a massive mistake going for evs in the way that we have. the government says it's going to tackle worklessness big debate in the house of commons on it today. they're going to employ a lot more medical staff to help young people with mental problems get back to work, but will it be a success or have we heard all this stuff before? a petition has reached nearly 3 million, calling for there to be a general election. does it really make any difference? and trump tariffs ? he's not even trump tariffs? he's not even been inaugurated yet. yet he continues to dominate global news. he's going to put tariffs up massively or so he says. can we as the uk avoid them. but

first before all of that let's get the news with katie bowen . get the news with katie bowen. >> nigel thank you. a very good evening to you. it's just gone 7:00. these are your latest headunes 7:00. these are your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. some breaking news this evening. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is to bring a full outline of a ceasefire deal with hezbollah to his cabinet later this evening. in a televised address, mr netanyahu said that he will respond forcefully to any violation of the deal by hezbollah, adding that the duration of the ceasefire depends on what happens in lebanon. the israeli prime minister said, we will return all our hostages. we will ensure that gaza will no longer pose a threat to israel, and we will return the residents of the north safely to their homes. president joe biden is expected to deliver some remarks on the deal shortly from the white house. deal shortly from the white house . elsewhere, business house. elsewhere, business secretary jonathan reynolds said it was a very difficult day for luton after the owner of vauxhall announced plans to shut its van, making factory.

vauxhall owner stellantis has announced plans to shut the plant, putting more than 1100 jobs at risk. the luton site is expected to close next april. stellantis , which also owns stellantis, which also owns brands including citroen, peugeot and fiat, said it would combine its electric van production at its other plants in the uk. ellesmere port stellantis added it hopes to transfer hundreds of jobs to the other plants. rules imposed to speed up the transition of electric vehicles in the uk partly drove the decision. the company said. a unite spokesman said the proposal that has been tabled today has been a complete slap in the face for our members in luton, where vauxhall vehicles have been manufactured for 120 years. whatever the positive benefits this plan may have for ellesmere port, that is not acceptable . russia has not acceptable. russia has barred cabinet ministers, including angela rayner , yvette including angela rayner, yvette cooper and rachel reeves from entering the country under new sanctions published by the foreign affairs ministry . foreign affairs ministry. jonathan reynolds and ed miliband are also among the 30 british citizens listed. the

russian ministry said it was putting members of the uk's political and military establishment, as well as journalists, on its stop list. it comes as russia earlier on expelled a british diplomat and accused him of spying. downing street has denied those allegations, labelling them as baseless . british troops have baseless. british troops have been drafted in to help the united states air force find out who is responsible for drones flying over three air bases in england , sources have said. a us england, sources have said. a us air force spokesman said earlier this afternoon that a small number of drones have again been spotted flying near us air force bases in suffolk. the development comes after unidentified drones were previously spotted between wednesday and friday of last week over the same three air bases. a ministry of defence spokesman said we take threats seriously and maintain robust, robust measures at defence sites. we are supporting the us air force response . those are air force response. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, let's go back to nigel for the very latest gb news

direct to your smartphone. >> sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/alerts . gbnews.com/alerts. >> now i bet you i get a load of stick for being here at 7:00. why? because this afternoon we had the debate on the tobacco and vapes bill. second reading. oh, believe you me, the cromwellians are fully in charge. i listened to speaker after speaker saying they would support the legislation. you know, the one the one that rishi first talked about. anybody born after 2009 won't be able to buy cigarettes, but a year earlier they will. and the reason i'm not voting at 7:00 is because it's going to pass with a majority of about 300, i think, and i think i'm better off here debating national issues on gb news in a situation like that. so those of you from a daily mirror who want to write rude things, at least i've given you some words that you can publish. now, the government today, prior to that debate, the government

today are talking about getting britain working, getting people back to work and the numbers are really quite eye—watering when you look at it. 2.8 million people who are inactive because of long term sickness. this number just explodes and it's gone up. indeed, by three quarters of a million since the first lockdown. so the government have put forward a series of proposals. they're going to employ another 8500 mental health nurses. they're going to talk to young people and encourage them to get back into the workplace. well , in into the workplace. well, in principle, i agree with this 100%, but is it actually going to make any difference? well, i'm joined tonight in the studio by james heywood, head of debt and financial inclusion at the centre for social justice. i'm also joined by ranil jayawardena, former tory mp and scarlett mccgwire former labour adviser . james how radical, how adviser. james how radical, how new are the government's

proposals put before parliament today? >> neither radical nor new. unfortunately, there's a heck of a lot of good talk , but the a lot of good talk, but the majority of the stuff that they've announced today is actually a mixture of reviews and consultations and re—announcing and renaming things that had already been announced by the previous government. and i say that as someone who was working in the dwp for the previous government . dwp for the previous government. so a lot of this is very familiar. you know, for example, there's something that we've been championing at csj for a long time, the universal support programme, which is meant to target people who are inactive. it places them into a job and supports them, stays with them for up to a year while they find their feet. >> but they have to want to do that. >> of course they do. and it's proven to work. actually, employment impacts from it were scored by the office for budget responsibility. it's so well evidence which is very tricky to do. and it's good the government's going to keep doing it but it's delayed it and it's

renamed it. and they're now obviously saying that this is a new thing, that the new government is doing, but it's actually no new funding. and it's exactly the same number of people that will be supported. but what they're talking about as well is they're saying, well, you know, these young people that are out of work, you know, we will take their benefits off them if they don't do what they're being to told, which is all well and good. but that's already the case and has been for a long time. we already have conditionality and benefit sanctions. >> and do we actually enforce it? >> so it could be enforced a lot better. that means no, i think and there's definitely more that could be done on conditionality in the way that what they call claimant commitments. so the agreement you make when you take your benefits, the things that your benefits, the things that you agree to do , but the new you agree to do, but the new government is actually explicitly saying that their policy is just to maintain the existing system . so while existing system. so while they've spent a long time over they've spent a long time over the last few years railing against kind of tory benefit sanctions and how the system is, you know, sort of policing the benefits claimants too much, they're now saying that they'll

maintain those rules, but they're not introducing any new ones. there's no new policy. they're just saying that they will maintain. >> what else would you at the centre for social justice like to see? >> so i think we need more of a focus on some of the specialist employment support, actually, that i've been talking about. so the issue is that actually when you talk about benefit sanctions, that's only going to apply to people who are unemployed if they're looking for work. the rising problem we have in the labour market is inactivity. and that's especially linked to people who've got health problems and disabilities among younger groups. that's particularly been associated with mental health problems . and so that does mean problems. and so that does mean that the government needs to do what it's talking about, that the government needs t