continues with the afd fallout continues with the afd alternative fur deutschland making serious gains in olaf scholz party, suffering their worst results in decades. what's next for germany and indeed the rest of europe? and live pictures on your screen. now there is ann widdecombe. that's at the reform uk conference in cornwall. nigel farage is about to address members down there and we'll bring you that live as and we'll bring you that live as and when it happens. but first here's your latest bulletin. it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin. thank you. the top stories us president donald trump says he's in serious discussions with vladimir putin over ending the war in ukraine. that's as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says. we hope that we can finish this war this year, not in three. on the third anniversary of russia's invasion. to mark the milestone, president zelenskyy has been hosting leaders at the support ukraine summit in kyiv. prime

minister sir keir starmer earlier spoke at the event on a virtual link from downing street. >> this echo in my ears. they informed decisions that i take and the peace that i believe that we must see. so i have a very simple, clear message today. the uk is with you today and every day , from his majesty and every day, from his majesty the king to the nhs workers volunteering in hospitals in ukraine. >> president trump has welcomed french president emmanuel macron to the white house today. it's the first one on one meeting between the pair since the us president re—entered the white house. donald trump also says he spoke to a group of g7 leaders today alongside president macron, noting that everyone on the call expressed the goal of seeing russia's war in ukraine end. mr trump and mr macron are due to speak shortly. elsewhere, former labour mp mike amesbury has been jailed for ten weeks after he admitted punching a man

to the ground in his cheshire constituency last october. he now faces calls to quit the commons. amesbury pleaded guilty to assaulting 45 year old paul fellows after video footage emerged showing the confrontation. his sentence triggers a recall petition if 10% of his constituents sign it, a by—election will be forced. delivering the sentence, the magistrate said amesbury's unprovoked, drunken behaviour was too serious to be dealt with by unpaid work. the vatican says the pope is slightly improving in health, but he remains in a critical condition. this morning, the vatican issued a short statement saying the pontiff was resting in hospital and the night went well. the updates on his health follow a statement yesterday in which the vatican said the pontiff was in a critical condition and was showing an initial mild kidney problem. the 88 year old has beenin problem. the 88 year old has been in rome's gemelli hospital since the 14th of february, and is being treated for double pneumonia and chronic bronchitis, and nigel farage has hit out at sir keir starmer,

saying labour is getting desperate after the prime minister accused the reform uk leader of perpetuating what he is calling dangerous right wing politics. mr farage is speaking to members in cornwall at any moment now. in a major speech at the labour conference in glasgow yesterday, the prime minister condemned reform's dangerous policies. >> a dangerous right wing politics even here in scotland, that will say they are the ones who can tilt politics towards the interests of working people. they claim to be the party of patriotism, but their fawning over putin. no, they are not the answer for working people in britain. >> and those are the latest headunes >> and those are the latest headlines for now. more from me in an hour. >> for the very latest gb news, direct your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/advent.

>> thank you tatiana. now, as you may have seen, mike amesbury, the former labour party mp, was sentenced to ten weeks in prison today. he is behind bars. the mp for runcorn, they're calling the runcorn rocky. he admitted to punching a man to the ground constituents dunng man to the ground constituents during a night out in his constituency. now the labour party have disowned mr amesbury, suspending him from the party and releasing a statement today saying that the people of runcorn deserve better in the form of a new labour mp. the custodial sentence has opened the door for a recall petition, which would trigger a by—election if 10% of his constituents were to sign it. however, shouldn't amesbury do the decent thing and simply resign? well, that's the first topic in tonight's show, and i'm joined by gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson and the former spokesman for reform uk, gordon taylor. gentlemen, welcome to the show. nigel, i'm going to start with you. isn't it ironic how sir

keir starmer said at the weekend it's reform uk who are dangerous. it was a labour mp who chained a constituent into the ground. he punched him four times when he was down and now he's behind bars. >> yeah, i mean, you're absolutely right. it's an unfortunate combination when keir starmer says that and mike amesbury goes to jail. i am sorry about what happened to mike amesbury. he's one of the gentlest men i've ever come across. clearly, he's not that gentle when he when he's in drink, but i was terribly surprised he behaved the way he did. however, the sentence is right that he should go to prison for something like, what. >> is it, ten weeks? you've got people getting two years for a facebook post. >> yeah, but, but but you can't really compare. why not? well, because you can't compare crimes. no. hang on. you can't compare crimes that the that it for instance that burglary carries a is double the sentence of theft. and that's right because you're not comparing them. you have different sentences for premeditated

murder and manslaughter. >> so come on, come on. ten weeks in jail. >> what do you think it was half. >> clumping someone to the ground, repeatedly hitting them when they're down, prostrate on the deck, you know, while intoxicated versus two years for a facebook post. this is more two—tiered justice. >> yeah, but i mean, the way that the justice system works is you look at the harm or potential harm a crime can cause. you look at the effect on the on the victims killed him. one punch can. >> kill him. >> kill him. >> i appreciate that, but you're you're trying to compare two crimes which are not like for like. >> but they are like for like. okay, but in the lies in the eyes of the electorate going down. it does send out that message. one rule for the one rule for me. i digress, let's talk about the fallout and what could happen next. it looks by by all metrics. this may well trigger a by—election. do you think that the dangerous politics of reform uk could be a danger for keir starmer? there ain't no such thing as a safe seat. could reform win there?

>> i think it's a big ask. it's a it's a huge hill to climb. i mean it's one of the safest seats labour have got. i mean that's what a 30 point majority over reform. it's a big, big, big big ask but you never know. i mean, there've been starving pensioners. they've been causing all sorts of or freezing pensioners. sorry, but they've been causing all sorts of trouble. they've been rejecting their own working class vote. and now they have an mp who decks his own working class vote. so, frankly, it's a it's all to play for, but it's still all to play for, but it's still a huge ask. that's a mountain. but going back to what nigel was saying about sentencing joe punter us, the bloke on the clapham omnibus, they look at sentencing and see the seriousness of a crime related to its sentence. yes. so six weeks, two weeks, five years, ten years. that is a sliding scale of seriousness to us. and the and the justices are justice. it's the king's justice. it's the king's justice. it's the king's justice. it is not political justice. it is not political justice or should not be. and this idea, it's like different

times, different things. yeah, they are different crimes. burglary and theft, robbery and violence and things of this sort. but we put a tariff on them as we see them as serious. and the idea that you have different tariffs and it doesn't matter if it's two years here for dirty words or a facebook page, just one year and six months here for something else. >> the justice system doesn't work that way. well, it. >> doesn't work like that. but if it is, who is it serving? if it's serving the public, then surely it has to work that way. >> no, it's serving justice. that's the important thing. and so, so similar crime there is justice. >> is supposed to. >> is supposed to. >> be blunt. there is a sentencing council where similar crimes are then judged to have similar sentences across the country, which is right when they are different, when they're different crimes, you have you have a completely different sliding. 1527 00:08:47