became a london hotspur. he then became a london cabbie. joins cabbie. yes. micky has a joins on talking points. but before all of that, let's get more news with polly middlehurst . nigel, with polly middlehurst. nigel, thank you and good evening. the top story on gb news tonight. the immigration minister has announced plans to stop housing asylum seekers in hotels and instead place them in disused military bases, admitting that the use of hotels had harmed some towns. robert jenrick said migrants will now be placed at sites in essex. lincolnshire and east sussex. the accommodation will be guarded by 24 hour security and meet migrants. essential living . these hotels essential living. these hotels take valuable assets from communities and place pressures on local public services . on local public services. seaside towns have lost trade. weddings have been cancelled and local councils have had their resources is diverted to manage . and the hard working british

taxpayer has been left to foot the eye—watering . £23 billion a the eye—watering. £23 billion a yeah the eye—watering. £23 billion a year. bill madam deputy speaker , we must not elevate the well—being of illegal migrants above those of the british people . now, scotland's new people. now, scotland's new first minister had vows there could not be more unity in the snp as he unveiled his first cabinet today. humza yousaf says scotland's government should look like the people it represent and that he's proud . represent and that he's proud. have a record number of women agreeing to serve. the 37 year old says the appointments reflect his commitment to a radical and progressive agenda for the country . it's emerged for the country. it's emerged the prime minister's wife has links to a company that set to benefit from a new childcare care policy announced in the chancellor's budget. child minders will now be paid £600 to join the profession , but that join the profession, but that sum doubles if they sign up through an agency . as carter

through an agency. as carter murphy is a shareholder in one of six agencies listed on the government website , labour says government website, labour says rishi sunak must urgently set out what steps he took to avoid an actual or perceived conflict of interest . now an actual or perceived conflict of interest. now julian knight claims , he's the victim of claims, he's the victim of a witch hunt after the conservative party refused to reinstate the whip over further complaints made about him. earlier on, the mp for solihull demanded the whip be reinstated after he was cleared by police of a serious sex assault allegation. mr. knight, who was suspended from the party over the claim, had always denied the allegation , describing it as allegation, describing it as false and malicious . and the false and malicious. and the german president has hailed a new chapter in relations between his country and the uk. new chapter in relations between his country and the uk . as today his country and the uk. as today he welcomed king charles and the queen consort to a state banquet in berlin this evening. and as a warning that there are some flashing images coming up if you're watching on television . you're watching on television. the royal couple have been greeted on the red carpet

leading to the bells vue palace before the banquet. it's charles and camilla's first foreign visit as heads of the royal family. but the king's 29th trip to germany . you're up to date on to germany. you're up to date on tv online debate radio and on the tune in a happy with gb news the tune in a happy with gb news the people's channel where now it's the people's channel where now wsfime the people's channel where now it's time for thurrott . it's time for thurrott. in a moment, we will go to raaf scampton to be joined by our reporter, will hollis . we'll reporter, will hollis. we'll find out how the local community feels about the fact it's been announced that . that will be announced that. that will be a site housing 1500 young men crossing , the english channel. crossing, the english channel. we'll also go to catterick in nonh we'll also go to catterick in north yorkshire . really was the north yorkshire. really was the surprise card of the day. it's in the prime minister's constituency and so people are going to be sent there. we're

not quite sure yet who are. but at a rally our reporter will join us. we'll get some reaction from up there. but first, some of my thoughts on what's happened today. of my thoughts on what's happened today . this is happened today. this is a government that is all about spin. it is purely a pr machine. anger they must have been so pleased in downing street with themselves this morning as the sun runs. it's huge . front page sun runs. it's huge. front page picture of a ship 0 ship small boat arrivals to live on and to cut . the £3.5 billion hotel cut. the £3.5 billion hotel bill. there you are. hook, line and sinker . bill. there you are. hook, line and sinker. the tory press of swallowed the idea that something really big is going to happen. something really big is going to happen . well let's have a look happen. well let's have a look at a little clip of the immigration minister , robert immigration minister, robert jenrick in the house of commons just before 1:00 today. the government use military sites being disposed of. it essex and lincolnshire and a separate site

in east sussex. lincolnshire and a separate site in east sussex . these will be in east sussex. these will be scaled up over the coming months and will collectively provide accommodation to several thousand asylum seekers . the thousand asylum seekers. the repurposed, repurposed barratt blocks and portacabin ins are in addition. my righto my friend, the prime minister is showing leadership on this issue , leadership on this issue, bringing forward proposals to provide accommodation at catterick garrison barracks in his constituency . so there you his constituency. so there you are virtually no mention of ships or barges whatsoever , only ships or barges whatsoever, only that they are considering the idea. but that doesn't matter. they've got their front pages, that's all. it's really all about. and yes , raaf scampton about. and yes, raaf scampton where we broadcast live last week where many of you signed the petition at it all to say this simply must not happen now . raaf scampton home of 617 squadron and the home of the famous dambusters raid , a place famous dambusters raid, a place not just of huge british and

international historic importance, but somewhere that had a really viable business plan for the future . well, that plan for the future. well, that is going to be turned into a migrant centre along with a former raaf base essex, with another the training base down in east sussex near bexhill and catterick . the prime minister's catterick. the prime minister's constituency has been thrown into the equation , i think to into the equation, i think to say to other mps got nothing to moan about, although we don't yet know what catcher it will be used for. if indeed it ever is. is that perhaps just more spin? so will any of this work? well, let's a look at east sussex. that houses 1200 people on the 22nd of august last year, 1295 people crossed the english channel and were processed through dover. i suppose the good thing is they won't have to fight to travel, but that will deal with one day. if you up the three declared sites . well, the three declared sites. well, the last half of august last year, five and a half thousand people

came. that's even more than the sites announced today. not a single person will leave the over 450 hotels that housed in already. not a penny will come off the three and a half billion bill. and indeed, there was talk today in the commons about local authorities being even more money, though all these plans are for those they expect across the english over the course of the english over the course of the next week. nothing in this statement stops the boats. nothing in this statement reduces the bill. i believe the whole thing to be a complete and utter fraud. double what you think. farage gb news. .uk. well let's go straight away to our eye of scampton, where we're joined by will hollis. well we suspected last week that the government was going to do this . tell us what the reaction has in the village of scampton today . hiya, nigel. yeah. you get a

feeling that people are really proud of their history living so close to raf scampton, which, as you've said, is the home of the dambusters and is probably one of the most iconic things that happenedin of the most iconic things that happened in the second world war, certainly for the raf. and people are really quite concerned as to how this connection to the raf going to be affected in in the local village , the local town , they village, the local town, they are really quite worried about what this is going to mean for the base itself , also for the the base itself, also for the area that they live in. we've heard from a press briefing that i've had that it's going to be around 200 migrants at first that are going to be moving into raaf scampton and then followed by at a later date around 2000. so 2000 or so asylum seekers that are going to be housed here in total and ultimately they're to be placed into the barracks but also some modular housing. and i actually had the pleasure of joining a few people that were down at the dambusters in who were hearing that news. the

robert jenrick has announcing in the house of commons today that this base is going to be this army base is going to be one of the places that home one of the places that the home office to use to try to office is going to use to try to get asylum seekers of out of these hotels . absolutely these hotels. absolutely disgusted. it does not make sense to anybody. everybody involved is going to lose out, even the asylum seekers. there is nothing to do on the site . is nothing to do on the site. there's nothing to do in the village apart from the pope. there is shop in the village. there is shop in the village. there is shop in the village. there is nothing for them here to do at all. well there's indignation and annoyance about that. at the same time, i do feel a tremendous sympathy for the immigrants. i think that they it's a rough deal to be treated like animals and pushed into very cramped accommodation . i think it's a very poor decision and i just just don't agree with it at. it's just a wrong decision. we won't be able to feel safe. anybody going out for a walk with their dog? any woman would not feel safe. we can't live our normal life. we got the best roles wearing

terror from the residents of the village of scampton. i very sorry for them indeed . a really sorry for them indeed. a really important historic cultural site is to be desecrated by a government who care nothing for the history and culture of this country . that is my belief. now country. that is my belief. now let's go to the surprise card up in catterick where i'm joined by gb news reporter anna riley. now anna, this really was the surprise guys. do we actually know whether anybody at all is going to be sent to catterick or whether was just sort of spin ? whether was just sort of spin? well, the prime minister is doing his bit. well, the prime minister is doing his bit . what do we know. doing his bit. what do we know. good. good evening, nigel. yes, we know very little , in fact, we know very little, in fact, about how this is actually going to work. it's set apart from the other centres that have been proposed as this is still operational here. but speaking to local people of them had no idea about the plans and also speaking to north yorkshire

county council, i asked them for a statement and they said they couldn't give me one because they had very little about the proposals . so we don't know how proposals. so we don't know how many people will be coming here, if any, and how will work. what we do though is it's rishi sunak the prime minister's constituency say and when robert jenrick made the announcement today, he said was showing leadership by bringing forward proposals to use the barracks catterick garrison in his constituent sea to address the problem of migrants arriving in the uk in small boats. in fact , the uk in small boats. in fact, rishi sunak the constituency is and he leaves just 30 minutes away in northallerton . but as away in northallerton. but as i said, unlike other earmarked sites, this is still an active military facility. it primarily serves as a base for the fourth mechanised brigade and supports the infantry training centre. and according to the it has a population of about 39,000, which is more than the

neighbouring village of catterick garrison. it's got 19 barracks compounds, including several of the facilities and. it's huge, there's 20,000 acres here of military training area. but what the people living nearby think ? well, i spoke to nearby think? well, i spoke to a former andrew walker , and this former andrew walker, and this is what he had to say. this announcement today about illegal immigrants coming to catterick. it'll be a nightmare because a lot of scottish steel with ptsd and, mental health issues due to things happening in iraq and afghanistan, remembering which illegal asylum seekers across here, it's just going to make people go a bit loopy for us here and it's just going to cause problems for council. it's caused problems all over the country. when the moved into moving it into a major garrison . now it work. it'll . well, that . now it work. it'll. well, that was andrew local resident ex—army sergeant living in catterick very concerned about

the plans. i'm joined by associate political editor of the daily telegraph, christopher hope.chns the daily telegraph, christopher hope. chris this government, you know , earlier on i held up this know, earlier on i held up this front of the sun. it's amazing. the government says , anything on the government says, anything on illegal migration and you know, they swallow it hook, line and sinker. they're going to cut the bill now. they're not going to cut the bill. all of these people will stay in the hotels. these military bases are for that arrive over the course that will arrive over the course of weeks or months. why of the next weeks or months. why the so gullible in the tory press so gullible in believing the government when it says i have the solution, the press want a new idea? nigel that's an idea. ownership this barge that may house submarines when they come in. that's the idea. currently there's 51,000 seek asylum seekers hotels through nine five out of hotels. £6 million a day. it's costing . £6 million a day. it's costing. can you do you must do something the idea now is to try and get those people out of hotels into those people out of hotels into those there's that base not all appropriate. you might you may

think that. but what else do you do? what do you do if you have the here's they the point? here's point. they like the impression like to give the impression they'll emptied out the they'll be emptied out of the hotels put bases. they hotels and put into bases. they won't. they won't. no one's going leave these hotels. and going to leave these hotels. and by believe the number by the way, i believe the number is 450 hotels anas is over 450 hotels from anas sarwar that saw a few weeks ago . all these bases will be used for those that come next week and the week after. i pointed out the east sussex site, one busy day, one busy day. they just can't process and fast enough. that's what's going on here. the problem is that there'll arriving here. the problem is that ther next arriving here. the problem is that ther next few arriving here. the problem is that ther next few we'refing here. the problem is that ther next few we're going and next few weeks we're going into season. these into busy summer season. these hotels make money. hotels want to make money. people going they people are going to stay. they want on holiday stay in want to go on holiday stay in these hotels. do it if these hotels. you can't do it if people are there, they're got to do something. it's desperate, but really ignored for but it's been really ignored for far long government. far too long by the government. for people. yeah. i mean, for many people. yeah. i mean, look, idea. even look, new idea. this was even mooted three years ago. interestingly, of interestingly, on the night of the great storm 1987, there the great storm in 1987, there was a migrant boat, harwich, that africans who'd come that had africans who'd come here and it cast here illegally and it was cast off its moorings . here illegally and it was cast off its moorings. but here illegally and it was cast off its moorings . but they were off its moorings. but they were all said. they all save for a

watery fate. so we have to use these ideas before stop the boats . that's the pledge. that boats. that's the pledge. that is that the sunak pledge. and, you know , we see this very you know, we see this very carefully constructed pr machine as he goes around the country and give speeches is nothing about today was dealing with stopping the boats, was it? it was dealing with the symptoms. this the symptoms of those who arrive and stop the boats, by the way, is not a this year target. it is an ambition for some point when migration bill has passed into law, we has been passed into law, we don't know when it will has been passed into law, we don't yet. now when it will has been passed into law, we don't yet. maybeien it will has been passed into law, we don't yet. maybe nott will has been passed into law, we don't yet. maybe not byill has been passed into law, we don't yet. maybe not by the happen yet. maybe not by the next it's not the next election. it's not the voters that it the final line in the sand i'm not sure they can do but he's staked heck of do it, but he's staked a heck of a on it. yeah, well, it a lot on it. yeah, well, it matters so much. the red wall seats it regularly polls in. the top three that people top three things that people care nothing can do care about and nothing can do more and be seen to more to tackle it and be seen to do it. saw robert then your do it. i saw robert then your clip saying he showing clip saying he was showing leadership the leadership by offering up the catterick garrison. that means he's suffering he's he's i'm suffering too. so he's talking other like talking to other other mp like james the foreign james cleverly, the foreign secretary a full

secretary priti patel, a full home secretary that concerned about these these bases home secretary that concerned about given these these bases home secretary that concerned about given to ese these bases home secretary that concerned about given to ese tasylum ses being given to two asylum seekers. think why is seekers. and i think why is happening here but think the happening here but i think the hotels is untenable going into the summer season. yeah what do something and what would you do if in government. mean if you in government. i mean that's the question to about if you in government. i mean that'st01e question to about if you in government. i mean that'sto you jestion to about if you in government. i mean that'sto you maybe.to about if you in government. i mean that'sto you maybe. oh bout if you in government. i mean that'sto you maybe. oh look for back to you maybe. oh look for goodness sake. you know, i was warning about this three years ago simple you just do ago a very simple you just do what australians did. what the australians did. you say you we've say nobody. you know, we've given million people given half a million people refugee this country refugee status in this country in don't me we're in the 2015. don't tell me we're not generous. we you not generous. we all you defy. you're human law. so what you're human rights law. so what you very clearly is anybody you say very clearly is anybody that comes into the uk via via violent criminal trafficking gangs will never be given refugee status. that's what you start . and that's a very good start. and that's a very good beginning . and then if necessary beginning. and then if necessary , have to use the royal marines to take people back to france, if that's what you have to do. in the end, that's just not possible. this is under law. and it was interesting that jenrick did mention the all the things we're doing are going in we're doing are going to be in line. international treaty line. our international treaty obligations. they're not

obligations. so they're not going to i mean, this echr thing , it in the next , could it be in the next manifesto ? is that what they manifesto? is that what they might? under theresa. might? it was under theresa. i can't it many meps would can't see it as many meps would would just go go really get really crazy about it. it's not something want to at something they want to see at all. will, they'll all. i think it will, they'll try and do is test what the echr can do you have these can do. why do you have these unnamed judges deciding that you can't fly people to rwanda as happened year and who are happened last year and who are they? how can test and see they? how can you test and see what next? but can't what happens next? but i can't see going fighting . the see them going fighting. the action echr action on withdrawing echr whatever overseas with action on withdrawing echr th’ prime overseas with action on withdrawing echr th’ prime minister, erseas with action on withdrawing echr th’ prime minister, the as with action on withdrawing echr whéprime minister, the bigvith the prime minister, the big thing to talk is human thing to talk about is human rights. that rights. the big thing that the uk is proud of, of championing worldwide. that's why we can't pull well, magna pull out of echr. well, magna carta about and liberties. carta was about and liberties. that's and state given that's right. and state given human rights but that's a separate debate now chris, i thank you very much indeed. in a moment, we'll discuss michael gove's brainwave. gove's latest genius brainwave. yes he's going to override local democracy in shropshire and build a solar farm that is the size of 75 football pitches. we'll discuss in just a moment.

well i asked you, what's today's presentation? the immigration minister, robert jenrick , simply minister, robert jenrick, simply a fraud. response is that he says it came from an mp. of course, it was a fraud. what else would you expect ? frank else would you expect? frank says, we carry on spending millions a week on hotels. something has to give. frank, you've swallowed the spin. that's what they want you to think. we will go . on spending think. we will go. on spending six and a half billion pounds a day on hotels. not single person will leave those hotels these sites are there for new arrivals . and the argument is it's £150 a day to put people hotels. it'll be cheaper in former raaf , whether it's cheaper or . the , whether it's cheaper or. the bill for this is going up, not

down. the government accepts that tens thousands more people will come this year. another says to me, yes, it was a complete and utter fraud and also a capitulation to the economic migrant tidal . we need economic migrant tidal. we need better leadership . people who better leadership. people who believe in britain, not the spineless political we have at present. what i have to say, i'd agree with that. now another decision that came out late last night, michael gove, has just given approval to. a new solar farm in, shropshire. it's going to be 75 times the size of a football pitch. it is at the moment, a piece of land that is used for sheep grazing. it's a piece of land over which wild deer run . and interestingly , deer run. and interestingly, telford and wrekin there, the local council, they were opposed to this site. went through an expensive planning application process . and the planning process. and the planning applications . it wasn't applications. it wasn't suitable. and yet central

government in this headlong mad desire for us to achieve net zero, which we never will, by the way, has overridden it . the way, has overridden it. interesting, isn't it? food inflation this week was running at 79 and a half% you would have thought we'd want to as much of our farmland and productive capacity as we possibly could. but no, that is not what we are going to do. well, i'm joined by local resident and campaigner paul clinkers . paul, i know paul clinkers. paul, i know you've been involved with this battle. were you surprised when michael gove took the decision to overrule all local democracy 7 to overrule all local democracy ? i was completely because the planning inspector held a three day hearing. this is in last year and suddenly we were told he wasn't going to make a it was going to be called in by the secretary of state. so we now, nine months down the line, we suddenly out and made this decision which drives a coach and through. local and horses through. the local

planning . from the local planning process. from the local planning process. from the local planning process. from the local planning process in from the views of your elected local council , views of your elected local council, what are your objections to this solar farm? well, it's within the wrekin forest strategic landscape. you've heard of the wrekin, this lovely big hill that's going shropshire. it's known internationally all around the region and, you know, running around the region. and if so, this is part of that strategic forest landscape because it's where the king used to house and with his is deer and stuff that many, many years ago . so it's many, many years ago. so it's been protected this plan with the boundary round it with with no developments take place it's a green lawn it's a place people walk. they come from the conurbations round about into the area tourists come. locals use it . the particular area use it. the particular area we're talking about is on the edge and it's the road that comes down is the like the bounds. thou shalt not cross this . and that's exactly what's

this. and that's exactly what's happened. it's so it's very odd thing. it doesn't it just doesn't make sense . paul would doesn't make sense. paul would say to you, has got to do something and i think what's going to happen now is that the council are considering the legal options. do they actually do anything about it? can they actually go high court ? actually go to the high court? then ask the secretary of then they ask the secretary of state review state to actually review the decision. the truth of decision. i think the truth of it is that i've seen this with wind applications and other things that can apply for judicial reviews . there are all judicial reviews. there are all sorts of things you can but sorts of things you can do. but one government decides one central government decides to its 12th size boots on to stamp its 12th size boots on it. it's very difficult, but for would come back to you and some would come back to you and some would come back to you and some would come back to you and say, we're facing a climate emerging of the say, you know, how dare you be a nimby because this solar farm will help us to save the world. all right . well, i the world. all right. well, i totally agree . solar farms are totally agree. solar farms are part of the renewable energy that we need have in this country . but it's all about country. but it's all about where's the right position for

them. you want some of this? a very, very sunny climate. so it's like you can produce electricity as much as it can. and the local council actually its own solar farm. so they built one some years back and they generate that's they generate money that's offset taxpayer as demand offset the taxpayer as demand demands them and they pass demands on them and they pass several planning applications. the problem here is it's within the confines strategic landscape and thou not cross in it because if do do this, it's going to openit if do do this, it's going to open it up. what's a housing development? your spelling there? are we going to have solar panels up the side of the wrekin? now, if this was a national park and a national park status like peak park status like the peak districts now don't do stuff park status like the peak dist|that.iow don't do stuff park status like the peak dist|that. va don't do stuff park status like the peak dist|that. if we»n't do stuff park status like the peak dist|that. if we could stuff park status like the peak dist|that. if we could have have like that. if we could have have that protection that that level of protection that would have stopped it because you know, you go into you know, you cannot go into a national and do this kind national park and do this kind of thing, we haven't of thing, but we haven't got that protection. so i that level of protection. so i think the think worked really hard the council get to the current council to get to the current level of protection. so we all thought it was all be okay because put in other because we can put them in other places. a lot of telford's places. got a lot of telford's new this part of new town in this part of shropshire massive industrial factory sites around the area

stick them on the there's lots of new house loads and loads of new housebuilding going all over the place. it's a massive area of foot solar panels . so this of foot solar panels. so this isn't about being against solar panels and solar farms. i there's a big panels that are about three foot high. the worry is, yeah, you're going to have to have three foot, three metre palisade fencing all the way around it because criminals are now going in and nicking these solar and you're going to solar panels and you're going to have this wall steel all the way around , just like you haven't around, just like you haven't got to convince . but i wanted to got to convince. but i wanted to tease out the argument . got to convince. but i wanted to tease out the argument. thank you for joining tease out the argument. thank you forjoining me. i wish you luck with it, but i suspect it's going to be very, very hard. but i do find your arguments as to where these panels could be put very logical indeed. thank you. i'm kind of convinced that this government and the labour government, if it comes in next yean government, if it comes in next year, will do almost anything to despoil our landscapes , despoil our landscapes, seascapes provided we could head

towards this madness called net zero, which will never achieve anyway in the moment we're going to look at china. what china has been up to diplomatically around the world. we haven't had our eyes open. it's big stuff. american expert on china and author gordon chang joins me in just a moment.

wake everybody, something very significant has been happening in the world and accelerating over the course of the last few weeks. it is the diplomatic activities . china. i am very to activities. china. i am very to say that i'm joined down the line from new york by author and acknowledged expert on china gordon chang . gordon, thank you gordon chang. gordon, thank you very much indeed forjoining us over here in the uk. gordon we're so busy in the west, we're so busy tearing ourselves over

issues like trans rights, but we haven't noticed what has been up to what i've been watching, you know , summits with saudi arabia know, summits with saudi arabia , iran visits moscow, even a new deal with honduras. please tell us give us a price , eh? what us give us a price, eh? what does china build up diplomatically? emma last couple of months . well, thank you. of months. well, thank you. nigel. the most important thing is that china and russia have been conspiring . they have been been conspiring. they have been creating this new axis. so really what have is the world is divided . you know, a lot of divided. you know, a lot of people in the west say, oh, i don't want this to happen and sort of assume it won't because of that. but no the chinese and russians are doing this. last wednesday, a week ago , xi wednesday, a week ago, xi jinping left moscow when he was saying goodbye vladimir saying goodbye to vladimir putin. sea jumping started changes coming. that is not occurred over the last hundred . occurred over the last hundred. and then he said to putin you and i together are going to be

driving this chain , which is driving this chain, which is basically saying china and russia rule the world. we're seeing this in ukraine and this is exceedingly dangerous because, as you say, we in the west are not paying attention . west are not paying attention. you know, that's right. i mean, it is that is not the same in america i know that trump talks about the china issue, but my impression is that on capitol hill it's talked about about as much as it is in our parliament what is wrong with us are we always sort of in denial about the threat the chinese communist party poses . yes democracies are party poses. yes democracies are very good for being in denial, especially my democracy . you especially my democracy. you know, we did not attention to islamic terrorist when they killed six people in by bombing the north tower of the world trade centre in 1993. we americans only took notice on 911 when osama bin laden reached out and killed thousand 977

americans on one day. and then we woke up . americans on one day. and then we woke up. but americans on one day. and then we woke up . but then it was too we woke up. but then it was too late . really, what we're seeing late. really, what we're seeing right now is same thing. this is the 1930s all over again. except for britain and france being feeble. it's united states being feeble. it's united states being feeble feeble . what i'm worried feeble feeble. what i'm worried about, and i certainly couldn't believe i couldn't believe . believe i couldn't believe. sight of china brokering talks between sworn enemies. iran and saudi arabia . what's going on in saudi arabia. what's going on in the middle east? i mean, this is an area where america done its utmost to have influence . yes. utmost to have influence. yes. well, during the trump era, we had best foreign policy in the middle east since fdr. had best foreign policy in the middle east since fdr . we had middle east since fdr. we had the abraham accords , which the abraham accords, which president trump should have won, the nobel peace prize for. but biden in and he's decided to undo that. he's decided a very pro—israel one focus and his pro iran focus fits in with china because china is the main backer of the regime , tehran, and also

of the regime, tehran, and also biden decided to isolate saudi arabia because over the khashoggi and what that is it did was it left the door wide open for saudi arabia to abandon the us to reject all of our policies and to embrace beijing . gordon i've incredibly worried about what's going on. thank you for giving us a update. i hope waking up our listeners all of our viewers, i will have you back on again, please, before too. well someone who actually knows this subject and he's right and we should be worried now the website guido fawkes. it's a satirical often very informative westminster based website. and it made the point not long ago that the guardian had profoundly links to slavery, and they did their best to deny it. but here we are. guardian owner apology rises for links to slavery . i'm not owner apology rises for links to slavery. i'm not going to spend 10 million quid in various forms of compensation. the of the

story of is that if you try to be too woke they will always a in your armour. but more seriously , we cannot go on seriously, we cannot go on attempting to apologise and rewrite history , otherwise we rewrite history, otherwise we will end up in endless regress ruination. it serves no good purpose and actually i think fosters further division one another. real what the farage moment the european central bank poor darlings they've been asked to come back to the office to work half a week just half a week. and now they've got record numbers of members , staff with numbers of members, staff with mental health issues and stress because they to work half a week . i got to tell you, it's not too different down at the financial conduct authority, just down the river from where i am in canary wharf, about 2 to 3 days a week is considered as much as anybody could be expected to do. migrant this me what? i hopeless snowflake

generation. we've got elon musk this is interesting. maybe if you're not a computer geek you might think, well, what's this got to do with? but you know the growth of ai chat you know gpt idea that you just ask a computer to do something it has a brain of its own and it does it well. elon musk is coming out pretty strongly today with many others in the tech sector . it's others in the tech sector. it's the future of life and what musk and others are saying is quite simply, this there needs to be a halt on development of a.i. machine at this stage. if it's not voluntary. government needs intervene because musk basically says that these systems could become literally be on the ability of man to control they could become monsters in their own right and he says that poses a very real threat to civilisation. we're going watch

this space in a minute. civilisation. we're going watch this space in a minute . talk to this space in a minute. talk to a tottenham hotspur footballer who became a london black cabbie. i don't know anybody that's actually been on that journey , but he has a will tell journey, but he has a will tell us all about it.

talking yes, in a very rainy westminster . we're safe, secure, westminster. we're safe, secure, been used to having a mic he has a joins me mikki welcome to the program. now sunderland through and through young lad clearly totally obsessed with football off of in love in love with football. i mean it's my first love still is to me. i mean i think my grandchildren and children overtook football . but children overtook football. but after that football, football , after that football, football, football all the way from i

think from the moment i came out my mum stomach it was this all you ever wanted to do. always my dad would put a training shoe on my right foot , the football boot my right foot, the football boot on my left foot and say they're six in the morning. i'd be playing football ball against the wall, 10 hours a day. i wouldn't even go and watch football. i never went to watch someone play. i know all my friends did. not me will always have time. they always know. listen, if you want to be good at anything , if you don't put at anything, if you don't put the time and effort in, you're not going to be good. and i put lot of time in when i was young. i had a lot of people, you know, young people ask me for life advice. i always say all the successful people i know, i've always worked harder than absolutely else. and absolutely everybody else. and from person with from the very old person with extreme leave, that's how it's true. spotted by true. now you were spotted by a scout, young lad with scout, but one young lad with you. and incredibly you. i was ten and incredibly were very a one man scouting

network in sunderland, mainly because assistant manager at the time of spurs was and bred in some of them with dixon and his friend called can pedestal and i'm not even sure the club were aware of it to be honest but he said and he came and watched me play said and he came and watched me play like what he saw and he befriended my dad, which all scouts do when they want to get, i bet when they want to. nick the kid and. then all of a sudden we were going round his for house dinner. he was coming right out and this carried on because in those days we couldn't sign. couldn't couldn't sign. you couldn't travel a norway to travel outside of a norway to join a club. so he just befriended, see watched me for four playing everything four years playing everything game played in and then game i ever played in and then at 14 he took me down to spurs for first time, and my for the first time, me and my dad. it was incredible. i have to say, you know, when you sit in as a young kid with this dream and you watching football on telly and you see steve perriman. yeah. jemmy grey's, i mean, big side, big, big players. and then all of a sudden you're on the same

football pitch with them. and because they wanted to impress me, because they wanted me to sign them, i trained with sign for them, i trained with the first team at the age the first team at the at the age of it was surreal . you can of 14. it was surreal. you can imagine a 14 year old training with the names that all with the big names that all i did was watch and it just sort of furthered my love for the game. i mean, it's a love that . game. i mean, it's a love that. but you finish up making you finish up, you know, age 16 coming down to london with your bags and this is like a daytrip this is for keeps it yeah sadly it in london must have seemed like it's just such a such a long way away from sunderland know it's like a in comparison to sunderland it's like coming to sunderland it's like coming to a wilderness but wilderness like you've never known or experienced before . and while it experienced before. and while it came down with my dad , it was came down with my dad, it was lovely because i had the security of my, my dad by, my side and he could do all my talking for me and didn't have to involve myself . and then all to involve myself. and then all of a sudden, at 16, i'm travelling down on the train by

myself, which was quite nerve wracking. i then arrive at king's cross, i get off the train to find the right tube, to get the seven seats, and then from seven sisters, the bus to the stadium stadium . scary. the stadium stadium. scary. yeah. as 16 year old schoolboy who was relatively or relatively very, very inexperience on travel incredibly naive and coming to this big wilderness i had absolutely no idea to expect . and but it worked but it worked . in the end i got very worked. in the end i got very sick form five or six times and in the end , tottenham were in the end, tottenham were brilliant to me. they tricked me like i was a king and myself. yeah and here i am. and they are. you're in the first team. you play with some of the big names in football, the aussie ordeal, glenn hoddle, i mean, really top global. so what are some of in the team you win the ffa cup that's got to be pretty

cool but the uefa cup was really a big one for you. well, i think that, you know, when you were a schoolboy, the ffa cup in my day was as big as the champions league.in was as big as the champions league. in reality. so have this dream about winning the ffa cup and then all of a sudden you sort of fulfil your dream by playing in your cup final and what the 84 world cup it was sort of the uefa cup . i think sort of the uefa cup. i think that doing it in front of your own fans at your own stadium in the manager's last game ever the only manager that i'd ever known in professional football. i think it was. and i'd scored winning goal in the semi—final. so i hope so it's a take us to the final to win it with the very last kick of the game. on penalties. i don't think that was i'd been picked for england that week as well, so it was like a coming together of every schoolboy dream i'd ever write will never be bad . fantastic. will never be bad. fantastic. neven will never be bad. fantastic. never, ever be bad is long. and i remember it now when i talk

about i'm getting goose bumps running through my body when i talk it it's just like it yesterday. it really is . i know yesterday. it really is. i know it's a lovely story. and then suddenly money gets in the way . suddenly money gets in the way. chelsea, come along . yeah. i chelsea, come along. yeah. i make this club who you've been basically with since you were ten. effectively and you now, you know, fake out medal winner. you, you know, you know , grown you, you know, you know, grown man with a successful career but chelsea make spurs an offer that they can't refuse. yeah they did they can't refuse. yeah they did they did it was at the time chelsea's record offer and john allensworth former arsenal player as well the problem was is you know my last game at spurs for instance we played newcastle, we won five one, i scored celebrating in the players lounge at the end of the game and the then manager, peter reeves, calls me all of the players lounge and says to me, mickey, look, we've we've had an offer that we can't refuse. the

chairman's accepted it and he's told me i felt terrible , oh, the told me i felt terrible, oh, the worst thing that ever. and he relayed this message to me that, look, you know, you can't say no, because if you say no, you won't be picked again, you know, pretty stuff , pretty for pretty vicious stuff, pretty for a guy, you know, nothing else but i knew i had a for love that. carries through to this very day. yeah it a lot to take and i swore i you know you talk money i actually swore that as i drove home the other not going to dictate to me. i'm not leaving. i'm not leaving. i love this club. i'm not leaving. it's all i've ever known of from school. i'm ten years of age and then that meeting with john nolan's on the monday and i went to john holland's and this meeting and he was giving me all spiel about building the team, me everything . and then he me and everything. and then he started to say, talk finance . started to say, talk finance. and i was no interest whatsoever . and then he finished off the

conversation. so he was giving me a £400 a week wage rise . and me a £400 a week wage rise. and then he finished off the conversation . and i won't tell conversation. and i won't tell you the amount, he said. and if you the amount, he said. and if you sign your name, this contract right here, no before we leave this , we will pay this we leave this, we will pay this into your . it we leave this, we will pay this into your. it was a we leave this, we will pay this into your . it was a little into your. it was a little backstreet from talk the route to get it yeah they got you. i was like , what? you'll just put was like, what? you'll just put it in my account by tomorrow , it in my account by tomorrow, you know, that happened. you came back to tottenham. you still , you know, representing still, you know, representing tottenham. it was . but the story tottenham. it was. but the story that fascinates me about your life is you go from top flight football, you get injured, you retire that happens and you decide to become a london cab driver . decide to become a london cab driver. happens here, complete accident of sitting at home one day. i had two years of been retired loved playing golf every day i love golf. i'm a good golfer and played it every day for two years starting to get a bit bored and fed up of it and

then one of my mates turns up on my doorstep doorstep. and said my doorstep doorstep. and i said to him, where you go? and he said, oh, he said, i've joined the knowledge just do the the knowledge just off to do the knowledge something. knowledge is dropping something. i do you want me to keep i said oh do you want me to keep you so he said yeah. so you company? so he said yeah. so we went, had the most amazing we went, we had the most amazing day. we stop breakfast, we day. we stop for breakfast, we stop and it in stop for lunch, and we did it in between learning all these between was learning all these bits. i actually out bits. and i actually found out at moment that, hang on, i at that moment that, hang on, i had bit a photographic had a bit of a photographic i didn't know this before because i'd never noticed a thing. but when got home, he was doing when we got home, he was doing all this over what would all this calling over what would rehearsed would rehearsed you know, what would be moment? and i was rehearsed you know, what would be callingnoment? and i was rehearsed you know, what would be calling itment? and i was rehearsed you know, what would be calling it oulil? and i was rehearsed you know, what would be calling it out asand i was rehearsed you know, what would be calling it out as if|d i was rehearsed you know, what would be calling it out as if i i was rehearsed you know, what would be calling it out as if i knew just calling it out as if i knew it all my life. and he said, wow, we learnt that. i said, i don't know. and then so i thought, i'll just carry on doing the knowledge. then doing the knowledge. and then after about six weeks pulled after about six weeks he pulled out just carried out and stopped. i just carried on andit out and stopped. i just carried on and it was easy. on and did it and it was easy. in was ready to pass in fact, i was ready to pass after six months. really wait two years. normally it's sort of three or four. yeah, is. and three or four. yeah, it is. and all cabdrivers were blooming hard that and hard to get to that level and that fabulous. once he got that fabulous. but once he got your you find

your ticket. yeah did you find a disappointment? can i tell you something? i was a footballer . something? i was a footballer. you played in some massive massive games. i never. experienced one single nerve . experienced one single nerve. neven experienced one single nerve. never. the uefa cup final, uefa cup final . i had no nerves cup final. i had no nerves whatsoever . the first time whatsoever. the first time i went in the cup , whatsoever. the first time i went in the cup, i whatsoever. the first time i went in the cup , i was so went in the cup, i was so nervous i couldn't turn the light on. i drove around for 4 hours with my light off and i remember i pulled into olin park over a fallen park avenue and i just thought, i can't do it. i've got to go home and i said, just turn the light on for 5 minutes. if you get a ride, take them. if don't go , i turn the them. if don't go, i turn the light on in holland park. i pulled out onto holland park avenue and someone went like that. yeah. so as he was me i thought of pulling and i thought, oh, please let it be a big place. because i might not remember the little places because i'm so nervous. and he

said, can you take me to waterloo ? oh, sorry, not waterloo? oh, sorry, not victoria was, but his second one was a big these places you get couldn't remember where it was. i so nervous i was i was like oh so trivial . don't think i don't so trivial. don't think i don't get it. how long did it then as a cabbie the nerves yeah it lasted for about three or four months honestly. and then someone confronted me in the back about the route i took and i lost confidence. i thought, oh good. low. yeah, well, it's not a confidence, but well, after that, i became honestly, i'm not boasting. i'm being conceited. i actually thought i became one of the best cabbies out there i knew instantly everything . why knew instantly everything. why did you pack it up ? i had a butt did you pack it up? i had a butt back and i went to see a chiropractor and it my neck. and then he was couldn't couldn't on track my back. and he kept trying , trying and trying. i was trying, trying and trying. i was just trying to give it in and.

theni just trying to give it in and. then i got vertigo of came out of the surgery collapsed and i got really bad vertigo . and then got really bad vertigo. and then one day after it took me about eight months to recover moral of the story stick the football because that's what you ready to go to but it's a great story thank you for joining go to but it's a great story thank you forjoining me now thank you for joining me now absolutely thoroughly enjoy. pleasure. great to see it. really to see. great. really great to see. it's great. thank you so . i haven't i'll be thank you so. i haven't i'll be handing over in a second to jacob rees—mogg. we are pretty much done for the day virtually no time . the barrage, the fire. no time. the barrage, the fire. i wanted to learn about being a cabbie. one viewer says, why wasn't a dup include it in negotiations with the with rishi sunak? because the dup never have agreed. now jacob rees—mogg , what have you got tonight for us on gb news lots of excitement is coming up we're going to talk about this green madness that you're going to be charged extra for water. we'll for using too much water. we'll look outside we've got plenty of water. petrol cars are going to be stopped years earlier

be stopped five years earlier than famous deregulatory than the famous deregulatory european union . why have we got european union. why have we got policies that hammer british citizens? something to do with your government ? i think we're your government? i think we're just not going over this well before that. let's have a look at the very, very rainy, rainy weather . but good at the very, very rainy, rainy weather. but good evening, at the very, very rainy, rainy weather . but good evening, alex, weather. but good evening, alex, speaking here with your latest weather update from the met office. after a bit of a gloomy one today, tomorrow for most of us should be a good deal brighter there'll still be some heavy showers it be quite heavy showers around it be quite mild more and it's still mild once more and it's still going pretty blustery going to be pretty blustery plenty on the charts plenty isomers on the charts suggesting gusty winds particularly this evening close to these weather fronts that are bringing spells rain across the country with a pulse of rain heading its way north. of course , england and wales spreading into through the into eastern areas through the night any lingering over night there any lingering over the northern but parts night there any lingering over th

england, wales, many of us will stay in double figures to start thursday . we do start with a lot thursday. we do start with a lot of cloud . further outbreaks of cloud. further outbreaks of rain over northern southern scotland's slow early heading out into the north sea and it's a day of sunny spells and showers so better chance of seeing a bit more blue sky tomorrow but there be tomorrow but there will be showers through and showers moving through and a fairly stiff wind in some parts of the south could be on this line so get one line showers. so just get one after elsewhere there after another. elsewhere there will be some brighter spells and will be some brighter spells and will be some brighter spells and will be pretty mild with temperatures getting to 16, temperatures getting up to 16, maybe 17 celsius in the sunshine over eastern england. there will be which means you be a breeze which means you won't feel as as won't feel quite as mild as that. those that. but still, those temperatures well above average. look this, though, spiralling temperatures well above average. lobehindiis, though, spiralling temperatures well above average. lobehind anotherjh, spiralling temperatures well above average. lobehind another area)iralling temperatures well above average. lobehind another area of|lling temperatures well above average. lobehind another area of low; in behind another area of low pressure , further bands of rain pressure, further bands of rain pushing northwards during thursday nights , lingering into thursday nights, lingering into friday morning, gusty too, especially of a southern parts of england and wales could get very lively for a time during friday. so blustery conditions heavy rain to spreading the south, staying fairly for

northern ireland with outbreaks of rain but perhaps mostly dry and bright in scotland particularly in the west some good spells sunshine here on friday whereas in the east quite a low cloud moving in a lot of low cloud moving in keeping temperatures suppressed and overall quite a bit for most of compared to tomorrow .

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