having a wonderful sunday you're having a wonderful sunday out there. packed show coming up for you so you don't move a muscle for the next two hours. all right. reform uk leader nigel farage accuses health secretary wes streeting of masking the truth about those grooming gangs after he claimed current public discourse could increase the risk of attacks against british muslims. then the bbc tv licence fee could be scrapped and replaced by funding from general taxation, sources suggest. a culture secretary, lisa nandy, thinks the licence fee has to go, although final decisions have yet to be reached. is this a good idea though? and hotel of mum and dad.the though? and hotel of mum and dad. the proportion of 25 to 34 year olds living with their parents has risen by more than a third in just under two decades. is that generation just slightly too dependent on the hotel mum and dad, though? my mum would have thrown me out, by the way years ago if that was me. i'm dawn neesom and this is the

weekend. so welcome. it's sunday afternoon. well done. you made it to a sunday afternoon. i hope you're nice and comfy and i hope you're nice and comfy and i hope you're warm and cosy because it's pretty nippy out there, isn't it? so you don't want to move a muscle for the next two hours. we have got the most packed show for you, full of everything you want to talk about and stuff. you want to talk about that we're not talking about. tell me what you want to talk about. very easy to get involved with. gbnews.com/yoursay and join in the conversation and say, this show is all about you. so it's very important you get involved. and i will read as many of your messages out as i can keeping me company on today's show. we have a wonderful broadcaster and journalist, mike parry to and equally wonderful former adviser to jeremy corbyn, james schneider. ta dai who has already lent me his cushion. so he's got extra brownie points

already. but before we get into today's show, here's the news headunes today's show, here's the news headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> dawna. >> dawna. >> thank you. the top stories reform uk leader nigel farage has accused wes streeting of attempting to conceal the reality of the grooming gangs after he claimed the public discourse could risk vilifying certain communities. the health secretary had said the rhetoric around grooming gangs risked causing a second new zealand mosque massacre, which had killed more than 50 people. mr farage told the telegraph that mr streeting remarks were insulting. that's now as labour mp dan carden has broken ranks from sir keir starmer, joining andy burnham in his calls for a national inquiry into the scandal. fury over grooming gangs has reignited in recent weeks after labour blocked a national inquiry, backed by kemi badenoch and elon musk. however, science secretary peter kyle told gb news labour are

dedicated to making a change for victims bill that we introduced into parliament this week. >> the child welfare bill had as its central commitment, multi—agency co—operation. for fact we would deliver it and the conservatives tried to stop it. now, we didn't just introduce this on the back of a national debate. this happened in the last fortnight. we planned this bill in opposition. we have been drafting it in government. we implemented it last week. there are things we are doing and actions we are taking, and we will continue to do so and deliver for those victims. >> in other news, the chancellor will lead a new drive to tackle waste and inefficiency across the public sector in an attempt to get back on the front foot after a week of turmoil in the uk financial markets. writing in the telegraph, darren jones, the chief secretary to the treasury, said officials will work with the private sector to embrace their ideas, expertise and innovation to further our public services. as part of the drive to clamp down on unnecessary

spending. rachel reeves has been criticised, though, as she visits china to boost relations with beijing, the tories accusing her of having fled to china rather than explain how she'll fix the uk's economy, shadow chancellor mel stride told gb news the chancellor's judgement has been poor. >> he should not be in china at the moment. talking to the chinese and the way she is saying that she's got this £120 million a year additional funding coming into the uk economy. given that the moves in the bond market recently partly, at least substantially, at least because of the decisions that she's taken, is costing us an estimated £12 billion a year. that's enough to fund 300,000 nurses, for example. so, no, i think her judgement has been very poor and very poor judgement around the budget, which is why we are in that in that situation. >> in other news, a man has been arrested after the attempted abduction of a three year old

girl in wolverhampton. the 37 year old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted kidnap yesterday after the incident, which happened in leicester street at around 5.15 on thursday afternoon. that's according to west midlands police. the little girl was not injured during that incident. elsewhere, a north yorkshire police officer has died after she was struck by a lorry as she was helping at the scene of an earlier road incident. north yorkshire police chief constable tim forber said she was off duty when she stopped to help those involved. pc rosie pryor was standing on the verge of the a149 at bagsby, near thirsk, with the driver and the passenger of one of the cars involved when the lorry collided with them yesterday morning. miss pryor and 41 year old ryan welford, from knaresborough, both died at the scene. the 65 year old lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, and has been released under investigation. a teenage boy who was a passenger in mr welford's car is in a serious but stable

condition in hospital. at least 16 people have been killed and thousands evacuated as fires rage on in california. more than 100,000 people are under evacuation orders. police say they've arrested two people who posed as firefighters to loot homes. officials say they will crack down on robberies and those who overcharge for services for displaced people. gusty winds are forecast for the coming days, potentially further fuelling those fires. and finally, train managers have launched the first of a series of five months of strikes on busy rail routes. there are currently picket lines outside stations including london euston, liverpool and edinburgh. in their walkout in a dispute over rest day working. members of the rmt union at avanti west coast will strike every sunday until the 25th of may. regional organiser for the rmt, cathy masca, spoke to gb news 2021. >> the reduced all the rest days

and now they're looking for staff to work their rest days without any incentive. we are looking for a rest day payment for the hard working train managers. we want safety critical, proper safety critical staff on the train and they are paying staff on the train and they are paying their managers £400 a day to work these trains, and that is a big safety issue to us as well. so what we want is for them to come back to the table and negotiate a rest day payment. >> and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now it's back to don. >> thank you very much tatiana. and thank you for joining me this afternoon. really appreciate your company. lots of you getting in touch. so hello to all our regular viewers and listeners. good afternoon. a grumpy grandad indeed. thank you for your message. okay, now let's get straight into today's story, shall we've got a packed show for you, so you don't need to move a muscle. maybe put the

kettle on in between breaks now. nigel farage has accused wes streeting of attempting to conceal the reality of the grooming gang scandal. this is after the health secretary claimed that irresponsible and coarse public discourse could lead to more atrocities against muslims if entire communities were vilified. to discuss this further, i'm pleased to say i'm joined by senior solicitor at central chambers. law matters, aziz madhab, thank you very much for joining me this afternoon. really appreciate your time , really appreciate your time, because many, many of our viewers are saying over the grooming gangs, rape gangs, whatever you want to call them, scandal. why aren't more muslims talking out about this issue? why do you think that is? >> well, firstly, thank you, dawn, for having me on your show. now, the thing is, i must stress that the findings of the j report, which spanned over eight years. identified that the

most number of referrals were actually came from schools. secondly, from children's homes and thirdly, from the church. now i just want to establish that first. but but now i just want to establish that fir