good evening, gb news is mark wise but in dover all day as hundreds once again cross the engush hundreds once again cross the english channel and we're heanng english channel and we're hearing plainclothes military on the beaches just how great do our security services think the threat might be levelling up.7 a big speech from michael gove, the west midlands. not happy about this. i've got a conservative and a labour mp coming on the program to tell us why they think they've got a pretty rotten deal . and joining pretty rotten deal. and joining me on talking pints cult film celebrity hard man, hero thomas . i have to watch my step, but

before all of that, let's get bonnie is with polly middlehurst . nigel, thank you and good evening to you . the top story on evening to you. the top story on gb news tonight. downing street has said this afternoon prime minister has never paid a penalty to the hmrc amid an investigation into the chancellor, nadhim zahawi. his tax affairs rishi sunak has been defending how number 10 is handung defending how number 10 is handling the situation, insisting due process is being followed and saying there were no issues raised when he appointed zahawi to a ministerial role . well, at ministerial role. well, at a lively pmqs earlier on today, the labour leader accused mrs. sunak of being too weak to sack the party chairman . sir keir the party chairman. sir keir starmer said an mp who sought to avoid paying tax was not fit to be chancellor mr. sunak has suggested it would have been politically exposed , as he put politically exposed, as he put it, to sack mr. zahawi, but instead he awaited the findings of an investigation into the

matter. now ukraine's president has called the us announcement of sending 31 abrams tanks to ukraine an important step on the path to victory . germany's path to victory. germany's already confirmed it will supply 14 leopard 2 battle tanks to the war torn country as well as authorising their re—export from other countries. russia has reacted with the kremlin putting out a statement describing the move as a belated provocation, saying us tanks in ukraine will burn like all the rest . well, burn like all the rest. well, president joe biden spoke about continued support from washington, saying that the us will train ukrainian troops to use the vehicles as soon as possible . abrams tanks are the possible. abrams tanks are the most capable tanks in the world. they're also extremely complex to operate and maintain so we're also giving ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively sustain these tanks on the battlefield . when we on the battlefield. when we began will begin to train ukrainian troops on these issues of sustainment, logistic and

maintenance as soon as possible . meanwhile, boris johnson has been wishing the ukrainian president a happy birthday for today. president a happy birthday for today . in a tweet, the former today. in a tweet, the former prime minister said volodymyr zelenskyy is heroic. leadership is an example full to the whole . world now here, hundreds of illegal migrants are attempting to cross the english channel. gb news can exclusively reveal. already around 450 migrants have been intercepted , travelling on been intercepted, travelling on nine small boats. after a break in some bad weather we've been having . several other small having. several other small boats attempted to reach the kent coast, but didn't make it into uk waters. a surge in small boat arrivals had been predicted. a strong winds had died down before they picked up again this afternoon . and again this afternoon. and lastly, a 61 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting the former health secretary, matt hancock , on the secretary, matt hancock, on the london underground. british police say they received a

report that a man had been harassed at westminster tube station yesterday morning. it's believed the mp wasn't hurt in the incident. the suspect remains in custody. enquiries are ongoing . those are the are ongoing. those are the headlines. you're up to date on tv, online and dab+ radio. with gb news for now, it's for fresh good evening . it was prime good evening. it was prime minister's questions today. understandably, the lawyer cast was busy tying . the pm up in was busy tying. the pm up in knots over the tax affairs of nadeem zahawi. the conservative party chairman. he's still there in place . we'll hear much more in place. we'll hear much more about that story over the course of the next few weeks. the other big line that keir starmer chose to go on was law and order , or to go on was law and order, or in particular the failure of the parole board. and he focussed on the man out on parole who

committed that horrible murder in east london. but what he didn't say and what many other mps who raised the issue of children, migrant children are going missing in large numbers from hotels. what none of them want to talk about in the house of commons and no one did, was the other horrific crime that we learnt about yesterday, which of course was a young afghan man who claimed to be 14 when he was actually 20, that committed a murder in bournemouth last year and today was sentenced for life. no one seems to consider in parliament that of all the children that are going missing from hotels and by the way, 75% of them are deemed to be albanian children. many of them probably aren't children at all. later on this afternoon , there later on this afternoon, there were marches in parliament square for refugees welcome. well, you know what.7 this country is always welcome. genuine refugees . but many of us genuine refugees. but many of us feel that what's happening, genuine refugees. but many of us feel that what's happening , the feel that what's happening, the engush feel that what's happening, the english channel is nothing to do with that. i can't think of an issue in which the house of

commons detached from commons is more detached from the the country. well, the rest of the country. well, all day in the freezing cold down in dover , gb news is home down in dover, gb news is home and security editor mark white has been there and he's prepared this package for us. and it's a very interesting package because it clothes, military it talks about clothes, military , being on the beaches. so i want to ask you, just how much of a threat do you think some of these people may pose? farage gb news .uk. let's see what mark white found out . just before far white found out. just before far slight the border force vessel volunteer slip into dover harbour on board. around 100 people taken to small migrant boats during weeks of winter storms. there have been few in the way of weather windows where conditions are common enough to allow small boats to cross. but the criminal gangs are patient, and after operating for the past four years, they are now expert

at reading the wind and the tides . so on at reading the wind and the tides. so on the at reading the wind and the tides . so on the few occasions tides. so on the few occasions the weather allows, the people smuggler's lodge their small boats en masse . by mid—morning, boats en masse. by mid—morning, around 300 channel migrant ice have been taken to kent. after they were picked up from half a dozen inflatable balls. the prime minister failed to make tackling the small boats crisis a top priority kitty. the bad weather of late , meaning weather of late, meaning relatively low numbers arriving here has certainly eased the pressure on the government . but pressure on the government. but has this latest surge shows the moment whether conditions improve the boats are back as we filmed military personnel left over harbour in two rigid inflatable pools to patrol some of kent's beaches, looking for any small boats that might have made it past the border force and navy vessels out in the channel gb news has been told

that other members of the military are now routinely patrolling some beaches on foot as well into the afternoon. the boats kept coming just before the weather window closed again , with windy conditions now expected until the weekend . in expected until the weekend. in just a matter of days, border force will once again take control of channel migrant operations from the military who have been coordinating these patrols since last april. but the pressure on the government is unlikely to ease just because the authorities are better at spotting and intercepting small boats, stopping the trade in channel migrants is the ultimate goal channel migrants is the ultimate goal. but the government admits that won't be a quick or simple . while quite gb news dover. well, why now? joins me live from dover harbour. mark good evening . nigel now i this from

evening. nigel now i this from the very start of the crisis. your report tonight is the first time, mark i've heard of plain clothes military officers patrolling the beaches. i'd not heard that before. i'm sure no one had. is this because of what happened to aycliffe before christmas, when somebody had come a beach and broke into a house and it caused a hell of a panic? is that what they're fearful of ? i think there are fearful of? i think there are certainly some that the way that the migrant boats coming across have been operating of is a way in which, especially with albanians board, they do want to fall into the hands of border force. they want to try to make it to coastline. so they've been trying to do that and we've been getting these very reports of some boats , more so than ever some boats, more so than ever really recent months that have been beaching. and then people

of wandering into local communities , desperate to get communities, desperate to get away , of course, knocking on away, of course, knocking on people's doors, asking for asking for use of the phone and generally being really quite threatening, intimidating. so we've got, from what we understand from our sources who seem these plainclothes personnel all down on some of the beaches , kent, or these the beaches, kent, or these patrols off that area, we saw rigid inflatable military vessels out there today as well , zipping along the coastline . , zipping along the coastline. well, as you know, nigel , just well, as you know, nigel, just within a matter of days border force will be taking over command of the operations in the engush command of the operations in the english channel military have been running it since april of last year , but it will revert to last year, but it will revert to a new small boats operational command still, a new small boats operational command still , the military in a command still, the military in a big way , as well as the national big way, as well as the national crime agency . the government crime agency. the government says that this will be much more effective and efficient in deaung effective and efficient in dealing with the channel small

boats situation . but yes, it boats situation. but yes, it will be certainly probably more efficient spotting them and, trying to intercept and take them on board. will it actually stop them taking to the water in the first place? will that, as i said in the report, there is a much longer a not so simple task to do . i suspect that all that to do. i suspect that all that means mark is we become a much more efficient taxi service for the criminal gangs who are making millions every week when it's come out of this trade in terms of security. this man that was convicted and sent to prison for life today who claimed he was 14, he was actually 20. but the problem is, if people arrive and as you and i have witnessed ourselves throwing their iphones and their documents into the channeli and their documents into the channel i mean, we literally , channel i mean, we literally, surely do not know the identities of most of the young men that come in. yeah is a people smuggling industry that's

underway where the criminal gangs, in the first instance give that advice to those who want to come here to the uk if they want a successful asylum process. the best thing to do is just have a convincing back story and not often mean really ditching who you are and where you've come from and a background that may not qualify asylum and reinventing one. to do that, you throw all your documents away. you come up with a different name. you may be come from a different part of the world. it's so difficult , as the world. it's so difficult, as you can imagine, for authorities to then get a handle on who they are. and of course, the flip side of not knowing who they are is how dangerous they are. and we know because authorities have told me they suspect there are hundreds of asylum seekers who come into this country who criminals, people with criminal records who've got our asylum system . they're now in hotels

system. they're now in hotels around , the country, because it around, the country, because it only takes a fraction of the almost 46,000 who came across last year to have had a criminal record . and they're you're up to record. and they're you're up to hundreds and that's what they believe. and when they're all of course, nigel mixing about aimlessly in with nothing to do offer a day in an evening then the propensity for some of them to get into trouble is always there. and if there are criminals amongst them, it's all the risk. of course . matt white, the risk. of course. matt white, great reporting from david and a great, depressing story, but thank you for being with us right throughout the day here on gb news. what i have to say , gb news. what i have to say, mark says, you know, it's pretty clear we know hundreds that three hundreds of criminals have come into the country last year across the channel some estimates are up but it'll be up to 80,000 across this year. now rishi sunak is pledging he'll stop this . i'll tell you what,

stop this. i'll tell you what, folks. all the while, we stay part of the c, h r, all the while there was a european court. all the while our judges can use the european convention. in my view we will never, ever solve this in a mini domestic politics levelling up you've heard lots , lots about it. in heard lots, lots about it. in a moment , talked to two mps from moment, talked to two mps from the west midlands who are less than with the outcome .

well, some of your thoughts on the security threat that is posed by tens of thousands of young men crossing the english with out documents. i think it speaks for itself , ryan says. we speaks for itself, ryan says. we are huge danger as these men are entirely undocumented . we have entirely undocumented. we have noidea entirely undocumented. we have no idea their past or even potential links to terror groups. well, as we saw, as we

saw with the so—called 14 year old who was 20, he'd committed a double murder in serbia. he had been done for drug dealing in italy and refused asylum in norway. but he arrived in this country without any documents . country without any documents. we said that's just fine. in fact, we even believing age placed him with foster carers. it's difficult to make some of this stuff up. another viewer says , well nigel, brexit didn't says, well nigel, brexit didn't so go to plan b. whoever you are, you might remember controversially, i unveiled a poster a week before the brexit referendum and it showed a snaking line of young men coming into the european union. point i was making was by not being part of the eu. we can stop them coming here and yet they have . coming here and yet they have. and yet they have . and that's and yet they have. and that's why the conservative government , i think, will lose the next election . and it's why so many election. and it's why so many of us that fought for brexit are so disappointed about the way the government has enacted it . the government has enacted it. hugo says long as people in

power are afraid of the mob, then nothing will absolutely nothing . well, i have to say, nothing. well, i have to say, i mentioned earlier that i think westminster , the debates that go westminster, the debates that go on the house of commons are so out of touch with where most of the country is this issue. now levelling up. we've talked about it before. yes i've done my very best to try and explain and understand what it really is. but today there was a convention of the north with, of course, the great michael gove taking the great michael gove taking the chair and seems frightfully pleased with up. but what it's going to deliver for people. he also adds to that that he wants also adds to that that he wants a lot more devolution, a lot more local mayors , a lot more more local mayors, a lot more local powers . my view on it has local powers. my view on it has always been that what it could be useful , always been that what it could be useful, you always been that what it could be useful , you know, you can be useful, you know, you can build some roads and bypasses some infrastructure, but generally government spraying around in regions. i don't think is the way to create wealth and you've got to do what? for example, the state of georgia did in america over the last ten

years. they became ultra competitive. they finished up growth rates of 4% year after year after year by good , by year after year by good, by allowing businesses to thrive . allowing businesses to thrive. that to me is what levelling would really be. but nonetheless see, as there is a cake to be delivered out , the government's delivered out, the government's levelling up plans. it's led to one heck of a row at one of the places. one of the epicentres of this disagreement is the west midlands and marco longhi, the member of but dudley north. he put this point to the prime minister a pmqs today. put this point to the prime minister a pmqs today . q mr. minister a pmqs today. q mr. speaker , while i was speaker, while i was disappointed that , dudley did disappointed that, dudley did not make the final cut in the latest levelling up funding round, i of course pleased that received th e £25 million towns received the £25 million towns deal a big pay the brand you've edwards leisure facility and a

transport interchange project secured since election in 2019 . secured since election in 2019. but those are high street . mr. but those are high street. mr. speaker is on its knees . so will speaker is on its knees. so will the prime minister meet with me and dudley to discuss our levelling up bid and how we can ensure a success in the . next ensure a success in the. next well, mr. speaker, my honourable friend is a great advocate for his constituents , and i'm and his constituents, and i'm and i'm delighted that. thanks to his efforts, dudley has received £25 million from the towns fund . i know there will be disappointment about the levelling up fund, but bids including that made by dudley can receive feedback to strengthen their bid for future of funding. and i would be very happy to meet him further to discuss , know mark along he discuss, know mark along he joins me conservative member of parliament for dudley . so is it parliament for dudley. so is it all about governments just spraying money around the place and all will be well? well, of

course it's not, nigel owens. nice to see you again, by the way. i neom. i am the ultra local campaigner, as you might say . i will do my for best say. i will do my for best dudley people. and what i want to do is make sure that i get every possible pound and pence spent as any mp you might argue, might want to do. i would always argue, as a conservative would want smaller government , not want smaller government, not bigger government, larger government usually means more taxes for people. so i would be very against that. and more taxes means usually a lower growth. lower growth means recessions are more likely. so i'm very much for growth , low i'm very much for growth, low taxation and i absolute only want to make sure that those infrastructure projects are about levelling up actually take place in dudley. and i was of course quite proud that dudley was not considered accepted. but i've been to dudley many, many times. and, you know, it's sort of post—industrial in many. it's really got its economic . why was really got its economic. why was it left out ? well there are it left out? well there are different narratives on this.

and obviously we are being told that there are many , many that there are many, many competing bids in there. and if you listen to the government's narrative , obviously a week or narrative, obviously a week or two ago it was all about making that it wasn't a money being dished out on a per capita . dished out on a per capita. while i can appreciate there was an argument for that, i would argue that particularly in areas like the way you have a post—industrial legacy, a lot of offshoring overseas of business. what happens then, of course, is that you have bigger problems in certain areas , need addressing certain areas, need addressing than others and of course different areas did receive larger sums money than others. i think one of the big criticisms, of course, is that levelling up as it sold at the last as it was sold at the last election was all about the midlands and the north. and actually the south is receiving quite money now. to be quite a lot of money now. to be fair, south has great wealth fair, the south has great wealth but pockets of great but also pockets of great deprivation. recently well . is deprivation. recently well. is this pork barrel politics? i mean, basically what they're

doing. let's be honest. what rishi said, you got left out. what rishi sunak is basically doing in the north is making sure the red wall areas get loads of money. well, obviously there are other areas , red wall there are other areas, red wall constituencies , who would argue constituencies, who would argue that they haven't received the money they were supposed to be receiving. so you will have heard also from andy street, who was also quite upset at the thing that the midlands received. andy street , the mayor received. andy street, the mayor of the west midlands, for those that don't know that what he said was really interesting because he's calling even because he's calling for even more yes he's more devolution. yes he's calling for a level of fiscal autonomy for the west midlands, which means just one thing to be more tax . there are, of course, more tax. there are, of course, different schools of thought on this and what i would like to have seen the bid considered more is the level of need that dudley, for example, presents compared to others. and for me,

if that local had been there, i would like to think that the government would have looked on and undoubtedly more favourably so that part of the question i understand more devolution is something i need to be, let's say, more persuaded on. well, because i know i the experiment with county council's and that didn't work did it. andy has been an excellent we have a very good mayor in ben houchen, but i'm not sure you can cast your eye on the rest of the country and see that you have the same level of success. michael gove at convention , the north at the convention, the north today was talking about these mayors basically mayors being set up basically right? country . i wonder you right? the country. i wonder you this was supposed to be one of the flagship policies of the 2019 election, although i'm not sure it actually was because i think anyone really understood what it meant. rather like the term northern that went before it . but isn't the truth of it it. but isn't the truth of it that in fact what the conservative party is in danger of doing with this is upsetting

people than pleases ? we have people than it pleases? we have had bad , haven't we, as had some bad, haven't we, as well , levelling had some bad, haven't we, as well, levelling up had some bad, haven't we, as well , levelling up largely well, levelling up largely means, in my opinion , boris means, in my opinion, boris explained. it was about creating those opportunities in areas that historically didn't have . that historically didn't have. so he used to say, if you remember talent is everywhere. yeah, but you're not able . yeah, but you're not able. actually, he talks about freeports and i think these were very good ideas . good ideas, but very good ideas. good ideas, but a lot of it was centred around infrastructure projects. now, of course, everything stopped for two years under covid and infrastructure. projects take a long time to put in place. so even if we started today building some of the things i want to get built in dudley, it won't be for the next two or three years time before we see results. then you have planning permissions, all the other sorts of things that take time to sort out. to be fair there of things that take time to sort out. to be fairthere is an out. so to be fair there is an element the levelling up element of the levelling up equafion element of the levelling up equation can't just the equation that you can't just the snap of a finger make happen, can final thought , rishi can you? final thought, rishi sunak your unelected leader not even elected by conservative

party members, but hey there. we it's 2023. we're all hoping for a fresh start and stability for the sake of the country. if nothing else, pretty clear . nothing else, pretty clear. today at pmqs that starmer was being the lawyer. starmer was doing what he's good at. you know , asking a question to which know, asking a question to which he knew the answer. that's what he knew the answer. that's what he does. and to his script. well, yes . and the prime well, yes. and the prime minister did actually point that out. yes, but it pretty clear. one thing that comes through is that when the prime minister said he was confident about the tax affairs of the name zahawi last week , he then says new last week, he then says new evidence has come to light. he said it twice today in the chamber, which says to me that zahawi has been less than forthcoming with information to his own party. i mean , this has his own party. i mean, this has been kicked into the long grass . you know, the new ethics adviser will look at this. it'll drag on for weeks. do you think zahawi can survive ? it's been a zahawi can survive? it's been a difficult issue for members of

parliament who like to show their loyalty, such as myself , their loyalty, such as myself, to do with. i'm not going to deny that. but the party above all were absolute hounding the government when we didn't have an ethics adviser and saying, you must have one under one immediately. and now it seems a little bit of that. they are saying that zahawi should be sacked immediately, even before the ethics even had a chance to look at the information. and so i don't want to jump to conclusions like the labour party does seem be a party has. it does seem be a difficult situation, but hey, i've been surprised an awful lot in the last few years. let's see what happens. michael longley, you for joining what happens. michael longley, you forjoining me. keep fighting for your constituents. that is what mps are that often is what mps are supposed to do and when a member of the conservative party tells you about the party chairman that a difficult situation. i think we know what that really means . we're going to stick with means. we're going to stick with this whole issue of levelling up. we're going to stick with the west midlands. we're going to go steve mccabe from sally

okello labour mp and wonder given that in his constituency there is the most deprived part of the whole of the west midlands. why did his miss out? levelling up seems to be upsetting more people than it's pleasing .

steve mccabe is the labour mp for selly oak and i guess you're now a veteran mp. you've there since you've been 97. now you've got within constituency druids heath the most deprived area in birmingham . so it's difficult to birmingham. so it's difficult to understand why you didn't get any levelling up money isn't it . it's absolutely delphic although i think it's the sixth most deprived area in the country and the so micro but yeah well i mean you tell me 90

million for the prime minister's very deprived constituency is that in rural knowsley over 45 million to build roads from dover. million to build roads from dover . you can see why that's dover. you can see why that's advantageous . so you tell me. advantageous. so you tell me. i mean, i think i'm with the mayor on this tree. it's time we stop this begging. boom, culture and had some proper system for our kids. okay. okay that's interesting, you know, because as you say, he's a conservative. he doesn't like this either. so if you stop a begging bowl culture , you stop the need for culture, you stop the need for westminster to keep feeding and money. you raise your own money locally, but how do you do that without putting taxes for ordinary folk? well, of course, you don't raise it without having a national in which operates. yeah, i was the works and pensions committee this morning i was told by 20 million that was spain on 49 different work programme was administered by nine different government

departments departmental agencies think of the ministry of , coast and agencies think of the ministry of, coast and waste and the so the idea that we recognise that the idea that we recognise that the uk is composed of a series of micro economies that could be better managed, a more level doesn't strike me as bizarre at all. okay. now andy burnham, you know who's his really become a very big figure, a bigger figure, actually, i think is the mayor of greater manchester doing a great job. yeah, that he was as an mp and you know, he's a big figure now. he's arguing. he's arguing at this convention for the north today that levelling up of money should be hardwired the system that we should somehow into law that we give this money out which you agree with that. well, you have to remember , the government to remember, the government started out with these missions. now, let's just go through it was one was to increase pay

didn't do very well and now once to increase once to narrow the age life span between rich and poor areas and wants to help younger people get the first mortgage on all they feel they did . so there was pandemic to be did. so there was pandemic to be fair to them. i mean , was that fair to them. i mean, was that wasn't it this it when you want to wait isn't a white paper so mean? this is virtually post—pandemic. mean? this is virtually post—pandemic . they were angry. post—pandemic. they were angry. it was arguing today with quite that we need better of what we're trying to achieve and the outcomes by which we judge the and unless you hardwire that into the system unless you're clear that it's about micro economies connectivity between education skills training health and longevity . all you've got is and longevity. all you've got is and longevity. all you've got is a slogan a slogan that disappoints some of the poorest parts of the country . oh, look, parts of the country. oh, look, i think it's leading to great

disappointment. certainly agree with you with that. so. okay i get it, steve. it's a national framework, but far more fiscal, local autonomy . we're going to local autonomy. we're going to finish up with very divided england aren't we? well, i'm not sure we could be much more divided at the present time. i you go and speak to my constituent and ask them about the 19 million free ministers constituents of. i don't actually buy that . i think actually buy that. i think that's an argument for retaining the most central and administratively costly system you could imagine . very you could imagine. very interesting. steve mccabe , thank interesting. steve mccabe, thank you very much indeed. another mp up for his constituents, that's what they were elected to do. and that's a very good thing. now, thought on this. the now, quick thought on this. the what moment, you may what the farage moment, you may have seen this story, but a trans in scotland has been convicted of raping two women. no, i'm not making any of this up. i'm really not any of this up. i'm really not any of this up and ahead of sentencing is being held in a female prison

and. i make this point particularly because it is in scotland, where, of course nicola sturgeon's snp have changed the law. you know , 16 changed the law. you know, 16 years old without medical consultation, you can just, you know, define yourself to be a woman, to be a man. and there are many of us who think this may well pose a threat to females in all sorts of circumstances . this females in all sorts of circumstances. this is an appalling case . it's ridiculous. appalling case. it's ridiculous. i you want to laugh, but you can't because it's awful. well, we've written to nicholas sturgeon today because i'm taking this show farage at large to aberdeen in a few weeks time. and we'd love to talk to nicholas sturgeon wouldn't that be fun ? in a moment. it's be fun? in a moment. it's talking pints. i'm going to be with tamar hassan. he is, of course , that cult film hero , course, that cult film hero, hard man. i'm going to have to watch my step back with you in a couple of minutes . hello. i used

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and go to my nothing to me it's just one of our major. i want to use outlook come in. yeah thank you . and tom, you want to know you. and tom, you want to know that you come and see me right now? don't want to be over you just make sure you come and see me again . you'll be all right. me again. you'll be all right. you know that danger. but here he is telling us i enjoyed space times . good he is telling us i enjoyed space times. good to see you. he is telling us i enjoyed space times . good to see you. pretty times. good to see you. pretty good. times. good to see you. pretty good . now in south london . yep. good. now in south london. yep. for. for south london. boy, you know , not far off the old kent know, not far off the old kent road , those sort of areas. and road, those sort of areas. and you cross del boy just around the corner peckham, you cross back that road. that was the that are frequented quite a place to grow up very tough especially being from an immigrant family. especially being from an immigrant family . bevan outsider immigrant family. bevan outsider of an outsider. immigrant family. bevan outsider of an outsider . there wasn't of an outsider. there wasn't a lot of his stuff. it was the irish the cypriots in the west,

indians were there and we had to do a lot of fighting and a lot of sticking up for ourselves. i was a very young, angry shortly little fat turkish kid with loads and i'm just like, loads air and i'm just like, yeah, yeah. so so yeah. we used to do a lot of fight. my mom put me into boxing and we just grew up the tough way, but i wouldn't have it any different. people say, you know, i'll grow up and it an all time. and it it fractures an all time. and it was wasn't it was lovely. the was it wasn't it was lovely. the community, it was beautiful neighbourhood. always neighbourhood. there's always bad, and bad everywhere. bad, good and bad everywhere. but and the boxing but i enjoyed and the boxing became big thing you. became a big thing with you. yeah, thing for yeah, boxing became a thing for me. started at very young me. i started at a very young age mum took me to judo ask age my mum took me to judo ask couldn't you know, just couldn't round, you know, just kept misbehaving then kept being misbehaving and then she karate. so an old she gave me to karate. so an old family friend called ginger mae is much rocky's china is very much like rocky's china was. was an old school boxing was. he was an old school boxing ginger. me at a ginger. she taught me at a church i started and then church and i started and then back in the day when you're boxer, people tend to leave you alone. and then you do. so much fighting is fighting in the gym. you learn to go , you know what?

you learn to go, you know what? i'm alright, leave me alone . you i'm alright, leave me alone. you just want to fight. it just don't want to fight. so it was and you got good at was a good and you got good at it. i've good. i was it. i've got good. i was undefeated as army undefeated as a as an army general. i've got some injuries and andi general. i've got some injuries and and i ended owning and stuff and i ended up owning and stuff and i ended up owning a boxing and boxing club, a boxing club and boxing club, iron grange football club, iron grange bar, football club, and netball gave on and we also netball gave on boxing club a home without morals, know, i still morals, you know, and i still trying i still got my stuff downstairs, got a more downstairs, got a box, more sustainable ropes. i still do. and professional boxing . and it was professional boxing. always, wanted to a always, always wanted to a professional boxer. but those injuries and you know i'm happy i didn't turn probably because the amateur game is one thing but to pro it's a it's but and to turn pro it's a it's a tough , tough battle. it's a tough, tough battle. it's a hard sport , a hard living. and hard sport, a hard living. and i was to, you know, give some injuries and stuff . they said, injuries and stuff. they said, it's injuries and stuff. they said, wsfime injuries and stuff. they said, it's time for you to stop . how it's time for you to stop. how on earth do you go to do acting from this? so how did that happen? never wanted to be an actor. i never wanted to be an actor, one of the ones. and now i'm 62. it's really you get to say was 60 who say yes . so say was 60 who say yes. so i neven say was 60 who say yes. so i never, never really wanted to be an actor. kind of fell into it

through investments and stuff and people introduced , you know, and people introduced, you know, had and restaurants had nightclubs and restaurants and always sort of and i was always sort of charismatic and and i charismatic and a host and i used to be very good looking as a youngster, know , it's sort a youngster, you know, it's sort of but was used to of gone now, but was used to host the restaurants and the clubs you producers clubs and, you know, producers just you'd be an actress. you've got to what's it's hard enough earning money what you know and what don't know. all what you don't know. plus all the actors there was all the actors know there was all skin one. there's this skin every one. there's this perception to ask perception of i i'm going to ask you about. i mean, you know, obviously, you know, you did all the famous soaps eastenders apprenticeship work and my apprenticeship work and this my bill in that has you bill you were in that has you a judge that eastenders is that judge on that eastenders is that casualty isn't that most depressing process horrible and i think i played a self—harm or in a cafe it was casualty one of those shows and was just so depressing i just it's said i can't i can't do if i do but people watch it was the big breaks the big break but we just sort it'll clap at the beginning there of the business that was

there of the business that was the big one but i'll tell you what where we are now i did my first film along, our films blackfriars some in blackfriars road or some in a school. it was called the calcium game for working title. great lot of great cast, created a lot of stars was paul michael penny omega lady billie piper orlando bloom . that was kind of my first bloom. that was kind of my first film and i was for working title . when i got that, i got to work on for alex the rack of see something, you mean. and we did that and then it just kind of catapulted there. and then i get to football factory, which has become a complete coke cult, crazy cult classic . and as crazy cult classic. and us as actors, don't know what actors, we don't know what they're going to become . we just they're going to become. we just it work. and then all of a sudden they start roller coaster in a sense football in a sense for you football factory given that it centred around particular football around a particular football club my club called bill wolff. yes which, was the slogan yes which, which was the slogan everyone hates us yeah. yeah. well, they won super middle. yeah my club. listen, i'm a great believer support your local club. i was born and bred

in new cross 2 minutes away from the old den. and, you know , it the old den. and, you know, it was it was a bit of an honour. it was hard work. i mean, to portray a fug was i think mick got it right nick love got it right as an adaptation of a violent a violent movie it was spot on and then it just kind of become like a cult classic because it's quite funny in caricature places where a big fog like maze is on a pitch with the there's an iconic scene you're probably in, but with the kids playing in and me and frank of his character have these these these bits of this fire and this argument and stuff and it rollercoaster into this it just rollercoaster into this huge classic movie and huge coco cult classic movie and it's still they must show it on tv twice a week once a fortnight sorry yeah and then nick and then nick see the relationship between me and danny . he wrote between me and danny. he wrote the business for us. danny dyer . and it was, it was probably my best experience, my best time. i had such an amazing time . and

had such an amazing time. and danny and nick and everyone in the whole cast was amazing at that.in the whole cast was amazing at that. in spain, we had three months then and we just did. but our way for some is special by because nick's specials are right in a direct to nick love as a director. but now i think that film is nearly 20 years old and. it just doesn't get old. but somehow through those couple of so i haven't changed. i know you're going to say no, no, i'm not. yes. to die on the heat, but suddenly you're famous. yes it happened overnight . it really it happened overnight. it really happened overnight. and it was quite funny. i met my agent and she said, you know, you have four back. and i'm like, you know, quote out of regret . all know, quote out of regret. all my life i was acting the mugs game sort of thing. but then all of a sudden i did. i think i did. i did steps we can start calcium kid football factory like and then i did one day they luc besson movie freeman jet lebowski so i was just going and going and going and all of a sudden by the grace of god, i was very lucky. and there was no

the details. no, you know , the details. no, you know, netflix and all that was nice cinema. yeah. david three months later and plus the pirates, if you get a pirate. but then all of these films were in a cinema at once and it was just it was it where did it come from? who is big , it where did it come from? who is big, powerful? he's you know, he's he's great we like what he's he's great we like what he's doing is believable and then literally overnight i watched the show for a little while and then, you know, then we did what we did dead man running. and then we did layer cake. and then with the cast. but because you're always playing the heart, man. well, i'm ugly. role . so we're i'm so ugly. my role. so we're going to be kill. it'll be people see you on the street thing oh they do they think it's quite funny. you know, when you're driving along and somebody saw a screaming and shot and you turn around and look it's i think, is he a real villain or is he from the movies? and it kind of gets me out trouble. so i'm a lovely out of trouble. so i'm a lovely man in real life. it's just acting. but a lot of actors, even very good actors that have done amazing work, often get

some periods and some quite lean periods and follow the work follow periods when the work doesn't in. one of doesn't come in. are you one of these the jobs just keep these people? the jobs just keep coming. for? coming. you know what it for? i think we cornered that before us. there was bob hoskins , ray us. there was bob hoskins, ray winstone , caine and they did winstone, caine and they did their sort of longer italian job, mona . and then there was job, mona. and then there was a gap and then we i think we filled a little gap there of great british cult movies . and great british cult movies. and then it dried up. and you're right, it does dry out. it dries up. i a lot of that was down to a that was my fault misbehaving probably drinking too much into much. you're on the water tonight. i'm on wall. i've been on the wall for a little while now, but yeah, a little bit of a hostage even. and i said it before, it's a tough journey back because i was there and could have gone more. i'll spend a time in los angeles. i a bit of time in los angeles. i didn't wasn't for me. didn't like it wasn't for me. i'll back home and i wanted i'll come back home and i wanted to wanted to film this area, to wanted to film in this area, but was did dry up and then but it was did dry up and then you kind of fit a point where

you kind of fit a point where you think i'm invincible unstoppable. can do what i unstoppable. i can do what i want you and it's a want, but you can't. and it's a tough business because the industry is very tough and you have to respect it and love it and honour took me a little and honour it took me a little bit time to back, but now bit of time to get back, but now i'm and i'm happy i'm in my i'm back and i'm happy i'm in my happy rain is now is happy house. rain is out now is the latest film the film. yeah it's a it's independent it's a it's lovely independent little film. we did . i little horror film. we did. i was a producer on it and, a financier on it as well . a financier on it as well. a friend of mine, george finance as well, up produced it. natasha henstridge we was lucky enough to get natasha. she stars me and clara paget myself and it's a cold old horror film set in tuscany and it's well , it's tuscany and it's well, it's quite bizarre. the story i won't stay too much. no, don't . when stay too much. no, don't. when you've when you look at it there was something that you would be are got to watch it at weekend it's on it's carcinoma amazon prime and it's all over the

budget networks in america what kind of sites i mean thank you very much so much joining us and pleasure and it's well done. you you've had a great career . you you've had a great career. you love . that. it was lovely until love. that. it was lovely until we got a couple of minutes left. it's time for barrage. barrage. oh, here we go , cocteau. i never oh, here we go, cocteau. i never know what i'm going to get. i promise. this one. if trump becomes president, the 2024, do you think ukraine war will be over the next day ? i'll tell you over the next day? i'll tell you what, if trump had been what, grant. if trump had been in the white house, putin would not invaded ukraine. i not have invaded ukraine. i thoroughly believe that it was the withdrawal from afghanistan that. biden did leading course to the taliban that we'd fought for 20 years, taking it over. what putin saw was western weakness. no, i can't promise you, if trump gets back, it'll be over the next day. but it's if putin feared the american president sometimes in the world, a little bit of fear is

not a bad thing. julian asks nigel, do you think unless we leave the european convention on human rights, illegal immigration will continue no matter what the tories promise? all the while we got foreign judges having a say over our country. all the while we've got ourjudges. he using law will neven ourjudges. he using law will never, ever deal with the problem and we must deal with the problem. this country's been very open. we want good people to come to britain. we don't want bad dudes crossing the engush want bad dudes crossing the english channel and pretending to be someone different to what they are. and finally asks, what do you think of the government's to raise the pension age 68? matt we cut off and i'm sorry some of you will hate this, but we cannot go on getting old age pensions in our mid—sixties if our life expectancy is going into the eighties, we just can't do it . and at some point that do it. and at some point that pension age is going to need to creep up. it was designed at a time when people much, much

shorter lives now. tomorrow i'm doing a live show from crawling . please don't go online and try and get a ticket. we are fully aware our overflow. we've got a special guest joining us tomorrow night. he is. she is she's called katie price. hi, everyone i just thought i'd let you know i am back again on jp news tomorrow . tonight at 7 pm. news tomorrow. tonight at 7 pm. make sure you tune this time. i've got nigel farage out. interview me. oh, my god. nigel, you better be nice to . make you you better be nice to. make you better be nice to. me anyway, get tuned in and, see what the price is got to say a katie of course. i'll be nice to . you course. i'll be nice to. you don't worry. i'm sure the audience will be nice to you too. crawley tomorrow night live audience with me nigel farage at 7 pm. over and out for now. laurence fox now takes over . laurence fox now takes over. thank you, nigel . and good thank you, nigel. and good evening, everybody. tonight we are talking excess deaths, crooked coppers and the

coronation of . king charles, the coronation of. king charles, the work , the first, whether . hello work, the first, whether. hello there. i'm greg hurst and welcome to our latest broadcast. rain quickly clearing some of the areas the next few hours and then we've got a patchy frost developing tonight but that will lead of sunny spells lead to plenty of sunny spells thursday at the bigger thursday looking at the bigger picture, high pressure still dominates weather this dominates weather pattern this front so far over the next front clear so far over the next few hours then we're looking at a dry day as we head a largely dry day as we head through day on thursday. through the day on thursday. thanks of high thanks to that area of high pressure for the evening time, that rain just clearing the far south and then skies turning starry for. many of us as we head into the early hours, the risk of few showers across risk of a few showers across northern running down northern scotland running down the coast at times, but the east coast at times, but otherwise plenty of clear spells. tonight , the north spells. cold tonight, the north of less cold across the of the uk less cold across the south, but temperatures generally hovering around the freezing mark, meaning there will be patchy frost to will be some patchy frost to start on thursday . start the day on thursday. showers across areas on showers across eastern areas on thursday do push their way a little further westwards inland, but few and far between and on

the light side so many places staying dry. best the staying dry. best of the sunshine western scotland sunshine across western scotland northern into wales northern ireland down into wales here unbroken at times temperatures overall generally around average for the time of year but feeling less cold compared to the week so far across southern parts of england in particular through to the time on thursday still risk of some showers across eastern coast. these making their way inland a little as we head into the early clear skies developing across parts of northern ireland and scotland. so widespread, frost developing here, some freezing fog , too, as freezing fog, too, as temperatures fall below freezing across england and wales , across england and wales, though, just hovering just above freezing . so perhaps a patchy freezing. so perhaps a patchy frost to start sunny skies across . northern ireland and across. northern ireland and scotland, though some fog patches lingering for a time here . sunny spells for england here. sunny spells for england and wales for the day, most places holding on to dry places holding on to the dry weather until later on where we'll see a weather front just introducing clouds, stronger winds and some rain into the far northwest. temperatures around average into weekend.

average once more into weekend. jemmy stays on the cloudy , dry jemmy stays on the cloudy, dry side. around .

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