>> it's 9 pm. and it's a very special patrick christys tonight. it's a pakistani rape gang special from 10:00 pm will be live in rotherham with charlie peters, who's on your screens right now. and i've got a box office panel of tory miriam cates reforms. matt goodwin, labour mp barry gardiner, who voted against an inquiry, and human rights campaigner peter tatchell, who i think has some interesting questions to answer. we're also going to be asking is this worth it? it.7 >> it? >> and i'm saying it to my husband. i'm saying, is it, you know, you know, like you, but it's just a process. you have to go through each and every time. >> does jess phillips have to go.7 >> go? >> the assumptions that were made included the assumption that a victim of child sexual abuse will swiftly report what has happened to them, to the police. >> is starmer responsible for a cover up? during his time as

director of public prosecutions? >> which must also be investigated from a criminal perspective? yes, given that it was a clear attempt to stir up religious hatred, is the fear of being called islamophobic. >> stopping a full inquiry now? >> stopping a full inquiry now? >> and will the government commit to urgently deporting all guilty foreign nationals involved, including family members who were aware of the crimes? >> should we deport family members of grooming gang monsters if they failed to report their partners? >> also tonight, the bank of england for many years, rachel reeves has crashed the economy. >> it's rachel from accounts, hasn't it? is she way out of her depth? and does she have to go also thing folks? >> because this party is on the march reform on our joint top of march reform on ourjoint top of a national opinion poll for the very first time, and whittaker is on to discuss that on my panel for the first hour is ex

tory mp anna firth. >> we've also got lord shaun bailey and former labour party adviser matthew laza. oh, and can you tell me what's wrong here? >> you're on for shopping or place to eat tonight. as you can see here behind me, it's been two and kamala harris is clearly taking defeat. >> well. get ready britain. here we go. does the pakistani muslim community have to do more to stop the rape gangs next? >> good evening. it's just gone. 9:00. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines. the mayor of los angeles has said historic winds

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in front of all four living former presidents, saying jemmy carter made a powerful difference. carter, a nobel prize winner and the 39th us president, is being remembered for his leadership and humanitarian work. now back in the uk, a pakistani muslim former labour mp has backed calls for grooming gangs inquiry ex—birmingham labour mp khalid mahmood has told gb news that he backs a national public inquiry. he said we need to address the issues for the victims. they've had no respect or dignity given to them. it comes after andy burnham has split with sir keir starmer to call for an inquiry into the grooming gangs. speaking to a local radio station, the labour mayor of greater manchester said he believed there was a case for a limited inquiry that draws on local reviews into historic child sexual exploitation. it's after labour mps rejected a conservative push for a new national inquiry by 364 votes to

111. the prime minister has welcomed. the prime minister has welcomed. the prime minister has welcomed his french counterpart, emmanuel macron, at his country residence, chequers. sir keir starmer said the pair planned to discuss a number of issues of concern, including the situation in ukraine and the middle east, while downing street has previously indicated that illegal migration, tech and growth would also be on the agenda.the growth would also be on the agenda. the meeting comes ahead of president elect donald trump's inauguration, and there have been concerns of what his return to the white house could mean for us. support for ukraine. now the met police has blocked plans for a pro—palestine march near the bbc's headquarters in central london, as it will take place close to a synagogue. the force has used powers under the public order act to prevent the palestine solidarity campaign from gathering outside broadcasting house in portland place this saturday. conditions

enforced by the police will now prevent protesters from gathering in busy streets and surrounding areas. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to patrick. >> very latest gb news direct to your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> does the pakistani muslim community in britain need to do more to prevent and condemn rape gangs? it's been exposed that there have been pakistani grooming gangs in around 50 towns and cities across the uk. people know it's still going on, including jess phillips, who in a former life actually admitted it. >> we're a year on from the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. years and years worth of evidence. rishi sunak is doing nothing. and today,

exactly what had happened in rochdale is happening in every single part of our country. >> i look at cases like quarry ralph, a former taxi driver and preacher who was jailed for six years but was released after just serving two years and six months. he is back living in rochdale and works apparently as a takeaway delivery driver, meaning that he could end up delivering food to one of his victims. does that seem to you like the local pakistani muslim community have told him he's not welcome there? maybe they have. our reporter, charlie peters has beenin our reporter, charlie peters has been in rotherham today. we're going to hear from him very shortly. a town where one in every 73 pakistani muslim men were prosecuted for child grooming offences, apparently, and nobody seemed to want to talk to him. >> but we've not been able to speak to a single person. about an hour's time we've spent around the town centre speaking to dozens of people off camera. most of them have said that they

don't want to speak to us at all. one man, i have to say, a white man, spoke to me about five minutes ago. he said that if you put your head above the parapet on this issue, you're going to get shot. he was very nervous. he didn't want to give his name. he said he wouldn't go on camera. he wouldn't even go anonymously to speak about this issue. there's a lot of nervousness in this town. >> the muslim council of britain, via their group the centre for media monitoring, released a report criticising gb news and myself personally for talking about so—called grooming gangs. you see on your screens their so—called grooming gangs. is that not one of the major muslim organisations in britain appearing to question the reality of these gangs? does that seem to you like they're desperate to address the issue? the group has said that they will support a national inquiry, provided it follows evidence rather than prejudice. now people will say that there are a load of members of the muslim community who do call this stuff out. now fair enough. but as

jordan peterson alluded to, should we not be hearing a little bit more from them? >> you talk about moderate muslims. like i looked up the polling data today that winston marshall, for example, referred to when he interviewed nigel farage. and, you know, it's about three quarters of uk muslims would be perfectly content if sharia law happened to be the. what would you say the principal of the day for the uk as a whole, and that it would be fine if islam became the national religion? now that's 75%. so, you know, a cynic would say, okay, just exactly where the hell are these moderates ? the hell are these moderates? >> and the labour party's definition of islamophobia, which they put in their 2019 manifesto, put quotes grooming gangsin manifesto, put quotes grooming gangs in inverted commas. there you go. and suggested that using the term in relation to muslims was racist. the muslim vote organisation, which was a hugely influential political movement at the influ