>> well. >> well. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:00 on wednesday the 5th of february. i'm emily carver. >> and i'm tom harwood. >> and i'm tom harwood. >> well, pressure is mounting on sir keir starmer to provide more details about his decision to meet with his voice coach at the height of covid restrictions. he continued to stonewall the question today. >> elsewhere, trump is offering to turn gaza into the riviera of the middle east, but his plans to occupy and rebuild gaza have been condemned across the world, with hamas warning the move could trigger chaos. >> right. okay. and the great chagos giveaway. the prime minister has apparently doubled the money to £18 billion. that's the money to £18 billion. that's the money to £18 billion. that's the money that he's going to give to mauritius to give them the chagos islands. >> elsewhere, nottingham killer reports the nhs released the full report into the triple killer valdo calocane and they allowed him to skip medication. get this.

>> well, keir starmer, he manoeuvred himself didn't he, around those tough questions whether kemi badenoch should have pressed a little harder, one might say. but keir starmer, he just doesn't want to. he doesn't want to address the covid restriction . question. the covid restriction. question. the question which, you know, you can assume why he doesn't want to address that, but also on chagos saying, oh, you know, you could have read the report on this, you could have read the brief on this. you could have read the brief. well, why don't you brief the nation on why you're doing this? >> this is his new line. for every question kemi badenoch asked the prime minister whether it was the chagos deal, whether it's the rosebank licence review, the astrazeneca deal to all of these questions. keir starmer said, why didn't you ask for an official briefing for this? almost implying that she's

not doing her job, although i'm not doing herjob, although i'm not doing herjob, although i'm not sure it is the default job of the leader of the opposition to get briefing notes from the government for every question that they want to question the government on. you can sort of start to see the flaw in that plan, if you think about it for more than three seconds. >> yeah. and also keir starmer, who do you serve? you serve us, the british public. so tell us what was in those briefings. that might be nice because i quite want to know what the thinking was around this. chagos deal thinking was around this. chagos deal. because i can't understand. it seems very, very odd that people working behind this plan all very buddy buddy with keir starmer for god knows how long. he seems. >> to imply something for the first time that we haven't heard before when it comes to the chagos islands. and he was saying there was legal certainty lacking on diego garcia, meaning it couldn't run its normal operations. i think that's the first time anyone had heard the idea that diego garcia, as a military base, couldn't run ordinary operations under this legal certainty. i mean, what does the americans think that's the case? does donald trump really going? is donald trump

really going? is donald trump really going? is donald trump really going to say, oh, we can't use this base in the way we used to use it? because there was an advisory advisory ruling at the un. is that genuinely what's going on, or is that an overly legalistic interpretation of what's happening, and one that the americans would surely ignore under this administration? >> well, it seems as though communicating to the public is a nuisance to sir keir starmer at the moment. he can say, oh, you know, kemi badenoch, you should have read the briefings and, you know, asked for them. but what about us? i want to be briefed, actually, keir starmer, i want to be briefed anyway. gbnews.com/yoursay please do get in touch. but it's the news headlines. >> good afternoon. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the prime minister told mps in the house of commons this afternoon that palestinians must be allowed home and to rebuild their community on the on the two state solution. after us president donald trump suggested the us could take ownership of

the us could take ownership of the gaza strip, he also locked heads with the leader of the conservative party over the chagos islands deal, warning national security could be put at risk without a deal to give legal certainty over the status of the islands and the strategically important diego garcia military base. >> yesterday we heard the government offered £18 billion for mauritius to take our territory in the chagos islands. this is money that belongs to our children and their children. this is an immoral surrender. so north london lawyers can boast at their dinner parties. mr speaken at their dinner parties. mr speaker, when labour negotiates, we all lose. sometimes they don't even bother. >> this is a military base that is vital to our national security and to national security. a number of years ago, the legal certainty of that base was thrown into doubt. and let

me. mr speaker, let me be clear, and i will pick my words carefully. without legal certainty, the base cannot operate in practical terms as it should. that is bad for our national security, and it is a gift to our adversaries that some within the party opposite know exactly what i am talking about. >> well, the uk has denied the cost of handing over the chagos islands to mauritius. that could rise to £18 billion and disputed claims made by the mauritian prime minister about the renegotiated deal, secures government plans to hand the british indian ocean territory to mauritius, but pay to lease back the us, uk military base on diego garcia. elsewhere, the families and lawyers of the three nottingham attack victims have demanded a full statutory inquiry after an independent review has revealed the triple killers fear of needles prevented him from taking antipsychotic medication before

the killings. barnaby webber, grace o'malley—kumar and ian coates were viciously murdered in the summer of 2023 by valdo calocane. health secretary wes streeting says it's clear there were failings in how the care provided to calocane was managed at every level. grace's father, doctor sanjoy kumar, has said at a press conference today that he was sectioned four times and the psychiatrist failed to change his treatment four times. he said for the loss of our beautiful, brave daughter grace, there must be change. barnaby webber's mother said the prime minister and the rest of the government make this trauma stop, make our fight stop. >> this much referred to latest report is yet more evidence of catastrophic failure. it adds to the pile of others. yes. nine. as neil has said, nine painful attempts on our part to address the concerns that we have been raised. almost without exception, they are not fit for purpose. of those completed, most are wholly inadequate and little more than marking of

homework. none of them provide clarity or the full truth. huge gaps, omissions and unanswered questions. >> elsewhere, a 15 year old boy has been charged with murder after a teenager was stabbed to death at a school in sheffield. harvey willgoose, who was 15, died after being attacked at all saints catholic high school on monday. police said he suffered serious injuries and, despite the efforts of medics, died a short time after emergency services arrived at the cps, says the 15 year old boy has been charged with murder, possession of a bladed article and affray. he appears in court today. donald trump says he wants the us to take over gaza and turn it into the riviera of the middle east. >> the us will take over the gaza strip and we will do a job with it too. we'll own it. >> at a white house news conference with the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, the us president says palestinians could be resettled away from gaza in areas where

the leaders currently say no. jordan and egypt reject the idea of palestinians being resettled, while the palestinian ambassador to the un says our homeland is our homeland. but the israeli prime minister says trump's plan is an idea worth paying attention to, and swedish authorities say ten people plus the gunman were killed in a shooting at an adult education centre in the city of orebro, close to stockholm. the country's prime minister described it as the worst mass shooting in the country's history. as officials begin piecing together what exactly happened.a piecing together what exactly happened. a spokesperson told a news conference yesterday that police believe the primary perpetrator acted alone, and they don't expect more attacks. in a press conference today, police say they are still trying to work out a possible motive and that the gunman appears to have shot himself. those are the latest headlines for now. more from me in half an hour.

>> good afternoon, britain at 1:08 o'clock. the pressure is mounting on sir keir starmer to provide more details about his decision to meet with his voice coach at the height of covid restrictions, coach