passport. and getting a british passport. criminals a criminal record criminals with a criminal record as their are allowed as long as their arm are allowed in. apparently in. well, that apparently is going good news. this going to stop. good news. this is good news, though, is also good news, though, because just stop oil. yes, skewered. just stop oil. yes, that's right. apparently we are now going to be drilling for more new oil gas. he's more new oil and gas. he's saying still marry up saying it can still marry up with his net zero targets. how on does that work? in on earth does that work? in other i will also be other news, i will also be talking about this is time talking about this is it time to make illegal, david make de—banking illegal, david davis, that political powerhouse, will be joining to us discuss. and finally as well, we're going to be talking about this well. a life coach this as well. get a life coach now. apparently gps are going to be prescribing life coaches to people instead of medication . i people instead of medication. i think is a good thing. it's think this is a good thing. it's time took time that more people took personal responsibility for their health loads they get their own health loads they get stuck here with me, stuck into. here with me, patrick news . get patrick christys on gb news. get those emails coming in. gb views. cbnnews.com i am of course bang up for this after my week away i will throw you over to your headlines now and when

we back we'll be talking to we come back we'll be talking to the lawyer of david hunter who has now been released from prison so—called prison after that so—called mercy killing of his wife. very emotive it . emotive topic. let's do it. patrick, thank you . patrick, thank you. >> good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's 3:01 members of the uk's largest teaching union have accepted a 6.5% pay rise for teachers in england . the for teachers in england. the national education union says . national education union says. 86% of its members voted to accept the latest pay offer, with a 60% turnout. it comes after union members staged eight days of strike action in state schools since february in a dispute over pay education secretary gillian keegan has welcomed the decision as good news for teachers. parents and children . the prime minister children. the prime minister says the planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the nonh oil and gas drilling in the north sea is entirely consistent with the government's net zero plan. but former energy minister chris skidmore criticised the

plan, saying it's the wrong decision at the wrong time and that modern voters will vote with their feet as they look for policies that protect the environment . policies that protect the environment. but speaking in aberdeenshire this morning, rishi sunak said the plan is a step in the right direction, describing it as better for energy security and better for jobs. >> when it comes to our energy security , we are still going to security, we are still going to need oil and gas. 25% of our energy will come from oil and gas even in 2050, far better than we get that from here at home. better for the economy, better for our energy security, better for our energy security, better for our energy security, better for jobs, better for our energy security, better forjobs, and better for our energy security, better for jobs, and better for climate emissions, rather than shipping halfway shipping it here from halfway around country. so that's around the country. so that's why more north sea oil why we've got more north sea oil and gas licences being announced, we're announced, but also we're speeding our path to net speeding us on our path to net zero carbon capture and zero with carbon capture and storage . storage. >> members the conservative >> members of the conservative party have issued a joint letter to the chancellor concerning the natwest de—banking scandal. the letter, which is signed by several mps , including sir iain several mps, including sir iain duncan smith , warns that the duncan smith, warns that the financial conduct authority may

have inadvertently encouraged the culture within banking that led to nigel farage losing his coutts account . they say the fca coutts account. they say the fca should be investigated . the should be investigated. the pubuc should be investigated. the public has a right to camp in dartmoor national park, according to a ruling by the court of appeal . it comes after court of appeal. it comes after a high court judge previously ruled against granting people the right to pitch tents overnight without obtaining landowner's permission. farmers alexander and diana darwell brought a successful legal challenge against the dartmoor national park authority , arguing national park authority, arguing the camp has destroyed the environment . the camp has destroyed the environment. but the camp has destroyed the environment . but the park environment. but the park authority, however , asked appeal authority, however, asked appeal judges to overturn the ruling. earlier this month to just stop oil. protesters have lost an appeal to have their jail terms reduced. morgan trowland and marcus decker scaled a bridge on the dartford crossing in october last year, leading to the bridge's closure for 41 hours. both men were eventually removed

by specially trained officers at a hearing in london last week, the protesters lawyers made a bid to challenge the length of trowland three year sentence and decker's jail term of two years and seven months as a british man has been released from prison in cyprus after being sentenced for the manslaughter of his wife . david hunter was of his wife. david hunter was given a two yearjail of his wife. david hunter was given a two year jail term for killing his seriously ill wife at their home in paphos in 2020. the 76 year old has been released after cypriot authorities calculated his time to serve. david hunter claimed his wife asked him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancen life as she suffered from blood cancer. he spoke of his relief outside court , said thank you to outside court, said thank you to all the people who've donated to me, and especially my mates, my workmates . workmates. >> i didn't know where i'd be without . i >> i didn't know where i'd be without. i hope >> i didn't know where i'd be without . i hope i'm feeling the without. i hope i'm feeling the same as my family when i'm talking about that i'm talking about all my lads , all the

about all my lads, all the families. when you work in a colliery family , the building colliery family, the building products supplier marshalls is cutting 250 jobs and closing a factory in scotland following a slump in the number of new homes being built. >> the company says it faces persists weakness in new build housing, citing high inflation and increasing interest rates. among its key challenges . recent among its key challenges. recent figures from hmrc show that house sales were down by 15% in june, compared to the same time last year . june, compared to the same time last year. plans to house migrants on the bibby stockholm barge in dorset could face delays after reports the facility hasn't received approval from local fire services. the barge is expected to accommodate around 500 men at one time, but there are fears the vessel could present a fire danger. the vessel could present a fire danger . the government says the danger. the government says the barge is undergoing final preparations to comply with regulations. it comes as the government aims to provide cheaper accommodation for those

arriving in small boats . and arriving in small boats. and time is running out for people to use any non—barcoded stamps with just hours to go before they become invalid from the 1st of august. old stamp designs without the barcode can't be used or the recipient will be asked to cover the cost . special asked to cover the cost. special issue stamps or christmas themed editions will remain in use. this is gb news. more from me shortly. now though, it's back to . to. patrick >> welcome along . now we do >> welcome along. now we do start with the news that british pensioner david hunter has now been released from prison after serving 19 months for causing the death of his terminally ill wife . a very emotive case this wife. a very emotive case this lots of strong opinions on either side of it. now, he admitted suffolk dating janice

at their retirement home in cyprus back in december 2021. she was suffering from blood cancer and david told the court that she had begged him to help and her life if he was convicted of manslaughter. now he is out. well, i'm very pleased to say that i'm joined by michael pollock , who is the director of pollock, who is the director of justice abroad and is david hunter's lawyer . justice abroad and is david hunter's lawyer. thank you very much, michael. firstly how is he ? >> ?- >> he's 7_ >> he's ecstatic 7 >> he's ecstatic to be out of out of prison. he's been in there for 19 months, as you said , for someone of that age to spend time in prison is very difficult. he was in a cell with 11 other men. there he was treated with respect by the prison prison guards and other inmates, of course. but it's a very difficult place to be as someone of that age. so he's very happy to be released today , assuming that there's no chance of him facing some kind of criminal case back here in the uk. >> is there . patrick, i've lost >> is there. patrick, i've lost you there .

you there. >> i can't quite hear what you're saying. >> is there any chance of him facing a criminal case back here in the uk ? oh okay. all right. in the uk? oh okay. all right. i think we might be struggling a little bit with michael there. it's okay, michael. don't worry. we go back to you. so look, we will go back to you. so look, get in on get your emails coming in on this a deeply, deeply emotive case. i think everyone can case. and i think everyone can put least try put themselves or at least try to into the position that to anyway into the position that david himself in. his david found himself in. his wife, janice had suffering wife, janice had been suffering from blood cancer a long from blood cancer for a long time now. what david was saying was, she was begging to was, look, she was begging me to end life. she had quality end her life. she had no quality of she was in pain. she of life. she was in pain. she just didn't want to live like this anymore. and as anyone who desperately loves somebody and somebody that you've been with for time, you for a huge period of time, you wouldn't want to see them like that, you? course, that, would you? but of course, well, involved. well, the law is involved. i believe we might have michael back. very much, back. thank you very much, michael. look, i'll crack michael. look, i'll just crack on this. is there any on with this. is there any chance facing any chance of david facing any criminal here criminal prosecution here in britain? >> no. this is all over for him . he faced a charge of premeditated murder. he was

found not guilty of that two weeks importance of weeks ago. the importance of that is, if he was found guilty of premeditated murder, he would have his life have spent the rest of his life in here in cyprus. so in prison here in cyprus. so we're pleased that was we're very pleased when that was off table in regards to the off the table in regards to the manslaughter willing manslaughter that he was willing to plead along. he was to plead to all along. he was given this sentence of two years, which allowed him to walk free from court today so it couldn't gone better for couldn't have gone better for him he's pleased him today. and he's very pleased and with the and we're very pleased with the results hearing. it's results of the hearing. it's obviously very emotional obviously a very emotional matter be dealing with, but matter to be dealing with, but we think the right decision has been and i'm assuming that been made and i'm assuming that david was able to demonstrate that his wife did indeed want to die . yes. so the court, as well die. yes. so the court, as well as finding him not guilty of the premeditate murder, they they found in his favour in regards to all the facts that we put forward that she wanted to end her life. she was in a lot of pain and acted out of love pain and he acted out of love for they'd been together for her. they'd been together for her. they'd been together for over years witnesses for over 50 years and witnesses describe loving that describe just how loving that relationship was. it was like

the perfect relationship . the perfect relationship. genesis hairdresser came to court and said that everyone in the hair salon here in paphos in cyprus was so jealous of her because of how loving david was towards her. and it gave a bit of an idea, a bit of a flavour for the court about what kind of relationship they were dealing with. >> opens up as you are >> it opens up as you are acutely aware, a massive debate and a massive discussion. now that when situations like this happen , always comes out to play happen, always comes out to play . do you think that this could lead to some kind of change in the law where euthanasia becomes legal ? legal? >> so during the currency of these proceeding is parliament in cyprus has started to talk about this as an issue. and i know in september they're going to start discussing, discussing this more seriously about the legalisation euthanasia in legalisation of euthanasia in cyprus, whether it leads to anything or not, who knows ? it's anything or not, who knows? it's anything or not, who knows? it's a serious discussion to be had . a serious discussion to be had. and there are good arguments on both debate. i both sides of the debate. but i think question i always ask think the question i always ask myself is what would i if put myself is what would i do if put in position with somebody

in that position with somebody who i was in love with and who i who i was in love with and who i who i was in love with and who was in a lot of pain? and i think i can't say that i would do anything differently than david . david did. >> it's a bit grim, this what i'm about to ask but all of i'm about to ask you. but all of it is really is the subject matter a couple of points, which is that the prosecution raised and the manner in which david decided to end janice's life, which is down here as asphyxiation . they said that it asphyxiation. they said that it was a horrible death and that it was a horrible death and that it was no more painless or peaceful . and as i understand it, david did then suddenly make an attempt on his own life. is that correct? and then the police, i think, found him before that happened.i think, found him before that happened . i suppose the manner happened. i suppose the manner in which he acted was something that was up for question. what's his view on that ? his view on that? >> well, we got the manner of her death. >> it was suffocation . she was >> it was suffocation. she was in no position to be able to take pills to end her own life.

and that's where you get one of the problems with this euthanasia debate. people say, well, people do it well, why can't people do it themselves is because often when you're in pain, you're in a position you can't actually end your own life. so that's why he acted and the case acted as he did. and the case law, if you look across our jurisdiction, england and wales , across the commonwealth, when these cases happen, there are much more gruesome situations, if i can put it like that, of people causing the death of their loved ones and they're put in this position because there's no formal process us that people can go through to be helped to end their life by medical professionals. and not for one moment would i say that it wouldn't have been better if she could have ended her own life in a proper way with help a a proper way with the help of a doctor nurse . doctor or a nurse. >> michael, you very much >> michael, thank you very much for coming on and it's been a fascinating conversation . and fascinating conversation. and obviously i hope that david continues to be okay upon his release. it's michael pollock there who is the director of justice abroad and is david hunter's lawyer. going to justice abroad and is david

hu havingawyer. going to justice abroad and is david hu having a'yer. going to justice abroad and is david hu having a debate going to justice abroad and is david hu having a debate on going to justice abroad and is david hu having a debate on thisg to justice abroad and is david hu having a debate on this later be having a debate on this later on because it's that kind of topic, it? views topic, isn't it? gb views gbnews.com. difficult gbnews.com. a very difficult situation to try put yourself situation to try to put yourself in, but one think many in, but one that i think many people imagine. and i want people can imagine. and i want to know whether or not you'd react way, whether react in the same way, whether or you think that euthanasia or not you think that euthanasia should actually should indeed now actually be legal some form. more on that legal in some form. more on that story our website, though. story on our website, though. gbnews.com. it's the fastest growing in growing national news website in the country. all the best analysis, opinion the analysis, big opinion on the latest breaking but let's latest breaking news. but let's just actually with the just crack on actually with the topic were originally just crack on actually with the topic to were originally just crack on actually with the topic to lead were originally just crack on actually with the topic to lead with, originally just crack on actually with the topic to lead with, which|lly just crack on actually with the topic to lead with, which is! just crack on actually with the topic to lead with, which is the going to lead with, which is the government on government cracking down on foreign criminals want to foreign criminals who want to settle the uk. so suella settle in the uk. so suella braverman is leading this fight back against what she called the abuse of the uk's immigration and nationality system. now, i wasn't of this. this is wasn't aware of this. this is absolutely staggering. before today, someone been today, say someone who has been jailed for four years in their home country , we will normally home country, we will normally have their bid to become a citizen. reject id, but not actually all the time. so you could have been jailed for four years in a foreign country. could have been jailed for four years in a foreign country . and years in a foreign country. and you can go. i fancy a british

passport and we'll go, yeah, there you go. why not? but now that has been cut to 12 months, which is a step in the right direction. joining now is direction. joining me now is kevin who's former direction. joining me now is kevin of who's former direction. joining me now is kevin of counter—terrorism 'mer direction. joining me now is kevin of counter—terrorism atzr direction. joining me now is kevin of counter—terrorism at the head of counter—terrorism at the city london police. kevin city of london police. kevin thank you much. great to thank you very much. great to have on. is this actually have you on. is this actually a tightening up? a lot of people watching this show now i think will saying if you've any will be saying if you've got any criminal at all, you criminal record at all, you should be allowed into should not be allowed into britain . britain. >> well, i think it varies. and it's also a question of your position. if you get a criminal record within the uk as to whether or not you'll be able to apply for british citizenship, any form of tightening up on people who have offended, whether on our own country or in somebody else's country, i believe is to be welcomed and it's going to have some unfortunate circumstances and consequences for some people who are lived here for a while or whose families have moved to the uk. but the bottom line on it is, as we used to say , if you is, as we used to say, if you can't do the time , don't do the

can't do the time, don't do the crime . and equally, if you've crime. and equally, if you've got a later thought , you want got a later thought, you want british citizenship, don't be a thief, a robber or a rapist. i think it's a good thing. i mean, the problem with it is it's not going to affect large numbers. the real issue for us is the shock you're showing there , shock you're showing there, which is the boat people coming overin which is the boat people coming over in substantial numbers every . you know, we're every day. you know, we're talking about relative probably hundreds of people in the uk in this circumstance, whereas the boat people is tens of thousands , if not hundreds of thousands a year. yeah >> yeah, i mean, we do also have a problem, don't we, kevin, with criminals who are foreign born, who come to the uk , like i'm who come to the uk, like i'm just going to wheel out the example. of course, of this particular chap, example. of course, of this particular chap , ernesto particular chap, ernesto elliott, who had 17 criminal offences in the uk, including one for a possession of an imitation firearm . we tried to imitation firearm. we tried to deport him. we couldn't deport him. classic. and then when he ended up slaughtering a man with a knife on the street and he had

previously claimed the right to a family life in order to be able to stay in britain. one more here was just doing some research before a somali immigrant, wabi mohamed, was jailed his role in planning jailed for his role in planning the 21 over seven bombings, which failed bombings, of which was failed bombings, of course, that were supposed to replicate seven replicate the seven over seven bombings. weren't able to bombings. we weren't able to deport in case deport that guy just in case someone torched him when he got back somalia, which, of back to somalia, which, of course, would course, we can all agree would have shame, have been a massive shame, wouldn't actually is the wouldn't it? so actually is the bigger deporting bigger problem deporting criminals here? criminals who are already here? >> yeah, i mean, it is a very big problem because are big problem because there are substantial numbers of people in the uk and i mean by that thousands who've committed various serious offences . but various serious offences. but when they released from prison proved to be a challenge in deporting them because of course they always get a lawyer they will always get a lawyer who take them to the appeal who will take them to the appeal court and then rule out, rule out usual card. they're at out the usual card. they're at great risk wherever they go back to. and of course, because of the fact that our country is welcoming, wants to be human rights compliant, and we allow

that argument to stand and they stay in the country . we rather stay in the country. we rather like the cases you've got there and then go on and defend again. >> yeah , i think that certainly >> yeah, i think that certainly needs tidying up. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and i think most people will agree that whilst this is a step in the right direction, that if somebody has got a criminal record, a prison sentence of 12 months or more, that realistically now we're going to say no. that is obviously a step in the right direction. many people would wish had gone people would wish it had gone further. think the bigger people would wish it had gone furthe of think the bigger people would wish it had gone furthe of course,he bigger people would wish it had gone furthe of course, is bigger people would wish it had gone furthe of course, is thoser issue, of course, is those people here who people who are already here who we deport for whatever we can't deport for whatever reason. usually the rights reason. usually the human rights bngade reason. usually the human rights brigade but you brigade get involved. but you mentioned it little bit mentioned it a little bit earlier on. i'll just finish on this kevin, which is that this one, kevin, which is that these are people who are trying this one, kevin, which is that th

whether there whether or not somebody there has served a six year has indeed served a six year prison somewhere for prison sentence somewhere for murder . murder. >> and indeed, many of them may well have committed similar offences. i mean , i was very offences. i mean, i was very concerned to see at one stage how many of them coming over from albania, where of course many of them come here as part of organised crime firms from albania who effectively control the cocaine trade in the uk with the cocaine trade in the uk with the exception of merseyside, they are many of them will be foot soldiers coming over to supplement these gangs who are extremely ruthless and we've got no checking up on no real way of checking up on their okay. all right, kevin . their okay. all right, kevin. all right. >> now, thank you very much . we >> now, thank you very much. we are just struggling a little bit with your connection there. but we do appreciate you coming on, kevin. we all got the kevin. i think we all got the gist. kevin hurley, there is the former counter—terror former head of counter—terror ism of london police ism at city of london police right. for to right. two big topics for us to get stuck into right get our teeth stuck into right at which is basically at the top, which is basically whether or not you think the

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that tally with his commitment to net zero? i wonder if we're witnessing a little bit of a rishi revival here. but do rishi revival here. but i do want know, as well, he's want to know, as well, he's saying on the side of saying he's on the side of drivers and motorists, why drivers and motorists, but why are banning new petrol are we still banning new petrol and diesel cars by 2030? look liam halligan is going to join us in a tick to pick through the noise on all of this. patrick christys on gb news. we are britain's news

channel well, very shortly i will have the latest on nigel farages campaign to stop banks closing people's account. a strong intervention from david davis earlier on. we'll be hearing that as well. that story is going to rumble on. mark. my words. this will not just stop at but anyway, the new at banks. but anyway, the new idea well, people off idea as well, to get people off benefits their backsides benefits and off their backsides and work. well, it's and back into work. well, it's to life coach. to give them a life coach. i think this is good. make people take personal take a bit of personal responsibility for their own health. before that , health. but before all of that, prime minister rishi sunak has been the oil and gas capital been in the oil and gas capital of aberdeen today announcing hundreds of new oil and gas drilling licences in the north sea. good stuff. he's gone to war with. just stop oil just more appears to be his more oil appears to be his message. hear from message. let's hear more from our economics our business and economics editor halligan on the editor liam halligan with on the money . vote blue, get green. money. vote blue, get green. >> that's what david cameron used to say about the conservative party a little more than ten years ago. these days,

it seems that rishi sunak and jeremy hunt, they're saying vote blue, scrap green as the tory leadership seems to be watering down some of its environmental pledges , as not least in the pledges, as not least in the aftermath of the tories holding that west london seat of uxbndge that west london seat of uxbridge and south ruislip amidst huge opposition for sadiq khan's extension of the london ulez congestion scheme . what are ulez congestion scheme. what are sunaks energy's moves ? he just sunaks energy's moves? he just said he wants to announce grant 100 new north sea oil and gas drilling licences keir starmer. of course he wants to scrap any new licences for oil and gas drilling in the north sea. sunak wants to max out the remaining nonh wants to max out the remaining north sea reserves. why because we still are in the uk. north sea reserves. why because we still are in the uk . despite we still are in the uk. despite the move to renewables there it is a fossil fuel nation. believe it or not. oil and gas still accounts for three quarters of all the energy that we use in this country. if you consider electricity generation heat and

vitally transport and half of that three quarters, that's 3/8 kids that comes from the north sea, the uk's main oil and gas production centre , north sea production centre, north sea production centre, north sea production has absolutely plummeted over recent years. back in the year 2000, we had almost lost almost 3 million barrels a day of oil and over a million and a half barrels of oil equivalent of gas making us one of the biggest energy export takers in europe since then, there's been a big drop off and from 2025 that drop off in north sea production is going to continue even if these new licences are granted . that's why licences are granted. that's why we're relying ever more on imports of energy . we lng imports of energy. we lng imports of energy. we lng imports that's liquefied natural gas coming from america , coming gas coming from america, coming from qatar in the middle east, coming from australia . they rose coming from australia. they rose 74% in 2022, not least because the uk and the rest of western europe were trying to wean themselves off russian oil and gas. yet these lng imports, once

you get the gas, you turn it into a liquid, you put it in a big ship, it goes across the sea in with diesel fumes coming out of those ships. the carbon emissions are three times more for imported lng into the uk than they are for our own north sea gas. and that's something which the prime minister is emphasising, saying can nuclear rescue us? well, hinkley point and there it is in the west country, europe's biggest building project, they say it will be ready in 2027. and our first full cycle nuclear power station for many, many years. yet many industry sources say hinckley won't come on stream until around the mid 2030. and those small modular nuclear reactors that we hear . so those small modular nuclear reactors that we hear. so more about the energy secretary, grant shapps, told me last week they hope to make a decision in about who will produce them by 2029, six years just to make a decision on, let alone to actually build the things. what about renewables ? well, here is

about renewables? well, here is the uk's energy mix. about renewables? well, here is the uk's energy mix . from 2000 the uk's energy mix. from 2000 to 2020, coal generate using coal to generate electricity absolutely plummeted. gas is about the same. about 40. but look, wind , solar, bioenergy and look, wind, solar, bioenergy and waste, they now produce a lot of our electricity. so why is it then that electricity prices here in the uk are still so expensive and here they are compared to the rest of europe , compared to the rest of europe, ,45 per kilowatt hour end user household electricity use. that's the cost. it's much less in france . it's much less in in france. it's much less in spain. and look at us. the spain. and look at the us. the eu average for electricity for end users, household is ,25 per kilowatt hour. in the uk, it is 45. despite the fact that we have so much more renewable energy. so this is why uk consumers pay more and sunak and hunt. consumers pay more and sunak and hunt . what they're trying to do hunt. what they're trying to do is get clear blue water between themselves and the labour party watering down these environmental pledges gradually.

so hopefully in the end they can tell consumers us that their energy bills will finally come down. >> absolutely. top stuff that. liam, thank you very much. now liam, thank you very much. now liam is going to hotfoot it over here very, very quickly. but in light and final light of that and these final slide there that i'm going to pick rishi sunak is pick up on, rishi sunak is clearly trying line in clearly trying to draw a line in the between him and the sand between him and keir starmer. of starmer. massively helped, of course, party course, by the labour party being to an extent being funded to an extent anyway, the likes of just anyway, by the likes of just stop oil. but here are a couple of headlines. okay and this is what understand. so what i don't understand. so hopefully what i don't understand. so hopefulthis. rishi sunak is explain this. so rishi sunak is insisting he can have more insisting that he can have more new oil and gas, but also hit net zero by 2050. he also saying he's on the side of motorists , he's on the side of motorists, he's on the side of motorists, he's looking at low traffic neighbourhoods, remains to be seen. with et seen. what happens with ulez. et cetera. to cetera. but he's still going to look ban the sale of new look to ban the sale of new petrol and cars by 2030. petrol and diesel cars by 2030. so how can both of those things be true at the same time? liam? how can they indeed be true at the same time? we end up the same time? how can we end up with more new oil and gas and still hit net zero? >> well, the of politics is

>> well, the art of politics is having it having your cake and eating. it isn't clearly isn't it? sunak is clearly trying to speak to the different constituencies tory constituencies which the tory parties are going to fight in this upcoming general election. on one hand, they're going on the one hand, they're going to fighting in red wall seats to be fighting in red wall seats where a lot of traditional labour voters, really don't where a lot of traditional labcthisoters, really don't where a lot of traditional labcthisoter�*zero really don't where a lot of traditional labcthisoter�*zero stuff. lly don't where a lot of traditional labcthisoter�*zero stuff. they n't like this net zero stuff. they don't the of paying don't like the idea of paying 20, 25, 30 grand for a heat pump or having 20, 25, 30 g|buy for a heat pump 20, 25, 30 g|buy fobrandat pump 20, 25, 30 g|buy fobrand new1mp or having to buy a brand new flashy electric car, of flashy electric car, which of course are much , much course for now are much, much more yet where the more expensive. yet where the tories are fighting, the lib dems the country dems saying the west country or some snootier parts of some of the snootier parts of the outskirts of london, then they have to burnish their environmental credentials . and i environmental credentials. and i think what's happening now is that rishi sunak, in the aftermath of that uxbridge and south ruislip by—election in where tories against all the where the tories against all the odds, against all the most pundits, most pundits predictions , they actually held predictions, they actually held that seat in the middle of that predictions, they actually held thatover in the middle of that predictions, they actually held thatover ulez.5 middle of that predictions, they actually held thatover ulez. imiddle of that predictions, they actually held thatover ulez. i thinks of that predictions, they actually held thatover ulez. i think rishi1at row over ulez. i think rishi sunak thinks now is the time to take on the labour party , the take on the labour party, the lib dems, and indeed some of his own party and to start saying things which most british people

agree with, not that they want net zero scrapped, but they don't like it when net zero starts affecting heavily the finances of them and their family . a net zero is going to family. a net zero is going to be hugely expensive. where does the burden fall that debate, partly thanks to the uxbridge by—election, partly thanks to gb news is now happening. >> lovely stuff, liam. thank you very, very much. that's liam halligan there. our economics and with all the and business editor with all the stats, all the info. then stats, all the info. and then i think quite important think that quite important political rishi political roundup that rishi sunak aslef is right, of course trying to be things to all trying to be all things to all people. he's got to win a general election, hasn't he? we aren't going taking a very aren't going to be taking a very close course close look over the course of this and the coming this show and in the coming weeks and dare i say it, months as to how these things as well as to how these things can the time, can be true. at the same time, can be true. at the same time, can you hit net zero by 2050? can you stop the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 petrol and diesel cars by 2030 at time as the at the same time as being on the side of motorists and of course, drilling more oil and drilling for more new oil and gas? it off, it will gas? if he pulls it off, it will be in the sand be a clear line in the sand between him and keir starmer. and be and frankly, i think will be a massive boost for him at the

next general election. i wonder if are seeing bit of if we are seeing a little bit of a sunak revival, but plans a rishi sunak revival, but plans have criticised by have been fiercely criticised by climate charities, have been fiercely criticised by climéthe charities, have been fiercely criticised by climéthe government. rities, have been fiercely criticised by climéthe government. etas, have been fiercely criticised by climéthe government. et cetera. even the government. et cetera. so all of so we'll be talking about all of this. have absolute this. i still have absolute loads our way. the other loads coming our way. the other side bulletins as side of your news bulletins as well. nigel farage steps up his campaign against people being debunked. he's launched a website. i will hear from the tory mp who is trying to give everyone the legal right to a bank account. but now it's your headunes bank account. but now it's your headlines with . tamsin headlines with. tamsin >> patrick, thanks very much. here are the headlines at 333 members of the uk's largest teaching union have accepted a 6.5% pay rise for teachers in england , and it comes after england, and it comes after union members staged eight days of strike action in state schools since february in a dispute over pay . the prime dispute over pay. the prime minister says the planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the north sea is

entirely consistent with the government's net zero plan. but former energy minister chris skidmore criticised the plan, saying it's the wrong decision at the wrong time. rishi sunak says the plan is a step in the right direction, describing it as better for energy security and jobs . to just stop oil and jobs. to just stop oil protesters have lost an appeal to have their jail terms reduced at morgan trowland and marcus decker scaled a bridge on the dartford crossing in october last year at a hearing last week, the protesters lawyers made a bid to challenge the length of trowland three year sentence and decker's jail term of two years and seven months. this well, you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website gbnews.com direct bullion sponsors the finance report on gb news for gold and silver investment . at well. silver investment. at well. here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will

buy you $1.2859 and ,1.1644 is the price of gold is £1,531.80 per ounce. and the ftse 100 is at 7714 points and direct bullion sponsors. >> the finance report on gb news for gold and silver investment . for gold and silver investment. >> well, that brings you up to date. now time for the weather . date. now time for the weather. >> looks like things are heating up . boxed boilers proud sponsors up. boxed boilers proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> i'm alex deakin . welcome >> i'm alex deakin. welcome along to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. pretty drab one out there today. many places seeing some outbreaks of rain is going to a little brighter across to turn a little brighter across parts the through the parts of the south through the afternoon northern scotland afternoon and northern scotland to of this area of low to the north of this area of low pressure continuing to see a little sunshine . but generally little sunshine. but generally this is spinning in a lot of this low is spinning in a lot of cloud outbreaks of rain . where cloud outbreaks of rain. where it brighten up, could it does brighten up, we could see and see some heavier showers and we'll weather

we'll see more wet weather coming into northern ireland later northern scotland, later on, say northern scotland, mostly dry and fine. and mostly staying dry and fine. and in south it is going to turn in the south it is going to turn steadily drier, certainly through evening and through this evening and overnight, some overnight, we'll see some lengthy, clear spells over the midlands eastern england . midlands and eastern england. temperatures dropping to about 12 to 14 celsius. still breezy through the course of tuesday. and hopefully for most it'll be something a bit drier and a bit brighter as well . still some brighter as well. still some outbreaks rain across outbreaks of rain across northwest england, southwest scotland and a few showers continuing here and there through but for much of through the day. but for much of the good of the south and a good part of scotland, should brighten scotland, skies should brighten through see through the day. we'll see a little of sunshine, but little bit of sunshine, but generally just spells generally just brighter spells still on cool side. still on the cool side. temperatures is still struggling in the high teens. maybe low 20s across . but notice across the southeast. but notice down to the southwest , more wet down to the southwest, more wet weather lurking and that is an area of low pressure that's going to bring a wet and going to bring a pretty wet and blustery day most areas blustery day across most areas dunng blustery day across most areas during of wednesday. during the course of wednesday. some heavy downpours, likely persistent rain over parts of northern england and southern scotland. thursday, friday, again, look a little drier with some brighter spells, but still

a showers and never a few showers and never particularly . looks like particularly warm. looks like things are heating up by next boilers. >> proud sponsors of weather on . gb news this is the story that absolutely everybody is talking about and it's the campaign being led spearheaded by nigel farage to stop banks closing people's accounts . people's accounts. >> well, the gb news presenter has now launched a website on behalf of all of those people who have been debunked , it's who have been debunked, it's emerged that banks closed almost . 350,000 accounts last year. let that figure sink in. well, tory mp david davis is backing nigel farage's campaign. in fact, rishi sunak was pretty much in favour of it as well . much in favour of it as well. fascinating. again, keir starmer dragging his heels on it, wasn't he? that was terrible politics from him that but david davis is trying to bring in a law that

gives everyone a legal right to a bank account. let's hear from the guy . the guy. >> the privatise, the post office. we had that right because the government could insist that anybody could at least have a post office account . mean, not . i mean, not very sophisticated, least sophisticated, but at least they had account. mean, the had an account. i mean, the ability of banks to stop your account to de—banking was not widely known. i mean, i first raised it, oh, two years ago with another victim suffered really in a similar way to the way nigel farage did. but unlike nigel, he didn't want his name in the public domain. unlike nigel, he wasn't willing to put up a really serious public fight. and so we couldn't do anything about that. i couldn't move the government. i couldn't move the government. i couldn't move banks. once they move the banks. but once they did it to nigel, well, of course they bit off more than they can chew. and what we've , what the chew. and what we've, what the world at large is now clear on is that banks can arbitrarily cut off your banking services . cut off your banking services. and that, as you say, is quite wrong . wrong. >> well, that's david davis

there . i'm joined now by toby there. i'm joined now by toby young, who's the general secretary of the speech secretary of the free speech union. toby, firstly, thank you very much. on a personal note, because you sprung into action when got off twitter when i got booted off twitter and actually had and i haven't actually had a chance thank you yet. so this chance to thank you yet. so this is as good a as but is as good a time as any. but the paypal account the group had its paypal account closed last year. this is your group, course, before was group, of course, before it was reinstated. look, reinstated. and look, nigel's got the go at got this website on the go at the 353,000 and accounts the minute, 353,000 and accounts closed. number's going to closed. that number's going to rise. mean, this actually rise. i mean, this is actually fast becoming one of the big scandals our time. i think. scandals of our time. i think. >> yeah, that's extraordinary >> yeah, that's an extraordinary number. but i think we got an inkung number. but i think we got an inkling of just how many people have been de—banking from the fact that the facebook group called natwest closed . my called natwest closed. my account has over 10,000 members, and i know from my own experience, patrick, that when you do get debunked, it wasn't just the free speech union that lost its paypal account. it was also me personally . when you do also me personally. when you do get debunked, it's quite embarrassing. >> you know, your first inclination is to keep quiet about it, not least because if you make a fuss, you worry that

you make a fuss, you worry that you able open a bank you won't be able to open a bank account with somebody else. so i'm sure the problem is far more wide spread than even nigel farage suspects, because so many people it's happened to are just too embarrassed to speak about it . it. >> so this is the new line today , which is this new law that people want to bring in to make sure that everybody the sure that everybody has the legal right to a bank account. it feels like a no brainer to me. your views. >> yeah, i think david davis is absolutely right. >> that should be a legal right. >> that should be a legal right. >> but we've been doing some digging into the current regulations and they are slightly more robust than you might imagine. >> patrick so we've discovered something called the basic banking agreement, which the nine biggest high street banks in the uk signed up to in 2016 and which is still valid whereby you you are entitled under this voluntary agreement to a basic bank account . now, the banks

bank account. now, the banks can't even charge you for a bafic can't even charge you for a basic bank account. >> what we think has been happening , i mean, if >> what we think has been happening, i mean, if nigel is right, about 350,000 people being banked last year, i suspect what's happening is that when the high street banks that have signed up to the basic banking agreement try and close somebody's they don't somebody's account, they don't tell they're entitled tell them that they're entitled to a basic bank account and that it will be free of charge. >> obviously , they don't because >> obviously, they don't because it's financial it's not in their financial interest it's not in their financial intebut we've been urging anyone >> but we've been urging anyone who's de—banking we publish who's been de—banking we publish some now about what to do some faqs now about what to do if you're banked on the free speech union's website, free speech union's website, free spe it's free to speech union's website, free spelt's free to anybody. >> it's free to anybody. >> it's free to anybody. >> you don't have to be a member to access the faqs. one of to access the faqs. and one of the we're urging people the things we're urging people to do in addition to submitting a access request, a subject access request, complaining to the financial ombudsman complaining to the financial ombudsrcomplaint the raising a complaint with the financial is financial conduct authority is to your bank if to point out to your bank if they're one of the high they're one of the nine high street that are street banks that are signatories to this agreement that they are obliged under the terms of this agreement to offer you basic bank account. so, you a basic bank account. so, you a basic bank account. so, you know, for many people who are who are under threat of

being banked , who've received a being banked, who've received a letter from their telling letter from their bank telling them their bank account is going to should to be closed, they should complain out that complain and point out that their bank, if they're one of their bank, if they're one of the big nine street banks, the big nine high street banks, have to this have signed up to this agreement, obliging them to give you basic bank account. you a basic bank account. >> it's top advised that and the way that i'm looking at it is this it's very easy for people to just focus on the political aspect of this. so if your politics, i.e. you're a brexit supporter or say you've been quite vocal about the illegal migration bill, say , oh, that migration bill, say, oh, that will get you banked, but there's more to it than that. actually, there was a flavour, a whiff of there was a flavour, a whiff of the anti—vax there, which actually laughably centred around the fact that nigel farage had met novak djokovic , farage had met novak djokovic, his dad, at some point in serbia. i mean, you could have made that up anyway. you've also got the issue of whether or not you think a woman is a woman and whether not you think that whether or not you think that maybe a bit too far, maybe we're going a bit too far, too with zero. so this too fast with net zero. so this is not just an issue about politically exposed people . and

politically exposed people. and when at those things, when you look at those things, there , there huge numbers of there, there are huge numbers of different where people there, there are huge numbers of differe be where people there, there are huge numbers of differebe debunkedre people there, there are huge numbers of differe be debunked for. aople there, there are huge numbers of differebe debunked for. bute there, there are huge numbers of differebe debunked for. but i'm could be debunked for. but i'm just wondering now, toby, if people submit these requests and it is revealed that they were debunked against the rules and they were not told actually , you they were not told actually, you can open up another account with us and they've gone to the wall over this. it's compo time, isn't it ? isn't it? >> i would have thought so patrick. yes. >> i mean in some cases discriminating against people because you disapprove of disagree with their perfectly lawful political beliefs is a breach of the equality act 2010, which does , which does make it which does, which does make it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of their protected beliefs . protected beliefs. >> now, typically , the courts >> now, typically, the courts have decided that more left of centre beliefs enjoy that protected status than right of centre beliefs. for instance, a belief in democratic socialism is protected under the equality

act 2010, but not a belief in conservatism. but it's possible the courts might change their minds about that. so another thing we're urging our members who have been de—banking to do if exhausted every other if they've exhausted every other possible avenue, they can't possible avenue, if they can't get the financial ombudsman service to do anything, or the fca to investigate it, they should consider suing under the equality act. >> absolutely. absolutely absolutely. and revel in it as well . absolutely. revel in it. well. absolutely. revel in it. take them for every penny you possibly can. toby, thank you very , very much. toby younger, very, very much. toby younger, who general secretary of who is the general secretary of the speech union. a the free speech union. it's a cracking sure cracking outfit that i'm sure you're aware it already. you're all aware of it already. but not, check out but if you're not, check it out online. right the online. right okay. so the latest to cut benefits. latest plan to cut benefits. i like story. the latest like this story. the latest plan to cut the benefits bill is to get gps to people to life get gps to refer people to life coaches rather than give them a sick note. good it gets people off their backside and it sorts people's lives look, know people's lives out. look, i know not sometimes not everyone's lazy. sometimes people a helping people need a bit of a helping hand, either you're hand, but either way, you're getting and you're getting a life coach and you're getting a life coach and you're

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channel soa channel so a little bit later on, i'm going to discuss the case of the christian woman who refused to paint a couple's home because they're gay and 4:00 i will have more on the news that it is now more on the news that it is now more difficult for foreign criminals to become british citizens, which again , i can't citizens, which again, i can't believe it's taken this long. but anyway, it's a step in the right direction. but get this, there are 2.5 million people on

long term sick leave, so you can't really blame the government for trying a different approach to tackle the problem. and it's now being reported that doctors will be asked to refer patients to life coach as instead of signing them off work. i'm joined now by a man who's never needed a life coach. this is look at him. he's won at life. i mean, good grief . it's the founder of pimlico plumbers. charlie mullins. i must admit, charlie, i had no idea you. where are you . idea you. where are you. >> very mobile. i have a villa in marbella . in marbella. >> and what he does before all the was start, i've worked hard to get it and i still work hard now. how. >> now. >> so that's stops that lot. >> so that's stops that lot. >> absolutely . this go on. >> absolutely. this go on. >> absolutely. this go on. >> well this this life coach nonsense on the nhs is absolute nonsense on the nhs is absolute nonsense . nonsense. >> but why should we have to pay for that? >> if you want. >> if you want. >> if you want. >> if you want to get a life coach, which is pretty much a middle class thing and a good thing for a lot of people, then you it or or be

you need to pay for it or or be at and get it on the at work and get it on the internet then. >> but to actually bring it in on put them under more on the nhs, put them under more strain when they've got more important things to do. >> is all >> all because this is all because lazy people don't want to go and work. it's a simple way to go work . stop the way to go to work. stop the benefits that are benefits for the ones that are poncing off country. the poncing off the country. the ones don't need the ones that don't need the benefits and they can go to work, stop the benefits . people work, stop the benefits. people will to work, teach will go back to work, teach people the culture of going back to the world, not putting more pressure the nhs. terrible pressure on the nhs. a terrible idea. if we've got to pay for it. >> but how else do you just convince people to work? charlie because it isn't working, mate. it isn't working. people all should have been born with the inherent spirit that you have to just go and get off your backside and go and work because of personal pride. and unfortunately, people haven't of personal pride. and unf> well, i'm agreeing with you that on the work ethics have changed, but you stop people's money, their oxygen. you money, stop their oxygen. you can't live. they go to work. that's all you got do is to that's all you got to do is to stop giving handouts to people

that lazy don't to that are lazy and don't want to go work . getting a life go and work. getting a life coach ain't going to make the difference if you're physically or not to go to or mentally ill not to go to work, then you're not go to work, then you're not to go to work. takes seven minutes in work. it takes seven minutes in front doctor to tell front of a doctor to tell him you're sick can't go you're sick and you can't go work give you a few work and they give you a few hundred to stay at home. so hundred quid to stay at home. so let's do away with the let's let's do away with the benefit nonsense. benefit benefit nonsense. if someone's going someone's capable of going to work, want to work, go away. if you want to get life coach, get it or pay get a life coach, get it or pay for it yourself. don't use it as another excuse and put so much pressure on the nhs just because lazy people don't want to go to work. this all to do with the work. this is all to do with the working from home nonsense and the we've moved the culture that we've moved into people benefits into by giving people benefits all time . all the time. >> believe in long covid? >> do you believe in long covid? charlie well, >> do you believe in long covid? charlie well , look, it's not charlie well, look, it's not what i believe in. >> we're being told this long covid. i do believe in long laziness. you know what i mean? that goes on for years. um, you know, this ain't about covid. this is about laziness. why do we always beat about the bush? and, you know, up and, you know, come up with mental health and if you've got

mental health and if you've got mental problems, mental health problems, of course and feel course you can't go and feel very sorry for the ones that are generally got health generally got mental health problems disabilities. generally got mental health problems disabilities . they problems and disabilities. they should given more money. but should be given more money. but let's real, genuine let's stop the real, genuine people , you know, youngsters and people, you know, youngsters and lazy people that can't go to work that are just using as excuse. do you know what? there's even some pests on the internet giving out advice. internet now giving out advice. how lazy and evidently how to be lazy and evidently internet sort of success. people they're telling people on tiktok , do the bare minimum. don't go work. this is a better lifestyle . um, and i know all the people that are sitting there going look at him, look at him giving it large and all that nonsense. but for 41 years, run a successful company. it was done by work and employed by hard work and employed thousands of people over the years. and lots people years. and lots of people benefit. contribute to years. and lots of people beneconomy contribute to years. and lots of people ben economy . contribute to years. and lots of people ben economy . and ntribute to years. and lots of people ben economy . and that'se to years. and lots of people ben economy . and that's what the economy. and that's what we've got to into people we've got to install into people and the benefits and and just stop the benefits and just don't give them no money. they've got no choice but to go to work. like you , patrick, to work. it's like you, patrick, you know, you don't you're not lazy. you don't have reasons to

not go. do you need a life coach to go to work? >> no, no, no. i don't, actually. in fact, in fact, actually. and in fact, in fact, what i will say as well, what i will say, charlie, is that i actually decline when actually go into decline when i'm busy and i don't like i'm not busy and i don't like it. and there are some days when you think i can't really be bothered . today, i don't feel bothered. today, i don't feel good. bothered. today, i don't feel good . i actually never feel good. i actually never feel better for having a day on the couch. better for having a day on the couch . right. and i know people couch. right. and i know people will be looking at me now sporting this sun sign going, well, i bet enjoyed your well, i bet you enjoyed your holiday, well, to be holiday, didn't you? well, to be honest with you, it took me a couple days to enjoy it couple of days to enjoy it because on a sunbed because i'm sitting on a sunbed for thinking, for most of it, thinking, i wish. there any news that wish. is there any news that i'm missing? really. can't missing? i can't really. i can't really. driving missus really. i was driving my missus absolutely driving really. i was driving my missus abs�*mad.y driving really. i was driving my missus abs�*mad. so driving really. i was driving my missus abs�*mad. so for driving really. i was driving my missus abs�*mad. so for people'siving really. i was driving my missus abs�*mad. so for people's mental her mad. so for people's mental health, is better to go to health, it is better to go to work. think i'm not work. charlie i think i'm not that in that i'm not that. >> what i'm saying is nothing >> what i'm saying is we nothing wrong coach. if you wrong with a life coach. if you can afford it. but don't. don't wrong with a life coach. if you can ('itord it. but don't. don't wrong with a life coach. if you can ('itord itheut don't. don't wrong with a life coach. if you can ('itord ithe nhsn't. don't wrong with a life coach. if you can ('itord ithe nhs making�*t pass it off. the nhs making working it, working class people afford it, but fair. seeing a life but let's be fair. seeing a life coach will not make the difference of you being lazy or not lazy. that's your mind not lazy. that's in your mind and just need teach

and we just need to teach people, sort of be people, you know, sort of be respectable, putting into respectable, start putting into society and stop poncing off the country and, you know, just go to work. i mean, it ain't complicated if you're not well to go to work, don't go. if you've disabilities, you've you've got disabilities, you've got problems. got real mental health problems. you pleased that we you know, i'm so pleased that we have something in place to have a something in place to help them. let's not sort of help them. but let's not sort of put more strain on the nhs just because busy bodies can't be prepared to get up in the morning to go to work. >> charlie, look, thank you very much for taking much and thank you for taking time holiday as well. much and thank you for taking timeknow, holiday as well. much and thank you for taking timeknow, great)liday as well. much and thank you for taking timeknow, great toiay as well. much and thank you for taking timeknow, great to have. well. much and thank you for taking timeknow, great to have you l. much and thank you for taking timeknow, great to have you on you know, great to have you on the show. much appreciated as eveh the show. much appreciated as ever. there ever. is charlie mullins there who founder pimlico who is the founder of pimlico plumbers worked plumbers, who has indeed worked very for everything that very hard for everything that he's think he was more he's got. so i think he was more than enough, right to go and enjoy but the enjoy himself now. but the government down on government is clamping down on foreign criminals from today. it's hard for them to become british citizens. yeah, okay, fine. but what about all the criminals that we got in this country who we can't deport? patrick gb news, patrick christys on gb news, britain's a britain's news channel? a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb

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gb news. >> it's 4 pm. is patrick christys. it's news update on the bibby stockholm barge. apparently it might be a massive fire risk. the local fire service have not signed off on it yet. we will be looking at that. we're also going to be talking as well, of course, about removing foreign criminals. but this is an interesting okay. would you interesting one. okay. would you do killing for your do a mercy killing for your partner if they were desperately ill? it's in light of that british man, david hunter, who's just been freed from prison in cyprus. strong views on this on

either side. we're going to be having a discussion about that. but i've got two big debates having a discussion about that. but i'veyourtwo big debates having a discussion about that. but i'veyour way.»ig debates having a discussion about that. but i'veyour way. theebates having a discussion about that. but i'veyour way. the firstzs having a discussion about that. but i'veyour way. the first one coming your way. the first one is this net zero. okay. it is a question, i think, of health for some i.e, do all want some people, i.e, do we all want to burn to death if indeed you do climate do believe that climate change is really and wealth, is really happening and wealth, which is, well, can we afford it? can't afford it? okay and if you can't afford it, frankly, you're poverty might before the flames might kill you before the flames do. we're having a debate do. so we're having a debate on all another big debate, all of that. another big debate, bizarre really bizarre story, this really bizarre story, this really bizarre story. so a decorator refers used to decorate the house of a gay couple because they said that it contravened their christian faith. i'm going to be asking whether or not that's okay. patrick christys on . gb news gb views gbnews.com loads to go out there. i'm going to whizz you over now to get your headlines with paul and then we'll get stuck . in then we'll get stuck. in patrick, thanks very much indeed.

>> well, the top story this hour is that the prime minister says the planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the north sea is entirely consistent with the government's approach to . net zero. >> the former energy it comes to our energy security . our energy security. >> we are still going to need oil and gas. 25% of our energy will come from oil and gas. even in 2050, far better than we get that from here at home. better for the economy, better for our energy security, better for jobs, better for climate jobs, and better for climate emissions shipping emissions rather than shipping it from halfway around the it here from halfway around the country. we've got country. so that's why we've got more oil and gas more north sea oil and gas licences announced. but licences being announced. but also us on our also we're speeding us on our path to zero carbon path to net zero with carbon capture storage and rishi capture and storage and rishi sunak. >> well, the former energy minister, chris skidmore , minister, chris skidmore, criticised his plan, saying it was the wrong decision at the wrong time and that voters will vote with their feet as they look for policies which protect the environment agent. >> but speaking in aberdeenshire, this morning, as you've heard, rishi sunak you've just heard, rishi sunak said was right

said the plan was the right step in direction . in the right direction. >> now members of the uk's largest teaching union have accepted a 6.5% pay rise for teachers in england. the national education union says 86% of its members voted to accept the latest pay offer, with a 60% turnout. that comes after union members staged eight days of strike action in state schools since february in their dispute over pay the education secretary, gillian keegan has welcomed the decision as good news for teachers , parents and news for teachers, parents and children . now members of the children. now members of the conservative party have issued a joint letter to the chancellor concerning the natwest de—banking scandal. the concerning the natwest de—banking scandal . the letter, de—banking scandal. the letter, which is signed by several mps, including sir iain duncan smith , warns that the financial conduct authority may have inadvertently encouraged the culture within banking that led ultimately to nigel farage losing his cootes account. they say the fca should be investigated atd itself .

investigated atd itself. >> the public has the right now to camp in dartmoor national park. >> that's according to a ruling by the court of appeal . and it by the court of appeal. and it comes after a high court judge previously ruled against granting people the right to pitch tents overnight without obtaining landowners permission. >> farmers alexander and diana darwall brought a successful legal challenge against the dartmoor national park authority, arguing that campers destroyed the environment. >> but the park authority we asked appeal judges to overturn the ruling. earlier on this month , a meanwhile to just stop month, a meanwhile to just stop oil protesters have lost an appeal to have their jail terms reduced . morgan trowland and reduced. morgan trowland and marcus dekker scaled a bridge on the dartford crossing in october last year, leading to the bridge's closure for 41 hours. both men were eventually removed by specially trained police officers at a hearing in london last week, the protesters lawyers made a bid to change the length of toland's three year

sentence, and decker's jail term of two years and seven months. now a british man has been released from prison in cyprus after being sentenced for the manslaughter of his wife, dave hunter was given a two yearjail hunter was given a two year jail term for ending the life of his seriously ill wife at their home in paphos in 2021. the 76 year old claimed his wife asked him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer. >> although, thankfully for all the people who've committed to me and especially my mates, my workmates , i don't know where workmates, i don't know where i would be without . i hope i'm would be without. i hope i'm feeling the same as my family when i'm talking about that i'm talking about all my lads , all talking about all my lads, all the family. when you work in a colliery family , the building colliery family, the building products supplier marshalls is cutting 250 jobs and it's closing a factory in scotland following a slump in the number of new homes being built. >> the company says it faces

persistent weakness in new build housing, citing high inflation and increasing interest rates among its key challenges. figures from hmrc also show that house sales were down by 15% in june, compared to the same time last year . last year. >> the number of people sleeping rough in london throughout spnng rough in london throughout spring and early summer is up by 12. >> the government published a strategy in september which restated a commitment to end rough sleeping by the end of this parliament. but rick henderson from the charity homeless link says that target is now looking completely out of reach. time is running out for people to use any non barcoded stamps with just hours to go before they become invalid . from before they become invalid. from the 1st of august old stamp designs without the barcode can't be used or the recipient will be asked to cover the cost. special issue stamps or christmas themed editions will remain in use and old stamps can

be swapped for the barcoded stamps at post offices as this is gb news across the uk in your tv, in your car, on digital radio, and on your smart speakeh radio, and on your smart speaker. by saying play gb news try it back now to . try it back now to. patrick >> lots to go out this hour. i'm starting with this. we are no longer rolling out the red carpet to foreign criminals. apparently did you know that until today , somebody could have until today, somebody could have been sentenced to four years in prison abroad and then still have been given british citizenship ? it's bonkers, isn't citizenship? it's bonkers, isn't it? but what would be the chances of them coming over here and then getting a job and being able to help our economy if they get off the plane, they rock up at the job centre with a criminal record. as long as your arm. it's not happening, is it?

it's government is now arm. it's not happening, is it? it's to government is now arm. it's not happening, is it? it's to make overnment is now arm. it's not happening, is it? it's to make it ernment is now arm. it's not happening, is it? it's to make it veryient is now arm. it's not happening, is it? it's to make it very difficult)w going to make it very difficult for anyone who's received a 12 month sentence to a british month sentence to get a british passport. look, it's step in passport. look, it's a step in the the reality the right direction. the reality is we more than enough is we have more than enough foreign criminals here already. and we're unable to deport many of them by the looks of things. in fact, to be fair, we have of them by the looks of things. in fact, british air, we have of them by the looks of things. in fact, british criminalsve enough british criminals as well. we? police are now well. don't we? police are now solving less than 6% of crimes. that report dropped yesterday . that report dropped yesterday. reports also show that rapists and murderers are among the hundreds of foreign criminals who have gone missing in the uk. kidnappers are gun criminals and robbers as well. a home office report from a couple of years ago shows that it was managing the cases of 21,094 foreign offenders , including 6030, who offenders, including 6030, who are in jail, 1036 who were in immigration detention and a whopping 13,212 just living in the community. yet the number removed from the uk has dropped from 6437in 2016 to just 2676.

that was in 2021, although that was due to covid apparently. well, maybe anybody who is murdered by one of those foreign rogues will go down as another covid related death. but we couldn't deport ernesto elliot, who reportedly had 17 criminal offences to his name in the uk, including possession of an imitation firearm before he slaughtered a man during a knife fight. he used the right to a family life to be able to stay in britain . as a somali in britain. as a somali immigrant, wabi mohammed was jailed for his role in planning the 21 over seven bombings, which was a failed attempt on july the 21st, 2005, to replicate the 77 bomb attacks which killed 52 people in london. two weeks earlier. he was released on bail in 2013, and apparently we couldn't deport him because he faced persecution in his own country and his lawyers wanted to stop mi5 and his lawyers wanted to stop m15 surveillance of him because that would have been some form of torture. mean , this guy of torture. i mean, this guy would appear didn't mind too

much people being blown to much about people being blown to smithereens or burning to death. but hey, let's look after his human rights. let's him human rights. let's keep him here, we? it will be here, shall we? it will be a crying shame, of course, if he suffered at back home suffered at all back home in somalia, is blindingly somalia, it is blindingly obvious, isn't it, that the best way may be the only way to prevent foreign criminals from killing or raping people and then remaining in britain . then remaining in britain. shock, horror is to stop them coming to britain in the first place. it is a privilege to live in britain, not a human right. yeah. get in touch . gb views dot yeah. get in touch. gb views dot com. i'm joined now by peter kirkham , who's the former kirkham, who's the former detective chief inspector at the met police. peter, look, thank you very, very much. so a step in the right direction, it would appeah in the right direction, it would appear, which is that i mean, i was quite shocked to learn this, actually, that you could have been sentenced years in been sentenced to four years in prison a foreign jail, prison in a foreign jail, and then just through the then actually just through the legal channels , get a british

legal channels, get a british passport. but now apparently , passport. but now apparently, you know, just just the 12 months, you'll be all right. >> it does seem like it's been somewhat lax in the past. and the tightening up, as you say , the tightening up, as you say, the tightening up, as you say, the best way of avoiding the problems of having foreign offenders committing offences here and then all the problems related to removing them afterwards is to not let them arrive in the first place, prevent the problem at source. and so it sounds like a sensible way of addressing the issue and the closure of what has been somewhat of a loophole. >> yeah. and if somebody has been sentenced to around four years in a foreign jail, that's a relative serious offence. one would imagine. okay. some of them might be done for things like fraud, which is serious for them might be done for things likevictim,which is serious for them might be done for things likevictim, but:h is serious for them might be done for things likevictim, but it's serious for the victim, but it's non—violent. there be non—violent. but there will be violent in involved in violent offences in involved in that. and then it's the thing of when you come to a new country and got an extensive and if you have got an extensive criminal peter, criminal record, i mean, peter, you deal or dealt with criminals

rather a lot. it's unlikely they're just going to stop being a criminal when they get here. i would imagine. >> for sure. it depends on >> no, for sure. it depends on the offence and depends on the offence and it depends on the offence and it depends on the offence and it depends on the of criminal the length of the criminal history it depends history and it depends to a certain on how ago . certain extent on how long ago. and in this country we and you know, in this country we recognise people pick recognise that people who pick up convictions as up criminal convictions as teenagers, for instance , or teenagers, for instance, or young men or women , they will young men or women, they will grow out of it to a certain extent. they may engage in relationship types. they get themselves jobs , their lives themselves jobs, their lives become more stable and they move on from what was maybe a very disturbed sort of period in their youth. >> so we need to be aware of that. but yes , criminals are that. but yes, criminals are habitual as adults. >> they don't change their spots all that often. >> no. and look this undeniably is, in my view, a good thing thatis is, in my view, a good thing that is happening now. and do you not want to overshadow, you know, the fact that i think this is a massive step the right is a massive step in the right direction? makes direction? anything that makes it someone with it less likely that someone with a finds

a criminal history finds themselves rampaging through the streets . good news. themselves rampaging through the streyl s . good news. themselves rampaging through the streyl would . good news. themselves rampaging through the streyl would argue good news. themselves rampaging through the streyl would argue ,iood news. themselves rampaging through the streyl would argue , peter, zws. themselves rampaging through the streyl would argue , peter, that but i would argue, peter, that the bigger problem that have the bigger problem that we have is here the minute is people here at the minute who've moved to britain committed criminal offences whilst been here and we whilst they've been here and we are to remove them . i are unable to remove them. i think that probably is the bigger it? it is bigger problem, isn't it? it is a massive problem and the rules that get in the way and the defence as it were, that if you send me back i'm going to be persecuted or tortured or even subjected to death. >> and that is a legitimate that's a legitimate point. but i think we've seen it played and overplayed by some lawyers on behalf of their clients , and behalf of their clients, and that gets it a bad reputation . that gets it a bad reputation. so it's a case of trying to make sure that the right use of those sorts of rules isn't over. overcome by the misuse of them . overcome by the misuse of them. we also need to be aware that in terms of criminal convictions , terms of criminal convictions, we look at a years in prisonment

through the eyes of someone living in this country and, you know, it's got to be pretty serious before you're going to get a year or more imprisonment here. but that's not necessary be the case in all jurisdictions and certainly in the developing world and some unstable countries . you can get a year in countries. you can get a year in prisonment for, say, blasphemy or whatever, which wouldn't even be an offence. and so there needs to be some scope for those making the decisions to say, yeah, hang on a minute. yes, it's 12 months imprisonment. yes, it's five years imprisonment. but in the context of this country , they wouldn't of this country, they wouldn't have been in prison at all. >> no. and, the thing and there are provisions for people are provisions for those people because they can either just seek let's you'd seek asylum. let's say you'd been legitim persecuted for actually being gay or blasphemy laws, etcetera. in another country, then one would imagine you would go through the asylum process, you would be able to provide mitigating circum provide those mitigating circum stances i served ten stances that say, i served ten years a saudi hellhole prison years in a saudi hellhole prison because of this, that and the other, and would be okay.

other, and that would be okay. hey peter, can i just touch on with you? i mentioned there about the issue at the moment with crimes being solved as it is, and this is why i don't really want to heap a load more foreign criminals onto the mess that we currently have at the moment. the figures that i saw earlier something like moment. the figures that i saw earlijust something like moment. the figures that i saw earlijust underomething like moment. the figures that i saw earlijust under 6% thing like moment. the figures that i saw earlijust under 6% of ng like moment. the figures that i saw earlijust under 6% of crimes less just under 6% of crimes last year were solved, which i found remarkable really . last year were solved, which i found remarkable really. i mean, it's not true . it's not true. >> yeah, it wouldn't surprise me at all. >> it's quite difficult to solve crimes even simple crimes, when you are trying to get the evidence together to convict beyond reasonable doubt in our courts, which quite rightly , i courts, which quite rightly, i expect the prosecution to put the evidence before the court to enable them to conclude that the person has done it. and if in doubt, this whole system is designed, if in doubt, if you acquit and it's better that ten guilty men go free than one guilty men go free than one guilty innocent man be convicted , that's an adage that i think is sound. but but what we're

reaping at the moment is the benefits in the promise of all all the disasters that have befallen the police service in the last 13 years. the absolutely swingeing cuts to the police service meant that experience has been lost . experience has been lost. >> that experience can't be taught and it can't be brought in. experience is only developed by people doing the forjob by people doing the for job a penod by people doing the for job a period of time and so we have got a massive uphill struggle for probably the next decade or two in trying to bring all the new officers up to speed and become effective and its effective officers. you need in solving crimes. >> absolutely. look peter, thank you very much. as peter kirkham , there is the former detective chief inspector at the met police. good news if we're going to make it harder for foreign criminals enter uk and criminals to enter the uk and come again , if come and live here again, if those were the rules that were in place right about you could apply in place right about you could apply legally and openly be for

british citizenship and possibly get it even with quite an extensive criminal record. does it not? again, beg the question why so many people are desperate to throw their documentation into the water and cross the channel and it is on to the channel and it is on to the channel migrant crisis that i move now? because this is the big news on the migrant barge. there's meant to house 500 migrants. the bibby stockholm, which is currently off the coast of dorset, believe it or not, hasn't yet received approval from the local fire service amid fears that it's a death trap. 25 male mice warrants were due to move onto the barge tomorrow . so move onto the barge tomorrow. so apparently that's now on hold with claims that the dorset and wiltshire fire and rescue service have a number of safety concerns. joining us now is dr. susan phoenix from the know to the barge campaign group. dr. susan, thank you very much. do you fear as though the bibby stockholm could be what has been called in certain media outlets the potential to be a floating

grenfell ? we well, it's the grenfell? we well, it's the white elephant, isn't it? >> as far as i can see, this is just one big i'm trying to think of a polite way of calling it from start to finish. >> you know, it's been naivety on the part of portland , the on the part of portland, the portland port people, the fact that today we have bill reeves writing a very self—justifying open letter to our local free newspaper. he hasn't been out to speak to anybody. so the fact is the cage of the barge is getting rattled from top to top to finish . we have right from the finish. we have right from the beginning we have corruption. we have money being spent by the government. we have it coming down, showing all these different little links , the different little links, the money being misused from top to bottom. we've seen the national press interviews of cronyism , press interviews of cronyism, friends, friends of the ministers , civil servants. ministers, civil servants. everybody's raving , receiving everybody's raving, receiving contracts for what? there's been a new company set up nearly a week to service this barge. so

the fact that the fire risks are there isn't rocket science . there isn't rocket science. somebody just couldn't find a little contract to do to a local friend to make it safe. >> yeah . one of the things one >> yeah. one of the things one of the things that i can't get my head around is that this barge has been used before for years for loads of different people . and clearly it was not people. and clearly it was not a fire risk then . so what about fire risk then. so what about this now? all of a sudden makes it a fire risk? is it to do with the numbers of people on board? is do potentially is it to do potentially potentially, dare say with potentially, dare i say it with the who might on board the people who might be on board with there risk that with it? is there a risk that they set fire to it? and they would set fire to it? and if they do that, how do you get them off? and that, i suspect, is maybe one of the problems. but dare i say it because you are you are no. to the barge, right? i mean, are you actually quite keen to promote the idea then is indeed fire then that this is indeed a fire risk one can be housed on risk and no one can be housed on it? and i'm sorry, but we can't have barge? have the barge? >> well, of course. but we've said the beginning. said this from the beginning. we're not against migrants, but we against this barge in our

we are against this barge in our port, which is a big hazard when you have to remember one road on one road off, you only need one disaster on our road and a fire engine can't get down. ambulances no ambulances can't get down no matter what. never mind for the barge, for the local barge, but for the local population and the indignity population an and the indignity of being of our local population being insulted worse. so the insulted is even worse. so the whole thing is a mess, isn't it? from start to finish? it's not, as i say, it's not more. we need common sense and there isn't any in our government left, is there? well, well. there? well, well, well. >> say that, right? you say >> you say that, right? you say that. would have agreed that. and i would have agreed with you last week. i'm still inclined you inclined to agree with you a little susan, don't little bit, doctor. susan, don't get . whilst there get me wrong. but whilst there was reading a story was a way i was reading a story about these marquees and these tents and that to me has been the obvious solution from day one, if you set up one, because if you set up a load of these marquees, intense , firstly, cheaper . , firstly, it's cheaper. secondly, you can house more of them in. thirdly, it is much more of a deterrent than a four star hotel a luxury barge star hotel or a luxury barge somewhere near where you live. or dare i say it, even somewhere near where you live. or dare i say it , even actually or dare i say it, even actually a renovated raf base that is

steeped in british history that was going to bring something like £300 million to the local area. i think tent cities for me have always been the way forward. dr. susan and maybe now this will just speed that up. >> yeah, i quite agree. it's more of a deterrent, isn't it? nobody wants to live in tents. nobody wants to live in tents. no it's contempt . i no but also it's the contempt. i mean, there is no transparency. so if you put tents up, there's not much availability to give not as much availability to give you friends , a little bit of you a friends, a little bit of backhanders so that you can set up something a up services for something like a boat hotel. and that is the boat or a hotel. and that is the big thing. i think the there's no awareness of the social injustice as the country's just gone to pot in my three quarters of a century, i didn't think i would ever be so angry about anything as this. the fact that people, migrants and local people, migrants and local people are being treated with contempt , they're just people. contempt, they're just people. the fact that the money making business goes on around it. so now who's i wonder who is supplying these tents? >> well , that's true. and >> yeah, well, that's true. and look, doctor susan , thank you look, doctor susan, thank you very, very much. it's susan very, very much. it's dr. susan phoenix from no to the

phoenix there from the no to the barge raises barge campaign group. she raises a serious point there as a very serious point there as well, which is money has already been this. it's been spent on this. look, it's one thing saying, well, is this thing a fire risk? why didn't we do due diligence? mean, do due diligence? i mean, actually, to actually, is it a fire risk to begin but it's the other begin with? but it's the other thing. should we not have thing. well should we not have considered this before we spent splurged taxpayers splurged a load of taxpayers money the thing money on it, brought the thing to in there, said to the coastline in there, said we were going people on we were going to house people on it, all this fuss, it, kicked up all of this fuss, employ do the employ people to do the contracting renovated contracting for it, renovated the at massive the flipping thing at massive expense taxpayer. the flipping thing at massive expeindeed taxpayer. the flipping thing at massive expeindeed all taxpayer. the flipping thing at massive expeindeed all of taxpayer. the flipping thing at massive expeindeed all of us taxpayer. the flipping thing at massive expeindeed all of us astayeh the flipping thing at massive expeindeed all of us as well.. and indeed all of us as well. i mean, realistically, did nobody consider this ? it's the waste of consider this? it's the waste of money? i'm sure the people in that area will be happy if it ends up being a fire risk. and then they can't house people on it. but we've already spent, haven't we? we've spent haven't we? we've already spent madness. i do think, however, that are the way that tent cities are the way forward and that is a hill i'm willing to die on. vaiews@gbnews.com. but a british man admitted to british man who admitted to suffocate his terminally ill wife now been released from wife has now been released from a cypriot prison . the terribly a cypriot prison. the terribly sad has reopened this sad case has reopened this debate about assisted dying. i'm

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channel a couple of really, really big controversial debates coming your way in a second. actually, i'm going to be asking whether or not after rishi sunak has delivered a slap in the face to just stop oil today, do we have to choose

between health and wealth when it comes to net zero? basically, what are you more scared of? okay. is it the impending end of the world it going skin? the world or is it going skin? and discuss the and i will discuss the controversial case of the woman and i will discuss the cont refused. case of the woman and i will discuss the cont refused. cé do of the woman and i will discuss the cont refused. cé do work; woman and i will discuss the cont refused. cé do work at 'oman and i will discuss the cont refused. cé do work at them who refused to do work at the home of a gay couple because of her christian faith is it ever okay to refuse business to gay people on the grounds of your religious beliefs in the modern world? but before that, british pensioner david hunter has been released from prison after serving 19 months for causing the death of his terminally ill wife . the former miner admitted wife. the former miner admitted suffocating janice, his wife of 52 years, at their retirement home in cyprus in december 2021. she was suffering from blood canceh she was suffering from blood cancer. david told the court that she had begged him to help end her life . he was convicted end her life. he was convicted of manslaughter. look a little bit earlier on in the show, i spoke to michael pollock, who is david hunter's lawyer , ecstatic david hunter's lawyer, ecstatic to be out of out of prison. >> he's been in there for 19 months, as you said , for someone

months, as you said, for someone of that age to spend time in prison is very difficult. he was in a cell with 11 other men there. he was treated with respect by the prison prison guards and other inmates, of course. but it's a very difficult place to be as someone of that age. so he's very happy to be released today . to be released today. >> loads of emails on this and absolutely no euthanasia in our country. there is ample evidence that euthanasia has many unintended and hidden downsides. that's from one person, another person there who said, look, patrick, my husband worked with david, said he's a lovely, gentle man. he was obviously desperate his wife. desperate to help his wife. that's julie gb views, that's from julie gb views, a gbnews.com. let's get the thoughts now of trevor moore, who's the chair of my death. my decision . it's a grassroots decision. it's a grassroots campaign reforming the law campaign for reforming the law around dying. look around assisted dying. look thank very, much, thank you very, very much, trevor. great to have on the trevor. great to have you on the show. is there not a risk of assisted dying being abused ? assisted dying being abused? >> well , we assisted dying being abused? >> well, we can look to assisted dying being abused? >> well , we can look to the assisted dying being abused? >> well, we can look to the many jurisdictions around the world. there are now 28 of them that already have an assisted dying

law. and we can see that the laws there are working transparently and safely for those who choose choice being the important word and assisted death. and i think the sadness of the janice hunter case, it's equivalent to what might happen here in the uk. obviously that was in cyprus is that people are forced to take desperate measures because we don't have a law . we know that there's law. we know that there's overwhelming public support for it. it's a matter of choice. >> can i ask, is that just unnecessary suffering? just on just on that, trevor, i've got to ask on that. i mean, is there overwhelming public support for euthanasia ? overwhelming public support for eut well;ia ? overwhelming public support for eut well ,a ? overwhelming public support for eut well , all ? overwhelming public support for eutwell , all of ? overwhelming public support for eut well , all of the overwhelming public support for eutwell , all of the opinion >> well, all of the opinion polls that have happened to date vary between i think yougov did one with 75. our organisation commissioned 1 in 2019. it went up as high as 88, but when you look around the world at public approval levels, they're all around those sorts of levels from 70% upwards. so there is

definitely support there . definitely support there. >> look, how would you caveat this? okay because we can't i don't know if you'd agree with this. my view would be if somebody is very depressed, i don't think that should maybe make euthanasia an option for them. i i can understand if somebody has something like locked in syndrome or an incredibly painful medical disease from which there is no recovery, but a remarkably long life expectancy , i can see the life expectancy, i can see the argument for that. so what caveats would you have in place ? >> well, the 7 >> well, the most important thing would be the eligibility criteria, as they're called . criteria, as they're called. we're campaigning for the terminally ill people or those who have incurable conditions. so you refer to locked in syndrome. and many of your viewers will probably remember tony nicklinson, who indeed had that syndrome. and can only communicate via eye movement. we

would say that someone like tony, so long as he was of sound mind , you know, could show the mind, you know, could show the mental capacity should be able to have an assisted death. but of course, that would involve numerous safeguards, including , numerous safeguards, including, we say to independent medical practitioners, reference to a special ist, including a specialist, including a psychiatrist. if there were any doubts about whether that person had the mental capacity. but look, i can be in hospital now and i can refuse who's life sustaining treatment. i can refuse chemotherapy if i have canceh refuse chemotherapy if i have cancer. there's a capacity issue there too. medical practitioners tell me that they have to make these assessments all the time, so it wouldn't be anything new to look. >> trevor, thank you very much. it a morbidly fascinating it is a morbidly fascinating conversation, but it is an interesting one nonetheless to decide whether or not and it's very difficult to put yourself in that position. i do think as well , trevor, at the moment that well, trevor, at the moment that you end up with partners who don't want to be murderers but are confronted with the daily

thing of a loved one begging them to do something wrong. and at what point does that snap really, i suppose . trevor, thank really, i suppose. trevor, thank you very much. trevor moore there, the chair of my death, my decision, which a grassroots campaign around campaign for reform around assisted dying loads more still to like i said, got to come. like i said, i've got a couple of big ones for you actually. rishi sunak has actually. now rishi sunak has announced north announced hundreds of new north sea gas licences were sea oil and gas licences were issued. gone into bat issued. he's also gone into bat for motorists as well , but issued. he's also gone into bat for motorists as well, but he's saying sticking his net saying he's sticking to his net zero i'm to going zero plan. look, i'm to going ask, is it a straight choice between pollution between green dying of pollution and climate change or essentially dying of poverty? i'm going to be talking about all of that. and is it right for somebody with fundamentalist religious beliefs to to religious beliefs to refuse to serve playful religious beliefs to refuse to serve the playful religious beliefs to refuse to serve the news playful religious beliefs to refuse to serve the news with playful religious beliefs to refuse to serve the news with pollyayful religious beliefs to refuse to serve the news with polly .(ful patrick >> thank you. >> thank you. >> the top stories this hour from the newsroom. members of the uk's largest teaching union have accepted a 6.5% pay rise for teachers in england. that

comes after union members staged eight days of strike action in state schools since february in their dispute over pay. also in their dispute over pay. also in the news, as you've been hearing, the prime minister says the planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the north sea is entirely consists aren't with the government's net zero plan. the former energy minister, chris skidmore criticised the plan, saying it's the wrong decision at the wrong time. but rishi sunak says the plan is a step in the right direction, describing it as better for energy security and jobs to just stop oil protesters have lost an appeal to have their jail terms reduced . morgan trowland and reduced. morgan trowland and marcus decker scaled a bridge on the dartford crossing in october last year. at a hearing last week, the protesters lawyer made a bid to challenge the length of their sentences . more on all their sentences. more on all those stories by heading to our website . gbnews.com .

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continuing here and there through the day. but for much of the south and a good of the south and a good part of scotland, should brighten scotland, skye should brighten through the day. we'll see a little sunshine , but little bit of sunshine, but generally brighter spells generally just brighter spells still cool side . still on the cool side. temperatures still struggling in the teens , maybe low 20s the high teens, maybe low 20s across the southeast. but notice down to southwest that more down to the southwest that more wet weather lurking and that is an area of low pressure that's going bring a pretty and going to bring a pretty wet and blustery across most areas blustery day across most areas dunng blustery day across most areas during wednesday. blustery day across most areas duringheavy wednesday. blustery day across most areas duringheavy downpours�*dnesday. blustery day across most areas duringheavy downpours likely ay. some heavy downpours likely persistent rain over parts of northern england southern northern england and southern scotland thursday and friday. again, look a little drier with some brighter spells, but still a and never a few showers and never particularly warm . particularly warm. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . on. on. gb news. >> all right, then. so prime minister rishi sunak has been in the oil and gas capital of aberdeen today announcing

hundreds of new oil and gas drilling licences in the north sea. look, critics have said, of course, it threatens the environment at a when environment at a time when europe facing waves and europe is facing heat waves and wildfires. sunak says that wildfires. rishi sunak says that even if the uk reaches net zero by 2050, a quarter of our energy needs will come from oil and gas, i.e. we need to be more self—sufficient and we shouldn't bankrupt ourselves , sacrifice bankrupt ourselves, sacrifice ourselves at the altar of franklin greta thunberg so which side of the fence are you on? joining me now to have this discussion essentially between health and wealth is christina rabaseda, who's a renewable energy expert, and cameron smith from the conservative environment network. thank you very, very much . i will start very, very much. i will start with you, christina. it's always ladies first, of course, on this show. is there a starker choice, do you think, between people going bankrupt as a result of pursuing net zero or actually see, if we don't do that, we're just going to die of climate change anyway? >> well, i think we need to

think about this rationally and i think one of the most important things is, you know, it's not a black and white answer. it never is because energy industry is so complex and, you know, emotionally, i don't like it. and i think we should do everything we possibly can to stop the climate change. but on the other side, we need oil and gas for absolutely everything, like oil, all the clothing , all the plastics, clothing, all the plastics, everything comes from oil at the moment. so we have to be realistic about how we're going to slowly transition to a more renewable future. and also where we are only 2% emissions in this country , right? so most of the country, right? so most of the oil and gas that's going to be drilled in the north sea is going to be exported to countries like india and china . countries like india and china. so really , are we going to miss so really, are we going to miss out on this opportunity because it's going to the amount that needs to be consumed is going to be consumed. and so are we just going to miss out on the

opportunity on making additional money that could support our economy at a time of need? i mean, there's much to think mean, there's so much to think about. and renewables are really , really struggling the , really struggling at the moment, know, we just , really struggling at the mona nt, know, we just , really struggling at the mona tax know, we just , really struggling at the mona tax put know, we just , really struggling at the mona tax put on know, we just , really struggling at the mona tax put on renewables; just , really struggling at the mona tax put on renewables andt had a tax put on renewables and so anything above £75 is has got a tax on and kfve these do not stack up. so the big offshore wind sites are being pulled out because is it just doesn't make sense to build them on the pnces sense to build them on the prices that they've received on the cfd auctions . and we're in the cfd auctions. and we're in a tricky, tricky situation an and we have to compromise . and these we have to compromise. and these new plants are to going be hopefully built efficiently . and hopefully built efficiently. and it's better than buying it from, from india or of foreign countries that might impact security . yeah. security. yeah. >> all right. look, i think that, politically speaking, rishi sunak is on to a winner here because as it currently stands, the labour party is receiving from just receiving donations from just stop is a terrible stop oil, which is a terrible look. course , look. the gmb union, of course, is dead against what the labour

party wants terms of party wants to do in terms of net zero. they're saying it's going cost them so going to cost them jobs, so they've split the labour they've kind of split the labour party. they're coming. i'll come to this now. only think to you on this now. only think i think that most people face between the choice of going skint or hitting a net zero target. frankly we would rather write net zero off. and is that not in a roundabout way what rishi sunak is actually doing a bit here? >> i think we've got to look at what's happened in the last year and the bill that everyone's been worried about is their energy bill because gas prices rocketed 13 fold year after rocketed 13 fold last year after the vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine. >> in that time , the taxpayers >> in that time, the taxpayers spent £80 billion through cost of living support to help people pay of living support to help people pay their energy bills and businesses to do. >> i think that's the real bill that people are worried about. the is right to a the prime minister is right to a small degree because we will need and up to and need oil and gas up to and beyond 2050. but it's role is quickly diminishing along the nonh quickly diminishing along the north sea. whether we like it or

not, is a mature basin. it's getting harder and more expensive to extract and there's not much extract the not as much to extract the licences they deliver licences if they deliver something soon, they might contribute our contribute to our energy security . but in reality, security. but in reality, what we focus on are cheap we need to focus on are cheap renewables harnessing our renewables and harnessing our wind power. and by the way, if you an example you want to look at an example of how know what wind power of how you know what wind power in this country doing for in this country is doing for people's bills , over people's energy bills, over winter, we spent £40 winter, when we spent £40 billion subsidising people's energy , see wind power, cut our energy, see wind power, cut our bills by £16,000,000 billion. sorry >> okay. well, christina, i'll get you on that because if i was being told that actually we've got wind farms that will do the job for us, we've got solar that will do the job for us. we've got all of these things that can do the for job us, wave power or whatever. actually i would whatever. then actually i would probably no probably go, well, there's no need drilling in need for us to be drilling in the sea and we can all the north sea and we can all keep stop oil happy and keep just stop oil happy and maybe they can us get to maybe they can let us get to work forward. but work on time going forward. but at christina, at the same time, christina, there think, mixed there is, i think, mixed response to things like solar panels, i believe some of panels, which i believe some of

them turned off too them have to be turned off too recently was a bit recently because it was a bit too so what too sunny, for example. so what is play with renewables? >> so i think it's important to have a good mix of technology charges on the grid , solar alone charges on the grid, solar alone and wind alone are not going to get us there . they will help us get us there. they will help us reduce the cost . but with every reduce the cost. but with every wind turbine that we put up, we need storage to balance it out, right? wind tends to generate a lot all at once , and then it can lot all at once, and then it can the next day we might not have anything at all. so it's very, very important to have a mix of technology . and unfortunately , technology. and unfortunately, oil and gas is that stable technology that can help balance out what wind and solar cannot do . so i'm very pro renewable . i do. so i'm very pro renewable. i work in renewable industry, but i'm also very realistic about, you know, what, how sustainable it is to just cut everything. >> this is good, this , you know, >> this is good, this, you know, this is why this is why i do think that rishi sunak is

experiencing a bit of a revival here, because this appears to be a bit common sense, a bit of common sense, right, that we need to actually access what under our feet. what is under our feet. otherwise to otherwise we might have to import from countries import it from other countries anyway, which isn't going to make a difference make that much of a difference to the global carbon footprint. and can't bankrupt people and we can't bankrupt people in the i'll give the short term. i'll give the final to cameron . i final word to you, cameron. i mean, the fact is, as long as the party are receiving the labour party are receiving money just stop oil, i money from, just stop oil, i think the next general think at the next general election going election people are going to look and that look at that and think that smells bad . smells bad. >> yeah, i think voters are also to the climate to going look at the climate policies parties . they're policies of parties. they're going definitely look and going to definitely look and judge of living. but judge on the cost of living. but we know that the environment we do know that the environment is top issue for voters, is a top five issue for voters, and they're going judge and they're going to judge on both not both things. and they're not incompatible. reach net incompatible. we can reach net zero grow the economy and zero and grow the economy and cut bills and i think cut people's bills and i think what people need to focus on is, is renewables, because the reality the north reality is, is that the north sea already doesn't our sea already doesn't satisfy our demand and production is going to go down even if the licencing do yield something . our long do yield something. our long term future is not going to be a nonh term future is not going to be a north sea oil and gas. it's

going to be in wind power, it's going to be in wind power, it's going to be in wind power, it's going to be in solar and others. >> exactly. then we >> yeah, exactly. but then we need build the need to actually build the infrastructure. i think you've hit the head. that hit the nail on the head. that comment which that rishi comment which is that if rishi sunak next election sunak can the next election demonstrate hit net demonstrate that we can hit net zero, we can also still drill for more new oil and gas and then people's bills can come down and we can grow our economy . that is pretty sound actually . and frankly, that keeps most people happy . if he can people happy. if he can demonstrate then he's on demonstrate that, then he's on to and maybe this is to a winner. and maybe this is a step in the right direction. both of you, thank you very much. christina rabossi both of you, thank you very m|our christina rabossi both of you, thank you very m|our renewableristina rabossi both of you, thank you very m|our renewable energytabossi both of you, thank you very m|our renewable energy expert to our renewable energy expert cameron well for the cameron smith. as well for the conservative environment cameron smith. as well for the conservailooknvironment cameron smith. as well for the conservailook i/ironment cameron smith. as well for the conservailook i think|ent on to network. look i think he's on to a here, rishi. i think a winner here, rishi. i think he's on to a winner. but there we go, a christian trades woman has work home has refused to work at the home of gay couple on religious of a gay couple on religious grounds. having grounds. i'm going to be having another very another discussion on that very shortly as to whether or not that's should he be that's okay. should he be able to work for gay to refuse the work for gay people grounds ? people on religious grounds? patrick news, patrick christys on gb news, britain's .

channel well, at 5:00 i will get more on rishi sunak big energy announcement today . that means announcement today. that means he's effectively declared war on just stop oil. i'm also going to be drilling down on some whether or not he really is on the side of motorists. very well of motorists. it's all very well and i'm going to and good saying. i'm going to have low traffic have a look at low traffic neighbourhoods. well neighbourhoods. fine. well firstly, do low traffic

neighbourhoods make for neighbourhoods actually make for cleaner air? but secondly, if you're still going to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, you're not really on the side of motorists, are you? given that you're load of you're going to ban a load of them? a gay couple them? but anyway, a gay couple in have claimed that a in bristol have claimed that a painter refused to work on their home christian painter refused to work on their home the christian painter refused to work on their home the couple christian painter refused to work on their home the couple named'istian painter refused to work on their home the couple named joshua faith. the couple named joshua and george, who have bizarrely declined to give their surnames but have been photographed so that the tradeswoman became awkward after realising their sexuality . she later texted, sexuality. she later texted, saying that as a practising christian, she could not do the job because of the recommended guidelines at her local church . guidelines at her local church. i think we all remember the case of the big gay cake, don't we, before where a bakery decided that they weren't going to. well yeah. a big cake and yeah. bake a big gay cake and that caused a big hoo ha. but i'm joined now by anglican priest reverend coren. priest reverend michael coren. thank very much, reverend. thank you very much, reverend. great you on the show. great to have you on the show. is right that for somebody is it right that for somebody with , let's say, fundamentalist with, let's say, fundamentalist christian beliefs to refuse to

paint a gay couple's house? no it's completely wrong . it's completely wrong. >> i find it bizarre. >> i find it bizarre. >> i find it bizarre. >> i understood the arguments about not being part of a wedding ceremony. i disapprove of them . but i understand that of them. but i understand that painting a house, i really don't get it. i mean, they weren't asking for anything particularly polite or gay. just wanted polite or gay. they just wanted their house painted, for goodness sake. so what this person was horribly wrong person did was horribly wrong and a disgrace to the gospel. how ever in the private sector this person has that right. but i don't believe discrimination should be allowed in any form of pubuc should be allowed in any form of public sector government, health care, social work or whatever. but an individual has a right to be absolutely wrong and foolish . i also to say i rather . i also have to say i rather admire this couple because you said it was bizarre. they wouldn't give their surname. you know social media can be know what social media can be like been of like. we've all been victims of it. think they want it. i don't think they want that. more important and that. but more important and good them, they're not good for them, they're not giving out either giving her name out either because will because they know what will happen now. they said happen to her. now. they said they will share it on a network that talks about businesses. and

that's absolutely fine, because if that's absolutely fine, because h does that's absolutely fine, because if does this, i'm not going if she does this, i'm not going to paint your house, then i think it's absolute appropriate that she would suffer in terms of work. but she does have the right to say no . now, i've got right to say no. now, i've got to be honest about this. if you said someone had refused said to me someone had refused to paint the house of a couple because were black or because they were black or because they were black or because they were black or because they jewish, because they were jewish, how would you react? frankly, i think be i'd be confused . think i'd be i'd be confused. i've got to be honest with you. i've got to be honest with you. i mean, don't this is i mean, i don't think this is absolutist, but it i'll say again, when it comes to an individual i'm not going individual saying, i'm not going to particularly in to do that job, particularly in a city. i mean, this is a big city. i mean, this is bristol. they can find other painters a small town. it painters in a small town. it would different. painters in a small town. it wotbut different. painters in a small town. it wotbut okay,erent. painters in a small town. it wotbut okay, these are sharp lines. >> there's going to be curves and there's going to be pain involved. >> i'll come back to you. i believe sam dowler as believe we've got sam dowler as well, a journalist. there well, who's a journalist. there he who's a journalist and he is who's a journalist and broadcaster. let broadcaster. so let me let me flip on head a bit then. flip it on its head a bit then. so do you think it should be illegal for somebody to be able to refuse providing a service to a gay . couple

a gay. couple >> but i mean, i've just listened to what the reverend said and i'm you know, i'm heart warmed because , i mean, that is warmed because, i mean, that is you know, that's the that's the church that i know. do you know you know, that's the that's the churci that i know. do you know you know, that's the that's the churci mean?(now. do you know you know, that's the that's the churci mean? it'sv. do you know you know, that's the that's the churci mean? it's not) you know you know, that's the that's the churci mean? it's not it'su know you know, that's the that's the churci mean? it's not it's not|ow what i mean? it's not it's not about discrimination and this and some reason, and this lady, for some reason, has umbrage with their has taken umbrage with their sexuality . christianity sexuality. and christianity isn't like isn't about isn't about like isn't about pushing people away. it's about bringing people towards you. and it's about about love it's about and it's about love and treating others how be and treating others how you'd be expected treated . and i expected to be treated. and i think think it should i think think i think it should i think yeah, i mean unless they could sue, they could sue her under the equalities act because you can't refuse service can't you can't refuse service because sexuality, because somebody's sexuality, because somebody's sexuality, because of the colour their because of the colour of their skin, because anything like skin, because of anything like that. they don't that. but i mean, they don't want to do that. it's obviously it would lot of money. it would cost a lot of money. and quhe it would cost a lot of money. and quite agree with what and i quite agree with what they've know, they've said about, you know, they've said about, you know, they go , you they would they would go, you know, her a one star review know, give her a one star review or explain and or whatever and explain why. and let other people in bristol decide for themselves what they let other people in bristol decidto or themselves what they let other people in bristol decidto do :hemselves what they let other people in bristol decidto do .emselves what they want to do. >> and reverend michael , want to do. >> and reverend michael, i'll bnng >> and reverend michael, i'll bring you in again now on that.

if somebody does genuinely feel that more opposed to homosexuality , i mean, is that homosexuality, i mean, is that technically in line with the fundamentalist beliefs of, frankly, all major religions , frankly, all major religions, actually? well no. >> i mean, i've written about this extensively as a boring 64 year old straight white guy, married with four kids. i believe that scripture, properly understood, is completely affirming of gay people. but i'm not a fool. i understand there are people who disagree with me, but even those people in the church are disagree over but even those people in the churissuee disagree over but even those people in the churissuee

journalist is quite right. they can sue, but it's laborious and it seems that they are simply better people, more christian people in a way, because they're saying, look, we don't want to give a time. we're give you a hard time. we're going say you wouldn't going to say that you wouldn't do for us, we're not do the job for us, but we're not going to take it any further than that. >> that's probably best >> and that's probably the best thing do. thing we can do. >> interesting. >> that's interesting. sam, i'll just advocate here, just play devil's advocate here, for of a better phrase, for want of a better phrase, given what we're about. given what we're talking about. and people wanted and if people if people wanted someone something that was someone to do something that was grief , how do someone to do something that was grief, how do i phrase this? you know, well , like grief, how do i phrase this? you know, well, like baking a rainbow cake for a gay wedding, for example. i was going say for example. i was going to say something gay something that's overtly gay there, waiting for the there, but i was waiting for the twitter trolls to jump me twitter trolls to jump on me there. they they were there. and they and they were morally doing morally opposed to doing something overtly gay. morally opposed to doing sometiwhere overtly gay. morally opposed to doing sometiwhere would overtly gay. morally opposed to doing sometiwhere would you tly gay. morally opposed to doing sometiwhere would you standy. morally opposed to doing sometiwhere would you stand on right. where would you stand on that? do you think that's a bit different who's just different to someone who's just painting house? painting someone's house? there's maybe more an there's maybe more of an argument that's against argument to say, that's against my beliefs . my religious beliefs. >> would come for as >> oh, i would come for you as well, patrick no, that look mean like they mean they might mean they might be, you know, they they might be, you know, they the woman might have disliked

the woman might have disliked the colour of green. they wanted their bedroom. i mean, who knows? it's not knows? i mean, i mean, it's not a scale of how gay a sliding scale of how gay something is as how you know as much as you can disapprove of it. um, like as, as the reverend just said, you know, if this was, this was to do with was, if this was to do with a gay wedding, you know, i wouldn't i wouldn't want my cake being made by somebody who didn't to begin didn't well, know it to begin with. mean, i mean, lord with. so i mean, i mean, lord knows they'd it, but knows what they'd put in it, but i but think, think. the i mean, but think, think. the point is it's not. it's really i mean, but think, think. the poi|really's not. it's really i mean, but think, think. the poi|really not )t. it's really i mean, but think, think. the poi|really not very�*s really i mean, but think, think. the poi|really not very christian it's really not very christian of because as a gay person of her because as a gay person myself and you know, it, it is not choice that i know how not a choice that i know how these know how these lads these i know how these lads would felt because felt would have felt because i felt it you feel you feel it before you. you feel you feel terrible yourself. you terrible about yourself. you feel why? know , feel like, well, why? you know, why am i why am i getting singled something? singled out for something? okay, my . and i'm my fault or something. and i'm simply a loving relationship simply in a loving relationship with my partner. and to. with my partner. and i want to. and puce coloured and i want a nice puce coloured wall my bedroom. wall in my bedroom. >> you want? yes. whatever >> you want? yes. and whatever else thank you else as well. look, thank you very you. it's very much, both of you. it's great to have on the show. great to have you on the show. great chat. that's great to have that chat. that's sound dalarjournalist and broad caster and reverend michael

coren priest, coren as well. anglican priest, right? has given the right? rishi sunak has given the go ahead lots oil and go ahead for lots more oil and gas. we know about that. but he's also come out said that he's also come out and said that he's also come out and said that he's favour now of he's bang in favour now of looking reducing essentially looking at reducing essentially neighbourhoods where there's lower traffic. okay. so he's on the side of motorists, but is he because we're still seeing cars being banned from look, being banned from 2030. look, i'm going to pick through this mess very shortly. patrick mess very, very shortly. patrick christys britain's christys on gb news, britain's news channel. >> the temperature's rising . >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar power proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> i'm alex deakin. welcome along to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. pretty drab one out there today. many places seeing some outbreaks of rain is going to turn little brighter across to turn a little brighter across parts the south through the parts of the south through the afternoon and northern scotland to area low to the north of this area of low pressure continuing to see a little sunshine. generally little sunshine. but generally this spinning in a lot of this low is spinning in a lot of cloud outbreaks of rain . where cloud outbreaks of rain. where it brighten up, could it does brighten up, we could see some heavier showers and we'll wet weather we'll see more wet weather coming into northern ireland

later northern later on. i'd say northern scotland staying dry and scotland mostly staying dry and fine. it is fine. and in the south it is going turn steadily drier, going to turn steadily drier, certainly this evening. certainly through this evening. and see and overnight, we'll see some lengthy, spells over the lengthy, clear spells over the midlands and eastern england . midlands and eastern england. temperatures dropping to about 12 to 14 celsius. still breezy through the course of tuesday. and hopefully for most it'll be something a bit drier and a bit brighter as well. still some outbreaks rain across outbreaks of rain across northwest england, southwest scotland and a few showers continuing here and there through the day. but for much of the a good part of the south and a good part of scotland, skies brighten scotland, skies should brighten through the day. we'll see a little bit of sunshine, but generally brighter spells generally just brighter spells still on the cool side. temperatures still struggling in the teens. maybe low 20s the high teens. maybe low 20s across the southeast . but notice across the southeast. but notice down to the southwest , more wet down to the southwest, more wet weather lurking and that is an area of low pressure that's going bring a pretty and going to bring a pretty wet and blustery most areas blustery day across most areas dunng blustery day across most areas during of wednesday. during the course of wednesday. some downpours, likely some heavy downpours, likely persistent rain

gb news. >> it's 5 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news has rishi sunak played an absolute masterstroke. he's skewered. just stop oil. we are going to get more new oil and gas. in the meantime , the labour party, it meantime, the labour party, it looks like, are to going continue to receive donations. no more foreign criminals. this could well be another step in the right direction . people with the right direction. people with a record, as long as a criminal record, as long as their not be their arm will now not be allowed to have a british passport. i know it sounds too much like common sense be much like common sense to be

true, alas, is. and true, but alas, maybe it is. and here go. would you help your here we go. would you help your partner this is partner dine? now, this is a very topic. i've been very emotive topic. i've been getting emails in on getting a load of emails in on this. so—called mercy this. these so—called mercy killings assisted dying as killings are assisted dying as well as in light of british well as in light of a british man has been released man who has been released from prison after, well, prison in cyprus after, well, doing just that. where are you on that side of the debate? here's another one for you, though. our clean zones though. our clean air zones actually low traffic actually clean, low traffic neighbourhoods now rishi sunak has said he's on the side of motorists still , by the way, motorists still, by the way, wants to ban new and wants to ban new diesel and petrol does petrol cars by 2030. so how does that work? but i want to know if you in a low traffic you live in a low traffic neighbourhood, does actually neighbourhood, does it actually do anything to improve the air quality? because it doesn't , quality? because if it doesn't, then what's the point? patrick christys . gb news email in on christys on. gb news email in on any of those top topics. gb views gbnews.com. but right now it's your headlines with polly . patrick. >> thank you and good evening to

you. >> the top story today, the prime minister says the planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the north sea is entirely consistent with his government's net zero plan. the former energy minister, chris skidmore , though, has criticised skidmore, though, has criticised the plan , saying it's the wrong the plan, saying it's the wrong decision at the wrong time and that voters will vote with their feet as they look for policies that protect the environment. >> but speaking in aberdeenshire this morning, rishi sunak said the plan is a step in the right direction in describing it as better for energy security and better for energy security and better for energy security and better for jobs. >> but it comes to our energy security. we are still going to need oil and gas. 25% of our energy will come from oil and gas even in 2050. far better than we get that from here at home. better for the economy, better for our energy security , better for our energy security, better for our energy security, better better for better for jobs, and better for climate emissions rather than shipping here halfway shipping it here from halfway around so that's around the country. so that's why more north sea oil why we've got more north sea oil and being and gas licences being announced, also we're announced, but also we're speeding us on our path to net

zero with carbon capture and storage members of the uk's largest teaching union have accepted a 6.5% pay rise for teachers in england. >> the national education union says 86% of its members voted to accept the latest pay offer, with a 60% turnout that comes after union members staged eight days of strike action in state schools since february in their dispute over pay. >> the education secretary, gillian keegan, welcomed the news as good news for teachers, parents and children . parents and children. >> members of the conservative party have issued a joint letter to the chancellor concerning the natwest de—banking scandal. the letter, which is signed by several mps, including sir iain duncan smith , warns that the duncan smith, warns that the financial conduct authority may have inadvertently encouraged the culture within the banking sector that has led to nigel farage losing his coutts account. >> they say the fca is what now should be investigated . the

should be investigated. the pubuc should be investigated. the public has a right to camp in dartmoor national park. >> that's to according a ruling by the court of appeal. it comes after a high court judge previously ruled against granting people the right to pitch tents overnight without obtaining a landowner's permission . farmers alexander permission. farmers alexander and diana darwall brought a successful legal challenge against the dartmoor national park authority, arguing that campers destroy the environment . but the park authority asked appeal judges, though, to overturn the ruling. earlier on this month . two just stop oil this month. two just stop oil protesters have lost their appeal to have their jail terms reduced. morgan trowland and marcus decker scaled a bridge on the dartford crossing in october last year , leading to the bridge last year, leading to the bridge being closed for 41 hours. both men were eventually taken down by specially trained police officers . well, at a hearing in officers. well, at a hearing in london last week, the protesters lawyers made a bid to challenge

the length of trollans three year sentence, and decker's jail term of two years and seven months. a british man has been released from prison in cyprus after being sentenced for the manslaughter of his wife. david hunter was given a two yearjail hunter was given a two year jail term for killing his seriously ill wife at their home in paphos in 2021. >> the 76 year old man claimed his wife had begged him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer. >> he spoke outside the court . >> he spoke outside the court. >> he spoke outside the court. >> thank you to all the people who've donated to me , and who've donated to me, and especially my mates, my workmates . i don't know where workmates. i don't know where i'd be without . i hope i'm i'd be without. i hope i'm feeling the same as my family when i'm talking about that. i'm talking about all my lads , all talking about all my lads, all the families. when you work in a colliery family. here, the families. when you work in a colliery family . here, the colliery family. here, the building products supplier marshalls is cutting 250 jobs and they're closing a factory in scotland. >> that's following a slump in

the number of new homes being built across the uk . built across the uk. >> the company says it's now facing persistent weakness in new build housing, citing high inflation and increasing interest costs. >> among its key challenges . >> among its key challenges. figures from hmrc show that house sales were down by 15% in june. >> that's compared to the same time last year. >> that's compared to the same time last year . the number of time last year. the number of new people sleeping rough in london throughout spring and early summer has gone up by 12. the government published a strategy just in september which restated a commitment to end rough sleeping by the end of this parliament. but rick henderson from the charity homeless link says that target is now looking completely out of reach. and as downpours continue for much of this week, the met office forecast warmer weather for next month. dry weather is likely to hit the uk at the end of august, but conditions are unlikely to reach anywhere near the sweltering conditions of last year. temperatures of 40.3 degrees were recorded in

lincolnshire last july with gb news right across the uk. on your tv, in your car, on your digital radio and on your smart speakeh digital radio and on your smart speaker. try saying play by play gb news and see what happens. back now to . back now to. patrick >> well, this ties into frankly, every single topic that we're about to talk about this hour. i think that we might be witnessing a rishi sunak revival. rishi is rallying. look, first he came out swinging against lefty immigration lawyers who are cheating the system, inventing fake backstories for economic migrants and taking wads of cash in order to gain the asylum system, he said. labour is on their side and on the side of criminal gangs. their side and on the side of criminal gangs . good for him. criminal gangs. good for him. i think it's time for him to get a bit punchy and to call certain things out that is the kind of

things out that is the kind of thing that will resonate with voters. labour is voting against anything that would help us control borders . pretty control our borders. pretty much. they're not proposing a proper solution. in the meantime, lawyers are meantime, rogue lawyers are taking cash in hand to create a tissue of lies. so let migrants sneak in and now it looks like instead of continually buying more luxury barges or using four star hotels, we will be housing channel migrants in marquees and tents. good that is a deterrent. it has to be more cost effective as well. now he's massively put labour on the back foot oveh just stop oil, hasn't he? labour are funded essentially by just stop oil. they're taking money off that group that breaks the law and are regarded by many as borderline environmental terrorists . that's labour has terrorists. that's labour has committed to stopping the old oil and gas hasn't it? the gmb union is now at war with labour over a potential job losses. well, what does sunak do ? he well, what does sunak do? he promises more new oil and gas. it protects jobs. it protects energy security. but also importantly , it tells people

importantly, it tells people that he's actually on their side when it comes to not wanting net zero at all costs. it sends a message that he's not willing to blind deadly, bankrupt this country to keep greta thunberg happy. and now he's also coming out against low , low traffic out against low, low traffic neighbourhoods , saying that he's neighbourhoods, saying that he's on the side of motorists . he's on the side of motorists. he's at least going to offer a review into them. this is another good signal i've got a little sneaky suspicion just a little sneaky suspicion just a little sneaky suspicion might ditch suspicion that he might ditch the 2030. no new petrol or diesel car pledge before the next general election and really drive that home, if you'll excuse the rubbish pun there. but today the news broke that teachers have taken a 6.5% pay rise. they will stop striking. he's seen off a few other strikes as well. he's got it absolutely right on nigel. banking issue going into bat for him calling out his actual former colleagues in a way in the banking sector. keir starmer , on the other hand, got it completely wrong. he just couldn't bring himself to back

farage and you can bet your bottom dollar that he'd have come out all guns blazing for gina milleh wouldn't he? but rishi sunak is now drawing some serious lines in the sand on immigration. he's coming on stronger labour. i mean, look, we all know that they'll do nothing to protect our borders, don't we? on net zero, labour would plough on at all costs and that will mean financial ruin for sooner . acas exposing for people sooner. acas exposing them on motorists . rishi is them on motorists. rishi is apparently on their side . well, apparently on their side. well, where's keir starmer? look it's got a long way to go, but it. i think he's having a good little spell here, rishi. and if he keeps this up and plays his cards right at the next election, people will have to ask themselves this. why where is starmer on the issues is keir starmer on the issues that i actually care about? and i think that could be a big problem for the labour leader . problem for the labour leader. yeah, that's what i think we're going to talk about a lot of

those issues this hour. gb views a gbnews.com. get the emails coming in. but i'm joined now by sustainable campaigner adrian coming in. but i'm joined now by sustainadrian,�*npaigner adrian coming in. but i'm joined now by sustainadrian, look, ner adrian coming in. but i'm joined now by sustainadrian, look, thankirian coming in. but i'm joined now by sustainadrian, look, thank you hayes. adrian, look, thank you very in right very much. we're going in right now whether or not now on whether or not essentially oil and gas is essentially new oil and gas is actually a good thing or do you think it is ? think it is? >> i do. patrick >> i do. patrick >> and good afternoon to you and your your viewers and listeners. >> the reason is because i'm part of a growing band of environmental campaigners , environmentalists, sustainability campaigners who are sceptical about the whole net zero agenda and what i would call the kwasi religion. why? >> because , as i believe it's a >> because, as i believe it's a cop out , it's >> because, as i believe it's a cop out, it's enabling governments and globalist institutions to say they're doing so much for the environment while they're ignonng environment while they're ignoring all the things that really do contribute to a damaged environment. air pollution , chemical pollution, pollution, chemical pollution, biodiversity loss , biodiversity loss, deforestation, all these things i >> -- >> and if you're one little term you can say about what's the link between co2 demonising this, it's follow the money. >> there is money being made for

renewables. there's no money being made from treating the sewage in our rivers and lakes. >> that's a really good point there you can't make money there is if you can't make money out of coming up with some kind of renewable technology at the moment, then you'd have to be an absolute do you think absolute idiot. do you think that that's part and parcel of the situation, that people have been forced into a net zero agenda to actually based more around the fact that a load of people can make money off renewables than any kind of sound climate based sense ? yeah. sound climate based sense? yeah. look i do not believe that carbon dioxide, 0.04% of the atmosphere of which man makes about 4% of. >> i don't think it's the enemy that we need to be looking at for the environment. >> but put that aside, patrick. >> but put that aside, patrick. >> even if you believe that >> even if you do believe that climate the greatest climate change is the greatest threat our planet, right threat to our our planet, right now, politicians and rishi sunak in particular are coming to the incredible conclusion that there's no it's a universal truth. there is no single solution to any problem we face

in anywhere in life. >> it's all a matter of trade—offs and to be fair, normally economy comes ahead of society and environment . society and environment. >> but on this case, the net zero agenda is putting, i would say it's not even putting the environment, it's putting one small factor to at undue cost to our economy and our society . our economy and our society. >> it's all a matter of trade offs. and i think he's suddenly realised that there is a trade off which is just not worth the price. >> we're paying. >> we're paying. >> let just to you now >> let me just read to you now a tweet actually from a conservative mp. he's not happy with this. his former energy minister, chris skidmore , who minister, chris skidmore, who wrote on twitter , this is the wrote on twitter, this is the wrong decision at precisely the wrong decision at precisely the wrong time when the rest of the world is experiencing record heatwaves. it is on the wrong side of a future economy that will be founded on renewable and clean industries and not fossil fuels. it is on the wrong side of modern voters who will vote with their feet at the next general election. for parties that protect and not threaten our environment by the way, i

think he's wrong about that. but anyway, and it is on the wrong side of history will not side of history that will not look favourably decision look favourably on this decision on. i'm just going to get you to respond to that. >> he's talking a little bit of hot air. >> i think. firstly, i don't think voters do want climate change if it's going to cost them in their pockets, but they do to protect the do want to protect the environment, point environment, which is my point earlier. >> but this point, what is the point? >> and it's been so many >> and it's been said so many times news and other times on gb news and other channels point channels that what is the point of britain to % of carbon of britain to% of carbon emissions, if you believe emissions, even if you believe carbon is the demon that is of us leading the world? us so—called leading the world? if we're going to ourselves if we're going to put ourselves into poverty, the point into poverty, what is the point of us importing oil from of us importing gas and oil from other countries just so we can satisfy our climate change objectives? >> is the point of us >> what is the point of us importing from canada for importing wood from canada for our plant up in the north our drax plant up in the north of england? it's all hype and virtue signalling, saying , we virtue signalling, saying, we are so good at this and it's making not a little of making not a little bit of difference to environment or difference to our environment or the environment. difference to our environment or the look, environment. difference to our environment or the look, i environment. difference to our environment or the look, i was ronment. difference to our environment or the look, i was sick|ent. difference to our environment or the look, i was sick oft. difference to our environment or the look, i was sick of it. i'm >> look, i was sick of it. i'm sick of the big green briefcase.

i'm sick of photo i'm sick of the photo opportunities. i'm sick of all of this rubbish. okay that actually is making people centre thatis actually is making people centre that is not to say that i don't believe we should be doing more to protect our environment, but i can spot a gimmick a mile off and i think the vast majority of the british public can spot a gimmick off. gimmick an absolute mile off. and hitting and when it's really hitting them pockets, they don't them in the pockets, they don't care. world leading in care. oh, we're world leading in doing this, right? well, we doing this, right? well, are we actually we just a actually or have we just stuck a sticking and sticking plaster over it and we're the billions we're giving the saudis billions and billions we're and billions of pounds. we're importing are importing it from them. are we making bolder, bigger importing it from them. are we makingon bolder, bigger importing it from them. are we makingon the bolder, bigger importing it from them. are we makingon the world der, bigger importing it from them. are we makingon the world stageigger importing it from them. are we makingon the world stage byer player on the world stage by giving them more leverage when it to whether or not they it comes to whether or not they can for can turn our taps off, for example, the germans example, just ask the germans how i am sick and how that feels. i am sick and tired these gimmicks that are tired of these gimmicks that are having consequences having real world consequences and rishi and i think that rishi sunak here played here might have played a masterstroke by doing what masterstroke just by doing what the party who taking the labour party who are taking money off just stop. oil cannot do, which is say we are going to try to find a middle ground here. we care about the planet. we don't want it to just incinerate itself. but at the same time, are going to crack

same time, we are going to crack on with what we have under our feet in the north sea . feet in the north sea. >> absolutely. and look , i'm for >> absolutely. and look, i'm for net zero eventually, but at a sensible time frame where the where the trade offs are not going to damage our society and our and our economy. and, you know , look, there's a trade off know, look, there's a trade off evenin know, look, there's a trade off even in renewables. there's a trade off of wind turbines. >> do these things go >> where do these things go after 15 years, waste disposal? where's with evs ? where's the trade off with evs? >> are mining >> young children are mining lithium and cobalt manganese in in the congo. the drc , there's a in the congo. the drc, there's a trade off to everything. >> so it's got to be a sensible time frame to get renewables. >> saying to >> but i would be saying to rishi sunak and grant shapps , rishi sunak and grant shapps, put your in nuclear energy put your money in nuclear energy , particularly rolls—royce, smr, the smrs are ready to go. we need to be pushing money if we're going to be putting subsidies anything, not we're going to be putting subsi turbines anything, not we're going to be putting subsi turbines andthing, not we're going to be putting subsi turbines and solar, not we're going to be putting subsi turbines and solar, which wind turbines and solar, which as proved , are not the as we've proved, are not the answer to all our solutions. >> talk to me briefly >> just talk to me briefly about that, bit later that, because a little bit later on houh that, because a little bit later on hour, rishi sunak on in the hour, rishi sunak has also and on about also come out and gone on about low neighbourhoods, low traffic neighbourhoods,

etcetera, saying he's on the side i'm going to side of motorists. i'm going to be about how can he be be talking about how can he be on of motorists if on the side of motorists if you're also going rid of you're also going to get rid of new and diesel cars by you're also going to get rid of new so and diesel cars by you're also going to get rid of new so we'll diesel cars by you're also going to get rid of new so we'll havezl cars by you're also going to get rid of new so we'll have that 's by you're also going to get rid of new so we'll have that chat 2030. so we'll have that chat then. but you mentioned there about the actual sustainability of farms of things like these wind farms of things like these wind farms of you also of things that you also mentioned, like solar panels, etcetera, or electric vehicles . etcetera, or electric vehicles. how green are these things? they're not and this is the great ignorance, the great cover up that was somehow being so green by getting evs by electric vehicles by 2030. >> there's huge costs involved. we don't have the power grid to support these these these vehicles. we don't have anything in place . so it may be 40, 50 in place. so it may be 40, 50 years, it may be a different thing. but this is what i said at the beginning, patrick. this the whole zero agenda of the whole net zero agenda of going carbon dioxide only going on carbon dioxide only is covering all the real covering up all the real environmental issues that i and increasingly others are complaining about. and this is what we need to look at. a whole big picture. the sustainability trilogy, the three pillars of

society , economy and society, economy and environment. it's that sweet spot in the middle where you've got sustainable all policies for all factors . all factors. >> as you know what i think this could i think this could actually a a bit of actually seriously be a a bit of actually seriously be a a bit of a watershed moment actually , a watershed moment actually, because now he's looking because i think now he's looking at and thinking, well, at this and he's thinking, well, labour backed themselves at this and he's thinking, well, labca' backed themselves at this and he's thinking, well, labca corner3acked themselves at this and he's thinking, well, labca corner withed themselves at this and he's thinking, well, labca corner with justemselves at this and he's thinking, well, labca corner with just stop lves at this and he's thinking, well, labca corner with just stop oily into a corner with just stop oil there's side of it. there's the economic side of it. people suffering people are now suffering so badly . we've seen badly economically. we've seen what's happened in russia as well. the power that they've well. and the power that they've had when it comes to had over there when it comes to their natural resources. and you can line in the here their natural resources. and you can and line in the here their natural resources. and you can and that e in the here their natural resources. and you can and that is n the here their natural resources. and you can and that is what here their natural resources. and you can and that is what i here their natural resources. and you can and that is what i thinkere now, and that is what i think we're witnessing, if you we're witnessing, that if you if you care about essentially you care about not essentially hurtling and hurtling headfirst and bankrupting yourself at the and sacrificing yourself at the altar net zero, realistically altar of net zero, realistically , i would argue there is a good case to say you would have to vote conservative at the next election and not vote labour because what are because well, what labour are really do about it? really going to do about it? i could day, apart could talk to you all day, apart from fact that, well, from the fact that, well, i can't but great can't unfortunately, but great to chat anyway, thank you very, very great have you on to chat anyway, thank you very, very show. great have you on to chat anyway, thank you very, veryshow. right.: have you on to chat anyway, thank you very, veryshow. right. lookave you on to chat anyway, thank you very, veryshow. right. look loads u on the show. right. look loads more coming loads more coming your way. loads more still here.

still to come here. vaiews@gbnews.com. you can also see us of course, there on the website which is gbnews.com. it's fastest growing it's the fastest growing national in the national news site in the country and loads more opinion as as latest breaking . as well as the latest breaking. news teacher strikes in england are over after three unions accepted a 6.5% pay rise. indeed, we are on that breaking news now. members of the eu, the uk's largest teaching union, voted over willingly to accept the pay offer . the nasuwt and the pay offer. the nasuwt and nht unions also accepted the deal on today and the acl have done the same earlier in july. so the education secretary said that they offer being accepted was good news for teachers , was good news for teachers, parents and pupils . so look , we parents and pupils. so look, we now will not have teacher strikes because all those unions have accepted a 6.5% pay rise

thatis have accepted a 6.5% pay rise that is a good result, isn't it 7 that is a good result, isn't it ? a massive result, especially for people who i think were getting absolutely sick and tired of the kids being off school and their education, suffering, especially in the wake of coronavirus. it was really interesting, wasn't it, to see stats of who had the to see the stats of who had the most sympathy the most public sympathy for the strikes, of about strikes, you know, kind of about 6 7 months ago when everyone 6 or 7 months ago when everyone was strike completely all was out on strike completely all the nurses and the time. and you had nurses and paramedics, quite paramedics, they were quite people were sympathetic towards them. quite them. people were quite sympathetic towards teachers. them. people were quite sympewere : towards teachers. them. people were quite sympewere : towa|40% achers. them. people were quite sympewere : towa|40% of1ers. them. people were quite sympewere: towa|40% of them. there were about 40% of them. that number going drop that number was going to drop sharply the new school year sharply when the new school year rocks they're still off rocks up and they're still off on strike. so 6.5% pay rise. that again, is, as i mentioned earlier on, i do think another boon for rishi sunak and would it have been the same under labour as well? again, it's one of the unanswered questions, but what labour have really what would labour have really offered them as well? because they very about they were very, very coy about that anyway, that weren't they? but anyway, gb campaigning to stop gb news is campaigning to stop the becoming a cashless the uk becoming a cashless society. is called society. the campaign is called don't cash and it is don't kill cash and it is proving hugely popular. we already have more than 237,000 people signing it. the petition

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channel well, in a few minutes, rishi sunakis well, in a few minutes, rishi sunak is saying that he's on the side of motorists. i will ask whether the controversial low traffic neighbourhoods even work. better for you ? is work. is it better for you? is there any evidence whatsoever to suggest better for suggest that they are better for you? there's more home you? but there's more on home secretary bravermans secretary suella bravermans crackdown on foreign criminals as well. are we talking about all of but british all of that? but british pensioner hunter has been pensioner david hunter has been released from after released from prison after serving 19 months causing

serving 19 months for causing the his terminally ill the death of his terminally ill wife . the former miner admitted wife. the former miner admitted suffocating janice, his wife of 52 years, at their retirement home in cyprus in december 2021. she was suffering from blood cancer and apparently she'd been begging him to help her end his life . he was convicted of life. he was convicted of manslaughter and he's opened up. the question hasn't it, as to whether or not this is really okay, what would you do in that situation? should we make it easier people to engage in easier for people to engage in things assisted dying and things like assisted dying and euthanasia? i spoke michael euthanasia? i spoke to michael pollock, david hunter's pollock, who is david hunter's lawyer , little earlier on, lawyer, a little earlier on, ecstatic to be out of out of prison . prison. >> he's been in there for 19 months, as you said, for someone of that age to spend time in prison is very difficult. he was in a cell with 11 other men there was treated there. he was treated with respect by the prison prison guards and other inmates, of course. but it's a very difficult place to be as someone of that age. so he's very happy to be released today. really tncky to be released today. really tricky one this. >> and i think unless you put in that situation, you can't honestly hand on heart say how

you would respond. gavin you would respond. but dr. gavin ashenden joins me now, who's the former chaplain to queen elizabeth and look where are elizabeth ii. and look where are you on this? do you think that the dying in any form the assisted dying in any form is okay? >> i don't think it is, but i'm probably in the same place. almost everybody else is, which is when you see a case like this, your heart just feels the most enormous compassion and you want to make an exception. >> and i think that's >> and i think probably that's the go. it's got to the right way to go. it's got to be against the law. but then we need the courts to use the utmost discretion compassion need the courts to use the utn people cretion compassion need the courts to use the utn people whom compassion need the courts to use the utnpeople who break compassion need the courts to use the utn people who break the npassion need the courts to use the utn people who break the law. ;ion for people who break the law. >> because you change it so >> because if you change it so that it's no longer against the law, what you have is a liberalised section of society we with. we can't cope with. >> so if we at a few >> so if we look at a few countries where started countries where they started to do belgium, holland, canada do that belgium, holland, canada , effectively , they've started effectively allowing the state euthanasia of 19 year old depressed children or people with onset of dementia i >> -- >> and we don't have the capacity to either draw up laws sophisticated enough to manage every single case or to save us

from the convenience of doing away with ourselves. >> it's even going to be a problem, i think, when we get oldeh >> if you're an older person, you may feel that you shouldn't hang around because you're taking use of resources. >> using. >> you you shouldn't be using. and let the state do away and if you let the state do away with you, well, you know, you share the resources with younger people. share the resources with younger pe do e. share the resources with younger pe do away with themselves. we to do away with themselves. we have law where it is have to keep the law where it is and then make legal exceptions in the sentencing of people who and then make legal exceptions in the s

enough to do that. so i think we have to get the barrier in place and then ask the courts to treat people who that barrier people who cross that barrier with deepest compassion with a deepest compassion and sympathy. it's got to be sympathy. but it's got to be against law . otherwise, against the law. otherwise, human life simply becomes disposable. >> talk to me about places where it's gone too far because this is it's like if we is interesting. it's like if we let here and we let in let it in here and we let in euthanasia or assisted dying, whatever, people want call whatever, people want to call it, it end up? it, where does it end up? because think it does end up because i think it does end up doesn't would depress doesn't it would depress teenagers saying, want to end teenagers saying, i want to end it all. >> i really does. i'm afraid so. i mean, holland, for example, a couple years there was couple of years ago, there was a depressed old. she said couple of years ago, there was a depiwanted old. she said couple of years ago, there was a depiwanted to old. she said couple of years ago, there was a depiwanted to die.)ld. she said couple of years ago, there was a depiwanted to die. theshe said couple of years ago, there was a depiwanted to die. the law said she wanted to die. the law allowed her so the state allowed her to. so the state killed the trouble is killed her. now the trouble is depression comes and goes. i mean, once you change the mean, the once you change the law, then it begins to stretch to those kind of cases. and the same thing is true with people who get dementia . the problem is who get dementia. the problem is we don't have a way of stopping the law from being taken too far. and i think for that fah and i think for that reason, we have to have a fairly primitive law that says, no, you can't take somebody else's life

, but then we're to treat , but then we're going to treat you compassion the you with compassion if the circumstances ones circumstances are really ones that require that . that require that. >> you know what is interesting, actually, i was having a rather bizarre conversation with chap bizarre conversation with a chap who works in very specialist care who had care for people who have had catastrophic brain injuries and can only barely can essentially only barely communicate sometimes actually through the use of purely brain function in an mri scanner. these people are many would regard as being dead, but they're not. and he said that in almost every case, when he is able to ask them in some way whether or not they want all the machines turned off in almost every case, they say no , which every case, they say no, which is remarkable because we all think i think, don't we? oh, i wouldn't want to live like that. i wouldn't i wouldn't want to be like that. but then when people are with apparent, are confronted with it apparent, according to him, the vast majority they say majority of the time, they say to actually, i do want to to him, actually, i do want to live like this. i think the live like this. and i think the sanctity life, actually, and sanctity of life, actually, and the preciousness of life shouldn't underestimated . shouldn't be underestimated. >> right. when i >> i think that's right. when i was i used to play was younger, i used to play chamber music in old people's

homes dementia homes where they had dementia and there are a number of people who long who hadn't moved for a long time. when we started time. and when we started playing quartettes playing mozart flute quartettes them, began to move their them, they began to move their legs and their arms in rhythm. they alive, were they were alive, they were conscious and it's not for us to tell have die tell them. they have to die because we because we want to. it's almost virtue signalling to be seen to be compassionate be seen to be a compassionate society. we're not very good at human suffering. we want to you know, we've become over fixated on convenience. if you give human beings a power to take life away from other human beings , i'm afraid abuse it. beings, i'm afraid we abuse it. >> dr. gavin, thank you very much. dr. gavin ashenden , there much. dr. gavin ashenden, there is chaplain to queen is the former chaplain to queen elizabeth. second. lots more elizabeth. the second. lots more still come between now still to come between now and six. sunak he's six. as rishi sunak says, he's on of drivers. this is on the side of drivers. this is another topic, another fascinating topic, actually. be the next actually. it will be at the next election, words. but election, mark my words. but i will ask whether the controversial low traffic neighbourhoods in cities at london, oxford, bristol . do they london, oxford, bristol. do they actually work? are they better for the environment? because if they're not, then what's the point? but right now it's your headunes point? but right now it's your

headlines with polly . patrick. headlines with polly. patrick. >> thank you. the headlines this houh >> thank you. the headlines this hour, all for teaching unions in england have now accepted a 6.5% pay england have now accepted a 6.5% pay rise for teachers means strike action is called off by the education secretary, gillian keegan says it would bring an end to disruption for pupils . as end to disruption for pupils. as the prime minister says, the planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the north sea is entirely consistent with the government's net zero plan. the former energy minister, chris skidmore , however, criticised skidmore, however, criticised the plan, saying it's the wrong decision at the wrong time . pm decision at the wrong time. pm rishi sunak says the plan is a step in the right direction to just stop oil protesters have lost their appeal in having their jail terms reduced. lost their appeal in having theirjail terms reduced. morgan their jail terms reduced. morgan trowland and marcus decker scaled a bridge on the dartford crossing in october last year. we'll at a hearing last week , we'll at a hearing last week, the protesters lawyers made a bid to challenge the length of their jail terms.

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generally just brighter spells still side . still on the cool side. temperatures still struggling in the teens , maybe low 20s the high teens, maybe low 20s across the southeast. but notice down to the south—west, more wet weather lurking and that is an area of low pressure that's going to bring pretty and going to bring a pretty wet and blustery across areas blustery day across most areas dunng blustery day across most areas during course of wednesday. during the course of wednesday. some downpours likely some heavy downpours likely persistent parts of persistent rain over parts of northern england and southern scotland , friday, scotland thursday, friday, again, look a little drier with some brighter spells, but still a showers and never a few showers and never particularly warm . particularly warm. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on gb news as . okay. >> so we have a slightly bizarre situation where rishi sunak is saying that he's on the side of motorists . i saying that he's on the side of motorists. i think he was even featured in thatcher's old car not so long ago, which really shows the motorists, shows on the side of motorists, doesn't it? the same doesn't it? but at the same time, as i tell, time, as far as i can tell, still ban new petrol

still wants to ban new petrol and diesel cars in 2030. so so how does that work? but he has ordered a review into low traffic neighbourhoods. ltns and he may take action against councils that impose 20 mile an hour speed limits . so councils that impose 20 mile an hour speed limits. so in the latest move, the prime minister is yes, trying to show he's on the of motorists. these the side of motorists. now these uns the side of motorists. now these ltns aim to reduce traffic with drivers being prevented from using quiet residential roads as through routes. but campaigners say they create hotspots for traffic, resulting in drivers spending even more time in their car. with the engine running . car. with the engine running. it's also, frankly, just really annoying, isn't it? but let's just see how this is impacting real people and real businesses . as i'm joined by clinton pugh, who is the owner of a restaurant in oxford. great to have you on. thank you very much. oxford's been the epicentre of a lot of this stuff, hasn't it? 15 minutes, and all of this minutes, cities and all of this nonsense. but do low traffic neighbourhoods work ? neighbourhoods work? >> well, it obviously reduces traffic from the roads that are

blocked, but but the problem, as you said, it's moved on to the other major roads now in oxford. >> where are my restaurants are there's they have blocked the county council have blocked 1.2 miles of roads off of cowley road that joined the iffley road, which are the two main roads that come into the centre to get to the plane roundabout that goes down over maudlin bridge and then onto the high street. now they then taken away single yellow lines . so the single yellow lines. so the county road has got over 200 businesses on it. many restaurants, bars, cafes , shops, restaurants, bars, cafes, shops, most of which are run by businesses that have english as their second language and we're all finding it to have a devastating effect on our business. it's also slowing down the you find that contractors don't want to come down to fix things for you. we had a plumber trying to get to us the other month when he had to wait over an hour to get down headington hill, which is the road that

goes up past brookes university. he it's pollution levels now in certain parts are illegal. people are actually spending probably four times the distance five to do the journeys that they need to do. and this is before they introduced the bus gates. that's right. and it's and of course, they're wasting fuel. they're wasting their lives. have been lives. it just could have been done more sympathetically. >> right . okay. so it's >> right. okay. so it's affecting business. it doesn't appear on the face of it to be actually making any difference to the environment in general and the air quality in general. it's taking people longer. i would argue it's probably quite bad for emergency service vehicles as well as business owners . owners. >> of course, they're not allowed to say anything , allowed to say anything, obviously. and it's the same with the works at the john radcliffe hospital. they're not allowed to actually speak up and complain. the fact that are wasting so much time trying to get work, it's it's get to work, it's a it's obviously a national health service, obviously the service, obviously one of the largest employers the largest employers in the country. have thought

country. and you'd have thought that allowed to that they should be allowed to have if it's not if have a voice if it's not if things are affected. >> let's get down brass >> so let's get down to brass tacks this clinton tacks on this then. clinton would vote for a political would you vote for a political party that did away with low traffic neighbourhoods? >> think the difficult >> look, i think the difficult thing is i'm all for a greener, cleaner world country . and i cleaner world country. and i think that we've got to do things to try and improve the situation. but i do think that councils need to think properly before they roll out something like they did to us a year last may without thinking it through properly. and then they should then have consultation. they could have done it gradually, they have they could have, they could have just road, just closed every third road, maybe and seen having one going one way, one going the other to see that reduce a see if that reduce things a little bit. understand the little bit. i understand the need to do this, but i also understand you're to understand if you're going to put lanes, you don't put in cycle lanes, you don't paint lines down the side put in cycle lanes, you don't paat lines down the side put in cycle lanes, you don't paa road lines down the side put in cycle lanes, you don't paa road and1es down the side put in cycle lanes, you don't paa road and pretend| the side put in cycle lanes, you don't paa road and pretend it'sz side of a road and pretend it's a cycle lane because it's not fair, safe and i think fair, it's not safe and i think a vast amount of money in oxford fair, it's not safe and i think a vabeen|ount of money in oxford fair, it's not safe and i think a va been wasted money in oxford fair, it's not safe and i think a va been wasted wheney in oxford fair, it's not safe and i think a va been wasted when it in oxford fair, it's not safe and i think a va been wasted when it could ord has been wasted when it could have been put to good use to actually do the job properly. but there are too hurry. there's

actually do the job properly. but much are too hurry. there's actually do the job properly. but much of; too hurry. there's actually do the job properly. but much of a:oo hurry. there's actually do the job properly. but much of a hurryrry. there's actually do the job properly. but much of a hurry to. there's actually do the job properly. but much of a hurry to push e's actually do the job properly. but much of a hurry to push it; too much of a hurry to push it through. before we managed too much of a hurry to push it th|wake before we managed too much of a hurry to push it th|wake upefore we managed too much of a hurry to push it th|wake up afterrve managed too much of a hurry to push it th|wake up after covid.managed to wake up after covid. >> yeah. and i also just add >> yeah. and can i also just add all for nothing? all to be able to say, oh look at what we're doing for the environment. this is to make people feel better about themselves convinced about themselves. i'm convinced of the same . i of it. it's like the same. i think lot of the time it is think a lot of the time it is the not going to ask the same. i'm not going to ask you to comment on this, don't worry. think a lot of the worry. but i think a lot of the time when people time it's the same when people do with these diversity do things with these diversity agendas. it's to make themselves feel better about it. i'm relatively feel better about it. i'm relativipractical results that actual practical results that people up seeing result people end up seeing as a result of this. but clinton, of all of this. but clinton, what we might be seeing from rishi sunak here, emphasis on the in the word might, and it ties in with also what he's talking with his also what he's talking about, about and gas in about, about the oil and gas in the sea, is we do the north sea, which is we do care about the planet. we do care about the planet. we do care about the environment. we don't want to ruin it. but we also don't want to bankrupt people and do things that are ineffective in just some headlong, desperate pursuit for net zero, which allows us to stand on the world stage and say we've hit our target before.

china, which is inevitable anyway. >> well , i, i anyway. >> well, i, i agree to obviously to an extent not. but i think one of the biggest problems is it's all very well saying we can't produce it here and we're allowed to buy a product that's made in china or india or somewhere else where they are not the environmental controls. what i don't understand, it's the same principle of the ltns. you you drive the cars you know, you drive the cars onto wind onto another road, the wind blows . you know, the pollution blows. you know, the pollution is still there. you know, it just happens to be moved to another area and it will still segregate to the that you segregate to the areas that you don't it to be. and this is don't want it to be. and this is the the rest of the same thing with the rest of the same thing with the rest of the it crazy to the world. and it seems crazy to me ban the products me we should ban the products that we know are being produced wrong. need to come up with wrong. we need to come up with an come an alternative. we need to come up mean, if up with better. i mean, if oxford city council and county council on council have actually put on decent facilities for decent road facilities for people to like three free parking at the park and ride very when my very cheap buses, when my brother was at my older brother was at sheffield university, he they used to have a policy of only charging £0.10 to go on any

journey anywhere, which of course that meant motorists got out their but if out of their cars. but if there's alternative , what are there's no alternative, what are you to do ? you can't. you supposed to do? you can't. you how many how many you know how many how many mothers are three kids could go on a on go shopping with a bus on a on a go shopping with a bus or go on a bicycle. i think it's good stuff. >> this i think i think it's good stuff because i think we were hurtling toward things good stuff because i think we werewe'd.ing toward things good stuff because i think we werewe'd actually rd things good stuff because i think we werewe'd actually impose things good stuff because i think we werewe'd actually impose some s that we'd actually impose some things, let's be honest, because we're at we're now having to look at reversing low traffic neighbourhoods it didn't neighbourhoods where it didn't make sense. it didn't make sense practically. it was costing people money. and it people a lot of money. and it was this pursuit net was like this pursuit of net zero costs. and now we've zero at all costs. and now we've seen announcement about new seen an announcement about new oil think is a oil and gas, which i think is a good h oil and gas, which i think is a good if you then give it good thing. if you then give it a of time to be able to get a bit of time to be able to get the renewables in place, low the renewables in place, the low traffic neighbourhoods, i think we them . i we can do away with them. i think actually line in the think actually a line in the sandis think actually a line in the sand is being drawn now. i hope ihope sand is being drawn now. i hope i hope we are bit of a i hope that we are at a bit of a turning point. look, clinton thank much. great thank you very much. it's great to good to talk to to chat to you. good to talk to you much longer. but after you for much longer. but after that, i'm afraid clinton, who is a oxford. a restaurant owner in oxford. yeah, i think he's big time yeah, i think he's a big time this sunak, actually.

yeah, i think he's a big time thicourse,sunak, actually. yeah, i think he's a big time thicourse,suremainsjally. yeah, i think he's a big time thicourse,su remains to ly. yeah, i think he's a big time thicourse,su remains to be yeah, i think he's a big time thicourse,suremains to be seen of course, it remains to be seen if it's all delivered. but there we go. home secretary we go. the home secretary suella braverman we go. the home secretary suella brymake an we go. the home secretary suella brymake it harder for foreign to make it harder for foreign criminals to settle britain criminals to settle in britain again. could well be again. look, this could well be another win. did you know that until now, you could have a prison sentence of four years in another country and legally be applying a british passport, applying for a british passport, which was i think we can all agree but i'm patrick agree bonkers, but i'm patrick christys britain's

channel right? so the government is cracking down on foreign criminals who want to settle in the uk. suella braverman is leading the fight back against what she called the abuse of the uk's immigration and nationality system. before today , someone system. before today, someone who has been jailed for four years would normally have their bid to become a british citizen, rejected , but. but they might rejected, but. but they might not. well, that's being cut not. well, that's now being cut apparently to 12 months. there is to this story, as indeed is more to this story, as indeed there is than meets the there always is than meets the eye. i've been bang in favour of this. i think we have enough criminals as it is, both british and for matter. but and foreign for that matter. but i'm joined live in the studio now by norman baker, who's a former minister of state for crime do crime prevention. norman, do you think good ? think this is good? >> i think it's disproportionate . i'm in favour of making sure that people a serious that people who are a serious threat are not threat to the country are not here like criminals. and yes, serious criminals. and i think the four year prison sentence and a 15 spent conviction , and a 15 year spent conviction, as it were, is about right. but what suella braverman is doing today is enabling people who

aren't serious criminals to be captured by this and people who've been criminals, if you like, very long time ago, you like, a very long time ago, you can minor offence in can commit a minor offence in another country, just this another country, not just this country 40 years ago, and be caught by this. and let's remember who can be caught by this. a woman iran not this. a woman in iran not wearing scarf, someone wearing a head scarf, someone who's gay and someone. >> well, there are mitigating. i get what you mean, there are get what you mean, but there are mitigating circumstances. those would argue would be someone i would argue that looking that they should be looking for asylum, not a normal immigration route. they may here already. route. they may be here already. >> that's thing. >> you see, that's the thing. there may have been here in granted and on the granted asylum and on the road to citizenship, that will to citizenship, and that will now denied them on the now be denied for them on the bafis now be denied for them on the basis year conviction. basis of a one year conviction. look, i've got every confidence in in this country in the system in this country that if someone's got a conviction a particular conviction of a particular length, probably length, it's probably about right. got to bear in right. but we've got to bear in mind other countries that's mind other countries and that's captured take captured here because we take other countries convictions, they could be quite disproportionate. you could be put a couple of put in prison for a couple of years almost in some countries. >> i get that. but at what point do we just say, look, it is not a human right be able to come a human right to be able to come for britain? sorry that

a human right to be able to come for ihave1? sorry that a human right to be able to come for ihave1? throughy that a human right to be able to come for ihave1? through theiat a human right to be able to come for ihave1? through the net you have fallen through the net on you are one of the on this. you are one of the cases where, yes, maybe there is a negative loophole a certain negative loophole here in immigration system, but tough. >> well, there's an issue about who how get who comes here and how they get here, which is a slightly separate matter . what this is separate matter. what this is really dealing with is people who here want to who are already here and want to 6my who are already here and want to apply for citizenship. apply for british citizenship. so who are here so those people who are here already think , you know, already and i think, you know, to saying to someone 40 years ago committed an offence ago you committed an offence which a one year which gave you a one year sentence guyana somewhere sentence and guyana or somewhere is disproportionate, i would argue that the bigger problem is our perceived inability to deport people who've got criminal record, who have killed people on the streets of britain. yes, totally. that's exactly right. so what suella braverman is is creating braverman is doing is creating mood and not dealing with mood music and not dealing with the problem. and the problem is that there are people in this country who should have been processed if they're asylum claimants and they should have been they are been deported if they are serious and that's serious criminals. and that's not we've not happening. the reason we've got this got a major problem in this country is because the home office to process office has failed to process people quickly. >> is it >> okay. is it or is it actually, as was exposed last

week, do with a legal system week, to do with a legal system where there appears to be an incredible number of dodgy lawyers who will take cash in hand stay in the country? >> well, no doubt there are some who will pursue their case more vigorously because of the financial advantage in them doing right . financial advantage in them doing right. but it doing so. that's right. but it doesn't explain why the lie is they'll lie. well, hope they they'll lie. well, i hope they wouldn't if they are wouldn't lie. and if they are lying, that's in my view, lying, then that's in my view, they should be prosecuted for it. in serious it. anyone who lies in a serious matter should matter like that should be prosecuted the real problem prosecuted. but the real problem here, the home here, patrick, is that the home office at processing office is hopeless at processing claims and we've got a huge backlog. if it dealt with these claims , then the whole claims quickly, then the whole lot of the problems that occur would away. would have gone away. >> so do you think that the >> so do you think then that the bigger threat obviously is on people that we're unable to deport, including murderers and rapists, we also have rapists, etcetera? we also have a people who've a lot of people who've absconded, so that absconded, so people that we decided the decided to release into the community, know, bail. community, you know, on bail. oh, turn up at oh, please, please turn up at court. wouldn't be so court. if you wouldn't be so kind, please turn up at court to be sentenced to 25 years in prison, . and they've prison, etcetera. and they've disappeared the community. disappeared into the community. a of other people would say,

a lot of other people would say, well, the big problems a lot of other people would say, wepeople the big problems a lot of other people would say, wepeople coming big problems a lot of other people would say, wepeople coming acrossoblems a lot of other people would say, wepeople coming across the ms is people coming across the channel documents is people coming across the chthe al documents is people coming across the ch the al therefore, uments is people coming across the ch the al therefore, we ants in the sea. and therefore, we don't whether or not that don't know whether or not that they've got a criminal record, for things for for example. those things for you bigger problems than you are bigger problems than someone not being given a british passport because they were guilty of fraud in guyana 20 years ago. >> well, i mean, look, there are a whole range of problems here. and if people throw away their documents can quite clearly that's a major issue in determining not they determining whether or not they are claimants . and are legitimate claimants. and actually away their actually they throw away their documents. them to prove that difficult for them to prove that they legitimate not. they are legitimate or not. >> we are for a lot of >> we are we are for a lot of people might say , you know, people might say, you know, quite full, okay. as a country at the moment. and actually, should it not be as hard as physically possible to get a british passport and look, again, even if you have committed when you committed that crime, albeit 25 years ago, you should have had the foresight to think maybe one day i want to go and live in britain and i won't be able to now. >> well, look, i mean, people change. people people change. people reform. people become sometimes.

become good citizens sometimes. and commit a silly and if you commit a silly offence you're years offence when you're 18 years old, be old, why should that be held against when you're against you when you're 55? >> yeah. now understand >> yeah. now i can understand that. can understand that. i can understand that. you know, it's easy to know, people get it's easy to fall foul of a law when you're 18 outside a pub 18 or something outside a pub maybe, know, you maybe, and then you know, you lived for of lived with it for the rest of your life, doesn't look, your life, doesn't it? but look, thank very much. great thank you very, very much. great to on show. norman to have you on the show. norman baker former minister of baker there, former minister of state for crime prevention. it's now patrick's pick of state for crime prevention. it's nov1 day. patrick's pick of state for crime prevention. it's nov1 day. i patrick's pick of state for crime prevention. it's nov1 day. i pyout k's pick of state for crime prevention. it's nov1day. i pyout as pick of state for crime prevention. it's nov1day. i pyout a little of the day. i pick out a little story that isn't dominating the headlines. caught headlines. it still caught my eye. i've got time eye. i think i've just got time for today it's for this. so today it's the senior mp who's facing senior labour mp who's facing calls after calls to be sacked after claiming parking on claiming a £55 parking fine on expenses. the shadow treasury minister abena oppong—asare expenses. the shadow treasury minpenaltyana oppong—asare expenses. the shadow treasury minpenalty afterppong—asare expenses. the shadow treasury minpenalty after a)ong—asare expenses. the shadow treasury minpenalty after a constituency the penalty after a constituency surgery in march. that's against the rules of the independent parliamentary standards authority. sir iain duncan smith has said if starmer doesn't get rid of her, then taxpayers beware upon ihra has now paid the fine herself. i mean , i the fine herself. i mean, i think it's absolutely hilarious, isn't it? the fact that you're just claiming that for anyone to think just claim think that you can just claim that but we that on expenses. but there we go. will to see what

go. we will have to see what happens going forward. i'm very pleased to say that michelle dewberry the studio dewberry joins me in the studio now for dewbs& co. how are you? >> you look well. after your holiday. >> thank you very much. have you changed perfume? changed your perfume? >> i have of smell. anyway >> all right. so i think you might have changed your. >> dread to think i smell >> i dread to think what i smell of. only hope that it's not. of. i only hope that it's not. >> not. it's not the >> it's just not. it's not the mademoiselle that you usually go anyway, mademoiselle that you usually go anybecause forgot bring >> because i forgot to bring it with today, i'm not giving with me today, so i'm not giving myself pop of as i myself a good pop of it as i came in. >> f.- f.— >> anyway, you talk about pick of tell you my of the day. i'll tell you my pick of the day, esg. if you don't know what those three letters help letters mean, i will help you understand my program understand on my program because these to me, they are responsible what is going on in corporations at the moment? esg. remember three letters? remember those three letters? everyone that is at the heart of it, banking it, whether it's the banking scandals these weird scandals or some of these weird transgender stuff that's going on. want to get that on. so i want to get into that tonight, of course, alongside the dying the usual stuff, assisted dying . is a hot topic. . yeah, that one is a hot topic. where you on that? me? where are you on that? me? i absolutely think that it's your right. if you want end your right. if you want to end your life. i absolutely fundamentally believe you should be able

believe that you should be able to do so. but my panel completely disagrees with me. ben and joe phillips. ben habib and joe phillips. we'll getting that and we'll be getting into that and a lot as well in just a few lot more as well in just a few minutes. the day flies by the day fly by. day does fly by. >> i must say, i've enjoyed my first show back. been a bit first show back. it's been a bit of a different one, actually. we've kind of done a lot we've kind of done quite a lot in the environment, which is not usually bag. and then, yes, usually my bag. and then, yes, lots dying well. lots on assisted dying as well. look, thank you very much, michelle. look, thank you very much, mi> looks like things are heating up. boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> i'm alex deakin. welcome along to your latest weather

update from the met office for gb news. pretty drab one out there today. many places seeing some outbreaks of rain is going to turn a little brighter here across the across parts of the south through afternoon through the afternoon and northern the north through the afternoon and nothis'n the north through the afternoon and nothis area the north through the afternoon and nothis area of the north through the afternoon and nothis area of low the north through the afternoon and nothis area of low pressure rth of this area of low pressure continuing to see a little sunshine. but generally, this low in a lot of low is spinning in a lot of cloud outbreaks rain . where cloud outbreaks of rain. where it does brighten up, we could see heavier showers and see some heavier showers and we'll see more wet weather coming into northern ireland later northern later on. i'd say northern scotland and scotland mostly staying dry and fine. south it is fine. and in the south it is going turn steadily drier, going to turn steadily drier, certainly this evening. certainly through this evening. and we'll see some and overnight, we'll see some lengthy, spells over lengthy, clear spells over the midlands england . midlands and eastern england. temperatures dropping to about 12 to 14 celsius. still breezy through the course of tuesday. and hopefully for most it'll be something a bit drier and a bit brighter as well. still some outbreaks of across outbreaks of rain across northwest southwest northwest england, southwest scotland and a few showers continuing here and there through the day. but for much of the and a good of the south and a good part of scotland, skye should brighten through the day. we'll see a little of sunshine, but little bit of sunshine, but generally just brighter spells still on side . still on the cool side. temperatures still struggling in

the , maybe low 20s the high teens, maybe low 20s across the southeast. but notice down to the southwest that more wet weather lurking and that is an area of low pressure that's going bring a pretty and going to bring a pretty wet and blustery areas blustery day across most areas dunng blustery day across most areas during course wednesday. blustery day across most areas duringheavyourse wednesday. blustery day across most areas duringheavy downpours�*dnesday. blustery day across most areas duringheavy downpours likely ay. some heavy downpours likely persistent rain over parts of northern england and southern scotland day, friday, scotland thursday day, friday, again, look a little drier with some brighter spells, but still a showers and never a few showers and never particularly . particularly warm. >> looks like things are heating up. boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on .

but is this the policy to do just that and do you know what esg is or what it means or what it stands for or anything? if not, let me tell you now, you are not alone. hardly anyone even knows what this stuff is.

it is scores that are given to organisations. it grades it is scores that are given to organisations . it grades them it is scores that are given to organisations. it grades them in how they're doing, when it comes to environmental things, social things and governance. and if you ask me, this is a cancer on our society, not just ours . by our society, not just ours. by the way, this thing is global and will impact all of our lives. so tonight i'm asking is the esg a force for good or bad? and we all know the state of the property situation in this country . some people saying that country. some people saying that actually we should ban foreign ownership of property. is that the answer to our property woes or not? and you'll all be familiar with you with this story of the brits in cyprus that's now being released from prison for killing his wife . it prison for killing his wife. it has started again. the conversation about whether or not assisted dying should be legal in this country, should it? you tell me. we've got it all to come and more. but before we get into it, let's bring ourselves up to speed with tonight's latest headlines with polly middlehurst .

polly middlehurst. >>