>> good afternoon. it's 3:00 and thank you very much for joining me. this is the martin daubney show broadcasting live from westminster. the sharp eyed amongst you might spot that i'm not actually martin daubney. he's off doing what all good men are doing at this time of year. running around making sure everything's set for christmas. no he's not, he's probably in the pub. but you're joining me and i'm really grateful for your company. so thank you for joining me. now we have a cracking show coming up for you. we are obviously tackling the big story of the day. sara shanf big story of the day. sara sharif, her father and stepmother have been sentenced to life in prison for the ten year old's horrific murder. the judge the judge said sarah suffered a campaign of torture

and that none of the defendants had shown a shred of remorse and brexit. is this the day brexit dies.7 i think we've had this one before, haven't we.7 less dies? i think we've had this one before, haven't we? less than ten years after the vote to leave, britain could once again be under the control of the european court of justice. sir keir starmer says he wants to reset relations with the eu. but will he just bow down to brussels again? he's done it before, remember? and nigel farage, yes, that man has met elon musk at donald trump's mar a lago residence. amid speculation that the billionaire will make a multi—million pound donation to reform uk, we're bringing you up to date on that breaking story. indeed, and yet more globetrotting, possibly for keir starmer, the chagos islands and this is another breaking news story for you. is this another blow for. yes, that's sir keir starmer, the new mauritius prime minister says the chagos islands deal struck by our prime minister isn't good

enough and he wants to reopen those talks. and finally, our waspi women, a subject very close to my heart. labour has ruled out compensation for almost 4 million women who claim they lost thousands of pounds because of changes to the state pension aid, ignoring an official payout recommendation. indeed, yes. just how much do labour hate old people? and in particular today, old women? it seems that's what we've got coming up in our show. you really don't want to miss anything, but it's not about me. it's not even about martin and what he's doing on his day off. you know, it is about you and your opinion. so get in touch with all the stories we're talking about today and let me know your views. you can talk about what we're talking about. and it's so close to christmas. are you ready? are you enjoying?

any case? this is about you. this show. gbnews.com/yoursay. get in touch now. want to talk to you? want to spend the afternoon with you? we've got loads to get through. but first let's get those news headlines from sophia wenzler. >> done. >> done. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> these are your headlines from the gb newsroom. >> sarah sharif's father and stepmother have been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of the ten year old daughter following years of horrific abuse, irfan sharif was handed a minimum of 40 years in prison, while bineesh batus received 33 years. her uncle, faisal malik was jailed for 16 years for failing to prevent her death. in a harrowing statement, justice kavanaugh said sara's suffering was almost impossible to contemplate, revealing that in the final weeks of her life she was tied up, hooded and had plastic bags put over her head.

he revealed that sara was found with 71 separate fresh injuries, including fractures and burns. >> this poor child was battered with great force again and again. some of the injuries require special mention because they demonstrate the almost unbelievable torture to which sara was subjected in the last weeks of her life. the medical experts identified a fracture in the hyoid bone in sara's neck. this is a very unusual injury and was the result of very vigorous and energetic manual strangulation, quite possibly on more than one different occasion. sara sustained a serious brain injury a few days before she died, as a result of a blow to her head. >> meanwhile, the automatic right to home, educate and at risk child could be scrapped under new legislation being introduced in parliament today, the children's well—being and

schools bill follows the case of ten year old sara sharif, whose family removed her from school before her murder last year. it would give local authorities new powers to ensure children in unsafe environments attend school and create a national register for children not in education, charities warn the funding promised for family support services falls far short of what's needed. however, education secretary bridget phillipson says too many children have been failed by the state, calling the proposals a seminal moment for child protection. >> the measures that i'm setting out today are about how we protect children and keep them safe, that we've got much clearer visibility of where children are and where where parents make a request to home, educate their children, where they take them out of school, that if we have safeguarding concerns or a child protection investigation is underway, we'll make sure that local councils are able to deny that request that parents have if they're concerned about the wellbeing of children. there's a range of other measures in the bill that

we're setting out today about how we all need to work together to share information, whether that's police , health education, that's police, health education, to really work, to protect children and to keep them safe. it's a landmark piece of legislation. >> now, it's being reported that the new prime minister of mauritius says the chagos islands deal struck by sir keir starmer isn't good enough, and he wants to reopen talks. it's understood he rejects current terms as they would not produce the benefits that the nation could expect. his government has made counter—proposals to london and received a response, though no details have been provided. the government has rejected calls for compensation for women affected by changes to the state pension age. the work and pensions secretary says paying a flat rate to all women born in the 1950s would cost taxpayers more than £10 billion and wouldn't be fair. women against state pension inequality, also known as waspi, say they weren't properly informed about the changes, while liz kendall

admitted there was a delay in notifying women. she insisted most were aware of the pension age rise. she has now confirmed there will be no compensation scheme , despite calls for one. scheme, despite calls for one. a man who received child abuse images from convicted paedophile alex williams, the same individual who shared material with bbc presenter huw edwards, has been spared jail. 25 year old jack davies pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images of children and class a drugs. his defence argued that a suspended sentence given to huw edwards should apply in his case. davies has also been ordered to attend rehabilitation and remain on the sex offenders register for ten years. stop creating trouble that's china's message to the uk as tensions flare over spying accusations, beijing has slammed what it called anti—china clamours from british mps, accusing them of spreading lies and damaging

relations. it comes after yang tingbao, alleged to be a chinese spy tingbao, alleged to be a chinese spy with links to prince andrew, was banned from the uk. mps are now pushing for stricter controls on foreign influence, while the government insists it's stepping up security. the row threatens to derail recent progress, including keir starmers landmark meeting with president xi last month. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to dawn 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. >> thank you very much, sophia, and thank you for joining me this afternoon. really appreciate your company. it is indeed tuesday the 17th of december. not long to go. i hope you've got everything done because some of us haven't. and

that's why the lovely martin daubney is not in today doing his own show. but i'm keeping you company, so really appreciate your time. time to have a little rest and put your feet up. unfortunately, we have to talk about a really, really tough story, but it is such an important story. a lovely little sara sharif. her father and stepmother have been sentenced to life in prison for her murder after subjecting her to years of horrific suffering. truly, she was ten years old. i mean, she'd been suffering literally all her life. at the sentencing earlier this afternoon, justice kavanaugh said the ten year old schoolgirl suffered unimaginable pain during more than two years of abuse and was ultimately tortured to death. now the details are horrific. i don't intend to go into the details details a