went to america . i thought they went to america. i thought they went to america. i thought they were fed up with the royal family well, princess lilibet has been christened small has been christened in a small cell their home, and they're cell at their home, and they're going their going to call both their children, prince and princess, all that coming up here on this program with bev turner. program with me at bev turner. stay with us. we're also talking by the way, about police officers because that research shows pay has lagged 20% shows their pay has lagged 20% behind inflation since 2000. they want a i7% pay rise. do they really deserve one.7 that's they really deserve one? that's that's it. with a more on today's weather warnings , what today's weather warnings, what it means for you, we're facing blizzard conditions. and don't forget the weather is coming up right now . good morning is right now. good morning is just on 930 i'm rhiannon jones in the gb newsroom. boris johnson reportedly warned dominic raab privately about his conduct dunng privately about his conduct during his leadership . it's during his leadership. it's understood the ex—tory leaders given evidence to the inquiry into allegations of bullying

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dab+ radio. this is gb news nous over to bevan, andrew . over to bevan, andrew. okay. good morning. the prime minister, rishi sunak and french president emmanuel macron are set to meet in paris to mark the first anglo—french summit since 2018, with both leaders also hoping to secure a deal, stop small from crossing the small boats from crossing the channel. while the summit follows that announcement follows that big announcement in parliament, the illegal migration bill, which to migration bill, which aims to remove who enter uk remove those who enter the uk illegally the channel and illegally across the channel and ban them immediately from seeking forever . seeking asylum forever. meanwhile, back home and home secretary suella braverman has been told must apologise to civil servants for an email in her name, accusing them of blocking efforts to stop small boat well us around boat crossings. well us around half of the day's top stories is our very own deputy political tom . tom, think this tom harwood. tom, i think this is going swimmingly for is all going swimmingly for the government. actually they're getting headlines and the getting good headlines and the problems that goes up c macron

tomorrow. they've got a much better relationship than boris or liz certainly has. this or liz truss certainly has. this is certainly true. there are good headlines from the short . good headlines from the short. however, this has come unstuck before for government when clearly the intentions of their what they would like their policy to achieve is well publicised and then it all gets bogged down in the courts. i think to some extent the success or otherwise of this, the competence really of this government will rest on many of these court challenges , that we these court challenges, that we are certainly about to see, both domestically and internationally . the times says today that the government are pointing will point to the fact 40% of european court rulings have been ignored by other countries like germany and france . so even if germany and france. so even if the european court does say what we're trying to do about asylum seekers is illegal, we're trying to do about asylum seekers is illegal , they can seekers is illegal, they can ignore it, too. well, this is what happened with regards to prison . no voting at the in the prison. no voting at the in the middle of the of the last labour government, the echr ruled that

under the under the universal franchise rights that the prisoners had to vote and the labour government obfuscated and just kicked the can down the road, would not implement it until actually 2011, when the coalition came in and a backbench motion of the house gave the government the moral authority to just ignore the ruling from the echr. now the times is suggesting this morning that there could be a similar strategy with regard to echr rulings that that this government could almost sort of cloak this stuff up in the courts. and whilst it's all being discussed, just go ahead with the policy. however there are some other hurdles because it's not just european courts get in the way. of course, domestic courts have sometimes acted with regard to what the ecj says, particularly because back in 1999 we transposed the european convention of human rights into domestic law through the human rights act. now that means that all of these echr

rights can be acted upon by british judges in british courts . and that could also be a stumbling block for the government. what do you think the prime minister really thinks about gary lineker and his refusal to back down on likening the stop the boats policy to what was happening in germany in the 1930s. it's an extraordinary comment for someone who is the highest paid star at the bbc to have made. perhaps what's have made. but perhaps what's even more extraordinary here is the fact that there's no the fact that there's been no contrition, walking back. in contrition, no walking back. in fact, has doubling fact, there has been a doubling down on sort of sentiment, down on this sort of sentiment, this inflammatory from this inflammatory rhetoric from gary lineker. we saw that yesterday . he posted on gary lineker. we saw that yesterday. he posted on his twitter page to 8 million followers. no apology to the people that he has really painted in such a peculiar light orindeed painted in such a peculiar light or indeed the vast majority of the country who are of what the government has been saying over the last few days. this is supporting it. well, it is extraordinary. instead of hoping

instead of instead of walking back from this sort of language , gary lineker has doubled down saying he will say more things like this and it wouldn't be a problem if he were a private citizen. it wouldn't be a problem. he were employed by a non—state broadcaster. but the fact he is funded through the licence fee, which people are forced to pay if they want to watch live television. the fact he gets over £1,000,000 a year, 1.34 million, if i remember correctly, a year from that took place in response ability zone. and it's interesting listening to what some other employees at the bbc have been saying . if the bbc have been saying. if they were casting political opinions like this , if they were opinions like this, if they were talking in such an inflammatory way, there is no way they would be given such lenience by the bbc establishment. nick robinson , who's one of the presenters of the former political tune on the today programme, which effectively saying he'd be sacked if he wrote said something like that. absolutely and you can go through a whole

list of people who have said not only would they be sacked if they talking in those they were talking in those terms, but i think even more pertinently , if there were pertinently, if there were perhaps even a sports sports broadcaster who would have taken the other view would have said something inflammatory on the anti asylum seeker point of view. you can bet your bottom dollar that that person would be sacked and barred from from working in pretty short order. it seems that it's one rule for one side and perhaps another for the other. tom thank you. let's get some more analysis now from the former labour mp and independent peer in the house of lords. lord mann . lord mann. lords. lord mann. lord mann. should gary lineker keep his job? well, i'm for free speech, so i think that a distraction bit like jeremy clarkson , who bit like jeremy clarkson, who used to say things occasionally squirm, some things he said and wrote, but he was a very good presenter of top gear, which i

seem to recall was a bbc programme. so i'm for free speech.i programme. so i'm for free speech. i don't think that's the issue here at all. is it free speech when we're paying in 1.35 million? it's not very we're paying million? it's not very we're paying for it. i don't know how much jeremy clarkson got paid. i think a reasonable amount from what i gather from the past. and so i'm in favour of free speech. but this idea that you. there's obviously a difference between a news report and a sports presenter or a car programme presenter or a car programme presenter and, and i'm for free speech for everybody. i think the idea that we restrict free, you know, we've just been in lot of work in the university is about free speech. but i've been arguing the case for years that the way you deal with equals on stupid things are problematic. things is not to ban them from speaking in, closed them down in our country . free speech is part our country. free speech is part of what we're about and whether

people agree strongly or disagree strongly or don't care. i'm for free speech. so no, i wouldn't . jeremy clarkson before wouldn't. jeremy clarkson before i wouldn't. gary lineker do you think it's different under this director—general we're under tim davie john at the bbc that it gives them a little bit of a longer leash. some of the celebrities . longer leash. some of the celebrities. i'm longer leash. some of the celebrities . i'm not sure it's celebrities. i'm not sure it's different . i, i think the different. i, i think the language is a bit different in it. from the top of the bbc , it. from the top of the bbc, from people like tim davie , you from people like tim davie, you know, in the past the bbc have allowed jemmy clancy is a classic example because he's so a he said many things which some people regarded as controversial . well there's agreed with strongly and i think he rather a bit like lineker he rather relished some of the controversy . but the idea that you'd sack either of the not news reporters not presenting the news , they're not presenting the news, they're not presenting the news, they're not the political analysts of

the bbc. so i'm for free speech. what where mr. lineker got it wrong and some of those have in responding to him as well as i mean my advice to politicians , mean my advice to politicians, to government ministers but to everyone . and it want him to everyone. and it want him to comment is don't use these analogies with with the with germany. i think it debases our language when people do it, it's always hyperbole , you know. i always hyperbole, you know. i mean , that it was relatively mean, that it was relatively mild compared to pledges i've seen. mild compared to pledges i've seen . but but nevertheless, seen. but but nevertheless, don't do that. it doesn't actually advance your case. it's actually advance your case. it's a distraction to it. and, you know, he's himself the story by doing that much more so than if he hadn't. i'm sure what's achieved by that? well the crassness and a carelessness in the use of language. so my advice to him and others. yeah, i noted your your new presenter

, i noted your your new presenter i , i noted your your new presenter , i believe a mr. anderson and a conservative vice president . i conservative vice president. i believe he now works for i read anyway that he's now going to be anyway that he's now going to be a presenter with you. well you know, he made a rail they using the word not say well it was fun son don't you do that either. i mean, he was actually to be re—educated by the conservative party for doing the same sort of thing before the last election. he obviously wasn't listening. the training i probably should go through it again. perhaps i could do training, fully understand . and gary lineker. so understand. and gary lineker. so i'm just stand why you shouldn't use this kind of comparison debases language and it doesn't help your argument don't do it stephen pollard who's the former editor the jewish chronicle, you know lord mann, he says what lineker says is so truly offensive, particularly to

people like him, who lost relatives in the holocaust and to use any comparison with germany, he says, is unacceptable. and that's why, in his view, lineker has to go. but stephen pollard's absolutely right in terms of expressing view, i think is held by a lot of people in the jewish community and certainly the majority in the majority of comments, i think people are discomforted to say the least, when people use these analogies in my view, i disagree with stephen on free speech. my view is that we should have free speech and the jeremy clarkson's the gary lineker as if i was them, i'd tone it down. i certainly would never be using this kind of language or anything similar, but i see no problem . and a car report problem. and a car report presenter or a football presenter or a football presenter having a view on things because i believe in this

country , free speech is of the country, free speech is of the essence and it's exactly the issue that in my official capacity upon it by lots of promise is now three or four prime ministers appointed by government to do i taken into the universities which are as you can imagine a rather heated debate chamber. i at times and argued the case for free speech and i think that's paramount in our country and so i get that you know whether people says, i mean, stupid or not, i'm still for free speech. okay. thank you so much forjoining us. joining so much for joining us. joining us now for more analysis is political editor of huffpost uk kevin schofield. good morning, kevin schofield. good morning, kevin . morning. good morning . kevin. morning. good morning. what's your assessment of this? was gary lineker say what he . was gary lineker say what he. should we have a free speech at all costs ? look, i'm certainly all costs? look, i'm certainly in favour of free speech. i mean, i think you have to be

very careful and in using analogies about germany and 19305, i analogies about germany and 1930s, i think analogies about germany and 19305, i think i analogies about germany and 1930s, i think i wouldn't go there personally. and i think that when you do that, you do open yourself up to criticism. i think there's an distinction to be made as well, though, that he wasn't actually comparing the government's policy to . germany government's policy to. germany in the 1930s, he was talking about some language being about some of the language being used around the policy. i think that's an important distinction which appears to been which appears to have been lost in heated debate, which has in the heated debate, which has and which has followed on the question of whether he should be sacked. andrew mentioned nick robinson earlier, saying he would have been sacked, had some. i think you're kind of comparing apples and pears there a little bit, nick robinson, obviously as a very esteemed former political editor of the bbc, as a study programme presenter regularly and views politicians, he needs to be politically impartial . i think politically impartial. i think john lineker, as a presenting of match of the day, as in the same position and so i think there is

a difference there and i think that may well be why got to lineker hasn't been sacked and i think probably won't be sacked. jonathan agnew who is a one of the bbc's cricket correspondents , has said some of the stuff. he said before would have meant he'd be sacked. jonathan agnew but an exception is but he thinks an exception is made lineker because of his made for lineker because of his huge and he's huge popularity and he's undoubtedly hugely popular and very good at what he does . you very good at what he does. you know, i think jonathan agnew be making a good point that i think that certainly something to be said for obviously gary lineker has 8.7 million twitter followers . i think as obviously followers. i think as obviously as a huge social media presence, very well known , face on the very well known, face on the television. and the bbc can probably see benefits in having him as the as the face of match of the day. as i say, i think the tweet itself probably was a little bit ill advised, just going there and as i say, compared and even the language to germany in the 1930s, it was very controversial and i can

understand why people are getting rather upset about it. other bbc employees clearly take a different view from gary lineker. the recoil of feeling from getting involved in politics. he's a different case. he chooses to get involved. he's doneit he chooses to get involved. he's done it consistently for quite some time now . and so far as some time now. and so far as why, i think the surprise to me where the bbc to an unknown know given this is just the latest in a long line of political interventions that he's made that they would seem to turn around and sack him now , tim around and sack him now, tim davie, who's the director general, was referring to earlier, he said in september 20, 20 to kevin , gary lineker is 20, 20 to kevin, gary lineker is tweeting is a work in progress. well, this is probably this is probably one of his most contentious tweets . and he contentious tweets. and he doubled down on it when people criticised him yesterday. and he said the cancel culture trying to him down and a work in to close him down and a work in progress is certainly one way of describing that and i mean clearly the bbc are concerned

about that. i think it led the bbc six quote untenable views last night, which was extraordinary . and i think i can extraordinary. and i think i can understand the bbc want to speak to gather in that kind of vote. obviously that's a conversation for the two of them to have . and for the two of them to have. and the point i was trying to is that this is not a one off from from gary lineker. he has consistently and made his political views clear on twitter and up until now, the bbc have you know, they may have had some discomfort, but they have not and disciplined him over it. i would be surprised where they tend to draw a line in the sand and say, you've gone too far this time. i think of an interesting commercial where that actually happened between gary lineker and bbc bosses. but as say, at the end of the day, as i say, at the end of the day, i'll be very surprised if he was to end up losing his job over. all right. okay. thanks so much, to end up losing his job over. all rigschofield thanks so much, to end up losing his job over. all rigschofield from (5 so much, to end up losing his job over. all rigschofield from the) much, kevin schofield from the huffpost , duke duchess of huffpost, duke and duchess of sussex . i remember them. they sussex. i remember them. they went who stop being went to america who stop being royal private. well, royal and be private. well, they've christened their daughter, princess lilibet,

diana, california home diana, at their california home last yesterday, last week or so yesterday, catherine , princess of wales, catherine, princess of wales, braved military braved the snow in military gates help administer first dates a wounded as dates for a wounded soldier as part an exercise on salisbury part of an exercise on salisbury plain. the latest, plain. all the latest, of course, from very own royal course, from our very own royal edhon course, from our very own royal editor, grower reporter editor, hair grower reporter cameron cameron they're cameron walker. cameron they're going prince and princess. going to be prince and princess. they and andrew, a last few they are. and andrew, a last few minutes, got a bit of minutes, i've got a bit of breaking news for. you the royal family's website, been updated to titles. prince, to reflect new titles. prince, archie of sussex, princess lilibet of sussex. it is official . the sussexes have also official. the sussexes have also released a statement that says the children's titles have been a birthright since their grandfather became monarch. this matter has been settled for some time in alignment with buckingham palace. so in the eyes of the sussexes and perhaps those behind the scenes at buckingham palace , when the buckingham palace, when the queen elizabeth ii passed away, they automatically became prince and but this is the and princess. but this is the first time lilibet christening, which happened which obviously happened on friday, have seen them friday, that we have seen them officially either of their children officially to children officially referred to

as a or a princess. now, it's understood the sussexes only plan to have their children use these titles in formal settings. and of course, that gives them an option later on in life if they so choose to be part of the royal firm , as it were, they royal firm, as it were, they wouldn't be used in everyday speak. i think . it is a speak. however, i think. it is a strong indication of what harry and meghan wants for their children , which is particularly children, which is particularly ironic, perhaps some people would argue, because prince harry has previously spoken of the general national trauma, which had growing up in the which he had growing up in the royal family having the burden of the royal title . and yet he of the royal title. and yet he has decided to pass said burden onto . and so it's some onto his. and so it's some people are questioning his morals as well there's money in it right that's they can they have nothing else if they're not trading on their royal lineage. of course , that probably too if of course, that probably too if the royals , adult royals who the royals, adult royals who have the most normal lives and that they must functional being zara and peter phillips who didn't who weren't given titles

whether that was what princess on decided to do. yes, exactly . on decided to do. yes, exactly. and they live their own lives away from working members of the royal family. they have their own deals and they are not perhaps going on national television or writing or writing books or netflix series. but you're right, it is a different way of doing things. i think princess anne is the hardest working royal. if you go in terms of the number of engagements , her family has engagements, her family has a kind of no nonsense, no fuss approach, which i think many people in the united kingdom respects, sussexes respects, whereas the sussexes the sussexes, harry and meghan have decided to do it in a completely different way, perhaps american way. perhaps slightly american way. in terms of the pr strategy here. and i think you can see the two sides perhaps clashing is that is kind of the english versus the american way of doing things. and we discover from the papers that they invited senior rose to go to the christening of princess lilibet. but they didn't didn't them very didn't it didn't give them very much notice. so there any much notice. so there wasn't any chance of the king in particular and the queen consort attending.

exactly. but i don't think that would been much of a would have been much of a chance, did have chance, even if they did have notice. reason being notice. the reason being a clearly relationship, some very frosty. so think it would have frosty. so i think it would have been frowned if the been maybe frowned upon if the king did decide to go, although clearly prince harry is his son, he still loves his son. however, the king hasn't been abroad yet since he became monarch . for the since he became monarch. for the first time. he is going to go abroad is for this state. visits to france and germany. he didn't go in his annual ski trip this year because would have been year because it would have been frowned that frowned upon, perhaps that his first trip as the head first overseas trip as the head of state was for a personal ski trip. so going across to the united states for a personal family occasion and perhaps wouldn't have been too good in terms of optics because clearly he is of state. so they he is head of state. so they thought the government thought and those at buckingham palace thought a thought that him going on a state best way to state visit is the best way to release him, perhaps to the world as the monarch. they haven't released any pictures from christening, have from the christening, have they? no expecting they've done no are we expecting they've done a deal? i mean we'll have to

wait and see. but i think there is a there's a big difference here between when archie was christened and was born and what's happening now. have little bits because we're not. she was born, remember, there was a whole hue about we was a whole hue about why we didn't see pictures of archie on the steps having just born the steps having just been born , announcements , even having an announcements that the duchess of sussex was in labour because all of us of course and this the statement which went out saying that she was in labour archie had actually been born 2 hours before, but back then they were working members of royal working members of the royal family receiving family so they were receiving our money, taxpayers money to be working royals, whereas now they are private citizens and the sussexes argument's going be, we don't to give anything don't need to give you anything . to give you . we don't need to give you pictures the christening. we pictures of the christening. we don't need to tell you the godparents are because we are in private. they're going private. so it's they're going to photos to netflix. to flog the photos to netflix. they might well they might well do magazine well. do to another magazine as well. they they choose they might not they might choose to remain private. but clearly they've that option now they've got that option now because working. because they are not working. members family and members of the royal family and have their own income

have to make their own income somehow. they're somehow. do you think they're going do you think this going to go do you think this means more less likely means it's more or less likely one them goes to the one of them goes to the coronation? i think it's more likely. and the reason being is we a beginning of this week we saw a beginning of this week that been asked to that they had been asked to leave frogmore cottage . then we leave frogmore cottage. then we hear from the sussex sussexes that they are in talks with buckingham palace to maybe attends the coronation talks to me, which suggests there's some kind of negotiation going on. and lo and behold , two or three and lo and behold, two or three days later, we get the titles official in black and white on the buckingham palace website. so to me it suggests frogmore cottage and perhaps the children's titles are being used as some kind of bargaining chip as some kind of bargaining chip as to whether they will attend the coronation . i think in terms the coronation. i think in terms of a family, the family events, charles clearly still loves his sons will and loves his sons and will and loves his grandchildren well. i grandchildren as well. and i think personally would want think personally he would want harry to there harry and meghan to be there with their two children. however his king hat on clearly they've had a lot to say about the

working members of the royal family. there have been lot of criticisms coming from both harry meghan the firm, harry and meghan of the firm, and there'll be fears and i think there'll be fears from courtiers could from courtiers that they could become bit of a distraction. become a bit of a distraction. it'5 become a bit of a distraction. it's archie's birthday on it's also archie's birthday on the which is the the 6th of may, which is the coronation, and so will meghan. want to be away want archie to want to be away from archie on that day, who knows? i think we'll have to wait see, but they're wait and see, but they're certainly all right. certainly talks. all right. thanks, cameron. so still to come, france and britain are working a stop small working on a deal to stop small boats crossing the channel. we'll talking whether we'll be talking about whether it work in 2 minutes. it might work in 2 minutes. hello very good morning to you. we're going to see further wintry weather today and into tomorrow. it's staying cold in the north. there'll be further snow across central parts of the uk . but actually in the south uk. but actually in the south we're in the mild air again with rain more likely than snow across southern parts of england and south wales and. it is a band of rain that's moving in from the southwest, which will bump into the cold air and through the rest of thursday lead to some significant snowfall across parts of north wales, north midlands, northern

england eventually england and then eventually parts ireland as parts of northern ireland as well. scotland largely dry well. scotland stays largely dry and bright, some snow flurries into the far north, rain showers into the far north, rain showers into southern england and south wales with a gusty here and wales with a gusty wind here and much milder than has been. much milder than it has been. but the risk area for that snow is where the mild air bumps into the colder temperatures at sea level two degrees, but over any hills below freezing. and so i think that's for north wales, nonh think that's for north wales, north midlands into northern england, northern ireland we'll see rain or sleet at the very lowest levels, but above 100 metres. the risk of significant and significant disruption a especially for the north pennines into the peak district area above 100 metres, 10 to 20 centimetres of snow building up that includes the likes of leeds wakefield , sheffield, bradford wakefield, sheffield, bradford and a slightly higher elevations. the risk of up to 40 centimetres of snowfall along with a strong wind with blizzards and drifting of the snow. that's why there's an amber warning because that would cause significant disruption .

cause significant disruption. the spells of rain, sleet and snow pushed south again on friday morning. eventually petering out and the afternoon. many places are drier and brighter. some decent sunny spells emerging once again away from the far south and far north. further snow showers into scotland on friday and throughout the week end. but on saturday for many it starts off dry, albeit cold and we'll see another band of rain move in from the atlantic. turning to snow once again in places but particularly over northern hills

very good morning. it's 10:00 very good morning. it's10:00 on thursday, the 9th of march. this is to the point with andrew pierce and bev turner. france and britain are working on a deal to stop small boats crossing the channel ahead of a meeting between rishi sunak and emmanuel macron. tomorrow the summit follows the pm's announcement of a new hard line approach illegal migration. approach on illegal migration. but save borders? stay but will it save borders? stay with us to all last . and prince with us to all last. and prince harry and meghan markle . their harry and meghan markle. their daughter is now princess lilibet . diana. she's been christened in a small ceremony at their home in california. the first time she's been called a princess publicly confirming harry and meghan are going to use, after all, royal titles for their two children. the police federation of england and wales has called for a 17% pay increase for officers . research increase for officers. research shows that police pay has lagged almost 20% behind inflation since 2000. but do they deserve

one? do they have the right reputation to be asking for one? let me know what you think of it. do. and for that, more on today's weather warnings and what they're going to mean for the country as more police are police its upcoming. send in your snow photos, gb your snow photos, please. gb views . at and good morning and views. at and good morning and should gary lineker get a red card from the bbc over his tweet? let us know what think on that and all the other stories this morning by emailing gb views at gbnews.uk. lots ahead this morning with andrew and beth, but first, let's get you up to date with the morning's news with rihanna and . james news with rihanna and. james andrew, thank you. it's 10:02. andrew, thank you. it's10:02. your top stories from the gb newsroom. borisjohnson newsroom. boris johnson reportedly warned dominic raab privately about his conduct dunng privately about his conduct during his leadership . it's during his leadership. it's understood the ex—tory leader's given evidence to the inquiry

into allegations of bullying against the cabinet minister. an independent lawyers looking into complaints made by senior civil servants . the daily telegraph servants. the daily telegraph reports it's unusual for a former prime minister to be involved in a downing street investigation. the 80 formal complaints relate to when mr. raab was foreign secretary brexit secretary and during his first stint as justice secretary . matt hancock was told by the cabinet office to tone down claims in his memoir that the covid pandemic started in an authority in china . that's authority in china. that's according to the latest set of leaked messages sent during lockdown obtained by the daily telegraph . mr. hancock had telegraph. mr. hancock had originally written it was just too much of a coincidence. the pandemic started in the same city as the wuhan institute of virology, but was told by officials it was highly sensitive and would cause problems if released, insisting he must make clear he was not reflecting the government's view

. at least six people have been killed and power at europe's largest nuclear plant has been lost after a wave of russian missiles were fired at ukraine this morning. the zapper asia plant had been depend on backup generators after previous attacks caused severe damage. ukraine's military says russia fired 81 missiles on cities across the country. target hitting energy infrastructure . hitting energy infrastructure. former british army officer and chemical weapons expert colonel hamish to breton , gordon told hamish to breton, gordon told us. this is a callous and strategically important event . strategically important event. it is potentially a disaster. we should get demilitarised zone as soon as possible around separate . this is russian roulette with the most dangerous potential explosive situation and must be brought under control as soon as possible because . as i said, it possible because. as i said, it could affect us in the uk if it goes up . and some news just in goes up. and some news just in the number of people in england waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen

slightly to equal the previous record high. nhs england says around 7.21 million people are waiting to start treatment at the end of january. but the number of waiting longer than 18 months in the same period has come down. the government and nhs england are aiming to eliminate waiting lists of more than a year by march 2025. service snowstorms and travel disruption are forecast across the uk today. the met office has issued an amber warning for strong winds , bringing blizzard strong winds, bringing blizzard conditions and up to 40 centimetres of snow for north—east england. it's expected last from three this afternoon until lunchtime tomorrow with significant disruption to transport power lines and phone networks. snow andice lines and phone networks. snow and ice warnings are in place across much of scotland , where across much of scotland, where temperatures were as low as minus four this morning. temperatures were as low as minus four this morning . a man minus four this morning. a man has been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications and perverting the course of justice in the nicola billy

investigation. it relates to footage taken inside a police the day her body was found in the day her body was found in the river wyre, lancashire police says the clip was then posted online . the 40, 34 year posted online. the 40, 34 year old man who kidderminster was yesterday morning , old man who kidderminster was yesterday morning, miss billie, disappeared while walking her dog. her body was found 23 days later and three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of edward adds outside a pub and will see last christmas. 20 year old thomas waring has been charged with possessing a prohibited weapon and assisting an offender . prohibited weapon and assisting an offender. a 23 year old man and woman been arrested on suspicion of conspire to commit murder. it's believed ms. edwards was wasn't the intended target. she was shot at the lighthouse pub in wirral on christmas eve last year. more than 200 people have been arrested and over £1,000,000 worth of drugs seized in a week long crackdown on. county lines gangsin

long crackdown on. county lines gangs in london. the seize included class and class b drugs . more than £650,000 in cash. five firearms and 51 other weapons, including knives, machetes and swords . the arrests machetes and swords. the arrests have led to 150 drug trafficking charges . the met police says charges. the met police says vulnerable children who were used as a commodity are being safeguarded . and 25 year old safeguarded. and 25 year old singer mae miller will represent the uk at this year's eurovision song contest . instead of the uk at this year's eurovision song contest. instead of . on song contest. instead of. on line and night instead of show at the event in liverpool with the track, i wrote a song . the the track, i wrote a song. the contest is being held in the liverpool arena on the 13th of may on behalf last year's winners. ukraine miller has described it as a tree . this is described it as a tree. this is gb news upbringing. more as it happens now though, it's back . happens now though, it's back. bev and andre .

bev and andre. good morning . prime minister good morning. prime minister rishi sunak and french president emmanuel macron are set to meet in paris for the first anglo—french summit since 2018, with both leaders hoping to secure a deal to stop boats from crossing the channel. now summit, of course, follows the big announcement of the illegal migration bill into the commons by secretary suella by the home secretary suella braverman, says those braverman, which says those who enter illegally the enter uk illegally across the channel be deported immediately and banned from ever seeking asylum . meanwhile, back home, asylum. meanwhile, back home, the home secretary's welsh pavement has been told she must apologise servants for apologise to civil servants for an email in her name, accusing them blocking efforts to them of blocking efforts to stop small boats crossings. so joining for us of this is gb news political reporter olivia. olivia strange story that she's denying that this email had anything to do with her. so essentially, yes, this email went out a few days ago on 12. name i'm on all the mailing

lists for parties and i got the email and what she what the email and what she what the email said was that there leftie lawyers sit at the labour leftie lawyers sit at the labour leftie lawyers and civil servants trying to block us from deporting illegal immigrants . deporting illegal immigrants. and now she has said that this email. she never even saw this email. she never even saw this email and that this was a round robin email from hq. they do this quite a lot right and she had no oversight it. she's now obviously being forced to well being into apologising for it because civil servants aren't happy all at this characterisation . but in the characterisation. but in the meantime, of course, we have seen these internal leaks of messages between civil servants, but essentially they do suggest that they're not keen on the policy at all. it could well be that suella braverman actually doubles down at this point because she might well believe that the public the issue of small boats is the number four most important issue to the public, up the number two public, up to the number two most important to most important issue to conservative voters in 2019. so she might feel that the public is on her side about this and

the public mistrusts civil servants . so it could well be servants. so it could well be that this row is actually surprisingly, quite politically to her, tony. really is also her former special adviser to michael. morning, charlie. morning. that like a sort morning. does that like a sort of sense analysis that i'm not saying you're on a sense, but i think you're eminently sensible. but it could that be what's happened here? is that this has come out. she wants it be out. she wants to blame the civil servants. and so but she it's a very sort of awkward position , i very sort of awkward position, i think. that's right. i think, look, you know, this was such a brilliant job. i've worked in two or three departments with brilliant civil servants. but i think this particular issue is such a long standing one where successive secretaries have failed to be able get to grips with it because of the internal discussions that are taking place, because civil servants might not have been doing what their ministers wanted to do and i think there is a long running history and a question. if the civil service now because it was

dunng civil service now because it was during the brexit days where we're trying to get a brexit deal through, where there are some civil servants were perhaps not tune with what government not in tune with what government ministers to get ministers were thinking to get a good deal during . we've good brexit deal during. we've seen some of the leaked whatsapp messages head of the messages from the head of the civil simon civil service, simon case, thinking if you're in thinking that if you're not in lockstep the lockdowns , lockstep with the lockdowns, then just a wing then you are just a right wing conservative both . conservative ideologists, both. that's and when that's not correct. and when comes to again with the small boats issue , there been boats issue, there have been people within the service that seem on government seem not keen on government ministers the right ministers having the right ideas. they've got something different up their sleeve. so i think this is something that i think this is something that i think a lot of people will understand why that was said in that email and can chime with if you were advising her way used to michael gove you be to advise michael gove you be advising her to apologise or say stick guns home stick to your guns home secretary because olivia secretary because as olivia said, a hugely important said, it's a hugely important with and a lot of voters with voters and a lot of voters will probably agree with the sentiment. the civil service try to stymie this policy . well, i to stymie this policy. well, i think as the home secretary said, she wasn't privy to seeing

the email. it was sent out in her name, but i don't think she signed it off. so in that respect, i think she does have to apologise to her own team in to apologise to her own team in to ensure that actually, you know, going forward that, you know, going forward that, you know, you've got any know, if you've got any other tough through tough policies coming through and home office and i'm sure the home office will have some very, will have to have some very, very difficult discussions within get other within itself to get other policies through order to win policies through in order to win the which is the next election, which is ultimately want ultimately the aim. if you want people to for you to be people to work for you to be able the best job, to the able to do the best job, to the best of abilities, then best of their abilities, then you've got to be able to motivate them. so i think in that respect, it's that respect, if it's a demotivated home office, you'll have to apologise get the have to apologise and get the vaccine. but no vaccine. as i said, but no circumstance says apologise. home countries out circumstance says apologise. horthis countries out circumstance says apologise. horthis policy countries out circumstance says apologise. horthis policy to countries out circumstance says apologise. horthis policy to be ountries out circumstance says apologise. horthis policy to be sorteds out circumstance says apologise. horthis policy to be sorted and: for this policy to be sorted and fixed and we've seen from as olivia saying, dozens of olivia was saying, dozens of emails citizens this emails from citizens saying this is don't is a racist policy. we don't like priti patel, former like it. priti patel, the former home she had home secretary said she had a nightmare civil servants. nightmare with civil servants. well, think i'm i think in well, i think i'm i think in order to maintain a sense of a better working, you know, an apology not go amiss. but in the in terms of the content of the email , i in terms of the content of the email, i don't think it's a bad

thing that it went out. i think it's something that a lot of people recognise and a lot of people recognise and a lot of people can shine. but we've got this meeting. emmanuel macron and sunak, obviously this meeting. emmanuel macron and going ak, obviously this meeting. emmanuel macron and going ak, ob'asking for macron going to be asking for more help the people more british to help the people . is that going to play with . how is that going to play with the public if we go over there and offer the question at the moment, what are we getting for the money already giving? well think key question. and think that's a key question. and i hopefully people i think hopefully what people will to see over the will be able to see over the last week, mean it was only last week, i mean it was only a week yesterday on monday where rishi sunak announced the new deal that he had been able to secure something that i think far beyond the what many conservatives was capable of agreeing. so he's been able to secure that because of the working relationship that he has with macron . i think that you with macron. i think that you said that early on, andrew, and so i think, yes, there is a lot of money that's going to france to try and help this problem. but i think given the success of the the prime minister the deal that the prime minister announced last week, going france later to hopefully get a

deal that continues stop the small boats coming over, which is a number one priority for the prime minister and for the people of this country. i think we'll hopefully see a good working relationship there also and start to put an end and we can start to put an end to these boat crossings . to these small boat crossings. do he might ask the do you think he might ask the president why the president of france why the french haven't arrested french police haven't arrested the gangs? they the people smuggling gangs? they must they've must know who they are. they've been tik—tok that been advertising on tik—tok that and had to get a deal. been advertising on tik—tok that and had to get a deal . and and say had to get a deal. and i think that's totally legitimate question to ask. i think it's no surprise that since leaving the eu relationships have , i eu that relationships have, i don't think the french have perhaps done as much as they possibly could have because of the the eu . when it the uk leaving the eu. when it comes stopping the small comes to stopping the small boats. now that time boats. but i think now that time has relationship has moved on, relationship time is healer and hopefully these is a healer and hopefully these relations have got better under rishi sunak and we can start to see sides working together see both sides working together as these small as say, to stop these small boats the sir boats coming into the uk. sir graham brady standing down the most powerful mp in the tory mp in sense that most people in in a sense that most people in this country never heard of. he is course, the of the 1922

is of course, the of the 1922 committee. he is standing and it's quite a i mean, on the one hand you could say that it looks as though because of boundary changes, graham brady sits on the outskirts of greater manchester i think it looks as though that will become a pretty safe later labour and the safe later labour seat and the boundary so you could boundary changes so you could say it's natural moment say that it's a natural moment have on. on the other have to stand on. on the other hand is only number hand graham brady is only number 75 labour's hitlist . so the 75 on labour's hitlist. so the fact that a tory mp in that seat is seems believe that he won't win the seat of the next election doesn't bode particularly well for the conservative chances at the next election. of course, it's also just a bit of an end of an era. graham is now overseeing the demise of three separate prime ministers course, is ministers and of course, is almost mythical figure within almost a mythical figure within the party. those the conservative party. on those days start days when the letters start circulating . so it's a funny circulating. so it's a funny well to imagine it without him maddeningly discreet, well to imagine it without him maddeningly discreet , the maddeningly discreet, the journalists like me and beth, who to know how many who want to know how many employees have submitted letters, rid of letters, try and get rid of prime he never tells prime minister. he never tells even because even his wife. because she's told doesn't tell me

told me so. he doesn't tell me how many letters have been submitted. he is the soul of discretion is, although i discretion. he is, although i thought it's very interesting discretion. he is, although i thou he it's very interesting discretion. he is, although i thou he saidvery interesting discretion. he is, although i thou he said ony interesting discretion. he is, although i thou he said on gbteresting discretion. he is, although i thou he said on gb news ng discretion. he is, although i thou he said on gb news a] discretion. he is, although i thou he said on gb news a of that he said on gb news a of weeks that boris johnson weeks ago that boris johnson have support stand have enough support stand against rishi sunak in that leadership election over the late summer . leadership election over the late summer. so yes, the model of discretion votes interesting when he comes out with his little nugget of information. yeah charlie gary lineker, we can't have you here without asking you about this is on the front page of the papers. his quote is, i will continue you to speak up for the poor souls with no voice casting as a, you know, the for illegal immigrants . does the for illegal immigrants. does he have a right to do that it he has a he has a right like everybody else to voice an opinion when you are employed by the bbc which is the independent, impartial broadcaster paid by the taxpayer on the excessive amount that he is , i think it is the repeated is, i think it is the repeated offences that he's making and

the repeated fouls you could say that he's making when it comes to intervene in terms of attacking the government of the day . it isn't attacking the government of the day. it isn't a balanced view and. i think it's right that the bbc are taking a strong are talking to, but i think there will come a point where they'll either have to go further. gary lineker will walk from the lineker will walk away from the bbc. man has gone through bbc. the man has gone through his ngos of them since his list of ngos of them since 2016. he's spoken at every time, criticising conservative government. he's paid 1.35 million bev turner football fans . well, i'm not a football fan. i won't know if anybody needs be paid money to be paid that much money to be a football host times and he's football host ten times and he's as you say doubled down on this is he do you think that behind the scenes the government may be saying get rid ? well, i think saying get rid? well, i think that the bbc he mean he's obviously a great draw for viewers and yeah, match of the day is a brilliant programme. give me an the sports give me an all the other sports programmes presents and programmes that he presents and the clearly terrified the bbc are clearly terrified of losing think if losing it. otherwise i think if it anybody else, if you were it was anybody else, if you were a newsreader, example , on a newsreader, for example, on the has been the case

the bbc, as has been the case previously, you've slightly previously, you've been slightly outspoken, not been seen outspoken, you've not been seen on thereafter. i think on air thereafter. so i think the bbc are terrified of losing it why it and therefore that's why they're taking tough action they're not taking tough action as some are calling. as what some people are calling. don't know why they would be so terrifying. he was footballer terrifying. he was a footballer a long david matthews a long time ago. david matthews of needs of programme said the bbc needs to lineker not the to realise that lineker not the main of match of the main attraction of match of the day football fans will continue to to in the football to tune to in watch the football regardless presenting regardless of who's presenting it. not be missed on it. he would not be missed on the viewing figures might even increase. the increase. he's one of the reasons watch match of reasons i don't watch match of the day and lesley says you people exactly what people are doing exactly what lineker so lineker wants his is waning. so he says something to regain attention. help attention. i can't help but think if has these think olivia, that if has these very strong political views he could work in politics. could go and work in politics. i bet you'd him in your bet you'd welcome him in your world. yeah. would be very world. yeah, yeah. would be very interesting. i enjoyed cartoon interesting. i enjoyed cartoon in telegraph it's in the telegraph today. it's suggesting balance suggesting that for balance perhaps they get some perhaps they should get some help abroad presenting what's a goodidea? help abroad presenting what's a good idea? very good i it's an i think beth and i would happily present match of the day for a third of that a third of that. i don't anything about football

but i'll learn very quickly for a third of that for the 1.3 me and he's not even exclusive to the bbc he presents another channel as he's he's an outrage . well i tuned in if you're presenting what you deliver to the and you just remind how the day and you just remind how many people a football many people are in a football team. it's 11 is it? it's okay, right. thank you very much. is it a round ball or is it a different shape? it it is round. and who's top of the table the moment? team, arsenal moment? it's my team, arsenal and i that's the i share that with piers morgan. i'm afraid that's only have on that's the only thing we have on them say you said useful them and say you said useful we'll find it again. no, no. are you a football fan? but no, no, i didn't think so. but still to come, the met office. thanks, guys, an amber guys, has issued an amber warning. winds bringing warning. strong winds bringing blizzard to blizzard conditions and up to four centimetres for four centimetres of snow for northeast england. you been northeast england. have you been impacted? us we're

in two. that a good ole battle rumbling on in cleckheaton, west

yorkshire between a group and the council over plans to build an amazon warehouse next to their homes . an amazon warehouse next to their homes. the campaign has been running since june 21 and is crowdfunded £17,000 in the fights. we oppose the plans amazon site. they say , will amazon site. they say, will generate added pollution and traffic to the area. and o'reilly has a story these click heaton residents formed the save spen campaign group 21 months ago. ever since they've battled kirklees council against granting a 24 hour operational amazon warehouse to be built next to their homes . amazon warehouse to be built next to their homes. this is the site now . it's land next to the site now. it's land next to the busy m62 motorway and is used for growing crops . but if the for growing crops. but if the proposal ahead, it will transform a building more than 25 metres high with lorries day and night , 25 metres high with lorries day and night, but with no buffer zone to nearby properties. residents so determined not to let this happen due to the increase in light noise, air and

traffic pollution . they say it traffic pollution. they say it will bring . i'm afraid to say will bring. i'm afraid to say that this proposed a building that's going to be 300 metres in that's going to be 300 metres in that direction and so a third of a kilometre and 200 metres in that direction with a 24 hour operation. the ability to have 85 hgv loading and unloading continually and 191 parking bays, basically a building for amazon and right next to a residential area. this is the boundary of my house and i will be living straight across from this. the group are not opposed to the land being used to provide employment but want the size of the amazon to be scaled back. size of the amazon to be scaled back . anyone wanting to know who back. anyone wanting to know who built a house have a family here is not going to be too happy with having something of this next to their property. there's no two ways about it. i'm a little more pragmatic about who i am, happy to have some of development. yes, but not, you know, let's balance it . let's know, let's balance it. let's try and make it fair to the residents and say it's not the

employment. so we do need jobs. there's no two ways about it. but what we don't need is something that is so vastly outside what was originally intended that would actually, you upset people that live you know, upset people that live nearby. there's also concerns about the lasting legacy the development will have on the area the impact of the area will be for miles around and for a long time to come and. i think thatis long time to come and. i think that is probably the major, major concern for us. we've probably been labelled as nimbys and where they were absolutely not. nimbys were . we're not. nimbys were. we're not against , but this against development, but this development belongs on a trading estate. an industrial estate estate. on an industrial estate , certainly not in a residential setting. in response the setting. in response to the campaign , council said the campaign, council said the planning application action has been subject to rigorous public consultation and will be presented to the planning committee for a decision. issues raised by the public will be reported to committee and they will listen to all the evidence presented to them before reaching the decision . amazon reaching the decision. amazon declined to comment , reaching the decision. amazon declined to comment, and a decision is set to be made by the council this month on the

riley gb news scholes . what riley gb news scholes. what about that woman on a since you said i'm not a nimby , i think said i'm not a nimby, i think she is not in my back yard and amazon warehouse. didn't create an awful lot of jobs. they've got to go somewhere. yeah, they do. absolutely been getting in touch. thank you. jb news dot touch. thank you. at jb news dot uk is the email address. we'll be talking about gary lineker , be talking about gary lineker, of course, sticking his neck out again on twitter. a lot of people, of course, agree with him. a lot of people don't agree with him. the debate is whether we have the right to this as he works the taxpayer funded works for the taxpayer funded broadcaster, leach has said. lineker obviously suffers extensively from hubris. larry has said lineker should be sacked. his the position the national broadcaster gives him. bnan national broadcaster gives him. brian says lineker and the bbc should go. pity we can't get rid of both. and of course this is now just flared up in the house of commons. it's questions with the culture secretary who is

lucy fraser and have one of her predecessors, john whittingdale asked in the commons that does she agree there should be political, impartial covering all presenters , the bbc, not all presenters, the bbc, not just political or presenters, individual amateur contract the bbc, but asking what she thinks about it. fascinating from lucy fraser culture search. she said, as somebody whose grandmother escaped germany in the 1930s, i think it's really disappointing and inappropriate to government to compare government policy on immigration to events in germany in the thirties. it's important for the bbc to mean impartiality if it's to train the past redress of the public who pay the licence fee . she said she's the licence fee. she said she's pleased to be speaking to gary lineker, but is he going to be fired. do you think he should be? us what think. what be? tell us what you think. what do think that you've been do you think that you've been cancelled or cancelled over? i'm a fan of tweeting, so yeah, a big fan of tweeting, so yeah, i'm a fan free speech a big fan of tweeting, so yeah, i'm (you fan free speech a big fan of tweeting, so yeah, i'm (you know, free speech a big fan of tweeting, so yeah, i'm (you know, we e speech a big fan of tweeting, so yeah, i'm (you know, we mayeech a big fan of tweeting, so yeah, i'm (you know, we may not agree and, you know, we may not agree with he said, but i like with what he said, but i like a world in which people are free to say exactly what they think.

i am. and you know, i was i really am. and you know, i was massively for sticking my neck out and covid out during lockdowns and covid questioning the logic. out during lockdowns and covid questioning the logic . and so i questioning the logic. and so i can understand that . i think the can understand that. i think the thing is, it's the fact that it's the bbc. right. and if you're the bigger question for me is why quite a lot more money. ridiculous. it doesn't deserve to get that amount of taxpayer as money. it's ludicrous. i caught with phil ludicrous. i caught up with phil if wants to and be if he wants to go and be political, go and be political. you'll lot happier. all you'll be a lot happier. all right. something good. right. go and do something good. go and volunteer. be a counsellor. do something , work counsellor. do something, work with lobbying. with political lobbying. organise it. just do something in politics and step away from football. then you really be football. and then you really be free to say thinks. free to say what you thinks. yeah, it does make you very happy and it he has 1.35 and happy and it is. he has 1.35 and i think because is a bbc presenter is a different presenter is in a different position. i the bbc position. and i think the bbc should just say, oh he may stick to that's what we pay to football. that's what we pay vast for money and vast amounts of for money and stuff tv. what said about stuff on tv. what he said about the government's stop the boats policy, offensive to policy, it's deeply offensive to compare what the government's trying stop people

trying to do to stop people crossing channel and crossing the channel and potentially dying to the government . germany in the government. germany in the 19305, government. germany in the 1930s, which was locking up jewish people, deporting people and ultimately we know what they did to jewish people comparatively. but if he'd come out and supported the policy, would you have been so happy? well i guess it's a he's being party political what he's doing. but if he is party political, whether you like it, maybe. no, i know. i don't think bbc events should be part of at all pro—labor . should be part of at all pro—labor. pro the tories, pro anyone they should stick to their job. anyone they should stick to theirjob. i remember a few weeks ago that bbc newsreader was air because was taken air because she celebrated when boris johnson announced he wasn't to run for the tory leadership mile to do this should my allowed to do this? well, actually she wasn't. she was suspended from the bbc for month. well, i hadn't. for a month. no, well, i hadn't. maybe. always maybe. maybe bbc was always a propaganda government mouthpiece and i just didn't notice it. that's the thing has always been because it became that during lockdown . but it feels like lockdown. but it feels like we've come out of all of that.

and now it's very it's very it's it does seem to have an anti bias. yeah. do you think also that the government is using this another way to get on this as another way to get on the front foot, get the headlines, distract from cost of living, crisis strikes a living, crisis strikes from a lot important things , doesn't lot of important things, doesn't it? think at moment the it? i think at the moment the sort of but you know , sort of story but you know, lineker will weather this storm before men like him just teflon. it just seems that just seems keep getting away with it repeatedly. yeah. i don't know why. yeah. and i'm saying ten times in february . why. yeah. and i'm saying ten times in february. he why. yeah. and i'm saying ten times in february . he mocked times in february. he mocked rishi landmark eu deal rishi sunak's landmark eu deal over ireland. that was over northern ireland. that was just last month. same month he called for illegal immigrants arriving in small boats to be granted citizenship . it's not granted citizenship. it's not the of 1.3 million. bbc the place of 1.3 million. bbc sports presenter posted from airport queue saying airport arrivals queue saying another monster queue european cities next to deserted lanes for eu members, the delights of brexit on and on and his first one back in october with critics saying suppose the child refugees calais older than 18 refugees in calais older than 18 baby presenter lineker tweeted

the treatment by some towards these young refugees is sadly racist. well, i'm afraid we found a lot of them. one over 18. those schoolchildren? yeah they weren't schoolchildren. they . and jo mp they were over. and jo says mp andrew bridge. and thank you, joe was suspended for quoting the holocaust and comparing covid . this demonstrates covid death. this demonstrates obvious bias to particular narrative. bbc is not impartial in any sense . your messages in any sense. your messages coming due please , in just a coming due please, in just a moment can have more on today's serious weather warnings for you. facing blizzard you. we're facing blizzard conditions the country. conditions across the country. that's after your morning news is really . that's after your morning news is really. good morning. it's 1030 i'm rhiannon jones in the gb newsroom boris johnson reportedly warned dominic raab privately about his conduct dunng privately about his conduct during leadership. it's understood the ex tory has given evidence to the inquiry into allegations of bullying against the cabinet minister. an independent lawyers looking into complaints made by senior civil

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very good morning. it's 1034. very good morning. it's1034. the police of england and wales have called for a 17% pay increase for officers research shows that police pay has almost 20% behind inflation since the year 2000 and that federation also has warned of a police retention crisis . reports of retention crisis. reports of officers being forced to turn to foodbanks . well, joining us now foodbanks. well, joining us now is senior investigating officer peter kirkham. good morning, peter kirkham. good morning, peter good morning. is it that bad for police that they have to go to foodbanks? it's worse. i'm the main difficulty operationally is the lack of experience in the police service now because they took 25% out of the budget and organisation that's mostly people that meant you know , getting on for 25% of you know, getting on for 25% of the people disappear in constable and from police support staff and pay csr . was support staff and pay csr. was that experience . this has gone that experience. this has gone and it won't be easy to replace.

so the last thing the police service needs is people walking out the door because they can't afford to stay and they can earn more doing other things . it's more doing other things. it's a couple of years ago now, but if i wanted find a police officer, an experienced police officer in victoria i'm going to look to was driving the train to hastings because of them went and joined the rail club where they could train drivers and thousand pounds and a lot of money for a lot less stress . money for a lot less stress. what a shame. a lot less strength. there will be people who say, but you don't go into a profession like the police for money. you don't go into it expecting to be rich. what would you say to those people? this isn't a request to be rich . this isn't a request to be rich. this isn't a request to be rich. this is request to be able to is a request to be able to a reasonable life and raise your family in reasonable way in our contemporary society . so it's contemporary society. so it's not to be rich. no. this is to make up the huge backlog caused by 20, 22 years of either

standstill pay or below inflation pay rises. you know, 1% and things like that . and 1% and things like that. and they've they've fallen significantly behind even the other public sector workers . we other public sector workers. we saw the nurses start off with asking for 19. so used to have which i haven't got. no they haven't. and you know, this is an opening gambit from the federation. they no doubt realise they can't be done realise they can't all be done in hand, but they'll be in one hand, but they'll be looking for a series pay rises probably over a period of time that get them close that. trouble is peter, this comes at a time when public confidence in the police is probably i would argue, at an all time low. it when cousins david carrick sentenced to serve at least 30 years in prison for abusing women over a period of times. and i was just checking a story in the observer last month. what roughly one in 100 police officers in england and wales face criminal, including for sex offences in one year alone. yeah that shows those stats are and

the police service ideally not want to have anybody doing but they reflect our society and so there will be people who get in all sorts of scrapes and whatever and also of ways. and when you've an organisation with so many people , especially so many people, especially across the civil civilian staff and the police, i was as well . a and the police, i was as well. a very small percentage that i would suspect is probably than in most big organisations is going to be a relatively big number and so it looks bad and of course those offences will range the most serious and mentioned a couple of them . mentioned a couple of them. those are total outlier as that's not something that happened as you know they're one offs. hopefully they won't certainly they're not common in guards and things. now all the way down to relatively minor offences the same time when we

interview police officers , the interview police officers, the former police officers generally on this show and when i talking to friends of mine i have a family member in the met as well the are spending lot of the police are spending lot of time now doing work of social workers . they are mental health workers. they are mental health experts , not actually policing . experts, not actually policing. do you think it's got it has noticeable got worse recently hasn't it. yeah it's steadily got worse the last. well again the last couple of decades particularly bad but you go back a lot further than that and the police were involved in things that they shouldn't really be involved in. i mean, the classics , the concern for classics, the concern for welfare calls. that's right. where someone goes someone goes to a&e, for instance with whatever broken arm or whatever, they get fed waiting after four or five, 6 hours and wander off. don't tell anybody. so the hospital go, oh , we better tell hospital go, oh, we better tell the police to and check up. see, they're all right. well they've got no power to do anything . and got no power to do anything. and so all this time wasted, and they get in all sorts squabbles, especially where mental health

is involved and you ask yourself why they doing this? almost like we need a whole new emergency service now whose job it is to go around dealing with mental health issues that have the equivalent of ambulances and police cars. yeah just help people who are desperate in desperate, desperate need, but not necessarily danger to anybody else. often a danger to themselves. yeah, because there's alcohol and drug abuse, there's alcohol and drug abuse, there's homelessness, there's health issues, there's all manner things that all interlink . and there's no one really that is their job. and so the ambulance service the police service to sort of muddle their way through it, but that's not an efficient way of doing things because you just fine the average police officer is on about £27,000 a year, pretty similar to the police. similar to nurse the police. unlike nurses , aren't allowed to unlike nurses, aren't allowed to strike exactly . do you think strike exactly. do you think they should allowed to they should be allowed to strike? i think they should strike? no i think they should be treated with respect . the be treated with respect. the government who take it knowledge that point and don't abuse it.

do you think they're exploited in the fact that these guys, they're exploiting it? this government does not like the police service any more than the previous couple has a very depressing statement, isn't it? a hugely. need the police a hugely. we need the police more than anything. if there's one thing the government have to provide, that's for it's provide, that's for sure. it's an ability to walk safely down the street, sleep at night and leave your car without thinking someone's going to nick it for sure. and we need them sure. and we all need them in all of ways. day . all sorts of ways. every day. and we've asymmetric and we've got asymmetric reporting here, something bad ? reporting here, something bad? yeah, averagely bad alone. really? that gets reported and reported and reported every call appearance and every change of status of the case and people get the impression it's happening. one, two, three, four. no, it's the same thing. it's just been reported repeatedly . nobody hears about repeatedly. nobody hears about most of the good news. yes, but you still if you had your time over again , would you go into over again, would you go into the modern police force as a young recruit? i'd be thinking long and hard about it at the moment if knew what i know

moment if i knew what i know about the state of the organisation . which is it is organisation. which is it is dysfunctional because of the cars and you know , keep seeing cars and you know, keep seeing these reports that i fell into a ten burglaries and they're failing to this and failing to do that and charge rates a drop in and conviction rate so plummeting all of these things can be tracked back to officers not having enough time to do the job properly and that's there aren't enough officers and too much waiting times waiting much waiting times by waiting much. now some of it's inevitable but some of it isn't. okay you peter. peter kirchner, thank you , sir. now the weather thank you, sir. now the weather . you might have noticed it's been pretty cold this. but how cold has it been? well, joining us is our national reporter us now is our national reporter paul who in otley in paul hawkins, who is in otley in west yorkshire . paul, doesn't west yorkshire. paul, it doesn't feel that long ago that i was interviewing you down the line interviewing you down the line in qatar the world cup, and in qatar at the world cup, and it was sunny it was this is it was sunny and it was this is payback time. how is it that cheers for the reminder of that had crossed my mind earlier. i thought i would it but yeah.

thanks for bringing it out. it does seem to be one extreme to the other when they send you out in these jobs. the reason here in these jobs. the reason here in in west yorkshire is in otley in west yorkshire is because in that thing of because this is in that thing of , amber, that thing. if you look at map from met office at that map from the met office of amber warning, that of that amber warning, that thing the spine of thing that runs up the spine of the starting in stoke the country starting in stoke and finishing in durham, and then finishing in durham, taking the peak taking in the midlands, the peak district, yorkshire, dales, district, the yorkshire, dales, yorkshire up into the yorkshire and up into the pennines. that's where there's going be significant of going to be a significant of snow they're expecting major snow and they're expecting major disruption to travel. possible power outages, possible disruption to the phone and especially rural communities in the higher areas. we're looking up 40 centimetres of snow there and the same as well for may to nonh and the same as well for may to north wales where an amber warning was put in place this morning and also a snow warning for northern ireland as well. all of these places looking at significant disruption of the snow and especially the wind has picked up a little bit this morning. but as we head this afternoon, it's going to be

blizzard conditions. so the snow accumulating and then the wind blowing snow onto the roads, which is why travel disruption is a problem. it's going to be cold. the usual warnings apply. take care. only leave home if you need to work from home if you need to work from home if you have to check in on those that are vulnerable. i know that leeds city council are put in place an action plan for dealing with first of all the roads when it comes to the and the it comes to the gritters and the ploughs, but then also they're really getting vocal about the warm banks, the network of warm banks that they have in this area for people who of course can't afford but need to be somewhere when weather like somewhere warm when weather like this said you are a pretty this that said you are a pretty lot. have a listen to these dog walkers that we spoke to this morning. they know, but they're not bothered by it. yeah, they know. i've got biscuits in my pocket that be. what have you beenifi pocket that be. what have you been if i said any disruption, sir, or you worried about what's later. this ain't snow and blizzards. maybe 40 centimetres. no looks clear so far no it looks pretty clear so far . yeah. so. right. it's not

affecting work . anything like affecting work. anything like that. no, no, no . i'm retired. that. no, no, no. i'm retired. and you love this weather ? i and do you love this weather? i don't i prefer to red. don't mind it. i prefer to red. yeah, yeah and i'm a dog walker, so . having fun then . you haven't so. having fun then. you haven't gone for the dog coats either . gone for the dog coats either. so these are all. i'll hire my own dog. she's and she does wire coat of the temperature but these run around and it's not good when they're running to have some so when they get too hot they do yeah. yeah you worried about the snow that's coming later? the blizzards and the warnings, all that kind of thing? just think as long as thing? i just think as long as people home and they can people are at home and they can look after dogs and look after their own dogs and i'm with that. yeah and we i'm fine with that. yeah and we should add as well, she i'm fine with that. yeah and we should add as well , she she i'm fine with that. yeah and we should add as well, she she is going to be checking on her uncle as well and just say the community here in lots of places like this around yorkshire and in part of the world, they in this part of the world, they do together and look out do stick together and look out for the elderly here of course, and vulnerable people, the elderly weather in elderly in this weather in terms of the moment, it's of the snow at the moment, it's not too bad at the moment, but

it is going to get worse later. we move throughout the day . it we move throughout the day. it was and when we talk the weather we should be very careful. it's not parts of the not affecting all parts of the country today. that's country today. that's that's lazy journalists . and because lazy journalists. and because this morning at 6 am, it was 11 degrees in cornwall, —16 in the highlands in scotland, which actually recorded its lowest temperature for it knows overnight temperature of a 2023 and the lowest temperature in the uk in march since 2010. so there's a big extreme from one end of the uk to the other today , but the major disruption will across the midlands, the north of england , mid to north wales of england, mid to north wales and a little in northern ireland as well. so out if you're as well. so look out if you're in those parts. thank you, people look at you, you're just brilliant, seamless weather. you're in cattle , you're in 30 degrees in cattle, freezing in yorkshire . well, freezing in yorkshire. well, don't get home safely. why would you yeah we're also joined you. yeah now we're also joined by senior meteorologist at the british service is jim dale as an ordinary revelation an extra ordinary revelation isn't it the two parts of the united kingdom, one —11, one

minus something and 111 degrees. how that happen? yeah, yeah . how that happen? yeah, yeah. good morning. it's it is a bit of a revelation, to be honest with you. i mean, the scots are very hardy people, as we probably any scottish people up there. they used to defrost in there. they used to defrost in the snow. and actually at the moment for the most part, they're in the sunshine, they're enjoying though it may enjoying it, even though it may well minus temperatures well be very minus temperatures and the other extreme, yeah , and on the other extreme, yeah, down south birmingham for the down south of birmingham for the part, it's rain , it's a bit part, it's rain, it's a bit miserable. and then you've got the sandwich right in the middle where paul was standing. and it's you him up it's good that you sent him up there that's the right there because that's the right place a of the place that in a few of the places in area and it's going to get worse before it gets better. it got at some to it. so it has got at some to it. so this afternoon this evening in the overnight and first the overnight and even first thing tomorrow all the thing tomorrow before all the cold starts pushing back cold air starts pushing back south uk . and what south across the uk. and what mike is will want to know jim is are going to get any snow down london why is it going to be sledging weekend. well it won't happen today it might happen as

i'm saying you're saying sledging. i very much doubt it'll be a sledging job. i rather fear that it'll just be a few flakes is cold front goes through on the back edge or occluded from goes through in the back edge. so that's basically where we're at with this well now look this in march early march is is it's early march is it is it's unusual and the last time we had this of the last two this kind of event the last two weeks affected north weeks affected the north with blizzards it was in 2008. in march 2008, i would less used to that over the last decade or so as as global warming taken off to a certain degree. and we march is that that month where we started to recover and get into proper spring we're in meteorological spring now you wouldn't think it would. you know, i thinking about spring 2020, that first lockdown we will in the garden drinking rose at 2:00 in the afternoon doing the barbecues i mean it was such a contrast to now . yeah and a contrast to now. yeah and i remember at maybe three or four

years ago walking around in london and watching people sitting there having picnics in. and it was it was late february andifs and it was it was late february and it's and the temperatures around 20 degrees look we're on around 20 degrees look we're on a to it's as simple a hill to shelter it's as simple as that . would that the as that. i would say that the climate change does i'm not saying that particular event is climate can't that climate change. you can't that on a one off event. but generally one of the of the aspects of climate change is that will be a lot more coal a chaotic type weather to be had. so maybe this is a bit of that and climatologist will will in a few months and years time look back and see whether or not we can join the dots because. this is the third event this particular season that we've had from december onwards. so three in a row when sometimes we get none all right none whatsoever. all right that's jim dale thanks jim but it doesn't this weekend it doesn't snow this weekend i blame i'll blame too my kids blame i'll blame you too my kids , now that we see you in charge, jim, tell us. we're joined now by. elwood, we've got we don't need going get need that. we're going to get there eventually we're there eventually that we're going past few going to in the past few minutes, going to get minutes, we're going to get

there. finally, the coaches actually , if lucy was actually, if lucy fraser was challenged lineker's challenged about gary lineker's outrageous tweets comparing what the doing , small the government's doing, small boats germany , here's what boats to germany, here's what she had to say . does my right she had to say. does my right friend agree that the requirement to be politically impartial must cover all those who are presenters on the bbc , who are presenters on the bbc, including the highest paid while including the highest paid while in the deal? contracts are a matter the bbc. will she confirm that the mid—term review will the issue of enforcement of this rule on freelancers as well as full time? yeah. yeah yeah. so you stay , mr. speaker as you stay, mr. speaker as somebody whose grandmother escaped germany . in the 1930s, escaped germany. in the 1930s, i think it's really disappointing and inappropriate to compare government policy on immigration events on immigration to events in germany in the 1930s, the well joining us in the studio

commentator and political editor at the daily express, mr. the minister knew that question was coming she had her answer ready? absolutely and she makes the point with jewish completely. i would i would be he has survived a lot of things. and i heard bear say before he's got a teflon and i don't think he can survive this because of the inqu survive this because of the insult to the jewish people . i insult to the jewish people. i think, you know, it's an i mean, apart from that, it is entirely wrong for him to be able to consistent and so regularly flout the bbc's impartiality impartiality rules and to do it with this in to me that was kind of that was a form of hysterical speech what he said and it can't keep on getting away with it. you know, every other member bbc staff and i know people will say not staff he's he's contract but every other people who for the bbc are bound by these confidentiality rules by impartiality rules. the bbc gets 3.7 billion a year from licence payers and lineker gets 1.3

million a year licence . but he million a year licence. but he has to be answerable to those people and what i, what i think you know we yesterday when he said he was going to keep on speaking for the people who had no voice. i'm sorry you know you're not the people who have the voice british people the voice of the british people and outraged by this. and they're outraged by this. he's on twitter he's tried go on twitter yesterday felt yesterday saying he's never felt more ever before in more loved than ever before in his little echo chamber. he's feeling of love. i'm feeling a lot of love. i'm pretty that, but not pretty sure about that, but not in general population. if he in the general population. if he if he understood, if he had his on the of the people of on the pulse of the people of this country, he would know that that rishi that they think that what rishi sunak are sunak and suella braverman are doing now is the right thing for . this country and i but i think the bbc, you know, he's a fool of them. it's almost like he's sticking two fingers up and saying, you know , i'm saying, you know, i'm invincible. they have to show him he's not invincible. and, you know, sick of him. the bbc saying he be censured, he saying he will be censured, he will to. we've seen will be talked to. we've seen i think it's your paper today think it's in your paper today a list ten times in the past list of ten times in the past two or three years where he has

broken impartiality rules. he can't be allowed keep on can't be allowed to keep on doing well the express doing it. well the express didn't him the didn't give him quite the headunes didn't give him quite the headlines some headlines that he wanted. some of splashed on the front of them splashed on the front page. it's a small dimension. he's always on five. do you he's always on page five. do you think public are interested think the public are interested in he's this , what what in what he's at this, what what he to if you turn to he has to say? so if you turn to our letters page today, people are mount dominating the are hopping mount dominating the letters page. people furious they treating ordinary they feel he's treating ordinary viewers with contempt. they pay his wage . and he just dismisses his wage. and he just dismisses them in this cavalier way he ignores the rules everybody else has to abide by the rules he ignores them and actually he gave you know for all readers they furious that the free licence fee was taken away from them having to kind of scrabble around in the every 75, 75 scrabble around and cost living crisis to get together to pay that £359 every year . crisis to get together to pay that £359 every year. and then they have one of the highest paid people in the organisation just treating people with contempt. and unless you always have balance there are also few ways, it's general of ways, but it's just general of grasp history, you know, grasp of history, you know, having this tier germany is

having this two tier germany is just, you know, fails to get hold of the basics of history that you've looked at is his list of this is worst one, isn't it? this is completely the was when he did remember the guy. you mentioned it before , but the you mentioned it before, but the guy who criticised him for making the bbc employee who criticised him on air for making these comments. mean was these comments. i mean he was censured for criticising lineker on air and i didn't quite know the other bbc scared of him in some way. i don't understand the guy commentates on football. i mean, it's not rocket. i can think half a dozen sports think of half a dozen sports commentators right, think of half a dozen sports commentators right , who think of half a dozen sports commentators right, who could do what he does every bit as good as what he and yet he's been allowed to get away with this and is basically sounds and this is basically as sounds just insulting to the just said, it's insulting to the general public. it's insulting to licence payers for. the bbc, he's making fools of his bosses because it's all he feels like. he's fireproof . up until now he he's fireproof. up until now he has been proved to be fireproof and. they can't. i can't see how they can let him go again. i can't see how he can get away

with doing this. as some says, he has a very grasp of history. if he is stupid enough to compare the slaughter of 6 million jews by to this and the culture sector intervening , she culture sector intervening, she clearly we knew that question was coming her answer was prepared. it was very powerful argument, talking about her own family and the holocaust, a serious intervention by a cabinet minister is his time running out your view then? i think you know, the bbc ran real quandary here because if they do not take action they they just look inherently weak. and what message does that send to the stuff? the other stuff you have to abide by all these impartiality rules and. what message does it send to the viewers who this fee, viewers who are this fee, whether they it or not? whether they like it or not? i think, you know, they don't think, you know, if they don't act, think they act, i think they look incredibly these agencies incredibly weak. these agencies , must have an x , well, you must have an x cellent agent who is fighting his corner for him situation. but you know, beth, i don't know whether an agent is going to be able to get over this. you know,

i think when you invoke, any argument you've lost the argument. you know, i to compare what the government trying to do. they're trying to stop illegal immigration. they're not trying to stop immigration. they're trying illegal they're trying to stop illegal that danger, stop people that danger, to stop people dying in the sea. well, that's all do. we were we're all to do. we were just we're just getting breaking news, just getting some breaking news, gary is probably he gary is probably tweeted as he does not fear suspension does not suspension . we'll get not fear suspension. we'll get more on that. he has every right not to fear it because history has shown that every time he has shown us that every time he does this the bbc give him a smack on the let them smack on the wrist, let them carry and i'm sure you'll carry on, and i'm sure you'll get of the job somewhere else. and if do want to abide by the rules. that's this first rules. so that's this first reaction again reaction from lineker again to the the culture secretary the cut to the culture secretary speaking. doesn't care . i speaking. he doesn't care. i genuinely think he needs to go and in politics. he reminds and work in politics. he reminds me bit is the neville. me a bit of this is the neville. gary neville. yes, yes. gary neville. gary yes, yes. gary neville. gary yes, yes. gary he's got a very gary neville. he's got a very strong drive . and you strong political drive. and you want to do something, just turn away the money. go and do something. go and be happy. go and things you want and talk about things you want to and free to do

to talk about and be free to do it. and if you say you really must have enough money, but if you say your views you say commit your views of rights, then you if rights, we see, then if you if you get if you go into politics, you get if you go into politics, you have to be answerable to the people vote for you and. people who vote for you and. i don't he actually wants don't think he actually wants that. think from the that. i think he this from the safe position of his the safe position of his job at the bbc, lineker actually bbc, lineker has actually spoken. we're going to get work in in the next section. we're also talk about meghan. also going to talk about meghan. he's carol. he's going to be royal, carol. she's seconds. what do she's got 40 seconds. what do you i astonishing. you think? i it's astonishing. this is the who said this is this is the who said they didn't want their kids brought up in a royal cage. they said didn't want be the said they didn't want to be the did hate the royals? they did they hate the royals? they hate the they hate everything it stands and meghan said stands for. and meghan even said that kept from that the title was kept from archie. you remember fine, archie. if you remember fine, because colour because it because of the colour of because of his and it of skin, because of his and it was knew at the time was what we all knew at the time it was nonsense because the constitution says not until charles became could they charles became king could they have but have the title. but it's interesting going interesting they're going to give the and i think give them the titles and i think in it's to monetise to in my view, it's to monetise to the it because it'll keep them as you said earlier this month, make out of this. and

make money out of this. and it does it seems quite cynical does seem it seems quite cynical move you know move really because you know clearly hate being clearly they hate the of being the why would you want the case. so why would you want people even calling little girl lilibet diana, it's just outrageous. like just outrageous. it's like just want to their cake and have the to have their cake and have the trappings of some royalty but not do anything to support the royal family and just try to undermine them all. the princess anne's have very well, anne's kids have very well, without being royal, below without being royal, come below titles simply. but you know what it that given the kids it does that given the kids these titles, it keeps it keeps harry meghan to it harry and meghan relevant to it means can still walk means that they can still walk in circles it they in exalted circles it means they can still be special, even though they said didn't want to be special, actually wanted be special, they actually wanted to okay. thank you, to be ordinary. okay. thank you, ladies. gary, ladies. still to come gary, lineker swinging, lineker has come out swinging, speaking first time, speaking for the first time, apparently not fear apparently he does not fear suspension by bbc. we'll suspension by the bbc. we'll bnng suspension by the bbc. we'll bring full video just a bring you the full video just a moment

very good morning . it is 11 very good morning. it is 11 am. on thursday. the 9th of march, and this is to the point with

andrew pierce and bev turner. france and britain are working on a deal to stop small boats crossing the channel ahead of a meeting between rishi sunak and emmanuel macron . the summit emmanuel macron. the summit follows the pm's announcement of a new hard line approach on illegal migration. but what is save our borders? stay with us to discuss that . breaking news, to discuss that. breaking news, gary lineker spoken out under huge pressure. he's on the front of the daily mail and the daily telegraph and london newspapers. whether he keeps his job, he's telling people he doesn't fear suspension we're get suspension. we're going to get his words little later the his words a little later in the program. also this morning, get ready , fans. the uk's for this ready, fans. the uk's for this year's song has finally been announced after months of speculation. apparently ticket pnces speculation. apparently ticket prices have big talk this week to let us know if you managed to get one or even if you care. send us your photos as well at gb views. at gbnews.uk. to be clear, snow photo is . good

clear, snow photo is. good morning you for joining clear, snow photo is. good morning you forjoining us. gary morning you for joining us. gary lineker spoken out for the first time outside his london home, saying that he doesn't fear suspension from the bbc after his controversial comments. i it's know what you think gbviews@gbnews.uk . we'll get gbviews@gbnews.uk. we'll get there in just a moment. but first of all, here's your with rihanna . beth thank it's 11:02 rihanna. beth thank it's 11:02 your top stories from the gb newsroom. so match of the day. presenter gary lineker says he stands his criticism of the government's asylum policy and doesn't face tension by the bbc . he posted a tweet earlier this week comparing the language the government used to set out asylum plans to that used by germany in the thirties the culture secretary has told the commons it's important the bbc maintain impartiality if to retain the trust of the public who pay licence fee . at least

who pay licence fee. at least six people have been killed and power to europe's largest nuclear plants has seen has been lost after . wave of russian lost after. wave of russian missiles were fired at ukraine this morning. missiles were fired at ukraine this morning . the zafira asia this morning. the zafira asia plant happened on back up generators . previous attacks generators. previous attacks caused severe damage. ukraine's military says russia fired 81 missiles, including six hypersonic missiles on cities across the country, targeted an energy infrastructure . former energy infrastructure. former british army officer and chemical expert colonel hamish de bretton—gordon told us is a callous and strategically event. it is potentially a disaster. we should get a demilitarised zone as soon as possible around separate syria. this is russian roulette with the most dangerous potential explosive situation and must be brought under control as soon as possible. because, as i said, it could affect us in the uk. if goes up

the number of people in england waiting to start hospital treatment has risen slightly to equal the previous record high. nhs england says around 7.21 million people are waiting to start treatment at the end of january. but the number of waiting longer than 18 months in the same period has come down. the government and nhs england are aiming eliminate waiting are aiming to eliminate waiting lists of more than a year by march 2025. severe and travel disruption are forecast across the uk today. the met office has issued an amber warning for strong winds bringing blizzard conditions and up to 40 centimetres of snow . north east centimetres of snow. north east england. snow and warnings are in place across much of scotland where temperatures were as low as minus four this morning where the journalist has told us to expect significant disruption to transport power lines and phone networks . delays on the roads. networks. delays on the roads. absolute impossible, i'd say more or less certain in the next 24 hours. certainly in areas

that i mentioned, possibly further, we've got the main main airports further south. i'm not going to be quite affected by the snow going forward. we're sort of out that danger zone a bit more now for the northern airports expected. expect airports as expected. expect disruptions trains as disruptions and on the trains as well, roads, think well, trains roads, i think there advisory as to if there are advisory as to if you're going to travel, take precautions . boris johnson precautions. boris johnson reportedly warned dominic raab privately about his conduct dunng privately about his conduct during his leadership. it's understood the ex tory leader has given evidence to the inquiry into allegations of against the cabinet minister and independent lawyers looking into made by senior civil . the daily made by senior civil. the daily telegraph reports it's highly unusual for a former prime minister to be involved in a downing street investigation. the eight formal complaints relate to mr. raab was foreign secretary brexit and during his first stint as justice . first stint as justice. secretary. more than 200 people have been arrested and over £1,000,000 worth of drugs seized in a week long crackdown on county lines gangs in london.

the included class a and class b drugs more than £650,000 in cash, five firearms and 51 other weapons, including knives, machetes and swords . the arrests machetes and swords. the arrests have led to 150 drug trafficking charges . the met police says charges. the met police says vulnerable children who are used as a commodity are being safeguarded . britain's most safeguarded. britain's most iconic astrologer, mystic meg, has died aged 80. margaret lake, who wrote daily horoscopes for the sun for 23 years. the newspaper announced , her death newspaper announced, her death reporting she'd been admitted to hospital with flu. her agent has said she was followed by millions around the world, showing what an impact she'd had on the world of . astrology . and on the world of. astrology. and 25 year old singer may mellor represent the uk at this year's eurovision song contest . instead eurovision song contest. instead of . round five eurovision song contest. instead of. round five and she'll

perform at the event in liverpool with the track i wrote a song. the contest is being held in liverpool arena on the 13th of may on behalf of last year's winners, ukraine. ms. miller has described it as a dream , as gb news will bring you dream, as gb news will bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's back to beth and andrew . it's back to beth and andrew. while the pressure is growing on gary lineker, the culture secretary, lucy fraser, has criticised him in the commons today for his remarks, comparing the government's boats policy to germany . but the government's boats policy to germany. but he's left his home today, saying he stands what today, saying he stands by what he he says he doesn't he says and he says he doesn't face suspension by the bbc. perhaps he should fear the sack. the secretary told the the coach secretary told the commons. it's important for the bbc to maintain impartiality if it is to retain the trust of the pubuc it is to retain the trust of the public who pay the licence fee . public who pay the licence fee. well, joining us back in the

studio is gb news political reporter olivia utley. and of course delighted have special course delighted to have special former adviser gove, former special adviser gove, charlie reilly and he's spoken out. going to get his word out. we're going to get his word shortly . this out. we're going to get his word shortly. this sounds like he's in a of trouble. it does in a lot of trouble. it does sound like he's in trouble. but the problem, as highlighted in a very in the times very good leader in the times today, actually the today, is that actually the rules drawn up by the bbc around impartiality, particularly tight . so obviously it's very strict with its own journalists but presenters such as lineker who work on the contra act aren't subject to the same sort rules. but if someone as as lineker who is a sort of face, the bbc starts coming out with a very sort of hyperbolic opinions like this very strong opinions against the government over and over again, as he has done then . surely at some point that must impinge on bbc's reputation for impartiality. so technically it could be that gary lineker hasn't breached the terms of his contract, so he might be right to say that he that doesn't fear that further sack from the bbc,

but obviously it's really not a very good for the bbc at all. and richard, a former bbc chairman has suggested that he he will have to go soon, along with rich, poor people. that one had one had will be voting for the right and one from the left. sorry to interrupt you, olivia. let's have a look at what gary lineker said a few moments ago. do you regret sending tweet do you regret sending the tweet to. stand by what you to. no. you stand by what you said. sorry. sound like said. sorry. you sound like you're saying . of course, but you're saying. of course, but thank you for. okay. well, that was a car window. yeah, that's a guy in the media, a broadcaster, happy. talk to the media. not it is another sign of the ease in big, big trouble . culture big, big trouble. culture secretary intervenes. what can we remind people that second what she said. lucy fraser a significant intervention ? i significant intervention? i think so. and i think what the culture secretary has said in the house of commons is absolutely right and we'll see that again. well, listen that again. well, let's listen to fraser told the to what lucy fraser told the commons this morning. she's the culture secretary. does my right agree requirement to be

agree that the requirement to be politically impartial must cover all those who are presenters on the bbc including the highest paid while in vigil? contracts are a matter for the bbc. well, she confirmed that the mid—term review will cover the issue of enforcement of this rule on as well as full time. yeah yeah so you stay mr. speaker as somebody whose grandmother escaped germany in the 1930s. i think it's really disappointing inappropriate to compare government policy on immigration events to on immigration to events to on immigration to events in germany in the 1930s. events in germany in the 19305. what do you think that reaction to charlie ? well, i think them to charlie? well, i think them as i said before , i think what as i said before, i think what the culture secretary said is absolutely right. and she's obviously personally affected these comments as well . people these comments as well. people who have a jewish or from jewish because of the comments that

gary lineker has made. and i think if the bbc said yesterday that they going to have a frank conversation with gary lineker either hasn't taken place or it hasn't been frank enough because these offended a lot of these have offended a lot of people. think, no people. and i think, look, no one individual, think ever is one individual, i think ever is bigger the organisation bigger than the organisation that i think that they work for. and i think he would be wise either he would be wise to either apologise or to stop commenting on policies that are negative, weighed against the subject and can just carry on being football. pundit charlie, you've beenin football. pundit charlie, you've been in government, you've in meetings with cabinet ministers. that intervention by the coach, secretary would have been cleared, i imagine at the highest probably highest level, probably potentially number yes, potentially by number 10. yes, i imagine so. i think what the culture secretary set out would have been the government's response, not just her personal response, not just her personal response, but some clearly something that she's affected by and that a lot of people in this country would have been impacted by, the way in by, because of the way in which gary neville just just seemed to have tweeted something on the of a policy that i don't think he

may know all the detail about . may know all the detail about. and it is something that i as i say, it's something that has clearly affected. it's a really good point because you feel like maybe he just saw the soil of braverman tick tock video because his complaint was with the language which he was saying, you know, the language was the was inflammatory it was the language that reminded of language that reminded him of 19305. language that reminded him of 1930s. is probably not 19305. germany is probably not seeing olivia seeing the detail. olivia probably understand what the concessions that might be for people. yeah, absolutely . people. yeah, absolutely. obviously this legislation isn't even through the commons you've seen the first draft of the legislation. conservative government is pushing ahead with it pretty quickly. it's going to be to be on monday, but be going to be on on monday, but still don't really know the full details of it. and so it's unlikely that gary lineker has had advanced sighting of the entirety of the bill form, which isn't even possible say so. yes it does sound as though he's commenting on quite a superficial understanding of the sort of language that suella braverman used . of course, it's

braverman used. of course, it's gone down quite well on twitter, which we know sort of skews to left, as it were. but in the country, again, it's likely that these won't be popular comments. it's well, a parliament probably won't particularly that this has happened. won't particularly that this has happened . he's forgotten the old happened. he's forgotten the old political maxim when you're in a hole, digging. what hole, stop digging. that's what he doubling he did yesterday by doubling down on his remarks. and today, you have said you could have said i mean, i think actually response day was pathetic. he should pathetic. actually, he should have cameras. the have addressed the cameras. the lord said, i stand by or not. well, absolutely . i think he he well, absolutely. i think he he isn't. he's not in that difficult position because . if difficult position because. if the choose, they could just the bbc choose, they could just choose to sack him. of course , choose to sack him. of course, as discussed before, that as we discussed before, that they don't want to lose him . they don't want to lose him. otherwise it's going to be quite difficult to do because difficult to do them because of the they're charter is the way that they're charter is sort of put together. it is journalists who are employed by the bbc we are under very strict rules to be completely impartial. but someone like gary lineker, who is a freelance , lineker, who is a freelance, isn't subject to the same rules. so i think he feels sort of protected by that. but of course the bbc at any point feel as

though this is doing far too much reputational damage. and even isn't worth it even gary lineker isn't worth it to maybe jonny is a to them. maybe jonny is a football you listen to football fan. do you listen to match the day. walked back match of the day. i walked back to of any good. is it to the days of any good. is it worth all this money? but if anybody's worth that much talk about football, i would want to get the conversation about get to the conversation about people's people's worth salaries. don't watch match salaries. but don't watch match of as it happens. but am of the day as it happens. but am a football fan. i thought you were. and i'm a big fan of arsenal football club to a top of would give me of the league. would you give me a opportunity to remind a second opportunity to remind people and we'll go on to win that league? no problem. don't worry. broader worry. but i think the broader point lineker instead point about gary lineker instead of tweeting could of tweeting away, he could probably back into that probably get back into that chief car and go down chief driven car and go down dover and see what like for the communities and see what it's like the people that have made that crossing , that are held in that crossing, that are held in places which are places like manston, which are not good conditions at all. yeah, lightly. so yeah, i'm putting it lightly. so the idea of what the package with the government putting with the government was putting forward that forward is to make sure that people this people that come into this country, not allowed country, you're not allowed to stay, deported to

stay, you will be deported to rwanda. will be processed rwanda. you will be processed out there if you have a claim and we simply do not and because we simply do not have the capacity the have the capacity or the conditions to support people in this is playing this country is playing into the government's hands. they want people this policy people to talk about this policy because think popular. because they think it's popular. and think right. it's and i think they're right. it's popular. i think definitely. all right. popular, it's not right. that popular, it's not the number for people the number two issue for people who in the who voted conservative in the 2019 general section. it's the number four issue in wider. number four issue in the wider. so, you're so, yes, i think you're absolutely right that the public is probably government is probably on the government side so conversation side about this. so conversation is this actually a probably is like this actually a probably more helpful to the government ? more helpful to the government? yeah. yeah well, going to talk about harry and meghan . we shall about harry and meghan. we shall prince and princess their kids princess later thought it of course i mean she was princess the moment that the queen died . the moment that the queen died. but there was a question mark over whether over whether the duke and duchess of sussex . duke and duchess of sussex. that's that's right. yeah. they're still the duke. we're going to actually use the titles. yeah, we've got titles. but yeah, we've got a princess, lilibet, diana . mhm. princess, lilibet, diana. mhm. yeah. you think. come on,

yeah. what you think. come on, tell us what you think. well i think they're pair of stinking hypocrites and my, i mean i'd be more than happy to attend the coronation if they , if they're coronation if they, if they're a couple of seats going, if they don't invited on the back of don't get invited on the back of what they did. but again i it's a sort of it's a very, very a sort of look it's a very, very odd story. you know, harry and meghan have decided to effectively their effectively resign from their royal didn't want royal duties. they didn't want anything monarch , anything do with the monarch, and yet they still want to hold onto the titles and the privileges of very organisation of which they've detached themselves it themselves from. it is absolutely bonkers . and i think, absolutely bonkers. and i think, look , you know, i wish them look, you know, i wish them well. i wouldn't anybody ill, but think they're better off but i think they're better off doing community work, doing their community work, charity states charity in the united states where they've obviously set themselves up for and, you know, carry on doing that without making too much of someone else about them. i think they've made point didn't even have it's all about this and you know this first american princess now lilibet will be the first of anything in history is monetizable and no doubt that's

that's what they're thinking. i mean, where do they go next? how do they reinvent themselves next? charlie up, i don't know how because it's the old if you are all you want doing is making money, trading on your personal. you have to be extremely good at reinventing yourself all of the time. i know where time. and i don't know where they that. now i've got they with that. now i've got quite and you know they will have to have some of the things to do whether it's just to continue with their charity work. know up do work. you know build up do they'll continue to give more interviews and in order to keep that sustainability , you have to that sustainability, you have to come up new things to do as come up with new things to do as you rightly said. but that comes at pnce you rightly said. but that comes at price other people. so it at the price other people. so it will be more revelations, maybe about charles which will be more revelations, maybe atnot charles which will be more revelations, maybe atnot something charles which will be more revelations, maybe atnot something thatarles which will be more revelations, maybe atnot something thatarlythe'hich will be more revelations, maybe atnot something thatarlythe uk1 is not something that in the uk want be seen to have their want to be seen to have their laundry sort of dragged out into pubuc. laundry sort of dragged out into public . so i laundry sort of dragged out into public. so i think, you know, it's very, very tricky path it's a very, very tricky path for them. fact themselves for them. the fact themselves into and they've just i into a corner and they've just i think to take your face don't when you in a hole stop digging. yeah okay charlie in libya thank you for now more on duke and

duchess of sussex in just a moment . harry duchess of sussex in just a moment. harry is going to be at the of a planned high the centre of a planned high court trial against tabloid newspaper publisher over allegations of phone hacking. we'll you all of that in we'll bring you all of that in just a minutes

welcome on tuesday, the government unveiled its illegal immigration bill to tackle tens of thousands of small boats crossing, the channel unlawfully, each year. the uk is suffering a labour with over a million vacancies outstanding as employers struggle to find staff in sectors including construction and social care. there are now signs businesses considering extending an existing visa scheme to allow entry to broader range of workers? that's according to the front page from natural times. well here in the studio with us is our economics and business editor halligan with the editor liam halligan with on the money money sam. hi, beth pinder . tell us about these job vacancies , 1.2 . tell us about these job vacancies ,1.2 million. . tell us about these job vacancies , 1.2 million. well, vacancies, 1.2 million. well, this is the kind of flipside to what the government was doing

earlier this week. it unveiled this failed , fair to say, very, this failed, fair to say, very, very controversial illegal immigration bill to tackle the tens of thousands of small boats crossing the channel unlawfully, each. crossing the channel unlawfully, each . but on the other hand , as each. but on the other hand, as a lot of the same communities that are most by immigration, no , there is a labour shortage. whether it comes to hospitality, construction social care. i've put some numbers here for you to look at. we know that there are 1.2 million uk job vacancies . 1.2 million uk job vacancies. the uk workforce is about 30 million, so it's quite a lot . million, so it's quite a lot. anyone running a small business knows how good difficult it is to get even staff, let alone good staff these days. and as we can see, there's an existing scheme already that covers care workers vets, civil engineers, graphic designers and certain specialist occupiers . as long as specialist occupiers. as long as you bring them in and offer a wage at a certain level, it's about 25 grand. so you're not undercutting local workers who could see those . but now

could see those. but now ministers are proposing that they extend this kind of special visa list because the construction , the hospitality construction, the hospitality industry , even retailers are industry, even retailers are saying, we need more staff, we get the workers . now what the get the workers. now what the government said to me just in the last few minutes is that they accept that this proposal is on the table. but no has yet been made. there is still a discussion and is going on the topic of whether or not this visa scheme exists for care workers vet civil alongside the special one that seasonal agricultural workers which has been going for years and years. whether or not that is going to be. and this is the kind of nexus of this immigration debate , isn't it? isn't it? a lot people you know, gary lineker has got 8 million twitter followers, right . and yet polls followers, right. and yet polls show that over half of the uk's 55 million strong electoral actually want this issue sorted in a humane way. most of those

people on twitter but on the other hand people do know if they're looking for social care if they're looking for construction workers. it's really really tough. but there's still a large number of people unemployed and claiming benefits. how they're not doing these jobs because they're a kind of geographic occupational mismatch is that sort of economist speak but just just hear me out . there are lots and hear me out. there are lots and lots of jobs in the uk that are going those 1.2 million vacancies. but they're offering often in parts of the country where people who aren't working don't live frankly can't afford to live. andrew and also they that 1.2 million job vacancies, it includes highly skilled jobs where. there's just a skills shortage. so there's mismatch of skills, there's a mismatch of where people are who need work compared to where the work often is. and you know, if people have grown up in a certain part of the country, they just might not it in them to move to another

part of the country in order to get jobs. and that's where the mismatch come in. yeah, mismatch is. come in. and yeah, there a lot of there are quite a lot of unemployed people who are still on benefits, but unemployment a whole know, whole is, as you know, a historic it's three 4% you a ten 12% when we were kids and this is problem we have got skills shortage is we want a fair and immigration system and want to stop unlawful immigration . a stop unlawful immigration. a very difficult conundrum for ministers difficult balance to get right in the run up to an election . thanks, liam . okay. election. thanks, liam. okay. the duke of sussex will be at the centre of a planned high court trial against the tabloid newspaper publisher over allegations hacking. allegations of phone hacking. now, we're not sure yet now, it's not we're not sure yet whether duke, prince harry whether the duke, prince harry will evidence in person or will give evidence in person or submit a witness statement. the trial to on may the ninth trial is due to on may the ninth and for a 6 to 7 weeks. and last for a 6 to 7 weeks. we're going to get more this from the historian tessa dunlop. good morning, tessa. this is harry against the daily mirror. phone hacking . he's complained phone hacking. he's complained bitterly about the tabloids in his book spare . this is his his book spare. this is his chance to break, to settle the

scores , if you like . indeed this scores, if you like. indeed this is being contested. harry is not alone. there's a sort of tranche of celebrities, including george . george michael's estate, ricky tomlinson , ian wright, but tomlinson, ian wright, but particular in the case of prince harry, think the judge said this one needs settled. battersea rather than later and if he did give evidence would be historic to an extent . i mean, you have to an extent. i mean, you have to an extent. i mean, you have to go back almost hundred years to go back almost hundred years to find an equivalent case of a member of the royal family giving evidence. you can rely on the notary of then prince of wales, 30 later, edward the seventh, he gave evidence in a divorce case that gladstone victoria were desperate to keep him away from the witness stand for anywhere. and of course they self—build and totally he got away with well, not blumer because it was for murder. he was just giving evidence . was just giving evidence. basically a bit of a fiddle basically had a bit of a fiddle with this woman and the husband was trying to divorce. and then there he was there was another case he was involved do with gambling.

involved in to do with gambling. but like i say, that's going back a century princess back a century now. and princess anne, , she's anne, funnily enough, she's always considered sort of always considered the sort of good the royal family, good girl of the royal family, but up in front but twice she was up in front the court, magistrates court, fine talk as a bulldog bitter kitty when the great friends apart that was about 20 years ago and also speeding but harry really is going to be setting a precedent , really is going to be setting a precedent, you'll remember. of course. how can we forget that prince settled out of prince andrew settled out of court just last year , but he's court just last year, but he's bound to show up. tessa because it makes a great chapter for his next book. and potentially they get nothing more dramatic than a courtroom scene is there. this plays right into their hands. well fans are a little cynical . well fans are a little cynical. you i thought they were going to be looking back last and moving forward more. their next tranche of project. who am i to quibble of project. who am ito quibble with what the sussexes may may not say. i think we know that he's very much positioned as taking on the press that's his

that's become his sort of unique selling point if his mission, if you like, along with his evangelical embrace of therapy and the timing is wonderful, of course, because he'll be popping oven course, because he'll be popping over, will he not, for the coronation, staying in the late. i say the late, you could walk. he is still alive, of course. and he is still the duke of york, no longer. he have that suite of apartments in buckingham palace. i believe that of course, that harry could, of course, stay would that be very stay there. would that be very good security and very proximate, the proximate, of course, to the court it could save him on an court so it could save him on an asset? honest, could kill asset? to be honest, could kill two with one stone? yeah, two birds with one stone? yeah, i can't believe he won't turn up. i he i think he will. up. i he will. i think he will. he to you know, he wants to live his truth. he wants to sell it, tell his story sell. that was a freudian slip. wants freudian slip. he wants to have his heard any opportunity, his voice heard any opportunity, doesn't he ? and also was bearing doesn't he? and also was bearing in mind why bertie the late duke wales , didn't want to be giving wales, didn't want to be giving evidence, did everything he could not to have to. harry's bought this case. this very much

on his initiative . and by the on his initiative. and by the way, it's not the only one. so you're. right. in many ways, this is a chance for him to have his say . some this is a chance for him to have his say. some will face standing up . well, i heard your earlier up. well, i heard your earlier conversation, if i may, on the prince and princess case, the that was very predictable. we know from the abdicated king, the duke of windsor, one of the things that absolutely broke his heart was that wife was never an hrh wallis simpson. and that really left estranged relations until the end of his life and the prince of wales the prince of wales and i call him the king of wales and i call him the king of course want that he wants to build bridges with harry one of the easy ways of doing that is ensuring that his grandchildren, a prince, princess and i think is understand it. i know everyone says i serve the everyone says i soft serve the sussexes but further away sussexes but the further away you something, the more you are something, the more there feeling of wanting to there is a feeling of wanting to hold on to at least remnant of your heritage. i think predictable and understandable that they would want their children not just from a

commercial point of view, although that a part although granted that has a part to . i it's to play in it. i think it's understandable his children understandable that his children are prince and are christened prince and princess. okay. thank you so much, tessa tessa dunlop there . much, tessa tessa dunlop there. now, may miller has been confirmed as britain's eurovision entrant to try to take home the trophy, which is in liverpool. she's going to be looking to follow up the success of days contestants. some of last days contestants. some writer up with writer who came runners up with this space man. it's first this hit space man. it's first time it's been held in britain in years. and because, in 25 years. and that's because, of year. and of course won last year. and they hold it. so we're stepping in ticket sales already tickets selling out. that's right. so joining us now is early phillips early. i've never heard of this girl . who is she? she any good? girl. who is she? she any good? she is absolutely amazing. she's 25 year old pop star mama . she 25 year old pop star mama. she actually started writing music, her own songs when she was years old. she has graffiti to her old. so she has graffiti to her way through this. she also to hampstead fine arts college, which not heard of it. it's a £27,000 a year college which takes about 200 people every year alumni include. olivia

colman , orlando bloom. so you colman, orlando bloom. so you know, she had real good training to get to this point. she left college and then she went on to the real world. she worked in a p0p the real world. she worked in a pop so that she could write her own music and record, and she used to kind of bribe friends who good at production to who were good at production to produce two for every time like a wine. done a bottle of wine. so she's done it her own way. she's at it hard way. she's actually already released three ep's released an album, three ep's and couple of you might and had a couple of you might heard of she's probably heard of them. she's probably best came to best known. i just came to dance and better days and actually on friday she released a song called good sigala called feel so good with sigala stefflon don so her star is rising massively. she went on tour with little mix in 2019, so she has got this fan base. but i think it's great that giving it to her and that giving her the spotlight she deserves. we spotlight that she deserves. we can a light this real can shine a light on this real female talent, this strange thing do when you're is thing to do that when you're is rising do eurovision because rising to do eurovision because it well , does it doesn't always end well, does it? but then also you have think about the successes that we've had. last year he had. look some rida last year he was absolutely was great great. absolutely amazing . i think the good thing

amazing. i think the good thing now as attitude towards now is as attitude towards eurovision changed eurovision has changed previously we used to have this voting thing where we could choose would represent choose who would represent the uk. the likes katie uk. we have the likes of katie price going for it. and now last that was stopped and top music this work with bbc this companies work with the bbc to who obviously did to some rider who obviously did well and they me mola well and they selected me mola so i think the attitude towards it's change and it's like, no, we're going to a star and we're going to make a star and what platform is that for what bigger platform is that for someone like than someone like that than eurovision i eurovision might she win? i think got a really good chance. the song is so good. like it's so it's so fun . it's kind of so it's so fun. it's kind of p0p, so it's so fun. it's kind of pop, electro pop , sassy, it's pop, electro pop, sassy, it's sexy and fortunately, according to le brooks, when was announced, the odds of england of uk doing well went from to one to 20 to 1. so it has reduced a bit. but reaction on social media has actually been the complete opposite. everyone's like is a tune. everyone's like is a tune. everyone get involved in this. and said she's to and she said she's going to bnng and she said she's going to bring when. it comes to the bring it when. it comes to the performance and i can tell from the accent a good thing for liverpool it.

liverpool as well, isn't it. brilliant. i think she's obviously excited perform obviously so excited to perform there and just think having there and i just think having eurovision liverpool's going to be only than be phenomenal, not only than nine shows happening at the arena, there's also the eurovision she's to eurovision which she's going to happen, is going to be happen, which is going to be events running with events running alongside with commissions with , commissions taking place with, ukrainians performing and people from the country. i from across the country. and i think city is aware that think the city is aware that they hosting and the uk is they are hosting and the uk is hosting for ukraine and is at the forefront, but it's just going be such an incredible going to be such an incredible week . may going to be such an incredible week. may you're going to be such an incredible week . may you're to be week. may you're going to be there. am going there. the there. i am going to there. the whole whole i am such whole of the whole i am such a big eurovision fan and i just think this is having my mother there. and wrote a song just there. and i wrote a song i just think we're to do so well. think we're going to do so well. and going to be one big and she it's going to be one big disco. what's going on with the tickets happened tickets scandal? what's happened yeah, is a shame. and you yeah, this is a shame. and you know what? this happens all the time. government time. i think the government really in on this. really need to step in on this. so on sale tuesday, so tickets on sale last tuesday, they out within 90 minutes. they sold out within 90 minutes. that was the shows, 11,000 that was the nine shows, 11,000 tickets show and, tickets for each show and, unfortunately. so actually in a really way ticket have really good way ticket must have a way that you resell to fans

through them for price you through them for the price you paid it's really easy to do paid and it's really easy to do that ticket touts have that but ticket touts have gotten hands on and gotten their hands on some and they're them they're reselling them at a profit profit profit. and i think such a shame actually think it's such a shame actually the really want to be the people who really want to be there fans there are true fans of eurovision . the music and eurovision. the music and experience. going for experience. are they going for the market? the thousands the black market? the thousands actually for the live actually for the for the live final thousand. so one of final thousand. so it's one of those so it's best those events. so it's best watched the telly, isn't it, watched on the telly, isn't it, that we've to move on. but that we've got to move on. but time with the time is running away with the telly. to see now, telly. good to see you. now, still come morning, still to come this morning, a new weight loss drug plan to turn the tide on obesity and to get benefit claimants to get benefit claimants back to work. news with work. find out the news with rhiannon . beth. thank it's 1134, rhiannon. beth. thank it's1134, your top stories from the gb newsroom. the culture secretary has told the commons she welcomes the bbc to gary lineker about his behave on social media and at some portant. the broadcaster maintains impartiality. the match of the day presenter posted a tweet this week comparing the language

the government to set out asylum plans to that used by germany in the thirties. when asked the incident, mr. lineker he doesn't fear suspension by the bbc . you fear suspension by the bbc. you regret , do you fear getting regret, do you fear getting suspended or not? yes something about the tweet, gary , sending about the tweet, gary, sending the tweet still ? no. do you the tweet still? no. do you stand by what you said or do you stand by what you said or do you stand by what you said in your tweet ? of course , at least tweet? of course, at least people have been killed and power to europe's largest nuclear plant been lost after a wave of russian missiles were fired at ukraine morning. the zafira georgia plant been depending on backup generators after previous attacks caused . after previous attacks caused. severe damage. ukraine's military , russia fired 81 military, russia fired 81 missiles including six hypersonic missiles on. cities across the country targeting energy infrastructure . the energy infrastructure. the number of people in england waiting to start routine

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welcome joining us in the studio are broadcaster, journalist carole malone and political editor of the express. sam lester, to go through today's stories. lineker this story just will not go away . there was a will not go away. there was a tonne of press outside his house this morning. let's just have a little look at the clip to see how he reacted it to the paps . how he reacted it to the paps. you're right. do you fear getting suspended? not more. yes about the tweet, gary. so i decided to tweet to know , do you decided to tweet to know, do you stand by what you said? sorry do you stand by what you said in trade? coop . nice house. do you trade? coop. nice house. do you stand by what you said? he said,

caughtin stand by what you said? he said, caught in the back of his posh bbc car, which no doubt we're for. do you know what? he shouldn't have done that, actually. you could tell he was thinking about whether or he thinking about whether or not he should save plenty of should do it. save up. plenty of time about disaster. time to think about disaster. and did it. which shows how and he did it. which shows how arrogant he actually is. but i don't about guys. it don't know about you guys. it feels to me this time. feels different to me this time. this it feel this one. does it feel different. i don't know. and maybe in past 4 hours, maybe just in the past 4 hours, it's different. and it's it's got different. and it's because he brought not to because that he brought not to them and i will serve them into it. and i will serve him. right but you know all he's putting on show this putting on a show there this this deal than this is a bigger deal than anything said before. and anything ever said before. and i suspect. i hope the bbc acts on this. they've got impetus now they've the behind them. so they've got the behind them. so i mean, i hope they act on it. he get a job somewhere he will get a job somewhere else. but know, of else. but you know, and of course, sam, we heard the coaches fraser the coaches actually lucy fraser the comments she was primed comments today she was primed for a pretty pretty performance coach john tell coach sexy john would you tell asking a question and she answered and answered beautifully and eloquently in own eloquently bringing in her own jewish yeah, jewish heritage. yeah, absolutely you expect that absolutely. you will expect that there a briefing going there will be a briefing going on now with lobby journalists

and officials and will and number 10 officials and will expect them to be asking number 10, what the prime minister 10, what does the prime minister think about this? you know, this is an issue that going to is an issue that is not going to go and politics is being is sticking to it. here's thing sticking to it. here's the thing , think about it, if , sam, if you think about it, if they him . is this the they do sack him. is this the anti free speech government? well see, i think the bbc is a special because we pay for it whether we it or not, we have no choice. we can switch we can switch it on and off, but we can choose not to pay for it if we don't agree with it now. nobody nobody has to pay for news. nobody has to pay for. sky on, the other broadcasters. we have to for the bbc. and so to pay for the bbc. and so i think you sign to work for think if you sign to work for the you have to abide their the bbc, you have to abide their rules. their are we? rules. and their rules are we? we for everybody. and we are for everybody. and therefore don't therefore we don't express personal . yeah, guess personal opinions. yeah, i guess that's though it, that's the irony, though it, carol, for people like me, carol, that for people like me, i might not agree with the content of what he says. and i think the comparison and you never the never compare anything to the this ridiculous. but i would i would defend this right to tell us what you think when people

tell what they think you can tell you what they think you can work they are. you get work out who they are. you get to know who they are. they're honest with you. i don't a honest with you. i don't like a courtroom. people aren't allowed to think to say what they think know. i've i think what sam says is exactly i think if you exactly right. i think if you work for any broadcaster where the say someone like the rules say what someone like lineker employed by lineker he would be employed by an independent broadcaster because and so he's because of his views and so he's quite then to explain them but but i think in this situation where you how is the where you how much is the licence on a day when you're paying licence on a day when you're paying 156. i you know £9 and a lot of the people who will be the most offended i think older people and they're the people who can least afford the licence. so i you have to abide by not a hate his by rules. it's not a hate his tweet the other day when he said oh i see the free speech agents all at again today but it's not about free speech. it's about rules. impartiality rules. it's about impartiality rules. it's about impartiality rules . they the bbc have their rules. they the bbc have their licence and one of the conditions of that licence is that they are scrupulously impartial. and do you think that has to apply if you're not a

political presenter reporter? completely. i mean , got out of completely. i mean, got out of it in the past because his bosses have excused him by saying a and he saying that not a news. and he is staff but the fact of the matter is when you get paid £1.3 million, you are representative of that company and that organisation and he is . and if organisation and he is. and if the people who work for the bbc even the freelancers, if they have to back by those rules. gary should and there's rumblings that and i think it might be in your paper yesterday that that the stuff in the that that that the stuff in the bbc i get sick of it now they're saying if we have to stick by these rules why can't jonathan agnew who's cricket agnew who's a cricket commentator, cricket commentator, not my cricket or footballers, he footballers, you name it. but he said he'd said he'd have said if he'd said it he'd have been completely, a much been fired completely, a much smaller affectionately in the bbc. you look at a lot of bbc. and if you look at a lot of the that have been listed the tweets that have been listed in papers today that in all the papers today that were that commentators who were all that commentators who work have actually work for the beeb have actually said to him, pack it in. yeah, because you're making hard said to him, pack it in. yeah, becalle you're making hard said to him, pack it in. yeah, becall of'ou're making hard said to him, pack it in. yeah, becall of us. re making hard said to him, pack it in. yeah, becall of us. and aking hard said to him, pack it in. yeah, becall of us. and what hard said to him, pack it in. yeah, becall of us. and what i hard said to him, pack it in. yeah, becall of us. and what i thinkrd for all of us. and what i think was really interesting, there was really interesting, there was he got into was his face when he got into that car . he was his face when he got into that car. he is entirely what's

the word ? he's been arrogant the word? he's been arrogant about it. he's he's not contrite. he's not saying if i have upset people with quotes about the that , i'm sorry about about the that, i'm sorry about that. but my belief is that these laws are wrong. he could qualify. he thinks different rules apply to him completely. and he goes, piers , he's got and he goes, piers, he's got every right to think that because he away with it, not because he got away with it, not because he got away with it, not because with it. because he's got away with it. nine before all nine or ten times before and all a lot over the past two years, i think since 2020, 21 till now. and his bosses have let him say that he is totally invincible. so i think they have to show that he's not. and do you think the pm will get involved? so i think sources close . the prime think sources close. the prime minister we the minister that we read in the paper actually i think i think they will be certainly comments coming street coming from down the street because will be asked because they will be asked about this. i think next time this. and i think the next time you an eat out tomorrow in you see an eat out tomorrow in front but you could front of summit but you could imagine the pack game imagine that the press pack game with chuck a question with will just chuck a question in if it's still rumbling in about if it's still rumbling on tomorrow it is that sort of question once the prime minister's making these comments. know, bbc

comments. you know, the bbc bosses difficult bosses, they're in a difficult position know and the see the coaches would have cleared the box with not surely because it was a rehearsed answer . it was a rehearsed answer. it really you know , good really was, you know, good answer. no. but do you feel under lineker seems to be under gary lineker seems to be almost engaging? he's leaning into spotlight and you wonder if that's kind of keep himself that's too kind of keep himself relevant, himself in news. relevant, keep himself in news. he's always to be kind of he's he always to be kind of taking this on as a big way to kind of keep his public profile . don't think it's all . you don't think it's all reagan? some, though, do you not think he feels that he can't think he he feels that he can't back he has to be. he back down. no, he has to be. he has everyone, i will has said to everyone, i will continue talk to people continue to talk to the people who have no and it would make him look, don't know, his him look, i don't know, in his head. think going to head. i think that's going to make him look weak and, a bit silly bit non committed. silly and a bit non committed. well, sack him, he's well, if they sack him, he's then the victim. that is the victim. and then will victim. and then he will play that well. we live in that as well. yeah. we live in a country where you cannot anything against the government or you get from state or you get sacked from the state broadcaster. other or you get sacked from the state broaofaster. other or you get sacked from the state broa of play other or you get sacked from the state broa of play out. other or you get sacked from the state broaof play out. it other or you get sacked from the state broaof play out. it is other or you get sacked from the state broaof play out. it is because way of play out. it is because it is the state broadcaster, a conservative mp, andrew bridgen, who's whip removed from

who's had the whip removed from he longer stand a tory he can no longer stand as a tory mp at the next election mp at the next general election because something to because he compared something to the holocaust and it was described as deeply offensive. yes, this man is described as very government policy. very serious government policy. yes. argue yes. which i would argue the rest country agrees rest of the country agrees behind. the behind. i completely opposed the suggestion . he said it's suggestion. and he said it's like being in germany in the 19705 like being in germany in the 1970s jim, when hitler's 1970s when jim, when hitler's government deporting 1970s when jim, when hitler's govern people deporting 1970s when jim, when hitler's govern people and deporting 1970s when jim, when hitler's govern people and wasporting 1970s when jim, when hitler's govern people and was preparing jewish people and was preparing the final solution , 6 million the final solution, 6 million jews were killed. and you know what done? if he understood politics properly, never mind the holocaust, the history, the holocaust, if you understood politics properly , he would understand that this is a good policy he lives in an echo chamber where the celebrity liberal elitist echo chamber where everyone like him and that's how ordinary people that's how ordinary people that's not how people and the in this country and we've had films on here on gb news this week of going into small community where 250 300 young men are dumped on these communities and people are anxious and they have every reason be anxious. they're not

racist. they don't hate immigrants. they're just and they have every right to be. and their are being taken away by. the likes of gary lineker, there's a great piece in my paper say stephen pollard, richard's chronicle speaking for the jewish community, saying he's offended. yeah. he's outraged offended. yeah. and goes sometimes my family and he goes sometimes my family were killed in the concentration . yeah. and it is they . yeah. and that's it is they are they are deeply offensive comments. i agree with bev comments. i do agree with bev actually that you do have the right in this country say what you say and i do believe you want to say and i do believe in that. but actually you are speaking behalf of the bbc or speaking on behalf of the bbc or you are a representative of the bbc, then you know, you have to expect some backlash for that. yeah, you have a to say yeah, you have a right to say because right to lose your because the right to lose your job it depends what job and say cut it depends what your contract says as well. if he's contracts is that he's to free he wants, he's free what he wants, then he's free what he wants, then he's free to what he wants. he free to say what he wants. he needs to abide his contract. needs to abide by his contract. bbc have got enough taxpayers money, of to money money, billions of our to money say country about and say to that country about and firing. think you said firing. but i think if you said he's to his contract to he's sticking to his contract to the the public, they'd say, the to the public, they'd say, we care. his contract,

we don't care. his contract, this is deeply offensive and this is deeply offensive. and this is deeply offensive. and this know, feels like this is you know, it feels like he's crossed a line this time. the rest of the times we knew nothing to happen. now, nothing was to happen. now, i'm nothing was to happen. now, i'm not that this feels not so sure that this feels different, i also wonder different, but i also wonder why know if been actually being know if he'd been actually being supportive policy? have supportive of this policy? have you you're going out to you been you're not going out to bat civil war, government bat for civil war, government saying great policy. saying this is a great policy. would bbc bosses be would the bbc bosses be defending him or would you be good? yeah, yeah, right. and i suspect you've been out. yeah. if he'd backed it. yeah. because people while queuing with amnesty have said it shows the country its worst and the like. united nations has criticised it. yeah. usual suspects . my it. yeah. usual suspects. my view? he might well have view? yes. he might well have lost. yeah. if it i think , you lost. yeah. if it i think, you know i think there is an element of it they've put up with him speaking out for so long because it's he's speaking on it's almost he's speaking on behalf of actually all the members of staff or many members of the organisation who of staff in the organisation who do a more liberal bent, do have a more liberal bent, according to mosley, one according to roger mosley, one of former bosses. yes the of their former bosses. yes the airwaves this morning say that actually who work in actually many people who work in the have a of

the organisation have a kind of more liberal bent and obviously his reflect that . and his views reflect that. and so i think perhaps if gone the other way and was actually really cheering for this cheering the rafters for this policy, might been a but policy, he might been a bit but it's not that's the that's the very reason isn't it. why the bbc have to remain impartial, you being a part of their you know being a part of their their a matter what their conduct is a matter what their conduct is a matter what their their politics are. their what their politics are. they're not supposed to foist them on the bbc them on other people on the bbc has that you say you has fallen for that you say you know used to that now but know we're used to that now but this just feels different let's have chat this. so the have a chat about this. so the story guys drug week lv we go v waga v why don't pronounce waga v why don't you pronounce that? name on the that? it's a strange name on the nhs. idea it could trim nhs. the idea is it could trim the benefits bill. millions of people could be offered a new generation loss drugs and generation weight loss drugs and injection. it does have side effects course is. but is effects of course it is. but is this just an easy way sam. i mean it's not to easy control your weight is an easy thing. some people in a way i don't i don't mind if it's an easy if it solves the problem and the problem is at the moment we've got a huge number of vacancies

there's not enough people the workforce we've got a lot of people who haven't retained the workforce after the pandemic, who older , have ill health. who are older, have ill health. and so if they solve that problem , i have a problem with problem, i have a problem with that. it's i mean, obesity is the biggest drain on the nhs and smoking now is no much better than smoking . i mean because than smoking. i mean because because it contributes to other conditions like cancer and not just diabetes , lung disease, all just diabetes, lung disease, all sorts of chest infections, whatever it contributes to more . and i think this is a great this is very expensive. this is this is very expensive. this is this is very expensive. this is this is the drug that that is given to diabetics and we know now a lot of people are taking it in america. it's taken america by storm in this country. it's taken it's taken by storm. it's been bought by lots it works. lots of people. and it works. and if it's if it stops the problem, it's fellow you and i've known each other for two many decades. yes. you were a star of celebrity fit club. yeah, for a brief time. yeah stop about six. most of the celebrity fit club. but you lost a lot of weight. so why did you taking a drug like this? yes

yes. i want to talk about some taking a drug like this? yes ye the want to talk about some taking a drug like this? yes ye the things» talk about some taking a drug like this? yes ye the things don't about some taking a drug like this? yes ye the things don't like it some taking a drug like this? yes ye the things don't like the me of the things don't like the idea because hardcore idea because it's a hardcore drug. it's not like it's not like it's not like taking it like it it's not like taking it in aspirin . like it it's not like taking it in aspirin. it's a like it it's not like taking it in aspirin . it's a hardcore in an aspirin. it's a hardcore drug. but, you know , sam and i drug. but, you know, sam and i were talking about this earlier that, you know, the older i get get joint pain because i'm carrying much weight on my carrying so much weight on my body. so i want to get rid of that. and been told, you that. and i've been told, you know, i go to to know, when i go to talk to people about this, they say if you you know, 20% of your you go, you know, 20% of your weight you wouldn't feel weight off, you wouldn't feel the this would the pain. so for me, this would be win i don't like the idea. be a win i don't like the idea. theidea be a win i don't like the idea. the idea injecting myself you spend much it. spend it. how much is it. i think it's about if you're doing it private, it's about 120 a week. but you know, if it works and keeps you healthy, i and if keeps you healthy, i mean, is be a big drain mean, this is to be a big drain on the nhs as well, but it has to be cheaper than the conditions by obesity and conditions caused by obesity and what costing the nhs. so. what not is costing the nhs. so. so i think could be a game changer. there's the problem of course minute that course at the minute that there's shortage of it for there's a shortage of it for diabetics, a great diabetics, which is not a great thing . so they need to be making thing. so they need to be making more of it, whoever they are.

yeah, going be expensive yeah, it's going to be expensive though. will be. and it though. so it will be. and it just hasn't got much money as i already under pressure. but it's one those that if you one of those things that if you invest. yes. you in the invest. yes. you save in the long obviously because of long and obviously because of obesity a drain on the obesity is such a drain on the nhs because of the nhs and also because of the amount money lose in the amount of money lose in the economy through people working. i actually even if is i think actually even if it is a kind of front big expense actually , the rewards are so actually, the rewards are so great. let's saracens isn't and i think there are side effects but i wouldn't think that they would be they wouldn't approve if there were a side effects the most serious because i did some reading this and the most serious one is pancreatic itis, which is not good, but you get the other thing is that you get all just a bit of pain, a bit of discomfort, a bit nausea . you discomfort, a bit nausea. you know, we get all of that. of course, you're you're course, you're that you're the controller weight because controller of my weight because when i see him and he and he looks at me he i give it that looks at me he i give it that look bum is four times what look your bum is four times what i do. so you do not need that chocolate. yes, but it's my

pleas fall on deaf ears and i say to you, you don't need that glass of wine, but you have it anyway. nobody to vote. yes you have got a very sweet tooth i have got a very sweet tooth i have got. yeah. and this drug you don't lose the sweet tooth but it actually just it changes what's happening in your body with sugar which is a bit like it isn't that bit like appetite gastric band. no, it's not no because it's for a diabetic drug. it deals with sugar in a way that all the things don't so i mean that that's very useful. it would very useful. i know it would be very useful. i know the story that apparently says broken as simon cowell is apparently defecting from to apparently defecting from itv to apparently defecting from itv to a station and major shake a rival station and major shake up headline grabbing stuff, some. well, i just, you know , some. well, i just, you know, there's a lot of reinvention of old format , so it would be good old format, so it would be good it were new things being invented, but actually , if invented, but actually, if people still want to watch it, i think channel five have made great strides in the last few years. they brought back all creatures great and small oh to abc. want it because they

abc. didn't want it because they thought kind of old thought it was too kind of old fashioned. actually fashioned. yeah, i'm actually it puts in think is puts me in i think is tremendously because people wanted to watch it so i just i'm very the view of give very much of the view of give people want i don't people what they want i don't think would work think this would work matt because were taught this because we were taught this science i think it's because it's because it's quite a bullying show now , i'm not sure bullying show now, i'm not sure it fits with the modern day of. i know, i know, i know. twist your face about. i know i know that but i think you can't a 16 year old and say you're absolutely trash and terrible andifs absolutely trash and terrible and it's great but it's good tv it's great tv but it doesn't you know i, just i don't think it would work now. i think kind would work now. so i think kind of isn't it. same of five isn't it. do the same sort of thing. but i'm a bit like you carol. i think the younger generation who watch like you carol. i think the youngshows,eration who watch like you carol. i think the youngshows, theyn who watch like you carol. i think the youngshows, they just 0 watch like you carol. i think the youngshows, they just wouldn't these shows, they just wouldn't be interested in it. yeah i don't watch linear tv anyway. stop. that's everything stop. yeah, that's everything on youtube they youtube and clips. yeah they haven't got the attention spans span 90 minute span for a whole 90 minute programme frankly and. also i think you wouldn't get any youngsters wanting to go on it and be the adult. don't know what they'll they'll

what they'll do. they'll themselves. they're just criticised to content . they'll criticised to content. they'll audition for themselves on the on the bus for those things as just said they can do don't take on tell me because it is not me at all like you had a saying there's a really good dance video here if you've ever had if you've unless it should pass on on the thing it's got 25 spelling mistakes you can't do it classes on what is tiptop folk anyway . exactly yeah. just folk anyway. exactly yeah. just shows how old are. well i like simon camp i think he's great and i think he did a of the x factor in britain's got to were great among the toys and he knows make great telly so knows how to make great telly so any programme any day he created programme which the generational which crossed the generational he yeah he's got the family he did yeah he's got the family sat around team together which is a really nice was is a really nice that was a great achievement. yeah sadly those and then i was in those days ago and then i was in the bedroom . yeah. well thanks . the bedroom. yeah. well thanks. simon yeah, well we've come to the end of the show for this week. thank you, sam lister. thank you. carole malone you all

of our guests coming up next, gb news live with mark longhurst. this the point with andrew this is to the point with andrew pierce have pierce and bev turner have a great weekend . heavy snow is great weekend. heavy snow is affecting key parts of . the uk affecting key parts of. the uk we have two met office amber weather warnings in place across wales and northern england . the wales and northern england. the heavy snow is likely to cause some significant disruption. this area of low pressure is responsible , bringing in the responsible, bringing in the moisture from the atlantic warm front, bringing milder air across the south. but as it's hitting the colder, it's in this zone over the midlands, wales and northern england. we've already some snow. we already seen some heavy snow. we have warning place have an amber warning place across from midday from across wales from midday from 3:00 this afternoon across northern england the snow, really building up in these areas and lasting through the night in these amber warning areas could see 10 to 15 centimetres of snow, maybe 40 centimetres of snow, maybe 40 centimetres in some on the high ground, likely to cause some significant disruption . so significant disruption. so atrocious driving conditions. there are other yellow metal warnings in place covering northern england into southern

scotland and northern ireland as the snow will push in here dunng the snow will push in here during the afternoon and evening . further south, it has turned milder , but the spells of rain milder, but the spells of rain are likely to come in here. but the snow continues through the night, the gusty exacerbating the snow blizzards for some. and then it all starts to sink further again. so we'll still have some around on friday morning . could be very frosty morning. could be very frosty again . well below freezing again. well below freezing across scotland where ever we've seen any snow. all right. potentially things turning icy through the night. and for friday morning, a through the night. and for friday morning , a treacherous friday morning, a treacherous start again for parts of wales northern england and the midlands. further snow here, we could more east could see some more across east anglia, south—east for anglia, the south—east for a time on friday morning. it is clearing away during tomorrow. so places turning sunny so many places turning sunny dunng so many places turning sunny during friday. but it will also be cold still and turning cold out once more across the south with temperatures mostly in single figures. cold on friday evening as well, with clear skies, there will be a hot frost and potentially things being very once . more. there are a very icy once. more. there are a number of met office weather

warnings place. please view warnings in place. please view them for yourself on the met website by phone . there's help for households. are you over state pension age? if your weekly income is below £182.60, or £278.70 if you live with a partner, you could be eligible for pension credit, even if you own your home or have savings. it's worth, on average, £3,500 a year and you could get help with heating bills and more, plus up to £900 in cost of living payments.

as 12 noon. a very good afternoon to you with gb news live. i'm mark longhurst and coming up for you this thursday, gary defends his line and says he stands by his criticism of government immigration policy. but the culture secretary lucy fraser , whose grandmother fraser, whose grandmother escaped in the thirties, says his comments inappropriate and disappointing . the calls growing disappointing. the calls growing for him to be from the bbc. but where does that leave free speech? the blizzard warning extreme weather about to dump a foot and a half of snow in many parts of the uk. it follows the coldest march temperature in more than a decade and