tamsin very good morning. it is at 930 on wednesday, the 8th of march. this is to the point of me bev turner and andrew pierce the prime minister is preparing for a legal battle with lawyers and of course with european judges and party as he and the labour party as he bnngs and the labour party as he brings forward that plan to stop small we're bringing you small boats. we're bringing you the so—called the latest on the so—called illegal migration bill. throughout show, the king throughout the show, the king and queen consort were met with and queen consort were met with a boos and cheers as they a mix of boos and cheers as they visited colchester yesterday and work hosted by anti—monarchy protesters . all the royal family protesters. all the royal family losing their popularity. i certainly hope and it's international women's day today . did you realise at the age of 80 to celebrating the achievements of inspirational female role models around the world. there's been one of those to do let us know . get in

to you. do let us know. get in touch with your views on all of the things i'm going to be talking about today. we've got some fantastic guests also in the show, including alan titchmarsh this morning. but first of hear your news first of all, hear your news headunes first of all, hear your news headlines with bethany . beth. headlines with bethany. beth. thank you. good morning. it's 931. here are your top stories from the gb newsroom, the un refugee agency has expressed profound concern over the government's new plans to tackle small boats crossing the english channel. the new legislation aims to stop illegal migrants coming to the uk from claiming asylum. the agency says the bill amounts to an asylum ban and accused the government of breaching the un refugee convention . rishi sunak is convention. rishi sunak is expected to face mps questions on the new laws at time. ministers questions later. the

home secretary suella braverman told us the government is absolutely confident the measures are fundamentally lawful. this is an a very complex, but incredibly serious situation . now it's right that situation. now it's right that we take necessary , proportionate we take necessary, proportionate and compassionate measures to deter people from taking this journey in the first place . the journey in the first place. the rmt union is called off planned strike action for network rail workers following an improved pay workers following an improved pay offer. union members have been taking part in walkouts for months in a dispute over pay , months in a dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. industrial action was due to take place on the 16th and 17th of march, but it's now been suspended. but the union says action with 14 other train operating companies will still go ahead and temperature has dropped to —15.2 degrees in the highlands overnight, making it the coldest night of the year so far as an blast spreads across the uk. the met office

says more sleet and snow is expected to cross southern england and south wales while hail showers will hit scotland's northern coasts . subzero northern coasts. subzero temperatures are predicted in all four nations until at least friday, with travel and power disruption expected. you're up to date on tv, online , derby to date on tv, online, derby plus radio. this is gb news. now it's back to bev and andrew in the back . the back. very good morning. this is the point with me, bev turner and andrew pierce on a snowy morning . my kids were so excited this morning when they the morning when they opened the curtains went mummy, curtains and they went mummy, it's actually snowing outside but it's not snow for long. i mean relief to us older mean great relief to us older people because that light snow, you disrupts children and you know, disrupts children and disrupts cars, disrupts the disrupts the cars, disrupts the streets. terrible. it's all relative, right.7 prime relative, right.7 the prime minister's down on minister's plan to crack down on tunnel will be to tunnel migrants will be put to the today at pmqs when

the test today at pmqs when rishi sunak, the labour leader keir starmer, will no doubt fear tackling the issue. he says he's prepared for a legal battle with the european courts and i hope he wins and he says he he wins it and he says he supports the tough but fair policy as home secretary policy as the home secretary revealed finally. illegal migrants to migrants bill which aims to deport migrants. migrants bill which aims to deport migrants . you come here deport migrants. you come here on small boats and immediately. but the proposals already come under criticism from the under strong criticism from the labour who describe it as labour party, who describe it as a tory meanwhile, the a tory con. meanwhile, the united nations refugee agency says is profoundly concerned says it is profoundly concerned by the bill, which would amount to an asylum ban. well in the studio, gb news deputy political tom harwood as well as the chairman of the commonwealth and enterprise council, lord marland, conservative peer, who's just come back from rwanda. but tom, with you, first of all, i think rishi sunak holmes pretty pleased holmes set to be pretty pleased with went yesterday. and with how it went yesterday. and look the front pages really look at the front pages really positive. yes, clearly there is some broad support. and i think that really the concern party has looking at where the has been looking at where the country is on this issue. there is a reason this is in rishi

sunak top five priorities, and thatis sunak top five priorities, and that is that is of grave that is that this is of grave concern many people, concern for many people, particularly in some of these key swing constituencies that we like to call the red wall. this is a really pertinent issue for a lot of people who think that beyond everything else , this is beyond everything else, this is about fairness. this is about a country that is, of course, generous and open. but to those who play by the rules and that doesn't particularly like those who break the rules . and who break the rules. and clearly, there is an issue of life as well , that people life here as well, that people are being exploited by exploitative gangs at grave peril to themselves . there is peril to themselves. there is a clamour for something to be done about this. the question, however , is will this be however, is will this be successful .7 because there have successful? because there have been many schemes in the past that have been up with a big sort of media reception, perhaps cheers in the house of commons , cheers in the house of commons, then to be tied down in the courts. and this is what i asked the prime minister about yesterday . is he prepared the prime minister about yesterday. is he prepared for

the legions of lawyers that no doubt are going to tackle this piece of legislation on the face of the bill? there is what's called a section 19 one b statement . this called a section 19 one b statement. this is a called a section 19 one b statement . this is a statement statement. this is a statement from the home secretary that says she is not convinced that this is within the terms of the human rights act, which transpose the echr into domestic law. at the end of the 1990s. now if the government itself has put that statement on the face of the legislation it's not sure that this is completely watertight and legal. that this is completely watertight and legal . you have watertight and legal. you have no doubt that lawyers and the like will be really poring over every jot and typical of this. but it sounds challenging the sense that they were willing to defy the european judges as they've done before. well, the big, big question here is what happens if the european judges orindeed happens if the european judges or indeed domestic judges or indeed the domestic judges say no? i asked the prime minister this specifically yesterday what if these judges win. what if you lose? what is plan b? now he wouldn't commit

to saying that there is a plan b. he wouldn't commit to saying that would stare down the r or the like. he just said he believed that he would win in our courts. he believed that this legislation is within the auspices of the echr . it's auspices of the echr. it's interesting because clearly around the cabinet table there are disagreements on this. suella braverman the home secretary is someone who would like to withdraw from the echr she it a plank of her leadership election and platform. last summer, rishi sunak is said to be much more tentative about that. and so clearly where we have right now, where what we see right now from the government is a holding position . they're hoping that this legislation court legislation wins out in court and inevitable legal battles and the inevitable legal battles that will follow. but if it doesn't, that is a rupture. that is that is a big chasm within the conservative party that may well be revealed. i think we're going to see what you, as you were discussing with this question, what we can we can we have a watch of this, i think

going to be watching. the question that you you posed yesterday, tom, already legions of preparing to of lawyers are preparing to tackle over this tackle you over this legislation. firstly are you up for the fight ? and secondly, for the fight? and secondly, what's plan b if they win? of course, we're up for the fight and we'll be standing here if we want. but we're actually we're confident we will win. and on the section 19 one b statement, i think really important i think it's really important not to for everyone to recognise there's absolutely nothing improper or unprecedented about pursuing bills with the 19 one b statement. it absolutely does not mean that the bill is unlawful. we believe that it is lawful, that we are acting in compliance with our international obligations. compliance with our international obligations . and international obligations. and we are also meeting our obugafions we are also meeting our obligations to the british public. and then again, i just point out on the rwanda policy, which many people said was wrong and we expected the charge on it . as you saw recently, we were successful in defending that policy. i think actually unequivocally successful in the

high court . unequivocally successful in the high court. that policy is now moving to the court of appeal in just over a month's time. so will await the outcome of that. but again, we are confident in our arguments. we believe we're doing the right thing and i believe the courts will see that as well. that was rishi sunak answering tom's question yesterday . course will. it yesterday. of course it will. it looks very at home. that doesn't looks very at home. that doesn't look lot like some very, very look a lot like some very, very steady ground when he talks about topic, he looks about this topic, he looks very confident will to the confident this will go to the house lords. lord marland. house of lords. lord marland. this a time to this feels like a good time to bnng this feels like a good time to bring you in. what success does it then? it'll be at it have then? well, it'll be at very openly . i it have then? well, it'll be at very openly. i in it have then? well, it'll be at very openly . i in the. there are very openly. i in the. there are a lot of people who would be in favour, not in favour of this legislation in the lords. that's for sure. on your on the tory benches too. yes on the tory benches too. yes on the tory benches too. yes on the tory benches too. but i think ultimately . the benches too. but i think ultimately. the commons can to have the guillotine and it'll be deau have the guillotine and it'll be dealt with. i mean this is a major issue for the country, there's no question, and it needs dealing with and he's

right to try and take it head on at the moment. and do you think this time they might have enough to over long, as tom was to get it over long, as tom was pointing out how, many times there appeals. there have been similar appeals. lots fanfare . well, i lots of media fanfare. well, i think tom was excellent in his summary of the whole thing and his point was there is no plan b and that if this fails , you and that if this fails, you know, what is the what if scenario for rishi at the end of it because he's putting a lot of political capital at risk here. he's just come back from rwanda in your chair. if in your role as in the commonwealth enterprise investment council. yeah, rwanda is the prime, as has suggested , we could be has suggested, we could be deporting people as early as the summer. will it work? is it going to be a deterrent? well, actually, i'd be quite happy to go and live in rwanda. i've just been there. it is. and incredible place. i mean , the incredible place. i mean, the transformation of the country , transformation of the country, who, which is really an exemplar for african countries, the rule

of law is very heavily enforced. it's very safe, very it's a very beautiful city. modern transport, modern roads. the people of rwanda , by the way, people of rwanda, by the way, have to go out. i think it's for 2 hours every saturday and clean common parts . 2 hours every saturday and clean common parts. can we do that here? no i'll come and join you once we get to swindon. yeah. it's my hope place. yeah so it's an amazing country. it's my hope place. yeah so it's an amazing country . and he's. an amazing country. and he's. he's for all his. an amazing country. and he's. he's for all his . there are he's for all his. there are accusations against him. he's brought real discipline and a work ethic to the country . it's work ethic to the country. it's a free trade, open country . the a free trade, open country. the rule of law is very heavily enforced and, you know, the climate is 25 degrees and it's snowing here, you know? so i wonderful tourist trade goes there. lots of brilliant on wildlife. so it's actually a lovely country. they built a fantastic cricket ground , too, fantastic cricket ground, too, actually. the british built the cricket ground . the major on cricket ground. the major on sport . it's an exemplar for an

sport. it's an exemplar for an african country reason i was there that are an office of the commonwealth. i was going round a lot of african countries and it's such an easy place to go to rwanda . it's, it's you'd be rwanda. it's, it's you'd be perfectly happy to go and live there and time that we bring you back in because this is the early days really of this proposal , early days really of this proposal, isn't it? early days really of this proposal , isn't it? they've proposal, isn't it? they've still got many hoops to jump through. amnesty international , through. amnesty international, uk this morning calling it a shocking new low sighted for the government did the government feel the need to respond to that sort of accusation on a day like today?i sort of accusation on a day like today? i feel like the government will not be responding directly inclined to these sort of accusations. they have been well prepared for this sort of battle and indeed , rishi sort of battle and indeed, rishi sunak me yesterday that he sunak told me yesterday that he is this fight. that's is up for this fight. that's a quote that makes way onto quote that makes its way onto the front pages several the front pages of several newspapers. this morning, because it is clear there are vested in this country vested interests in this country that will tackling this that will be tackling this legislation . and it is not legislation. and it is not a game set in match to the

government there are many, many hurdles come before this bill becomes an act. if it does becomes an act. if it does become an act . becomes an act. if it does become an act. but i think one other thing that the prime minister said yesterday is very, very incisive , and that is that very incisive, and that is that this is not a silver bullet. this bill alone and the government is not saying will the boats, despite the branding , despite the podium, the prime minister had said with the words, stop the boats in front of him. says this is only of him. he says this is only part of the solution. we're going to be hearing much more about in the about the other parts in the coming and weeks involves coming days and weeks involves international cooperation agreements with france, returns agreements with france, returns agreements . we've already got agreements. we've already got one with albania , but of course one with albania, but of course there many, more that there are many, many more that need be signed. data sharing need to be signed. data sharing with union and with the european union and indeed deals other eu indeed deals with other eu countries as well. these are all pieces of a puzzle that need to be put together before the boats can be. and interesting, yesterday the prime minister would not commit success metrics . what does success look like if by 2024 there are, say, half the

number of arrivals? does that mean this has been successful? should we expect zero boats by the time of the next election? we're not getting any of those kind of big promises from the government. in fact, the prime minister he will minister yesterday said he will only what he deliver only promise what he can deliver and he'll deliver what he can promise. what you think about promise. what do you think about that, mean, what that, luke miall? i mean, what is how do measure success? well think his first hurdle as the prime said is prime minister himself said is to the way they've to get through the way they've got through high , but to get got through the high, but to get through court, through the appeal court, because sets the legal because that then sets the legal framework , that enables them to framework, that enables them to go forward. i mean, what it was we got at the moment we got 180,000 refugee genes in hotels in the uk. we've got 8000. i think it may be 3000. stone corrected from afghanistan . the corrected from afghanistan. the leaders of their army still in hotels . so there is this huge hotels. so there is this huge backlog in this country of processing refugee fees on the other hand, just as an aside no one's made any comment about the

hong kong citizens who've appeared come straight into this country and have been embraced and have fitted in immediately and have fitted in immediately and people are unaware of them coming. i would imagine so. success at coming back to your original question will be ultimately stopping the boats stopping this human, which is appalling , stopping the appalling, stopping the corruption of these individuals who are making money out of this human tragedy that i think in the eye in the in the eyes of a compassionate british country are the key key to success, because we we're very embracing one nation, but we don't want people to we want people to come here properly, as it were . and here properly, as it were. and we've got a huge history of refugees and international people living here. but we feel that they should do it fairly and not illegally. that's i think , the british mood. okay

think, the british mood. okay thank you both for now. joining us is rwanda journalist robert mckenna from rwanda . good mckenna from rwanda. good morning, robert. good morning. great to see you. we heard a little bit there from our guest, lord martin, this morning. he just got back from rwanda. but we'd love to from you, your we'd love to hear from you, your insights. kind of country insights. what kind of country is and this a welcoming is it? and is this a welcoming place for those who want to live somewhere other than their country birth ? oh well, in country of birth? oh well, in brief, i think i can say, ronnie, this is a secure country . since the 1994 genocide, there has been progress in terms of economic or social welfare and peace and both the country and to say this, you have all to add. that's not only about the refugees or immigrants that are coming from the uk. we also have thousands of other refugees that came from libya . if you came from libya. if you remember, while these people were being smuggled to europe and runda secured a partnership

between here, let's see our and the european union to help bring these people in round up so they can have a better life. and it worked even recently. this partnership was has been agreed on again . so i think when they on again. so i think when they talk about smugglers we talk about immigrants, we talk about secreto these people that are coming across every part of the world. if i was to say , if world. if i was to say, if i were to tell them, run the eyes of country, that you can start oven of country, that you can start over, you can have a better life here recently i met some of these young girls from afghanistan. remember when the kabul fell and the us left ? kabul fell and the us left? these girls didn't have anywhere to go, you know, they were. they couldn't go to school. so they decided to come to runda. and the reason i was i was with some of them. i saw a documentary about them to telling us sort of what happened of the there is a run that have now. they've run that they have now. they've gone they their gone to school, they took their family. they have a good health. they better they have a have a better future. so think in the brief, future. so i think in the brief,

that's i say about that's what i can say about runda and told to these are a few of those trying to come to render at the moment given that it is such a beautiful country there is prosperity growing there. why do you think, robert , that refugees are so attracted to the uk ? i i think, i think to the uk? i i think, i think it's more of, of, of the media, to be honest. if i'm going to lie to you, the media, some of the big biggest media has always tried to show the israelis that the uk is better than their countries or is better than other countries. because you can told me someone is coming from , told me someone is coming from, from or from eritrea , from the from or from eritrea, from the ukraine, from afghanistan . and ukraine, from afghanistan. and the only definition they want is uk. there is no there is no answer. but where can they go? someone else they looking for peace. the other peaceful. the other candidate prospering, the other candidate prospering, the other the other houses that are better secured. so you can ask yourself why only uk ? why only yourself why only uk? why only uk ? yeah, we do ask ourselves

uk? yeah, we do ask ourselves that a lot and you're meant to be the solution. that's not happening at the moment. but thank you so much for your time. a journalist there in rwanda , a journalist there in rwanda, roberts mckenna on the that is a great answer to isn't it. it took arriving this great shameful moment in british history . i shameful moment in british history. i think shameful moment in british history . i think the government history. i think the government needs to fights with people needs to have fights with people like and the united like amnesty and the united nafions like amnesty and the united nations refugee council, don't they? sort of this they? yes, it's sort of this ivory thing that, as ivory tower thing that, as he says, you know, every other country world, every country in the world, every other world is other country in the world is terrible. apart the united terrible. apart from the united kingdom, rwanda's a great place, as he just and it's a as he just said. and it's a great country to visit . so great country to visit. so i find this sort of ivory tower attitude with people who've probably never travelled to making statements about other countries is it's grossly wrong and unfair . countries is it's grossly wrong and unfair. when i see one question about boris johnson, because you're a great supporter. johnson well, supporter. boris johnson well, at so it's time at different times. so it's time to time, i suppose on the issue of sir keir of campaign you were sir keir starmer nine times refused to answer question on an interview the other day about when he first had an approach. first

approach? sue gray the senior civil servant who did the party inquiry as to be offering her a job as his chief of staff. he refused to say nine times. shouldn't he just be quite clear and transparent this? and transparent about this? well, he should, well, of course he should, because always calling for because he's always calling for everyone else to transparent everyone else to be transparent about things . i think is about things. i think this is a very unfortunate passage of events actually . sue gray i'm events actually. sue gray i'm a great fan of. i worked with her when i was in government. she is my god , she's been through my god, she's been through a stressful time. let's be fair. i'm actually surprised she wants to do this job because it will be equally stressful . she's good be equally stressful. she's good fun. she's very, very . we've fun. she's very, very. we've always known her as a sort of as always known her as a sort of as a bit of a lefty here. and now we know. but she would never have come into her decision making . and she was always making. and she was always extremely good to deal with . so extremely good to deal with. so i think this is an injudicious cause for what she's doing. and it will it's a mistake by

starmer because it gives boris a bit of an opportunity , doesn't bit of an opportunity, doesn't it, to say it was a stitch up? yes. in a word, yes. okay fascinating. all right. come see us again . fascinating. all right. come see us again. it's a fascinating. all right. come see us again . it's a pleasure to see us again. it's a pleasure to see you both. thanks to a young friend. sorry got that? i didn't meet justin time. you got that in? okay king charles and the queen consort, camilla were in colchester yesterday to celebrate its city status , but celebrate its city status, but were met with mixed reactions . were met with mixed reactions. the crowd, well, they were met with some protest chanting, not my king. and why are you wasting our money? so joining us now in the studio for more is gb views is royal reporter cameron walker. good morning. cameron this has happened a few times now, hasn't it? it's a fairly modern thing. that was a fairly recent chain of events around the royal family why now? it has. well, it's it was very rare, i think, during the reign of queen elizabeth ii we had quite such vocal and visible protest during various engagements, the anti monarchy

campaign group for public is behind the most recent protests we've seen with those big yellow signs saying, not my king. and the fact of the matter is, they have always said that they would at the change of reign, start to be moved . they call with be moved. they call with protests and i know that they are gearing up to hold a very big protest during the coronation . yes, i was just coronation. yes, i was just sitting here thinking, surely if your aim is to be anti—monarchy, your aim is to be anti—monarchy, you don't you're not going to wait queen away wait until the queen passes away to noise . you say to start making a noise. you say that. i think there was that. but i think there was respect for queen elizabeth. the second as a person , regardless second as a person, regardless of what side of the political persuasion you sat on, whether you are a monarchist or republican and now, of course, king charles is on the throne. they see it as a good opportunity to voice their concerns. but i have to look at the latest opinion polls as to exactly how strong republicanism is the uk. so this is from december . so 60% of people is the uk. so this is from december. so 60% of people in this country according to the latest yougov poll still believe that keep the that we should keep the monarchy, whereas 25% and 25%

believe that we should be a republic and the rest don't know which is still a pretty strong number for those supporting the monarchy. i think perhaps most politicians would dream of having opinion polls quite, quite so high. however there has been a drop in the six month. the smoothed a small drop, but the people who want to keep the monarchy last summer was 61% and it has dropped slightly to 60. so not a huge drop, but still an increase. and then if you look at the different age groups as well, if you are younger, you tend to support republicanism slightly more. you are of the slightly more. if you are of the older generation, then you tend to the monarchy to support the monarchy slightly. of these slightly. some of these republicans, of course, cameron, lose bit when you lose their way a bit when you say, okay, we'll get of the say, okay, we'll get rid of the monarchy, what do we can replace them with? president blair may be president thatcher, president prescott not so prescott and they're not so sure. why i still sure. and that's why i still think still be. think there will still be. i don't think that the republicans think there will still be. i dongoing k that the republicans think there will still be. i dongoing to hat the republicans think there will still be. i dongoing to getthe republicans think there will still be. i dongoing to get anywhere licans think there will still be. i dongoing to get anywhere nears are going to get anywhere near 50% anytime soon. well, that's the question exactly. and also we've commonwealth we've got the commonwealth

realms about as realms to think about as well. let's forget that king let's not forget that the king is head of state different is head of state in 15 different countries the world. and countries around the world. and i think it's probably more likely that we would likely than not that we would start to see maybe jamaica and some the caribbean islands some of the caribbean islands part ways with the british monarchy before great britain . monarchy before great britain. and i think great britain would would not do that for a very long time. but would you have imagined ten, 15 years ago we would be calling camilla queen consort? no. imagine that. and that's why i'm still so interested cameron was interested in what cameron was saying, the saying, that about the republican movements waiting effectively queen effectively until the queen is gone. wondering whether gone. and i'm wondering whether that's fact that they that's about the fact that they know that charles and camilla were going to be as were never going to be as popular therefore might popular and therefore they might have more chance of have a little bit more chance of getting public behind the getting the public behind the feelings to see the feelings of wanting to see the royal family no more. i'm also considering what role harry and meghan played in this in meghan have played in this in terms of handing them sticks to beat royal family with. beat the royal family with. yeah you at the statements which you look at the statements which republic over the last republic have made over the last six and anything to do six months and anything to do with the duke and duchess of sussex, they jump on issues and

visas as to criticise the visas as a way to criticise the working members. royal working members. the royal family, a shame really. family, it's a shame really. i think with colchester for example, yesterday the reason the king and queen mother was celebrating the new city status, something given to them due to the queen's platinum jubilee celebrations last year, queen camilla was at the library as well. she does great work with literacy charities. the king also met people from age uk who are experiencing loneliness and has afternoon tea with them and you look at the crowds and a vast majority of people in the crowds were there to support the royal family. yeah, it was a very small minority of protesters. however, the process does work and they were extremely loud. protesters are always noisy. if by definition i guess it comes with the job description not going to be much of a process if you just stood there quiet. exactly waving off. any news on harry and meghan coming to the coronation? what is . i read the is the latest. i just read the idea they're to be there idea they're going to be there and the king queen.

and upstage the king and queen. so the latest i've got is they are in talks with palace. you come to the coronation and that has confirmed by some has been confirmed by some since filming. cameron well filming. then me, cameron well will doing maybe that is one will be doing maybe that is one of the concerns from the sussex camp. however there weren't many boos when they came over for the jubilee celebration, but it was before brexit. granted but there's no official invitations gone out yet, so i'm not expecting them to go until probably three weeks before the event itself. however, save the dates are certainly starting to trickle outside of the palace. so you've got yours. watch this space you got you got mine about you'll never know. mine hasn't arrived. be in the post. right. thank you. cameron. you've been getting in this morning. getting in touch this morning. gb views at gbnews.uk the gb views at gbnews.uk is the email braverman email and david suella braverman doing what politicians do. talk the walk walk and the talk, but walk the walk and disappoint him right to stay with us. this morning for more updates on. that plan to crack down on small boats. that's in just a couple of moments

very good morning. it is 10 am. on wednesday, the 8th of march. this is to the point with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. the government's big, big push back on asylum seekers. ministers the bill is going ministers say the bill is going to stop people crossing the channel. opposing it, channel. labour are opposing it, amnesty it. amnesty are opposing it. charities opposing and charities are opposing it. and the minister will support the prime minister will support it comes under attack it when he comes under attack from starmer today . prime from keir starmer today. prime says questions were what do you cross reading as a punishment?

well one in three secondary school teachers believe that boys do what? but what is the main distraction for younger people about getting into reading books ? i'm going to be reading books? i'm going to be joined by my hero, britain's strictest headteacher . and strictest headteacher. and there's a new nhs to get the pubuc there's a new nhs to get the public screened for bowel cancer and later they are really speaking to that tv legend and green fingered man himself, alan titchmarsh, who's backing this campaign. so don't be so and happy international women's day, ladies . it's happy international women's day, ladies. it's a day happy international women's day, ladies . it's a day devoted to ladies. it's a day devoted to celebrating the achievement of inspirational female role models from around the world who's been an inspiration to you? do let me know . so let us know your know. so let us know your thoughts on all of our talking points today. can the prime minister sort out our immigration problem? is the world finally losing its popularity and has the weather where you are? get all your latest headlines now with the news with beth and bethany .

news with beth and bethany. beth, thank you. good morning. it's 10:01. beth, thank you. good morning. it's10:01. i'm bethany beth, thank you. good morning. it's 10:01. i'm bethany elsey it's10:01. i'm bethany elsey with your top stories from the gb newsroom, the un refugee agency has expressed profound concern over government plans to tackle small boats crossing the engush tackle small boats crossing the english channel. the new legislation will stop almost all migrants arriving in the uk by illegal routes from claiming asylum. the agency says the bill amounts to an asylum ban and accused the government of breaching the refugee convention . rishi sunak will face mps on the new laws at prime minister's later. the home secretary suella braverman told us the government is absolutely confident the measures are fundamentally lawful . we want to stop people lawful. we want to stop people jumping the queue. we want to stop people , the criminal gangs. stop people, the criminal gangs. we want to stop people who are not here for humanitarian protection, but are coming for economic migration reasons. getting on a flimsy dinghy. wearing a polar styrene life

jacket . risking your life in the jacket. risking your life in the busiest maritime route in the world is not a lawful or appropriate or safe way to get to the united kingdom . the rmt to the united kingdom. the rmt union has called off plans strike action for network rail workers following an improved aft pay offer. union members have been taking part in walkouts for months in a dispute over pay , jobs and conditions. over pay, jobs and conditions. industrial action was due to take place on the 16th and 17 of march, but that's now been suspended. but the union says action with 14 of the train operating companies will still go ahead across four days in march and april. temperatures have dropped to —14.4 degrees in the highlands overnight, making it the coldest night of the year so far as an arctic blast spreads across the uk . the met spreads across the uk. the met office says more sleet and snow is expected across southern england and south wales , while england and south wales, while hail showers will hit scotland .

hail showers will hit scotland. northern coasts subsea road temperatures are predicted in all four nations until at least friday. weather journalist nathan roe told us a number of national yellow warnings for and ice have been issued with more to come. travel disruption, road disruption and snow on the roads , clearing the roads and the school closures as well. parts of the country over the next few days could get ten inches, but that's rural areas. the usual places, the highlands, the glens, where snow tends to settle. so we're looking for pretty much an accumulation of proper winter , snowy weather. proper winter, snowy weather. eight days into spring. the independent office for police conduct has launched an investigation into two forces over their handling of a fatal car crash in cardiff . it follows car crash in cardiff. it follows allegations officers didn't take matters seri ously when family and friends reported the five victims missing. eve smith , victims missing. eve smith, darcy ross and rafael jean were found dead in the early hours of

monday morning. two days after they were last seen. two others remain in a critical condition in hospital . a weight loss jab in hospital. a weight loss jab is to become available for thousands of people living with obesity. the appetite suppressant wegovy will be offered on prescription three. the nhs in england. previous studies found that those who received the drug as a weekly injection of a 68 weeks saw their weight dropped by 12. experts have described the treatment as a pivotal moment and on international women's day, the foreign secretary is to announce the government's new approach to helping women and girls around the world. james cleverly will visit a school and a hospital in his mother's hometown and sierra leone to see uk funded projects in action there. he'll also announce new funding for sexual health rights programme. it's expected to receive £200 million and aims to prevent tens of thousands of maternal deaths and millions of

unsafe abortions . girls back maternal deaths and millions of unsafe abortions. girls back in the uk, girls will be granted equal access to all school sports under the new government rules following a campaign by the england lionesses squad . the england lionesses squad. schools will be told they must deliver a minimum of 2 hours of pe a week . plus girls and boys pe a week. plus girls and boys should be able to play the same sports in lessons. the government will back the measures with £600 million in funding over the next ten years. you're up to on gb news. now let's get back to bev and andrew very good morning. it is 1006. is it wednesday ? it is. i don't is it wednesday? it is. i don't know what day it is. day three. day three of our glorious new relationship . i'm just thinking relationship. i'm just thinking about that story that bethany just said about the fact that kids love to play the same schools pe. like they've schools in pe. like if they've a schools in pe. like if they've a school playing because so school playing field because so many them play sold many have had them play sold

off. they have i got in trouble on one of the class whatsapp groups because said the girls didn't cricket. didn't need to play cricket. they round better and they like round us better and of the in said my the mums came in and said my daughter plays cricket for the county moving county shelter. anyway, moving on, the prime minister's plan to crack channel migrants crack down on channel migrants will the at pmqs will be put to the test at pmqs when sunak faces labour when rishi sunak faces labour leader keir starmer and rishi says he is up for a legal battle with the european court. good there's going to be one. and he says he the tough but fair policy when the home secretary's illegal bill which will deport who arrive on small boats and immediately speaking to gb news this morning the home secretary said the current mode of housing migrants in hotels is too expensive and. i too am very frustrated and indeed worried about the thousands people who are accommodated in hotels around towns and cities in the united kingdom . and around towns and cities in the united kingdom .and i understand united kingdom. and i understand that that places undue pressure on local resources and tensions within communities. it's an

unsustainable situation . so unsustainable situation. so that's why we need to take these measures . well, that's the home measures. well, that's the home secretary suella braverman talking to us in gb news a little earlier. now, let's get some more analysis from this on from the former brexit party mep ben habib. ben. morning good ben habib. ben. morning to. good morning , andrew. good morning, morning, andrew. good morning, beth. ben, you and i have talked about this before on gp news and you say the laws are already in place put stop to this? we place to put a stop to this? we don't therefore we don't need this with the this complicated battle with the european courts . absolutely and european courts. absolutely and i mean, my approach to border control is actually border control, which is to stop the boats at the point that they seek to enter our territorial waters . we do have all the all waters. we do have all the all the legal international law and domestic law backing in order to domestic law backing in order to do that . and what i do not do that. and what i do not understand is why the government insists on seeing border through the prism of deportation, which actually only is required once

border control fails. and so they've got this massive uphill struggle of trying to get people out of the united kingdom once they're here, rather than the much lower border and easier way to prevent the problem which is to prevent the problem which is to stop them coming to the uk in the first place, to extend measures have been able to do that. how do you stop the boats leaving, france? so to the extent that they entered into negotiations with france , you negotiations with france, you know, that's that's that's not going to be sufficient, andrew. what we need is physical border . we need a physical border barrier , if you like, in the barrier, if you like, in the channel and that can only be provided by border force actually doing its job, turning these boats round at the point that they seek to enter waters. if we were going do any deal with france , that deal should with france, that deal should require , amongst other things, require, amongst other things, an ability for us to take these

people onto our boats and then deposit them back in french ports . why won't the french ports. why won't the french allow us to do that? why are we paying allow us to do that? why are we paying them £63 million this yean paying them £63 million this year, 72 sorry, £63 million last yeah year, 72 sorry, £63 million last year. £72 million this year. in order for them to fail to police the beaches when actually it would be much if they simply gave us the unilateral right to deposit these people back in french ports . that seems to be french ports. that seems to be the most equitable and sensible way to go forward. or could become more combative with the french. we could withdraw their fishing licences if they fail to get a grip of this problem. but paying get a grip of this problem. but paying them money to patrol their beaches , which they're their beaches, which they're entirely failing to do, makes no sense. and that is not border control . and in the absence of a control. and in the absence of a deal with france, as i've just said, we've got to have border force doing its jobs doing its job in our territorial waters. and before anyone watching programme rolls their eyes and says well, you couldn't risk people drowning in the and all the rest of it actually the un

convention of laws at, the sea. we have the right to take physical action at the point of our territorial waters. if people are seeking to come here illegally. we have that right under a number of provisions and we just have to have the will to exercise it. so why does rishi sunak not? but is he just is it just his character? ben? is just the fact that he he doesn't want to alienate the other leaders around the world he doesn't want to fall out with macron. he's too frightened about keeping people like that happy. and so what he's doing in a way, what this bill is sort of doing is kind of sand in our eyes. and it looks great in the headlines. it looks great in the headlines. it looks great in the headlines. it looks great on the front page of the paper it may never actually happen. and he hasn't got the spine to have the tough spine line to have the tough conversation well . i mean, conversation as well. i mean, you've said it all, ben. i mean, that that is it in nutshell. and you know , rishi sunak says he's you know, rishi sunak says he's a conserver of a brexiteer and a

unionist. he said that in advance of the launch of the windsor framework on northern ireland. but i would argue he's none of those is not conservative. his economic policies are not conservative, he's a brexiteer because he fears the eu much more than he is enamoured by championing of british intra nests. and he's certainly not a union is on the strength of the windsor framework and his approach to northern ireland and as you say, beds this is just kicking sand up into the air, giving us the that they're going to deal with it. you know, just i looked at the legislation overnight. i don't know if you want to just talk bit about the talk a little bit about the legislation. it's legislation. i think it's helpful this legislation to helpful if this legislation to work deportation , what's to work at deportation, what's to be solution to solving these be the solution to solving these illegal of the channel? what you would have to have is an excise carve out a provision in the bill saying not which standing our membership of the european convention of human rights, we going to do x, y and z.

convention of human rights, we going to do x, y and z . you going to do x, y and z. you would have to have an explicit stepping away from the ecj . we stepping away from the ecj. we do not have that . therefore, the do not have that. therefore, the echr european court of human rights remains , the supreme rights remains, the supreme legal body , the human rights law legal body, the human rights law in the united kingdom. so whatever that bill says and it becomes an act, you know, we call illegal migrants act when becomes an act, the echr will still have the right to step in and override the his majesty's government in its decisions. there's lots of good stuff in the bill, but it's undermined by these international commitments that we've most notably to the european convention of human rights. ben, just because under pressure time you will remember the phrase stop the boats. it was a certain australian politician called tony abbott in the 2013 australian election who used that phrase rishi sunak used that phrase rishi sunak used it a lot in the conference yesterday. it was used nine times in a home office press release and that's exactly what tony abbott did. he turned the boats round so that it got it

done. rest of them , absolutely. done. rest of them, absolutely. tony abbott , the boats round and tony abbott, the boats round and that's we have to do. now one of the argument is made is that these people might jump out of that boat, commit self—harm, that boat, commit self—harm, that isn't enough, enough of a body of water in which to do it. all of that is wrong. and none of those arguments are sustainable. of course, there's enough water to push these boats back into french. and if these people wish to wilfully harm themselves by jumping over boat, well, they can be sure they can be given a new dinghy or they can be given other provisions by which they can then make their way safely back to france. but what we mustn't doing is what we mustn't be doing is trying to stop the boats by actually giving them a free taxi service from . the time that the service from. the time that the territory borders the uk shores and then caught up in this boat attracted legal systems that we've got to adjudicate . bill as we've got to adjudicate. bill as it is what this bill becomes an act adjudicated separately by the european court to human

rights. okay thank you. we're losing just there at the end losing you just there at the end of it. time has caught up with the senator to make him home. secretary and isn't it? yeah. he's is he's terrific. he just is really. i love and that's really. i love him. and that's the point of this this the whole point of this this phrase boat. that's phrase stop the boat. that's what tony did. they've what tony abbott did. they've nicked phrase from him. nicked the phrase from him. it's like but this like get brexit done. but this is attempt to stop boats. is an attempt to stop the boats. but there's the obvious way to do yeah, yeah. okay well, do it. yeah, yeah. okay well, joining us now is gb news political editor darren mccaffrey. morning. darren mccaffrey. good morning. darren we being debated , the we saw this being debated, the house commonsyesterday. house of commons yesterday. we've pmqs today. what we've got pmqs today. what should expect ? it's really should we expect? it's really interesting, actually, whether labour are going to bring this issue up . we know, of course, issue up. we know, of course, they currently oppose the government plans. they think their own workable and they don't language been don't like the language been used it, not least of used around it, not least of all, by the home secretary herself. at the time, it's herself. at the same time, it's very easy for the prime minister to attack labour and say actually they haven't got a plan that comes tackling small that comes to tackling small boats and the suspects boats crisis and the suspects the keir starmer might not bring this . minister's this up. prime minister's question this afternoon but

question time this afternoon but you're right is the major political here today. the political story here today. the home doing the home secretary doing the broadcast this morning, broadcast rounds this morning, if you like, talking to all the radio, tv interviews across the land. and it is clear that downing street was pretty pleased of the pleased with some of the headunesin pleased with some of the headlines in this morning's newspapers. you seem to reflect that many think that this is a policy that is necessary, that the is grasping the the government is grasping the nettle, up with nettle, at least coming up with a but that is not to say a plan. but that is not to say that there are clearly about whether this workable or not because clearly at the heart of this the only way it will really genuinely is if it does act as it deterrents and it's not entirely clear whether that's going to be the case if. that's not going to be clear until actually get to that moment where in law, because where this is in law, because the moment, if it doesn't act as a deterrent, there is clearly not a plan to house potentially tens of thousands of tens and tens of thousands of people who come to this country. yes, there is plans to ramp up detention the but detention centres across the but not on that scale . and second of not on that scale. and second of all, it's clear that there are

not deals with so—called third countries to sustain numbers involved. not the moment there is a deal with rwanda. it's currently being blocked by the courts, but if it wasn't, rwanda itself saying only take itself is saying can only take a hundred couple of people. now, the government says there's no cap but i've to cap on that. but i've been to rwanda and i can tell you they're prepared take they're not prepared to take thousands at the thousands of people at the moment, least. so there are moment, at least. so there are still concerns about still massive concerns about this. the government does need to this because . as to get this right because. as you that slogan is pretty you say, that slogan is pretty simple and if simple stop the boats. and if that does happen, by the time of the next election, it seemed to have failed. the government undoubtedly will be massively judged on its . okay. thank you. judged on its. okay. thank you. darren darren mccaffrey in their way and quite . they should be way and quite. they should be judging if they do that . now judging if they do that. now still to come, one three still to come, one in three secondary school teachers believe boys don't like believe that boys don't like getting into books . they find getting into books. they find another distraction . and we another distraction. and we aren't going to be talking. britain's strictest head teacher, who is also better , or teacher, who is also better, or his favourite, catherine battle

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good morning . back to the point good morning. back to the point with me bev turner and having a good week , you've been getting good week, you've been getting in touch with your views on what we've been this migrant story, this big bill, which will hopefully solve the migrant crossings . alan in crossings. alan in northumberland says, i'm one of the many who don't feel like voting for any party, but if the government stops the migrant boats priority, i boats as a priority, i vote conservative. is a lot conservative. there is a lot riding on getting this right. i met sunderland similar. met in sunderland similar. the outcome election outcome of the next election could be affected by this legislation if enacted the tories but tories in with a chance slim but a chance if she's not resolved, tories are toast. yes i think you're right. yeah. okay so excited about this. a new survey has found that one in three secondary school teachers believe that boys view being asked a punishment asked to read as a punishment with three in four teachers saying there's been an increase in readers . so we are in reluctant readers. so we are joined now by woman who was joined now by the woman who was dubbed britain's strict test head teacher. and i want to be

the head teacher of my children's school, catherine bible saying you talk my language . why do children language now. why do children see reading as a hassle and distract ? so a punishment even distract? so a punishment even this survey spotting it's not just boys i think girls as well . yeah this is a subject very close to my heart. it is because of the smartphones and access to the internet . and sadly, parents the internet. and sadly, parents don't realise nowadays. you see toddlers on the tube and on buses , so on, and they're there buses, so on, and they're there with if you are giving your children smartphones from a young age, they will never love reading a phone, cannot a book cannot compete . a phone phone cannot compete. a phone phone has lots of colours , explosions has lots of colours, explosions and changing, and a book is black and white and flat . and if black and white and flat. and if you want your child to love reading, you must decrease the amount of screen time. frankly i would suggest no screen time to at all until they have got to a point where you've got so many books in their lives that that

is how they access their if children can choose for entertainment between a and a book they always choose a screen and people say, well, there's a few exceptions. yes, there were a few exceptions, but generally speaking, if you are inundating your children with screen time, they will never learn to love reading. yes, i concur. my now 30 year old got her smartphone when she to high school and at 11 until then she was reading a book every two weeks. a book every two weeks. now she's not reading at all. it's become a battleground in our house. she's now to earn her screen now having to earn her screen time once she's read the heels of dug in. and now she's saying, well, want my i don't well, i don't want my i don't want my phone in it either. she's trying to like she's just trying to win like it's difficult. what it's become so difficult. what would be to parents? would your advice be to parents? me when we are are battling me when we are we are battling with the yes. okay so first of all, my to parents of all, my advice to parents of young children, don't give them phones till . young children, don't give them phones till. i would we advise to all our children here at michela not give your michela do not give your children phones until they're 16. actually and the parents who

follow our advice, the children are always in the top set, always excelling . and i can see always excelling. and i can see that the children who are on phones all the time, they will often drop sets. they badly in their exams, they do not their potential at gcse all your writing subjects history, geography, religion , english geography, religion, english they all depend on reading. the only way you can improve your writing is through reading and sad . it's already hard enough sad. it's already hard enough with year olds keeping them engaged with reading because that's just that's always the case. and so for decades it's even more impossible when the parents are giving them smartphones. now imagine if you are having that trouble now , are having that trouble now, imagine the child has been on imagine if the child has been on smartphone since they were two or three old. they don't or three years old. they don't know what it is to read. so to parents who are in the war is, as you are at the moment, is i mean, to be honest, i would say take the phone away. and i know that they will on hunger that they will go on hunger strike they also, you know ,

strike and they also, you know, refuse all kinds of refuse to do all kinds of things. it's going say, things. but it's going to say, catherine , it's a bright it's catherine, it's a bright it's a brave parent who takes that advice. i'm that with a advice. and i'm sure that with a great a bright parents, there's no phone. you're 16. well, it's tell what they will say, tell you what they will say, catherine, this is the catherine, because this is the problem. life. they problem. their social life. they will i use sometimes the will say, i use sometimes the children in their school that have a phone. and i say that girl really well. she girl does really well. she doesn't friends. you know, doesn't have friends. you know, they say, but she's no they say, but she's got no friends either mum. she's got no friends either mum. she's got no friends that's problem. friends and that's the problem. so that you so if you're worried that you could them your for could allow them your phone for half hour so they can do half an hour so they can do a bit of communicating on your phoneif bit of communicating on your phone if you want them to have social media. although i would highly advise against it, you could joint account could create a joint account together on instagram. you'd never them to have their never want them to have their own account and you don't want to don't phone you, to have them. don't phone you, give they're on give them your phone they're on there an hour. that's there for half an hour. that's their reward they did their reward because they did their reward because they did their well or they did their reward because they did theiwashing well or they did their reward because they did theiwashing up well or they did their reward because they did theiwashing up oriell or they did their reward because they did theiwashing up or whatevery did their reward because they did theiwashing up or whatever itdid the washing up or whatever it is. but do not give them their own phone unsupervised access to the your child's life in the is puts your child's life in dangen

the is puts your child's life in danger. every out danger. it means every out there, gang member, every there, every gang member, every undesirable has access to your child they where they child. they know where they live. the route to live. they know the route to school. they know who their friends are. they know what they enjoy, know how enjoy, and they know how to groom them. and i have seen this time time where children are time and time where children are put seriously dangerous put in seriously dangerous situations as parents just don't realise to ring the alarm realise i have to ring the alarm bells. not just that you're bells. it's not just that you're breaking brains. there are breaking their brains. there are all of that show all kinds of studies that show children. do they up children. not only do they up not they are not as not reading, they are not as brainy as they once were. i have families here who take phone away and what they then say. first, child goes on hunger first, the child goes on hunger strike and on. but once they strike and so on. but once they get through that and the parent holds the line every says to me, i believe it. i've got my i can't believe it. i've got my boy to be this boy back. he used to be this lovely, sweet then he lovely, sweet boy. and then he turned do something i didn't turned to do something i didn't recognise. i took the phone away and now got my child back. and now i've got my child back. he's boy once was. so he's the boy he once was. so this what of parents this is what a lot of parents will be because the voice is in my head. safety they get the bus back. we to have a phone. back. we them to have a phone. they to look the bus on they need to look at the bus on their they need to swipe

their phone. they need to swipe in of the of the with in and out of the of the with their phone. how do you live without i would say is that without what i would say is that we are kidding ourselves. your child far more child is actually far more unsafe phone because you unsafe with a phone because you are people your are inviting people into your living never living room who you would never speak child is mixing in speak to your child is mixing in a world you have no idea what they're getting up to. it is far dangerous for them to have a phoneif dangerous for them to have a phone if worried about them. because you think , but i'd like because you think, but i'd like to be able to keep in touch with them that really is about them and that really is about your not about worries, them and that really is about you1let's not about worries, them and that really is about you1let's i, not about worries, them and that really is about you1let's i, understand norries, them and that really is about you1let's i, understand thates, but let's i, i understand that get them a brick phone. we sell brick phones at our school for our families. so you still our families. so you can still ring them. you can still text them, they most importantly, them, but they most importantly, they will have access to the they will not have access to the internet print out the bus table, give it to them in advance. don't be lazy , because advance. don't be lazy, because essentially it's about a great parent. and look, i know i'm asking a lot of you, i know it's hard, but you've got to hold the line right? hold the line, parents, because i tell you, getting back to this conversation , then you're going conversation, then you're going to say, i want to listen to her.

catherine nobody's going to defy you. say, you speak you. i have to say, you speak with great and with great passion and conviction really and conviction. you really do. and that's best favourite that's why your best favourite teacher. too. and i think teacher. mine too. and i think michael gove big fan of michael gove was a big fan of phil's education secretary. phil's news education secretary. but you? but you're right, aren't you? when i know i'm when we were kids, i know i'm part of the dark ages. we managed without phones. we just got phones. we don't got on without phones. we don't need nose in them need to be have our nose in them all i it's true, but all day. i know it's true, but do also understand the parent who says, look, my child is saying i want this is how people talk to each other. this is how get my friends so fine. let them your phone for half an hour. the key is that they have key point is that they have their own phone because otherwise they have access to unsupervised access to the internet. all of the time. when you're not with them, let me tell you, they're speaking to catherine. i don't want this to turn my individual turn into my own individual session, probably not session, but i'm probably not alone in this alone in watching in this conversation . people watching alone in watching in this convrelate»n . people watching alone in watching in this conv relate to people watching alone in watching in this conv relate to this ple watching alone in watching in this conv relate to this whenatching alone in watching in this conv relate to this when mying alone in watching in this conv relate to this when my son who relate to this when my son was to high school for the was going to high school for the first time and he had a complicated train and bus journey gave him journey to take, i gave him a knock a brick, because didn't

knock a brick, because i didn't want have a smartphone. want him to have a smartphone. and got train and i would and he got the train and i would set a few to just check the first few times he knew what he was doing. 11 years old. i didn't want sitting him, didn't want me sitting with him, but watched him and all the but i watched him and all the other children were playing games sat there games together and he sat there lonely he couldn't interact lonely and he couldn't interact to read but that's my to read a book. but that's my point. the way they forming point. the way they were forming their was around their friendship apps was around their friendship apps was around the and i watched the phone and i watched him a few he came home. he few times and he came home. he says, can't with says, mama can't engage with these can't. pleaded to these kids. i can't. pleaded to engage. he was 11. doesn't even use that now. but he said, use that word now. but he said, i'm friends with them. you i'm not friends with them. you know, play the things know, i can't play the things they want to play. what do i do? i cruel i thought i just felt cruel and i thought relationships as a teenager are so so of so important and so many of their relationships tied their relationships are tied into yes but you know into this tech. yes but you know what? they're really talking what? they're not really talking to when they're to each other when they're playing those in playing with those phones in the train. is that, i do train. the fact is that, i do understand they're at home understand when they're at home wanting to communicate. so you could your phone at could lend them your phone at that he's reading that point, if he's reading a book, mean, be frank. if he'd book, i mean, be frank. if he'd been book all that been reading a book all that time, would be able to time, then he would be able to use word, you know, like got

use the word, you know, like got to about child's to think about your child's future or it's true, you want them have friends, but they them to have friends, but they will friends. it's not that will have friends. it's not that if have phones, don't if you don't have phones, don't not have i mean, children not have i mean, your children will exaggerate just how important the phone is although i do understand it is somewhat important which is why get the idea of letting your phone while you're at home then they can you're at home and then they can do a bit of communicating on their need to their and also you need to choose your school wisely you know to a where they don't know go to a where they don't allow them their out so allow them their phones out so that when at break time that when they're at break time they're on the they're not all sat on the phone. they're speaking phone. they're actually speaking to other what to each other what kind of a relationship only relationship is you only communicate cyberspace. communicate via the cyberspace. i mean, weird isn't it? i mean, this is weird isn't it? you never have conversations . you never have conversations. catherine, can we get you a new job? be the next job? could you be the next secretary state secretary of state for education, i think you secretary of state for ed|itation, i think you secretary of state for ed|it rather i think you secretary of state for ed|it rather well. i think you secretary of state for ed|it rather well. well,ink you do it rather well. well, catherine, i've been dying to ask you since you stepped down ask you since you stepped down as mobility tsar. the social as the mobility tsar. the social mobility tsar. as the mobility tsar. the social mobility tsar . why did you step mobility tsar. why did you step down? it was it just frustrating committees that never got anything done ? there was some of anything done? there was some of that. and then also , i couldn't that. and then also, i couldn't just say what wanted every time

i would get on the news or on twitter or whatever . and i would twitter or whatever. and i would say what i thought people would say, the of the say, you're the chair of the social commission. social mobility commission. you're allowed to say that. and then think actually, then i think well, actually, i think do. good by speaking the think i do. good by speaking the truth of the truth and being chair of the social commission plus. my deputy was excellent and he's doing and i thought doing a great job. and i thought you what, going do you know what, he's going to do a than me. and then a betterjob than me. and then that way do what i'm good that way i can do what i'm good at, which telling what they at, which is telling what they need hear. well, like need to hear. well, if you like free speech to say what free speech being to say what you you have come to the you think, you have come to the right place. we would welcome you as you back here any time. as i say, are my absolute hero, although i'm now terrified to go home some difficult home and have some difficult conversations well, i do. conversations with. well, i do. that's the point. yes hold the line. know, watch some line. you know, watch some films. i loved gladiator. watch gladiator russell crowe holds the line. they go out to battle the line. they go out to battle the romans. go out to battle. they don't back down. you know , they don't back down. you know, hold the line. remember you're doing it for your children and they will help me . stirring they will help me. stirring stuff, stirring stuff. catherine

battle sang great to see you. thank you so much. but you going to take her advice because it's very compelling . we all right. very compelling. we all right. we already have these very restrictive apps on their phones. so my girls are 11 and 13. the 19 year old, he's not talking to one. but we have these apps on there so that we can see exactly what they've been looking at. we see been looking at. we can see exactly how time they've exactly how much time they've had. the time on the had. they get the time on the bus going to school and coming back and various other and pieces in evening. have pieces in the evening. they have too the the too much. in the evening, the deaf, catherine it deaf, catherine says, take it away from give them your away from them. give them your phone half an you're phone for half an hour. you're going it. well, i know. going to do it. well, i know. make a very good speech, the gb news. but this morning and this is the problem, right. is part of the problem, right. there'll and yep, there'll be mums and going yep, i home and i've still got i get home and i've still got work to do in the evening and i need them to be taken care of. i can't but you know, they should be. i'll say it when said be. i'll say it when i've said to doses, go and read, you to my doses, go and read, you know, say. i bored. i know, do some to say. i bored. i didn't say i to be bored. didn't say i want to be bored. so you know you put out stuff

for and they just go, well this is rubbish. and then they go, but missing all my but they're missing out all my friends talking, they're all friends are talking, they're all doing right now. they all doing a zoom right now. they all sit in the room with their phone on they talk to on like that and they talk to each other school day. each other at school all day. why they need to talk to each why do they need to talk to each other? well, the answer is well we day. we don't we get in total day. we don't get to hang out together all day. it's the only time we can in the evening. it's so difficult. you think difficult. i mean what you think gb at gbnews.uk is the gb views at gbnews.uk is the email address. now, in the next few going to few moments, we're going to speaking the tv speaking to the guardian tv legend alan titchmarsh. he's backing nhs backing a really important nhs campaign, the public campaign, encouraging the public to be screened for bowel cancer. that's your morning that's after your morning news with elsey . good with bethany elsey. good morning. it's 1032. with bethany elsey. good morning. it's1032. i'm bethany elsey with your top stories from the gb newsroom the un refugee agency has expressed profound concern over government plans to tackle small crossing the engush tackle small crossing the english channel. the new legislation will stop almost all migrants arriving in the uk by illegal routes from claiming

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to be sacked after bbc sources said that he crossed the line by comparing racism as migrant to germany . which is frankly germany. which is frankly outrageous . we're going to be outrageous. we're going to be looking at more of the day's other top stories from the papers. but the social commentator narinder kaur and, director of the common sense society, webb. i that society, emma webb. i think that would lively between would be quite a lively between those we'll see in a those two. so we'll see in a little bit

very good morning. in just a moment, our guests will here and the webb. webb and narinder kaun the webb. webb and narinder kaur. and we can be talking about gary the front of about gary causing the front of the papers for what he said about migrants. don't miss it. but tv legend and but first of all, tv legend and alan titchmarsh and his fellow ground force presenter, tommy welsh backing the first nhs welsh are backing the first nhs campaign at encouraging campaign aimed at encouraging the to screened for the public to be screened for bowel cancer at the famous. you are urging those eligible are also urging those eligible to life saving bowel to return a life saving bowel cancer home test cancer screening home test following data, which following recent data, which shows one third people shows almost one third of people don't return . so what's the

don't return. so what's the point doing well point of doing them? well joining is gardening tv , joining us now is gardening tv, alan titchmarsh . lovely to see alan titchmarsh. lovely to see you.thank alan titchmarsh. lovely to see you. thank you so much for joining us this morning. now, it's a bit of a delicate issue this, isn't it? but we can't be squeamish about it when all our life and our health depends upon it. why you so committed to it. why are you so committed to this campaign raising awareness? alan because there's a chance here that so many lives can be saved and these astonishing certainly astonish me. i'm sure it did you when you discovered it, a third of people don't bother to do them and send them back. now, this is an opportune pity back. now, this is an opportune pity to catch the signs of bowel cancen pity to catch the signs of bowel cancer, to catch bowel cancer early and the earlier you catch it , the greater your chances of it, the greater your chances of survival. i know it's a bit distasteful. you know, when you take a sample of your poo, but it's so straightforward. you only have to take one morning it and it on your own. nobody and do it on your own. nobody else is going to be there. it will it could save life. and i think you are not only to yourself, to your family to do it. absolutely. alan, is part of

the too, men are more the problem, too, men are more less inclined to do these tests. they're also less inclined to do prostate test as well . there's prostate test as well. there's so much information out there now. i think which should be getting through to all that. this is foolhardy not taking advantage of current scientific advances that save lives. a more people we've got to do this. we can't just be squeamish about things like or embarrassed by it. there's enough information out there now and enough men who have taken the trouble . macho have taken the trouble. macho man not said, i'm going to do this and they've got friends to who didn't do it you know, there's plenty of information examples out there of people who haven't done it, who've lost their lives this isn't, you know , squeamish about it really is an excuse to do it's once every two years. you know, it's very easy. yeah. and you'll co—present to tommy walsh of course . bowel cancer. what was course. bowel cancer. what was his experience of that like ,

his experience of that like, alan and is that how that's this has come to your awareness ? has come to your awareness? you'd have to ask him about that. i couldn't comment on tommy so much as i know him and love him on his own person journey as it was partly people next to me have suffered and these it's a life. so you you don't want to lose people just because, oh, you know, i really couldn't bring myself to do it, you know , that's not an excuse . you know, that's not an excuse. don't be squeamish. please do . don't be squeamish. please do. as soon as the test comes , get as soon as the test comes, get into your bathroom. get into you know, and go and do it. it's so straightforward and much easier in the it used to be used to have several bits of cardboard and do various oh crumbs. i've got another one today. you know, very simple. we've to do it. very simple. we've got to do it. we it our scientists, as we owe it to our scientists, as i mainly we owe it to our i say, mainly we owe it to our friends and family to stick around really well. i did around really well. i just did my very recently, alan, it came through post from gp through the post from my gp surgery and did as you said, i surgery and i did as you said, i went off too late. can't be squeamish about it. it squeamish about it. sent it back, no doing if you back, of course. no doing if you don't it back it's

don't send it back and it's fine, negative, the relief fine, negative, good. the relief you when you get that letter you get when you get that letter back saying you know it's all clear . you know want that so clear. you know you want that so you want be living you don't just want to be living the of the unknown and the life of the unknown and wondering i haven't wondering who have i haven't i it's is absolute no excuse it's there is absolute no excuse for not doing it. of it's there is absolute no excuse for not doing it . of course we for not doing it. of course we all miss deborah james, alan ball babe as she was known on social media, she the most enormous amounts of work to raise awareness of this didn't she. and we watched her and we felt for her. we felt for a family. and if nothing else, you know, deborah's legacy be that we take notice of this, we stop our and family from going through what she she would want us do it. you know, we all know people who've been through it. i certainly have personal experience . the close family experience. the close family have gone through it. you don't want to be going through that. for goodness sake, do it . it's for goodness sake, do it. it's a moment in time. yes, it's a bad thing. that could be on your

own. there's nobody to be embarrassed by as say , do it. embarrassed by as say, do it. and just just i can't have you here without reflecting a little bit on lifestyle choices that we might make for our health and wellbeing . and what coming wellbeing. and what coming towards spring? yes it's snowy outside. yes, it's absolutely freezing. but one of the best things we can do for our health isn't it, is to out in the garden. heavens, yes, maybe not today. you'll slide around all over the place . but it is. it's over the place. but it is. it's a healthy life , growing your own a healthy life, growing your own food. and of course at the moment, we're all very narrow we the availability of certain crops make this spring the year that you grow some of your own crops on the ends potatoes if you're frightened of seeds potatoes are quite big seed potatoes are quite big seed potatoes plant a few of them clumps among only so little bulbs not in the wait until this has gone away and the grounds in a fit state but grow your own get out. but we learnt in lockdown the value of the great outdoors we want to on to outdoors we want to hang on to that remember it's a vital

that and remember it's a vital part wellbeing. and how part of our wellbeing. and how many of my meals are going on, on a sort nice spring day. on a sort of nice spring day. how yeah, how much time do how many. yeah, how much time do you personally spend in your in your garden do still your garden now. do you still get out that most days i'm get out that most days which i'm not your weekend not filming. love your weekend or writing if i write or i'm not writing if i do write , i write in the morning and then yes, i'm afraid i'm out in my garden day. i've just in my garden day. i've just come in from me. i about my from work to me. i about my sister teases me because . she sister teases me because. she said, you are every bit as keen , excited by your greenhouse at the moment being winter. then you when you were ten and i am it's my apart from my family greatest enrichment and i still love doing it i really do. we love doing it i really do. we love your passion, we love your commitment. alan yeah thank you very much. alan and what an important message about detect early . if you receive your kit, early. if you receive your kit, do test and get it sent back . do test and get it sent back. thanks so much forjoining us. and it is us blokes who have fought here because men are just so squeamish and i think, oh, it won't happen to me again and again. i hear about people and

it could have been avoided regardless to grandparents. bowel cancer actually. so i certainly so certainly should be aware. so chaps. on with it. chaps. right, get on with it. oh, here, i'm delighted oh, lovely. here, i'm delighted to say that we are joined by social commentator narinder kaur and director the common and director of the common society, emmett webb happy international ladies day . yes, international ladies day. yes, blue up the ladies. oh, i'm in a minority . thanks you all for minority. thanks you all for everything is a woman's day. i'm a point of international women's day. what is the point of international women's day? i'm a webb, think this is going webb, so i think this is going to be an unpopular view. i'm not saying i have an issue with international women's day. i think that very much like morgan freeman when he responded to a question on the american show, 60 minutes about black history , 60 minutes about black history, he said that felt that it was ridiculous and i that actually celebrating international women's day is opportunity for many women to point out the fact that actually we don't really live in a society that's particularly pro womanhood or

pro motherhood. and actually, i think more important for us as this society to have a culture thatis this society to have a culture that is pro—woman had a motherhood and we've seen a lot and we've get on to this later within the trans debate, but in in canada got in a lot of trouble for this campaign where they changed the name to hershey and put trans woman at the forefront of their international women's day campaign . and i women's day campaign. and i think that if unlike other previous international day this year it's all very much rolled up in all of these issues that we've been seeing around what is a woman and women who are feeling increasingly destined franchise in the public debate. yeah. which i think is actually a distraction . of course, it's a distraction. of course, it's ridiculous that trans women are now it feels are enemy narinder kaur they shouldn't be our enemy. let's include them. i find it so silly. i'm happy. include as long as they include us back in the conversation. you know yesterday 15% gender pay

gap between men and women in this country. now it's not getting better. well, getting any better. well, i agree emma shockingly at agree with emma shockingly at the first half, but i think that bringing in the trans thing, i think that it's such a small percentage we can't be percentage do we can't be picking on the men, demonising on i just do feel it's on them. and i just do feel it's a deal taking rolling a big deal taking rolling is demonising such a tiny percentage . she's speaking out percentage. she's speaking out for women who are feeling invaded. for women who are feeling invaded . i don't feel i don't invaded. i don't feel i don't feel invaded in my spaces. i welcome them. but she's speaking for those women who do. and she thinks that the way the argument is going, women are being sidelined in saying we are not being we are not being fired . we being we are not being fired. we are not things we can never be sidelined by. tiny, sidelined by. small, tiny, little majority. well, we all majority . yeah, well, she's a majority. yeah, well, she's a great woman . no, i don't think great woman. no, i don't think she is think she's coming across. but actually i think she's picking on children to reading books, fantasy stick these great female great and it's great that she did do that but to be picking trans women

very slowly, very small thing, not invading my space, i welcome them to my who said they're going to do anything in my space. i'll tell you what happens to then on a women's happens to me then on a women's day few years ago, i was due day a few years ago, i was due to speak at two legal firms about the challenge of a working mother. time i was mother. and at the time i was working pregnant women working with pregnant women and couples blah, couples having babies, blah, blah, and there was blah, blah. and there was a trans person within one of the offices of legal and offices of that legal firm. and i retweets . it's an article i had retweets. it's an article from the daily mail written by graham and was about graham lyneham and was about women only spaces . and because i women only spaces. and because i had retweeted an article from a national newspaper that this one trans person disagreed with, i cancelled on internet women's day. you can it to intolerance so cancelled by the trans no i got cancelled by the legal firm because they were so frightened of the one trans person in their office who said he he she i don't know which way that transition had taken this to the board i said but i'd say that's a that's a that's an example and i'm sorry that you went through

that, but i still feel that the actual general public going against trans is actually quite awful too and it's awful and it's just too and it's not emma. j.k. not nice. emma. emma. j.k. rowling . i think a brave rowling. i think she's a brave figure. i agree. and we're living in a society that increasingly refers to biological women by, their biological women by, their biological parts, cervix heather's referring to, as we saw recently in a in a children's textbook, referring to a woman's breast, as i think it was fat lumps. you know, this is extreme dehumanising. we're also living a culture that doesn't really within the arts show many positive of portrayals of womanhood and motherhood and i and i don't have trans people i'm not suggesting that it is not on saying that when we're talking about international women's day. i think that it's very same with black very easy. same with black history month. as morgan freeman pointed minutes, it's pointed out in 60 minutes, it's very for easy become very for easy to become tokenistic this. but tokenistic about this. but actually, whatever actually, there are whatever nannder actually, there are whatever narinder says, there are women, myself included who feel that

they are being marginalised by they are being marginalised by the way that language is being butchered to the detriment of biological women and to the detriment of know and j.k. rowling is standing up for that. and think she should be lauded. i think it's middle class caucasian women , who seem to caucasian women, who seem to have a problem with this because is their problem. finally, they've to feel they've got something to feel that they're suffering and they're challenged society they're challenged in society because i this is their else. and i think this is their way. yes. what do you think they should shouldn't pull her should but shouldn't pull her into? honey, i was born in dagenham. you can't call me a work and middle class. very middle. you. but middle. wasn't saying you. but i do that there is middle do think that there is a middle class caucasian woman problem because suddenly they've got something fight about, something to fight about, anything fight about. we've anything to fight about. we've got about is got to fight about is extraordinarily expensive. there was a survey, if i take 75% of women's income is given on childcare way too much emphasis on parenting being solely the preserve of mothers and the when you said that there needs to be more celebration motherhood, i would say the need to be more

celebration of parenthood so that we can share the load. the only be here today only reason i can be here today is because able to the is because able to share the load. i think very often you load. but i think very often you actually demonisation of actually see the demonisation of women for a more women who opt for a more traditional lifestyle at home as as stay at home mothers than i think of it. i think there are lots of women who actually do feel pressured into careers when they would and i think that what that does is that diminish is the role of simply being a mother. think that motherhood mother. i think that motherhood is the most one of the most important jobs that can possibly have. desire should have. and this desire should elevate it to a station of respect. being a father is one of the most important jobs you can have. i agree. i agree . you can have. i agree. i agree. you stay at home, mom, for ten years because we couldn't afford the childcare and actually people really look down upon that and you're right to be like, oh, you should think. but they did. and then and then my husband had the advantage of going out to work and career, and further in his career, whereas wanted to get whereas when i wanted to get back work , i had ten year back to work, i had a ten year gap. it's really quite dreadful.

that's and think that that's because and i think that that's that's part and that's i think that's part and parcel has become the parcel of what has become the commodification it's commodification of women. it's i think actually is, it's, it's think it actually is, it's, it's sort of into the way that sort of woven into the way that women are referred by their women are referred to by their parts, are also in a parts, that they are also in a way that simply being mother society, no deems is good enough. so to me in utero, i like to bring a little bit of latin. and what was that earlier in utero? this was this was the phrase woman is nothing but a womb. yeah. and that was regarded as a fact. and how horrific that we have come now. full circle, as you're saying. i'm we've been reduced again thousands of years later to being seen as a person with a cervix. i thought , you know, we cervix. i thought, you know, we need to talk about we do i want to retain the woman ? i think to retain the woman? i think it's important, but i am not a fan of the tokenism of today , fan of the tokenism of today, you know, if it allows us to celebrate women, mothers, whether you stay at home, whether you stay at home, whether work, whether whether you go to work, whether you want to be a mother, you don't want to be a mother, whether you are child free and fabulous and you travel the world. do oh, that world. we do need. oh, that

sounds i wish i had life . sounds i wish i had the life. and to talk to you, and we got to talk to you, though, about gary lineker. yes. let's talk what he said let's talk think. what he said was incredibly offensive and inaccurate , that he's likened inaccurate, that he's likened the stop the boats policy to germany in the 1930s. he didn't actually say to this in the 1930 was run by adolf hitler and his national socialist party, which was already devising final solution. it's offensive it's a slur. you should apologise he was correct and he was . no, i do was correct and he was. no, i do not think that so. gary lineker is a football presenter . yeah, is a football presenter. yeah, this wasn't an it was it. he didn't say on antelope if he's allowed to his opinions, he's been told as a very senior high paid member of the bbc, he has to be careful at all times about the corporation's commitment to empower. he didn't say on air. he didn't say at work. so every time and on the platform he's defying his bosses and we pay his wages remember. yes. but however , he didn't say on air he however, he didn't say on air he , didn't say at work. he said it

on own platform. and actually he , like a&e, he didn't say it was. i thought and i think the sentiment is not tell you why germany didn't start with gas chambers. it started with horrible, disgusting language . a horrible, disgusting language. a bit like what suella braverman is and it did not like that. they started with really bad and it ended with gas chambers. i'm not saying this is going to happen. it ridiculous to say that forcing jews out of germany in the 1930s, we are having it. it was deporting jews out of germany in the 1930. you cannot compare that to what we're not going hearing now. have. going to hearing now. you have. no, it's the same sentiment it started. it's not the chambers did not start. they did put a port it's like that. it end in germany. what are we doing in this country? oh, we welcome. are we welcoming refugees and asylum seekers ? we are making asylum seekers? we are making them feel like millionaires. half a million. that was ukrainians and hope, including 200,000 ukrainians and 150,000 from hong kong. but 40,000 who are coming from small boats because are no legal routes.

question andrew , are the legal question andrew, are the legal routes for an asylum seeker ? the routes for an asylum seeker? the there are legal routes . there there are legal routes. there isn't there are legal routes. and the home secretary told us today on gb news going to be fleshing out details of more fleshing out details of more fleshing out details of more fleshing out right now. and before after brexit. there before and after brexit. there are and that legal route that we are and that legal route that we are making people feel in refuge, we making a living in britain. we are making people feel so unwelcome and like criminals for coming to this country when they are less better than us. i don't be better off than us. i don't be sat here in the studio all night. some woman, these people suffering. let's bring suffering. yeah. so let's bring emma. i, i, i, i don't emma. yeah, i, i, i, i, i don't think that gary lineker should lose his job over a tweet because i don't think anyone lose their job over twitter. of course, he's entitled to his opinion. agree with you. opinion. i agree with you. i think that the issue is that gary has repeatedly gary lineker has repeatedly displayed but displayed partiality, but i think that he is a complete prat to put lightly. but i think that this comparison is great. a grotesque disrespect to victims of the holocaust , grotesque disrespect to victims of the holocaust, and i think

thatis of the holocaust, and i think that is a complete misread presentation of the intention organs of our government to with human trafficking across , the human trafficking across, the channel. i just think it's grotesque so i don't think he should lose is it a bit coming from tory mp to lie all the time. lie all the way through covid. what it's bit rich of them to sit there thinking he should. what do you say they're lying about? what are you talking? and it's the same people say jeremy, what are people who say jeremy, what are you talking about? hancock on the diaries. did to the covid diaries. did he not to the covid diaries. did he not to the and these mp i think the public and these mp i think gary lineker should bringing a slightly different this slightly different nuance this is and i that jeering i is emma and i that jeering i mean just don't bring covid into this but this is about the freedoms within the freedoms of people within the bbc what they want to bbc to speak what they want to say. but given this play say. right. but given this play by the tax payer wouldn't you have have seen during have liked to have seen during the three years the last three years of employees of the bbc actually saying because? saying what they think because? i know there bbc i know that there were bbc employees against employees names who were against the narrative. they were told to go out and every day you'd go out and say every day you'd have supported wouldn't. have supported them, wouldn't. well, that the those well, i think that the those people are arguing on in

people who are arguing on in gary lineker as defence and saying that he should be entitled to his view, we should be to put this and of be able to put this on. and of course always in favour of course i'm always in favour of people's speech. also think people's speech. i do also think that the national broadcaster needs at show some needs to be at least show some impartiality. but those same people i very much doubt would be defending the free speech of other members staff who don't other members of staff who don't toe the orthodox line if they to put things on twitter. i think probably the probably particularly the pandemic, they probably would have been fired for that. so the demonised press, he should be dismissed, but he should be on disability. i'll tell you what triggered people here. it wasn't because he was really busy. it wasn't because it was bbc own. he impartial. it's he should be impartial. it's because something that because he said something that people didn't like people that they didn't like what they had to say. why does the bbc pay in one and a half million pounds to commentate on a full thing? that's a different tone on fishing. i think i'm wasting everybody's money and somehow be somehow he manages to be a whistle. today this kind of outburst, our football joke, don't go anywhere because

they're in the car. and i'm aware we'll be back another aware we'll be back for another houn aware we'll be back for another hour. don't it. hour. debate. don't miss it. more in just moment. more to come in just moment. hello again . it's aidan mcgivern hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here the office some here from the met office some southern of england and southern parts of england and wales up to covering of wales woke up to a covering of snow. that snow is turning back to the far south to rain across the far south whilst snow into central areas and the far north stays very but largely bright's northern scotland woke up to a temperature of —15 celsius in some spots, whilst the cold air is interacting with a band of rain in the south to produce some snow. but that's no risk moves north because milder air is turning all back to rain , is turning all back to rain, albeit quite heavy rain across the southwest and the far south of england. the snow by the afternoon evening mainly afternoon and evening mainly focussed m4 northwards focussed on the m4 northwards into parts of wales, especially the welsh mountains, eventually into midlands as well. it's into the midlands as well. it's going to feel cold and wet, but it's bright scotland , it's bright skies for scotland, northern ireland, northern england, showers england, a few snow showers continuing the far of continuing for the far of scotland. a few scotland. that's only a few centimetres accumulating and mainly over hills. the main cause for concern is across the

central of the uk overnight, where they'll be some persistence and at times moderate snowfall, especially wales, the midlands, parts of east anglia and central southern england , but mainly it's around england, but mainly it's around the m4 north woods where the greatest risk is because in the south it's going to be spells of rain milder air. and in the rain and milder air. and in the far north, once again, a very chilly nights dipping to minus to —15 celsius for sheltered glens of northern scotland. a few more snow flurries here dunng few more snow flurries here during thursday, but the snow risk again moves north. it moves nonh risk again moves north. it moves north wales, the north midlands , england and some very deep snow over the pennines over the peak districts snowdonia , for peak districts snowdonia, for example, where in some places 25 centimetres is possible. i think at the very lowest levels. for so manchester, liverpool, more like to be rain but above 100 metres, that's the greatest risk. on thursday and into friday of some disruptive snow through central parts of the uk and eventually into northern ireland and perhaps parts of southern scotland as well. it

turns quieter friday and turns quieter on friday and turns quieter on friday and turns much milder in the

south very good morning . it is 11:00 very good morning. it is 11:00 on tuesday . no, it's not. it's on tuesday. no, it's not. it's wednesday, the 8th of march. this is to the point, it's been a long wait with bev turner and andrew pierce, the prime minister is preparing for a legal battle with lawyers and european judges as he brings forward that plan to stop the small boats. we're going to bnng small boats. we're going to bring you the latest on the illegal migration bill throughout today . and illegal migration bill througshocking today . and illegal migration bill througshocking news today . and illegal migration bill througshocking news about. and illegal migration bill througshocking news about . and illegal migration bill througshocking news about . the some shocking news about. the energy industry, consumer groups sounding the alarm ahead of what could be a decade of soaring energy and are calling for an urgent solution. we all going to have gb news very own liam have gb news is very own liam halligan in the studio to bring us to speed. and in france, us up to speed. and in france, parents who seek social media claim by posting of their children online could be by the french parliament. should we be doing the same here? and do you

shared pictures online of your children? do let us know . and children? do let us know. and we're going to have narinder and emma webb back in the studio round to let us know what you think. gb views at gb news dot uk is the email loads multiple this morning, but first of all, here are your news headlines with bethany elsey . thank good with bethany elsey. thank good morning. it's 11:10. with bethany elsey. thank good morning. it's11:10. i'm bethany elsey your top stories from the gb news room. the home secretary has the new illegal migration bill saying housing thousands of migrants in hotels around the uk is an unsustainable situation suella braverman . min has suella braverman. min has unveiled new legislation to prevent people arriving in the uk by illegal routes from claiming asylum . the un refugee claiming asylum. the un refugee agency has said the bill amounts

an asylum ban and accused the government of breaching refugee convention. rishi sunak will face meps the new laws at prime minister's questions later. ms. bronfman told the government is absolutely confident the new measures are fundamentally lawful . want to stop people lawful. want to stop people jumping the queue? we want to stop people paying the criminal gangs. we want stop people who are not here for humanitarian protection, but are coming for economic migration reasons. getting on a dinghy, wearing a polystyrene lifejacket . it polystyrene lifejacket. it risking your life . in the risking your life. in the busiest maritime route in the world is not lawful or appropriate or. world is not lawful or appropriate or . safe way to get appropriate or. safe way to get to united kingdom . the rmt union to united kingdom. the rmt union has called plan strike action for network rail workers following an improved offer. union members been taking part in walkouts for months in an ongoing dispute . paid jobs and ongoing dispute. paid jobs and conditions . industrial action

conditions. industrial action was due to take place on the 16th and 17th of march, but that's now been suspended. but the union says action with 14 other train operating companies will still go ahead . will still go ahead. temperatures drop to —15.2 degrees in the highlands overnight, making it the coldest night of the year so far as an arctic blast spreads across the uk. the met office says more sleet and snow is expected across southern and south wales , while hail showers will hit northern coasts . subzero northern coasts. subzero temperatures are predicted in all four nations until at least friday. what the journalist nathan root told us a number of national warnings have been issued with more to come. travel disruption, road disruption and snow on the roads problems clearing the roads and the school closures as well. parts of the country over the next few days could get ten inches, but that's rural areas. you know, the usual places, the highlands,

the usual places, the highlands, the glens snow tends to the glens where snow tends to settle. we're looking for settle. so we're looking for pretty much an accumulation of proper winter weather. eight days into spring, the independent office police conduct has launched an investing nation into two forces over their handling of a fatal car crash in cardiff . it follows car crash in cardiff. it follows allegations officers didn't take matters seriously when family and friends reported , the five and friends reported, the five victims missing . eve smith. victims missing. eve smith. darcy ross and rafael jean were found in the early hours of monday , two days after they were monday, two days after they were last seen. two of those remain in a critical condition in hospital and new weight loss jab is to become available for thousands of people living with obesity . the appetite obesity. the appetite suppressant week of e will be offered on prescription through the nhs in england. offered on prescription through the nhs in england . previous the nhs in england. previous studies found that those who received the drug as a weekly injection over 68 weeks saw their drop by 12. experts have

described the treatment as a pivotal moment on international women's . the foreign secretary women's. the foreign secretary is set to announce the government's new approach to helping women and girls around the world. james cleverly will travel to his mother's hometown in sierra leone to visit school and a hospital to see uk funded projects in action. he'll also announce new funding for a sexual health and rights programme. it's expected to receive up to £200 million and aims to prevent tens of thousands of maternal deaths and millions unsafe abortions and girls in england will be granted equal to all school sports and a new government rules following a campaign by the lionesses. schools will be told they must deliver a minimum of 2 hours of pe a week . plus, girls and boys pe a week. plus, girls and boys should be able play the same sports in lessons . the sports in lessons. the government will back the measures with £600 million in

funding over the next two years. it follows the lionesses urging the government to ensure all girls get the chance to play football at school. their european championship win summer you're up to date on gb's now it's back to bev and andrew . it's back to bev and andrew. very good morning to come today we've got to verify state paper debaters with emma webb at nannder debaters with emma webb at narinder kaur. don't miss that . narinder kaur. don't miss that. but first the prime minister's plan to crack down tunnel migrants will be put to the test at today's pmqs when he faces mp and leader keir and the labour leader keir starmer . and the labour leader keir starmer. rishi sunak up for the legal battle. with the legal battle. he says with the european courts and supports the tough policy by the tough but fair policy by the home secretary yesterday in the illegal migration bill the plan as you know to deport migrants arrivals will and deport arrivals will boats and deport them immediately. of arrivals will boats and deport them immediately . of course them immediately. but of course them immediately. but of course the proposals have already come

under strong criticism from under very strong criticism from the labour , who have described the labour, who have described it as a tory con. the labour, who have described it as a tory con . the united it as a tory con. the united nafions it as a tory con. the united nations refugee agency says it is profoundly concerned by the bill, which would amount to an asylum ban, and they would say, wouldn't they? they would they wouldn't they? they would they would amnesty and would say that would amnesty and all charities all those charities and the entire who they've got to entire globe who they've got to take so joining us now is gb take on. so joining us now is gb news political editor darren mccaffrey fray. good morning , mccaffrey fray. good morning, darren. the bill is being pushed forward by the home office is going to get political backlash today. but of course, it's rather difficult because labour can't too strongly can't come out too strongly on it they how the it because they know how the pubuc it because they know how the public feel . yeah, that is true public feel. yeah, that is true in the sense that i think everyone agrees don't they, that clearly the small business crisis, a crisis that it does need to be prevented that people clearly are risking their lives crossing the english channel, you know, possibly even on days like this. and that's the situation that can't continue. now that everybody's argument is that they don't reckon this government plan is going to

work. safer work. they would see safer passages for asylum seekers to come to the uk schemes already of course, in place for people . of course, in place for people. afghanistan to ukraine to hong kong. they would like to see that scheme expanded in saying that scheme expanded in saying that this is the problem for the government though, isn't it? to some degree is that yes, they're going have to deal with obviously the obvious political backlash. that's i democracies walk the government because going to have to make that argument. may we'll have to argument. they may we'll have to fight in the courts as well of rishi sunak suggested he was up for but the for that fight yesterday but the reason politically reason i say it's politically difficult government is difficult for the government is they to say all this. they need to say all this. they've literally emblazoned on a street stop a podium in downing street stop the boats using australian the boats using an australian term was reasonably successful ten years ago . the big question ten years ago. the big question is what if they can't stop the boats? what is that politically leave the government, they will be judged on this issue. they have made it a big political issue. it's one of rishi sunak five this year. and so five key aims. this year. and so that's why when you look at the detail of this proposal, will it

actually work because the premise is that it's going to act as primarily as a deterrent, that going to stop people that it's going to stop people in the north of france from travelling across the channel because proposals, because look at these proposals, think it's not think that, know what? it's not going work. don't to going to work. i don't want to end up in a third country. i don't want to be banned essentially from britain for the rest life. i'm not going rest of my life. i'm not going to this journey. that's to make this journey. but that's a question. a big if a big question. that's a big if a big question. that's a big if a lot of these people are pretty desperate. they may well still that of all, that journey. and second of all, what's happen with what's going happen with detention know that detention centres, we know that lots mps, even conservative lots of mps, even conservative mp, are pretty about mp, are pretty anxious about some ending some of these detention ending up constituencies given up in their constituencies given some social strife we've some of the social strife we've seen what will the seen in the past. what will the courts make of it? and also where all these deals potentially with third countries because it's all very well and good say you're going to deport people where to an addition. people but where to an addition. the final problem i think for the government, if that wasn't enough, is in essence the backlog of asylum cases. we already have. we deal very badly with asylum applications in this

community. 3% of the people who arrived in the uk last year have so far had their asylum situation dealt with that figure clearly needs to improve. in saying the government think saying that the government think that is a plan can work that this is a plan can work they think it is popular with they think it is popular with the it certainly is with the public. it certainly is with conservative backbenchers. they'll today's they'll be pleased with today's newspaper and they newspaper headlines and they will least argue the will at least argue the opposition they've opposition that they've got a plan and they suggest if it plan and they will suggest if it comes up pmqs today. comes up the pmqs today. i suspect hear rishi sunak say this time time again. what this time and time again. what is plan sort this is labour's plan to sort this problem okay thank you very problem out? okay thank you very much. darren darren mccaffrey there traffic jam there outside the traffic jam and neighbourhood. labour's only released tackling the old stuff that the tory has tried and failed to do. well let's get some more analysis from some conservative counts and former advisor clare . good morning . hi. advisor clare. good morning. hi. good morning. now clare, you're a councillor in kent . kent has a councillor in kent. kent has beenifi a councillor in kent. kent has been if i can use this expression, in the eye of the with refugees. how well do you think this policy will down, particularly if it works ? i

particularly if it works? i think it will go down well if it works. cases taken the brunt of especially unaccompanied asylum seeking children. we are the authority that takes in the most of those and looks after them. but i think other counties along the along the coast from cairns in surrey and sussex will also be looking at this and hoping it will work. people want there to be a solution, but unfortunately the government plan does only seem to address half of this issue and it's very disappointing that . the main disappointing that. the main crux of it is to stop the boats . but i have absolutely no reason to put people in detention centres. are we in the realms of now detaining women and children, for example? because it isn't just young men that come over to this country. so i think there are a lot of questions to answer. the people of. kent will be looking at this really quite closely, especially down dover and down in the town of dover and deal they will want small buses and hopefully the government will able to give those

will be able to give us those very confident claire, that it can work because being in kent being a councillor tory you've seen these plans come and go. they put lot of detail into this. the prime minister's got right behind it and that expression stop the boats. it's got a very catchy phrase. reminds me of get brexit done . reminds me of get brexit done. it does. it's a very catchy catch phrase. but where is the desire ? where are the returns desire? where are the returns agreements with other countries? where are you going to send people back to? and are you, in fact, going to have any safe and legal routes coming forward? now, that's always a very difficult political argument to have , because there are those have, because there are those who think that we should limit the amounts of people coming into this country and take control our border. however, control of our border. however, we have an international we do have an international reputation to uphold . we. all reputation to uphold. we. all right. very, very country to those in need. so i think the people will be looking at it, sort of saying, okay, well, you've come up with plans before

and they haven't worked. why is this one difference? and at the moment, that moment, we don't have that detail coming forwards. no, we really but thank you, really don't. but thank you, claire. thank you very much for joining us this morning. everybody has the same. the idea is is there the is the will is there the compassion to look after people who genuinely need asylum, is there , claire said. we've been there, claire said. we've been a very welcoming country for hundreds of years . i also think, hundreds of years. i also think, though, andrew don't know about you, but you know, we have net migration of 500,000 people to much every year. yeah migration of 500,000 people to much every year . yeah that much every year. yeah that that's out of the but i wonder whether the government is using this which is you know powerful pictures , big headlines, pictures, big headlines, distress and deaths in the channel distress and deaths in the channel, which nobody wants but are they using this to swerve the bigger debate how much legal migration. yeah and so and this is a very i make point again against the small country i've already issues with the nhs and schools and jobs and the countryside and not enough houses. having houses. we can't keep having this many people coming in, but they've got to get the illegal

migration sorted out. and i think the difference with this policy are indicating policy is they are indicating that willing on that they are willing take on the european judges. it shouldn't to european shouldn't be up to european judges get this judges who will get into this country. we've our own court country. we've got our own court system, rather good judiciary, actually. if supreme actually. and if the supreme court thank you very court backs this. thank you very much. in strasbourg much. court in strasbourg and goodbye. absolutely us know what you think, gbviews@gbnews.uk okay. on, though, as the okay. moving on, though, as the chancellor prepares to announce his spring budget, chancellor prepares to announce his spring budget , critics are his spring budget, critics are calling on jeremy hunt to cut fuel duty or at least freeze it at the current level in order to stimulate growth. now, there is a petition signed by than 130,000 including for 130,000 people, including for home secretary priti patel . home secretary priti patel. intriguing that it's going to delivered to downing street later today. and joining us more is you won't know well on this programme howard cox who's the chairman of the affair for uk . chairman of the affair for uk. howard, just remind us, isn't the current proposal in the budget to raise duty by something like 12 or 13 per litre ? well, we don't know but litre? well, we don't know but your to throw it in after the

autumn statement last week andrew . what happened was that andrew. what happened was that the obe came out saying that there was a planned 23% increase in fuel duty , which basically is in fuel duty, which basically is five pay that we lost last in rishi sunak's last march budget which he cut. thank you very much indeed. plus inflation and that works out to 12. you're quite right to say that. but that's what say on top of that and it becomes point 48 or about £9 for an average family go increase. yes, that's what we are hearing. but he won't do that as . you might have read in that as. you might have read in the i wrote in the sun this week, it'll be political and economic suicide to even consider that . and i've got consider that. and i've got something like 46 employees already signing a letter to jeremy howe and also the prime minister to say do not hike fuel duty. most are saying just freeze it. leave it where is. some are saying you can cut it further. how it just remind us what the percentage share of fuel that goes in the car in our

is tax . it's about 50% and does is tax. it's about 50% and does get this on the fuel duty . well get this on the fuel duty. well and so when it comes down to something like it was those wonderful halcyon days of £1 £1 gnp. they tax is 70. so that does hardly change but the aspect of the item on fuel really creates the most of all drivers . i my supporters , i'm drivers. i my supporters, i'm delighted that priti patel actually approached me. she said, i'd like to hand in a petition with you , which was a petition with you, which was a pleasant surprise . you know, a pleasant surprise. you know, a powerful , respected petition on powerful, respected petition on the secretary and everything like that. and hopefully we have a lot of people turning up. and thank you for watching it today. did she say why wants to get back behind this campaign ? well, back behind this campaign? well, it's interesting. if you remember an and you remember this she was exchequer secretary about 13 something like that. and i was actually fighting because that's a set up for the uk. we had some quite partisan in the treasury together, but she was always very honest ,

she was always very honest, straight look, we want to cut future . we want low taxes. future. we want low taxes. sorry, that was a conservative government. they, by way, to government. they, by the way, to say again like a low tech , say it again like a low tech, low taxes . but she's always been low taxes. but she's always been very honest , low taxes. but she's always been very honest, kind to me in working with people robert working with people like robert howarth was mr. howarth and based. it was mr. few uk until he's become a minister nichol even though privately supporting privately he's still supporting us, she actually us, he she actually categorically said , howard, i'm categorically said, howard, i'm right behind your position. i like your energy. i like what you're doing. i'm right behind cutting fuel duty and that she's i've got those words in my mouth. she's done it herself. she just just as she's from halcyon days howard when halcyon days howard of when tories in low taxes exactly it's all very yeah i mean i mean look we're looking at next wednesday potentially a corporation tax going up by from to 25% fuel duty potentially going up by 14 or 12 points. i hear rumours are it's going to be to pay and i think it's typical of treasury what they do, they frighten us with the royal pain and say oh

we're only it up to be you know and i feel as are the heroes but put this way, if i do those two acts of absolute incredible crass stupidity in a fiscal , crass stupidity in a fiscal, they will be doomed to the opposition years to come. okay. thank you so much, howard. howard, quite safe and fair feel uk. it feels like they understand that the voters are concerned about the boats crisis . i think what they are failing to understand they are underestimating how motor risks are. oh look. yeah somebody to vote for who is going to back them and support because it seems hates me actually look what's happening in london for instance, with the ultra low emissions and these are coming in country. and in all over the country. and only other day , khan, the only the other day, khan, the mayor, accused people who oppose it, being right wingers as it, of being right wingers as head extremism. head bangers and extremism. that's us. and anti—vaxxers. yeah i don't know why we made that link. that was ridiculous. right. still to come this morning, liam halligan will join us speak on things us studio to speak on all things economy the energy tariffs

economy from the energy tariffs to, the impacts of strikes. we'll you in 2 minutes

and now the rmt union, the railway union's code of fair plants network strike action on the of march next week. there's apparently talk of a new pay offer. well, this comes after months of ongoing disputes and disruption as commuters and travellers across britain have seen their life plans seen their life and plans affected by industrial action. so how has this all impacted our economy? well, let's break down the latest figures from the national from the of national statistics. is liam halligan with on the money . morning. with on the money. morning. hello. i like the white jacket. very nice. thanks someone. my pleasure. jacket. always nice. that sartorial elegance good. is your middle name or your middle ? you know, just here to talk about that boring fact that i gave then , you know, look, there gave then, you know, look, there is interesting that the rmt of

cold an out strike action yesterday and then cooled it off today. that is quite it is i commute in on train my train was delayed this morning because of snow on the line and i couldn't even see the snow but anyway i digress we were talking in break both andrew and i anyway about seventies childhood. yes we were harking back to the winter of discontent and, so on. quite interestingly , what's been interestingly, what's been released today by the un s is the number of days the economy has lost due strike action. we hear a lot about the cost putting these strikes rights tax money. it would cost . you know, money. it would cost. you know, you can't then pay other parts of the public sector if , you're of the public sector if, you're paying of the public sector if, you're paying some part of the public sector. and so but it also really impacts overall growth, economic activity and therefore jobs. and let's have a look at these numbers from the un. s they've literally just been released and put them in a rudimentary and gb news right here. listeners can bear with me hopefully between june and december this last year, 2022,

the economy . 2,472,000 days due the economy. 2,472,000 days due to strike action, which is which is a huge amount. the workforce about 2728 million. right so that's the number of days lost dunng that's the number of days lost during that six months. and that averages out andrew and bev a 412,000 days lost per month on average. having said that in the there were far fewer strikes and then in the winter there were loads more. remember in december it seemed like the whole economy, it's yeah so i don't delved into the database and i found december number and the december 2022 . number 873,000 december 2022. number 873,000 days lost in a single month right andrew . you and i were right andrew. you and i were around in the seventies. there wasn't, of course. yeah. yes yes. believe the thought of . in yes. believe the thought of. in the summer you and i were running around in our little shorts. if we lost 873,000, strike in december 2022. and i tell you, the peak of strike days lost month in the modern era was september 1979. how many

do you think we lost in the september 1979? double that double what? 11.7 million? wow double what?11.7 million? wow 11 million. 700,000 days lost in september 17 nine. so even we all literally tearing our hair out in december 22 we lost 873,000 days in 1979, we lost 11.7 million. that was just a few months after mrs. thatcher became prime minister and then she broke that was the winter discontent. so what i've tried to do with statistics as we do here on the money i'm trying to make interesting and put it in context bad it in context however bad it in december 2022 and it was bad you know people people kids couldn't go there was school strikes , go there was school strikes, there were health care strikes, ambulance workers , civil service ambulance workers, civil service strikes. you couldn't your driving licence, etc, etc. it was a 12th of what we expect in september 79. is that because we now work differently is that

because people in our working from home. so even if your kids were off school and you couldn't . into the office you could still buy five cheaper wi fi though it's still expensive it's still a lot of people not on wi fi, by the way, in in this country, particularly outside big cities. now, the big difference beth is that in september 1979, 51% of the workforce was in a union. now, 25% of the workforce is in a union, but but but the fifth of us that work in the public sector for the states around half of those are still and a lot of the public sector unions parts of them the teachers , some parts of them the teachers, some of the health worker unions, they pretty militant. and there's definitely , in my view, there's definitely, in my view, a political agenda among the leadership of some of those to try and bring down the tory, but

to try bring down that. so i just think that's objectively true. you see it from their true. you can see it from their rhetoric. you not sense as rhetoric. do you not sense as well and people have well that they and people have become by these strikes become fatigued by these strikes they don't to hear about they don't want to hear about the. not more strikes and the. oh, not more strikes and they just i that. okay. they just move. i do that. okay. there's public there's never been a public opinion that has opinion poll that i've that has supported teachers strike and university after, you university lecturers after, you know months years in some cases of lockdown, 100,000 kids. most children haven't gone back to school because of lockdown . school because of lockdown. think the teaching unions and the lecturers with all respect to them that it's their right to out and not just because i've school age at university place they be careful don't they have to be careful don't think of the think it was wicked of the teaching unions urge their teaching unions to urge their not to tell the head teachers which schools. but i do think we're to be objectively as we're going to be objectively as a i think that was a as a yeah i think that was deliberately destructive of paul but the it was trying to sabotage the ability of head teachers to keep the show on the road and indeed and difficult mums and dads to make plans their child if they didn't at

their child if they didn't at the which is very you the school which is very you know what when know this is what happens when kids go to school people kids can't go to school people can't work and that really can't to work and that really upends the economy. but i would say that it may be with inflation coming down, we've got people talking about inflation at three or 4% by the end of this year. currently, it still in double digits, 10.1% on the latest numbers. but as inflation comes down, it should be easier or less difficult, more accurately to resolve these strikes because the pay increase will be less , because inflation will be less, because inflation won't be so high. okay. it wasn't boring at all, leo, thank you. never boring. but a terrible suggestion for me on everybody, right we are moving on now. time is against us. interesting story. okay a one night stand, a little flaying or a no strings attached relationship now often seen as the preserve of the young, yet nearly a third of baby boomers now approve of casual sex. according to a new academic study . so to explain this study. so to explain this a little bit more detail is

hypnotherapist and psychotherapy life coach lucia mazzotti . it's life coach lucia mazzotti. it's here. lovely to see you . so this here. lovely to see you. so this is a quite signifie , a social is a quite signifie, a social change. i get all of this kind of mary whitehouse at times like i get a little bit giggly and prudish, but tell us how we are changing as a nation. so the article, the fact that england is becoming more and less moral so what was previously perceived a moral stance now is just considered. as a matter of fact, in the uk considered well, it's in the uk considered well, it's in the uk considered well, it's in the top three countries in terms of accepting the new way of seeking pleasure, in this case casual sex. then the article also presents you today's . so the aspect of taking today's. so the aspect of taking control on one's life and the uk is the second highest country in terms of being favourable to euthanasia . so what i see here euthanasia. so what i see here from psychological point of view and social impact, i think we're really witnessing a paradigm shift in how societies shifting, but it is a very confusing time and contradictory the two forces as i see here that play in human actualisation in life are the

seeking of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. and if there are strongly these articles highlighting all the pursuit pleasure, so taking the liberty and i'm all in favour of freedom and i'm all in favour of freedom and freedom of and pursuing casual as a manifestation of that , and casual as a manifestation of that, and then taking control of one's life in pain to the point of avoiding or taking control of one's death . so from a point of one's death. so from a point of view of the impact, it is a confusing time. and i this is highlighting some malaysia society in a certain i mean we know divorce rates up by 10% in the last last year marriages people are not getting as married as they used to and there is an estimated this that by 2060 there would be 70% less of couples married in relationship. so what does this to younger generation especially it doesn't allow them to meet some fundamental need and certainty is one of the main needs that people have. so everything is shifting and everything is shifting and everything is shifting us such a high . so i see in my young

high. so i see in my young generation, especially suffering greatly because of lack of fixed certain points of references. so the family is becoming more fluid open. divorce is obviously very familiar. common event. fluid open. divorce is obviously very familiar. common event . and very familiar. common event. and this same time, if we look at life in the world is in a state of disarray, wars economically , of disarray, wars economically, huge problems socially , the huge problems socially, the identity themselves of individuals is become more fluid. there is no more certain , no fixed way of even identify themselves. so this is causing huge distress . so in the pursuit huge distress. so in the pursuit kind of individualism and individual will pleasure she is saying that it's almost like the older generation are moving towards that in numbers they never previously were because maybe there was a different kind of moral perspective. that word is of interesting and controversial, but the results this might be more negative for youngsters. i think mentally. and emotionally. yes. currently think we are in the middle of this shift and the middle of any

change in transition is very confused and very scary because there is no point of reference and the change is so fast, faster than it has ever happened.soi faster than it has ever happened. so i think the younger generation specifically are find themselves quite lost, quite confused . they cannot rely on confused. they cannot rely on the entity of family as a social glue as they could in the past. the world around them is shifting. also their own peer group is interacting in a way that from my point of view, from my is a very toxic. that from my point of view, from my is a very toxic . i mean my is a very toxic. i mean i read some statistics apparently 56% of teenagers are basically on their screen even when they are with their peer hanging out. so the of relating to each other has changed so much and this is very detrimental to mental. i mean we see that one in four people suffers of mental conditions in the uk depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies and thoughts are on the rise . so thoughts are on the rise. so from a wellbeing point of view , from a wellbeing point of view, the impact is quite literally , the impact is quite literally, are any positives we can take

from this is nuanced is a less i think is one of the findings as well but in itself is on the rise because if we look at screen as it was a manifestation of an addictive that's replaced substance use and alcohol. so i believe human resilience and in the core fundamental power and force of human nature . so force of human nature. so i think parents and families a very important role probably even more important than in the past in creating an outlet that is safe and being able to hold space for children and give them some more certain points of references. okay hear always fascinating . thank you so much. fascinating. thank you so much. it is only there well, coming up, it's round two of the morning's papers with narinder kaur and emma webb that sold off your morning's news with bethany elsey. good morning 1134. here's your top stories from the gb newsroom. the home secretary

says it's right to take necessary proportionate and compassionate to deter people from crossing english channel illegally . suella braverman has illegally. suella braverman has unveiled new legislation to prevent people arriving in the uk by illegal routes from claiming asylum the un refugee agency has said the bill amounts to an asylum and accused the government breaching the refugee convention rishi sunak will face mpas on the new laws at prime minister's questions within the next half an hour, ms. suella braverman told gb news. we are facing a global migration crisis, a way to very frustrated andindeed crisis, a way to very frustrated and indeed worried about thousands of people who accommodated in hotels, around towns and cities in the united kingdom. and i understand that that places under pressure on local resources undue tensions within communities. it's an unsustainable situation . the rmt unsustainable situation. the rmt union has called off plan strike action network rail workers

following an improved pay offer . union members have been taking part in walkouts for months in a dispute over paid jobs and conditions . industrial action conditions. industrial action was due to take place on the 16th and 17 4th of march. but that's now been suspended. but the union says action with 14 other train operating companies still go ahead across . four days still go ahead across. four days in march and april. still go ahead across. four days in march and april . temperatures in march and april. temperatures have dropped to 15.2 degrees in the highlands overnight, making it the coldest night the year so far as . an arctic blast spreads far as. an arctic blast spreads across uk. the met office says , across uk. the met office says, more sleet and snow is expected to cross southern england and south while hail showers hit scotland's northern coasts . scotland's northern coasts. subzero temperatures are predicted in all four nations until least friday, with and power disruption expected . power disruption expected. you're up to date on tv online in derby plus this is gb news now back to bev and andrew .

now back to bev and andrew. i stay with us. this is bev and andrew wants the point. now, french parents who exploit children for online fame could be facing prosecution. so we're asking , should we adopt be facing prosecution. so we're asking, should we adopt a similar bill here, the uk? find out in 2 minutes

welcome back. it's 1139. welcome back. it's1139. this is bev turner and andrew pierce on gb news. right. let's get stuck into our stories with narinder and emma webb this morning right round two. the round two girls social scandal, french parents exploit children for online might face prosecution emma i have mixed feelings about this because i classic of french too overstepped the mark and interfere people's lives. so i think that this is probably going a bit too far but at the

same time, if you look at this story, half of the picture shared by child abuse is were initially posted by parents and social media. so there is an important conversation to be had here about the fact that parents oversharing, their children are consenting to having their images shared once they're online, they're there forever . online, they're there forever. it's very easy, even on a private social media page like my instagram is private, for example. it's very for those photos to end up elsewhere on the internet. but what are these for? so they're trying to make their children famous by putting their children famous by putting the images of the moment? well, i some some i think i think some some parents actually do make make money out of their social media accounts. it's the same with youtube, it's always been a slight scandal . there have been slight scandal. there have been some who've who've some families who've made who've made into these. made their families into these. so sort of social media celebrities and the children very often , you know, too young very often, you know, too young to consent to that . but it will to consent to that. but it will but also this is not just those people. this is just normal people. this is just normal people who want to share their photos with friends and back.

how dare the government try? and parents my children excuse me. and how dare the government say i'm sorry. you can't put pictures of your children on for grandma to look at. we all know i came . agree? i agree . and i'll i came. agree? i agree. and i'll tell you why. as a parent i have never put any pictures of my children over because i didn't have their consent firstly. second, leigh, it's not safe . a second, leigh, it's not safe. a dangerous world out there. it's dangerous world out there. it's dangerous . dangerous world out there. it's dangerous. this is called sharon combining sharing and parenting . and i've got so many friends who put their children and book day in this and i know fun and i know it's you know you vowed it can harm can't come to them if you want to a child you don't need to have a picture of them on social media you can do outside and this is for the safety of children because they haven't given their consent and this parents just oversharing this is parents just oversharing on my nephews and nieces and they can send that to other ways . some parents do things though, like posting photos their like posting photos of their kids being potty trained or

other things in. the bath, like they think it's sweet . it is an they think it's sweet. it is an invasion that child's privacy invasion of that child's privacy and older, they and when they get older, they might happy that's might not be happy that. that's wrong. think you disagree. might not be happy that. that's vllhink think you disagree. might not be happy that. that's vllhink it's think you disagree. might not be happy that. that's vllhink it's important disagree. might not be happy that. that's vllhink it's important thatigree. i think it's important that parent should you aware of parent should be you aware of the fact that the child might not want that to be online. but i don't think that because know an 18 month old child and they are a child but i think you need association with it. but you do of course can of course. but i too i think the parents should be you know they should be aware of the fact that this is their child's privacy, their image and they be careful about what they choose to share online. it's not just about safety. also the just about safety. it's also the sort just the ethics of sort of just the ethics of sharing else's private life because in the day, it would just be physical photographs. but this is going on to the internet, i'm not saying internet, and i'm not saying that french to do that the french are right to do this, because don't think that this, because i don't think that they think that they are. but i do think that parents sometimes also share heavily. are against heavily. why are you so against it? rarely . pictures of my it? very rarely. pictures of my children on. yeah. these days,

social media. and you know what happens they get to assert an age when they when you just between you you just know the parent the child knows parent knows the child knows pause before you post them do you actually want me? you go actually do you want me? do mind if put this on so do you mind if i put this on so why no, we don't want you why would. no, we don't want you to put that on. you go. fine. well, okay, so do they actually know age 13? they know for under the age 13? they can you that. so this law, can tell you that. so this law, this legislation that they're passing or we shall be to passing or we shall be is to protect when conceive protect when they conceive because they're too young. right. year old, two year right. so one year old, two year old. can't it. don't say that, mummy is going to be line mummy is going to be the line that closed the that being closed whereby the state decisions on the state making decisions on the behalf your without your behalf your child without your consent but that could go what have you fed them for breakfast if you've not given them fruit and post breakfast the state is going to come in. you're not deciding what's right. and i agree you forcible. i agree with you. agree with you completely you. i agree with you completely . also think that . but i do also think that individuals have a right to privacy and parents need to at least be minded to respect the privacy of children who are unable to consent to their

images being shared online because i say these images there forever, you don't know where they might end up. and is they might end up. and this is this report shows often end up in half of photos by child in half of the photos by child sexual abusers were initially posted by parents and that's quite significant. so think parents should be aware of it, but i don't think that states should be intervening this should be intervening in this way because you say, it way because like you say, it sets a precedent for interfering. own interfering. so parents own their children not their children. children not proxy, the state doesn't own proxy, but the state doesn't own them even though they'll go further and further and further. it the end of it, but it won't be the end of it, but is this about the safety of child around which. i think the safety of children is at worst when i teach safety , children when i teach safety, children trumps actually trumps everything. actually especially online . no, not when especially online. no, not when it comes. it's a very dangerous world. the vast majority of children are not in any danger. the parents putting a nice snap from holiday on facebook. oh the danger lies. if the state wants to look after our children, then possible surveillance , not possible surveillance, not taking and that taking photographs. and that would i it's would be very well. i think it's sad if only take photographs of

their children show life . their children to show life. guys, we've come to the end of the show. i could have chosen five carry on over , writes five carry on over, writes nannden five carry on over, writes narinder. i'm aware of thank you so much. we have to make sure to show, of course, because is a wednesday pmqs will be next with mark longhurst we will see you i think tomorrow morning 930. see that arranged marriage . hello that arranged marriage. hello again. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office. some southern of england and wales woke up a covering of snow. that snow is turning back to rain across the far whilst snow moves into central areas and far north stays very cold but largely bright northern woke up to a temperature of minus celsius in some spots , whilst the cold air some spots, whilst the cold air is interacting with band of rain in the south to produce some snow. but that snow risk moves north because milder air is turning all back to rain , albeit turning all back to rain, albeit quite heavy rain across the southwest and the far south of england. the snow then by the afternoon and evening, mainly on

the m4 north woods into parts of wales, especially welsh mountains, eventually into the as well. it's going to feel cold everywhere, but it's bright skies northern ireland, skies for northern ireland, northern , a few snow northern england, a few snow showers continuing for far north of scotland, but only few centimetres accumulating and mainly over hills . the main mainly over hills. the main cause for concern is across central swathes of the uk overnight , where they'll be some overnight, where they'll be some persistent and times moderate snowfall , especially through snowfall, especially through wales, the midlands, parts of east anglia and central southern england. but it's around england. but mainly it's around the northwards where the the m4 northwards where the greatest because . in the greatest risk is because. in the south going spells south it's going to be spells of, rain and milder air. and in the far north once again, a very nights, temperatures dipping —10 to —15 celsius for sheltered glens of northern scotland. a few more snow flurries here dunng few more snow flurries here during thursday , but the snow during thursday, but the snow risk moves north. it moves into north wales, the north midlands, northern england and some very deep snow expected over the pennines over the peak districts. snowdonia, for example where in some places

five centimetres is possible. i think at the very lowest levels. for so manchester, liverpool more likely to be rain, but above 100 metres, that's greatest risk thursday and it's a friday of , greatest risk thursday and it's a friday of, some greatest risk thursday and it's a friday of , some disruptive a friday of, some disruptive snow through central parts of the uk and eventually into northern ireland and perhaps parts of southern scotland as well. it turns quieter on friday and it turns much milder in the

south and a very warm welcome to gb news live with me mark longhurst. and coming up for you this wednesday. yes it's prime questions live from the house of commons i might add lively perhaps today. commons i might add lively perhaps today . prime minister perhaps today. prime minister rishi sunak saying he is up for a fight in defending the government's new illegal migration legislation . well,