>> oh well. >> oh well. >> 930 on monday the 27th of january live across the uk. britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and miriam cates. >> well, president trump is expected to visit britain soon after spending 45 minutes on the phone with our prime minister. let's hope sir keir was slightly more charming than he was here back in 2016. >> of course, i wouldn't want donald trump around for dinner. of course i wouldn't want donald trump around for dinner. >> quite. well, the home secretary tells social media platforms they must act now to remove violent content after the southport killer accessed extremist material for his deadly attack. material that. guess what.7 it's still there. it's still online. of course it is. >> king charles will visit auschwitz today for holocaust memorial day, 80 years after the concentration camp was liberated. we'll be hearing from survivors throughout the day on

gb news. >> let's make it illegal antisemitism. it has the capacity to raise itself like a like a devil. >> and british businesses are piling the pressure on the chancellor, rachel reeves, to get the economy moving, as she's been accused of plotting a return to the eu. more on that to come. >> and columbia backs down in a migrant row with trump after the us president threatens to impose steep tariffs. >> and find out about which police force is telling its officers not to use the term black sheep or black listed or pregnant women in case they offend someone. couldn't they just do their job and focus on fighting crime? >> and the tories are demanding a new right for parents to know what their children are learning at school. and we're going to debate. should gender ideology be taught in the classroom at

all? >> what if they want to learn it in america? they'll have to get on with it a bit quick because he says, doesn't he? trump. man. woman. that's it. >> that's it. and that you assume that will trickle down into schools. they will not be allowed to teach it anymore. >> but you know, i remember writing a piece in the mail about six years ago, seven years ago, the number of genders on facebook had reached 56. and i made the point. one more and we've got heinz 57. it's now above 100. >> it's insane. what? and the thing is, we can laugh about it. but when this is actually being taught to school in children, it's confusing, it's indoctrinating. and as the conservatives have worked out, don't even have a right to know what your children are being taught at the moment. that's got to change. >> absolutely shocking. >> absolutely shocking. >> well, we'd love to know what you think about this topic and many more we'll be covering today, so please go on. gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, here's the news with sophia

wenzler. >> maria. andrew. thank you. good morning. these are your headunes good morning. these are your headlines from the gb newsroom. the prime minister and president trump have agreed to meet soon in their first call since the inauguration. they discussed the importance of close and warm ties between britain and the us, the economy and the need for security in the middle east. it comes as trump has won a battle with colombia after threatening a trade war, when the country refused to accept deported migrants. the us president said he would retaliate with a 25% emergency tariff on colombian goods after the country turned away two us military planes. but colombia backed down quickly, with the foreign ministry stating the country had overcome the impasse, with the us not only agreeing to accept the migrants, but sending a presidential plane to collect them. king charles will become them. king charles will become the first british monarch to visit auschwitz today to mark holocaust memorial day, on the

80th anniversary of its liberation. meanwhile, sir keir starmer has pledged to make holocaust education a truly national endeavour. the prime minister said the atrocities of the second world war should not be forgotten, and the truth should be defended against anyone who would deny it. commemorations will remember the 6 million jews killed by the nazi regime, as world leaders and survivors gather at the site. in other news, 4 million households are facing council tax rises of up to five times the legal limit from april. that's according to reports in the daily mail newspaper. households in one area could see their bills hiked by 25%, the largest increase in england for two decades. seven other struggling councils around the country have proposed rises of between 9 and 15%, as they look to exploit a legal loophole. local authorities are permitted to raise council tax by up to

4.99%. under government rules. hamas will release another six hostages this week after agreeing with israel that displaced palestinians will be allowed to return to their homes today. the release will include civilian arbel yahud, who was expected to be released yesterday. since the ceasefire deal came into force, seven hostages and just under 300 prisoners have been released. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in half an hour. >> 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. >> hello and welcome! this is britain's newsroom, live across the united kingdom on gb news, with andrew pierce and miriam cates standing in for bev turner. now there's a lot to

cover in the news. >> certainly is today. the home secretary, yvette cooper, has written to elon musk. zuckerberg what i call the giants of the superhighway, to say you've got to take down the vile, dark, the stuff on the dark web that is thatis stuff on the dark web that is that is radicalising and giving these violent images about young people as we discover that the wretched film that radacanu watched, which may have been the trigger for the stockport attack, it's still online. >> well, he certainly watched this. >> he did watch it. >> he did watch it. >> didn't he? exactly. there was a stabbing of an australian priest that was sadly livestreamed. >> imagine. >> imagine. >> and he watched this just before he went out and committed those horrendous murders. and when, when this attack happened, the australian attack, the australian government wrote to tiktok, meta, youtube and asked them to take it down. all of them to take it down. all of them did, except for x, right? x tookit them did, except for x, right? x took it down in australia, but

refused to take it off the platform altogether because elon musk said that it was an assault on free speech. and so obviously, the home secretary is now seeking to get elon musk to agree to take it offline in in twitter uk. >> but if she's already, if they were able in australia to get that stuff taken down really quickly, why is it not being taken down here already? >> well, because it's at the discretion of the platform. i mean, in theory, i think governments can block. >> of course. >> of course. >> they can. they can. the government could block facebook, let's say. but they're not going to do that. they just want this video taken down. and that is the mercy of the tech bros. >> but why don't they? in an extreme example, this country is still appalled and outraged by what that boy did to those little girls. they're outraged that he hasn't got a whole life sentence and they're outraged. that's because keir starmer says, gotta be bound by a un convention on courts. >> yeah, lawyer. >> yeah, lawyer. >> not a leader, as i keep saying about him. because if he did act like a leader, he would change the law so he could be given a whole life sentence. and

now i think they just need drastic action. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but. >> but. >> this. >> this. >> is the. >> is the. >> thing is, all the bosses will say. this is free speech. and of course, they want us to think that that being able to view anything, however horrific and barbaric, is free speech. it's not. it'sjust barbaric, is free speech. it's not. it's just uncivilised. >> we've known for the little boy. the girls were murdered in july, so the authorities have known since july that this particular video is still online, still online since july. and now they're writing to the people in charge of facebook and meta and all the rest of it to say, what are you going to do about it? why is it taking so long? >> well, because unfortunately, the power to control this is not in our hands, is it? that's that's what they're. >> scared of. these. they're scared of these these. >> these companies. they're more powerful than countries. >> they are because of the revenue they bring in, the jobs they create. and they're frightened of getting on the wrong. >> side of just persuade the tech companies to take material like this down or to protect children. i mean, of course not. they are making billions of dollars from people clicking on

these videos, seeing the advertising revenue, sharing them. it is in the tech companies interest to keep the worst, the most vile content out there because it gets clicks and therefore there because it gets