this issue of immigration. this letter tells us a lot about this government. some of it is quite chilling. over in america, donald trump and elon musk have been throwing linguistic grenades into ukraine, accusing zelenskyy of running a, quote, fraud machine. feeding off the dead bodies of soldiers. is this sort of rhetoric helpful or not.7 because surely everybody wants this conflict to end. and i know a lot of you out there love ben habib. you were disappointed when he left the reform party overits when he left the reform party over its structure. well, they've changed it this week. he must be delighted. he's on the panel tonight, so stay here to find out. i'm besides ben this evening, who is now, of course, the chairman of great british pac is going to be joe phillips, journalist and former press secretary to paddy ashdown. first, though, here's your latest news headlines.

>> beth. thank you. and a very good evening to you. the top story tonight at six reform uk's deputy leader richard tice has slammed labour, claiming they failed to take immigration seriously and dismiss working class voters. it comes after a letter seen by gb news reveals sir keir starmer told his ministers to admit that his party ignored working people's concerns about immigration. the prime minister says politicians have also become too scared to acknowledge that some migrants are genuine refugees, but some aren't. he also warns labour must stop patronising voters and counter the rise of reform uk's policies. he also pledges to stand up for ordinary people who feel shut out and ignored by elites. also in politics tonight, labour mp andrew gwynne, who was sacked over what were described as vile whatsapp messages, is now under investigation by parliament's standards watchdog. he was dismissed as a health minister earlier this month after seeing sending sexist, anti—semitic and

racist messages. in a group chat with other labour mps. well, the parliamentary commissioner for standards is probing whether his actions caused significant damage to the reputation of mps and the house of commons as a whole. pope francis is being treated for double pneumonia but remains stable, according to his doctor in the vatican, doctor sergio alfieri confirmed the pontiff is not in danger of death, but stressed his recovery is ongoing. the hospital where he is staying is not releasing images of the pope, though dunng images of the pope, though during his treatment due to respect for his privacy. the pope will return remain rather in hospital, at least through the next week, with his condition changing daily. his doctor reassured the public, stating pope francis is not out of danger but not in immediate risk either. israel has accused hamas of violating the ceasefire after forensic tests showed a body returned from gaza was not that of hostage shiri bass. her two young sons were identified

among the remains, though, along with an 84 year old man. the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says hamas put the body of a woman in a coffin instead, and has now vowed to make the terror group pay the full price. israel is now demanding the return of shiri bass, whether she is alive or dead, while hamas says the mix up may have been caused by an israeli air strike. and earlier journalist amir oren gave us his thoughts. >> you have two possible hypothesis. one is that the chaos in gaza is such that the minor organisation or actually crime family, who originally abducted the bibas family and then had to give them over to hamas, misplaced the body, or perhaps hamas later misplaced the body. the other possibility is that shiri bibas was abused,

molested or worst. >> the bbc has pulled a gaza documentary from iplayer after discovering its 13 year old narrator is the son of a hamas official. the broadcaster says it wasn't informed of the family connection before airing the programme, and is now conducting further due diligence. it comes after culture secretary lisa nandy and high profile media figures urged the bbc to investigate how the film was made. the programme was removed today, with the bbc saying it won't return while that review takes place. also tonight, three men convicted in connection with a vile grooming gang in west yorkshire will have their sentences reviewed by the court of appeal after an mp called them pathetically short. 47 year old ibrar hussain and brothers imtiaz and fayyaz ahmed, aged 62 and 45, were sentenced last month to prison terms ranging from six and a half years to nine years. the case involved the abuse of two teenage girls

in the 1990s and following pubuc in the 1990s and following public outcry, including local mps. the solicitor general has referred their sentences to the court of appeal for review. and finally, some tech news for you. apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its strongest data security feature from the uk. devices. after the government demanded access to user data. the change means icloud storage will no longer be encrypted, making personal files accessible to both apple and law enforcement with a warrant. apple, though, says it's gravely disappointed and warns creating a backdoor for governments could be exploited by bad actors. privacy campaigners have also called it an unprecedented attack, while us politicians warn it could threaten intelligence sharing with the uk. that's the news on gb news. a full roundup of all the top stories at 7:00. now, though, straight back to bev turner. >> 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. >> all right. good evening. welcome to dewbs& co with me bev turner tonight while michelle is off for half term. now joining me until 7:00, chairman of great british pac ben habib and journalist and former press secretary to paddy ashdown, joe phillips. evening, both of you. now, don't forget you can get in touch at home this evening. gbnews.com/poll. your gb news has seen a private letter that sir keir starmer has reportedly sent to his cabinet, saying that labour must stop looking down on people who are worried about immigration. does this mean the pm is taking the fight to reform, and can he appeal to those voters? let's just have a look at this letter, guys and the bits that we've seen from it. he says ministers had to stop looking down on people then who were worried about

immigration, which is a message that he needs to get out to the pubuc that he needs to get out to the public to have any chance whatsoever of winning back people from reform who are at the moment ahead on that particular debate. yeah, safe to say. >> i mean, i think the salient issue for politics today, right across western europe, the united kingdom and the united states is immigration. you know, it, as suella braverman said a couple of years ago, many people have reiterated since then, including obviously myself and most recently, jd. i think you have to say vance is the right way to .pronounce it. >> as opposed to. >> as opposed to. >> vance as opposed to vance. yeah, i just think j.d. vance. but anyway. and jd vance said it was the seminal issue that, you know, we need to deal with. so immigration is right up there. and, you know, i think what leaders of western civilisation need to recognise is that any form of immigration and this is going to make people's eyebrows rise, including joe's, no doubt. but any form of immigration is an admission that you can't deal

with issues in your own country, on your own. when you take foreign people into your country, you should only do it if there's a need for your country to have those foreigners. in other words, you can't fill the need from within. and what we've done is there's been some ideological hijacking of the british governing class over the last 30 or 40 years, in particular, where they've seen the taking on of vast quantities of foreign people into our country and then wrapping them in a protected blanket and allowing multicultural silos to exist where there's division, frankly, within our society as some kind of liberal diverse advantage. and what we've done in the process is undermine our workforce, put undue burden on our public services, break the settled culture that the united kingdom used to have, and create division right across society. and by the way, that's a that doesn't make sense. what i've just said, division across society because society requires

a settled, integrated culture and we don't have one. we've broken our society. >> joe, if keir starmer really thinks this, he talks in this letter about this example of a woman that he met in oldham in lancashire, he says she only felt able to raise concerns about young migrant men from europe committing anti—social behaviour by convincing him first that she was not racist. he said i think about a woman i met in oldham who was worried about 1504 00:09: