>>a >> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. welcome to the martin daubney show here on gb news. we're broadcasting for you live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk. on today's show, gb news national reporter charlie peters interviews marlin, a dad from rochdale, for two years. his daughter scarlett, then aged just 14, was kidnapped, drugged and abused by a pakistani rape gang. today, he echoes calls for a full national inquiry into britain's shame. later in the show, i'll also talk to the peerless campaigner maggie oliver for her feedback on what

it feels like to be branded far right by the prime minister. and yet, earlier today, when questioned on the need for a full public inquiry into these rape gangs, sir keir starmer brushed it off as jumping on the bandwagon of the far right. could this lack of empathy turn into a full blown political crisis for our beleaguered prime minister? and elon musk has slammed nigel farage as not up to the job of being reform leader after farage distanced himself from tommy robinson. the decision caused a huge backlash and could cost nigel farage millions of dollars. but has nigel farage done the right thing, or was this an unforced error? and a shocking new analysis of home office data shows that foreign criminals are an astonishing three and a half times more likely to be arrested for sex offences than brits, albanians, afghans and iraqis. top the league of shame. is it time for mass deportations?

watched the show? it's a pleasure to have your company, the grooming gang scandal. the rape gang scandal is simply blowing all out of control. today, the prime minister, when asked about this by chris hope, gb news political editor, pointing out the fact that there were 50 towns that experienced this, yet only six were mentioned in the report. the prime minister was put under fire. he doubled down, calling this the sentiment of the far right, the bandwagon of the far right. it's an incredible thing to say. echoing what the prime minister said after the southport riots, is this an error too far for our prime minister? an exclusive coming up soon with marlon, that father who sat down with our peerless national reporter charlie peters. and at 5:00 i'll be joined by the formidable maggie oliver, keeping up pressure on the national scandal that truly is shaming britain. get in touch, gbnews.com/yoursay. but

first, here's your headlines and it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon. we start with some breaking news that a six month old baby girl has died after a crash in a multi—storey car park. sofia kellerman, from leigh in manchester, was injured in a collision in tenby in pembrokeshire on thursday. police confirmed that sofia was initially taken to hospital but died of her injuries the following day. the force said the collision happened on the ground floor of the car park, and a man has been arrested in connection with that incident. he is due to appear in court on the 7th of february. and in some more breaking news this hour, leicestershire fire and rescue service has declared a major incident as widespread flooding hits leicester, leicestershire and rutland. the fire brigade has received more than 200 calls since this morning, with crews finding cars stuck in floodwater and evacuating residents from

flooded homes. around 17 people have been rescued so far, while weather warnings persisted across the country this morning as many commuters suffered travel disruption from severe weather. major roads have been closed and railway lines blocked. manchester airport's runways were closed early this morning because of heavy snow but have since reopened. this comes after most of the uk saw heavy snow or icy rainfall over the weekend, and even reaching the weekend, and even reaching the coldest night of the winter so far at —13.3 degrees. now to our top story today. the prime minister has defended his position as director of public prosecutions, saying child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening and it was something he had tackled head on whilst in that role. the prime minister has also hit back at elon musk over his comments on twitter that claimed safeguarding minister jess phillips is an ministerjess phillips is an evil witch and deserved to be in jail. sir keir starmer went on to accuse opposition politicians of amplifying what the far right

is saying on child sexual abuse, after failing to act for 14 long years. liberal democrats leader sir ed davey says the uk us ambassador should be summoned over elon musk's online attacks. >> its ambassador should make it clear both to the current white house and the president elect, that anyone who is working in a senior level in any american government needs to be very careful about how they comment on uk affairs, whether they're the richest man in the world or anyone else. >> commenting on criticism of jess phillips, the home secretary, yvette cooper has said this. jess phillips, minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, has dedicated her career to tackling sexual violence and abuse and to being a voice for victims and survivors of the most terrible crimes, including child sexual abuse. she goes on to say that she has worked with whistleblowers and campaigned tirelessly for justice for those badly let down by endemic

institutional failure. meanwhile, this morning the prime minister pledged to reduce nhs waiting lists, saying we need nhs reform from top to bottom. the prime minister has called for more convenience for patients, and said that no institution is more important to the security of the country than the security of the country than the nhs. now a debate is due to be held this afternoon at around 430 in parliament on the petition calling for a general election. the petition has secured more than 2.5 million signatures after being launched by a west midlands publican. this is the third most popular e—petition since 2010, after easily surpassing the required 100,000 signatures required for a debate to take place. gb news spoke to the petition's founder, michael westwood, about his expectations. >> something i expected us all to be cheerful. i sent it out there in hope that it obviously

when you do anything in life, you hope it goes the best you possibly can. and i think this has probably gone as best it possibly can to be truthful. >> in other news, the man has been charged with assisting former soldier daniel khalife after he escaped from prison. khalife was found guilty of spying for iran after a trial in november last year and admitted to escaping from hmp wandsworth. imran chowdhury, a 25 year old from north—east london, has been charged with one count of assisting an escaped prisoner and will appear at westminster magistrates court tomorrow. and today is justin welby's final day as archbishop of canterbury, as he prepares to step down over failures in handling a church of england abuse scandal. almost two months after announcing his resignation, he'll officially quit the role at midnight tonight. it follows an independent review which concluded that john smith, a barrister and christian camp leader, might have been brought to justice if archbishop welby had reported him to the police

in 2013. the archbishop has made few public appearances since mid—november and did not give the traditional christmas day sermon from canterbury cathedral. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour. >> thank you tatiana. now to the story that's shaming britain. the ongoing scandal into grooming gangs, rape gangs. keir starmer brushed off the need for a full public inquiry earlier today into these rape gangs as jumping on the bandwagon of the far right. but what do survivors and their families make of this astonishing allegation? we can now speak with our national reporter, charlie peters, who's been pushing the envelope on this story all of last week and for two years before that, in fact. charlie peters, you have an exclusive interview with us, charlie, an astonishing story. heartbreaking. infuriating, yet one that must be told. tell us more.

>> martin. at this moment, there is a significant national conversation going on about this national scandal. as you say, this is a period of our history that shames the united kingdom. but so much of the focus at the moment is on the politics. it's on the tittle tattle, on the gossip between reform elon musk and sir keir starmer, the prime minister, a gb news. we want to put the survivors and their families at the heart of this national atrocity, of this story and of this campaign that they're fighting to get the recognition for what they endured. and it's in that light and that approach that this channel has taken. but earlier today, we spoke with marlon west, the father of a today, we spoke with