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good morning and welcome the point tv news with me andrew pierce and dawn neesom. here's what's up. this fake case was brought to only interfere with the upcoming 2024 election, and it should be dropped immediately . donald has given a defiant address to his supporters in florida after becoming first ex u.s. president to face a criminal trial. the former president pleaded not guilty to 34 charges, but warned in his speech at mar a lago that the case him is politically motivated . but do you agree? is motivated. but do you agree? is there a witch hunt against mr. trump? good question. and it's official . she is to be queen official. she is to be queen camilla. buckingham palace have confirmed that on those nice invitations for the coronation invitations for the coronation in may. prince george is going to be one of the pages we're asking you a rather provocative question. would you curtsy to queen camilla or bow wow . question. would you curtsy to queen camilla or bow wow. right. okay. and transwomen could be

barred from female only spaces as the government considers amending the equality act to define sex as biologic . is this define sex as biologic. is this a step in the right direction ? a step in the right direction? and the home secretary? she's right in the thick. that battle, isn't she? over. stop the boats . but facing a fight with . but she's facing a fight with a neighbouring mp too, who's going to represent new going to represent a new constituency if she loses. what happens to stop boats . and happens to stop boats. and what's going to be a fun packed, exciting show? there's so much coming up. i enjoyed it. i'm to fit it all in. well managed though. and we're going to go to the news now where tatiana sanchez. good morning and thank you very . this is the latest you very. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. donald trump says the only crime he has committed is defending his nafion

committed is defending his nation against those who seek to destroy . the former president destroy. the former president has been indicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records as well as covering up hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels . during his star stormy daniels. during his 2016 election campaign , he's 2016 election campaign, he's pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges in york. trump has claimed . criminal charges in york. trump has claimed. he's a victim of election interference as fake case was brought to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election and it should be dropped immediately . immediately or immediately. immediately or elections were like those of a third world country. and this massive election interference is at a scale never seen before in our country . a tick borne which our country. a tick borne which can cause meningitis has been detected by health officials in the uk. the uk health agency has found three possible cases of the virus in england since 2019,

with the first confirmed case in yorkshire last year. the infection can be asymptomatic and cause , ranging from mild to and cause, ranging from mild to severe, such as in the flights where the brain swells to deadly levels . invitations to the levels. invitations to the king's coronation will feature the title of queen camilla for the title of queen camilla for the first time. camilla be formally crowned alongside the new king, marking the transition from her title of queen consort which she used since the late queen's death. the invite to abbey church of westminster on the 6th of may will be sent to more than 2000 guests. us president joe biden has confirmed he won't attending represented instead by his wife, first lady jill biden . and some first lady jill biden. and some breaking news now for you. police scotland have said a 58 year old man has been arrested in connection with an investigation into scottish national. national party finances . we'll bring you more

finances. we'll bring you more on that breaking news as we get it . while tv online , dab, radio it. while tv online, dab, radio and on tune , this is gb news. and on tune, this is gb news. now it's over to don . now it's over to don. just hours after leaving his fingerprints, rather orange fingerprints, rather orange fingerprints, you would say in a manhattan courthouse , former us manhattan courthouse, former us president trump, he the president donald trump, he the only crime he's committed , god only crime he's committed, god love to defend nation love him is to defend nation from those who are seeking to destroy it. oh. in a speech . mar destroy it. oh. in a speech. mar a palm beach home, the a lago, palm beach home, the former president claimed his a victim of election interference . trump called the case a fake after pleading not guilty to. 34 felony charges . well, after a felony charges. well, after a day of drama and history here in new york , trump headed straight new york, trump headed straight from the courtroom to the airport and straight to his residence at mar a lago, where

he addressed his supporters and members of the free . late last members of the free. late last night and in that he talked about how he was going to notify and message. he said that the united states was a laughing stock. and again issued a full denial of the allegations against. and this is a man facing 34 separate charges of breaking the law. he talked how his political opponents were taking not just to destroy him, but to destroy the nation. and he also those personal attacks , he also those personal attacks, not least of all, on the manhattan district attorney who is leading this indictment against him, but also the judge saying that he was a trump hating judge from a trump hating family. now we know a lot more details about the crimes that donald trump is now finally edge to have committed, including not the payments and, the

misreporting of it around the former star stormy daniels, but also to other payments , another also to other payments, another one to a person is allegedly to an affair with and to a man he used to work on a door to door manner. if you like that one of trump's residence claimed that he had fathered child outside of . now, as i say, the former president has denied all of this, though he is the first former or current president ever to have been arrested and to face a criminal court case. was also warned, though, by the judge yesterday, to refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest. though it must be said some of the statements he made last night continue to be personal attacks. as i say on the judge and on the judge's family, where do we go from next? well, we're just going to have to wait because the next date set in this trial is not until december. it is entirely that will be pushed back . and that will be pushed back. and all of this while donald trump also waits on other legal that

could well be taken against in the months ahead, though at the moment he does seem to be coming out quite well from this not only has this trump organisation raised millions of dollars in donations in the last week alone, but he has also surged in the polls amongst republican voters . so all in all, the polls amongst republican voters. so all in all, as i the polls amongst republican voters . so all in all, as i say, voters. so all in all, as i say, our extraordinary 48 hours in american politics, one that could yet define u.s. presidential race, but one in which president trump, in a yesterday looked pretty angry, pretty daunted at times, but at the same time a very defiant donald trump, he seems determined fight all these allegations all these criminal against him while well that was gb news political editor darren mccaffrey in new york. explain what happened overnight. but joining us now to explain even further is professor of us politics at the university college dublin, scott lucas. good morning, scott . very good good morning, scott. very good

morning to, you both. thank you for joining us. i guess you've forjoining us. i guess you've been up all night following what the hell is going on in america ? well, you when the circus keeps going on, you don't step outside for a bit of popcorn. you just keep watching. i think it's important in the midst of that spectacle of to get to the facts of what a very important case and darren mccaffrey laid out. some of it. but just to bnng out. some of it. but just to bring it all together , of these bring it all together, of these 34 felony counts, they start with the falsifying of business records over the hush money. the star stormy daniels over trump's alleged sexual encounters. whether that money was paid 11 days before the u.s. election 2016. but what was really and took this case wider was connecting it to the words of the prosecutors of trump orchestrating a scheme to interfere in the two 2016 election by suppressing information . so referred to two information. so referred to two other payments a trump tower doorman was paid $30,000 in the

autumn of 2015 because he claimed trump had a out of wedlock and then importantly , a wedlock and then importantly, a $150,000 was paid allegedly at the orders of trump directly to the orders of trump directly to the playboy model. karen mcdougal, who said she had a ten month affair with donald trump in 2000 627 , only 18 months, by in 2000 627, only 18 months, by the way, after his marriage to melania. and four months after the birth of their son, barron why is all of that important? because falsify business because to falsify business records on itself could be a misdemeanour, but to falsify records to cover up another potential crime, which is interference in the election, which would be a violation of state and federal election laws. that makes it a felony . so each that makes it a felony. so each of those 34 counts does carry a sentence of 1 to 4 years in prison . if big, if donald trump prison. if big, if donald trump is convicted. he's very sensitive about the american psyche, or maybe the republican party psyche, because i help thinking if this was happening in britain a conservative in britain and a conservative leader was potentially up in court for falsifying business records, bribing being a woman

to who he allegedly had an affair with, we know also there are further things coming down the apparently the line about apparently officials to find 11,000 votes in georgia. also he sees classified for he left the white house, which he took tomorrow long ago. that i would have thought would have been the death a political career death of a political career here. but america, he's here. but in america, he's surging ahead in the polls with the republicans and millions of dollars are pouring his dollars are pouring into his campaign coffers . why do campaign coffers. why do americans think differently to the . us well, you've got the rest of. us well, you've got to be careful with millions of dollars insurgent. and i'll get to that in a second. there's a fundamental difference in the way that the systems operate in this case, which is in the u.k. you wouldn't have this because the case would be subjudice . and the case would be subjudice. and when case is subjudice , when a case is subjudice, politicians, officials and peers cannot speak about it in public . that's a fundamental of the british legal system. now, donald is able to speak donald trump is able to speak about the legal case while it's proceeding. so what does he do last ? he doesn't last night? he doesn't talk about facts , the case. what

about the facts, the case. what he does is he attacks the legal system . he attacks the district system. he attacks the district attorney, melvyn bragg. he attacks the district attorney's . attacks the judge . in the . he attacks the judge. in the case. he attacks the judges wife, the judge, his daughter. he attacks the prosecutors. he attacks grand jury. he attacks the media, of course, the democrats. some fans are co—dependent on donald trump. they are entrenched in that type of rhetoric. they're entrenched in that type of trump versus system. but there are a lot of americans that do not want to see donald trump take down the american system. that's the legal stuff. so he will have some supporters, but there will be other supporters of people like ron desantis who will run for president. mike pence will run president. nikki haley , run for president. nikki haley, so to say that this legal process should the hostage of donald trump's rhetoric in the campaign. absolutely the wrong way to look at it. let the legal process play out and then let trump's campaign play out in parallel. don't bring the two together. do you deport? you together. do you deport? do you subscribe to the theory for some

people this is democrat people that this is democrat plot because they actually want to see donald trump on the republican in next republican ticket in the next presidential they think presidential because they think he's easy beat. presidential because they think he's easy beat . what are the he's to easy beat. what are the facts ? and you start with the facts? and you start with the facts. bear that that is not the case. this case has been on investigation ever since it was revealed in 2018, while donald trump was still president, that he had paid hush money allegedly to stormy daniels and to care mcdougal. this case has investigated by the manhattan district office since 2019 by trump's predecessor, cyrus . the trump's predecessor, cyrus. the reason why the case was rejuvenated last year had nothing to do with trump running for president. is that alvin brock, the district attorney with new evidence coming into the office, ordered a review of that evidence. they went back to the witness statements. they looked at all of that very carefully and importantly, and it very important in the it is very important in the autumn of last year, the trump organisation was convicted on both civil and criminal charges

over business malpractice . and over business malpractice. and so that sense that trump was immune , that he could be what immune, that he could be what they call teflon don and escape accountability, that was gone. and that's when you saw the move to the grand jury in january of this year . to the grand jury in january of this year. scott, where do to the grand jury in january of this year . scott, where do see this year. scott, where do see this? where where is this going to end, in your view? could he end up in prison , first of all, end up in prison, first of all, that. yeah yeah, he could in theory. now, in practise let's play theory. now, in practise let's play this out. first of all, that was millions of dollars you had referred to. they're not going to trump's campaign. those millions of dollars are going to pay millions of dollars are going to pay his lawyers. so the idea it's boosting campaign bit. it's boosting the campaign bit. now, here we now, what happens here is we have of a lull because the have a bit of a lull because the next court hearing is not until december, because what happens is shows its is the prosecution shows its evidence to defence team, evidence to the defence team, the process of discovery and the defence will consider defence team will consider motions file to have motions to try to file to have the case dismissed. the judge takes advisement and takes that under advisement and then makes his decision on then he makes his decision on december whether to trial, december whether we go to trial, if trial . the prosecution if the trial. the prosecution wants it in january of 2024.

trump's team don't want it until the spring of 2024, but even then it would be in the midst of then it would be in the midst of the republican primaries for president. so i think what we get is trump continuing to try to to to say . it's to gaslight, to try to say. it's not i'm the victim. blame not me. i'm the victim. blame everyone else. but we get sort of a lull in this case while the others we have to then keep an eye thatis others we have to then keep an eye that is the grand jury eye on. that is the grand jury case in georgia trump's case in georgia over trump's alleged interference? alleged election interference? thatis alleged election interference? that is the investi gation of trump's role. if he had a role in the capitol attack and the investigation of trump moving documents from the white house tomorrow lago and then covering it up , that's scott . scott it up, that's scott. scott lucas. yeah. fascinating stuff. could end up in prison. lucas. yeah. fascinating stuff. could end up in prison . well, could end up in prison. well, the thing is, if he ends up in prison and still gets elected as president, there's nothing legally standing against that. he could pardon himself . yeah he could pardon himself. yeah anyone thinking this through? yeah right. we have some

breaking news just in. the husband of a former first minister, nicola sturgeon , is minister, nicola sturgeon, is understood to have been arrested , connection with an investigation . scottish national investigation. scottish national party finance seth peter murrell. he's 58. he was chief executive . scottish national executive. scottish national party. met nicola sturgeon when he was chief. scottish national party. he's been chief executive for about 25 years. he was taken police custody this morning. this is over allegations some money intended for campaigning was used for different purposes. and he also gave a loan to the scottish national party which he didn't declare the way she should in breach of should have in breach of electoral law. we're to electoral law. we're going to bnng electoral law. we're going to bring more on tv news as the bring you more on tv news as the day goes by. but that's a big story. and you know what, dawn? i thought the police investigation ongoing was the real stood down. real reason sturgeon stood down. she she thought she she stood down. she thought she going scotland drive or going to scotland has a drive or something rather. yeah. interesting. absolutely . so interesting. yes absolutely. so there will be more coming up on that soon. right. and party members in the newly seat of power and waterlooville in

hampshire will vote today on which mp they want to represent the constituency. the decision is currently torn between suella braverman and the home secretary and flick and drummond, another tory mp . and this is fascinating tory mp. and this is fascinating because there are boundary so both their seats are disappear and you'd think suella braverman is a home secretary's taking these the boats legislation these stop the boats legislation through commons a through the commons would be a shoo in. but actually often tory associations quite like the quiet was around the quiet backbencher was around the whole not of whole time do not of constituency work rather than a cabinet minister. he's grandstanding on the political stage nationally . she is very stage nationally. she is very divisive, isn't she is? all right. well, joining i saw feisty i admire woman just the top in the industry politically it's you know i just wonder what you think of her she's got to the top and she's female and obviously she's off . yeah. so obviously she's off. yeah. so she's done a nice job. right. well, joining us now from fareham is gb news political reporter olivia utley . hello, reporter olivia utley. hello, olivia . hello. yes, i'm here

olivia. hello. yes, i'm here fareham. and as andrew said that it is by no means certain that suella braverman is going to win this new constituency . fareham this new constituency. fareham is quite a leafy , it's quite is quite a leafy, it's quite genteel. it's more well to do that than you might expect . it's that than you might expect. it's pretty much considered a home county's constituency. so some of the red meat from suella braverman , the rwanda policy, braverman, the rwanda policy, for instance , necessarily go for instance, necessarily go down particularly well amongst conservatives here. and on the other side is , flip drummond, other side is, flip drummond, who is a who is a liberal or conservative mp, a west conservative mp, a west conservative mp, a west conservative mp to her opponents and she has been a champion backbencher ever since she was first elected. she's very on local causes. flint drummond has said that she only wants to contest this constituency of fareham and waterlooville. meanwhile suella braverman has put down a second and third preferences. she will try and fight the nearby constituency of campbell valley up against the 2019 intake. and if she fails to win this one, and if she fails ,

win this one, and if she fails, win this one, and if she fails, win that one, she's got her eyes set on windsor. but 12 bronfman she's a she's a talented politician. she's vice , as you politician. she's vice, as you said, but she isn't particularly charming to local . that's charming to local. that's something that we've heard on the ground here. so it might not be an easy win for her at all. fascinating. that's a live and we will keep you up to date, of course, that's our political reporter in and isn't a shoo in because i've seen it so often. norman lamont who'd been a chancellor his constituency disappeared run to disappeared in the run up to 1997 election. there was a battle with a backbench nonentity whose i have long nonentity whose name i have long forgotten . the backbench forgotten. the backbench nonentity lamont out. yeah, nonentity got lamont out. yeah, it does make you wonder, doesn't it? not always helpful. i'd be sorry to see it go, actually, because think i'm a big fan of stop the boats. not the most perfect policy, but it's a flip in attempt to sort of boats out. she's having a go and there's a i admire a woman that does achieves amazing things in politics. to politics. it's not easy arena to be and however i must admit some of her rhetoric sometimes does

make me bit nervous . yeah, she make me a bit nervous. yeah, she hasn't got a great title phrase. olivia said she's not always very the local very good with the local constituency and a really constituency and that's a really important part. now it's a month to go if. yeah your invitation, not yours. course she has a playlist on my phone right now. it's the first time. yes no, sorry. it's the first coronation in this country since 1953. the coronation king charles and coronation of king charles and queen camilla. it's been printed on recycled paper. of course, it has they've been officially released, right. okay. i thought they were remodelling my heart to save any case, i would rather that was save the date. i would. i right. okay. i would rather have the old school sticker you put mantelpiece right and put on the mantelpiece right and of invitations of course the invitations include the reference to include the first reference to queen camilla and about role queen camilla and about the role charles grandchild would include a king george probably 35 a future king george probably 35 she's a little boy is the a—level play on the big day? well, talk to royal former well, let's talk to royal former royal correspondent and rolex bur great friend this bur indeed and great friend this program, michael cole. michael morning to you. we've always known we. that's always been the

wish of the charles that camilla will be queen it's there in black and white now she will not be queen consort after the colonies. she will be queen. she'll be her majesty the queen and how charles wanted it and that's how charles wanted it . this is an . exactly this is an extraordinary invitation in many ways. usually as dawn was alluding to it. i mean, royal invitations were on white, pasteboard , known as the steffy, pasteboard, known as the steffy, with the queen's cipher in gold and copper plate handwriting on on it, inviting you to the great event here. what have got if you have a look at it it's a little bit more ashley 1975 by hallmark cards there at the bottom you can't quite see it is resplendent just below the fold there the green man and of course he's a pagan symbol. i'm sure at the green man pub, the royston which i know reasonably well they'll be celebrate sighting that he's actually on the on the invitation but you

make the right the absolute key point andrew here it is queen camilla now i covered the wedding . in 2005 of the then wedding. in 2005 of the then prince charles and mrs. parker—bowles and clarence house, his own office put out a statement saying that in the event that he became king of and she would not become queen, that she would not become queen, that she would not become queen, that she would be known as princess. well, that is all changed, because her majesty the queen did say it was her sincere , that did say it was her sincere, that upon charles's succession that , upon charles's succession that, camilla will be known as queen, that the queen's last great gift to her eldest son and there we are. we see them together completely content , beautiful in completely content, beautiful in blue, and getting ready for the great day. and i think it's worth saying that may the sixth is a day of huge destiny. now,

would you really believe this edward de severns, who was the prince charles's great great grandfather , died on may the grandfather, died on may the sixth, 1910, and shortly before he died, queen, a queen, alexandra allowed his mistress in chief. this is alice keppel in chief. this is alice keppel in to see him and mrs. alice keppelin in to see him and mrs. alice keppel in grief when she was ushered out the palace almost shrieking well. she was the great grandmother of camilla shand , who became mrs. shand, who became mrs. parker—bowles, who is going to our new queen. you couldn't make it up . you couldn't. a romantic it up. you couldn't. a romantic novelist wouldn't dare to go there . and at the same time , the there. and at the same time, the political side of it, which know you're interested in and andrew more anybody who would asquith as the king died witnessed halley's comet streaking across the black sky. well from all the drama that is amazing, isn't it?

yeah michael, do you think that people ever forget the, you know, that that that the tapes not going to go into details quite early in the morning and the controversy around the whole princess diana issue do you think there will always be a level of resentment aimed at camilla? quite a large level, actually . memories are short . a actually. memories are short. a lot of people do not approve of what happened . diana was only what happened. diana was only when she was engaged, barely 20. when she was married , she gave when she was married, she gave birth to two, two children. she did her patriotic duty. she was there within the royal family for 15 years. and was she was not used properly? and a of people resent it a lot people miss her including me saying she was a wonderful person she wasn't perfect but none us is she didn't pretend to be a saint , but she was a terrific person . and there's tremendous sadness

about it . all. and a lot of about it. all. and a lot of people will the in the marriage mrs. parker—bowles is now going to be the queen well, a forgiveness is one a wonderful thing . and the people of this thing. and the people of this country and the world are very forgiving and i'm quite sure that they will want this this this new reign to go very well. and to be fair , the king and the and to be fair, the king and the queen consort have not put a foot wrong. he's been playing a great game since he took over. i think he's taking good advice and listening to it for once. and of course we wish them well, but i don't think the memory of diana, princess of wales, will be scrubbed out of people's memory. quite, quite the reverse . i think she should be remembered and i hope she is properly recall and at the appropriate . michael, just appropriate. michael, just quickly , final question. do we

quickly, final question. do we do we think harry and william will ever be able to move on? just quickly. sorry after dawn, they ought to be the two brothers. it upset diana tremendously to think of them being at loggerheads what they ought to do is actually meet at that green man pub, which is about halfway between sandringham and, london and sort it out between them like ordinary families do . it's ordinary families do. it's a terrible thing to see brothers fighting. it's one of the worst things you can say. so should reconcile for the sake of their mother and for the sake of their father. all right. that's michael cole, royal expert, thanks that and the thanks so much. that and the question we're asking, giving news viewers and listeners would question we're asking, giving nyou viewers and listeners would question we're asking, giving nyou vi yous and listeners would question we're asking, giving nyou vi you metd listeners would question we're asking, giving nyou vi you met the ;teners would question we're asking, giving nyou vi you met the queen would question we're asking, giving nyou vi you met the queen not ld . you if you met the queen not queen consort, would you curtsy to camilla, would you bowed her? i wonder, you know what to do. to yeah. what does it to gb news? yeah. what does it gb news at gb? gb views gb views that tv there anything wrong teeth in this morning? still to come , going to bring you the come, going to bring you the latest in scotland where a remarkable story. nicola sturgeon's husband, she only stepped down as minister stepped down as first minister last peter murrell, who

stepped down as first minister last chief peter murrell, who stepped down as first minister last chief executive. rrell, who stepped down as first minister last chief executive. the, who stepped down as first minister last chief executive. the snp has was chief executive. the snp has been this to the been arrested. this is to the point on gb news understood to have been arrested

good morning and welcome to the point on gb news with me andrew pierce and dawn neesom . right, pierce and dawn neesom. right, breaking news in the last hour. the husband of a former first minister, nicola sturgeon, is understood to have been arrested

in connection with an investigation into scottish national party finances. peter murrell, whose 58 was taken into police custody this morning. and we'll bring you all the very latest on gb news. don't go anywhere. that is an extraordinary story and another extraordinary story and another extraordinary story and another extraordinary story . that man, extraordinary story. that man, donald trump, defiant with his supporters in florida. he's made history. the first ex president to face a criminal trial. he's pleaded not guilty to 34 charges. he says it's politically motivated . is it a politically motivated. is it a witch hunt against mr. trump ? witch hunt against mr. trump? it's very exciting, isn't it? and the coronation of a king charles and the invite are out. and they say queen camilla officially used for the first time. but it also reveals that she's quite sweet that george is serving as one of the eight pages. one. and that's lovely. look at what is it? queen camilla. would you buy a well curtsey to queen camilla? maybe good question. and it's a huge political fight for the home secretary suella braverman. i'm not talking about her. no bill

attempt to storm, stop the boats out. but she's fighting to hold onto her parliament seat. boundary mean she's up boundary changes mean she's up against neighbouring mp . the against a neighbouring mp. the battle will be said tonight . battle will be said tonight. you'd think same. certainly you'd think the same. certainly it'd shoo in, but it's not it'd be a shoo in, but it's not as close. it's much closer than people think . right. let us know people think. right. let us know all your thoughts on the talking subjects and now we have to go straight to the news of the talking points, tv views at gbnews.uk. but first, your morning news with tatiana sanchez. morning news with tatiana sanchez . dawn, thank you very sanchez. dawn, thank you very much . and good morning. this is much. and good morning. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. and we start with that breaking news from this last hour. the former chief executive of the scottish national party is understood to have been arrested. believed nicola arrested. it's believed nicola sturgeon's husband, peter murrell is being questioned as part of an ongoing investigation into funding and finances of into the funding and finances of the snp . police scotland has the snp. police scotland has

confirmed armed a 58 year old man is in custody and search is being carried out at a number of properties . donald being carried out at a number of properties. donald trump being carried out at a number of properties . donald trump says properties. donald trump says the only crime that he's committed is fearlessly defending his nation against those who seek to destroy it. the former us president has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records as well as covering up hush money payments during his 2016 election campaign. he claims he's a victim of election interference as fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election. and it should be dropped immediately , leigh. immediately or elections were like those of a third world country. and now this massive election interference at a scale never seen before in our country . seen before in our country. associate professor of american history, kevin jones says this will only aid trump's chances of re—election in 2024. and this is

what he thrives on. this is what he was always arrived on. so when he's in battle, that means his supporters are rally. that means he becomes more popular at the polls . it's difficult not to the polls. it's difficult not to see this as a plot to get trump re—elected in some ways, perhaps not as president, but certainly i think he's in a good position now to stand for the republican party in 2024 . the school party in 2024. the school leaders union has over whelming. lee rejected a pay offer from the government. nine and ten members of the national association of head teachers voted against the deal and will now discuss further possible strike action . as the teachers strike action. as the teachers in england voted to strike this month and next after rejecting a 4.3% pay rise. members from the national education union will walk out on the 27th of april and the 2nd of may . environment and the 2nd of may. environment agency workers warning communities waters and wildlife

will be put at risk this month when they strike over pay. unison says thousands of its members in england, including those that work on coastal sea defence and tackle water pollution , will walk out on the pollution, will walk out on the 14th. up until the 17th of april, it's accusing the government of refusing to allow the agency to improve a pay rise of 2% a tick borne virus which can cause meningitis has been detected by health officials in the uk. the uk health security agency has found three possible cases of the virus in england since 2019, with the first confirmed case in yorkshire last yeah confirmed case in yorkshire last year. the infection can be asymptomatic and cause illnesses ranging from mild to severe, such as in the flight where the brain swells to deadly levels . brain swells to deadly levels. more people are using bus services after the £2 bus cap was introduced . transport focus was introduced. transport focus surveyed more than a thousand people and found over 10% of

those. asked are using the bus more often . more than 40% said more often. more than 40% said bus journeys are replacing trips they would have previously made by car. the cap, which was originally planned to end in march , has been extended until march, has been extended until june. march, has been extended until june . labour has vowed to fix june. labour has vowed to fix the issue of fly—tipping as research shows there's almost 3000 incidents of dumped waste per day in england. the party has pledged to clean up britain as government data shows cases of dumped rubbish has increased by a over a year. conservative party. shadow secretary state party. shadow secretary of state for justice dave reed says forjustice dave reed says communities deserved felt proud of where they live now. 3000 reports every single day , for reports every single day, for goodness sake, in this country . goodness sake, in this country. of rubbish dumped on our streets. nothing happening about it. labour is proposing to it. so labour is proposing to set up clean up squads so that those who make the mess will clear up the mess. and people will understand. that is just fairness. but also fairness. but it's also a deterrent other people who deterrent for other people who

are to out on the are tempted to get out on the streets junk their rubbish streets and junk their rubbish rather than taking it to the dump organising dump themselves or organising for to be to be picked up. for it to be to be picked up. it's simply not fair. on families living in communities that they deserve to feel proud of . and invitations to the of. and invitations to the king's coronation will feature the title of queen camilla for the title of queen camilla for the first time. camilla will be formally crowned alongside the new king, marking the transition from her previous title of queen consort, which she's used since the late queen's death. the invite to abbey church of westminster on the 6th of may will be sent to more than 2000 guests. us president joe biden has confirmed he will not be attending represent it instead by first lady jill biden . this by first lady jill biden. this is gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens. now it's back to andrew and dawn .

back to andrew and dawn. all right, news just in. the husband of former first minister nicola sturgeon is understood to have been arrested in connection with an investigation into scottish national party finance says this is an absolute seismic story because peter murrell sturgeon's husband was chief executive of the scottish national party for about 25 years. they met through their work in the scottish national party. she only resigned as first minister ten days ago. a week ago. i think, yeah. and i thought at the time i wonder if this ongoing police investigation has anything to do with it. here we are. he's now being questioned by the police that know in a police station that we know in a police station in scotland. yes, i think you could sort of kind of see it coming. and i just wonder if nicola sturgeon as well, nicola sturgeon could as well, you know. mr. morrell step down as recently as chief executive of recently the and we will the ship campaign, and we will bnng the ship campaign, and we will bring more on gb bring you more coverage on gb news day goes on. yeah. news as the day goes on. yeah. now just hours after leaving his fingerprints , i suspect they fingerprints, i suspect they were orange, putting all that fake tan on the obsessed with me

in a manhattan courthouse. donald trump . donald trump. he donald trump. donald trump. he was in a defiant mood. of course he was when he spoke to his supporters at mar a lago. that's his place in florida . supporters at mar a lago. that's his place in florida. he said the only crime he's ever committed is to defend the nafion committed is to defend the nation from those who seek to destroy remember, denied nation from those who seek to derdifferentlemember, denied nation from those who seek to derdifferentlemembein denied nation from those who seek to derdifferentlemembein thatanied 34 different charges in that courtroom. he really came out fighting as in the chest, fighting as well in the chest, reacting like, you know, remember what you're saying and try say too much and try not to say too much and instantly out ranting instantly went out ranting for 25 speech at mar 25 minutes. this speech at mar a lago his beach home, the lago in his palm beach home, the former claimed he's former president claimed he's a victim of election interference . the case fake . trump called the case fake after his turn after pleading not guilty to 34 felony charges . now joining us for more on this is these spokesmen for republicans overseas . jennifer republicans overseas. jennifer ewing. good morning, jennifer. thank you for joining ewing. good morning, jennifer. thank you forjoining us ewing. good morning, jennifer. thank you for joining us this morning . thanks for having me. morning. thanks for having me. good morning . all right, good morning. all right, jennhen good morning. all right, jennifer, what do you make of the happenings overnight? it's been absolutely fascinating for us here. i mean, we're used to

british politics being a bit mad, but obviously the americans are really going for it this morning, aren't they? absolutely. i mean, i think the first thing to say is there were no major surprises with regards to the indictment . and the to the indictment. and the second thing is, how many strange bedfellows are being created ? and by that i mean created? and by that i mean people who are not very you , you people who are not very you, you know, strong trump opponents like cuomo or dershowitz, mitt romney , who have come out and romney, who have come out and said , well, they don't support said, well, they don't support trump as a candidate. this case is weak and it's wrong. and it's definitely from a d.a. who has a political agenda because not only would this not be happening to someone else , i don't think to someone else, i don't think this would be happening to trump if he hadn't decided to run again in 2024 because the federal prosecutors have passed

on bringing these charges forward . and in fact, the da. forward. and in fact, the da. alvin bragg's predecessor , cyrus alvin bragg's predecessor, cyrus vance, also passed on bringing these charges. so you have to ask, why now ? d.a. who's brought ask, why now? d.a. who's brought it to the aptly named bragg, he is, of course, a member of the democratic party. he's a political appointment. and he has a political ambition all of his own. jennifer absolutely . of his own. jennifer absolutely. of course he doesn't . depending on course he doesn't. depending on who you listen to, he sort of ran on the on the precipice of i've tried, you know , so many i've tried, you know, so many cases against the trump family and i'll get him that sort of thing. so he was he was very clear in his motivations with regards to how he feels about former president trump . you're former president trump. you're a republican. do you think this is damaging the republican party internationally? turn it into , internationally? turn it into, frankly, a bit of a laughing stock, a circus, even . well, stock, a circus, even. well,

it's definitely a circus. that's true . but i'm not sure it's the true. but i'm not sure it's the republicans making of the circus. i think while well, this case is legally quite weak , it's case is legally quite weak, it's politically genius because what's happening and i think the democrats probably want this to happen, is they are stoking up the so—called trump base who, you know, we can see already there's been, i think, in that since thursday when this came out, $10 million of donation and 25% of those have been from new people. so what this does is this elevate trump for the primary elections . right. and primary elections. right. and i think the democrats are very comfortable running against trump versus running against ron desantis, who's the governor of florida. ron desantis has a pretty good backing against a lot of republicans. he can run in two terms. he's done incredible things in florida and he's got less baggage . so he's got less baggage. so i think , you know, the republicans

think, you know, the republicans are going to vote for republicans. the democrats will vote for biden or whoever that candidate is. what's really at play candidate is. what's really at play here are the swing voters and trump being dragged through the courts does not help with the courts does not help with the swing voters at all. and the democrats know that . and it is democrats know that. and it is absolutely fascinating stuff. jennifer ewing from republican services, thanks for joining us. he's irrepressible . you can't he's irrepressible. you can't just. he just comes. i just would to love say, how are you feeling now? because it just comes out swinging the whole time, even even having a go at the he doesn't he the judge. he doesn't have he just doesn't like normal just doesn't behave like normal politicians. behave politicians. boris didn't behave like normal politicians. he did pretty didn't pretty well for so long, didn't he? yeah, i wonder if it's something to do with a messed up blonde do you reckon blonde hair. what do you reckon exactly? now another big story politically, secretary politically, the home secretary sort the heart, sort of problem is at the heart, isn't she, at this stop the boats legislation? but she's got isn't she, at this stop the b

new constituent sees being created from mid waterlooville. it's being called the new battle of waterloo because they decide tonight one of them gets tonight which one of them gets tonight which one of them gets to don't you think it would to see. don't you think it would be her? because she's also so i must have. i've never of must have. i've never heard of the other lady. then why would i? but everyone had swell i? but everyone has had a swell involvement is probably involvement and that is probably a problem because she is incredibly divisive. the other candidate , again, conflict candidate, again, conflict damages another tory mp. so the local conservative station would decide tonight. so you knows these stories inside out is lord hayward, little robert. hey, robert, i can call you robert. robert, i can call you robert. robert, former tory mp, brilliant poster . robert people brilliant poster. robert people listening would think, oh, it's going to the home secretary going to be the home secretary for she's high profile. for sure. she's high profile. she's doing a best on stop she's doing doing a best on stop the boat. who's heard of the boat. who's ever heard of flip drummond? but sometimes constituency associations quite like the quiet, assiduous backbench who get some of it rather than the cabinet minister strutting his or her stuff on the national stage . absolutely the national stage. absolutely and you've always got these mixture of emotions as you say,

i've chaired a fair number of the selection meetings and you get those people in the audience who want a good local constituency mp and there are others who say , oh no, we want others who say, oh no, we want a cabinet minister as our candidate. so you will get the contrast to see which and who , contrast to see which and who, as you say , are brought together as you say, are brought together because of the revised boundanes because of the revised boundaries for that have been drawn for the next election . and drawn for the next election. and secretary loses this selection battle tonight. robert that would look very bad for her political authority if even local tories don't want her and would that impact on her ability to do her job as home secretary to do herjob as home secretary 7 to do herjob as home secretary ? no, i don't think it would. and you've got the balance of the membership . you're not the membership. you're not looking here at the balance of voters from one construction to the other . you're voters from one construction to the other. you're looking at where the membership happens to come from. and whether they are supporting either which of the two candidates. and to be

honest, i don't know where that balance actually lies. so it may well not look bad if the balance of the membership is in favour of the membership is in favour of philip drummond and they go for flip drummond. the interesting thing in in suella braverman case is that if she doesn't win tonight and by the way , here's your quiz question way, here's your quiz question for the day do you know where the name waterlooville actually comes from? and but suella braverman could go on for another constituency called humble valley , which takes a humble valley, which takes a large part of her existing constituency as well. robert, how much of this is going to come to down how good a literally a constituency mp they are and how much of the big policies that people like, you know, the boat policy and recently the grooming gang announcement that suella made this week . what is going to sway this week. what is going to sway things more in general? old people vote for although there

are always there is always a group of people who say no, we want a cabinet minister. most members want a candidate who is identifiable and serving their local state agency. so there are within any audience a balance of views . and it depends how that views. and it depends how that balance works out this evening as to who is likely to win , and as to who is likely to win, and also sorry, sorry. no comment. robert i interrupted you, carol. i was sorry. i was going to say many of the people who vote will be voting on their experience with both the and these over the last few years because they , last few years because they, unlike a normal select and where the members are confronted by three people, they may not know who they may have a limited experience with. in this case, you've got two mp is and the members will therefore have known them for a period of time. i chaired sewell's selection

when originally in fareham and met many of the members when they overwhelmingly chose her. but it is a question of experience over the last three years which will be a key factor . what's your hunch ? i don't .what's your hunch? i don't have one. i i don't know where the balance of membership lies, and that is key because you may find that there's one or two strong branches which have got lots of members on one side or a constituency on the other. and i'm afraid i don't know where that where that membership lies and how easy would it be if someone did lose tonight to go to it to be moved to another constituency ? how does that constituency? how does that happen? how easy would it be? well the first thing that would happenif well the first thing that would happen if she did lose was, as i say, that a large part of her existing constituency, it goes into a new constituency called humble valley. so it would be perfectly reasonable for her to stand for humble valley. she's

likely and this is the difficulty in that part of the country. she is likely lead there. if she got if she doesn't win this evening stands for humble valley. she will be up against another conservative mp paul holmes. so it is very complex in that part of south—east hampshire. let's broaden it, robert, because a poll came out yesterday, yougov showing rishi sunak has pulled level with keir starmer. the labour leader, and who would make the best prime minister. but the tories stayed miles behind labour, who i think still had a lead of about 20 points. so good. on the one hand, but not on the other. yes i'm one of the striking things that's coming back from people who are canvassing for the local elections across the whole of large parts of england is that they're saying that now rishi is a positive on the doorsteps . a positive on the doorsteps. he's been long enough. he's been there long enough. there's sense of competent and there's a sense of competent and older about his prime ministership that there is that sense that he is something that people can sell from the

conservative side and normally voting intention runs with best prime minister at the moment, rishi is well ahead of the tory party and keir starmer is well behind the labour party and over the next few months we're going to see whether keir starmer goes up to the labour party or rishi sunak draws the conservatives up to his level . sunak draws the conservatives up to his level. interesting. you've got to tell us where waterlooville came from. robert lee hanging. you teased . us it's lee hanging. you teased. us it's actually where the forces that were actually being brought together for the battle of waterloo were based . that was waterloo were based. that was where they were brought together in the 19th century in preparation for the expedition, which ultimately resulted in the battle of waterloo . you know, battle of waterloo. you know, everything is educational as well on gb news this morning. great to talk to you, robert.

that's robert heywood. lord heywood on that battle. and of course, we'll keep talking with greg morrow later tonight whether home secretary is whether the home secretary is going win that fight. i want going to win that fight. i want you want to she wants you i want to invite she wants to win this as well, yet probably. right. still to come, the uk's information commissioner's office has fined tiktok nearly £13 million. and we will tell you why very . we will tell you why very.

it's 1022. and the point on gb it's1022. and the point on gb news with andrew pierce and the fabulous dawn neesom , the uk's fabulous dawn neesom, the uk's information commissioner's office has fined tiktok almost £39 million for failing to protect the privacy of children , up protect the privacy of children , up to 1.4 million children under the age of 13 have been allowed to use the platform that rules us out . then 21 of us, one rules us out. then 21 of us, one of us is on tiktok right now, but you can't guess which one and investigate by the oci. it says tiktok use data belonging

to children under 13 without parental consent . so joining us parental consent. so joining us to discuss this is andy burrows , who burrows is an adviser to the molly rose foundation. and he just remind us special what the molly rose foundation is just morning does . yes. so the just morning does. yes. so the molly values foundation was set up following the tragic death of molly russell , who as your molly russell, who as your viewers will know, died by suicide after being bombarded on social media platforms, particularly instagram and pinterest, with with harmful content , with content that was content, with content that was vacuum sending a suicide site and self—harm and last year for the very first time, the inquest into molly's death determined that social media played a not insignificant part in contributing to molly's death . i contributing to molly's death. i do understand that, because you have to take me through this because tiktok is an alien world to both dawn and i is. yeah. how

can tiktok use this data without parental consent? and more to the point, how can the regulators stop them ? so tiktok regulators stop them? so tiktok is the company that's been fined, but actually this is an industry wide problem. look, it's an open secret that the majority of children under 13 have social media accounts. but tiktok, in this case, all the social media platforms, i'm equally at fault have not done enough to identify whether users on their accounts , on their on their accounts, on their platforms, rather are children. that means that children under the age of 13 have been able to open accounts. they are legally supposed to have parental consent to do so . but it also consent to do so. but it also then means that children have been using these accounts and the platform hasn't been able to determine whether or not the use of is a child or an adult. and the reason that that really the reason that that is really problematic and it's not just

that their privacy has been compromised, but it's then if you don't know that a user is a child, you can't offer them the safer, more age appropriate experience that legally companies are now supposed to offer them. and that means that we will have seen children being bombarded as a result of the algorithms that the platform used with harmful content because you know very much the problem . we know this too. molly problem. we know this too. molly stowaway is not only that there's really horrible egregious content on these platforms. some of it is graphic, it is disturbing . it's graphic, it is disturbing. it's almost a kind of twisted take on influencer culture . but focusing influencer culture. but focusing on trying to incite suicide and self—harm . um, not only is that self—harm. um, not only is that content that , but the algorithms content that, but the algorithms then active push that content out to users . so it means that out to users. so it means that very, very suddenly you can be bombarded, overwhelmed with this incredibly harmful content . and incredibly harmful content. and surely the genie is out of the bottle with this. now, you, you know, it's so many youngsters are on this and some older

people as well. so you can't you can't take it back now. it is out there. you can't. how are you going to stop children going on this app? it's just not going to happen, is it realistically? well we know that platforms can do more to identify the age do much more to identify the age of their users . there are some of their users. there are some medium sized platforms . there's medium sized platforms. there's a french social network called you buy, which is actually an checked the age of every single one of its users on the platform . it is now actually a legal a legal requirement. and yesterday really was, i think, a shot across the bow from the data protection regulator targeting tiktok but probably actually sending a message across the entire industry that they need to invest in the technology to be able to do this effect. now, the fine that was levied yesterday is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but we're talking about some of the largest companies in the world. so we'd really like to see so what we'd really like to see now is actually the regulators go step further and start go one step further and start targeting all of those other companies actually, companies that actually, in some

cases, a lot less than cases, have done a lot less than tiktok. think of the likes of snapchat, which snapchat, for example, which took accounts. think took down 8000 accounts. think about how many under 13 will have accounts , probably have snapchat accounts, probably the majority they took that 8000 in the last few months, which compares to, say, tiktok's, 50 million. i mean, that's literally sitting on their hands, profit from children using their services , but but using their services, but but not even taking any steps , any not even taking any steps, any cursory steps to try and identify find them and then and then help to keep them safe. and thank you much for joining then help to keep them safe. and thank you much forjoining us thank you so much forjoining us this that borrows this morning. that song borrows adviser molly rose adviser to the molly rose foundation . but i think foundation. but i just think you're not going to stop the turnover tick tock in europe is £1,000,000,000. yeah, that's £13 million. yeah yeah, exactly. so it's not enough, right? a 21 year old man has avoided jail after raping a 13 year old girl when he was 17. instead of a prison sentence, the judge handed shane hogg 270 hours community service . in line with community service. in line with new guidelines in scotland, recommending that under 25 aren't sent to prison , there's

aren't sent to prison, there's predictably and rightly been outrage online. j.k. rowling , outrage online. j.k. rowling, one of my great heroes . she has one of my great heroes. she has said , wading in on twitter. but said, wading in on twitter. but we're going to get a legal perspective on this from thomas leonard ross. casey in scotland . good morning. thomas, people were understand why it's if you're 17 and you rape someone, you're 17 and you rape someone, you don't have to go to prison. but if you're 21, you do. i don't get it. can you explain why the law is different in scotland ? well, it isn't scotland? well, it isn't a different . the references to different. the references to sentencing guideline , which sentencing guideline, which requires the judge to take account of the age of a offender who's under the age of 25, etc. and it doesn't say that somebody under 25 cannot be sent to prison . a it's not a requirement prison. a it's not a requirement and actually 99.9% of people under 25 who commit the offence of rape are sent to prison . so of rape are sent to prison. so this is not a typical disposal.

in fact, it's quite the opposite . are there special circumstances , perhaps in why circumstances, perhaps in why that the judge reached this this conclusion, which is outrage to people like jk rowling, who we know has been campaigning on women's rights for a long time in scotland. well, we don't have . sometimes the judges feel statement of reasons on the judicial website . we don't have judicial website. we don't have that here. but the judge did focus on the question of rehabilitation, a the guideline under consideration requires that in the case of somebody under 25, rehabilitation is what they call a primary consideration . and the judge has consideration. and the judge has said that having considered the question of rehabilitate . he question of rehabilitate. he didn't think that prison would contribute to rehabilitation . so contribute to rehabilitation. so that's the that's the judge's justification , a, for the justification, a, for the sentence that you choose. and jk rowling tweet there, i thought was incredibly painful. it's like basically the message seems

to be, if you're under the age of 25, first time frame, you can get away with it. what does scotland have against women at the moment ? i scotland have against women at the moment? i mean, i'm not on to justify the sentence . i'm to justify the sentence. i'm simply explaining the background to it. but as importantly is that, you know, i've been involved in over a thousand high court cases , and i only know of court cases, and i only know of three other cases where the individual avoid a sentence for rape. the judge himself in this case said that had he been a fully matured adult, case said that had he been a fully matured adult , the fully matured adult, the sentence would have been four or five years imprisonment. and that's very much the typical sentence that is imposed . a so sentence that is imposed. a so i understand the public dismay at the relative sentencing objectives, including punishment , including deterring other people from doing the same thing , communicating society's disapproval of offending and people saying none of those

factors are found their way into the sentence . so a, i understand the sentence. so a, i understand that irish is concerning protection of women and that this is another example where women are entitled to feel perhaps that they've been let , perhaps that they've been let, that indeed they go . thanks. that indeed they go. thanks. that's tom thomas, leonard ross king casey in scotland. now, still to come, we're going to bnng still to come, we're going to bring you the latest from scotland, where this extraordinary story , nicola extraordinary story, nicola sturgeon she was the sturgeon miller, she was the first minister of scotland until last her husband, peter last week. her husband, peter murrell, been been murrell, has been he's been questioned in by the police in connection investigation connection with an investigation into snp finances. after into snp finances. that's after the we're focus on the morning news. we're focus on shows . thank you very much the morning news. we're focus on shows. thank you very much and good morning this is the latest from the gb newsroom nicola sturgeon's husband peter murrell has been arrested . the former has been arrested. the former chief executive of the scottish national party is being questioned as part of an ongoing into the funding and finances of

the snp . police scotland the snp. police scotland confirmed . a 58 year old man is confirmed. a 58 year old man is in custody and searches are being carried out at a number of properties. the snp says it's fully cooperate waiting with the investigation . donald trump says investigation. donald trump says the only crime he's committed is fairly , fully defending his fairly, fully defending his nafion fairly, fully defending his nation against those who seek to destroy it . the former us destroy it. the former us president has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of false defying business record as well as covering up hush money payments dunng covering up hush money payments during his 2016 election campaign . he claims he's campaign. he claims he's a victim of election interference , a tick borne virus which can cause meningitis has been detected by health officials . detected by health officials. the uk health security agency has found three possible cases of the virus in england since 2019, with the first confirmed case in yorkshire last year. the infection can be asymptomatic and cause mild to severe illnesses, such as a stiff colitis where the brain swells to deadly levels . and

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good morning. welcome back. it's 1040 and this is to the point on gb news with andrew pierce and dawn neesom news just in. the husband of a former first minister, nicola sturgeon , has minister, nicola sturgeon, has been arrested in connection with investigation into scottish national finances. he's peter murrell . he's 58. he's been murrell. he's 58. he's been married to nicola sturgeon i think since 1920, 19, 2010. he's being questioned by detectives this morning and it's over. it's all to do with snp finances and their searches have been carried out a number of properties. wow.

mr. morrow step to this huge story that's about to step down as chief executive during the recent leadership campaign , the recent leadership campaign, the snp has released a statement saying and it's very carefully worded, i'll read it to you clearly it would not be appropriate to comment on any live investigation , but appropriate to comment on any livesnp investigation , but appropriate to comment on any livesnp has|vestigation , but appropriate to comment on any livesnp has beenjation , but appropriate to comment on any live snp has been cooperating the snp has been cooperating fully this investigation fully with this investigation and do so. on and will continue to do so. on saturday, governing body of and will continue to do so. on sat|ndc, governing body of and will continue to do so. on sat|ndc, the governing body of and will continue to do so. on sat|ndc, the national|g body of and will continue to do so. on sat|ndc, the national executive the ndc, the national executive committee, agreed to a review of governance transparency governance and transparency that will forward in the will be taken forward in the coming . while this is coming weeks. while this is a huge story for seismic, she's only just stood down and i said at the time, i think this iceberg in the midst, in the background of the police investigate was careful. it was careful. she sort of ignored what it was like. you know, you know, one minute she was saying, you know, i've got, you know, a full tank. i'm raring to go. and that two weeks later, it's like i'm out of gas, so i'm i'm from out of gas, so i'm stepping too. and i always stepping down, too. and i always thought, who won the snp thought, who have won the snp leadership contest with three

candidates and candidates would require and stand out. but as happened, stand out. but as it happened, he before. it was even he went before. when it was even declared, yes, it's very intriguing it? very intriguing, isn't it? be very interesting to see what's going on. ongoing investigation. so obviously we can make no comment lately. interested lately. she's very interested to see got saying lately. she's very interested to see yes, got saying lately. she's very interested to see yes, not got saying lately. she's very interested to see yes, not just got saying lately. she's very interested to see yes, not just this, aying lately. she's very interested to see yes, not just this, butg lately. she's very interested to see yes, not just this, but we that. yes, not just this, but we haven't seen it. smollett i think, you know, she spoke about the generality of this. the wheels clearly coming off. wheels are clearly coming off. yeah, from the yeah, that noise from the left was pound , former labour was stephen pound, former labour mp to be introduced mp not waiting to be introduced but that we just we didn't just done that now to do we have done that now and to do we have to write the lovely and every sense of the word. emma webb to write the lovely and every sensethe the word. emma webb to write the lovely and every sensethe the word.sensea webb to write the lovely and every sensethe the word.sense asideb from the common sense aside common sense. so could you give stephen a lesson in common sense 7 stephen a lesson in common sense ? use the opposite . the snp, ? use the opposite. the snp, i mean nicola sturgeon whenever we think of her a formidable political operator , were you political operator, were you sceptical when she said were you surprised that she was standing down when she. i was astounded . down when she. i was astounded. basically she took the jacinda ardern lining up, just run out of gas. that was in new zealand. yeah indeed. so and who had been

incredibly successful. she took the new zealand labour party to a was a massive great victory. i was very, surprised . but she very, very surprised. but she was. i know you're absolutely right. she was formidable. right. and she was formidable. i mean, destroyed labour. mean, she destroyed labour. she did . at one time we had over 50 did. at one time we had over 50 seats. we're down to one. yeah. and i think will bounce back, and i think we will bounce back, no question that. no question about that. but a lot of that is due to her commuting skills, which were extraordinary in extraordinary. she never sat in the house. didn't need to extraordinary. she never sat in the know, didn't need to extraordinary. she never sat in the know, she didn't need to extraordinary. she never sat in the know, she was n't need to extraordinary. she never sat in the know, she was above d to extraordinary. she never sat in the know, she was above the you know, she was above the house of commons. but i have to say, we used to say if only she was on our side. yeah, i'm not really thinking that now. no. the no. we've moved the good lord, no. we've moved on. well yeah, we must on on. well yeah, we must move on briefly well. joining us briefly here as well. joining us more for more on this is gb news, reporter tony news, scotland reporter tony mcguire. morning, mcguire. good morning, tony. what know what more do we know about what's happening right now? good morning, west. well, indeed , morning, west. well, indeed, things are pretty thin on the ground just now. we know that a 50 year old man was arrested connection with finance issue and that has been ongoing investigation by police scotland who police scotland have said that the man is in custody and

is being questioned by police and officers are also carrying out searches , a number of out searches, a number of addresses, including , i believe addresses, including, i believe snp , hq and edinburgh. addresses, including, i believe snp , hq and edinburgh . and we snp, hq and edinburgh. and we know realistically very little. we know of that. obviously the, the finance investigation has been ongoing with police scotland for quite a couple of months now and certainly with that great short response, i would say from the scottish national party who obviously echoed the sentiment that it clearly would not be appropriate to comment any further just now on a police investigation . but on a police investigation. but at its meeting on saturday, the governing body of the snp, the national executive committee, agreed to review the governance and transparency now that things are expected to be taken forward in the coming weeks. are expected to be taken forward in the coming weeks . and so, you in the coming weeks. and so, you know, key details quite thin on the ground at the minute but certainly a here it's quite an active street and glasgow of course is that there's some the

police are looking around for a donation of around £500,000 which is for party campaigning. the suggestion it might have been used for the independence the independence course and also know that mr. murrell made a donation to the snp. that's not disputed over £100,000 alone. rather to the snp, which he didn't declare in the normal way in breach of electoral rules . in breach of electoral rules. yes, that's correct. he came under quite intense scrutiny for that again. again for quite some time. scottish conservative eyes have been on the snp case quite consistently over the matters of party finance . and yes, the party finance. and yes, the hundred thousand pounds , you hundred thousand pounds, you know, summary of donations. that was to go towards that pro—independence campaign. obviously as the snp in the last year came up against rebuttal after rebuttal from westminster and then the courts and that that wasn't going to happen . we that wasn't going to happen. we know that just at the height of

the snp leadership race, which of course saw humza yousaf replaced nicola sturgeon , we replaced nicola sturgeon, we know that at that stage the police were looking into the purchase of vehicles at that time. so quite a lot of you know, information to kind of get our heads around this morning and certainly more expected to be spoken about this, as you say, over course today. should i . see an maguire ? so a story . see an maguire? so a story that will be covering in full throughout the day on gb news and yeah, seeing what's happening. but now we move onto the exciting part of the show. it's all exciting. obviously the pay per it's all exciting. obviously the pay per view and we actually already heard them. we have the lovely steven pound, a former labour mp . hello again. and the labour mp. hello again. and the equal lovely emma webb who's there. all the more lovely comments. true friends. that is true not being sexist here, not true. not being sexist here, not at all. so who wants ? so we at all. so who wants? so we start with you, steve. let's go to the story that's on the front

page of every single newspaper today. donald trump probably every newspaper in the world would do well today if they target rich environment. i mean, there are stories you couldn't even dream about and i just know that any minute now, donald is going to start comparing himself to someone else. he got crucified easter. mean, crucified over easter. i mean, you just could. oh you could just you could. oh well, because he's utterly and totally shameless . but but on totally shameless. but but on the other hand, i think there was a certain sign, a sort of if you had actually had a look at him. i've had a feeling of schadenfreude when i saw him looking rather a slightly looking rather like a slightly deflated orange balloon deflated great orange balloon when great when he into this great skyscraper , which the skyscraper, which is the manhattan central criminal court, he actually looked slightly deflated. he say slightly deflated. he didn't say anything came. i was anything when he came. i was expecting it's stitch expecting to say it's a stitch up. know, they try to do it up. you know, they try to do it all the usual rubbish. but i haven't. i'm not privy to his speech at mar a lago, but that's what he all that he did. what he said. all that he did. yeah and he with an yeah and he went with an audience was designed to audience which was designed to clap as opposed to clap and cheer as opposed to cheering his. yes. so 25 minutes clap and cheer as opposed to chquite] his. yes. so 25 minutes clap and cheer as opposed to chquite aris. yes. so 25 minutes clap and cheer as opposed to chquite a short s. so 25 minutes clap and cheer as opposed to

chquite a short speechi minutes clap and cheer as opposed to chquite a short speech forinutes clap and cheer as opposed to chquite a short speech for him.; is quite a short speech for him. isn't thing isn't the extraordinary thing that he's actually energising isn't the extraordinary thing tha absolute ually energising isn't the extraordinary thing tha absolute ually

given what other past presidents of states have done of the united states have done and fact this is being, and the fact that this is being, you is being sort of you know, is being sort of described as being actually quite tenuous case, which would possibly end up being thrown , in possibly end up being thrown, in which case it really would be very good for donald trump because he would be both a martyr and vindicated. i just think that this is , you know, if think that this is, you know, if this is being done strategically , strategically , then it's , strategically, then it's obviously not being done on a federal level. then it was it had been ruled a prosecution the previous attorney general ruled out this is a very ambitious attorney general. it certainly attorney general. i it certainly is rag you know he's doing well his his daughter his daughter worked for kamala harris who is the vice president. exactly. so this really is, you know , this this really is, you know, this couldn't possibly be better for donald trump unless , of course, donald trump unless, of course, he goes to jail. but i might be getting look. i think getting set. look. well, i think i mean, whichever way you look at it, if you look at it from the perspective of somebody who thinks that donald trump guilty and an orange hooligan and so

on, then that looks very bad for the united states. but if you're looking other looking it from the other perspective and see a former perspective and you see a former president believe president and you believe that the former president being persecuted by the current government, then of course, that looks bad from other looks bad from the other perspective as well. so there's no angle through which you could look at this in a positive light. quiz light. there's a good pub quiz question are the question here, which are the president united states? president of the united states? only one was arrested. and when and wasn't and what for? when it wasn't nixon ? no, it wasn't arrest. no nixon? no, it wasn't arrest. no you're not going to get it. it's ulysses grant . it is. you're not going to get it. it's ulysses grant. it is. yeah. you're not going to get it. it's ulysses grant . it is. yeah. well ulysses grant. it is. yeah. well done. ulysses grant. it is. yeah. well done . 1782 and four. why indeed. done. 1782 and four. why indeed. and i. but why having a silly first name? no, i tell you, i was arrested for speeding in his horse carriage. he was racing cars. and i think we should. we should have a pub quiz team. isn't that brilliant? you got it. but he. but he wasn't charged . oh, isn't that amazing? charged. oh, isn't that amazing? yeah, that's extraordinary . but yeah, that's extraordinary. but ihave yeah, that's extraordinary. but i have to say this. this business with trump, this told me daniels, karen mcdougal did

you know i mean, this may sound odd coming from me, but i just think it's you know, it's like something on the back of your shoe want to scrape, but shoe you want to scrape, but it's also a coming of america. you know, america's stature globally. there's globally. so there's also allegedly number, a child out allegedly a number, a child out of wedlock as well. just so he paid the doorman at the trump tower, allegedly, allegedly. and it was a national that actually had some quite well known all of the kids . well, absolutely. yeah the kids. well, absolutely. yeah i was actually just trying to find out who stormy daniels was. it purely in the interests of i thought you'd already known stephen know stormy daniels . i'm stephen know stormy daniels. i'm sorry, clifford and her most popular one was actually called desert. stormy and i don't want the details involved . children the details involved. children of a great many us school holidays are watching right. it's not even lunchtime you can always rely on stephen powers being a former lebron james to lower the two. so that was my job. that's i learned from the master and thank you my dear

should be sure. why should we move on now ? should we? should move on now? should we? should we go it? yeah, let's, let's let's go to emma disagrees. emma voice of reason and way too young to remember anything about 1872. unlike some people on the prosecution 7082, which is stephen's 1780. prosecution 7082, which is stephen's1780. right. prosecution 7082, which is stephen's 1780. right. okay. prosecution 7082, which is stephen's1780. right. okay. and you've chosen the story in jacob's photo review, which is boys, transgender women could be barred from same sex places. we've discussed this story briefly today . but what's your briefly today. but what's your take on this good news ? we're take on this good news? we're not used to good news, are we? particularly not with respect to the trans debate. so this is risky . sunak pledged to risky. sunak having pledged to change equality act to change the equality act to create more legal clarity that sex refers to biological sex. yeah, because we've seen in schools and elsewhere particularly, you know, exeter and or pressure groups coming in into institutions and it's almost misrepresenting the equality act so that same sex spaces are not being protected. there was recently some news showed that, you know, many

schools don't have same sex toilets, changing facilities, that kind of thing. so this is front for women's rights front news for women's rights kemi badenoch and baroness falkner have come out, you very much in support of this. falkner have come out, you very much in support of this . my only much in support of this. my only hold up on this is that, you know, i as a woman don't like being referred to as a biological woman because it implies sort of it sounds a implies a sort of it sounds a bit like detergent , implies a sort of it sounds a bit like detergent, women non—bio it that there is such a thing as . you know, in a way it thing as. you know, in a way it almost creates this ambiguity because you're suggesting that there are two types of sex. there biological sex and non there are biological sex and non biological sex. and i think it might actually ultimately set a precedent . and i'm with you 100. precedent. and i'm with you 100. but what of the man who has changed his gender and has had his completed transition? no longer penis? he will not longer has a penis? he will not feel he wants to be in a changing male change you changing male change room. you want be in a changing with want to be in a changing with what he as fellow women. what he regards as fellow women. why that a woman's why can't that go into a woman's changing room? because that will be stopped if we go down this route that receives going, then i well , i mean, route that receives going, then i well, i mean, the

i think, well, i mean, the toilet situation is a is a difficult one. yeah. for obvious reasons. i don't think that non—bio logical males should be allowed into female spaces . full allowed into female spaces. full stop. i just don't believe that that should be allowed. but i think that you know, one of the benefits to this is that aside from the debate, the gender recognition act, people simply being identify as being able to identify as whatever they like and enter into into same sex spaces, whether male or female, that this does actually provide some legal clarity over the confusion between sex and gender. now, i don't believe in this sort of gender as a construct stuff, but i think that this really is going to go a long way to protecting women's spaces as in what has become a febrile debate. i think that this is a real win . and i don't think that real win. and i don't think that non—bio a logical male. so non—biological female should be allowed in biological female space.i allowed in biological female space. i think that's there's a slight problem that i think you put your finger on it. i remember april, ashley, jane morris. yeah. mean, they were morris. yeah. i mean, they were really people who trends. there

were of the 1880s recording were some of the 1880s recording in those days indeed, but they were born men clearly in were both born men clearly in the wrong bodies. i mean, anyone who ashley , mean, who saw april ashley, i mean, she's merchant's, even she's written a merchant's, even called liverpool from liverpool called liverpool from liverpool called ended up as a called george. she ended up as a model. she's attributable totally as far as totally feminine and as far as i'm concerned. april ashley and jen where still with jen morris where they still with us be able to into us should be able to go into women's toilets. simple as that. but that is a tiny percentage. and the real problem we have here getting back almost to here and getting back almost to the business and the nicola sturgeon business and rapists in women's prisons is that the you know, the bad have actually really ruined it for almost everybody when it was a tiny percentage people are tiny percentage some people are respected for that. then let's go with it. agree with go along with it. i agree with you, by logical female, you, but by logical female, i mean april ashley was a woman. you, but by logical female, i metmorrisl ashley was a woman. you, but by logical female, i metmorris was|ley was a woman. you, but by logical female, i metmorris was aey was a woman. you, but by logical female, i metmorris was a woman. woman. you, but by logical female, i metmorris was a woman. thelan. you, but by logical female, i metmorris was a woman. the fact jan morris was a woman. the fact that were born men is, that they were born men is, neither here nor there. well, this i think the point is the ambiguous to ambiguous laws are open to people the mic. and this people taking the mic. and this is a way of trying to get around the fact that there are people bad will try to take bad people who will try to take the this. aside from the mic out of this. aside from people white look very

people like white who look very feminine, you know and on, feminine, you know and so on, the shouldn't be the thing is, it shouldn't be a game about who's right. game trumps about who's right. so michael from st john morris goes with the times john as a man who story that man who wrote the story that bound reach out with the bound to reach out with the hillary conquest. yes, that's right. up right. she was halfway up everest gathering for everest gathering it for the times. it's times. absolutely it's a fascinating and could fascinating debate and we could carry probably will do. carry on. we probably will do. but to come, we're but still to come, we're bringing latest development bringing the latest development in scotland, where nicola sturgeon's , peter sturgeon's husband, peter murrell, is understood to have been this the been arrested. this is to the point on gb news, britain's news channel have again, it's here from the met office a grey and damp day for of us today. outbreaks of rain crossing the country from west to east. it's going to feel colder because of the cloud and the rain compared with the couple days. with the last couple of days. weather moving in from weather fronts moving in from the these weather the west. now, these weather fronts clear during fronts will clear through during the next hours, followed by the next 24 hours, followed by a showery day tomorrow. then showery day tomorrow. and then fine weather returns for the easter weekend . but for many of easter weekend. but for many of us, it is a damp afternoon. outbreaks of rain continuing, much of this rain is light and patchy across central and

western wales into scotland , western wales into scotland, northern ireland, brighter skies follow for western scotland and northern ireland and it stays largely bright for east anglia in the southeast , a frosty in the southeast, a frosty start. temperatures recovering 14 celsius in norwich , but those 14 celsius in norwich, but those outbreaks of rain are moving east, albeit relatively slowly and they'll reach east anglia in the southeast during the evening. clearing from scotland , northern ireland, wales in the south—west during the early hours , these areas seeing some hours, these areas seeing some showers pushing back in, but otherwise increasingly dry towards the west whilst the rain cungs towards the west whilst the rain clings on in the east, a lot of cloud and as a result virtually half will be frost free. but it will be a great start to thursday for the vast majority . thursday for the vast majority. outbreaks of rain slow to clear east anglia first thing and sticking around for parts of eastern aberdeenshire as well as shetland through much of the day, with a keen breeze day, along with a keen breeze that's going to make it feel cold and lots of cloud elsewhere, but some brighter spells albeit spells emerging, albeit with some showers developing, some heavy showers developing,

especially through parts of wales central southeast wales, central and southeast england . it's here where the england. it's here where the highest temperatures will be. however, 14 to celsius. so however, 14 to 16 celsius. so touch warmer compared with the last days and certainly last few days and certainly a marked difference compared with today thursday today then into thursday evening, the showers tend to ease. evening, the showers tend to ease . they become confined more ease. they become confined more to eastern of england. the to eastern parts of england. the rain shetland also tends rain across shetland also tends to disappear and then into friday, saturday and sunday, most places drier , brighter and most places drier, brighter and warmer

breaking news in the last hour. the husband of a former first minister, nicola sturgeon , has minister, nicola sturgeon, has been arrested in connection with an investigation into scottish national party finances. peter murrell has been questioned by detectives this morning and will bnng detectives this morning and will bring you all the latest on the gb news. and that man , donald gb news. and that man, donald trump, of course, he was defiant when he addressed his supporters

in florida. he's made the first ex—president to face a criminal trial denying all 34 trial. he's denying all 34 charges. he says it's all motivated. do you agree it's a witch hunt . and the title of witch hunt. and the title of queen camilla officially used for the first time as buckingham palace sent out those invitations. i've got mine. you haven't, have you? it also reveals that prince george will serve as one of the eight pages of his walking behind is a grandfather and helping to carry his rights. and home his rights. and the home secretary braverman, secretary suella braverman, she's got big fight. our hands she's got a big fight. our hands hasn't. the vote. hasn't. she would stop the vote. she's fighting for she's also fighting for a political future because her constituency's disappearing. so he's of the mp next to her he's one of the mp next to her and fighting in the new and they're fighting in the new constituency waterlooville and they're fighting in the new constitu

done them . thank you very much done them. thank you very much and good morning. this is the latest from the gb newsroom nicola sturgeon's husband has been arrested . the former chief been arrested. the former chief executive of the scottish national party is being questioned as part of an ongoing investigation into finances of the snp . searches are being the snp. searches are being carried out at a number of properties, including his home, where police have set a cordon outside . police scotland has outside. police scotland has been investigating money being spent, which was part of an independence campaign fund . the independence campaign fund. the snp says it's fully cooperating with the investigation . donald with the investigation. donald trump says the only crime he's committed is fearlessly defending his nation against those who seek to destroy it. the former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, as well as covering up hush money payments during . his 2016

payments during. his 2016 election campaign . he claims election campaign. he claims he's a victim election interference. as fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming election and it should be dropped immediately. immediately or elections were like those of a third world country. and now this massive election interference at a scale never seen before our country to a dark streak. kevin says this , a dark streak. kevin says this, will only aid trump's chances of re—election in 2024. and this what he thrives on. this is what he has always thrived on. so he's embattled. that means his supporters are rally. that means he more popular at the polls. it's difficult not to see this as a plot to get trump re—elected. in some ways perhaps not as president, but certainly i think he's in a good position now to stand for the republican party in 2024 . a school leaders

party in 2024. a school leaders has overwhelmingly rejected a pay has overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer from the government . pay offer from the government. nine in ten members of the national association of head teachers voted against the deal and will now discuss further possible strike action . it says possible strike action. it says teachers in england voted to strike this month and next month after rejecting a 4.3% pay rise. members from the national education union will walk on the 27th of april and the 2nd of may . environmental agency workers are warning communities, waters and wild life will be put at risk this month when they strike over pay . unison says thousands over pay. unison says thousands of its members in england, including those that work on coastal sea defences and tackle water pollution , will walk out water pollution, will walk out from the 14th to the 17th of april. it's accusing the government of refusing to allow the to improve a pay rise of 2% a tick borne virus which can

cause meningitis has been detected by health officials in the uk. the uk health security agency has found three possible cases of the virus in england since 2019, with the first confirmed case in yorkshire last yeah confirmed case in yorkshire last year. the infection can be asymptomatic and cause

to. severe and into scottish national party finances is being questioned by detectives. it's all to do with £600,000 of snp money, how it was spent and also of course mr. murrell made a personal to the snp of over £100,000, which he didn't declare. remember, he stepped down as chief executive just a couple of weeks ago and nicola sturgeon, of course, stood down only last week. it's moving very fast , isn't it? moving very fast, isn't it? scottish labour deputy jackie baillie has said this is a deeply concerning development and the police scotland investigation must be allowed to proceed without interference. we need him to use of and nicola sturgeon to urge in this state what they knew and when . and

what they knew and when. and well joining us for more is gb news reporter tobey maguire . news reporter tobey maguire. good morning, tony. what do we know? what's happening exactly now ? and so i may hear a say the now? and so i may hear a say the home of peter murrell and nicola sturgeon and there's quite a hefty police presence here and seen about four vans in total , seen about four vans in total, lots of equipment getting taken into the house. we know this is just one of several properties that has been a police this morning. and then , of course, in morning. and then, of course, in peter murrell formally arrested this morning, although details obviously quite sketchy and an open investigation . we do know, open investigation. we do know, however, that police scotland have been actively pursuing a case over these funds , £600,000 case over these funds, £600,000 in total that were supposed to be ring fenced for an independence campaign that independence campaign that independence obviously repeatedly shot down by westminster and by the supreme

court. we know that the money that has has been thought to be used for independence and that the police that is what they're investigating. and as you said , investigating. and as you said, course, that £100,000 donation that did fall within that the guidelines that for like that that should be notified of. we also know you mentioned jackie baillie there . we also know that baillie there. we also know that edinburgh south mp , joanne edinburgh south mp, joanne charity , obviously ash regan and charity, obviously ash regan and the recent snp leadership race her only endorsement and joanna cherry stepped down from snp national executive committee as well over issues of transparency with charges that obviously things get back on track. snp did an albeit short statement today saying that clearly it would not be appropriate to comment in any light police investigation , but the snp have investigation, but the snp have been cooperating fully this morning and this investigation

and will continue to do so. and then at that meeting on saturday, the governing body of the snp, that national executive committee, they agreed review the governance and the transparency and that has become such a whole issue and the leadership debate that has raged over this past few weeks . tony, over this past few weeks. tony, before we lose you, can i just ask one question? do we know if was with her husband when he was arrested this morning? good question . there yeah. and question. there yeah. and unfortunately , i don't have the unfortunately, i don't have the exact answer for but perhaps a more would certainly have more information. information coming out on this story fast and furiously. and so perhaps the next time we speak, i have an answer for you then . thank you. answer for you then. thank you. tony maguire, our reporter in scotland. i blame money on it. she was nowhere to be saved. i wondering that. yes. now let's about another police investigation. all involving nicola sturgeon. but the former president of the united states . president of the united states. so after he rejected 34 charges in that courthouse in new york ,

in that courthouse in new york, he delivered a very defiant speech at mar a lago, his palm beach home. he said he's a victim of a witch hunt and the case is fake . what do you think? case is fake. what do you think? well i mean, joining us this morning for more is the legal fellow at heritage foundation and former federal prosecutor is zac smith . mr. smith, thank you zac smith. mr. smith, thank you very much for joining zac smith. mr. smith, thank you very much forjoining us zac smith. mr. smith, thank you very much for joining us this morning. so what do you make of what's happened? obviously, it's a very fast moving story, again. and mr. trump's reaction . well, and mr. trump's reaction. well, thank you for me on this morning. look this is unprecedented. never before the history of the united states has a former president been indicted . and once we saw the indict unsealed yesterday, the charges formally announced and made pubuc formally announced and made public , i think many people felt public, i think many people felt that this was a very thin case, essentially . you have alvin essentially. you have alvin bragg, who is a local district, a local prosecutor there in new york city, bringing false and document charges , at least in

document charges, at least in part. look like they're going to depend on federal campaign finance violations . now, what's finance violations. now, what's odd about that is that in the united states, typically federal campaign finance violations prosecuted by federal authorities . they're either authorities. they're either prosecuted by the us federal election commission or the u.s. department of justice . and both department of justice. and both of those entities not to pursue these charges. and so after they decided not to pursue these charges , now that you have this charges, now that you have this local district attorney who, by the way, is of an opposite political party, he's a democrat , then donald trump bringing these charges . i think many these charges. i think many people find this entire affair very, very disturbing . do you very, very disturbing. do you think it's possible that ambitious attorney in new york who, as you point out , is part who, as you point out, is part of the democratic party, do you think if the if joe biden and the democratic leadership had not this to happen, they could

have effectively put a stop to it ? i doubt it. you know , the it? i doubt it. you know, the united states, we have a two tiered system of government. we have the government, the federal government . and then each state government. and then each state has its own local government as well. and so that leads to a two tier price prosecutorial system here in the states, you have federal crossing voters who can pursue federal charges , and then pursue federal charges, and then you have state and local prosecutor voters who can pursue state charges . and because alvin state charges. and because alvin bragg is a local elect district attorney, a local elected joe biden, the federal government would really any authority to stop these charges from going forward. but i will say this . forward. but i will say this. you know what's very

high gear. all right. that that's from the washington based heritage foundation . it's absolutely foundation. it's absolutely fascinating . and i love the fact fascinating. and i love the fact that if he does become president , he could pardon himself even if he's in prison. credible. go figure. all right. if he's in prison. credible. go figure. all right . still to if he's in prison. credible. go figure. all right. still to come home, secretary suella braverman could face a legal challenge over her plan to house migrants on a barge at portland port . on a barge at portland port. we'll be speaking to one local mp who again just opened at your with

gb newsroom. welcome back. it is 1120. you're with andrew pierce . that's him with andrew pierce. that's him and dawn neesom. that's me on gb news. and this is to the point now , residents in the town of

now, residents in the town of bexhill on sea have reacted with concern and anger over the home office announcement that a former prison there will be used to accommodate over 1000 people seeking asylum. our south—east of england. reporter addison has been to the area and has this report. so if you look over that way to the fields, there's a house, you can see them. we're just behind there . so it's about just behind there. so it's about three fields away. obviously, there's a lot more houses, a lot closer up there. they're literally on the entrance to it. but you can see the state of disrepair . i but you can see the state of disrepair. i just don't know how we're going to get these people in there in good conditions to live in inhumane way. the residents of bexhill are worried. last week, the government announced plans to turn the town's former prison , turn the town's former prison, h. mp nawaf ii , into h. mp nawaf ii, into accommodation for 1200 asylum seekers. alison bonner is a local resident . she feels the local resident. she feels the numbers plan the too high and too soon. it's so many people

are going to be coming in. you know, it's a 24% increase alone with these 1200 miles in our world population . and we've seen world population. and we've seen how manson , you know, that was how manson, you know, that was supposed to be 1600 people in there ended up with 4000 people. we can't take that. and there's no guarantee that it's going to stay at 1200. you better off trying to find a phase entry. so maybe two, 300 for the first eight months. see how goes eight months. see how that goes , see what the impact is on all of the people. i just think it's too much, too and we too much, too soon and we haven't it's four haven't got time. it's four months we've channel months away. we've channel crossings an time high crossings is at an all time high places bexhill are being places like bexhill are being targeted by home office to targeted by the home office to ease the pressure on the uk asylum system. however, these residents say it will make the area unsafe. the children just won't be able to go out. we won't be able to go out. we won't let them out. they won't be able to ride their bikes around here. i wouldn't be concerned it families, concerned if it was families, but it's so 1200 young men. it's an additional risk to an already strained system . caroline swaby

strained system. caroline swaby runs a cafe close to the norfolk site. she says housing asylum seekers within walking distance could force her to close. i'm really worried, really upset, really worried, really upset, really concerned. it's going to destroy this area completely . i destroy this area completely. i feel it would be dangerous for me because i live in the middle of nowhere. i walk my dog around here. it's dark. there's no street lighting. it's just dangerous. town council dangerous. a town council meeting had planned for meeting had been planned for this evening to discuss residents concerns . however, residents concerns. however, that's now been cancelled over fears that protesters wanted to confront officials . confront officials. nevertheless, residents say they'll still be outside bexhill town hall tonight to air their frustration. ray anderson . gb frustration. ray anderson. gb news. that's a story because there's a lot of that every time there's a lot of that every time the government try and propose somewhere to put these signs, it's to get them out of hotels and which we need to do and for which we need to do surely costing at least £150 a night. people say, fine , but not

night. people say, fine, but not here. it's the classic nimby ism. what is the answer? this is a thing. people come up with solutions, and of solutions, right? and lots of people with solutions. people come up with solutions. yeah if one guy says yeah and then if one guy says they that and you just they can't do that and you just talk one secure place to put asylum seekers is a form of prison. but they're not prisoners. here. prisoners. andrew the here. and we to after them and we need to look after them and you can't put them prison. you can't put them in prison. although thought that the although i thought that the problem with the hotel solution is very expensive. is it's very, very expensive. it's also ruining local communities. it is. if communities. yeah it is. if you're in a seaside town and you've got a load of migrants in the hotel, it's stopping. you know, tourists come to these tourist sites and the barge, which is the proposal to go in in port, i'm hoping to talk about that later in the program. the dutch used to put asylum seekers in the box, so lots of other countries do it. but why can't we do it? because the parties how you treat them. what about rights ? human about the human rights? human rights? be rights? it shouldn't be here anyway. lot of them, you know, anyway. a lot of them, you know, we as in the united kingdom, always more stick any always get more stick than any other we do in europe for this.

i mean, the polar polar opposite , away with , the poles get away with building a like literally building a wall like literally their hadrian's wall their version of hadrian's wall to in. to stop migrants getting in. yeah and then that's fine. that's fine. you can do that. and people say, france, take far more refugees. and that's because france is two and a half times the country. do you think actually it's a safe country, so why leading france? two why are they leading france? two countries? a safe country. countries? it's a safe country. france the european union, france is in the european union, very . good france is in the european union, very. good morning. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. nicola sturgeon is husband peter morel has been arrested . the morel has been arrested. the former chief executive of the scottish national party is being questioned as part of an ongoing investigation into finances of the snp . searches are being the snp. searches are being carried out at a number of properties, including his home, where police have set up a cordon. police scotland has been investigating money being spent , which was part of an independent campaign fund. the snp says it's fully cooperating

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gb news as a welcome . with a once again. as a welcome. with a once again. i'm andrew page and his andrew pierce is dawn neesom. now home secretary suella braverman could face a legal challenge over her plan to house migrants on a barge, a portland port. the baby stockholm vessel would accommodate more than 500 migrants across the taxpayers

more than 20 times. this is the idea of getting them out of hotels where it's costing £150 a day. that's about 6 million. there's something like seven, right ? that. let's talk now to right? that. let's talk now to the local dorset conservative mp richard drax for his view on the matter . good richard drax for his view on the matter. good morning, richard. thank you so much for joining matter. good morning, richard. thank you so much forjoining us this morning. okay so we have to do something with these migrants. why doesn't the pilot work for you? well well, there's two areas of concern that we have. one is in the port itself , which is a highly, highly restricted area. you're going to have 500. we don't know who they are . if it's young men . it are. if it's young men. it affects a sort of quasi prison because only be allowed out on a bus. we don't know where the bus will go to. we don't know whether they're going to be dropped. we don't know whether someone will monitor them . we someone will monitor them. we don't even know if they'll get back to the pickup point to get back to the pickup point to get back are back to where they are incarcerated. course, incarcerated. plus, of course, we very , very sensitive we have a very, very sensitive seaside town which relies hugely

on visitors and tourists for the summer trade. and we are concerned this could have a detrimental effect . richard, detrimental effect. richard, currently these people are in hotels and those employ those issues you raised would be issues you raised would be issues where they are currently. and everyone agrees they shouldn't be in hotels. it's to expensive. they've got to move somewhere. isn't the barge at least and i understand in holland they use this barge for migrants before successfully . a migrants before successfully. a better way of keeping these people securely . well, securely. people securely. well, securely. they won't be captured because of course they will. but they're not in hotels. so are they. sorry i missed that. well, they're not in hotels. they're not insecure in hotels either. they're not locked in a room in hotels . no, they're not. yes, hotels. no, they're not. yes, there is a big issue here. but this this port, as i've explained with it's highly restricted area, is going to have trouble enough to look after these migrants . and as after these migrants. and as i

said, outside of it, no control over whether what they do in a very sensitive seaside time. there are other ports , other there are other ports, other places. and you may accuse me of being a nimby, but this is actually this is this is particularly this port is not an appropriate place. and i'm not just anyone saying this. we haven't been even being consulted by anyone or hardly anyone on the consequences of this of this influx. and that in itself surprises me, richard. all we're hearing is not here, not right for here. you can't do this. it's wrong, etcetera, etcetera . so i'm sorry. it is a etcetera. so i'm sorry. it is a bit of nimbyism going on here. and so where do they go? what do we do with them ? well, the we do with them? well, the solution is simple, although, of course, it hasn't been done . course, it hasn't been done. proper reception centres have to be built and they haven't been. and i would urge the government to get on with it as fast as they can. were asylum seekers can be locate it security looked after properly and their case is

validated or not to distribute them on ships and barges all around the country in the short term. i understand there is a solution . it is not the medium solution. it is not the medium to long term solution, but all the reasons we know and there have been issues in hotels already disappear, bring sexual assaults, violence and all the rest of it. my concern is that on a budget, these issues will be magnified. so, richard, you're saying you wouldn't have a problem with a proper processing centre being built in your constituency ? well i'm not your constituency? well i'm not saying it should be built in my constituency. i don't know where it would be, but certainly a consultation by the government on where best to put reception centres should take place. now clearly they have to go somewhere and wherever they go they're going to get, i suspect some people are going to get upset. some people are going to get upset . but this one that they've upset. but this one that they've chosen as i say, is unsuitable. the reasons i've given and there's been absolute no consultation on the effect this would have quite apart from the

support the migrants on board. i know somebody's going to need. can i ask you to do you know why they chose this port in your constituency ? i guess because constituency? i guess because it's a private one. because a bypassis it's a private one. because a bypass is planning consent. and the fact all the negotiations have been in private so far between the port and the home office negates the need to talk to dorset council. the health police about me would be nice to know what's going on. all they've been told by people like you, what is happening, that would be the more courteous way and the most sensible way for. but that's not how it's been done the £3,000, we done and the £3,000, we understand the government would pay understand the government would pay refugee to sweeten the pay per refugee to sweeten the pill, is that going to go to the private port or does that go to the local council? we don't know. question . but is it know. the question. but is it going to be? it is it going to pay going to be? it is it going to pay for the health care? is it going to pay for the policing? is it going pay for the

is it going to pay for the dentists and the doctors? is it going to pay for what? who's going to pay for what? who's going to pay for what? who's going to get it? i mean, dorset council had minimal council have had minimal conversations . i've just spoken conversations. i've just spoken to morning , conversations. i've just spoken to morning, about an to them this morning, about an hour they were told like hour ago they were told like i was a few days ago now that this was a few days ago now that this was coming . but since then we've was coming. but since then we've had no explanation as to who's coming . we think a barge is coming. we think a barge is coming. we think a barge is coming . we don't know who is coming. we don't know who is going to be on the barge. and then when they are here, who, in effect is going to be responsible for them outside of the port. and as i say , i fear the port. and as i say, i fear they'll be issues on board the barge in the. all right. that's richard taxes. the conservative mp for south dorset . they appear mp for south dorset. they appear to be making a bit of a pig's here. if they storm up talking to the local mp for exactly why as they announced the state. yeah. without actually talking to the people in the local area, they were going to do this thing with barges and boats without having found the barges and boats in the first place. policy on the hoof. it is. yeah, that's what they're doing. i would have

just to the headlines, we just to get the headlines, we all seem to be doing something, but actually doing but we're not actually doing anything. to to anything. just a month to go to the dawns. invitation the coronation dawns. invitation hasn't arrived. she's very disappointed, is disappointed, however. nor is mine. but you know, there is a reference finally official. reference it finally official. she's to be queen camilla she's going to be queen camilla and chelsea's grandchildren . and chelsea's grandchildren. king who's going to be there? prince king george. going prince king george. she's going to be the little he's going to be in the procession. one of the pages arrive . for more, let's pages arrive. for more, let's talk to the host of the daily express's role. round up pandora forsyth hello pandora. good to see you. right, pandora. tell us a bit more about this. i mean, we'll have to see. she's queen camilla. yeah, we kind of suspected this would happen. there would be a period in between the late queen's death where people would be getting used to a different queen. now, we do know the late queen's request was for that camilla to be called queen consort. i can imagine the conversation also happened. you know , a few months happened. you know, a few months afterwards , whether would have

afterwards, whether would have wanted to her be queen. so i imagine this was part of that plan. we suspected it and now it's just confirmed. it and this, of course , will have made this, of course, will have made them both very happy. camilla has been around for many, many years now , and they're years now, and they're celebrating their wedding anniversary. actually, this coming sunday, i think their 18th wedding anniversary. so of course, this this will have brought much joy to them both. and i'm sure it's very significant for them . pandora, significant for them. pandora, do you think the you know that there has been a backlash about people calling her queen rather than queen council of just camilla? do you think she will be upset by some of the reaction she's receiving to this story ? i she's receiving to this story? i think camilla has been very much used to reaction that she's had over the years, whether that be positive or bad and i think actually it's part of being within the royal family. you have to expect that slightly with being on a public platform

. so i have no doubt that she will be aware of the reaction to it. and i think all her concentration and efforts now will be going to supporting it. her husband and the king, and making sure that the weekend runs as smoothly as possible . i runs as smoothly as possible. i think it's staggering still that this woman is now her majesty the queen from the coronation, because when you think in the immediate aftermath of the death of princess diana, it's not unfair to say she was probably a candidate to be the most reviled woman in britain. i think she was very much aware of that and i think it's taken many, many years for a much of the public opinion to change. some of that has changed. but of course, you know, a few people's opinions are still very much the same. but i think the king will want this to be a new era, a new modern monarchy . and this is modern monarchy. and this is something obviously , that they something obviously, that they don't want to be brought up again and again because it has

been for so many years, so we shall see on the weekend. we know that there have been protesters, but when they do go around the royal family, not so much with that issue . when they much with that issue. when they go to events , but more so for, go to events, but more so for, you know , anti—monarchist, which you know, anti—monarchist, which i'm sure they have lots of reasons for that. not so much for that, for the story on on diana. all right. that's pandora for safe and the express is royal roundup podcast . thanks so royal roundup podcast. thanks so much for joining royal roundup podcast. thanks so much forjoining us right now . much forjoining us right now. time now for another look through today's newspapers and pleased to be joined again by the uk director of common sense society, the lovely emma web looking very gorgeous. the spnng looking very gorgeous. the spring in greendale spring like in greendale and you're bit naughty earlier on you're a bit naughty earlier on when you honest with you when you to be honest with you and former labour mp stephen found that be a good on your found that be a good boy on your best behaviour. i think because we talking about the we have been talking about the royals and they as well as royals and they are as well as donald trump on most of the papers this morning, in particular some our new particular some of our new

queen. we're going come to queen. so we're going to come to you stephen, in daily you first, stephen, in the daily mail. the details of the mail. all the details of the coronation. we excited not really perfectly honest. i'm really be perfectly honest. i'm sorry be a bit of a bit of a sorry to be a bit of a bit of a grouch about this, but the thing that excites me is the invitation. when you your invitation. when you get your invitation, you see it invitation, you will see it actually looks like it. clintons card it covered in card it's it is covered in flowers all the way around it. it's very green and very it's all very green and very it's looks flat. it doesn't it's it looks flat. it doesn't look particularly regal. i want to detachment. to take the t calm detachment. i want sort distance want this sort of the distance of the royalty. you know, to actually don't see actually i don't want to see that to be all. what it's saying is green credentials. there's even a cap on it. i know how the green well no, i'm green man symbols. well no, i'm sorry say so. the green man sorry to say so. the green man has, know is a sort of park has, you know is a sort of park pair robin hood. yeah these pair and robin hood. yeah these strange yeah. strange woodland deities. yeah. is in is that really appropriate in a christian country? i don't know. but he's a man who's been banging on the environment banging on about the environment correctly ahead of his correctly and way ahead of his time for 40, 50 years. but i think it's geraniums tipped think it's his geraniums tipped him think he him off there. i think he does he have a touch to the he does have a nice touch to the plants. but i mean, you know, that's there's bumblebee it plants. but i mean, you know,

thewell. ere's bumblebee it plants. but i mean, you know, thewell. what bumblebee it plants. but i mean, you know, thewell. what do melebee it plants. but i mean, you know, thewell. what do youlebee it plants. but i mean, you know, thewell. what do you make it as well. what do you make cabbage and eyeballs? i think the well, you got the images well, if you got cabbages, grow cabbages, but cabbages, i grow cabbages, but i don't put them on invitation. and he wants to appeal to younger people. your younger and he wants to appeal to younger i'myple. your younger and he wants to appeal to younger i'm yplmuch r younger and he wants to appeal to younger i'myplmuch youngerr and he wants to appeal to younger i'm yplmuch younger than person? i'm a much younger than steve people. steve pound, who's most people. well think the well well, i actually think the i stephen in that i agree with stephen in that i think that i don't like this that modernisation of the monarchy, almost monarchy, that almost it's almost political. almost become quite political. it needs to it feels like it needs to campaign constituencies it's campaign for constituencies it's seeking the love of the people. i the monarchy to be this i want the monarchy to be this elevated, regal, transcendent , elevated, regal, transcendent, almost thing. i want almost mystical thing. i want i would like for the coronation to really be focussed on the fact that this is a divine sacrament, the anointing of the yeah. of the anointing of the yeah. of the king. you know, i would like to see this really ancient traditions going back over a thousand years to be in a modern context without feeling that it needs to change, it needs to be modern in some way. so i do i don't like that, but i am very excited for the coronation . and excited for the coronation. and i think that the idea of making camilla queen camilla, yes, she is still queen consort. but, you

know, she is a tough cookie. she's won me around. i like her. she's won me around. i like her. she's been really resilient in the face of a lot of public criticism. unlike some people in the royal family. yes. and i think that she you know, her her relationship with prince charles or king charles. now yes. you know, the people really love diana. she was the people's princess. and some people are still very sore about that. clearly, from the backlash that we've seen to this story. but the reality that charles and the reality is that charles and camilla each other and they camilla love each other and they have each other many , have loved each other for many, many decades. yes i don't you know, i completely agree with those who say that philandering is it's not the coming of is wrong. it's not the coming of a whole was a royal. the whole situation was a royal. the whole situation was a and it's just it's not a mess. and it's just it's not took to. yes, it did take to very much so. and think the very much so. and i think the people really hesitant to be people are really hesitant to be critical many critical of diana for many reasons. so i think that it's a good thing that that camilla is being going to be described being is going to be described as as queen. and i think that we should have a really, truly traditional coronation . so traditional coronation. so i think that some of the stuff

that prince charles is going to bnng that prince charles is going to bring in, i'm probably not going to like to see it should be done in norman french as well. i'll tell you a strange thing. i, as a past mayor of ealing, i actually press i give people that naturalisation certificates. a ceremony certificates. we have a ceremony which in which takes place, you know, in every hall. and every one every town hall. and every one at the moment, there's a picture of the late her majesty, queen elizabeth, charles elizabeth, because until charles is crowned, he is not actually the king with god, except in name and very difficult to name and it's very difficult to explain people who are explain to people who are becoming citizens after explain to people who are b

charlotte and prince princess mary, was married to take. mary, who was married to take. exactly. all exactly. yeah. they were all princess consort and so they wanted till the coronation. yeah. so it just keeps the show straight. yeah so it's, it's the money. i'm just wondering, you know, i get the tradition and the pomp and ceremony and it attracts to everything, but i think. yeah, but it's going to cost a lot of money. well, do you think the public health system money? absolutely. it's worldwide media attention that we focus on great britain policy. this is a matter national pride. if we can't have a good coronation, a good anointing of our monarch, then we'll always a nation. think we'll always a nation. i think that british people , even at that the british people, even at a because if remember a time, because if you remember the previous, know, queen the previous, you know, queen elizabeth, crowned and elizabeth, she was crowned and her coronation was at a time when they were still rationing these things are important. they're important in a way that is intangible, that is not material. and nations need those sorts. the streets will be thronged with a million people there going to be thronged. but, you know, not everybody some people just be sort to people just be that sort of to be carries interest and you're

just know some people be just you know some people be saying off with their heads. but look, i don't think there's look, the i don't think there's a read across the coronation a read across to the coronation of her majesty, elizabeth. of her majesty, queen elizabeth. that dignified, that was a sombre, dignified, post—war was very, very occasion. and it was very, very moving . i was four years moving. i was about four years old. i remember bits of it, but it still had the traditional pomp and pageantry and the i would like to say. but your fundamental know fundamental point is, you know what say about this? is what does it say about this? is this about as a country? i think what it says about this, it means we're backwards. means we're looking backwards. it that we're actually it means that we're actually looking past, it means that we're actually lookthis past, it means that we're actually lookthis mystical past, it means that we're actually lookthis mystical world past, it means that we're actually lookthis mystical world of past, it means that we're actually lookthis mystical world of pomp into this mystical world of pomp and ceremony. that's not and ceremony. so that's not a bad thing. you've just been moaning about invitation. moaning about the invitation. then forward, it's then looking forward, it's a modern most modern invitation. even most a backwards, . you can't backwards, confused. you can't you can't have it both ways . you can't have it both ways. stephen, i'm sorry. i think we should go with your former mp . should go with your former mp. of can have it both. of course you can have it both. i think you're confusing me with the liberals. yes, that's right . i move on. yeah. if we . i should move on. yeah. if we started here. yeah, started one shop here. yeah, right . for the time. this right. for the first time. this is another tradition . this is another tradition. this is another rupert another tradition. rupert murdoch married murdoch getting married is. well, i she going to talk about

st george's day and this is your story, emma, isn't it? lord, save us. save us from these people . this is an oxford people. this is an oxford college . maudlin college has college. maudlin college has cancelled its traditional st george's day feast and instead is having an eat dinner on st george's day. now, there's nothing wrong with having an edit, right? not just college. the problem is that aid is on the 21st. st george's day is on the 21st. st george's day is on the 23rd. they're having it on the 23rd. they're having it on the 23rd. they're having it on the 23rd when they could have had it on 22nd. so they're had it on the 22nd. so they're actually choosing one tradition, one religious tradition over another. they're making a statement. and you have to see this a broader context as this in a broader context as well. we've seen oxford well. we've just seen oxford council wanting to sell off pieces classical biblical pieces of classical and biblical art. constant art. there is this constant despair emerging of the christian heritage and christian foundations of our institutions , this sort of ingratitude. but it's also kind vandalism . i it's also a kind of vandalism. i think that there's an element of wanting to sort of hurt people over this . so rightly, i over this. and so rightly, i think of people are very think a lot of people are very annoyed about this. and as kelvin gb news his very

kelvin robinson gb news his very own kelvin robinson has pointed out, because this year, out, because because this year, st george's day falls within easter tide, actually, according to the christian calendar, it's actually been moved to the monday. so even though they chose it on traditionally chose to put it on traditionally st day 23rd, st george's day on the 23rd, maudlin college could undo their wrong by choosing to have the st george's day feast on the monday instead. wouldn't be instead. but we wouldn't be talking morton if talking about morton college if they deliberately upset. they hadn't deliberately upset. i should, i think. nonsense. i was talking to a couple of friends. i mean, i have huge admiration for my muslim friends who actually fast throughout the whole you know, whole of the day, you know, dunng whole of the day, you know, during date during ramadan, they have a date and glass of water at iftar, and a glass of water at iftar, a huge respect for both of them. said the same thing me. it's said the same thing to me. it's patron nonsense. i mean, patron rising nonsense. i mean, is a great of is there a great upswell of opinion from people from muslim students to students at morton who want to have doubt it. have this? i rather doubt it. this somebody somewhere just this is somebody somewhere just trying to be sort of super politically correct and actually ending a lot of ending up annoying a lot of people, muslims. ending up annoying a lot of pe0|this muslims. ending up annoying a lot of pe0|this is muslims. ending up annoying a lot of pe0|this is actually muslims. ending up annoying a lot of pe0|this is actually this uslims. ending up annoying a lot of pe0|this is actually this islims. but this is actually this is actually not about having e actually not about having an e dinner. there's dinner. as i said, there's nothing wrong with them choosing

to it's the to have an e dinner. it's the fact that they've chosen to do it on a day that base that displaces cassin george's day. it's not just a christian festival shakespeare saints it's not just a christian festiybut shakespeare saints it's not just a christian festiybut it's1akespeare saints it's not just a christian festiybut it's also peare saints it's not just a christian festiybut it's also azare saints it's not just a christian festiybut it's also a nationalts day, but it's also a national holiday. and so they choose they've it on this they've chosen to do it on this particular rather than particular day, rather than actually it. i think actually on it. and i think that's the thing that's annoying actually on it. and i think that's tjust1ing that's annoying actually on it. and i think that's tjust1in defence annoying actually on it. and i think that's tjust1in defence anr morton people just in defence of morton college, make the point college, they do make the point they've never had a tradition of staging george's day celebrations. i'm sure, however, they've the last the they've done it for the last the last four years before the covid they had it every single april, they had it every single april, the 23rd. thank you for pointing that out. well and just a quickie. why is it okay to have st andrew's day? obviously, andrew's some andrew's a fantastic name. some patrick's have parties patrick's day will have parties to celebrate flags, etc, to celebrate by the flags, etc, etc. st david's day wasn't david's day, of course. why st george's day somehow is somehow engush george's day somehow is somehow english nationalism is perceived as racist , english nationalism is perceived as racist, and that's not fair because because the racist . what because because the racist. what was that party called english national party sees the flag of st george as their motto. in the same way the labour party , by same way the labour party, by the the red rose the way, nicked the red rose from the wars of the roses . but

from the wars of the roses. but that's the tudors. isn't that what it's all about? think what it's all about? we think it's been by. if that's the case, they should be aware that st george was actually either from possibly turkey . from syria or possibly turkey. not quite do you think? not quite sure. do you think? because every single day is that that people will point out that george from everywhere? yes, george was from everywhere? yes, i yes was migrant. i do. yes. yes he was a migrant. and way , i don't think he and by the way, i don't think he can migrants. did he can all be migrants. did he really did slay a dragon? oh, come on. oh, come on. i don't want to be controversial. just saying a real. i do believe in dragons. i've watched harry. i'm saying a real. i do believe in d|fan ns. i've watched harry. i'm saying a real. i do believe in d|fan of i've watched harry. i'm saying a real. i do believe in d|fan of harryvatched harry. i'm saying a real. i do believe in d|fan of harry potteri harry. i'm saying a real. i do believe in d|fan of harry potter . harry. i'm saying a real. i do believe in d|fan of harry potter. tread i'm a fan of harry potter. tread softly for you. tread on my dream hogwarts school. i'd dream hogwarts school. yeah, i'd to love do not tickle a sleeping giant on the of hogwarts giant on the subject of hogwarts . well i picasso house i've been and i would not have been in suther and i would not have been in slither and people are asking me i have been in griffin i would have been in griffin dior with harry potter when i saw geoffrey for a pub quiz team , i would have been in the quidditch dean, by way. i'd quidditch dean, by the way. i'd have been the tea. have have been making the tea. i have actually you're actually no idea what you're talking no love. talking about. i've no love. j.k. never watched or j.k. rowling never watched or read did you ? which he would read me. did you? which he would

have in the. he'd have been have been in the. he'd have been in hufflepuff . have been in the. he'd have been in hufflepuff. no, have been in the. he'd have been in hufflepuff . no, no. have been in the. he'd have been in hufflepuff. no, no. i have been in the. he'd have been in hufflepuff . no, no. i want to in hufflepuff. no, no. i want to be with draco malfoy in slithering. slithering be with draco malfoy in slithering.slithering the slithering. slithering is the wicked wicked? yeah, but we wicked. the wicked? yeah, but we have .is wicked. the wicked? yeah, but we have . is that the harry have more fun. is that the harry potter equivalent the labour potter equivalent of the labour party? yeah. oh the harry potter equivalent of reform. i think we got time for one quick story. and i'm sorry, i'm going to have to do this one. the heart breaking and they it breaking news. and they said it wouldn't that rupert murdoch has called off his engagement. oh he only got engaged two weeks ago and said, was not to been and i said, was not to been a conscious uncoupling because of her evangelical views . i mean her evangelical views. i mean i have to say, i think there's more it than what i think. more to it than what i think. but i think what i've endlessly said, it's a very, very interesting she know, interesting woman. she you know, she was dental hygienist. she she was a dental hygienist. she released record of country released a record of country music. supercuts reason music. supercuts was the reason that is that does that was given is that she does she uncomfortable with she she's uncomfortable with being eye rather being in the public eye rather than actually aligned than they're actually aligned on their religious it their their religious views. it seems. her £2 seems. posing with her £2 million engagement ring with rupert . it's actually don't rupert. it's actually i don't know know were in know i don't know if you were in the that when rupert the house that when rupert humiliated to a select

humiliated evidence to a select committee, when somebody implied him that was one him and wendy deng, that was one question before. but she's round about it. it was it was certainly an even number. yeah. she said hands off my rupert . she said hands off my rupert. and she leapt like a guided missile right the way across the backis missile right the way across the back is it was a fantastic and i actually felt sorry for this ghastly little comedian who had managed smuggle in a plate of managed to smuggle in a plate of shaving wonder what his shaving foam. i wonder what his think about him not getting married for a fifth time. i wonder if they're happy. oh, is this wife number six? i this was number five, 92 years old, surely see the it's probably become the status quo in that family did this is the last family he did this is the last one i said absolutely right. he she thought three was going all still and she said she's 66. so she's almost halfway through her life she's i think life. yeah. yeah, she's i think there's more to it than her evangelical views and her reluctance to be in the public eye. but i'm not going to dwell on in public, but i suspect on it in public, but i suspect by the weekend, the sunday papers, what they're papers, we know what they're like a like they probably reveal a little but talk of little more. but there's talk of a wasn't too a prenup that wasn't too comfortable. don't know if

comfortable. i don't know if they don't talk to me about these things i did meet. but, you with jerry hall and you know, with jerry hall and they seem to really really happy couple fabulous couple and she was fabulous she's very glamorous tall funny it didn't didn't aren't you describing doing that thank you very much for that you can come back actually you can didn't i think that's not what you said 5 minutes ago. oh my darling. he didn't. rupert murdoch. sorry there was an issue with the fact that jerry hall smoked and drank too much. well do you think he might realise that before that speech in texas? what do you expect? fleet street legend. surely comes with the surely that comes with the territory have territory you have to. and i worked the times for 17 worked for the times for 17 years in the building. it was a dry office really. but yeah, it was pretty much. how did you cope?i was pretty much. how did you cope? i went to the pub, but because what's around the corner is rupert murdoch evangelical as well. i always he's a christian. i don't know much about it. i talk to him from . religion in talk to him from. religion in the paper. he walked past the pub in the papers, says that

they were aligned on that. i thought that was it that's the reason why they were. yeah. he seems to be quite an amicable yeah. and sort of respect. she's just what's the just realised at 92. what's the point getting married again? point of getting married again? but other and was but they love each other and was back the market. i love back on the market. i love justine case, i loved, i love the fact that he said that he hoped would be last hoped it would be his last relationship over the age of 50. he's a great man and he's done wonders in these papers. he saved the times and the sunday times and destroyed very times and destroyed unions very he didn't destroy them. he just put in the help, put them put them in the help, put them in the place of that marvellous woman, thatcher, moving woman, margaret thatcher, moving on. all. think. on. move! shame of all. i think. ashley, on note , there's a ashley, on that note, there's a serious story of the day serious news story of the day actually come to the end of the show. oh oh, it's been lovely being really having being with you. really it having you very much. you you enjoyed it very much. you know, it's really fun. stephen pounds and i'm pounds that's lovely. and i'm coming back out yet you're not? stephen no , no. ashley was quite stephen no, no. ashley was quite nice to me. he can come back. you can't come back. all right. thank right. okay. well, the interesting empty chair and interesting but empty chair and all right. sometimes

all right. well sometimes i can't find my mobile phones. it's missing , right? yeah, it's gone missing, right? yeah, actually, we sitting on it, right? oh, coming up next is gb news live with mark longhurst. this to point with andrew this is to the point with andrew and joan. thank you watching and joan. thank you for watching and joan. thank you for watching and see you next time. so and we'll see you next time. so you for somebody you and dump day for somebody got that one moment oh that was fun i'll just have to . take fun i'll just have to. take getting in from the west now these weather fronts will clear through during the next 24 hours, followed by a showery day tomorrow and then fine weather returns for the easter weekend . returns for the easter weekend. but for many of us, it is a damp afternoon. outbreaks of rain continue doing much of this rain is light and patchy across central and western england. wales into scotland and northern ireland. brighter skies follow for western scotland and northern ireland and stays largely bright for east anglia in the southeast, following a frosty start temperatures recovering 14 celsius in norwich . but those outbreaks of rain are moving east, albeit relatively slowly and they'll

reach east anglia in the south—east during the evening, clearing from scotland, northern ireland, wales in the south—west. during the early hours, these areas seeing some showers pushing back in. but otherwise increasingly dry towards the west whilst the rain cungs towards the west whilst the rain clings on in the east, a lot of cloud and as a result virtually will be frost free. but it will be a great start to thursday for the vast majority outbreaks of rain slow to clear east anglia first thing and sticking around for parts of eastern aberdeenshire as well as shetland through much of the day, along with a keen breeze that's going to make it feel cold and lots of cloud elsewhere, but some brighter spells emerging, albeit with some developing, some heavy showers developing, especially parts of especially through parts of wales, and south—east wales, central and south—east england. it's here where the highest temperatures will be. however, 14 to celsius. so however, 14 to 16 celsius. so touch warmer compared with the last few days and certainly a marked difference compared with today thursday today then into thursday evening, the showers tend to ease they become confined more to eastern parts of england. the

rain shetland tends to rain across shetland tends to disappear and then into friday, saturday and sunday, most places dner, saturday and sunday, most places drier , brighter and warmer.

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