a bbc >> we will indeed. and a bbc documentary about gaza has been pulled from the bbc iplayer, while the corporation conducts further due diligence following the broadcaster admitting a child featured was the son of a man who has worked for hamas. he not only featured, he narrated the whole thing. >> and brexit betrayal. britain will offer european countries a youth mobility scheme, as well as signing up potentially to eu rules on our food. what else is on the table in this brexit renegotiation? >> yes, indeed. and elon musk slams zelenskyy. the world's richest man says it's right for donald trump to ignore the despised dictator. he says in peace talks with moscow. but reform uk leader nigel farage disagrees with that description of the ukrainian president. >> zelenskyy is not a dictator, but but it's only right and proper that ukrainians have a timeline for election. >> well, right in the middle of

this diplomatic war between the white house and the ukrainian president, sir keir starmer is preparing to head to washington in what will be the most difficult and delicate of diplomatic missions. that they should send millions and millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries. thatis migrants into their countries. that is the biggest threat to europe. >> that's j.d. vance's bleak warning for europe. but what do you think is the biggest threat we face on this continent? unvetted migration. >> and ding dong. next stop. milano plans to triple the number of international passengers at saint pancras station in london could open up new cross—channel routes to france, germany, switzerland and even italy. everywhere in europe is on the cards. you're very excited about this

new train system that might emerge from saint pancras. >> well, i think it's going to be quite fun, really. getting a getting a train to milan. i've never been to. have you been to milan? >> i've driven through milan, but never actually, you know, hopped off and stayed there. >> i watched the willy wonka film with the sort of the big chocolate sort of emporium. >> in the film. actually. >> in the film. actually. >> it was very good and very british as well, which i particularly liked. but but it's all based on that big shopping arcade in milan, isn't it? the sort of the glass roof dome thing? we're getting off topic. >> yeah, but i also heard something else trivial. i also heard from someone else who works here in a very senior position, that you would make a very good queue with all this talk of a new james bond. >> oh, yes. well, i haven't told you this, but this pen has actually got a garrotte in it, and i can, i can, i can pull it out. and i think, what else have i got. this this phone, i don't know, let's let's say it explodes. i mean yeah fantastic. >> i wouldn't be surprised. i wouldn't be surprised at anything that tom does. but yes,

we've got a lot to talk about. it's been called a victory. this bbc documentary on gaza being pulled because of those links with hamas. gbnews.com/yoursay do get in touch. we're going to speak to the man who exposed the scandal very shortly indeed. >> still to come. >> still to come. >> good afternoon. these are your headlines from the bbc newsroom. hamas says it is investigating the possibility of a mix up of hostage remains, and have named the six hostages they will release tomorrow. elia cohen, omar shem—tov, tal shoham, omar hencote, hisham al—saeed and avera mengistu are set to be freed tomorrow. it comes after hamas has said the remains of israeli hostage shiri appeared to be mixed with other human remains in what it claims was an israeli airstrike. it comes as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said hamas

will pay for failing to release sheree's body as agreed. the idf said it had instead received the remains of an anonymous body without identification, and accused hamas of violating the shaky ceasefire. two bodies were identified as her children, kefir and ariel, while the body, believed to be sherry's, did not match any hostage and remains unidentified. meanwhile, a bbc documentary about gaza has been pulled from the bbc iplayer. the corporation says they are conducting further due diligence following the broadcaster's admission that a child featured in the film was a son of a man who worked as hamas's deputy minister of agriculture. a statement from the bbc said there have been continuing questions raised about the programme and in the light of these, we are conducting further due diligence with the production company. the programme will not be available on iplayer while this is taking place, and sinn fein are set to

boycott white house saint patrick's day celebrations over trump's stance on the israel—gaza conflict. the party leader, mary lou mcdonald, has said she will not attend an event at the white house around saint patrick's day over a principled stance against the threat of mass expulsion of the palestinian people from gaza. however, no invites have been officially issued yet. in other news, volodymyr zelenskyy says he told donald trump's ukraine envoy his country needs a reliable and clear system of security guarantees before a peace deal can be struck with russia. ukraine's president met with the retired us lieutenant general keith kellogg, in kyiv last night as political tensions deepened between the two countries. it came as the white house cancelled a joint conference with zelenskyy after donald trump dubbed his ukrainian counterpart a dictator. meanwhile, elon musk has accused kyiv of being a massive graft machine, feeding

off the dead bodies of ukrainian soldiers, and said president trump was right to ignore president zelenskyy in peace talks with moscow. this all comes after donald trump stated russia has the cards in any peace talks, as it's taken a lot of territory. meanwhile, french president emmanuel macron has said trump cannot be weak against putin. this comes ahead of the french leader's visit to washington next week, where macron says it is his role to convince trump that their interests are the same. the intervention puts sir keir starmer under pressure to take tough lines during his own trip tough lines during his own trip to washington, and safeguarding minister jess phillips has said ministerjess phillips has said the prime minister will have a serious talk with trump when they meet. >> i'm absolutely sure that the prime minister, who has made it incredibly clear that the security of our nation and our nafion security of our nation and our nation in the world is a fundamental core principle and the most important thing for our

government that he will negotiate with donald trump with, you know, not not with laughter and with jokes, but with the seriousness that it deserves. >> and a polish woman claiming to be madeleine mccann has been charged with stalking and harassing madeleine's parents. 23 year old yulia van der walt was arrested as she landed at bristol airport at around 8 pm. on wednesday night. she is accused of stalking, causing serious alarm or distress against madeleine's parents, kate and gerry mccann, between the 2nd of may last year and the 15th of february this year. van pelt allegedly turned up at their home and sent letters, calls, voicemails and whatsapp messages, which amounted to stalking, according to court documents. she also accused of stalking madeleine's sister and brother. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to tom and emily. >> 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/poll. >> good afternoon britain. it is eight minutes past midday. now the prime minister, he's preparing for the most difficult and delicate diplomatic mission . and delicate diplomatic mission. next week. he's travelling, of course, to washington, right in the middle of a fierce war of words between the white house and the ukrainian president. >> yes. and the latest broadside came last night, when elon musk accused volodymyr zelenskyy of being a dictator and a graft machine, feeding off the bodies of dead soldiers. >> it's thought that the british prime minister could be about to offer a firm commitment to raise uk defence spending to 2.5% of gdp. >> but, but, but few believe that this will be enough to placate donald trump, who has called on european leaders to raise military spending by far, far more up to 5% of gdp.

>> which is more than even america spends. but our home and security editor, mark white, joins us now. because, mark, the first thing i want to ask you is, has has the prime minister been pipped to the post in terms of being the first european leader to go and visit trump? >> well, it might well have. well he has, because emmanuel macron of france is going to be there on monday. and we had been told it had been briefed that sir keir starmer would be going there. he'd be the first european leader to have face to face talks with president trump. and there was all this talk of then as hosting a summit similar to then as hosting a summit simila