us hey, good morning. welcome to bev turner. today on gb news tv and dab radio. did you see the adoration of president zelenskyy amongst employees yesterday? the former actor certainly had your employees eating out of his hands. employees eating out of his hands . and rishi sunak says hands. and now rishi sunak says that is off the table

that nothing is off the table when it comes to providing fighter to ukraine. boris fighterjets to ukraine. boris johnson is going even further , johnson is going even further, saying that we should send our jets is what you want jets now. is that what you want your tax money spent upon? let me know. and on a lighter note this morning, going to be this morning, we're going to be heading cornwall, where heading down to cornwall, where william and kate, the duke and duchess cornwall, are making duchess of cornwall, are making their visit their first official visit there since those new since receiving those new titles. mike perry and titles. i've got mike perry and joanna here to discuss joanna williams here to discuss the day's biggest stories until 12:00, home 12:00, including home secretary's suella braverman laying the government's laying into the government's anti—terror prevent programme, saying that it needs to tackle secure tea stop being so secure tea and stop being so preoccupied with political correctness . we got a lot to get correctness. we got a lot to get through. that's all coming up after. at latest news after. look at the latest news with rihanna . there. thank you. with rihanna. there. thank you. good morning . it's 10:01. with rihanna. there. thank you. good morning . it's10:01. your good morning. it's10:01. your top stories from the gb newsroom. around 70 members of uk international search and rescue, including firefighter fighters and medics, have arrived in turkey. the team of

volunteers will assess the destroyed area before sending information back to the command and control team . nearly 16,000 and control team. nearly 16,000 people are now known to have died after monday's devastating earthquakes in the south of the country and northern syria. dozens of british charities will launch an appeal later to raise funds for those affected. the disasters emergency committee is coordinating a rapid response by 14 charities, including the british red cross and oxfam. the government says it will match any donations made by the public . volodymyr zelenskyy is joining an eu summit in brussels today to lobby leaders to provide more weapons to ukraine in the fight against russia. he travelled with french president emmanuel macron after a brief stop in paris, one that followed his surprise visit to the uk yesterday, rishi sunak said nothing's off the table when it comes to providing fighter jets to ukraine. as zelenskyy continues his whirlwind tour of

his european backers. he's also looking to quick start talks on becoming a member of the bloc care strike action by fire fighters has been put on hold while union members consider an increased pay offer. members of the fire brigades union have last minute talks with bosses yesterday after rejecting an offer of a 5% increase. the union says it's considering a revised 7% pay rise, backdated to july last year and another 5% from this july. they'll now ballot members on the proposal . ballot members on the proposal. meanwhile, university staff and physiotherapists are striking today in the latest wave of industrial action to sweep the country. around 70,000 university and college union members are walking off the job across 150 universities. meanwhile, the chartered society of physiotherapy is striking at 33 trusts. in england, it's accused the government of being intransigent in refusing to discuss pay for the current

financial year. discuss pay for the current financial year . consumer analyst financial year. consumer analyst martin lewis has called for the planned rise in the energy price cap this april to be scrapped. he's written to the chancellor saying it's likely to be lower than the energy price guarantee by july , meaning the customer by july, meaning the customer will pay less . the letter says will pay less. the letter says wholesale prices have come down substantially , meaning it's no substantially, meaning it's no longer necessary to increase the cap. he's being supported by charities, including citizens advice and national energy action and underwater search expert says the case of missing mother of two, nicola birley, is a complete mystery . after his a complete mystery. after his team worked unable to find her, peter folding was called in to help find the dog walker who went missing almost two weeks ago. lancashire police says it still believes nicola fell into the river. wyre superintendent sally riley has described the searches unprecedented, with 40 detectives following 500 lines

of enquiry . the prince and of enquiry. the prince and princess of wales are visiting cornwall today. it's their first official joint trip to the county since taking on their new roles as the duke and duchess of cornwall. william and kate will visit the harbour town of falmouth to learn about its naval heritage as well as meeting members of the local community. it's prince william's second official visit to the area after he toured newquay last november. the business and trade secretary is on her way to mexico. she's looking to form new trading arrangements post—brexit . kemi badenoch will post—brexit. kemi badenoch will hold talks with her counterparts on the uk becoming part of a transfer pacific partnership involving 11 countries, including australia , canada, including australia, canada, chile and japan. on her two day visit to mexico city , she'll visit to mexico city, she'll also look to update britain's 20 year old free trade agreement with the country to involve digital services and technology

. the new deputy conservative party chairman has said he would support the return of the death penalty in the uk. in an interview with the spectator lee anderson said nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed. the former labour councillor, who converted to the tories was handed his new role on tuesday amid a cabinet reshuffle. the death penalty for murder in the uk was scrapped in 1969. it was complete be abolished for all crimes in 1998 and the number of people in england waiting for care has risen slightly but remains below the recent record high, to according new figures. nhs england says around 7.2 million people waiting to start routine hospital treatment in december . hospital treatment in december. that's up from the previous month, but less than the 7.21 million in october. that was the highest number since records began its source found that around 1200 people have been waiting more than two years to

start treatment . at the end of start treatment. at the end of last year , this is gb news. i'll last year, this is gb news. i'll bnng last year, this is gb news. i'll bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's back to this . now, though, it's back to this. very good morning welcome to and it's dan gb news. here's what's coming up on the show today. between now and midday, president putin has given a warning of military political consequences if the uk gives fighterjets consequences if the uk gives fighter jets to ukraine. consequences if the uk gives fighterjets to ukraine. it comes as president zelenskyy made a surprise visit to the uk yesterday. two of western allies aircraft and supplies. rishi sunak has said nothing is off the table. going to be discussing that in just a moment . also this morning, the duke and duchess of cornwall will make their first joint official visit to the county since taking on their new roles. our royal reporter is there in cornwall,

keeping an eye out for william and kate. we'll cross over to him very shortly and the author, john and journalist john williams and journalist mike join me mike parry will join me throughout show discuss throughout the show to discuss some big stories of some of the other big stories of the day, including our anti—terror programme prevent, which does not seem to be working secretary suella working. home secretary suella braverman to better braverman said we need to better understand the threats we face and ideological ideology and the ideological ideology underpinning them a system underpinning them and a system she says needs major reform. you, of course , are my third you, of course, are my third panellist this morning. love panellist this morning. i love to hear from you. email me, gb views. you can tweet me views. gb news. you can tweet me at gb news have your say . so at to gb news have your say. so at to gb news have your say. so a volodymyr zelenskyy is continuing his european tour today after urging the uk to supply ukraine with fighter jets. during his surprise visit yesterday during a landmark address to parliament, he thanked britain for providing military and economic support throughout the war. france's emmanuel macron and germany's olaf scholz have reiterated

their belief that russia must not win the war too. so if that were a bit of a turning point, doesn't it? i'm joined now by robert clark, director of defence and security at think tank civitas. good morning , tank civitas. good morning, robert. and what would the significance be, do you think, if we do give him the jets that he wants? i mean, this three real significant moments that would cause the first is a psychological moment where obviously it would put russia on the back foot military of the uk jets , western jets more broadly, jets, western jets more broadly, a far more capable than the russians are using in ukraine. second is the military capability. the thought will then and act on the battlefield . it help. crucially, they'll help ukraine maintain sort of spare authority which they need now that we've given the tanks and they're going to increase their operations, come the end of this month . and then the of this month. and then the third is really symbolic as well. and the order standing behind zelenskyy in the ukrainian regime politically. we've talked a good talk for the last year . we've don't even even

last year. we've don't even even better with the military support we've given. but there's going to be a fine line to tread, i think, with regards to uk sending jets themselves. i mean , we haven't just talked a good talk . we've given him several talk. we've given him several billion pounds so far and i get the sense hosting this show and heanng the sense hosting this show and hearing from our viewers and our listeners that the public appetite is waning in terms of the endless a apparently there is no outram. what is our exit route to this war? we keep talking about giving more money, giving more supplies . nobody giving more supplies. nobody doubts hardship that the doubts the hardship that the ukrainian people have been through and continue to go through and continue to go through that stuff. think we through that stuff. i think we have distinguish those two have to distinguish those two issues extent. where issues to some extent. but where does now ? got does this go now? we've got putin's this morning putin's statements this morning saying that he will retaliate in the harshest possible way if we send over jets. the the harshest possible way if we send overjets. the british people. i don't think we have the right now for the stomach right now for a nuclear war. nobody has a stupid nuclear war. nobody has a stupid nuclear war. nobody has a stupid nuclear war. when we look at putin's rhetoric, look, he said the same from even before day

one. we've been training the ukrainians since 2015 and we've been supplying them with missiles for about the last four or five years. putin has known this, time there seems this, and every time there seems to increase in to be an increase in particularly british military help and support, the rhetoric gets up. unless we've gets ratcheted up. unless we've outside implies it is bluster. it's a game of brinkmanship and it's, you know, the ghost of putin sort of diplomacy of trying to act tough. but in reality, his bark is far worse than his bite. how do we know that if reports are true that he is terminally ill, which we've heard speculation about for a long time, why not go out in a in a in a bunker , to use in a in a bunker, to use a terribly inappropriate phrase ? terribly inappropriate phrase? it's a nervous it's a worrying situation for brits. no opportunity. and a risk opportunity. and it is a risk and a calculated risk that and it's a calculated risk that the government deciding the government will be deciding and upon. but if we look and taking upon. but if we look at the recent round of british military that we only military tanks that we saw only three weeks ago, when we announced three ago putin announced three weeks ago putin said exact same. he said said the exact same. he said there be reprisals. he there would be reprisals. he said, ukraine's allies said, you know, ukraine's allies would and far , would be targeted. and so far, nothing obviously have to

nothing we do obviously have to take into take those threats into consideration them consideration and take them seriously especially we seriously, especially when we consider, example , the consider, for example, the salisbury attack 2018 by salisbury attack in 2018 by russia. did use chemical russia. did use of chemical nerve agents against british targets. so the threat is real. however like i say, as part of a greater coalition, as part of a britain on just on their own, this is with the united states, with the majority of europe on the international community writ large . we're looking at live large. we're looking at live pictures here of zelenskyy talking in brussels at the moment . he's talking in brussels at the moment. he's a very talking in brussels at the moment . he's a very charismatic moment. he's a very charismatic man , obviously. he's a former man, obviously. he's a former hollywood actor . he has all the hollywood actor. he has all the skills to win over rome, disney . do you think that is there a sense now in which it is impossible for any mps to say , impossible for any mps to say, maybe we need to look at this in a bigger picture now it's like we've been swept along with a wave of enthusiasm for supporting this . it feels like supporting this. it feels like at all cost . i mean , to be at all cost. i mean, to be honest, it's almost the argument at all costs is a persuasive

one. to go back to your original your comment a moment ago about mps and the ability where to sort of hold them slightly to check a bit. there's a great deal of scrutiny and a great deal of scrutiny and a great deal of scrutiny and a great deal of accountability in parliament regarding the support for ukraine, for example, the £23 billion that was spent last year on military aid, half of that came from the ministry of defence. you have a half from the now. that was the treasury now. that was all voted by and we must voted upon by mpc and we must remember mps are there our remember mps are there on our behalf. know, there's behalf. you know, there's a general election coming next yeah general election coming next year. the public do feel that year. if the public do feel that we're ukraine too we're supporting ukraine too much, the end much, particularly by the end of this as into another this year, as we go into another particularly winter, particularly hard winter, i suspect see the suspect that we'll see the people will vote with their feet, we to look at feet, but we have to look at the wider picture. know, the wider picture. you know, the labour government the labour government outside the labour government outside the labour shadow government are saying same, you know, saying the exact same, you know, john the defence john healey, the shadow defence secretary, starmer both secretary, and k starmer both saying ukraine just saying they support ukraine just as this going away as much. this isn't going away any time soon, but the hope is that with enough western support , towards the end , particularly towards the end of this year, like i say, what

will an of a harsh winter , we will be an of a harsh winter, we can to alleviate can hopefully start to alleviate the problems on the battlefield and then they'll obviously start to alleviate the problems at home. inflation rising costs, etc. if we do give them the etc. yeah if we do give them the jets that they want . how quickly jets that they want. how quickly do you think, robert , as an do you think, robert, as an expert, what would difference would that make in the timescale of bringing this to an end, which is what everybody wants? oh, absolutely. that is what it's all about. the end of the day , the question of jets is day, the question of jets is incredibly difficult for several reasons. the training of the ukrainian happening ukrainian pilots is happening now uk . we're the only now in the uk. we're the only country world doing so country in the world doing so initially. that's on initially. now that's on simulators and sort of replicated training that can be replicated training that can be replicated into into real time aircraft. but the ability to then send, you know , fifth then send, you know, fifth generation next generation fighter aircraft, which is what we're talking about to ukraine for the pilots , i don't think for the pilots, i don't think it's realistic to happen from the uk. if anything is going to happen from the eastern european and northern european countries like particularly with

like particularly sweden, with their aircraft. now the their grip on aircraft. now the ability to get those into service quickly, you're service quite quickly, you're looking realistically to looking at realistically 3 to 6 months time timeframe at least. so we're looking at second or so we're looking at a second or third for the offensive third tranche for the offensive . also summer into . so it's also summer into autumn. like i autumn. but crucially, like i keep to break hopefully keep saying to break hopefully what be a bit of a winter what would be a bit of a winter stalemate and try to bring this war to a close. but before that would happen. but i have to stress, i can't see that happening to be perfect on this this it has only been one this year. it has only been one yeah this year. it has only been one year. and i stress that in relation to wider conflicts , relation to wider conflicts, wars more broadly, one year isn't a long time. wars more broadly, one year isn't a long time . so we're isn't a long time. so we're looking at at least the rest of this year to try to break the stalemate over next winter and then really next year potentially what we're going to see is the why, say, is the vital ground, which going to vital ground, which is going to be it's all going to be crimea. it's all going to come and how that come down to crimea and how that get even militarily get settled, even militarily or politically. mean? politically. what do you mean? explain that it was a little bit more detail. so russia have maintained beginning maintained from the beginning that russian that crimea is russian territory. was gifted territory. it was it was gifted to ukraine, if you like, under

the soviet union in 1957. for so the soviet union in 1957. for so the last 70 years, it's been the last 70 odd years, it's been ukrainian territory. now both countries hold incredibly countries hold crimea incredibly importantly. so ideologically and nationally, their national identity . and, you know , russia identity. and, you know, russia invaded it back in 2004, too. yeah. so it will contain in crimea is the one of the land bndges crimea is the one of the land bridges we've obviously with russia there's a lot of russian military equipment on crimea it that black fleet is based but the ukrainian volodymyr zelenskyy in particular have highlighted several times the crimea remains an absolute intrinsic part of retaking back ukraine air and ground and obviously this they sort this whole thing. it's really important, i think, to go back, isn't it, robert, to work out where this all started. and i think there's often this misconception , given that misconception, given that ukraine was an entirely peaceful country from east to west. everyone was sleeping soundly in their beds. and so suddenly putin started bombing them. it wasn't like that, was it? and we

have remember that region have to remember that the region in the east was predominantly russian populace with predominant russian speaking people and putin is excuse, if you like, for the first invasion was because he was defending the people of that area from the battalions , ukrainian battalions battalions, ukrainian battalions and is that relevant now? does any of that matter at this stage 7 any of that matter at this stage ? i think the relevance is in the accuracy of the narrative, to be honest, because it helps to be honest, because it helps to understand where it might go in the future. so for example, the idea of battalions, there's been far right, obviously sympathies eyes of sympathies in the eyes of battalion. battalion itself battalion. the battalion itself were crucial in the fighting of mariupol . so they a crucial mariupol. so they have a crucial role play in the ukrainian role to play in the ukrainian armed forces . regarding the idea armed forces. regarding the idea of not unification more broadly in the ukrainian armed forces, it's relatively , relatively it's relatively, relatively false and inaccurate. russia use that to portray and also you bnng that to portray and also you bring up the idea of why it's just the idea of world war two and the idea of sort of nationalised entity in that regard. but yeah, it's the

origins self are incredibly complicated . we can really look complicated. we can really look to 2013 and 2014 when ukrainian government tried to turn more towards the eu for trade and military support and also putin didn't like that he still regarded ukraine through the prism of the of the soviet union, a very sort of myopic and sort of parochial view of sort of regional affairs. sort of parochial view of sort of regional affairs . and he of regional affairs. and he sought to obviously to take back ukraine, but within a broader sort of greater russia. so it's absolute expansion and it's absolutely revisionist and it's the fundamental it's the same ideology which underpins chinese motives to ultimately a almost definitely will try to invade taiwan. these are completely an issue to the liberal order which the uk have sought to sort of defend for the last of 70, 80 is okay. thank you, robert . really okay. thank you, robert. really interesting. robert clark there . okay. so the prince of princess of wales office in cornwall today, look at them. it's their first official joint trip to counties since trip to the counties since taking their new roles the

taking on their new roles as the duke and of cornwall. duke and duchess of cornwall. what do you mean? kate will visit harbour town of visit the harbour town of falmouth learn more the falmouth to learn more about the country's naval as country's naval heritage, as well members of the well as meeting members of the local community. cameron walker is news royal reporter is the gb news royal reporter who from cornwall . who joins us now from cornwall. oh, good morning, cameron. look here you. what a lovely place in the country to be on a gorgeous winter morning . what have you winter morning. what have you got planned for today? what are they? well, what are the duke and duchess of cornwall likely to be doing ? certainly, as to be doing? certainly, as welcome to sunny cornwall here on a beautiful coastline . so the on a beautiful coastline. so the duke and duchess of cornwall, in other words, the prince and princess of wales are here for their first official trip with that new titles. they are going to be learning about cornwall's maritime heritage, as well as visiting members of the local community in this harbour town here . now with here called falmouth. now with the new title to the duke and duchess of cornwall, which was previously held by the now king for more than 70 years when he was holding it is duchy of

was holding it is the duchy of cornwall. so what is the duchy of cornwall with? that a big of cornwall with? that is a big portfolio of lands and property, 53,000 hectares, which is a lot bigger than my back garden. let me tell you which is worth roughly £1 billion. now, the profits of that which stretches a lot of land over south—west of england , actually, but then england, actually, but then mainly in cornwall, the profits of that, which is roughly mainly in cornwall, the profits of that, which is roughly £22 million, last year's figures , million, last year's figures, provides an income for the prince of wales and his immediate family. so that's princess katherine and his three children, the prince george, prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis. it's the public and private functions . that money now , prince william . that money now, prince william does not actually need to pay income tax on it. however, he does choose to do so. but it's done on a voluntary basis rather than by law . but clearly, done on a voluntary basis rather than by law. but clearly , £22 than by law. but clearly, £22 million is a lot of money. so it puts him in a very privileged position. however if you remember back 2021, there remember back in 2021, there were reports that were several news reports that when prince william inherits the duchy cornwall from his

duchy of cornwall from his father, would convert father, he would try and convert some of land to house the some of that land to house the homeless. now, kensington palace has not confirmed anything yet . has not confirmed anything yet. however, they have told me that homelessness is very much going to be a big focus for the prince of wales , duke of cornwall this of wales, duke of cornwall this yeah of wales, duke of cornwall this year. of course, he was two. he's been patron centrepoint, he's been patron of centrepoint, which charity that helps which is a charity that helps young people experiencing homelessness. he's been doing that since 2005. so a cause that since 2005. so it's a cause really close to his heart. so if i were you, i'd watch this space you have . have a lovely day down you have. have a lovely day down there, cameron. i'm incredibly jealous. it's beautiful down there this morning, right? keep watching. we will bring you some of that footage when it emerges. now break, the now after the break, the government's anti—terror prevent programme needs major reform and must focus not on security and not political correctness . not political correctness. that's coming from our home secretary, philip brave. i'm going to talk about that with mike williams in mike parry and john williams in just few moments .

very good morning. it's 1023. very good morning. it's1023. this is tenet's day on gb news. you've been getting in touch . you've been getting in touch. thank you. we've been talking about our funding of the ukrainian war. i'm going to be discussing it with my guest in just a moment as well. and earlier britain supposed earlier said britain is supposed to helping with to be helping ukraine with peripheral jets peripheral support. fighterjets are step into the are the next step into the vortex of war. all this for american internal political consumption. it is wrong . and consumption. it is wrong. and tom said if it was as bad as suggested, why hasn't nato's stepped in? lots of getting in touch about that. thank you. get your messages coming. right. my guests so happy to guests are here. i'm so happy to have williams with me, have john williams with me, writer amazing substack, writer of amazing substack, which choice which inspires my reading choice is regularly. i is quite, quite regularly. i might parry you lovely. so you write well i'm sorry, but it got a bit too short. you look great. so the makeup lady has already spent two cartons of spray

getting it to sit down and have mr. neil. very small, right? guys, we're going to start off talking about this prevent programme . so obviously this was programme. so obviously this was put into practise in order to root out terrorist activity before it happens in the uk it was hailed as going to be, you know, finding all of those that might be radicalised before they actually cause any sort of violence against us. it's been on various kind of criticisms over the years and what a brave man ordered a report into this . man ordered a report into this. i'm sorry, priti patel. i was at the time in 2019 and williams shawcross the charity commission chairman, has carried out that report. and there's some pretty conclusions in it, too, when i wasn't there. yes absolutely. i mean, criticisms are that mean, his criticisms are that over recent years, it's become more right wing more focussed upon right wing terrorism rather than islamic extremism . and if you actually extremism. and if you actually look just numerically more people have been referred for being a right wing terrorist than for being an islamic extremist. and that's just completely out of kilter with the reality of the threat that

we face in this country. i mean, there've been far more and far more severe islamic extremist attacks, islamic terrorist attacks, islamic terrorist attacks than to have right wing terrorist attacks . so that's the terrorist attacks. so that's the first thing. i mean, the second thing is just that the standard to be referred is at much lower . so to be an islamic extremist , you have to be like kind of practically bomb in practically building a bomb in your be referred to your bedroom to be referred to this programme, whereas to be a right wing referred for a right wing course. it could just wing course. it could be just that expressed an opinion that you've expressed an opinion that you've expressed an opinion that school that the teacher at your school doesn't with and considers doesn't agree with and considers to right wing . that's really to be right wing. that's really shocking. do we know why that is happening? um. i tell you, happening? my um. i tell you, i'm so pleased about on this. normally reports come out normally these reports come out and into a top shelf and and they go into a top shelf and nothing's ever done about them, but. and the home but. so all of them and the home secretary has responded immediately report to immediately to the report to stimulate our interest in it. and the one paragraph i've picked out this morning from her response to it is this islamist terrorism to endorse everything my colleague has just said, islamist terrorism remains the uk's primary and deadly

terrorist threat . yet the terrorist threat. yet the independent review found that the islamist threat is severely under—represented in prevent shawcross. the shawcross report identified an institutional hesitancy to tackle islamist ideology that just about sums it up, doesn't it? and isn't it great that the home secretary is taking the lead rather than saying, well , you know, i'll saying, well, you know, i'll give this too? you know , the give this too? you know, the home office and we'll have a look. no she's right from the start. said there's no she start. she said there's no she says start of her says right at the start of her response this morning, the terrorists facing terrorists threat facing the uk continues endure. then continues to endure. and then she lists manchester, the london bridge and borough market fishmongers hall, the murder of sir david amess. she's making that absolutely clear. so we can all focus in our heads, all these things are happening and we who's committing them. we know who's committing them. so start bringing out all so don't start bringing out all the tributaries in this investigation to try and water things down. no, i think that's important . things down. no, i think that's important. but i think the

question up about why is it this why is this happening? why are more people being reported for right wing extremism? i think it's important it's a really, really important question . and to it seems question. and to me, it seems that the people who are doing the rafah things , that's police the rafah things, that's police officers teach social workers, they to see people who get they tend to see people who get into islamic extremism as victims , as being mentally ill victims, as being mentally ill or most or being vulnerable and kind of having been lured into this kind of accidentally in that they need looking after. and for me, the best example of thatis and for me, the best example of that is the way that we see shamima bagan being treated as a celebrity. you know, she's constantly in the news now on the front page of glossy magazines , supplements, kind of magazines, supplements, kind of being held up as this victim hero . yeah, and that's shocking. hero. yeah, and that's shocking. i mean, that's a really disgusting sign, i think, because, like the rot at the heart of our society , we hold heart of our society, we hold women like that up in the home secretary also points out that the shawcross report found out that prevent has applied different thresholds to

different thresholds to different ideologies, even right wing and settler centre right politicians and common taters have at times been wrongly bracketed as extreme right wing because they've entered into a debate and have a different point of view. yeah yep. brilliant, great. start guys, i already have nothing to ask . i, already have nothing to ask. i, i think it's a huge issue, but like you say , it's great that like you say, it's great that suella braverman has actually come out and made a statement about this, i think really early on, you're right, you've just seen my interview that with one of military experts about of our military experts about the in ukraine, zelenskyy the war in ukraine, zelenskyy what did you make, mike, of his perform mass westminster perform mass at westminster yesterday as a to put himself forward as a world statesman? absolutely stunning. okay and, you know, it was so stunning . you know, it was so stunning. still wearing the green jacket and, you know, famous hall at parliament where only weeks , parliament where only weeks, months ago the queen's body was lying in state very same location . he kept it. he's location. he kept it. he's captivated this country , captivated this country, captivated this country, captivated america, captivated world. now, i know you're going

to say what about the content of what he said ? oh, i'm going to what he said? oh, i'm going to say i see where it is. i mean, he was of anything about he was aware of anything about fatigue. it will on fatigue. well, it will inform on occasion. i'm sorry. i feel like he's trying to brainwash us. no, i think he's saying. i don't. i think he's saying. don't remember his first don't you remember his first famous it ? don't you remember his first famous it? ammunition, famous quote on it? ammunition, not when he was offered not a ride. when he was offered sanctuary? you know, when they started. from that moment started. and from that moment on, lot of time on on, quite a lot of time on aeroplanes that forth aeroplanes that oh, come forth a photo shoot . oh oh has. but photo shoot. oh oh he has. but i think only to you know keep the level of interest up in what's happening now. got to wear happening now. he's got to wear that much same as that in much the same way as fidel castro always wore a military uniform because, you know, he was out of cuba . i know, he was out of cuba. i think wolanski saying think what's wolanski saying here i will always be at the here is i will always be at the head of my people. and i think that's now, when he says that's fine. now, when he says it was great, wasn't all power back to producing the helmet and the helmet had written on it. give us wings a whole lot. that's going to be the next big contentious issue. and you know what would do very briefly we what i would do very briefly we were first to say we'll give were the first to say we'll give them but we only gave

them tanks, but we only gave them tanks, but we only gave them because have got them ten because we have got many tanks. i do know many tanks. don't i do know i'd give six aeroplanes because give him six aeroplanes because we many aeroplanes, we haven't got many aeroplanes, but stimulate the major but it might stimulate the major power. states of power. the united states of america say oh once america to then say oh once again, the uk led the way. i suppose we've got follow on, suppose we've got to follow on, but all the tactics with but it's all the tactics with planes, isn't it can take planes, isn't it? it can take six to train a pilot. you six months to train a pilot. you know what mean? what was just know what i mean? what was just saying? what do you think, joanna? think it's easy joanna? well, i think it's easy to cynical about these things to be cynical about these things and at zelenskyy. the and to look at zelenskyy. the irony combat fatigues. irony is his combat fatigues. mark, just, mark, my concern is that just, you if i was his you know, if i was in his position, i'd do the same. you know, looking at his know, he's looking at his country destroyed. country being destroyed. he's looking family, his looking at his family, his friends young men friends being killed, young men going out to fight for that country a daily basis. if country on a daily basis. if i was in that position, i would do anything i could to get what i need to my. and would you need to save my. and would you negotiate ? because that's what negotiate? because that's what really up when he made really wound me up when he made his statement recently his statement just recently saying, i won't negotiate with putin any circumstance. putin under any circumstance. well, basis well, i mean, what on what basis would you negotiate? it would be about away part of your about giving away part of your country, essentially. wouldn't

keeping already keeping a lot of these already seas crimea ? i mean, negotiation seas crimea? i mean, negotiation is about compromise. seas crimea? i mean, negotiation is about compromise . i mean, if is about compromise. i mean, if somebody if i'm going to use a silly example, if it was my house my neighbour said , house and my neighbour said, your i like your garden, your garden, i like your garden, i want a bit of that. all right, you won't negotiate with me. that's you've got to that's not fair. you've got to negotiate me. i'd like, negotiate with me. i'd be like, what hell that? to what the hell is that? to negotiate this is my negotiate over? this is my garden. it's my you extend garden. it's my land. you extend that to ukraine. this is his country in itself is the start of the negotiation , isn't it, of the negotiation, isn't it, saying not going to saying i'm not going to negotiate you what i mean? negotiate? you know what i mean? i he's made his position i mean, he's made his position absolutely now for absolutely clear. it's now for putin you know, move putin to try, you know, move towards him, negotiation. we will member of which will never be a member of which was concern, was putin's initial concern, having a nato country on his border, given that the majority of the donbas residents were already russians and russian speaking which is where, speaking people, which is where, you that was his excuse you know, that was his excuse for i said earlier. for going in. as i said earlier. but the idea that they've given up on any sort of negotiation whatsoever, i find deeply troubling when billion pounds of money is going. but you see, i think the prince symbol of

national sovereignty is just something that's really, really important . me something that's really, really important. me i mean, at the end of the day, it's why i voted for brexit because i think being an independent able independent nation, being able to make your own decisions about the future of country is the future of your country is the future of your country is the important thing. the most important thing. yeah and have and you know, being have national sovereignty means that you decide whether you you get to decide whether you join or join the eu. join nato or join the eu. obviously, you don't join join nato or join the eu. ovau sly, you don't join join nato or join the eu. ovau ..y, you don't join join nato or join the eu. ovau . i'm you don't join join nato or join the eu. ovau . i'm againstu don't join join nato or join the eu. ovau . i'm against the»n't join join nato or join the eu. ovau . i'm against the eu join join nato or join the eu. ovau . i'm against the eu ,)in join nato or join the eu. ovau . i'm against the eu , but. the eu. i'm against the eu, but. but they the ukrainian people need to be able to make decisions . we're going to be decisions. we're going to be wrong, guys. actually, that that makes we realise one point that was in this prevent report which is basically saying is saying is basically saying that the threshold for what was considered to be extremely rightwing was very low, including a brexit. so you including being a brexit. so you could be on the phone about this. all right. we got to go, guys, right after this quick break. the uk is set to push ahead with plans to create a digital pound currency. are you ready? do want to miss ready? you do not want to miss this. might the most this. it might be the most important thing see all important thing you see all week. off the news . good

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very good morning . this is bev very good morning. this is bev turner today on gb news. it is 1038. thank you for joining turner today on gb news. it is 1038. thank you forjoining us. 1038. thank you for joining us. so i've been talking about this for a long time, but nobody would listen. it seems the uk is set to push ahead with plans to create a digital pound currency. now this is a little bit complicated, but it's something that everybody really does need to understand. so joining me now for the analysis is the author and fintech analyst susie violet ward. good morning. susie is it an over estimate ? it is. i am. an over estimate? it is. i am. i'm exaggerating to say that this is what we should all be talking about, but we're not absolutely it. i'm not exaggerating, am i? not? not slightly . every that i slightly. every person that i

come in contact with in the pubuc come in contact with in the public eye ask them, do you know what is? or central what a cbdc is? or central bank digital currency? nobody digital currency? and nobody knows. but the bank of england have researching for have been researching this for years. card for years. it's been on the card for years. it's been on the card for years , but unfortunately the years, but unfortunately the government like to manage perception . so yeah, why would perception. so yeah, why would they be worried about us? understand adding this in more detail ? because it's money that detail? because it's money that can be programmed, which means that they can tell you when to spend it , that they can tell you when to spend it, what to spend it on, and how to spend it. and they can also assign government agendas to the spending. so for example, if they think that certain areas the economy needs more stimulus , they'll push more stimulus, they'll push towards that. if they think that we shouldn't eat as much meat, they'll stop you from buying meat. they think that you've flown too many , too on too many flown too many, too on too many holidays. they will stop you from going holiday. now that from going on holiday. now that sounds the stuff of a sounds like the stuff of a dystopian nightmare into fantasy. how tell us, suzy. the facts about this . who is talking facts about this. who is talking about it ? because i

facts about this. who is talking about it? because i remember we sat about a year ago or so when rishi sunak , when he was rishi sunak, when he was chancellor, did a video saying , chancellor, did a video saying, we're so excited about a central digital currency . and the bank digital currency. and the bank of england requested publicly to find out whether it would be programmable. i don't i didn't hear the answer to that question. what happened ? i think question. what happened? i think originally they said it wouldn't. yeah but i think they're slowly starting to change the narrative on that and it almost certainly will be programmable . and even if they programmable. and even if they say it's not going to be programmable, it doesn't mean that they can't change the rules at any particular time. so how does work? tell me what what does it work? tell me what what they said. what? because some people well, it's just the people say, well, it's just the same no . how is same as bitcoin. no, no. how is it different? a bitcoin is a decentralised protocol . there is decentralised protocol. there is a peer to peer cash that can not be by bad monetary policy, by governments . and you can send governments. and you can send a digital cash to anybody on the planet with a mobile phone for pennies in seconds . what we're

pennies in seconds. what we're talking about is a highly centralised east banking system. in fact, it will probably get rid of all commercial banks . and rid of all commercial banks. and what we know how the government actually deal with our data. i don't really want them holding it on a central database where they have all the powers be oveh they have all the powers be over, at least at the moment. it's scattered around and we have different institutions looking after different areas. there's almost a segregation of dufies there's almost a segregation of duties of sorts , but this will duties of sorts, but this will be a very highly centralised protocol. what would the benefits be to the general pubuc benefits be to the general public ? ease of use i think public? ease of use i think would be the only benefit convenience , convenience, and convenience, convenience, and that's how they're going to sell it. but they won't tell you everything else . they won't tell everything else. they won't tell you how it will be programmed. they won't tell you that it's a spike coin. they won't tell you that they're trying to phase out cash and that they want to they

want to track absolutely everything that doing. everything that you're doing. and the only way that you can opt out of this peacefully is by using bitcoin. and but unfortunately, used unfortunately, they've used the term british coin try very term british coin to try very clever to try and muddy the waters . so in way, correct me waters. so in a way, correct me if i'm wrong, because this is by no my expertise. bitcoin no means my expertise. bitcoin was troubling to governments because it takes the money out of that regulated financial system. yes. and therefore this is an effect , system. yes. and therefore this is an effect, a reaction to system. yes. and therefore this is an effect , a reaction to the is an effect, a reaction to the freedom that people were discovering to spend money in their own way. yes okay . who are their own way. yes okay. who are there any countries around the world at the moment that have this already that is being piloted in china and india? so the way that our media is run is we look to certain countries like china and we think that it's an authoritarian, totalitarian state. and we feel a little bit sorry for them, but we don't realise that the same things to us and we're actually using them a template right? using them as a template right? so what kind of scale are we

looking at here for this? do we know yet? i think originally they thought it would be 20, 30, 2030 is the date that everything seems to be happening. but i think that's when want the think that's when they want the actual reset happen. actual great reset to happen. well, agenda 2030 is or is well, the agenda 2030 is or is all there exactly some of those ambitions will not necessarily be all bad. and some some people would that we have many would argue that we have so many people now that we do people on planet now that we do need element organic need an element of organic ization that humanity might need organising. the organising. that will be the logic except think we're logic, except i think we're heading population crash heading for a population crash anyway we're going anyway because we're going to have people and not have lot of old people and not enough young to support enough young people to support them . so i don't necessarily buy them. so i don't necessarily buy that argument. and i think that if we can break it down into smaller, more local, i think that humanity would be served better . so let's talk about better. so let's talk about this. this cashless society that we're moving towards. obviously a lot of this happened under the auspices of covid and lockdowns , was that cash was seen to carry a virus and therefore lots of shops would not accepting it. now, of course, we've come out

of that and a lot of shops have said, well, for convenience we, no longer use cash. that's can be very difficult for certain members of the public who use cash or perhaps the elderly they don't have the same access to a bank and the huge social change afoot. what are the implications for you of us not having a cash in the in the system? every single thing you do will be tracked and it will be recorded and it will be there forever . so and it will be there forever. so there's no anonymity . it will there's no anonymity. it will all be taken away from you and it will go one step further and they will be able to control what you spend your money on. and it could even go further because they may even start programming contracts, employment contracts, where employees can say , we don't want employees can say, we don't want you to do this , and therefore, you to do this, and therefore, when pay that money, when we pay you that money, they'll be requirements attached to it. you've been writing about this in various publications and researching this susy for a while. i think it was i think it was in city. i am i am one of

the only newspapers that have dared to publish this. why is that ? i think dared to publish this. why is that? i think i think people don't understand it . and i think don't understand it. and i think if they did understand it, don't understand it. and i think if they did understand it , they if they did understand it, they wouldn't be doing the government's bidding. i'm not even 100% certain that the government understand, what they're trying to implement. you mean certain members of the government? so there might rishi rishi sunak understands it. he does. jeremy hunt fully understands he understands it. i hope he doesn't because otherwise it's a very plan . but is it very sinister plan. but is it once this changes so people will say, okay , well, they may be say, okay, well, they may be planning to turn up this huge upheaval of our financial systems our monetary system systems and our monetary system . of course, if the . but of course, if the conservatives lose the next election and keir starmer comes in, there may be these ambitions will be ditched and we will return to cash. now, this is this is something that's been happening globally. there's that there's a cbdc tracker where you can actually look to see the different stages that each

country are at. so india and china are further ahead and there are other countries, but most countries are looking to implement some form of cbdc. most countries are looking to implement some form of cbdc . so implement some form of cbdc. so this is a global initiative . this is a global initiative. what you may not know the answer this, suzanne, it might be a bit mean because of course, all sort of scrabbling around to find the facts around this and it isn't entirely and entirely transparent. and i think that's one of the reasons i really discuss it, because i really to discuss it, because there is information there are there is information to sunak getting to say the rishi sunak getting very it. we've very excited about it. we've videos before he was videos of that. before he was prime minister and but what can people do where can they go to understand this? what can they do right. their mp asked for more clarification . keep using more clarification. keep using cashif. more clarification. keep using cash if . you have a problem with cash if. you have a problem with the idea of this? i i think once they've decided that they're going to move forward, they will move forward . there is move forward. there is a consultation form on the bank of england website where you can lodge your concerns, but i can't see that it would make any difference because as i said, this is a global agenda. this

isn't something that the have just decided to do. it's being rolled out across all countries that just different stages . that just at different stages. so they will try and forces away from cash . i don't think from cash. i don't think spending more cash is going to stop it. i think the only way to stop it. i think the only way to stop it. i think the only way to stop it is to peacefully opt out and we need to start using a peer to peer cash system that sets outside government control and the only practical is bitcoin. they will try and muddy the waters with other cryptocurrency sees, but they're all centralised to people just don't realise there is no ceo with bitcoin. nobody owns it. it's a people's army. it's with bitcoin. nobody owns it. it's a people's army . it's such it's a people's army. it's such a complex issue, isn't it? and i think if you don't really understand bitcoin , which a lot understand bitcoin, which a lot of us don't and a lot of people watching this may not understand how how bitcoin works, it's very, very difficult to work out how this will connect , how this how this will connect, how this will affect us in the future . will affect us in the future. when we talk about these big social changes . suzi i always social changes. suzi i always want to try and put it into into

kind of real world examples of what the difference would be if you were using a centralised banking digital currency is programmable and that would look like what that wi fi say. if i want to go into the supermarket and i want to buy my food . you and i want to buy my food. you mentioned this at the beginning, but give me a few more examples. like what may we be allowed or not allowed to do? so i think there's a drive to eating less meat and if they decide that that furthers the climate change. yeah to say gender. yep then they will implement that as a governmental social agenda and they will put limits on the amount of meat that you can buy. right. so it could be the travel, the amounts of the types of foods that we could eat in china . i know we're not there china. i know we're not there yet and i don't want to terrify

people, but the social credit system in is also tied to a biometric id system. we're heading that way. we're heading towards digital ids and so everything will be on a digital and can be switched off. so your entire id could just go , okay. entire id could just go, okay. suzy file award, thank you so much. i think we've barely scratched the surface of that topic, but thank you very much for joining us here this forjoining us here this morning. let me know what you think, okay. the prime minister has addressing broadcasters think, okay. the prime minister hacentraladdressing broadcasters think, okay. the prime minister ha central cornwall,] broadcasters think, okay. the prime minister ha central cornwall, apparently.ers in central cornwall, apparently. let's a listen . i believe let's have a listen. i believe it's really important to me and the government is keen to families. that's why delighted that we've announced hundreds, millions of pounds of new funding to roll out family hubs across the country. the centres like the one we're in today in cornwall, that bring together local services to support especially young parents to raise their families. fantastic to meet team here and see to meet the team here and see the incredible work that they're doing. delighted we're doing. and i'm delighted we're going to more of going to be able to do more of this across the country. this right across the country. when you speak families very

when you speak to families very loud in which astronomically loud in which are astronomically high in this country, highest to one of the highest, the uk mosquito net worth because luton nurseries are closing . surely nurseries are closing. surely this be a priority. what this has to be a priority. what are to do about are you going to do about childcare? definitely part of supporting families is supporting strong families is making have a really making sure we have a really good system that's good childcare system that's affordable convenient for affordable and convenient for parents. we have lots of parents. so we have lots of different to support different ways to support parents. for example, for those on universal credit , they on universal credit, they can receive of childcare receive 85% of their childcare costs reimbursed for those working parents with three and four year olds. they can get up to 30 hours of free childcare for other parents. they can receive for other parents. they can receiv e £2,000 a year back receive £2,000 a year back through something tax through something called tax free childcare. i know not free childcare. but i know not everyone understands everyone who was understands the different urge different offers, so i'd urge people online, look at people to go online, look at the help for households website on gov.uk, where you can see the type of support available type of support that's available for it is for childcare because it is important support important that we support families childcare and families with childcare and there a range of ways that there are a range of ways that we now. we've forgotten we do that now. we've forgotten 2 on 2 degrees because not much on the political in terms of the political agenda in terms of energy costs and what's happening in april. martin lewis has chancellor

has written to the chancellor today he reckons 1.7 today saying that he reckons 1.7 million will go into million households will go into fuel poverty. it's late, he fuel poverty. it's too late, he says, to look at this in the budget. are you potentially going at ahead going to look at this ahead of the budget? well, we know energy costs a major challenge for costs are a major challenge for the that's why in the country, and that's why in the country, and that's why in the the the autumn statement, the chancellor support chancellor considerable support for families and down the for families up and down the country with their energy bills , direct payments of up to £900 to help the most vulnerable families . obviously we have the families. obviously we have the energy price guarantee, which limits the increase in bills for families, pensioners that families, the pensioners that we're providing a record increase and the national living wage is also going up putting an extra £600 in people's pay packet. so there's considerable for people with energy bills . for people with energy bills. but that's why earlier this week announced a change in how government works. we created a brand new department for energy security so that we can really focus this issue and get focus on this issue and get people's bills down. one of my priorities is to halve inflation, and we're going to do that by reducing energy costs. that's week we created that's why this week we created a department led by

a brand new department led by one my top ministers. so that one of my top ministers. so that we can really get to grips with this issue and people's energy bills over time. okay, let's look talked look at ukraine. you talked yesterday that nothing is off the table . potentially fighter the table. potentially fighter jets might be on the table. the truth is that we can't do that. we've these fighter jets. we've got these fighter jets. some ones we don't some of the ones we have don't really properly. i think really work properly. i think even if we did, it's going to take a long time. not really sustainable. you give them false hope almost by suggesting we could fighter jets. well hope almost by suggesting we coulthing fighter jets. well hope almost by suggesting we coulthing i'm|hter jets. well hope almost by suggesting we coulthing i'm reallyzts. well hope almost by suggesting we coulthing i'm really proudell hope almost by suggesting we coulthing i'm really proud of one thing i'm really proud of and should be really and everyone should be really proud the leading role proud of is the leading role that united has that the united kingdom has played military and played in providing military and other to ukraine. and other assistance to ukraine. and as minister i announced first amongst g7 countries that we would provide main battle tanks to ukraine that catalyse other countries doing the same. that's going to make a major difference in the coming months in the conflict. i also had very good conversations with president zelenskyy yesterday about our ability provide long—range ability to provide long—range missiles don't currently missiles that don't currently have, which again are going to make a big difference in the struggle against russian

aggression . and of course, we're aggression. and of course, we're talking about further support potentially aircraft as potentially with aircraft as well. the important first step of that journey is to make sure that we provide the training for ukrainian pilots to be able to use very sophisticated use that very sophisticated equipment. we yesterday equipment. and we yesterday that again, the first nation again, we'll be the first nation to training ukrainian to start training ukrainian pilots nato's standard pilots on nato's standard aircraft. that's a really positive forward step. and we will continue stand by will continue to stand by ukraine because want to see ukraine because we want to see them okay, two them victorious. okay, just two foreign one turkey foreign questions. one on turkey and earthquake that we know and the earthquake that we know today, i think the launch of today, i think is the launch of the disasters emergency committee . and the committee appeal. and is the government to match government willing to match every that's raised every pound that's raised through i it's 2 through that? i think it's 2 million at moment with the million at the moment with the government potentially government look at potentially going obviously going further. it will obviously what's happening in turkey is just an awful, what's happening in turkey is just an awful , awful tragedy just an awful, awful tragedy and, you know, the scale of human loss is something that is hard to comprehend. and i spoke to president erdogan of turkey just the other day to express our solidarity and sympathy and make sure that we provide all the support we can as a country. people should know that we send

very quickly 77 specialists, search rescue teams who search and rescue teams who arrived couple of days ago , arrived a couple of days ago, started work straight away . started work straight away. they're already making a difference ground. and, difference on the ground. and, of ministers are in of course, all ministers are in touch their counterparts. touch with their counterparts. and to providing all and to continue providing all assistance . and the government assistance. and the government has match assistance. and the government has said it will matc h £5 has said it will match £5 million. fact, everyone's million. in fact, of everyone's contribution to dec appeal . so contribution to dec appeal. so please, if you give generously , please, if you give generously, the government will match that and we can get that extra support to people on the support to the people on the ground need it. and finally, what would you say you and what would you say to you and your who want to your colleagues who want to bnng your colleagues who want to bring the penalty in bring back the death penalty in this that's not this country? well, that's not my view. that's not the government's view. but are unhed government's view. but are united conservative united in the conservative party in relentless in to be absolutely relentless in to be absolutely relentless in bearing on crime and in bearing down on crime and making sure people safe and making sure people are safe and feels safe. that's why we recently tightened up sentencing laws the most violent laws for the most violent criminals so they spend longer in . it's why we're on our in prison. it's why we're on our way to having 20,000 more police officers on streets, and officers on our streets, and we're those police we're giving those police officers more powers to tackle crime, whether it's stop and search or justice week in

parliament, we're police parliament, we're giving police officers tackle officers the power to tackle violent and extremist protesters. that's because we want to make sure people are safe . they feel safe, and that's safe. they feel safe, and that's what we're delivering . they're what we're delivering. they're to talking darren mccaffrey in cornwall. everyone's in cornwall this morning. are they ? joanna this morning. are they? joanna williams i was sitting there, listened to him banging on about the family hub and how this is going to save family. it used to be called the sure start programme, didn't it? i can see no difference in what he's announcing. not. i announcing. absolutely not. i mean, completely mean, i completely agree and this embarrassing , it this is a bit embarrassing, it seems because we just seems to me, because we just keep reinventing wheel in keep on reinventing the wheel in this what's with this country. what's wrong with us? mean, three children us? i mean, three children myself. i speak from perth. myself. i can speak from perth. thanks say that thanks parents say that childcare nominally childcare is for a nominally expensive . i think we've got expensive. i think we've got like the second most expensive nursery provision of all the countries in europe . so like countries in europe. so like make cheaper. yeah. don't go make it cheaper. yeah. don't go around funding new centres. we don't need new centres, new family hubs . don't need new centres, new family hubs. i mean even don't need new centres, new family hubs . i mean even just family hubs. i mean even just the word family hope suggests this isn't just about childcare , about having

, isn't just about having a nursery place that can use nursery place that you can use for few hours once. you go off for a few hours once. you go off to work. but this is much more about intervening in family lives, telling parents that they're doing it wrong . you they're doing it wrong. you know, you've asked your know, unless you've asked your three what pronouns three year old what his pronouns are that you're a bad are that day, you're a bad mother , know, about mother, you know, it's about interfere in family life. it's not about just cheap, affordable childcare for parents who need it whilst they go to what are we just to cynical, mike? well john has raised a very good point there. i've never had children, right. but i've worked in industries like this most of my life, which are time intensive . life, which are time intensive. the number of times i've been running a department, i've had to let a female member of staff go home because the nanny has fallen sick or something like that , which fallen sick or something like that, which means somebody has got to get home and look after the children. and i've always felt it credit was sympathy for my female colleagues in our business. quite a ruthless business. quite a ruthless business. and you know, if you're there, somebody else you're not there, somebody else can in and that who've can step in and all that who've always another interest in always had another interest in life as big as their job and

life as big as theirjob and thatis life as big as theirjob and that is their children. what doesit that is their children. what does it say them? send your does it say to them? send your husband down look well, husband down to look up? well, i do. have a money occasion. do. i have a money occasion. know i mean, for me, it was a choice not to have children . choice not to have children. okay. but for those who have, i totally agree with you. you know, a female colleague know, i had a female colleague in a particularly important job. i've exasperated i've actually exasperated and said, , you know, can't i said, well, you know, can't i call your husband and get him to go home or something like that? and blank stare, know and just a blank stare, you know , you know, that , are you mad? you know, that never happens . and that kind of never happens. and that kind of thing. shouldn't say it thing. you shouldn't say it should. what saying should. so what i'm saying is that is pleased about the that john is pleased about the cost childcare in this cost of childcare in this country overwhelmingly a tax country is overwhelmingly a tax on women workers is predominantly not what. that's why you've got to do something about it. and that's why people like me shouldn't, you know, they should form some form of tax ation for me to help pay to assist professionals to assist women professionals to bnng assist women professionals to bring their children if they're working for me and i'm getting the benefit of their skills, you just you what, if just think, you know what, if it's family job and you're it's a family job and you're going have advice about

going to have advice about breastfeeding advice breastfeeding and her advice about childcare. yeah just provide breast colouring provide decent breast colouring , and , breastfeeding support and decent childcare support. anyway i think we've reached peak cynicism haven't we? i think we've come to the end of our first hour complete. how quickly that's i'm to be that's gone. i'm going to be joined conservative mp paul joined by conservative mp paul sealey just after this quick break. on foreign break. he sits on the foreign affairs select committee to get his thoughts on sending fighter jets ukraine. of that jets to ukraine. all of that after very short break. see after this very short break. see in a minute .

very good morning. welcome back to best wednesday on tv news before midday. we're going to be covering president tour of the eu and how our prime minister rishi sunak says that nothing is off the table when it comes to providing fighter jets for ukraine. what you want

ukraine. is that what you want your spent upon? your taxpayers money spent upon? not according to my inbox this morning let me know. morning do let me know. and a christian mother who's suing her school for forcing him to take part a parade. we part in a pride parade. we talked this actually last talked about this actually last week. her week. she's going to have her case in court today. i'll bring you latest on that. i'm to you the latest on that. i'm to be looking into planned be looking into the planned increase corporation increase in corporation taxes and will impact business and how it will impact business cases a very special report cases with a very special report from liam from our wonderful liam halligan. that's all coming up after a at the latest news after a look at the latest news with rihanna . first. thank you. with rihanna. first. thank you. good morning. it's 11:01. with rihanna. first. thank you. good morning. it's11:01. your top stories from the gb newsroom. around 70 members of uk international search and rescue have arrived in turkey. the team of volunteers includes fire fighters . and. nearly fire fighters. and. nearly 16,000 people are now known to have died after monday's devastating earthquakes in the south of the country and northern syria. dozens of british charities are launching

appeal today to raise funds for those affected. the disasters emergency committee is coordinating a rapid response by 14 charities, including the british red cross and oxfam . the british red cross and oxfam. the government says it will match any donations made by the public . vladimir zelenskyy has addressed european parliament at an eu summit in brussels. he's been lobbying leaders to provide more weapons to ukraine in the fight against russia . he told eu fight against russia. he told eu leaders his country's is defending itself against what he calls the biggest anti european force of the modern world. the head of the eu parliament's said the eu needs to consider giving ukraine jets quickly . zelenskyy ukraine jets quickly. zelenskyy travelled to brussels this morning after a brief stop in paris, one that followed his surprise visit to the uk yesterday . rishi sunak said yesterday. rishi sunak said nothing is off the table when it comes to providing fighter jets to ukraine. consumer analyst martin lewis has called for the plan to rise in the energy price

guarantee in april to be scrapped . the average bill is scrapped. the average bill is expected to rise from two and a half thousand pounds to 3000. if the cap is amended. but the founder , moneysavingexpert.com, founder, moneysavingexpert.com, has written to the chancellor asking him to cancel the proposed increase. mr. claims it's no longer necessary because wholesale energy prices have come down substantially . he's come down substantially. he's being supported by charities , being supported by charities, including citizens advice and national energy action. rishi sunak says he's created brand new energy department to focus on tackling the energy . my on tackling the energy. my priority is to halve inflation and we're going to do that by reducing energy costs. that's this week we created a brand new department led by one of my top ministers so that we can really get to grips with this issue and reduce people's energy bills over time. action . my over time. strike action. my firefighters has been put on hold while union members consider an increased pay offer. members of the uk fire brigades union held last minute talks with bosses yesterday after

rejecting an offer of a 5% increase. the union says , it's increase. the union says, it's considering a revised 7% pay rise backdated to july last year and another 5% from this july. they'll now ballot members on the proposal . meanwhile, the proposal. meanwhile, university staff and physiotherapists are striking in the latest wave of industrial action sweeping the country. around 70,000 university and college union members are walking off the job across 150 universities. meanwhile, the chartered society of physiotherapy striking at 33 trusts in england. it's accused government of being intransigent , refusing to discuss pay for the current financial year. , refusing to discuss pay for the current financial year . an the current financial year. an underwater search expert says the case of missing mother of two, nicola bailey, is complete , a complete mystery. that's after his team were unable to find her. peter fielding's called in. he was called to find the dog walker who went missing

almost two weeks ago. lancashire police says it still believes nicola bailey fell into the river. wyre superintendent sally riley described the search as with 40 detectives following 500 lines of enquiry. with 40 detectives following 500 lines of enquiry . the prince and lines of enquiry. the prince and princess of wales are visiting cornwall today. it's their first official joint trip to the county since taking on their new roles as the duke and duchess of cornwall . william and kate will cornwall. william and kate will visit the harbour town of falmouth to learn about its naval heritage , as well as naval heritage, as well as meeting members of the local community. it's prince william's second official visit to the area . he toured newquay last, area. he toured newquay last, december . the area. he toured newquay last, december. the business and trade secretary is on her way to mexico . she's looking to form mexico. she's looking to form new trading arrangements post—brexit . kemi badenoch will post—brexit. kemi badenoch will hold talks with her counterparts on the uk becoming part of a trans pacific partnership involving 11 countries and a coastal australia, canada, chile and japan . on her two day visit

and japan. on her two day visit of mexico city, she'll also look to update britain's 20 year old free trade with the country to involve digital services and technology . the prime minister technology. the prime minister rejected calls for the return of the death penalty made tory deputy chairman . in an interview deputy chairman. in an interview with the spectator mr. johnson that nobody's ever committed a crime after being executed . well crime after being executed. well the former labour councillor who converted to the tories was his new role on tuesday amid a cabinet reshuffle. the death penalty for murder in the uk was scrapped in 1969. it was abolished for all crimes. in 1998 and the number of people in england waiting for care has risen slightly but remains below the recent record high, according to new figures . nhs according to new figures. nhs england says around 7.2 million people are waiting to start routine treatment in december .

routine treatment in december. that's up from the previous month , but less than the 7.21 month, but less than the 7.21 million in october. that was the highest since records began. it's also found that around 1200 people have been waiting more than two years to start treatment . at the end of last treatment. at the end of last yeah treatment. at the end of last year. this is gb news of many more as happens now though it's fact that . fact that. very good morning welcome back by tennis day on tv news. here's what's coming on the show this morning . how will the planned morning. how will the planned corporations tax increase impact british businesses? i've got a special report from our brilliant economics and business editor liam halligan. he's also going to be joining me in the studio and the authorjohn williams and journalist mike parry will be back for the next hour to debate some of the other

biggest stories of day . of biggest stories of the day. of course, are my third course, you are my third panellist. you get in touch . panellist. you get in touch. email gb views at gb news dot email me gb views at gb news dot uk or tweet me at gb news. have your say . you've already be your say. you've already be getting in touch this . thank you getting in touch this. thank you so much. loads messages about ukraine and whether we are willing or not to keep supplying jets and further resources to zelenskyy barry says if we do back down, putin will have the green light to do whatever he wants in eastern europe , there wants in eastern europe, there is no point in trying to negotiate a peaceful end to this conflict , whereas chris negotiate a peaceful end to this conflict, whereas chris has got in to say this is madness. conflict, whereas chris has got in to say this is madness . they in to say this is madness. they are literally playing russian roulette with all of our lives . roulette with all of our lives. now the legal of a christian mother who's suing her son's school over a pride is set to be heard today . izzy montague made heard today. izzy montague made headunes heard today. izzy montague made headlines after taking her son's school to court, claiming that they forced her four year old

son to take part in a pride parade despite family's christian beliefs. joining me now is gb news national reporter paul hawkins , who is at the paul hawkins, who is at the royal court this morning. good morning, paul. what do we know about this case? it's first one of its kind, isn't it ? yeah, it of its kind, isn't it? yeah, it is. absolutely. it's the time a court has been asked to decide on the legality of teaching lg or scrutinised the legality of teaching lgbt values in primary school. it is scheduled for an eight day hearing starting last wednesday, so it should conclude either today or tomorrow and just to give you a little bit more background to the case, if you go back to june 2018, he primary school in london wrote to parents saying that he was inviting their children to take part in a pride parade to celebrate the differences that make them and their family special. now izzy montagu wrote back to the school saying that she was concerned about her four year old son being involved in a

pubuc year old son being involved in a public display of adherence to views that she did not accept because of her christianity. now, the school that her child couldn't opt . it also went on to couldn't opt. it also went on to ban her from the school grounds, saying that she the staff did not feel safe around her. now, she claimed the school on her four year old son. it gave her him a three hour detention. so she is now suing the school supported by the christian centre , the christian legal centre, the christian legal centre. and they are on the grounds of direct and indirect discrimination. also victimising and breach of statutory duty under the education act 1996 and the human act 1998. and as i say, it is the first case of its kind. so there are big implications depending on how the ruling goes. just to give you the schools response , they you the schools response, they say that as a school we have a duty, as stated by the department for education and reinforced by the early foundation stage framework to promote fundamental british values as part of the moral,

social and cultural development of our pupils. this includes teaching our pupils the important values of tolerance, inclusivity and equality so that everyone in our community feels safe, including and comfortable to be them . thank you, paul. we to be them. thank you, paul. we watch that with interest. paul hawkins there . let me know what hawkins there. let me know what you think about that. gb views. that's at gbnews.uk. now, the chancellor, jeremy , promised chancellor, jeremy, promised a low tax, high growth economy last summer, but this year, he's set to go ahead with the planned tax rise on firms profits from 19 to 25. moneyfacts has complained that this increase, along with the withdrawal of emergency help with firms energy bills, kill some companies bills, could kill some companies as well. one man who will know if this is true or not, of course, is liam halligan. good morning , liam. now do we want to morning, liam. now do we want to watch a film that you've made before i talk to you? yeah. why not? okay here is one voice, as they say in tennessee . clevedon they say in tennessee. clevedon fasteners opened in 1939 to make

the rivets some bolts for new spitfires. this proud west midlands firm now a new threat on the horizon because in april, corporation tax is rising from 19 to 25, just as the government support for clevedon earns huge energy bills. the government's taking the support that we have getting on energy away . the getting on energy away. the corporation tax is apparently going to go up if the stupid enough to do it. and so all those things are going to combine to make april and the subsequent months very , very subsequent months very, very difficult. clayton's energy costs have lately tripled to £16,000 a month. they'll again in april as emergency help is withdrawn . input costs have also withdrawn. input costs have also spiralled . with mould still spiralled. with mould still doubung spiralled. with mould still doubling and stainless steel up threefold . and steve says this threefold. and steve says this hiking corporation tax is based on what he calls a ridiculously

downbeat official forecasts. quite frequent , leigh. the quite frequent, leigh. the treasury and the office of budget responsibility have been wrong. they are forecasts . they wrong. they are forecasts. they always tend to be on the gloomy side and the basically is driving us into a deeper recession. in march 2021, the office for budget responsibility said government borrowing would soar to said government borrowing would soart said government borrowing would soar t 0 £234 billion a year, soar to £234 billion a year, which arguably forced ministers to spend less push up tax rates . as it turned out, though , . as it turned out, though, borrowing was just £125 billion, well over 100 billion less than the obe had predicted. had ministers known that they may have felt able to cut taxes or , have felt able to cut taxes or, spend more on public services . spend more on public services. the ap insists corporation tax rise will raise billion pounds a year. rise will raise billion pounds a year . steve says it will kill year. steve says it will kill off many companies instead. while those that do survive will invest less. the boss of the

confederation of british metal formers representing firms employing 40,000 workers agrees with steve. it totally stifles . with steve. it totally stifles. it's another board. it's the busiest. they've got budgets to pay ' busiest. they've got budgets to pay , suppliers to pay . they want pay, suppliers to pay. they want to do it to make a profit. they really want to invest in the company and invest in their people. they can't do that because corporate tax taking money away from these just stifles growth. treasury stifles growth. the treasury told gb news that firms with profits below told gb news that firms with profits belo w £250,000 will be profits below £250,000 will be protected from . the full rate of protected from. the full rate of corporation tax and those making under £50,000 will pay. no corporation tax at all. steve wants chancellor jeremy hunt to scrap this corporation rise in next month's spring statement but he says ministers have no respect for manufacturing . it's respect for manufacturing. it's typical of governments of all colours, i'm afraid. many factoring represents 2.7 million people. really good . proper

people. really good. proper jobs. people. really good. proper jobs . £36,000 average wage. we jobs. £36,000 average wage. we pay jobs. £36,000 average wage. we pay lot of tax. we keep the pubs and the cafes going and basic . and the cafes going and basic. they keep hammering us. they just keep hammering us. liam halligan gb news in sutton coldfield . liam, these videos coldfield. liam, these videos you keep doing for us is so brilliant and they're so depressing and you keep coming across the same sort of business person working incredibly hard and same kind of and with the same kind of business doesn't business person that doesn't usually the yeah. usually go on the telly. yeah. or if they are on the telly they get like 10 seconds soundbite. get like a 10 seconds soundbite. steve him in there. you steve hold him in there. you know, i wanted to give him scope to his partners to express he and his partners have really taken a bet on clevedon fasteners . as i said at clevedon fasteners. as i said at the beginning, it's this is a company that was founded to create the rivets and bolts that kept spitfires together in 1939. it's an incredibly proud company. it has a world class reputation , exports all over the reputation, exports all over the place , 30 employees and steve

place, 30 employees and steve thinks the combination of the removal of help with his massive energy bills have gone up from a triple. they've gone up, actually, the amount from 5000 to 16000 a month, right over the last couple of years. and they're going to go up again in april when the energies of port package is removed on top of. that corporation is going up 19 to 25, taking 6% of his margin in what is a very low margin business. so that means he's not going to invest, he's not going to expand. he's not going to employ anyone else. he's fine singing, fighting, fighting as so many small and medium sized enterprises are, to keep their staff to try and get through this problem . and i've had so this problem. and i've had so many emails over recent weeks from business leaders, you kind of see me and gb news as a as a place where they can get a fair hearing. we should a lot more on this, in my view and so many business leaders have contacts. it may not the big guns they know the big companies. they're

good at avoiding corporation tax. they use all the offsets . tax. they use all the offsets. and these are small companies. cash flow is everything and they think that there's rising corporation tax . well, if not, corporation tax. well, if not, if it doesn't kill off their businesses, pay no businesses, they pay no tax whatsoever . it's going businesses, they pay no tax whatsoever. it's going mean whatsoever. it's going to mean they lot less. so the they invest a lot less. so the government will less tax government will get less tax revenue. though , i tell revenue. overall, though, i tell you, one of the most shocking bits of that that particular item was obe, our item there was obe, our prediction , unbelievable being prediction, unbelievable being 100 billion in powdered 8 billion, 108 billion. this is a prediction that they get tired of men doing models that don't work liam halligan it seems to the root of all our problems. if somebody sits and they go, i'm going to put some numbers in and then going out. then it's going to come out. we're decide everything we're going to decide everything based and they're based on this and then they're wrong. talk as a as wrong. well, let me talk as a as a former professional, which isn't a former professional, which isnt you a former professional, which isn't you often hear on isn't a phrase you often hear on bev turner, know, bev turner, you know, professional well, professional anymore. well, now the but yet these the journalist, but yet these forecasts all are mathematical hocus spreadsheet . it's hocus pocus spreadsheet. it's everywhere. letter is lots everywhere. greek letter is lots of algebra. i've done that stuff. i spend a lot of my young

doing that stuff. in the end it's just educated guesswork that's what it is. we can't know the future and we take these over all these treasury four or five years out and we treat like holy writ the forecast put up on the screen there in that package . and radio listeners had was a forecast made in march 2020 148 forecast made in march 2020 148 for to all 21 april 22. so at the beginning of the forecast penod the beginning of the forecast period they might the forecast and of borrowing to 54 billion quid the british government borrowed quid the british government borrowe d £108 billion or less, borrowed £108 billion or less, which is unbelievable. miss which means which means ministers feel completely corralled . there's no way they corralled. there's no way they could have done the tax cuts. yeah. the, you know they couldn't have used the states balance sheet to stimulate the economy as they otherwise would have done . i mean, the have done. i mean, the implications of that massive mis forecast, which i to dig out those numbers from the national they're not press release or massive and that's why we need

to take a little bit of time to highlight them i don't i can't you here without just getting a very response to that interview that i did with the journalist earlier the fintech expert suzy about the incoming central bank digital currency. what did you make of it ? so digital currency. what did you make of it? so a lot of people say crypto currency is dead because of the fintech scandals. sam bankman—fried said, i don't buy that at all. what sam bankman—fried did was was was a lot more do with being a ponzi scheme. yeah i think he's still denying wrongdoing , so he's not denying wrongdoing, so he's not here to defend himself . there's here to defend himself. there's a less to do with crypto a lot less to do with crypto currency. look, crypto currency is an incredible technological advance . hence the reason that advance. hence the reason that become so popular is because central banks around the world have printed more regular money, and money has its value in its scarcity. the thing something like bitcoin is that it will only be 21 million of. but the best way of valuing the brits coin that we're going to have here that we should be getting very about good or bad . well very about good or bad. well central bank digital currencies

are from crypto . i am are different from crypto. i am concerned about the fact that we're taking cash completely out of society and concerned about the extent to which that imposes control on ordinary people and it gives the government ability to now absolutely everything about absolutely what in our lives, what we're spending it's like a kind of surveillance culture. now, i'm not saying that the bank of england is being run by, you know, any kind of conspiracy but i do think at the very least , you're of conspiracy but i do think at the very least, you're doing it and congratulations but we need to discuss the democratic and constitutional implications of these digital currencies and not see them as just a technical change. that's not going to affect us because as liam brennan, as always, right after the break, calling children is now being branded a fat shaming. you get stuck into that office. right? quick .

break welcome back. it's 1123. we've had a very busy show this morning. this is bev turner today on. gb news mike parry is still here. me and author and academic joanna williams also with me. right. thanks, guys . with me. right. thanks, guys. phillip, we can take a little bit of a well. yes, absolutely. all right. mike ross in action , all right. mike ross in action, full of energy. here we go. right this is a story talking about this this we're in this country. we have this thing called the national child measurement program, which was introduced ago , was introduced a few years ago, was named it was named joanna, and it was weighing children, taking their height be height in order to be a statistical gathering and data gathering service. so queen mary, university of london looked at the results of this study. they want to assess the impact it had on children judged to be overweight . and what did to be overweight. and what did they conclude . well, they've they conclude. well, they've said that it's damaging for children's self—esteem if they're they're and they're told that they're and that this can have very bad

consequences . a child's mental consequences. a child's mental health. but it just seems to me that we've really got a unhealthy obsession in this country with children's weight generally , whether that's either generally, whether that's either telling them that the fat obsessing over what they eat, how much they eat , obsessing over what they eat, how much they eat, i'm my obsessing over what they eat, how much they eat , i'm my motto, how much they eat, i'm my motto, really is just let kids be kids. i if we're worried about children's weight, you i if we're worried about children's weight , you know, children's weight, you know, rather than weighing a measure and obsessing about what might eat, let them have more time for pe. if more time for playtime, get them walking to school. all those things would be better. so this not national measurement program, it's the idea that you weigh a measure every child under five and again, when they're 11 and you send a letter home for parents now, full disclosure withdrew my children from this because i just thought you what it is no one's business other than mine and my husband's and my child's how much my children weighed you know it's nothing to do with a researcher with teacher, with anyone else

over to me and actually as a parent , i over to me and actually as a parent, i don't need anyone to tell me that a nice taken a pat on the back. yes. your child's the right way or, you know, a cross. no your child's overweight . i cross. no your child's overweight. i will be in charge of that. thank you very much. but what if your child is suffering with their health and they desperately overweight ? i they desperately overweight? i think with 10% of children now with clinically obese, by the time they start at primary school. that's right. and is hard to ever get over it. it makes it hard for that to the rest of look, if a child's got a medical, then obviously we've got good enough national got a good enough national health in this to give health service in this to give the child treatment to try and help this is help that condition. this is a load of absolute baloney. i can tell when a kid is overweight. he looks like billy . right? and he looks like billy. right? and the kid next to him doesn't look like billy bunter. the kid next to him doesn't look like billy bunter . you don't like billy bunter. you don't need all these test, you know? you don't need to be. start measuring. we've all seen the stories which john is alluded to about. kids being sent home with about. kids being sent home with a letter, a perfectly healthy kid, letter to say

kid, send them a letter to say your child is clinically obese because we found quarter of an inch his stomach it's inch of flesh his stomach it's absolute nonsense. when i was at school, had a lab called bob school, we had a lab called bob jordan. right. bob, as jordan. right. and bob, as you're i'm sorry if i you're watching, i'm sorry if i was you. i him he wasn't was hard on you. i him he wasn't going to into the football going to get into the football until he lost lot weight until he lost a lot of weight team is fat kid in the class team is the fat kid in the class want to who lost a lot of weight isn't difference though when isn't the difference though when we were growing up there one we were growing up there was one fat kid the class right? so fat kid in the class right? so half you would look at half of them you would look at and i did it more. i would and go, i did it more. i would say, we've normalised too say, are we've normalised too big child often is a big a child? a child often is a healthy weight. people would be getting a bit sceptical about some of these statistics. so when about obesity, when we talk about obesity, well, this bmi well, we're using this bmi measure on kids, which kind of takes your height and your takes your height and takes your weight complex weight and a complex mathematical formula, and then comes oh , obese. comes out and says, oh, obese. actually, that's unscientific in general for everyone because rugby players , you know, rugby players, you know, international athletes have be categorised thing you mass is heavy but apply that very crudely to children yeah so

growing you know might help me have more growth spurt my you're so right you get so right you go look at this i've got from the national late it's national figures national child measurement programme says that by 11 23.4% of children in this country are obese. rubbish. you tell me . one in four children at tell me. one in four children at 11, right? well in that case. but i've got to move on to my point and that is that the main for children not becoming obese is that of their parents. yes. and if the parents take him down to mcdonald's three times a week and then stuffed pizza in the face on the other two days a week, the child's going to get a piece because the parent is being idle and it's parenting responsibly. then responsibly. the question then is you were a parent and you is if you were a parent and you got a letter home like this, is it going make and it going to make you stop and change? change the change? going to change the parent. but you know what? it's going to arguments in the going to cause arguments in the house. many things, house. like so many things, it could households could division in households because then the mother, the letter father saying, you letter or the father saying, you know, was his you may know, what was his name? you may at jordan. bob jordan, at school jordan. bob jordan, bob jones . you left three other bob jones. you left three other things available and then the

poor who's been brought up in a house he might have access to too much high carbohydrate foods , let's say. not getting enough exercise. yeah he's then got his mum going , look, we've got a mum going, look, we've got a letter from the school. don't eat that. you make him division in the household as well is absolutely is the state that's weak parenting. again this if don't don't don't you don't you from a very early age have to say children i'm in charge of what goes inside your body because you're actually not old enough to make your mind up about what's good and what's not good. but good. it takes knowledge, but it's you again. it's not good for you again. then focusing on like what then we're focusing on like what they on they? eat. we're focusing on what children into their what children put into their bodies, which is clearly part of the exercise the equation, but also exercise for no true leads. so for children no true leads. so nowadays you had in the past. that's a very good point . and that's a very good point. and schools, i think, are partly to blame for this. yeah. cut down on the amount of time children have for playtime. you just to be in school, be unsupervised in school, playground, running around, playing catch you cases chasing is fun got rid of playing fields

exactly. ready playing from time to time because i'm worried about all the health and safety implications. about all the health and safety implications . totally agree. and implications. totally agree. and there brilliant head in there was that brilliant head in scotland. remember, a few years ago won award for and she ago she won an award for and she introduced daily mail. introduced the daily mail. yeah. so had to walk a so the children had to walk a mile school day. sounds mile at school every day. sounds like for a walk, but like people go for a walk, but they just had to go out and they went round the sports field a few every single class few times. every single class in the had do it in the the school had to do it in the day and health of those day and the health of those increased dramatically. exactly. no conflict, no. don't no conflict, no, no. you don't even have to do that. i think 12:00 the ball goes for lunchtime open the doors, throw a load footballs and ropes a load of footballs and ropes out as i see you in and out there as i see you in and our kids. yeah but then on sitting doing that anymore are they. i don't know i think if nothing else to do and they've got balls already the got balls you've already the point that to play with. point like that to play with. they around they draw they will run around they draw the some electronic the pe on some electronic machine. wouldn't like them running rec and running around in the rec and also have sympathy for also i do have sympathy for inner children because inner city children because there nature in there aren't nature trails in inner cities, you inner cities, are they. you know, you can't go walk round the times. what do

the field three times. what do you do, walk, walk around the streets to. us well, of streets to. us as well, of course. that with our diets, course. is that with our diets, messaging that we've for messaging that we've had for several and that public several years and that public health with the health england plate with the half carbohydrate, half protein , there so many people now , there are so many people now saying not the saying that is just not the healthy way live and need to healthy way live and we need to give more protein and less give kids more protein and less to yet what are we doing with taking the menu in taking meat off the menu in scotland is now off the scotland meat is now off the menu in schools in scotland what are they going to replace it with a big bowl of creamy pasta covered in cheese and it's just we've got it all wrong. i think we're moving up. the food can be hungry this lunchtime , right? hungry this lunchtime, right? coming up in just a moment, we're going some of the we're going to see some of the support that's place here support that's taking place here in those impacted by in the uk for those impacted by the devastating earthquake. syria and turkey . the devastating earthquake. syria and turkey. i'll the devastating earthquake. syria and turkey . i'll see you syria and turkey. i'll see you in just a moment. it's 1131. syria and turkey. i'll see you in just a moment. it's1131. i'm rhiannon jones in the gb newsroom. around 70 members of

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welcome back. i've signed a stay on gb news. thank you for joining me. so more 15,000 people have now been killed by the devastating earthquake which hit turkey and syria on monday . hit turkey and syria on monday. the uk government has announced more support for both countries, including items such as including vital items such as tents and blankets will be provided to help survivors cope with. subzero conditions so joining me now for more is gb news is west reporter jack carson . good morning, jack. what carson. good morning, jack. what what more do we know about this awful unfolding tragedy and where are you in terms of bringing to us the story of the help provided ? well, both story help provided? well, both story is, as you mentioned, it's needing us. 16,000 people have sadly died , because of this sadly died, because of this earthquake, we know, of course, the devastation in terms of the

buildings that have fallen, there's so many rescue efforts going in turkey in, of course, one of the big problems when it came to this earthquake was that the two earthquakes in the short amount of time, also then the aftershocks that the earthquake caused one of the aftershock, this alone was around six, 6.5. we know the earthquake was about 7.8 on the scale. this is one of the aftershocks alone with 6.5. so you can imagine how unstable, of course, that would have made the buildings, which is why we've so many of we've seen so many of them collapse. course, massive collapse. of course, massive rescue are to rescue efforts are underway to try as many people out try and get as many people out from rubble. but of course, from the rubble. but of course, as goes on that window, as time goes on that window, when people can be saved and fortunately does get smaller and smaller, only because, of smaller, not only because, of course, the fact that they're under rubble, but because of how cold well. we know in cold it as well. we know in certain syria, the certain parts of syria, the temperatures as low as minus six when comes the evening and when it comes to the evening and overnight. here back home in overnight. but here back home in birmingham, we are getting lots and lots of the community come here specifically summer here specifically to the summer food bank and baby bro's who are

basically reaching out to the and as part of their community project the sending over aid to syria and to turkey to try and help those families and those people that have now been displaced from their if you just look to the left of me, what can see is some of the businesses that are going to loaded on some lorries. we've got toiletries and of course, all and baby items if of course, all those young people and, all those young people and, all those families, non—perishable as lorries and as well. we've had lorries and vans come and pick up bedding . vans come and pick up bedding. and now by emraan and i'm joined now by emraan hamid, who is the founder of bd brothers, is organising this project. tell me about the project. tell me about the project and it's all about as soon as the sort of earthquake happened, taking syria , we were happened, taking syria, we were inundated with messages , emails inundated with messages, emails of people saying, can we do locally? we specialise in local projects. i was , you know what, projects. i was, you know what, let's do it. we don't have a ukraine. so we got stuck in and we've received , i would say, we've received, i would say, over 800 emails and messages , us over 800 emails and messages, us text messages over the last two

days. people just want to come and donate food and clothing to us so that we can get this aid out to people. and we've seen a lot of people come this morning what of what have you what's been brought? blankets , been brought? coats, blankets, shoes, trainers, baby nappies, toiletries you name it. the kitchen sink and we've seen lorries. and here, where are these lorries going to go? house is actually going to go and get out to turkey and syria. we have got different charity partners . got different charity partners. so at the moment we are liaising turkish to out turkish airlines to send out some that , then we got all some if that, then we got all the people who are going to be driving lorries out there. so it's a it's a bit of a longer term measure collecting clothing and food from here and sending you reckon you over there. but i reckon first load 4 to 5 days. what's the reaction like? you're such a big part of the community. what's the reaction been like from committee for this from the committee for this tragedy? feeling tragedy? how are people feeling in area? devastated. that's in this area? devastated. that's one word. the so is coming out one word. the so is coming out on social media. young kids buned on social media. young kids buried in the rubble mums dads

everywhere it's been really really saddening and this is what that is touch people's hearts on what's happened a tragedy and people are extremely saddened. they want to just they don't want to just sit there. they want to do something physically and this is what they're doing and tell me a bit about the other projects that you here. you mentioned you do here. you mentioned ukraine a much of ukraine and how such a much of a big effort you've put big an effort that you've put into as well. yeah, into that as well. yeah, absolutely. ukraine we sent over about 200 of aid. last about 200 tonnes of aid. last time tried that was our first time we tried that was our first try was it went try and it was it went absolutely mental. people absolutely mental. we had people sending abroad even sending stuff from abroad even people travelling from london, leicester far afield, you know, just coming to off to us and we together , we networked and got together, we networked and got stuff that this is what we're trying to do with the exact same situation with turkey syria situation with turkey and syria because, you know, they're in trouble right now. and for people might people watching home that might be area, how can be around this area, how can they involved with your they get involved with your project, help out? we project, be able to help out? we have telephone number, have one telephone number, 07767164246 or google bearded brazil, the salma food bank. go

to our website right at the moment is thursday on fridays from 10:00 to 4:00, you can come and drop off stuff to was getting involved in that manner getting involved in that manner get you stuff get your new stuff whatever you've got bring it to us we'll sure that we all us we'll make sure that we all get it to imran you so get it to them. imran you so much joining me this much for joining me this morning. this is the situation here in burma, of course , i here in burma, of course, i mentioned the situation there in turkey , syria, as the rescue turkey, syria, as the rescue efforts continue . thank you, efforts continue. thank you, jack. you very much. my jack. thank you very much. my guests are still here. john williams and mike parry. but let's get stuck into these stories . a really stories. this is a really interesting piece , the mail interesting piece, the mail today. is about the first today. this is about the first person account of a 14 year old student, a girl who was talking about she's written about what it's like to be in school when there is so much obsession with trans gender issues. she talks about the fact that she went to the school secretary. she says she has short hair and the teacher who knew her quite well called her they rather than she in reference to another teacher saying, you know, she needs a

book something. and they book for something. and they said need a book and when said they need a book and when the called them out they the mom called them out they said, she said, well, she thought she might as though might transitioning as though this a completely normal this is now a completely normal joanna i mean this is joanna yeah i mean this is really quite an eye opening account and i my hat off to this girl i mean the very sad thing is the fact that she's had to be anonymous with this account, the fact put her fact that she didn't put her name it because she's worried name to it because she's worried about reaction she'd about the reaction that she'd get from her friends and, from her just shows how her teachers, just shows how this school and this ideology is in school and how and how how threatening and how intimidate these intimidate you think these people actually be. but it's people can actually be. but it's eyewatering what she's describing here of if you've got short hair and wear trousers, it's galled that you're assumed to be transitioning the sheer numbers. she talks about 20 out of her young group of 200 nearly all girls who are now transitioning to be boys how they're treated, as if they're kind of cool and special, but transitioning so they get being encouraged to do it all by exactly being to do it. they are it's no figures . you know, look,

it's no figures. you know, look, ihave it's no figures. you know, look, i have , you know, great empathy i have, you know, great empathy for transgender people. i understand the position they're in. and i don't want to stand in the way of what they have to do to try and get to a better life. but i think the number of transgender in this country is officially about nought, 2. and across the whole population. so it might be 0.1% amongst children. so why are being encouraged to recognise something like that not only think in this very same story, john has just read us another teacher said lady macbeth was neither a man or a woman. well no, lady macbeth is actually a woman and has been since shakespeare wrote the play. yeah. so how confusing is that for a young mind using ? it's for a young mind using? it's confusing, but i think worse than confusing it's sexist because of course, is what we're being told is that if you're a woman who's not stereotypically kind , nice over time, gentle kind, nice over time, gentle wearing skirts and long hair dresses, then clearly you must be a man . and so this rather be a man. and so this rather than this kind of broadening the category support for what it

means to be a woman to say, look, girls, you know , the look, girls, you know, the whilst you've always said you can do anything, you can dress how you like being whoever you like, but still be a girl. it's said, you know, you recall said, you know, if you recall who quite conform, who doesn't quite conform, here's strong here's a bit quirky. it's strong minded. then clearly you must be a boy . so on the part of the a boy. so on the part of the teachers, it's the fear from the teachers, it's the fear from the teachers i think of not being able to probably speak up if they suspect this is going too far in schools because they believe that the sort of the paradigm is this now where they're like there's been a paradigm shift no child necessarily has that they were born with and we all have to. but who are the teachers frightened, upsetting them because the teachers are supposedly in charge of the school. they're supposed to be looking after welfare of the looking after the welfare of the children. if a teacher does secretly think, hang on, i'm very uncomfortable with the way the children now being the children are now being encouraged to examine their own sexuality in their own identity

. surely the teachers are in a position to say this has gone too far. are you saying it's the head teacher? you're saying it's the chairman of the governors? are you saying it's some of the parents they'll be frightened of? are also of? some parents are also indulging this a indulging these this there is a social contagion. let's it teenagers all ways. that's teenagers of all ways. that's what teenagers are. they look for they want to for their tribe. they want to fit in or they want a huge of attention for doing something a little bit different. absolutely. i think you absolutely. but but i think you completely you know, the completely right. you know, the teachers the adults here. teachers are the adults here. and know, as well and i think, you know, as well as which the as educating which you see the one they've got to safeguard one job they've got to safeguard and got to protect and they've got to protect children. means all and children. and that means all and that i think, protect that means, i think, protect them from these harmful ideas . them from these harmful ideas. you ten, 11, 12 year olds, you know, ten, 11, 12 year olds, as far as i'm concerned, a 14, 15 year old should be wearing a breast binder, know exactly that. it's physically harmful for when that child goes to talk about children running around playtime, you know, rather than saying, no, you are not wearing a breast binder in schools . a breast binder in schools. teachers are acquiescing to this and are actually making

allowances . or you can sit out allowances. or you can sit out if you you don't need to run around because if your breast binder, tell them to take the breast binder off. teachers need to get some courage, pay a bit brave, and stand up for the education secretary. you be stepping in it. much as we were talking about sally braverman, the secretary show, the home secretary in the show, getting stuck in to the thing. she's responsible for. well, i mean, michael used to the education sector. i thought he was one, actually. was a good one, actually. somebody needs to be actively getting saying , getting in there and saying, this got to stop this philosophy has got to stop . i mean, keegan is telling schools open schools they must be more open about handling about their handling of transition well, what she transition well, i hope what she means that is that be more and then we can you know , get on it then we can you know, get on it and stop it rather her saying let's spread the philosophy because we all follow because thinking like as a parent i know that my children's school there's a kids are there's quite a few kids are non—binary you know my 13 year old will sort of roll their eyes about, you know, what we've got, you know, three three in my you know, three and three in my year a non—binary mummy yeah year a non—binary mummy and yeah you kids themselves you know the kids themselves don't some the

don't know what to some of the ones are a little bit on the ones who are a little bit on the outside of that particular subculture which is what it become. a subculture. they become. yes. a subculture. they don't how it. don't really know to how it. now, is genuinely now, if there is genuinely a child is got genuine mental health, genuine dislike of themselves. so much so that they wants to become a different person altogether. that child some proper support but whilst another in the class go oh i'm going to wear a chest pain to two it's quite fun. yes, two because it's quite fun. yes, that child has genuine that child who has genuine problems going to get problems is going to get neglect. i mean, neglect. absolutely. i mean, schools , nobody's wins. schools, nobody's nobody wins. no, absolutely . and schools and no, absolutely. and schools and teachers, encouraging teachers, they are encouraging this. they teaching. i said this. they are teaching. i said one of the things that the girl says very brave says here, this very brave girl who's report as she who's written this report as she talks the school entrance talks about the school entrance being emblazoned with rainbow flags as non flags and labels such as non binary poly sexual demi boy, demi girl and pansexual now you tell me why. it is unbelievable . i think you need to know those words rubbish was words that made that rubbish was that these are not proper category in the real world. is it going to teach them french? teach them and expand their

engush teach them and expand their english vocabulary , make people english vocabulary, make people know that with their 14 years old? yeah, 14 years old, you might have quite the boy in the other class or whatever, but you didn't need to label what was just needed to be allowed to grow up and into yourself. self all of that in, in my case is going to be interesting, isn't it. and we've got to move on because another pandemic coming. oh health organisation of sorts and i mean i understand so but we've had that they tried it with monkey pox didn't they. world health organisation have wanted comedy until wanted comedy names until they make it. the world make it out of it. the world health organisation and says we must prepare potential bird must prepare for potential bird flu hate and flu pandemic if hate five and one strain to one avian strain jumps to mammals take it seriously. you no, not at all. do you know what i do? take that i think is really, really and is really, really and pathetic is that there clearly a group of that there is clearly a group of people out not people at people out there, not people at the organisation the world health organisation amongst who are clearly amongst this who are clearly nostalgic for the days of covid and lockdown . yeah. seem to and lockdown. yeah. seem to would love nothing more than to take right back there. i mean take us right back there. i mean maybe miss the power and

maybe they miss the power and the control they had over all our lives. maybe they miss lockdown not able to maybe lockdown not being able to maybe so sad. they miss not being having an excuse socialise. i remember there was profits to be made. we created more billionaires the pandemic than any other time in human history. we certainly did. i mean, this around about every ten years, the flu was i'm a property the bird flu was i'm a property investor . about 15 the bird flu was i'm a property investor. about 15 years ago investor. and about 15 years ago i got this ridiculous advice , i got this ridiculous advice, you know, from somebody who's managing my properties . if managing my properties. if i were you, i'd get out of the property market. oh, y well, we've read there's to be we've read there's going to be an outbreak . avian bird flu an outbreak. avian flu, bird flu . it's estimated over a million people are going to die. and that means there's going to be a lot of spare property on the market. now, not one market. i'd get out now, not one person died is how it happens. these ridicule scariest you know scams reports come out oh we're all doomed role die always goes on about you know it goes from birds to otters and all this kind of stuff. yes. but we've got you know, we've got decent enough medicine in this country

to contain all that. and there's never been an example it never been an example of it leaping to a human and killing a human. so scare mongering, you know? uk health and know? well the uk health and security , i've said security agency, as i've said before, public health before, the public health morphed into the uk morphed mysteriously into the uk health and security agency dunng health and security agency during pandemic they during the pandemic. they have said rapid and acquisition said the rapid and acquisition of the mutation in mouse may imply this virus has a propensity to causes do not like infections yeah. why do they infections. yeah. why do they talk in such scaremongering language ? i mean, it is, you language? i mean, it is, you know, even if that does happen, the fact is we've got the science, the technology, the capacity to deal with it. you know, can can treat people know, we can we can treat people who get sick. hopefully if we had a better , the better. but had a better, the better. but this this fear mongering , you this this fear mongering, you know, it just feeds into this climate that's completely debilitating and absent. you know, just after tony became prime minister, we have the worst outbreak of foot and mouth disease in this country. i mean, we all make amongst cows, we all eat meat . you know, we all

eat meat. you know, we all share, you know, lamb , all that. share, you know, lamb, all that. so nobody ever suffered from foot and mouth disease . the foot and mouth disease. the greatest animal pandemic this country's ever suffered. why on earth would bird flu attack us? now with this one story that you read, we talked obviously about archie battersby a lot. yeah, that awful story. you remember the little boy, shocking holly dance with mother and she says that she's been trolled. actually since the death of archie . and the coroner has now archie. and the coroner has now concluded that she deliberately kill himself he hadn't intended to harm himself, but had done so dunng to harm himself, but had done so during a prank or experiment went wrong after he put his head in a noose, put a coat around his neck, he this hopefully feels like some closure mike to what was a real awful story. not sure if it is closure because also in the report you'll see that coroner also said that the coroner also said there's evidence he was there's no evidence he was trying copy online game trying to copy some online game that kids had been pursuing . he that kids had been pursuing. he said me, so it's still said to me, so it's still a total mystery with a rope around your neck. it was never

explained how the explained at the time how the rope on around his neck how well how far did he fall and all this kind of stuff. and to i don't kind of stuff. and to be i don't think any clearer now it's think it's any clearer now it's obvious that this poor mother was going to be subject to abuse because that's what happens . i because that's what happens. i mean, are the case at mean, they are the case at moment. missing lady, you moment. the missing lady, you know, in lancashire. yeah her family are now subject to abuse and i mean unfortunately happened so i won't ignore the abuse because that doesn't give you any indication whatsoever of the truth of the matter and just sympathise with the poor mother and the poor little boy . i mean, and the poor little boy. i mean, he such good looking he was such a good looking little there, you know, with little kid there, you know, with his eyes yeah, his big, his big eyes and yeah, his big, tasty blonde hair. and it's just a human worse by the a human made worse by the speculation, the around it. although i don't think there's a definitive verdict of how he died once the coroner has issued his ultimate decision. it's the end of the matters . yeah, no, end of the matters. yeah, no, absolutely. i mean, that's what it seems to me that this was a tragic absolute end. and i really hope the parents can get

some peace now because. yes. you know, it's the of thing you know, it's the kind of thing you wouldn't wish this on your worst enemy to lose a child who have children isn't. it children all the time isn't. it inexplicable yeah, it's inexplicable actions. yeah, it's horrible. and horrible. it's tragic and obviously compounded by the social media trolling and bullying . i hope they can see bullying. i hope they can see that and i hope can get that off and i hope they can get some let's just mention some peace. let's just mention the nicola bullock case because it feels remiss, at the end it feels remiss, true at the end of week. yeah, much has of the week. yeah, so much has been has been put on been attention has been put on that what your that case. what is your perspective on might well it perspective on it might well it looks there's lot of looks like there's been a lot of mistakes by the police is mistakes made by the police is how turns outside. i think the police superintendent in charge a lady riley och i think a lady called riley och i think i'm in saying that because, you know, the show. know, i've got this the show. yeah. look, i know anything about policing, but i would say that officer completely of that officer looks completely of her to me in a massive her depth to me in a massive legal situation. can't call it a crime. we don't know if it is a crime. we don't know if it is a crime yeah or not, but it's a mass of legal situation she's got a grip of now on this very channel on sunday morning i saw that expert who's been there for

the last two or three days where these both the diving exactly these both the diving exactly the diving experts names paul somebody and for the first time he said look i don't quite get this if they invited up there, i could find out in 24 hours whether she's in the river or not why. wasn't they brought there at the start? did there at the start? now did another tv this week in another tv show this week in which senior retired officer which a senior retired officer came screen and i said, came onto the screen and i said, excuse i'm set. two excuse me, i'm set. two questions, please. why wasn't the area sealed the moment the area sealed off the moment nicola missing ? because the nicola went missing? because the could be a footprint in the ground, which might be a third person. secondly why wasn't the bench taken away for forensic examination ? how would you know? examination? how would you know? somebody sitting on the somebody wasn't sitting on the bench next to her? you put bench next to her? would you put the i'm the police the phone down? i'm the police officer the retired police got completely flustered and said , completely flustered and said, oh, you had to allow people to walk around to for her in walk around to look for her in the ask for the bench the river and ask for the bench well. it's irrelevant. i don't think so . i guess they would say think so. i guess they would say in their that they aren't here to defend themselves they to defend themselves or how they run investigation would be. run the investigation would be. it necessarily crime. it

it wasn't necessarily crime. it was a mum who was a dog and she didn't have any reason to think she would have been abducted that particular area go that particular area or go missing weren't missing and. so we weren't looking at as a crime, it looking at it as a crime, but it like in maybe just with hindsight to what it just seems like a mistake. i mean, you're right. i think it was treated a missing persons enquiry, but what see that is a an what you see that is a an investigation missing persons always opens will to abduction doesn't it. no i it just seems completely baffling , completely baffling, inexplicable the idea that somebody can just vanish and seemingly just vanish off the face of the earth with no explanation whatsoever . i mean, explanation whatsoever. i mean, again, a bit like the thought that we've just been there was the heart goes out to the family. heart goes to the family. my heart goes out to the family. my heart goes out to the family well, particularly the family as well, particularly the children of. but look, we've come the of the show and come to the end of the show and actually sends week for actually that sends a week for me. mike parry. thank me. thanks, mike parry. thank you. william. you're right. you. to william. you're right. i will be back on monday morning at 10:00 tomorrow morning will be phil on gb be esther and phil here on gb news ten. but coming next news at ten. but coming up next is news live with mark is gb news live with mark longhurst great weekend

longhurst have a great weekend see next week . hello. it's see you next week. hello. it's been a bit a dull, dreary start across parts of the uk, but brighter skies on their way dry for many through the rest of the day. but blustery showers will continue in the far north here. we're close to area of low pressure, tightly packed. i suppose, and a number of showers, rain, sleet hail and some hills snow . showers, rain, sleet hail and some hills snow. this showers, rain, sleet hail and some hills snow . this cold some hills snow. this cold front, meanwhile, has been clearing . that's still some clearing. that's still some cloud with it in the far south. and southeast as we start the afternoon. but really, skies are brightening by this stage. plenty of sunshine breaking out across england, wales , also across england, wales, also relatively bright skies for scotland , northern ireland. but scotland, northern ireland. but in the north of scotland, showers continue along with a gusty wind 55, 60 mile per hour wind gusts and snow over the hills. so feeling cold with that wind in the north. but further south, 8 to 10 celsius or even 11 degrees somewhere like it's the evening we've got clear spells remaining . england, spells remaining. england, wales, i think some high cloud will drift in, but not enough to prevent widespread in

prevent a widespread frost in the south. i think a cloud in the south. i think a cloud in the north will prevent a frost that we breezy with some outbreaks of rain affecting western and northern scotland as well as northern ireland at times. will be times. mostly this will be a light and patchy, but it'll be fairly persistent. we start of friday especially for friday morning, especially for the highlands , the northern friday morning, especially for the western hlands , the northern friday morning, especially for the western isles,s , the northern friday morning, especially for the western isles, asthe northern friday morning, especially for the western isles, as well.orthern and western isles, as well. further south, after a chilly start swirl, bright skies once again in the far south and southeast but some thicker cloud will tend drift . that will will tend to drift. that will give drizzle over hills of give some drizzle over hills of wales well as north west wales as well as north west england. temperatures up to nine or celsius in the south, ten or ten celsius in the south, ten or ten celsius in the south, ten or 11 for scotland and northern ireland. so feeling milder with the westerly breeze the south westerly breeze replacing the west to northwesterly and into friday evening, the thick cloud across the map continues and again that will largely prevent a but we get a few breaks in the south on friday night. well it will be a chilly start to the weekend. however, on the whole weekend is looking milder compared with the last couple of days. but it will

also be generally cloudier . last couple of days. but it will also be generally cloudier. i'm camilla tominey join me on gb news on sunday morning for a politics show with personality on tv, radio and gb news the people's channel. britain's news

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