to change their gender doctors to change their gender to have past wrongdoings scrubbed from the public record. plus has been revealed by tony blair's think tank that labour is overestimating the number of jobs to be created from net zero. state of the nation starts right now. we'll see. i'm also joined this fight by my panel. senior reporter ellie wheatley and political journalist and broadcaster zoe grunwald. as even broadcaster zoe grunwald. as ever, please let me know your thoughts, your views. gbnews.com/electionparty. but now it's time for the news with sam francis. >> very good evening to you. the top story from the newsroom at 8:00. well, donald trump has accused emmanuel macron and keir starmer of doing nothing to end

the war in ukraine. it comes ahead of their visit to the white house next week. however, cabinet minister pat mcfadden insists britain is, he says, in a good position, with mr trump urging his government colleagues to focus on actions not just what donald trump says. well, speaking to fox news, the united states president also said volodymyr zelenskyy has no cards in the peace talks. take listen. >> but they didn't do anything ehhen >> but they didn't do anything either. the war is going on. no meetings with russia? no nothing. you know they haven't done anything. and i, if you're a macron, is a friend of mine, and i've met with the prime minister and, you know, he's a very nice guy, but nobody has done anything. and i've been watching this go on for years, and i'm doing it for one reason i hate the killing. i hate to see those young people killed. they're not americans. they're russians and ukrainians. i hate to see the killing. >> next, let's just bring you an update on the breaking developments in germany, where a major police manhunt is underway in berlin. that's after reports

of a knife attack at the city's holocaust memorial, which is believed to have left several people wounded, including one man who is seriously injured. that man is said to have been injured by a sharp object at around 6:00 local time at 5:00 here in the uk, and has now been taken to hospital by emergency services. according to local reports, a berlin policeman has said that a major operation has now been triggered following that attack at the memorial, which sits

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who he says feel shut out and ignored by elites. and just before i hand you back to westminster, pope francis is being treated for double pneumonia but remains stable, according to his doctor. doctor sergio alfieri confirmed the pontiff is not in danger of death, but stressed that his recovery is ongoing. the vatican hospital is not releasing images of the pope, though, during his treatment due to respect for his privacy. the pope will remain in hospital for at least another week, with his condition changing daily. but his doctor has reassured the public, saying he's not in any immediate risk. those are the latest headlines for now. a wonderful new background for you there from the newsroom. and i'll hand you straight back to chris hope.

>> for the very latest gb news. direct your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/poll. >> that is it. >> that is it. >> welcome back to state of the nation. now, it's been revealed on bbc news that sir keir starmer has made it clear to his ministers that labour has overlooked the concerns of working people about immigration for far too long. in a leaked letter seen by this channel, he emphasises that the party must acknowledge that working brits feel let down by the leaders on this issue and they must stop being patronised. the letter highlights labour's new strategy to win back immigration. worried voters have been drawn to reform uk's call to freeze net migration. this is especially evident in the pm's ongoing clash with the uk's top judge over a ruling that allowed a palestinian family to stay in the uk through a programme meant

for ukrainian refugees. now i'm joined by former labour mp for perry barr, khalid mahmood. khalid, welcome to state of the nation. thank you forjoining us nation. thank you for joining us tonight. why does the pm feel he has to say this in public? surely it's obvious that people shouldn't be patronised about concerns about migration. >> the pm is saying this, christopher, because in opposition we had a huge amount of rightful criticism against the conservatives not doing enough. we are now in government and i think he has to make very clear to all the cabinet members and certainly all the members of parliament as well, is that we're not in opposition now. we're in government and unlike the tories, we've got to deal with the situation and that is what the people want. i go around my in area in birmingham, across the whole of birmingham and sometimes in london, and particularly if you're the back of a cab sometimes and listen to the cab drivers and the issues they've got, these people are concerned about what they feel

is the people are not listening to them. so what sir keir is saying, quite rightly, is, look, guys, you know, we were in opposition. we can say all sorts of things. and the labour party generally, when in opposition, we go back to our principles and we go back to our principles and we try and rely on these sort of things. we're not in that position now. we have to take real action and serve the people. and those are the people who we need to support. >> and perhaps make clear, being worried about migration isn't a far right or racist thing. it's just worried about things in your community, right? >> yeah it is. everybody's worried about it. all the people that i know have concerns about it have had some concerns for a while in terms of people who are just coming through, and then they see these people, you know, they're not looked after properly. we spent the conservative government, spent huge amounts of money in hotels. those money that should be put to use in our communities and all that. then the rwanda programme, huge amount of wastage. but what we need to now as a labour government is to ensure that we don't make the same mistakes and we move

forward. >> we're looking at looking at images now of the pm with ursula von der leyen, who's the european commission president. and of course, what could be a big issue is allowing net migration or allowing migrants from the european union to come to britain aged 18 to 30. we'll see how that plays out in coming weeks. the pm in his letter talked about a woman he met in oldham, lancashire, who was concerned about young men, migrant men from europe, committing antisocial behaviour on her street. and she felt that before she could raise the issue with the pm, she had to show him an old box of photos of her at a wedding with asian neighbours. now, the pm says that's devastating, that in order to have a conversation about immigration, you've got to show that you're not a kind of racist person. that is crazy, right? >> absolutely crazy because a lot of asian people have concerns about this immigration, anti—social behaviour of people that have come across who don't understand how to behave in society, who get no support because the way they've been

allowed in and the fact there is no way to deal with what they're doing, they're just left to their own devices. so what we've got to do now is, first of all, stop people, those people coming in, take this issue very seriously and deal with the people that we have here. and as labour party's already done, is get these people out of the country as soon as they can. and the labour party's got a good record at the moment in delivering that for the people. >> on the returns is doing well, isn't it? yeah. net migration will wait and see how the numbers are later this year in terms of falling. it should have fallen under measures brought in by the tory government. and let's see if that happens. i mean, sir keir starmer was shocked by that. nearly a million arriving in the so—called by critics, the boris wave. in his letter, he talks about other parties but doesn't name him. he says that if you don't, don't do something then the right will benefit those who want to charge the nhs. that's reform uk, we think, have a flat taxation policy that the tories. that's the tory party. or cutting back rights for parents and women, that sort of course. what kemi badenoch has talked about although denied she meant

that.is about although denied she meant that. is that right. so we're not by not listening to the pm , not by not listening to the pm, you will drive people who may may want to go towards labour may want to g