and tel here's the scene in gaza and tel aviv. of course, we'll keep you up to date throughout the show. >> sir keir starmer has defied president donald trump by announcing further support for ukraine and fresh sanctions on russia. we'll be discussing that. plus president trump's comments overnight shortly. >> meanwhile, is britain quietly slipping back under eu control? well, the telegraph reports that sir keir starmer is considering aligning britain with the european union on agricultural and food safety rules. >> well, that comes as the cpac conference has been taking place in maryland this week, with elon musk making headlines and president trump himself labelling himself as king. us political commentator nelson aspen will join us to take in all of that. >> and in a new crackdown from the labour government, benefits claimants may be forced to open up their bank accounts to the government. is this a good move to prevent benefit fraudsters, or is it an invasion of privacy?

of course we'll be debating all that. >> i'm sure that will get quite heated. i'm sure it will. and an incredible story of two very talented siblings. paul reached the summit of mount everest last year with his son. meanwhile, his sister fiona has just won a 3000 mile rowing race across the atlantic. they'll both be here to share more about their incredible feat. >> and we'll have all of the day's top stories with news editor at guido fawkes, max young and political commentator ian mcquillan. there they are. max is looking at his phone, but that's fine. no problem. welcome to saturday morning live, only on gb news. >> that was charming as always. >> that was charming as always. >> max is giving me daggers from across the room. i've known max for a while, so it's fine. don't worry about it. >> okay. now, today's show has got a little bit of an orwellian

theme to it. it's very 1984. we're gonna be talking all things big brother, aren't we, adam? >> we are? yeah, there's a lot of that sort of stuff swimming around. so, cardiff, using facial recognition at the six nations, as we just mentioned in the headlines there perhaps in a benefits crackdown, the government looking at your bank accounts and then apple as well having to provide a back door to everyone's data through icloud. i mean it's quite a lot. and i think, you know what, i'd be really interested to hear what you guys at home think about that, because there's a lot to sink our teeth into, i think. >> absolutely. and we also want to hear your peak of the week. we want to know what your favourite moment of the last seven days has been. you can send those in at gbnews.com/yoursay or gbviews@gbnews.uk. >> now, before we do anything else, of course, sophia hill has all your news headlines. >> very good morning. it's just gone 10:00. here are your latest headunes gone 10:00. here are your latest headlines from the bbc newsroom. breaking news in gaza as hamas prepares to release four more

hostages with the red cross standing by. you're seeing live pictures on your screen now. they're at the second location in gaza now. israeli hostages shoham and avera mengistu were handed over to the red cross earlier this morning. those being handed back imminently are the last living hostages from a group of 33 due to be freed in the first stage of the ceasefire deal that took effect on january 19th. this comes as israel's army have reported that the body of hamas hostage shiri bibas, has been identified. they say it's likely she was killed in captivity while with her two young sons. the foreign secretary has called hamas's failure to return the right body of an israeli hostage sick and abhorrent. now, sir keir starmer is expected to confirm a timeline to raise defence spending as he prepares to travel to washington to meet donald trump next week. reports suggest he will invite his counterpart to the uk for a state visit. the prime minister will have to walk a tricky line stateside, balancing the uk's

support for ukraine with the need to keep the us on side. this comes as president trump has accused emmanuel macron and sir keir starmer of doing nothing to end the war in ukraine. meanwhile, he also said volodymyr zelenskyy and vladimir putin need to get together and he thinks a peace deal can be done. now back in the uk, a major police search is underway for a runner who has been missing for three days. jenny hall was last seen in county durham just after 3 pm. on tuesday. police officers say they are becoming increasingly concerned. anyone who believes they have any relevant information is being asked to contact the police. and at least three people, including a child, have been killed as the roof of a shopping centre has collapsed in peru. at least 29 others were injured as the real plaza mall injured as the real plaza mall in trujillo. according to the peruvian government rail plaza, which operates a chain of shopping centres across 13 cities in peru, said it would close all of its businesses today as a mark of respect. and

it's a saturday showdown in the six nations today as england takes on scotland in the calcutta cup and wales are to play calcutta cup and wales are to play ireland in cardiff. scotland's fly half finn russell, has been passed fit to start today's game against england after recovering from a nasty head knock in scotland's round two loss to ireland. meanwhile, ireland's hooker dan sheehan says ireland will need to knuckle down to basics as they continue their guinness six nafions they continue their guinness six nations title quest. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. more in an hour. >> 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. >> malcolm grimston. >> malcolm grimston. >> very good morning. now to events in gaza. hamas is expected to release four more hostages in return for more than 600 palestinian prisoners. two have already been released. you're looking at live pictures

now, including one israeli who was taken on october the 7th and another who crossed into gaza over a decade ago. israeli hostages tell shammam and avera mengistu were handed over to the red cross earlier this morning. those being handed over now are the last living hostages from a group of 33, due to be freed in the first stage of the ceasefire deal that took place on the 19th of january. of course, we'll bnng of january. of course, we'll bring you more on this story as we get it. a live and developing situation. >> and just to add, we believe the names of those four are set to be released are lyor cohen, omer shemtov, omer hencote, and hisham al—sayed. those are the four that we are expecting to be released very shortly on those live pictures that you can see if you're watching on television. >> and as i say, as this develops, we'll bring you the latest here on gb news. now moving on, because sir keir starmer has defied president donald trump by announcing further support for ukraine and fresh sanctions on russia. >> that comes as the us president condemns the prime

minister and french president emmanuel macron for not doing anything to end the ukraine—russia war, just days before they're due to visit the white house. >> well, earlier, president zelenskyy has apparently conceded to washington's demands and is expected to sign a mineral deal as part of an ongoing peace deal negotiation. now, when trump was challenged on whether both world leaders were dictators. here is what the us president had to say. >> i think that president putin and president zelenskyy are going to have to get together because, you know what? we want to stop killing millions of people. >> well, joining us now to discuss this is political commentator theo usherwood. theo, thank you very much for joining us. prime minister is in a bit of a tricky position here, isn't he trying to act as a bndge isn't he trying to act as a bridge between europe and the us without isolating? he's trying to delicately balance and get my word out these two powers. how can he manage that? what's he going to say to donald trump

next week? >> well, i think the problem that keir starmer is going to have is that obviously he said that there's going to be increased aid for ukraine and he wants to see he wants further sanctions against russia. but from the white house's point of view, there is a danger, of course, that they see this as extending the war in ukraine. as you heard from donald trump there last night, he's absolutely adamant that he wants this war to come to an end, providing more military aid. and john healey, the defence secretary, was saying this on a visit to norway on thursday. but providing more military aid to ukraine is only going to extend that war. so keir starmer, you know, heading to washington next week, this could be the defining, one of the defining moments of his prime ministerial ship. he's got to tread that very delicate line of trying to persuade donald trump that ukraine is worth, is worth saving for europe. but at the same time, you know, in those

talks we saw last week in riyadh in saudi arabia, donald trump is absolutely adamant that a deal has to be done. russia has to be brought to the negotiating table. he succeeded in doing that. and as he was saying, you know, donald trump was saying he wants elections. and if there are elections in ukraine, there is a very distinct possibility that a pro—putin pro—kremlin candidate could win those elections. and then ukraine would, to all intents and purposes, fall under moscow's control. and that's something that would be ultimately seen as as a defeat for western europe and for ukraine and its allies. >> i want to ask you about donald trump's tweets earlier in the week, in which he called president zelenskyy a dictator. now, that came as quite a shock, i think, to many people. and it created, i think, you could say, quite an inflammatory situation for sir keir starmer to visit the white house. how is our prime minister going to go to

the white house and try and tackle this now? >> he's got to persuade donald trump that it's in america's interests not to give carte blanche to president putin, that if president putin were to, in effect, take over ukraine, that he could come back and have another go at parts of europe, eastern europe, the old what was what was before the during the cold war that came under the purview of moscow. he could have another go at one of those countries. so he needs to persuade donald trump that it is worth him backing europe and supporting europe and continuing to support europe through nato. and i think at the same time, keir starmer, and when you and you were talking about this in youn you were talking about this in your, in your bulletins was talking about a timeline and this was something that a month ago, this was not on the government's anywhere near the top of the government's agenda, but setting out a. timetable for

hitting 2.5% of gdp on defence spending. and keir starmer has got to try and persuade the president that, yes, europe is really serious about its defence andifs really serious about its defence and it's not just going to rely on handouts from the united states, which, you know, up three 4% of their defence of gdp on their defence spending to contribute towards nato. and if he can persuade the president that, you know, he is listening and europe is listening to his concerns about nato, defence spending and europe pulling its weight, then he might actually receive a fairly warm reception. but the worst thing for the prime minister to do, and i don't think there's any intention of doing this, by the way, in number 10. but just to go over to washington and tell the president he's wrong and what he said about president zelenskyy was wrong. he's got to try and find that middle ground and communicate to the president that, yes, he has listened. and that's why we're setting out that's why we're setting out that timetable on defence spending. >> while we've got you, i just want to ask very quickly about another story, which is apple capitulating to the uk

government and opening a back doon government and opening a back door, removing end to end encryption on icloud services. what's your take on that? is that setting a dangerous precedent for data privacy? >> i'm not. so. so on the one hand, you've got the government and you've got charities which are very concerned, which, you know, like the nspcc, which work with children and they don't want, you know, they have very legitimate concerns about organised crime, child trafficking, sex rings, whatever circulating images as well onune circulating images as well online and being able to do that because these because these platforms are encrypted and therefore you can't get in, you know, the authorities can't get into them and track down these criminals. and that's why the government has brought this case, because they want to know, they want to be able to get access. on the other hand, you've got civil liberties groups which are saying, well, actually, we you know, people need to have this encryption because they've got bank details, they've got personal information, which is perfectly legal, and they don't want that

to be, you know, they don't want that to fall to the victim of hackers. i was saying i think it was a tweet from your own tom harwood, who explained this really well, and i apologise if i've got this wrong, but it's the sort of thing you'd tweet was that you can't create a back door for the good guys, that you either have end to end encryption or you don't have end to end encryption. and at the moment, none of the platforms, whether it be apple or meta or any of these companies, they haven't developed a way. and there is no way to say, okay, we've got encryption that keeps people from hacking your private data, whether it be your bank details or whatever. but at the same time, we can give a code to the likes of the uk government or the american authorities or whatever, which allows them to access these particular details. and at the moment there isn't that middle ground. and so the concern is that, yes, okay, apple have decided to perfectly you know, they made a decision to acquiesce to the uk government on this. but that will mean that our data can become more vulnerable to hackers who want to access it to

get our bank details or whatever. and that's the concern. >> yeah, i think it's a real slippery slope. theo, thank you very much for joining slippery slope. theo, thank you very much forjoining us. that was theo usherwood there. really appreciate you taking the time to chat to us. now shall we move on? because yes, we've got two distinguished guests here to go through the top political stories of the day or the top headlines. we have eve mcquillian and max young. so shall we jump in, or do you want to do our peaks of the week as well? yeah. let's let's very quickly. >> do you say people have been very quick today coming in. we've got one from sarah s who says peak of the week being able to walk properly again after foot surgery five weeks ago. the post surgery boot is off, train is on and i can drive again. just need some vitamin d now. good for you sarah. very happy to hear that. and so keep them coming and keep them sending those in to us. adam, your pick of the week. >> yeah, pretty mundane week. i bought some new pillows which are very comfortable. so i'm getting i'm getting. slightly better sleep. >> sleep is so important. it is. and this job is specialist. >> it is. and i'm sleeping much better. i'm sure everyone will

better. i'm sure everyone will be pleased to hear, but that was my peak of the week. >> pretty small. my peak of the week this week is a little bit personal, but i wanted to share it regardless. i found out yesterday that i don't have cancen yesterday that i don't have cancer. yeah. yeah. i have been undergoing some tests and i learned yesterday that it's brilliant news. i'm in the clear and the reason i'm sharing this is my peak of the week. i was a bit uncertain because it's quite a private story. yeah. yeah. but it's. it was cervical cancer i was being tested for, and i want to be a bit of an advocate for young women like me. i'm only 27. this was my second ever smear test, and they found something. so, ladies out there, no matter what age you are, the second they invite you for your smear test, it is so, so important that you go because you just never know, no matter what age it is. so that's my pick of the week. >> yeah. and thank god. >> yeah. and thank god. >> emotional. yes. >> emotional. yes. >> yeah. but you're in the clear which you're all very happy about. but obviously the message is really important. >> yeah. so if you're a young lady out there please, please. i know it's a bit awkward. i know it's a bit uncomfortable, but

it's a bit uncomfortable, but it's so, so important that you do that. so that's my message of the week and a good peak of the week. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yes. there we are. sorry i feel like. no i've blown your pillows a little bit. >> yeah. well that's sorry i but it's an. >> important message. absolutely 100%. absolutely. >> yes. >> yes. >> well so. >> well so. >> i'm sleeping well, which is a really good news. >> obviously i'm sleeping well. yeah, exactly. >> no. great. but absolutely. >> no. great. but absolutely. >> we're bringing our two panellists now. >> good morning guys. morning wash. >> i 302