asylum seeker won pakistani asylum seeker won £100,000 in compensation for being treated like a criminal, despite overstaying her visa and. >> morning guys just want to make this video in. in the light of current events has happened. >> a former royal marine has been found not guilty of stirring up racial hatred for that video. but. >> and i'm now expecting substantive sentencing before the end of this week, that should send a very powerful message. >> was he only in court because starmer put pressure on police and judges? plus. >> from now on, women's sports will be only for women. >> should britain follow trump and ban men from competing in women's sports . women's sports. >> and british citizenship is not an entitlement. it is not a right. it is a privilege.

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points in the latest opinion poll. keep heckling lads. keep heckling. on my panel tonight it is ex—tory mp anna firth, conservative peer lord bailey and former labour party adviser matthew laza. and can anyone please tell me what's going on here? get ready britain, here we go. do you want 100 grand? just break into britain next. >> good evening. the main headunes >> good evening. the main headlines from the gb news centre. conservative leader kemi badenoch has criticised the prime minister's style of leadership over claims he broke covid lockdown rules. speaking to gb news, the tory leader

questioned the excuse sir keir starmer gave for meeting with a voice coach during lockdown. miss badenoch branded sir keir a lawyer, not a leader. >> insisting it's just how hypocritical keir starmer has been.i hypocritical keir starmer has been. i don't know anyone who needs emergency voice coaching on christmas eve. i think that keir starmer is a lawyer, not a leader, and i think he knows exactly what he can and cannot say to get himself out of trouble. >> meanwhile, gb news can confirm that the prime minister has met in private with victims of the southport attack today. it's the third time sir keir has visited the merseyside town since last july's stabbings. this latest visit was intended as an opportunity to meet the bereaved families and some of the victims. in the wake of the sentencing of the southport killer, axel rudakubana. earlier, the prime minister visited lancashire and said nuclear power would be

prioritised in the spending review at a nuclear laboratory. alongside the energy secretary, sir keir said more nuclear power plants would be approved as red tape is slashed. ministers say the plans aimed to make it easier to build small modular reactors to help deliver clean, secure and more affordable energy. two suspected people smugglers wanted by french authorities have been arrested in the uk by the national crime agency. the 47 year old albanian man and a 25 year old iraqi national were tracked down and detained in london. prosecutors in france accused them of being involved in a number of small boat crossings in 2022. they are also suspected of money laundering and other organised crime offences. police and tech companies have agreed to work more closely to tackle phone

theft. the pledge was made at a summit chaired by the home secretary. it follows a week of action across london, in which 230 suspects were arrested. scotland yard said the trade in stolen mobiles is worth more than £50 million a year, as devices are resold in the uk and abroad. lord mandelson has sworn at a journalist when asked about his relationship with paedophile financier jeffrey epstein. questions have been raised before about links between britain's incoming us ambassador and epstein, who died in prison in 2019. lord mandelson said he regretted ever meeting him, but then told a financial times reporter i'm not going to go into this. it's an ft obsession and frankly, you can all go f off. i see that he's really getting the hang of this diplomatic thing. some breaking

news now. king charles and queen camilla will undertake state visits to the holy see and the repubuc visits to the holy see and the republic of italy in early april 2025, during their majesties state visit to the holy see. the king and queen will join his holiness pope francis in celebrating the 2025 jubilee yeah celebrating the 2025 jubilee year. traditionally held once every 25 years. the jubilee is a special year. those are the latest gb news headlines. we're back in an hour. in the meantime, it's over to patrick christys. not a swear word in sight. >> 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 evening. a pakistani asylum seeker has won £100,000

for quotes being treated like a criminal, despite being here illegally. nadra almas came to britain in 2004 on a student visa. she then overstayed her visa. she then overstayed her visa. she then overstayed her visa. she was handcuffed and imprisoned at a detention centre and told that she'd be deported. she launched a series of appeals claiming, you guessed it, that her christian faith meant that she was at risk of persecution in pakistan. well, after about three years, she was eventually granted refugee status, obviously, because we'll basically let anyone stay in britain. but during that time, she was not allowed to travel, work or claim any benefits. so now she's won compensation totalling just over 98,500 pounds, claiming the conditions she faced breached her human rights. i mean, this just sums it up, doesn't it? someone comes on a student visa, deliberately overstays, makes an asylum claim. has that claim rejected, makes a load more claims, and eventually we give them asylum. and then we're on the hook for tens of thousands of pounds in

compensation. compare that to what's going on in america right now. how. >> now. >> illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are criminals. as far as this administration goes. i know the last administration didn't see it that way. so it's a big culture shift in our nation. to view someone who breaks our immigration laws is a criminal. but that's exactly what they are. >> but just listen to what the judge said in this pakistani lady's case, that the home office did not have a good reason to believe she would abscond at the time, and that they showed a reckless disregard for her human rights. what about our rights? what about the rights of hardworking, law abiding british citizens who are forced to put up with people overstaying visas or coming here illegally, and who are now on the hook for record levels of compensation? in the last five years, a total of £53.2 million has been paid in compensation for 2222 people who brought successful cases against the home office for illegal detention in 2017. a somali career criminal, abdul rahman mohammed, then age 39, was

awarded nearly 80 grand after the home office admitted his illegal detention. he'd been granted asylum status in the uk, but after committing a string of crimes, he was held at a detention centre for 445 days in three separate periods as officials tried desperately to deport him. but after using human rights legislation to successfully fight his deportation, he then won a massive payout on the basis that he was locked up for too long while the process dragged on. it's insane, isn't it? but i think this problem goes deeper. i think we have to start looking at the lawyers and the judges, and let's start at the very top, shall we? what kind of cases did our prime minister, keir starmer take on? well, in 2003, he represented some asylum seekers and one now the court's decision in that specific case mandated that the government provide accommodation and financial aid to asylum seekers at risk of poverty, regardless of how long after they arrived in the uk that they actually claimed to be asylum seekers. well, our now attorney general, lord hermer,

took on a case by an eritrean man who claimed to be a child migrant. british immigration staff thought he looked to be in his mid—twenties. an italian authorities later reported that the man had told them he was 26. he argued that age verification checks can be wrong. he ultimately lost the case. now they will say that they were just doing their job and they will say that