a post on truth social, the in a post on truth social, the united states president suggested zelenskyy was prolonging the war to keep what he described as the gravy train of support flowing. trump also claimed he alone could negotiate an end to the war, saying joe biden never tried and europe has failed to bring peace. well, meanwhile, here in the uk, opposition figures have criticised donald trump after he called ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy a dictator, as i just mentioned moments ago. kemi badenoch has rejected the claim, saying zelenskyy is ukraine's democratically elected leader, while urging sir keir starmer to increase defence spending. meanwhile, leader of the liberal democrats, ed davey, has condemned the comments from trump, calling for others to also reject the claims. downing street, though, hasn't commented so far as sir keir starmer prepares to meet trump in washington next week. in other news, uk inflation has jumped to 3%, the fastest rise in ten months, driven by soaring food

prices, airfares and private school fees. the energy, water and council tax bills are also set to rise in april, meaning households are bracing for yet more pressure on budgets. meanwhile, businesses say higher wages and national insurance hikes could also push prices up even further. the government, though, is warning the road to low inflation will be bumpy and political parties are trading blame over tax and spending policies. retailers selling knives online will face stricter laws, as a review has found it's easier for children to buy blades than paracetamol. new rules mean tougher prison sentences for selling knives to under 18, and a legal duty for retailers to report bulk or suspicious purchases. the crackdown follows tragedies unked crackdown follows tragedies linked to the unlicensed sale of knives, as the government is vowing to protect young people from knife crime. a builder who murdered his wife and stepson after refusing to accept their divorce has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 34 years.

calogero ricotta stabbed his wife to death at their home in essex before killing her son as he tried to protect her. a judge called ricotta controlling and coercive and said his vanity, his pride and ego led to those murders. well, officers were at the scene within just minutes where he was quickly arrested. >> put your hands in the air. now! put your hands in the air. show me your hands. get on your knees. get on your knees, on your knees. put your hands behind your head. hands behind your head. but don't move. don't move! you're under arrest. attempted murder. you don't have to say anything. >> and weather news for you. the uk's cold and grey spell is finally coming to an end, with much milder weather on the way by the end of this week. temperatures will be above average across the whole country, warmer than greece, in fact, which is in the grip of an unusual cold snap. some eastern areas of the country could see highs of 16 degrees on friday, a big jump from the usual nine degrees for mid—february. but with low pressure taking over soon. unsettled conditions will

follow, bringing wind and rain. that's the news on gb news. a full round up at the top of the houn full round up at the top of the hour. now though, it's back to martin. >> 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. >> welcome to farage. now today donald trump has launched an astonishing, eviscerating attack on ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, claiming he needs to move fast or risk losing ukraine altogether. the us president has accused zelenskyy of being a dictator without elections. he said he has done a terrible job and even suggested he was prolonging the war to keep the gravy train of support flowing. well, writing on truth social, the president said this. a dictator without elections. zelenskyy better move fast or

he's not going to have a country left. in the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the war with russia. something all admit, but only trump and the trump administration can do. i love ukraine, but zelenskyy has done a terrible job. his country is shattered and millions have unnecessarily died. well, he also added on truth social that he is a dictator without elections. zelenskyy better move fast or have no country left, as we just said. now let's get to the studio. discuss this with the studio. discuss this with the former lord chancellor and the former lord chancellor and the conservative mp, sir robert buckland, as well as my wonderful panel, the former labour mp lloyd russell—moyle and the former chancellor kwasi kwarteng. gentlemen, welcome to the studio. let's start with you, sir robert. an eviscerating attack. nothing was left untouched. you started by calling him a modestly successful comedian. it got worse from there, calling him a dictator that wouldn't allow elections. and then a key point saying half of this, half of the

money we sent to him is missing. an astonishing evisceration. what's your take on it.7 >> it's an appalling stab in the back by somebody who is supposed to be the leader of the free world. it's demeaning to the office of president. it demonstrates once again that donald trump is not fit to be the president of the united states. and these remarks are nothing short of disgraceful. they undermine the solidarity that all of us in the west have shown with a country, a sovereign country that was attacked in an unprovoked way by attacked in an unprovoked way by a dictator of vladimir putin, a corrupt dictator. it is donald trump really saying that he's on the side of vladimir putin. if so, god help the world. >> he's probably saying he's on the side of getting this war oven the side of getting this war over. it's all fair and well to have a pop at donald trump. but this war has been raging for three years. the third anniversary is on monday. there's no end in sight. like it or not, some kind of end game appears to be in sight. >> so you do a deal over the heads of the people who actually

are affected by this. you. you don't involve ukraine. you you try and do some. you treat politics like some sort of business deal, and you abandon millions of people to a fate that they do not deserve or want. that's not leadership. that's not the politics of freedom. it's appalling way to conduct oneself. he needs to get real very quickly and understand that decisions about ukraine cannot be made without the ukrainian people's involvement. what if it was britain? what if we were invaded? would we give up kent and the home counties and do and have a deal done over our heads? it is outrageous, martin, and it is a disgrace. >> so, robert, you can say that all you like. you can protest all you like. you can protest all you like. the european union leaders can protest all they like. sir keir starmer can protest all they like. doesn't matter, won't change a thing. donald trump has come in and said this is the way this will end and that's what's going to happen. >> well, it's extraordinary way to go about doing a deal,

because he's revealed his entire hand of cards before the negotiation even began. the concessions that he made about nato membership, land and territory, i mean, entirely the wrong way to conduct politics and diplomacy. i mean, it would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. we're talking about the lives of millions of people here. if this was so freedom of the west. >> but if this was so easy, if the diplomatic route that you're suggesting involving zelenskyy was so easy, why is it happening in three years? >> because you're dealing with a dictator. you're dealing with a man who is an unreasonable, irrational actor. that's putin i'm talking about, not trump. that's another question. but with such an adversary in the kremlin, are you really telling me that we can, as we did 70, 80 or 90 years ago, assume that we are dealing with a reasonable person? look at what look at what's happened as a result of putin's actions. and this insidious, insinuating, insidious, insinuating, insidious approach being taken

by some politicians, both in america and here, that somehow ukraine was to blame for this war is something that we've got to utterly reject. that is not true. nothing in these tweets or posts is based in fact. he's he's made assertions that are all factually wrong. but that's typical of this man. he's a stranger to the truth. and once again, he's demonstrating that in spades. >> what about the assertion that a lot of money has gone missing before the war? transparency international told us ukraine is one of the world's most corrupt nations. why would that change dunng nations. why would that change during a war? there's reason to believe it may have got worse. he has every right to say, where's our money gone? >> well, i think that question is about ukraine. ukrainian is about ukraine. ukraini