man. he met nick was a wonderful man. he met all the challenges life threw at him with courage and good humour. downing street has confirmed the prime minister has now cancelled his planned houday now cancelled his planned holiday to be with his family. the uk's national rail network is facing severe disruption as major engineering works, including for hs2, are prioritised over the coming days. western services out of paddington are particularly badly affected. to add to the misery, avanti workers are preparing to stage a series of strikes over pay negotiations. travel expert simon calder said the work was necessary for the railways to start turning themselves around and stop taking £400 per second in taxpayer subsidy. >> they've got to attract new people in and if you're one of these occasional travellers and every time you look at it, it's christmas or easter or whatever, and there aren't any trains to

your local station just looking up here, i can see the crew is off limits today, as is liverpool and chester. you're going to think, well, i'm not going to think, well, i'm not going to think, well, i'm not going to bother. i'm going to get in the car or indeed get one of the excellent long distance bus services. but they say the work has to be done. it will improve the system, make it more resilient and hopefully things will get rather better. >> the metropolitan police has charged a man with four counts of attempted murder. it comes after four pedestrians were hit by a car in the west end of london on christmas day. anthony ghilini has also been charged with causing serious injury by driving whilst disqualified, and for the possession of a bladed weapon in a public place. one victim is still in hospital in a critical condition. sources have told the reuters news agency that russia's air defences were responsible for downing a passenger plane that crashed in kazakhstan, killing 38 people.

the azerbaijan airlines plane crashed as it was diverting from an area of southern russia where moscow has repeatedly used air defence systems against ukrainian drones. former pentagon senior adviser ann daly says russia must accept responsibility if russia tries to deny this or cover this up, it could lead to a rift in russian relations with azerbaijan. >> if russia doesn't apologise for what it's done and provide greater clarity in its airspace management, that could also lead to further degradation of relations between russia and other countries. >> the ministry of defence has lost hundreds of phones, laptops and other devices over the last two years, according to new government figures. a glock pistol and three older guns, including a world war i era

machine gun, also went missing. 744 electronic devices have been lost or stolen since the start of last year, including 260 phones and 314 laptops . and phones and 314 laptops. and those are your latest headlines. we'll have more for you later. today. >> welcome to lee andersen's real world. i'm lee anderson, reform, uk member of parliament for ashfield. and joining me once again this week is doctor lisa mckenzie, a self—proclaimed anarchist. that's right. and he's back. and he's a what.7 >> a&e trade unionist. a trade. local man. local. >> local man. he's been a scaffolder. he's done all sorts. and you've been accusing our guests of being a waspi woman? >> i would never, i would say accuse is a strong word. accuses. it's a bit awkward, and i apologise on her. i'm an eight. i'm a 68. >> i'm a. i was born in 68. >> you're not 68? >> you're not 68? >> no, i was born in 68. that's

a long way off from the 50s. >> so we've just cleared that up. >> yeah, i apologise wholeheartedly. >> waspi woman. but, lisa, i think every single frontbencher for the labour party at some stage in the run up to the last election and the one before, said that they would give the waspi women their compensation, which was due. it's unfair, it's terrible, it's wicked, it's horrible. they deserve this money. and what have they done just just a few weeks back? >> well, they've they've decided that there's a technicality, i think, in the ombudsman's decision that they can get out of. that's what they've done. they've looked at the they've looked at the ombudsman's decision and they've gone right. how do we get out of this? so they found this technicality, which is about when the women were first notified and they've sort of technically got out of it but apologised, which is not justice. it's not fair. and actually, again, it's another hypocritical move because it wasn't just the frontbenchers that have had to talk with the waspi women, it was all the

backbenchers as well. so they've all done it. they're all in this, every one of them. >> andy, you've got to come back and defend the labour party on this. >> i think it's one of those things. it's easy in opposition to, you know, give support to any cause that, you know, is does seem fairly legitimate. i think it is. you know, the waspi women probably should have been better informed, should have been better treated. but in government realistically. so you can't just throw about 10 billion. you can't just throw about 10 billion. >> another reason why people don't trust politicians. they've promised one thing and done another. >> well, i don't think they ever promised to pay them out. >> i think they promised. hang on, hang on. angela ray, angela rayner going on the news and saying, this is disgusting. we need justice for these women. if that's not a promise, then what is it? because i know where come. >> come on, andy. so try and show some more enthusiasm in your defence. >> i struggle with this debate because it. i see both sides of it. i mean, you know. yeah, they were probably mistreated and

should have been informed better. but then also, how do you not financially plan your retirement? i look at it from both sides and then also hang on, hang on. >> i've got i've got to stop you. you've got to look at it. no, i've got to stop you here. how do you not plan your retirement? do you know anything? what happens to working class women? yeah, because what happens with working class women, especially what we do is we start work at 16. we have a family. we usually stop working for a bit to bring up our families, and then we go back to work again. we usually have to then start paying extra into the to our ni savings, because we've missed a bit out if we want to get a pension and then we the other end of our lives, we end up caring for our family, our older family members as well. so actually sort of saying prepare for women. women. oh, are you not aware of it? >> how are you? >> how are you? >> women. women earn less than men still. imagine in the 50s and 60s that massive gap between men and women's earnings. and then on top of that, we've we've now got a situation where

they're they thought they were retiring at 60. now it's 65. i mean, for the rest of us it's 67. surely that should be an issue that we should all coalesce around and say 67 for some workers is too old. and so therefore we should be supporting any sort of elderly benefits, whether it's winter fuel or whether it's the waspi women. >> well, this is the thing we should be supporting. that's the thing they're picking on the pensioners, the labour party. well, they've stopped the winter fuel allowance, andy, and now they've, they've reneged on the deal to, to compensate the waspi women. if that's not picking on pensioners i don't know what is. >> i mean, you could say that about any government, about any group. if you can link more than two decisions together, it's a silly piece of. >> when was the last government to rob pensioners like this? who was it? >> i don't know. i don't know who was, but i mean, they're committed to the triple lock, so they're not robbing pensioners. the triple, the triple lock. they are committed to the triple lock. they are committed to the triple lock. triple lock? i wish

my salary was triple locked. i wish my benefits. >> what do you wish your salary was? 11.5 grand a year. well. >> doing nothing. yeah. >> doing nothing. yeah. >> for doing. excuse me. >> for doing. excuse me. >> any any pension? working salary to be 11 grand. pass that microphone to ralph. this is ralph. >> he's a pensioner. he reckons you're getting your state retirement pension. pension for nothing. >> that's not what i said. that's not what i said. that's not what you're a malingerer. and. alan partridge. what's going on? >> you're sounding like. let ralph have a go. what is it, ralph? he doesn't look 70. but ralph? he doesn't look 70. but ralph at the back is 70. he's done a shift. are you a malingerer? >> no, no, a lot of people might say different, but i worked at a company for 50 years and three months. retired two and company for