good morning it's 10:00 on monday , the 27th of 10:00 on monday, the 27th of february. i'm bev turner today brexit . it's the most important brexit. it's the most important day since we voted to leave the eu was rishi sunak meets european commission president for final talks on northern ireland. will this be good for the entire united kingdom? there's a lot riding on this today , not only the uk's today, not only the uk's relationship with the eu, of course, but also remember america storm is waiting in the wings on the outcome.

wings to pounce on the outcome. and foster holds many and arlene foster holds many cards, too. she's going to be joining very soon. also this joining me very soon. also this morning, readers, a first roald dahl got the sanitising treatment and now the james bond books, too. are they protecting your feelings or just moving with the times only ? a few weeks with the times only? a few weeks until the energy price cap is lowered by nearl y £1,000, until the energy price cap is lowered by nearly £1,000, what will it mean ? you, your budget will it mean? you, your budget and when we expect prices to start coming down, i'll be telling you all you need to know . i telling you all you need to know .i hope telling you all you need to know . i hope you had a great let me know what you think about those stories. email me, gb views at gbp news dot uk lots ahead this morning. a couple of great guests as well. but first, let's get you up to date with what's happening here on around the world with something . better. world with something. better. thanks very much . good morning. thanks very much. good morning. from the gb newsroom, it's 10:01. the president of the

european commission is meeting the prime minister today for final on the northern ireland protocol call number 10 says ursula von der will meet rishi sunakin ursula von der will meet rishi sunak in windsor to discuss a range of complex challenges around the post trading arrangements . the current deal arrangements. the current deal allows goods to be transported across the irish border without the need for checks . downing the need for checks. downing street has suggested the talks could lead to a deal after months of negotiations . former months of negotiations. former brexit minister jacob rees—mogg told gb news northern ireland needs its democratic institutions restored . there are institutions restored. there are two points that really matter . two points that really matter. one is the reaction of the dup. will this restore powersharing ? will this restore powersharing? because what northern ireland needs most of all is its democratic institutions once restored, and that will only if there is cross—community consent . the arrangements with the eu and the second point is looking at the legal text. what does the detail say? because we found in the the eu that it's the past with the eu that it's the past with the eu that it's the that really matters the detail that really matters rather headlines ,

rather than the headlines, statements . the energy regulator statements. the energy regulator has reduced cap on the amount energy suppliers can charge customers, but bills are still expected to rise . ofgem has expected to rise. ofgem has announced the on the amount households pay on electricity and gas bills will drop by almost and gas bills will drop by almos t £1,000 from the 1st of almost £1,000 from the 1st of april. however customers are likely to pay 20% more on their annual as the government's additional support only partially protects them. this means the average home will likely pay means the average home will likely pa y £500 more a year. likely pay £500 more a year. consumer champion will hodson says we're paying high prices in draughty homes using endless amounts of energy. what the government should be doing instead as they are now going to save money on the energy price guarantee because the wholesale pnces guarantee because the wholesale prices are going down. the subsidy money, subsidy says they've got money, they export and the they can either export and the rates currently on so we rates we're currently on so we have price rise on the have this price rise on the energy guarantee they energy price guarantee or they can bring forward funding so we can bring forward funding so we can invest in the energy

efficiency of our homes. so we aren't using as much energy in years ahead . ministers are due years ahead. ministers are due to hold emergency sea talks with supermarket bosses amid the current vegetable crisis. food minister mark spencer has summoned bosses , all the major summoned bosses, all the major chains to find a way to get shelves fully stocked. the vegetable shortage is expected to last up to four weeks as bad weather to affect the amount of fresh produce imported into the uk. several supermarket , uk. several supermarket, including tesco, followed aldi, asda and morrisons have introduced customer limits on certain items. including tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers . the legal age to get married has risen to 18 to help protect vulnerable children. six and 17 year olds can no longer wed or enter a civil partnership in england or wales from today even with parental consent . the law

with parental consent. the law change means it's now a crime to exploit children by forcing them into an arranged marriage. the girls not brides coalition has called it a huge victory . a ban called it a huge victory. a ban on transgender women in female prisons in england and wales is now being extended include those who've been convicted of violent offences . the justice secretary offences. the justice secretary says. offences. the justice secretary says . the policy which comes says. the policy which comes into force affects trans women who have male genitalia or have committed sexual offences . he's committed sexual offences. he's describing it as a common sense framework that will improve the safety of . it follows the case safety of. it follows the case of isla bryson, formerly known as adam graham, who was moved to as adam graham, who was moved to a male prison in scotland after convicted of rape . the labour convicted of rape. the labour leader will say people in the uk could be poorer than in eastern europe without , what he's called europe without, what he's called his only show in town growth plan . sir keir starmer will use

plan. sir keir starmer will use a speech in london today to set how his economic vision will lead britain out of the conservative low wage , high tax conservative low wage, high tax doom loop he's set to expand on five missions. his party will focus on if it wins the next general election . 61 people, general election. 61 people, including 12 children, have died after a migrant boat crashed into rocks off the coast of southern italy. the boat left from turkey was thought to be up to 200 migrants from somalia pakistan and afghanistan . the pakistan and afghanistan. the italian coastguard says it's rescued 80 people, but up to 30 remain missing. rescued 80 people, but up to 30 remain missing . tommy fury the remain missing. tommy fury the younger brother of world boxing champion tyson fury has won his match anticipated fight against youtuber jake match anticipated fight against youtuberjake . fury won the youtuber jake. fury won the eight round bout on a split decision in saudi arabia last night . several high profile night. several high profile sports were there to watch,

including mike tyson and cristiano ronaldo . this is gb cristiano ronaldo. this is gb news. more for me shortly now though, is back to . bev though, is back to. bev. and barry. good morning to you. so james bond is facing his toughest yet. the sensitivity reader . his toughest yet. the sensitivity reader. his old books are being changed due to language which is deemed offensive and outdated. we going be getting our teeth into shortly . but first, into that shortly. but first, we're a new brexit we're expecting a new brexit deal to be signed today to finally smooth out spiky finally smooth out the spiky northern ireland protocol. eu chiefs are flying to london to meet with the prime minister later on. president ursula von der leyen will sit down with sunakin der leyen will sit down with sunak in windsor to finalise the agreement with the pm, claiming that he's major concessions that he's won major concessions . is this new deal going to be better for the whole of the uk? well, me is well, joining me now is professor anand menon , the

professor anand menon, the director uk in a changing director at uk in a changing europe. good morning, professor. and what we know so far about the basics of this new deal, what have we heard over the weekend? well there have been a lot of leaks from them and no one outside the province this close circle has seen this. but seems that there have be new arrangements for trade with this green red line. it easier to green and red line. it easier to export to northern ireland from great it as if u.k. great britain. it as if u.k. rules on vat and on subsidies will apply in northern ireland, which wasn't the case before . which wasn't the case before. and it sounds as if they've made some tweaks to the role of the european court of justice and given ireland some kind of say over the eu rules that will apply there. so quite significant . what we don't know significant. what we don't know is whether they're enough to muster with the people we expect to have their doubts , which are to have their doubts, which are who fundamentally are the dup ? who fundamentally are the dup? primarily ursula von and also the eu. who do you think is going to be the hardest?

contingents for rishi sunak to keep happy ? well, i think the keep happy? well, i think the work with the eu is largely done. ursula von de lion wouldn't be coming over here today unless a deal was signed and sealed with the eu. i think there are two constituencies. sunak has to worry about. the first is the dp. partly because what they say will be a signal . what they say will be a signal. to the oh, we've lost our guest. unfortunately that was professor unarmed man on the director at the uk for changing europe. will. we'll see if we can get him back. let me know what you think on this today, won't you? gb gb news dot because gb views. gb news dot uk because it's a huge day. i don't know what time we're going to hear from rishi sunak von der leyen with the detail of this over the weekend. of people weekend. lots of people questioning detail will questioning what the detail will be. to talking the dp a be. we'll be to talking the dp a little later as well about that. now on james bond is under a woke attack. his box will now be rewritten to remove offensive and outdated language. this follows the news that some of

roald dahl's novels are being released to protect modern from language that is deemed offensive why offensive. begs the question why all sensitive trade is being employed ? are they a much needed employed? are they a much needed editing tool or are they cancelling freedom of expression? i'm joined now by the author broadcaster the author and broadcaster rebecca reid and the author, stella marley. good morning , you stella marley. good morning, you both. rebecca, if can come to you first. you've written several books and sensitivity readings you think are important to make sure you've got the tone right . i to make sure you've got the tone right. i think it's to make sure you've got the tone right . i think it's useful, right. i think it's useful, early useful tool . i, right. i think it's useful, early useful tool. i, i never approve if writers get charged for using them. but i think if publishers are willing to foot the bill, it's a really useful to have. you don't have to take every single suggestion that the sensitivity makes. but sensitivity reader makes. but for instance, one books for instance, one of my books was trying was published was trying to was published america and they they had sensitivity read a glance over it. and one of the things and that was a joke that made reference to native american people they were just people and they were like, just so you know, in america this isn't funny like in the uk

people be it. they people might be with it. they won't here. do to take won't be here. do want to take it out? i was like, yes, i it out? and i was like, yes, i would really that. i don't would really like that. i don't want upset anybody. not important. it's not important to the come up with the line. i can come up with a better joke. and was a really better joke. and it was a really useful information for to useful information for me to have.i useful information for me to have. i understand still it have. i can understand still it to degree which are written to some degree which are written now they need to now to get through. they need to sort filter with a modern sort of filter with a modern audience. where you stand on sort of filter with a modern aucthe:e. where you stand on sort of filter with a modern aucthe text/here you stand on sort of filter with a modern aucthe text stays? you stand on sort of filter with a modern aucthe text stays? bond stand on sort of filter with a modern aucthe text stays? bond was d on all the text stays? bond was written in the fifties in the where do you stand on those books being re—edited for a modern audience, we changing modern audience, we are changing something about the nature literature yeah literature and doing that. yeah i think we are changing literature . not only that, we literature. not only that, we are changing our understanding of how life was at time because history isn't only written by the victors, as they say . the victors, as they say. history is kind of a assimilated through the texts have been written through the are through the kind of music so that we can get a snapshot of how life was if we put our 2023 sensibilities on all texts, we lose sight of life was. we won't know where we've come from will affect like

wallpapered over history and we presume in a very high handed and arrogant way the 2023 has it right and 2023 has the thinking right and 2023 has the thinking right and 2023 has the thinking right and our language is correct, while other people could say at a different time actually , no, that's not quite actually, no, that's not quite right. and they do it again and they could do it again, and you'd lose sight completely of what was actually happening in the 1960s, the 1970s, whenever it was written, we to keep the integrity of what the writer was writing and the ability and let the competency of the text either stand the test of time or fail the test of time . well, fail the test of time. well, particularly in these james bond texts. let me give you a couple of examples. and the writer about the sweet tang of rape that has been taken out, blithering women failing to do a man's work and homosexuality being a stillborn and disability actually . those are the ones actually. those are the ones that are staying . i correct that are staying. i correct myself. those are the ones that are actually staying. they've

taken out primarily references to ethnicity . so there is the to ethnicity. so there is the use of the n—word in to black people still , that surely has to people still, that surely has to go in 23. well that's a brilliant example of how we are putting a 2023 on us. we can keep the sweet tang of rape or whatever you said, but we can't put in the n word because in 2023 that's deemed correct, it doesn't sense. it's illogical both them are completely offensive and should be kept and maybe up in a museum, maybe they'll end up in a place archive . so we know that's how archive. so we know that's how life was. that's where we've come from. this is where we are now . we need to have some sort now. we need to have some sort of ability to know. history is really important and we need to know where we've come from and we need to know how we've developed and evolved our thinking and need know why thinking and need to know why people be so distressed at. certain words and the only reason an ability to know why will be because we knew that's how it was before. that's what attitude to women where there's

otherwise nobody will survive . otherwise nobody will survive. rebecca. rebecca let me bring you in. so perhaps it's just a little bit this is subjective. it can nothing but subjective. so how do you how do you square that particular conflict? yeah it is difficult because i do agree that once you pull one thread and you say that one kind of word is not okay, but the actions to a woman are okay. you do get into a difficult situation at. the same thing half of the world, all situation according all facts, not according to all facts, not okay, but calling child other okay, but calling a child other things there's things okay. however, there's two things to remember it. number publishing number one, publishing is primarily concern primarily a commercial concern and therefore this is the estate's continue to try to be modern and approachable and readable. the originals will still exist and should still exist. but i can understand that i like. i would rather not read a book that had the n—word littered throughout it. it doesn't feel like a like a free or enjoyable trade at this point . and that's what they're trying to do. they're trying to stay relevant to try and stay modern.

i understand. and i think traditionally stories have always changed involved with the years oral years here with the oral tradition . you know, cinderella tradition. you know, cinderella is not cinderella of 500 is not the cinderella of 500 years ago or 200 years ago, it used be the great, you know, the grimm fairy tells cinderella grimm fairy tells us cinderella is arguably children prefer it, but incredibly violent and but it's incredibly violent and very, 90w but it's incredibly violent and very, gory and so we have very, very gory and so we have always updated stories as has gone on. it's not it's not like we used to leave things fixed. now, suddenly we started editing them. every time an estate reissues , a of work, some reissues, a piece of work, some edits made. okay. all right . edits made. okay. all right. thank you both. it's really fascinating . stella o'malley fascinating. stella o'malley there and reed, thank you so much for joining there and reed, thank you so much forjoining me. let me know what you think. i've got a twitter poll running on this this morning. you think we need these sensitivity readers or not? but spoke not? gb news. but as we spoke about a ago, we expecting about a moment ago, we expecting about a moment ago, we expecting a brexit deal to be signed a new brexit deal to be signed today finally smooth today to finally smooth out the spike ireland spike in northern ireland protocol. if we protocol. let's go back if we can, to professor anand menon. thank professor. lost thank you, professor. we lost you we thwarted by you there. we were thwarted by the where were we. so the gremlins. where were we. so what do we expect to hear today

from rishi sunak, do you think? is it going to be enough? all british people going to be satisfied, a satisfied, be they a firm brexiteers or those who were a bit less keen keen ? well, bit less keen keen? well, firstly, sorry about the rubbish by five, but i think this isn't really about the british people. i don't think because if you look at opinion polling , a look at opinion polling, a majority in northern majority of people in northern ireland are broadly in favour of the protocol . the people are the protocol. the people are concerned inflation and the cost of living and i think that's why the prime minister is so desperate to get a deal. he wants to get this out of the way. he wants to show he's a bloke can get things done and he wants to gain some immediate benefits signing on benefits from signing a deal on the protocol with the eu which will be like will be things like uk participation research participation in the eu research programme, potentially programme, which is potentially quite , the uk. but quite lucrative, the uk. but it's difficult to know in advance whether the dup , whether advance whether the dup, whether tory brexiteers back this deal. and there we're going to have to wait see the detail is wait and see what the detail is because tweaks made because whatever tweaks are made to of the european to the role of the european court, for instance, the fact of

the matter is the protocol exists to prevent a hard border on the on island of ireland and to do that it puts northern ireland under eu laws, particularly when comes to trade in goods, and that to remain the case. and so the european court of justice will have to keep a role in northern ireland, which some object to on principle . it some object to on principle. it is principle. some object to on principle. it is principle . listen, it's is a principle. listen, it's a head versus heart discussion . head versus heart discussion. and i think one of the newspapers has got a leader today saying, you know, all sides have not just think sides have to not just think with heart to look. with the heart have to look. i think that the head, it's think with that the head, it's more about taking some of more about taking out some of this, but it is very emotional. this where this issue regardless of where you sit particularly for the people of northern ireland. let's just about sir keir starmer in this. he's waiting the wings. he plays quite a critical role for rishi sunak doesn't that if he has to reach out across the house comes to get he said he will support rishi sunak on but it makes keir starmer look while the statesman like in this in this regard if he has to depend on him just just talk a little about the

role he plays well yeah what keir starmer has said is if you need our support to get this through we will give you our support. now it's worth saying a couple of things firstly you don't need parliamentary on don't need parliamentary vote on this. this isn't a new treaty. this is just operationally an existing rishi existing one. so actually rishi sunak won't have to have a formal vote, but formal parliamentary vote, but the pressure is such that he has to consult parliaments . i think to consult parliaments. i think he'll look very weak if he doesn't and there the danger is it's simply not good look for it's simply not a good look for the tory minister to be dependent on labour votes and keir that. so keir starmer knows that. so it won't statesmanlike won't all looking statesmanlike is playing clever politics because if sunak relies labour votes then i think that look makes him look diminished and weak. yeah, absolutely. okay thank you so much. i'm glad we got there. in the end professor anand men on let me know your thoughts gb views at gbnews.uk and also following on from that discussion with rebecca reid there stella o'malley about there and stella o'malley about james bond now being by the sensitivity editors. i want to

know whether you think is necessary. we've got a twitter poll going about this in light of james novel, some of roald dahps of james novel, some of roald dahl's books being changed, all sensitivity edits of old books necessary 9 to 8% of you so far saying . no, you've got about an saying. no, you've got about an hour to get your vote in. i wrote a book about childbirth, used to run a business working couples having babies, and i was asked whether i wanted to write about birthing people rather than women. and that was nearly kind of ten years ago now. so it's on for a time, it's going on for a long time, of i said no women have of course. i said no women have babies. come, babies. right? still to come, we'll continue discussion on we'll continue the discussion on whether or not we is sensitivity readers you in 2 minutes. readers see you in 2 minutes. hello again. aidan mcgivern hello again. i'm aidan mcgivern from office. pressure from the met office. pressure will charge of our will be in charge of our weather. it won't weather. this week, but it won't be dry and sunny. the be entirely dry and sunny. the lots of cloud for today scattered, showers as well. but there some sunshine about there is some sunshine about predominantly west predominantly towards the west and the south of the uk and that's because we're running this we've got an easterly this high we've got an easterly breeze, skies breeze, bringing in cloudy skies , the north sea and scattered . , the north sea and scattered. we've seen lots of the showers

affecting and central of affecting and central parts of into central southern england times perhaps east wales. that's how it will continue through the rest of the day. little change into the afternoon. the best of any sunshine coming through for western scotland . some breaks in western scotland. some breaks in the southern parts the cloud for southern parts england breaks even in england and some breaks even in the cloudier conditions . further the cloudier conditions. further east, temperatures far from average, 8 to 10 celsius, typically cold in the wind, though. that's coming off the nonh though. that's coming off the north sea and that will continue to drive showers during to drive showers in during evening and overnight. those showers quite frequent over the hills so the pennines the southern uplands snowdonia as well getting quite number of showers through the night to the south though clear spells and a frost in places minus one minus two celsius where we get the clear skies for southern england and western scotland where we keep the cloud 2 to 4 celsius. so chilly start for most of us. but the frost yes, albeit the brightest conditions in the south and for the west of scotland, of northern scotland, parts of northern ireland well, perhaps really ireland as well, perhaps really tuesday is essentially the tuesday there is essentially the

same sort of thing we could a lot cloud cover that cloud lot of cloud cover that cloud thickets towards east fair thickets towards the east fair of showers coming into eastern and central england, perhaps eastern at times eastern scotland at times brighter skies towards the west . temperatures at around 7 to 9 celsius. and it's just a repeat through the rest of week. we could see that high pressure sitting in the same place towards the northwest of scotland an easterly breeze, bringing a lot cloud. and those showers from the north sea, showers in from the north sea, the showers occasionally reaching north and east wales , reaching north and east wales, central england . but central and eastern england. but for many western areas and the far south, it is largely dry with some bright spells .

very good morning. it's 1023. very good morning. it's1023. this is bev turner today on gb news. my guests are here with me. i'm so pleased to be joined by broadcaster and lawyer andrew born. andrew and broadcaster and

author amy nicole. morning. both ryan. okay. i mean, we're going to carry on with the story we were just talking about before the break. this is the sensitivity with classic book attacks on modern text , as attacks on modern text, as rebecca reed was saying. now, is this just modernising or is it sanitising books, do you think? and well, i think it's editing the books appropriately in the hopes that they'll continue to be able to them. so rather than rather being inclined to call this orwellian censorship or some of the other terms i've seen used this , it's just giving seen used this, it's just giving james, in my opinion, rather undeserved , have it pass into undeserved, have it pass into 2023 an undeserved power since 2023. andrew abrams well, i think it is interesting, charlie and the keene factory, i love it. it's, it's got a very good and they've reversed the decision on rhode island they told sell it wouldn't do the original words and i always say the word is mightier than the

sword you just say for a moment i gb news took i just gb news took enough credit that. in terms credit for that. well, in terms of yeah. did to move of influence, yeah. did to move the nation there was no channel that was making more fuss. the ridiculousness of sanitising dahl this channel. i think dahl in this channel. so i think that's not only this that's a way not only this channel, show channel, it was this show there's very we sat here there's very shall we sat here we about these glorious we talked about these glorious things charlie the factory and took to its heart and took the nation to its heart and we reversed it we did it we reversed it different because. it was children, was character children, it was character growth comedy. is it growth. it was comedy. is it different today? well you have a choice, don't language choice, don't you? the language horrible. you look at some horrible. if you look at some of it. but the language in it. but so is the language in chaucer's in shakespeare's time and so on and forth. what you need at is put it in need to look at is put it in context. agatha she had you know what and then there were none what it and then there were none that in its that had the n—word in its original title and they changed. i right to that. i think that's right to that. there are certain things, but they still keep certain words in they still keep certain words in the tang you talked the sweet tang rape. you talked about keeping that in. about that, keeping that in. that's you know, that's amazing. you know, blithering women stubborn blithering women are stubborn disability about disability and talk about homosexuality, of those homosexuality, all of those things being in the things being kept in the eighties. you look at the eighties. when you look at the things that have actually been

taken round of edits taken out in this round of edits is, quite understandable. is, really quite understandable. i has just i feel like this story has just piggybacked off the roald dahl thing and actually this is just pubuchy thing and actually this is just publicity for books perhaps publicity for books that perhaps one's really anymore is one's really reading anymore is the fact that james bond i think the fact that james bond i think the reason this has caught our imaginations so much, is imaginations so much, it is partly because coming on the back of the roald dahl story. but isn't it also that james bond so no. archie bond is so familiar? no. archie is but as is a book character, but as movies, feel that he is movies, people feel that he is know he he is incredibly macho. he is because there's a lot of machismo but then i machismo about him. but then i kind like women kind of quite like that women don't do well in the books, but they don't do that badly in the modern movies. the women do really the films , have really badly in the films, have totally moved with the times. and i think perhaps they just want to hang on to that momentum of james bond's popularity for in it to endure. we can't have a book with the n—word in it with some the depictions of black people that are in these books at the moment. and not forget that these aren't history books. these are fiction books . when

these are fiction books. when a lot of them were written, they were intended to be cheap thrillers were never intended to stand the test time. so when people about james bond book three classics, it's not really the case they were never intended to much intended to have this much longevity, but they have . so longevity, but they have. so let's move with the let's let them move with the times was misogynistic times. james was a misogynistic anyway. when you look at all the depictions and that sort of stuff. but what i wrote stuff. but what i loved i wrote down, he said, well, i've warned my publisher that if they later so much as change a single connery books, they connery one of my books, they will another word me will never another word from me even ever will never another word from me ever, ever said and he's ever, never ever said and he's threatened to send around the enormous crocodile used to be fat, but usually you see the enormous crocodile if they did that. enormous crocodile if they did that . you've got to also look at that. you've got to also look at this in context this about this in context this is about author's rights and your rights about what they about sensitivity. what they should do is offer two versions if want to. those want if they want to. those who want to have sanitised version to have the sanitised version and the offence and i get the offence and i understand that in the current climate, keep the original. understand that in the current climeyou've keep the original. understand that in the current climeyou've got�*p the original. understand that in the current climeyou've got to :he original. understand that in the current climeyou've got to keepiginal. understand that in the current climeyou've got to keep the al. well you've got to keep the originals. oh let's just celebrate authors because celebrate new authors because a lot the time with roald , he

lot of the time with roald, he completely the market completely swamped the market and this one with the books come out like in the sixth is the seventies and it doesn't really give as much children daughters the opportunity to break through but everybody is like well roald dahl you reach dahl that's what you reach your children. this could be children. so maybe this could be an that we look at. an opportunity that we look at. i mean, can't even name for i mean, i can't even name for david walliams, is david walliams, it's volumes is equally awful . yeah, i think equally awful. yeah, i think equally awful. yeah, i think equally awful. yeah, i think equally awful. i really want a chance to learn about some, enjoy the language . say the word enjoy the language. say the word is mightier than the sword. don't plant that sword. right now, energy bail rises . if you now, energy bail rises. if you can explain this . me, you are can explain this. me, you are smarter than both of you. i understand that wholesale price of oil and gas is coming down. yes, but government have been subsidising these bills for us. yes, they're going to stop doing so and our bills are going to go up. yes. but how andrew ? the up. yes. but how andrew? the profits of the energy companies are also rising. i don't get it. we're the absolute mickey taking us because you're comparing two

separate things. and it's the language of the starting point they have. what's called the energy , which is what energy price, which is what energy price, which is what energy regulator says is the maximum that suppliers can charge households per unit of energy. people get about, they say, oh, no, that's how the maximum that we do on my bill. my maximum that we do on my bill. my bill is deliberately compressed. it's terrible on that sort of basis because they think well, hang about the maximum you're going to charge, talk average household talk about an average household and we'll the and therefore we'll keep all the lights keep everything lights on. we keep everything else. going to charge else. we're not going to charge more that. that's not more than that. that's not right. he's talking power right. he's talking about power unit. the other thing unit. right. the other thing that confused is this that gets confused is this energy guarantee what energy price guarantee and what that basically they set the maximum of gas motorists maximum price of gas motorists and basically compensates and it basically compensates suppliers these suppliers for providing these costs. if it's a company, costs. so if it's a company, what, £2,500 means anything above that for the average household, the government has to pay- household, the government has to pay. so it has to dig into its pockets. what they're threatening to do is to put that minimum up to 3000, which means that basically people have to pay that basically people have to pay more . the current situation

pay more. the current situation , obviously, with the war in ukraine, they went through the roof prices . prices are now roof prices. prices are now coming down and these companies are making a lot of money. so i think do not be surprised if they turn on, say, coming up in a few days time. they actually we're not going to put it up to 3000. we're going to be very generous to you because we're giving conservative party and that's do. we like to that's what we do. we like to look people that would look after people and that would be got the flexibility be they've got the flexibility to so would not be to do that. so i would not be surprised as futurist that that he will turn around and reverse that understand it, that decision. do understand it, amy, translates as amy, to me just translates as the government prioritisation and profiteering over customers and profiteering over customers and people. and i think the government it is saying all that needs to be said by ending the energy bills support scheme soon whilst 10% of people have been thrown into fuel poverty over the this prioritisation of profiteering because am i not mistaken the energy companies making billions in profits so do

they legitimise that in light of these massive bills. well i think that was it was not the profit from last. we had those huge figures recently and that's a problem with the media as they sort of focus these on these play sort of focus these on these play offs. but it is not my fault, i promise you what my response of a lot of my role. i'll tell you that those who have are broad enough to raise it, but it is understandable. we all unpacking. i love all talk unpacking. what i love about this show is that we are we get beneath headlines. we get beneath the headlines. i say, is the statistic say, look, what is the statistic that all the fuel poverty mean? and that basically is when households spend 10% households have to spend at 10% of income energy, of their income on energy, that's and what's that's what means and what's going is you going to happen. is it so you charity national energy action . charity national energy action. so will be the so the changes will be the number households number of households fuel poverty from point poverty will rise from point 7 million to 8.7 million. and it does mean the whole thing about heating becomes issue heating or becomes a real issue . people it's already an issue for several people , several more for several people, several more going of basis going to have that sort of basis in terms of profits. and i've touched on this before had i

don't people making profits don't mind people making profits they're not a charity these companies you turn companies but you can turn around and well okay should around and say well okay should there this appropriate there be this appropriate windfall tax, which is what they've done help spread that they've done to help spread that sort and so you've got sort of burden and so you've got to we've got to to look at that. we've got to incentivise but incentivise to do things, but let's look market forces. let's look at market forces. market will us market forces will us the flexibility to generous flexibility now to be generous in the few days. and that's in the next few days. and that's what i predict. okay right. thanks, guys. your first thanks, guys. that's your first insert two. we've got insert of these two. we've got lots to come morning. lots more to come this morning. we've a brilliant story we've also got a brilliant story we're about we're going be covering about something enjoy, something that you might enjoy, which you have no idea how disgustingly dirty and of disgustingly dirty and full of germs to keep germs is big enough to keep watching find out what that watching to find out what that is. going be looking is. i'm going to be looking a little bit deeper into. this story your story all that after your morning's news. good it's story all that after your morning's news . good it's 1032. morning's news. good it's 1032. i'm tamsin in the gb newsroom, the president of the european commission is meeting the prime minister today. commission is meeting the prime minister today . final talks on minister today. final talks on the northern ireland protocol. number ten, says ursula von der leyen, will meet rishi sunak in windsor to discuss a range of

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welcome back. it's 1037. this is bev turner today on db news. a few of your views we're talking about this bond censorship sensitivity readers. georgia said what these woke idiots that are censoring our books listen to rap music and censor that . i to rap music and censor that. i don't think so. don't get me started . that one, george. started. that one, george. richard says i'm interested to know exactly what qualifications need to be a sensitivity reader and who decided which too and who decided which is too sensitive readers in sensitive for readers in the first why are select first place. why are select group a few people allowed to

decide offensive for me decide what too offensive for me to read? lots of messages coming in? keep them coming. vaiews@gbnews.uk right. let's talk about eye—watering energy bills. households are expected to around bills. households are expected to aroun d £500 more on these to around £500 more on these bills from about the 1st of april. it comes despite energy regulator ofgem announcing today that it will drop its cap on the amount that energy suppliers can charge by around amount that energy suppliers can charge by aroun d £1,000. so to charge by around £1,000. so to help us understand this , it is help us understand this, it is quite complicated. it doesn't seem to make much sense. i'm joined former chief executive joined by former chief executive of angela knight's . of energy uk, angela knight's. good you are good morning angela. you are always that makes always the person that makes these energy issues these complicated energy issues on stand the bill because i find it hard enough to understand my bill. my bill is sufficiently with the standing charges and the different charges per kilowatt , i have one provided it kilowatt, i have one provided it gives you both my guess my electric and i feel like they are deliberately obfuscating the information to make it hard for customers. so first of all, on a bafic

customers. so first of all, on a basic level that happening no what's happening on your bill are added lots of other things. so you things like you know the cost of the network snaps but they you know they i put a gas mine or the high voltage electricity that crosses the country and the low and low voltage networks are distributed to our houses. so that's your bill. also on your bill as like the what they call the social costs ? yes, we are all paying costs? yes, we are all paying insulating of some of the homes insulating of some of the homes in this country. and they are a big chunk on the bill as. well, you often referred to as the green policies, the subsidies for wind and other renewables , for wind and other renewables, which is currently taking place . so i'm not surprised the bill is complicated that it's got all those sorts of things off. you know, they do identify it, but when one looks at the bills and you think of gas and electricity or energy , you think that's all or energy, you think that's all you're paying for and? of course you're paying for and? of course you're not. now, we to today's issue, which is cap. i think that a lot of got itself a bit

complicated as well because what you're looking at across the rest of this is falling and electricity prices . so we will electricity prices. so we will be paying electricity prices. so we will be payin g £3,000 for a year in a be paying £3,000 for a year in a falling and electricity environment . what is going to environment. what is going to happenisi environment. what is going to happen is i would suggest that we're probably be paying across the year on average much than that somewhat closer to . the that somewhat closer to. the 2000, 2000, 200, something like that , rather than 2000, 2000, 200, something like that, rather than this 3000. but it takes a bit of time to wash. so it's what i do accept is how it's being portrayed that if you're going to be paying, you know, this average they calculated 3000 a year. the answer is no you're going to be paying answer is no you're going to be paying less. it's just where caps are shuffling . at this caps are shuffling. at this moment in time. the capsule down now i got to look ahead and i think about what is real long term issue . our real long term term issue. our real long term issue is that we're more likely

be continuing to pay significantly more for our gas. electricity, as i say, in around the low 2000s pounds. and then which is more or less what we were paying before the pandemic . so we need to work out how we operate all of us domestically and an industry in an environment where our gas and electricity are higher than that which we used to expect and to a certain extent actually enjoyed because we did have cheap energy in this country. okay so some of our viewers have been in touch on this. andrew, if i can put your that questions to you. christina said, some years ago i posted every rooftop in the country should be covered in solar and also perhaps solar panels and also perhaps small attached the small windmills attached to the chimneys is in conceivable when will insanity end? these will this insanity end? these people are supposed to be working us, making our lives working for us, making our lives a ray. are doing a misery ray. are we doing enough to help households generate some of their own

energy ? well, i can i can look energy? well, i can i can look at there's two ways i can answer that question, as if the yes and no . i mean, some there are no. i mean, some there are subsidies there. and indeed. when you buy new houses, it's very easy to have solar panels on. but there are still quite a considerable to that. and we have to overcome the resistance , make it not just cheap, but easy to do it. it is not easy do actually, it's quite a sort of bizarre. we somehow have to accept better as a population that we have our own about insulation about use, about solar and so forth . and not just solar and so forth. and not just say it's somebody . yes, i do say it's somebody. yes, i do agree that. some subsidies are immensely helpful and that they should be considered as well and they need to be part of the mix. but we do quite a range, you know, across country of incomes . so it's not just everybody's got to get a subsidy it needs do you do do you have subsidies somewhere but you need to have

an acceptance level as well. i one of the areas of course which we do need to pursue or not minded of that obviously in the wind farms is the small scale nuclear reactors. we need to get on those quickly as well. on with those quickly as well. yeah. people do, yeah. what can people do, angela? there anything we can angela? is there anything we can do? i know that probably months ago, maybe less, there was of. don't bother trying to change your energy company. there are no better rates available in and indeed energy providers weren't taking on new customers. has that changed now ? not but that changed now? not but i think it will do certainly the one the time we had sent out an email fairly recently to say, you they ought to be a point in time . and i would agree with time. and i would agree with that when looking to switch could be useful . could i pick that when looking to switch could be useful. could i pick up a point about tend to say energy companies and we sort of encompass everybody in those energy companies the energy suppliers and not the companies would be making much money if any money and we've seen that because so many of them have found unprofitable and have gone

out of business. those that are making the money on the big international oil and gas explorers and of those some yes may be uk listed, but can't necessarily tax on everything that they are in a different countries around the world. what do tax them on? is that which they within the uk and the oil and gas drilling in the north sea in total they pay in tax 75% which i think is the highest tax on profits around the world. so i think that is my side when we discuss this matter it is as you you said at the start, it's complicated and it's ever so easy to jump something and something say that's wrong or that's wrong, we need to do this we need to change that when the reality of it all is that in this rather complicated of energy, there's things that you need to do in the short term, which is help who are the poor in society. and that is going to continue regardless of gaps. we need to look across year and see

that overall our energy bills are going to be lower. most likely of th e £3,000 talked likely of the £3,000 talked about today on an average basis . and we've got to get that energy security , the plan, if energy security, the plan, if you like, in place for the future and. i would put in all that a social tariff as well because i think social tariff, which is not an unusual thing to is a subsidised and again will help on the long term poor as a society because you can't keep saying oh , shove a bit in here saying oh, shove a bit in here and shove a bit there. and we personally have got think about our own insulation to. yeah, absolutely right. thank so much angela angela knight their former executive of energy uk, always an absolute font of knowledge and common sense. so prime sunak prime minister rishi sunak on the european commission president are due to hold a final talks a new post—brexit final talks on a new post—brexit deal northern later deal for northern ireland later today. deal for northern ireland later today . could this deal today. could this new deal actually benefit or is it a watered down brexit? before we get into that though , my guests get into that though, my guests are still here. broadcaster and

lawyer andrew bowen and broadcaster author amy nicholl. right we're going to talk a little bit now about name that we haven't mentioned for a while quite about that. we got to mention it today. matt hancock, hey, he said was going to be hey, he said it was going to be company, these show company, all these reality show appearances going to do. appearances he going to do. you've got a tv company. i've octopus his company is octopus tv. his company is called hazel which is set called green hazel which is set up hey green hazel just up because hey green hazel just hold that well because of hold it. that well because of his eyes. oh josh , you are his eyes. oh josh, you are joking. i'm making it up. his eyes. oh josh, you are joking. i'm making it up . it joking. i'm making it up. it could well be because of his eyes. could well be because of his eyes . we should ask. well, the eyes. we should ask. well, the west suffolk mp, as you know, he came fame and the reality show , came fame and the reality show, which basically the english enjoyed for me in terms of on it. he di d £320,000. he only it. he did £320,000. he only gave lots to charity 80,000. i'll 10,000 thousand of the 320,000 for appearing in that glorious i'm a celebrity and people said oh sorry who's a celebrity? it was the sort general question. he also

appeared on channel 4 celebrity sas who dares . so the idea appeared on channel 4 celebrity sas who dares. so the idea is he's going do more of this he's going to do more of this sort of stuff. he quite likes this business and. so that's what he thought would set up what he thought he would set up his production companies own his own production companies own tv to manage his glory tv company to manage his glory talents. what do you think go on, amy? i think lot but i mean he just really, really wants to raise awareness of dyslexia . raise awareness of dyslexia. it's all about that now. he wants to be he wants be, he wants to be he wants be, he wants to be he wants be, he wants to just be famous big . so wants to just be famous big. so yeah, but what do you think he's got his eye on? because i'm thinking it's strictly come dancing. oh, he do another dancing. oh, he can't do another reality he can't do reality show. he can't do another loveisland was another reality loveisland was the wasn't it ? the brit the joke, wasn't it? the brit awards? gilligan sort of said awards? mo gilligan sort of said he could go along. i've had a lot of skills. you don't worry about will not here, about tangled will not be here, but him on shows if but you'll catch him on shows if you and said be on you do and said he'll be on carson more tomorrow night and g wrong exactly. there's spending on how do we solve this on people. how do we solve this 7 on people. how do we solve this ? which memory they have mean ? which memory they have i mean you about so fact you talk about balance so fact is got to remember that he is we've got to remember that he did better than most politics

happensin did better than most politics happens in what he came third or something, didn't he ? well, yes. something, didn't he? well, yes. whilst you know, infuriating the rest us who thought that frankly he had some serious questions to answer about he's still to have you in the he's still on he's still got to answer those questions because that's all going to happen apart from in the pandemic diaries, which is all selling spare. all without selling spare. so you've at those sort you've got to look at those sort of things. it's got to also turn on say he's popular now a people don't but he came don't like that, but he came third in a really highly tv programme. i it to be baffling that there's an appetite for him to be on these types of shows and that he could be as popular and that he could be as popular and i, i listening this morning to a podcast with bernie sanders in the us and i was just compare the two characters and have these matt hancock type figures in our public life who honestly are in too politics fast, track them into and i that you get

that with a serious politician like i imagine bernie sanders doing this it's ridiculous would never happen but matt hancock's just showing us what he is he only ever wanted approval validation . sure and a bit of validation. sure and a bit of star. right and in terms of i always say p.t. barnum, if you want to a crowd start a fight from itv's point of view, they've got phantom ratings as a result of him going in there. and if you have a counter to that, everybody wants to just like the pantomime villain it works on sort of premise. so he has he will make fortunes from this whether we like it or not. and we've all got strong views. and we've all got strong views. and i remember watching the key protagonists of covid lockdown policy medical ethics policy and the medical ethics going out the window and years understanding nephrology, just being . and i understanding nephrology, just being .and i remember being ignored. and i remember saying all these characters who are in this performance are going to ride off into the sunset ? there'll be no form of sunset? there'll be no form of recourse. and they make millions , billions between them out of this and how they've pulled the strings of this particular

performer mance. but yeah, well , see what you what kind of tv programmes he wants to make available. matt hancock if you like , sit down, chat. levinson like, sit down, chat. levinson let's have you in any time . you let's have you in any time. you guys have a few questions , guys have a few questions, right? what we talking about now. do you want to talk about the thing in your house which is absolutely filthy lucky enough to what would you to have one. and what would you guess is this. so how do you guess it is this. so how do you like hot tub. i like a hot celibate can't lie i like a hot tub to like hot tub me did you know you i've just got back know you are? i've just got back from a break my fiance's from a small break my fiance's birthday tonight and so i feel fully acquainted the hot fully acquainted with the hot tub. just lovely tub. so it's just lovely that you've this story to me. you've brought this story to me. well, morning, one in 20 well, one morning, one in 20 people bought a hot tub at the height of the pandemic. nobody can afford to turn them on now because limited expensive. because it's limited expensive. they them is of a line they them up, which is of a line probably just well because probably just as well because what the details of this? what are the details of this? andrew oh, revolting . andrew oh, they're revolting. you people off at you could put people off at boarding this story. boarding castle with this story. it victoria as a it is right. it's victoria as a science for the daily science editor for the daily mail . she's science editor for the daily mail. she's talks about

science editor for the daily mail . she's talks about these mail. she's talks about these hot basically they are hot tubs and basically they are a time machine, is what she's saying. horrible germs saying. they got horrible germs and if i read it, i'll forgive me. so that sort talking is basically people are describing a stewing in own a bath as stewing in your own filth, a hot tub is filth, but being a hot tub is stewing people's filth. stewing in other people's filth. and discover they've and they then discover they've done little tests about done these little tests about faecal matter year. it is i don't on people is a new age jacuzzi has roughly 100 milligrams of faecal matter for that you've just been in before you it says they're not quite the luxury may appear apparently you have to check there's nobody checks the filters nobody keeps them clean enough if smell really strongly of chlorine if you go to your local leisure centre will know the pool centre will they know the pool you might be of you might be a member of whatever the worst bit me if they smell it chlorine of chlorine the cleaner is going actually the it smells of actually the more it smells of chlorine , the more sweat is in chlorine, the more sweat is in it . it's the talk of the it. it's the talk of the chlorine reacting , the urine to chlorine reacting, the urine to kit's advice. they say a good

way to judge is to wipe your finger along the rim and save it. i'd say it's living with bacteria. i mean , kind of odd, bacteria. i mean, kind of odd, but they do say that if you have a glass of champagne, an alcoholic drink in the hot tub, it doesn't matter if you get a bit of the in your drink because alcohol will kill the germs . alcohol will kill the germs. it's so helpful. it's off the i can't live without it. right. so what are we talking now? this is an interesting one. the of marriage in this country raised from 16 to 18 by a may. i think it's all to do . it's a long time it's all to do. it's a long time coming and there's been a lot of research into the prevalence forced marriage in certain communities in the uk and there's quite lot of charities and movements that are saying this needs to be clamped down on and i think this is a good because it's a step finally for the government to that they are serious about violence against women and girls . this plays women and girls. this plays a part in it so now even with

parental a 16 or 17 year old cannot get married and they have to wait till the 18 but what an extraordinary sign of our times andrew, that we've had change centre decades old law in this because are certain immigrant communities who are abuse saying that law and this is forced marriage particularly and that's the problem because it's the marriage civil partnership minimum age act which into force today actually so it's work on that basis and it does exactly that basis and it does exactly that previously as as said 16 and 17 year olds could marry with parental consent . the with parental consent. the problem is turning around and saying why are they being coerced? actually, that was the difficult proof. so there's now basically is absolute prohibition . and the people prohibition. and the people basically they get up to seven years in prison. if they break that it's important to point out that it's important to point out that it's important to point out that it's only in england scotland northern ireland they still have the ability to get married 16 and 17. so but it's

not the romantic notion of going to the green. i hoping it's really to deal with that sort of forced marriage where people are being coerced. they've honour killings it's addressing killings and it's addressing sort of issue. and it's interesting , the un is pushing interesting, the un is pushing for country to end child marriage by 2030. now i was looking the numbers of this, amy, because i think one of the karvy that the company that girls who are being forced into marriage in the uk will in 2021 the government's forced marriage union intervened in cases, union intervened in 118 cases, including child victims and court have issued 3000 and 343 forced marriage protection . forced marriage protection. that's a big problem here. yeah, yeah and it's and it's not just it's not just as a sharia law, it's not just as a sharia law, it's also traveller communities . this is quite prevalent in and it's been we've been talking about this and these charities have been working towards this law for the past decade. i would say this has been saying this is this is why i say it's a long time coming. but yeah, i think

that it will be rolled in the wider uk hopefully to protect these young women and girls. yeah. and it's also when you look at those statistics, those are ones that we know about. that's where the 3343 forced marriage protection orders. there are several which haven't necessarily passed the test about coercion, which is why it needs to be addressed. absolutely right. thank you guys, we've come to the end of our first hour that went quite quickly. doesn't i'm next quickly. doesn't didn't i'm next in hour brexit under in the next hour is brexit under threat the prime threat this afternoon the prime minister meeting ursula von der leyen . it is a huge day for him. leyen. it is a huge day for him. it is a huge day for northern ireland is a huge day for the united kingdom. and if anybody who for brexit see you who voted for brexit a see you in few hello again aidan in a few hello again aidan mcgivern from the met office high pressure will be in charge of our weather this week, but it won't be entirely dry and sunny. the loss of cloud today the loss of cloud for today scattered as but scattered showers as well. but there sunshine about there is some sunshine about predominantly towards the west and the south of the uk and that's because we're running this high. we've got an easterly

breeze that's bringing in cloudy skies, north sea skies, the north sea and scattered we've a lot of scattered. we've seen a lot of the affecting and the showers affecting and central of england into central parts of england into central parts of england into central southern england times, perhaps east wales. that's effectively how it will continue through the rest the day. through the rest of the day. little change into the afternoon, the best any afternoon, the best of any sunshine through for sunshine coming through for western , some breaks in western scotland, some breaks in the for southern parts the cloud for southern parts england breaks even in england and some breaks even in the conditions . further the cloudier conditions. further east, temperatures far from average, 8 to 10 celsius, typically feeling cold in the wind, though. that's coming off the north sea and that will continue to. drive showers in dunng continue to. drive showers in during the evening and overnight those showers quite frequent over hills so the pennines over the hills so the pennines the southern uplands snowdonia as well getting quite number of showers through the night . to showers through the night. to the south though clear spells and a frost in places minus one, minus celsius where get the minus celsius where we get the clear skies southern england clear skies for southern england and scotland , where we and western scotland, where we keep cloud 2 to 4 celsius. keep the cloud 2 to 4 celsius. so chilly for most of us, but the frost , yes, albeit the the frost, yes, albeit the brightest conditions in the south and for the west of scotland, parts of northern

ireland perhaps really ireland as well, perhaps really tuesday essentially the tuesday there is essentially the same sort of thing. we're going to a cloud cover. that to see a of cloud cover. that cloud thickens towards east. cloud thickens towards the east. fair numbers coming into eastern and central , fair numbers coming into eastern and central, perhaps eastern scotland times brighter skies scotland at times brighter skies towards west . temperatures towards the west. temperatures at around 7 to 9 celsius. and it's just a repeat through the rest of the week. we could see that high pressure sitting in the same place towards the north—west of scotland an easterly breeze, bringing a lot cloud. and those showers in from the north see the showers occasionally and occasionally reaching north and east , central eastern east wales, central and eastern england . but for many western england. but for many western areas , the far south, it is areas, the far south, it is largely dry with some bright spells . i'm largely dry with some bright spells. i'm jacob rees—mogg , the spells. i'm jacob rees—mogg, the member of parliament for north east somerset and a former government minister. for years i've corridors of i've walked the corridors of power in both westminster and the city of london. i campaigned in largest democratic in in the largest democratic in ireland i know this ireland story. i know this country has so much to proud of. we need to have arguments , we need to have the arguments, the on how we make the discussions on how we make it . the wisdom the it better. the wisdom of the nafion

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channel very good morning. it's 11:00 channel very good morning. it's11:00 on monday, the 27th of february. i'm bev turner. today is a new brexit deal finally on the honzon brexit deal finally on the horizon . the president of the horizon. the president of the european is visiting the uk as we speak to continue talks with the prime minister over the northern ireland protocol. will they find a breakthrough and how likely is it that the talks will result a positive outcome for the whole of the united kingdom? i'm to be joined by former first minister of northern ireland, arlene , in just a few minutes. arlene, in just a few minutes. also, angry drivers as new price analysis shows, drive a forking out 20 per litre more for days

than petrol, despite difference between the two fuels on the wholesale market, how come the government and regular trade bodies ensure fair pricing practises in the fuel industry to protect us drivers ? also this to protect us drivers? also this morning, a cast armer will spell out how growth mission will improve the lives of families across the country . with labour across the country. with labour aiming to achieve the highest sustained growth in the g7. but will his mission launch successfully ? we'll find out successfully? we'll find out later as we bring you all need to know from his speech . don't to know from his speech. don't forget also to vote in twitter poll we've got going this morning. i'm asking you, in light of james bond's novels and some of roald dahl's books being changed, of old changed, are sensitivity of old books entirely necessary ? so books entirely necessary? so far, 97 per cents of you say no . as always, somebody might as well gbviews@gbnews.uk or tweet to me at gb news news. hope you

had a great weekend. now, we've spoke about gpt a few times on this show. there are now concerns that technology soon take our jobs. let me what you think on that and other stories . morning. email me. think on that and other stories . morning. email me . lots ahead. . morning. email me. lots ahead. but first, let's get you up to date what's happening here date with what's happening here and around the world with something . that. thank you. good something. that. thank you. good from the gb newsroom. it's 11:02. the president of the european commission is meeting the minister today for final on the minister today for final on the northern ireland protocol number 10 says ursula von der leyen will meet in windsor to a range of complex around the post—brexit trading arrangements. downing street has suggested the talks could lead to a deal after months of negotiation . former brexit negotiation. former brexit minister jacob negotiation. former brexit ministerjacob rees—mogg negotiation. former brexit minister jacob rees—mogg told negotiation. former brexit ministerjacob rees—mogg told gb news northern ireland needs its democratic restored. there are

two points that really matter . two points that really matter. one is the reaction of the dup. will this restore power sharing 7 will this restore power sharing ? because what northern ireland needs most of all is its democratic institutions , once democratic institutions, once restored. and that will only happenif restored. and that will only happen if there is cross—community consent . the cross—community consent. the arrangements with the eu and the second is looking at the second point is looking at the legal does the detail legal text. what does the detail say ? because we found in the say? because we found in the past with that it's the past with the eu that it's the detail that really than detail that really rather than the headlines statements. the energy regulator has reduced the cap on the amount energy suppliers can charge customers but bills are still expected to rise . ofgem has announced the rise. ofgem has announced the cap on the amount households pay on electric city and gas bills will drop almost £1,000 from the 1st of april. however, customer is likely to pay 20% more on their annual bills as the government's additional support only protects partially. this the average home will likely pay £500 more a year. the labour

leader says he wants to bring the uk back to being a rock of economic stability . sir the uk back to being a rock of economic stability. sir keir starmer used a speech in central london to set out his economic vision, saying britain needs certainty but also change in order to achieve that goal. he said his real ambition is growth from the grassroots . a new model from the grassroots. a new model for economic growth. growth from the grassroots where wealth is created everywhere by everyone . created everywhere by everyone. for everyone. raise our collective sights beyond the day today. deliver the long term solutions. our country needs . so solutions. our country needs. so here in document the mission to secure the highest sustained growth in the g7 , a measurable growth in the g7, a measurable goal ministers are due to hold emergency talks with super market bosses today amid the vegetable crisis . food minister vegetable crisis. food minister mark spencer has summoned bosses

from all the major chains to find a way to get shelves fully stocked again. the vegetable shortage is expected last up to four weeks as bad weather can tin use to affect the amount of fresh imported into the. several supermarkets , including tesco supermarkets, including tesco followed by aldi asda and morrisons, have introduced customer limits on certain items including tomatoes and cucumbers . the age to get married has been raised to 18 to help protect vulnerable children. 16 and 17 year olds can no longer where to enter a civil partnership in england or wales from today, even with parental consent. the law change means now a crime to exploit children by forcing them into an arrangement . the girls, not arrangement. the girls, not bndes arrangement. the girls, not brides coalition has called it a huge victory and hsbc therapists are planning their biggest strike to date next month after accusing the government of

refusing negotiate over pay. the chartered society official therapy says four and a half thousand of its at 56 trusts in england will strike on the 22nd of march following two strikes already this year. is describing the action as signify scant escalation of the dispute . escalation of the dispute. meanwhile, the csp has said progress has been made with governments in scotland and wales offering physiotherapy staff a better pay deal . tommy staff a better pay deal. tommy fury, the younger brother of world boxing champion tyson , has world boxing champion tyson, has won his match anticipated fight against american youtuber jake paul won the eight round bout on a split decision in saudi arabia last night. several high profile sports stars there to watch, including mike tyson and cristiano ronaldo . the northern cristiano ronaldo. the northern lights that was seen across the uk yesterday could appear again this evening. that's according to the met office . members of

to the met office. members of the public captured lights in scotland, north wales and shropshire . but there was a rare shropshire. but there was a rare sighting in southern england as the aurora lights also reached. as far kent and cornwall . what as far kent and cornwall. what a treat this is gb news more for me shortly. now, though, it's back to back . back to back. very good morning. welcome to bev turner today. so the president of the european commission will visit the uk this to continue talks with the prime over the northern ireland protocol talks are successful. rishi sunak expected to make a statement to the house of commons. so what can we expect from the outcome ? joining me now from the outcome? joining me now is a former first minister of northern ireland and gb news presenter, of course, arlene foster. arlene, lovely to see you . a very big day for you. day you. a very big day for you. day for the dup. big day for

northern ireland. are you hopeful of a satisfactory outcome ? well unfortunately, i'm outcome? well unfortunately, i'm not. i would like to be hopeful of a satisfactory outcome. but as we've heard from members of the dup this . they don't have the dup this. they don't have the dup this. they don't have the text as yet. they've been given a sense of the direction of travel. but there's been no confirmation what it actually means for northern ireland, for trading rules with , the rest of trading rules with, the rest of the united kingdom or indeed the sovereignty issue which was exposed in the supreme judgement just a couple of weeks ago. so i'm afraid we don't know what's in deal yet until and until we see the text, we're not really much further on. and this is all speculation and i'm afraid beverley . why would what is have beverley. why would what is have been the most sensible thing to do you think for rishi sunak to have been included. the dup earlier. to have you sat down working out the detail as opposed to presenting you with it as a fait accompli. of course it as a fait accompli. of course

it would have been much more sensible to have involved the leadership. the democratic unionist party , because the unionist party, because the whole purpose of this is to have devolution up and running again in northern ireland and to have a stable society here. and the fact that he didn't the dup, he was just making the same mistakes as theresa may made back in 17. so it really is very frustrating that people don't learn mistakes when they are made. but fact just repeat the same mistakes and expect to get a different answer. beverly which of course, is the definition of insanity, as you probably know. so what do you think the chances are of stormont being being reinstated at some point in the next couple of weeks of a functioning government being back ? northern government being back? northern ireland? what are the chances of that , arlene . well, i ireland? what are the chances of that, arlene . well, i think the that, arlene. well, i think the dup will take their time over this . they will want to look this. they will want to look into the text to see what the ramifications of the agreement

is for northern for the sovereignty issues , the trading sovereignty issues, the trading issues , some of the issues that issues, some of the issues that were dismissed as being unicorn solutions back in 2019 appear to be back on the table, such as trusted trader , such as dealing trusted trader, such as dealing with digital solutions to gather intelligence on the movement of goods. so i welcome that because i think those issues should have been used right at the of this whole process . but they'll be whole process. but they'll be keenly wanting see what the role of the european court of justice is in northern ireland for the future. of course, the role of the court only symptomatic as to whether who as to which organisation makes the rules. the laws for northern ireland. is it london , belfast or is it is it london, belfast or is it europe where we have absolutely no say in those rules or indeed no say in those rules or indeed no way of changing them before they become operable in northern ireland? so that would be a key test as to whether the european court of justice has a role in.

northern ireland. the idea of the principle of heart of the emotion . the history. i the emotion. the history. i the concerns that you have about that on the more proxy level of the trade the green line for goods going from mainland of the uk over to northern ireland and the red line with the going further through it down to. so the southern half of island and over to europe. are you happy that particular proposal . well, that particular proposal. well, again, unfortunately , we don't again, unfortunately, we don't know what the current level of detail is on that because is it a complete green lane or are there some oversight checks? it to me that the deputy prime minister, dominic raab, was suggesting that it wasn't a completely green lane, that there would still be some checks involved in that and then oversight as to the trade flows . so i think the dup will want to check what it actually means in terms of those goods coming gb into northern ireland. is the integrity of the single market

of the united kingdom intact or is there still role for the european court and terms of goods coming from great britain into northern ireland? that's a key element as well . okay. all key element as well. okay. all right. thank you all. no doubt you will be on gb news probably later in the day. arlene there. so joining me now for a little bit more reflections, political correspondents, tom harwood. good what do we good morning, tom. what do we know about this meeting between rishi sunak von der leyen rishi sunak ursula von der leyen this . we've heard from all and this. we've heard from all and it's not going to be a simple solution, is it? they're still to be a time lapse whilst everybody pores over the detail of this agreement. everybody pores over the detail of this agreement . yes, i of this agreement. yes, i wouldn't expect any snap judgements today. not from the dup , not from the european dup, not from the european research group, not from any serious thinker around this deal serious thinker around this deal. the real text of what has been agreed will matter because it will be attempted to be presented by the government in one particular way and. of course, there may well be differences of opinions in terms

what any legal text agreed actually means . what any legal text agreed actually means. but what any legal text agreed actually means . but what we're actually means. but what we're seeing today is , a very seeing today is, a very carefully coordinated attempt to present this deal in the best possible light . present this deal in the best possible light. number ten is saying final negotiations are happening here at number 10. later today, when ursula von der leyen rishi sunak i don't think many people believe that the final negotiations are actually happening between the prime minister of the united and the president of the european commission. the final details have been agreed by negotiators have been agreed by negotiators have been agreed by negotiators have been already agreed, overwhelming , likely. and this overwhelming, likely. and this is about selling the deal. so that's a carefully set of events. first von der leyen meets sunak downing street, then a cabinet meeting where other members of the cabinet, other than the northern ireland foreign secretary and prime minister learn the details of this deal . minister learn the details of this deal. some of them for the first time cabinet. then we'll give it a nod. we we'll have to wait there and see if there any

cabinet resignations at point. i very much doubt that there be. but it is one moment to watch . but it is one moment to watch. and after those cabinet discussions, cabinet sort of signing the agreed deal, we then go to windsor for a press conference with rishi sunak and ursula von der leyen, whether media get to fire these two individuals, fire questions at them and dig into the meaning behind this deal. them and dig into the meaning behind this deal . journalists behind this deal. journalists will be getting a private a little bit later today the meat of the deal well and more more will be understood as the day goes on. but as say as i stress, i don't that we will have these earlier decisions from key players in this game until later today or potentially tomorrow . today or potentially tomorrow. and tom is it fair to say that the brexiteers who've been frustrated said by the lack of opportunities, which which the brexit deal presented , should brexit deal presented, should now see this if we have an agreement that is happy with in

terms of those not called , does terms of those not called, does that kind of set off starting gun for better type of brexit for everybody because that relationship between our government and the eu may be smoothed a little in terms of cooperation. b on security, but either on sort of trade arrangement is true to say. is that significant significant ? that significant significant? there are many elements uk, eu cooperation that have been held up by. the divisions over , the up by. the divisions over, the protocol, the most notable perhaps is the horizon research funding scheme. this sort of panic way to divvy out money to different research institutes and universal cities and the like. now as a result of the trade and cooperate agreement, the withdrawal deal that boris johnson in the end of 2020, the uk should have access to horizon . but as a result of disagree months over northern ireland,

the eu has so far blocked the uk's access to that programme. so one example for example, if things are smoothed over in northern ireland, could uk accession to that sort science cooperation ? it could be many cooperation? it could be many other little things that sort of have been not going along smoothly in the bumpy years following brexit, potentially smoother relations, more normalised relations between an independent uk and a partner in the eu could reap benefits. however that is all assuming the dealis however that is all assuming the deal is as rosy as the prime minister will no doubt try and make it out to be. okay. thank you, tom. i think it's worth about 80 billion quid that honzon about 80 billion quid that horizon fund. so would be nice for british universities to for british and universities to benefit wouldn't now benefit from that. wouldn't now moving on, a report by rac fuelwatch out this morning highlights the massive price disparity between petrol and diesel. this is despite there being difference in the wholesale prices is over $0.20 more per litre a more than petrol, with retailers taking

double the margin on diesel sales compared to petrol . sales compared to petrol. joining me now is founder fair fuel uk and friend of the show how it costs how it's good morning. now i grew up i grew up in house and across the road from my house was my father's garage where he sold diesel and he sold petrol . his father he sold petrol. his father started it before him with little . a kind of petrol . so little. a kind of petrol. so this is something my has been saying to me recently why is diesel which was always the cheaper fuel suddenly more expensive than unleaded petrol. well, the simple answer because i do it that price fixing sorting things out the diesel is commodity more than petrol because . petrol is refined over because. petrol is refined over here, diesel refined over here. but we import more of the fuel than we do with petrol. petrol being more volatile. it's dangerous to transport tanker, but diesel comes across in tankers from all around the world and they can actually manipulate the price to suit or whatever the speculation want to

do. and that's what's happening in the fuel supply chain and. that's why beverages, as you well know , i've been calling for well know, i've been calling for pump let's hope i'm pump action. let's hope i'm waiting see the. jeremy waiting to see the. jeremy mentioned something in the budget you he will? budget. do you think he will? have you had the ear of jeremy hunt pump . have you managed hunt with pump. have you managed to to them. how to break through to them. how well, i'll put it this way. i'm guessing good vibes. yes i. it's no one's saying you're going to get pump watch and it might not be called pump wash. it might be called something else . it'll called something else. it'll probably be run by a civil servant fundamentally servant etc. but fundamentally is definitely a move afoot . is definitely a move afoot. certainly with 60 backbench employees writing calling for pump action, a cut in fuel duty, he knows exactly where fairfield uk and 37 million drivers sit . uk and 37 million drivers sit. good good. and we every day on this show there seems be another story which is about the war the motorist there are so many now over the weekend howard we saw the pushback a level fight in defence of the motorist which

isn't necessarily about killing the planet. for those of you who are watching, we've look seeing pictures now. this was in in cambridge at the weekend . big cambridge at the weekend. big crowds people are getting galvanised now. you must be heartened to see images like this . yes. i couldn't actually this. yes. i couldn't actually make it. i was invited to attend andifs make it. i was invited to attend and it's so it's run by out a that together declaration and it's going to have more of this is to happen because i understand sheffield introducing the ulez today . more and more the ulez today. more and more cities are trying to follow saudi come in london's approach expanding ulez is all over the place. just the free strivers with no environmental benefit accruing either. but yes, i'm very heartened by this . and when very heartened by this. and when you see these sorts of protests, there are various groups, as you say, to sit together. declaration alamy, the military, these guys down in cambridge , these guys down in cambridge, they're collaborating each they're collaborating with each other. they're all are. other. but they're all they are. they are leaping in different areas the country areas around the country bizarrely oxford and cambridge, whether trialling i don't know

whether trialling i don't know whether they expect everybody to row instead of drive a car how it but what one of the people complaining about what they incensed about it's not just about they're it's about the communities absolutely the right to drive is actually is the heart of social cohesion of any community. for the last hundred years the, car has been a liberating factor for it is about freedom and choice. what is so frustrating you here all the time you get people we must get people out of their car. we must get them walking. we must get them cycling. sorry. no this is a freedom. this is a democracy . i choose what democracy. i choose what transport i want to . i do also transport i want to. i do also to have a clean environment , transport i want to. i do also to have a clean environment, mix the two together. and that's what the problem is. and we're all made to feel guilty. beverly yeah, well, not anymore. not on watch. how it, how it that from fairfield uk . thank you. let me fairfield uk. thank you. let me know what you think about that if were there at one of those protests at the weekend. do let me know in just a moment, though chats g p t talked

me know in just a moment, though chats g pt talked about chats g p t we've talked about this before. this is rise of technology that is replacing human workers. and i'll tell you, the particular professions which most at risk , see in which are most at risk, see in a few minutes .

it is 1124. this is ten, it's down gb news. thank you for joining me. i nearly tom this question tom harwood when i heard that rishi sunak was meeting on the line in windsor, i nearly to. tom, do you think she's going to pop in and see the king? well, news has just broken. the king will hold an audience with european commission president taylor audience with european co theission president taylor audience with european co the late1 president taylor audience with european co the late this�*sident taylor audience with european co the late this afternoon taylor audience with european co the late this afternoon at aylor in the late this afternoon at windsor. a palace spokesperson said the is pleased to meet said the king is pleased to meet world leader if they're visiting britain . and it is the britain. and it is the government's advice that he should let me ask my should do so, let me ask my guests about this. amy nicholl is. that they are is. it significant that they are meeting today? think it's meeting today? i think it's definitely step in the right

direction for. me and i think king charles is doing the correct thing there, which is sort cosying up to europe in sort of cosying up to europe in a of soft go. let's go back a sort of soft go. let's go back potentially do brexit. maybe potentially on do brexit. maybe not. let's go back, but let's a healthy relations going forwards . well everybody knows andrew that if he divorced it's very unrealistic they're going have a healthy relationship with your ex going forward you can try louise we shall always be friends what people say . friends and what people say. gwyneth chris martin gwyneth paltrow and chris martin thank you go how often those ? thank you go how often those? yeah, absolutely. yes. right behind closed doors. it's not as lovely as this. absolutely right . some proper that all king welcomes everybody as appropriate. so i think it's good for future relations does it mean we're going back. no, i don't think it help don't think it does it help relations? absolutely. it's the and proper thing to do. okay let's be talking let's see. they'll be talking about back. better about building back. better where absolutely where they will. absolutely right to be given power right. pleased to be given power to charge a says senior to charge a suspect, says senior officers in england. a officers in england. you are a lawyer, andrew . what is going to lawyer, andrew. what is going to be difference between this be the difference between this and cps building cases? so

and the cps building cases? so this sounds like a really significant study. it's a signal, but they're asking for is happening. is this is it's not happening. is this what they're asking for and they're the horrendous they're includes the horrendous time people time it's taken for people to decide or to carry decide whether or not to carry on prosecution. the way on with the prosecution. the way it the it's the it works at the moment, it's the police all the evidence they police get all the evidence they send it off to the crown prosecution who determine whether or to proceed with whether or not to proceed with the particular it's an the particular case. so it's an independent prosecution lawyers. they're for certain like they're saying for certain like domestic abuse, harassment, burglary, robbery theft, knife crime and violent. burglary, robbery theft, knife crime and violent . they're crime and violent. they're basically saying they want to make sure that we can do this a lot quicker. so the police are saying we should be able to have the power to, make that decision. they also, quote in this report, and i always say statistics lies and statistics lies, lies and statistics. they say in march 2015, 16% of crimes were resolved with a charge on strike or summons. and now it is 5.6. and they're blaming that on the slowness and the backlog in the system and actually backlogs are really bad for everybody the bad for the lawyers , the bad for the

for the lawyers, the bad for the witnesses they've had for the victims but also for those who accused the defence want to get with because innocent with that because innocent people accused want people if they're accused want to sure have that to make sure they have that trial is there trial quicker. but is there a chance , amy, that innocent chance, amy, that innocent people could charged by the police without seeing if there is a necessary burden of proof that the cps would otherwise try to establish? yeah, but for me, this is a total shocker this is it is a total shocker andifs this is it is a total shocker and it's at a time when only 5% of crimes are actually solved, which poses the question is the piece really fit for purpose. i would suggest no. and also that tally with the fact that 1% of serving officers have been investigated for a crime the past ten years. now in the last 12 years, we've seen cuts to the cps and also cuts to the numbers of police . so i think that's of police. so i think that's what's created perfect storm this backlog . so actually what this backlog. so actually what we should really try is investing into more police certainly not more police power because i think they've got

plenty of powers. it's just that there aren't enough of them to use if it's also am i right saying that this is partly a lock down because court was suspended for such a long time ? suspended for such a long time? if this reminds me a little bit, we were talking about the immigration rules we in the this amnesty effect to on on amnesty effect to be on on immigrants refuge jews seeking asylum . 95% of that will come asylum. 95% of that will come from these five countries. they will the green light. and so 12,000 of them also are going to be allowed fill in some be allowed to fill in some pieces paper and through. pieces of paper and go through. i that when are i just worry that when are effectively just clearing in boxes. yes. that set precedents for the future under . the for the future under. the pressure of constraints that aren't necessarily a good thing in the law. you're obviously right. and there's got to be a fair reason in the justice has to be done but make sure it's done swiftly make sure it doesn't prejudice us that justice right. gp okay, just to be clear, amy thought this was about an online gp survey. that would be great. doctor out of trouble , right? this is what you

trouble, right? this is what you written all over it. it has and it does every week. and what i say back to the futurist , what say back to the futurist, what i say back to the futurist, what i say is that we predicted this on this very show. oh, you say upsets me every single week. and luckily you say it with a smile and you do so because i always say information power . and say information is power. and understanding revolution , understanding this revolution, which i've been talking about for very long time, that for a very long time, means that people empowered to do people are empowered to do it. well, this is chatty . it's well, this story is chatty. it's basically artificial basically a.i. artificial intelligence is doing a lot of jobs that other people can't normally do . they can do them. normally do. they can do them. they're just having them taken away from them. but they will be taken and every that taken away and if every job that can be automated will be elon musk about that. stephen musk warned about that. stephen hawking all hawking said it was all basically the greatest basically it's the greatest opportunity for humanity, but also existential threat. so what the chaps call is, zach said even his name is i hate in the middle but he's creative director of a creative agency and he said they're already using chat gpt to generate text for pages in today's times

example these are letting pupils use ai chat bots to write letters . why is why they're letters. why is why they're already mice in the same way my son will like this. he'd love. he really struggles with writing, which is great. so what's going to happen? they're talking different skills in the future ai going to do all future ai is going to do all sorts of things where it's new jobs. so does place jobs. so what does this place those jobs? it's leisure time and so what we're doing is saying, look, this is what's going to have every job that can possibly automated will the possibly automated will be the creative . it's time to write creative. it's time to write creative, copy the flintstone . i creative, copy the flintstone. i gave an example 2018. they pumped in every episode of the flintstones. it churned out another episode of the flintstones almost identical to the . couldn't tell the the series. couldn't tell the difference. it's going to happen every industry to be every industry going to be affected. we're the affected. what we're doing the show empowering people by show is empowering people by that. you tell us, you only that. all you tell us, you only solution is you're going to have more leisure time. well, you can look different industries . look at different industries. well, happening the well, so what's happening at the moment? letting moment? reason they're letting it body, for it do this exam body, for example, is the iab, the

international baccalaureate. example, is the iab, the internat letting accalaureate. example, is the iab, the internat letting accalaure ite. they're letting them do it because. firstly, that's what's going the future. going to happen in the future. but the moment, the chat but also at the moment, the chat is perfect . no, it's noisy is not perfect. no, it's noisy rubbish. well, it's not rubbish . it's not. it does a simple stuff you might find a jacuzzi, for example , that sort of for example, that sort of rubbish. it well it is some of the writing is just awful as a fairly as a first draft it's okay it's not it replicates it can't innovate. well that's the interesting thing the way that it works it will start getting language patterns if you do try it, it's free to try. try some of what we look at that sort of bafic of what we look at that sort of basic look at what it does for a first draft. and this is why they're saying they use it for students because they turn out, you to question everything. you need to question everything. look shown some look what is shown because some of it gets complete of the stuff it gets complete wrong which is horribly like vanilla and it's vanilla and buttoned up and it's all politically correct. oh, no vanilla and buttoned up and it's atheylitically correct. oh, no vanilla and buttoned up and it's athe whole.y correct. oh, no vanilla and buttoned up and it's athe whole quotezct. oh, no vanilla and buttoned up and it's athe whole quote is. oh, no vanilla and buttoned up and it's athe whole quote is it's|, no vanilla and buttoned up and it's athe whole quote is it's the . the whole quote is it's the communist. probably reprogramme it by the sounds of things . you it by the sounds of things. you can to write roald dahl can get it to write roald dahl and bond and put more and james bond and put more offensive you do

offensive stuff in. you could do all sorts of anything you can i know that that's the difference. and it basically long time ago , and it basically long time ago, the imitation game. remember the imitation game with turing he turned he's on the back of a £50 note celebrating i've got one of those but say here's the thing, right? oh, you pay. well let's turn on the battle power note . turn on the battle power note. so he was the guy in 1950. he basically saying, look, he's you. it's always i'll be happy with. he was saying that basically when you can fool a human into believing that deaung human into believing that dealing a real person as opposed to a computer that is we've won the imitation game that day is coming . what we're doing on the coming. what we're doing on the show is making sure people are forewarned is forearmed. yeah, but know, still not told us but you know, still not told us what we need to do. but you what jobs we need to do. but you get the you will come of this. well new and so on the well new jobs and so on the creative i think we need creative i still think we need to an impact because the to show an impact because the creative industries, jobs creative industries, the jobs that were at risk are copywriters, journalists, bloggers. aime i'll say it,

bloggers. also aime i'll say it, we're done right in a day. still to labour leader to come, labour leader keir starmer set his plan for starmer has set out his plan for economic recovery with the outcome achieve highest outcome to achieve the highest sustained the g7 . our sustained growth in the g7. our man liam halligan was on hand to see what was said. that's all. after morning's news. see what was said. that's all. after morning's news . good after morning's news. good morning from the gb news room. it's 1133. here are . the it's 1133. here are. the headlines. well, let's just start with a little bit of breaking news this hour. king charles will meet the president of the european commission at castle today , ursula von der castle today, ursula von der leyen. he'll prime minister rishi sunak for talks later. so she's looking forward to turning the page on the northern ireland protocol downing street to suggest at the talks could lead to a deal after months of negotiations with brussels about fixing northern ireland protocol . the energy regulator has reduced cap on the amount energy suppliers can charge customers ,

suppliers can charge customers, but bills are still expect to rise. ofgem has announced the cap on the amount households pay on electricity and gas bills will drop to £3,280 from the 1st of april. despite this, however customers are likely to pay 20% more on their annual bills as the government's additional support only partially protects them. this means the average home will likely pay them. this means the average home will likely pa y £500 more home will likely pay £500 more a year. home will likely pay £500 more a year . the labour leader says he year. the labour leader says he wants to bring the uk back to a rock of economic stability. sir keir starmer used a speech in london to set out his economic vision, saying britain needs certainty but also change in order to achieve that , he said. order to achieve that, he said. his real ambition is growth from the grassroots . a new model for the grassroots. a new model for growth. growth the grassroots where wealth is created everywhere by everyone . for everywhere by everyone. for everyone . raise our collective everyone. raise our collective sights, build on the day today,

deliver the term solutions. our country needs . so here in this country needs. so here in this document, the mission secure the highest sustained growth in the g7 i measurable goal, highest sustained growth in the g7 i measurable goal , the g7 i measurable goal, the northern that were seen across the uk yesterday . they could the uk yesterday. they could appear again this evening . appear again this evening. according to the met office members of the public captured the lights . scotland, north the lights. scotland, north wales, cambridge and shropshire. but there was a rare sighting in southern england as the aurora lights also reached as far as kent. lights also reached as far as kent . and lovely tv online dab+ kent. and lovely tv online dab+ radio. this is good . now it's radio. this is good. now it's over to . bev thank you. tom over to. bev thank you. tom sleigh . now, in just over to. bev thank you. tom sleigh. now, in just a over to. bev thank you. tom sleigh . now, in just a moment, sleigh. now, in just a moment, we'll hear keir starmer's plan sort out our economy. if his labour party were in charge, go anywhere .

very good morning . it's 1137. very good morning. it's1137. this is bev turner today gb news. labour leader sir keir starmer has been talking this morning. he sets out plans for the economy warning that without new policies, the risks falling behind eastern european nations. let's quickly have a listen to what he said earlier. you know, i want to create an economy where is the answer we give before tax or spend ? so joining before tax or spend? so joining me now is our economics and business editor liam halligan, who was there to see the speech. liz good morning, liam. what he have to say . liz good morning, liam. what he have to say. hi. both i'm here in the heart of the city of london, outside the bank of england. of course, keir starmer actually gave speech in an office building behind the bank office building behind the bank of england in general. he didn't

really say very much . he doesn't really say very much. he doesn't really say very much. he doesn't really need to say very much. that's labour's strategy a few platitudes about wanting a lot more growth and stability and not coming up with unfun it tax cuts or spending pledges as he calls . it was really a display calls. it was really a display of power. you have people up on stage with them people like gusto don't the former cabinet secretary used to work for major jim o'neill, the goldman sachs investment banker and former labour minister. andy who used to be chief economist at the bank of england, the great and the good really huddling around labour now, giving a sense that they are the party of government. and he was quite clever to just sit back , not say clever to just sit back, not say very much at all and just let the tories have this internal war that they're going to have today on the northern ireland protocol. you get the sense that if there are a few news lines , if there are a few news lines, things like he wants to break us out of a high tax, low growth

doom loop . the fact he thinks doom loop. the fact he thinks that some kind of role for european court of justice is inevitable in northern ireland. but got the overwhelming sense he didn't want to make too many headunes he didn't want to make too many headlines today because he didn't in the way of didn't want to get in the way of rishi bad headlines rishi sunak's bad headlines already emerging on this northern ireland protocol deal . northern ireland protocol deal. yeah.i northern ireland protocol deal. yeah. i was looking at what keir starmer was going to say with his five point plan. everyone has a five point plan these days , don't they? and like you , i , don't they? and like you, i couldn't really see what was different to what it couldn't see what was different. i couldn't see what was different and. what he's proposing. what liz truss and kwasi kwarteng tried to do with growth plan. how different that how is it different to that proposal ? exactly right. he proposal? exactly right. he asked by one of us journalist in the queue and afterwards, would you cut personal taxation ? would you cut personal taxation? would you cut personal taxation? would you lower the basic rate of income tax? and he said if ask me about tax, if you me about spending. my answer always starts with growth . we need

starts with growth. we need economic growth . we need growth economic growth. we need growth up and down country, which sounded a lot . liz truss and sounded a lot. liz truss and kwasi kwarteng , he even came up kwasi kwarteng, he even came up with a policy that the tories have been trying to get through the house of commons with their backbenchers won't allow it to loosen up planning rules so we can build more infrastructure, more more more houses more bridges, more more houses above and beyond everything else . so it sounded like a kind of tory , but there was no costings tory, but there was no costings at all. it was very, very vague and the point of what keir starmer is trying to do. it's a bit like that prawn cocktail elephants, if you're too young to remember it. i remember it back in the mid nineties as tony blair and gordon brown gearing up they went round up for office. they went round the boardrooms of britain . they the boardrooms of britain. they had lots of bad lunches with that eponymous starter , that that eponymous starter, that period. they caught the prawn cocktail. never have so many crustaceans in vain, said then tory grandee and cabinet minister michael heseltine, because he knew were going to

win. and there's a sense now that labour are gearing up for office, so what are they doing? they're going around the city of london. rachael reeves, the shadow chancellor who mentions in every speech that she used to work england in that work at bank of england in that building behind me. and indeed she . she's presenting herself , she. she's presenting herself, keir starmer, as a credible pairing. people can manage the economy, grow ups who won't fight in horses. they're everything. they're to say that jeremy corbyn isn't keir starmer. he hasn't got the pizzazz of tony blair. the room doesn't fill electricity the way it did when the former labour leader spoke. so he's just trying to be very low key, very safe, trying to not frighten the horses as labour inched towards power he by all accounts he's a worker isn't it? i was i was talking to somebody knows him relatively well over the weekend and was saying that he's he's actually kind of polar opposite to boris , whereby boris johnson to boris, whereby boris johnson was flamboyance and brushed

strokes. keir starmer when he was starting out as a barrister, was starting out as a barrister, was all about methodical detail. going through the pages with a highlighter pen , getting the highlighter pen, getting the detail right. i wonder if he's comfortable right now being, able to give these speeches without any detail. it doesn't feel like natural kind of spiritual home, does it? but as you say, he's playing a very safe hand . i think he's very safe hand. i think he's very comfortable giving, frankly , low comfortable giving, frankly, low wattage speeches. even when he came to kind of so—called clap lines as we say in political journalism , he didn't even raise journalism, he didn't even raise his voice. there's no real change in the tone. it strikes me, beth labour have made the calculation at the highest level that all they need to do is not be jeremy corbyn and not be the tories . calculating that a lot tories. calculating that a lot of the country they've had enough of political drama over recent years with three

chancellors and three prime ministers and. bond markets going because of economic announcement . even though that's announcement. even though that's announcement. even though that's a much more complex story than most people think. so this speech, for me, it really of steady as goes don't give any detail because the detail can be picked apart by analytical journalist who are looking to look holes in your plans. but it did sound broadly like a kind of middle england , right consensus middle england, right consensus . lots of talk about low taxation as and when the time comes but also more labour leaning voters . lots of talk leaning voters. lots of talk about an active state. we can't stand why the market fails was one of the lines he used. we can't stand by while the planning system favours the rich and doesn't give people a foot up on the ladder of opportunity . is he getting britain out of what starmer called this high tax, low growth , low wage doom tax, low growth, low wage doom loop that we're in a phrase that

he nicked actually from a pretty well—known newspaper columnist. thank liam liam halligan there down in the city, london. amy, nicole, let me just ask you about very easy when you're in opposition it to just keep it light . i love the phrase liam light. i love the phrase liam used that low wattage speech that's all you have to give and you can just sail up to the next election upsetting anybody. but aren't we in many ways ready for aren't we in many ways ready for a bit of steady going after the aren't we in many ways ready for past years, particularly since 19? i think country is ready for a nice, slow wattage and ambitions to the government and know what it is. the phrase, andrew. because what keir starmer said this morning, and i've no doubt that there will be presenters on gb news for the rest of day picking it apart in a more detail. he doesn't a bit more detail. he doesn't talk about tech ai in the way talk about tech or ai in the way that sunak positively that rishi sunak gets positively when about investing when he talks about investing those industries. you don't see that keir starmer, and that from keir starmer, and it isn't this particular speech isn't in this particular speech

he made this morning. it is interesting. well, i think that he the antithesis he wants to show the antithesis because then turn round because you then turn round it's all communication. boris all about communication. boris went wonderful chap won went from the wonderful chap won 80 seat majority because he used to be the heineken and prime minister who could read parts the electorate that nobody else could. that's what they used to say. he then went to marmite say. he then went to the marmite where either love him or where you either love him or hate they hate him. and they were basically when would show basically when you would show up. differences showed the up. the differences showed the difference between rishi. he's not his clap not going for his ideas. clap lines. loop lines. it's all the doom loop andifs lines. it's all the doom loop and it's very easy, as you say in opposition to criticise what you to be fair to both you need to be fair to both drill into details. they've drill into the details. they've all a five point and all got a five point plan and a andifs all got a five point plan and a and it's basically the same. well, the gross proceeds well, that's the gross proceeds that come from the letters. so you on that sort of you work on that sort of protocol just tip protocol and others. i just tip of iceberg. one real zinger of the iceberg. one real zinger like just focussed on want to say something about free childcare or housing or something about rejoining the single market. just something that's capture the that's going to capture the attention of watching attention of everybody watching . that's what the journalist can do though , when they return. and do though, when they return. and i said, well, give us one give

us one policy. because as liam rightly said brilliantly, i'm standing told standing outside. you told us they us about they gave us some. tell us about how you're going to do this. what's happening? where's the sort evidence go with all sort of evidence to go with all sort of evidence to go with all sort policies and so okay sort of policies and so on? okay okay. this is a okay. moving on. this is a really story. we've seen really sad story. we've seen cases , of course, of fairly not cases, of course, of fairly not surprisingly, you might think of migrant boats drowning, not this one that crashed over the weekend . 59 people drowned off weekend. 59 people drowned off the coast of italy. what happened ? i think that a story happened? i think that a story like this makes you think of that poem . no one puts their that poem. no one puts their child in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. and this is safer than the land. and this is a tragedy. but i think a lot of people saw it coming, particularly in italy where. george maloney's government has reduced the ngo life boats are rescuing the people in these boats. she's clamped down on it and this is the result. and people are saying with this

policy , tragic is going to policy, tragic is going to happen. policy, tragic is going to happen . and just this year , happen. and just this year, italy has seen an increase in migrants. so to 13,000, up 5000 since her tough on immigration party came into power. so i think it shows that you can't address this without addressing the push and pull. you can't have these tough policies because they don't work. and this the result. andrew we presume this is a british problem. often when you look at the media but actually lots of european countries i think its its own political ties as you know we're always i look through the watch why is that it's the media watch why is that it's affecting lots of people and we've become desensitised to some statistics until some of these statistics until you it and you turn you personify it and you turn around and this is a baby. a newborn baby. yes it was one of the 59 victims. and you look at that and they're talking about, you know, it's costing reaching ,12,000 rescues have reported seeing lawyers and

seeing doctors lawyers and well—to—do migrants syria well—to—do migrants from syria and turkey by boat . so and leaving turkey by boat. so you at this sort of stuff, you look at this sort of stuff, what's happening on this sort of basis, need address it at basis, we need to address it at source . you need to turn out to source. you need to turn out to say, let's stop the people smugglers. out why smugglers. let's work out why this this sort this is happening on this sort of when i saw story, of basis. when i saw story, i wondered, having seen the pictures over the weekend the pictures over the weekend of the people displaced people who've been displaced from with this from their homes with this earthquakes turkey, earthquakes in turkey, i wondered turkey wondered if it was turkey victims earthquakes victims of earthquakes but actually these actually they weren't. these were afghanistan were people coming afghanistan syria . pakistan. one person who syria. pakistan. one person who was arrested was the suspect said people trafficker . those said people trafficker. those are the people, of course, that we need to address and bring to justice. right. moving on, andrew, people, we did talk a little bit about this last week, i think, but this is about the war on meat. cambridge university students voted for a completely vegan menu across all catering services after a campaign by extinction rebellion offshoot . i'm getting to the offshoot. i'm getting to the point, andrew, where if i for a meal, a vegetarian house, i

might take a steak. look at you. we're taking a steak and a vegetarian, black it's absolutely what i'm getting. it's a bit like the war on the motorway or on the meat eater. if i if i have a vegetarian, come to my house, i accommodate their needs. i'm starting to wonder whether we meat eaters need to rebel arrive. i like that about respect. that and it's about respect. because turn on can say because as you turn on i can say some the best meal macaroni some of the best meal macaroni cheese i've ever had was a vegan version at ridiculous. no, no. but i'll tell you, for mac and cheese, what's also blasphemy is that it tastes divine. also however, it's about respect for both , and you don't want both sides, and you don't want to absolute accommodate vegans. it to be miserable. bit it used to be miserable. a bit of cardboard, bit of grassland. so they used to have desert so they used to have the desert . now a fantastic . the menu is now a fantastic and they're all given those sort of vegan options, but it's about being it's about being an option. it's about choice people the choice. choice give people the choice. you're to go to your you're right to go to your dinner parties with your steaks . you will hosting, dinner parties with your steaks . you will hosting , because . you will be hosting, because obviously they were given the choice and they voted have an exclusively plant plus all of the diet. i'm not know them, but

thatis the diet. i'm not know them, but that is democracy. yeah, but is the thing, how many of those students voted for veganism on the menu because they sat around the menu because they sat around the lecture theatre and so meat is a moral issue like i'm going to be judged if i don't go along with the majority. so it's the tyranny of the minority who will be iron deficiency, won't have enough vitamin d in their bodies. so was a secret probably beef and lamb however been off the menu since 2016. yeah they were already sold so it's only bits of or the chickens are rejoicing they're idiots and they go to university . you know, they go to university. you know, there's plenty of statistics to suggest that plant based is not what you suggest. these people aren't going to keel any second and they're actually fitter and healthier than meaty. so plant based has been shown to based diet has been shown to slow prostate cancer progression by 52% did you nothing huge. well that's only one cancer. but did you see bear grylls talking about this? so bear adventurer guy - about this? so bear adventurer guy . that sounds good doesn't it guy. that sounds good doesn't it

really , really, really nice really, really, really nice piece of bear. no but he was talking about the fact that went vegan for a while and he said i couldn't lift the weights. obviously i couldn't do my endurance . and he said, now endurance. and he said, now i have literally almost just meat. he barely is vegetables. and he said, he's stronger , is fitter. said, he's stronger, is fitter. i know that the human body needs other things which are the kind of experts will tell you that. however it is a question of choice. people who make informed decisions if they want to do it. absolutely. i support that. let them do it. let them decide for themselves their themselves about their nutritional don't any nutritional needs. but don't any other person to do that? so decide a company pepper with a steak. so this wonderful restaurant with bear grylls, we can do would be eating off campus. i assume assume . andrew, campus. i assume assume. andrew, take me to a very expensive restaurant off campus i'll do that where we could eat almost raw still i'll get to andrew sneaky where are you going to have your steak that's what i want right. of want okay right. talking of weaklings jim sex pests in the gym amy, are you a gym goer.

this makes me laugh because when i was a single goer, i used to love meeting blokes in the gym. yeah it was probably my favourite to meet newbies . i'll favourite to meet newbies. i'll be honest , i have favourite to meet newbies. i'll be honest, i have many fond memories , but this story. be honest, i have many fond memories , but this story . well, memories, but this story. well, maybe you all the sex pest because this story is a growing number of women who no longer feel safe at the gym because of persistent staring, inappropriate physical contact and intimidate . should i go to and intimidate. should i go to the gym and be permanently? i guess you tell i live guess you could tell i live there my steak and i watch there with my steak and i watch people the door grilling people at the door grilling stuff and it's stuff with bare up and it's a series . what i always question series. what i always question statistics but something called origin the health club. they revealed that six in ten women had been harassed whilst at mixed gyms. and that's obviously horrendous for those concerned. yeah, there was somebody , a tik yeah, there was somebody, a tik tok account who has close to a million followers on it. these tiktok accounts i seen a lot of yes and sometimes i do feel quite right, quite sympathetic

for the men in the videos. i didn't create hashtag but what i dispute whether they are gym creeps or whether they've just been caught sort of staring into space accidentally got in a line of and i'm not a case for defamation i said i'll take them all on you work that sort of buzz it's right to out the problem and people be able to exercise in safety and so on. so it's not just women. i mean, it's not just women. i mean, it's this obsession issue with men, but men as well. you do get people who are assaulted in gyms is a serious issue. but in order to that, you have to address to do that, you have to address in way lays down in a serious way lays down licence would say it sounds licence we would say it sounds a horrendous statistic but let's address . that's i the address this. that's i tell the people at gym they'll do people at the gym they'll do something about it. let's make sure that. yeah, absolutely. call behaviour . call out predatory behaviour. but otherwise you feel like amy then enjoy a little flirt. why do you lifting right. we've nearly come to the end. we did a poll this morning asking you whether you thought we needed sensitivity readers for books it starts with roald dahl. not starts with roald dahl. it's not gone james bond in light gone to on james bond in light of these sorts of books edited i

asked you our sensitivity edits of old necessary and a whopping 7% of you are saying amy nicole, what do you make of that ? well, what do you make of that? well, it's another that i can't have the i shall gp stolen. i can't do that you'd make an excellent sensitivity reader. you also make an excellent panel. thank you both so much, andrew as well. see. right, we've got lowe's most. come on, gb news for the rest of the day. of course, i've come to the end of the show. coming up next is mark longhurst. see you tomorrow morning at ten. hello again. i'm aidan mcgivern from the mental. if high pressure, we'll be if it's high pressure, we'll be in charge of our weather week. but it won't be entirely dry. and sunny. lots of cloud for and sunny. the lots of cloud for today showers well. today scattered showers as well. but sunshine about but there is some sunshine about predominantly the west predominantly towards the west and south of the uk and and the south of the uk and that's because we're on this and the south of the uk and that"we'veuse we're on this and the south of the uk and that"we've got we're on this and the south of the uk and that"we've got an re on this and the south of the uk and that"we've got an easterly s high we've got an easterly breeze bringing cloudy breeze that's bringing in cloudy skies the north sea and skies from the north sea and scattered showers seen. lot of the showers affecting eastern and central parts of england

into central, england into, central, southern england at perhaps east wales, at times, perhaps east wales, that's effectively how it will continue through rest of the continue through the rest of the day change into the day little change into the afternoon the of any afternoon the best of any sunshine coming through for western breaks in western scotland, some breaks in the parts of the cloud for southern parts of england and breaks even in the cloudier conditions further east. temperatures not far from average, 8 to 10 celsius, typically feeling cold in the wind, though, that's coming off the sea and that will continue to drive in during evening to drive in during the evening and overnight. those showers quite frequent over the hills . quite frequent over the hills. so the pennines, the southern uplands snowdonia as well, getting quite a of showers through the night. to the getting quite a of showers through the night . to the south, through the night. to the south, though, clear spells a frost in places minus one, minus two celsius where we get the clear skies , southern england and skies, southern england and western scotland , where we keep western scotland, where we keep the cloud 2 to 4 celsius. so chilly, start most of us. but the frost. yes the brightest conditions in the south and for the west of scotland, of northern ireland as well, perhaps really tuesday is perhaps really tuesday there is the same sort of thing we could see a lot of cloud cover that,

cloud thickets towards the east fair, a number of showers coming into eastern and central, perhaps eastern scotland at times towards the times brighter skies towards the west . temperatures at around west. temperatures at around 7 to 9 celsius and. it's just a repeat through the rest of the week. we could see that high pressure sitting in the same place towards the northwest of scotland and east edinburgh is bringing cloud , those bringing a lot of cloud, those showers in from the north sea, the showers occasionally reaching and wales reaching north and east wales central and eastern. but for many western areas and the far south, it is largely dry with some bright spells . i'm jacob some bright spells. i'm jacob rees—mogg, the member of parliament for north east somerset and a former government minister. for years i've walked the corridors of power in both westminster and the city of london. i campaigned in the largest democratic vote in ireland know country has ireland. i know this country has much to be proud of. we to have the arguments, discussions , how the arguments, discussions, how we make it better, the wisdom of the nation is in its people . vox the nation is in its people. vox populi, vox day . that's why i'm populi, vox day. that's why i'm joining the people's channel. join me monday and thursday at 8

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channel it's 12 noon. you're with gb news live. i'm mark longhurst coming up for you this monday afternoon . they're calling it afternoon. they're calling it the windsor agreement . but could the windsor agreement. but could rishi sunak end up in a windsor knots as he tries to a new northern ireland protocol deal to his own backbenchers and the dup? meeting european commission president ursula der leyen for what is being described as final talks. she will then have tea with the king at windsor. will it be a celebration? well, the devil could be in the detail. former cabinet minister jacob rees—mogg telling gb news expects a major tory revolt if the dup don't back the deal.