0nune online and on digital on tv, online and on digital radio. i'm nana akua and for the next few hours, me and my panel will be taking on some of the big topics hitting the headlines. right now. this show is all about opinion. it's mine, it's theirs. and of course it's yours. we'll be debating and discussing and at times we will disagree, but no one will be cancelled. so joining me for the next few hours, director of the charity sanctuary foundation, doctor krish kandiah and broadcaster and journalist danny kelly. coming up, rachel reeves says that she will launch a war on waste. perhaps she should go first to stabilise public finances. amid growing disquiet from her mps over her handling of the economy. so for the great british debate this hour, i'm asking, do you trust rachel reeves to reduce government waste? my poll is live on the gb news website, so head over there and vote. now in my niggle, i'll be taking on tulip siddiq head on. you couldn't make it up. labour's anti—corruption

minister is being investigated for, yes, you've guessed it, corruption. despite sir keir starmer saying this in the summer, i'm absolutely determined to restore honesty and integrity to government because i think that is core to ensuring that people appreciate that politics can be a force for good. and in my interview, i'll be speaking to the award winning filmmaker andrew drury. now he is credited with being the journalist who knows isis bride shamima begum the best. he actually went out to syria to interview her. he will be in the studio live. but before we get started, let's get your latest news with will hollis. >> nana. thank you. your top story at 3:00. a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman, believed to be a hospital nurse, was seriously injured after being stabbed in royal oldham hosphaps being stabbed in royal oldham hospital's a&e department.

police were called to rochdale road yesterday to reports of a stabbing. greater manchester police has said it's believed a member of the public attacked the staff at royal oldham hospital with a bladed article or sharp instrument, which was not a knife. the force added the woman, who is in her 50s, suffered serious injuries and remains in hospital for treatment and her injuries are believed to be life changing. in other news, reform uk leader nigel farage has accused the health secretary of attempting to conceal the reality of grooming gangs after he claimed the public discourse could risk vilifying certain communities. wes streeting had said the rhetoric around grooming gangs risked causing a second new zealand mosque massacre. 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 tech billionaire elon musk. science secretary peter kyle told gb news earlier today 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. >> the uk health security agency has extended its cold weather health alert for all of england until tuesday. amber alerts will

now run until january the 14th, meaning a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions, is likely, the agency says. temperatures dropped to —i3.9 degrees overnight, but the met office has said the cold spell is coming to an end to california. at least 16 people have been killed and thousands evacuated as fires rage on in los angeles. more than 100,000 people are under evacuation 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 the fires and back to the uk. 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 accident. the mayor of york and north yorkshire, and deputy mayor of policing, fire and crime, said their hearts are broken. pc rosie prior was standing on the verge of the a19 at bagby, near thirsk, with the driver and passenger of one of the cars involved when the lorry collided with them yesterday morning. miss prior and 41 year old ryan welford, from knaresborough, who'd been involved in the first collision, 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 wilford's car is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. and your final story for now. train managers have launched the first of a of a series of five months of a 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 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 in 2021. >> they reduced all the rest days and now they're looking for staff to work their rest days without any incentive. we're 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. >> at 3:00. you're up to date. let's get you back to nana 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. >> good afternoon. welcome. it's just coming up to seven minutes after 3:00. this is gb news var, britain's news channel. i'm nana akua now. rachel reeves says that she will launch a war on waste to stabilise public finances. and amid growing disquiet from her mps over the handung disquiet from her mps over the handling for the economy. so for the great british debate, i'm asking do you trust rachel reeves to reduce government waste? my poll is live on the gb news website. then, in my next great british debate, i'm asking should rachel reeves resign? as reports about the british economy continue to get worse and the reeves recession is anticipated, could the prime minister save the country more financial pain by simply getting rid of her? and in worldview, i'll be joined by former

performer and mystifier uri geller. and we'll find out his thoughts on why donald trump is set on buying greenland. all of that coming up. as ever, send me your thoughts, post your comments gbnews.com/yoursay. right. so rachel reeves, now she is going to launch a war on waste stabilised public finances amid growing disquiet from her mps over her handling of the economy. and all of this is an attempt to get back on the right foot after the week of turmoil in the financial markets, the chancellor will lead a major new drive to tackle waste and inefficiency across the public sector, which will leave no stone unturned. and rachel has been criticised, though, as she visits china to boost relations with the nation, the tories accusing her of having fled to china. rather than explain how she'll fix the uk's economy. well, earlier, gb news shadow chancellor gb news spoke to the

shadow chancellor for his thoughts on rachel 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. >> 1498 00:09:41,864 --> 00