>> good evening everybody. you're watching state of the nafion you're watching state of the nation on gb news right here with me, matt goodwin, the show that speaks up for you. the forgotten majority on tonight's show. finland has decided to pubush show. finland has decided to publish statistics on the nationality of sex crime perpetrators following a shocking rise in violent sex attacks. i'll be revealing the results of that study later. right here on state of the nation. another attack in germany by a failed asylum seeker has shocked the country with the german federal elections just nine days away, with the alternative for germany the populist movement rising in the populist movement rising in the polls, could we be about to witness another political earthquake? and today, vice president j.d. vance has dominated social media and the national conversation by issuing a stark warning to europe's leaders. but are they going to listen to the vice president?

and that state of the nation tonight with me, matt goodwin starts right now. but before we get to all of that, let's go to the news headunes that, let's go to the news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> matt. thank you. good evening. it'sjust >> matt. thank you. good evening. it's just gone. 8:00. these are your headlines. j.d. vance has warned britain and the eu over what he claimed was backsliding, free speech and democracy. addressing the munich security conference, the us vice president suggested there has been a retreat of fundamental values in europe. vance also praised munich's hospitality, despite the city reeling from yesterday's car attack that left 30 injured, some seriously. the 24 year old afghan asylum seeker responsible has been arrested

and is due in court. vance warned that the biggest threat facing the west is not external but the threat from within. >> threat that i worry the most about vis a vis europe is not russia, it's not china, it's not any other external actor. and what i worry about is the threat from within. the retreat of europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the united states of america. >> meanwhile, the foreign secretary has said we are some way away from negotiating peace between russia and ukraine. it comes after david lammy met with the us vice president in munich today, where they discussed possibilities of a ukraine peace deal >>i deal >> i was very encouraged in our conversations about ukraine. all of us have this desire to bring this horrendous war to an end. we share the view that there has to be an enduring peace. we

recognise that this can't be minsk 3.0. this has to be a serious negotiated peace. and there was an agreement that zelenskyy and the ukrainians have to be part of that negotiated deal. >> in other news, now an indian man has been found guilty of raping and murdering irish backpacker danielle mclaughlin in goa. vikat bhagat attacked the 28 year old in 2017. her body was discovered in a field the next day. her family say justice has finally been achieved after an eight year trial plagued by delays. a post mortem found she died from brain damage and strangulation. they're now watching to see what further legal steps will follow. it may be valentine's day, but love is not in the air for uber and addison lee. drivers who are striking today, causing travel chaos across the uk. thousands

of drivers are logging off dunng of drivers are logging off during peak hours today in a campaign for better pay and working conditions. the strike action is taking place until 10 pm. tonight. and meghan markle p.m. tonight. and meghan markle has released a new image of her and prince harry together on valentine's day, just hours after the prince and princess of wales also shared their first ever valentine's day post. william is seen kissing kate on the cheek as they sit in a wooded area. the image, taken from a video released last year when she ended cancer treatment. the couple shared it on their official x account with a heart emoji. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to matt. >> for the very latest gb news direkt your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to

gbnews.com/poll. >> welcome back to state of the nation. everybody with me, matt goodwin. now, i don't know about you, but i'm utterly frustrated and fed up about the state of our country. for years now here in britain, we have seen infuriating examples of migrants coming into our country, abusing our laws and being able then, remarkably, to stay here regardless. our courts seem powerless to actually enforce our asylum rules. with the looming influence of strasbourg never far from their minds. just look at a few recent examples that i've highlighted on x. a nigerian woman who tried and failed eight times to secure asylum in the uk was finally granted the right to stay after joining. get this a terror group. just to boost her claim for asylum. she said that she faced persecution in nigeria because of her group membership. is now the time to finally turn our

backs on the european convention on human rights, i hear you ask. we'll get this. another woman from the caribbean who arrived in britain and illegally overstayed her visa, has delayed being deported from the country by claiming that her home would be too hot for her new latvian husband, who would, and i quote, struggle to cope with its tropical cuisine. i'm not making this up. how about a pakistani father who was jailed for child sex offences on three and i quote barely pubescent girls has escaped deportation because it would be unduly harsh on his children and their right to a family life. under the european convention on human rights. i go on, and albanian criminal has been allowed to stay in the uk, partly because his son get this will not eat foreign chicken nuggets. the judge allowed the appeal against deportation yet again, citing the european convention on human rights. a

woman from ghana recently won the right to stay in britain after staging a marriage ceremony in ghana that neither she nor her husband attended. francisca boateng won her immigration appeal after her union with a german man was deemed to be long enough to allow her to stay in the uk, even though they didn't attend the actual marriage ceremony. and a cuban woman, you might have read this in the newspapers, came to the uk on a visa to join her boyfriend, who had already died, despite having two appeals rejected after claiming she deserved indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner. the case rumbles on and the woman remains here in britain. and look, i know i'm sounding like a broken record, but you really need to know about this. just one more truly shocking case for you that dropped today. a paedophile from zimbabwe will be allowed to stay in britain because he would face hostility if he was dropped. sorry if he was deported back to his home country. an immigration

tribunal judge blocked his deportation by the home office because it would breach his rights under article three of the european convention on human rights, which prohibits torture, inhumane treatment and degrading punishment. surely, britain, i ask, when is enough? enough? how many more foreign fibbers will we allow to remain in our country? despite a growing national desire to toughen up, to regain control of the borders, and to put the safety and security of the british people first? who voted for this, i ask, who actually wants this? i ask, it seems increasingly clear to me that the only way we can take back control of our borders is to bite the bullet and walk away from the european convention on human rights, because if we don't, then europe and foreign courts and international conventions will continue to tell us who we can and cannot kick out of our own country. i think it's time to genuinely

take back control of our borders. i want to know what you think. so do hit me up on x and share your views with me now to discuss this very issue. political commentator chloe dobbs and broadcaster peta de silva. chloe. it's a long list all in the last couple of weeks. surely the time has come to leave the. >> well, that was a pretty long list, but there are far more even than those that you mentioned there. >> i think this is it's becoming very clear that it is actually really common for people to be able to, even if they're a criminal, to be able to give pretty much any excuse and be allowed to stay in the uk. we had a jamaican rapist allowed to stay because he claims he's bisexual. we had another jamaican, a drug dealer, allowed to stay because apparently his child is trans. also, a lot of people very sadly getting hurt and some dying in horrendous attacks from people who should have been removed from the country. not that long ago we had abdul ezedi that clapham

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