hello and welcome. this is calvin's comments , hence crusade calvin's comments, hence crusade with me, the reverend calvin robinson on your tv online and on your wireless. we've an action packed show for you this afternoon in his first ever tv interview on this , dr. aaron interview on this, dr. aaron edwards, a theology lecturer who sacked last week after tweeting that homosexuality is invading the church will be joining me . the church will be joining me. home secretary suella braverman is reportedly planning to start deportation flights to rwanda. for those illegally crossed the

channel by this summer are home and security editor mark white with her in rwanda and we'll be heanng with her in rwanda and we'll be hearing from him. we'll also debate whether the scheme which is ethical and whether it will be effective and what is going on with us president donald trump who recently that he expects to be arrested on tuesday . we'll find out all of tuesday. we'll find out all of this and much more for first the news with our donald trump . good news with our donald trump. good afternoon to you. it's a minute past three. i'm karen armstrong in the gb newsroom as you've just been hearing, the home secretary says rwanda is ready to receive migrants and she hopes to start deportation by the summer. speaking in kigali. suella braverman says timing depends on pending legal and has indicated the uk could move away from the european convention of human rights if it hinders the plan. the agreement with rwanda has been expanded to include all illegal migrants, not just

asylum seekers is being made rapidly and i'm really confident on the back of the progress that i've seen here, kigali, that we will be able operationalise this world leading agreement very, very soon. the big point here is that will be a package of quality humanitarian support for people who will be relocated to rwanda. that with our robust new laws will be able will enable us to break the business model of the people , gangs. the deal to break the business model of the people , gangs . the deal with the people, gangs. the deal with rwanda's cost £140 million so far. shadow levelling up secretary says it could have been better spent. we think you should take money, put it into the national crime agency, create a cross border. so that disrupts the criminal gangs and send the clearest possible message to those criminal gangs that they behave. you won't be tolerated and that will bring them to account. should persist. instead, we've had more and more

of the tough talk from this government. and last year, the boat crossing has hit a record high of 45,000 is not working andifs high of 45,000 is not working and it's about time government recognised the and the leader of the lib dems. sir davey says the plan deport migrants to plan to deport migrants to rwanda isn't viable the suella braverman bill is a yet another expensive and worker bill solution to the problem which is doomed to failure . we've seen doomed to failure. we've seen a number of these from the conservatives before and they just don't do the thing. and in facti just don't do the thing. and in fact i think they're trashing traditional british former chancellor kwasi kwarteng accepted he and liz truss made mistakes with their mini last autumn, which triggered turmoil. in an exclusive with gb news, he says chancellor jeremy hunt done a good of stabilising the economy . i a good of stabilising the economy. i think a good of stabilising the economy . i think jeremy perhaps economy. i think jeremy perhaps has adopted cautious approach given what happened last winter . and he's also very much, i

think , looking at the markets, think, looking at the markets, looking at what treasury officials are doing and trying to do it in a methodical way. and that's where i think i and liz got it wrong . big week for liz got it wrong. big week for bofis liz got it wrong. big week for boris johnson to come. he will pubush boris johnson to come. he will publish evidence in his defence over allegations he misled parliament on the partygate scandal. he's expected to submit a 50 page dossier to the commons privileges committee tomorrow before , being questioned by meps before, being questioned by meps on wednesday . the investigation on wednesday. the investigation is being chaired by labour's harriet harman , but the panel harriet harman, but the panel has a conservative majority . has a conservative majority. cabinet minister oliver dowden believes former prime minister will provide evidence . having will provide evidence. having worked with boris for years in different capacities, i'm quite sure that he will put forward a very robust defence of his case when he appears before the committee on wednesday . committee on wednesday. ultimately, this is a procedure , the house of commons that it's always been the in these sort of things is up to members to make up their own mind. so first of all, it will be for the

committee to make a determination and if that necessitates it going to the floor house, would be floor of the house, it would be up to each individual mp to make up to each individual mp to make up their mind. up to each individual mp to make up their mind . vladimir putin's up their mind. vladimir putin's made surprise visit to the made a surprise visit to the ukrainian city of mariupol , ukrainian city of mariupol, according russian state according to russian state media. it's believed to be his visit to a newly occupied ukrainian territory since beginning of the war. now the port city in donetsk was largely destroyed in one of the most violent sieges of conflict. on saturday, the international criminal court issued arrest warrant for the russian president on charges of war crimes and emergency alert will be sent to mobile users across the uk next month to test a new pubuc the uk next month to test a new public warning system . well, public warning system. well, that's what you'll hear will happen the 23rd of april and you won't be able to use your phone until all you acknowledge the alert has been received. it's been designed to make people aware , potentially life aware, potentially life threatening situations , such as

threatening situations, such as floods and wildfires and. the kings paid tribute to the late queen, the first mother's day since her death last september . since her death last september. the royal family tweeted picture of charles as a baby standing on the queen's lap and a picture of the queen's lap and a picture of the queen's lap and a picture of the queen consort . her mother the queen consort. her mother was also posted at the prince and princess of wales have shared a picture of their children with with a message saying . happy mother's day from saying. happy mother's day from , our family to yours. saying. happy mother's day from , our family to yours . a happy , our family to yours. a happy day to all of you watching this is gb news. more as it happens . is gb news. more as it happens. but now it's over to calvin . but now it's over to calvin. and . since six months ago, we and. since six months ago, we officially launched common sense crusade, which aired on gb news every sunday since. you, the

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edwards , a christian theology edwards, a christian theology lecturer who was sacked last week after tweeting that homosexuality is invading the church. he'll be joining me . homosexuality is invading the church. he'll be joining me. is this a sign of intolerance towards views or is tweeting opinions like that simply unacceptable in a modern society? chancellor jeremy hunt announced in budget that free childcare will be paid by the government for working parents with children under five. is this a necessary progressive measure or one that will detrimentally undermine gender roles on the social conservatives , and that the conservatives, and that the tories should be upholding . tories should be upholding. we'll debate that with journalist and author ella whelan and catholic priest and home secretary. suella braverman is reportedly planning start deportation flights to for those who illegally cross the channel by this summer. we'll debate whether this is a good policy with political commentator emma webb and former mp and minister for europe dennis macshane. and of course you can join in any of our discussions by emailing gb views at gbnews.uk or by

tweeting at gb news dashboard . tweeting at gb news dashboard. the home secretary's visit to rwanda continues today, and gb news is one of the media organisation is accompanying her. it's believed that suella braverman plans to start migrant migrant deportation flights to the african by the summer. our homeland security editor white has been following the home secretary on her trip and he sent us this from rwanda, from the capital of kigali, the home secretary's visit here is , not secretary's visit here is, not just about reaffirming the government's commitment to push ahead with the rwanda agreement. it is also an important an opportunity for suella braverman to see for herself the work being here to accommodate and the many thousands of asylum seekers who could eventually be sent to rwanda in. the hills above the capital. the home was shown around a new development

which will eventually house up to 15,000 people. some of them asylum seekers living alongside the local population , the the local population, the riverside estate is still a work in progress and we're told those asylum who first arrive will be housed hotel and hostel accommodation for 3 to 6 months until asylum claims are processed . if the rwandan processed. if the rwandan government meet that timescale for processing individuals, they'd be doing far better than they'd be doing far better than the uk, where stuck in the asylum system often wait a year or more for a decision. the home and her opposite number here signed an enhanced partner deal where all but a few of those arriving in the uk illegally will now be eligible to be sent to rwanda. challenges of so far that process from getting under way. but suella braverman told me she remains confident flights will soon take off bound for kigali . we had a win in the high

kigali. we had a win in the high court at the end of last year an emphatic judgement ruling that the partnership with rwanda is lawful that rwanda is a safe country , that the agreement country, that the agreement complies human rights laws with international obligations. complies human rights laws with international obligations . and international obligations. and that gives me a lot of confidence that we can progress positive fully to actually delivering what our deal makes clear. that is that , if you come clear. that is that, if you come to the uk illegally , you will be to the uk illegally, you will be detained and then swiftly to rwanda . the home secretary was rwanda. the home secretary was also shown a skills academy attending a graduation for local students. this training centre part , the riverside housing part, the riverside housing estate , will also be open asylum estate, will also be open asylum seekers. the government here says it is prepared to accept thousands of asylum seekers over the course of the partnership. a rwandan spokesman told me that africans should not have to make that long and perilous journey europe. but those fleeing

poverty and depression on, this continent should be able rely on their neighbouring countries to help them with refuge and opportunities. this with the uk they see helps them do just that . mark white for gb news with the home secretary in the rwandan capital. that was mark reporting on suella braverman trip , rwanda. but all the home trip, rwanda. but all the home secretary's plans ethical and will they work to tackle illegal channel crossings ? joining me channel crossings? joining me now is political commentator webb and former labour mp and minister europe dennis macshane. dennis, what do you think of the plan? well i don't know if you can see this, but here's a little picture of we all saw. yes you celebrate. we're laughing our self. six smirking and about the page. you're in fact normal africans because their owners are used to this coming in and sort of taking advantage of them. the people have fled from our wars in iraq,

afghanistan mali, women go all arriving here and if she gets through legally, that's not. i was a uk delegate , the council was a uk delegate, the council of europe. they don't take these things lightly. we'll see. i expect maybe this year calvin and we'll see more journalists go with probably to taylor the we'll see asylum . well i do have we'll see asylum. well i do have to make some corrections there, dennis, you a dennis, because you showed a cropped is quite cropped photograph that is quite disingenuous because full photograph a couple photograph actually has a couple people. that's while i was joking around with and having a conversation with and some dishonest wing reporters dishonest left wing reporters have the of soil have just clipped the of soil there to make it look like she's having a chuckle. well i'll just i'll just reduce there. calvin, come emma, what do you think come on. emma, what do you think aboutisit come on. emma, what do you think about is it cost effective this policy work. i mean, policy and will it work. i mean, will does any government ever do that's cost effective ? i don't that's cost effective? i don't necessarily think it's an ideal solution, but it is a solution. and i think that suella braverman, as well as , the braverman, as well as, the government, i think they are very about trying to tackle this issue . they obviously haven't

issue. they obviously haven't been successful so far . and the been successful so far. and the government, the people of country need to see results rather than just talk. i think the proof of the pudding is always in the eating that respect. obviously respect. but suella obviously taking this very seriously. the fact that willing to fact that she is willing to consider potentially pulling out of the european convention on human rights if they continue try and thwart our efforts to secure borders. i think that shows how serious she is about things. and when you about the ethical consider generations you also have to consider your the ethical duty of the government towards , the people of this towards, the people of this country, the people who are living here time and time again . the british people have shown at the polls and in opinion that they want this dealt with this is a matter of security . and no, is a matter of security. and no, i'm sorry. this is not just people fleeing afghanistan. these are albanians, these are vietnamese . they are people vietnamese. they are people coming from a multitude of countries and a safe country ultimately from france . so ultimately from france. so i think that their absolutely right to be considering and

whether rwanda would work. i don't certainly not an ideal solution but it looks increasingly i think i'm that this looks as if it is a reasonably decent solution and i think that it's wrong to try and talk to other big some kind of pubuc talk to other big some kind of public figure who is addressing in the face those in need. i think she's really trying to this situation as humanely as possible. and i think that's what the rwanda plan does. that sounds fair. that is, is there any chance of this working? so we know that the court of appeal is hearing this next week. could the immigration bill the illegal immigration bill even genuinely even function? i'm genuinely don't know i do know from my spirits as a council of europe delegate that overseas or europe convention on human rights the only country that's pulled out of the european convention on human rights recently , russia. human rights recently, russia. and the idea that britain line up with putin outside side what to do with 46 different european countries set up by winston

churchill . yup, it's hard every churchill. yup, it's hard every . country in europe is facing much greater immigration and challenges than we are and i don't think that's understood . don't think that's understood. we think we're the only country in the where refugees all, economic migrants. i fully accept point come far more france many many more in germany spain in italy . now we have to spain in italy. now we have to solve this all together if it works. the israelis have tried it. once they shipped out a lot of african refugees from israel to rwanda they don't put in prisons , they just went back prisons, they just went back again and recruit across the borders into israel. so tried the danes have tried it at some stage in britain have to learn from experience it is quite right government doesn't work very well . that is because it very well. that is because it won't learn from anywhere else. we have the most arrogant government in the world, not long left. i want to ask about a quick question because the guardian have been complaining today they and the today that they and the bbc weren't invited trip and in weren't invited this trip and in the guardian where they complained of typos complained it was full of typos

, see why , i can probably see why journalistic integrity. but is this issue with free speech this an issue with free speech or is the trump approach to disregarding the journalists that hostile not challenging that hostile and not challenging that hostile and not challenging that an approach you take? what do think? well, i think the do you think? well, i think the journalistic quality of the guardian is always in question . guardian is always in question. i do think the government should take a long critics for the right. i think any journalist, whether independent or an agency, to go out report on this should be allowed to do so. so i don't really understand their reasoning as to why they wouldn't allow them to come along that . the guardian are along on that. the guardian are not exactly most reliable source of information on this. they clearly have a very agenda. but that said , you know, many that said, you know, many journalistic outlets have the slant and nothing wrong with that. i think they should be put along for the ride all. right. thank you very much. that was dennis macshane, former labour mp and minister for europe and. emma political emma webb, political commentator. now eight members of have written of the us congress have written to american ambassador to the american ambassador at

large international large for international religious warning about religious freedom warning about state sanctioned and harassment of christians in the uk. it cited public spaces, protection orders or passports that are in place around several abortion facilities that prevent people from pro—life beliefs and even from pro—life beliefs and even from praying and also the public order bill would put buffer zones in place . all abortion zones in place. all abortion centres in england . wales. an centres in england. wales. an example was a woman who was recently for silently praying outside an abortion facility where a pspo was in place. so all the congress members write to warn about this? or are they wrong to call it? harassment. still with me is political commentator and the weapon and former labour mp and minister former labour mp and minister for gareth machine . for europe gareth machine. dennis, with you . dennis, i'll start with you. does this sound like is becoming persecution of christians at home? should the us be concerned about. home? should the us be concerned about . well i tend to address about. well i tend to address this to eva first because this is most profound assault on women . you've got these women. you've got these frightened, nervous , uncertain

frightened, nervous, uncertain women, pregnant for whatever reason, looking for advice. this is not a conversation about abortion. this is outrageous. but is what the hard religious in america want to do, like muslim islamists , they're muslim islamists, they're denying women just the right to go and have some advice that comes this at great length with . many christian, many conservative. it wasn't particularly a labour idea at all. it's a government idea to say, okay , get on your knees and say, okay, get on your knees and pray for life, if that's what you want to do, fully accept that, but do maybe about 100 metres. you could just be and that's all just respect . we mean that's all just respect. we mean we, we're a country becoming so disrespectful of women now and frankly jeremy corbyn and his friends to write once a week and twice on sundays in the united states tell what to do with their domestic laws. my message to all these mini trumps in america butler go watch your fade into the sun and stop being trying to interfere british

political life. i would perhaps suggest that this about protecting women because is women versus women. it's not sitting here saying, oh, we have to protect women, women that are out there being arrested. woman who i just mentioned was indeed a was arrested for a woman that was arrested for silently praying her head because about . so it because she cares about. so it isn't a sexism , it is a isn't a sexism, it is a religious freedom issue. and think this country, if think if in this country, if we're to illegal to we're going to it's illegal to pray certain parts functions pray in certain parts functions that simply say the has that just simply say the has been passed laws , books all of been passed laws, books all of us can spend 24 hours straight, 65 days a year on your knees. would you all mind just keeping out of politeness , out of out of politeness, out of respect for women? 100. so that's one example. so sort of thing is one example. but you bnng thing is one example. but you bring it to. down abortion, it's not about that. it's about prayer. we also a teacher on later today who tweeted that homosexuality invading the church. been sacked from church. he has been sacked from his street his job. we've got street preachers been arrested preachers who have been arrested for people for for misgendering people for calling gentlemen, gentlemen instead they prefer instead of whatever they prefer to by. we've got children to go by. we've got children being out of school being kicked out of school and

caught transphobic caught homophobic or transphobic for genders for saying there are genders because they are christian and that's they believe. so that's what they believe. so it's is religious it's about is religious persecution the persecution increasing in the uk? about. uk? well what about. okay, i mean, fair points. uk? well what about. okay, i mean, fair points . but all the mean, fair points. but all the people hear on the two genders people i hear on the two genders tend to be very many. my very old are in feminist old very are in feminist friends, so i expect most of them atheists. this is a debate that's going on. it's a debate that's going on. it's a debate that's always gone on. we had judges when i was before you. a bull, perhaps, calvin said in 56 south men to prison in the last century because they were gay. and i just think we should just respect everybody the respect everybody with the man who has said to prisons were called martyrs by men. as a cloth like yourself, we should respect everyone, including christians is not all right. i'm a of we should and i think the we have a prevailing culture now that is just fundamentally anti—christian . all you have to anti—christian. all you have to do is look at the story that just keep coming out one after another. we've just seen this story of the this theologian

this lecturer who's being fired by the methodist church. i think actually not only the methodist church, but the church of england itself even has sort of anti—christian agenda. i mean, kelvin, you yourself have experienced this. any christians who are expressing what would be regarded as orthodox doctrinal beliefs find themselves in hot water pretty quickly . so i think water pretty quickly. so i think that actually the culture, the secular culture of the country is actually seeped into the church somewhat. and we see that the institute towards more conservative active christians. so you just have to look at the i've got a long list of scores of cases in front of me. people can go themselves to look at the christian legal centre or, adf or anything because all charities that work on the persecution of christians worldwide also here in the uk . worldwide also here in the uk. and i think that the fact that us congressmen and women would feel that they that , they need feel that they that, they need to raise this with the

ambassador just to raise this with the ambassadorjust goes to raise this with the ambassador just goes to to raise this with the ambassadorjust goes to show ambassador just goes to show that this is an issue is making us look bad internationally as well. i think the british government to start taking this very seriously, it's fundamentally unacceptable , not fundamentally unacceptable, not only because we're a country with a with a christian history , although we should still be a christian country, too. but thank you very much. that's dennis macshane, a former labour mp minister europe and. mp and minister for europe and. emma political commentator emma webb, political commentator . plenty come this . plenty more to come this afternoon on common sense crusade. next german bishops who backs blessings for same sex marriage rebuked by high marriage are rebuked by high ranking catholic clerics . ranking roman catholic clerics. we'll be discussing the controversy. let's take a controversy. but let's take a look whether bobby . look at whether else bobby. hello there. i'm greg ju hurst and welcome to our latest broadcast office. broadcast from the met office. we rain or showers the we will see rain or showers the next few days. increasing winds , west. , particularly in the west. temperatures around average for the year. looking the the time of year. looking the bigger sunday's high bigger picture. sunday's high pressure system moves out of the way only to be replaced by low pressure systems, which means outbreaks stronger outbreaks of rain and stronger winds. winds really up winds. the winds really up by the of week. large the middle of the week. large waves coast and waves around western coast and

totals building to this evening. we've already got outbreaks of rain moving eastwards across northern ireland of scotland, northern england which could be heavy at times, particularly of the some localised the higher. some localised flooding cloud increasing flooding is cloud increasing across the rest of england and wales. some weather here too under any clear skies across the far north scotland . perhaps far north of scotland. perhaps a touch of frost for one or two to begin monday morning, but for most, damp start the most, a cloudy, damp start the day this band of rain day again. this band of rain giving some heavier spells over the as slowly the higher ground as slowly pushes north and eastwards. further rain also in across southern parts of england , wales southern parts of england, wales through the day, which could be heavy these heavy times in between these weather systems, we could get a few glimmers of sunshine across central and here, central areas and here, temperatures reaching 14 or 15 degrees, just a little bit cooler across the far north of scotland. but some sunny spells here into the evening time on monday. further bands rain pushing north and eastwards, which could heavy at times. the winds across winds start to pick up across southwestern areas . the coast, southwestern areas. the coast, the could heavy at times the rain could be heavy at times as move into the early hours,

as we move into the early hours, too. the higher too. again over the higher ground northern england could ground of northern england could lead to some localised flooding. southern scotland, southern parts of scotland, perhaps the end of perhaps drier towards the end of monday night into tuesday . perhaps drier towards the end of monday night into tuesday. but very mild temperatures nine or ten celsius to start tuesday . a ten celsius to start tuesday. a cloudy start for many, however , cloudy start for many, however, we will start to see some bright spells into parts of northern ireland, parts of england and wales as we go through the day, as this showery rain slowly pushes north eastwards, the rain holding on across north—east scotland and temperatures generally again around average for time year. but further for the time year. but further wet windy weather to come wet and windy weather to come towards .

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to high ranking roman catholic clerics have rebuked german bishops who voted in of blessings for same sex on friday in the vote, 38 german catholic bishops voted in favour of the blessings while . only nine blessings while. only nine opposed and 11 abstained. the german cardinal gerhart muller and american cardinal raymond burke issued . the rebukes and burke issued. the rebukes and call for disciplinary action to be taken against the german bishops . now be taken against the german bishops. now joining me former chaplain to queen elizabeth ii and roman catholic convert , dr. and roman catholic convert, dr. gavin ashenden. dr. gavin, could you please start by outlining what happened on friday with the german heretics. did they vote this way? and why is it significant? well some time now the germans have trying to reinterpret christianity according to what we might call contemporary religion and the contemporary religion and the contemporary really is it's about therapy . we've become about therapy. we've become a therapeutic culture where we've been concerned about making that

people feel welcome and safe . people feel welcome and safe. but this idea being welcome and safe is a bit artificial , safe is a bit artificial, unrealistic, and it derives therapeutic culture. but it's got nothing to do with christianity. christians who profound in that. it's one of the ways in which we help distinguish between good and evil. and that's terribly important. if you can't distinguish between good evil, then no nothing. no way then you have no nothing. no way . standing up against corruption or deception. and is not the first time that christians has gone off the rails. i was thinking of another example. i was thinking, for example, of the way in which clergy blessed canons during the first world war kill the other christians war to kill the other christians and cousins . war to kill the other christians and cousins. from time to time, people carried away by ideas that accepting modern society. but it was nothing to do with christianity. and so this is one of those occasions where the idea of inclusion being nice to everyone and above all, sanctifying sexual romanticism has taken precedent over

christian, over christianity . christian, over christianity. but some would argue that the german bishops, what they want is necessity for progress going forwards. how do you respond to that ? well, of course , knows that? well, of course, knows what progress is. i mean mean i mean, it would be very interesting for the people who want progress to tell us where they think that we're going. the fact is, where we've gone the last 30 years is called progress . actually, the consequences are really terrible. the internet is very is a wonderful thing. i get access to wikipedia immediately , but since 80% of it is driven by, that's not very good. the fact that we found ourselves overwhelmed by a sexual addiction and the mental health of our children is breaking down the fact there's no social. if you look the history the last 30 years, i would call it dystopia not progressive. and so that's again , if we're faced with again, if we're faced with choosing between dystopia . and

choosing between dystopia. and a healthy society , we need a very healthy society, we need a very finely tuned system for doing it. christiane very good at that. but but boundary free therapy is very bad at it. right but the problem here is that people , see any kind of people, see any kind of disagreement as hate. right. so like to get a message from you on love, why shouldn't marriage be between men or two women? why does marriage have to be between one man and one woman? and is that not a hateful idea? we've only got one minute, but if you can. okay. well, i think probably want to go straight back to family life and that the children who indulged children who are indulged without but without any discipline but become terrorists. of become terrorists. and one of the things every parent knows is that both soft that love has to be both soft and tough at the same time. and so the disparate so what are the disparate movement? can't distinguish between tough love and soft love. tough love is managing your sexuality , beginning to your sexuality, beginning to discipline instincts and whereby attuned to do that between men and women . the moment you get and women. the moment you get rid of the men, the man and woman axis, then you begin to

open the door to everything . we open the door to everything. we will soon be having threesomes and polyamory polygamy . this and polyamory and polygamy. this is a very unstable way. managing human relationships. the way that christianity invites us to love one another in marriage is stabler holier. love one another in marriage is stabler holier . and it's much to stabler holier. and it's much to be advocated. thank you very much. that's dr. gavin ashenden . check out his youtube channel. he's got some good videos up there right now. former shopping , ii and , the queen elizabeth ii and roman convert you are roman catholic convert you are with gb news tv, radio and onune with gb news tv, radio and online and next we'll be discussing the role of a christian lecturer who has been sacked . his views on sacked. his views on homosexuality and church . homosexuality and the church. now it's time to check those news headlines with our own armstrong . and it's almost 25 to armstrong. and it's almost 25 to 4. marion armstrong , the gb 4. marion armstrong, the gb newsroom, the home secretary is planning to deport the first migrants to rwanda by the summer, saying the country's clearly ready to start receiving them . speaking in kigali, she them. speaking in kigali, she says the timing depends on

pending legal battles. and as indicated the uk could move away from the european convention of human rights if it hinders the plan. agreement with rwanda has been expanded to include all illegal migrants , not just illegal migrants, not just asylum seekers . for chancellor asylum seekers. for chancellor kwasi kwarteng has accepted . he kwasi kwarteng has accepted. he and liz truss got their mini—budget wrong. his announcement . £45 billion in announcement. £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts to stimulate instead triggered market turmoil and damaged the economy . in an and damaged the economy. in an exclusive interview with gb news, he says the chancellor jeremy hunt has delivered a good budget, although he's called for faster tax cuts and has criticised the hike in corporation . boris johnson will corporation. boris johnson will pubush corporation. boris johnson will publish evidence in his defence over allegations misled parliament over partygate. he's expected to submit a dossier to the commons privileges committee tomorrow before being questioned by mps on wednesday . vladimir by mps on wednesday. vladimir putin has made a surprise visit to the ukrainian city of

mariupol according to russian state media. if confirmed, it would be his first visit to territory annexed from ukraine since the beginning . the war. since the beginning. the war. the port city fell may after being devastated by russian forces in one of the longest battles of the conflict . and his battles of the conflict. and his visit comes a day after the international criminal court issued an arrest for the russian president . tv and dab radio this president. tv and dab radio this is gb news. now back to calvin . is gb news. now back to calvin. stay tuned. we'll be speaking to . the theologian sacked from his job as lecturer over his views on homosexuality and the church. time for a short break

break well, come back to the common sense with me. calvin robinson , sense with me. calvin robinson, your tv online and on your. sense with me. calvin robinson, your tv online and on your . a your tv online and on your. a christian theology lecturer has been sacked after he tweeted that homosexuality is invading the church. the full tweet said homosexuality is invading the. evangelicals. no see the severity of this because they are busy apologising for their apparently barbaric homophobia. whether or not, it's true. this is a issue. by the way , their is a issue. by the way, their sin is no longer a sin. we no longer need a saviour. dr. edwards, who is 37 years old and a former father five, was fired last week for misconduct by cliffe college methodist college in derbyshire. a disciplinary heanng in derbyshire. a disciplinary hearing is in the process of appealing the decision . joining appealing the decision. joining me now is dr. edwards himself, the christian lecturer in question and i've got a whole host of questions for you. but i've got to start with what is

in what is sin ? well, that's in what is sin? well, that's a very good question. and that many churches ought to do well to reflect on today . so sin is to reflect on today. so sin is what separates us from god. it's we have contravened god's god's standards of holiness that he sets out and us for our own benefit and then for our own goodness and. so when we contravene those , we are under contravene those, we are under god's judgement. but the wonderful thing about the gospel is that , you know, we have the is that, you know, we have the kind of possibility of repenting of that and receiving god's wonderful mercy and forgiveness , and where sin itself obviously is that which separates god and he doesn't tolerate sin, but he can forgive, sinned upon repentance . that's pretty good. repentance. that's pretty good. i think we'll come back to that. but because i want to ask you why you tweeted the tweet, because people will it was because some people will it was provocative. some people will say hateful. what's your say it's hateful. what's your reasoning? yeah, for me. it's it was an imperative for the time when as the church i think that we're seeing a growing lgb lgbt

agenda and i think it's one thing to see that happen out in the world beyond the church. but when it comes into the church, i think that's a time when those who want to stand upon the orthodoxy faith need to speak up and speak and not allow the toleration of sin because god doesn't tolerate sin. he can forgive sin, but he doesn't tolerate it. and so when the church , as it were, gives its church, as it were, gives its blessing to god, giving its blessing to god, giving its blessing for same sex relationships as the anglican church did recently , i find that church did recently, i find that particularly offensive as a christian, i think christians need to stand for the word of god at that time. so why i tweeted what? i tweeted , i don't tweeted what? i tweeted, i don't think i was trying to cause trouble purpose. but i of trouble on purpose. but i of course, knew that it might be course, i knew that it might be a difficult thing for some to heat a difficult thing for some to hear. but think it's something hear. but i think it's something that especially that evangelicals especially and really wants to stand upon really who wants to stand upon the god needs to be the word of god needs to be awake to at this time? well would say that the gospel is most scandalous story all most scandalous story of all time difficult to talk time and it's difficult to talk about the gospel and claim the truth without causing a bit of

offence controversy. mean, offence and controversy. i mean, could explain hatred and could you explain how hatred and christianity contradictory ? christianity are contradictory? a might not a lot of people might not necessarily the necessarily think. that is the case. yes. aren't contradictory why they all say ? because people why they all say? because people will say that abuse or hateful . will say that abuse or hateful. absolutely. of course . yes. absolutely. of course. yes. i think that people will basically see the conflict version of a particular sin that someone might take as that is their identity . and when you challenge identity. and when you challenge that sin and someone's already said, well, that's who i am it sounds like you're hating that person. and of course, christians have long separated, you know, the difference between hating sin and hating the sinner . it's a it's necessary hate sin. i mean, especially you want to honour god in this life. and i think god hates it's really important that we make clear anyone who's read the bible will say that god really hates sin, but he loves sinners , repent and but he loves sinners, repent and come to him and actually i have sinned and i repent that we all sin, we're all under god's judgement. but actually there's

a wonderful of christianity is called the good news because god has overcome that in the gospel as we will be learning about those of you who are going to get to church this easter and thatis get to church this easter and that is what the story of the cross and resurrection is all about. so it's not a message of hate. it's actually a message that's good you go to that's good you to go to actually overcome problem of sin which plagued humanity which has plagued humanity forever. think that's forever. and so i think that's a really thing to get really important thing to get clear. it's thing to hate clear. it's a good thing to hate sin. a bad but sin. it's not a bad thing. but you say it's the message of love and we have a generation of people who never heard people who have never heard the word. the word word. and when you hear the word no the first time, it seems no for the first time, it seems like hate. but we had talked gavin a moment ago, who was talking about this situation with bishops the with the german bishops in the roman church. roman catholic church. we've obviously issue in obviously got the same issue in the church, church obviously got the same issue in th

yeah, what i think it's yeah, i think what i think it's a that those things are not a it's that those things are not compact so can't just say compact. so you can't just say actually , i want to live my actually, i want to live my life. however i want and i also want a holy god to accept me and, therefore, a church which is an ambassador of that holy god in this world. but whatever the denomination it is, if you're standing up jesus christ in this world, if you're claiming to be a disciple of him, and especially if you're a leader, a shepherd of others who are following him in this world, you get to can you don't just get to can i affirm something that god doesn't ? you don't get the doesn't? you don't get the licence do that. none of us do. and i think the issue we have in our culture, as you people haven't learned how to hear. no, they haven't grown up knowing, actually, that that's that can be a positive thing, a good be a positive good thing, a good parental even. good parental thing even. it's good parenting. absolutely yeah. that's that's what. god, that's what that's what. god, the is all about. dr. the father is all about. dr. edwards, thank you so for edwards, thank you so much for this. keep the good this. keep fighting the good fight that is christian theology lecturer dr. arron edwards. a cliff college statement said, as internal employment processes

remain ongoing, we are unable to respond to specific issues at this time . and in a statement to this time. and in a statement to the telegraph, a cliff college spokesman as a methodist spokesman said, as a methodist institution, cliff college , institution, cliff college, committed to a safe and committed to being a safe and hospitable place where those with convictions are with differing convictions are welcomed encouraged to live welcomed and encouraged to live , learn together faithful , learn together as faithful disciples . christ. before we disciples. christ. before we move on to the next story, let's have a look at what you've to say today's topics on say about today's topics on rwanda migration scheme says bravo . the voters reward you if bravo. the voters reward you if you get the fights started . you get the fights started. sorry, the flight started. if the government is challenged in trying to deliver the will of the people, then it will be clear that the government is not to voters will then need to blame. voters will then need to blame. voters will then need to whether to support to decide whether to support tories delivering the tories in fully delivering the next session or next parliamentary session or allowing , my to allowing, in my opinion, to dismantle arrangement and increase immigration . you're increase immigration. you're onto something, david. but surely there's some point they have to implement this thing and, get it working, and not just to do it just say they're going to do it on same sex marriage. the german bishops same bishops voting to bless same unions. says purposes

unions. shame says the purposes of procreation. if of marriage is procreation. if there no intention of having there is no intention of having children, there is, no need to marry in the church. so since same unions procreate same sex unions cannot procreate , just , those individuals should just get at a town hall or get married at a town hall or something . the marriage ceremony something. the marriage ceremony is and a woman as is for a man and a woman as those are the two that can create life. i'm not even going to share my views on that because everyone should know what they they're not standard christian views that are being the for years on my the same for 2000 years on my show moving to prime time he show moving to prime time and he is are not all is my family are not all religious we love show religious but we love your show and all the content talk about i'm so pleased that you have your show we all your saturday night show we all be in carry on be tuning in to carry on supporting and gb news thank you so so much so much and thank you so much for everyone who just sent those views. we do appreciate it. now the us president donald the former us president donald trump social trump has claimed on his social media that he's media platform that he's expected be arrested on expected to be arrested on tuesday. he says arrest will be over an payment to a over an alleged payment to a former star and urged his former former star and urged his supporters to protest over the alleged rest if it's true and proceeded to a criminal case, it would be the first one ever

brought against a former us. the news has met with outrage by many republicans in the us, including vivek ramaswamy , who including vivek ramaswamy, who is running for president in 2024. now joining me is matthew schmitz, founder and editor of compact magazine. matthew you give us a brief overview of what's actually so far . what's actually so far. absolutely so as you know, trump has been the target of various legal investigations both before, during and after presidency. the manhattan d.a, this man, alvin bragg, is bringing this case. he's actually revising a legal case that was rejected by federal prosecutor reuters . this is prosecutor reuters. this is really a junk case. it's one of the weakest cases. trump but it's being brought back. we don't know that trump will be arrested week, but we can expect an indictment quite soon. i mean , this is on and on and on it seems like they're out to get from my perspective. do you think this will affect chances of re—election ? it's hard to say

of re—election? it's hard to say . i think that there's a great of exhaustion with trump's legal problems . of exhaustion with trump's legal problems. there'll of exhaustion with trump's legal problems . there'll also be problems. there'll also be a certain rallying to, i think . it certain rallying to, i think. it is a natural and spirited response to resent what we're seeing which is the politicisation of our legal system . you know, reverend system. you know, reverend robbins said, i live in manhattan, where alvin bragg is the district attorney , is an the district attorney, is an elected official. it's not a non—party, an official. he's a partisan official. when he elected, he announced a suite of progressive policies. he announced that he going to announced that he was going to downgrade armed robbery in certain cases, to a mere misdemeanour. he had walk that back at the same he announced that he was going to launch new initiatives , hate crimes , sex initiatives, hate crimes, sex crimes and guns. these are all things that have a valence in america's culture. so what saw was a move away from prosecuting things that are more classically understood as crime, things like , you know, are robbing a store with a revolver and a greater

focus on things that maybe typically been considered crimes like leaving skid marks , a like leaving skid marks, a street display , you know, where street display, you know, where someone has painted the street and, say, a rainbow colour, things like that, which are now can be considered a hate crime. so brack has broadly politicised , you know, our criminal justice system and that's in keeping with a much broader air phenomenon. we may need to stop talking about soft on crime. these soft crime prosecutors because that can give a false impression that they don't prosecute any crime at all. actually, there's a renewed interest in not prosecuting certain classic crimes while prosecuting very aggressively things that are much more minor crimes or weren't considered crimes or weren't considered crimes at all in the past. if you can keep this brief, because i want to ask you something else if trump has broken the law, he should be punished rights, but also trump right ? so also is this a trump right? so in this specific case, the argument is that trump illegitimately used

illegitimately used illegitimately reported this payout as a legal expense . in payout as a legal expense. in point of fact, the hillary clinton campaign did the same thing hillary clinton played for steele dossier, which was the bafis steele dossier, which was the basis russiagate. she denied that she paid for it but in fact as her campaign financial later showed she it as a legal expense. so it's very parallel case no one attempted to pursue hillary clinton legally and for the same reason trump should not be pursued . thank you. and just be pursued. thank you. and just to touch on the situation with the ukraine the pope has called for an orthodox monastery facing eviction in kyiv and the president zelenskyy says the move was necessary to strengthen our spiritual independence. can you explain what's going on? i absolutely. pope francis has , absolutely. pope francis has, unlike almost every other western , with the exception of western, with the exception of viktor orban , called for peace viktor orban, called for peace consistently in ukraine. part of his ecumenical vision it's part of his support for religious as we see in this case. and it's a

real challenge. we hear a lot the importance of religious liberty from certain people in the west, but there hasn't been much over the seeming violations of religious in ukraine. of religious liberty in ukraine. i think it shows limits of our commitment to religious , even commitment to religious, even among those claim to value it very highly . well, matthew very highly. well, matthew schmitz, i talk to you all day, but thank you so much for contributing to our sunday show thatis contributing to our sunday show that is founder editor of contacts magazine. according to this gb news people's this week's gb news people's poll, the public is in favour of the government reducing the cost of childcare. this comes after chancellor announced chancellor jeremy hunt announced that working parents england that working parents in england will given free for children will be given free for children under five by september 2025. but today i'm is the government's right to introduce this policy? is this a necessary progressive measure or one that will undermine social by encouraging mums to work rather than raise children ? now joining than raise children? now joining me is author and co—convenor of battle of ideas festival ella whelan and roman catholic father at tomlinson . i wish i had more

at tomlinson. i wish i had more time on this. i don't have a lot of time, so i'm going to come to you both briefly, if you could. i'll start with you, ella. is an anti natal policy? is this anti—family or is this good thing ? well it's not a good thing? well it's not a good thing? well it's not a good thing in terms of the government's announcements. don't nearly go far enough. but in abstract, it's having something like free state provided high childcare is a great idea because it does is it gives women the to be able to manage lives in a way that they see fit for lots of us at the moment. i've just had a baby. he's five months old and it's near impossible to go back to work . even part time . and you work. even part time. and you know, my job is in politics. i have a great interest in what i. i want to go and do it, but it's very difficult because of the price . but also, you know, price. but also, you know, childcare isn't just about i think people make the mistake of thinking childcare is just thinking that childcare is just about women into about getting women back into work and you know, it doesn't

really matter what motive jeremy hunt else it's about hunt or anyone else it's about what a woman decides to do. and indeed, i know of the mums that are in baby groups that i go to would a bit more to be able to go to aldi for an hour without having to wrestle, you know, toddlers into the trolley and drop mother of creche somewhere. that's of things we could do to make women's lives easier. all right. so father ed, i believe that you see this. i mean, it's not it's taxpayer not childcare, it's taxpayer funded but i believe funded childcare. but i believe you this as and anti you see this as anti and anti nativist. okay. explain why, please yes, of course. i personally that all too often society we come at every issue looking at the needs of adults and not the needs of the child itself. and there is a real danger that we're starting to become a country where we can take all of our children's and being raised by the state rather than in the home by their own loving parents. and we know that children always flourish best if they're raised by a mum and dad

at home. so for me, any policy that makes it harder for that to happenis that makes it harder for that to happen is a negative thing. and i think i'd want to go all the way back to say that. it was a really good thing when feminism fought the equality of women . fought the equality of women. the problem, i think, is that doneit the problem, i think, is that done it all the wrong way . i done it all the wrong way. i believe god made , man and woman believe god made, man and woman as to equal, perfect half of one intended whole. which is to say that our difference is also important and something that should be celebrated . and i should be celebrated. and i believe that we ought to have allowed women to have equality by actually making workplaces that suit them as mothers, as . that suit them as mothers, as. and all too often . instead, and all too often. instead, we've enabled them to fight for men's spaces as men. and we're ending up with a sort of terrible society in which sex and don't matter at all. we're becoming androgynous beings who just serfs in the workplace . just serfs in the workplace.

when really, i want the world where men and women can flourish equally, but not at the cost of children . well, that's all i've children. well, that's all i've got time for, unfortunately. but i could take that debate on much further. i'm just going to thank you both. both on co—convenor of battle of ideas festival, ella whelan and father at tomlinson, catholic priest. each week on the show to end with our the show we like to end with our closing prayer and here is context for the fourth sunday in england us pray , grant. we england. let us pray, grant. we beseech the almighty god that who, for our evil deeds, do worthily deserve to be punished by comfort . thy grace by the comfort. thy grace may mercifully relieved through mercifully be relieved through our lord and saviourjesus our lord and saviour jesus christ you have been christ. amen. you have been watching calvin's common sense crusade ? me the reverend calvin crusade? me the reverend calvin robinson. now i won't with robinson. now i won't be with you on next week on new you on sunday. next week on new timeslot saturday is at 7 timeslot is saturday is at 7 pm. up timeslot is saturday is at 7 pm. up next is not a year and p.m. up next is not a year and before that is the weather. but remember darren grimes is also coming back next week at 8 pm. so look out for that to the new five panel show. he's going to be fantastic. thank you for tuning in. thank for your

comments. thank you for your suggestions. for suggestions. and thank for beanng suggestions. and thank for bearing that is it. bearing with us. and that is it. god have a wonderful god bless you. have a wonderful mothering sunday asphalt. hello there. i'm greg hurst and welcome our broadcast welcome our latest broadcast from office . we will see from the met office. we will see rain or showers over the few days. increasing winds, particularly in the west. temperatures average for temperatures around average for the of year. looking at the the time of year. looking at the bigger sunday's high pressure system moves out of the way to be by a low pressure , be replaced by a low pressure, which means outbreaks of rain , which means outbreaks of rain, stronger winds. the winds really picking by middle of the picking up by the middle of the week. waves around coast week. large waves around coast and rainfall totals building to this . we've already got this evening. we've already got outbreaks of rain moving eastwards northern eastwards. northern ireland, parts scotland , england, parts of scotland, england, which be heavy at times which could be heavy at times over the ground, some over the higher ground, some localised is possible. cloud increasing the rest of england and wales . increasing the rest of england and wales. some damp weather here too. under clear skies across the far north of scotland , perhaps a touch of frost for one or two to begin monday morning , but for most, a cloudy, morning, but for most, a cloudy, damp start the day this damp start the day again. this band giving , damp start the day again. this band giving, some band of rain giving, some heavier the higher heavier spells over the higher ground slowly pushes north

ground as slowly pushes north and further rain also pushing in across southern parts of england and wales through the day, which could heavy in could be heavy at times in between these weather , we could between these weather, we could get glimmers sunshine , get a few glimmers of sunshine, particularly across central areas here. temperatures reaching 14 or 15 degrees, just a little bit cooler across the far north of scotland. but some sunny spells here into the evening time on monday. further bands of pushing north and bands of rain pushing north and eastwards, could at eastwards, which could heavy at times. start pick times. the winds start to pick up southwestern areas , up across southwestern areas, around the coast. the rain could be at times as we move be heavy at times as we move into early hours, too. again into the early hours, too. again over higher of over the higher ground of northern england could lead to some flooding. some localised flooding. southern scotland, southern parts of scotland, perhaps the of perhaps drier towards the of monday night into tuesday . perhaps drier towards the of monday night into tuesday. but very mild temperatures , nine or very mild temperatures, nine or ten celsius to start tuesday . a ten celsius to start tuesday. a cloudy start for many, however , cloudy start for many, however, we will start to see some bright spells pushing into parts of northern ireland, parts of england and wales as we go through the day, as this showery rain pushes north eastwards , the rain pushes north eastwards, the rain pushes north eastwards, the rain on across north rain holding on across north scotland and temperatures generally again around average

for the time year. but further wet windy weather to come wet and windy weather to come midweek.

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