>> way. >> way. >> good evening. today's gdp figures show gdp marginally up, but gdp per capita down once again. is mass migration making us poorer and asylum seeker? i'm afraid with the car attack in bavaria. horrendous. what could it mean for the german elections coming up on sunday week? and bastian gorka will join us from the white house on the ukraine peace deal. is trump's plan credible and will ukraine accept it? but before all of that, let's get the news with sophia wenzler.

>> nigel. thank you. it'sjust >> nigel. thank you. it's just gone. 7:00. these are your headlines. some breaking news coming to us from london. it's being reported that a man holding a burning quran outside the turkish embassy has been attacked by a man with a knife. the video posted on x showed a man with a rucksack and his hood up, holding a book on fire, standing and holding it up at the barrier to the turkish embassy. the footage then shows him lying on the road, being kicked by another man, who then appeared to slash at the man on the floor with a knife. an ambulance and police are said to be on the scene. we will bring you more as we get it. the german chancellor has called for an afghan suspect arrested in munich to be punished and deported. olaf scholz made the comments after a car ploughed into a crowd, leaving at least 30 people injured, some critically. meanwhile, the alternative fur deutschland party, who are the second place in the polls, also seized on the

incident, with co—leader alice weidel posting on social media platform x saying should this go on forever migration? turn around now. german police have arrested a 24 year old asylum seeker who was detained at the scene. officials say the suspect was known to the police for theft and drug offences. authorities also say the driver was alone, but eyewitnesses reported two men in the mini coopen reported two men in the mini cooper. in other news, now ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says kyiv will not accept any peace deal agreed by russia and the us without its involvement. this comes after the kremlin confirmed ukraine will, of course, take part in any peace deal negotiations. it follows donald trump claiming he and vladimir putin had agreed to start talks on ending the war immediately. now two men accused of attacking police at manchester airport have denied assaulting police officers after

assaulting police officers after a video of the incident went viral. 20 year old mohammed ahmad faces multiple charges, including causing actual bodily harm to two officers. his brother, 25 year old mohammed ahmad, is charged with injuring a male officer during the brawl at terminal two. a female officer suffered a broken nose and two officers remain under investigation for potential misconduct. both men had their unconditional bail extended after they entered not guilty pleas at liverpool crown court earlier today. and king charles and queen camilla have been met by a large group of anti—monarchy demonstrators on their visit to middlesbrough today. the royal couple were greeted by the republic's large yellow placards reading not my king, with protesters chanting the phrase as they arrived. the king and queen were in the north—east city to learn how the town is supporting its residents across a range of issues, from mental health concerns to knife

crime. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to nigel. 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/advent. >> good evening. gdp figures were always talking gdp figures, as we know those of us that are slightly older. remember when gdp growth was two and a half to 3% every year and the world seemed fine? well, now there is virtually no gdp growth whatsoever. the figures we got out today for the last quarter were utterly miserable, showing growth of 0.1 of a percent. but the really interesting thing, and what nobody seems to want to talk about is what is gdp per capha? talk about is what is gdp per capita? what is wealth? how do we measure it by the individual? and once again, it was down. and here's the thing. since the

fourth quarter in 2022, gdp per capha fourth quarter in 2022, gdp per capita has increased in two courses but fallen in six. we are getting poorer. and yet it seems to me the only way we get any gdp growth at all is through mass migration. why? because there are more people. so the economy is that little bit bigger. and that's what gdp measures. it measures the size overall of the productive economy. i think it's becoming clearer and clearer that mass migration is making us poorer as a country in every way. interestingly, since the mass migration experiment began, productivity has fallen as well. and i remember for so many years people saying, look, nigel, you may be right. you know, you may have your concerns about population growth. you may have your concerns about cultural integration, but hey, they're all coming in to work. it's good for the economy. so why don't you shut up and order another

pint? actually, what we've learned is the vast majority of those that have been coming in the last few years don't work at all. and those that do, if they're in low skilled jobs overall, are going to cost the economy in the long run. so is migration mass migration making us poorer? give me your thoughts. farage on gb news dot com. i'm joined in the studio by rob bates, research director for the centre for migration control. i've got kwasi kwarteng, former conservative member of parliament and chancellor, the exchequer, with me and laurie laybourne, associate fellow at the institute for public policy research. good evening gentlemen. rob, am i right? is mass migration making us poor? i mean, clearly there are other factors with the economy, but it does seem to me, when i read out that number since the end of 2022, it's coincided with record numbers of net migration into our country. >> yeah. and i think we have to look really at the type of migration that we have been seeing, especially in the last

20 or so years. and even in the last five years, we've seen a real, real escalation towards this low skilled, low wage immigration. in 2023, 70% of those coming into the country on a skilled worker visa. so not even including dependants and those on student visas were earning less than was actually needed for them to be making a net fiscal benefit and paying more into the treasury than they actually take out in terms of the amount that's having to be invested to increase the capital stock and maintain the roads, and increase the police force and increase the police force and the health service and the schools and things like that. and i think there's a bigger problem here in terms of you mentioned productivity in this country being absolutely dire. what we are doing effectively, we are allowing businesses to put off making that necessary investment to improve the productivity in their area, to improve the actual output that they're achieving, and they're instead managing to plug those gapsin instead managing to plug those gaps in the short term with these with these people coming from overseas. >> and effectively with cheap laboun >> yeah. that's it exactly. and i think if you look throughout history, no successful economy has ever been able to adapt to huge changes, whether they be technological or whatnot, if they are staving off that

investment by relying on, on on labour that's underpaid. >> these arguments, rob, five years ago, were impossible to make without being screamed at. is there a change of narrative? >> oh, i think definitely. i think in the last three years we've had people really starting to wake up, you know, the figures really about the gdp per capha figures really about the gdp per capita declining almost just confirm what most people are starting to feel anyway in that, you know, our roads are full, our public services aren't working how we would like them to. things just don't seem to be quite in concord with how they should be. and i think people now are starting to feel validated. the more we're seeing the data come out, the more we're seeing statistics. and, you know, the gdp per capita one is clearly one. but there are other indicators as well. and i think, you know, people really are now just feeling validated and therefore more confident in the belief that it's not it's not racist or things such as that to oppose the level of immigration that we've seen. it's just basic common sense. >> kwasi obviously there are other factors here. there are, and i absolutely get that. but i do think the points about productivity, gdp per capita, you know, coinciding with that penod you know, coinciding with that period of huge numbers coming. >> so the biggest irony of this,

and you and i will remember