepped back as working royals. now a lot of royal watchers and there's been a lot of commentary as well around potentially this is the date that he'd, listed on companies house documents for this, business of his . he had this, business of his. he had put, as we said, june 2023 as the date. and a lot of people have said that actually coincides with the date that the couple vacated their frogmore cottage residence, which, of course, they were asked by king charles when he became to king vacate, they'd been there for three years since their marriage . so a lot of people pointing perhaps to that being behind the reason that they don't have that uk residence anymore . they've

uk residence anymore. they've been quite vocal as well in the past about, you know, feeling that that was their safe space in the uk, so potentially that's maybe behind this more official, documentation actually stating that , it is documentation actually stating that, it is the usa that that the duke of sussex now considers home. >> okay. so firth, good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed . much indeed. >> very good, she's very good, isn't she? >> she's very good. she managed to talk 3 minutes or 4 minutes about. not a lot . that's about. not a lot. that's a professional for you, i tell you. it's also very good about talking for minutes with nothing much to say. it's paul coyte. >> you know what? i'll take that. because what i was expecting was from one professional to one who's a complete amateur. no , complete amateur. no, no, no, that's what i was expecting. >> as if i'd. >> as if i'd. >> you >> as if i'd. >>-you me >>asif|'d. » you n >> as if i'd. >> you i was away? >> so what? it was you missed me, right? yeah. yeah. >> okay. all right, let's have a look at o'hanley. see you gloated. >> was he on bobsleigh, by >> was he on the bobsleigh, by

the there wasn't him on the the way? there wasn't him on the bobsleigh, was was he bobsleigh? >> i think he probably was, because then the. >> because think they >> yeah, because i think they have. they go and it's have. oh, and they go and it's actually not him. oh it actually not really him. oh it might he was probably america might be he was probably america at the time. >> yeah. you've you smug >> yeah. you've been you smug this morning. mainly because i'm not arsenal. you not because of arsenal. no you are are dancing the newsroom. >> thing was not >> first thing i was not honestly, i was not. manchester city with city first was starting with manchester this. manchester city. this is this. >> do it without smiling. >> do it without smiling. >> okay? i cannot warm myself up. look, it's been it's difficult the champions difficult because the champions league teams to league we want english teams to do in the champions league do well in the champions league more less. but this is the more or less. but this is the quarterfinal of the champions league. play league. manchester city play real three all real madrid. it was three all after the first leg and now we go into second leg, which go into the second leg, which was at the etihad. you think the hard had been in hard work had been done in madrid, went ahead madrid, but madrid went ahead after minutes and then city after 12 minutes and then city attacked attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked but couldn't get a goal attacked but couldn't get a goal. kevin de bruyne scores after 76 minutes. so we're thinking maybe it's going to be okay. but went to extra time then went to penalties. 120

attacks for manchester city compared to real madrid's 19. compared to real madrid's19. man city had 18 corners to real madrid's one, so it gives you an example what the game was like. and then when it came to penalties, julian alvarez scored the first one for man city. luka modric, who's now 76 years old, still playing for real madrid . still playing for real madrid. he missed. and then we're thinking, okay, it's looking good. but then two misses bernardo silva hits a terrible penalty. see it's all the thing about penalties is you know you get oh it's a lottery. it's not a lottery because there's a lot in there. that's how you deal with the situation. and you've got to go up and you've got to think about where you're going to hit the penalty. don't change your mind. >> get in the net back of the net. >> that's that's kind of like the main thing of it. but manchester city didn't do that. then with, with bernardo silva and mateo kovacic, they went forward it was all forward and then it was all oven forward and then it was all over. so real madrid have gone through, unfortunate through, which is unfortunate for go on. arsenal

for arsenal. yes. go on. arsenal were knocked out by bayern munich yesterday. harry kane, playing for bayern munich, had a00 well you see that . no no no a00 well you see that. no no no quiet game for harry and arsenal. it was that was cagey. it was a really difficult game. they looked very tired at the end but bayern munich came through after the draw at at the emirates . so now bayern munich emirates. so now bayern munich are through. they will play real madrid in the semi—final and we've got the other one as well, which is dortmund versus paris saint—germain. how did i do. >> yeah, you did very well on that. actually. you less that. actually. you were less smiley about us. >> i'm not happy about >> i'm not not happy about arsenal out . arsenal going out. >> it's good. >> it's very good. >> it's very good. >> it's very good. >> it's thrilled, should we talk about favourite team, which about my favourite team, which is leverkusen? about my favourite team, which is yes. leverkusen? about my favourite team, which is yes. i.everkusen? about my favourite team, which is yes. i knowusen? a big fan about my favourite team, which is bayer. knowusen? a big fan of bayer. >> i am, i am a big fan of the german bundesliga. >> that's correct, i know. well, the is, always know that the thing is, i always know that you're a bundesliga specialist, and why you always and that's why you always take us bundesliga. but us back to the bundesliga. but bayer see this. bayer leverkusen see this. you're to be torn because you're going to be torn because bayer leverkusen playing bayer leverkusen are playing

west west ham west ham tonight. so west ham are by leverkusen, are two nil down by leverkusen, who only at who won the bundesliga only at the weekend . and usually it was the weekend. and usually it was bayern munich. but they won it for 11 years on the trot. bayer leverkusen have won it completely out of the blue. so they are playing west ham. they haven't haven't lost all haven't won, haven't lost all season, it's at london season, but it's at the london stadium , so we wish west ham stadium, so we wish west ham well, which is in the europa league, and liverpool who league, and also liverpool who are down against are four nil down against atalanta . so who would have atalanta. so who would have thought last week at anfield. so now they've got to go to italy and try and turn that around in the europa league. >> and also do you think they can. well it's a big ask. >> it is a huge ask. but you never know. you never know. but the thing is it's all about the coefficient as as you. well know there ali i do the coefficient which means that team which means that a german team or an team is fifth or an english team is fifth place in the premier league, could get into the champions league which like league next year, which is like either villa spurs are either aston villa or spurs are you following me so far? no is the answer, the coefficient, the answer, but the coefficient, it basically means which it just basically means which country? germany or

country? either germany or england do better in europe, and whoever does better by the time we get to the finals will then get an extra place in the champions league for next year. >> see, excellent. >> oh i see, excellent. >> oh i see, excellent. >> what talking >> no idea what you're talking about, what? i know about, you know what? i know what talking about it. what i'm talking about it. that's all that lost myself that's all that i lost myself halfway through it. >> raducanu. >> emma raducanu. >> emma raducanu. >> yeah. raducanu. do you >> yeah. emma raducanu. do you know the up. know what on the up. >> really pleased for her. >> i'm really pleased for her. >> i'm really pleased for her. >> i'm really pleased for her. >> i'm pleased for her as well. because, you know, it's all very easy not emma raducanu. she easy to not emma raducanu. she won she was, won the us open when she was, when was like 18, 12. yeah, when she was like 18, 12. yeah, yeah. she was so young and yeah. and she was so young and then so many injuries and everyone thinking, it's then so many injuries and evera»ne thinking, it's then so many injuries and evera flash thinking, it's then so many injuries and evera flash “the

looking and much better for looking good and much better for emma raducanu. so really emma raducanu. so we're really hopeful for and it's a she i mean she's picking up a bit of momentum, isn't she? >> that's got to be good >> i mean that's got to be good for the spirit. yeah i think so. >> yeah i mean momentum three it is three. so the momentum is three. yeah. so the momentum i what you're doing. you're i see what you're doing. you're just going that sport just going down that sport momentum aren't you. that's just going down that sport mom you're aren't you. that's just going down that sport mom you're doing.en't you. that's what you're doing. >> i just yeah all >> yeah i just yeah it's all about momentum want to see her about momentum i want to see her do well. >> want to see her do well. >> i want to see her do well. >> i want to see her do well. >> yeah. me too. >> yeah. me too. >> i feel like people have been quite harsh towards her. i think so i think so it's like, oh, so too i think so it's like, oh, well, it's just a flushing again. >> know, to spend too much >> you know, to spend too much time you're time modelling. i mean, you're going obviously when going to get obviously when you're going going to get obviously when yo get going going to get obviously when yo get all going going to get obviously when yo get all these going going to get obviously when yo get all these deals. going going to get obviously when yo get all these deals. of|oing to get all these deals. of course we all have that, but we just have to you know, come apart. >> i don't think you win the us open on a fluke, do you? anyway, that's just i'm not tennis that's just me. i'm not a tennis expert, you're a you're a bundesliga. i know i can't be everything, do we have time to talk about ronnie o'sullivan? >> ronnie >> i do, yeah, yeah. ronnie o'sullivan, world snooker championship the weekend. >> ronnie signed a deal >> now. ronnie has signed a deal

with arabia. it's three with saudi arabia. it's a three year deal. there's ronnie there looking isn't he? yes, looking thrilled, isn't he? yes, there is . yeah. so what am i there he is. yeah. so what am i going to do. am i going to put the black or am going to put the black or am i going to put the black or am i going to put the pink. that's the in his the pink. that's the look in his eye. anyway, three year deal eye. but anyway, three year deal in saudi arabia. now this is interesting there's interesting because there's going ronnie o'sullivan going to be a ronnie o'sullivan academy which going to be a ronnie o'sullivan acinteresting which going to be a ronnie o'sullivan acinteresting it? which is interesting isn't it? >> packed. why yes, i'm >> it'll be packed. why yes, i'm sure it will be. >> he's he's. and what this is the quote he says i've given everything to and i'm everything to snooker and i'm grateful to be able to give something back. isn't that lovely of him? to grow the sport in new markets? it's all in his heart. he's gone to saudi arabia of places . of all places. >> we know how much dough there is involved in this. >> i would have thought be >> i would have thought he'd be doing for wouldn't he? doing it for free, wouldn't he? wasn't it for the wasn't he doing it for the goodness of his heart? >> it's giving back. >> it's giving back. >> it's giving back. >> it's giving back the young >> it's giving back to the young snooker of riyadh to snooker players of riyadh to try and them. it's all about and get them. but it's all about growing the sport. but saudi arabia, places . yeah. arabia, of all places. yeah. >> well i i mean >> yeah. well i don't i mean i don't blame him. >> everyone else is you know, it

seems that all the sportswashing , it all seems to have gone out the window. only a couple the window. it was only a couple of years ago that we had rafa nadal or roger federer saying, i'm not going to play tennis in saudi now. live golf, saudi arabia now. live golf, tennis, , everything, tennis, football, everything, and snooker and now snooker. so now snooker as well. what next? >> he wants a slice of the pie. >> he wants a slice of the pie. >> for those of us who don't have a load of money. >> yes. >> yes. >> richard wilde has been in touch holidays and cheap touch about holidays and cheap holidays because we're so cheapest the papers. cheapest one in the papers. according like best according to which was like best part £900 per person for a part of £900 per person for a week. richard wilde has been in touch and says you can go to malta for £60 per person per night, half board. >> well how are you going to get there? is that that including flights. >> you need a flight on top. that's not bad is it £60. >> yeah. what's the point. thanks richard for that. it'd be richard likes it. >> okay with richard. >> okay with richard. >> richard let us know how much the flights are looking like. please. you can be our travel agent morning. i'm going to agent this morning. i'm going to malta. agent this morning. i'm going to maidude. agent this morning. i'm going to maidudjeez, a plane, if i were you. >> i've never been. i'm quite

excited . also, malta is on is excited. also, malta is on is number 10 on the list of the top ten european bargains. >> when is it? you're going exactly june. just for everybody to avoid malta at a certain point. >> oh oh, the head. laughter i know it's going to be raucous. >> you imagine? she ended up >> can you imagine? she ended up getting deported. >> what? >> what? >> i e i can see, it coming how. >> now. >> they got george cross, don't you. it's malta g.c. because it's the only that has it's the only place that has actually a george cross from actually got a george cross from the wall. so it's malta gc. yeah. >> i did not know that. there you i didn't know that. you go. i didn't know that. thank you. paul coyte. yes >> absolute pleasure. that's what i'm for. what i'm here for. >> he's full of the fun facts isn't >> he's full of the fun facts isnt one >> he's full of the fun facts isn't one for you paul. how >> here's one for you paul. how much would be willing to pay much would you be willing to pay for a cup of coffee, probably. i've too much. i'll i've paid too much. i'll probably up to about £4. really? >> oh, no. >>- >> oh, no. >> you'd have a heart attack anyway, most anyway, the world's most expensive landed expensive coffee has landed in britain, apparently. >> oh, here we go.

>> oh, here we go. >> it's 20 to 7. let's have a look at some of the newspapers for you. the tories trail labour on defence, tax, migration and brexit. according to a new poll in the mail today , the guardian in the mail today, the guardian says brexit is to blame for uk drug shortage that's putting lives at risk. in the telegraph , lives at risk. in the telegraph, a dozen police officers investigating the labour deputy leader's financial affairs after she sold her house for a large profit and didn't pay any capital gains tax because she says she was living there . she says she was living there. she denies all the allegations. but anyway, that story rumbles on. >> it certainly does. in the express this morning, the lords have defied the will of the people again, they say, as they send the rwanda asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the he rwanda asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the houseinda asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the house ofa asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the house of commons.yill back to the house of commons. >> better watch out >> and you better watch out because big cats do walk among us, according to the star. but it's okay because if you gently chat to a wild puma, it'll be

all right. yes. don't run stroking under the chin. >> yeah. don't run is what i read this morning, which is very good. yeah you have to just treat it like timmy. yeah, just chat to it like timmy. >> exactly. chat to it like timmy. >> okay. y. chat to it like timmy. >> okay. well joining now is >> okay. well joining us now is psychotherapist lucy beresford and political commentator andy williams. good to see you both this morning. and andy, let's start with the front page of the mail shall we. the tories trailing labour on defence, tax, migration, brexit even the migration, brexit and even the nhs everything. nhs on everything. >> yeah there's poll that >> yeah, there's a new poll that shows on every single vital shows that on every single vital issue, as they put it, labour lead the conservatives only 8% of people are satisfied with the government , even on government, even on traditionally strong tory areas like defence, like brexit, like managing government debt, labour our lead. >> labour leads 35, 35% ahead on the nhs. they are ahead on every single thing. so it makes pretty grim reading. it's like on defence. >> yeah, i mean it is it is

disturbing for the tories on what traditional tory topics 15% trust the tories, 22% trust laboun trust the tories, 22% trust labour, 42% say i wouldn't trust either . so it's hardly a, you either. so it's hardly a, you know, a ringing endorsement. >> i think that's right. it's not a ringing endorsement. and the other thing i would say to caveat this poll is that it is conducted by lord ashcroft. he does have a of trying to does have a habit of trying to undermine sunak. i think, undermine rishi sunak. i think, let's be honest, that's the purpose of this poll . but to not purpose of this poll. but to not be leading on any area whatsoever , even on those whatsoever, even on those traditional and also this isn't an outlier poll that you know, most of the polling for the last two years. >> don't think tories have >> i don't think the tories have been on any published poll been ahead on any published poll for over two years. and the problem with this is that it sets the narrative. you have a sense, which is that actually the conservatives can't do anything the anything right. and the only the only psychological issue is if a number of voters think, oh, well, actually it's not worth me voting then, because it's obviously going to a labour obviously going to be a labour landslide therefore i don't landslide and therefore i don't have vote. that's the only have to vote. so that's the only thing labour might to

thing that labour might have to consider all these polls consider. if all of these polls are saying the same thing, what's impact to be on what's the impact going to be on actual day? actual polling day? >> yeah, interesting british values. >> now what i mean, how do you define british values, who whose values and general outlook on life do you think are closer to those of the british public as a whole ? conservatives 13. labour whole? conservatives 13. labour party 31. 42% say neither or nehhen party 31. 42% say neither or neither. that's great. that's that's interesting . yeah. that's interesting. yeah. >> there's a great poll the other day and maybe i'll find it for the next hour where they looked at, who would you trust most to do things like put up a shelf, do you most like to go shelf, or do you most like to go to the pub with, or who would you trust to cook the roast you trust to cook the best roast dinner out rishi sunak and dinner out of rishi sunak and keir and keir starmer keir starmer and keir starmer loving all of as well. so loving all of those as well. so there we are. that's the that's there we are. that's the that's the real quiz. as they say in the real quiz. as they say in the office. >> wouldn't trust either >> i wouldn't trust either of them put a shelf, would

you? >> not be perfect? >> not be perfect? >> no. neither of them look particularly like good shelf putter uppers. >> is that need leading the >> is that you need leading the country. that's what doesn't m atter. >> matter. >> yeah, i think i think you're right. i think you're right. but i judge that same poll i can't judge that same poll rishi top for rishi sunak, came out on top for helping save money he helping you save money that he would where to go to get would know where to go to get a bargain or something like that. yeah, sounds about right. bargain or something like that. yaneah, sounds about right. bargain or something like that. yaneah, yeah,ids about right. bargain or something like that. yaneah, yeah, lucy, out right. bargain or something like that. yaneah, yeah, lucy, the right. >> yeah, yeah, lucy, the guardian this morning, looking at brexit is getting at brexit. brexit is getting a bit of hammering and a lot of bit of a hammering and a lot of the papers actually today. but this is about drug shortages in the uk, i think there's been a bit of a mix up at the guardian, between causation and correlation that actually what they're saying is that there is truly a deficit in the number of drugs that we can get hold of, particularly for things like adhd. some epilepsy drugs speak to any woman over the age of 50 who's been struggling to get hrt. that has been a problem, but it has also been a problem in other european countries as well. and as the guardian points out in their article, the adhd

shortage been since shortage has been only since last year and we actually left the eu in 2020. so the idea that this is all down to brexit isn't accurate, right? >> but it does beg the question what do we do about it? because you say the adhd one is hugely problematic, actually, for a lot of people who are suddenly finding you're not even meant to just immediately come off some of these drugs and that their suppliers just stop, or a lot of gp's are not prescribing them because they know that they're not available. >> and that, again, that that has been the case for about 12 months. paul rees, the chief executive the national executive of the national pharmacy said that pharmacy association, said that more this idea more worryingly, is this idea that shortages of that actually shortages of medicine is what we're getting used to. it's the new normal . used to. it's the new normal. but i would stress that actually isn't uk wide problem, isn't just a uk wide problem, it's actually across europe as well, that's to do with all well, and that's to do with all sorts things supply sorts of things like supply chains china, supply chains chains from china, supply chains from , sort of balkan states and

from, sort of balkan states and also just, i suppose more people being prescribed these, these drugs, which is very tricky. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> andy, what do you make of it? >> andy, what do you make of it? >> well, i think, you know, the nuffield trust are concerned about this. the epilepsy society are concerned about this. the national pharmacy association are about this. so are concerned about this. so there obviously an issue there is obviously an issue whether or not brexit to blame. you who knows. yeah. it's you know who knows. yeah. it's a start licensing manufacture over here or generics or here or things or generics or whatever we need to do because it's not right , potholes. a&e it's not right, potholes. a&e making the times again , the what making the times again, the what the hs2 cash with billions upon billions were saving by not building hs2 past birmingham, so it should be used to sort out the roads apparently. >> yes . so last autumn, 8.3 >> yes. so last autumn, 8.3 billion of money that had been earmarked for hs2 was diverted to , tackling potholes, which to, tackling potholes, which i think a lot of people would , think a lot of people would, welcome, because it is one of the issues that actually most bothers people day to day in

their lives, but only 300 million so far has been allocated to actually doing anything, which leaves £8 billion to be spent. and it says that the times says that that money is going to be spent over an 11 year period. >> well, presumably we haven't got that. money isn't just sitting in bank account, is sitting in a bank account, is it? mean, you know, it's no it? i mean, you know, it's no but years, i mean, who who is but 11 years, i mean, who who is driving down to the end of their road every morning and going, oh , look to that being , i look forward to that being resolved ten years. resolved in ten years. >> not how it works. >> that's not how it works. >> that's not how it works. >> so, you know, that's not how it works. no but it's frustrating for people. >> it's frustrating for people when they're driving down a road and have dodge all of and they have to dodge all of these potholes. >> yes, but been told. >> yes, but they've been told. >> yes, but they've been told. >> if you're saying over an >> but if you're saying over an 11 it's fixing 11 year period it's about fixing the now then the issues now and then maintaining the roads for 11 years? absolutely. >> cynic , that's not >> but you old cynic, that's not how the government has positioned it, though, is it? >> the government said no. the government said last autumn we are giving £8.3 billion to tackling potholes over the next

ten years. that's not how they put it. that was in the small print . print. >> how do we know we're in an election year? because we're talking about potholes? oh yeah. it gets down to the real basics. it's what people councils have budgets that end up kind of running until the end of march. so in a new council so we're in a new council budgetary framework. every single council should make that a priority if they want their local council. we've got a local elections in two weeks time. yeah. get down onto those roads . yeah. get down onto those roads. get digging. oh, heck. >> two weeks today. >> two weeks today. >> yeah. we're going to be busy. lucy, this one's a bit of a worry, isn't it? in the times, photo booths install panic buttons for women who need to call for help. >> no, but this is a really good thing. so basically what they're saying is, is that it's another initiative to try to find some safe spaces where women who are at risk have the opportunity to be able to seek help. so you've probably heard of the idea ask for angela. >> you go into clive, it gets a bit confusing though.

>> who should i ask for exactly? am i saying the right name? but in in the sort of toilet cubicles in in bars, in pubs, in hospitals, you can often see a sign on the back door saying if you're in danger and you need to somehow tell us, use this phrase. and what's happening here, particularly in italy. they trialled this. they called them pink booths , but i hope them pink booths, but i hope actually that doesn't. i hope they don't change the look of these booths, because you want them to look as anonymous as possible. but it's the idea is that if you're a woman and you're in danger , you can go you're in danger, you can go into those booths, press a particular button, and actually get through to a helpline so get put through to a helpline so that actually say , i'm that you can actually say, i'm in danger. i can't use my phone. my in danger. i can't use my phone. my partner is there's coercive control and they're trying to control and they're trying to control please can you help? control me. please can you help? so actually it's a great initiative. >> good thing how common a problem is it? >> unfortunately, it's a very big problem. and it got worse dunng big problem. and it got worse during covid. it got worse dunng during covid. it got worse during the lockdowns. and also there are so many the cost of

living really does actually exacerbate things like this, because financial worries can make partners very , very kind of make partners very, very kind of escalate the abuse. so and unfortunately it doesn't get talked about enough because people feel so ashamed. they feel that they ought to be strong enough to walk away from a particular relationship, that perhaps they that somehow they're to blame and they're not they're to blame and they're not they're not to blame. the way in which the coercive control reduces your sense of self—worth and diminishes you crushes your spirit. so i think we need anything we can do to help women in this predicament, because actually, i know first hand that it's that it's a really it's a really big issue . really big issue. >> yeah, it's a great initiative, andy, let's have a look at wind turbines, shall we? apparently to be taller apparently going to be taller than shard . than the shard. >> yeah. this is a german company that's proposing to build wind turbines that are up to 365 metre tall. they're planning to build a thousand of them in the south of germany. wow. so anybody who doesn't like the look of wind turbines. and i

know it's a common complaint. people think they're ugly. people think they're ugly. people think they're eyesores . people think they're eyesores. >> they're not ugly. >> they're not ugly. >> i don't think they quite like them. >> i quite like them. so maybe i'll bavaria, where i'll move to bavaria, where there'll thousand. maybe there'll be a thousand. maybe you should. >> by 2030, you can sit and watch them out of window . watch them out of your window. >> i it's quite soothing. >> i think it's quite soothing. >> i think it's quite soothing. >> and you think i look. >> and you think i look. >> agree, and i >> i would agree, and i look, i know people the idea of onshore. is yeah. onshore. is it. yeah. onshore. >> onshore wind. yeah. >> onshore wind. yeah. >> onshore wind. and people don't stuff being don't like new stuff being built. that . but don't like new stuff being built. that. but in terms built. i get that. but in terms of power generation, it's they look better than a power station. they look better than all blooming pylons all the blooming pylons everywhere the rest of everywhere and all the rest of it. got to do something. it. i've got to do something. >> so, and this is quite >> i think so, and this is quite smart because not only is it is it wind, but also there are solar panels on these turbines. oh double whammy oh really? it's a double whammy that solar that is quite getting solar energy so i think it's energy as well. so i think it's quite smart. but the idea that you of thousand you have sort of a thousand shard height or higher shard height buildings or higher in one place is quite, quite startling, but presume there's lots of space in the south of germany? yes. >> is loud?

>> is it loud? >> is it loud? >> andy? i have no idea. >> andy? i have no idea. >> is it? >> is it? >> is it? >> i imagine it would be a thousand of them. >> are they all just in the same field then? >> presumably like a forest, a forest, a forest of turbines? >> it might be quite a nice sight, actually. seeing them all together like that. i don't know, something. know, you'd hear something. >> even if it's not >> i think so, even if it's not the local bird population. >> no. >> no. >> they're going avoiding >> they're going to be avoiding that plague. that like the plague. >> ever stood >> have you ever stood underneath one, no. >> oh, you do. >> oh, you should do. >> oh, you should do. >> are you allowed to. it's. >> are you allowed to. it's. >> yeah. yeah, yeah. it's >> oh, yeah. yeah, yeah. it's phenomenal because although obviously long obviously the blades are a long way you you, if way off from you when you, if you up and look right up you stand up and look right up like that, it it does feel like that, it does it does feel like that, it does it does feel like they're just heading for you. >> you doing standing >> what are you doing standing under sort of. >> me under the wind >> meet me under the wind turbine 6:00. >> meet me under the wind turioh, 6:00. >> meet me under the wind turioh, 6have do. if you're >> oh, you have to do. if you're a northerner. >> it's fascinating. >> but no, it's fascinating. >> but no, it's fascinating. >> do you can tell us? >> do you can tell us? >> well, you hear them, but >> well, you can hear them, but it's not loud. >> loud? no. just like a whoosh. >> loud? no. just like a whoosh. >> whoosh. >> loud? no. just like a whoosh. >> that's h. >> loud? no. just like a whoosh. >> that's right, gentle >> that's right, a gentle whoosh, lucy, lots of middle class smoking. class young women smoking. no, i just the idea for a just love the idea for a professional service. yes, yes, it's too late.

>> actually, my thesis on you already. >> oh . yes. middle class young >> oh. yes. middle class young women are taking up smoking. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> researchers are really confused by this because , as we confused by this because, as we all know, that smoking is bad for your health. but it just seems that there is a cohort of women who are not only continuing smoking despite all of the health risks, but they are it in a really are doing it in a really interesting way. they're using roll than they're roll ups more than they're smoking cigarettes, and smoking normal cigarettes, and what they've often said to the researchers is that it's something to do with actually mitigating anxiety that you might have in social situations, which is really interesting because smoking is really an aural gratification. it's about the way in which you soothe yourself orally. but if you're also fiddling around with the bits and bobs that are that you have to do to roll up your cigarette, i have never done it. clearly. i think that's really obvious, that actually it gives your hands something to do, which is why mobile phones have also become part of our kind of, toolkit for managing our

anxiety, because it gives our hands as well as our eyes and brains, something they should roll up something else, shouldn't they? >> that's healthy. >> that's healthy. >> paper? >> like some paper? >> like some paper? >> yes just roll up paper. >> not. yes just roll up paper. it's very bad for you to smoke . it's very bad for you to smoke. >> well it is, it's paper, but it's got tobacco stuffed in it. >> that's bad, isn't it? >> well, that's bad, isn't it? it's a bad thing. we've got to say. obliged say that. say. we are obliged to say that. >> you're born after >> well, if you're born after 2009, you never be allowed 2009, you will never be allowed to it. no. so there we are, to do it. no. so there we are, look, we've just got time to squeeze in a coffee. you'll take me a coffee after work, me for a coffee after work, andy, £265 for a coffee in mayfair. no, not every all about. not everywhere in mayfair, but at this specific coffee bar. it's called shot. a small, dimly lit coffee bar decked with marble walls and tables in mayfair, the world's most expensive coffee for £265. is that for like an espresso? >> it's like a shot. is it £265 a shot? >> yes it is. no. and it is needle. >> well, it's orange and gold or something. >> it's from japan. and apparently japanese coffee is

very rare, which explains why it's so expensive. but i mean, i love it with an espresso . love it with an espresso. please. absolutely. well, we're we're. >> no you are. >> no you are. >> that'll be how much is that? £530. i mean, really, no , it is £530. i mean, really, no, it is astonishing. i mean £4 for a coffee in london these days. you're kind of nudging the £4 mark, but 265. yeah. >> it's ridiculous . >> it's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. >> it's a little bit too much. who's buying that? i don't people with more money than sense, obviously. >> clearly. >> clearly. >> i know it sounds horrible, but i hope this company goes out of business. yeah, it's just so charitable. disgusting charitable. it's disgusting though. it? andy. though. that, isn't it? andy. lucy, thank you very much indeed. very much. let's have a look weather now with aidan. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a chilly start in many places today. cloudier in the north with some

outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. but a few light outbreaks of rain reaching northern ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into northern england and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it'll feel pleasantly warm . 15, perhaps 16 pleasantly warm. 15, perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and that rain wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but it's going to be a blustery start to friday. areas of cloud moving south. some light showers for many places. the most frequent showers will be

affecting the far north of scotland. the wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and there'll be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. away. >> good morning to you. it's 7:00 on thursday, the 18th of april. today, another scandal hits the tory party as the mp mark menzies loses the whip over claims he misused campaign funds i >> -- >> us rishi sunak can't afford another headache. but that's exactly what he's got with mark

menzies losing the whip. find out more with me very soon. >> the prince of wales will today return to official public dufies today return to official public duties for the first time since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis. >> well, travel carnage continues in dubai as flash flooding devastates the city. we spoke to one british expat earlier on. >> unfortunately , some people >> unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties, some people's homes have been flooded. it really has been a very scary time for us all here. >> law enforcement bust an illegal website used by cyber criminals to defraud thousands of uk victims. >> 70 asylum seekers are moved out of a former raf base after major safety risks emerge . major safety risks emerge. >> 70 residents of former raf wethersfield are now back in expensive hotels over fears due to contamination and unexploded ordnance. i'll have the details

with smoking set to be banned for those born after 2009 over health risks, we're asking is it time for the government to get tougher on alcohol too? >> we'll be debating that shortly. >> and in the sport , in the >> and in the sport, in the champions league, manchester city are knocked out on penalties to real madrid , whilst penalties to real madrid, whilst arsenal lose to bayern munich. now, with the olympics in paris this year, nobody wants the commonwealth games in 2026, so glasgow could be the answer . and glasgow could be the answer. and personally, as sport pastimes and fashion specialist here @gbnews, i'll be combining all three with olympic opening ceremony clothing . ceremony clothing. >> it's a beautiful start out there for many places and there's more sunshine to come this weekend , but before that this weekend, but before that happens, there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on gb news is.

the expensive coffee we were talking about a minute ago. £265 per shot. it's in mayfair in london. i mean, who is going to buy it? well, frankly , who? buy it? well, frankly, who? >> i was thinking of you because when we went to a coffee shop, which we probably shouldn't name. no, but close to here, it was. how much for coffees? >> it was for coffees . we went >> it was for coffees. we went with paul coyte and his daughter and think 2 or 3 of you had and i think 2 or 3 of you had like a croissant or something, and it was about £38. >> and you, you almost had a heart attack. >> i almost died, and it's literally, it's literally just like a little coffee shop and bakery and the coffee comes out like this, doesn't it? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, pastry comes out like this. >> i wasn't even paying . >> i wasn't even paying. >> i wasn't even paying. >> no, i wasn't paul coyte was paying >> no, i wasn't paul coyte was paying paul coyte. >> i mean, i nearly died paul coyte i had to pick him up off

the floor. it was about £38. >> oh, paul paul coyte more paul coyte. >> that's a difficult thing to say. >> it's a disgrace. >> it's a disgrace. >> it's a disgrace. >> i know it is. >>— >> i know it is. >> it's an absolute disgrace. anyway, £265 for a shot of coffee. >> i mean, that takes the biscuit, doesn't it, ben purdy? >> hi ben says the nhs hierarchy, we drinking it to hierarchy, we are drinking it to reduce yeah. good. reduce stress, yeah. very good. yeah yeah. >> john andrews has said, has ellie brought any cookies or ellie brought you any cookies or cake today, steve. >> no, no it's not. >>— >> no, no it's not. >> no, no it's not. >> no, no. and earlier on we were talking about smoking and young women taking up smoking. and to i had say smoking is bad. don't do it, david. david's been in touch. said if gb presenters are obliged to say smoking is bad then it's all about the nanny state winning the day. there are certain guidelines that you can't promote things which are known to be bad. why? there are warnings on cigarette packets. everybody knows it's bad, what you can't do is bad, but what you can't do is promote it as a thing. so i'm just it's just got cover just it's just got to cover our backs. there rules and regs, backs. there are rules and regs, whether like them or not.

whether you like them or not. you've got to be there. i mean, it makes sense in a way you can't sort of you don't know who's watching. kids are watching. got you've got watching. you've got you've got to just, also been talking to just, we've also been talking about travel destinations. about cheap travel destinations. >> some of greek >> apparently some of the greek islands are the cheapest places to according to to go this year, according to which been in touch, which mary's been in touch, saying malta. she just moved back from malta after 11 years. it's full of building work and cranes. it's cheap for a reason. be very careful where you stay . be very careful where you stay. greedy developers have spoilt it, she well, maybe that's it, she says. well, maybe that's why cheap for sure. why it's cheap for sure. >> we talk about wind >> and we talk about wind turbines in the papers as well. they look in germany, building ones shard, a ones higher than the shard, a thousand paul farrow thousand of them, paul farrow says. i've heard this says. and i've heard this before. i mean, ijust don't know how true it is. wind turbines. turbines are not eco friendly . they use vast amounts friendly. they use vast amounts of oil for lubrication and maintenance . yes. plus, he says, maintenance. yes. plus, he says, we have nowhere to store the energy that's produced. energy storage is a big problem and there's all these claims that it would take a wind turbine a decade or something to recoup

the amount of carbon that's used in their manufacture. there's all this sort of thing. it's the same with batteries for electric cars and all the rest of it. how you balance all that out into doing something which is actually sustainable, i don't know, i don't know . so there you know, i don't know. so there you go.the know, i don't know. so there you go. the oil for lubrication, maybe they use eco oil i don't know, it's a pathway isn't it? >> you do wonder how. >> you do wonder how. >> because i tell you what. because all the electric cars and all the rest of it, you know, all well and good. all fine. but you see, you see, if you see mcdonald's trucks on the motorway, they all say we're dnven motorway, they all say we're driven using eco diesel oil. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> biofuel and biofuel from the from the fat that they use to fry your chips and chicken. and i saw something the other day saying it was being powered by food waste. and cow manure , food waste. and cow manure, apparently. so if you can do all of this to fuel lorries and cars and things, why aren't we doing

it with our wind turbines? >> and doesn't the king have a car that he runs on cheese and wine, or have i made that up? >> not cheese. i don't think it's cheese. wine though. >> wine, wine don't have. you >> wine, wine i don't have. you should the line . i don't should hold the line. i don't think i've millom more cheese in the engine. >> add the cheese. >> add the cheese. >> it is cheese and wine . >> it is cheese and wine. exactly. prince charles reveals his car runs on cheese and wine . his car runs on cheese and wine. i retain this sort of information. >> i was used to. >>— >> i was used to. >> well, just cheese stew. well, i can't, i don't run it. shove a slice in. >> yeah, he says white wine and way, way, oh cheese way . way, way, oh cheese way. >> the cheese process. >> the cheese process. >> oh, there you go. >> oh, there you go. >> i had the right idea. someone said, oh, i had the right idea. >> someone said on social media, this is in the guardian. i hope he drives carefully. yes, very carefully. oh very good. >> so he does technically cheese and wine. run it on cheese and wine. >> what a waste of cheese and wine. though, to be fair, maybe

it's the waste products of cheese and wine. >> yeah that's fine actually, i'm getting out another batch, another champagne. another bottle of champagne. >> . oh, yeah. >> dear. oh, yeah. >> dear. oh, yeah. >> no, he's probably got the money to do that, hasn't it? but there's all these sort of things that we can do, right. >> and bio diesel. i'm all, you know, wine. >> you're all for it. it works well. >> let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay. i'm still getting on that. >> yeah. well done. yeah. well remembered, right. >> yeah. well done. yeah. well remembered, right . let's kick remembered, right. let's kick off with the news. which is bad news for the government again, because there's another scandal hitting the tory party. the mp mark menzies has lost the party whip over the alleged misuse of campaign funds. now it is quite a complex story. this one. >> yeah it is. number 10. have launched an investigation into the matter. menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the house of commons, he's issued a statement saying i dispute the allegations put to me . saying i dispute the allegations put to me. i've saying i dispute the allegations put to me . i've complied with put to me. i've complied with all the rules for declarations ,

all the rules for declarations, as there's an investigation ongoing, i won't comment any further. >> well, we're joined now by our political correspondent , olivia political correspondent, olivia utley. as we were just saying, libya, this is a little bit complicated. so you can explain all of this to us, but it is essentially another scandal to hit the tory party in an election year. and it's a real headache for rishi sunak, isn't it ? it? >> it definitely is. and it has the whiff of quite a big scandal. it is complicated, but what it boils down to is that mark menzies used £14,000 of money donated to the conservative party ringfenced, obviously for use in campaigning for his own personal use. that's the allegation that the times newspaper has made today . there newspaper has made today. there is also an allegation that mark menzies called his former campaign manager, a 78 year old woman, in the middle of the night, three in the morning and asked her to transfer him £5,000 from campaign funds . she didn't, from campaign funds. she didn't, and in the morning he asked for

it to be transferred, from, from his new campaign manager, and she did indeed transfer it. his new campaign manager, and she did indeed transfer it . now, she did indeed transfer it. now, it's not clear if he was being blackmailed, but i think that is the suggestion at the moment. altogether this amounts to tens of thousands of pounds. and what makes this particularly worrying for rishi sunak and for the conservative party is that the allegations were actually made three months ago, but until today, the story hasn't broken. and obviously mark menzies has only just been stripped of the conservative whip. why has it taken so long? there's going to be a lot of questions for simon hart, the chief whip, and for the prime minister himself. for the prime minister himself. for the time being, though, it is very bad news for rishi sunak. he's already lost six conservative mps , quite a lot of conservative mps, quite a lot of them, through scandals most recently have caused a william wragg he can't really afford wragg and he can't really afford to be haemorrhaging mps in the run up to a general election. >> okay, olivia , thanks very

>> okay, olivia, thanks very much indeed. >> well, the conservative party have also issued a statement saying the conservative party is investigating allegations made regarding a member of parliament. this process is rightfully confidential. the party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them . them. >> now the home office has been forced to move asylum seekers out of a former raf base in essex after safety concerns were raised about the site. >> well, our reporter ray addison is there for us now. good to see you this morning, ray, and tell us more . ray, and tell us more. >> well, it's interesting, isn't it, because this site was assessed as safe and fit for purpose by the home office, just a matter of ten months ago. and now, of course, after they've ten months after they've moved in a reported seven vie asylum seekers have been moved out and back into those expensive hotels that we know the government is

very keen to stop using. now. why have they gone? well, of course, those safety risks have been raised. concerns over the potential for radiological contamination and, very worryingly, particularly for the residents inside unexploded ordnance as well. now this former raf airbase is currently being used as one of the home office's largest mass accommodation sites . it can accommodation sites. it can accommodate up to 800 people. however, they won't tell us exactly how many people are here at the moment, but they exactly how many people are here at the moment , but they received at the moment, but they received planning permission to use this site for three years and they got that last month. they got a special development order or an sdo, which circumvented , council sdo, which circumvented, council planning permission. and there were concerns raised in this sdo at the time, of risks of contamination from gases, radiological contamination , and radiological contamination, and that unexploded ordnance, ordnance that we've been talking

about as well. of course, it's not the only site where we've had this problem, raf scampton as well, in lincolnshire, that was expected to open this month but has been reportedly, been delayed now until june. now, i've been here for about an hour this morning, and i did get the chance to have a quick , chance to have a quick, conversation as they were walking off with a couple of residents here this morning. here's what they had to say. >> another quick chat . no, no . >> another quick chat. no, no. are you guys worried about the contamination on the site ? where contamination on the site? where are you off to? yeah where are you going? working. oh, what job do you have? >> well, it's interesting there. i don't know if you sort of hard to work out. i was trying to figure out if they said they were going walking or working. it sounded like working. i've

listened back to it a couple of times now. of course, asylum seekers, their claims seekers, having their claims processed not allowed processed are not allowed to work, there be some work, so there might be some questions there . a home questions raised there. a home office said office spokesman said wethersfield for asylum wethersfield is safe for asylum seekers, we're working seekers, and we're working at pace ensure abide by the pace to ensure we abide by the conditions special conditions in the special development home development order. the home secretary, know , has been secretary, we know, has been ordered initiate a programme ordered to initiate a programme of intrusive ground investigations to assess contamination. who knows? as that process continues, it's possible we may see more residents here having to be moved back into hotels. i also reached out to braintree district council, graham butland is the leader and he said that the council has written to the home office requesting urgent copies of all the relevant technical documents and plans under the sdo to support their duty in safeguarding the interests of the local community. >> okay, ray addison, thank you very much indeed . very much indeed. >> well, in response, the home office has had this to say. we have always been clear the use of asylum hotels is

unacceptable, which is why we moved asylum seekers to former military sites, which we ensure a safe to accommodate asylum seekers prior to use . well, or seekers prior to use. well, or perhaps not in this case. i mean, unexploded ordnance are heck beggars belief. >> it really does. now, dozens of suspected cyber fraudsters have been arrested across the uk after authorities brought down an illegal website used by thousands of criminals to defraud victims worldwide. >> well, police have identified at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone as sophisticated online enablers train criminals to set up fake websites to scam victims into handing over their personal details . mark white has the details. mark white has the story across the uk. >> dozens of suspected cyber criminals had a rude awakening as law enforcement here and around the globe moved in to

smash a multi—million pound onune smash a multi—million pound online scam that defrauded many thousands of victims . multiple thousands of victims. multiple addresses were raided and some suspects were pulled off flights at manchester and luton airports. >> you have been identified as inaya in lab host, an online phishing platform which allows users to set up fraudulent websites in order to impersonate onune websites in order to impersonate online services such as banking. >> this is now the front page greeting any would be cyber criminal trying to access the services of this illegal online site . the website lab host is site. the website lab host is part of a hugely worrying development in cybercrime . it development in cybercrime. it aimed to provide an easy, step by step guide on how to download and use fake sites your page has installed and you're ready to spam. >> make sure to check that it works before starting your spam. stay safe and good!

>> spamming unsuspecting members of the public would then believe those sites were pages from legitimate businesses like banks and retailers. all with the aim of phishing, of fooling victims into revealing personal details which would be used to commit fraud . fraud. >> and there are unfortunately many enabling services to fraud. however, together with our law enforcement partners, we are tackling them to take out an enabler means that we are able to take it out at source, and this , we hope, will send out this, we hope, will send out a message to those using similar services that we can get their data and we will be onto them. >> law enforcement have identified at least 70,000 victims of this latest cyber scam in the uk alone. the lab host site made more than £1 million from 2000 criminals who subscribed to download its services. those attempting to

access the site now are faced with a bit of online trolling from law enforcement. >> you've targeted victims all around the world. the police. there may not be too happy with you . think carefully about where you. think carefully about where you. think carefully about where you go on holiday next. that was your 2023 lab host wrapped lab host is dead now with that illegal site now infiltrated and disrupted by authorities , dozens disrupted by authorities, dozens of those it was training and equipping in the art of cyber fraud are in police custody and likely facing prosecution. >> mark white, gb news. >> mark white, gb news. >> now there's chaos in the united arab emirates as thousands of uk travellers are struggling to get home. never mind the people who live there. yeah, after all this dreadful weather and flash flooding closed the airport and there's just roads, absolutely flooded cars abandoned and everything. it's been horrific. >> it really has. >> it really has. >> well, the airport has urged passengers to stay away unless

absolutely necessary. after it was hit with more than a year's worth of rainfall in the space of 24 hours, one man has lost his life as a result of the bad weather. >> and earlier we spoke to british expat kyrees bryant . british expat kyrees bryant. >> oh my goodness, it has been chaos. indeed. we've seen so much happening in 24 hours. i think we're still in shock. the roads have been flooded , cars roads have been flooded, cars are still stranded in the streets, you can see the aftermath of blown down, signs and boards all over the city. fortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. some people's homes have been flooded. it really has been a very scary time for us all here. >> kyrees how have you been affected as your apartment been flooded? have you been able to get out and about? >> oh goodness me. in the words of batten down the hatches , we of batten down the hatches, we was closing the windows and doors with all of our force barricading ourselves in with towels, it's safe to say some of

the older apartments in dubai have not been built for this weather. so we have a very big laundry bill, coming our way for the towels and blankets used to stop the rain from coming in. >> i mean, presumably somewhere like dubai just isn't built for this. hasn't got the, i don't know, even the sort of the drainage to deal with this level of rainfall in such a short amount of time. >> correct. i mean, we are in the middle of the desert, and the middle of the desert, and the sewage systems have been thought about. it's something that a lot of people have researched . but you must researched. but you must remember, if it's not going to be filled with water, it will be filled with sand. so we have to have a compromise. we was never expecting this type rainfall. expecting this type of rainfall. it's over years since it's been over 75 years since we've had rainfall in the we've had such rainfall in the uae and 75 years ago. what you see now was just a vision , just see now was just a vision, just a dream. >> and what the authority's been telling you there. i mean, we're heanng telling you there. i mean, we're hearing about the airport there and the disruption to people trying to get out, but what

advice are you being given? >> the advice we've been given from our local authorities, has been to stay safe and stay indoors for as long as possible , indoors for as long as possible, to stock up on all utensils and foods just to make sure you are safe. if you are trapped anywhere , and also just to kind anywhere, and also just to kind of look out for one another as well. >> well, talking there about the horrendous weather in dubai, do you let us know if you've been affected by that? by the way, if you've been out there on holiday or know, that have or you know, people that have been know. we'd love been do let us know. we'd love to to you. actually, gb to talk to you. actually, gb views tell me gb news gbnews.com/yoursay. that's it, but least we can say the but at least we can say the weather be bit weather here might be a bit miserable, as miserable, but it's nothing as bad we've been seeing in bad as what we've been seeing in dubal bad as what we've been seeing in dubai. mcgivern has dubai. aidan mcgivern has all the details. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb news is . weather on gb news is. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a chilly start in many places today.

cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. but a few light outbreaks of rain reaching northern ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into northern england and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it will feel pleasantly warm . 15 perhaps feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and with the wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but it's going to be a blustery start to friday. areas of cloud moving south. some light showers

for many places. the most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. the wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and there'll be some big waves along the north sea coast as well . showers by the as well. showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> now don't miss out on your chance to win a £10,000 greek cruise, a luxury travel bundle and a whopping £10,000 in tax free cash. >> yes, it's our biggest prize of the year so far, and here's how it could all be yours with thanks to variety cruises, a family company sailing since 1942, you have the chance to win a £10,000 seven night small boat cruise for two with flights,

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one. most of us haven't got that sort of money. however looking after money and have after your money and we have been talking scams today . been talking about scams today. christopher's touch. hi christopher's been in touch. hi christopher. i was christopher. he says i was scammed yesterday on facebook. oh, bank did their job oh, but my bank did theirjob and stopped the transaction. well good good for you. thank. the banks are good when they do that sort of thing, so there you go. so loads of you getting in touch as well. a whole host of different issues. gb news communist tony's been in touch. lee. drake. oh. morning, lee. very good, pat stedman, loads of you getting in touch. so we're reading through all of them? yes. >> do keep them coming in. and you'll also have an opinion on this one. should there be stricter rules on alcohol. we're going to be discussing that

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said to be bad for those born after 2009. and critics have pointed out the negative impacts that drinking can also have on your health. >> yeah, well, of course, if you're over 18, you can buy and dnnk you're over 18, you can buy and drink alcohol, we know that. so we're asking should the government get tougher on drinking now? >> well, joining us now is the owner of the sanden, kate stewart and the author of i'm never drinking again. dom mcgregor. good to see you mcgregor. very good to see you both. i think it's quite clear which side of the debate both of you sit on. kate, let's start with you, shall we? do you think that the government needs to get stricter with alcohol? >> thing is, with alcohol, >> the thing is, with alcohol, it's been around forever for absolute first pub was absolute ever. the first pub was established and pubs established in 1947 and pubs bnng established in 1947 and pubs bring £100 billion revenue into the economy every single year. the hospitality industry employs 3.5 million people. it's like everything . everything is good everything. everything is good

in moderation and you know , we in moderation and you know, we need pubs. during lockdown, people were craving to be together and that's what pubs are for. they offer socialising, they offer coming together and we need them in this country. >> it's hard to argue against that isn't it? mean, so that dom, isn't it? i mean, so how i mean how would you how do i mean how would you regulate alcohol more in your with without damaging an industry , i kind of, really industry, i kind of, really disagree with the fact that the only way people can get together is at pubs. you know, there's plenty of ways people can spend time together, healthier time together, and healthier time together, and healthier time spent together time can be spent together rather being centred rather than being centred on alcohol, just because alcohol, and just because something's been around since for doesn't mean it's for 500 years doesn't mean it's the do, you know, the right thing to do, you know, we more insights more we get more insights and more data and the world data on things, and the world changes a little bit, and we wake up to these, issues that alcohol faces, alcohol is already the trajectory already on the same trajectory as anyway, people as smoking. anyway, young people aren't pubs are aren't doing it, pubs are closing record rates, so , i closing at record rates, so, i think from my perspective, when we're taking a step back. >> forgive me. don, pubs are closing at record rates. that's absolutely. it's not because

people don't want to drink, is it? it's because they're buying it? it's because they're buying it elsewhere . it elsewhere. >> yeah, that's obviously true. but we take a step and but if we take a step back and watch, actually but if we take a step back and watch, about actually but if we take a step back and watch, about here actually but if we take a step back and watch, about here is actually but if we take a step back and watch, about here is anactually talking about here is an addictive drug. which costs lives and is highly addictive. and, all the data points to alcohol dependency, not just addiction as a killer. >> okay, kate, what do you say to that? it's addictive, and it costs lives. >> so the thing is, it's like everything, isn't it? so if people are not drinking in pubs, if you're drinking in a pub, you've got a public and a licensee there to say, we're not serving more, you've had serving you no more, you've had enough. home, you can to enough. at home, you can go to supermarkets, you can buy as much you want and you much alcohol as you want and you can much as you want. i can drink as much as you want. i also cic, which is recovery also own, cic, which is recovery housing who've housing for people who've suffered so suffered from addiction. so i see sides it. the people see both sides of it. the people who service users who live in my properties, they live by pubs. it doesn't bother them. they know addiction know they've got an addiction on.the know they've got an addiction on. the thing that has to be doneis on. the thing that has to be done is that people need educating. so when you've had

enough, enough. but as i enough, it's enough. but as i said in a pub, there is someone there to say, no, you've had enough.the there to say, no, you've had enough. the doors closed, you can sit in your house and drink all night. no one stops you. we need pubs. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> i'm not disagreeing about having places for people to come together, but when we look at alcohol, what alcohol is, it's an emotional reaction. how people , live their lives. and people, live their lives. and we've marketing which is we've got marketing which is pushing connection pushing emotional connection with and with alcohol constantly, and people will drink in pubs, but also people will then hide their addiction as much as they can at home. and, it's actually not the pubs that's the issue. it's the alcohol in general, where we have drinking from young have people drinking from young ages and increasing the chance of dependency up 50% by the of dependency up to 50% by the time 21, 22 years old. time the 21, 22 years old. >> but what about free choice dom? you know, and i, you know, i don't drink anymore . i used to i don't drink anymore. i used to you used to love a drink. i don't drink any more. i had a dnnk don't drink any more. i had a drink for 20 years. however, i wouldn't want to stop other people from having a drink if they enjoy it. we've got. we've

got a right to make our own decisions, haven't we? >> 100. and i think that i'm actually against the banning of anything. you know, we're all old to make own old enough to make our own choices , but when we've got the choices, but when we've got the amount and we take the betting as similar when we've as a similar example, when we've got amount of money spent in got the amount of money spent in marketing, these marketing, pushing these products constantly 24 products to people constantly 24 seven, reason people seven, there's no reason people fall form addictions in these spaces. we look at spaces. so when we look at strict, around strict, stricter laws around alcohol, has to alcohol, it for me it has to look at the marketing of it, but also access to it from, different times and different ages. i think scotland have introduced lot regulations introduced a lot of regulations which actually quite good which are actually quite good for people. >> what do you make of >> kate, what do you make of that? >> think as well it is if >> i just think as well it is if you've got an addictive personality, you aren't going to get that from anyway, it doesn't stop. no way. we're talking about people who consume far too much alcohol . yes, people need much alcohol. yes, people need educating, and maybe there should be stipulations on the advertising advertising to young people . the age restriction is people. the age restriction is 18 and should stay 18, and i

just think it is all based on education, but fundamentally it's people's choice whether they drink or not. and there's absolutely millions of people outside the uk who do drink in moderation. and drink correctly. >> yeah, i think the one thing i would say about the education piece is it's very difficult to educate people 1819 year old and they don't know actually the full of things. by full impact of things. and by the time actually they've been drinking one two years, they drinking for one two years, they could you've one eighth of issues. you've got one eighth of people been proven to people who have been proven to have gene which is leaning have a gene which is leaning towards we're towards addiction. so we're speaking i think that's speaking about, i think that's what 5 million people potentially the could potentially in the uk who could face the face addiction problems in the future. unfortunately, future. and unfortunately, sometimes that's already hardwired by the time they get to 18 years old. >> well, maybe so, maybe so. and i've got sympathies with people like that. >> i just think it's just it's the big brother element of it all. yeah. isn't it i don't know. anyway, look, don mcgregor, thank you very much indeed. see you, kate indeed. good to see you, kate stewart. always stewart. delighted it's always good, we someone good, kate, when we have someone with northwest accent on, with a northwest accent on, i'm saying more. love it

saying no more. but i love it because it reminds me of being back up home. hey, i'm north west as well. oh, there you go. well, there you go. >> you've got two of you then for the price of one. >> two for the price of one. >> two for the price of one. >> we can't eat you overly clearly in the here in the studio, dom. but i didn't pick up on that. but thank you, so there you go. it's like a northwest here. yeah northwest fiesta here. yeah drinking yes. drinking and not drinking. yes. whichever . actually, i whichever you fancy. actually, i do people need drink in do think people need to drink in moderation. do not overdo it, moderation. i do not overdo it, but, you can't. moderation. i do not overdo it, but, you can't . you can't be big but, you can't. you can't be big brother over it all. yeah, nanny. >> statism of it all. >> statism of it all. >> you've got to. you've got to let people make their own decisions. we know it's harmful, don't we? >> just like we know junk food is harmful or. >> yeah, it's got to do it, you know, in moderation. know, all in moderation. >> that's we were saying. >> that's what we were saying. >> that's what we were saying. >> as, steve miller would >> and as, steve miller would say from a former families presenter. a little bit of presenter. yeah, a little bit of what fancy you good. what you fancy does you good. >> he does say that. >> oh, he does say that. >> oh, he does say that. >> he does say that he's not a northerner. >> is the there's theme >> this is the there's the theme anyway. anywhere. anyway. look, don't go anywhere. we've sport heading your

we've got all sport heading your way a minute with paul way in just a minute with paul coyte.

>> welcome back. it's time to go through all of the latest sports news. paul coyte is here with us. us. >> us. >> hello ? hello, hello. wait. >> hello? hello, hello. wait. >> hello? hello, hello. wait. >> where should we start? should we go with. start with the football champions league last night. >> i think we should. yes. >> i think we should. yes. >> okay. arsenal. we want to mention arsenal. arsenal? arsenal out the champions arsenal are out of the champions league. they're beaten bayern league. they're beaten by bayern munich, stadium munich, at the allianz stadium last night . munich, at the allianz stadium last night. so munich, at the allianz stadium last night . so unfortunately last night. so unfortunately arsenal are out. they could have made it the semi final. you made it to the semi final. you know it was such a good game at the emirates and then they've gone to munich and lost one gone over to munich and lost one nil and so anyway that's all over for them. manchester city against real madrid again this was another game that was hanging in the balance, real madrid ahead early. madrid went ahead very early. thenit madrid went ahead very early. then it was just all manchester city just surging forward,

surging forward. could they get that goal? they finally did. 76 minutes kevin de bruyne to minutes kevin de bruyne went to extra time. went to penalties. the dreaded penalties which i say dreaded . they're only say dreaded. they're only dreaded if you lose. if you win, it's fantastic . at penalty it's fantastic. at penalty shootout bernardo silva, you'd expect to score . probably expect him to score. probably one of the worst penalties i've ever just at the ever seen. just straight at the keepen ever seen. just straight at the keeper. little loopy donkey keeper. a little loopy donkey drop straight into the keeper's hands. i think it's a donkey drop, i don't know. yes. never heard of one of those. no it's just like that. >> it'sjust just just like that. >> it's just just so straight to him. >> it's just like it was just like, there you go. and he's like, there you go. and he's like, oh, thanks very much. it was like, what you thinking, was like, what are you thinking, matteo that was saved matteo kovacic that was saved as well. so that's it. it's out for their the champions and it's all over so bayern munich over for them. so bayern munich will play madrid in one will now play real madrid in one semi—final. then we've got semi—final. and then we've got borussia will borussia dortmund who will play paris saint—germain other paris saint—germain in the other semi—final. do still have semi—final. but we do still have engush semi—final. but we do still have english teams in the europa league, just about league, right? just about hanging on liverpool, who lost four nil against atalanta . four nil against atalanta. they've got to play over in

italy so that's tonight. so you know what do you think there's a chance. >> well three nil four nil deficit for. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> that's no. >> that's no. >> well basically they turned over when they were losing three nil to real madrid. this was a few years ago but i don't know. it's going to be tough over there. and then you've got west ham. we wish them well who are playing ellie's favourite team. who are bayer leverkusen in the bundesliga? in the bundesliga, they used to call them bayer leverkusen because they never win the title and they now have. >> and now they're doing great. >> and now they're doing great. >> don't know why they did >> i don't know why they did because i know where the because i don't know where the never actually a german word , never is actually a german word, but that's what they did call them. west them. but they're playing west ham nil up. ham tonight. they're two nil up. so west ham nil down so if west ham were two nil down west are. so hopefully west west ham are. so hopefully west ham that over. and ham can turn that over. and aston villa playing lille in the conference. right. which aston villa playing lille in the conferenthe right. which aston villa playing lille in the conferenthe fashion.�*|ich actually the fashion. >> i think we should do >> yeah i think we should do a bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> olympic fashion. bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> it.ympic fashion. bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> it is. pic fashion. bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> it is. iic fashion. bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> it is. i mean ion. bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> it is. i mean it1. bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> it is. i mean it is, it is bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> parisi mean it is, it is bit of fashion. olympic fashion. >> paris olympics. s, it is bit of fashion. olympic fashion.

>> paris olympics. if it is not the paris olympics. if it's not fashionable there's going to be a i so should we look at >> i agree. so should we look at what what parisians, the what what parisians, what the french to be wearing french are going to be wearing for opening ceremony, that's for the opening ceremony, that's all. through it, all. i'll talk you through it, it's bellucci. they're it's designer bellucci. they're the wool suit with coloured the navy wool suit with coloured silk lapel, tuxedo inspired outfit using noble materials and patina effects. you know what patina effects. you know what patina effects. you know what patina effects are? no, it's kind of like a little metallic. reflective effect. >> oh, is that what's on the colour? >> that's that's it. >> that's that's it. >> i just like that. >> i just like that. >> well, it looks like a magician's outfit. >> do you think so? i like it, i rather like it. >> so the whole the shoes. oh, no, i like the shoes. >> yes. >> yes. >> all right. the blazers horrific. >> like you don't like it. no. >> like you don't like it. no. >> red and blue motif inspired by the french flag. women will have a cutaway sleeve. >> the trainers are dreadful, too. >> so there we are. okay. oh, you're in the french team, you're not in the french team, then, it? then, isn't it? >> no, i think, what about america? >> should we go to usa? oh, yeah. >> they're wearing. oh, dread. oh, no. >> ralph lauren, you know ralph lauren. >> it's got usa written >> oh, it's got usa written a stitched on in to too. >> it's the classic preppy

looks. >> it's the classic preppy loo oh love that. >> oh i love that. >> oh i love that. >> that's nice. >> that's nice. >> sporty and stylish designs. and red, white and blue made with consideration with a thoughtful consideration of manufacturing of material and manufacturing choices. that 19 i choices. no, i like that 19 i like that look. >> that's not oh i like that. oh i'd buy that myself. >> no see all the time though. >> is it just it's been >> is it just like it's been bought out of a shop? >> yeah. which is why i like tommy hilfiger or whatever it's called. >> yeah. so. so what do we think then. so for the french one, you like the french like the french one? french one? i like the french one. >> not mad? >> you're not mad? >> you're not mad? >> of you know the us. >> both of you know the us. >> both of you know the us. >> you go with the american. >> you go with the american. >> that's lovely. >> that's lovely. >> that's lovely. >> that is all right. well, in that case, i will go with australia have australia and canada. we'll have a oh, yeah, look a look at those. oh, yeah, look at those. yeah. at those. yeah yeah. >> i think the usa one will be tough to beat. okay. >> give throw it out there. >> give throw it out there. >> now they've just pulled a jumper denim jacket jumper on and a denim jacket i mean there's a denim jacket. yeah. >> e"- 9 they're the type yeah. >> they're the type that >> lovely. they're the type that would the jumper or the would wear the jumper or the sweater. they'd around sweater. they'd tie it around their like no. their neck. oh it's like oh no. you your socks around your you tie your socks around your ankles. no that's a good look ankles. no no that's a good look for you. got to wear it.

>> that's a good look. >> that's a good look. >> yeah. it's preppy costello >> yeah. oh it's preppy costello and afterwards. and you can keep it afterwards. >> multiple use you know >> it's multiple use you know you're ivy league i know you're so ivy league i know i don't even know what that means. no, i know, but i like the sound of it. >> i like i honestly, >> i like it. i honestly, i don't when we clash over don't like it when we clash over things. >> p can have the things. >> can have the ugly >> no, you can have the ugly french one and i'll have the ralph lauren. >> i don't want to dress the same. no, no, i don't want to dress the same. >> although do every day. >> although we do every day. >> although we do every day. >> i just say >> can i just say i'm disappointed in you? >> can i just say i'm disappc disappointed >> can i just say i'm disappcdisappointed in >> can i just say i'm disappc disappointed in you. >> i'm disappointed in you. you're poor. in you're very poor. taste in olympic fashion. you're very poor. taste in olywell,fashion. you're very poor. taste in olywell,fasit on. you're very poor. taste in olywell,fasit makes it better, >> well, if it makes it better, i'm disappointed of you. >> thanks very much >> oh, thanks very much indeed. >> oh, thanks very much indeed. >> thanks, dad. >> thanks, dad. >> right. we'll later >> right. we'll see paul later with more fashion news, still to come. jeff. jeff. >> jeff. jeff from what come. jeff. jeff. >> jthatleff from what come. jeff. jeff. >> jthatleff called)m what come. jeff. jeff. >> jthatleff called)m vclothes was that show called the clothes show? yeah, show? the clothes show. yeah, yeah, pet shop boys, the theme >> no. pet shop boys, the theme tune that. right. very tune to that. that's right. very good. oh, that's going back about now. you had about 40 years now. have you had to renew car insurance to renew your car insurance recently? it's very recently? because it's very expensive. telling me breaking news. extortionate. it's crazy. >> anyway, we'll talk about it in the papers in just a moment.

>> excuse me. >> excuse me. >> excuse me. >> excuse you. >> excuse you. >> excuse you. >> excuse me, i do apologise, time for the papers this morning with political commentator andy williams and psychotherapist lucy , who thinks she's lucy beresford, who thinks she's having a group session here this morning with us. >> we might need it. >> we might need it. >> we might need it. andy, >> we might need it. andy, let's have a look at the times. should we? tory mp scandal? >> yeah. so i mean we're getting excuse me. very used to these. another, mp , scandal. i think another, mp, scandal. i think the really interesting thing here is that the conservatives won a majority of 80 in 2019, and they've lost so many mps that's now down to 49. i mean, there are now 18 independent mps because so many people have been suspended or have lost the whip. so this is just another the latest in a long line of people who have, come a cropper. and

it's another headache for rishi sunak. >> well, so we're going to be a little bit careful what we say, but there's a lot of questions to be answered about this one. but anyway. all right, let's move swiftly on then to lucy and, rishi sunak banning smoking for anyone born after 2009. we've been asking about alcohol this morning. we've been asking about alcohol this morning . apparently he this morning. apparently he wants to go for phones next. >> it is interesting that his legacy could very well be about the things that he banned, rather than the things that he built, the things that he created. but nevertheless, some research of parents suggested that 83% of them felt that smartphones were damaging and harmful to their children. now, you could argue if you're the parent, it's up to you as to whether you get a phone for your kid. but so many parents don't want their child to be the only one in the classroom that doesn't you know, doesn't have, you know, i remember days when you were remember the days when you were the didn't the only person that didn't watch for you know, watch itv for example, you know, if had super strict parents. if you had super strict parents.

so there is that peer pressure. but is a book by jonathan but there is a book by jonathan haidt. he's a psychologist. rishi sunak apparently is telling everyone to read this book, and it's talking about how smartphones have basically almost rewired brains almost rewired the brains of children . children. >> and we know from the acas that's true. >> yes, absolutely. well, it it's had the effect on adults as well in terms of attention span, in terms of the way in which you seek affirmation and the diminished moment of your life that actually you, you , you are that actually you, you, you are engaged with people who wouldn't know you if they passed you in the street. and do have the street. and do they have their interests heart? their best interests at heart? and report in and the cass report in particular, last week highlighted how poor the highlighted just how poor the mental health is, particularly for women . and what for young women. and what jonathan haight's book really emphasises how women are, emphasises is how women are, particularly on platforms like instagram tiktok , which are instagram or tiktok, which are way more visual that actually that's really affecting women and young girls in their body, their body confidence. so so absolutely, i would applaud

banning smartphones. for anyone under the age of 16. i just think i cannot see any rationale for a child needing a phone banning smartphones or banning social media, banning banning smartphones in general, because there are all sorts of things that you can have on phones like games. and it is interesting. there some research out there was some research out recently showed that young recently that showed that young men are less likely to have an injury than 50 year old men, and obviously that used to be reversed because young boys would go out and climb trees and they would, you know, do really physical things. but now they're just sitting at home on their phones and that's not healthy. we're breeding we're we're breeding a generation of people who don't have the social skills to function in adult life. and it would be it would be affected by banning smartphones. >> all right. >> all right. >> you can see with teenagers, can't you? i mean, when i'm talking to teenagers in my family, for example, they wouldn't pick the wouldn't want to pick up the phone doctor's phone to make a doctor's appointment wouldn't appointment or they wouldn't want ring a family member.

want to ring a family member. it's almost lost, isn't it? it's almost been lost, isn't it? because it's all instantaneous messaging, whatsapp because it's all instantaneous mesyeah,], whatsapp because it's all instantaneous mesyeah,], snapchat,hatsapp and yeah, and snapchat, and they're obsessed with tiktok. >> i think i'm >> and i mean, i do think i'm sure we all feel that being on your smartphone is incredibly addictive . you i know that addictive. you i know that i instinctively just reach for my phone, mindlessly scroll, you get lost in twitter and you're sort just wasting time. sort of just wasting time. i mean, it does. i think we're kind of all gripped by it for sure, but it kind of goes back to gratification to the gratification thing. >> gratification >> again, not all gratification at but terms at this time, but just in terms of gratification where of the gratification where everything instantaneous. everything is instantaneous. is that sounds that actually the little sounds that actually the little sounds that on your phone when that are made on your phone when you get a whatsapp message or when you get a text that actually your brain responds to that positive and that it's something positive and therefore really hungry therefore you're really hungry for and we've the for that. and we've lost the skills actually having skills of actually having joy in different skills of actually having joy in diffwell, went down a youtube >> well, you went down a youtube hole the other day, didn't you? lost you lose an hour? hole the other day, didn't you? los somethinglou lose an hour? hole the other day, didn't you? los something like ose an hour? hole the other day, didn't you? los something like that.n hour? >> something like that. >> something like that. >> what were you watching? >> what were you watching? >> was little shorts. >> it was a little shorts. oh, the where they the little shorts where they just up. now just keep popping up. and now that people that is addictive. a lot people in little shorts. that's what i was yeah, the no was going to say. yeah, the no the little. >> but it's videos. he means.

>> but it's videos. he means. >> but it's videos. he means. >> but you do. and you do end up just getting stuck on that. i know, but i don't use my phone anywhere near as much as i used to. >> really. >> really. >> so the man with the phone literally by him. yes >> but he's also medical >> but he's also a medical device because my device because it monitors my blood is blood glucose, which is why i have okay, so there you go. have it. okay, so there you go. >> you're a lot better on >> oh, so you're a lot better on your phone, you? your phone, are you? >> yeah, because not really >> yeah, because i'm not really going social media, you know. >> yeah, because i'm not really goiihave social media, you know. >> yeah, because i'm not really goiihave you al media, you know. >> yeah, because i'm not really goiihave you deletedi, you know. >> yeah, because i'm not really goiihave you deleted the u know. >> yeah, because i'm not really goiihave you deleted the apps»w. >> have you deleted the apps from phone? from your phone? >> because still post >> no, because i still post stuff there. anyways, stuff on there. but anyways, someone else does it. >> good. >> oh very good. >> oh very good. >> so there you go, people. he's got people, i have people. >> so there you go, people. he's got peop|doi have people. >> so there you go, people. he's got peop|doi havforeople. >> so there you go, people. he's got peop|doi havfor me?e. >> what do that for me? >> what do that for me? >> should we talk about >> andy, should we talk about liz new book? i'm so liz truss's new book? i'm so glad you asked, has given glad you asked, she has given interviews everywhere, i think, including longer including on spent longer promoting the book than she did in office. she has. >> yes, she has. she absolutely has, because she loves nothing more of her own more than the sound of her own voice. and according to the guardian's review, i mean, i should say, by the way, it's not just the guardian who has panned this book. it's pretty much

every single newspaper, including the times yesterday, every single newspaper, inclucfrom he times yesterday, every single newspaper, inclucfrom whoever yesterday, every single newspaper, inclucfrom whoever serialised it apart from whoever serialised it risible hubris, shameless, petulant and cliche ridden , petulant and cliche ridden, yeah, i kept writing. how did you not know in the margins of chapters about her time in office? i mean, this is just i'm not going to read the book, by the way . i don't not going to read the book, by the way. i don't think i need to. i don't think anyone is number four in amazon. >> you don't need to read it because so many other people are buying don't whether because so many other people are buying are don't whether because so many other people are buying are going whether because so many other people are buying are going to whether because so many other people are buying are going to wit,:her because so many other people are buying are going to wit, but people are going to read it, but they buying it and then they are buying it and then it'll the most donated into it'll be the most donated into charity 2024. charity shops in 2024. >> have the ring of >> it does have the ring of £0.99 sort of petrol station, bargain bin. yeah. about it doesn't it? one thing doesn't it? i mean, one thing that thought was remarkable that i thought was remarkable about is the, so about this is the, the so you know, you're commissioned to know, you you're commissioned to write book, given an write a book, you're given an advance. advance she advance. the advance she was given for this book. could not given for this book. i could not believe it was. believe how small it was. >> know. >> do you know. no. >> do you know. no. >> £1,500. >> go on. £1,500. >>— >> go on. £1,500. >> really? really. >> oh, really? really. >> oh, really? really. >> 1993, margaret >> so in 1993, margaret thatcher's for her thatcher's advance for her memoirs was three, 3.5 million. in 1993, blair got 4.6 million. liz truss 1500. i mean, it's

embarrassing. >> well, yeah. but if she if she gets the sale , she'll make the gets the sale, she'll make the money anyway. it's only an advance on the money. you would. >> i mean, look, she's going to be fine for money because she's someone for some someone somewhere for some reason, is paying her 50 grand a p0p reason, is paying her 50 grand a pop to speak about. >> really? goodness knows. what about the disaster? the bonfire of premiership. about the disaster? the bonfire of you'remiership. about the disaster? the bonfire of you're not'ship. are you, andy? >> no, i'm not. >>— >> no, i'm not. >> she's a she's a she's an embarrassment. she's an embarrassment. she's an embarrassment. and actually, i think so than anything think more so than anything about current government, think more so than anything ab0|is current government, think more so than anything ab0|is the current government, think more so than anything ab0|is the person government, think more so than anything ab0|is the person who,'nment, think more so than anything ab0|is the person who, whent, think more so than anything ab0|is the person who, when you she is the person who, when you look polling and focus look at polling and focus groups, keeps coming liz groups, it keeps coming up. liz truss okay, well there you go. >> you may disagree. get in touch. gb views commun or say is the weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a chilly start in many places today. cloudier in the north with some

outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. but a few light outbreaks of rain reaching northern later in the northern ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into northern england and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier many places then but cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england where it will england as well where it will feel warm. 15 perhaps feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind the rain and with the wind and the rain and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze . overnight with the breeze. overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but it's going to be a blustery start to friday. areas of cloud moving some showers moving south. some light showers for many places. the most

frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. the wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and there'll be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

claims he misused campaign funds i >> -- >>a >> a bizarre story with all sorts of twists and turns and another big headache for rishi sunak. what will happen next?

find out more with me very soon. >> 70 asylum seekers are moved out of an ex—raf base after major safety risks emerge . major safety risks emerge. >> 70 residents of former raf wethersfield are now back in expensive hotels over fears of contaminate and unexploded ordnance. i'll have the details . ordnance. i'll have the details. >> the prince of wales will return to official public duties today for the first time since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis after three and a half weeks of looking after his wife and children. >> prince william is visiting a charity that distributes leftover food to communities who need more shortly . need it. more detail shortly. >> time for a boost to defence spending. while the chancellor , spending. while the chancellor, jeremy hunt, admits that european countries must step up. we'll be speaking to the defence secretary, grant shapps, later this hour. >> the travel carnage in dubai flash flooding devastates the

city. we spoke to a british expat this morning. >> unfortunately , some people >> unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. some people's homes have been flooded. it really has been a very scary time for us all here and in the sport this morning. >> the champions league is now the premier league less after manchester city and arsenal both go out. emma raducanu is on a roll. she's beaten the former world number one and also we're on catwalk with more olympic fashions. >> it's a beautiful start out there for many places and there's more sunshine to come this weekend, but before that happens there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on . gb news. breakfast on. gb news. >> and we're talking about banning things because obviously smoking's being banned or phased

out. and we've talked about alcohol this morning. well should it apply to alcohol phones apparently for teenagers. i don't necessarily disagree with after i think there is a problem there, but you're not happy daryl and jodie singleton say ban this, ban that. stop dictating how we live our lives. i think that's a i mean, it's a fair point . we as much as some fair point. we as much as some things need to be controlled to an extent, i don't think we should just be banning everything. and uther says ban getting up in the mornings. if you stay in bed, you're a lot safer. >> yeah , well, yeah. >> yeah, well, yeah. >> yeah, well, yeah. >> well, there you go, i think so, i think that's probably a fairly , fairly good point, fairly, fairly good point, actually. >> and there was some lovely messages about how smart we look this morning, i can't find this morning, but i can't find them so thank you to them now. so thank you to whoever said we looked whoever said that we looked smart are smart this morning. we are making effort and making an effort to try and coordinate. thank you. somebody said very good said that we'd be very good wedding guests today's wedding guests in today's professional said professional wedding guests said professional wedding guests said professional you professional wedding. oh, you

saw as well? i saw that saw that one as well? i saw that one. so many of them. >> if we lose our jobs here, >> if we lose ourjobs here, which, frankly, is looking likely, i should imagine , by our likely, i should imagine, by our performance. well, yeah, we should set up as professional wedding guests. yeah. how much would you pay to have us come to your wedding? >> let us know. yeah. might be might a very good opportunity might be a very good opportunity for a sideline. that for us to be a sideline. that could be a little hustle. could be a little side hustle. you know, be up for that. you know, i'd be up for that. love a wedding. >> just turn up, the food >> just turn up, eat the food and at people. i know you and smile at people. i know you like a wedding as well, don't you? getting paid you? well, if i was getting paid to you'd be up for it. to go, you'd be up for it. >> yeah, we're talking about expensive coffee. apparently, the cup, coffee the most expensive cup, coffee in is australia and in the world is australia and new zealand. really, yep new zealand. really, steve? yep coffee in the uk is just poor quality, but actually more quality, but it's actually more expensive in australia and new zealand. >> well, not more expensive than that one that has arrived in mayfair now, which is £265 a shot. >> yes. imagine ordering a double espresso and milk. >> that'll be £530, please. yeah. >> plus. plus your milk and

sugan >> plus. plus your milk and sugar, i'm sure. yeah, yeah. >> why get free milk , right? >> why get free milk, right? i mean, can you imagine? that's what i can't understand . i'm all what i can't understand. i'm all for free. i'm all for people having loads of money. they earn it or win it or whatever. fine. fair enough. but why would you spend that much on coffee? >> it's more money than sense, isn't it? coffee's expensive enough? yes isn't it? i saw somewhere in london the other day, actually. sorry. the albanian, cafe. and they were doing coffee for £1.50, and i thought, that is incredible. >> yeah. there you go. >> yeah. there you go. >> but it is just hot water. >> but it is just hot water. >> well, a little bit coffee beans, but they're making a great profit on that. yeah. there you go. >> anyway, keep your views coming in on that story or indeed anything that we're talking morning or talking about this morning or just where you are and just tell us where you are and what you're to. what you're up to. gbnews.com/yoursay. yeah. now now, our main news this morning and there's another scandal hitting the party. hitting the tory party. >> mp mark has lost the >> mp mark menzies has lost the party whip over the alleged misuse of campaign funds.

>> yes number 10 have launched an investigation into the matter . menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the house of commons. >> well, he a statement >> well, he issued a statement saying dispute allegations put saying i dispute allegations put to me. we'll go through those in a moment. i fully complied with all the rules for declarations as there's an investigation ongoing. i will not comment further, but it is a complex issue. >> this one certainly is. issue. >> this one certainly is . and to >> this one certainly is. and to unpackit >> this one certainly is. and to unpack it all for us is political correspondent olivia utley , who is live for us now in utley, who is live for us now in westminster. very good morning to you, olivia. so another scandal to hit the tory party in. it's a real headache for rishi sunak . rishi sunak. >> well, absolutely. if this investigation proves that mark menzies did what he is alleged to have done, then it will be a huge scandal for the conservative party. i should say straight away. he does dispute all of the allegations. essentially what he's been accused of is , taking £14,000 of accused of is, taking £14,000 of money donated for a concert, his

conservative party campaign and using it for his own purposes. in part, it seems to pay some private medical bills. he's also accused this very, very strange story of calling his former campaign manager, a 78 year old woman, at 3:00 in the morning and demanding that she transfer him £5,000 from the campaign account into his own personal account into his own personal account because he said he was being held by bad people and needed to pay them £5,000 to be released. this lady would not, transfer the money at 3:00 in the morning. so later in the day , mark menzies rang his current campaign manager, a woman called shirley and that shirley green, and asked that she transfer that £6,500. he eventually got the money, but various, tory volunteers had to use their own personal funds , use their own personal funds, apparently to help him out with this claim , obviously, if he is this claim, obviously, if he is found to be guilty of this, then

it will be construed as fraud. the problem for rishi sunak is that the conservative party didn't seem to take it very seriously at first. these allegations first emerged three months ago and we're only just heanng months ago and we're only just hearing about it now . hearing about it now. >> okay? okay, olivia , for now, >> okay? okay, olivia, for now, thanks very much indeed. >> well, the conservative party have issued a statement saying they're investigating allegations regarding allegations made regarding a member of parliament. it's confidential . the party takes confidential. the party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them . matters put to them. >> now, the home office has been forced to move asylum seekers out of an raf base in essex after safety concerns were raised about the site. >> well, let's talk to our reporter , ray addison, who's reporter, ray addison, who's there for us. so what's the problem with the site? ray >> morning to you both. yes, well, this site was assessed as safe and fit for purpose . ten safe and fit for purpose. ten months ago, asylum seekers started moving in here. but now we have these major safety

concerns. safety risks have reportedly been identified, including the possibility of radiation on the site and also unexploded ordnance . what's unexploded ordnance. what's ordnance? it's artillery shells and things like that. a lot of things that we certainly wouldn't want to suddenly go bang. now this site is one of the home offices largest asylum seeker accommodation locations . seeker accommodation locations. it has a maximum of 800. originally, the plan was to have 1700 here, but they decided to reduce that figure and actually it's getting quite busy. the longer i stay here today i can see it's quite a busy site, a number of vehicles coming and going, plenty of security guards as well, but so far no signs of anything more concerning than that. anything more concerning than that . hazmat suits and the like. that. hazmat suits and the like. although maybe that is just a matter of time. last month though, they got planning permission to use this location for three years. they were granted a special development order, an sdo , in order to

order, an sdo, in order to circumvent council planning permission . and there were permission. and there were concerns raised in that sdo about the risk of contamination. and it does appear that some of those risks have now been realised, necessitating at least 73 having been moved back into these expensive hotels. now, earlier on, i got the chance to, shout a few words at a couple of the, residents here as they went on their journey. this is what they had to say. another quick chat. they had to say. another quick chat . no, no. are you guys chat. no, no. are you guys worried about the contamination on the site ? where are you off on the site? where are you off to? yeah where are you going? working. oh. what job do you have ? well, braintree district have? well, braintree district

council , have? well, braintree district council, were have? well, braintree district council , were offered the chance council, were offered the chance to have an interview. they declined that, but they've given me a statement. they said they've to home they've written to the home office requesting copies office requesting urgent copies of all relevant technical of all the relevant technical documents plans under that documents and plans under that sdo in sdo to support our duty in safeguarding interests of safeguarding the interests of the local community and those living working on the site . living and working on the site. >> okay. ray addison, thank you very much indeed . very much indeed. >> well, the home office has responded saying, we've always been clear the use of asylum hotels is unacceptable , which is hotels is unacceptable, which is why we moved asylum seekers to former military sites, which we ensure a safe to accommodate asylum seekers prior to use . but asylum seekers prior to use. but if they're being moved out, oh well, it's not safe is it? it can't be, can it? otherwise, why are you moving them out anyway? >> interesting. now prince william is to return to official pubuc william is to return to official public duties today for the first time since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis, he's going to visit a surplus food distribution charity, followed by a youth centre in london, which benefits

from the organisation's deliveries. >> well , deliveries. >> well, we're joined now by our royal correspondent, cameron walker. >> good to see you this morning, cameron. and it's going to be really good to see prince william today. >> yes, it certainly is. we haven't seen him for more than three a half actually. three and a half weeks actually. his george, charlotte his children, george, charlotte and louis were back at school yesterday. course, this yesterday. of course, this is the to the first time we're going to see the princess of see him since the princess of wales. as you disclosed wales. as you said, disclosed her diagnosis the her cancer diagnosis to the world. so he's taking after his father a bit. king charles launched the coronation food project support charities project to support charities feeding disadvantaged communities . back feeding disadvantaged communities. back in feeding disadvantaged communities . back in november, communities. back in november, prince william doing something slightly . he's slightly different. he's visiting a surplus food distribution called distribution charity called surplus to supper in surrey, which distributes over ten tonnes of food per week. waste wasted food to food banks, schools, care homes, religious organisations and youth centres. so it's going to be volunteering there, packaging up the food and then he's going to be taking it to a youth centre in west london. now kensington palace says reducing food waste

says that reducing food waste has a considerable number of environmental benefits, including reducing emissions from landfill that contribute to climate change. it also added that protecting the environment for future generations , if one for future generations, if one is one of prince william's key priorities, of course he launched earthshot prize in launched his earthshot prize in 2020. of the categories in 2020. one of the categories in thatis 2020. one of the categories in that is build a waste free world. >> yeah, and well, all well and goodis >> yeah, and well, all well and good is doing something today that he believes in and fine can get the message across. but for most of us we're just going to be saying, well, he's back on his feet. he's you know, he's he's getting on with with the job after what must have been i mean, obviously our hearts go out to catherine, but i mean, it must be an incredibly stressful time for him. >> it certainly is. and i think there's a burden there's been a huge burden placed on prince william even before the princess revealed her cancer diagnosis, the speculation around herself and her family was vast and prince william had to pull out of that memorial service for his godfather, king constantine of

greece . the reason i understand greece. the reason i understand is because of kate's cancer diagnosis. so it has been a really difficult time for him because he has had to balance his royal duties with his private family as well. and there's been huge pressure for prince william, i think perhaps to do more public engagements. i think post kate's cancer diagnosis, i think the british pubuc diagnosis, i think the british public and the media and social media trolls did take a step back and give the princess, the prince and her their children the privacy they needed to come to terms with that cancer diagnosis. but this is prince william keeping calm and carrying getting on with carrying on and getting on with the job, i think. now post easter break. cameron , easter break. okay, cameron, thanks indeed. thanks very much indeed. >> been chaos in the >> now there's been chaos in the united arab emirates as thousands of uk travellers are now struggling to get home after dubai international airport was closed due to flash flooding. >> well, the airport urged passengers to stay away unless absolutely necessary after it was hit with more than a year's worth of rainfall in just 24

hours. >> well, one man has tragically lost his life as a result of the bad weather earlier. we spoke to one british expat . one british expat. >> definitely. some people are still stuck in their properties . still stuck in their properties. some people's homes have been flooded. it really has been a very scary time for us all here. >> well, let's talk to weather journalist nathan rao, who joins us now. nathan, there's been all this talk about about cloud seeding, which may have caused some of this. just tell us what's going on, right? >> yes. i mean, first of all, this is this is an unprecedented amount of rain that they've had in the united arab emirates , in the united arab emirates, which is, of course, a desert, now cloud seeding has been suggested as a possible cause for this deluge. there is some dispute, but cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that's used to artificially trigger rain in places where they don't get a lot , rain forms

they don't get a lot, rain forms within clouds on tiny , tiny within clouds on tiny, tiny particles called nuclei. that is what a rain droplet is. and these can be salt particles or dust particles. and in places where they don't get a lot of rain, like dubai, like the united arab emirates, they go up in planes and they seed these clouds, usually with silver iodide, to form these particles and to encourage the rain to fall. and this is used in places where drought is a problem or to encourage places where irrigation is a problem . the irrigation is a problem. the issue that we have is dubai is a desert and its infrastructure is not used to this amount of rainfall. as you mentioned, they've had actually a year and a half's amount of rain in less than a week, and the infrastructure can't cope with it. so there is a dispute now going on about whether this was simply a usual low pressure system. there was, after all, a storm forecast in the area. a storm forecast in the area. a storm was seen coming in, but there was also sightings of cloud seeding drones, cloud seeding planes around the area

in the run up to the week, which is being suggested as a cause for this. but there is some dispute over that . dispute over that. >> i mean, there is an understanding though, isn't there, that this is unprecedented. this will go down in history . do unprecedented. this will go down in history. do you think that dubai should be preparing itself for this to happen again, or do you think this is a one off event? well my stance is if it's happened once, it can always happened once, it can always happen again, if we look at the causes this rain , as we've causes of this rain, as we've suggested, there's, there's been suggestions about cloud seeding . suggestions about cloud seeding. there's also been suggestions. it's a normal weather event. but we also the debate we also get into the debate again the changing climate again about the changing climate around the world and our countries all around the world going to start experiencing weather phenomenon that they don't usually get this. i can be very confident in saying is a weather phenomenon that dubai or the united arab emirates do not usually get. dubai usually gets around three inches of rain a yeah around three inches of rain a year. they rely on their water through, seawater desalination and groundwater supplies. rain is very, very infrequent in

dubal is very, very infrequent in dubai, and this is absolutely unprecedented . so should they unprecedented. so should they prepare for more of this to come? well, i think the chaos that we're seeing at the moment, which reveals that they simply are unprepared for rainfall like this, may suggest that it wouldn't be a bad idea to become prepared for it, but it's again, that balance of how much rain does dubai get in a year? only about three inches. whether the cost would cause , you know, cost it would cause, you know, involve restructure the involve to restructure the infrastructure with rain infrastructure to deal with rain like we have in the uk where we get loads of it. >> okay. nathan rafe, good to see this morning. thank you see you this morning. thank you very yeah. very much indeed, yeah. >> i mean, it's a worry >> well, i mean, it's a worry the amount that's gone down there. yeah just just a quickie. just, just in case the bosses are listening at the moment or watching . gene has been in watching. gene has been in touch. so, steven, don't joke about losing your job. gb news about losing yourjob. gb news would lose viewers if that happened. >> there you go. don't get any ideas. i'm just saying he's here

to stay. >> just saying that loud and clear. good news here. we're going to be here all weekend. >> weekend? yes >> weekend? yes >> so you don't have to miss a thing. >> friday saturday, sunday. yeah >> friday saturday, sunday. yeah >> perfect. have good >> perfect. we'll have a good time. hopefully is . right. time. hopefully it is. right. shall we see what the weather's going over here? is aden. going to do over here? is aden. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a chilly start in many places today. cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. but a few light outbreaks of rain reaching northern ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into northern england and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it'll feel pleasantly warm. 15, perhaps 16

celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and that rain wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away , so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers , blustery followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight . with the breeze. overnight. with the breeze. overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but it's going to be a blustery start to friday. areas of cloud moving south. some light showers for many places. the most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. the wind will be feeling cold with that wind. strongest along the north sea coast, and there'll be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news.

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time for the sport this morning with mr paul coyte . good morning with mr paul coyte. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning to you. the champions league champions are out of the champions league. well, manchester city, three. we all. it was in that first leg overin all. it was in that first leg over in madrid. came back to the etihad. any thinking this you

know where they want to know this is where they want to do. want to play at home do. they want to play at home for second leg and real for the second leg and real madrid scored early. was madrid scored early. it was a real fight. man city just kept kept at them. know it was kept at them. you know it was a wave after wave but managed to get a goal 76th minute with kevin de bruyne. then it went into extra time, went to penalties. unfortunately it went the way of real madrid and that's that's the way it goes. >> well, it is the way it is, the way it goes. disappointing though. disappointing and bad news for arsenal as well. >> bad news for arsenal as well. arsenal are out to buy munich. i wonder you've got harry wonder whether you've got harry kane eric dier both kane and eric dier both ex—tottenham hotspur players. yeah, bayern yeah, that played for bayern munich and they probably quite enjoyed that. they would have enjoyed that. they would have enjoyed probably even more enjoyed that. they would have endbuti probably even more enjoyed that. they would have endbut theirobably even more enjoyed that. they would have endbut the mostly even more enjoyed that. they would have endbut the most important)re enjoyed that. they would have endbut the most important thing so. but the most important thing is bayern have been is that bayern munich have been pretty this year. i mean, pretty poor this year. i mean, harry kane had a brilliant harry kane has had a brilliant season, as far as as ellie season, but as far as as ellie goes, the bundesliga is concerned. it hasn't been very good because who won the title this year, bayer leverkusen by a

leverkusen who were known as by leverkusen who were known as by leverkusen by a never kooser. but now they have. so they won the title by munich, have now got the champions league class. >> isn't it just isn't it answers to you by leverkusen's manager, who's been tipped for taking over at liverpool? >> yes. xabi alonso , that's >> yes. xabi alonso, that's correct. but he said that he wants to stay at bayer leverkusen. so all but i wonder i just wonder, you know when liverpool where he played come knocking. it's the same as bayern munich. he played for bayern munich. he played for bayern munich. he played for bayern munich as well and they're both looking for managers summer. so it's managers in the summer. so it's going take a lot for him to going to take a lot for him to be able to go. actually, you know what, i'm going to stay where am because he's where i am because he's performed there. so performed miracles there. so we'll how go. i did, we'll see how things go. i did, say goals. know say for goals. i don't know where but it's where that came from, but it's only three. it's only three that liverpool to get back liverpool have got to get back against atalanta tonight. >> so three goal deficit. >> so three goal deficit. >> it's a three goal deficit >> so it's a three goal deficit over and in italy. it's over and over in italy. it's very possible they've done it before against real and before against real madrid. and liverpool great side. they

liverpool are a great side. they need to be they've got to be hungry for that. >> and early goal. >> and early goal. >> you never know how it goes. it's the as west ham. it's the same as west ham. they're playing bayer they're playing at home to bayer leverkusen all leverkusen who are unbeaten all season . so they're two nil down. season. so they're two nil down. they need to beat them. and also then it all affects the coefficient and we'll leave the coefficient and we'll leave the coefficient for now. and anyway aston villa they go away to france. they're playing in lille and they are two nil two one down i should say, in the conference. oh it's all very confusing. >> yeah, but it's also, you know, we're not looking strong, are we're not country. are we? we're not country. >> know what is a bit of >> you know what it is a bit of a worry. i don't think we've always got teams either. in the final semi—final and nobody is certain of , of final semi—final and nobody is certain of, of moving on. so. so it is a bit of a worry. should we just tennis with good news. we've got some good news for you emma . looks like she's emma raducanu. looks like she's back right . people have been back right. people have been knocking. >> they have knocked her a lot. >> they have knocked her a lot. >> there's been radacanu knock us for a long time and we are not going to stand for it because i believe in her. so

emma raducanu beat angelique emma raducanu she beat angelique kerber, world number kerber, former world number one in stuttgart one, in the stuttgart open, six one, six she very well, six two. she did very well, third win in a week. so who knows, maybe she's coming back. do you want to do some fashion? >> no, are out of time, i'm afraid. >> am i going save this for tomorrow? >> yes. you are. >>— >> yes. you are. >> okay. more olympic fashion i have for you tomorrow. i don't want lose you can only want to lose it. you can only have much of a good thing. yeah. >> see you tomorrow. there you 90, >> see you tomorrow. there you go, paul. you. coming up, go, paul. thank you. coming up, we're going be talking to the we're going to be talking to the defence

good morning. it is 833. in this election year , on your election election year, on your election channel, everything's everything is highlighted by the election. and of course, that means looking at, not polls, just about who's leading , but also about who's leading, but also about who's leading, but also aboutin about who's leading, but also about in what areas are parties

trusted. let's talk to the defence secretary, grant shapps, who joins us now. really good to see you this morning, minister, can i you have seen this big spread in the in the mail today. and one of the key points in this is that defence, according to this survey, the general pubuc to this survey, the general public think defence is better left in hands of the labour party than the conservative party. now that is . quite party. now that is. quite something. you are normally the party trusted on defence. yes. what is going wrong? >> i think that's in the context of the wider polling and i saw that which also of that poll which also says, of course, of people don't course, that 45% of people don't want see starmer as prime want to see starmer as prime minister. so you can you can take any way you like on take it any way you like on defence, particularly, would defence, particularly, i would say, the obvious say, to point out the obvious keir supported twice keir starmer supported twice jeremy corbyn, who wanted to pull us out of nato and abandon our nuclear defence, so i don't think that it is the case that

labour would or could be trusted on defence, not least because they have 11 members of his shadow team who themselves voted against our nuclear deterrent. so i don't think they are credible when it comes to being the party of defence, though it is the backdrop to this, not that you know, we know the armed forces are struggling, we know numbers are down, we know equipment isn't available to a lot of these soldiers. >> i mean, particularly you look at the number of tanks we've got where people are, you know, they're really struggling to get hold of tanks. a lot of the household what household divisions and what have mean, this it's have you. i mean, this is it's hugely problematic. and what we're not is anything we're not seeing is anything improving under the government. >> to of take some >> i have to sort of take some issue with this actually, because apart from anything, i'm going to see our challenger three tank later today, up in, telford, which is our latest and will be the best tank, best tanksin will be the best tank, best tanks in the, in the world. we're also spending more on defence in cash terms than we've ever spent and increase the

spending this year. we are one of only two countries in the world who actually go out and use our defensive ability for example, against the houthis, or even on saturday night, where the fantastic raf were defending israel from those incoming missiles and attacks from drones. so we are prepared to use our armed forces. and of course, it's the second biggest one in nato. so we are we are not small or minnows in this. of course, we can always do more. i'm defence secretary. i want us to do more. we're pledged to get to do more. we're pledged to get to 2.5% when conditions allow, and i want to get to that point. but i think claim that labour but i think to claim that labour are somehow the party of defence when their own shadow foreign secretary voted against trident and their own deputy prime minister, angela rayner, voted against trident is, somewhat ridiculous. we don't think that they can be trusted on defence. of course, it's my job to demonstrate that point . demonstrate that point. >> i mean, on the topic of spending in defence, the treasury confirmed there would

be no increase in defence spending before the general election. i mean, you must be so disappointed by that answer, considering that the threats that seeing from russia, that we're seeing from russia, china iran and, as you say, china and iran and, as you say, the events of saturday night, what i think is really important is the kind of direction of travel. >> and we have already said and the prime minister has repeated chancellor as well, we want to get to 2.5. we'll do it when conditions allow us to do it. but in the meantime, i think it's probably important to understand we have actually even at this last budget, 1.8% real terms increase in our defence budget. so, defence secretary, of course, i want to see more money win whatever secretary of state you are, whichever position i've been in in the past, whether it's been in transport or in energy or or several others, i've always fought for and i have to say one on budgets for those areas. but the important thing is we do care about defence of the care about the defence of the realm. understand it's the realm. we understand it's the first task of government and first task of any government and we have an armed forces, well

equipped that we can be proud of in this country. and the proof of the pudding is we are the ones going out and defending freedom of navigation at sea, in the red sea, helping israel in its own defence on saturday night, and many other examples like that where we are ukraine. i mean, no country as president zelenskyy has said to me directly, no country has stepped up, done more, been prepared to give more , in terms of its give more, in terms of its leadership as well as the biggest package ever this year, rishi sunak and myself are given who ukraine bigger than was given under even boris johnson. so, you know, no one should doubt how much we're stepping up to help defend in this world, in british interests. >> yeah. what about the what about defending the uk in all of this? it's a valid point that people raise, isn't it, because we are providing an awful lot to places like ukraine and we are supporting , putting in the supporting, putting in the defence of israel? certainly vie to an extent and that's, you

know, controversial issue in and of itself for some people , but of itself for some people, but what about the threat here in the uk and how capable we are actually of defending ourselves? because that seems to be the one part which is , you know, a part which is, you know, a little bit lacking at the moment i >> -- >> well, some of that is because in part we don't , richard tice, in part we don't, richard tice, the reasons of national security, all our layers of defence, some are known about , defence, some are known about, for example, the quick, quick reaction that we have through the typhoons constantly available and ready to scramble, but we also have other forms of defence as well. it's islands and other things which i can't go into. of course, we're always wanting, always reviewing this. ikeep wanting, always reviewing this. i keep a very close eye on what else we could be doing. the big difference between, say, the united kingdom and israel that was recently attacked is the uk is in nato. and article five of nato says that if one country is

attacked, then the 31 others all immediately come to its assistance. and it's one of the reasons the nato countries don't tend to be attacked. in fact, never attacked , because of this. never attacked, because of this. so, it does mean that there we have an additional layer of protection, even over and above the immediate, physically obvious protection. but always keep that under review. always looking to do more, but britain is a force for good when it comes to not only our national defence, the jobs that brings, but also international defence. and i think we should be very proud of our service personnel who do a phenomenal job. i think last year we operated if i'm correct, in 69 different countries around the world. scale of this is perhaps something that most people are not familiar with, on the situation israel and situation between israel and iran, your colleague lord cameron has met with benjamin netanyahu , who's made it clear netanyahu, who's made it clear that israel are going to make their decisions in terms of their own decisions in terms of retaliation. your

retaliation. what's your understanding of what israel's response will look like and are you concerned about what this for tat will eventually lead to? considering the front page of the eye this morning, considering the front page of the eye this morning , the the eye this morning, the advancement of the iranian nuclear program in the past few years, i think iran has been worrying for us years. >> and the nuclear program, we know that the last report out was 83.7% enriched uranium. that's incredibly there's no civil use for that. that's only for a military potential use. and we've just seen what iran's done. they've just attacked a democratic country in the middle east. iran themselves are autocratic or theocratic country who say they want to destroy that country . so i don't think that country. so i don't think there's any doubt at all. iran is bad news. they sponsor, all the three h's, the hamas baluchis, and of course, hezbollah in the middle east. the bad news is, of course, absolutely wrong that israel was attack. that's why we took part

in the defence of israel on saturday night. what we've been saying to israel is we have to be careful here not to get into a spiral simply leads to a further regional conflict or something, if anything. and it's important to therefore ensure that the response which we absolutely accept israel is going to make, we understand that. but that it is a response that. but that it is a response thatis that. but that it is a response that is intelligent, well thought through , and that is the thought through, and that is the point we've been making. and i think that israel, is perfectly within her rights to defend herself . if that was the uk herself. if that was the uk attacked by 300 drones, ballistic cruise missiles on saturday night, you'd be expecting to us respond as well, if we can, we broaden it out a little bit. i mean, we all understand how politics works to an extent at least. and you know, you've got to get on with your job. know, you've got to get on with yourjob. you've got a job to do . you've got to get on with it. you've got to plan for what you will do when you win the next

election. from your perspective , election. from your perspective, we totally get that. but when you look at all polling, you look at all the polling, when look the fact when you look at the fact there's been another scandal with losing and with mark menzies losing and having to lose the party whip and all that going on, over the last day or so , how do you even last day or so, how do you even begin to deal with that? because everybody expects now , everyone everybody expects now, everyone with any political nous nous is expecting there to be a labour government whenever that election is called. how do you even put forward an argument to try to counter that ? try to counter that? >> well, first of all, yeah, i get all my job as defence secretary, defending the realm, making sure this country is safe i >> -- >> but you're right, the politics all continues as well. i'd say this i think most people recognise that we have been through extraordinary , difficult through extraordinary, difficult times. we've had the covid pandemic, we've had this war in europe. we've now got this conflict in the middle east. all of has big impact, of this stuff has a big impact, not the economy, but not least on the economy, but we've a prime minister in we've got a prime minister in rishi who has gone out,

rishi sunak who has gone out, done right thing, saved done the right thing, saved millions jobs during the millions of jobs during the pandemic , is very good at making pandemic, is very good at making difficult decisions , for difficult decisions, for example, on the northern ireland situation, in order to get that resolved. and actually they'll look at him and they'll look at the alternative, keir starmer, who, you know, just last night ordered his lords, his peers in the house of lords to vote again against the rwanda scheme and in doing so has tried to shoot down legislation which is, as far as i can work out, the only solution out there to stop the trade in people in human trafficking, with gangs bringing people across the channel and i don't hear any alternative to that. don't hear any alternative to that . the in fact, i don't hear any alternative to that. the in fact, i think he i think he is terrified that the rwanda scheme would somehow work. and you know, i don't understand what his alternative is. easy to snipe from the sidelines. i've been in politics long enough to know, and i was party chairman once for david cameron in the run up to the 2015 election, where i'd sit on

shows like this and sometimes they graphics up behind me they put graphics up behind me to it impossible to demonstrate it was impossible for us to get an overall majority in 2015. of course, we know now through history, that's exactly what happened. so you look for all the pundits, for all the commentators who say this all over. all the commentators who say this allover. i all the commentators who say this all over. i would say, this is allover. i would say, don't , don't, don't second guess don't, don't, don't second guess the british public people actually have their say over it because that same poll you were , because that same poll you were, you know, quoting from at the top of the program, about what people think, also says that 45% of people do not want to see keir starmer, prime minister. so i we still in i think we are still in absolutely with the shot, except we're underdogs. accept we're the underdogs. i accept that, but i think we have a better program on defence and job creation and everything else than labour party. and when than the labour party. and when it to actually stopping it comes to actually stopping the they even have the boats, they don't even have a plan . the labour party and a plan. the labour party and they keep voting against it. 119 times counting up until and times and counting up until and including last night in the house of lords. and i think people start to realise labour are not the solution and they'll

look again at us and realise we've taken some difficult decisions, but get everything right. our and right. we're trying our best and i we're better news for i think we're better news for the future of this country than laboun >> okay, just before we let you 90, >> okay, just before we let you go, i wanted to ask you about raf wethersfield in essex. it's an raf base . asylum seekers have an raf base. asylum seekers have been moved out of there after safety risks were found, including radiological contamination and unexploded ordnance. i mean , do you have ordnance. i mean, do you have any understanding of what has happened there ? because it happened there? because it doesn't look good, does it? we've got the likes of bibby stockholm, which wasn't safe for asylum seekers, and now raf wethersfield. i mean, it looks as though accommodation for asylum seekers isn't fit for purpose, but first of all, i should just stop it by saying one of the reasons we want to stop this illegal trade in people crossing the channel at the rwanda bill is a very important part of that is to prevent us from needing accommodation in the first place. >> @- f that's the first >> i mean, that's the first thing to say. secondly although

it's raf front of it, it's got raf in front of it, that's actually office that's actually a home office and obviously and site. they've obviously found safety issue found a health and safety issue there. not familiar with the there. i'm not familiar with the details. i've seen this details. i've just seen this this morning, they've this morning, but they've obviously health and obviously found a health and safety it looks to me safety issue. it looks to me like they've very quickly like they've acted very quickly and out of there and moved people out of there whilst that. whilst they take care of that. but brings me back to the but it brings me back to the point before let's stop the illegal trade in people. let's pass this rwanda bill. let's stop messing around as donald was telling his lords to do last night by chucking this out again. so the commons is going to have to go and come back and vote on it. we've already voted for numerous times, and let's for it numerous times, and let's actually break this illegal chain people brought chain of people being brought here, we won't need here, and then we won't need this accommodation in the first place. >> grant shapps as always, to good see you. thank you for your time today. >> thank you very much indeed. do let us know what you think about anything that grant shapps was saying there. gbnews.com/yoursay right, we're going to take a short

>> well, we can have a quick whip through the papers with political commentator andy williams and psychotherapist lucy beresford. good morning to you both. good morning. >> let's talk relationships . >> let's talk relationships. >> let's talk relationships. >> lucy. >> lucy. >> yes, yes. in south korea , >> yes, yes. in south korea, women are actually forgoing sex, dating, marriage and children . dating, marriage and children. why? and those four words begin with the letter b. so they're known as the four b generation. well, i think what this speaks to is the general fluidity of relationships. there this relationships. there was this fantastic research from ashley madison which the madison recently, which is the marriage dating website. and they found that there the number of people who are signing up most for that site are not married people at all. they are under 29 and they're looking for fluid relationships. they don't want commitment. they want they want commitment. they want they want their emotional and their sexual needs met, but they don't want them in a formal

relationship. oh oh, i've had enough.the relationship. oh oh, i've had enough. the women of south korea, as i say, crack that whip. >> what do you make of andy? >> what do you make of andy? >> maybe people just think it's more hassle than it's worth. i don't know, i couldn't possibly say. >> i think people still want connection. they don't necessarily want long time commitment. going commitment. and if you're going to live 120, which the gen to live to 120, which the gen z generation are going to, can you see yourself with the same person that you meet when you're 20? >> well, at that age, though, if you don't want a soul mate, you don't want children. >> it's long time to be in and >> it's a long time to be in and out of casual things, is it not change their mind when they're 50? a bit too late. >> maybe that's a bit too late. well, exactly . well, exactly. >> well, they've done it. >> well, they've done it. >> do you think we might move to a where people see a bit a stage where people see a bit like you used to have one like how you used to have one workplace, career, .and now workplace, one career, .and now you have sort of 2 or 3 careers and 5 or 6 workplaces maybe, maybe change. maybe societal change. and people have 3 or 4 people will just have 3 or 4 long time relationships. yeah. >> portfolio get married next yean >> portfolio get married next year. yeah. no, i'm not talking about myself. year. yeah. no, i'm not talking

aboi'mnyself. year. yeah. no, i'm not talking aboi'm delighted to be getting >> i'm delighted to be getting married to one person forever. >> i just sort of think married to one person forever. >> the i just sort of think married to one person forever. >> the situationships,hink married to one person forever. >> the situationships, don't it's the situationships, don't they? people call them. oh do they. >> yeah, but the divorce rate is maintained at the same level that it always was about. >> one is the rate. >> one is the rate. >> well it's nearly 50% in the western world. and as a result more people are having their second relationships when they're about 45, 50, 55, and they've still got 40 years with that other person. so you can have a really durable relationship in your later years. very fluid. >> i don't know what to make of it all. >> no, i don't know either. let us know what you think. gbnews.com/yoursay. andy putting tomato sauce on pizza is an american invention. according to food experts. >> a new book has suggested that actually, tomato on pizza was an italian american thing, not an italian american thing, not an italian thing. >> oh, what did they put on it instead? pesto or something, so it was, a piece of plain focaccia topped with various ingredients, but not a tomato

sauce. >> oh, it's been upgraded then. >> oh, it's been upgraded then. >> it has. but, i mean, i mean, ihave >> it has. but, i mean, i mean, i have to say, i so perhaps controversially, i just think pizza is rubbish . andy, do i go to. >> that's because, you know , >> that's because, you know, like cheese. >> i just i like cheese. >> ijust i don't like cheese. >> i just i don't like cheese. and therefore pizza is just for me is a vehicle for cheese. which is worse food a waste of time . time. >> oh, i had a pizza last night. did you end of our little holiday. so. yeah. get a takeaway. yeah. oh >> how do you feel this morning? >> how do you feel this morning? >> fabulous. do you not make you feel really thirsty? oh, yeah. >> but it's worth it. whoa >> but it's worth it. whoa >> love it. >> love it. >> andy, i've never heard someone say they don't love pizza. >> no. sorry sorry. >> no. sorry sorry. >> yeah. i'm sorry. >> yeah. i'm sorry. >> no time for that here. >> no time for that here. >> no time for that here. >> no . >> no. >> no. >> very upsetting. so we're going to talk about car insurance instead. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so let's talk about something really are really interesting. people are not taking car insurance not taking out car insurance because can't afford it. because they can't afford it. >> it's so expensive. >> it's so expensive. >> to have it legally. >> and to have it legally. >> and to have it legally. >> and to have it legally. >> and the problem. there >> and that's the problem. there are many people who live in are so many people who live in areas transport links areas where the transport links areas where the transport links

are rubbish, so they need are really rubbish, so they need their you if you're a their car. you know, if you're a community you in community nurse, if you work in any kind industry where any kind of industry where you're moving around, you don't necessarily just go to one workplace, but have move workplace, but you have to move around. your car, around. you might need your car, but afford it. and but you can't afford it. and people not making claims on people are not making claims on their because first of their insurance because first of all, they'll lose their no claims bonus. i mean, my insurance last summer tripled, just tripled and my car is worth less than my insurance. >> have you rung them up ? >> have you rung them up? >> have you rung them up? >> yeah. i've changed. yeah. i mean i definitely went to one of those web comparison sites and got a better deal. >> i always ring them up and they'll drop it by 50. they just do. and we're out of time. andy. lucy thank you very much indeed. thank you. here's your weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a chilly start in many places today. cloudier in the north with some

outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. but a few light outbreaks of rain reaching northern ireland later in the morning. and then this area pushes into northern england and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier places, then cloudier in many places, then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it will feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze . overnight with the breeze. overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but it's going to be a blustery start to friday with areas of cloud moving south. some light showers for many places. the most frequent showers will be

affecting the far north of scotland. the wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and there'll be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. elsewhere, brighter spells sunshine spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> good morning. 9:00. thursday, the 18th of april. today, another scandal hits the tory party as the mp, mark menzies loses the whip over claims he misused campaign funds . misused campaign funds. >> a huge headache for rishi sunak as yet another conservative mp loses the whip. what does it mean for his

electoral chances? find out more with me very soon. >> 70 asylum seekers are moved out of an ex raf base after major safety risks emerge. >> campaigners at former raf wethersfield say the government ignored their serious safety concerns and now they're paying the price. i'll have all the details . details. >> the prince of wales returns to public duties today for the first time since princess catherine revealed her cancer diagnosis, cameron walker's got the latest. >> well, after three and a half weeks of looking after his wife and children, prince william is visiting a charity which distributes leftover food to communities who need it. more details shortly . details shortly. >> travel carnage continues in dubaias >> travel carnage continues in dubai as flash flooding devastates the city. earlier, we spoke to one british expat . spoke to one british expat. >> unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. some people's homes have been flooded . it really has

have been flooded. it really has been a very scary time for us all here. >> law enforcement take down an illegal website used by cyber criminals to defraud thousands of uk victims. >> well, this marks an alarming new development where tech savvy criminals are teaching others how to trick members of the pubuc how to trick members of the public into handing over sensitive personal details . sensitive personal details. >> it's a beautiful start out there for many places , and there for many places, and there's more sunshine to come this weekend. but before that happens , there is some rain to happens, there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. >> to you. i'm stephen >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on . this is breakfast on. gb news. for those of you getting in touch on car insurance, we only mentioned it briefly at the end of the papers.

>> it's because it's a disgrace. >> it's because it's a disgrace. >> is a disgrace. john sharp >> it is a disgrace. john sharp says my insurance went up by 160 18, but he did get it cheaper by shopping around. >> yeah , see, that didn't work >> yeah, see, that didn't work for me. i've just bought bought new car insurance. it's tripled in price and my mum did the ringing up for me. she's good at the bathroom. >> oh. is she. i didn't work. i think they gave us £20 off. i mean, work this time around. i didn't get it. that's the other thing. you can't really shop around. >> i didn't get as much off this time. i always ring up and say, no, i'm paying that. no, no, i'm not paying that. >> usually that works. yeah. >> but usually that works. yeah. >> but usually that works. yeah. >> i mean, i mean, costs have gone up everything, it's gone up for everything, but it's the people are now the fact that people are now saying, you've saying, because you've got to have it's legal have car, it's a legal obligation, but people saying they're claims, which obligation, but people saying th what claims, which obligation, but people saying th what they claims, which obligation, but people saying th what they want. claims, which obligation, but people saying th what they want. well,|s, which obligation, but people saying th what they want. well, they1ich is what they want. well, they can't to because they can't afford to because they can't afford to because they can't lose the no can't afford to lose the no claims and it going up next year even because you've made even more because you've made a claim. you seem a bit of a con like get insurance. like that. get the insurance. but make a claim then you but if you make a claim then you know months time you're know in 12 months time you're going pay the price. you'll

going to pay the price. you'll probably pay it all back. plus some. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> loads of you getting in touch on drinking as well. we had a debate it was debate earlier about it was about smoking about banning of smoking actually it. for actually wasn't it. for if you're after 2009 you won't you're born after 2009 you won't ever smoking. so our question ever be smoking. so our question this was should we ban this morning was should we ban drinking? should get tough on drinking? should we get tough on drinking? should we get tough on drinking as well? lartey drinking laws as well? lartey says young not all seem to says our young not all seem to need to have alcohol to have a good time . good time. >> she's in is in the psyche a little bit , which you can little bit, which you can question and criticise but should we really be bringing in more restrictions on it? i don't think so. some people like a dnnk think so. some people like a drink el—sisi, some whined a bit. i know some people have problems with drink, but if you, you know, you've got to. we've got to learn how to handle it properly, stewart says. >> i'm a recovering alcoholic. i'm two years sober. it's a massive uk and massive problem in the uk and needs addressed, and there needs to be addressed, and there needs to be addressed, and there needs be training for bar and needs to be training for bar and shop workers to know how to shop workers to know how much to serve somebody. and patricia serve somebody. oh, and patricia says worst thing to help says the worst thing to help drinkers was cheap booze in supermarkets. should be an supermarkets. that should be an off only.

off licences only. >> well, that's not a bad idea . >> well, that's not a bad idea. that's not a bad idea, though. i mean, it all means it's going to cost us all more, you know? >> but maybe instead of coming down on pubs, you come down on cheap booze and supermarkets, i don't know, would you come down to anything all? let us know to anything at all? let us know what you think. your what you think. keeping your store.com slash your say. >> say don't forget >> just gonna say don't forget that don't the that last bit. don't forget the last right, let's have last bit. all right, let's have a at politics you this a look at politics for you this morning. because there's another scandal party scandal hitting the tory party and of their mps, mark and one of their mps, mark menzies, the whip over menzies, has lost the whip over the alleged misuse campaign the alleged misuse of campaign funds. the alleged misuse of campaign funds . is a the alleged misuse of campaign funds. is a complex story. >> this one? yeah, it certainly is. >> number 10 have launched an investigation into the matter. mark menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the of commons. the house of commons. >> let's head to westminster, should our political should we and our political correspondent olivia utley. >> morning to you, olivia. break this down a little bit for us because it's all about money and weird late night phone calls and being held hostage. apparently

vie. >> well, exactly. i mean, it's a it's a complex and frankly, quite bizarre story that we are heanng quite bizarre story that we are hearing essentially what's alleged to have happened is mark menzies, the conservative mp, one of rishi sunak trade envoys, has apparently used £14,000 worth of tory campaign funds for his own personal uses. now there are various different episodes in which he is accused of embezzling this money. but the most interesting one, perhaps, and the one that the times newspaper who broke this story led with, is that he called his former campaign manager at 3:00 in the morning and said that he needed her to transfer him £5,000 of campaign money because he was being detained in his flat by bad men who wouldn't release him unless he paid them off. the former campaign manager refused to pay up, and a bit later in the day , mark menzies later in the day, mark menzies called his current campaign manager, now asking for £6,500.

now the details aren't quite clear, but what it sounds like happenedis clear, but what it sounds like happened is that mark menzies went on a internet date with a man who took him back to his flat. it might have then mark menzies may have then been sick and someone demanded £5,000 for and someone demanded £5,000 for a clean up. there is also questions swirling, of course, as you would expect about potential blackmail . what's so potential blackmail. what's so bad for rishi sunak about this? apart from the fact that he's lost his seventh mp now? i think it is in in just two years is that the conservative party were informed of these very, very serious allegations three months ago, and yet the story is only just coming to light and menzies has only just lost the whip. why why was that? i think it's going to leave rishi sunak open to allegations that he was too weak to do anything about it. >> okay, olivia, for now, thanks very indeed . very much indeed. >> well, the conservative party have also issued a statement . have also issued a statement. they say the conservative party is investigating allegations made regarding a member of

parliament. this process is rightfully confidential. the party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them . them. >> now the home office has been forced to move asylum seekers out of an ex—raf base in essex after safety concerns were raised about the site . raised about the site. >> well, our reporter ray addison is there for us and ray, what was wrong with the site ? what was wrong with the site? >> well, this is looking like a bit of a pr disaster for the home office and the government. just ten months ago, this site had been assessed as safe and fit for purpose, asylum seekers had started to move into it. and now we're hearing that 70 have moved back out again and into those expensive hotels that the government is very keen to stop housing people in due to the identification of safety risks, namely radiation and unexploded ordnance. now this is one of the

home office's largest accommodation sites for asylum seekers. it can house a max of 800 people. originally the plan was 1700, but locals objected to that and they changed their mind and capped it at 800. we don't know how many people are actually in here because the home office say it's not their policy to provide that kind of information, but a maximum of 800. now, last month, they got planning permission to use it for a further three years. that was through something called a special development order that circumvents the permissions from the local council. and there were concerns raised in that sdo about the risk of contamination. and it would appear that those risks have now been realised . risks have now been realised. and as i said, there's, up to 800 residents behind me. they're going about their daily business today. they are allowed to come and go freely. i grabbed a quick word with two as they went down the road.

>> another quick chat . no, no . >> another quick chat. no, no. are you guys worried about the contamination on the site ? where contamination on the site? where are you off to? yeah where are you going? working. oh, what job do you have ? do you have? >> now, one of the things i thought was interesting about that, short exchange i had there with those two gentlemen was when i asked where they were going. one of them appeared to say that they were heading to off work. and, of course, asylum seekers who are waiting to have their claims processed are not allowed work. we're aware of allowed to work. we're aware of that now, braintree district council have said that they've written to the home office requesting urgent copies of all the relevant technical documents and plans for the sdo. their key emphasis, they say, is safeguarding not just the residents inside this base here, but also those in the local to

community ray hudson, thank you very much indeed . very much indeed. >> now, dozens of suspected cyber fraudsters have been arrested across the uk after authorities brought down an illegal website used by thousands of criminals to defraud victims worldwide . defraud victims worldwide. >> well, police have identified at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone. a sophisticated online enablers train criminals to set up fake websites to scam victims into handing over their personal details. >> let's talk to our home and security editor mark white, who's been covering all of this. i mean, clearly a sophisticated setup here. mark, how big an of an operation would it have been to shut this down? >> well, it was a huge operation. the law enforcement authorities had been infiltrating this particular website for almost a couple of years now , gathering enough in years now, gathering enough in the way of information to be

able to move, to bring that site down to and arrest close to 40 suspects in the uk and abroad. it is a very alarming departure, though, in terms of what is happening in cyber fraud, because what you've got effectively are tech savvy criminals , passing on that criminals, passing on that knowledge to those people who would want to commit fraud but perhaps don't have the sort of, technological know how to be able to set up these fake sites to scam people for information. and this , is called lab host. and this, is called lab host. the site, did just that. these criminals would pay a subscription of around 2 or £300, for and that, they would get a step by step instruction on, and fake websites supplied to them. so step by step instructions about to how set up these websites. and the aim of

this was all around phishing. this is of course, the task of , this is of course, the task of, trying to convince people that you are a legitimate bank or retailer, and you need the customer's details for whatever reason. and of course, it does work . it, people fall for this work. it, people fall for this kind of scam all the time and hand over sensitive details that can be then used to commit fraud, against you. and there are , it's estimated at least are, it's estimated at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone, many thousands more around the world, and 490 odd thousand, sort of banking details, have been sort of harvested by these criminals. so a very worrying development. and sadly, although this lab host, site has now been interrupted and taken down, there are many other such sites now, springing up. >> yeah, it certainly is very alarming. mark we also understand you've got some

breaking news out of germany this morning. >> yeah. details just coming through. and there's a very worrying development tonight out of bavaria in southern germany with reports that two german russian nationals have been arrested by german federal police, accused of plotting to attack military installations in, in germany with a view to undermine support for the war in ukraine, these two men were arrested. today by federal police, they had been monitoring their activities. according to german federal police, one of the men had been meeting regularly since october of last yean regularly since october of last year, with an individual who police have identified as being connected to the russian secret service. and, they had discussed a number of plots, including bomb and firebomb attacks at us bases and also at a base that

has been teaching ukrainian service personnel how to operate tanks that germany is supplying. germany has now become , the germany has now become, the second largest supplier of weapons , to ukraine in recent weapons, to ukraine in recent months. so a very worrying development. more details coming in the minutes and hours ahead. >> okay, mark, for now, thanks very much indeed. >> well, britain's newsroom is coming up at 930 this morning. andrew pierce and carole malone are here to tell us all about it. morning, you two. >> how are you? yeah. we're good. how are you? very well. >> what's coming up in the program? >> we are talking about what's going on in scotland with our kids. shocking the kids. shocking story in the front of telegraph today. front of the telegraph today. >> just shocking. this >> it's just shocking. this is this a a group called this is a it's a group called the lgbt youth group of scotland. and they had £1 million last year from the scottish and they're scottish government. and they're talking as young four talking to kids as young as four and them they're and asking them if they're gay, trans lesbian. how do trans or lesbian. i mean, how do they know at four this is just insidious. and this this is hot

on the heels of the acas report, who warned caution with with young kids and read gender. and yet are going ahead yet here they are going ahead with it. >> so they're going to have a trans champion, an lgbt champion at of four. at the age of four. unbelievable. i was into jack and and humpty dumpty. and jill and humpty dumpty. >> yeah. yeah. >> me too. yeah. yeah. >> me too. yeah. yeah. >> well , nor should think. >> stop it. we're also. we're also talking to a trans marathon runner who's run as a man, runner who's run as a man, a woman runner who's run as a man, a woman and non—binary. >> non—binary, whatever he's going. what does that mean? yeah exactly. >> so and of course, this is all on the back of the culture secretary this week, lucy frazer, saying, this is all this nonsense has to stop. you have to run one either. yeah, well to run one or either. yeah, well , well, yes. men who transition to , to, to, to females, they to, to, to, to females, they cannot enter a race against a woman because they've got an unfair advantage. >> well, some, some sports bodies already have said that. that's the thing. there are that's the thing. but there are others haven't. football, others who haven't. football, darts i'm also looking at darts and i'm also looking at the fallout from rwanda, the house how many more house of lords, how many more times delay times are they going to delay this legislation? >> as takes.

>> as many as it takes. i suppose that's exactly, but it'll it will go next week. >> but i mean, it's supposed to be that's be emergency legislation. that's what said in what the prime minister said in november. now april. november. but it's now april. >> how can it go if they're still knocking it back? >> well, the end, they have >> well, in the end, they have to give in because it's the elected the commons has elected will of the commons has to has to right to prevail. okay has to right you too. >> we'll see a little bit later on. >> thank you very much indeed to get out because we need to get you out because we need to tell our lovely viewers and listeners about their chance to winyou can't andrew. >> you can't have it, andrew. £10,000 greek a luxury £10,000 greek cruise, a luxury travel bottle and a whopping £10,000 in tax free cash. >> yes, it's our biggest prize of the year. so far. >> yes, it's our biggest prize of the year. so fan and here's how could all be yours with how it could all be yours with thanks to variety cruises, a family sailing since family company sailing since 1942, you have the chance to win a £10,000 seven night small boat cruise for two with flights, meals , excursions and drinks included. >> you'll be able to choose from any one of their 2025 greek adventures and explore greece like never before. plus, you'll also win £10,000 in tax free

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!i >> !- >> 921. !_ >> 921. now. i >> 921. now. prince ! >> 921. now. prince william returns to official public dufies returns to official public duties today . for the first time duties today. for the first time since catherine revealed her cancer diagnosis. >> yes, he's set to visit a surplus food distribution

charity, followed by a youth centre in london, which benefits from the organisation's deliveries. >> all right, let's talk to our royal correspondent, cameron walker. it is. i have to say, i don't know why, but it's going to be lovely to see him out and about and, and sort of getting back to it in a way it will. >> yeah. we had a brief appearance from him and his oldest son, prince george at the football match, the aston villa football match, the aston villa football match, the aston villa football match week, but football match last week, but this will the first time he's this will be the first time he's back public duties post the back on public duties post the princess of wales disclosing her cancer diagnosis. yes, it's been a very difficult time for him, but he's very much keeping calm and carrying on, so he's visiting a food surplus distribution called visiting a food surplus distributtor called visiting a food surplus distributto supper called visiting a food surplus distributto supper inalled visiting a food surplus distributto supper in surrey , and surplus to supper in surrey, and they kind of distribute ten tons of food per week to communities who need it. so churches, food banks, care homes and the like . banks, care homes and the like. and he's going to be volunteering there, packaging up all the food , and then he's all the food, and then he's going to delivering it to a going to be delivering it to a youth centre in in west london. kensington palace says that this

is one of his priorities reducing food waste and the environment, taking a leaf out of his father's book, i might add, who launched the coronation food project november doing food project in november doing something similar but something very, very similar but of course, kind of all adds of course, this kind of all adds into prince william's overall aims with the earthshot prize, his environmental prize trying to repair the planet over the next decade. one of those categories is build a waste free world. so it all kind of ties in today. >> certainly does. and can i talk to you about this prince harry story? that's over quite a few of the front pages this morning. harry officially registering america as his official home. >> yes, i've got the company's house document here in my hands that proves it. prince henry charles albert david, duke of sussex, has officially changed his country of residence to the united states. the change actually happened though, last yean actually happened though, last year, but it's just it was published officially yesterday. >> i mean, look, it's front page of the mail this morning. >> the sun. yeah. >> the sun. yeah. >> oh, and the sun. yeah yeah, if he put country of residence

united kingdom when he's never here, we'd have something to moan about, wouldn't we? >> i think so, i think he's probably damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. to be honest, this appears to be a bit of a formality. this is the company's documents for company's house documents for travalyst, the company company's house documents for tra set'st, the company company's house documents for tra set up the company company's house documents for tra set up kind the company company's house documents for tra set up kind of the company company's house documents for tra set up kind of to 1e company company's house documents for tra set up kind of to make1pany company's house documents for tra set up kind of to make ecoy he set up kind of to make eco travel a possibility, supporting local communities the local communities around the world, the company he world, so that's the company he set up for that? again, i think because it's just a formality. i feel like perhaps we might be making making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill here, but it does a very clear, but it does show a very clear, cut of ties from the united kingdom because it's now in black and white that prince harry resides in the united states and appears to suggest that he's not going to be returning to britain any time soon, which was the original plan, perhaps in 2020, splitting the time between the two countries. >> do you think it means anything the distance anything for the distance between family family between the family and family relations? harry maintains between the family and family rel loves? harry maintains between the family and family rel loves his harry maintains between the family and family rel loves his family.y maintains between the family and family rel loves his family. ofnaintains between the family and family rel loves his family. of course. s he loves his family. of course. he over the to the he flew over to the to the united kingdom following king charles's diagnosis

charles's cancer diagnosis for a very short of time. but charles's cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly of time. but charles's cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is of time. but charles's cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is stillf time. but charles's cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is still atime. but charles's cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is still a bite. but charles's cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is still a bit of5ut there clearly is still a bit of a risk. understand that a risk. we understand that prince william and harry have not been on speaking terms for some time you mention some time. any time you mention prince harry to sources to prince harry to sources close to prince harry to sources close to prince william, barrier prince william, you're a barrier goes not to goes up. they do not want to talk about harry, and talk about prince harry, and i don't see way out of it, to be don't see a way out of it, to be honest. at this stage, i think prince we're going to see prince harry we're going to see at the invictus games next month here the united kingdom, the here in the united kingdom, the service years since service marking ten years since those that he set will those games that he set up. will other members the royal other members of the royal family him in that? family support him in that? we'll have to wait see. we'll have to wait and see. >> okay, cameron, you very we'll have to wait and see. >> okindeed. eron, you very we'll have to wait and see. >> okindeed. eron, to you very we'll have to wait and see. >> okindeed. eron, to yyou.ery much indeed. good to see you. >> yeah, to see you. that's >> yeah, good to see you. that's it from us today. we're back tomorrow from 6 am. and britain's newsroom is up next with carol. with andrew and carol. >> outlook with boxt >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. a chilly start in many places today. cloudier in the north with some

outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. but a few light outbreaks of rain reaching northern ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into northern england and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places, then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it'll feel pleasantly warm. 15, perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and that rain wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away , so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers , blustery followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but it's going to be a blustery start to friday. areas of cloud moving south. some light showers for many places. the most frequent showers will be

affecting the far north of scotland. the wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast, and there'll be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. showers by the afternoon. confined to the east of england. elsewhere, brighter spells emerging some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> away . >> away. >> away. >> 930 on thursday, the 18th of april. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and carole malone. >> and another rwanda said back the house of lords has delayed the house of lords has delayed the passing of the government's rwanda bill until next week . rwanda bill until next week. will this political ping pong ever end ? ever end? >> shocking. in scotland,

scottish primary schools are appointing children as lgbt champions and being encouraged to ask pupils as young as four if they're gay, lesbian or trans wicked, frankly. >> and we'll be joined by the transgender marathon runner who has competed as a man, a woman, a nun and a non—binary runner. she'll be at the london marathon this weekend to and goodbye to britain. >> don't say good riddance , >> don't say good riddance, malone. prince harry declares the united states to be his new country of residence. what will his family think? relief i think, okay. >> is that where you are? do it. can a leopard change its spots? teenage tiktok prankster missy issued a public apology to those who were affected by his online pranks last night. speaking to pastor christie's take a listen. >> i apologise to all the victims in the past that i've, may have caused distress to you may have caused distress to you may have caused distress to you may have harassed, may have, mentally tormented type mentally tormented in any type of way