as parents ask, is school still safe.7 >> owners of specific blank firearms are being urged to hand them in to police stations. >> a damning new report asks if it's >> a damning new report asks if wsfime >> a damning new report asks if it's time to introduce, stop, stop and search at schools. we're debating that very shortly. >> deputy prime minister angela rayner eyes up a new advice panel to tackle islamophobia. but after she approved eye—watering council tax rises, are her priorities out of check.7 >> bebe serial killer lucy letby. his legal team will today

release groundbreaking evidence in a bid to challenge her convictions. >> princess catherine releases a new photo for world cancer day taken by one of her children. can you guess which one.7 >> can you guess which one? >> and in the sport, with the transfer window has slammed shut with manchester city the biggest spenders, chelsea beat west ham last night and jordan henderson takes no nonsense. >> big changes are on the way for the uk's weather later this week, but for the rest of today, well, it's more wet and breezy weather coming from the west. i'll have the full details in the forecast coming up soon. >> hello there! on this tuesday morning i'm eamonn holmes. >> i'm ellie costello and this is gb news breakfast. >> the lead story this morning a 15 year old boy has died after being stabbed to death at a

school in sheffield. >> the young man has been named as harvey willgoose, a student at all saints catholic school. >> a teenager has since been arrested on suspicion of murder. >> well, this comes as children as young as ten have been found carrying knives. this is according to stop and search data. >> well, last year alone, just over 100 cases of youths between 10 to 17 were found with weapons. >> i mean, this is every parent's worst nightmare, isn't it? children as young as ten years old carrying knives. and it begs the question, why? what is a ten year old looking to do with a knife? why are they arming themselves with the knife in the first place? >> well, i remember when i was a teenager, you carried some sort of weapon or defence simply against being attacked by by somebody else. i mean, i knew that was quite widespread, but i would say this, i mean, our school, i can't i just can't imagine how a school is policed

without the teachers being in charge and without them setting down the rules. i mean, the idea of bringing a weapon into school. and i'm telling you, we weren't just talking about knives. it could have been guns as well. and but the discipline in the school would have been so strong that it just would have been a non—entity. i mean, goodness me, if we brought clackers, if we were caught with clackers, if we were caught with clackers in our bags, you would have you would have had for saturday's detention as a result of it. so the absolute fear and i mean, and we're going to talk about stop and search today in schools. what is the apprehension about it? why do people worry that, you know, you walk through a scanner and it goes off and says you've got metal or it doesn't go off? i don't see what the problem is, why schools shouldn't, as a matter of course, have a scanner device on the entry points going in and out of school. would you object to that? >> no, i wouldn't object to that because it can't be the responsibility of the teacher. no teacher has got enough to do

without now checking for knives as well. let us know what you think this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay. well, meanwhile, a gun amnesty is underway for particular types of weapons, with owners being urged to hand them into police stations. >> tests found for brands of turkish blank firing guns can be converted to fire live ammunition, meaning they're now illegal. having become popular with criminal gangs. the amnesty is designed to take them out of circulation. our west midlands reporter jack carson. >> okay, so on the table in front of us, we have top venting blank firearms. >> this month, owners of specific blank firearms are being urged to hand them in to police stations. the specified brands are the turkish guns, rete, ecol, sunak and blow. and the national crime agency say they've been used in at least four killings in the uk in the last two years. tests on the weapons found they can be easily converted to fire live ammunition using common diy

tools and without the need for specialist skills. therefore, they're illegal under the firearms act. detective chief superintendent peter henrick is head of the national ballistics intelligence service. >> and this is an example of another one you can purchase, which is again a top venting blank firearm. you cannot discharge a projectile. however, after the criminals have converted this is the same the same gun converted. you can still see the blue pattern of this, but now it's capable of shooting a projectile and causing injury and death. >> an amnesty for owners of the weapons is taking place until the 28th of february, meaning they can be handed in without they can be handed in without the risk of prosecution. however, possession of one of the guns after this period could mean a prison sentence of ten years. assistant chief constable tim metcalfe is from the national police chiefs council. >> we're seeing the prevalence of the turkish weapons being used in crime more and more. so last year, 86% of criminal or

recovered converted back firearms were within those four. those four makes we believe there are thousands out there. one operation alone at the tail end of last year , recovered over end of last year, recovered over 400 of these weapons from one organised crime group. we did the testing just before christmas. we found that they were readily convertible and therefore moving quickly with this amnesty to remove them from pubuc this amnesty to remove them from public circulation and deny criminals access to these weapons so that they're not able to convert them and, and commit, commit serious criminal offences with them. >> importers and traders have been told to stop selling them, and border force are now on alert and will seize further importations of the specified models. police say removing these guns from circulation is a significant step and better protects the public. but with these guns so embedded in organised crime, what impact will the amnesty have? jack

carson gb news. >> coming up to 6:07. angela raynen >> coming up to 6:07. angela rayner, the deputy prime minister, will join forces with a former conservative minister to set up a council on islam and free speech. >> well, it's expected to be made up of 16 members who will tackle islamophobia and aid the government in officially defining it. >> this comes as the deputy prime minister has faced backlash after giving six councils the green light to raise their council tax by up to 10%. >> well, with us now to discuss this is political editor of the spectator, katy balls. good to see you this morning katy. and tell us about this plan by angela rayner. then to create a council on islamophobia. >> so this goes back to an all party parliamentary group definition of islamophobia, which long before the labour party was in government, they adopted. and but the question is, will the government now adopt this definition? and if so, what are the ramifications? and angela rayner has this

council they're going to consult on it. dominic grieve, the former tory mp, he is going to be one of the figures involved apparently. and i think where the debate is, is if you go back to the definition from this all party parliamentary group, at the time, there were warnings that the definition was far too broad and it would go beyond just stopping muslim hate speech and trying to clamp down on this, and trying to clamp down on this, and could actually kerb freedom of speech and become a de facto blasphemy law that therefore you couldn't really criticise religion or the muslim faith, even when it is more of a freedom of speech angle, as opposed to something that you could say is, you know, hate speech towards someone. and so if angela rayner was to bring a definition and it's not clear if it would be the definition already on the table or a different one, i think you'll there'll be a lot of criticism, probably from the tories, reform and others that, you know, this is going beyond the scope of what they claim it does. >> and robert jenrick has said exactly that this is a trojan horse for a blasphemy law protecting islam. it's actually gone further, saying that this

labour government displays an orwellian disregard for freedom of speech. what do you make of that? >> well, i think the freedom of speech, you can go broader in terms of some of the things that the government first did, you know, on freedom of speech on campuses, bridget philips had to row back slightly on the paused freedom of speech bill from the tories. so i think that labour 1530 00:09:18,064 -