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everybody, you're with me. patrick christys on gb news on coming up is a strike out of that. that's right the strike action in a decade is underway. half a million workers walking out costing our economy billions. and it could argued it is even costing lives. we've got seven trade unions on the picket teachers, civil servants, trains , buses, security staff to name but a few . and it's not ending but a few. and it's not ending any time because they all want more money and. the government is saying, well, sorry, but we haven't the money. i will be asking the questions. frankly, many broadcasters are afraid to ask two mp so the union leaders, two striking workers. and i'll also be talking well to a mum who's had to miss a hospital appointment to look after her kid today. how to justify , isn't kid today. how to justify, isn't it also more deadly asylum seeker madness , a failed iranian seeker madness, a failed iranian asylum seeker who should have been removed from the uk years ago is being sentenced today brutally killing an elderly woman who had given him a home. how many more innocent people have to die before something is done about this? our home

insecurity editor will have the very latest on stock prices. well, they're at record .so long. so today i suggest let me tell you after record accelerated where they warning that the peak is yet to get in touch with me wonderful people as you always do. gb views on gb news dot uk. look, i want solutions, not problems today as my old manager used to say. so our solution is not problems how do we end the strikes and should failed asylum seekers be deported immediately ? two big ones for you gb views and gb news. .uk. are we about the other side? these headlines . good afternoon. 3:02 on radisson in the gb newsroom hundreds of thousands of workers are taking part in walkout . the are taking part in walkout. the biggest day of industrial for more than a decade . up to half more than a decade. up to half a million workers belonging to seven trade unions have walked out over paid jobs and conditions. border force officers and bus and train

drivers have caused widespread travel disruption and thousands of marched on whitehall . of marched on whitehall. teachers from the national education union are on strike, leaving 85% of schools fully or partially closed . education partially closed. education secretary gillian keegan told us a deal is some way off. they didn't break down, but they basically said clearly, look, we can't do anything to stop this strike. this is going ahead on 1st of february, but we do have 28 days between this and the strike. so we will continue those but we can't those discussions. but we can't do offer inflation and do is offer inflation and inflation busting pay rises because we're focussed on getting inflation down, halving the inflation that everybody we all feel better and have more money in our pockets . well, money in our pockets. well, kevin, courtney is the general secretary of the national education union. he says government needs to find the money. they never thought we'd reach these thresholds. they weren't planning on us reaching them. and since we've reached them. and since we've reached the thresholds , 40,000 more the thresholds, 40,000 more people have joined the union as

well. so it does show there's a huge strength feeling in the profession. government must act and right. i think gillian and put right. i think gillian keegan is hoping that the strike won't effective and there won't be further action . there be any further action. there could be further action. she needs do a deal so that that needs to do a deal so that that doesn't happen . but amidst the doesn't happen. but amidst the ongoing the trades union, congress has handed a petition to downing street opposing the government's for a new law on minimum of service during strikes . the petition against strikes. the petition against the so strikes bill was signed more than 200,000 members of the pubuc. more than 200,000 members of the public . tuc more than 200,000 members of the public. tuc general more than 200,000 members of the public . tuc general secretary public. tuc general secretary nowak says he hopes the ongoing strikes will send a strong message to the government. the that the public is feeling you know on a push through what a particularly spiteful piece of legislation. now we've had hundreds of thousands of public sector workers take strike quite often for the first time ever and instead of listening to the concerns of those workers or responding concerns the responding to the concerns the government just tried to

government has just tried to introduce legislation, make it more them to take more difficult for them to take that action. so think that strike action. so i think government be more responsible should their workforce should talk their workforce should talk their workforce should talk their workforce should talk to unions and to the table. public sector pay . well, table. public sector pay. well, in news , the prime in other news, the prime minister has denied being too weak to root out sleaze from the government. it's a case tailor made the claim at pmqs, citing a string of recent allegations. he said when she must have known about investigation into nadhim zahawi tax affairs at the time that he was appointed as party chair. he also accused , mr. chair. he also accused, mr. sunak, of forcing people to work for a bully . deputy prime for a bully. deputy prime minister was facing 24 separate allegations of bullying, according to recent reports. some of the complainants were physically sick. one says they were left suicidal . how would he were left suicidal. how would he feel if one of his friends or relatives was being forced to work for bully simply because the man at the top was too weak.

to do anything about it. well, the prime minister responded by saying sir keir starmer had supported spread of hate whilst jeremy was labour leader. when was made aware of formal complaints , i instructed complaints, i instructed a leading kc to conduct and investigation because i take when these things happen . but when these things happen. but what did he say at the weekend . what did he say at the weekend. he said at the weekend that hate had been allowed to spread on challenged in the labour party under his predecessor. he was speaking as if he wasn't even there , but he was sitting right there, but he was sitting right next him supporting him for long years . uk next him supporting him for long years. uk house prices have fallen for the fifth month in a row, down by point 6% on december . row, down by point 6% on december. nationwide's house price index shows that the average uk home now costs just ove r £258,000. annual growth in over £258,000. annual growth in pnces over £258,000. annual growth in prices slowed to 1.1% in

january. compared to 2.8% in december. it comes as the bank of england is poised to raise interest rates for the 10th consecutive time . well further, consecutive time. well further, 1500 patients of a convicted breast surgeon are being recalled so their treatment can be invested gated in paterson was handed a 20 year prison sentence in 2017 after he was convicted on 17 counts of wounding with intent . over 14 wounding with intent. over 14 years, he subjected than 1000 patients to unnecessary damaging operations in the west . the new operations in the west. the new patients discovered after a trawl through i.t. systems . and trawl through i.t. systems. and we bring you some breaking news just coming in. the us justice department is searching joe biden's home in delaware as part of an official investigation into classified documents. that's according to his . now, that's according to his. now, this is a developing story. we'll bring you updates as soon as they come in. this is gb

news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now, let's get straight to . to. patrick yeah, i want to get straight into walk out wednesday. today, ladies and gentlemen, the one benefit of everyone being stuck at home should be that the ratings will be good because your glued tv. so that's crock straight shall hundreds straight on, shall we. hundreds of workers have of thousands of workers have walked today on what the walked out today on what is the biggest strike the uk has biggest day of strike the uk has seen for a decades. teachers in england and represented by the national have national education union have walked ahead strikes. walked out ahead of the strikes. it estimated around 85% of it was estimated around 85% of schools in those two countries will be fully or partially closed. university lecturers have also joined train drivers, civil servants, bus and security guards, with an estimated half a million workers walking out and increasingly bitter disputes over pay , jobs and conditions.

over pay, jobs and conditions. protesting outside the cabinet office . one civil servant office. one civil servant striker said that she was terrified of being made homeless . it is not uncommon for , our . it is not uncommon for, our colleagues, to have to use food banks survive. when i was sort of organising for the ballot, i talking to members who were crying to me on the phone because they didn't know how they were going to feed their families. they know they families. they didn't know they were make rent. this were going to make rent. this is not sustainable situation. we not a sustainable situation. we have to be able to eat. we have be able to live. i am always worried that one crisis is just going to leave me homeless. literally one paycheque away from homelessness . and yes , from homelessness. and yes, well, there we go. that was 31 year old ali clarke speaking outside the cabinet office there. now, throughout the course of the show today, i'm going be talking to union going to be talking to union reps, mps, ordinary members, the pubuc reps, mps, ordinary members, the public and frankly, public as well. and frankly, asking of questions asking you some of the questions that a lot the other that i think a lot the other broadcasters from. broadcasters do shy away from. pensions big one,

pensions is a big one, especially when it comes to teachers you very rarely hear that let's that asked do you but let's cross live now the picket lines on northern henri paul to dougie beattie striking university beattie is striking university staff on national staff in both on national reporter costello reporter ellie costello a teachers rally in london. lisa hanl teachers rally in london. lisa hartl, our london reporter is we drivers and our political reporter . utley is of course in reporter. utley is of course in natural outside downing street. so let's bring them all up. i think we've got ali first actually ellie costello. there you go. thank you very much. great to have you on board. right. so what's going on where you are well, good you are in my well, good afternoon. patrick was actually afternoon. patrick was actually a huge clean up operation on here in whitehall, london. there was a huge rally by the national education union and i'll say it's a huge because many knew they were about 10,000 people to be here this afternoon they it turned out to be more like 40,000 teachers and their support staff , they came with support staff, they came with their musical instruments . they their musical instruments. they came with their dogs. they came

with their placards. it's fair to say it pretty much was a carnival atmosphere. and the walk started over in regent street in central london and came down to westminster, took over a mile and we were told that there were people here at whitehall and they were still continuing to start back at regent street. so that just gives you a sense of how many people were here. they were talks going on, on the stage behind me demanding and in busting pay rise want something in the line of about 10 to 11% having courtney of the national education union. so this is the largest teachers strike since the 1980s and i was speaking to many of the teachers here telling them that a lot of the pubuc telling them that a lot of the public that teachers have a quite good get paid. well, there are plenty holiday they are plenty of holiday and they have benefits. they said we think this is a come and give it a go yourself being a teacher is really really hard work . many of really really hard work. many of them spoke about the strike with a heavy heart. they don't to

leave children without an education today they they want to be in the classroom but their concerns of the future of the industry they're worried that they will not be able to retain staff in five, ten years time. they will not be the staffing level to fund and secondary schools . but gillian keegan, the schools. but gillian keegan, the education secretary says it's not realistic to look at inflation busting pay rises for teachers. she says everybody is struggling right now. but patrick, if those talks don't pick up momentum , if they don't pick up momentum, if they don't come to a resolution , then we come to a resolution, then we could see another six day strike action by teachers. and we've seen the disruption to 7 million children in england and today, their parents and their families who've had to take days off work , potentially even unpaid days in order to look their children's . absolutely. hey, children's. absolutely. hey, look, thank you very much ellie costello. that's reporting us about the teachers strike. lots of significant questions which ali was raising there about teacher strikes, which are going to get stuck in she throughout the course of this show

supposedly anyway teachers are amongst out amongst sixth best paid out of teachers in this teachers in the world in this country the pension pot as well as some 23% is not bad work if you can get it. other people that a of that actually it is a bit of a nightmare dealing with those frogs single day dougie frogs every single day dougie beattie northern ireland now and he's university staff he's where the university staff in what's the in belfast dougie what's the situation where you are ? well, situation where you are? well, they've all gone home. patrick, it's they've all gone home. patrick, wsfime they've all gone home. patrick, it's time that the lecturers , it's time that the lecturers, the strikes here, the pickets earlier on, i spoke with them this morning. they were in good voice and their real problems here are to do with pensions, working conditions , and that working conditions, and that includes casual workers and of course, that pay raise that they're looking. and they do say that want a near inflation that they want a near inflation busting pay raise. they're saying that haven't been saying that they haven't been really looked at in 15 years and that in that time they're down and they know working five days and they know working five days and really getting paid for four. so they see that that is ripe for them to strike. and earlier on in the day, spoke with sean o'connell . he earlier on in the day, spoke with sean o'connell. he is earlier on in the day, spoke with sean o'connell . he is the with sean o'connell. he is the president of the ucu and

queensland our city and he well he has basically he has basically said that there is enough money in queensland, our city to pay for what they're looking for. he's also that there are a 150 councillors across the uk and that there's so many millions between them. so the staff here are looking at another 18 days of disruption these lecture theatres will empty for those times. and you've got to feel sorry really for this here because of course they have come three, two years of lockdown and covid then came in to virtual learning and they just when they're getting back their feet again, the whole thing goes down for 18 days. exactly. do you? thank you very much, dougie beattie in northern ireland. well, those who want to educate and based on. yes, again, it okay it's parents in the case of dougie's one of the students and children as well suffer after as we've rightly mentioned an incredibly long damaging lockdown period . i'm damaging lockdown period. i'm going to go now to lisa hartle,

though. she's in london and is with train drivers, a goal hopefully to keep up the so many strikes. lisa, the train drivers, i guess they want an inflation busting rise as well. do they? well, i haven't been with the train drivers, but i have been talking about them . so have been talking about them. so obviously businesses are impacted by so many things at the moment with the cost looming, crisis rent prices going up, energy prices soaring , and people just not having as much money spend. so when you much money to spend. so when you add that, the strikes, add on top of that, the strikes, it's just more businesses. so it's just more on businesses. so i've been talking to businesses, small businesses central small businesses in central about they're finding about how they're finding strikes and they said in particular it's the train strikes that are having the biggest bickerstaff biggest impact. bickerstaff can't to . in footfall drops can't come to. in footfall drops dramatically and they're finding it really difficult to plan ahead because they don't know when action when the next industrial action is to take place. i spoke is going to take place. i spoke to someone , the federation to someone, the federation of small businesses. he said that it's even when there's it's actually even when there's different strikes across all taking place on the same day . taking place on the same day. and of course, i the small

business owners , they thought of business owners, they thought of the strikes and some were sympathetic and did understand , sympathetic and did understand, whereas others were said that this something that's affecting so people at moment that so many people at moment that they just can't be towards the strikes this time. yeah, i know . that's it. and i can't but wonder whether or not public sympathy will weigh in, especially with what is a general strike. although of course they're not calling it a levy. i'm going to go over to you now. olivia utley is our political reporter is. yes, i can see that i'm downing street and the civil servant say what a downforce whatever they they have and about an hour we saw three different unions coming here to deliver petition to number 10 which is essentially calling on the government to drop its anti strike legislation. all three of those union represents it's called it spoke before legislation which takes all of their leverage, takes all of their leverage, takes away that negotiating power . this is exactly what the power. this is exactly what the government has been dreading. a day of cold anita strike action. we think that hundred thousand

up to 500,000 public sector workers walked today. now, you mentioned civil servant . there mentioned civil servant. there were 100,000 civil servants striking today across all different government departments , 124 different government organisations. , 124 different government organisations . what they are organisations. what they are demanding is a 10% pay rise. they've been offered a 2% pay rise, but the government is that that's a loan. when you think of all the other public sector strikes that going on at the same time acquiescing to the civil servants demand would add up to £26 billion. now that is the cost of the levelling up fund that was announced last april. so this exactly what the government's been dreading . it government's been dreading. it makes it harder for them to give in to one union and not another . and we know that public sympathy is not same across the board. public sympathy for teachers is actually quite high pubuc teachers is actually quite high public sympathy for train drivers quite low. so what the government was hoping is that it could negotiate with one union more harshly than with another. but with this sort of coordinated strike action that

more and more difficult when you've got them coming together and protesting together against, the minimum level of service legislation which the government is seeing through it makes it more difficult to agree different deals across different now. indeed, olivia i'm just going to stick with you for one quick one. if let me please. you are a political you're always out in the interest of etc. we played a clip a little bit earlier on from a civil servant who was saying that as far as she was aware, anyway, several civil now are saying civil servants now are saying they're go to they're going to have to go to food banks. the one paycheque away look, food banks. the one paycheque awajhad look, food banks. the one paycheque awajhad a look, food banks. the one paycheque awajhad a lot look, food banks. the one paycheque awajhad a lot emails look, food banks. the one paycheque awajhad a lot emails into )k, i've had a lot of emails into saying that people don't quite buy. i mean all things really gone the civil service gone bleak in the civil service olivia. well i can't speak on behalf of the civil servant who claimed that her colleagues have gone to food banks. that may or may not be accurate. but what i can say is that they are not. we saw 85% of civil servants voting for this strike and we're expecting see far streamers who

belong to a different union the fda union expecting to go on strike next week. that said this strike next week. that said this strike action wasn't agreed across all departments. hmrc for example are not walking and no or i'm pretty sure it's the foreign office so it's not universal opinion that lady who you spoke to earlier who believe that pretty much all civil servants are in huge difficulty. that's certainly not the because it's in some departments that are struggling to reach the 50% threshold for strike action . it threshold for strike action. it just it differs across the indeed. look, all of you thank you very, very much. what one way to get the show going with a round up from a variety of different sectors that are on strike the last one you had there olivia utley our political reporter very, very much. reporter you very, very much. now gentlemen, now let's gentlemen, i am lobbing over you largely lobbing this over to you largely today. not let the viewers today. why not let the viewers and listeners of the heavy and listeners some of the heavy lifting? want solutions. lifting? i want solutions. i'm a bit of problems. gb views bit sick of problems. gb views a gbnews.uk. get your solutions coming so far , some people coming in so far, some people are saying . that's where she are saying. that's where she said i should face some of these unions. yeah. all right. but if

this goes on, how long are you prepared? it go on for what prepared? let it go on for what it course, costing us it is, of course, costing us hundreds millions of pounds hundreds of millions of pounds a day. an interesting little aside on this very quickly is i read this morning that if they gave to in of the public sector pay demands it would cost us somewhere the region somewhere in the region of £28 billion and if you work billion a year. and if you work that supposedly anyway it's that out supposedly anyway it's about that out supposedly anyway it's abou t £1,000 extra per house about £1,000 extra per house hold. so have you got an extra grand. you be willing to pay an extra grand it for that matter. joining me now is someone who's lost out as a result of the teachers strikes. it's annette callow. now, annette , they are. callow. now, annette, they are. annette, great to see you on the show annette is a single show now. annette is a single parent and a freelance as well. i found about the strikes i only found about the strikes apparently ago and apparently just a few ago and has to find childcare. has struggled to find childcare. well, firstly , very sorry to well, firstly, very sorry to hear that you've been disadvantaged of disadvantaged as a result of these strikes. do you to these strikes. do you want to just talk through some of just talk us through some of your then your your experiences, then your opinion it all really? yes opinion about it all really? yes obviously, i believe teachers are doing an amazing job. they

need to be to represent it in the best way, particularly with the best way, particularly with the pay. obviously, it throws a spannerin the pay. obviously, it throws a spanner in the works for single parents, particularly myself, who has a child who is has a disability. so it's very difficult getting childcare for him. and i also had a hospital appointment today which i wasn't allowed to bring a child to, is now being cancelled , which i'm now being cancelled, which i'm sure with the nhs and everything going will be a long time until i get back to that appointment. so i think it's a knock on effect in all areas and who knows if anybody has able knows if anybody has been able to the appointment with to get to the appointment with the so. well, yes pretty the bus, so. well, yes pretty bad . yes, quite actually. and bad. yes, quite actually. and some of the strikes in the nhs, you might have managed to have got yourself child care found a bus that actually running and bus that is actually running and then and then still then got there and then still people not necessarily people might not necessarily turned than strike turned other than on strike today. as you're aware today. as far as you're aware yet give it yet though, give it time. i mean, it's 3:20 conscious. you've said that teachers do an amazing teachers do an amazing job. teachers do do an incredible job. absolutely and we . of course we we need teachers. of course we do. and it needs to be an

attractive career for people . attractive career for people. it's a vital public service . but it's a vital public service. but in light of what's happened with you today no doubt will have you today and no doubt will have happened well happened to this as well struggling get childcare , a struggling to get childcare, a missed right . missed appointment. all right. the missed appointment and the way i missed appointment and then fact that then you look at the fact that teachers supposedly are out of teachers supposedly are out of teachers in the world two major economies, the six best in this country and apparently anyway they got around a 23% pension. the average private sector is supposedly around three, three and a half% do you think it's justified them going on right now? i'm wanting a pay rise above inflation inflation? i think that they've seen what is happening , the other strikes and happening, the other strikes and obviously they're very unhappy. if you look at it this, 1170 vacancies, primary teachers alone at the moment, year on year , they've got a 6.8% pay year, they've got a 6.8% pay going down. and with the cost of living crisis, particularly you live in london , the rents are live in london, the rents are spiralling people cannot afford. so why and you have to look at

it in the big aspect. you could be a cleaner or work as a cashier in a fast food restaurant and you would get the same amount as a teacher so where why would people be pushing themselves to be educated , go for the teaching educated, go for the teaching route when there's jobs out there that pay the same, it's crazy. look, i'm putting you on the spot a little bit here and so is it because i know this isn't your job, but the people whose job it to try and sort whose job it is to try and sort this problem out and doing it. we're talking walk out we're talking about walk out wednesday day biggest day of strike also, strike action a decade. also, whilst that because whilst the solution that because the government saying was well they're even saying a they're not even saying a sympathetic towards the pay demands saying is demands what they are saying is we the cash we can't we haven't got the cash we can't give so do we do in give it to you. so do we do in that. well i'm not the finance officer, but i do think there's being wasted being burnt there's been many misdemeanours that could go into that happened with the government. i mean if you go into tick, you can go down a rabbit hole, that stuff. but there has to be a way that they look at it and i'm saying

different things different solutions because what's to happenis solutions because what's to happen is teachers are not going to into teaching nurses are going to give up. as i said, my son has he's in hospital son has a need. he's in hospital all the time and i see what's happening that to why are happening that to so why are people be to these people going to be to these professions it's just going professions and it's just going to have a knock on effect for the whole country in education as indeed looking thank as a whole indeed looking thank you and hope you very much. and i hope everything all right everything works out all right with everything works with your son everything works out you. out all right with you. and i hope we don't ourselves in this situation . thank situation again. but thank you very coming the show very much for coming the show and giving frankly we don't and just giving frankly we don't have enough of real people in the we so stuff the news we so good stuff annette gallagher, single parent, as parent, freelance journalist as well. out well. now, she only found out a few ago about those teacher few days ago about those teacher strikes, we're to strikes, look, we're going to get stuck into the nitty gritty of of this. got union of all of this. i've got union coming way. i've got coming your way. i've got employees your way. oh, employees coming your way. oh, we can get into the finer points. think of this points. i think of this unrelenting but coming unrelenting strike. but coming up, that i know up, this is a topic that i know he's going to get a lot. you going. and it's a failed iranian asylum who have asylum seeker who should have been from the uk years been removed from the uk years ago. sent a mental

ago. he's been sent to a mental health hospital killing health hospital after killing elderly grandmother. he won't give it a home. i am asking you the question on. top of the strike stuff. gbviews@gbnews.uk strike stuff. gbviews@gb news.uk uk deport strike stuff. gbviews@gbnews.uk uk deport fail asylum uk should we deport fail asylum seekers ? i'll be seekers immediately? i'll be back in a moment.

breaking news now . let's just breaking news now. let's just strap yourselves in because . a strap yourselves in because. a failed iranian asylum seeker who should have been removed from the uk years ago will be sent to a mental health hospital indefinite after killing an elderly woman who had given him a home. 34 year old shahin darvish. now, anyone who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia has been sentenced at leeds court this afternoon. with me all of the details on what is a horrific case is our home security editor mark white. mark, what is the latest? it's

absolute shocker. of course, the nature of the crime was , but nature of the crime was, but actually the real scan here is this individual had been a failed asylum seeker. it exhausted all avenues of appeal. i'm told by 2017 yet for five years after the home office did not this individual from the uk he was still here and then able to kill frail elderly pensioner a woman by the name of brenda blaney, an absolute gem of a woman from all accounts who befriended this when he was working in a restaurant in, leeds, a few years back . they leeds, a few years back. they had formed almost like grandmother, grandson type relationship. according to the court , she opened her home to court, she opened her home to him, gave him a bedroom. the use his car and also a study because he was studying at university at the time as well. but as you say

diagnosed with paranoid senior he had said that he had heard voices in head which compelled him to kill this grandmother been on the phone actually the 5th of january last year to her local store in the village, the village of thornlie dale, which is in north yorkshire, not far from scarborough . she'd been from scarborough. she'd been ordering groceries when line went dead. the there tried to her back a dozen times , got no her back a dozen times, got no reply. the police were eventually called to that property , clearly found this property, clearly found this woman lying in a pool of blood. she'd been strangled, had smashed against the kitchen floor . she had been stopped floor. she had been stopped multiple times in the chest and a throat slashed . it's a throat slashed. it's absolutely awful . but the fact absolutely awful. but the fact is this individual had come the uk . in 25,

is this individual had come the uk. in 25, 2005 as a 15 is this individual had come the uk . in 25, 2005 as a 15 year to uk. in 25, 2005 as a 15 year to old study, we're told. but his permission to remain in uk had lapsed by 2015. so did what so many people who are caught living here illegally do , which living here illegally do, which is to try to claim asylum . that is to try to claim asylum. that asylum process , i'm told, was asylum process, i'm told, was down. it went to appeal multiple times, but that was exhausted by 2017. and this is we need to know the answer to if that was the case, why ayr's yeah didn't officials get him on a flight out of the uk in the five years between not lapsed process and the time that he killed , he the time that he killed, he should not have been in the and able to kill this woman . able to kill this woman. exactly. and this is one of the reasons why i'm opening it up to audience today on this particular issue when it comes to cases such as this, where individual wills have been repeatedly the to repeatedly denied the right to live in this country, and we

know that and we know potentially they've got issues as well . why on earth, if as well. why on earth, if they're not being deported immediately? but sadly, this does appear to become an all too familiar situation. yeah i mean, there are we know hundreds, thousands of people who are for a nation opposed by the living here legally or illegally who have gone to on commit offences. but it's a very notable individuals there as well, especially people that have been in the asylum system. you remember just week a young . we remember just week a young. we young he was 14 when he came to this abdul rahim xai allowing he and abdul rahim as i was an aduu and abdul rahim as i was an adult when he came here but said he was 14 was allowed into the country utterly astonishingly in actually being convicted in his absence of killing two people,

murdering people in serbia, gunning them down with an ak 47. before then moving on to norway and italy . he was convicted of and italy. he was convicted of drugs , turned down for asylum in drugs, turned down for asylum in norway, but still managed to get into this and into the asylum system before in bournemouth. then murdering an aspiring royal marine. yeah, look, indeed , i marine. yeah, look, indeed, i know you've got numerous of the cases us as well that we're going to talk to them in the next hour. but that was our breaking news and he's sentenced indefinitely to a psychiatric hospital, basically. yeah. so we don't know if he'll ever be removed from the country it depends how long he's the psychiatric unit and whether he can get them off to iran, i guess. yeah, exactly. we'll keep you updated all of this, you updated on all of this, ladies gents, go more ladies and gents, go into more detail on some of those other cases. well, with mark very, very shortly. with me very shortly. you're with me patrick on gb news patrick christys on gb news shop. are a record highs shop. prices are a record highs after inflation accelerated in

january with a warning that the peak to arrive and could peak is yet to arrive and could have burned last in the 17th century, be brought to life century, be brought back to life , to magic of science. find , to the magic of science. find out in just a few moments. keep your views coming in, vaiews@gbnews.uk. easy headunes. vaiews@gbnews.uk. easy headlines . that's patrick. 3:34. headlines. that's patrick. 3:34. here's the latest hundreds of thousands of workers are taking part in walkout wednesday day, the biggest day of industrial action for more than a decade, up to half a million workers across seven trade unions are striking over pay jobs and conditions teachers are part of the action along with border force officers and train drivers, causing widespread travel disruption . the prime travel disruption. the prime minister has denied being too weak to root sleaze from the government . sir keir starmer government. sir keir starmer made the claim during pmqs, citing a of recent allegations . citing a of recent allegations. he said rishi sunak must have known about hmrc investigation into nadhim zahawi at the time

that he was appointed party. he also accused mr. sunak of forcing people work for a bully . deputy prime minister was facing 24 sep allegations of bullying, according recent reports, some of the complainants were physically sick. one says they were left suicidal . sick. one says they were left suicidal. how would he feel if one of his friends or relatives was being forced to work a bully simply because the man at the top was weak to do anything . it top was weak to do anything. it well. the prime minister responded by, saying that sir keir starmer had support to the spread of hate whilst jeremy corbyn was labour leader . when corbyn was labour leader. when i was made aware of formal complaints, i instructed a leading independent k.s. to conduct an investigation . conduct an investigation. because i take action when these happen. but what did he say it? the he said at the weekend that hate had been allowed to spread unchallenged in the labour party

under his predecessor. he was speaking as he wasn't even there , but he was sitting right next to him. sir him for four long years . the fbi to him. sir him for four long years. the fbi is searching president joe biden's beach house in delaware as part of an ongoing investigation into his handung ongoing investigation into his handling of classified documents. his lawyer says the operation was carried out with the consent of biden's legal team . the fbi searched one of team. the fbi searched one of biden's homes in delaware last month after his team found classified documents there . his classified documents there. his former private office was also in november . former private office was also in november. on tv, online and on dvb plus radio. this is gb news anywhere patriot. we'll be back in just a moment moment.

welcome back. now police searching for missing woman nicola have found a potential key after appealing to the pubuc key after appealing to the public yesterday , the mother of public yesterday, the mother of two disappeared last friday morning whilst, walking her spnnger morning whilst, walking her springer spaniel by the river in lancashire. let's go live now to lancashire. let's go live now to lancashire where gb news is reports a will hollis is there for what's the very for us. well what's the very latest ? yes, well, the last latest? yes, well, the last update that we had from lancashire police was that they found that key witness, a man who was described as being tall with a white fluffy dog and walking in area at around the time when nicola was last seen . time when nicola was last seen. we haven't had any sort of updates top of that so we don't know the content of those conversations. but police that he was speaking to the police what we do though today patrick that the same things have been happening today that have been happening today that have been happening ever since nicola went missing on friday. we've seen boats going up and down the river wyre. we've seen different types of dogs. one that was

described me a cadaver dog described to me is a cadaver dog in a boat going along the river wyre and it was clearly smelling for the for some time whatever it does , it was clearly doing it does, it was clearly doing a job there on the river wyre in the look the search for nicola it's not just the police and their partner organisations here where i am at the tennis club where i am at the tennis club where local people have been coming together and they've been walking on different routes around the river wyre and that's because as i heard from some of nicola's closest , they can't nicola's closest, they can't give up hope. and because there were of course too girls at home that want their mummy home, nikki is just lovely human being inside and out and live , living inside and out and live, living a normal life, dropping the children off at school, going on a daily walk , things, planning, a daily walk, things, planning, going out the weekend seeing friends family. going out the weekend seeing friends family . yeah, you friends and family. yeah, you just can't make sense that this is actually happening . here we is actually happening. here we are. and i suppose knowing nikki and what type of she is, a mom and what type of she is, a mom and a partner , this is out of

and a partner, this is out of character. yeah, definitely . character. yeah, definitely. yeah. she nikki as you said, we're all religion. we're just we're all religion. we're just we're just people. simple yeah. it's a completely out of . yeah. it's a completely out of. yeah. and then just on the point about the family, how is the family at this point? you're quite close to family. yeah, absolutely. we've got at the same school and that's all right. it began . you that's all right. it began. you imagine yourselves paul's got an immense job of looking his family, supporting the girls . family, supporting the girls. yeah, imagine the rollercoaster he's going on living this as he says perpetual nightmare and so you can put yourselves in those shoes and think the rollercoaster they all are going on.and rollercoaster they all are going on. and we've got be here again as a community to support. and that's why we are out here in the conditions like this, just trying to find any we can. we are hold onto the are just trying to hold onto the hope. that's what's keeping us going. knowing . her, two little going. knowing. her, two little girls are at home missing mummy and knowing that mummy is missing is what's driving us forward . we know that knowing

forward. we know that knowing nikki, her family, are everything and we know without a doubt that if she could be at home with them, that's where be just as a very quick recap, nicola went missing last friday her mobile phone was found on a bench. her spaniel dog was found nearby, but is still missing. nearly a week on. and police say they are still extremely concerned as to where nicola might have gone and the messages very much the if you're passing the of st michael's at around 9:00 10:00 last friday if you have any sort of camera on your car or if you're home nearby might have any sort of cctv. they really do want to hear from you . indeed well, thank you very you. indeed well, thank you very much. well, holly reporting from , lancashire after that tragic case there of the missing and obviously everybody hopes that she's found safe and well. and that's the police do manage to locate nicola very soon. look lots of you have been getting in

touch. i'm going to go into the inbox shortly. gbviews@gbnews.uk you a story that's really got you. yes. okay. there's the strike action. there is strike action. but there is also, course, that case also, of course, that case of a failed asylum seeker who frankly should deported should have been deported from this years failed this country years ago, failed all exhausted avenues when it came to applying for asylum in this country back in 2017, went on to suddenly kill an elderly lady in own home. we'll be taking your views that i've been asking not fellow asking whether or not fellow asylum seekers should be deported. immediate your deported. immediate get your views in me, but it's views coming to in me, but it's moving on from now. the price of food has risen by the sharpest margin as margin since figures began as the essentials up the price of essentials up apparently 16.7% year on year. the new from the british retail consortium show an 8% increase in prices since last january. and with inflation currently standing at 10.5, that warning price shows no sign of slowing down. with me now is matthew lash. mum a crisis, the head of pubuc lash. mum a crisis, the head of public policy , the institute for public policy, the institute for economic affairs . matthew, thank economic affairs. matthew, thank you very much. 16.7% and up is a whopper . what's going on? look,

whopper. what's going on? look, it is shocking for a lot of households and extremely difficult time for many people . difficult time for many people. there's a whole bunch things going on within the food industry , supply chain industry, supply chain challenges associated with the russia ukraine war issues with rising costs of fertilisers and pesticides, all of which comes from that part of the world. you've got rising costs of energy increased transport costs and labour shortages. so there's and labour shortages. so there's a whole lot of specific industry related problems that are coming out and pushing up prices for producers of food. what really key is the in many ways this is a bit of a hangover of the very loose economic situation we saw dunng loose economic situation we saw during covid, which is we decided to basically pump a whole of money into the economy. inevitably that's going to feed through into higher prices for consumers and. the result of thatis consumers and. the result of that is inflation across . the that is inflation across. the board, not just in energy or whatever else, but certainly in food as a key resource. yeah, but both you. i'm worried that we're going to end up trapped.

so we are trapped in some kind of never ending perpetual deaths when it comes to our economy because hearing all of this stuff food prices, the stuff now about food prices, the price essentials going price of essentials going up and then i've got 500,000 public sector workers on strike today . sector workers on strike today. they say about working they say it's about working conditions . a of the conditions. a lot of the teachers are banging on about, oh, the well, oh, really? for the kids? well, that interesting that was interesting because from where sitting, it does from where i'm sitting, it does appear mostly be about appear to mostly be about the money your and in money in your pocket. and in order pay for these things order to pay for these things going to increase going to have to increase people's but then the imf people's taxes. but then the imf comes and goes, what you comes out and goes, what you need to do is go for growth. we had a prime minister who wanted to for growth alexis to go for growth and alexis outlasted. doing this outlasted. are we doing this to ourselves, well look, ourselves, matthew? well look, in some respects, this is outside the control of the government. you know, they didn't necessarily set the very loose monetary or i'm caused the with ukraine that's push up global energy prices. but we've got to think about i think you're right about where we started which uk started here, which is the uk economy has underperforming economy has been underperforming on over on growth for well over a decade. seem a of murmurs decade. we seem a lot of murmurs and discussion about the to

and discussion about the need to promote growth from the government. we haven't necessarily policies that necessarily the policies that could match that aspiration . and could match that aspiration. and if we have a kind of a low growth productivity economy , growth productivity economy, ultimately low wages are going to be the result. food is going to be the result. food is going to be the result. food is going to be less affordable people and our standard of living is going be i think you're be lower. and i think you're right that we that change we need meaningful right that we that change we need reform. �*neaningful right that we that change we need reform. ifeaningful right that we that change we need reform. if yomgful right that we that change we need reform. if you atjl policies reform. if you at something like food there are things that government do to lower of food. know lower the price of food. we know getting rid some of the getting rid of some of the tariffs imported food the tariffs on imported food and the subsidies as part of subsidies were there as part of the eu's agricultural the eu's common agricultural policy that sought to push up food by about 17, being member of the eu systems. we haven't diverged from that. we haven't said outside the eu we're going to get rid of all that burden. but is interesting . sorry, but this is interesting. sorry, sorry interrupt, that's sorry to interrupt, but that's a really and in really personal point. and in light the frankly never light of the frankly never ending cycle brexit stories that we took yesterday in of that this is an avenue that all government can pursuing. the british people for independence and now british people are poor

as a result of the economic situation . and a british situation. and a british government should be doing everything it can to make sure that people can afford to eat. and we've got an option and we're not doing it because too afraid of annoying some unelected boffin in brussels is that right. kind of. i mean, you know in, a sense a lot of people have pointed probably rightly so that as a result of brexit there's increased bureaucracy in trade imports from eu. trade imports from the eu. i that has pushed out food prices and probably some level of contribution to inflation. maybe some people exaggerate but some people exaggerate it, but it's finally made some level of contribution. whole of contribution. the whole point of brexit was we've got this opportunity lower food opportunity now to lower food tariffs the rest of the tariffs to the rest of the world, have more imports from world, to have more imports from other at, lower costs other places at, lower costs without having to protect european interests . that european farming interests. that were the reason for the common agricultural . haven't agricultural. so we haven't taken up the opportunities provided by rex, but we have got a lot of the costs. so of course there will be certain internal domestic lobbyists from farmers union will say you can't union who will say you can't possibly tariffs possibly rid of these tariffs and foreign food prices. and lower foreign food prices.

well, we're in well, i'm sorry, we're in a we're in a cost of living crisis. we have to rid of the costs on consumers. that's nimble. thank you nimble. absolutely. thank you very of public very much, lash, head of public policy institute policy at the institute for economic affairs just economic affairs there. just summing he starts making summing up and he starts making me increasingly angry actually. listen, got the vein listen, i really got the vein going the side of my temple going in the side of my temple here as to an option where people like you i and people like you and i and everyone know could pay less in supermarkets for food because we don't want to upset people. a that voted to leave . we're that we voted to leave. we're not doing it. and i'm finding that increasingly hard to actually square with reality but back to news that we brought back now to news that we brought you within the last half. they failed iranian seeker who failed iranian asylum seeker who should been removed from uk should have been removed from uk years will be sent to mental years ago will be sent to mental health indefinitely health hospital indefinitely after killing an elderly woman who had given him a home. 34 year shahin darvish year old shahin darvish narendran, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, has been centres at leeds crown court this afternoon and i was asking lots of you really whether not you felt as though failed asylum seeker should be deported immediately. yes, there are

legal there and legal legal loopholes there and legal and require a change in and it would require a change in the law and i understand that . the law and i understand that. but look at the specifics but if you look at the specifics of this chap of this case, this chap exhausted his avenues to remain in the united kingdom in 2017. we are years on from now and it was years indeed before he went to commit this crime and i just can't help but wonder whether or not public is being put at risk by.the not public is being put at risk by. the very, very, very slow moving or frankly nearly non—existent deportation process moving or frankly nearly non-this.tent deportation process moving or frankly nearly non-this country)ortation process moving or frankly nearly non-this country has,tion process moving or frankly nearly non-this country has, john,rocess that this country has, john, says enough , enough. how many says enough, enough. how many more cases are going to come to light before action is taken? and john, just on that one, before i read rest of your email, mark, why are home in security so going to security area so he's going to be back in in the next hour. and he has actually a list of cases, some of them where stuff like this he goes on this has place. he goes on anyone asylum seekers any anyone failed asylum seekers any failed asylum seekers he should say deported with say should deported with immediate effect? no but immediate effect? no no. but sean says this lady is the victim now was left with a failed asylum seeker on her own, left by the failed asylum system. instead divorce again

like . you'll read for this poor like. you'll read for this poor woman on the doorstep of, downing street. and it's one of several emails i must with increasing regularity . i am increasing regularity. i am guessing of people looking for someone to blame. understandably it's horrific stuff that some people do wrongly want someone to held to account for it. and they're saying, well, can we start suing the home office? can start suing the home office? can start people. of start saying these people. of course, would course, the home office would say all that they say they're doing all that they can though admit can possibly, though they admit that the system is broken, they just really agree on the just can't really agree on the way margaret way actually fix it. margaret says. story. our thoughts says. a sad story. our thoughts with the lady's family he is with the lady's family as he is a seeker. could a failed seeker. could we challenge iranian government to his upkeep? well, i well, no, obviously no. but i do get the point that you get. so jane says, how heartbreaking to hear us brits are the most caring, welcoming on this planet by far even everything that had even after everything that had done for that man, he killed a he needs to be sent back to iran straight mean the other straight away mean the other argument that suppose argument with that isn't suppose we send him to we can't really send him to iran. is then he iran. the question is then if he wasn't genuine asylum wasn't really a genuine asylum seeker, then suppose we could

have sent him to iran look very strong and all of this and strong views and all of this and we'll be about it yes we'll be talking about it yes again with weiss in the next houn again with weiss in the next hour. if you are just joining us, is really shocking us, it is this really shocking case individual who was case of an individual who was trying claim asylum in this trying to claim asylum in this country. he failed and then was living here for seven years, having suddenly having failed and then suddenly went take the life an went on to take the life of an elderly lady. my concern, of elderly lady. and my concern, of course, be how times course, would be how many times is to or something is this going to or something like to before like this going to happen before we grip and at what to the we get a grip and at what to the pubuc we get a grip and at what to the public to say hang a minute. public up to say hang a minute. this is happening far too often now. and our public safety should first. views are should come first. gb views are gbnews.uk. a variety of gbnews.uk. i want a variety of views on that if we can get them, but moving on something completely we be on the completely, could we be on the verge of seeing return of verge of seeing a return of infamous, infamous, famous i think, is a better way of putting it. burt but if you birds are infamous, aren't they really a bird? not. seems is the 17th century scientist the us think so as they've pledged to extinct the dodo through gene editing technology and pigeon

samples. now look, initially i thought this was an absolutely tremendous idea because i thought would the way to thought it would pave the way to me having a sabertooth tiger as a patch, or maybe like a pygmy t—rex something. t—rex or, something. i was quickly no, that's nuts. quickly told no, that's nuts. but now peter but with me now is peter stephenson no less oba. stephenson obe. no less oba. good stuff . the chief policy good stuff. the chief policy adviser compat and in world farming now peter , why shouldn't farming now peter, why shouldn't we resurrect dodo ? there's no we resurrect dodo? there's no reason why we shouldn't. but a bit a bit ridiculous cos it's a bit a bit ridiculous cos it's a bit a bit ridiculous cos it's a bit a distraction from real challenge, which is that we need to act quickly to stop even more extinctions of the animals we currently do have. you know , a currently do have. you know, a huge number of are faced either with big reductions, then loss or even extinction for example the asian elephant . i'm i or even extinction for example the asian elephant. i'm i think that's where we should be targeting. energies and resources not trying to bring back to life the dodo being a

little bit facetious here but do we need to clamp down on because it sounds to me a little bit like we can just resurrect anything does go extinct. well i suspect that is actually going to be much harder to do than the scientists necessarily letting us know . but, scientists necessarily letting us know. but, you scientists necessarily letting us know . but, you know scientists necessarily letting us know. but, you know , problems us know. but, you know, problems we're getting at the moment with partners are coming from . the partners are coming from. the wildlife trade. people want to certain animals as pets but. above all, they're coming from modern farming. we're having , modern farming. we're having, you know, huge swathes of forests in south america are being felled. not just forests but other really important wild habitats , animals simply to more habitats, animals simply to more pasture for beef cattle. they're also being we're seeing forests and other important areas being felled to grow soy . but three felled to grow soy. but three quarters of the world's soy is being used to feed factory farmed pigs and poultry here in

europe. and in the us. so we need to rein back on a lot huge export of farm animals and the growing the crops to feed those animals . and that could actually animals. and that could actually throw a lifeline to many of our current wildlife that are in danger of extinction. are you a vegan peta ? no, i'm vegan peta? no, i'm a vegetarian, but recognise that i probably ought to take a break and trying to move in that direction. but the message i'm giving is not a vegetarian or vegan one. it's one of saying we a population particularly in the wealthy parts of the world need to eat less meat . doesn't mean to eat less meat. doesn't mean we have to be vegetarian or vegan quantities. we're now eating , actually pushing an eating, actually pushing an awful of animals, including lots of farmland, birds into extinction are well, we won't be able to solve that with the dodo returning to topic, would it be

such a bad thing if we just had just the old dodo, you know, knocking around the place now ? knocking around the place now? mostly, sure. nothing that goes with the dodo, is what you're telling me. it's nothing personal with the dodo. dodo, but we need to be careful about gene editing this process that's, going to bring the dodo back to life threatens an awful lot of to farmed animals. it's to be used to push pigs, chicken farms, dairy cows to faster growth and higher yields. farms, dairy cows to faster growth and higher yields . and growth and higher yields. and the history of the last 50 years farm animal breeding industry is that in trying to achieve high yields, it's caused immense amount of health problems. all right. sorry to snuff you out like the dodo, but i'm going to have to go. afraid, peter, that's all our time. peter steve is in that obey chief policy adviser. that compassion . well, adviser. that compassion. well, farming. a lot of you are already getting to say, already getting in to say, patrick, we've jurassic

patrick, we've seen jurassic park, know how this ends, have a day off. you only mean patrick christys gb news coming christys on gb news coming up. loads loads loads more on you strikes loads more failed asylum more that failed asylum seeker case while watching case as and while just watching you find out hello to the latest weather update me annie shuttleworth from the met rain will continue affect northern areas over the next few days but we'll see further weather across the south a high pressure is dominating across the south that's bringing that drier settled weather. but got weather fronts over the next few days into thursday and friday continuing to push into the north bringing some rain. and on wednesday you can see across much of scotland and into parts of northern england we'll see persistent rain for a time, especially across the highlands western isles, though the winds will ease a little bit further south. it'll be quite dry overnight, but turning much cloudier and with plenty of cloudier and with plenty of cloud around, it'll be another mild night for the time of year. frost free. by the time we get to thursday morning. now remaining quite throughout

thursday, across the whole of the uk rain will become a little bit more restricted to the highlands and western areas and northern areas of scotland . northern areas of scotland. however, there could be the odd shower affecting parts of west wales and into the south—west too. it's going to be a mild than thursday then , wednesday. than thursday then, wednesday. on thursday, temperatures reaching 12 or 13 degrees. that will be quite breezy out there then into thursday and friday morning, another and breezy night . this band of rain starts night. this band of rain starts in northern scotland will sink southwards into parts of northern ireland northern england as well as parts of nonh england as well as parts of north wales to elsewhere it'll be dry and cloudy and again frost free temperatures well above average for the time of year by time we get to the early hours of friday another cloudy on friday fairly breezy especially across coastal and into the northwest you can see the next band of rain . so some

the next band of rain. so some further rain for and saturday but by sunday turning a little bit cooler and a little bit brighter .

welcome back. everybody is just going for a clock here. me patrick christys on gb news a jam packed hour coming your way. we'll cross line to the picket lines. i'll walk out wednesday with the biggest strike in a decade currently place. decade currently taking place. members seven unions members of seven trade unions are industrial. it are taking industrial. it affects universities affects schools. universities trains and buses amongst other things, that's up to half a million workers on a day off. some workers claim that one paycheque away from homelessness. i will be speaking to one of those striking workers

, a conservative mp as the party looks to rush through its controversial anti strike laws . controversial anti strike laws. i also want to hear from you this hour as i ask is our asylum policy a threat to national security a failed iranian asylum seeker who should have been removed the uk years ago was being sent to a mental hospital indefinitely after , killing an indefinitely after, killing an elderly grandmother who had given him a home, a home, a security at a time out was one of the very latest on all of we're going go live believe we're going to go live believe it or not, to washington dc to hear from the former prime minister boris johnson, he minister boris johnson, as he addresses little is addresses for ukraine little is as well, he might say a couple of other bits, bobs. so we'll take that live. johnson live this hour gbviews@gbnews.uk loads coming your way. make sure you get in touch, especially on a solution to the strike and whether not think failed whether or not you think failed asylum be asylum seekers should be deported immediately. vaiews@gbnews.uk though , vaiews@gbnews.uk now though, you . patrick thank you

you had lot. patrick thank you and good afternoon to you. the top story on gb news. well, as you've been hearing, hundreds of thousands of workers across the uk have been taking part in what they're calling walk wednesday. today is the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade, up to half million workers across seven trade unions are striking over pay, jobs and conditions. unions are striking over pay, jobs and conditions . teachers jobs and conditions. teachers are part of the action, along with border force officers , bus with border force officers, bus and train drivers , all causing and train drivers, all causing widespread travel disruption. they didn't break down, but they basically said very clearly, look, we can't do anything to. stop this strike. this is going ahead. on the 1st of february. but we do have 28 days between this and, the next strike. so we will continue those discussions. what is offer what we can't do is offer inflation and inflation busting pay inflation and inflation busting pay rises because we're focussed on getting inflation down, halving the inflation that everybody . so we all feel better everybody. so we all feel better have more money in our pockets . have more money in our pockets. gillian keegan , the education gillian keegan, the education secretary speaking there . well

secretary speaking there. well kevin courtney is the general secretary of the national education union and he says the government needs to find the money. and i thought we'd reach thresholds. they weren't planning on us reaching them. and since we've reached the thresholds , 40,000 more people thresholds, 40,000 more people have joined the union as well. so does show there's a huge so it does show there's a huge strength the strength feeling in the profession that government must act and put things right. i think gillian keegan hoping that the strike won't be effective and won't be any further and there won't be any further action there be action there. there could be further action . she needs to do further action. she needs to do a deal. so that that doesn't happen. a deal. so that that doesn't happen . well, amidst the ongoing happen. well, amidst the ongoing strike action, the trades union, congress has handed a petition to downing street opposing the government's for a new law minimum levels of service during in times of strikes. petition against the so called strike bill was signed by more than 200,000 members of the public. do you see, general secretary paul novak, he hopes the ongoing will send a strong message to

the government about the anger the government about the anger the public is feeling. they're trying to push through what is a particularly spiteful piece of legislation. now, we've had hundreds of thousands of public sector workers take strike action quite often for the first time ever. and instead of listening to the concerns of those workers responding to those workers or responding to the government the concerns, the government is just introduce just trying to introduce legislation, make it more difficult to take that difficult for them to take that strike action. so i think government should be more responsible, should to responsible, should talk to their talk to their workforce, should talk to unions and come to the table. pubuc unions and come to the table. public pay. meanwhile, public sector pay. meanwhile, the pm case today, the prime minister has been busy too minister has been busy being too weak to root out sleaze. sir keir starmer made the claim, citing a string of recent allegations . citing a string of recent allegations. he said rishi sunak must have known, for example, about the hmrc investigation into nadine's hallway at the time he was appointed party chair. he accused mr. sunak of forced people to work for a bully . the deputy prime minister bully. the deputy prime minister was facing 24 separate allegations bullying, according

recent reports. some of the were physically sick. one says they were left suicidal . how would he were left suicidal. how would he feel if one of his friends or relatives was being forced to work for bully simply because the man at the top was too to do anything about it. the prime minister responded to that by sir keir had supported the spread of hate as he called it whilst jeremy corbyn was labour leader. when was made aware of formal complaints , i instructed formal complaints, i instructed a leading kc to conduct and investigation because i take when these things happen . but when these things happen. but what did he say at the weekend . what did he say at the weekend. he said at the weekend that hate had been allowed to spread on challenged in the labour party under his predecessor. was speaking as if he wasn't there but he was sitting right next him supporting him for four long years now and he's away from

home. the fbi is searching joe biden's beach house, delaware, as part of an ongoing investigation into his handling classified documents . his lawyer classified documents. his lawyer saying the operation being carried out with the consent of biden's legal team. the fbi searched one of biden's homes in delaware last month after his team classified documents there . his former private office was also searched in november here a further 1500 patients of a convicted criminal was also a breast surgeon. are being recalled. so their treatment can be reinvestigated . and patterson be reinvestigated. and patterson was handed a 20 year prison sentence in 17 after he was convicted on 17 counts of wounding people with intent over 14 years, he subjected more than a thousand patients to unnecessary and damaging operations whilst he was operating in the west midlands. new patients were discovered after a trawl through old itc

systems . that's up to date on after a trawl through old itc systems. that's up to date on gb news. now more news as it happens. let's get back to. patrick or our people at russell through the shower. nearly nine out of ten schools and sixth form colleges in england and wales were either fully or partially shut today, as teachers represented by the national education union walked out, a poll by the associate of school and college leaders has suggested the majority of schools have been affected by today's teachers . labour mp and today's teachers. labour mp and former shadow chancellor john mcdonnell has joining workers obviously on the picket line today, he said . corporate tax today, he said. corporate tax rate rise could fund better wages for public sector workers .issue wages for public sector workers . issue at the moment is that we've got government that seems to be redistributing wealth by redistributing upwards. so just

is one example if gains tax was at the same as income tax , we'd at the same as income tax, we'd be able to afford a decent pay rise for everybody. it's measures like that have introduced fairness, our taxation system. we can actually have a fair system , we can have a fair system, we can afford our public services. yeah, of course until everyone with money leaves. and then who are you to tax? but there we go. that was the labour mp and former shadow chancellor mcdonnell. go live now to mcdonnell. let's go live now to national reporter ellie costello. she's at the teachers rally in london . and ali. yes, rally in london. and ali. yes, what was it like there ? there's what was it like there? there's a lot of strong feeling, no doubt doubt . that certainly was doubt doubt. that certainly was it really was a carnival atmosphere here down in whitehall , london, a little bit whitehall, london, a little bit earlier on, the national education union, we're expecting 10,000 teachers to turn out here to try and have their voices heard just outside downing street, which actually just behind me there . but they say behind me there. but they say that 40,000 teachers, in fact did turn out this afternoon , did turn out this afternoon, came with their dogs. they gave their musical instruments,

placards, a really jovial atmosphere going on between teachers and support staff. i spoke some of them on the march day and i asked why they were there on an evening to teach you about ten years. it's now only just earning as much as i did in the private sector during spring. i feel important 25 years ago. it's a large society that had teachers and, schools kind of left in chaos and which used because they understand why we do this with our industrial action. nothing has changed in the last ten years with down on recruitment and we're down on sky's 8% in the last ten years has been rapid they descended didn't standards without change things aren't going to increase is for the kids and is for the kids we've had to bank holiday schedules for a combination and like a jubilee whatever it is like a jubilee whatever it is like if they can put in a bank houday like if they can put in a bank holiday at the drop of a hat with no it's really about the

welfare of children , then why is welfare of children, then why is this any different? because this peaceful anyone who says that they that we don't care about kids because we know things go literally needs to re—educate themselves . the purpose of themselves. the purpose of strikes and what teachers are asking for. well the any you now say that they think asking for. well the any you now say that they thin k £200 zero say that they think £200 zero teachers walked out today they say 85% of schools in and wales were closed , or at least were closed, or at least partially that impacted on 7 million children in england and of course, their parents and their families, to some of whom have had to give up a day of work, perhaps even a day's pay in order to look after their children today. kevin, courtney , the end of you says it's the largest teacher strike since the eighties. they're calling on a better offer than the 5% that they got last year . they say they got last year. they say that that had already come of school budgets, meaning that it meant the children had less. and

some teachers not speaking to today said that classrooms are cold, they need better pay to fund their schools . gillian fund their schools. gillian keegan , the education secretary, keegan, the education secretary, says it's not realistic to look at inflation busting pay rises. she says actually try , and get she says actually try, and get inflation down. so is not the time to be giving out % pay rises time to be giving out% pay rises . patrick the way things stand , . patrick the way things stand, a deal is not done between the government and the national education union. then we could be looking at another six more days. be looking at another six more days . teachers strike action. is days. teachers strike action. is it anything like we've seen today? it's going to be very destructive indeed . yeah. ali, destructive indeed. yeah. ali, thank you very much . that's thank you very much. that's reporting from just outside downing street. there was a march taking place earlier today from , essentially angry teachers from, essentially angry teachers who are going on strike. it's got a lot you want exercise got a lot of you want exercise on this. i think everyone can agree teachers do do agree that teachers do do broadly anyway good broadly speaking anyway a good job obviously . we job a valuable job obviously. we need andif job a valuable job obviously. we need and if there is need teachers and if there is a recruitment crisis in the retention crisis that's, a massive problem for britain plus

at am having a little at the time i am having a little look now and i wanted to double check i always check my facts. i was always important it, especially if you happen presenting a news happen to be presenting a news show about the pension contributions and the pension contributions and the pension contribution teachers . 3.6. contribution for teachers. 3.6. the average contribution in the private sector is three and a half % so i can't but wonder half% so i can't but wonder whether or not some teachers be willing to be paid more upfront as a way of maybe getting some kind pay rise that i don't know. what you think? joining me what do you think? joining me now conservative jonathan now is conservative mp jonathan who a teacher and is who used to be a teacher and is also former schools minister . also a former schools minister. tony much just that. tony dungy. very much just that. now there are too many jobs. why you got 12 weeks holiday, a pension contribution of 23.6. and from what i can tell as an average salary of around two grand , you're perfectly back . grand, you're perfectly back. the money. this is a well—paid profession it comes with all those benefits the pension, the saving on childcare costs in the houday saving on childcare costs in the holiday period when you can work from if need to do work at from home, if need to do work at all. i think this is a really

great profession of work and it's just a shame that the north education decided bring education union decided to bring the education into the a the education sector into disrepute great disrepute undermine the great work teachers . and work of many teachers. and actually are selfless . actually teachers are selfless. it's union barons, bosses are selfish . and we're seeing that selfish. and we're seeing that on a grand scale today. also, the plan, though, the government's plan, though, to stop all of this is it to wait it out? because looking at the numbers, you actually voted to strike on the any you and it was only 48% well like you say you actually at the nsc pwc you didn't meet the threshold the nht did meet the threshold and the nfu majority of teachers voted to not strike or didn't return their ballot, which obviously is in itself a choice as well. so actually what the nonh as well. so actually what the north education union doing with bolshevik and call bolshevik bousted and call me, courtney to out courtney is trying to live out their fantasy , the their utopian fantasy, the expense of children which can lead me to believe they must hate children, must hate their life opportunities being you life opportunities being, you know, if they know, because ultimately if they did care about children, they'd want them to in the classroom want them to be in the classroom learning that teacher

learning from that teacher the experts, parents or experts, not putting parents or low a day's pay low incomes, losing a day's pay if they work at the checkouts or the spark the plumber or the the spark or the plumber or the brekkie . who needs to go to work brekkie. who needs to go to work today but can't because they have and perform have to stay home and perform childcare don't really childcare and don't really like the there jovial on the idea. there was a jovial on whitehall i think joe view whitehall as i think joe view about kids missing out with education ruining their education that's ruining their life particularly life chances particularly in like north like stoke on trent north kidsgrove talk know kidsgrove grabbing talk you know you a teacher also a you used to be a teacher also a former schools minister. you know it's at know exactly what it's like at the coalface, teaching, as it were hearing from a were what we're hearing from a lot are on these lot of the who are on these marches . this is the kids marches. this is about the kids from what you seem to be saying now you are suggesting that it's not really about the kids . well not really about the kids. well have a look at the reality when they said we're those people who are trying to push that. at no stage. if i heard anyone come up with any ideas that we're not already doing to try and improve recruitment and retention there's just there's a 28,000 bursary just for a one off payment. if you take up, let's say, teaching in a science or maths subject, there levelling payments. there is levelling up payments. if in education

if you're in education investment, you can get up to an extr certain subjects investment, you can get up to an extr in certain subjects investment, you can get up to an extr in certain certain subjects investment, you can get up to an extr in certain occasions subjects investment, you can get up to an extr in certain occasions like ects and in certain occasions like stoke trent being stoke on trent for being a teacher, you are teaching learning responsibilities. i started teaching career on started my teaching career on 25,000 a year, seven years later, finished on £50,000 later, i finished on £50,000 a year because i took on additional middle leader responsibilities, not simply shape average secondary shape when the average secondary school around school headteacher has around £94,000 year, it's hard to £94,000 a year, it's hard to feel empathetic when actually schools have had a 7.7 billion seven sorry billion pound increase in funding from the spending review 2021 and then a further 4.4 billion increase from the autumn statement last year with the chancellor and the prime minister, which education budgets are prime minister, which education budgets ar e £20 billion year budgets are £20 billion a year better what they were better off than what they were in 2010. so this is a government that's been investing in the education driving up education sector, driving up standards, know, standards, holding you know, giving powers giving teachers the powers through customisation and headteachers power to headteachers the power to deliver the education that they deserve, children deserve, that those children deserve. idea that deserve. and so this idea that we put pupils first for we don't put pupils first is for the be quite frank they the birds be quite frank they will say, and indeed they say jonathan situation has changed because of the cost of living

crisis . how because of the cost of living crisis. how do you because of the cost of living crisis . how do you respond to crisis. how do you respond to that ? well would say i was the that? well would say i was the minister who signed off on the fire 5% pay increase for the 2020 223. and that's because we accepted in full the pay body review's recommendation and the new teacher got an 8.9% increase for september. a new teacher will start on £30,000 a year, delivering on the conservative party manifesto agreement made in the 2019 general election. and obviously the unions should be engaging and putting forward their would need their case for what would need to pay. but the to happen with pay. but the number issue that comes up number one issue that comes up in unions and from in surveys from unions and from the education is the demand for education is workload. and actually what would better is sit around would be better is to sit around the table at best examples of workload and get schools to actually it so that actually make it so that teachers spending more time teachers are spending more time in classroom teaching and in the classroom teaching and less bureaucratic less time doing bureaucratic nonsense in the background. i can't but wonder or can't help but wonder whether or not slight elephant in not there's a slight elephant in the jonathan is the room here. jonathan which is that of teachers in many that a lot of teachers in many people's eyes anyway, with all the unions, should say, are the unions, i should say, are infiltrated certain infiltrated by a certain ideology. i dare say, as well as

a lot of , you know, flag waving a lot of, you know, flag waving and saying, you know, okay, well, look, you know, mass immigration, for example, is a very, very, very good thing. the reality is there are a lot of inner city schools the inner city schools at the minute, which incredibly minute, which must be incredibly difficult place to and some would argue as well, quite lawless. fact, there lawless. in fact, there are quite a few who have an quite a few schools who have an in police officer. you in school police officer. do you think the reality think that actually the reality is it's just not become is that it's just not become a particularly nice place to work. is that it's just not become a pilotzularly nice place to work. is that it's just not become a pilot ofarly nice place to work. is that it's just not become a pilot of these ce place to work. is that it's just not become a pilot of these schools to work. is that it's just not become a pilot of these schools io work. is that it's just not become a pilot of these schools i think(. a lot of these schools i think teaching is incredibly hard, but also correctly awarding the profession as well and actually having the day when you get the chance to give back the world class education i was lucky to receive and gave pupils who wouldn't have had those opportunities otherwise to ensure very ensure that they get the very best they deserve, change best that they deserve, change their chances, change their life chances, change their outcomes, change their aspirations. think a aspirations. i think that's a really are really positive thing. you are correct behaviour , but that correct with behaviour, but that comes strong leadership comes from strong leadership in schools look at catherine schools. and i look at catherine bevel a fantastic leader, bevel seeing a fantastic leader, mikayla school in mikayla community school in brent who has a zero tolerance, no nonsense approach and that's the of that should be the type of thing that should be rolled across country. and

rolled out across country. and thanks tom and the behaviour thanks to tom and the behaviour of government is created of this government is created that slowly across that is going slowly but across our need to make our country and we need to make sure headteachers have sure that headteachers have their teachers backs rather than caving in to unruly adolescents . in some cases parent power. okay. just very quickly, i want to be very on this and your position as former schools minister and indeed a former teacher yourself serving conservative mp . your position conservative mp. your position is that there needs to be more discipline in schools and that teachers frankly got a pretty good deal fact they're well paid for the job that they do. should it be striking ? teachers should it be striking? teachers should not be striking. teachers should be in the classroom giving their pupils the learning that they deserve, particularly making up after that covid that so after that covid years that so much. let's get round table much. and let's get round table and talk about the things that teachers really moan about, which workload which is workload and understandably improve. understandably needs to improve. okay, , thank you very, okay, jonathan, thank you very, very goldsack very much. jonathan goldsack conservative right . i'm going conservative mp right. i'm going to talk now to someone who has lost as a result of the lost out as a result of the teacher strikes. catherine

warrillow, mum of two. warrillow, who is a mum of two. she managing director she also managing director of the out the events website days out don't come . they got ironic don't come. they got us ironic because you've probably been stuck, your kids stuck, have you with your kids at know what's happened you at home know what's happened you today was your situation today that was your situation wasn't show wasn't coming on the show and thank much for having me thank you so much for having me . so i have managed to make . yeah so i have managed to make it but i spent kind of it work but i spent kind of a stressful day yesterday and the day before trying to figure out childcare my husband's a key worker so he can't take days off worker so he can't take days off work at short notice . we're work at short notice. we're lucky we have a close knit community all at the other school. parents, grandparents down the road. so we've had kind of a juggle childcare today between parents, grandparents helping out that my husband and i could carry on and do our jobs i could carry on and do ourjobs as normal and what is your can i ask what's your sympathy level like for striking teachers? i'm hugely sympathetic and i think made some interesting and from my perspective i think this isn't just pay . you can choose

isn't just pay. you can choose to decide whether you think teachers well paid or not for what do for me what i see in schools having a child at primary school i'm a child of secondary school is that teachers aren't educate anymore. yeah safeguard officers that mental health workers that get involved in things like food poverty mental eating disorders, bullying abuse, domestic abuse . bullying abuse, domestic abuse. and having had the chance statement literally just a couple of days ago about kind everything, starting with education and bringing out the this great british genius on earth, are we supposed to do that as a nation if we can't give our teachers and our schools the tools, resources , schools the tools, resources, budget and salaries they need to do that. can i can i ask on on that on that one then catherine andifs that on that one then catherine and it's a potentially a slightly what, should i say unfashionable question to us, but i'm not sure those. to be fair, you've made a very, very good point about . the fact that

good point about. the fact that teachers now and schools that the breakfast clubs they sometimes can mum and dad social workers, carers whatever all of this stuff that is way above you're offering geography teacher your message is supposed to really be doing just some of this fall down on the job of parents. parents in some cases need to their game. not you, of course. i'm sure you're wonderful . i try. i try my best. wonderful. i try. i try my best. and yes, i mean , personal view and yes, i mean, personal view is that the parents are the primary educator. obviously, the primary educator. obviously, the primary child carer and educator when it comes to life skills outside of the classroom and have 100% responsibility for the wellbeing and upbringing of their children, however , if their children, however, if a child is struggling, whether that's mentally, behaviourally, socially medically , otherwise, socially medically, otherwise, they're just challenges are going to follow them into the classroom the benefit have is

that we have as a society and in education we have much greater understanding of things like dyslexia, autism spectrum traits , eating disorders, mental social media, which is a mazing. however now we have that better understanding if it follows a child into classroom. unfortunately there is an expectation that the teacher has a duty of care to that load and we're not giving them the equipment or the tools or the resources need to do that. we're expecting them do what they've been doing for the however many decades. been doing for the however many decades . it's without increment decades. it's without increment with pay increases that often. i no additional for the schools resources equipment, no additional for the schools resources equipment , knowledge resources equipment, knowledge and now what i'm striking i totally support that . oh, okay. totally support that. oh, okay. there you go, catherine. thank very much. two sides of the coin there. it's fair to say from jonathan goes conservative i'm faith. then catherine learned that as a mum two good

that as a mum of two good looking over childcare looking catherine over childcare urges to sort itself urges to continue to sort itself out also for what it's worth managing director of the events website out com and website days out com and altrincham resident which wonderful. aware wonderful. i wasn't aware of that around altrincham that i grew up around altrincham so a you'll see me so there you go. a you'll see me patrick christys gb news coming up now a failed asylum seeker is being sent to a mental health hospital indefinitely . is after hospital indefinitely. is after he the 88 year old woman he killed the 88 year old woman that he described his surrogate grandmother. she gave him a home. this is part of unfortunately and a very disturbing pattern actually . disturbing pattern actually. i'll be discussing all of this very, very shortly with our very own mark wise statute .

okay welcome back. now, a failed iranian asylum seeker will be sent to a mental hospital indefinitely after , killing an

indefinitely after, killing an 88 year old woman who had given a home in a picturesque village. there is a to talk about here and it is a disturbing continuation of an even more disturbing pattern that appears to be taking place in our broken asylum system. here to talk about the obviously a lot of it is my i have a security editor mark the latest place yeah this is shaheen arrange is shaheen darvish and arrange bond who was an asylum seeker came here in 2005 lost his to stay in the country 2015 and actually exhausted of his appeals were told by 2017 but still for five years he was not from the uk and went on to kill a pensioner by the name of brand blainey in, a village in north not far from scarborough thornton le dale . this pensioner thornton le dale. this pensioner had befriended the asylum seeker a few years earlier. he was working at a restaurant in leeds

and they'd formed, according to the court, a sort of grandmother grand son relationship. she had opened up her home to him gave him a bedroom room, the use of her car , but . him a bedroom room, the use of her car , but. on the 5th of her car, but. on the 5th of january last year he killed her. he a paranoid schizophrenic three psychiatrist, testified at his trial to see that he suffered so for years. voice his in his head as apparently told him to kill this frail elderly woman . she had been on the phone woman. she had been on the phone to a local shop to try and order some groceries when the line went dead . you tried to call went dead. you tried to call back a dozen times . patrick and back a dozen times. patrick and the police were eventually to the police were eventually to the house and found this poor old deer lying in a pool pliers after being absolutely killed, brutally killed is an understatement. really unfortunate , given what happened unfortunate, given what happened there. but it's not as much of

an isolated , is it, in britain's an isolated, is it, in britain's broken asylum system that we have at the minute? no it's not. there are multiple cases. one hundreds, thousands of people are actually who are foreign born either living here legally as immigrants or people that have come into the asylum system . indeed, illegal immigrants that have gone on to commit series this offences. there's a very prominent ones who've committed very offences just week a bournemouth murder case that we reported on, lowan abdul rahim i was an afghan asylum seeker who came here claiming to be a 14 year old boy. he was an aduu be a 14 year old boy. he was an adult at the time but managed to get into an asylum system and it turns out that actually he'd been convicted and. his absence of gunning down two people, murdering them in serbia, had also convicted of drug offences

is norway. in italy turned down for asylum in norway . he found for asylum in norway. he found his way into asylum system and then killed an aspiring islamic school student over islamic wants to join is allowed into a school with young girls absolutely sitting be beside in absolutely sitting be beside in a class even . though he was an a class even. though he was an aduu a class even. though he was an adult because , he'd lied about adult because, he'd lied about his age . other cases include the his age. other cases include the liverpool hospital bomber remember of course the maternity hospital bombing which . hospital bombing which. thankfully when amad all swell mean detonated his device , he mean detonated his device, he was the only one that ended up dying. but he was a jordan ian who came was failed asylum seeker multiple appeals and he still hadn't removed from the country when he detonated that device. then of course there was the horrific incident just after the horrific incident just after the first lockdown in redding , a the first lockdown in redding, a park. there were three men, six

people in total were stabbed by this individual carries a libyan who also had claimed asylum and was turned down from that still in the country murder of three people and injured three others. and then parsons green bomber remember in 2017. another case thankfully of a device that didn't fully detonate but it's still 50 odd people. this man ahmad hassan came here as a child asylum seeker as well , child asylum seeker as well, told the authorities he had actually been influenced by isis, was still in the system though when he went on to construct that device and detonate it. yeah a shocking catalogue that lots of people rightly concerned about public safety now a result of this if you can be rejected go through due process there's no question

marks about a rush to judgement there's no question marks about people being treated, a rush to deport station. far from it. you exhaust of the possibilities there and then years later you are still living with someone . are still living with someone. you potentially go on and commit this horrendous crime and the british public have a right to angry, do they? yeah, i think that's a point worth making in all of these cases is , you know, all of these cases is, you know, people in this who are born , people in this who are born, bred in this country go to commit criminal offences , go on commit criminal offences, go on to commit very serious crimes, including murder and terrorism, sometimes that happens. the here is these are people that have come into this country and in some cases have been rejected and should have been on a flight back out the country years before . they if they had gone on before. they if they had gone on to commit very serious offences . and that really speaks to the asylum system that we've got going back to this man who

killed brenda blaney last year. we're told that had the policy been up and running, then the could have managed get this person deported to rwanda to be processed there. is that too. i'm so sure that's certainly what being told, but that's a moot point really, because the rwanda policy is mired in legal challenges . it's rwanda policy is mired in legal challenges. it's going rwanda policy is mired in legal challenges . it's going nowhere challenges. it's going nowhere fast and. it's going to be potentially up to the end of this year or beyond before that's finally resolved. this might sound like an obvious question why is it if somebody is rejected and they've reached the final stages that they aren't deported ? what's the aren't deported? what's the hold—up in enters a merry go round? sadly of appeals in country appeals and you have a whole industry here with human rights , charities, lawyers that rights, charities, lawyers that will act on an individual's behalf they will see they will

act to not best interest but of course there's well—rehearsed strategy they have that you get turned down from this particular avenue of there's always another avenue of there's always another avenue we can explore but not each the process for years as we now know on multiple cases , now know on multiple cases, frustratingly , those officials frustratingly, those officials in the home say they can't get these people deported to. their home country or another , because home country or another, because of this system that we have in place. they've described it ministers have described it as a broken asylum system . it's hard broken asylum system. it's hard to conclude it is anything else. mark, thank you very, very much mark, thank you very, very much mark white. they'll have a security editor bringing . you security editor bringing. you the shocking details of that case. get your views coming in. there's no shortage of them already. i can see them flying into my inbox. gbviews@gbnews.uk dot is absolutely dot uk. it is absolutely staggering stuff. people can go through all of the due process,

no rush to judgement. like i've said, deportation. said, no rush to deportation. far it. and it does make far from it. and it does make you wonder. say how you wonder. it doesn't say how many to be lost and how many have to be lost and how many have to be lost and how many to impacted many lives have to impacted negatively before frankly, something sarah to fix something is done. sarah to fix this broken asylum system. coming up, we will cross live to washington, dc. we're expecting to hear from the former prime minister, boris johnson. i'd to hear from the former prime minister, borisjohnson. i'd be minister, boris johnson. i'd be interested to see what he's got to always is, isn't it? but to say. always is, isn't it? but now, though, it's your latest headunes. now, though, it's your latest headlines . patrick, thank you. headlines. patrick, thank you. good afternoon . you the top good afternoon. you the top stories this hour , hundreds of stories this hour, hundreds of thousands of workers are taking part in walkout wednesday . let part in walkout wednesday. let me interrupt and. take you straight to boris johnson was referring to just there washington dc. he's been lobbying about the war in ukraine. let's go. oh, bless america for you have done and are doing to save ukraine from destruction and of course proud of all efforts made by the united kingdom and other

european allies to support ukraine. the billions of humanitarian assistance the and more missiles that we send , the more missiles that we send, the tanks that we're sending . and, tanks that we're sending. and, of course , the real heroes are of course, the real heroes are the of ukraine, the troops who are fighting like lions or the families who up with suffering and cruelty on scale not seen since the second world war. but we must acknowledge and i'm going to update american support military and financial and the real possibility , the likelihood real possibility, the likelihood even that without that support and the confidence that american support bred in the ukrainians, then putin would have taken kyiv in the blitzkrieg that he planned and he would have installed a puppet government and a terrible darkness would have fallen on a young and entirely innocent european democracy , because we've now

democracy, because we've now seen russian occupation means and we know what's going on in the areas that russia still occupies . we've seen the horrors occupies. we've seen the horrors that putin's troops leave behind when pushed out across the whole of that vast and bitterly rising sitting country as it would have been , he would have imposed been, he would have imposed a police state more vile and dreadful than anything we saw in the former eastern bloc systematic murder , torture, systematic murder, torture, rape, detention without trial , rape, detention without trial, systematic movement of populations including children . populations including children. and all the time, the and a chauvinistic attempt to impose putin's ideology that ukraine is not a country that as he thinks ukrainian language and culture of folkloric curiosities and that the premier destiny of the ukrainian population is to be part the russian federation . but part the russian federation. but if that tragedy had taken place and who knows how close we came

in those first few weeks, then that would have been the pivotal and the defining moment of the first part of the 21st century if putin had won year ago, as he thought he would as his generals told he was going to. indeed, frankly, our generals , ladies frankly, our generals, ladies and gentlemen, told him he was going to then that would have emboldened the kremlin , increase emboldened the kremlin, increase the intimidation and threats towards every country and region on the fringes of the soviet empire . he would have told the empire. he would have told the chinese all they need to know about our reluctance to stand up for freedom and democracy in the south china seas anywhere. it would have sent a signal to every opportunist autocrat around the world that international borders are fungible and friendship and can be changed by, and that no one will do a thing to stop . and the

will do a thing to stop. and the guilt for the whole ukrainian tragedy will then have been upon us all. so god bless america for having the guts and the wisdom to help . and i implore you now to help. and i implore you now to help. and i implore you now to follow the logic of what you all doing and give the ukrainians the tools to finish the job. give them deep fire, artillery , give them the tanks, artillery, give them the tanks, give them the planes, because they have a plan. they know what they have a plan. they know what they need to do and my god, they they need to do and my god, they they have the skill and, the bravery to do it , give them the bravery to do it, give them the wherewithal to take back that land and the rest of their country , because the faster they country, because the faster they win , the greater the savings in win, the greater the savings in treasure and in lives, and the faster the world economy will bounce back to health. the prize before us is now immense . when before us is now immense. when ukraine wins and they will win when putin is pushed back, we will lift the threat of further

russian aggression in georgia in moldova, in the baltic states, across the whole of eastern europe . and by lifting that europe. and by lifting that threat , we europe. and by lifting that threat, we end the risk further economic disruption like the hikes in the cost gas and food have affected people in my country in the uk in this country in the uk in this country and around the world when ukraine wins, we will have established new clarity and new stability in the security of europe and we will have ended the fateful ambiguity that in the fateful ambiguity that in the end encouraged putin to make his catastrophic mistake and for a relatively outlay in expenditure . we will have expenditure. we will have greatly strengthened the entire euro—atlantic area . bear in mind euro—atlantic area. bear in mind that america's contribution is noble and huge, but it is still only five or 6% of the annual us defence budget so far and has helped to degrade about 20, some say 50% of putin's war machine .

say 50% of putin's war machine. and to those who say we may be somehow denuding our own arsenals by giving this , i say, arsenals by giving this, i say, what is the point in deploying those tanks and planes in north carolina or north or alsace when the ukrainians could be using now exactly where. they are needed to help assure our collective security for decades . what is the point of having challenger tanks patrolling beautiful villages of wiltshire , which is a very safe area , i , which is a very safe area, i can tell you when the ukrainians could be using them now to bring this war to an end . every time this war to an end. every time we've been asked to intensify our support , we've been met with our support, we've been met with the same argument. our support, we've been met with the same argument . we risk an the same argument. we risk an escalation by putin. how can we seriously worry about provoking him when we have seen what he will do without the slightest provocation ? he isn't mad , he

provocation? he isn't mad, he isn't ill. he simply made a historic and that's why i'm afraid what we have done says. he simply made a historic miscalculation and is struggling to deal the position in which he has now placed his own country. he won't use nuclear weapons because it would instantly extinguish the last flicker of chinese support it would lose him every one of the world's swing voters from india to africa to america. he would terrify his own people if he did to who would live dread of the consequences to them he would plunge russia into such a cruel freeze of economic isolation as to make the present sanctions seem like a blessing and it would not even work because i don't believe for a minute he would stop the ukrainians for fighting for their hearts and their homes and their families . their homes and their families. and so we mustn't fall for this trick of trying portray that he does of trying to portray this conflict as a standoff between

nuclear armed nato and a nuclear armed russia, because that is not what is happening here. we seeing a barbaric attack on an innocent country and we are simply giving the ukrainians means to protect themselves as you might help a neighbour whose house is under attack from an arsonist. do you that person a hose and buckets and five blankets? yes. you and above all, we need to be we need to avoid being drawn into putin's psychodrama. we're not here to worry about the next stage of his career or what happens in the kremlin . we need to stop the kremlin. we need to stop focusing on putin and focus entirely on ukraine because they are fighting for all of us, everyone in this room , they're everyone in this room, they're fighting for our values. everyone in this room, they're fighting for our values . and fighting for our values. and they have reminded us that those values of freedom and democracy are worth fighting for. so are no conceivable grounds to delay us end this puppet titration of support and give the ukrainians

the support they need to finish war in the only way that it can and will be finished . and let us and will be finished. and let us give them those tools now. thank you all for listening . thank you you all for listening. thank you for your support for ukraine. there we have it, boris johnson, the former prime minister speaking to america and audiences live from washington. he we are seeing a barbaric attack on an innocent , attack on an innocent, referring, of course, to ukraine. and we are simply giving what they need to defend themselves, as you would , your themselves, as you would, your neighbour's house was being attacked we don't care about putin it's personal psychodrama . the former british prime minister boris johnson there calling on allies, particularly americans to provide ukraine with more aid to , help them with more aid to, help them sustain and ultimately the war against russia . thank you very against russia. thank you very much. probably just give me the facts of boris speech there. and we've all heard now. i'm actually going to ask you to

suspend facts for a second and just think about not what you said, but the way you said it. compare that to where are at compare that to where we are at the minute. the domains have taken johnson taken over. and boris johnson with, all his churchillian bluster and yes of bluster and yes all of his flaws, in washington, bluster and yes all of his flaweither in washington, bluster and yes all of his flaweither issuing ashington, bluster and yes all of his flaweither issuing ahington, bluster and yes all of his flaweither issuing a rallying d.c. either issuing a rallying cry and there are mixed cry and yes or there are mixed on ukraine and there are mixed views to whether or not people think should lobbing a lot think we should be lobbing a lot more resources towards more money and resources towards that particular. well, whatever your it there. your views on it are there. listen to the way that boris johnson just spoke and compare that got at prime that to what we've got at prime minister's questions on either side the house today. and side of the house today. and i can't but feel i can't but can't help but feel i can't but feel what have been. feel what could have been. ladies gentlemen. maybe ladies and gentlemen. but maybe i'm you think, i'm wrong. what do you think, anyway? moving on from all anyway? well, moving on from all of now, to talk of that right now, going to talk about important story, about another important story, because last few because within the last few minutes revealed dog minutes have revealed the dog at, of a fatal attack at, the centre of a fatal attack on four year girl in on a four year old girl in milton yesterday was a family. they've named the four year they've also named the four year old stone. she was old as alice stone. she was mauled to death in the back garden on the same day an inquest that the 28 year inquest told that the 28 year old dog walker natasha johnson from multiple bites to a neck ,

from multiple bites to a neck, eight animals in her care. the list goes on writing. gentlemen, what can we actually do ? stop what can we actually do? stop these terrible tragedies from? we currently have 13 million dogsin we currently have 13 million dogs in the uk , making them all dogs in the uk, making them all most commonly owned pet , but most commonly owned pet, but that does appear to be unfortunately , whether or not unfortunately, whether or not it's just the people are reporting on it more, i don't know. but there does appear to be anyway an increase in the number of attacks. some say that dogs should assessed by dogs should be assessed by genetics of parents genetics and there of parents and tougher and they're calling for tougher restrictions laws restrictions on existing laws that dogs , that prohibit certain dogs, while others believe that no dog is inherently genetically dangerous . and frankly, they say dangerous. and frankly, they say that it's old line, isn't it, that it's old line, isn't it, that the dog is as good as the owner? joining me now is, r.e.m. is ceo of all dogs mutter. great to have you on the show. look, we do appear be seeing a worrying uptick in things like dog attacks, etc. where do you stand on debate of is the owner not the dog or is the not the owner ? we sadly are seeing

owner? we sadly are seeing increase of calls coming through for of people wanting to rehome their their dogs since just before christmas . and as you before christmas. and as you just mentioned , so many more just mentioned, so many more people seem , dogs now. people seem, dogs now. everywhere you go, you just see dogsin everywhere you go, you just see dogs in places that you wouldn't normally them. so ginetta it clearly we believe that it comes down to not just the owner or genetics, but the training and the work that put in to work with your dog . so sadly any dog with your dog. so sadly any dog can bite, whether it be a chihuahua or a bull, any the bull breeds, which you just sort of showed. however obviously the damage or the bites on a bull breed is going to be a lot more than the bite of perhaps a chihuahua. if we argue it that way. but what we're seeing are certain more breeds have become a lot more fashionable larger breeds that are going to being

passed around until we get legislation for dogs not to be sold or given away on online . we sold or given away on online. we are seeing typically most of the calls that we get from families or people that want to be home, their logical are actually the families you wouldn't expect to have them so they're typically younger mums on their own in flats wanting to rehome dogs between one and two years old, which kind of to us we are seeing dogs that were bought pre—lockdown . how a growing pre—lockdown. how a growing lockdown for lots and lots of money an owners who can't afford to take them to vets or take them to training if need and those dogs if they're not being exercised or walked which a lot of the calls we're getting aren't, you know, all these people are saying we haven't got time to walk. i've just a baby. i've got dog going to fly. i've got this dog going to fly. i've got this dog going to fly. i walk the dog. so a dog i can't walk the dog. so a dog of that energy and size is going to frustrated. is clearly to get frustrated. is clearly going be lot more damaging. going to be a lot more damaging. yeah. should there be more

checks when comes to getting out has when it came to has that when it came to lockdown i mean i knew people who bored over lockdown couldn't say saw thought, oh, say it then saw and thought, oh, i'll get a dog. i can understand the element of the human nature element of that. something that. and they wanted something to do, but a dog a life and to do, but a dog is a life and if it is mismanaged and if it's cooped in a small place, you cooped up in a small place, you know, animals have certain things. all of things. don't they know all of those a child those things? if you had a child locked a flat all day long, locked in a flat all day long, they're going go stir and. they're going to go stir and. and this the other problem, which is unfortunately, sometimes double sometimes you have the double whammy frankly, maybe whammy of a dog, frankly, maybe is too big of a certain is a bit too big of a certain breed. and not blaming breeds. but, a few unruly but, you know, and a few unruly children knocking well. children knocking about as well. and be a disaster waiting and it can be a disaster waiting to happen, can't it? should people a bit more responsible people be a bit more responsible when to actually when it comes to actually getting a dog? totally. mean, getting a dog? totally. i mean, what and we don't think what we love and we don't think it's sadly going happen. we'd it's sadly going to happen. we'd love legislation if love to some legislation if anyone would and any the free sites when they when this interview ends. you know i'm not sure if i can mention them but

there's lots of free climbing sites and just look at the dogs on offer on there. you may as just say, do you want to come and get this gone for free? quite frankly, there's no legislation. anyone pick these dogs lots of groups dogs up is even lots of groups saying sort of saying the rescue centre is but they just facebook groups who who think they're well—meaning by trying to save dogs and get dogs that are onune dogs and get dogs that are online and then offering online and then just offering them to frankly anyone them to quite frankly anyone that comes along and says yes i'll have it. there's just nothing in place to stop this happening. and inside i think this is the second case this year where we are on thursday, february three, and this is the second chop. it's the first child and the adult, unfortunately dog walker. unfortunately the dog walker. the week that got killed. the other week that got killed. i'm sorry i think this will just continue unless we start doing something now . well always we something now. well always we get every day or alarming really quite alarming. i can imagine . i quite alarming. i can imagine. i know that you do a lot of good work. old dogs matter. and i would urge anybody who is thinking getting a dog or wanting some advice as well to

get in touch with you guys. i am sure you're already inundated. so if you a to your phone so if you get a to your phone calls but there are a see calls but there you are a see there of dogs i thank there of all dogs but i thank you shedding some light on you for shedding some light on that topic. yes. okay well, some breaking news to you now. breaking news to bring you now. ladies strap ladies and gentlemen, strap yourselves source yourselves in. a union source has that up to 1200 jobs has states that up to 1200 jobs could a british could be impacted by a british steel shake up as company steel shake up as the company plans axe hundreds jobs in plans to axe hundreds jobs in plans to axe hundreds jobs in plans close its coke ovens in plans to close its coke ovens in scunthorpe and will optimise several hundred more. our business economics editor liam halligan can bring you all the latest on this and react to it live with on the money . liam, live with on the money. liam, what is the latest? it isn't great news. patrick around 25,000 people work in steel industry across the uk . of industry across the uk. of course scunthorpe in lincolnshire is a very famous steel plant and we're hearing, as you say , that british steel, as you say, that british steel, which is chinese owned, is to axe hundreds of jobs, to close its coke ovens in scunthorpe and

its coke ovens in scunthorpe and it will optimise several more jobs. it will optimise several more jobs . now this comes as jobs. now this comes as ministers were considering a multi—million pound rescue for the struggling business. just last month, chancellor jeremy hunt said they were just going to i'm sorry about this slight issue . we'll get back to you. issue. we'll get back to you. yes, there we go. so this is the breaking news, but it's here in a second. anyway halligan, a second. anyway liam halligan, our business our economics and business edhon our economics and business editor, that around editor, which is that around 1200 jobs could be impacted by british shake—up as the british steel shake—up as the company plans to axe those jobs and plans to close its coke ovens in scunthorpe. and they optimise several hundred more . optimise several hundred more. liam, as you were sorry we got rid of so about 25,000 rid of the so about 25,000 people still work in the steel industry across the uk as a major employer in areas where it's of the biggest employers . it's of the biggest employers. scunthorpe in lancashire has obviously been sensor steelmaking in the uk decades . a steelmaking in the uk decades. a giant the chinese owned company, british steel , it's axing giant the chinese owned company, british steel, it's axing up to 1200 jobs. we do know, though, patrick, that the government was

in talks to announce some kind of support package for the struggling steelmaker , not struggling steelmaker, not really struggling massive chinese behind it anyway. but big steel makers do often try an extract money from the government just last month jeremy hunt there would be some support forthcoming. this may be is awful to talk about it in this way it's very transactional these are people's livings . it these are people's livings. it may be that the steel maker is putting the hard sell on the government . maybe these job government. maybe these job losses could be reversed . if losses could be reversed. if there is support, there i've often said that's what's happening off of british. the britishvolt factory britishvolt . down producing a gigafactory . . down producing a gigafactory. that's the plan up near blythe , that's the plan up near blythe, the north—east. there's a lot of this going on the moment. industrial policy it may be that this is of that behind the scenes negotiation. yeah opportunity policy and you're right say you did bring to our attention last week. well a few times i suppose, but also in the bank of england poised to raise

interest for 10th interest rates for the 10th time interest rates for the 10th time in a tomorrow. tell me that. in a row tomorrow. tell me that. yeah. be over on gb news yeah. i'll be over on gb news breakfast show tomorrow . talking breakfast show tomorrow. talking about at noon . we are going about this at noon. we are going to hear from the bank of england, the monetary policy committee economists committee, the nine economists who the interest rates. who set the interest rates. we've nine rises in a row at the beginning of this year. interest rates were still on sort of covid lockdown levels way under % they're now 3.5% having gone up in increments. that means mortgage costs have been going up . other borrowing costs as up. other borrowing costs as well. good news for savers but not good if you've got lots of debt. i now think the bank england will raise interest rates tomorrow patrick from three and a half to 4. but i do think there won't be many interest rate rises that. i'm predicting the interest rates peak at 4.25% a couple of months later and then towards the end of this year. interest rates flatten out and inflation will start to come down quite rapidly so. this means if you if you are

enough to be a homeowner and, you've got a mortgage. i wouldn't refix your mortgage. now or wait till interest rates if that are going to go up once or more are on a firmly downward towards the end of the year. that's why if you're looking to get on the as well, potentially try to wait it out a bit to the end of the year, potentially heard from the halifax today and i know you with all respect your your your this position your your in this position we've we've it before we've we've talked it before young person trying young professional person trying to housing ladder we to get on the housing ladder. we have fall in house prices have seen a fall in house prices according to the halifax august. but only about 3% across but it's only about 3% across the country , which isn't a huge the country, which isn't a huge amount . be the country, which isn't a huge amount. be honest . and we've had amount. be honest. and we've had the worst of the interest rate rise is probably worst of the economic slowdown. and we've only seen a 3% fall in house pnces. only seen a 3% fall in house prices . i only seen a 3% fall in house prices. i think house prices will even now flatten . i think will even now flatten. i think there'll be a small correction rather than a 2008 style collapse or crash, even though i totally understand a lot of

first time buyers want to see that house price collapse, i'm afraid there just aren't enough homes. i see it happening. yeah. because of liam. thank you very much. liam halligan our economics and editor bring you the very latest on all of that breaking news initially anyway. and course, interest and then, of course, interest after that. sure you tune after that. make sure you tune in here gb news in right here on gb news tomorrow. his claim. we'll be bringing you the to it bringing you the reaction to it as it's all announced. i'm previewing it, of course, as well. now lest getting in well. now lest you be getting in touch. views. gb news uk now touch. gb views. gb news uk now shocking case the failed asylum seeker who went on to kill 88 year old lady in her old home. i hope that she had taken him too. in was asking you what on earth is this to happen? should we not be deporting immediately when it comes their asylum seeker case being failed? says being failed? jack says absolutely awful elderly lady was killed by a failed asylum seeker been here for seeker who had been here for seven rarely. why seven seven years. rarely. why seven years? system needs to be years? the system needs to be overhauled now. that failed seekers within seekers are deported within a few of their application few weeks of their application being rejected. oh, i think most people common sense would say

yes , absolutely. i will have yes, absolutely. i will have more on that case and of course more on that case and of course more on that case and of course more on the strikes as well when i back. more on the strikes as well when i back . as it turns out, i come back. as it turns out, 7 million kids at school today today. million kids at school today today . hello again. it's aidan today. hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here . the met office mcgivern here. the met office increasingly . cloudy for most of increasingly. cloudy for most of us over the next 24 hours. that cloud bringing some outbreaks of rain in places. but it will also bnng rain in places. but it will also bring milder air with it. the air coming in around an area of high pressure west southwest. the winds . and of course, this the winds. and of course, this time of year, those winds relatively mild, helped by the that a warm front is crossing the uk to bring a milder the uk going to bring a milder spell but also a lot of cloud and some of rain. the rain mainly focussed across parts of scotland outbreaks rain off scotland outbreaks rain and off through night northern through the night northern likewise few spells of rain likewise a few spells of rain into northern england. at times one or two spots couldn't be ruled out for the welshman's inns. elsewhere across inns. but elsewhere across england, in wales, dry, albeit relatively cloudy for the relatively cloudy and for the vast majority a frost free, vast majority is a frost free, although chillier conditions in the far northeast ahead of the

rain. that rain push northeast as we start of thursday. wet weather arriving shetland and orkney but it's passage across the west highlands . the north the west highlands. the north west islands in particular will see some very soggy weather over the next 36 hours. i'll across the next 36 hours. i'll across the country generally cloudy a few spots of rain across western hills and coasts but otherwise mostly and mild. this west southwesterly wind bringing temperatures of 10 to 13 celsius widely up and down the country but it does stay wet across scotland especially later thursday overnight eventually the rain turns more showery and some clearer conditions into the far north, but also be a few light of rain pushing into western parts of england, wales, northern another cloudy night across the board and as a result frost free as we start off friday. in fact, it's ready mild first thing friday 9 to 10 celsius in places but it's also grey and lowest cloud will be over northern and western hills with further outbreaks rain crossing scotland not as heavy

or as persistent on friday and into the weekend, another spell of rain for the far north. but eventually that clears to sunniest , albeit with chillier sunniest, albeit with chillier conditions

. sunday you're with me. patrick christys on gb news. and coming up as a strikeouts out there, the strike action in a decade is half a million workers walk out costing our economy billions. it could be this is even costing lives. you've got seven trade unions on picket lines , teachers, civil picket lines, teachers, civil servants, trains buses, security staff to name, but a few . and staff to name, but a few. and it's not ending any time. same because they all want more money and.the because they all want more money and. the government is saying,

well, haven't any money. well, we haven't got any money. i asking the questions. i will be asking the questions. frankly, broadcasters are frankly, many broadcasters are too to ask to mp or to too afraid to ask to mp or to union leaders. and of course , union leaders. and of course, striking workers as well . more striking workers as well. more deadly asylum seeker , a failed deadly asylum seeker, a failed iranian asylum who should have been removed from the uk years ago is being sentenced today , ago is being sentenced today, brutally killing an elderly who had given him a how many more innocent people to die before something is done about this nonsense? i'm a security editor. we'll have the very latest on could the government soon be coming to inspect your toilet ? coming to inspect your toilet? you heard more details on that . you heard more details on that. 6:00. get in touch. gb views of gbnews.uk. how do we end these strikes give me solutions. no problems, people. how do we end these strikes? come on, solve it for us. i'm sick of it and should fail asylum be deported immediately. two big questions for you. i to hear from you on for you. ito hear from you on both gb views and gbnews.uk. but right now, as you had lousy polling . do and good evening to

polling. do and good evening to you. well, as you've been heanng you. well, as you've been hearing on gb news throughout today, hundreds of thousands of workers are taking part in walkout . wednesday is the walkout. wednesday is the biggest day of industrial action in the uk for than a decade. up to half million workers across seven trade unions are all striking over pay jobs and teachers are part of the action along with border officers and bus and train drivers which has caused widespread travel disruption . the education disruption. the education secretary, gillian says they'll continue constructive talks with , unions. they didn't break down, but they basically said very clearly, look, we can't do anything to stop this strike. this is getting your head the 1st of february. but we do have 28 days between this and, the next strike. so we will continue discussions. but what do discussions. but what can't do is inflation and inflation is offer inflation and inflation busting pay rises because we're really focussed on getting inflation down and halving the inflation down and halving the inflation that everybody's we all feel better and have more

money in our pockets . but kevin money in our pockets. but kevin , the general secretary of the national education union, says the government needs to find the money they never thought we'd reach these . they weren't reach these. they weren't planning on us reaching them. and since we've reached the thresholds 40,000, more people have joined the union as well. it does show there's a huge strength feeling the strength feeling in the profession that government must act and put right. i think gillian keegan is hoping that the strike won't effective and there won't be any further action, there be action, that there could be further . she needs to do action, that there could be further. she needs to do a deal that that doesn't happen . well, that that doesn't happen. well, amidst the ongoing strikes the trades union congress has handed a petition to downing street opposing the government's plans for a new level of minimum service during times of strikes . the petition against the so called strikes bill was by more than 200,000 members of the public. than 200,000 members of the pubuc.the than 200,000 members of the public. the government says will continue to hold talks with . the continue to hold talks with. the unions but the tuc general secretary, paul novak, says he hopes the ongoing strikes will

send strong message to the government about the anger the pubucis government about the anger the public is also feeling they're trying push through what is a particularly spiteful piece of legislation . now, we've had legislation. now, we've had hundreds of thousands of public sector workers take strike action quite often for the first time ever. instead of time ever. and instead of listening concerns of listening to the concerns of those or responding those workers or responding to the the government has the concerns the government has just tried to introduce legislation more legislation to make more difficult to take that difficult for them to take that strike i think strike action. so i think government more government should more responsible talk to their responsible should talk to their workforce, talk unions workforce, should talk to unions and come to the table. public sector pay. may one of the comments today, the prime minister's busy denying minister's been busy denying being weak out being too weak to root out sleaze from government. sir keir starmer the claim during pmqs citing a string of recent allegations that he said rishi sunak must have known about the hmrc investigation into nadhim zahawi zahawi at the time he appointed him party chair. he also accused mr. sunak of forcing people work for a bully . deputy prime minister was

facing 24 separate allegations bullying according recent reports, some the complainants were physically sick. one says they were left suicidal . how they were left suicidal. how would you feel if one of his friends or relatives was being forced to work for a bully simply because the man at the top was weak to do anything about. top was weak to do anything about . will rishi sunak respond about. will rishi sunak respond by saying sir keir starmer had supported the spread of hate . he supported the spread of hate. he called it while jeremy corbyn was labour leader when . i was was labour leader when. i was made aware a formal complaint. i instructed a leading independent casey to conduct investigation because i take when these things happen. because i take when these things happen . but what did he say at happen. but what did he say at the weekend he said at the weekend that hate had been allowed to spread unchallenged in the labour party under his he was speaking as if he wasn't even but he would sitting right next to him supporting him for

four long years . house prices four long years. house prices now and they've fallen for the fifth month in a row down 0.6% on december. the nationwide house price index shows the average home now costs just over £258,000. annual price growth slowed to point 1% in january, and that comes the bank of england is poised to raise interest rates for the 10th consecutive time . a ceo of consecutive time. a ceo of generation home will rise told gb news what trends we're seeing . yesterday, the bank of england also disclosed that the number of mortgages was at 35,000 in december. so if you look at where were we five months ago, that number down for about 65 to 70000. and then if you break out remortgaging from purchase yes, we mortgages are doing a lot better the purchase numbers better so the purchase numbers are considering more than are down considering more than 50% now in the united states . 50% now in the united states. fbi is searching president joe biden's beach house in delaware as part of an ongoing

investigation into his handling of classified documents. his lawyer says , the operation was lawyer says, the operation was carried out with the consent . carried out with the consent. biden's legal team , the fbi biden's legal team, the fbi searched one of biden's homes in delaware last month after his team found classified documents there . his former private office there. his former private office was also searched in november. you up to date on mornings as it happens. back now to patrick . happens. back now to patrick. russell full through this final houn russell full through this final hour, ladies and gentlemen of thousands of workers have walked today on what is the biggest day of strike action the uk has seen for decade is about half million of them. apparently teachers england wales, represented england and wales, represented by the education have by the education union, have out. a poll by the association of school and college leaders earlier suggested the majority of schools have been affected by

today's walkouts but of course it's not just school teachers university have also joined train drivers civil servants bus drivers and security guards with an estimated half a million workers walking out and increasingly bitter disputes over pay , jobs and conditions over pay, jobs and conditions are reports ellie costello has been at a teachers rally in london. we're going to get stopped . but then afterwards as stopped. but then afterwards as well, i'm going to be speaking to someone who is a big trade unionist. so that should be interesting. but take interesting. but let's take ali's while teachers ali's package while the teachers here classroom here are swapping the classroom for the pavement today, thousands them have turned out in a over pay and conditions. they're heading to western star to have their voices . teaching to have their voices. teaching has never been easy, but now it's kind of coming to point. well well, like i need a bit of respect for the things. i'm not a master , you know, i don't do a master, you know, i don't do this, you know, to be a master. i do it because i love the job. but it's coming to a point where

i'm not sure how much i can love it for the lack monetary respect. so i suppose i'll surprised by the turn out say how many people have come to have their voices? no, absolutely not. keep them mad like that. so like they've come out in mass numbers to say like this is what we need and this is why we're on has been a long time coming, had lots of discussions about it in our unions before we even got to this stage. so all the difficult thinking was done ages ago really is now the time time . really is now the time time. i mean, just wonderful, wonderful profession to be in. but we need to be supported by an opinion coming in 20 nation because it's broken the moment. i mean this is one of our raps

running a picket line this morning and sure, she would absolutely confirm that the pubuc absolutely confirm that the public support on picket has been absolutely amazing . you been absolutely amazing. you know, parents, just the general public. know, parents, just the general pubuc.so know, parents, just the general public. so yeah, well, it's thought that the teachers strike will be the most disruptive strike action that we've seen this winter . the any signs that this winter. the any signs that the hundreds 50,000 members of staff will be walking out in england wales that will affect thousands of schools across country and it go to schools don't pick up for the next weeks we could see another six days of teachers walking out to the classroom and then that was an advert for home schooling if even advert for home schooling if ever. i've seen where a teacher with blue hair bolted or knows a child draped in rainbow coloured flag and a union rep didn't to appear on camera. but there you go. reporter olivia go. political reporter olivia ali downing for us ali is in downing street for us now. olivia thank you very much. yes, widespread not just the teachers. it's walkout wednesday, isn't it? what is the government to do? it yes,

government going to do? it yes, it's wednesday and an hour ago . it's wednesday and an hour ago. a couple of hours ago, as we heard in the bulletins there were a group of union representatives coming to deliver a petition to downing street . and that petition is street. and that petition is essentially telling the prime minister to drop his service legislation, which now made its way through the commons , is way through the commons, is going into the lords. way through the commons, is going into the lords . now, the going into the lords. now, the tuc say that a unified strike action, coordinated strike action, coordinated strike action is justified because of legislation. and is this sort of coordinated action which the government has been absolutely dreading ? the ministers were dreading? the ministers were planning to do is to negotiate with different unions and reach different depending in part least on public sympathy . so we least on public sympathy. so we know that sympathy for teachers is very high, but sympathy for train is pretty low and. it was thought that the prime minister could agree one deal with aslef train drivers union which might not be as generous as the deal that would be reached with the teachers union. but when we see

the sort of coordinated strike making separate deals gets harder, which puts the government in a very tricky position because as we heard from gillian keegan the last they these inflation pay they want is these inflation pay rises across the board . that rises across the board. that would mean that inflation would spiral out of control . so the spiral out of control. so the government argues and that is looking more and more like the sort of deal which they they might have to strike in the end just put it in perspective civil servants 100,000 civil servants walked out today and the government says that agreeing to the deal that civil servants are asking for a 10% pay rise would to a £26 billion bill for the government now that's the size of the entire levelling up fund that was announced last year. of the entire levelling up fund that was announced last year . so that was announced last year. so the government is in a very, very tricky situation. and let's not forget today , rishi sunak's, not forget today, rishi sunak's, 100th day in office, the spotlight is very on him and the onusis spotlight is very on him and the onus is on him to find a way out of these strikes. yeah, absolutely the question of cost, isn't it realistically , the

isn't it realistically, the government is now saying well it would around 28 billion would cost around 28 billion quid. you reporting , quid. as you were reporting, that you would output a household rather a lot of money. and i think when people see those whether not they those terms, whether or not they would to back whopping those terms, whether or not they woulcbig to back whopping those terms, whether or not they woulcbig pay, to back whopping those terms, whether or not they woulcbig pay, especiallynhopping those terms, whether or not they woulcbig pay, especially in)pping great big pay, especially in lots of public sector pension pots as olivia, i'll leave pots as well. olivia, i'll leave it thank you much. it there. thank you very much. olivia political olivia utley, our political reporter downing street reporter outside downing street for london reporter lisa for us, our london reporter lisa hartl joins us now and has been on the train drivers strikes understand lisa thank very, very much. what's the latest where you that when it comes to train drivers that are off. well we're walking out so i've been talking to and the impact that they feeling with everything else going against businesses at the moment the impact that the strikes are having and in particular businesses i've been talking to around central london . train strikes they're . it's the train strikes they're actually biggest actually having the biggest impacts because their impacts on them because their staff can't come in to work. footfall drops dramatically and it's difficult for them to plan ahead know what's coming up. ahead and know what's coming up. and course, when there's

and of course, when there's going be more industrial going to be more industrial action taking i spoke action taking place. so i spoke to the federation of the small sorry, the small world federation of small businesses earlier. this what they had earlier. and this what they had to say. so we the evidence now that around 15 to 20% of small businesses now say they've been affected by the strikes. this was primarily december when was primarily in december when you combination roll you had the combination of roll strikes big small strikes a really big for small businesses train businesses and also train strikes so now they're looking at spring going if it's if at their spring going if it's if it's 20% of small businesses that's a roughly about 800 900,000 small businesses affected . so that is quite affected. so that is quite a difficulty of getting their customers or getting their or just generally trading , i think just generally trading, i think at the start of this with the individual industrial disputes , individual industrial disputes, i think people have sympathy with those who are withdrawing their labour i mean, everyone should have the right to withdraw labour. that's absolutely baked. however, now that now that these strikes have been now that these strikes have been now that is growing, now that disruption is growing, now that disruption is growing, now that there days like today with multiple different sectors all strike at i think that sympathy is beginning wane . i spoke to

is beginning wane. i spoke to some of the local businesses around london and asked them what they thought of the strike. some were supportive and understood why the were understood why the people were striking , but others said at striking, but others said at a time when it's difficult for so many people, couldn't give many people, they couldn't give sympathy or support. at the moment strikes . yes, moment for these strikes. yes, indeed. right. thank you indeed. all right. thank you very, very much, lisa. lisa gb is london reporter on the impacts of businesses predominantly from the train driver strike. i'm joined now by gerry hicks who is a trade unionist in bristol i believe. gerry, thank you very much. how are you. i'm well patrick. can you. yes, i'm good . good. are you. i'm well patrick. can you. yes, i'm good. good. i'm pleased you're not striking today. it means i can actually get to talk to you. it's fantastic. i want to focus a little bit on the teachers because i think it's the most emotive probably for a lot of our viewers and listeners, especially those with kids from where sitting. it's where i'm sitting. i think it's a the are going on a bit cheeky. the are going on strike salary around 42 strike average salary around 42 grand a pension 23.6% paid into

their pension the average in the private sector is 3. why don't they forego of their pension payments and have more of a salary up front and then go about teaching the kids ? well, i about teaching the kids? well, i don't i don't accept they figure of don't i don't accept they figure 0 f £42,000. my don't i don't accept they figure of £42,000. my daughter in law a teacher she had a lesson . she teacher she had a lesson. she walked away from education. that's the that's the problem here is there's a there's a crisis of retention and recruitment . people are walking recruitment. people are walking away. they wouldn't walking away if the monies were generous, as you were suggesting . i'm sorry, you were suggesting. i'm sorry, but that's the figure from the centre. you don't either. it doesn't matter with respect, jerry whether or not you recognise that as the figure that the figure, the centre for policy studies has out and said this is the figure, the research suggests the figure suggests that that is the figure and look just talking to research did have a earlier research we did have a earlier on a civil servant who was on from a civil servant who was oh people in the civil service are going to foodbanks and hear

are going to foodbanks and hear a lot about teachers to foodbanks, nurses going to foodbanks, nurses going to foodbank . what are the actual foodbank. what are the actual figures on the number of public sector workers going to foodbanks ? well, i've not got foodbanks? well, i've not got the absolute figures you need to the absolute figures you need to the people in those industries they would know only too well . they would know only too well. but what i know is teachers assistants are on pole to raise money. they're being asked to carry out teachers job, as you know. gillian keegan to minister is on £12,000 a month. that's year salary for a teaching assistant . year salary for a teaching assistant. i'd year salary for a teaching assistant . i'd rather have 12 assistant. i'd rather have 12 teaching assistants in one. gillian keegan salary, but they could have to be 25% or leave an education. teachers, after three years of qualify , 33% after five years of qualify, 33% after five years. they're not doing because of all those riches bestowed on them like saying no, no, saying is rich is now great parents

mumsnet poll our 66% said they support it. the teachers strike and that means 33% don't support keegan in her condemnation it well it's interesting that you say that actually because i had a representative from mumsnet saying the exact opposite earlier on a different channel but enough. now i'm but that is fair enough. now i'm not certainly that not saying certainly that they've riches they've got bestowed in riches what is i think what i am saying is i think a lot of people find it quite hard to understand somebody gets to understand somebody who gets 12 or 13 weeks holiday a the six best in the world. our teachers by the way, the six baths in the world, 23 and a half% pension contribution as . well, it is contribution as. well, it is actually not dire straits. so a lot of people are talking about is it worth parents having to suffer and their kids having to suffer and their kids having to suffer ? people missing hospital suffer? people missing hospital appointments, if i just want to play appointments, if i just want to play you a little clip is a net close to single parents the freelance journalist she found out about the strikes a few days ago she's not been able to get

childcare and she missed hospital appointments. take a listen obviously, listen to this. obviously, it throws for throws a spanner. the works for single parents, particularly myself, who child who have myself, who has a child who have a so it's very a disability. so it's very difficult getting childcare . him difficult getting childcare. him and i also had a hospital appointment today , which i appointment today, which i wasn't allowed to bring a child to which is now being cancelled , which i'm sure with the nhs and everything going on will be and everything going on will be a long until get back to a long time until i get back to appointments . a long time until i get back to appointments. think appointments. i think it's a knock on effect in all areas and who knows reputation being who knows my reputation being able to the appointment able to get to the appointment with strikes. well yeah, with the bus strikes. well yeah, i'm bad . so they're i'm pretty bad. so they're saying they want more money. the people in the public sector, the government has come out and said in order to do so it would us £28 billion. we haven't got that money and the average taxpayer doesn't have that money. what's your where your solution, gerri? where do we find this money? okay well, then really raised three then you've really raised three questions along with the clip. you just played. i have sympathy . anyone who's struggling to childcare, but schools are childcare, but schools are

childcare facilities and schools are there . education, primary are there. education, primary school classes are the highest in europe secondary school classes . sizes are the highest classes. sizes are the highest since records began. when it comes when it comes to though bankers bonuses just been allowed to let rip. there used to be a thing talked about it's not so much now it should be financial transactions . that's financial transactions. that's o.1% financial transactions. that's 0.1% tax on every transaction it takes place the stock market it would raise tens of billions. 1.5% levy on the wealthy of more tha n £5 million would rais e £60 than £5 million would raise £60 billion. so we have it. yeah, but this the point but this is a front in is so rich we spend the money on space fantasy . no money on space fantasy. no i guess all of this right but the problem is gerri we've kind of an earth issue here, haven't we, which is the solution is basically a radical form socialism, is it not, in your

view? no. there's well, i'm a socialist so i might agree with socialism, but there's1 million socialism, but there's 1 million job vacancies the uk it coincides mainly since brexit. there's 1 coincides mainly since brexit. there's1 million fewer there's 1 million fewer europeans that's1 million jobs europeans that's 1 million jobs they should be paying 1 million taxes. that would be tens, hundreds , millions of pounds in hundreds, millions of pounds in tax , 1 million jobs vacancies . tax, 1 million jobs vacancies. think about it, patrick. hundreds job vacancies in nhs they should be filled in, they should be working, paying tax and just paying money on the high street. by the way, i was in i was in bristol today and the shopping centre was very full, very full because the kids were so shopping . and it's not were so shopping. and it's not just because we've been pressed for time. gerry i'm going to off to just write back in a bit because i ask you what you thought the solution was and it did appear radical

did appear to be radical socialism. now we've ended up on did appear to be radical s(highsm. now we've ended up on did appear to be radical s(high streetyw we've ended up on did appear to be radical s(high street in we've ended up on did appear to be radical s(high street in bristol.nded up on did appear to be radical s(high street in bristol. so�*d up on a high street in bristol. so what is the solution? is it silly you're being honest silly if you're being honest talks heck of the talks living heck out of the rich? if you do, they'll rich? because if you do, they'll leave. and then we've got no one to if you think the living to tax. if you think the living heckis to tax. if you think the living heck is 1.5, you think the heck is 1.5, if you think the living they're already living heck they're already paying living heck they're already paying about this financial transaction and there are transaction tax and there are there's more billion now, patrick, that's the truth than ever before . the gap between ever before. the gap between rich and poor is greater than even rich and poor is greater than ever. oh, it's all about taxing the living daylights out of them just shoulder. some of the burden is walk out wednesday . a burden is walk out wednesday. a half a million, not. they can't necessarily afford it, but they're desperate to have their voices heard along with a washed out government who just seems to blame everybody else apart from themselves . okay, look, gerry, themselves. okay, look, gerry, thank you very . i do always thank you very. i do always enjoy our back and forth . right? enjoy our back and forth. right? and it's always actually quite nice to hear bristol accents , if nice to hear bristol accents, if i do quite vehemently disagree a lot of what comes out of your mouth. but thank you very, jerry jerry there a trade unionist.

now you got that says but look for me does always seem to pretty much dissent straight for me does always seem to prettyit'chh dissent straight for me does always seem to prettyit'chh

yeah, patrick christys here on gb news. and gentlemen, as you can see, the breaking news ticker has just got on the screen because it's something we found out during that last advert break here. here's tell us more not why our us more is not why our is security. what's going on. security. so what's going on. this of another this is reports of another refugee and asylum seeker from

eritrea who has just been convicted sent to a mental health institute shooting for an penod health institute shooting for an period for stopping death. a 60 year old man in oxford circus in central london on the 1st of july last year. this young man teddy fontaine, he goes had travelled from swansea he to carry out this attack no motivation for he was assessed a psychiatrist as being mentally ill mentally unfit and that's he's been sent to a psychiatric unit for an indefinite period . unit for an indefinite period. but his victim stephen dempsey had been in oxford circus from leon unsuspecting course didn't realise there was no arguments or anything. he was stopped at random . there was dramatic random. there was dramatic images . the time passers by images. the time passers by captured the mobile phones of this eritrean being wrestled to

the ground, concerned that it might have been a terrorist attack at that point, but that's been ruled . he was told, been ruled. he was told, a refugee who travelled from swansea where he was living at that time to london. no motivation given for the attack, but very worrying . yes indeed but very worrying. yes indeed will be returning to that, no doubt. but of it comes on the same day as another big story that you're bringing us in. tragically, some similarities it yeah this was an iranian asylum seeker who had been turned through his appeals to remain here as an asylum seeker and had not been removed from the this individual shahin darvish now range bond went on then to an 88 year old woman . brenda blaney , year old woman. brenda blaney, who had taken him in and given him food and shelter, had opened up bedroom to him, had given the

use of a car. she in north yorkshire near scarborough in the village there and she'd befriended this man in leeds. and over a period of years they'd grown closer to a grandmother, a grandson type relationship. it was described in court and the house there . in court and the house there. she decided to allow him to lodge with her. but last year he in march, last he had a psychotic episode apparently. and murdered or killed her, i should say, stabbed her death and strangled her in that home. now, some serious questions, of course , for home office course, for home office officials as to why individual was not removed from the uk having been turned down for asylum in 2017 to come here in 2005. patrick and his permission to remain in the uk had run out in 2015. he then applied for

asylum that avenue for appeal was exhausted two years later but we're now told from officials that there was an attempt challenge . again, attempt challenge. again, another appeal against that refusal to grant him asylum in 2020. so it just shows you this merry go round of appeals, rejection , more appeals as the rejection, more appeals as the lawyers get to grips with these things and, you know, try lots of different avenues . yeah. to of different avenues. yeah. to ensure that an individual remains in this country and this is where we're at, isn't it, where it's absolutely vital , where it's absolutely vital, important that we have due process and that we have a legal system and that have a rule system and that we have a rule of and all of stuff, of law and all of this stuff, but cost when it comes to the series of different rejections that somebody can through that somebody can go through presumably as well in some cases the of that individual the series of that individual will build up to a nation was to being repeatedly rejected from being repeatedly rejected from being allowed to live here and

fact that is clearly , as is fact that is clearly, as is evidenced in numerous different cases that we're speaking about here, putting at risk. yeah mean two absolutely be fair on this of course people from this country who are born and brought in this country go on and. some of them commit crimes some very serious crimes. the of them commit crimes some very serious crimes . the difference serious crimes. the difference here is that you have a clear, demonstrable case where an individual should not have been individual should not have been in this country having been rejected on whatever grounds , rejected on whatever grounds, remain here through the asylum system of whatever other immigration system they were trying to remain in the uk for and they should have been removed years before . they've removed years before. they've then gone on to commit a very offence and that's a concern once a sweet old woman, 88 year old who had in the very you the very best of intentions thrown our whole war open to this

asylum seeker is killed. it is utterly tragic. there questions and it goes and points to the very thing ministers openly admit which is that we have a broken asylum system. yeah indeed mark look thank you very much in a way for bringing us might want the home security editor look we started the day with that particular case as mark was alluding to, of the failed iranian seeker who was told he's going to have to spend a heck a long time indefinitely in a mental as a result of killing the 88 year old woman. brutal and savagely, by the way , who would take him into her own and we were in the own home and when we were in the last break to last advert break before we to mark there, got that latest mark there, we got that latest breaking another breaking news. another individual mental problems individual with mental problems as will spend another as well will spend another amount time mental amount of time in a mental hospital a chap in hospital stabbing a chap in london and a lot of you in the inbox right now gbviews@gbnews.uk and i'm going to go to inbox very to go to your inbox very shortly, by the way, and your emails and views on this. i've been you what you think

been asking you what you think about length time it about the length of time it takes deport someone when takes to deport someone when they their asylum claim they have had their asylum claim failed. to that very failed. will go to that very shortly. be it when we shortly. we'll be it when we come back. so make sure you stay tuned because the other side of the going to to the news, we're going to get to your views are going to your views and we are going to be asking the very serious question to our debates to debate to whether not debate panel as to whether not you that is you think now that it is a threat to national secure, you're not coming away from . you're not coming away from. patrick's cue the headlines this houn patrick's cue the headlines this hour. hundreds thousands of workers have been taking in so—called walkout wednesday today. it's uk's biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade. industrial action in more than a decade . up to half a million decade. up to half a million people across seven trade unions went on strike over pay jobs conditions. teachers part in the action along with border officials bus and drivers as well which caused some travel disruption . it's been confirmed

disruption. it's been confirmed that the four year old girl alice stones died in a dog attack in keynes was killed by a family pet. the thames police describing it as a tragic and isolated incident . no arrests isolated incident. no arrests have been made and. superintendent mark talbot says then they're working to establish the breed of the dog. we are currently believe that this was a tragic, isolated incident and there is no threat . the wider community. accordingly, no arrests have been made at this time. accordingly, no arrests have been made at this time . i can been made at this time. i can confirm that the dog was a family pet and was put down by police. police at the scene yesterday evening and part of the investigation is to establish the breed of that dog while our investigation takes place there will be more officers in the area over the coming days . officers in the area over the coming days. thank you very . officers in the area over the coming days. thank you very. in the last hour, if you've been gb news, you'll have seen boris johnson urging western leaders to further their support for ukraine, speaking in washington.

he senior politicians that president volodymyr zelenskyy should be given all the equipment he needs to win war against russia. he's asked them to supply fighter jets , which to supply fighter jets, which downing street has so far ruled out too. god bless america for having the guts and the wisdom help. and i implore you now to follow the logic of what are all doing and give ukrainians the tools to finish the job. give them the fire, artillery systems, give them the tanks, give them the planes, because they have plan. they know what they have plan. they know what they need to do. and my god, they need to do. and my god, they should. they the skill and they should. they the skill and the bravery to do it. speaking in washing soon you're up to date on tv online on dab plus radio with gb news. we're back in just a moment.

back. now back to that failed asylum seeker who should have been removed the uk years ago. he'll be sent to a mental hospital indefinitely after killing an elderly woman had given him a home. 34 year old shaheen darwish narendra bowen, who suffers paranoid schizophrenia, has been sentenced at leeds crown court this afternoon. lots of have been getting in touch with your thoughts on this. in fact, in the last few minutes news broke as well. that's another asylum seeker stabbed an individual to death in london. he has been sent a mental institution as sent to a mental institution as a hospital, i should say. a mental hospital, i should say. jockeys there seems be jockeys there seems to be a growing number of cases of people killed by failed seekers recently. i think the people need start suing need to start suing the government for these murders. they causing . this is they are causing. this is jockeys of course by jockeys you of course by negligence and protracted processing . now for what processing. now look for what it's this particular it's worth in this particular case government and home case the government and the home office, etc. say that they admit it's asylum and it's a broken asylum system and they do everything they they want to do everything they can try to rectify it. but it

can to try to rectify it. but it doesn't take a genius to work out, does it? if somebody spends five or in one of the cases, has seven years being told repeatedly no now going to repeatedly that no now going to be given leave to remain. no. not asylum. they not going be given asylum. they actually resentments can build up of course just the simple up or of course just the simple fact the matter do we fact of the matter is, do we necessarily people coming necessarily need people coming over who actually do have over here who actually do have serious, serious mental disorders? your views, of course , gb dot but increasing , our gb news dot but increasing numbers in my inbox anyway of people saying yes, actually it isfime people saying yes, actually it is time to stop thinking how can we sue people as a result of all of this? martin says, i truly believe, due to this country's shambolic broken asylum shambolic and broken asylum system liberals, system run by liberals, mountains again proper mountains again where proper checks and balances are not in place, innocent people will suffer these tragic , preventable suffer these tragic, preventable events will become a more regular occurrence now is important to say that these are massive , massively in a minority massive, massively in a minority when it comes to the cases . they when it comes to the cases. they are cases nonetheless, and i. martin you hit the nail on the head that when you these tragic

and preventable events will become a more regular occurrence. they are preventable, aren't they? it cannot be right and a functioning society that we have a merry go round of legal on top of legal processes on of a legal process that results in people like an 88 year old woman being battered to death in her own home. amy says the government has blood on his. thoughts go out to the elderly lady who took this horrible man into her home. i just can't help but feel as this is a security threat. if we do not know in many cases exactly where certain people are from , exactly what their from, exactly what their situation or indeed their age. for example . how on earth can we for example. how on earth can we be sure we are protecting citizens who are already well—meaning citizens like ? the well—meaning citizens like? the tragic case of the 88 year old lady who took this chap in to her own home. so in of that, our failings in the asylum, a threat to all communities. joining me now is refugee and asylum rights director at amnesty international, uk steve elder simmons and journalist former

mep patrick o'flynn . thank you mep patrick o'flynn. thank you very, very much, patrick. i will with you. is our asylum set up a threat to safety and national security ? well, yes. the security? well, yes. the obviously ed's and, you know, evenin obviously ed's and, you know, even in the last few weeks , we even in the last few weeks, we are seeing more cases come through of failed asylum seekers or asylum seekers stuck in the system , guilty of some very system, guilty of some very serious crimes, including and rapes and it should not come as a surprise , by the way, that if a surprise, by the way, that if we're taking in 90% of our asylum seekers , young men, that asylum seekers, young men, that you are going to get an associated crime aspect to that because in general terms, young men by far the volume the volume the high volume of crime in society generally , if you will, society generally, if you will, bringing in further to that young from countries and cultures that have not accepted for instance emancipation or ,

for instance emancipation or, gay rights or have islamist issues then that can feed through into other types of very serious crime as well. and the home office really keep comprehensive statistics on this as regards asylum seekers. but we do know, for instance , the we do know, for instance, the number of foreign national in our prison system has almost doubled in the last 20 years where it was about one in 12, one in 13 offenders. it's now more one in eight. so that does tell you when it's a very serious wave of criminality going . steve valdes from amnesty going. steve valdes from amnesty international, uk i'll bring you in. i think a lot of people rightly concerned that really strictly we have no idea how people are currently in this country who are failed asylum seekers, potential with mental health problems. it could have attendances. that's a concern concern . well you and i don't concern. well you and i don't know the number of people in the country who are refused asylum . country who are refused asylum. the home office ought to be because, of course , people

because, of course, people who've sought asylum , unlike who've sought asylum, unlike perhaps other people , are people perhaps other people, are people who have been touch and engaged with the home office and the authorities . so they are known authorities. so they are known andindeed authorities. so they are known and indeed through the asylum , and indeed through the asylum, they're generally required to be accommodated in certain places. they've completely or very much considered chained and confined and times because they are not permitted work and not permitted to support themselves even after there controlled by the home office in terms of where they are living. so i you were right to point earlier that these a small number of cases and not representative of everybody in the system . is it true that less the system. is it true that less . well the system is managed the less effective it is that that is certainly not the safest thing for society generally of . thing for society generally of. course that's true but answer is

not to smear people seeking asylum. it's to run an official in effect system. well, exactly and i'll say. well, before i thought about it, patrick i'll just stick with you on this. and steve, lot of people will say we've got this massive backlog now. we don't want any more cases. obvious to cases. the obvious solution to this will be to cut back on number of people who are coming over so can our over right. so we can get our own in order. stay well. own house in order. stay well. i think we have to be more realistic that. firstly, we realistic than that. firstly, we ought reason ought recognise that the reason have such huge backlogs is not because of the numbers . people because of the numbers. people who've arrived and claims well, it's because of office . i know it's because of office. i know we've talked about this before , we've talked about this before, but it's fact that home but it's the fact that home office has the home secretary and, the predecessor of her, decided to stop processing claims . but it's decided to stop processing claims. but it's also has decided to stop processing claims . but it's also has also claims. but it's also has also said you've got to deal with record numbers of people coming . to be fair, it is both of those things. i do say, look, steve, i'll go back to you. patrick, i just want you to

respond to what steve has said the will on my view . i think now the will on my view. i think now the will on my view. i think now the secretary's is , we the home secretary's view is, we have to get away from the idea of anyone who to pick up and arrives britain illegally being able lodge a claim for asylum we should do offshore processing the prime minister is committed. i don't quite how he's going to implement it but he's committed to ensuring if you arrive here illegally can't claim asylum and you can't stay that has to be right and on the other hand should be deciding via perhaps a un agency who most merits asylum in our country up to a certain cap perhaps 20,000 a year. and we should be taking from un refugee and places contiguous to war zones and we should be making that there's a fair representation of women and children the most needy people, rather than whoever been able to play rather than whoever been able to play the system and win in this kind of bizarre hunger games system. we have at the moment

andifs system. we have at the moment and it's time to get a boat across the channel will get picked up and come to our shores and never leave now it's not surprising that that cohort seems to include a number of extremely ruthless men steve throw it back over to you on this the government's on this anyway part of it is that had we been allowed to put people on flights to rwanda by the way i by the state borders where there is if we have been allowed to people on a flight to rwanda then this chap probably wouldn't have been how they can have been here. how they can that don't but that is that i don't know but that is their and it ties into if their line and it ties into if we were more efficient at deporting this deporting people then this wouldn't what it wouldn't have happened. what it said. it's a bit bizarre for government if that's what they would to think that would suggest just to think that the issue of the now enormous of people in our system which i completely agree with is appalling and unhelpful to everybody would be solved by some to expel a few people probably to rwanda. you know is

amnesty about that anyway. yeah this may affect this this the uk should do what generally it expects other countries to do andindeed expects other countries to do and indeed they do in far greater number. it keeps saying that france should take its responsibility . so amnesty responsibility. so amnesty agrees with that . france should agrees with that. france should deal people who make their asylum claims in france, as should italy . i should lebanon. should italy. i should lebanon. i should all countries around the world as should we and the idea that somehow we will able to pass on all of our still relatively responsibilities compared to those countries. i've mentioned and many others to other places, is the birds i get the i get that what you're saying patrick word on this one of my serious worries is that if we keep seeing cases like this, i mean, we rattled off four or five. that just sprung to mind, frankly, of failed asylum seekers. you've pretty heinous crimes, very heinous crimes in

this country that keeps happening then actually the potential for massive, extreme far right situations to take place could happen. i mean, is it not in everyone's interest to get to grips this and sort out the public safety element? yes i believe it is because you whether we're the worst in europe , not and you know, we're europe, not and you know, we're not so far in the statistics and we're an island so you wouldn't expect us to be the overall profile of asylum volume is completely unsustainable . completely unsustainable. they're going up very fast in almost every single country and we've from the small boats the imo is leaping ahead by tens of thousands year. and we know by the way there was a leak to the sun newspaper a couple of weeks ago that around a thousand of the people who've come in on boats are known by our agencies to have serious criminal records . you know, this is putting the british public at risk. we have liverpool bomber, we have the redding homophobic serial killer. we failed asylum

seekers, we've had rapists, we've had the murder down in bournemouth . you know, these bournemouth. you know, these things are anecdotal , as bournemouth. you know, these things are anecdotal, as i bournemouth. you know, these things are anecdotal , as i say, things are anecdotal, as i say, the statistics are more our national prisons point to it all going the wrong way just very quickly. very quickly, steve. sorry aware i gave patrick the first word. so it is only fair. i'll give you the last word. i can see you're edgy now, but we are a bit pressed for time. steve on just round itself, let's just have our asylum system deal with people efficiently and effectively and. remember if we make too remember that if we make too frightening for people to enter the system will have bigger because people will go ground. that won't be good them and it won't be good for. that won't be good them and it won't be good for . anybody else? won't be good for. anybody else? both of we thank you very, very much, steve. all decisions. steve amnesty international, uk on journalists and former mep patrick fled right the government is to review regulation on new builds in order to combat toilets. got a shift in tone ladies and gentlemen leaky toilets . the new gentlemen leaky toilets. the new five year green plans the current rules say a loss of up

to 400 litres a day from faulty flushes . now to 400 litres a day from faulty flushes. now i'm to 400 litres a day from faulty flushes . now i'm down to russell flushes. now i'm down to russell traders that's because as ever. i've always managed to run time catastrophically, but with me now is andrew montfort, deputy director of net zero watch and reading between the lines on this. andrew, thank you very. am i going to get a knock on the door one day from some government inspector? he's going to at my bog . it to come and look at my bog. it wouldn't surprise me. it's very hard to tell whether this is the government virtue signalling or whether it is actually serious the one about leaking toilets. seems me to be. yeah a bit of trivia. you there is an issue with water shortages in the south of england. it's a it's a it's a problem that would be solved by building a few more up up north where i live we've got loads of rain and it's just not an issue at all. well gone . the an issue at all. well gone. the difference is that we wouldn't necessarily have a problem with all this wastage. if it wasn't water companies who were wasting it all. and in the meantime as

well dumping a load of sewage. no spots . yeah i mean no beauty spots. yeah i mean there are genuine issues there. i mean water is a problem. i mean , the we've had decades . the mean, the we've had decades. the water system and being maintained properly. so yeah there's a lot of leaky leaky pipes, a lot of leaky sewers yeah. that's genuinely issues that need to be addressed coming to look at your toilet not much. yeah. seriously, ladies and are you going to get a knock on your door? one day, supposedly. and someone's going to. can i have a look and check that you've not just used the double flush flushing number one? and just flushing a number one? and just lastly burning fires lastly andrew wood burning fires wood stove every wood burning stove it's every englishman's is it not to englishman's right is it not to have a wood burning stove in that home a wood burner to keep warm. and now these are being down a i think this is down on a i think this is actually a much more serious issue. people are really struggling to heat their homes as is if they can supplement their heating with a wood stove. that's really important for

them. a lot of people . oh oh, them. a lot of people. oh oh, we've lost andrew's mike . oh, we've lost andrew's mike. oh, well, i'm just very sorry to cut you off. can't hear a word you're saying, andrew, the deputy director of net zero watch. however though it's rather good timing in sense, rather good timing in a sense, because it's dewbs& co. michelle's up next, michelle because it's dewbs& co. mi

coming up. i've got ben habib coming up i he's view is coming up i know he's my view is favourites of them also favourites one of them also kevin craig as well we'll be getting into among other things northern fine northern ireland is that fine effects pair effects the last out this pair on the pat took out to tell him off so i'll be interested and see how they get on tonight. i'm looking forward to seeing ben habib again. yes, got habib sexy again. yes, he got say that. can you once you've seen that with a lovely music over top of it, you cannot over the top of it, you cannot unsee absolutely every time unsee it. absolutely every time i close my eyes. michelle, thank very much. michelle dewberry with dewbs& co lows, and me with dewbs& co lows, you and me getting out course of getting in touch out course of this show and the big one for you that popped was you today that popped off was indeed asylum seeker indeed this failed asylum seeker who did tragically go to kill an 88 woman in her own 88 year old woman in her own home. i asking, why it taking home. i asking, why is it taking so to deport people are so long to deport people who are failed seekers? one email failed asylum seekers? one email to the linda to round off the show linda says, myself, says, as a solicitor myself, i am of and disgusted by own profession, who, for money individuals who should not be here. think that's the way here. and i think that's the way we're the show we're going to finish the show today something to ponder on. thank been thank you very much. i've been patrick will be patrick christys. i will be back again from 3 pm. with

again tomorrow from 3 pm. with another absolute rocket of a show for you. but up next is michelle dewberry with dewbs& co as weather hello. welcome to as he weather hello. welcome to the update . with the latest weather update. with me shuttleworth from the me annie shuttleworth from the met rain will continue met office. rain will continue to affect northern areas over the next days but will see further dry weather across the south. a high pressure is dominating across the south that's bringing that drier settled weather. but we've weather fronts over the next few into thursday and friday continuing to push into the north bringing some rain. and on wednesday night you can see across much of scotland and into parts of northern england will see persistent rain for a time especially across the highlands and isles, though the winds will and isles, though the winds will a little bit further it'll be quite dry , but turning much quite dry, but turning much cloudier and with plenty of cloudier and with plenty of cloud around, it'll be another mild night for the time of year, frost free. by the time we get to thursday morning. now remaining quite cloudy throughout thursday, across the whole of the uk rain will become a bit more restricted to the

highlands and western areas and northern areas of scotland . northern areas of scotland. however, there could be the odd drizzle shower affecting parts of west wales and into the south too. it's going be a milder day than thursday then wednesday. on thursday temperatures reaching 12 or 13 degrees. that will be quite breezy out there . then quite breezy out there. then into thursday evening and friday morning, another cloudy and breezy night. this band of that starts off in northern scotland sink southwards into parts of northern ireland and northern england , as well as parts of england, as well as parts of nonh england, as well as parts of north wales . elsewhere it'll be north wales. elsewhere it'll be dry and, cloudy and again frost temperatures well above average for the of year. by the time we get to the hours of friday, another cloudy start on fairly breezy across coastal areas and into the northwest. you can see the next band of rain arriving . the next band of rain arriving. so some further rain for friday and saturday but by sunday a

little bit cooler and, a little bit brighter.

6:00 michelle dewberry and this is dewbs& co, the show where we'll get into some of the things that have got you talking now today is being called walk out wednesday and not for us troop is there. we've managed to get ourselves into work, but half a million other people didn't do strikes. i speak about of course, everywhere i gain no letup in sight. is the government doing enough? is it time now for them to relent and basically say , you know what, basically say, you know what, whatever you want , you basically say, you know what, whatever you want, you can have it, let's just stop the strikes. i want your thoughts on that. and apparently rumours are false that there has been a deal

reached with