her over basically batted her away over the the refugees the changing of the refugees definition. asking is the definition. i am asking is the un for purpose? in other un fit for purpose? in other news, deeply distressing news coming out of croydon was a 15 year schoolgirl was fatally year old schoolgirl was fatally stabbed. we will take you to the scene . i'll also be talking as scene. i'll also be talking as well about whether it's okay for us to drill for new oil. it looks like it's definitely going to happen, isn't it? in the north sea, the eco mob, they're not happy . and one final one for not happy. and one final one for you as well. we're going to go live to lampedusa because two migrant believed to be migrant boats are believed to be missing the missing somewhere in the mediterranean, missing somewhere in the medi'ofranean, missing somewhere in the medi'ofranearsuella braverman light of what suella braverman said yesterday. we stop said yesterday. how do we stop this trade in human life? this vile trade in human life? and could possibly be true as and could it possibly be true as well? it's version of well? but it's a version of modern warfare led by the wagner group of russians. patrick christys . gb news. i'm going to christys. gb news. i'm going to be having a big discussion today throughout the course of the next three hours about what kind of country you want to live in. it's all very well and good. suella braverman standing up and

quoting series very quoting a series of very important about illegal important numbers about illegal migration, about refugees, and about migration. about legal migration. but there's something more to it, isn't it's about culture isn't there? it's about culture andits isn't there? it's about culture and it's about way of life. and we'll a chat about we'll be having a chat about that. vaiews@gbnews.com. but right your headlines . right now it's your headlines. >> good afternoon. it's 3:01. i'm rhiannon jones in the gb news room . a 15 year old i'm rhiannon jones in the gb news room . a15 year old girl news room. a 15 year old girl has died after being stabbed in croydon in south london. she was on her way to school. emergency services were called to wells road. >> i'm really pleased to have been invited by the cross—party transport for north to their board meeting this morning. we may be mayors from different regions, but we speak with one voice. and when we say we don't want cuts to high speed two, we see the benefits of high speed. two in relation to economic growth, in relation to increasing capacity, increasing connectivity , increasing speed connectivity, increasing speed and it means we can have the

same sort of transport links that france has, that spain has, that france has, that spain has, that germany has. i'm worried that germany has. i'm worried that cutting high speed two will cause huge damage to london and the south—east >> sadiq khan , london's mayor, >> sadiq khan, london's mayor, speaking there after five labour mayors from across the country met in leeds to urge the prime minister to stay on track with hs2 . they warned that the hs2. they warned that the failure to deliver in full will leave swathes of the north with victorian infrastructure unfit for purpose . as . the uk's for purpose. as. the uk's largest untapped oil and gas field. rosebank in scotland has been approved for development . been approved for development. but that's despite a row over climate damage. regulators say net zero considerations have been taken into account. scotland's first minister, minister humza yousaf , says he's minister humza yousaf, says he's disappointed the projects been given the go ahead. the uk government has welcomed the decision, saying it will raise billions of pounds.

decision, saying it will raise billions of pounds . the united billions of pounds. the united nafions billions of pounds. the united nations has rejected the home secretary's calls for international law on refugees to be changed. in a speech in washington, suella braverman suggested the un 1951 refugee convention even needs updating , convention even needs updating, she argues, fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman shouldn't be enough to qualify for international refugee protection. lucy frazer , secretary of state for culture, media and sport, says it needs a global solution . it needs a global solution. >> it is, as the home secretary was saying, a global issue that needs a global solution . the un needs a global solution. the un has stated that since that by the end of 2022 there were 108 million people all display based. so we as you will know as a government are working very carefully to make sure that we stop the boats coming over here through international solutions i >> -- >> the uk's first drug

consumption room, where users can take illegal drugs under medical supervision , has been medical supervision, has been approved. the facility is planned for glasgow's east end is backed by the scottish government as a way to tackle the country's drugs deaths crisis. the £2.3 million pilot will allow users to take their own illegal drugs in a hygiene sick environment with medical staff on hand . to domestic abuse staff on hand. to domestic abuse victims may have been exposed to their alleged abusers following several data breaches. family ses have had to be relocated after several organisations, including law firms, police and a government department, mishandled the victim's personal information , lack of staffing information, lack of staffing and relaxed practises are being blamed for the leaks . the blamed for the leaks. the information commissioner's office is calling for stronger standards and policies . yellow standards and policies. yellow weather warnings are in place for most of the uk today as storm agnes makes landfall. the

coastis storm agnes makes landfall. the coast is expected the western coast is expected the western coast to be whipped by winds of up to 75 miles an hour. the royal national lifeboat institution is advising people to keep safe and keep away from water and cliff edges as high waves pose a potential threat to yellow rain. warnings will also be in place in parts of scotland . and as staying in scotland, whisky thought to be the oldest in the world, will be sold at auction for £10,000 a bottle. the tipple was found hidden behind the doors of blair castle, around 40 bottles are believed to have been distilled almost 200 years ago. auctioneers say the bottles will likely have a more medicinal taste. if you can bear to open one at that price as this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news now it's back over to .

patrick >> welcome along. now what kind of country do you want to live in? what kind of society do you want to have? what do you want britain to be? so ella braverman mentioned a lot of numbers in her speech yesterday, 780 million people could be classed as refugees , around 230,000 new as refugees, around 230,000 new school places will need to be found to accommodate the amount of children by 2026. 1 in 5 children are now born to foreign born mothers. 70 plus% of european union residents want tougher external border control. 50% of americans think their southern border is being invaded. £8 million a day is being spent on migrant hotels. about half of the crime in paris is supposedly attributable to migration. these are numbers , migration. these are numbers, important numbers, but the most important numbers, but the most important thing is culture, culture and identity . if we want culture and identity. if we want to protect our values and way of life, then we have to control mass migration, both legal and illegal. if we want to protect

the legacy of our forefathers who went before us to preserve what they fought for, what they suffered to help create it, then we need to control our borders . we need to control our borders. as suella said that a as suella herself said that a country cannot protect its borders if it can't , then it borders if it can't, then it will cease to be a proper country. it is easy to make the financial and structural case of controlling immigration and changing the un definition of refugees . no gp appointments, refugees. no gp appointments, housing crisis, etcetera, etcetera. but the most important point is the one that comes from the heart out. and i think that's what suella braverman was trying to make in your heart. do you want to protect britain as you want to protect britain as you see it, the country you feel it is in your bones, its history, its norms , its culture? history, its norms, its culture? if the answer to that is yes, then we must get a grip of immigration, both legal and illegal. if you believe in national identity, shared patriotism, shared binding features of nationhood , then you features of nationhood, then you have to want secure borders and a managed approach to societal

influx. the un has, despite suella as brave and impassioned plea, rebutted her in the way that perhaps we should have expected any international global organisation will simply not be able to understand or will be unwilling to understand the passion that citizens feel for the preservation of their own nation. we are on a tipping point in so many aspects of society at the moment, but you have to ask yourselves this what kind of country do you want? we have to be proud as brits, but you can only be proud of what you can only be proud of what you know. and increasingly , when you know. and increasingly, when people look around them in this country , they don't recognise it country, they don't recognise it . it's time to get more vocal about how you feel . gb views about how you feel. gb views gbnews.com. i'm going to be unpacking a lot of the reaction to suella bravermans comments, not least from elton john. he's steamed in, hasn't he? old steamed in, hasn't he? good old elton. criticising for elton. he's criticising her for the that she about

the comments that she made about whether simply being gay whether or not simply being gay should you as should be able to class. you as an or a refugee . an asylum seeker or a refugee. she also said that multiculturalism has failed. again, going to be talking again, i'm going to be talking about . what is about that. what is multiculturalism well? a multiculturalism as well? it's a label people out label that people love out there, is it and there, but what really is it and how failed this how has it failed in this country? are you angered or surprised , perhaps, that the surprised, perhaps, that the united nations have just come and suella down where do and slapped suella down where do you stand on all of this? but here's a little reminder of what suella braverman said about the un refugee convention during her speech . speech yesterday. >> any attempt to reform the refugee convention will see you smeared as anti refugee . similar smeared as anti refugee. similar epithets are hurled at anyone who suggests reform of the echr or it's caught in strasbourg. i reject the notion that a country cannot be expected to respect human rights if it is not signed up to an international human rights organisation. as if the uk doesn't have a proud history of human rights dating back to magna carta and the echr is all

thatis magna carta and the echr is all that is holding us back from becoming russia , america, canada becoming russia, america, canada , new zealand and japan seem to manage just fine in strong stuff. >> i mean , you could eclipse >> i mean, you could eclipse pretty much every single sentence that she said yesterday. and i know that it went down well with the vast majority of our viewers. and i can tell that from going can tell that from what's going on fight can tell that from what's going on right now, on in the inbox right now, actually. views gbnews.com. actually. gb views gbnews.com. today asking kind today i am asking you what kind of country want britain of country you want britain to be. is our culture? tell me be. what is our culture? tell me that. be. what is our culture? tell me that . what is be. what is our culture? tell me that. what is british be. what is our culture? tell me that . what is british culture that. what is british culture here? because all too often we just get told we don't have any we or that it's changing too rapidly. me what rapidly. let me know what you think be really think it is. i'd be really fascinated to find in fascinated to find out in your definition that but i'm definition what that is, but i'm going to go now to our political editor, christopher hope. christopher, editor, christopher hope. chris much., editor, christopher hope. chris much. what has the very much. what has the political been to political reaction been to suella braverman statements yesterday washington ? yesterday in washington? >> it's been quite predictable. of course , labour has attacked of course, labour has attacked her for going across to washington to human washington un to discuss human rights . but i washington un to discuss human rights. but i think what's more for me is how it affects the

conservative party. there's many things play here, patrick. things at play here, patrick. you've the prime minister in you've got the prime minister in rishi sunak , who was chosen not rishi sunak, who was chosen not to go to the un general assembly, instead do a speech about rolling back on some net zero targets to 2035. you've got him sending his home secretary to washington to call for the renegotiation or the resetting of the 1951 un convention on human rights, the treaty on human rights, the treaty on human rights. that is a big, big moment for the pm, for rishi sunak. he's showing his political mettle in a way he hasn't done before until now. we've had these five targets that some of which he's going to miss, notably on nhs targets. we now idea of politics. now have this idea of politics. number ten signed off on that speech. number ten signed off on that speech . you won't have seen speech. you won't have seen a more dramatic. i certainly have not dramatic speech not seen a more dramatic speech from secretary 20 from the home secretary in my 20 years politics. was years covering politics. it was it was out there a speech which you might expected to make at the tory party conference to a kind adoring, kind of loving, adoring, faithful , not in a kind of loving, adoring, faithful, not in a think tank in

washington. and i think that's fascinating thing. i think that she has got freedom to move and it helps number 10. number ten were relaxed about the speech. they but equally they like it, but equally i think they recognise that she also she's not not always a team player. i mean, i think the party leadership and that will be grabs. think if, if be up for grabs. i think if, if labour win the as labour do win the election as the polls later next the polls suggest later next year and she's making a naked grab for the right, well , grab for the right, well, absolutely, yes. >> some , of course, would argue >> some, of course, would argue that she's saying what a majority of people who vote for parties that want to control immigration say that they do brexit, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, what they think. so yeah, maybe she's speaking for most people. but christopher , i most people. but christopher, i wonder whether or not she was trying to make the plea in light of what's going on in the channel light what's channel in light of what's happening seeker happening with the asylum seeker crisis that is trying to crisis that britain is trying to do can with an do everything it can with an illegal migration bill and with a . but actually, a rwanda policy. but actually, unless the international community are hands are community acts are hands are tied and trying to take a little bit of pressure there off,

frankly, the next election . frankly, the next election. >> well, that's right. i think her language is fascinating, wasn't it, patrick? if you look at there, she talks about the issue of uncontrolled and illegal migration. now illegal migration is what gb news frequently highlights the issue of boats crossings on the of small boats crossings on the south of this country. but south coast of this country. but uncontrolled migration is legal migration , and that ran up to migration, and that ran up to over 600,000in the year two to june 2022. that's migration allowed by our politicians , allowed by our politicians, allowed by our politicians, allowed by our politicians, allowed by a tory government allowed by a tory government allowed by a government which is trying to deliver on taking back control of our borders after that brexit vote in 2016. so i think she's having a tilt at her her own government's record and her own government's record and her pms record going back through. theresa may boris johnson and david cameron. why were they not controlling migration? suella braverman wants get net migration wants to get net migration that's migration down to that's allowed migration down to tens of thousands. it's a factor of ten is six times that a least six times out at the moment.

that's not good enough and she recognises that. so i think i think she's talking for a lot of people. mentioned culture at people. you mentioned culture at the patrick. the beginning there, patrick. that's people that that's because people feel that their where they live is being is and have had no is changing and they have had no no that. and that's no say over that. and that's what for many at the heart what lay for many at the heart of that vote in 2016, give us back control of our country. >> do talk quite often >> you and i do talk quite often as well about the economic side of this. and i wonder as well, when it comes to talking about getting net migration down to the tens of thousands, etcetera , whether or not there are any clamours for suella braverman to start talking about what that would mean economically and whether british whether or not the british pubuc whether or not the british public prepared to see lower public are prepared to see lower growth no growth for the sake growth or no growth for the sake of , yeah, growth or no growth for the sake of, yeah, maybe trying to raise the finances per capita in in this country. yeah >> well, the battle suella braverman has is actually with the treasury and the obr want to see or they are forecasting 240,000 arrivals net that's net legal arrivals over the next ten years to sustain the growth projections they want to give.

so the treasury wants more net migration. so whether braverman sees the challenge of that on theissue sees the challenge of that on the issue of culture and how communities are changing, and she says that, doesn't she, in her speech that we need 213,000 more places than we did more school places than we did in 2020. that's because of net migration, not really illegal net migration . it's on her net migration. it's on her watch. her government's watch. and i think that's the tension between the home office trying to control migration and the treasury that wants growth. and that's the debate now. >> it absolutely is. and it's worth noting as well, christopher, i think where labour are at on this. so in fact. cooper came out yesterday very said i think very strong, said i think i mean, if you forgive me for this possibly quite possibly being quite sensationalist, that sensationalist, saying that suella saying suella braverman was saying that, wasn't going that, you know, she wasn't going to stand up for gay people in uganda who facing uganda who were facing persecution. not really persecution. that is not really what was saying at all. she what she was saying at all. she she make the case that she she did make the case that there very genuine there are very much genuine cases people happen to be cases of people who happen to be a member of the lgbtq+ community or genuine or indeed women who face genuine persecution . an and therefore persecution. an and therefore they be granted asylum.

they should be granted asylum. however, we don't want, you know, just by virtue of your sexuality, that's qualifier sexuality, that's a qualifier for for asylum. but the for you for asylum. but the labour party come out labour party have come out swinging haven't they? swinging on it, haven't they? and is what is their actual and what is what is their actual policy when it comes to reducing illegal migration? it's cetera. because, you know, this is what suella braverman wants to do. she wants the united nations to change definition of change their definition of refugee get the illegal refugee to get the illegal migration bill off the ground alongside flights to rwanda. right. labour , where are right. so labour, where are they? they want to just the they? they want to just cut the backlog. ? backlog. do they? >> they do. they want to tackle that backlog to take migrants out of hotels, £8 million a week. of course, that cost to us as taxpayers. and then what do they want to talk more to enforcement agencies on the continent work more closely with them. that's what they say. but really, that's broadly what the government's trying to do. they might think because they're might think that because they're more eu focussed as a more kind of eu focussed as a party, maybe they get better relationships, but they are not doing the tory doing much more than the tory party tories have got this party the tories have got this big idea of rwanda. we'll learn

from supreme that big idea of rwanda. we'll learn frongo supreme that big idea of rwanda. we'll learn frongo through he that big idea of rwanda. we'll learn frongo through in that big idea of rwanda. we'll learn frongo through in novemberat big idea of rwanda. we'll learn frongo through in november and can go through in november and if next year. it puts if that works next year. it puts labour a position of will labour in a position of will they carry on with rwanda flights not? nowhere flights or not? we're nowhere near that point. but labour's answer is not is not really. it's version it's a kind of diluted version of no indeed. of the tory one. no indeed. >> thank you very much, christopher. to great have you right of the show right at the top of the show there. political editor there. also political editor christopher look, christopher hope. look, i've been you think been asking you what you think it is it means to be british. what is this culture that we this british culture that we think defending? think is so worth defending? patrick to preserve patrick i want to preserve the safety in society. this is from jack.i safety in society. this is from jack. i want a safe society. and i don't feel like it is at the moment . hi, patrick. it used to moment. hi, patrick. it used to mean something if you were british, it commanded respect. if abroad . but sadly if you were abroad. but sadly now it appears to devalued now it appears to be devalued and nothing . how sad, and it means nothing. how sad, says mike. so an idea of respect on the international stage and anidea on the international stage and an idea of a safe society. those are just a couple of the ones. keep coming what keep those views coming in. what do it means? british do you think it means? british culture? what is that? what is it? thing you're it? that thing that you're looking views and looking to protect? gb views and gbnews.com but of course, look, you can get loads more this

you can get loads more on this story website is gb story on our website which is gb news it's the fastest news dot com. it's the fastest growing news site in growing national news site in the country. all the the country. it's got all the best all the big best analysis, all the big opinion all of the latest opinion and all of the latest breaking of breaking news. but talking of fast news, year old fast moving news, a 15 year old girl died after she was girl has died after she was stabbed in south london this morning. metropolitan police have year old boy who have said a 17 year old boy who knew the victim been knew the victim has been arrested. we can go now to croydon and speak live to our london reporter, lisa hartel, who has the latest. lisa hello. >> yes, well, as we heard it was 8:30 this morning when a 15 year old girl who was on her way to school was attacked on this busy road. and if i just step out of the way, you can see that forensic teams in the dress there in the blue suits, they're carrying out their work. they've been this morning. been here since this morning. there's a cordoned there's this is all a cordoned off see there's off area. you can see there's the bus there, double decker bus. that's part of the cordoned the bus there, double decker busarea.t's part of the cordoned the bus there, double decker busarea. there's of the cordoned the bus there, double decker busarea. there's the1e cordoned the bus there, double decker busarea. there's the forensic1ed off area. there's the forensic tents and a screen that's been put up. so as i said, she was on her way to school that school that she attended was a private

school called the old palace of john whitgift school. in a statement , they said, are statement, they said, we are deeply shocked senseless deeply shocked by the senseless and of our much and tragic death of our much loved and valued friend and pupil . it loved and valued friend and pupil. it will loved and valued friend and pupil . it will take some time pupil. it will take some time for the school community to come to terms terrible news to terms with this terrible news and will offer support to our pupils. as now, police and paramedics were called the paramedics were called to the scene, but the girl died less paramedics were called to the scentanwut the girl died less paramedics were called to the scentan houre girl died less paramedics were called to the scentan hour after died less paramedics were called to the scentan hour after shei less paramedics were called to the scentan hour after she wass than an hour after she was attacked. police gave an update earlier saying they weren't looking for any other suspect and suspects and they were joined by representatives the joined by representatives of the community who they were all community who said they were all united in their council united in their shock. council leaders that they're going leaders said that they're going to do everything they can to support community to do everything they can to su thist community to do everything they can to su this time. community to do everything they can to su this time. now, community to do everything they can to su this time. now, it community to do everything they can to su this time. now, it was mmunity to do everything they can to su this time. now, it was just|nity at this time. now, it was just at this time. now, it was just at 9:45 am. this morning that a 17 year old was arrested in connection with this incident . connection with this incident. he was arrested in new addington . that's around five miles away from where we are at the moment . a witness has described seeing a bus driver and another woman trying to save that 15 year old girl on the pavement. but

trying to save that 15 year old girl on the pavement . but with girl on the pavement. but with performing cpr, that's just before paramedics arrived . and before paramedics arrived. and chief superintendent andy britton of the met has said this is every parent's worst nightmare . and i know the nightmare. and i know the officers who responded this morning, along with our emergency service colleagues, are devastated the victim's are devastated at the victim's death. thoughts are with the death. our thoughts are with the victim's family at this incredibly difficult time. now, this scene obviously will this crime scene obviously will continue to remain here as officers carry out their extensive inaya investigation. but police are asking anyone who has any information or witnessed the attack to come fonnard and contact them . contact them. >> he said, thank you very much. we will keep you up to date, of course, if there are any developments on that. deeply, deeply distressing story from croydon, year croydon, a 15 year old schoolgirl stabbed to death lisa hartle our london reporter. look at these emails coming in gbviews@gbnews.com. the overarching thread of this show is going to be in relation to suella braverman and british culture. patrick british culture is chaucer, shakespeare, keats,

wordsworth. i feel rather embarrassed first, but have a firm love of the country. its walks , dogs, gardens, its our walks, dogs, gardens, its our proud history. walks, dogs, gardens, its our proud history . that's from proud history. that's from timothy. there's loads of this coming in and i must say it was really interesting to get an idea of what you think british culture because all too culture is, because all too often told that we haven't often we're told that we haven't got therefore there got any and therefore there might worth might be nothing worth protecting. that protecting. do you think that there gb news.com there is gb views and gbnews.com now a huge untapped oil field off the coast of scotland has been given the go ahead. one environmental campaigner has described the decision as morally . so i'm going to morally obscene. so i'm going to be asking, is it morally obscene to drill for new oil? patrick christys gb news britain's news

only want to inform you, but we want to keep you entertained. >> the camilla tominey show . 325 >> the camilla tominey show. 325 you're watching or listening to me patrick christys on gb news now our speculation about the future of hs2 rumbles on a string of northern mayors have made the case against scrapping the northern leg rishi sunak as welcomed. >> the decision to develop the. in other news, the uk's biggest untapped oil field. but environmental campaigners are absolutely furious. yes the rosebank oil field is 80 miles off the coast of shetland and it contains up to 350 million barrels of oil. green party mp caroline lucas says that today's news is , quote, morally obscene news is, quote, morally obscene . an interesting do you think it's morally obscene? we've got a debate on that in the next houn a debate on that in the next hour. but let's speak now to our economics and business editor

liam with on the money i >> well, what's the hoo ha? >> well, what's the hoo ha? >> the hoo ha? is that the government's given a drilling licence for the largest untapped field that we know of oil and gas field in the north sea. so it's pretty big news. let's have a look at some of the details of this field. it's called rosebank. roses there rosebank. not many roses there in seas, 80 in the middle of the seas, 80 miles shetland . it is miles west of shetland. it is the undeveloped the largest undeveloped oil and gas the north sea, 380 gas field in the north sea, 380 miles, 80 miles west of shetland. as i said , that's shetland. as i said, that's actually pretty near by north sea standards, even though it's a very hostile environment . the a very hostile environment. the money is coming from the nonnegian state run energy giant equinor , and also a british equinor, and also a british private sector company called ithaca energy . 350 million ithaca energy. 350 million barrels of oil a day , £8 billion barrels of oil a day, £8 billion of investment, 2000 jobs. so a lot of people want this, but quite a lot of green campaigners, as you say , patrick campaigners, as you say, patrick don't as he goes up to the party conference in manchester this weekend, rishi sunak , i'd say on weekend, rishi sunak, i'd say on balance, going to get more more

positive from the tory faithful than the negatives on this , than the negatives on this, though the environmental campaigners within the tory party and there are many often mps that are competing with lib dems rather than labour to keep their seats. they vocal, their seats. they will be vocal, they will be slinging all kinds of brickbats at prime of brickbats at the prime minister yeah, fine. of brickbats at the prime mir i ;ter yeah, fine. of brickbats at the prime miri mean yeah, fine. of brickbats at the prime miri mean i yeah, fine. of brickbats at the prime miri mean i suppose e. of brickbats at the prime miri mean i suppose the question >> i mean i suppose the question is whether or not we need to do this now. >> well we what the in >> well we what the war in ukraine has done is highlighted theissue ukraine has done is highlighted the issue of energy security. the uk is now net energy the uk is now a net energy importer it been for some importer. it has been for some time and how have we been surviving? because we've been getting gas the getting a lot of gas across the atlantic from the us liquefied natural a tremendous natural gas. that's a tremendous carbon footprint. that's a very carbon footprint. that's a very carbon intensive way to use energy . you get gas that's energy. you get gas that's drilled in america , you convert drilled in america, you convert it into a liquid which uses a huge amount of energy. you put it in a tanker, 3000 miles of diesel fumes across the atlantic. you regasify it atlantic. then you regasify it here on the european continent . here on the european continent. thatis here on the european continent. that is very expensive and very carbon intensive. and, you know, patrick, even the climate change

commission, the government's internal watchdog, when it comes to doing the right things for the climate as far as environmental campaigns are concerned, even they acknowledge that in the mid 2030 we'll still be getting half our energy from oil and gas, even in 2050, if they get their own way and renewables come to the fore still a quarter of our gas will be energy will be oil and gas by 2050. so if that's the reality, let's not turn the taps off. let's actually use our locally sourced stuff which is less carbon intensive because it's nearer and you get british prosperity and tax revenues and you get jobs. >> yeah. and i thought it was interesting when rishi sunak came and his zero came out and did his net zero speech and wasn't long after speech and it wasn't long after that that emmanuel macron over in said something rather in france said something rather similar about rowing back on climate alarmism . and i think climate alarmism. and i think sometimes it takes world sometimes it takes a world leader head above leader to stick their head above the to the parapet just to try to change the course discourse change the course of discourse and hopefully that maybe then the more the world reacts. maybe more and more waking up this more people waking up to this idea. now that we do have a bit more left in the as

more left in the tank as it were, and that we should were, and that maybe we should be resources. be using our own resources. >> look , this course has >> look, this course has completely since the war completely changed since the war in ukraine, before the war in ukraine. from me. even ukraine. take it from me. even if broadly supportive ukraine. take it from me. even if the broadly supportive ukraine. take it from me. even if the move)roadly supportive ukraine. take it from me. even if the move awayy supportive ukraine. take it from me. even if the move away from portive ukraine. take it from me. even if the move away from fossil) of the move away from fossil fuels to even mention the difficulties to even mention that a lot of people on lower incomes are worried about this, to even mention the heat pumps aren't popular among people living in victorian terraces or in tower blocks to even point to those glaring real world realities with in polite society within a lot of the political and media class, you would be dismissed as a crank, as a denier . now we can actually have denier. now we can actually have a conversation about the pace at which we get towards net zero. the costs , and particularly the costs, and particularly where the costs fall . and look, where the costs fall. and look, this is indicative rishi sunak appointed recently in his mini reshuffle, a new person to the cabinet, a former aide of his, a young asian woman, claire coutinho. i mean , claire coutinho. i mean, claire coutinho. i mean, claire coutinho is very much on the green wing of the conservative party, very much of her own

generation. and yet she is now the energy security and net zero secretary the ordering of the title is important, and that's claire coutinho. this is what she had to say . she had to say. >> well, firstly, the gas will be used domestically, as has been set out in terms of the oil. >> it gets exported initially , >> it gets exported initially, but overall the uk is a net importer of oil. so much of that makes its way back here. so this i think, is an important thing that's happened today. it's good for energy security , it's good for energy security, it's good for energy security, it's good for and investment in this country. >> and overall, it means lower emissions . emissions. >> rishi sunak has been prime minister for about a year now until very recently . he until very, very recently. he was grappling with events , was just grappling with events, deaung was just grappling with events, dealing what the newspapers dealing with what the newspapers were throwing dealing were throwing at him, dealing with what was happening in the real world. in recent weeks, patrick, ahead of this party conference with this pushing back the net zero ban on new back of the net zero ban on new oil and gas , new petrol and oil and gas, new petrol and diesel to 2035 rather than diesel cars to 2035 rather than 2030, in allowing suella

braverman to crank up the rhetoric a bit on migration in giving new drilling licences across the north sea, both in july and this big symbolic one now in rosebank . finally, he's now in rosebank. finally, he's starting to do some politics. >> yeah, he absolutely is. liam, thank you very much. liam halligan our economics and business editor. yeah, it's the tie turning a little bit. we are seeing issues. i thought seeing those issues. i thought liam nail on the head liam hit the nail on the head there actually when he said about a while you about look for a while you couldn't talk about very couldn't talk about the very obvious our obvious things the way the our net zero agenda was going to impact man impact your average man and woman the street their woman on the street in their own home. about home. you couldn't talk about those facts similar, i those glaring facts similar, i think know, those glaring facts similar, i thin couldn't know, those glaring facts similar, i thin couldn't talk know, those glaring facts similar, i thin couldn't talk about know, those glaring facts similar, i thin couldn't talk about way w, you couldn't talk about the way that both legal that mass migration, both legal and illegal, is impacting people's lives and their culture. just to reminder to you, i your on what you, i want your emails on what do think british culture is? do you think british culture is? some appears do you think british culture is? som if appears do you think british culture is? som if we appears do you think british culture is? som if we ignore appears do you think british culture is? som if we ignore our appears do you think british culture is? som if we ignore our own appears that if we ignore our own culture rules and regulations, we have take in all the other we have to take in all the other ones well. from ones as well. that's from stephen. know you ones as well. that's from steph british know you ones as well. that's from stephbritish culture now you ones as well. that's from stephbritish culture is. n you think british culture is. vaiews@gbnews.com. of vaiews@gbnews.com. more of this after your headlines. but between 4:00, will the between now and 4:00, will the future hs2? well, it's up in

future of hs2? well, it's up in the it? we will speak the air, isn't it? we will speak to former mp who says to one former tory mp who says that the has his that the project has ruined his life after he was forced to sell his dream home. but right now it's your headlines polly it's your headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> patrick, thank you. the top stories this hour. a 15 year old girl has died after being stabbed in croydon in south london. >> she was on her way to school. emergency services were called to wellesley road at around 830 this morning. >> one eyewitness describing seeing a bus driver and a passer by trying to resuscitate a teenage girl . teenage girl. >> a teenage boy has been arrested. >> police say he was known to the victim . the victim. >> five five labour mayors from across the country have met in leeds to urge the prime minister to stay on track with hs2. they warned that failure to deliver in full will leave swathes of the north with victorian infrastructure , which is unfit infrastructure, which is unfit for purpose . for purpose. >> rishi sunak faces a political

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of weather on. gb news. >> has hs2 ruined your life ? >> has hs2 ruined your life? well, five labour mayors gathered in leeds today to form a united front against the prime minister's plans to scrap the northern leg of hs2. rishi sunak is said to be concerned about the project's escalating costs. he's not the only one, but the mayor has argued that the project delivered in mayor has argued that the projnift delivered in mayor has argued that the projnif the delivered in mayor has argued that the projnif the north delivered in mayor has argued that the projnif the north south red in mayor has argued that the projnif the north south divide full if the north south divide is going to be closed . is going to be closed. >> the simple but powerful message coming back from the northern mayors. but also the mayor of london today who is with us to back to westminster and whitehall and it's this don't pull the plug on the north of england. stop. think that you can treat people here like second class citizens when it comes to transport the message that we're sending to the government today is invest in the north and give us the certainty and the commitment that we rely on, that our that we can rely on, that our businesses can on that businesses can rely on and that our need about the our communities need about the investment in infrastructure and hs2 in particular, that we can then develop so we can then develop our economies, our

communities and get that economic into the north. economic growth into the north. you're right about the connections south yorkshire connections to south yorkshire and onto west yorkshire, and then onto west yorkshire, because this isn't just about connecting places up north with london. is also about london. this is also about connecting the great cities connecting up the great cities of sheffield and of the north. sheffield and leeds, west yorkshire and south yorkshire have the opportunity to an economic powerhouse . s to be an economic powerhouse. s but that connectivity . but we need that connectivity. >> we need infrastructure which allows grow and that is allows us to grow and that is the same right across the north. >> so we are saying to the government, stop dithering, stop delaying invest the uncertainty. invest in the north. our north. if you want our communities live well. >> it's a strong message. i mean, i've always subscribed to the that why don't you just the view that why don't you just connect right connect the north right to itself east. you itself and to the east. you know, in the midlands. don't itself and to the east. you knc have the midlands. don't itself and to the east. you knc have the miconnectivity don't we have better connectivity there? one mp has a very there? but one mp who has a very personal in hs2 is personal interest in hs2 is andrew bridgen. andrew, great to have you on the thank you have you on the show. thank you very, much and yeah, very, very much. and so, yeah, just your your personal just explain your your personal situation with then. so situation with hs2 then. so what's going on is saying it's kind of ruined life. what's kind of ruined your life. what's happening? well let's let's happening? well let's just let's just recap . just recap. >> you're right. absolutely right . patrick, hs2 had been

right. patrick, if hs2 had been about levelling up midlands about levelling up the midlands and the north, it would have started the midlands and the started in the midlands and the north. out of out of north. not. not out of out of london. and the best thing they could have done was improve east west connectivity between the great cities of the midlands to create it and the north to create it and the north to create critical mass and economic growth. but it wasn't at about that . well, my at all about that. well, my personally i think i'm the only mp had to sell his house to hs2. i've been through the process of how hs2 acquire property . i use how hs2 acquire property. i use consultants because being an mp, i didn't think it was right for me to deal direct with hs2 . but me to deal direct with hs2. but the system works that when they are going to buy your property or land or business, they they give you a list of ten authorised valuers. they're they're all pretty much big firms from london, not local at all with any local knowledge. you choose one hs2 chooses one. they both come out to your property and they do a valuation . and if they're within 10, they split the difference and that's

the price you'll get . and but if the price you'll get. and but if you look at the psychology of that, they'll only ever work on average for a property owner. once choosing them at once you're choosing them at random, don't know from random, you don't know them from adam, you've no relationship adam, you've got no relationship with them. but clearly, if they put low prices in, they've got a chance of being picked by hs2 every time. so clearly the psychological pressure on those valuers is to is to lower the pnces valuers is to is to lower the prices so that hs2 picks them every time because they're going to choose the people who put the low prices in, not the high pnces. low prices in, not the high prices . and i explained all that prices. and i explained all that to successive ministers in charge of hs2 and they didn't come back to me. i paid to point 1 million for the house in north—west leicestershire . in north—west leicestershire. in 2011. i'd paid £100,000 for the stamp duty. i'd paid 100 and sorry, 110,000 stamp duty. i paid £100,000 for the fixtures and fittings . i'd improved it by and fittings. i'd improved it by another £100,000. the property owed me two point over 2.4 million. and three years later,

four years later, i was given 1.89 million by hs2. four years later, i was given 1.89 million by hs2 . so they did 1.89 million by hs2. so they did me out of £500,000 after tax . me out of £500,000 after tax. >> yeah. yeah. and i've spoken to i've, i've spoken to, i've spoken to people all along. >> it runs through the route , >> it runs through the route, the proposed route that'll never get built for ten years has run through north—west leicestershire from one end of the constituency to the other 20 miles. it's affected thousands of properties and thousands of property owners. no one's got fair value for their properties. they've all been dealt with exactly the same way that i was , and it's an absolute national scandal. >> andrew. andrew has always been running out of control . can been running out of control. can ijust been running out of control. can i just say yeah, on this, i actually really seriously do think that this is something that's going to rear its head in a big and a lot of people a big way. and a lot of people i think are going to be very glad that up about it that you're talking up about it and actually and that you've actually come out and revealed your your personal bit personal circumstances for a bit of i know personally of context. i know personally that in manchester, that businesses in manchester, for example , were were put under

for example, were were put under cpos and there's massive issues there with them. this has affected covid people's lives big time. and crucially , it's big time. and crucially, it's cost a lot of people a heck of a lot of money. i just wonder what i mean. can people sue if this doesn't go ahead. i mean, it's like someone has reached into your life and gone right. we're going to we're going to take this amount of money off you and then doesn't happen. then that thing doesn't happen. i mean, it's almost theft . i mean, it's almost theft. >> it is. and it's caused a lot of grief to a lot of people in my constituency. it was the biggest complaint that people had in my constituency for a decade. had in my constituency for a decade . it stopped the decade. it stopped the regeneration of measham , one of regeneration of measham, one of my most deprived communities. we would have had the canal brought back to measham and 400 new houses built to fund it in the middle of the of the of the village with a wharf for the barges to turn around shops and cafes that would have been delivered ten years ago if it

hadn't been on the route for hs2. it stopped factories being built. it basically sterilised the width of a football field all the way through my constituency and lots of jobs and houses and opportunities have been lost and it's caused an immense amount of stress to people who will never have to sell their house. have sell their house. people have actually graves in actually gone to their graves in my constituency worrying about something which always told something which i always told them , don't worry it, them, don't worry about it, because this actually never, because this is actually never, ever happen and it ever going to happen and it won't be delivered. it's been declared the whole project's been declared undelivered and the try and save the farce is to try and save money on a project that's ballooning from 32 billion to 160 billion in cost. they've cut chunks off. they've decided they can't go into the centre of london. so it's going to stop at old oak common. it can't go into the centre birmingham the centre of birmingham because that's so it's that's too expensive. so it's going to birmingham so going to birmingham airport. so you're a very you're going to have a very expensive line that goes expensive railway line that goes from london nearly from nearly london to nearly birmingham . do know anybody birmingham. do you know anybody who go fast from nearly birmingham. do you know anybody who to go fast from nearly birmingham. do you know anybody who to nearly fast from nearly birmingham. do you know anybody who to nearly birmingham?'ly birmingham. do you know anybody who to nearly birmingham? no, london to nearly birmingham? no, of gone to of course it would have gone to and gone nearly and it might have gone to nearly manchester. yeah. manchester. well, yeah.

>> well, yeah, exactly. yeah well, in manchester you well, nearly in manchester you get get get dropped off. yeah. get dropped in arndale but look dropped off in arndale but look there's a wider point here for me on this and i think it harks back to , if you'll forgive me, back to, if you'll forgive me, not necessarily including you in this all, but this at all, but, but the calibre politician, right, calibre of politician, right, which suella which is we've had suella braverman recently come and braverman recently come out and say the world afraid say that the world is too afraid of racist and of being called racist and illiberal to deal with the absolute disaster that is going to mass migration to be mass migration in the refugee finally had refugee crisis. we finally had a prime minister who's just about said a bit about net zero, not gone far enough in many people's minds, but world leaders who aren't capable of doing that from can gather. the from what i can gather. the second idea of hs2 second that the idea of hs2 reared its head realistically , reared its head realistically, people in the know knew that it wasn't goer, yet we've wasn't a goer, and yet we've ploughed ahead with anyway. ploughed ahead with it anyway. what's what's wrong with the politicians ? well i can only politicians? well i can only speak for myself. >> i opposed hs2 before the route was announced. before i found out it was going by my own house. i had already opposed it. i voted against it every time i could. for the last decade. i

spoke against it when boris johnson carried out his review in 2019, announced it was still going to go ahead. i was the only mp that stood up in the chamber and said, it's unloved, it's unwanted, it's grossly mismanaged. we can't afford it. and it's going to be an albatross country. albatross around the country. and government's and and the government's neck. and i think been vindicated , think i've been vindicated, quite but quite honestly, patrick but i think we should have a class action people who've been action of people who've been forced to sell their properties that never needed. now, that will never be needed. now, i will be cancelled i believe it will be cancelled north of birmingham and obviously i think people who were to sell their were forced to sell their property or businesses, they should on should have first refusal on buying back. buying them back. >> yeah, no, i agree. and i really to keep covering really do want to keep covering that with you. actually because that with you. actually because thatis that with you. actually because that is going to massive, that is going to be a massive, massive deal for people and something to going need something that is to going need someone to fight for it. andrew thank bridgen thank you. andrew bridgen there, of is one mp. very of course, who is one mp. very personal experience there with hs2. than 11,000 hs2. now more than 11,000 migrants have landed on the italian island of lampedusa, just over a week ago and the authorities are expecting another wave of boats from north africa to arrive in the next few

days. we are getting very concerning reports that a couple of boats today have gone missing. we'll live to missing. we'll go live to lampedusa very shortly. patrick christys gb news. is christys gb news. this is britain's news

back and relax at 11 am. on sundays on gb news with me, michael portillo . michael portillo. >> welcome back . 348 you're >> welcome back. 348 you're watching or listening to me patrick christys on gb news at four i will ask whether suella braverman is right to say that multiculturalism has failed.

what multiculture ? oralism? what is multiculture? oralism? we'll be discussing all of that, but at some news to but at some breaking news to bnng but at some breaking news to bring you in last few bring you in the last few minutes. people smugglers have adopted new tactics in their efforts to drop migrants on european beaches and gb news can reveal that six smuggling speedboats were used to drop hundreds of migrants along spain's coastline spain's andalusian coastline this week. let's cross now to the scene of another migrant catastrophe in lampedusa and speak to our home security editor, mark white, who has all of details on this breaking of the details on this breaking news. mark >> well, patrick, it is an indication of a new front that's opening up in the migrant crisis across the mediterranean and a new tactic that is being adopted by the people smugglers. hopefully we've got some video that we can show you of two of these criminal speedboats that smuggling speedboats that normally use to ferry drugs in across the mediterranean are now

being used to take hundreds of migrants across. now, locals watch out in horror, filming some of the scenes as these boats came to the beach near the city of almera, which is in andalusia in southern spain . andalusia in southern spain. they watched as the boats came ashore and hundreds of people that were on these boats jumped out onto the beaches and then they just disappeared from the beaches up into local streets. and as far as we know, none of those individuals have been arrested by the authorities . arrested by the authorities. there was another four similar people smuggling speedboats that landed about eight further down the to the coastline . and again, the to the coastline. and again, people seen disappearing off into the streets , into the local into the streets, into the local area as well. now, from those

other boats, four different speedboats that landed further down the coast, local police officials saying that they have arrested 80 illegal immigrants. however hundreds more have disappeared . and we're told by disappeared. and we're told by our sources , as patrick, that our sources, as patrick, that 5000 people have crossed in this route using this tactic , the route using this tactic, the speedboat tactic, just in the last few months. so as i say, it's fast becoming another significant front in this crisis to stop the illegal incursions into southern european countries . and spain, of course , around . and spain, of course, around elmira. but we know, of course, spain is already got a problem with migrants arriving on many of the spanish islands, including , of the spanish islands, including, of of the spanish islands, including , of course, the canary including, of course, the canary islands . well, this is a new islands. well, this is a new route . and in addition to that, route. and in addition to that, where i am in lampedusa in italy , this island and other italian islands, and on the italian

coast itself, there are migrant landings and then you go further east towards greece. and again, a very significant problem there . so no easy solution to this, but it seems to be increasing in number. there are record numbers that are that have crossed into the european union this year already. now look, absolutely. >> and as well , already. now look, absolutely. >> and as well, spain has a couple of enclaves in morocco. ceuta et cetera . so people just ceuta et cetera. so people just basically have to climb a fence in there into the european union. bizarrely, despite still technically being in africa. and the strait of gibraltar as well, you could practically swim across that. so, you know, a similar situation. if you've got a speedboat, you can pack it full of people and unquestionably some will unquestionably some people will get the situation where unquestionably some people will get are the situation where unquestionably some people will get are there. e situation where unquestionably some people will get are there. mark ation where unquestionably some people will get are there. mark atinthe/here you are there. mark at the moment, though, i understood there reports of there were some reports of a couple boats potentially couple of boats potentially going the med going missing in the med earlier. that right? earlier. is that right? >> yeah, that's a local ngo that

monitors these migrant boats as they leave the coast of north africa. these were two boats, according to this ngo that left according to this ngo that left a day ago from western libya around a benghazi area. one of these boats was carrying 145 people and the ngo was in contact with some of the passengers on this boat who had reported to the ngo that there was engine issues, engine trouble with that boat. then it went out of range. they've had no contact with the boat since a second boat carrying 90 people has also gone out of range and out of contact . so they have the out of contact. so they have the ngo contacted the italian coast guard with a view to trying to conduct a search for these boats i >> mark, thank you very much. mark white. there are home security editor in lampedusa , security editor in lampedusa, just filling you in as well on that that's being used to that tactic that's being used to drop more migrants in spain. drop more migrants off in spain. but a similar suella but on a similar note, suella braverman says that multiculturalism failed multiculturalism has failed in europe. today i'm going to be

europe. so today i'm going to be asking, is she right? and yes, i've got loads wonderful i've got loads of wonderful emails coming about what you emails coming in about what you think british culture is. what is this culture that we're is it this culture that we're trying to protect. will go to trying to protect. i will go to those when i come back. patrick christys gb britain's christys on gb news, britain's news . channel news. channel >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello again. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office . now storm agnes is met office. now storm agnes is set to continue to bring disruptive and potentially damaging winds to parts of the uk. now, this area of low pressure has moved north eastwards throughout this afternoon and will continue to bnng afternoon and will continue to bring the strongest winds up through the irish sea, affecting northern and western areas of the uk. there are wind warnings in force throughout this afternoon and overnight as well. the strongest winds over the next few hours are set to come in and affect eastern areas of northern ireland, as well as parts of cumbria, lancashire as

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it's 4 pm, it's patrick christys. >> it's gb news. now i'm going to be posing this question. how's multiculturalism failed? suella braverman certainly seems to think so. what is multiculturalism? i've been asking what do you asking you all day. what do you think? british culture some think? british culture is some

great i'll go great emails in there. i'll go to those shortly. very serious news though, because this news now, though, because this is the latest on fatal is the latest on the fatal stabbing old stabbing of a 15 year old schoolgirl in croydon. we will go to the scene very shortly with our reporter lisa hartle devastating news that. in other news, can't stop oil. no, that's right. new oil fields in the north sea. is it morally okay for us to drill for new oil? we'll be having a debate on that. and one more for you. yes. council look, there seems to be going bust left, right and centre poles aren't being fixed. local aren't run local services aren't being run . road names are being changed to be inclusive. but you to be all inclusive. but you know introduced a know what? they've introduced a series of absolutely crackpot cowboy things cowboy laws, including things like the exact specification of a hedge or whether or not you can wear a bikini in your back garden. probably good news. i think, for my neighbours. patrick christys . gb news won't patrick christys. gb news won't be walking out the bikini

anytime soon, but look at your views coming in. gb views and gbnews.com yeah. i'm asking you what you think british culture means because when we come back we're having a look at whether or not multiculturalism has failed. but right now it's your headlines. we're polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> patrick thank you. we begin this bulletin with some breaking news. i can tell you that gb news this company has suspended its presenter, dan wootton. it comes after comments made by presenter laurence fox during an interview last night. laurence fox has also been suspended. mr fox has also been suspended. mr fox made a series of remarks about ava evans, who's a political correspondent for the news website jo. in a statement, gb news said it will be issuing an apology to ms evans . that an apology to ms evans. that breaking news just into us now. in other news today, a 15 year old girl has died after being stabbed in croydon in south london. she was on her way to

school . emergency services were school. emergency services were called to wellesley road at around 830 this morning. one eyewitness describing seeing a bus driver and a passer by trying to resuscitate a teenage girl. she was a student at the old palace school for girls, a 17 year old boy has been arrested. police say he was known to the victim . in in other known to the victim. in in other news today, five labour mayors from across the country have met in leeds to urge the prime minister to stay on track with hs2. they warn that failure to deliver in full will leave swathes of the north with victorian infrastructure , which victorian infrastructure, which is unfit for purpose . rishi is unfit for purpose. rishi sunak faces a political backlash over reports he's considering axing the link between birmingham and manchester amid soaring costs . london mayor soaring costs. london mayor sadiq khan says there are huge benefits to hs2 . benefits to hs2. >> i'm really pleased to have been invited by the cross—party transport for north to their board meeting this morning. we may be mayors from different regions, but we speak with one voice when we say we don't want

cuts to high speed. two. we see the benefits of high speed. two in relation to economic growth, in relation to economic growth, in relation to increasing capacity, increasing connectivity and increasing speed. connectivity and increasing speed . and it means we can have speed. and it means we can have the same sort of transport links that france has that spain has, that france has that spain has, that germany has . that france has that spain has, that germany has. i'm that france has that spain has, that germany has . i'm worried that germany has. i'm worried that germany has. i'm worried that cutting high speed two will cause huge damage to london and the south—east >> the uk's largest untapped oil and gas field, rosebank in scotland, has been approved for development. that's despite a row over climate damage . row over climate damage. regulators say net zero consideration actions have been taken into account. scotland first minister humza yousaf says he's disappointed the project's been given the go ahead. the uk government has welcomed the decision, saying it will raise billions of pounds. decision, saying it will raise billions of pounds . the united billions of pounds. the united nafions billions of pounds. the united nations has rejected the home secretary's calls for international law on refugees to be changed. in a speech in washington yesterday, suella braverman suggested the un 1951

refugee convention needed updating. she argued, fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman shouldn't be enough to qualify for international refugee protection . in lucy refugee protection. in lucy frazer, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, says it does need a global solution . it does need a global solution. >> this is as the home secretary was saying, a global issue that needs a global solution. the un has stated that since that by the end of 2022 there are 108 million people displaced . so we, million people displaced. so we, as you will know, as a government are working very carefully to make sure that we stop the boats coming over here through international solutions i >> now, the uk's first drug consumption room , where users consumption room, where users can take illegal drugs under medical supervision , has been medical supervision, has been approved. the facility planned for glasgow's east end is backed by the scottish government as a way to tackle the country's drugs deaths crisis . the £2.3

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yellow. rain warnings are also in place when the storm hits. parts of scotland scheduled for around 9 pm. tonight. now whisky, thought to be the oldest in the world, will be sold at auction for £10,000 a bottle. all the expensive tipple was found hidden behind the doors of blair castle in scotland . around blair castle in scotland. around 40 bottles are believed to have been distilled almost 200 years ago. auctioneers say the bottles will likely have a more medicinal taste if you can bear to open one at that incredible price , your gb news across the price, your gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. this is britain's news channel . this is britain's news channel. >> well, come along . now we >> well, come along. now we start with the fallout from suella bravermans big speech on migrants, both legal and illegal. the home secretary told an audience in washington that

multiculturalism has failed multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate it. >> it has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it so they could be in the society party, but not of the society. and in extreme cases they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society. we are living with the consequence of that failure today . today. >> yeah, i just thought it was worth noting what the definition of multiculturalism is. so i'm just going to read it now from britannica. so, you know, it's good. multiculturalism seeks the inclusion of the views and contributors contribute was easy for me to say of diverse members of maintaining of society while maintaining respect their differences respect for their differences and withholding the demand for their assimilation into the dominant culture. that's the dictionary definition. literally

of multiculturalism throughout the course of this show, so far, i've been asking you to tell me what you think british culture is because i think that at the altar of multiculturalism for quite a while now, have been quite a while now, we have been told culture told that british culture doesn't that is doesn't exist or that it is something to actually be ashamed of. multiculturalism of. but has multiculturalism failed? now by failed? i'm joined now by political matthew political commentator matthew kwasi. very, kwasi. mayor, thank you very, very joining great very much forjoining me. great to the show. has it failed? >> yes. and you actually read the definition . it's quite the definition. it's quite interesting because unfortunately, there are two issues here. is that a lot issues here. one is that a lot of people involved this of people involved in this debate don't actually know the difference between multiculture , multiracialism. , oralism and multiracialism. and secondly, clearly, they're going after the messenger rather than the message because suella braverman right leaning. braverman is more right leaning. just a bit of a reminder to people watching this in 2011, the former prime minister, moderate prime minister apparently david cameron made the exact same speech about saying how the multiculture tourism has failed. just one sentence from it. he said, we have encouraged different

cultures to live separate lives apart from each other and apart from the mainstream. we failed to provide a vision, society and everything else. so it was okay when david cameron said it, but it's not okay when suella braverman says one issue that braverman says one issue is that obviously messaging , who's obviously the messaging, who's the but secondly, as the messenger? but secondly, as you matters you said, the definition matters because people say, well, what about suella braverman, her family or my tusi's mother, who was a political refugee from iran? respond saying , iran? and i respond by saying, well, the fact that suella braverman her family or even my mother have actually integrated and living here in a and are living here in a peaceful way, that's actually not success of not the success of multiculturalism, that's the success british culture, success of british culture, because they've united despite different races. they've united behind one common culture, the british culture. that's all we're talking about. this is not about racism. this is about promoting one unifying culture. >> yeah, exactly. and she spoke a lot about patriotism and national identity. and that's important. you can absorb a huge amount of people from different countries with different religious into one religious beliefs into one nafion

religious beliefs into one nation as long as they have a shared love of that nation. and we're not all splintering off and pushing and pulling each other in different directions and having fighting factions, often from other countries as we saw leicester, with elements saw in leicester, with elements of community, they're of a muslim community, they're fighting a hindu fighting elements of a hindu community on the streets of britain. and think, a britain. and that, i think, is a visible symbol of multiculturalism failing in this country at what point do you think that we have to put the onus on the people who do come to britain maybe sit more of to britain to maybe sit more of a national test, for example, or have basic requirements when it comes to language ? you know, comes to language? you know, should we be doing a bit more to force integration ? force integration? >> so that's actually an interesting question because the, for example, the liberal pro—eu supporters who are basically attacking suella and they love countries like germany, germany are very strict when it comes to making sure you know how to speak german before you become an economic migrant. so somehow the land of europhiles is actually more strict than us. but actually i

don't really think that having certain restrictions or basically tests is the perfect answer. i'm not saying don't do it, definitely try it anyway . it, definitely try it anyway. but the best thing to do is actually slow down the pace. you have to make sure at any point in any civilised country, the first generation, the rate of first generation, the rate of first generation, the rate of first generation migrants are lower than second, third and of course the natives right now the rate of first generation is going to high and it's not really us being bigoted . it's really us being bigoted. it's simply about the fact that the numbers too high. it's numbers are too high. it's difficult, naturally speaking , difficult, naturally speaking, to don't even to integrate. you don't even allow a time for the newcomers, even if they want to, to actually integrate because they're to be stuck in they're going to be stuck in their . their communities. >> yeah, absolutely. suella braverman a huge braverman rattled off a huge amount numbers , very amount of numbers, very important was important numbers when she was speaking speaking about speaking, she was speaking about 780 million people. potentially it classed as a it could be classed as a refugee. she was talking about needing along needing something along the lines of 213,000 odd new school places 2026. 1 in 5 children places by 2026. 1 in 5 children now being born to foreign mothers, 70 plus% of european union residents wanting tougher

external border control, 50% of americans thinking that there is an invasion at their southern border. these are all numbers. they are important numbers. but there is something i would argue more important, that is the more important, and that is the thing your heart and in your thing in your heart and in your bones, your culture bones, that is your culture and your pride. what is your national pride. what is worth do you think, worth protecting? do you think, maya, about about british culture. i'm sorry to put you on the spot a bit there, but it's an important question. yeah. >> yeah, it is very it's getting difficult to even start with it at this point because there's been from our been a neglect from our education just society been a neglect from our ed general just society been a neglect from our ed general to just society been a neglect from our ed general to even just society been a neglect from our ed general to even ask st society been a neglect from our ed general to even ask people ty in general to even ask people what is definition it, what is the definition of it, a british culture, how do you defend it? i would simplify it. and that culture and saying that british culture or is the or the anglo anglosphere is the current successful been current successful has been successful for successful warrior for post—roman empire. yes. brought the roman empire into it and it matters because the roman empire was the beginning of the civilisation that we have, despite all the ups and downs. and now the anglosphere turned it into this, the rule of law and everything else. but the fact that haven't actually fact that we haven't actually been promote it properly

been able to promote it properly , and then that's , positively, and then that's because we now have a lot of people on the nationalist side, the conservative side trying to go negative by basically criticising migration , rightly criticising migration, rightly so, but because we don't have a positive message anymore , a lot positive message anymore, a lot of people in the middle ground are saying, okay, if we're going to be rejecting mass migration, then what are we actually promoting? you're absolutely promoting? so you're absolutely spot to start spot on. we have to start actually the actually talking about the positivity well. yeah actually talking about the pos look, well. yeah actually talking about the pos look, i'm nell. yeah actually talking about the pos look, i'm just yeah actually talking about the pos look, i'm just going to actually talking about the poslook, i'm just going to read >> look, i'm just going to read an email out and i'll come to the emails again shortly, but this is from susan, right? so she british culture is she says, british culture is irony it's clotted irony and sarcasm. it's clotted cream, scones, fish and cream, jam and scones, fish and chips. sunday roast, it's chips. the sunday roast, it's complaining that it's hot complaining that it's too hot after of hot weather, after two days of hot weather, after two days of hot weather, after months of rain, it's finding the humour in a bad situation. sitting in your gardens a wine or a pimms gardens with a wine or a pimms and friends in the rain, she says, funeral of says, crying at the funeral of our not being ashamed our queen. not being ashamed of crying at it as well. it's our stiff upper lip combined with our affection for our pets. it's being british and no one else understands what it truly means for us. it's a shout for email

of that season. think of the day that season. i think so. you very, very much so. thank you very, very much for but may united for that. but may the united nafions for that. but may the united nations has out and just nations has come out and just swatted suella braverman away a load types had load of the media types had already pre—empted . he called already pre—empted. he called her homophobe racist her a homophobe and a racist before actually given before she'd actually given a speech, which i thought was interesting, but interesting, predictable, but interesting, predictable, but interesting is there a wider picture at play here? the cynic in me would say that if you break down any sense of national identity and you tell people that the personal identity that they then feel as well is something to be ashamed of . and something to be ashamed of. and you even break that down right the way through to maybe you are not even the gender that you were born out. you completely break the individual. break down the individual. well, it easy to it makes you very easy to control, doesn't yeah control, doesn't it? yeah >> also there is this >> yes. and also there is this mantra because of times in mantra because a lot of times in the establishment, mantra because a lot of times in the establishment , they say, the establishment, they say, well, we need in national problems, require international solutions . and usually countries solutions. and usually countries in a more isolated way, including hungary , have decided including hungary, have decided to previously go , okay, we're to previously go, okay, we're going to look after our own borders or and we're not

borders or we're and we're not going listen to the going to listen to the international community. and they got criticised for the first time. the british first time. we have the british home let's home secretary saying, let's come an international come up with an international solution. don't solution. they don't want to listen makes me also listen and again, makes me also think the whole i'll not i think then the whole i'll not i don't want use the word don't want to use the word agenda, know what agenda, but we know exactly what we mean by the mindset, the globalised mindset is globalised mindset that this is the new generation, the even the millennial generation are now basically grown ups. they are now the political now in the political establishment and corporations. these all have a certain these people all have a certain worldview and they don't want to be questioned . they genuinely be questioned. they genuinely believe that everybody that they see in the cities like london or new york, they liberal, cosmopolitan foreigners essentially , they are they essentially, they are they representative of every foreigner. but in reality you're just hanging out with the middle class, french or middle class, german. do you really want to go and live in a village in hungary ? no, you don't. these people are also hypocrites . are also hypocrites. >> we do have to ask >> basically, we do have to ask ourselves what kind of country we want to live in. i think that's what suella braverman was

really hammer on really trying to hammer home. on reflection , it was overly reflection, it was always overly ambitious and on a hiding to nothing to expect an international global organisation like the united nafions organisation like the united nations suddenly start caring nations to suddenly start caring about the nation state, which is actually what she wanted about the nation state, which is actuaito what she wanted about the nation state, which is actuaito she hat she wanted about the nation state, which is actuaito she hat she them d about the nation state, which is actuaito she hat she them to them to do. she wanted them to say, actually, yes, borders are a that are worth a thing that are worth protecting individual countries a thing that are worth protnprotect. dividual countries a thing that are worth protnprotect. yeah, al countries a thing that are worth protn protect. yeah, you're1tries will protect. yeah, you're talking called the talking to this thing called the united nations and their refugees policy, which incorporates whole world. so incorporates the whole world. so on reflection, probably a little bit ambitious to expect bit ambitious for us to expect them do anything about it. them to do anything about it. but fact they didn't but the fact is they didn't anyway. may i can i ask you a slightly personal question? because suella braverman because i think suella braverman is exactly now. is facing exactly this now. she is facing exactly this now. she is an ethnic she is is an ethnic minority. she is the of immigrants and the daughter of immigrants and she is now facing and has faced and will always face a pushback from people who ethnic minorities themselves , who minorities themselves, who expect to her have to have a certain view on it. and call her very foul names, which i will not repeat racist names as a result of having the views that she does. why is that? why does

that happen ? that happen? >> it's i believe that obviously there are a few actual toxic people who are ironically actually being racist, left wing racist. but the rest of them, i think psychology, basically people on the so—called liberal side who get angry at me , for side who get angry at me, for example, on twitter and called me a race traitor or whatever, i think they just get frustrated and confused that someone who looks me is saying these looks like me is saying these things. and a first things. and i've got a first name, a surname that is not really a anglosphere name. and they get they are confused , they get they are so confused, used frustrated because used and frustrated because they've taken everything for granted. everything over the last decades. comes last few decades. when it comes to the doctrine of what we call liberalism or leftism in the west, it has not been challenged. so they just assume everything is what they've been told since they were kids from the climate alarmism to these sort of issues, social issues. so now they're not just being challenged by people who look like tommy robinson. they're now being who being challenged by people who look me or priti patel or look like me or priti patel or suella braverman. so at best they're confused at worst, they

were always going be nasty were always going to be nasty people. they happened to people. they just happened to become wing rather become more left wing rather than right wing. >> man thank very much. >> man thank you very much. really great really fascinating stuff. great to have you on. mahyar tousi their political commentator to have you on. mahyar tousi theiimore.ical commentator to have you on. mahyar tousi theiimore emailwmmentator to have you on. mahyar tousi theiimore email for1entator to have you on. mahyar tousi theiimore email for youator to have you on. mahyar tousi theiimore email for you quickly one more email for you quickly here. part of being here. an important part of being british celebrating british is celebrating christmas, day. christmas, easter poppy day. they day, whatever they say memorial day, whatever you call it. i suppose you want to call it. i suppose these been significantly these have been significantly played the last few played down over the last few years for fear of upsetting people from other cultures. yeah, get are unifying yeah, i get those are unifying things nationhood , aren't things about nationhood, aren't they? are we losing those? they? and are we losing those? but your views coming but yes, i get your views coming in continually. what in continually. now about what you culture you think british culture actually really is in light of the comments doing the rounds at the comments doing the rounds at the about the moment about multiculturalism, failed multiculturalism, having failed anyway , more on this story on anyway, more on this story on our gb news dot com is our website gb news dot com is the fastest growing national news the country. news site in the country. all the analysis, opinion the best analysis, big opinion and the latest breaking news. but now much shift but now very much a shift in tone. news tone. incredibly serious news stories to bring you now. a 15 year old girl has died after she was in south london this was stabbed in south london this morning. police morning. metropolitan police have boy who have said a 17 year old boy who knew victim has been

knew the victim has been arrested. we're to going go now to croydon, where incident to croydon, where this incident took speak to our took place and speak to our london lisa hartle, london reporter lisa hartle, who has latest. lisa hello. has the latest. lisa hello. >> yes, well , as we say, that >> yes, well, as we say, that that girl lost her life after she was stabbed at half past eight this morning here in croydon by a busy road during rush hour . so if i just step out rush hour. so if i just step out of the way, you can see that the forensic teams are currently examining the area, which is cordoned off. this double decker bus is also in the area. also being investigated by the forensic teams. so the girl was on her way to school when the attack happened. police and paramedics were called , but the paramedics were called, but the teenager died at the scene less than an hour later. shortly after this, at 945 of 17 year old boy was arrested in new addington , which is just under addington, which is just under five miles away from where we are now. that was in connection with the stabbing. police say they believe that he may have been known to the victim and police say they aren't looking for else in connection for anyone else in connection with this incident. a witness

has described seeing a bus driver and another woman trying to save the girl on the pavement, performing cpr before the paramedic arrived this morning. now, the school that she attended, it was a private school called old palace of john whitgift school. in a statement , they said, we're deeply shocked by the senseless and tragic of our much loved tragic death of our much loved and friend and pupil. it and valued friend and pupil. it will take some time for the school community come to school to community come to terms with this terrible news and offer support to our and will offer support to our pupils. really pupils. now, this has really shocked community, shocked the community, understandably. to two understandably. i spoke to two people live here earlier and people who live here earlier and this is what they had to say. >> feel we are in shock . i >> we feel we are in shock. i feel in shock since i heard the news this morning. i just heard about about an hour after it happened.so about about an hour after it happened. so when i when the news broke that a young girl of 15 was just killed here on her way to school, it was a very shocking thing to all of us. we feel all we are all in shock and in pain. and yeah , okay. in pain. and yeah, okay. >> for me, life is always sacred

and precious. so when there is a loss of a blood , it's always a loss of a blood, it's always a traumatic experience . so since traumatic experience. so since we had the news, i think about two hours, was it not about 12 hours ago? yeah. yeah, it has. it has been shocking . that is it has been shocking. that is why we say let us through and know what is happening to see the impact on the society . yeah the impact on the society. yeah >> chief superintendent andy britton of the met police has said this is every parent's worst nightmare. and i know the officers who responded this morning along with our emergency service colleagues, are devastated at the victim's death. our thoughts are with the victim's at this victim's family at this incredible , incredibly difficult incredible, incredibly difficult time. obviously, the time. now obviously, the investigation is going to continue forensic continue here with the forensic officers looking more at what's what's going behind us. but what's going on behind us. but the police are urging anyone who had any information witnessed had any information or witnessed what to what happened this morning to contact them. lisa thank you, lisa hartle. >> there are london reporter absolutely devastated news. i've

got some breaking news to bring you now, though. the national crime agency officers have arrested a suspected people smuggler as part of an investigation into the death of a female migrant on a beach near calais. the eritrean woman is thought to have slipped and fallen into the water while trying to get into a migrant boat.in trying to get into a migrant boat. in the early hours of yesterday morning, a 21 year old sudanese national was arrested today in dover on suspicion of illegal entry and facilitating illegal entry and facilitating illegal immigration. i'll just clarify that again for you. one more time, which is that the national crime agency officers have arrested a suspected people smuggler as part of an investigation into the death of a female migrant on a beach near calais. the eritrean woman is thought and thought to have slipped and fallen into water whilst fallen into the water whilst trying on to migrant trying to get on to a migrant boat. individual arrested is trying to get on to a migrant bn21.. individual arrested is trying to get on to a migrant bn21 year individual arrested is trying to get on to a migrant bn21 year oldiividual arrested is trying to get on to a migrant bn21 year old sudanese'ested is trying to get on to a migrant bn21 year old sudanese national a 21 year old sudanese national who in and has been who was in dover and has been arrested on suspicion of illegal entry and facilitating illegal immigration. more on that as we get now has starmer get it. now has keir starmer actually agreed a secret deal

with emmanuel macron? hey, look, that's what one labour mp appeared to tell me yesterday on this very show. but hang on, isn't that illegal? can it really be true? and crucially, is this the full story? i want some answers here. patrick christys gb news, britain's news channel

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the news that a huge untapped oil off the of oil field off the coast of scotland has been given the go ahead. rishi sunak has welcomed the apparently the decision, but apparently some quote , some people think it's quote, morally obscene. having morally obscene. we'll be having a but i spoke a chat about that. but i spoke to the labour mp khalid mahmood yesterday about suella braverman comments both our comments regarding both our border and asylum policy. now, dunng border and asylum policy. now, during the interview he claimed that the labour leader, sir keir starmer , had made some starmer, had made some provisional agreements with emmanuel macron. let's take it away . away. >> has been across to france, has struck some deals and is going to work through that. he's going to work through that. he's going to work through that. he's going to put proper resources in to deal with this. our own border force patrols it along with the special units immigration units. to look at this, we've got to put proper resources to deal with what are the what are the deals keir starmer struck you? >> what are the sorry >> what are the deals? sorry what are the deals that keir starmer just he's just spoken. >> he's just spoken. he's just spoken president cameron spoken to president cameron about how deal about looking at how we'll deal with he's got some good with this and he's got some good response him. what is

response from him. and what is he to do when he comes he going to do when he comes into power? he will put those into power? he will put those into place. he's somebody who understands the law. he's somebody understands to somebody who understands how to deal issues deal with these issues structurally. not structurally. and he's not somebody who blusters well i >> well, i'm joined now by the barrister and writer stephen barrett. stephen thank you very, very much . what kind of mahmood very much. what kind of mahmood went on to say , which i think went on to say, which i think was probably more relevant actually, was i said to him, have struck a secret deal have you struck a secret deal with macron ? and he with emmanuel macron? and he said he appeared to say yes. and would that be legal? >> well, i think the first thing to say is that this highlights your ability to spot the important bits of the story because you did flag this up. and the minute i heard it, you know, i was very shocked to hear it. he claims that a deal is done now constitutionally, that it is at best extremely curious because as it is the role of the

government to negotiate with foreign powers, it's not the role of the opposition to negotiate with foreign powers. we have this with the scottish government, which also seems to behave quite oddly with foreign powers and steps outside the limits of what it can do . we are limits of what it can do. we are in a period of general confusion over the constitution . i think over the constitution. i think that's becoming clearer and that's becoming clearer and that's why i've got quite so much time on air. it's why i'm sort of needed because these issues are constantly coming up. but the most important word in the naming of the opposition is that they are his majesty's loyal opposition. and it is this loyal opposition. and it is this loyal to go behind the back of a government and to negotiate a deal with the foreign power and that's an absolute fundamental of the constitution. now, inside the eu, where we very largely give sort of foreign policy , we give sort of foreign policy, we agree to do it mutually with the eu. so there's going to be more

of a discussion and more or less power to a government. so it's perfectly natural that the governments might become less used to power and singular control over all of this. but they have or they ought to have total singular control. it is not for the opposition , whether not for the opposition, whether that be a labour opposition or a conservative opposition. the liberal democrats or the green party to wander over and talk to mongolia . it is it is for the mongolia. it is it is for the government of the day to conduct foreign policy in his majesty's name . and so that it is a very name. and so that it is a very shocking thing. if this has happened and what is extremely cunous happened and what is extremely curious is that it came out in a brand saying it's not not merely that they don't know that they're doing something wrong , they're doing something wrong, it's that they're proud that they're doing something wrong and actually, it's very similar to something else that's happening inside the eu where the eu commission president has just seemed she's just picked a side in the polish national

election. now that is that is completely outrageous . and completely outrageous. and again, we need to go back to a system of rules . othennise system of rules. othennise everything is going to fall into complete chaos. but his majesty's loyal opposition should not be negotiating deals secretly with foreign powers. and i find it amazing saying that that needs to be said . you that that needs to be said. you know, it's we fooled ourselves that concepts like treason don't exist . but that's what that's exist. but that's what that's what we'll get very close to if this sort of nonsense carries on. and there have been very considerable questions about the behaviour of the civil service recently and this is a very serious question about the behaviour of the opposition. i think you you would do well as a journalist, depressed labour to respond on this because what has been going on well, what is it now? the in question he did sorry to catch you. >> no, go on, go finish. finish your point. yeah. >> well he he did make a >> well well he he did make a mistake. well he made a mistake later, he got flustered and later, so he got flustered and he called emmanuel macron .

he called emmanuel macron. president so he . president cameron. yeah. so he. it's he was just making it's possible he was just making mistakes . it's possible it was mistakes. it's possible it was an empty brag by an mp who just wanted to make his boss look more impressive. the end more impressive. but at the end of we don't really need of the day, we don't really need to we need to to focus on that. we need to find foreign governments find out if foreign governments are talking to opposition parties and making secret deals with them. and that's that's a very big they've not been elected. they're not not a government in waiting. they are they are to be his majesty's loyal opposition. this is it. it needs to be clarified. >> this is it. look, stephen, thank you very much. i just wanted you your legal wanted to get you on your legal expertise short and sweet, expertise a bit short and sweet, but it's great. great to have your legal expertise your kind of legal expertise there stephen barrett there on that. stephen barrett there a barrister, friend there is a barrister, a friend of a friend of the of the show, a friend of the channel we did press labour on this for all the obvious reasons, the labour has reasons, so the labour party has said that there's no such said to us that there's no such deal and there's what sir deal and there's issued what sir keir his official keir starmer his official response his meeting keir starmer his official resp(macron. his meeting keir starmer his official resp(macron. right.1is meeting keir starmer his official resp(macron. right. so meeting keir starmer his official resp(macron. right. so they've| with macron. right. so they've literally no such literally said there's no such deal literally said there's no such deal, despite what khalid mahmood said, that he appeared to was a deal. to say that there was a deal. they've said, don't

they've said, no, no, don't worry. they've reissued worry. and they've just reissued the they made the statement that they made after macron. we had after meeting macron. we had a very constructive and positive meeting, as can meeting, which, as you can imagine, a wide range of imagine, covered a wide range of issues. a very political issues. we had a very political discussion covering a lot of issues with global issues to do with global politics, but also it was that opportunity to look at future prosperity, future security , prosperity, future security, some of the most pressing issues on my mind, on the president's mind . interesting stuff . this as mind. interesting stuff. this as to whether or not they of course they deny it or don't they? but anyway, loads more still to come between now and five environmental campaigners are furious after a huge new oil field was approved for development. to development. we're going to debate it's the debate whether or not it's the right but right now, right decision. but right now, as headlines with polly . as your headlines with polly. patrick thank you. >> a 15 year old girl has died after being stabbed in croydon in south london. she was on her way to school. emergency services were called to wellesley road at around 830 this morning. one eyewitness described seeing a bus driver

and a passer by trying to resuscitate a teenage girl. a teenage boy has been arrested . teenage boy has been arrested. police say he was known to the victim in other news today, five labour mayors from across the country have met in leeds to urge the prime minister to stay on track with hs2. they warn that failure to deliver in full will leave swathes of the north with victorian infrastructure unfit for purpose. rishi sunak faces a political backlash over reports he's considering axing the link between birmingham and manchester amid soaring costs . manchester amid soaring costs. within the last hour , this within the last hour, this company, gb news, has suspended presenter dan wootton. it comes after comments made by lawrence fox during an interview. laurence fox has also been suspended. mr fox had made a series of remarks about the journalist ava evans . she's a journalist ava evans. she's a political correspondent for the news website jo. in a statement , gb news said it will be issuing an apology to ms evans . issuing an apology to ms evans. more on all those stories by

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on. on. gb news. >> rishi sunak has welcomed the decision to develop the uk's biggest untapped oil field. but environmental campaigners , well, environmental campaigners, well, they're predictably furious, aren't they? the rosebank oil field is 80 miles off the coast of shetland. it's said to contain up to 350 million barrels of oil. green party mp caroline lucas says today's news is morally obscene and her party has described it as a climate crime . so was has described it as a climate crime. so was giving has described it as a climate crime . so was giving approval to crime. so was giving approval to the rosebank project the right decision ? to debate this, i am decision? to debate this, i am joined by senior meteorologist at british weather services, jim dale and the director of the global warming policy foundation , benny benny, thank you very much. both of you. benny, i'll start with you and morally start with you and is it morally obscene ? obscene? >> well, i wouldn't use that kind of language in it's a it's a decision of political realism . it's clear that the uk will

need oil and gas for decades to come . even the climate change come. even the climate change committee has acknowledged that much. so the only question is whether we use domestic oil and gas or whether we import it from other parts of the world. and there is a more general rollback of a lot of net zero utopian plants in play. we've seen in rishi sunak rolling back, delaying a few net zero targets and plans already and this doesn't surprise anyone that was on the cards for some time. so it's not really surprising. and as we go into winter and energy pnces as we go into winter and energy prices are likely to rise again and people will be asking, why are we not using more of our domestic well , exactly, exactly. domestic well, exactly, exactly. >> and we talk about things being being morally obscene , being being morally obscene, jim. you know, look, i would argue maybe it's morally obscene to just keep importing all of this stuff from overseas and

hold the british public to ransom if there's a if there's a massive emergency in america, we might might be a might be screwed. it might be a problem for us to keep relying on things like saudi oil. problem for us to keep relying on things like saudi oil . and on things like saudi oil. and obviously, we've seen what's been on in ukraine, is it been going on in ukraine, is it not, actually the morally the right to do, to have our right thing to do, to have our own security by drilling for our own security by drilling for our own yeah i take your own stuff? yeah i take your point, patrick. >> argument and >> and there is an argument and a be had, which we're a debate to be had, which we're partly having. i'm a meteorologist. you've me partly having. i'm a mesomeogist. you've me partly having. i'm a me someogist. now ve me partly having. i'm a mesomeogist. now .e me partly having. i'm a mesomeogist. now . you me partly having. i'm a mesomeogist. now . you know1e for some time now. you know where stand this . see, where i stand on this. see, i don't necessarily look at this as a as a from an economic point of view. i know the economy has to be taken into into into factored into the equation , factored into the equation, that's for sure. but i look at other things as a meteorologist talking to climatologists, looking around the world, and even now in the last couple of days, looking at all three major landmasses in the southern hemisphere, breaking breaking heat records, much as much , much heat records, much as much, much the same happened in the summertime in the northern hemisphere. that's my focus. and what this does, this is another

decision by the prime minister to roll backwards as far as trying to trying to fix that, if you like, into the future here. so to me, this you like, into the future here. soto me, this is as a wholly negative move . it's not one that negative move. it's not one that will help with the legally binding net zero commitment that this government has made . and this government has made. and now once again, rowing backwards on it. so, you know , how does on it. so, you know, how does that help this situation ? i do that help this situation? i do not know. and when we come to economic versus climate catastrophe , liz, i know which catastrophe, liz, i know which one comes out on top as far as i'm concerned. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> what about you, betty? i mean , what jim is saying there is it's a wholly negative decision. i mean, is it wholly negative, do you think, because i would argue some of the positives are that we then be self sufficient? >> well, look , there is a huge >> well, look, there is a huge divide between people who are mainly focussed on the climate issue and people who are focussed on the economic and

social stability of countries around the world. if governments really believe that we're facing a climate emergency, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing. the british the british government isn't alone in rolling back net zero and we've seen the same in germany and france, in sweden, in italy , and france, in sweden, in italy, and never mind india and china, who are burning coal as if there is no tomorrow. so the reality is almost all governments in the world are not actually aslef opting or believing that we're in a climate emergency because they're not behaving as if we're in a climate emergency. >> it's an interesting point that benny, it's an interesting point, and will put that to point, and i will put that to you. know where you are you. jim, i know where you are on you know, you're a on this. you know, you're a meteorologist and get that. meteorologist and i get that. but took days, days or maybe but it took days, days or maybe even actually for emmanuel even days actually for emmanuel macron start echoing what macron to start echoing what rishi sunak said. it was almost like emmanuel was waiting like emmanuel macron was waiting for somebody else to stick their head above parapet. and then

head above the parapet. and then all of a sudden world leaders start going, well, actually, you know, a of climate know, there's a lot of climate alarms there. i mean, alarms out there. i mean, i would say they'd the ones would say they'd be the ones doing alarming, to be honest would say they'd be the ones doingyou. alarming, to be honest would say they'd be the ones doingyou. but'ming, to be honest would say they'd be the ones doingyou. but they|, to be honest would say they'd be the ones doingyou. but they say, be honest would say they'd be the ones doingyou. but they say, oh,ionest with you. but they say, oh, there's a lot of climate alarmism out there. so actually, you this going to you know, this is just going to be common theme, isn't be a common theme, isn't it? >> yeah, look, you're talking about politicians and politicians a bit of politicians have to do a bit of this juggling tumbling of our friends on radio. >> that was going to go in, um, and to me , as i say, i come from and to me, as i say, i come from 1—1 side of the equation and i look at the disasters going fonnard. >> and to be honest with you, not just myself, deloitte, the city firm , they say that if we city firm, they say that if we don't get hold of the climate change situation, the damage that will be done to the economies in the future will be infinitesimal. can we do both, jim? >> jim, just can we do both? can we simultaneously drill this whopping? great big oil field at the bottom of the north sea? right. and also to invest loads in green energy . and so we can in green energy. and so we can be self sufficient and we can also do things like offshore

netting and we can use solar and we can invest in wind farms. i mean, does it have to be one or the other? >> you know what? in the end is a realist in these things? probably arguably that will be the direction of travel, in the direction of travel, that in somehow there'll smudge somehow there'll be smudge lines on i just hope and on both sides. i just hope and you know suggest that the if we can ramp up the green energy side that thing those things that we've talked about in the past on many occasions then there'll be no need necessarily for these new fields . and i for these new oil fields. and i know one of one of the know one of the one of the political parties is saying this will last one, even will be the last one, even though given a green will be the last one, even thougto given a green will be the last one, even thougto this. given a green will be the last one, even thougto this. um,yen a green will be the last one, even thougto this. um, hopefullyn will be the last one, even thougto this. um, hopefully it light to this. um, hopefully it will be the last . but i stress will be the last. but i stress the green side of things. i stress the reasons why why that, you know, that it will destroy economies. >> i get it . economies. >> i get it. i get it. >> i get it. i get it. >> final, final word, benny, to you on this. i think it's interesting that labour's policy, as understand policy, as i understand it, unless changed, no new unless it's changed, is no new oil gas . unless it's changed, is no new oil gas. right. it oil and gas. right. but it doesn't they reverse this . doesn't mean they reverse this. so they'd probably be so actually, they'd probably be bang favour. and i think that bang in favour. and i think that is interesting. it reminds me a

little about happened little bit about what happened in political in australia when a political party turn the boats party decided to turn the boats back condemned it. back and everyone condemned it. but they came into but then when they came into power, they didn't reverse that policy policy policy because that policy already so was that already existed. so it was that was good thing. they'll was a good thing. so they'll reap of it. again, reap the benefits of it. again, i back to it, know, is i come back to it, you know, is it much of an emergency? it that much of an emergency? >> no, of course not. and labour will u—turn on this if it if push comes to shove and the energy deepens , labour energy crisis deepens, labour will throw the sink at it and will throw the sink at it and will of course go probably even for fracking if it has to save the economy. so no, no, there is no party that it will destroy the economy over the climate issue. the economy over the climate issue . well, it depends. issue. well, it depends. >> it depends . >> it depends. >> it depends. >> you know, if the if the labour party resorts into some kind of marxist mode , you know, kind of marxist mode, you know, you will own nothing and you will be you will be happy, maybe they will be happy for us all who knows? who knows? who knows? i am course, only joking. i'm i am of course, only joking. i'm of course, only joking. right. both thank you very much of course, only joking. right. blook, thank you very much of course, only joking. right. blook, great thank you very much of course, only joking. right. blook, great stuff.: you very much of course, only joking. right. blook, great stuff. that'sery much of course, only joking. right.

blook, great stuff. that's jim nuch . look, great stuff. that's jim dale there, senior meteorologist at british services. jim at british weather services. jim dale of dale and the director of the global foundation dale and the director of the gbernie foundation dale and the director of the gbernie pizer. foundation dale and the director of the gbernie pizer. right. foundation dale and the director of the gbernie pizer. right. okayindation dale and the director of the gbernie pizer. right. okay now,on , bernie pizer. right. okay now, this good story for you. this is a good story for you. okay bit of a bit of light relief. can st giles' are facing a backlash after their a backlash after using their powers people flying powers to ban people flying things like model aeroplanes and wearing a bikini in your own back garden. sammy just bought one as well. patrick christys gbd is britain's news

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>> gb news. >> gb news. >> welcome back. just fast approaching 10 to 5, you're watching or listening to me patrick christys on gb news. now at five, i'll get reaction to suella braverman that suella braverman claim that simply being gay shouldn't mean that you're granted asylum. guess ? yes, that's right. guess who? yes, that's right. self—appointed spokesperson for gay elton john has gay people. sir elton john has said that her comment risks further legitimising hate and violence . elton john has steamed violence. elton john has steamed in. now, given the state of the country economically and socially, you'd think that councils across the uk are focusing on getting vulnerable families to help that they need, but it appears they've got other priorities. have priorities. councils have instead been chalk instead been banning chalk drawings, flying a model aeroplane and would you believe it? in one case, a former model was banned from wearing a bikini in her own garden. i'm joined now by the political commentator peter barnes. peter, i'm sorry , peter barnes. peter, i'm sorry, but what on earth is going on with our councils? you and i will no longer be able to wear a bikini and go out and sunbathe

in our own back gardens? >> yeah, i mean, i think . i >> yeah, i mean, i think. i think my neighbours might be rather glad at that one. i won't lie, but this has been an lie, but no, this has been an indicative problem of local councils time. councils for quite some time. they think filled to the they think they're filled to the brim little bureaucrats brim of petty little bureaucrats who modicum of who have been given a modicum of power and they've just run rampant with it. what's really quite though, is quite insidious though, is actually they've to actually what they've used to kind bring in these measures, kind of bring in these measures, and as community and they're known as community protection notifications and notices. sorry. and the problem of them is they're completely just done by diktat. there is no kind of right of reply. you don't you don't get to challenge them. they're not even done by a court. they're done by a faceless bureaucrat within the council. that's that's the council. and that's that's the bit this find quite bit of this i find quite disturbing. there no time disturbing. there is no time limit them either. and they limit on them either. and they could roll and roll on could just roll on and roll on and very concerned about and i'm very concerned about particularly policing your behaviour in your home. and behaviour in your own home. and i'm sorry if you try and tell me what to do. good luck with that. >> yeah, but i mean, it is , to >> yeah, but i mean, it is, to be honest with you, i think it's ridiculous. i can understand if it's properly anti—social

behaviour you you've it's properly anti—social beh a 'iour you you've it's properly anti—social beha neighbour,nu you've it's properly anti—social beha neighbour,nu know,nu've got a neighbour, you know, deaung got a neighbour, you know, dealing out of their house dealing drugs out of their house or they're playing music or whatever in the morning, whatever time in the morning, stuff that, okay, stuff like that, fine, okay, cool. if you send cool. but you know, if you send a outside on a nice sunny a child outside on a nice sunny day and they a little bit of day and they do a little bit of a drawing on the pavement, a chalk drawing on the pavement, you know, the council turns you know, and the council turns up, would ask that up, i would politely ask that council, is council, how much in debt is this at the moment? how this council at the moment? how many polls have you filled in this when was the last this month? when was the last time bins out? you time you took the bins out? you know, of that rubbish that know, all of that rubbish that they should actually doing? they should actually be doing? shouldn't they be focusing on that? >> oh, 100. and let's look at councils across the councils right across the country. got birmingham country. we've got birmingham that's bust. country. we've got birmingham that's got, bust. country. we've got birmingham that's got, i bust. country. we've got birmingham that's got, i think bust. country. we've got birmingham that's got, i think there's. we've got, i think there's quite, a few really now, quite, quite a few really now, isn't and the fundamental isn't there? and the fundamental reality the reality is the priority and the focus delivering focus isn't on delivering quality services for local people. and until councils get back of back to that basic, that kind of basic foundation, this basic kind of foundation, this this kind of nonsense is going to continue. and find it to continue. and i find it interesting up actual interesting you bring up actual anti—social interesting you bring up actual anti—scampaigners, i think they many campaigners, i think they call them manifesto club, have really this, have gone on really raised this, have gone on to measures to argue that these measures kind social kind of diminish actual social antisocial behaviour. so, you know, crime on know, actually tackling crime on

the people care the streets that people care about when the councils the about when the councils and the police rest of it police and all the rest of it have to get involved in these petty little things because people how someone's people don't like how someone's behaving garden. behaving in their own garden. i think think it's think it's i think it's ridiculous and it's i do think it's terrible of time, it's a terrible waste of time, effort money. effort and money. >> it's a wider attack >> i think it's a wider attack on individualism as well. now, forgive me, i'm not just talking forgive me, i'm notjust talking about, the about, you know, the human beings, to a bikini beings, right, to wear a bikini in back garden here, in their own back garden here, you just little tiny you know, just little tiny little micromanagement of people's you know, the people's lives. you know, the exact specification of your hedge. not hedge. and again, we're not talking about, you know, a weeping willow looming, towering over neighbour's over your neighbour's conservatory over your neighbour's conserva darkness. the exact them in darkness. just the exact specifications of that. all these and that these little rules and laws that creep and creep into people's lives and stifle the individual. i find it deeply depressing, but it's great know, that there great to know, peter, that there are you out there are people like you out there who not have okay. who will not have it. okay. thank you very much. we're going to have going. but peter, to have to get going. but peter, always pleasure. my good man, always a pleasure. my good man, peter barnes, political peter barnes, our political commentator, a friend of the show braverman man show now suella braverman man has criticised for saying show now suella braverman man has simplyiticised for saying show now suella braverman man has simply being] for saying show now suella braverman man has simply being gay saying show now suella braverman man has simply being gay shouldn't that simply being gay shouldn't grant right to be given grant you the right to be given asylum the she right asylum in the uk. is she right for do you think, not?

for this? do you think, or not? she's accused of things she's been accused of things like homophobia . she's like rampant homophobia. she's also accused, of of also been accused, of course, of racism. been of racism. she's been accused of all simply by standing up all sorts, simply by standing up and she's and speaking out. but she's making broader point making a much broader point here, about society here, isn't she, about society and about culture in general . we and about culture in general. we want be a welcoming country, want to be a welcoming country, don't we are welcoming don't we? we are a welcoming country but are country here in britain. but are we taken for a ride? and we being taken for a ride? and throughout the course of this show, i have been asking you, what do think it means to be what do you think it means to be british british british and what is british culture? and i'm just going to have time now to whizz you over now a of the comments now to a couple of the comments that have been made here. communication be the communication seems to be the main block of humour. main block and sense of humour. that's gary, that's from gary. now, gary, there i think is alluding to the idea we need to have idea that we need to have a shared in order to be shared language in order to be a functional, cohesive society. and that being lost when it and is that being lost when it comes rapid headlong race comes to a rapid headlong race for multiculturalism , etcetera? for multiculturalism, etcetera? i wonder ? british people have a i wonder? british people have a certain way of communicating. we have great humour and we used to live safely and safety is something that keeps coming up time and time again. when i'm

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gb news. >> it's 5 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news. now suella braverman teed off at the international community yesterday. it's not gone down that well with everybody and some conservative mps are concerned have concerned that they might have lost votes from the lgbtq+ community. why? well, because

suella braverman said that just simply by being or indeed a simply by being gay or indeed a woman for what? worth, woman for what? it's worth, doesn't and doesn't automatically and shouldn't automatically qualify. you for asylum. do you agree with that? do you think that the tories might have now lost the gay vote ? in other news, very gay vote? in other news, very distressing news. this. yes, that's right. a 15 year old schoolgirl has been fatally stabbed in croydon. we're going to be going to the scene there and finding out the very latest. but we're also going to be having a wider conversation about knife crime in general. there a massive there appears to be a massive surge in knife crime, not just in london. we've got it hugely in london. we've got it hugely in the west midlands, massively in the west midlands, massively in manchester as well . areas in manchester as well. areas like liverpool right across the uk. what's going on and why are people carrying knives from a younger and younger age and what's happening societally to make them want to use them more as well . finally, we're going to as well. finally, we're going to be having a chat about this as well, though. migrant boats missing in the med. that's right. so a couple of migrant stories doing the rounds today. mark for us,

mark weiss in lampedusa for us, the island that has taken an absolute battering wake absolute battering in the wake of crisis, of the migrant crisis, supposedly migrant boats are supposedly two migrant boats are missing also in missing there, but also in spain, smugglers spain, people smugglers are using now to get using new tactics. now to get migrants onto land as quickly as possible . loads on this hour. possible. loads on this hour. stay tuned patrick christys . gb stay tuned patrick christys. gb news. yeah, i get those views coming in. vaiews@gbnews.com today. i've been asking you in relation what suella relation to what suella braverman what do braverman was saying. what do you british culture really you think british culture really is? know, she it's is? you know, she thinks it's worth protecting, what is worth protecting, but what is it? we british culture? it? do we have british culture? what mean to you? gb what does it mean to you? gb views at gb news. com. but right now it's your headlines. we polly middlehurst. >> patrick thank you. well the main stories this afternoon a 15 year old girl has died after being stabbed in croydon in south london. she was on her way to school. emergency services were called to wellesley road at around 8.30 this morning. one

eyewitness described seeing a bus driver and a passer by trying to resuscitate the teenage girl . she was a student teenage girl. she was a student at the old palace school for girls. a 17 year old boy has been arrested. police say he was known to the victim . in other known to the victim. in other news today, five labour mayors from across the country have met in leeds to urge the prime minister to stay on track with hs2. they warn that failure to deliver in full will leave swathes of the north with victorian rail infrastructure unfit for purpose. rishi sunak faces a political backlash over reports he's considering axing the section between birmingham and manchester amid soaring costs. london mayor sadiq khan says there are huge benefits to hs2 . hs2. >> i'm really pleased to have been invited by the cross—party for transport north to their board meeting this morning. we may be mayors from different regions, but we speak with one voice when we say we don't want cuts to high speed . two, we see

cuts to high speed. two, we see the benefits of high speed. two in relation to economic growth, in relation to economic growth, in relation to increasing capacity, increasing connectivity , increasing speed connectivity, increasing speed and it means we can have the same sort of transport links that france has, that spain has, that france has, that spain has, that germany has. i'm worried that germany has. i'm worried that cutting high speed two will cause huge damage to london and the south—east >> sadiq khan well, in the last houn >> sadiq khan well, in the last hour, this company gb news, has suspended its presenter, dan wootton. it comes after offensive comments were made by laurence fox during an interview on this channel last night. he made a series of derogatory remarks about the journalist ava evans, who's a political correspondent for the news website. joe laurence fox has also been suspended by gb news in a statement, gb news said it will be issuing a formal apology to ms evans . now, the uk's to ms evans. now, the uk's largest untapped oil and gas field , rosebank, in scotland, field, rosebank, in scotland, has been approved for development. that's despite a row over climate change.

regulators say net zero considerations have been taken into account. but scotland's first minister, humza yousaf yousaf, says he's disappointed the project's been given the go ahead. the project's been given the go ahead . the uk government has ahead. the uk government has welcomed the decision , saying it welcomed the decision, saying it will raise billions of pounds . will raise billions of pounds. the united nations has rejected the home secretary's calls for international law on refugee is to be changed in a speech in washington yesterday, suella braverman suggested the un 1951 refugee convention even needs updating . she argued, fearing updating. she argued, fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman shouldn't be enough to qualify for international refugee protection. lucy frazer , secretary of state for culture , media and sport, says it does need a global solution . need a global solution. >> it is as the home secretary was saying , a >> it is as the home secretary was saying, a global >> it is as the home secretary was saying , a global issue that was saying, a global issue that needs a global solutions. the un has stated that since that by 20 the end of 2022 , there are 108

the end of 2022, there are 108 million people will display taste. so we, as you will know, as a government are working very carefully to make sure that we stop the boats coming over here through international solutions i >> now, the uk's first drug consumption room , where users consumption room, where users can take illegal drugs under medical supervision, has been approved. the facility planned for glasgow's east end is backed by the scottish government as a way to tackle the country's drugs deaths crisis. the £2.3 million pilot will allow users to take their own illegal drugs in a hygienic environment, with medical staff on hand , domestic medical staff on hand, domestic abuse victims may have been exposed to their alleged abuser following several data breaches. families have had to be relocated after several organisations , including law organisations, including law firms , police and a government firms, police and a government department, mishandled victims. personal information, lack of staffing and relaxed practises are being blamed for the leaks.

the information commissioner's office is calling for stronger standards and stronger policies . now yellow weather warnings are in place for most of the uk from midday today as storm agnes, the first of the season, makes landfall across the uk. the coast is expected to be whipped by winds as high as 75 to 80 miles an hour. the royal national lifeboat institution is advising people to keep a safe distance from water and cliff edges as high waves pose a potential threat to life . two potential threat to life. two yellow rain warnings will also be in place in parts of scotland. the storm expected to be at its worst at around 9 pm. tonight. now whisky thought to be the oldest in the world, will be the oldest in the world, will be sold at auction for £10,000 a bottle . the tipple was found bottle. the tipple was found hidden behind doors of blair castle in scotland and around 40 bottles are believed to have been distilled almost 200 years ago. auctioneers say the bottles

are likely to have a slightly more medicinal than whisky taste if you can bear to open one at the price that's quoted . and the price that's quoted. and this is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news this is britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> what kind of country do you want to live in? what kind of society do you want to have? what do you want britain to be? suella braverman mentioned a lot of numbers in her speech yesterday. 780 million people could be classed as refugees , could be classed as refugees, about 213,000 new school places will need to be found to accommodate the amount of children by 2026. 1 in 5 children by 2026. 1 in 5 children are now born to foreign born mothers. 70 plus% of european union residents want tougher external border controls. 50% of americans think their southern border is being

invaded. £8 million a day is being spent on migrant hotels. about half of the crime in paris, she said, was supposedly attributable to migration. look these are numbers. they are important numbers . there's no these are numbers. they are imponaboutimbers . there's no these are numbers. they are imponabout that.�*s . there's no these are numbers. they are imponabout that. but'here's no these are numbers. they are impon about that. but they's no these are numbers. they are impon about that. but the most doubt about that. but the most important thing for me anyway, is culture, is culture and identity . and if we want to identity. and if we want to protect our values and our way of life, then have to control of life, then we have to control mass migration, both legal and illegal. we want to protect illegal. if we want to protect the legacy of our forefathers who went before us to preserve what for, what they what they fought for, what they suffered help create it, then suffered to help create it, then we need control our borders. we need to control our borders. suella said that suella herself said that a country that cannot protect its borders ceases to be a proper country . look, it's easy to make country. look, it's easy to make the financial and structural case controlling immigration case for controlling immigration and changing the un's definition of refugees. we haven't got enough gp appointments. there's a housing crisis, etcetera, etcetera. but the most important point is one that comes from point is the one that comes from the heart. i think , i think the heart. i think, and i think that's what suella braverman was trying make in your heart. do trying to make in your heart. do you to protect britain as you want to protect britain as you want to protect britain as

you the country you feel you see it, the country you feel it your bones, its it is in your bones, its history, its norms, culture? history, its norms, its culture? if the answer to that is yes, then we must get a grip of immigration, both legal and illegal. if you believe in national identity , shared national identity, shared patriotism, shared binding features , then you features of nationhood, then you have to want secure borders. no managed approach to societal influx. the un has despite sir ella's impassioned plea, rebutted her in the way that perhaps we should have expected any international global organisation will simply not be able to understand or will be unwilling to understand the passion that citizens feel for the preservation of their own nation. we are on a tipping point now in so many aspects of society at the moment, but you have to ask yourself this what kind of country is it that you want ? we have to be kind of country is it that you want? we have to be proud as brits don't we? but you can only be proud of what you know and increase hinckley when people look around them this look around them in this country, i don't think they recognise us, what they see. and i think time to get more

i think it's time to get more vocal about how really feel vocal about how you really feel . yeah, and that's what i'm asking you today. gb views gbnews.com. heck of a lot to unpack about not just what suella braverman said , but the suella braverman said, but the fallout on it as well. but if she's going to say things like multiculturalism has failed, i want to know for you what it is culturally be british. what culturally to be british. what is british culture? is what is british culture? diane's been on? our culture is 100 different things, such as integrity, art, integrity, dignity, art, theatre, humour , fairness, theatre, humour, fairness, tolerance, good manners. she goes on to country that has goes on to a country that has hundreds of clever people who change their lives for the good. that's diane warrington. that's diane in warrington. diane, much. diane, thank you very much. there's this. i want there's a lot like this. i want to know what it means to you. i think all too often we do live in a rapidly changing society. it's a huge melting of it's a huge melting pot of a society. often for the society. very often for the better, there's no doubt about that. happens too that. but if it all happens too fast, quickly, then you lose fast, too quickly, then you lose a sense of identity, don't you? and i think if you couple that with being told that, you know,

your bad and your national history is bad and wrong everything you've wrong and that everything you've done in some evil done is in some way evil and that's come from, then that's what you come from, then yeah. really trying yeah. what are we really trying to protect? vaiews@gbnews.com. what mean what does british culture mean to but suella braverman to you? but suella braverman also said yesterday that simply being gay should not be enough for an asylum seeker or migrant to get asylum in the uk. i mean, obviously the natural person to pipe “p obviously the natural person to pipe up on this is sir elton john and he did. he's weighed into the debate and criticised the home secretary. here's a little reminder of what our home secretary had say . secretary had to say. >> let me be clear. there are vast swathes of the world where it is extremely difficult to be gay or to be a woman , where gay or to be a woman, where individuals are being persecuted. it is right that we offer sanctuary , but we will not offer sanctuary, but we will not be able to sustain an asylum system if, in effect simply being gay or a woman or fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection . to qualify for protection. >> people have leapt on this. so

people in the media clearly had advanced sight of extracts of suella braverman speech. so before she even took to the stand in washington yesterday, the types were dishing it the usual types were dishing it out as homophobic . it's anti out as homophobic. it's anti gay. it's all of this. apparently conservative apparently the conservative party , elements of party themselves, elements of it, genuinely afraid now it, are genuinely afraid now that lost quotes. the that they've lost quotes. the gay over this, which i'm gay vote over this, which i'm not sure i believe the labour party latched to this and party latched on to this and yvette cooper said yesterday that what suella braverman essentially to do is not essentially wants to do is not offer place of sanctuary offer us a place of sanctuary for she used the example of people in uganda fleeing absolute persecution. i think from what we can gather there from what we can gather there from that clip that's obviously not what suella braverman is saying. i think she's just saying. i think she's just saying that simply by virtue of being gay or indeed a woman and wanting a better life than the one that may be on offer for you in your country, she that should not enough to qualify for not be enough to qualify for asylum. have to face asylum. you have to face genuine, person action. genuine, real person action. let's now to the italian let's cross now to the italian island of lampedusa , which is island of lampedusa, which is the first port of call for many

migrants who end up in the uk. i want to speak to our home security editor, mark white, who joins me now. mark, what is she really here it really getting at here when it comes to this idea that, well, if you're if you're gay, you can claim asylum? mean, is it easy claim asylum? i mean, is it easy to if you're to just claim asylum if you're gay a different country ? gay in a different country? >> well, it's certainly one of the reasons that you can give to officials is that you are are in need of asylum in a certain country is because you are being discriminated against or persecuted for your sexuality. but i think you're right. suella braverman was making a distinction between those who are genuinely being persecuted in the countries where being gay is still illegal, where being gay means you can still be jailed, where being gay can sometimes mean that you are the subject of capital punishment . subject of capital punishment. clearly, these people would be in need of sanctuary , would be in need of sanctuary, would be granted asylum . i don't think

granted asylum. i don't think suella braverman was at all indicating that these were the people that she was referring to. it was those who might come from countries where, yes, the culture and tradition in in that country is perhaps not as open as it is to say, you know, as western countries when it comes to sexuality or indeed sex if you're a woman. but that doesn't necessarily mean that you should be able to qualify for refuge status going fonnard in a period where a suella braverman anticipates that there are going to be many, many more people trying to seek a new life in the west to get away from us often a wretched situation at home. but western countries , i think she western countries, i think she is arguing just need to be a bit more clear—headed about this. there is only so much that they can do to help people from other

countries that may require their help and you know, there needs to be probably stricter criteria i think is what suella braverman was really trying to get at some people are pointing out that apparently only around 2% of asylum applications that are accepted are in relation to people who are claiming persecution on the basis of their sexual orientation . their sexual orientation. >> so if that is indeed the case, clearly that's quite a low number. think the concern number. i think the concern would wouldn't that would be, wouldn't it, that people would try to game the system? would imagine, system? it would be, i imagine, quite difficult to prove that you gay. and i don't you are not gay. and i don't think many people would feel particularly comfortable making somebody would somebody do that. it would be a weird thing. i'm not even sure how would go about that, but how you would go about that, but it's worth that there's it's worth noting that there's a bigger picture at play here, which are where you which is why you are where you are. mark in lampedusa at the moment and what is actually going on in terms the scale going on in terms of the scale of crisis over of the migrant crisis over there. essentially, why are you there. essentially, why are you there ? there? >> well, it's a very significant

migrant crisis . if you look at migrant crisis. if you look at italy, just as one country, see they have had 133,000 people who have come across the mediterranean and into lampedusa to other italian islands and onto the italian mainland. now, thatis onto the italian mainland. now, that is double the number who crossed last year , and they are crossed last year, and they are predicting the italian government that 200,000 at least will cross by the end of the yean will cross by the end of the year. now, that's 200,000 just for one european country. it's not just italy, though. for one european country. it's notjust italy, though. they for one european country. it's not just italy, though. they are also suffering a migrant crisis in greece and in spain. and we brought you a couple of hours back , some news of new tactics back, some news of new tactics and a new front opening up on the andalusian coast around the city of elmira , where these fast city of elmira, where these fast speedboats are coming. they're often used, of course, by the drug runners to take hashish over from morocco. and other drugs and to land them on spanish beaches. now their cargo

is people , hundreds of people , is people, hundreds of people, and 5000, in fact, in recent weeks who have come to the coastline of andalusia . and coastline of andalusia. and these speedboats , it's these speedboats, it's a different tactic now because we are used to seeing, of course , are used to seeing, of course, in the english channel these inflatables coming across. and that's it. they they get one journey. that's their journey . journey. that's their journey. absolutely. and the same with the boats that are crossing to lampedusa. these boats , rickety lampedusa. these boats, rickety old just get seized and old boats, just get seized and that's it. well, these speedboats, rigid inflatables very fast, are just zipping across from morocco in no time at all. they're coming from nador in morocco. and in very quick succession , they're across quick succession, they're across the med, they're dropping their occupants on these beaches around almera. and a bit further down the coast. and then they are zipping back to morocco without the authorities in spain being able to get a handle on it and get after them . and get after them. >> absolutely. mark, thank you

very, very much. mark white, their home security editor in lampedusa, abreast lampedusa, keeping you abreast of and also some of the situation and also some of the situation and also some of the situation and also some of the facts around how easy or othennise it actually is to claim virtue of claim asylum by virtue simply of being but joining me now is being gay. but joining me now is international human rights lawyer haig. david thank lawyer david haig. david thank you. great to have on the you. great to have you on the show. i mean, it show. look i mean, is it actually quite to say , i'm actually quite easy to say, i'm gay, give me asylum ? gay, give me asylum? >> well, i think i think it certainly is. and it's the how do you prove that if you're the home office, how do you prove someone is gay or or isn't? and someone is gay or or isn't? and so i think what you're seeing and certainly in the experience that i've had and, you know, i wrote an article this morning in the mail and, you know, the daily mail and, you know, ten years ago, my partner was from the middle east, went through process through the asylum process because genuinely because his life was genuinely at risk. so, you know, i've gone through it from a personal perspective and a professional one. and how do you prove you are gay and what you're finding and certainly i'm seeing in the home they that home office is they are that worried about or doing

worried about saying or doing the wrong thing. that is of quite easy to come into this country with the suggestion that effectively you are gay. can i ask david, sorry, sorry to interrupt, but i do think that's actually quite an important point want to be too point and i don't want to be too insensitive about this, it's insensitive about this, but it's worth raising the context of worth raising in the context of this right? this discussion, right? >> mean, i present >> i mean, if i did present myself home office and myself at the home office and say gay and i'm from a say i'm gay and i'm from a country like iran or somewhere and need asylum, mean, what and i need asylum, i mean, what kind do they for? kind of proof do they ask for? well i mean, certainly from, again, personal experience in the case when my partner applied for asylum, i was listed as the partner and i didn't even get one phone call to check, not one phone call. >> i'm living in england at >> and i'm living in england at the time. so that gives you an idea of my personal experience. and i can speak that. and i can i can speak from that. so know, no one checked so so you know, no one checked so that's obviously a big problem . yeah. >> yeah, yeah. well, well, it's ridiculous isn't ridiculous really, isn't it? i mean, but mean, even the wider mean, but i mean, even the wider point there mean, even if point there is, i mean, even if they had called you or, you know, if i was a single gay man, i mean, do they go about we i mean, how do they go about we can't strap to a lie detector

can't strap me to a lie detector test. give some truths test. i'll give me some truths here. and can they or, you know, whatever else they may they may well, do. would be well, indeed do. it would be a bit a ridiculous, bit of a ridiculous, a ridiculous thing. do you think that are gaming the that people are gaming the system mean, is this system then? i mean, is this a bigger issue than than many people believe? people would have us believe? they say, oh, well, only 2% of people apparently are people apparently who are granted it on granted asylum have it on grounds so what's granted asylum have it on gr01point? so what's granted asylum have it on gr01point? it's so what's granted asylum have it on gr01point? it's not so what's granted asylum have it on gr01point? it's not a so what's granted asylum have it on gr01point? it's not a big what's the point? it's not a big problem. is it a big issue? >> yeah, i think, you know, even if 1 or people if you've got 1 or 2 people coming to country that are coming to this country that are gaming system, they're gaming the system, they're taking the place of someone that genuinely our help and genuinely needs our help and protection. they're delaying that, that that asylum application. got application. we've already got a massive absolutely massive backlog. so absolutely it's problem. in it's a problem. you know, in terms mentioned, terms of the numbers mentioned, whether it's 2% less, less or more, you know, a problem. more, you know, it is a problem. and you it's that, and you know, it's one that, like earlier, that there like i said earlier, that there just not following up and checking on and i imagine with the you've got the backlog that you've got there, likely to less and less do that. so it's you know, it's a real it's a real worry and it's taking the protection away from people genuinely from people that genuinely need it. absolutely. spot >> yeah, absolutely. spot on there, i think is there, david and i think that is

a point, which is a really crucial point, which is that you know, for people that look, you know, for people who say, well, you know, this is some kind of anti—gay thing, i mean, think by mean, i don't think i mean, by definition, it's not supposed to be because trying be anti—gay because it's trying to aren't gay, to expose people who aren't gay, who, you know, are taking the place somebody who maybe is place of somebody who maybe is who asylum. so that who would need asylum. so that would that. but would be my take on that. but david, you. sorry, it's david, thank you. sorry, it's a bit short and sweet, but we've got to move on, i'm afraid. david international david haig there, international human rights look, he human rights lawyer. look, he gave his views, his gave his his views, his professional personal professional and personal experience professional and personal exayrience professional and personal exa bigger problem than many is a bigger problem than many people would you believe. people would have you believe. i keep coming back to that, though. think it is basically though. i think it is basically down if it's down to, isn't it, if it's taking place people who taking the place of people who genuinely and maybe genuinely need asylum and maybe this is a wider point as well. you coming across this is a wider point as well. you channel coming across this is a wider point as well. you channel and coming across this is a wider point as well. you channel and all ming across this is a wider point as well. you channel and all ofng across this is a wider point as well. you channel and all of that. ross this is a wider point as well. you channel and all of that. ifis the channel and all of that. if people are coming here who maybe are not genuine asylum seekers, is the place of is that not taking the place of people genuinely people who genuinely are and therefore spending money therefore we are spending money and and allocating and resources and allocating places? to people who and resources and allocating pla could to people who and resources and allocating pla could be. to people who and resources and allocating pla could be. we to people who and resources and allocating pla could be. we could eople who and resources and allocating placould be. we could bewle who and resources and allocating pla could be. we could be better: we could be. we could be better using that. your views are gbviews@gbnews.com and that overarching well. what gbviews@gbnews.com and that overaithing well. what gbviews@gbnews.com and that overait mean well. what gbviews@gbnews.com and that overait mean to well. what gbviews@gbnews.com and that overait mean to you well. what gbviews@gbnews.com and that overait mean to you to all. what gbviews@gbnews.com and that overait mean to you to be what does it mean to you to be british? what is a british

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discussing after a fatal i'm sorry after a schoolgirl was fatally stabbed in south london today , a former policeman will today, a former policeman will join me to discuss this. the knife crime epidemic as a whole. but before that, hs2. it's a it's a brewing rumbling scandal , isn't it? it appears to have been derailed, but a procession of northern mayors have been getting involved and saying that actually they think that the government should not scrap hs2. most notably andy burnham . so most notably andy burnham. so there's a simple but powerful message coming back from the northern mayors , but also the northern mayors, but also the mayor of london today who's with us to back to west minster and whitehall. >> and it's this don't pull the plug >> and it's this don't pull the plug on the north of england. stop thinking you can treat people here like second class citizens when it comes to transport. >> yeah , well, there we go. >> yeah, well, there we go. look, i've long subscribed to the view that we should be connecting the north of england and the east, etcetera, to itself better, as opposed to having a direct line that could get people out of there and into

london. but liam halligan joins us of course, our us now. he is of course, our economics and business editor with money don't kill off with on the money don't kill off the north essentially is what you say i think this is an open goal for the likes of andy burnham who to his credit, has been talking about hs2 for years andindeed been talking about hs2 for years and indeed for sadiq khan, the london mayor, getting in on the act and those other labour mayors, of course, look , this is mayors, of course, look, this is a fiasco. >> this high speed super train. it was meant to cost £30 billion when it was first conceived in 2010. the current estimate is more like 100, 110 billion. the bit from london to birmingham is being constructed. birmingham to manchester is probably going to be scrapped just as the tories head up to manchester for their annual conservative party conference. as the party faithful gather, the other part of it from birmingham to leeds through east midlands hub that was scrapped last year . so look, was scrapped last year. so look, hs2 only ever made sense to the

expense to the extent that high speed rail makes sense in a geographically small island. and a lot of people would say it doesn't, but it only really makes sense. you only get bang for your and it's all for your buck and it's all taxpayer if you do that. taxpayer money if you do that. birmingham manchester and birmingham to manchester and birmingham to manchester and birmingham to manchester and birmingham to leeds why birmingham to leeds branch. why why? because we've already got two railways from london to birmingham, right? euston to birmingham, right? euston to birmingham . you know, reasonable birmingham. you know, reasonable time, particularly if there's decent wifi you can work on the train and you can go from marylebone to west of marylebone just to the west of euston snow hill in euston to snow hill in birmingham. mean through the birmingham. i mean through the chiltern lines, don't need chiltern lines, we don't need another birmingham, another london to birmingham, train line unless it is part of a high speed link all the way up to manchester and also all the way to leeds. that's why way up to leeds. and that's why these rightly are kicking these mayors rightly are kicking up. well it's a choice that has to be made. >> now, do we plough ahead at great expense with a project that actually i think even the people who came up with thought probably wasn't necessarily the best idea to begin with? or do we it quits? we just call it quits? >> there is a huge amount >> look, there is a huge amount of vested interest here. what do

i mean by that? i mean the big engineering conglomerates who want very lucrative want these very, very lucrative , you know, nailed on public sector contracts. i'm talking about large and speculators who have bought a lot of acreage up and these lines, and down these lines, particularly around the proposed stations. they stand make stations. they stand to make huge amounts if hs2 huge amounts of money if hs2 goes ahead. but is it really the right thing for the country? a lot of people would say not. there's something called the sunk in economics . sunk cost fallacy in economics. poker players know it well. it's the idea. just because you've got a lot of money on on a hand, you don't keep following bad money with good money, you learn when to quit. and if we quit this , we're 20 million, 20 this, we're 20 million, 20 billion, 20,000 million, 30 billion, 20,000 million, 30 billion gone in the whole . billion, 20,000 million, 30 billion gone in the whole. can that work? that's been done be repurposed for another for something else. i'm not sure. what i do know is that if you end up just with london to birmingham, that would be the worst of all possible outcomes. so if the government is going to

go it simply has to press go ahead, it simply has to press on manchester this to on to manchester for this to make economic make any economic sense whatsoever . whatsoever. >> think there's something >> i think there's something coming want coming down the track, for want of which is of a better phrase, which is people have sold properties people who have sold properties or businesses as commercial property, they're going to be furious that they're going to be a loss. >> they're going to take the government to court. i mean, come on. if you've been if you've had your house code, you know, and you know the compensation scheme, i follow quite those cases when quite a few of those cases when making documentaries in a previous your house has previous life. if your house has been made compulsory purchase ordered by hs2 , i.e. by the ordered by hs2, i.e. by the government. and then the thing doesn't even happen and your life has been upended, then you may have some legal redress. you will had to signed will have had to have signed a settlement agreement . but still settlement agreement. but still these cases may be reopened. but more than that, patrick, there's something else going on here. there's a sense of loss because if you talk to genuine rail industry insiders who aren't being paid by hs2 , and there are being paid by hs2, and there are still some of them in the industry, they will say to you

for the ten, 20, £30 billion we've already spent, what could we've already spent, what could we have done on the railways? you know , you grew up in you know, you grew up in manchester, right? the castlefield corridor in manchester is a disgrace. it's near deansgate station. you know exactly the bridge. i mean, the whole of the network goes into one line in either direction , one line in either direction, right? it absolutely disrupts trains across the whole of the north—west of england, going up to scotland so many times. the department of transport has promised money to widen that castlefield corridor . there's castlefield corridor. there's another place near milton keynes called ledburn junction, another famous bottleneck . you can famous bottleneck. you can electrify trains in the north, 80% of which aren't electrified outrageously well, cumbria, as well as another one. >> so they're diesel. >> so they're diesel. >> they're they pull >> they're slow. they can't pull many carriages. it means they're infrequent. they can't accelerate they're accelerate away. they're overcrowded . ask anyone overcrowded. ask anyone commuting into manchester, liverpool, sheffield or leeds from those northern towns that surround those great cities. always crowded, often can't get on the train . what could you on the train. what could you have done with 20 or £30

billion? that is the real question. at issue. here it is. >> liam, thank you very, very much. liam halligan there our economics business editor. economics and business editor. look, to come look, still loads to come between now and 6:00 after a schoolgirl stabbed schoolgirl was fatally stabbed in london today, i will be in south london today, i will be taking a wider look the uk taking a wider look at the uk knife crime epidemic, especially facing the youth . but first, it facing the youth. but first, it is your latest headlines with polly middlehurst. is your latest headlines with polly middlehurst . and the top polly middlehurst. and the top story is that a 15 year old girl has died after being stabbed in croydon in south london. >> she was on her way to school. emergency services have been called to wellesley road at around 830 this morning. one eyewitness describing seeing a bus driver and a passer by trying to resuscitate a teenage girl. a teenage boy has been arrested . police say he was arrested. police say he was known to the victim. in other news today, five labour mayors from across the country have been meeting up in leeds to urge

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the so—called zombie knives, a move that rishi sunak said would help officers seize and destroy such weapons. i want to take a wider look at knife crime in the uk, not specifically in relation, of course, to this case, which is still very much is up in the air. but a wider look at how now younger people seem to be getting younger by the day, carrying knives and there seems to be more willing to use them as well. and what is going on there? i'm joined now by retired met police officer norman brennan. norman, i know you've got incredibly strong views, but clearly, especially given your capacity about given your former capacity about knife in general , and it knife crime in general, and it does appear to be getting worse. what do you think is behind that ? because it's not just the ability to get hold of a knife. it's the psychology of wanting to wanting to use one as well . to wanting to use one as well. >> well, i'm here under the head of protect the protectors and also knives destroy lives . two also knives destroy lives. two very important organisations and national organisations that give

a strong voice right now knives, knives , destroy lives. they knives, destroy lives. they truly do . they maim people. they truly do. they maim people. they disfigure people and they scare communities. too many parents are planning funerals rather than bright futures for their children. we've got 4000 gangs in britain , 200in london and in britain, 200in london and many of those are carrying knives . we have a ferret element knives. we have a ferret element within britain, not just london, within britain, notjust london, that have no fear. they have no value. they have no fear of anyone. they have no value of anything, including life . that anything, including life. that is why they have no concerns taking someone else's life and sometimes losing their own lives. it's a national epidemic and an epidemic that is out of control and this this recent thing by rishi sunak , i'm afraid thing by rishi sunak, i'm afraid it's just froth. nobody seems to

get to the substance. so how bad is knife crime ? i've just is knife crime? i've just explained if it was a patient, it would be on life support. nobody seems to have addressed it, nurtured the patient, isn't treated the patient and given it the love, care and attention that it needs . yeah it really is that it needs. yeah it really is an epidemic. >> but it seems to be it seems to be just getting gradually worse and worse and worse and it's not just a london thing. far from it. i mean, manchester's terrible for it. liverpool well. i mean, no liverpool is as well. i mean, no offence to the people of manchester or liverpool, it's just a i the just a fact. i mean the west midlands awful. mean midlands is awful. i mean lawless, west midlands has been a i've seen a headline that i've seen several times and with good reason. why do think though, reason. why do you think though, that youngsters are more inclined use these inclined to actually use these knives have always been used, knives have always been used, knives have always been available. it's that easy to just go and take one out your kitchen drawer. but, but we are seeing people who seeing now people who are younger younger younger

younger and younger and younger seeming to use them seeming more willing to use them and not just use them in a way of stabbing somebody the leg, of stabbing somebody in the leg, but, going for the but, you know, going for the kill it comes knife kill when it comes to knife crime as what is happening crime as well. what is happening there ? there? >> well, there are too many people that protect their turfs. you could be standing on the wrong side of the road or be driving cycling , walking through driving cycling, walking through the wrong part of town and to a rival gang that is shown as disrespect. and for that disrespect. and for that disrespect that you could be stabbed and you could lose your life . this afternoon, a 16 year life. this afternoon, a 16 year old was stabbed in birmingham. it probably won't hit the news. the reason why these youngsters carry the knives is for crime is to defend themselves . and it's to defend themselves. and it's a fashion accessory . very many fashion accessory. very many children now put a knife in their pocket as routinely as they do a mobile phone, and nobody over 30 years since i've been a lead campaigner on knife crime has actually got a grasp.

you know as well as i do. how many times does gb news cover a story where the home secretary or the government say there will be a crackdown? well, i am telling you, as an independent lead campaigner on knife crime, there has never been a crackdown on knife crime. do you know what we need to do? yeah go on. we need to listen. we need to listen to those parents. in all parts of britain , in london, parts of britain, in london, where i have policed , and i know where i have policed, and i know very well indeed there are parents, predominantly black, that are in mortuaries. there bereft. they throw themselves at family liaison officers. how many times have we heard on the television, please let my child be the last one. only for 2 or 3 weeks later for the same scenario, different parents. >> can i ask nothing on that note? because i think this is a really kind of vital point that we're getting to here, which is that we hear a lot about stop and searches, racist, stop and search is inherently bad. i it would not surprise me at all if

a police officer who was out on the beat was absolutely terrified of stopping and searching someone for the obvious reasons. but then we have, you know, an extortionate number of people under fortunately from ethnic minority communities involved in knife crime dying from knife crime. the parents of those people you mentioned, they're crying in mortuaries. so how do we marry up those two things between stop and search being seen as an inherently racist entity and the fact that loads of people from ethnic minority backgrounds are involved in dying from knife involved in or dying from knife crime . crime. >> let me cut to the >> okay, let me cut to the chase. how how can a police officer be racist if they've dealt with that family in a mortuary and that family has pleaded with them ? well no, pleaded with them? well no, we've lost norman. >> oh, well, look . okay. well, >> oh, well, look. okay. well, anyway, will return to normal in anyway, will return to normal in a minute or so. but that's norman brennan there. is he retired police retired metropolitan police officer. zoom out officer. i just want to zoom out a little bit really, and have a

look at the knife crime epidemic in country. is absolute in this country. it is absolute astonishing. if you go on google right and type in the right now and you type in the word stabbed knife and word stabbed or knife crime and it just bang, bang, bang, itjust goes bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and will be local bang, bang, and it will be local areas you a across areas and you pay a map across the country you realise how the country and you realise how utterly severe knife crime really in this country. and really is in this country. and i want try and get to the heart want to try and get to the heart of did life become so cheap of when did life become so cheap in britain, did it actually in britain, when did it actually become cheap? idea that become so cheap? the idea that you might carry a knife to seem hard mates. but hard in front of your mates. but then one thing to go and then it's one thing to go and use that and then it's another thing that to going to thing on top of that to going to use that way that you, you use that in a way that you, you know, will be fatal. aiming for the heart, for example, or the neck i just think neck or whatever. i just think that astonishing that it's astonishing really. and and search has and surely stop and search has to wheeled a lot more and to be wheeled out a lot more and police officers maybe have to feel protected their feel more protected by their superiors do as superiors in order to do it as well. gb views a gbnews.com. get those views coming in. in those views coming in. but in other keir starmer other news, has keir starmer agreed a secret migration deal with emmanuel that is with emmanuel macron? that is what mp appeared to what one labour mp appeared to tell me live on this show

yesterday. but hang on, that's illegal, isn't it? and crucially, is this a false story? yes. labour say it's not, but we will delve into it. patrick christys. gb news, britain's

fonnard from this. join us here on gb news, the people's . channel >> it is 548. you're watching or listening to me. patrick christys on gb news. now, i spoke to the labour mp khalid

mahmood yesterday about suella bravermans comments regarding both our border and our asylum policy. during the interview , he policy. during the interview, he claimed that the labour leader , claimed that the labour leader, sir keir starmer, had made some provisional agreements with emmanuel macron. i asked him whether or not the labour leader has struck a secret deal with the french president . the french president. >> has been across to france , >> has been across to france, has struck some deals and is going to work through that. he's going to work through that. he's going to work through that. he's going to put proper resources in to deal with this , our own to deal with this, our own border force patrolling it along with the special units, immigration units to look at this. we're going to put proper resources to deal with what are the what are the deals keir starmer struck? >> what are the deals? sorry what are the that keir what are the deals that keir starmer is just he's just spoken. >> he's just spoken. he's just spoken cameron spoken to president cameron about how we'll deal about looking at how we'll deal with got some good with this and he's got some good response him and what is he response from him and what is he going do when he comes into going to do when he comes into power? he will put those into place. somebody who place. here's somebody who understands the law. he's somebody who understands how to deal issues

deal with these issues structurally. and he's not somebody who just blusters well. structurally. and he's not some he's who just blusters well. structurally. and he's not some he's doing jst blusters well. structurally. and he's not some he's doing is. blusters well. structurally. and he's not some he's doing is he'ssters well. what he's doing is he's negotiated a deal him. he's negotiated a deal with him. he's talking him and once gets talking to him and once he gets into power, he will have further discussions. well, one of the key things is, is looking at joining forces, both with joining border forces, both with the french and our border force to control those to be able to control those people. the national crime agency more powers to agency having more powers to deal with these boats coming through investigating through and investigating people across into france and into europe and dealing with those people who are trafficking in these people . these people. >> joining me now is the french journalist nabila ramdani. nabila, thank you very much. great to have you on the show. and do you think it's possible that emmanuel macron may have struck some kind of secret deal with with keir starmer? if so, it's important to say labour labour are now backtracking. they're saying they're denying all of this. but if so, i mean, it would actually be be against the law. so do you think there's any chance that he's done this? >> well, i, i was in paris last

week . in fact, i'm still >> well, i, i was in paris last week. in fact, i'm still i'm still i'm in paris. when keir starmer came to pay a visit to president macron, it has to be said, first of all, that it was an official visit because keir starmer is the leader of the opposition and it's actually highly unusual for opposition politicians to get a one on one meeting with the president of france. and it was abundantly clear that brexit was at the top of the agenda during the discussions and therefore immigration and discussions were also certainly brought up , not also certainly brought up, not least of all because france and germany last week floated the idea of a blueprint for the expansion of the eu project . expansion of the eu project. now, of course, a significant part of that was getting ukraine into the eu , but there was an into the eu, but there was an awful lot of discussions about the idea of britain becoming some kind of associate member, which of course is the kind of weasel words for getting the uk back into the fold effectively

and slowly. >> can i just interject on this a bit because i really want to drill down on it because labour labour said we put this to laboun labour said we put this to labour, we said, have you struck a secret deal with emmanuel macron? have you? and they said, they no . so it's the they said no. so i mean it's the fact that it's not legal to fact is that it's not legal to do that if you're in opposition. so i'm not surprised they've said no. they then just said no. but they then just repeated a regurgitated statement oh, we statement that said, oh, we covered of stuff covered a load of stuff with emmanuel macron. genuinely emmanuel macron. is it genuinely the paris that the view in paris that potentially, potentially there was of secret was some kind of secret deal struck ? struck? >> yes , not least of all. >> yes, not least of all. >> yes, not least of all. >> because remember that president macron and keir starmer are very much on the same page when it comes to their view on the eu project. remember that macron called brexit a crime, for example, and there's clearly, you know, keir starmer, he came out, you know, he was a fervent opponent to brexit. and so there's clearly a meeting of minds between the two men now since brexit, keir starmer has

come out in favour of brexit because he clearly knows that he can't win a general election if he pledges to reverse it. but i can assure you that this hasn't stopped emmanuel macron, who is a very pragmatic and indeed strategic politician , to spot a strategic politician, to spot a possible city that if ever a keir starmer government was to win a general election next yean win a general election next year, then it would he will use that opportunity to reassert britain's position within the eu. now, of course it will infuriate brexiteers who already view sir keir as macron's poodle , effectively. now apparently we, the labour party, have said that there's no intention of putting britain back into the single market. but i'm not too convinced of that. i'm quite sure that if labour does come back to power next year, macron , who in some ways sees himself as the de facto leader of the eu, will be waiting gleefully. nabila this is really interesting stuff. >> i'll tell you what, this

isn't going to be the last time you and i have a conversation about this topic, i'm sure, and i really look fonnard to that day. thank you very, very much. it's ramdani. there a it's nabila ramdani. there is a french journalist. hey, got to get from paris this get the views from paris on this already. right reply already. the labour right reply so yesterday so i obviously yesterday outright a labour mp to outright asked a labour mp to clarify that i thought clarify something that i thought he said, you he said. i said, did are you saying keir starmer has saying that keir starmer has struck a secret deal with emmanuel he said yes, emmanuel macron? he said yes, right . so we emmanuel macron? he said yes, right. so we put it to emmanuel macron? he said yes, right . so we put it to labour. right. so we put it to labour. the labour says no the labour party says that no such deal has taken place and they've issued reissued sir keir starmer's official response to that meeting with macron . we had that meeting with macron. we had a very constructive and positive meeting which you can imagine covered a wide range of issues. we had a very political discussion covering a lot of issues with global issues to do with global politics, also it was an politics, but also it was an opportunity to look at the future prosperity, future security, most security, some of the most pressing on my mind and pressing issues on my mind and the president's mind. hey, interesting i tell you interesting stuff. i tell you what i mean. interesting stuff. i tell you whati mean. it interesting stuff. i tell you what i mean. it would be an absolute scandal, wouldn't it? as whether or keir as to whether or not keir starmer and emmanuel macron have

actually some kind of actually agreed some kind of deal actually agreed some kind of deal, it. deal, the labour party deny it. you've from paris there you've heard from paris there that be surprised. you've heard from paris there that french be surprised. you've heard from paris there that french journalists surprised. you've heard from paris there that french journalist look, 'ised. the french journalist look, thank very much, everybody thank you very much, everybody who's getting involved with who's been getting involved with the show so far. fascinating emails inbox. leave you emails in the inbox. i leave you in the very capable hands of michelle dewberry be michelle dewberry who will be following next hour following on for the next hour with dewbs& co. see you tomorrow at three. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news is . hello again. >> welcome to your latest weather update from the met office. now storm agnes is set to continue to bring disruptive and potentially damaging winds to parts of the uk. now, this area of low pressure has moved north eastwards throughout this afternoon and will continue to bnng afternoon and will continue to bring the strongest winds up through the irish sea, affecting northern and western areas of the uk. there are wind warnings in force throughout this afternoon and overnight as well . the strongest winds over the next are set to come next few hours are set to come in and affect eastern areas of northern ireland as well as parts of cumbria, lancashire as

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indeed hoax? or is it the start of a slippery slope? and over in greece, they are going to let undocumented migrants work here in this country. we've got a shedload of vacancies and more and more people off sick . what and more people off sick. what do you reckon then? should we should we be doing the same in the uk? getting those migrants to work and help boost the economy, get them out of the hotels, into the workforce ? you hotels, into the workforce? you tell me. and northern leaders they are not having any of it. >> we're just not going to lie down and accept the way whitehall has always treated the north of england. we are fighting back. >> it's fighting back. talk >> it's fighting back. they talk there scrapping there about scrapping potentially part of potentially the northern part of hs2. what do you think about that? are they letting the north down? is it time to scrap the whole what about northern whole thing? what about northern powerhouse three? do powerhouse rail three? do we need that in the north? give me all your thoughts . but first, all your thoughts. but first, let's grab tonight's latest headunes let's grab tonight's latest headlines as