force to crack down on new task force to crack down on sexual abuse and exploitation. the plan will also include tougher sentencing for those involved in grooming gangs. he spent a brave woman has described to us largely groups of men in almost all british, pakistani . and of course, she's pakistani. and of course, she's got flak for that. but i think she's saying what's what what's got to be said. now, the home secretary's also rejected claims that friends had anything to do with huge delays at the with those huge delays at the port at the weekend. port of dover at the weekend. she all a bit where she said it was all a bit where people were waiting up to 15 hours because by a combination of it's a bit for of factors, it's a bit vague for us. president donald trump will be in new york today as he prepares for a legal battle over hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels . could film star stormy daniels. could trump be the first ever us president to go to prison . and president to go to prison. and so as ever, let us know all your thoughts on all our talking points. so you email us at

gbviews@gbnews.uk . we're going gbviews@gbnews.uk. we're going to get stuck in to all those top stories. but first, is your morning news with karen armstrong . very good morning to armstrong. very good morning to you . it's 9:30. let's get you up you. it's 9:30. let's get you up to date with the latest from the gb newsroom. teachers in england will go on strike for another two days next term after reject ing the latest government pay offer. they will walk out on the 27th of april, in the 2nd of may. 98% of eu members voted against what they described as an insulting offer of £1,000, one off payment, plus an average rise of 4.5% increase for most staff next year . the nspcc has staff next year. the nspcc has warned focusing on race could create new blindspots when tackling child abuse. it's after the home secretary singled out british, pakistani men as a particular concern when it comes to grooming gangs. the prime minister is expected to reveal a raft of new measures to protect young women and girls later,

including the use of ethnicity data to support investigations. former greater manchester police detective maggie oliver says more investment and training is needed to combat gangs. more investment and training is needed to combat gangs . police needed to combat gangs. police the criminal justice system keeps the course they are on their knees. you know, we are not going to bring about the, you know, monumental changes that we need without investment , without proper training of police officers. you know, the sense inside is pitiful. the jails a full. less than 2% of report it rapes and abuse ever reaches a court . they murdered reaches a court. they murdered nine year old olivia pratt—korbel in liverpool is being sentenced later. thomas cashman was found guilty of killing olivia as he chased a convicted drug dealer into their home in august last year. he was also found guilty of the wounding with intent of her mother, cheryl koval and the attempted murder of joseph ni , attempted murder of joseph ni, who he was chasing is due to be sentenced at manchester crown court this afternoon. we'll keep you up to date with that when it

comes in. meanwhile, almost a million passport applications could face delays in processing because of a five week strike that begins today. because of a five week strike that begins today . more than that begins today. more than a thousand passport office workers across eight sites are walking out. it's expected to have a significant impact. the police union general secretary has written to the government calling for urgent talks in a bid to resolve the matter. tv online debate plus radio ad on tune to in this is gb news. now it's over to andrew above . it's over to andrew above. well, the prime minister is going to announce details of a major task force to tackle grooming gangs and sexy abuse. it's part of a set of measures designed to protect women and girls. the plan will also include tougher sentences for members grooming gangs. the members of grooming gangs. the prime pledging to prime minister pledging not to let political correctness get in the way of the crackdown . it's the way of the crackdown. it's going be launched later today going to be launched later today in greater manchester,

in leeds and greater manchester, where minister where the prime minister will meet grooming the meet survivors of grooming the grooming gangs, as well as police officers part of police officers who are part of the unit. well earlier gb the new unit. well earlier gb news the who news spoke to the partner who james solicitors, collins , james solicitors, alan collins, about how the new task force could impact prosecution of could impact the prosecution of such cases. lots of training, lots of safeguarding training. so the training is out there, but there are . but what we find but there are. but what we find is that the blinkers go on all communities may think that the law doesn't apply to them . and law doesn't apply to them. and so it's all about changing. coach there's been concern expressed that this is a measure designed to punish for failing to report. i think that's losing sight of the issue. the issue is about changing the ethos in many organisations. so that they accept and appreciate that they've got an obligation to report any concerns . well, let's report any concerns. well, let's get more from our political reporter catherine forster catherine. the home secretary is predictably run into a storm

with labour politicians in particular because she's talking about how the grooming gangs have been largely british pakistani men. and if you look back , rotherham, rochdale , back, rotherham, rochdale, huddersfield, she's right . she huddersfield, she's right. she is. and she's not afraid to have this battle. the government are saying that they will stop at nothing to crack down on sexual exploitation of girls and women . and of course, we know that this has been going on for many , many years. the story of rochdale was originally broken, i think, by the times back in 2012. places like rotherham, places like telford, like newcastle, where this has gone on for years . and frankly, on for years. and frankly, people in positions of authority have turned a blind for eye fear of being called racist . for fear of being called racist. for fear of being called racist. for fear of being called bigoted. so prime minister rishi sunak home secretary suella braverman in leeds today , first at an nspcc

leeds today, first at an nspcc hub unveiling this grooming gang task force . then they will be task force. then they will be going over to rochdale in greater manchester and talking to abuse survivors amongst others. they are announcing a raft of measures. first of all, these task forces that they say they will parachute specialist officers into areas suffering from grooming gangs that we experience and working in this field. then they're going to have mandatory reporting of ethnicity, infamy . and also, ethnicity, infamy. and also, there will be a mandatory requirement for people working in positions of authority with children. so teachers , police, children. so teachers, police, social care workers , if they social care workers, if they suspect that a young person is being groomed as being sexually abused, they have a legal responsibility to speak up . and responsibility to speak up. and also a tougher sentence says for people involved in grooming

gangs. now they're talking tough on this. of course, there has been pushback from suella braverman comments that largely it's british, pakistani males that are involved . tracy brabin, that are involved. tracy brabin, labour mayor of the west, west yorkshire , saying that this is yorkshire, saying that this is dog whistle politics but shadow home secretary yvette cooper saying that these government measures that are being announced today are simply not going far enough. she's saying hopelessly inadequate , belated hopelessly inadequate, belated and narrow and saying that labour were caught calling for many of this. these measures, some ten years ago. but certainly lots of tough talk . certainly lots of tough talk. and with local elections just a few weeks away, the government is really keen to make it clear that they are doing something but words at the moment and of course swift action really needed. catherine those remarks by the elected mayor go to the root of the problem because we know the prime minister in his speech today is going say

speech today is going to say political correctness been political correctness has been a barrier weeding out these barrier to weeding out these offenders. and it was misplaced political correctness because the as you alluded to , for the fear, as you alluded to, for upsetting british pakistani upsetting the british pakistani community, it's not dog whistle politics at all. it's just saying what was what's been happening .7 yes, absolutely. and happening? yes, absolutely. and the data does bear this out . the data does bear this out. sure. in broad terms , there's sure. in broad terms, there's more sexual abuse carried out across the country by why it's men than men from an ethnic minority across the board. simply, of course, because more white people in the country than there are ethnic minorities . but there are ethnic minorities. but there are ethnic minorities. but there are ethnic minorities. but there are all these very notice pockets of grooming gangs in towns up and down, specifically in the north of england, often labour led, led by british, pakistani men and the government are saying that they've got to put these cultural sensitivities aside because hundreds , aside because hundreds, thousands indeed of white, working class, young women have

simply been ignored because those people who should speak out don't want to be seen as racists. and that really that is unacceptable in this day and age. these people have a duty of care to do the right thing by these girls and if they're going to be accused of race ism, they have to take that on the chin. okay thank you, catherine. i think she's being at yet again outspoken and brave. the home secretary . and i think it's easy secretary. and i think it's easy for her to say it because of her own ethnic origin, her parents are from that indian background , and likewise the prime minister's parents are indian. it is not easy for them to say, and if they don't say it, it means this political correctness is going to continue to grip policing. think it's a bit policing. i think it's a bit difficult because difficult this because largely political is not something we should be frightened of in the media. want language to media. we just want language to reflect i think it's reflect a reality. i think it's a of a strange phrase that a bit of a strange phrase that the that i think maybe the views that i think maybe what should have maybe said

what they should have maybe said is the fact that we just want to look the facts and data look at the facts and the data around it look at this. but around it and look at this. but it clever because it it is very clever because it also, you say, it positions also, as you say, it positions both of them as not being afraid to say absolutely it much easier to say absolutely it much easier to have courage to to people who have courage to say the fact say these things. but the fact is, we of course, more white is, and we of course, more white men crimes , we men commit sexual crimes, we know in the ethnic know that in the ethnic population, this country's 14. population, this country's14. so population, this country's 14. so statistic statistically population, this country's14. so statistic statistically , so statistic statistically, obviously, more white men are going to commit the crime. but the dreaming gangs have been largely a british focus. and i think what catherine said that about sensitivity. yes about cultural sensitivity. yes that's the question. that's the key for is there key phrase for me is, is there a cultural difference that needs to addressed with some of to be addressed with some of these pakistani men in these towns? when you tap white girls, do they regard you just. absolutely. because a lot of those girls were very damaged? absolutely living in care homes . yeah. well, earlier on gb news spoke to former detective of great to match police, mike oliver, about whether the government efforts far enough government efforts go far enough . but i fear, like hayley, . but what i fear, like hayley, is that this is yet more

rhetoric . it is. all right. rhetoric. it is. all right. saying you know, we are going to crack down on these grooming gangs. we going to bring in gangs. we are going to bring in specialist officers. well as keli rightly says , you know, the keli rightly says, you know, the police, the criminal justice system, the courts , they system, cps, the courts, they are on their knees. system, cps, the courts, they are on their knees . you know, we are on their knees. you know, we are on their knees. you know, we are not going to bring about the, you know, monumental changes that we need without investment, without proper training of police officers . you training of police officers. you know, the sentencing is pitiful. the jails are full. less than 2% of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches the court. so this to me, you know, i have heard priti patel, i have had conversations with her, with sajid javid saying the same things. i really hope that this is different, that this these words come the into action. luis case this report shines a spotlight on the met that could be any police force throughout the whole country. policing is in crisis . country. policing is in crisis. there is a problem with attitudes , with coaches, with ,

attitudes, with coaches, with, you know, inexperienced officers . and, you know, we talk about a task force, which is great. but, you know, when i was in gmb, we had a serious sexual offences unit which they closed down, experienced police officers and detectives on, leaving the police in their droves . who is police in their droves. who is going to train a 90 or a 20 year old recruit to deal with this? it's all very well to say the words and i think my fear, to be honest , is words and i think my fear, to be honest, is this words and i think my fear, to be honest , is this is, you words and i think my fear, to be honest, is this is, you know, a little bit of electioneering. we've got a general election coming up the you know, the county's out of the bag. i spoke about this ten years ago, and you're quite right. when i started to speak out, you know, i was, i think, one of the very first people to say publicly that the grooming gangs were predominantly made up of pakistani muslim men. there is a problem within that culture that needs addressing, and we can't tiptoe around the edges and avoid dealing with it . the last avoid dealing with it. the last thing i would say is that the

law in this country sees a 12 year old child or a 13 year old child cannot have sex with a 50 or 60 year old man. that is against the law. so it doesn't matter for me when the abuse that comes from the law should be dealing with every single man, whether it's a priest in the catholic church, whether it is , you know, jeffrey epstein or is, you know, jeffrey epstein or whether it is a pakistani muslim man , we need to throw the full man, we need to throw the full weight of the law behind it. and you know, a few words won't change the reality that these kids , as kelly has said, have kids, as kelly has said, have been judged . michael, have put been judged. michael, have put her in charge. she should chair the women task force. she should common sense, and she's dealt with it herself. we'll be talking more about that issue dunng talking more about that issue during the programme. labour leader sir keir starmer and the shadow home secretary matt coopen shadow home secretary matt cooper, and about cooper, they're out and about today. going today. they're going to hartlepool part their hartlepool as part of their campaign elections campaign for the local elections in the power to meet local in may. the power to meet local community members following labour's recent announcement of its plans to tackle anti—social behaviour . its plans to tackle anti—social behaviour. political reporter olivia utley is here was now. i

suppose you went rushing up the motorbike them. it motorbike to be with them. it sounds so exciting , olivia. sounds so exciting, olivia. well, i a bit of a well, i think i got a bit of a preview of their i went preview of their plans. i went to event which yvette cooper to an event which yvette cooper was at last and was speaking at last month, and she her plans for she laid out her plans for labour's policing . and labour's policing. and essentially want do essentially what they want to do is get 13,000 new bobbies on the beat community policing funded by preventing some of the inefficient ses that have crept inefficient ses that have crept in so they're not fully fledged police officers. that's what we've got. the ones that david blunkett brought yes, blunkett brought in. yes, exactly. put communities, exactly. put police communities, some police some people in and police officers there's a quite officers. there's also a quite big question mark over whether the plans that they have to reduce inefficiencies in the police, which are all very well, will actually enough will actually generate enough cash, not only to pay the salaries of these 30,000 police officers. but to train officers. pcsos but to train them as well . the other big plan them as well. the other big plan thatis them as well. the other big plan that is that cooper and keir starmer are going to be talking about this morning are new respect orders they're bringing in, which is essential to give more power to crack down on

adults breaking anti—social behaviour codes. now the issue with this is that there is already a mechanism called the community respect order, which the conservatives have brought in, which would do exactly the same thing. but nobody knows about it. 94% of police officers don't know that this thing exists. the police officers don't know. police officers don't know. police officers don't know. police officers don't know that this exists. so there is quite a big worry that labour's plan essentially replicates what already exists . replicates what already exists. and the problem with that is that no one really knows about it in the first place, and it doesn't seem that they just make why don't they just make the existing one work? well, exactly. is very, exactly. but labour is very, very crime is just very keen. crime is just creeping in focus groups at creeping up in focus groups at the labour is very, the moment and labour is very, very that it has very keen to show that it has a grip on this. and i was really interested in this event that i went that cooper. she was went to that at cooper. she was using very blairite language. she talking tough on she was talking about tough on crime to and it's just crime to five, and it's just a huge shift away from sort of the corbynite politics we've seen in recent years. they want to show

that they're being tough. the issue is that plans lack issue is that their plans lack detail, remember, remember detail, but remember, remember them? were they called in them? what were they called in them? what were they called in the in plaid years ? asbos. the in the plaid years? asbos. yeah. but they were they were high profile . i mean, he got high profile. i mean, he got a bit carried away if he actually said that he would march offenders down to cashpoint to make tour out, cash out and make them tour out, cash out and pay a make them tour out, cash out and pay a fine on spot. ridiculous kind of no cashpoint, kind of animals. no cashpoint, no by banks. no cars organised by banks. exactly. is he right to be exactly. but is he right to be launching it today ? keir starmer launching it today? keir starmer because isn't the prime minister's announcement names that going to what labour that are going to what labour doing? i think the idea is just to try and get attention away. they know the crime is really an issue and they know that on the issue and they know that on the issue of grooming gangs. labour issue of grooming gangs. labour is very much on the back foot because the local councils are traditionally labour because the local councils are tradit exactly. labour because the local councils are tradit exactly. areas labour because the local councils are tradit exactly. areas where' because the local councils are tradit exactly. areas where that held. exactly. areas where that took braverman, took place and suella braverman, as heard from catherine, is as we heard from catherine, is being saying that being very direct, saying that it happening in labour run it is happening in labour run councils more often . and we know councils more often. and we know that sort of the issue of the idea of political correctness stopping people, gathering the data ethnicity of the data on the ethnicity of the

offenders as sort of offenders is seen as a sort of left problem. so this is left wing problem. so this is keir starmer's attempt to try and back on the front foot . and get back on the front foot. but say , it might not but as you say, it might not work particularly well because there isn't there isn't a sort of big bang new policy in these announcements from from starmer and cooper . i announcements from from starmer and cooper. i was just looking to see whether keir starmer had reacted this idea of the reacted to this idea of the taskforce of the grooming gangs. and he has. guess and of course, he has. guess what said? starmer said the what he said? starmer said the vast abuse vast majority of sexual abuse cases involve ethnic cases do not involve ethnic minorities close to minorities after so close to political correctness. is protecting offend us? i mean, statistically , of course he's statistically, of course he's right. he's right. he said that as deep as he was obviously deeply , but he said the green deeply, but he said the green light to prosecute. he gave the green light to prosecute the rochdale case that involved pakistani men. but he said the vast majority did not involve ethnic minorities. talking about grooming gangs rochdale, rotherham , huddersfield with the rotherham, huddersfield with the big yeah, all british, big three. yeah, all british, asian , sorry, pakistani men. and asian, sorry, pakistani men. and it's been talked about before about this. you talk about this?

yes issue about a complete lack of respect for why young white girls who nobody listened to that was the tragedy of all of this. some of them complained. they didn't listen. the police were interested. were from were interested. they were from broken didn't care broken homes. they didn't care homes. of them homes. some of them were involved prostitution. well, involved in prostitution. well, they count do they? they don't count them, do they? yeah well, exactly. and we know that, know, of that, you know, tens of thousands of girls, that the scale of these grooming gangs, i don't many of us had don't think many of us had really realised, just even a couple of years ago and some of the work that news has been the work that gb news has been doing bringing some these doing on bringing some of these issues has been so, so issues to light has been so, so important. and it does seem strange that both keir strange to me that both keir starmer actually lisa nandy starmer and actually lisa nandy have been acting as have been have been acting as sort the on sort of sweeping the issue on shadow foreign lisa shadow foreign secretary lisa nandy. job nandy. she got anotherjob shadowing. yeah, that's right . shadowing. yeah, that's right. yeah. yeah but yeah, they've both been sort of trying to push it into the wider context of obviously it's not all ethnic minorities who were abusing young women . and of course, that young women. and of course, that is an important point to make. but the language that they're using sort of sometimes sounds

as though they feel as if the grooming gangs that grooming gangs isn't that important story or as important as a story or as though the conservatives are are making big. too big a meal making too big. too big a meal of it, which probably isn't really a vote winner in the metro. if they got to grips metro. and if they got to grips with first time, maggie with the first time, maggie oliver raised it in oliver said she raised it in 2012. it had been dealt 2012. yeah it had been dealt with then. it might have stopped it spreading other and it spreading to other towns and some the people . pakistani some of the people. pakistani community could community leaders could have spoken or in the spoken out or spoken in the mosques and said to these guys, you've to stop it. absolute you've got to stop it. absolute and of there was sarah and of course, there was sarah champion, very labour champion, the very brave labour mp labour frontbencher who mp, a labour frontbencher who was sacked from position on was sacked from her position on the labour frontbench, pushed out because she wrote a piece in the sun explaining what the problem was and that did just ring , really cement the idea ring, really cement the idea that labour wasn't really taking it seriously . and. keir starmer it seriously. and. keir starmer this was under a previous labour leader, but keir starmer's trying to turn around that impression . so i don't think impression. so i don't think he's taking the right people. he's thinking of the pakistani muslim vote voting for him .

muslim vote voting for him. yeah, as opposed to the broader picture yeah, think, i think picture. yeah, i think, i think it needs because i mean, they do seem be on front foot at seem to be on the front foot at the the government, the moment. the government, don't you think, dominating the political agenda again? absolutely. like the absolutely. i mean, like the conservatives creeping conservatives have been creeping up polls week after week up in the polls week after week and rishi sunak set himself a pretty low target. but what he said he wanted to do was be on around 30% of the votes to the polls by easter and he is now achieving that most of the time. so yes, it is a low bar, but the general election is still a way off if he keep showing that he can this competent government can do this competent government which at with which he has excelled at with the windsor framework, everything he's announcing everything that he's announcing today , then, know, the idea today, then, you know, the idea that the next election is lost for the conservatives certainly doesn't particularly hold water anymore . if he's talking about anymore. if he's talking about bofis anymore. if he's talking about boris on they know do we have to know that when that committee reports because that's still the sword of damocles about boris of course . yeah. how quickly we course. yeah. how quickly we forget , right? we're going to be

forget, right? we're going to be looking. thank you, olivia. we're going to be looking at the government's crackdown on grooming more in the next grooming gangs more in the next houn grooming gangs more in the next hour. you are with gb news and hello there , you host welcome to hello there, you host welcome to the latest broadcast from the met office. plenty of sunshine over the next few days as high pressure is in charge, but it does turn a bit wetter later on in the week . and we could see in the week. and we could see that in the pressure pattern, high to east high pressure just to the east of these weather of us, keeping these weather fronts however wednesday fronts at bay. however wednesday into they will manage into thursday, they will manage to move in, bringing some cloudier conditions and rain for a time before then. that high pressure for the pressure builds back in for the easter weekend. so this morning , a cold start out there, frost in places, but quickly melting away, plenty of sunshine to come through the day, though the cloud does thicken and move in across parts of northern ireland, northern and western scotland. those stay scotland. those should stay dry here throughout the day. best of the sunshine for much england the sunshine for much of england and skies for and wales. blue skies for everyone generally like winds, chilly along the east coast. temperatures still historic . temperatures still historic.

looking into double looking to get into double figures. and 15 across some figures. 14 and 15 across some western areas in the west of the sunshine . into the evening time, sunshine. into the evening time, it will turn quite chilly as the sun begins to set under those clear skies . cloud thickening clear skies. cloud thickening for of northern ireland. for parts of northern ireland. western scotland still, but an increasing risk some patchy increasing risk of some patchy rain moving in here rain and chisel moving in here into early hours . and just into the early hours. and just nofice into the early hours. and just notice blues returning on notice the blues returning on the map by the end of the night, indicating out there . indicating a frost out there. temperatures to, temperatures falling close to, if freezing. so it if not below freezing. so it means a chilly start tuesday morning. ice around first morning. some ice around first thing, but this will quickly melt away with that strong april sunshine. and then another fine day come for many areas, just day to come for many areas, just perhaps western isles and perhaps the western isles and parts highland seeing parts of the highland seeing some rain and drizzle . at some patchy rain and drizzle. at times, ireland should times, northern ireland should largely dry, thick of largely stay dry, but thick of cloud here for much of the day in the sunshine, also turning hazy for parts of north wales. northern england, best of the blue holding on blue skies holding on in the southeast. and again, temperatures similar 11 to 14 for many as the next few days will see bands of rain starting

to move in. so wednesday turning wetter and windier, particularly on quhe wetter and windier, particularly on quite a cloudy day on thursday, quite a cloudy day before sunshine to return before sunshine tries to return to friday. temperatures around average . well i mean, obviously average. well i mean, obviously sunak's on the front foot at the moment because of politics. but, you know, the big issue for the tories have also been not just the cost of living crisis, not just don't know that the nhs. a good headline in the guardian, but nhs risk harming but nhs delays risk harming thousands children. i can thousands of children. i can believe got more believe it. we've got more stories well. next stories coming up as well. next week nhs experience on week i'd nhs experience on thursday when the thursday night when we left the studio here. we finished studio here. after we finished our on thursday, i home our show on thursday, i got home making t my teenager making the kids t my teenager run the the road run from the side of the road and off his bike going and fallen off his bike going around a corner too quickly. but we came out anyway. he broke we all came out anyway. he broke his really his collarbone, so really painful and so we end up going to a&e. we go to what i presume is our local department. we is our local a&e department. we get is like a war zone. get there it is like a war zone. there is not a single seat that isn't sat upon the queue is out of the door and the woman on

reception stands up and just announces to the room. i should have gone home half an hour ago, she said i again, i'm thinking, well, not our problem. well, that's not our problem. love here. love that up. i'm staying here. i'm now as someone will be i'm going now as someone will be back so if you want back at midnight. so if you want to, you can come back tomorrow morning because she knows a lot of people were in that of people who were in that waiting have been waiting room shouldn't have been there. absolutely nothing wrong with you do with them, but what do you do with them, but what do you do with a teenager with a broken collarbone? up to the collarbone? so i went up to the front the queue i was front of the queue and i was like, i'm really sorry, but are you telling me to take my teenager home? this broken collarbone and come the collarbone and come back in the morning? at morning? and she just looked at me. just walked the me. i just walked back down the queue, and i just thought, this country is broken. how is that possible thing, possible anyway, next thing, one of efficient women of of those very efficient women of a certain age with a lanyard around that out around it that comes out the kind of that can run the kind of women that can run the world. she comes and she world. and she comes up and she can see that my son's in considerable distress. and she said are you here said to you, what are you here for? i explained it. she said, come in back. and we come in the back. and we went through then it turned through then to what it turned out. was the a&e, the.

out. this was the a&e, the. where you well where were you then? well i thought i was in a&e. the front of the hospital is called urgent care department, it's by care department, and it's run by a private company. and so when i get the the bridge and get to the back, the bridge and nhs really aren't nhs staff. i mean amazing in the back mean just amazing in the back they the front is hide out they said the front is hide out to private firm that when to a private firm that when urgent everyone in urgent care and said everyone in there a prescription, they there wants a prescription, they don't well. they've don't feel very well. they've got that no got an ingrown toenail that no one's out. they're trying got an ingrown toenail that no onjump out. they're trying got an ingrown toenail that no onjump nhs)ut. they're trying got an ingrown toenail that no onjump nhs care. hey're trying got an ingrown toenail that no onjump nhs care. you re trying got an ingrown toenail that no onjump nhs care. you can't ng got an ingrown toenail that no onjump nhs care. you can't go to jump nhs care. you can't go and see the doctors and they can't get to in see their doctor. so we were beautifully looked then. why is looked after then. but why is a private company running that? i did. i no i didn't did. i have no idea. i didn't know was such a thing. so know that was such a thing. so the care department is the urgent care department is basically out a basically tendered out to a private said. private organisation, she said. well, they're understaffed, they're clearly making a lot money, they're not employing money, but they're not employing anybody to run the anybody in there to run the department. you see labour department. and you see labour keep tories keep banging on about tories creeping privatisation is underway, way underway, it's already under way . those . absolutely. and those contracts i mean people say with the nhs they just add another zero on it. if you know the nhs is going pay for something. is going to pay for something. i can't imagine that can't imagine how much that company being to run company is being paid to run that department. it's

that particular department. it's i trouble is with that i think the trouble is with that story, but i think that's just an that many an experience that so many people around the country share. it's scandalous. make good it's scandalous. i make good money nhs your money for your nhs to do your taxes.i money for your nhs to do your taxes. i know i was about get taxes. i know i was about to get in a and drive around to in a car and drive around to find another luckily find another hospital. luckily this came and this wonderful woman came and rescued right. let know, rescued us. right. let you know, let know thoughts on all let us know your thoughts on all of our talking points today, won't i experience of won't you? i knew experience of the gb views at gb news dot. the nhs gb views at gb news dot. you can see by the way, your son is right. he's moaning quite is all right. he's moaning quite a alright, right. a lot. he's alright, all right. he's a lot of pain, obviously he's in a lot of pain, obviously there's relaxing there's nothing more relaxing than having a 19 to 1 with a broken know, broken collarbone. you know, imagine come, imagine that. still to come, we're going continue our we're going to continue our coverage of the plan, the crackdown so crackdown on grieving. so stay with us. join me patrick christys monday to friday, three till tackle the day's till six. we tackle the day's news like you've never news agenda like you've never seen high tempo, seen before. it's high tempo, high most high octane, the most controversial the controversial topics and the best not able best guess. you will not be able to your eyes and ears off. to set your eyes and ears off. i'm not afraid to ask the questions you really want questions that you really want answered. three till 6 pm. monday to on gb news the monday to friday on gb news the people's channel. britain's

good morning and welcome to the point on gb news with me, andrew pierce and bev turner. still to come this morning, pierce and bev turner. still to come this morning , the come this morning, the government will announce a new task force today to crack down on sexual abuse and exploitation. the plan will include tougher sentencing for those involved in grooming gangs. the suella braverman has described as large groups of men in almost all british, pakistani particularly. that's caused a lot of controversy . so the home

lot of controversy. so the home secretary's also rejected claims that brexit anything to do that brexit was anything to do with huge delays at the with those huge delays at the port over weekend. port of dover over the weekend. she were number of she said there were a number of factors, refused to factors, but she refused to allow brexit to be one of them . allow brexit to be one of them. and former president donald trump will be in new york today as he prepares for a legal battle over hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels . to adult film star stormy daniels. could trump be the first ever former us president to go to prison . that's no go to go to prison. that's no go ahead, because what we're both going to say is we want to hear from you this morning, vaiews@gbnews.uk, you've all been getting in touch a lot of you, about suella braverman statement on the grooming gangs, but keep your messages coming. won't a festival? here is the news with arron armstrong . good news with arron armstrong. good morning to you. it's just after 10:00 am arron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the nspcc has

warned focusing on race could create new blindspots when tackling child abuse. it's after the home secretary singled out british—pakistani man as a particular concern when it comes to grooming gangs. the prime minister is expected to reveal a raft of new measures to protect young women and girls. later including the use of ethnicity data to support investigations . data to support investigations. former greater manchester police detective maggie oliver says more investment and training is needed to police . the criminal needed to police. the criminal justice system keeps the course. they are on their knees . you they are on their knees. you know, we are not going to bring about the, you know , monumental about the, you know, monumental changes that we need without investment, without proper training of police officers . you training of police officers. you know, the sentencing is pitiful. the jails are full. less than 2% of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches a court . the of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches a court. the man of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches a court . the man who reaches a court. the man who murdered nine year old olivia pratt—korbel in liverpool is being sentenced later. thomas cashman was found guilty of

killing the schoolgirl as he chased the convicted drug dealer into home in august last into her home in august last yeah he into her home in august last year. he was also found guilty of the wounding with intent of her mother , cheryl koval, and her mother, cheryl koval, and the attempted murder of joseph nee, who is chasing is due to be sentenced at manchester crown court this afternoon . teachers court this afternoon. teachers in england will go on strike for another two days next term after rejecting the latest government pay rejecting the latest government pay offer. they have announced they will walk out on the 27th of april and the 2nd of may, 98% of april and the 2nd of may, 98% of any new members voted against what they described as an insulting offer of . a £1,000 one insulting offer of. a £1,000 one off payment, plus an average rise of 4.5% increase. that's for next year. and that would be for next year. and that would be for most staff . almost a million for most staff. almost a million passport applications could face delays in processing because of industrial action. more than a thousand passport workers across eight sites have walked off the

job for five weeks with the pubuc job for five weeks with the public and commercial services union saying it will have a significant impact . the union's significant impact. the union's general secretary has written to the government calling for urgent talks in a bid to resolve the matter. nicky kelvin, head of the travel website , the of the travel website, the points guy uk, says people may need to rethink their holiday plans. there isn't a great way about it. the only way is to plan ahead. if you've got if you want to get away in the next in the coming weeks, but your passport has expired, you might need to look at your destination. you think about staying at home or going to ireland, where you ireland, for example, where you can with just id and not can travel with just id and not with a passport. the queues at the of the entrance to the port of dover have been cleared after a weekend of disrupt . that's weekend of disrupt. that's according to pa. ferries. coach passengers face third day of passengers face a third day of frustration some frustration yesterday. some complaining delayed for complaining of being delayed for up to 16 hours. port officials have clashed with the home secretary over her claims. the delays had nothing to do with brexit. they say border processing times have increased sharply as every passport has to

be individually checked and stamped . former us president stamped. former us president donald trump will fly to new york later ahead of his court surrender to answer to criminal charges . trump supporters in charges. trump supporters in florida are getting behind the former president. he's been charged in relation to hush money paid to an adult film star before the 2016 election. trump is due to be arraigned, fingerprinted and photo graphed in the manhattan courthouse tomorrow. his lawyer says he will enter a plea of not guilty . russia's wagner group has claimed control of the ukrainian town of bakhmut. the head of the mercenary group says troops raised the russian flag over the administre mission building in the eastern ukrainian and town. they claimed they'd taken it from a legal point of view. ukraine's military, though, have said bakhmut on several other towns, including of dpko, remain at the epicentre of hostilities

. meanwhile russian investigators say they detained a woman . daria pova is the a woman. daria pova is the suspect in the killing of a prominent war blogger yesterday. vlad lenta task was killed and at least 32 people were injured in an explosion at a cafe in st petersburg . mr. pataki was petersburg. mr. pataki was a vocal supporter of russia's war in ukraine. he had more than half a million followers on telegram . jodie comer and paul telegram. jodie comer and paul mescal won top prizes for their west end debut performances at last night's olivier awards. como won best actress for her role as tessa in a one person production in prima facie, while mescal took home the best actor for his role as stanley kowalski in the new stage adaption of a streetcar named desire, congratulate ocean's two. then this is gb views more as it happens, as always. but now it is back to bev and .

is back to bev and. andrew we are pretty cross , aren't we are pretty cross, aren't they? yes, absolutely. beginning to touch with your views on the grooming gangs, richie says. yvette cooper is now talking about grooming gangs for years , about grooming gangs for years, labour mp sarah champion was bringing up and her bringing the topic up and her colleagues on her with colleagues rounded on her with one labour mp even sharing a tweet abuse victims tweet saying abuse victims should shut their mouths for the good of diversity juices. good of diversity and juices. it's more training the it's not more training the police need, but senior officers having to go and having the conviction to go and arrest perpetrator is arrest the perpetrator is irrespective their ethnic irrespective of their ethnic backgrounds. absolutely well, keep your views coming. what you gb views at gbnews.uk . and on gb views at gbnews.uk. and on that subject, the prime minister is going announce the details is going to announce the details of new taskforce tackle of this new taskforce to tackle grooming it's part of grooming gangs. it's part of a wide ranging measure, a wide ranging series of measures designed women and designed to protect women and girls sexual predators . so girls from sexual predators. so the plan will also include tougher sentences of tougher sentences for members of grooming gangs, with the prime minister pledging not to let political correctness get in the way of the crackdown . it's being way of the crackdown. it's being

launched greater launched in leeds and greater manchester, pm's going manchester, where the pm's going to victims, survivors call to meet victims, survivors call them what you will, as well as officers who are going to be part of this new unit. so earlier gb news spoke to the partner at hugh james solicitors, alan collins, about how the new taskforce could impact prosecution of such impact the prosecution of such cases. lots of training, lots of safeguarding training . so the safeguarding training. so the training is out there , but there training is out there, but there are what we find is that the blinkers go on or community is may think that the law doesn't apply to them. and so it's all about changing culture . there's about changing culture. there's been concern expressed that this is a measure designed to punish for failing to report. i think that's losing sight of the issue . the issue is about changing the ethos in many organisations so that they accept and appreciate that they've got an obugafion appreciate that they've got an obligation to report any concerns . so let's get more from concerns. so let's get more from the policing and crime committee

to danny shore. hello danny. good to see you . it's quite good to see you. it's quite a change of rhetoric around the grooming gangs today, isn't it, from suella braverman and rishi sunak to say we're not going to be preoccupied with cultural sensitivities, we're just going to point a finger at those who are committing these crimes and do something about it. why that shift now, do you think ? look, i shift now, do you think? look, i think what this is about is the government trying to create a bit of a sort of culture battle, if you like, over this issue. there was some home office research that was published in 2020, and it said, although that there would there was a particular issue in rochdale , particular issue in rochdale, rotherham and telford , where the rotherham and telford, where the perpetrators of the gangs were predominantly british. pakistan dani in general, you cannot say across the country that a grooming is an issue with one

particular ethnic group. there are no links between ethnicity and this form of offending that could be proven. that is, home office commissioned research that was published in 2020. and i think it's very important to say that there are many perpetrators of this type of offence who are white and there are victims who are not white, who may be black or asian or from another ethnic group. i think it's very important to say that. i think what the government is doing is saying, look, you have to go after the perpetrators, whatever their ethnic background. and that is clearly right as well. you can't let political correctness get in the way . but i let political correctness get in the way. but i think what the government is doing in the way that are sort of angling, that they are sort of angling, this is really to try and draw some kind of culture or divide between and the opposition between them and the opposition and to make it a bit of an issue, if you like, the political reasons. that's where i think , although i do think i think, although i do think that having a focus on this issue is really important and bringing police forces together

with a new taskforce force is probably something that's long overdue . danny point we overdue. danny isn't a point we know that most offences are know that most sex offences are carried out by white men, but then what is the ethnic population here? 14% inevitably would be more white men. isn't the point about the gangs what the point about the gangs what the home secretary, the prime minister, is saying is predominately the grooming gangs that gone to prison in the that have gone to prison in the last decade have been predominantly british, pakistani men. well, i think what the home office research showed from two years ago , and i've got it in years ago, and i've got it in front of me , is that the links front of me, is that the links between ethnicity and this form of offending could not be proven. that was home office research that a newspaper had to sort of chisel out with the home office under a freedom of information act request because it wouldn't release it otherwise . so i do think we have to be very careful there and clearly, as i've said, being particular issues in some locations with british pakistani perpetrate it is forming those gangs. but i

think to make this an issue around colour or race, i think personally is a mistake and i think is dangerous . this is an think is dangerous. this is an offence and you should go after the perpetrators, whatever ethnic group, whatever background they come from and go after them with a co—ordinated approach which hopefully the national front they can see will be able to bring. when you listen to people like michael offer and also one of the ladies has spoken out repeatedly , sammy has spoken out repeatedly, sammy woodhouse, is a survivor of woodhouse, who is a survivor of the rotherham abuse. she she's superb at articulating the problems that she face and how ignored she was. there was a problem and i'm using the past tense. we i don't know categorically now whether this continues . there are people in continues. there are people in this community say that this continues. there was a problem that police officers were not getting involved in these allegations because of cultural sensitivities , wasn't there? sensitivities, wasn't there? because, of course, the police are always frightened of being

accused of being racist or of being discriminatory against any particular group. so that was an issue that needed to be addressed. has it gone away, do you think? well this statement today help that to go away . i today help that to go away. i think what helped it was the inquiry into child sexual abuse, which reported last year and which reported last year and which has exposed how those issues around cultural sensitivity, political correctness, whatever term you wish to apply to it, did get in the way. and i hope that is a wake up call to police forces and other authorities . police in and other authorities. police in particular have to police without fear or favour. does it it matter who you are? they have to go after people, whatever their position in society , their position in society, whatever ethnic background. so hopefully that isn't happening and it won't happen in the future. the government's clearly underlining it with what it's saying today , but my slight saying today, but my slight concern over the way that they're sort of angling their announcement is that they're wanting to create a sort of a

divide for political reasons . divide for political reasons. the police officers, though, danny, because we've just had ten cases report , the headline ten cases report, the headline from that was the police is institutionally racist. and then you have suella braverman saying these gangs need to be pursued regardless of what might appear to be racist behaviour . very to be racist behaviour. very difficult for individual police officers to know how to get that balance right . well, i mean , balance right. well, i mean, dame louise case's report , dame louise case's report, baroness louise case's report was concerned with the met police, the metropolitan police, not the entire police service of the uk or indeed england to wales . and institutional racism wales. and institutional racism in its processes . some officers in its processes. some officers are racist , in its processes. some officers are racist, as in its processes. some officers are racist , as she in its processes. some officers are racist, as she found in the met and the systems and the complaints procedure and so on. there were sort of processes within there that suggested that it was institutionally racist . i it was institutionally racist. i think that's quite different from some officers in other

parts of the country who have been worried about going after a particular grooming gangs or particular grooming gangs or particular types of crime because they're concerned about cultural sensitivities or stirring up problems . neither of stirring up problems. neither of those is right. stirring up problems. neither of those is right . you know , police those is right. you know, police have to approach every single case based on the evidence and where it takes them, no matter who the individual is, no matter what their ethnic background to where they come from and so on. and that has to be their approach. and you see some fantastic investigations by police where they do that quite clearly , and they've fallen clearly, and they've fallen short in some of those historical inquiries that we've seen. but basically, they should be an effort that is focussed on the perpetrators , no matter who the perpetrators, no matter who they are, where they come from. just finally, danny, i'm also i hear what you say about the perpetrators. we shouldn't forget the real the real tragedy here. the victims who were ignored, their cries for help were ignored by social services

, schools and the police . often , schools and the police. often they were from broken homes, living in care. i think some of the girls attempted suicide . the girls attempted suicide. they were completely let down by the system . absolutely. they the system. absolutely. they were let down not just by the police, but by other authorities as well. and that's why so important that you have an approach whereby you go where the evidence is and you cannot be deflected from that. and that's it's also very important that's it's also very important that when you launch an investigation where you know that perhaps there may be some people who are disturbed because it could raise local sensitivities . you bring the sensitivities. you bring the community with you and you explain to the community what you're doing. you're there to root out wrongdoing, criminal ity and so on. and that's the way that actually you approach these investigations . you bring these investigations. you bring communities with you as well as going without fear or favour. thank you, danny. a crime

commentator. danny shoulder she made about the police there. it's like they're if they do and theyif it's like they're if they do and they if they don't. i know that dame casey report was just a met, but there's no reason to think that those issues are. i'm sure find. yeah, of course . sure find. yeah, of course. well, a huge story, well, this is a huge story, isn't with the problems you isn't it, with the problems you announcing that announcing later today that these tasks . we're going these are the tasks. we're going to get more issue from to get more on this issue from our documentary filmmaker charlie peters . hello, charlie. charlie peters. hello, charlie. good morning . you made a nice good morning. you made a nice film for gb news where you went and investigated the grooming gang.so and investigated the grooming gang. so what do you make of this announcement today? to what extent was the fact that race and culture played a part in those crime ? to what extent will those crime? to what extent will that be a more tolerable moment 7 that be a more tolerable moment ? ajibola for these statements today ? well, similar problem in today? well, similar problem in the home secretary will be arriving here in rochdale later today to meet with police chiefs, survivors and indeed child abuse specialists to discuss the raft of new plans that the government has

announced this morning . the announced this morning. the chief of which is this new taskforce to investigate child grooming gangs wherever they are found. the key detail that has been missed in this discussion so far, this morning is that this taskforce is being supported by the nca. the national crime agency, which has enjoyed so much success in rotherham under operation stover. you'll remember, of course in the course, that in rotherham the reports in 2014 found that 1400 girls had been abused from 1997 to 2013. but when the national crime agency was brought in very soon after that report was published, it's actually revised that figure up to 1510 and dozens of more prosecutions and convictions . and so the nca is convictions. and so the nca is being parachuted in with their specialist officers to the various local police forces . various local police forces. should make a significant difference . and indeed, if any difference. and indeed, if any gb news view is recognised that policy, it's because they would have heard it in the documentary recommended back february. recommended back in february. there's a few more there's also a few more recommendations being made, including mandatory reporting being announced very soon and we're also going to see more

efforts on the collection of data ethnicity. now, you've just heard from your commentator there the issue of the there about the issue of the home office reports in 2020, which that it was which said that it was impossible to know the truth about the ethnic links to this crime due to a lack of available data. well, now it is hoped that more data collection will be achieved , which will allow for achieved, which will allow for a better understanding . but even better understanding. but even with limited that the with the limited data that the home office had in 2020, it still that british pakistanis were overrepresented were vastly overrepresented in this abuse . charlie, how this kind of abuse. charlie, how does taskforce operate if does this taskforce operate if there's reports of child grooming , sex grooming? does the grooming, sex grooming? does the taskforce go en masse to the town or city where it happens and how big and how many people are on it? and how experienced are on it? and how experienced are the people who are doing the investigating ? but i'll be investigating? but i'll be exclusively interviewing the home secretary later to more home secretary later to get more details this new details about this new taskforce. but in rotherham, on the operations over the national crime agency essentially took over investigations into historical child sexual exploitation and pouring in

hundreds of millions of pounds to launch new investigations with hundreds of new officers and really venture into areas where south yorkshire police had failed. operations and an investigation into the efficacy of south yorkshire police found gross and widespread failures. and the reason why evidence has been so successful in rotherham and throughout south yorkshire is because they were able to bnngin is because they were able to bring in and look under stones that were previously under turned. and so in the documentary, in february, we uncovered up to 50 different towns cities where towns and cities where we believe that grooming believe that these grooming gangs of gangs have credible reports of them going on. but national them going on. but the national crime has only been to crime agency has only been to one this taskforce . one with this new taskforce. perhaps they find new towns perhaps they will find new towns to investigate. okay. thank you very much, charlie. toy pieces the music. well i'm just reflecting what i find fascinating about the concepts of the grooming gang is how they must be trust just me like you think. if you are a sexual predator and you are abusing one individual person on your road, you probably, i imagine , doing

you probably, i imagine, doing everything you can to make sure that nobody knows about that. what i find fascinating in the gang comes out is that they were all doing it . yeah, they were all doing it. yeah, they were sharing girls sharing girls, sharing the girls sharing girls, but like managing to keep but also like managing to keep that amongst that many that a secret. amongst that many people. and that's what makes my blood run cold. what is their womenfolk know about it? did they know that i did it matter so many? and what did the elders in the mosques we're talking about the grooming gangs, particularly the prime minister. homosexuals rochdale homosexuals chose them. rochdale for good reason because that was one of the more tourist one of the more the tourist grooming we're grooming gangs said, look, we're going talk about going to come and talk about this a story this because it's a huge story still to coming. it's still to come, though, the extraordinary story. donald trump, story. ordinary donald trump, a criminal tomorrow. criminal indictment tomorrow. he's going to arrive in new york today. he's going to arrive in new york today . what could this mean for today. what could this mean for the presidential election in 2024? i think it's going to enhance his prospects. you know, filipinos , this is to the point filipinos, this is to the point on .

gb news. very good morning. it's 1024. very good morning. it's1024. you're with to the point on gb news willie bev turner and andrew pierce now break up. the metropolitan police is possibly being considered by the home secretary braverman and secretary suella braverman and that's course, that's after, of course, the devastating report baroness devastating report by baroness louise casey. the home secretary was open about the problems. the force is currently facing, but said mark rowley was the said sir mark rowley was the right to take it forward. right person to take it forward. so joining us now is a former met officer, chris hobbs. good morning, chris. so this is the response to dame casey's report . no change. am i right in interpreting it like that? well, it's had a massive impact on the workforce in terms of morale. it's sort of fallen through the floor. there's a bit of uncertainty on police. obviously the ones who got slighted in the report are less than happy with some of the comments that have

been made. so there is a morale problem amongst officers who still have to do the policing 24 hours a day. and by and large, do it pretty well . so if we're do it pretty well. so if we're not careful, we're going to throw the baby out with the bath water and we're going to be left with a police service that are so low morale . and it is so very low morale. and it is really going to struggle. there are some positive , but it's what are some positive, but it's what they do on the 24 hour basis, right? yeah their job because we shouldn't remember most police officers a good and do officers do a good job and do their best. i think that's absolutely . and i think absolutely right. and i think the problem that if the problem is now that if you're if you're confronted to, for better term , with for want of a better term, with a police officer , a white male police officer, then the it's gone with the then the way it's gone with the media and the publicity, you're going to think what we're deaung going to think what we're dealing here, misogynistic, dealing with here, misogynistic, racist , homophobic. yeah. yeah, racist, homophobic. yeah. yeah, i'm the majority aren't we? do have all the problems. there are p0p have all the problems. there are pop pockets of them, but they number hundreds . we've got number hundreds. we've got something like last ten years,

60,000 male metropolitan police officers and staff commissioners. looking back over ten years, seeing what may have gone wrong in terms of investigations. but that 60,000 imagine we spoke the other day at a football stadium, the emirates 60,000 capacity you'd be up . even if it emirates 60,000 capacity you'd be up. even if it is emirates 60,000 capacity you'd be up . even if it is hundreds be up. even if it is hundreds you'll still left with a workforce that by and large is as good , trustworthy. but at the as good, trustworthy. but at the moment is suffering because they're all being stigmatised , they're all being stigmatised, they're all being stigmatised, they're all being collectively smeared and that's something the commissioner has to be very much aware of as has the home secretary, because if you take the police away , you've got the police away, you've got nothing. what difference you think it will make to the police officers to hear suella braverman say today the political correctness shouldn't get in the way of chasing down the bad guys. well, it shouldn't. but equally, of course , it's something that course, it's something that police officers have to be acutely aware of. if you do a stop in the street and it's if someone from an ethnic minority and it attracts a crowd and that

individual isn't being co—operative and there's a compliance , then then you've compliance, then then you've obviously got a problem. the issue with grooming gangs now thatis issue with grooming gangs now that is now being tackled , but that is now being tackled, but it obviously wasn't because of issues around police, which is getting flak for saying predominate into the grooming gangs were were british—pakistani men . the prime british—pakistani men. the prime minister i think is going to say the same thing she's getting a lot of flak from the labour party that's saying it's nasty dog whistle politics. i think there is an issue obviously in certain towns and cities where you've got gangs, young pakistani who are grooming. pakistani men who are grooming. but think on balance as well, but i think on balance as well, and i think there's been some research there also of white. oh yeah yeah. there that and the internet we found them in the church. we found them in sports coaches. so i think it crosses divides. but obviously with these particular gangs, yes, there is an issue , but it goes there is an issue, but it goes across the board . so if there is across the board. so if there is across the board. so if there is a special unit set up is going to have to look across the board at groomers, not just the pakistan grooming gangs. yeah,

but those from white groups and initial will need people from that community on the taskforce. well, yes. and this is where you need a good relationship with that community and that's something that certainly in the met and met has been neglected and something hopefully is something that hopefully is going be built up over the going to be built up over the next years because it is next few years because it is essentially the community on essentially one the community on your side in tackling this sort of properly. okay. thank you, chris. so from one police officer, someone who's having his felt . former us his collar felt. former us president donald trump suspected to to new york today to travel to new york today ahead scheduled ahead of his scheduled arraignment . new york arraignment tomorrow. new york city police have placed metal barriers around front tower block the roads around manhattan as prepare for potential as they prepare for potential protests . as chair of the protests. as chair of the republicans overseas, greg spencer now. can you spencer is with us now. can you believe this is happening, greg ? i can, yeah. it's been telegraphed for a few weeks now, but it's also been going on for seven years. know, with the seven years. you know, with the russia which russia collusion hoax, which turned to be a complete turned out to be a complete fabrication. a lot of investigations during his administration, you had to

impeach since, you know, this is a long process of getting trump, which is the is actually the campaign slogan that that alvin bragg ran on in new york, who's bringing this case? this wouldn't run a better campaign strategy for me. if you tried. it's really amazing. i think it's in many cases, backfire , it's in many cases, backfire, unless you think that they're actually doing it on purpose. there are smart people in there are enough smart people in the democratic machine that, you know, barack obama or know, either barack obama or susan rice would , you know, make susan rice would, you know, make a phone call and say this is going to play right into trump's hands. or maybe that's what they want because him to want because they want him to win millions more win the nominee. millions more pounng win the nominee. millions more pouring coffers, pouring into election coffers, fundraising. an fundraising. they've been an absolute , you know, absolute fundraising, you know, four or five republican think it's stitch up it's it it's a stitch up it it's it really is his numbers are numbers have gone up that's predictable because the same thing happened after the on thing happened after the raid on mar he's been a mar a lago. but he's been a fundraising machine the fundraising machine since the news out a few weeks ago. news came out a few weeks ago. and even even since thursday. so, you know, this is a this is something that benefits trump. and the near term, for sure, and in the near term, for sure,

just people the basics of just remind people the basics of this, actually been this, what he's actually been and what he's in trouble for. it's a real stretch. it has to do with this alleged affair that he had 17 years ago with with stormy daniels , a film star stormy daniels, a film star known of sorts. yes. and then seven years ago, he made allegedly made a payment for hush money, which, you know, is kind of common practise now and part six in america, paid some hush money. and what alvin bragg is trying to do is connect that somehow to campaign finance violations . it's a real story. violations. it's a real story. so he's the attorney general's of manhattan, dear? yes. and this is because trump's lawyer i was explaining this story to my kids the other day and even my 14 year old said was trump that stupid? because i think it was one $30,000 that the lawyer paid. that's right. to stormy daniels . paid. that's right. to stormy daniels. that's right. and then donald trump paid the lawyer the exact fee, 130,000. yeah. i exact same fee, 130,000. yeah. i think pumped it up for think he pumped it up just for sports and just just help us

understand . and i think the idea understand. and i think the idea that therefore and then trump tried to pass that off from a tax point of view as campaign finance . well, no, he tried he finance. well, no, he tried he tried to write it off as a business expense. meaning i have a lawyer on retainer, which is perfectly legal and common. so you know, it was just legal expenses. you know, it was just legal expenses . and now you would expenses. and now you would argue that he could have made the payment , the hush money the payment, the hush money payment, because he didn't want to ruin marriage or he didn't want to face some sort of social. yeah he didn't want to be a social outcast or why did he do it this way? well i think you don't want do it in you don't want to do it in a very obvious way, right . so he very obvious way, right. so he just his lawyer pay. i mean, just had his lawyer pay. i mean, it's not really that crazy. and then and did not come from then and it did not come from then and it did not come from the campaign or campaign funds. his which is his mouth. what exactly which is better . but what they're trying better. but what they're trying to alvin bragg trying to do what alvin bragg is trying to do what alvin bragg is trying to that because it to do is imply that because it was a campaign or right was during a campaign or right before a campaign , he's before a campaign, he's connecting the dots and saying , connecting the dots and saying, i know that the trump company paid it, but it might as well have come from campaign about

this. and johnny, jonathan edwards, two time edwards, a democratic two time democratic candidate for president, he actually did pay his hush money to his mistress with campaign funds. and so he got in some trouble for. it didn't end up being convicted, but but so this is a real stretch. and most legal scholars are saying that this is not a case that any really him or that it's going to be filmed, he's going to be filmed being charged . is that is that normal in america? very least they'll be photographs. so this is uncharted territory. it's uncharted territory. andrew it's a question, never a great question, but it's never been a sitting been done by a sitting president, which just president, which which just shows democrat are shows you that the democrat are not afraid to break norms . you not afraid to break norms. you know, they're really breaking norms here. there's to be norms here. there's going to be some consequences . some unintended consequences. it's unpredictable . it's it's very unpredictable. it's help. as i said, it's helping trump in the near term. hopefully it'll expose some of the unseemly ness in the these soros backed days around the us. it's been ignored most for the most part by corporate media. so this might be a moment where people will ask questions why is

george soros, you know, why did he pay $1,000,000 for alvin bragg's campaign ? why are they bragg's campaign? why are they doing that in chicago and new orleans and baltimore, where crime up it's absolutely crime up and it's absolutely insane. how how how the crime problem has gone up because da's like alvin bragg are spending taxpayer money and time on prosecuting trump , getting from prosecuting trump, getting from political ambition without without considering the violent felonies that are being released by alvin bragg. thank you, craig rex benson. and if you are watching on the tv that very dog shot that you can see, the sun will be rising very soon. this is live. trump watch on our gb news youtube channel. so that's his jet. so when all the action begins, that's donald trump's jets and no doubt he will be getting out of it at some point . who knows when they will descend upon him ? i think he's descend upon him? i think he's going to be great political theatre , quite a drama. theatre, quite a drama. absolutely. what he likes drama, right. still to come , is britain right. still to come, is britain ready to go ? cash? no. or

ready to go? cash? no. or chequebook less? this is with you. last week, country past. we're going to be debating that as we go through the papers in just a few minutes. first, here's headlines. it here's your latest headlines. it is 25 to 11. i'm arron armstrong in the gb newsroom the nspcc has warned focusing on race could create new blindspots when tackling child sex abuse . it's tackling child sex abuse. it's after the home secretary singled out british pakistani man as a particular concern when it comes to grooming gangs. the prime minister is expected to a raft of new measures to protect young women and girls. later including the use of ethnicity data to support investigations . the man support investigations. the man who murdered the nine year old olivia colbert in liverpool is being sentenced later. thomas cashman was found guilty of killing the schoolgirl as he chased a convicted drug dealer into her home in august last yeah he into her home in august last year. he was also found guilty of the wounding with intent of her mother koval, and her mother, cheryl koval, and

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very good morning. it's 1040. very good morning. it's1040. this is the point on gb news of me better on andrew pierce. well, with regard to this

morning's papers and we love this bit of the programme because got lovely because we've got lovely brochure competition brochure shaped competition might my male colleague might my daily male colleague sarah we dive sarah vine. but before we dive into what you into the papers, what do you think donald can't stand think donald trump can't stand him. he's awful. if you him. i think he's awful. if you always like that, if you always felt like that, if you changed opinion him . i, changed your opinion on him. i, i yes. i changed your opinion on him. i, iyes. i have changed your opinion on him. i, i yes. i have a little bit because i didn't first. i just because i didn't first. ijust thought he was a bit of a sort of buffoon really. and actually over the years , i think he's over the years, i think he's actually quite malicious. i mean , i think capitol hill thing , i think the capitol hill thing was really turned it for me was what really turned it for me because just think inciting because i just think inciting people kill, i mean , to do people to kill, i mean, to do violence not a thing . i violence is not a good thing. i think a very there's a sort think it's a very there's a sort of certain biblical kind of justice of the fact that he's now being brought down by opponents . starr you know who he opponents. starr you know who he paid that who paid hush to money and who only had sex with him because she promised he promised her that he'd get on his her that he'd get her on his show, apprentice. and show, the apprentice. and then, of he didn't it. so of course, he didn't do it. so it's just it's just grubby. he's just on so many levels. just grubby on so many levels. on all these on that programme. all of these problems just think,

problems would be i just think, you know, you don't i mean, it's all very grubby, you know, it's the thing is just is the whole thing is just is i just sort of think it's not if you're president of, the you're the president of, the united of america, i united states of america, i expect a little better of expect a little bit better of you. to told revelations, you. i was to told revelations, but mean, not page. page he but i mean, not page. page he said he was hopeless in bed . i said he was hopeless in bed. i mean, didn't want to about mean, i didn't want to about that, to be honest. but we need to. isn't in because to. how power isn't in because can because he can do it. it's his ego is you know. do you think his orange makeup think he wears his orange makeup in he must stay in the in bed he must stay in the pillowcase. be ruined. pillowcase. yeah be ruined. i met him once as a at a at a thing at buckingham and thing at buckingham palace and spoke to his wife a very long time because he was too busy being important when he was president. is he was president. this is when he was president. this is when he was president. is when he came president. this is when he came for the state visit. and he he he is just as you would expect, just a sort of gigantic intergalactic yeah intergalactic ego. yeah circulating around the room . circulating around the room. she's, she seems quite nice and she's still within. yeah. i mean we all speculated didn't we, when, when left white when, when he left the white house first she packed her house first thing she packed her bags bill. i tell bags and she. bill. yeah i tell you if i had a choice

you what, if i had a choice between in the white house or him, go trump. and him, i'd go for trump. and i can't. which isn't it? isn't it? isn't it? because i they saying that biden is not coming to the coronation because it's too much for him? probably. i mean, i just wish the republicans would get better. i mean, they get someone better. i mean, they pleased i mean pleased as that. exactly. i mean , there are other people. it doesn't to be donald trump, doesn't have to be donald trump, you know. right what else we talking about this morning, ladies? to ladies? are we going to be discussing the day, discussing the story of the day, which is this is suella braverman saying in braverman saying that in relation grooming gangs, relation to the grooming gangs, police , council police officers, council workers, the people around workers, all the people around those sorts of stories shouldn't be hamstrung by political correctness . bushra, what do you correctness. bushra, what do you make of this all? firstly, they so many different parts of suella speaking about grooming gangs. i mean, the thing gangs. i mean, the main thing that to tackle here is that we need to tackle here is there vulnerable there are young, vulnerable children . all right, too. you children. all right, too. you know. yeah. so they are the victims . so what? i don't like victims. so what? i don't like is the distraction where she's using language, which is so divisive. and i get that there is an element of the pakistani

that are involved . however, this that are involved. however, this is a wider problem and this isn't just a problem with the pakistan community. and we do know this because when it comes to paedophilia, sexual assault , to paedophilia, sexual assault, all of that stuff , these are all of that stuff, these are men. these are these are violent perpetrators who are too who are finding these young children and grooming them . so, you know, so grooming them. so, you know, so on one hand, she's kind of race baiting in a way. you know, she's causing this tension and it's taking away from what we should be focussed on. i think when the role, when the rotherham gang went down the home time with home secretary at the time with sajid said good, these sajid javid who said good, these revolting to revolting asian are going to prison and he speaks as a man from of indian descent. you know well i look on one hand obviously as a person of colour coming from the pakistani community like i genuinely feel like we need to tackle what the issue is. know the issue is. we know that the system is still broken, whether we want to admit this or not. and i know the rishi sunak is saying, got this new saying, oh, we've got this new taskforce, going to go taskforce, they're going to go in all going to be

in and this is all going to be better. not because we better. it's not because we don't have the numbers. we know that police is intrinsically that the police is intrinsically misogynist and they have racist. so how are we going to tackle an issue? let's say, even if it is with the south asian or the pakistani community, if they are racist, is a concern and racist, this is a concern and a genuine concern of mine because we have to be worried about children. we have to be. sarah, what do you think? well, i don't think paedophilia is exclusive to the pakistani community. i think, you know, the whole point that they're trying to make is that they're trying to make is that sort of policing needs that this sort of policing needs to be colour—blind and race blind and religion blind. i mean, there plenty of that mean, there are plenty of that fings mean, there are plenty of that rings belgium. i mean, you rings in belgium. i mean, you know, it's not as though it's a kind of so i think we need to be very careful. it's not the problem with the whole grooming gang that the policing gang thing was that the policing was not done then because of because of because of racial sensitivity . they need to sensitivity. they just need to learn lessons from that make learn lessons from that and make sure they don't allow that sure that they don't allow that to get in the way. do think she's baiting sexual she's raised baiting sexual slavery think she's just

slavery? i think she's just saying unsayable, which saying the unsayable, which is to back because to say don't hold back because but mean, it is true that it's but i mean, it is true that it's difficult because the men have been to be institutionally been found to be institutionally racist on a number of occasions. so difficult. they're so it's difficult. they're trying to life. trying to try to find life. i think vicious points about vulnerable children is also very important because these these girls , you know, shouldn't be girls, you know, shouldn't be exposed to these sorts of people regardless of where they come from . they're from, you know , or from. they're from, you know, or whatever or whatever they happen to be. the point is, there are there is a group of very vulnerable children who fall and fall prey to these sorts of people. and that's because they're in care or they're not being properly looked after or they're not going to be looked at and nobody listen to them. so any basically any opportunistic person , whether regardless of person, whether regardless of who they are or where they come from, can just exploit them and that's that's big oh, that's that's a big issue. oh, just with kind of just just with you kind of insight into the pakistani community, how are these or how have they been? as far as we have they been? and as far as we know, keep keep talking know, i keep i keep talking about the past, has this

about in the past, has this problem hasn't gone away? how are they able to keep these crimes amongst many crimes secret amongst so many people whether people? i don't know whether it's just an individual thing within an actual community, because the first thing is that crime is one of those things thatis crime is one of those things that is always tried to people try to keep that a secret anyway. like if you were doing a crime, why would you want anyone to know about it? so you know, so my position on this is still the same . it's these are just the same. it's these are just these are not only white girls. we have to be very , very we have to be very, very careful. they are all different colours of girls involved in this. and it's worrisome because if you start saying that it's a targeted audience , you then are targeted audience, you then are going to miss out if it's happening to other children. and at the, you know, going back to the fact that it's been kept a secret, i don't think it's being kept a secret. i genuinely don't think that. i just think that these gangs are very, very smart . and the way that they do it, it's tactical. it's also a lot manipulation. and some of these

young girls don't even know it's happening you so happening to them, you know? so it some time for them to it takes some time for them to actually realise that they are being groomed. they this being groomed. they think this man me , he looks man, me, he buys me, he looks we've got to think about how, how will these children in this position would they believe that a total stranger is going to love them more than their family? but also they're not being loved at home how they don't there an element don't have. there is an element of judgemental ism on of sort of judgemental ism on the girls themselves because, you know, in the rochdale scandal, a lot of the problem was that people thought they were that of girl, you were that sort of girl, you know, that they were sorts know, that they were the sorts of girls do that sort of of girls that do that sort of thing. therefore they were devalued the eyes of the kind devalued in the eyes of the kind of people should be of people who should be protected. police and of protected. the police and of social didn't the police social service didn't the police and social. and this sort of and social. and so this sort of understanding notion that they're girls and this they're bad girls and that this happens of sort of happens to girls of that sort of system misogyny and so they deserve to but also that the idea that they were benefiting because might have her because he might have bought her a coat might have taken her a new coat might have taken her out for lunch, the idea that

it's almost like prostitute it's almost like a prostitute an arrangement would arrangement is how they would depict it, maybe. so there's this of element of shaming, this sort of element of shaming, if yeah, yeah. and if i can say, yeah, yeah. and i think think that's also think that i think that's also something we look something that we need to look at because we judge at because it's how we judge vulnerable people in society who, you know, maybe haven't had the or haven't got the best start or haven't got the best start or haven't got the protections the best protections and do stupid and end in stupid things and end up in trouble. you know, it's not always shouldn't perhaps always we shouldn't perhaps always we shouldn't perhaps always judgemental . shall always be so judgemental. shall we to a slightly we move on to a slightly lighter? so is my obsession lighter? so this is my obsession . is this the is this the. yes, it is this part. my obsession as well. this is the part anyone with a right? if so, yeah. the fact that we can. no longer pay for parking with money or for our parking with money or even often a car. but you even often with a car. but you need app on your phone. go need the app on your phone. go on there. i mean, ijust need the app on your phone. go on there. i mean, i just think the whole problem with modern life you can't do anything. life is you can't do anything. i mean, it's just parking mean, it's not just parking everything be done everything has to be done on your on your computer. your phone or on your computer. and is an tyranny. and that is an absolute tyranny. but of times i have but the number of times i have i've helped so an elderly gentleman standing by a parking metre baffled, metre looking utterly baffled, probably me and probably talking about me and i mean twice. i have actually

taken their phones. yeah. sign them up, put in their details , them up, put in their details, help them with that . they trust help them with that. they trust me because i've no they thought i could just steal all their stuff. yeah. i mean, that motorist doesn't have a mobile phone, etc. know exactly what. but what if your phones run out of battery ? yeah. yeah. you no of battery? yeah. yeah. you no all in a poor signal area. i mean, i would like to start an analogue hashtag analogue resistance hashtag analogue resistance hashtag analogue because analogue resistance because i think this is enough. enough of this digitised ation of our lives. a poll commissioned lives. it's a poll commissioned by the mail found that more than half over 65 don't not half of over 65 don't do not feel like using talking apps such bring go pay by such as bring go and pay by phone. it drives me nuts. but also like, you i'm also it's like, you know, i'm trying through to the trying to get through to the people my energy people who supply my energy because don't because they and they don't answer the telephone and that you and they say, oh, you bring up and they say, oh, you bring up and they say, oh, you can do it much faster, eafieh you can do it much faster, easier. i'm like, no, can't, easier. i'm like, no, i can't, because i've tried. and it doesn't work. yeah, doesn't actually work. yeah, because , i because computer says, no, i won't to person. and won't speak to the person. and at we're talking at the moment we're talking about over our so about taking over our lives so you know, this of buying or you know, this sort of buying or a refusal to stuff. this is a refusal to do stuff. this is what facing. what you

what we're facing. what do you think, bushra it's a it's think, bushra it's a it's a it's both a blessing occasionally, but it's a massive curse. but it's also a massive curse. i'm totally fine with these. oh, so easy. have it on your phone. my so easy. have it on your phone. my phone's always fully charged. i make sure when i go out cause i make sure when i go out cause ineed i make sure when i go out cause i need to get in touch with the organised social media. oh, you know, i know. and you know what? i've never had an issue with calling them up if i, even if i haven't used the app, i think some of them it can get a little bit frustrating when you need to have apps for have different apps for different so i've never have different apps for diffeanlt so i've never have different apps for diffs an issue so i've never have different apps for diffs an issue callingve never have different apps for diffean issue calling them'er have different apps for diffean issue calling them up. had an issue calling them up. they see the code in the mail today, 1770 8% of people think it's unfair to remove parking metres because it discriminate against, discriminates against older people and we shouldn't. why discriminate why not always discriminate against people ? yeah, against older people? yeah, look, know, i've got i've look, you know, i've got i've got got a space in my heart got i've got a space in my heart for are older for the people that are older and but also this is also and stuff, but also this is also good for them. you know, they they move the they can also move with the times and understand that they do changing. they to do changing. they want to i never want to a pound in the never want to put a pound in the in in they might not

in the in that they might not have anybody them move have anybody to help them move with i was end of the with the times i was end of the day it doesn't have a bank account, doesn't have an email, it doesn't have to the it doesn't have access to the internet. and he's only and internet. and he's only 65. and he function he said, i can't function anymore in life. okay. so let's say the one thing we we're say the one thing is we we're not carrying a lot of cash around these days. mean, around these days. i mean, i certainly and also, when certainly don't. and also, when you machines, you are using cash machines, they work the time. they don't work all the time. yeah. you're banging yeah. sometimes you're banging on machines. my wife on these machines. my wife in the cash always cash. she's the cash always got cash. she's well , i the cash always got cash. she's well, i hardly have cash on me anymore . i just have one i have anymore. i just have one i have anymore. i just have one i have a couple of quid in the car and isupposei a couple of quid in the car and i suppose i suppose you think the cheque book is prehistoric? of how that? but of course. how easy is that? but i have an oyster card so i also have an oyster card so that i'm told that that's going out of. yeah, i mean, it's about choice really. yeah. well out of. yeah, i mean, it's about cthink really. yeah. well out of. yeah, i mean, it's about cthink we're yeah. well out of. yeah, i mean, it's about cthink we're being well out of. yeah, i mean, it's about cthink we're being bullied. ell out of. yeah, i mean, it's about cthink we're being bullied. oh, i think we're being bullied. oh, this us. it's this is about chucking us. it's you know. so now if you park your parking lot, they know that your parking lot, they know that you were in wherever was you were in wherever it was facing at 3:00 on the 19 facing stoke at 3:00 on the 19 motorist tyranny because the state seems to hate motorists . state seems to hate motorists. it doesn't seem to it just just

does. it doesn't seem to it just just does . yeah, i don't think does. yeah, i don't think there's any. yeah question over that. try and drive around london should you. one more quick story. yes let's talk about jodie comer looking stunning . the olivier awards . do stunning. the olivier awards. do you like it? jodie comer. bushra, known for killing eve, was it? yeah, yeah, yeah. i felt i mean, cause she's she's got apps. apps. it's done an absolute talent. i think we need more women like her to be in the limelight. you know, i'm the accent's as well, can't she? amazing. it's such a skill to have, you know, for and me, it's all women empowerment. all about women empowerment. i know a cliche, but it know it's such a cliche, but it is because need more women is because we do need more women out showing we can out there showing us what we can do. i've never heard of the play. she's part of that sort of generation of british female stars you fleabag. stars like, you know, fleabag. woman phoebe, woman oh, yet. phoebe phoebe, waller—bridge and a few, yeah. florence pugh, florence pugh. they're all sort of they're very bright, they're very talented. they're quite sophisticated and dominate. yeah, they're really they're sort. mean, they're really sort. i mean, there's little soft power there's a little soft power thing on there. great

thing going on there. great british, british talent. and she's amazing. and i saw on killing eve and then i saw an experiment a experiment like she was a scouser. know that. scouser. i didn't know that. you wouldn't thought wouldn't have thought that through accent, that you know through my accent, that you know how is to go and see how much it is to go and see james norton or philip not get his off in place. it's his kit off in that place. it's £150 a ticket. might be worth it . he's naked from start to finish. know. i'm not sure i finish. i know. i'm not sure i want to see a naked man running around. apparently, he's rather impressive, so impressive, right? i mean, so few your viewers like it this few of your viewers like it this morning well . the davis got morning as well. the davis got in touch to say the people in the home office who produce the report are part of the problem, producing a report designed to pacify the majority of the population. this is about the grooming and simon a grooming gangs. and simon says a report years ago. report from three years ago. what that? our what relevance is that? our report years have report three years ago must have started years ago. and started it six years ago. and listen. davis david sums it up well, starmer well, i didn't. keir starmer prosecute grooming gangs . well, i didn't. keir starmer prosecute grooming gangs. he prosecute the grooming gangs. he is director of public prosecutions. question. prosecutions. good question. very and very good question, david. and it's we'll him. it's a question we'll ask him. right? coming to right? keep your views coming to us morning , us this morning, gbviews@gbnews.uk uk. still to come, we'll continue our coverage of the government's plan to down on those

plan to crack down on those grooming gangs. hello it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office , following for some parts office, following for some parts the south, the dullest march on record today. plenty of april, sunshine, light winds dry for the vast majority as high pressure over scandinavia builds towards the uk . keeping weather towards the uk. keeping weather systems away for the time being and keeping sunny skies place for much of the country . that's for much of the country. that's sunshine extending from scotland into england and wales, just some patchy cloud about here. northern ireland seeing a bit more cloud i think, and a fresher breeze, but for the vast majority it's dry , it's bright majority it's dry, it's bright and with the sunny skies and the light winds feeling warm, 11 to 14 celsius for most now into the evening under those clear skies , temperatures will fall away and could be a few mist and fog patches forming here and there. but for the vast majority, it is a clear night and as a result it's a frosty night with

temperatures dipping to plus one down to minus three celsius across central and eastern parts. i think for western scotland and northern ireland here will see thicker cloud and by dawn a few outbreaks of mostly light rain into the western isles . that's skirting western isles. that's skirting case. that's scotland and then arriving into orkney later in the morning, northern ireland, a few bits of rain in the far west first thing and then further rain arriving by the end of the afternoon and that's a more extensive rain arriving into the outer hebrides as but across the rest of the uk it's largely dry and bright, so plenty of sunshine towards the southeast 13 to 15 celsius. so another relatively mild day into the evening though it turns cloudier across scotland, northern and western wales and northern ireland. and for northern ireland. and for northern ireland and western scotland will see some outbreaks of light rain, that rain crossing much of the uk during wednesday, clearing to showers on thursday dner clearing to showers on thursday drier again by.

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fri day fhday good friday good morning and welcome to the point on tv news with me andrew pierce and bev turner. well, still to come this morning, pierce and bev turner. well, still to come this morning , the still to come this morning, the government will announce a new task force today to crack down on sexual abuse and exploitation . the plan will also include tough sentencing for those involved grooming gangs. but involved in grooming gangs. but a brave man has controversially described as largely groups of men in almost all british pakistan . and good for her for pakistan. and good for her for saying, in my view, the home secretary's also rejected claims that brexit is anything to do with huge delays at the with those huge delays at the port dover over the weekend. port of dover over the weekend. she queues, saw she said the queues, which saw people 15 hours to people waiting up to 15 hours to come, the way, the queues come, by the way, the queues were by a combination of were caused by a combination of factors. but not brexit. former us president donald will us president donald trump will be today as he be in new york today as he prepares for legal battle over hush to adult hush money payments to adult

film daniels . could film star stormy daniels. could trump be the first ever former us president to go to prison . us president to go to prison. and . don't forget, you won't and. don't forget, you won't know your thoughts on our talking points. you know what to do. email us at gbviews@gbnews.uk . okay. we're gbviews@gbnews.uk. okay. we're going to get stuck into all these stories today. but first, let's the latest headlines let's get the latest headlines with arron armstrong . good with arron armstrong. good morning to you. it's just after 11:00. i'm arron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the nspcc has warned focusing on race could create new when tackling child sexual abuse. it is after the home secretary that singled out british pakistani men as a particular concern when it comes to grooming gangs. the prime minister is expected to reveal a raft of new measures to protect young women and girls later, including using ethnicity data to support, investigate actions. former greater manchester police detective maggie oliver says

more investment in training needed to police the criminal justice system keeps the course. they are on their knees , you they are on their knees, you know, we are not going to bring about the, you know, monument to changes that we need without investment, without proper training of police officers . you training of police officers. you know, the sentencing is pitiful. the jails are full, less than 2% of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches a court . the of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches a court. the man responsible for the murder of nine year old olivia corbell, liverpool is being sentenced later . thomas liverpool is being sentenced later. thomas cashman was found guilty of killing the schoolgirl as he chased a convict drug dealer into her home in august last year. was also found last year. he was also found guilty of the wounding with intent her mother , cheryl intent of her mother, cheryl corbell attempted murder corbell and the attempted murder of nee, who he was of joseph nee, who he was chasing . is to be sentenced chasing. is due to be sentenced at manchester crown court this afternoon . teachers in england afternoon. teachers in england will go on strike again. another two days next term after rejecting the latest government

pay rejecting the latest government pay offer. they've announced they will walk out to only 7th of april and the 2nd of may. 98% of april and the 2nd of may. 98% of any eu members voted against what they've described as an insulting offer amounted to a £1,000 one off payment. plus an average rise of 4.5% for most staff next year . almost staff next year. almost a million passport applications could be facing delays in processing because of industrial action. more than a thousand passport offices . office workers passport offices. office workers across eight sites are walking off the job from today for five weeks with the public and commercial services union saying it will have a significant impact. the general secretary's written to the government calling for urgent talks in a bid to resolve the matter. nikki calvert, head of the travel website site, the points guy uk , says people may need to rethink their holiday plans. there isn't a great way about it. the only ways to plan ahead if you've got if you want to get

away in the next in the coming weeks be possible. as expired, you might need to look at your destination. you think about staying at home or going to ireland, example, where you ireland, for example, where you can id and not can travel with just id and not with a passport. donald trump says will speak in florida says he will speak in florida tomorrow following his arraignment later on criminal charges. the former us president will fly from his mar a lago estate to new york today after being indicted in relation to alleged hush money payments to the film star stormy daniels ahead of the 2016 election. mr. trump is due to be fingerprinted and photo graphed at the court in manhattan tomorrow. his lawyer says he will enter a plea of not guilty . russia's wagner of not guilty. russia's wagner group has claimed control of the eastern ukrainian city of bakhmut. the head of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, says troops raised the russian flag over the administration building, claiming they had taken the city from a legal point of view.

ukraine's military says russian forces are still very far, though , from capturing the town though, from capturing the town . a woman has been arrested in russia over the death of. a prominent pro—war blogger in st petersburg. vlad lyon to task. he was killed and at least 32 people injured in an explosion at a cafe yesterday. russian investigators say they've detained pova as detained daria pova as a suspect. mr. tartus gives a vocal supporter of russia's war in ukraine in, battered with troops and provided running commentary of the invasion . commentary of the invasion. jodie comer and paul mescal won the top prizes for their west end debut performances at last night's olivier awards. comber won best actress for her role as tessa in a one person production prima facie, while mescal took home best actor for role as stanley kowalski in the new stage adaption of streetcar named desire , this is gb news named desire, this is gb news will bring you more as it happens. now it's to andrew and

. bev with the prime minister shortly to announce a details of this new police task forces to tackle grooming gangs. and it's part of a of measures being unveiled by the government to protect women and girls from predators. and girls from sexual predators. that's right. the will also that's right. the plan will also include sentences for include tougher sentences for members gangs with members of grooming gangs with the not the prime minister pledging not to political correctness get to let political correctness get in the way of a down. while earlier on tv news spoke to formally half of greater manchester police, a woman who could frankly run this country. maggie oliver on what it all means . but what maggie oliver on what it all means. but what i maggie oliver on what it all means . but what i fear, like means. but what i fear, like calais is that this is yet more rhetoric . it is. all right. rhetoric. it is. all right. saying we are going to crack down on these grooming gangs. we are going to bring in specialist officers. well as kelly rightly says , you know, the police, the says, you know, the police, the criminal system, cps, the courts , they are on their knees . you , they are on their knees. you know, we are not going to bring

the, you know, monumental changes that we need without investment without proper training of police officers. you know, the sentencing is pitiful . the jails are full. less than 2% of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches a court . so 2% of reported rapes and abuse ever reaches a court. so this to me you know i have heard priti patel have had conversations with her with sajid javid saying the same things. i hope that this different that this these words convert into action. lewis case report shines a spotlight on the met that could be any police force throughout the whole country. policing is in crisis. there is a problem with attitudes, with coaches , with, attitudes, with coaches, with, you know, inexperience and officers. and, you know, we talk about a task force, which is great. but, you know, when i was in gmb, we had a serious sexual offences unit which they closed down experience . police officers down experience. police officers and detectives are the police in their droves . who is going to their droves. who is going to train a nine teen or a 20 year

old recruit to deal with this? it's all very well to say the words. and i think my fear, to be honest , is words. and i think my fear, to be honest, is this words. and i think my fear, to be honest , is this is, you words. and i think my fear, to be honest, is this is, you know, a little bit of electioneering. we've got a election coming up . we've got a election coming up. you know, the county's out the bag. i spoke about this ten years ago, and you're quite right. when i started to speak out, you know, i was, i think, one of the very first people to say publicly that the grooming gangs were predominant, made up of pakistani muslim men. there is a within that culture that needs addressing. and we can't tiptoe around the edges and avoid dealing with it. the last thing i would say is that the law in this sees a 12 year old child or a 13 year old child can't have sex with a 50 or 60 year old man. that is against the law. so it doesn't matter for me when the abuse that comes from the law should be dealing with every single , whether it's with every single, whether it's a priest in the catholic church

, whether it is jeffrey epstein, or whether it is a pakistani muslim man. we need to throw the full weight of the law behind it. and you know, a few words won't change the reality that these kids, as kelly has said , these kids, as kelly has said, have been judged from a greater manchester police . maggie manchester police. maggie gallagher , she's bringing in gallagher, she's bringing in common sense and she should be on that. but i mean, task force. but she may be. no. well, she has advised government before. i'd like to think that somehow her influence is on this report. well, she'd ruffle feathers. she would. from our would. let's get more from our political catherine political reporter, catherine foster good foster this morning. good morning, . i want morning, catherine. i just want to read of our viewers to read one of our viewers comments to owen got in comments to you. owen has got in touch said suella braverman comments to you. owen has got in to exactly said suella braverman comments to you. owen has got in to exactly right suella braverman comments to you. owen has got in to exactly right .yuella braverman comments to you. owen has got in to exactly right . thea braverman comments to you. owen has got in to exactly right . the tragedy man comments to you. owen has got in to exactly right . the tragedy lsii'i is exactly right. the tragedy is that it's taken so long for anyone to actually say it. if that captures mood of the nation, the conservatives will very happy today. nation, the conservatives will very happy today . they certainly very happy today. they certainly will. there's a lot of tough talk coming . prime minister talk coming. prime minister rishi sunak from home. secretary suella braverman grooming gangs

today. they are saying they need today. they are saying they need to forget about political correctness and cultural sensitivity ease and tackle this head on. suella braverman has , head on. suella braverman has, of course, pointed out that the grooming gangs specifically are often british. pakistan horny men. now they are rolling out a raft of measures they are in leeds this morning at an nspcc hub . then they're going across hub. then they're going across to rochdale in greater manchester. several measures being announced of all a task force of specialist officers to go into areas with grooming gangs to help the police working their sack lay tougher sentencing at the court stage . sentencing at the court stage. then mandatory reports sorting if people with professional obugafions if people with professional obligations to children like teachers, police , social care, teachers, police, social care, worker as if they have evidence

grooming going on, they will have a legal duty to report that and finally mandatory information to be recorded. now labour are saying that this is a lot of what they've suggested years and hasn't been done keir keir starmer has saying yes he agrees that political sensitivities shouldn't a factor in this but also pointing out that the majority of cases of child sexual abuse are in fact carried out by men. but that is, of course, we live in the united kingdom where only 14% of people come from minorities. but this is certainly a battle that the home secretary and the prime minister all are happy to have, and especially just a few weeks from the local elections in may . timing is everything that's catherine forster , a political catherine forster, a political correspondent at westminster . correspondent at westminster. well, let's get more from the former superintendent at the

metropolitan police. that's chapman chowdhury , no stranger chapman chowdhury, no stranger to this programme. good, good. good morning to you . good good morning to you. good morning , andrew. always morning, andrew. always a pleasure. yeah very. now this been flagged up for some time. is it going to work? chapman, do you see anything really positive for new in this or is there just a bit of gimmickry about it? i think it's a bit of both, but i think it's a bit of both, but i think it's a bit of both, but i think it's really important the fact that they talked about new laws to protect victims and actually hold others to account, i.e. teachers , social workers, i.e. teachers, social workers, anyone that is in those positions of trust , they are positions of trust, they are actually dealing with young all the time that they have a duty of care a responsibility by law to actually call it out and to actually reform the proper agencies and to work together to prevent and to protect young children . read again. sharma can children. read again. sharma can i just read you one of the messages from? one of our viewers, sandra, has said i was

a social worker for more than 20 years working in area of years working in an area of leeds which a large asian leeds which had a large asian population from pakistan. we tried at time to girls tried at the time to help girls in who being targeted in care who were being targeted . to understand . but you have to understand that in this community the women are to intervene, even are powerless to intervene, even if knew they would always if they knew they would always cover up their sons or cover up for their sons or husbands the are very husbands. the women are very isolated they try say isolated when they try say something, be fear something, they can be in fear of know if of lives. i don't know if anything's changed. i hope so. do you think anything has changed and what do we do about that situation ? and those that situation? and those silenced women ? i think we talk silenced women? i think we talk about any cultural background where women are asian, black backgrounds, where they are cast in some communities as second class citizens. but look, this isn't just about asian communities. and we talked about grooming gangs, 84% of us sexual offences are committed by. what british member i think we need to into the backgrounds of all these people. the fact children need to be protected but i would say is from cultural background,

from my own experiences as a woman, you've got to be able to have the courage to stand up and to be able to call it out. i think in many communities, parents tend to protect children regardless of their background. and when you're talking sexual abuse of other children, regardless of what background, your parents are you need to be able to you have to be cruel to be kind in order to, you know ensure that your children are being apprehended. if they are the ones that are being are the perpetrators . suella braverman perpetrators. suella braverman has been criticised the labour party for what they call his dog whistle politics. they say she's inflaming racial tension since she write to say what a lot of people know that the infamous gang grooming gangs were british pakistani men . i think needs to pakistani men. i think needs to work on the fact that there's a commission that has actually been a review that's been commissioned by the home office that actually doesn't give that of data as to which ethnic

background is likely to be background is more likely to be a perpetrator. but i think she needs to do is stop being so dubious . that's my personal view dubious. that's my personal view because i don't a lot of what she says. the bottom is that you've got to look at all backgrounds and talking backgrounds and we're talking about data on all about collecting data on all different ethnicities . you can different ethnicities. you can go to any part of the uk where demographically you might get more of an asian background or more of an asian background or more of a white background, more a black community. and you've got to look at which sections of those communities are more likely be perpetrators in any crime in a way. in that case. do you take the statement today as a kind of empowerment for police officers to be colour blind , officers to be colour blind, culture blind , to focus on the culture blind, to focus on the crime rather than the identity of the perpetrator , police of the perpetrator, police officers and people from all those backgrounds need to be culturally competent and the difference of different communities . that does not mean

communities. that does not mean protecting those communities when they are perpetrators of crime . so, no, it's not crime. so, no, it's not a question of being colour—blind or culturally blind. it's about being culturally competent and being culturally competent and being completely , utterly being completely, utterly professional . and regardless of professional. and regardless of somebody's background . and somebody's background. and forget about what your career prospects are going to be if you call out, the fact is you need to be professional and you need to be professional and you need to call out these people that are offending against young children who should be on this task force . that's a really good task force. that's a really good point, because i actually take on maggie's point really important. the fact is, there's so little experience across policing. there is some very good officers and many of officers have left. they've got the kind of experience that i had as i as a serving officer. it's inexperience, officers. you can't get a young 19 year old to go into a task like this and start training them at a young age to spot the signs and to be able to victims. there needs to be good balance. and the fact

is, you're going to end up taking all your experience who didn't pockets of policing and then even even less experience on the frontline which is a problem that they've got. and i think the other issue is exactly what she said about the criminal justice system is . one in 70 justice system is. one in 70 victims a perpetrators, a child , a one in 100 are actually convicted . so it's not just convicted. so it's not just policing task force and bringing people in. you've got to fix a that's already broken in the first stages. criminal justice legal services , solicitors. legal services, solicitors. prosecutors can't cope at the moment. so you might bringing lots more in, but you're not actually supporting them. there needs to be more money and better funding . you and maggie , better funding. you and maggie, all of us should be on that task force. chapman well, all of us should be on that task force. chapman well , that's force. chapman well, that's a really interesting point, because actually think policing is so arrogant and ignorant, they won't bring back people that actually speak out , that that actually speak out, that actually have lived and breathed and got experiences because they think they're better than what

they are actually , they would they are actually, they would benefit the experiences benefit from the experiences of like maggie, don't care like. so, maggie, i don't care if don't take take other if they don't take take other former officers that have that experience and start working with then you're with them and then law you're serving and do business serving go out and do business as okay fantastic . you're so as okay fantastic. you're so right. former detective superintendent the met g7 the task force as well. yeah, absolutely . i want to come to absolutely. i want to come to some of your views. we're talking about cashless britain in relation to these hideous, torturous apps that a lot of you don't like. and dave says we've got a corner shop locally, which i rarely use as he has a £5 minimum spend on credit card. some businesses prefer cash to avoid charges . so true. and avoid card charges. so true. and arnold says i hate the cashless society . if young people want to society. if young people want to pay society. if young people want to pay on an app, good for them. however, i like to put my money to machine and put it in to take it machine and put it in my car window to make sure it's right and. lots on trump to john press. he says andrew and beverley idiotic party beverley biden's idiotic party have prosecuting have made a big of prosecuting donald trump. i can't see anything stopping him now from

being the next president . i being the next president. i don't wanna be elected president, but i think he'll be the next republican candidate. oh, and think that's oh, he will be. and think that's the of the so the end of the santa. so i thought had a real chance of thought we had a real chance of winning. absolutely. yeah. this is but this was greg's, for instance, didn't about instance, we didn't talk about this, last time this, actually, but last time i was said this was he was on, he said this was he thought the policy of the democrats was in order to galvanise so much trump galvanise so much behind trump that marginalise ron that it would marginalise ron desantis think they desantis because they think they run. desantis was the candidate he probably win . but and he would probably win. but and of bill biden stand to of course bill biden stand to gain if he can't even come across the atlantic to the coronations he can't even stand up nevermind as president up nevermind stand as president and say does he know who he is yeahi and say does he know who he is yeah i mean he's a real surely to know what it's going to be an interesting 18 months though, isn't it, with a british election on the horizon and an american election, we're very lucky to sit here and to lucky to sit here and talk to you of this and night you about all of this and night . do pronounce that? and . how do you pronounce that? and i mh sorry . . how do you pronounce that? and i mh sorry. that's that's irish. that's not me . it's me. i knew that's not me. it's me. i knew it. neve it's neve. thank you .

it. neve it's neve. thank you. has said it isn't tenuous. ultimately this is about trump's indictment . ultimately this is about trump's indictment. it is a federal offence to pay someone to keep quiet over information that might affect an election. it's very clear that did that. it's time pay the price for his actions what he might because of course he's going to be tomorrow all of which will in some form of camera or maybe even broadcast live now. still to come, we're going to be discussing we're going to be discussing. we're to be discussing. we're to be discussing beginning the discussing the beginning of the tax year. because it tax year. oh, no. because it started and what it means for the in your pocket with the pound in your pocket with our economics business our economics and business editor halligan. editor liam halligan. look, lesley, and who we love. you're with .

gb news that's the beginning of april which means it's a start of a new tax year. that means all kinds of changes to house bills, benefits and taxation cost of living crisis is ongoing, with annual inflation still above % of annual inflation still above% of food prices rising , it's an even

food prices rising, it's an even faster rate. but energy and council tax may also be going up, so who better to tell us what it all means in our economics? business editor liam halligan with all the . money oh, halligan with all the. money oh, liam, give me some good news. there's a huge amount of economics and business around today. it really . but we saw the today. it really. but we saw the energy bills . big news. we do energy bills. big news. we do need to get your head around this. it's not it's not great news now you'll have heard a couple of weeks ago the government announced that ofgem announced that the cap on the average energy bill, i've put it in a graphic here for gb news tv viewers , i've outlined it for viewers, i've outlined it for radio listeners. the cap on average household bills is staying at £2,500 a year. there were concerns it was going to go up to £3,000. so you think, oh , up to £3,000. so you think, oh, that's great. so energy bills aren't going to go up anymore. but but, but what's also happening today ? it's the end of happening today? it's the end of the across the board £400 payment help with energy bills

is automatically deducted that all households have been getting so that now ends so household energy bills are going to go up even though the cap is staying where it is and wholesale prices are going to come down. don't shoot the messenger for those on benefits over the next year there's to be in three there's going to be in three instalments around £800 of annual support for household energy bills . and we must, must, energy bills. and we must, must, must say, i say this all the time. if you are having trouble with your energy bills, tell your supplier, phone them up in an email, exchange after the fact. an email exchange. they have an emergency email. once you've told them and they've acknowledged it, you've told them. it's much, much, much harder for them to cut you off and if you're on a pre—payment metre under the current emergency they emergency legislation, they can't off either. that can't cut you off either. that should just be the last thing that tell your supplier if you . that tell your supplier if you. i guess the fact we're going into mild weather helps a bit it does and hopefully will be

does and hopefully there will be some more easing in wholesale energy markets. i'm going to come to that in a moment. look, it has been really tough. one good bit of news, actually is that the uk government is facilitating the creation of some lng landing platforms. so does that mean we began a lot of our gas over recent months, particularly since the war in ukraine and not from norway, where we usually get it? that's carried on. and of course not russia, at least a lot less from russia, at least a lot less from russia, still some. it's another story . we've getting gas story. we've been getting gas from qatar, from america. so this is gas in those lng and liquid gas . yeah, liquefied liquid gas. yeah, liquefied natural gas with the big bubbles you've often seen them on the television. and then we've got these landing platforms you don't have to build new docks where these ships can can dock sort of at sea or just on piers and then they can convert the liquid natural gas into actual gas and then pipe onshore. that is one bit of good that there, isn't it? it's really britain is

at the forefront of this. right. we are we have the most lng landing platforms of any economy in europe . is because we go in europe. is that because we go such terrible storage facilities? that's partly bayview and i've talked about this before. we haven't got nearly enough storage though . nearly enough storage though. the rough on the sea storage facility which centrica was letting be made obsolete . letting be made obsolete. they've done a deal with the government and will now be start to be used again. but we are very short of gas storage and also we've got to talk to you about what changes to taxes now. indeed.so about what changes to taxes now. indeed. so that is the beginning , the tax year at the moment , the new tax year at the moment . that there are lots . and that means there are lots , lots of changes. here's a bit of news. again, i've got it of good news. again, i've got it on a graphic. the wage has pretty much the same as the minimum wage, and this for minimum wage, and this is for people 23 old is up people above 23 years old is up 92 from today to £10.42 an 92 pay from today to £10.42 an houh do 92 pay from today to £10.42 an hour. do you remember andrew wasn't so long ago when labour say we need a £10 an hour minimum wage, that's what does. we're now at 1042 an hour. so of course labour is saying we need

a minimum wage. that will be a £15 minimum wage. that will be one the key battlegrounds in one of the key battlegrounds in the next election. yeah, the next general election. yeah, £15 minimum good or bad, £15 minimum wage, good or bad, the downside the economy on the downside side, council tax across the country is going up by roughly 5% in a cap. you can go higher than 5. isn't that right? that's right. so they go in the full amount, go style because of course, the cap becomes the floor. that's eventually happens . just like student loans, up to £9,000. in fact, they're all like that. yeah. yeah. so that's that's an average of 100 quid extra on the average band d house across the country at the same time you know our broadband our mobile , our water bills, all our mobile, our water bills, all the bills we have with private companies many of them will be unked companies many of them will be linked to the retail price index, rather the cpi. so they're going to start going up between eight, ten or 12. again don't shoot the messenger. and then tax is going up. don't shoot the messenger. and then tax is going up . from 19 to then tax is going up. from 19 to 25. now, there's a lot of spin from government and i see a lot

of broadcasters parroting it today and some of it it's true, saying , oh, there's going to be saying, oh, there's going to be more investment because there's going to be more allowances , going to be more allowances, capital allowances for companies. yeah if you're a massive firm with deep pockets that borrow to build a lot that can borrow to build a lot more equipment, if you're a more equipment, not if you're a small and going out of your small firm and going out of your service, and not if you're a service, and not if you're a service industry because they don't actually make big investment it's of investment and it's all of equipment isn't 80/% of our economy debt service is economy and debt service is indeed it is indeed. so i'm indeed it? it is indeed. so i'm concerned corporation concerned about this corporation rise. i've been highlighting it here on for gb news a long time tomorrow. actually i've got a special i'm bringing to gb news birmingham. i spent the back end of last week in birmingham talk to lots of manufacturers not just about the corporations rise but also andrew and bev the fact that something i haven't mentioned here from today , all mentioned here from today, all uk companies , they're really uk companies, they're really energy intensive companies like steelmakers or something. they won't get any help with their energy bills and many of these companies, their energy have already and they're already tripled and they're

going up even more. and going to go up even more. and a lot of manufacturers across the midlands, those red wall midlands, across those red wall seats, 40, 50% of their cost seats, 30, 40, 50% of their cost base is utility bill. and those utility bills now are going to be completely on supported. and this is going to become a major issue. and i did an exclusive interview with andy street, the oh, yeah, the west midlands , oh, yeah, the west midlands, who's actually is he's taking a little pop at the government on this and the treasury saying that they might need to change. independent minded, isn't he. he's independent, he's very independent, outspoken, of course. what's happening is he happening at john lewis is he used run it. he certainly is. used to run it. he certainly is. he the other thing he certainly is. the other thing i to mention, and again, i wanted to mention, and again, we easily be leaving the we could easily be leaving the news the oil price. news on, this is the oil price. now, oil prices jumped up 8% now, the oil prices jumped up 8% overnight. it's why it's jumped up because . you have the opec up because. you have the opec exporters . they control 40% of exporters. they control 40% of global oil production led the saudis. but you've also got , you saudis. but you've also got, you know, uae, you've got qatar, you've got iran on iraq, mexico , nigeria, lots big oil exporters . and they seem to be

exporters. and they seem to be kind of aligning a bit more with russia. i mean , russia isn't russia. i mean, russia isn't part of opec , but this opec+ part of opec, but this opec+ group opec plus the russians acting together , they've acting together, they've decided, even though global economy is heating up and the oil prices have been going up a lot lately. they've decided to cut another million barrels a day from global production, about 1% on top of the 2 million barrel cut that we saw a couple of months ago. drive the price. so they make more money. they've literally got us over . they literally got us over. they literally got us over. they literally have us over america's opec. it only controls 40% of output, but parts parts, if you combine it with russians combine it with the russians they control 90% of global oil . they control 90% of global oil. so that could wreck the government's entire anti —inflation government's entire anti—inflation strategy of getting it down. i'm not i don't think it orecchiette i think you direct it it could certainly damage and dent it because the price oil. it's not just price of oil. it's not just obviously about petrol and diesel everything . plastics, diesel is everything. plastics, transport freight impacts ,

transport freight impacts, everything. so this is a major of the geopolitical screw . the of the geopolitical screw. the saudis, joe biden is saying we must act against this . this is must act against this. this is bad news, but look, this sort of us—saudi alliance which is underpinned geopolitics since the second world war is showing signs of cracking, partly linked, i'm afraid , to the war linked, i'm afraid, to the war in ukraine. so all this geopolitical stuff it sounds like the academic middle of common room discussions is going to impact you when you fill up your car or van. that's how economics works. you've make economics works. you've make economics , which is a dry economics, which is a dry subject for most people . well, subject for most people. well, when i get a bit of time, i can tell people stuff they need to know. know. well, build know. yeah you know. well, build back . nothing's getting back better. nothing's getting built, nothing's come back. a nothin better come on, better nothin is better come on, better cheer up when the when is build back better i tell you what's really to we to get really going to we going to get out i tell you what's out of this. i tell you what's really right? i'll tell really good, right? i'll tell you what's really good. we just avoided right, avoided recession, right, on friday. well, i was up in birmingham so i don't we birmingham so i don't think we didn't maybe as

didn't report as much maybe as we would have if i was screaming about it in the newsroom, as i often but gdp numbers often do. but the gdp numbers show we did grow in the show that we did grow in the final of 2022. we did avoid recession. we had the bank , recession. we had the bank, england, the office of budget responsibility , you know, not responsibility, you know, not just labour front bench, but just the labour front bench, but perhaps the whole of the twittersphere experts all saying we're going into recession. we didn't go into recession. we avoided that two consecutive avoided that. two consecutive quarters of negative growth. didn't the government some trumpet tell me you tell me trumpet you tell me you tell me positive headline they should have been some say news but the reason we didn't go into recession right was our manufacturing sector . these manufacturing sector. these doughty resilient, small and medium sized companies , family medium sized companies, family owned, often big employers in their small towns still have a manufacturing heartland in this country. and it will it's suffering now . it's got this suffering now. it's got this double whammy today of a tax rise and an end to support for their energy bills. but they are strong companies and they will see us through. liam, thank you so much. right. still to come,

the nhs been warned that treatment delays risk thousands of children . we'll find out more of children. we'll find out more after your morning news. karen armstrong . hi there. it's 11:33 armstrong. hi there. it's11:33 a.m. arron armstrong in the gb newsroom. the prime minister is expected to reveal raft of new measures to tackle grooming gangs shortly and has vowed political correctness will no hamper authorities. the nspcc has warned excessively focusing on race could create new blindspots when tackling child sexual abuse. it comes after the home secretary singled out british pakistan man as a particular concern . the man who particular concern. the man who murdered the nine year old olivia pratts coble in liverpool is being sentenced later. thomas cashman was found guilty of killing the schoolgirl as he chased a convicted drug dealer into her home in august year. he was also found guilty of wounding with intent to her mother cheryl korbel and the attempted of joseph nee, the man

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hello, it's 1140. you're with to the point on gb news. we're going to those papers again. they're back by popular acclaim. professor update, email thing. i'm buster shake shake is also here gb news. thank nhs come but it's not good you piece today was great. oh thank you . i think was great. oh thank you. i think someone should say this but i'm just a really good piece about lefty . lefty the takeover of the lefty. lefty the takeover of the bma is militant militant mean basically turning the doctor

junior doctor strike into way to turn back the tide on the thatcher union trade union forms in the eighties make a political all about socialism. they've got one of the great coal unions got a hammer and sickle they as its as its logo . yeah it's pretty as its logo. yeah it's pretty it's an appalling it's and it's and 175,000 procedures were cancelled during the three days of junior doctor strikes in march is for this straight after the bank holiday one day after another and withdrawing emergency cover but the point you're making in your piece is that there is they they are not they care about the pay they don't they they read about very politically motivated. and you said that the these guys were voted in on a very small percentage, 1, one 1. so that's i just find it can well be so politics has in fact is the nature is what i'm saying in a kind of quite a bad way. that's not to say that , you know, there not to say that, you know, there are huge problems , but it's are huge problems, but it's

quite an interesting. can we just with this so on a website called reddit where these junior doctors hold hold forth , bleep, doctors hold hold forth, bleep, bleep, bleep, this bleep, bleep, bleep. more than anything else , bleep. more than anything else, f the nhs, they go on about and fthe nhs, they go on about and don't boom don't guilt trip me with your cancers anymore. i sincerely hope the whole thing collapses. a lot of that junior doctors on a on a reddit website talking to each other thinking that people like me won't get to find these tweets and it's appalling . i'm not saying the appalling. i'm not saying the majority won't be like that, though, of course. no, no, no. but activists who've but it's the activists who've got of them got control and a lot of them are ex—members of momentum, which of course was the corbynite movement up corbynite movement set up protect corbyn's protect jeremy corbyn's leadership . so their interest. leadership. so their interest. so just it just feels like the nhs at some level is being by this kind of hardline left wing politics. the whole i mean , politics. the whole i mean, that's that's not to say that these operations have been cancelled has anything to do with it, but just it's it just, it goes to show how how sort of complex this situation is and

how difficult it is. this is the latest shocking figures, buster, today is the fact that there are nearly 15,000 children waiting for procedures. they had operations that were postpone in 2022 and dr. camilla kingdom, president of the royal college paediatrics, has said that delaying a child's operation risks, having a lifelong impact on their development, this will move people it. the idea that children are being neglected this way. absolutely. and i know i do stand by it that i was trying to understand. i get, you know, there is this crisis of pay know, there is this crisis of pay and people should be paid fairly. but my concern was that it putting the it was about putting the patient's needs first. and ultimately that is the nhs ultimately that is what the nhs is predicated it is about is predicated on. it is about and are we losing sight of that because i certainly do not want these children to, to miss out on these very much needed appointments . you know, balance appointments. you know, balance seems loss and there is a seems to loss and there is a political agenda here, but there has to another way to do this has to be another way to do this . also arguing to being . they're also arguing to being made pay has fallen way

made to their pay has fallen way behind that sense , behind inflation in that sense, 2008. and they put out a statement saying, you could earn more a barrister in more as a barrister in prettyman, she but because they paid 14.10 pence, junior doctors paid 14.10 pence, junior doctors paid 14.9 pence. now the independent checking service fact. independent checking service fact . absolutely not true. you fact. absolutely not true. you will not find a junior doctor anywhere in britain on £14.09 because they work weekends , work because they work weekends, work longer hours shifts, nothing like it. so probably closer to 20 to £30 an i so it's very misleading of the bma to be using that sort of propaganda. it's true . and when i actually it's true. and when i actually came across that in the paper was really confused because i didn't have idea, i was thinking surely cannot be true because on one hand you've got just a big waste and have a doctor and waste and you have a doctor and these doctors, you know, well, it isn't helping people lives and i believe fact and it's true, i believe fact check rather than the bma because so because it isn't checking. so the line is patients are the bottom line is patients are suffering. that's what suffering. i mean, that's what this mean, i'm sure this is about. i mean, i'm sure that cancellations have that these cancellations have also something to do with lockdown. covid,

lockdown. yeah. effect of covid, which we've discussed endlessly which we've discussed endlessly which should never have happened . also, know , we're not . but also, you know, we're not training any doctors i mean, i've got a friend whose daughter wanted to go and do medicine. she was turned down. she's got three stars. you can't a place at university to do medicine because i don't know why they said there's some scope, but they don't to pay for the training or whatever it is. but the point is that the whole system is completely wrong . and system is completely wrong. and i that i honestly sunak is i think that i honestly sunak is obviously into tackling difficult subjects as we've seen today with the whole grooming ground thing. i think he should think he should fight this. i think he should fight this. i think should grasp this sword and say, look , nhs needs a total and say, look, nhs needs a total response . it needs we said , need response. it needs we said, need to rethink, go back to the drawing . also, if you think drawing. also, if you think about it years and, years ago becoming a nurse and becoming a doctor, there was a different credential that was kind of attached to personally you did it health care. yeah. okay so it's like whilst get people have

bills to pay i feel like this is the caring part of it. having i think also my experience of saying of the nhs on thursday evening when i ended up a&e with my collarbone is that my of broken collarbone is that the department. it turns out the urgent care department was just full of people who could have gone to a gp. and the problem was they said, well, these people can't get gp appointments, everyone's just using need to see my gp using mean i need to see my gp and they've given me to 20th and they've given me to the 20th of or next year. of april this year or next year. let's see i think. well something but the point is i just think that, you know, rishi is doing that is is doing stuff that is difficult. he's making that his sort , which i think sort of trademark, which i think is really admirable because nobody does anything nobody ever does anything difficult because . difficult in politics because. it's it's all about it's you know, it's all about short think let's short termism and i think let's tackle this really big problem, which is at nhs needs total reset what it was created for and to do in 1948 has changed completely. we need some sort of cross—party, you know, committee to work out what the way forward is because it's just not working on so many different levels. yeah. and these strikes are

yeah. and and these strikes are going to make it so much worse. four days straight after bank houday four days straight after bank holiday is really holiday as well, which is really cynical . yeah, right. ladies and cynical. yeah, right. ladies and gentlemen, thank you. moving on, could australia on the path to becoming a republic? austria was this story about this is interesting actually because this comes to light and what it's saying is it actually happened after the queen's death. so there are a lot more australians that feel like they can go to republic, that maybe there this independ ence, there is this independ ence, although they are going to need although they are going to need a of votes and think it's a lot of votes and i think it's twice amount and australia twice the amount and australia isn't quite there yet . however, isn't quite there yet. however, there few other countries there are a few other countries that considering it tooth that are considering it tooth places like jamaica and antigua that are also considering independence. so if they go down that road then if they recently did, yes they did means that they might then get the public's opinion may change. send william and kate down under for a few weeks because people listen. i think it's interesting. this is all about how brilliant the

queen was. yes. a lot of people loved the queen and they, too, they just loved her as an individual and they didn't. i think who were sort individual and they didn't. i thirepublicans who were sort individual and they didn't. i thirepublicans or who were sort individual and they didn't. i thirepublicans or who weren'tyrt of republicans or who weren't really the monarchy loved really into the monarchy loved the she had that the queen. yes. she had that sort starkness. think sort of starkness. i think charles hasn't enough time charles hasn't had enough time to that sort of following. to get that sort of following. and whether he or not and also with with the whole harry and meghan story cost an entire shadow over . the royal family meghan story cost an entire shadow over. the royal family in australia, people are fed up of it and because of that they're actually questioning probably they hear about the royal family now is the from that now is the fallout from that wretched couple in that millionaire's house and we still don't know if they're going to the coronation. and still, that's people talk. of that's all people talk. of course, australia got course, australia now got anthony this prime anthony albanese, this new prime minister whip , minister who is committed whip, isn't he? he's very. minister who is committed whip, isn't he? he's very . to the isn't he? he's very. to the monarchy. i think one of the first things you did in government was was to a minister for the republic or something, didn't into didn't they, to look into whether they needed royal whether they needed a royal family association or not. but they just remember when they should just remember when charles camilla were in charles and camilla were in germany, standing germany, they were standing

next. president of germany germany, they were standing nexthis president of germany germany, they were standing nexthis wifeesident of germany germany, they were standing nexthis wife and�*nt of germany germany, they were standing nexthis wife and�*nt of all'many germany, they were standing nexthis wife and�*nt of all asked and his wife and were all asked and his wife and were all asked and everyone asked a question here. the the here. it's the name of the present germany. none of us knew. us knew. there knew. none of us knew. there were obscure grey men quite often obscure grey women, often or obscure grey women, whereas the everyone knows who our king is . yeah, that's true. our king is. yeah, that's true. well worldwide, as did the queen. which is why they're a great ambassador country. great ambassador to the country. i from famous women to the i right from famous women to the ordinary stevenage woman sarah kiss who is steve and is a woman. why are we all talking about her? i well, because apparently keir starmer has got to over. he's going to to win her over. he's going to win election. the win the next election. the question really is , is does question really is, is does stevenage have a penis yes stevenage woman have a penis yes they thelma isn't they could quite thelma isn't entirely clear yes woman is and he thinks that some of them might have penises. yeah so sorry penis in the morning and he's not sure if only women can have a cervix. exactly. so i think he a little bit of think that he a little bit of work to do perhaps on that front it was he was the woman that to win was in the 1990s blair win was that in the 1990s blair had enlist. mean i don't had to enlist. i mean i don't know they put these. i know

know why they put these. i know she a woman in her forties she she's a woman in her forties , works yeah. married disillusion with politics fed up with a lot of them and that sort of thing whether you're from stevenage or, you know, stoke trent, if you're a woman, what you care is your children . you care is your children. education, the nhs , the cost of education, the nhs, the cost of living , none of which is pretty living, none of which is pretty good crime. i mean, they're not, you . these are not complicated . you. these are not complicated. i mean, and also i think it's slightly patronising to seem that only women in stevenage , i that only women in stevenage, i mean, i hate the way political thing. yeah. yeah yeah they do. it's quite sexist . it's labour it's quite sexist. it's labour together. this is this and they found stevenage woman basically has the election in their hands . bushra apparently stevenage was the largest voter group in 88 of the top 100 conservative on labour marginal seats. oh wow . that's so you're in your forties just. yeah, it's you. it's you . it's me. so what do it's you. it's me. so what do they need to do for you? to it

says a woman who's working with kids who feels a little bit disengaged from the maelstrom of daily politics. you feel that you very engaged. but she holds the balance of power in her hands.i the balance of power in her hands. i think the balance of power in her hands . i think know what it hands. i think you know what it is? is going to be about is? this is going to be about schools, right? but good schools and, accessibility to those schools , how we get our kids to schools, how we get our kids to those schools. so that's the first thing. also as like first thing. then also as like a working mom as well there is certain that i would certain things that i would require , which would be the require, which would be the childcare it after childcare element of, it after school clubs that looks school clubs what that looks like make my life like as well to make my life easier as well. so it's all about the lifestyle of the working mother you how is working mother you know how is that look? because we that going to look? because we want lives to look easier want our lives to look easier when labour can do that for when if labour can do that for us. have well. the tories us. you have as well. the tories already done it with their childcare stuff budget. childcare stuff in the budget. mm very innovative , it mm which was very innovative, it was literally nicking labour's clothes. a lot of people said , i clothes. a lot of people said, i mean some of it was labour ideas, but that's a great advantage. if you're in government you can cherry pick bits you like from labour. i mean one of the things as

working is working mothers we need to do is get our cars be get around it. our cars be honest. one things honest. that's one of the things that we've like to be able that we've quite like to be able to do to be able to drive our to do is to be able to drive our kids around and not have to put them on bicycles all the time. yes, right. buzzer a to yes, right. buzzer a bit to silence gunman this silence gunman jail was this story about right this is so this something had to this is something that i had to get my head around a little bit so this is all about a drug gang so this is all about a drug gang so this is all about a drug gang so this actually so all of this is actually unked linked to a much bigger story so this the killer this is a £250 hit on the killer on. olivia pratt's killing 355 2000. they said i think it's 2000. so they said i think it's yeah £50,000. yep with a yeah it's £50,000. yep with a hit on the killer of olivia perhaps killing 14 years of that. now year old child. terrible story . and it's terrible story. and it's absolutely awful because what it's saying is actually they were in the middle of area that they this gang was involved . so they this gang was involved. so they this gang was involved. so they almost got hit in the crossfire of it all. and now, obviously, there's a bit to have here. silence because he will and can tell all the people that are above him in this in this gang.so are above him in this in this

gang. so it's a much deeper story than what we like . and story than what we like. and it's told me that this gang has so much power, it can operate what this behind the bars. if the terrible, terrible i mean gangs of always up behind the presence. yeah, that's not unusual thing is. well, unusual. but the thing is. well, this murder , poor has this murder, this poor child has done shone a light on the done has shone a light on the degree to that area is run degree to which that area is run by these gangs. degree to which that area is run by these gangs . and the one of by these gangs. and the one of the reasons this guy's in jail, i think he's being sentenced today means. and today. yeah, the long time ahead is that his girl from thomas? yes. is that his girlfriend testified against him very bravely shooting . the him very bravely shooting. the police have said they've seen anyone. police have said they've seen anyone . they they've said that anyone. they they've said that she's one of the most brave witnesses they've ever seen because because the death threats against her and i'll just and they're going to have to put her in the witness protection program so she can live anonymous. she survives. but these gangs will find her. liverpool is in the grip. this sort of i almost. it's like sort of i mean almost. it's like something out of a sort of movie and in the seventies, isn't it ?

and in the seventies, isn't it? theidea and in the seventies, isn't it? the idea that it's quarter of £1,000,000 is all. yeah but what's. what's what's more frightening is the police knows about. frightening is the police knows about . yeah, but they have this about. yeah, but they have this information including like, you know, families live in the middle of. i know. and i'm opens her door because she hears a commotion outside her nine year old is slain by. oh you conceive it and that's how ordinary families are being dragged into this he this terrible gang. i hope he goes a full life goes down and gets a full life sentence. hope. i come sentence. i hope. i mean, come on. i'm sure would have, because there'd public outrage. did there'd be public outrage. did you was in court? you say his sister was in court? did charming, wasn't did he? she was charming, wasn't she? unbelievable. she? yeah. unbelievable. disrespectful his disrespectful and rude. and his and girlfriend , who turned and his girlfriend, who turned up some of up looking like some sort of love, actually , yes . love, she did actually, yes. yeah, you did write about that? yeah. yeah well, that's that's end of our show. i think you're going to be back with us next monday with his flown by again coming up next, gb news live with mark longhurst. this is to the point with andrew and bev with me back tomorrow at. we're

going be back 930. thank going to be back at 930. thank you, sarah . thank you, bushra . you, sarah. thank you, bushra. thank you. have a great day. see you tomorrow . hello. it's aidan you tomorrow. hello. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office following for some parts of the south the dullest march on record today . plenty of april on record today. plenty of april sunshine winds drive for the vast majority as high pressure over scandinavia builds the uk, keeping weather systems away for the time being and keeping sunny skies in place . much of the skies in place. much of the country that's sunshine extending from scotland into england and wales just some patchy about here. northern ireland seeing a bit more cloud ireland seeing a bit more cloud i think a fresher breeze, but for the vast majority it's dry , for the vast majority it's dry, it's bright and with the sunny skies and the light winds feeling pleasantly warm, 11 to 14 celsius for, most now into the evening and under those clear skies, temperatures will fall away and could be a few mist and patches forming here

and there but for the vast majority, it is a night. and as a result it's frosty night with temperatures . to plus one down temperatures. to plus one down to minus three celsius across central and eastern parts. i think for western scotland and northern ireland here will see thicker cloud and by dawn a few outbreaks of mostly light rain into the western isles , skirting into the western isles, skirting scotland and then arriving into orkney later in the morning . orkney later in the morning. northern ireland, a few bits of rain in the far west first thing and then further rain arriving by the end of the afternoon and that's a more extensive rain arriving into the outer hebrides as well. but across the rest of the uk it's largely dry and bright, so plenty of sunshine towards the southeast , 13 to 15 towards the southeast, 13 to 15 celsius. so another relatively mild day into the evening, though, it turns cloudier across scotland , northern and western scotland, northern and western england and northern ireland. and for northern ireland and western scotland we'll see some outbreaks of light rain that

rain crossing much of uk during wednesday clearing to showers on thursday drier again by.

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