or not. and it's all about the upstream, says our government as they explore giving millions of pounds to other countries to try and stop migration. i thought we were skin. where do we find all this money? and speaking of migration, by the way, do you remember the rwanda plan booted out by this government? well, thatis out by this government? well, that is now apparently being explored by donald trump. you literally couldn't make this up. and speaking of making stuff up, rachel reeves is coming under increased pressure re her online cv on linkedin. just what is the truth of her career and what, if any, should be a consequence, if indeed she has perhaps not told the truth ? and keeping me the truth? and keeping me company till 7:00, benedict spence, political commentator, and aaron bastani, the co—founder of novara media. but before we get stuck in, let's cross live to tonight's 6:00

news. >> thank you. michel. the time is just after 6:00. and these are your latest headlines with world leaders attending the 620 summit in brazil. the pm has also said ukraine is top of his agenda. this comes after president joe biden has given the green light to kyiv to use us. supplied long—range u.s. supplied long—range missiles to strike inside russia. president vladimir putin warned the west they would be throwing fuel on the fire if they allowed ukrainian forces to launch western supplied missiles at russia. this decision from mr biden seems to have been prompted by a move from north korea, in which they've sent thousands of troops to fight with russia earlier. shadow defence secretary james cartlidge said the move from the us president is justified . us president is justified. >> russia invaded ukraine wholly unprovoked, illegal invasion. a dictatorship invading a democracy. so it's been the right thing to do to not be

directly involved in ukraine, but to support them in whatever way we can in terms of providing munitions. that's helped ukraine to check their advance. but there's been a major development. we talk about escalation. imagine how the russians would feel if 10,000 nato troops were now in ukraine supporting them. the fact is, 10,000 north korean troops have been deployed into this battle. we understand the us state department, they've been injected directly into the fight with russia. that is a major strategic development. and i think in those circumstances, this decision is justified . this decision is justified. >> meanwhile , education >> meanwhile, education secretary bridget phillipson told 6b news earlier that the government are also committed to helping the ukrainian people. >> we stand steadfast behind the ukrainian people, behind the ukrainian people, behind the ukrainian government that was the case under the last conservative government and there was cross—party support in there was cross—party support in the face of russian aggression for the ukrainian people. we continue to maintain that position and as we enter almost a thousandth day of the

conflict, i think it really bnngs conflict, i think it really brings into sharp focus the sacrifices of the ukrainian people and the prime minister and the defence secretary. from our point of view, will always continue to keep under review what is necessary by way of military aid for the ukrainian people and the met office, says the uk is braced for disruptive snow, ice and cold temperatures over the coming days up to 20cm of snow may accumulate in the worst affected areas. >> in what's been described by the met office as the country's first taste of winter, today , first taste of winter, today, snow and frost have been recorded across parts of the yorkshire dales, as well as in certain areas of scotland, including at the coco gauff viewpoint in aberdeenshire. that's as an amber warning comes into force at 7 pm. this evening, covering the east and north of england, the midlands and yorkshire and the humber , and yorkshire and the humber, with yellow alerts coming into place for the south east, south west and london at 8 am. tomorrow. those are your latest 6b tomorrow. those are your latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophie reaper more from me in the next hour. >> for the very latest gb news

direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . .com forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much for that. i am michelle dewberry and i'm keeping you company until 7:00 tonight. i hope you are very well. what do you think when you hear about those potential snow warnings? do you sit there and think, yes, you'll have a little bit of snow? are you perhaps someone that thinks, oh gosh, this is my worst nightmare because it's all going to be suppy because it's all going to be slippy and dangerous? or couldn't you care less? tell me. look, keeping me company tonight. my panel. i've got benedict spence, a political commentator, alongside him. i've got aaron bastani, the co—founder of novara media. welcome, gents, to both of you. evening. so you can get in touch with me at home. all the usual ways. you're very welcome this evening. email gbviews@gbnews.com. go to the website which is gbnews.com/yoursay. of course you can tweet or x—men if you're on your way out. don't worry,

you can take me with you. put me on your radio dab+. what a treat for your ear lobes. but look, speaking of treats for your ear lobes, let's listen to keir starmer speaking out today. >> i've been clear that i want a serious and pragmatic relationship with china. it's the second biggest economy in the second biggest economy in the world. it's one of our biggest trading partners and therefore we have issues that we clearly need to discuss. whilst of course being clear about the issues that we do not agree on. but i will always act in the national interest and that was the basis upon which we had our discussions this morning. i mean, for someone that's apparently worried about climate emissions, they don't forget about a bit, doesn't he, our keir starmer. >> but on this issue about closer relations with china, he's the first pm and i think six years to be meeting president jinping there. your thoughts? >> i mean it's pragmatic . and >> i mean it's pragmatic. and the reality is it has to be i know that a lot of people would like to be a lot more hawkish on china, but the reality is it's too deeply embedded into all

sorts of western supply chains for western countries to just tear up its agreements and ignore it and go, no, we're not going to deal with you because we don't like what it is that you're selling. we don't like your ideology x, y, z. it's, you know, the chinese are actually very effective. they know what they're doing. they've, you know , they're doing. they've, you know, strategized very well at sort of embedding themselves into various regions of the world. and that's not because it's like the soviet union or anything like that. there's some sort of nefarious attempt to spread a version of communism around the world. it's simply about self—preservation and its own internal domestic political interests. we have been, i think , interests. we have been, i think, a lot more hawkish in our language in recent years about china, and i understand why that is. some of it is very justified. but i think that there is a realisation now, certainly amongst a lot of european countries in the aftermath of the economic fragility that we've gone through recently, that actually we are not in a position to be getting on without china or to be alienating china as much as we might like to decouple from

them. and we should aim to try to diversify and decouple from them. you can't simply do that overnight. and also you can't just sort of shout a hue and cry about human rights. china is going to continue to behave in the manner that it is at a meeting in lima with joe biden two days ago, xi jinping said, actually, we're not interested in the united states lecturing us on things like human rights or taiwan. these are red lines for us. we're just not going to deal with you if this is what you want to do. and i think that's sort of not putting the west on notice so much, but it's a sort of a look if you want to deal with this , fine. there's deal with this, fine. there's a lot of benefits to be had. but if you don't, that's fine. as well. we've insulated ourselves against a world in which the west turns against us. aaron. >> yeah, there's a lot to lose if we alienate china. first and foremost. well, maybe not first and foremost, but certainly pretty high up the list is the collapse of our universities and higher education system. if there was ever a major, a major falling out with beijing. secondly, we basically outsourced our energy needs in europe to russia to a significant extent. obviously,

we get some liquid natural gas from places like qatar and norway and so on, but a lot of it came from russia , it came from russia, particularly the germans, central and parts of eastern europe. and we've outsourced a lot of 1508 00:08:10,520 --> 00:0