for the coming year. >> and despite the government blaming soaring prices on the gas market, new analysis by us shows the biggest culprit is the explosion in subsidies for renewable energy. >> farmers keep fighting as the nfu conference takes place today, the government is being

urged to reset its relationship with agricultural workers after months of protest. >> new powers for police. what do you think about this 1 in 1 of the biggest updates for decades? of the biggest updates for decades.7 officers could search for stolen goods without a warrant. >> a change for ukraine. a spokesperson for downing street has said president trump's influence on the global conversation around ukraine has been for the better. >> could your phone be the secret to keeping you healthy? apple thinks so. we have an exclusive interview with the tech giant about how they're planning to revolutionise heanng planning to revolutionise hearing aids. >> hearing is your connection to the world. it's how you communicate. it's how you build relationships. it's part of your it's core to your social being. >> romance or rivalry. the french president, emmanuel macron, becomes the first european leader to meet president trump at the white house. but it's their awkward

handshake that's going viral. >> i said, that's not what we said. he's a smart customer, i will tell you that. shiri how will tell you that. shiri how will you play? i have no idea what he's saying, but. >> as almost a third of children have refused to go to school at least once in the past year, we're asking should there be harsher penalties for skipping class. as portraits of our great political leaders have been removed from parliament since labour took to office? we're asking, is britain ashamed of its past? >> and in the sport this morning we'll each united looking more and more likely for return to the premier league as they beat second place yorkshire rivals sheffield united three one last night. plenty of premier league games tonight. and can manchester united save any more money? >> we have sunshine and showers today and then a spell of more persistent rain arriving tomorrow. for more details on

this, stick around as i'll have the info coming up. >> hello there! just after 6:00 on this tuesday morning i'm eamonn holmes. >> i'm ellie costello and this is gb news breakfast. >> so paul, if we were setting out to steal something and i wonder where this golden loo would come on our list of priorities is a court case going on right at the moment, where these guys have admitted to stealing this the seine blenheim palace. >> i'd like that in my house. >> i'd like that in my house. >> and i find the most unusual thing not. well, i find it strange that it was used, you know, it was there. you could use it. it was in a museum in new york. 100,000 people relieved themselves. >> hold on. >> hold on. >> they used it. yeah. this is the scene from after they pulled it out and flooded the place and

whatever. but it was worth millions. £40 million, apparently. and there's a trial going on at the minute. >> wait, so it was in blenheim palace or it was in new york? >> no, no, no. well, it goes around the place. >> oh, it goes travelling. it's a travelling loo. >> it's a travelling loo. >> it's a travelling loo. >> right. >> right. >> i think let's see the loo. don't want to see anything else. can we just, just see the loo there. the thing about the, the loo is it may all look beautiful and things. but when you think actually what it's used for and what is done in it. yes. not beautiful, is it? it's not beautiful, is it? it's not beautiful when you think about. >> i'm thinking of phrases like polishing. no, i can't use that one. or the goose that laid the golden egg or something. or the police have nothing to go on. >> what? what face is the police in finding this? >> well, they have nothing to go on, do they? >> nothing to go on. >> nothing to go on. >> you know what? i'm almost embarrassed. i'm embarrassed saying that i am. >> that was good. >> that was good. >> i am embarrassed saying that. >> i am embarrassed saying that. >> well, i'll say it the next time. i'll steal it. >> so how much is it worth? millions. then it's.

>> 40 million. >> 40 million. >> so why? that must be pure gold. >> it's got to be really heavy then. >> isn't it really heavy? >> isn't it really heavy? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh, wow. how did they get it out of there? so many questions. >> so many questions. we did it at 3:00. >> and where are they going to putit? >> and where are they going to put it? just in their normal house. >> well, wherever they've put it, nobody can find it now. >> do they melt it down, do you think? do you think. >> a very good idea. >> a very good idea. >> what you would do? >> what you would do? >> so you would go for the toilet, melt the thing down. so it's like the brink's—mat thing all over again. >> smell? >> smell? >> no, no. if it's cleaned properly, it wouldn't. if a lot of the stuff around the rim and everything, i'm sure it'd be a good. clean down. use the old. yeah. >> but you couldn't just put. what do you put down the loo these days? what do you do. what do you bleach. yeah. no. >> toilet duck. yeah. yeah. >> toilet duck. yeah. yeah. >> other brands are available. >> other brands are available. >> yeah. yes. >> yeah. yes. >> they are. >> they are. >> toilet duck. yeah, yeah. that's that's. >> maybe not. you know. >> maybe not. you know. >> the last time you cleaned toilet. >> if the next time you're relieving yourself, have a look and see if it is something that's golden and lovely and. >> you'd know. >> you'd know. >> we're talking about the

toilet here. >> it's been stolen. yeah. and millions of households will find out this morning about a rise in their energy bills starting from april. it's going to be announced at 7:00. new prices for the spring and the summer months. >> well, experts forecast that bills will rise by about 5%, seeing the typical household energy bill rise by about £85 to £1,823. >> the government is pointing the finger at rising gas prices on the global market, but analysis for gb news shows the biggest culprit is the explosion in subsidies for renewable energy and net zero policies. >> well, in response to this increase, nearly 3 million households in the uk will be eligible for the £150 warm home discount next winter, bringing the total number of recipient homes to an estimated 6.1 million. >> deputy editor of spike online we say hello, good morning and welcome to fraser myers. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> well. >> well. >> well, this is difficult for

consumers, difficult for the government as well. i mean, let's not forget, labour promised that bills would come down by £300. you won't hear that figure bandied about much by ed miliband anymore. and i think, you know, the gb news analysis is correct. this is to do with, for the past decade at least, government has prioritised net zero and climate change over energy prices. the result of that is that, you know, we're paying a lot more for electricity. wind and solar power don't work when the weather isn't favourable. that often means we have to rely on imported gas to make up for the shortfalls. there was a point in this winter where the wind speeds were so low that we were paying speeds were so low that we were paying 100 times over the market price for gas at the last minute, so that's the sort of danger you put yourself in when you have a grid that relies on renewable energy. and the government is not powerless to deal with gas prices either. we have abandoned fracking recently. a huge gas field in lincolnshire was discovered, could provide ten years worth of

gas for the uk. ed miliband says no.keep gas for the uk. ed miliband says no. keep it in the ground. they're shutting down north sea oil and gas as well. so, you know the government has to take responsibility for this. >> you know, britain is a pimple on the backside of humanity. what difference do we make shutting all this down? people suffering job losses. and labour will promise new jobs. but these aren't jobs. they don't exist. it's all way off in the future. now surely is not the time to do all of this. >> that's absolutely right. and even the tony blair institute, which is favourable to these kinds of net zero policies, has admitted recently that actually there's no jobs coming out of this. you know, this these are just numbers on people will produce a paper and they'll say, in theory, there will be all these great magical green jobs, but actually real jobs are being shut down in the here and now. you know, we had port talbot shedding more than several thousand jobs. we have car factories closing down. we have

grangemouth, scotlands largest oil refinery, closing down. >> plants as well. yeah. you see, i look at it. i could i can see, i look at it. i could i can see us encouraging green energies and things. i can see all that. but you encourage that. but you keep, you keep you don't knock all these places down and close them up in the meantime. surely they can exist side by side. >> well, you you would think so. but i think the problem is we have, especially in the form of ed miliband, but also in, in energy secretaries past, its ideological, you know, they really believe that the key thing is reducing emissions rather than promoting british industry. >> to reduce. let me take an example. carjobs in this country as well. i mean, i'm not saying it's right or wrong, but i'm saying that is a direct consequence of the policies that he's proposing. >> absolutely. and i think, you know, most sensible people are starting to wake up to this. but if you are a green ideologue, if you think that climate change is the biggest thing threatening humanity, then then you almost

ignore the risk. >> climate change isn't a threat to humanity. >> none of us are. yeah, yeah. >> none of us are. yeah, yeah. >> but what i would say is everything in proportion. and as i say, we are a pimple on the backside of the world. what difference if india is not doing this, if china is not doing this, if china is not doing this, if china is not doing this, if brazil is not doing this, if brazil is not doing this, what's the point? >> and recently it came out that the uk is one of the few countries that is sticking to this. i mean, other countries are still, you know, officially have net zero pledges, but britain is the only one that's taking it seriously. even, you know, we're supposed to submit the sort of carbon reports to the sort of carbon reports to the un as part of the cop process. britain was the only one, the only one that did it recently. so we really need to rethink. the rest of the world is rethinking. we have bigger priorities at the moment. we're worried about rearming. we're worried about rearming. we're worried about rearming. we're worried about the threat on our border. we need industry to if we're if we're going to, you know, rebuild our military. we need growth as well. you know, people are suffering out there. people need. >> well, talking about people that are suffering in terms of the impact on people, you think

of pensioners winter fuel allowance bills going up potentially today for the third successive increase in energy bills and burden on businesses as well. on top of the national insurance. >> rate, the burden on businesses is extraordinary. britain has the highest industrial energy prices in the developed world. that just means that our businesses are uncompetitive. it means that it's not affordable to produce manufactured goods in britain and that, you know, that has a huge knock on effect. it's so difficult for companies, especially in heavy industry in particular, you know, they live or die on their energy costs. and we need to be helping them, not adding yet more pain onto those businesses. >> well, if we are adding more. you're the one who's going to have to pay for it. and we'd like your views with having your say this morning. so give us your say. we'll reflect that throughout the programme today. and you know, at the end of the day, does the world come first. do us doing our bit for the world. is that really the only important thing, or have we to

worry about how people actually pay worry about how people actually pay their bills in the crisis, the financial crisis that exists at the moment? >> now, 6:11, the government's flagship crime and policing bill enters parliament today, planning to enhance police powers when tackling crime. >> now this bill will include measures to tackle knife crime, stalking, spiking terrorism, threats and the criminal and sexual exploitation of children. >> well, under this new update, police will no longer need to apply for a warrant to search premises where stolen items have been located. >> okay. we're joined by former police officer and host of protect and serve podcast, oliver lawrence. oliver, this this is interesting. every time i watch a detective or police programme on television, the good guys are always spoilt because they haven't got a warrant to search. they can't do things. and as a viewer, you sit and you go, oh, ridiculous. oh why? why don't they have this? i see why you do need one. but i

also see big time why you don't need one. what's your view? >> no i agree. and good morning to you. and yeah. thanks for having me on. you know, with the crime wave sweeping the united kingdom with burglaries happening across this country every 100 and 70s, it gives me great joy to see that the government implementing implementing a sweep of new powers and abilities for police to execute some of these searches without needing a warrant. you know, there's been time and time again, we hear from victims of crime who've reported that they found their iphones and they found their ipads using that gps technology was available, but with the police powerless to do anything. so it's incredibly positive to hear that this is moving in the right direction, to give the police the ability to move quickly, to recover stolen items and try to slow down this wave of crime that we're seeing. my biggest concern still remains that with all these new powers and new, new abilities, what police officers are we going to use to be able to enact all this were, in essence, asking the police to do even more with the same amount of resources that we've got. we're not actually

really, sadly, tackling the problem. i don't want to be the ganh problem. i don't want to be the grinch at christmas here, but but equally, you know, there are many, many challenges facing law and order in this country. and unless we tackle all of them together, sadly, i don't think we're going to see the greatest amount of effect that we'd like to see across the country. >> you don't actually think we're going to see this enacted on our streets, because it won't be possible. there simply won't be possible. there simply won't be the resources, the manpower for police officers to come out and look at all of these cases. >> we're seeing vast numbers of very experienced operational police officers leaving the occupation at ridiculous numbers. and it's because morale is at an all time low. it's because they're lacking the quality leadership that is required. we've got institutions like the college of policing and the national police chiefs council making absolutely absurd decisions around what the policing priorities are at the moment. we've only seen some of that being executed over the weekend in rather bizarre circumstances. so i think really what this comes down to is strong leadership, good guidance by those senior leaders making clear decisions that the priorities at the moment are fighting crime. there are thousands of incredible, brave men and women on the front line

of policing who want to be able to carry out these roles, but they're hampered because they're being told to investigate and prioritise non hate crime, speech and other things that we seem to appear on on facebook and social media. so for me it's about policing priorities. it's about policing priorities. it's about supporting the men and women on the front line and giving them the funding that they need. >> and you think then front line police officers will look at this and say, if this comes about, this would really free up ourjobs about, this would really free up our jobs and about, this would really free up ourjobs and make our jobs ourjobs and make ourjobs eafien >> well, i think what they'll say is in the vast amount a lot of these powers and legislation is being pushed through, a lot of them already exist. in some cases we're providing. if you look at drink spiking as an example, there are already three pieces of legislation which allow police officers to pursue that type of crime. drink spiking is going to be classified now as an independent offence, which police can go after. and listen, i'm a huge advocate for increasing, you know, the crimes which exist to prevent and to increase the safety for women and girls across this country. but for me, in the essence, it's the resources that we need. it's the funding that we need, and we need our police officers to be

able to be freed up, to be able to get back out on the road, to be able to see victims and to be able to help them in their time of need. at the moment, that doesn't exist because there are just where there are just understaffed, overworked, thousands of rest days and holidays cancelled. you know, it really, really is a difficult time for them in terms of trying to manage the stability of crime across the country. >> oliver, thanks for giving us an insight very, very much appreciated. and we have to leave it there. thank you very much indeed. oliver lawrence there. your view? have your say. same again with all the stories that we're discussing. what's got you talking about them, and what do you think about search warrants when they're needed, when they're not needed? and would the police life be easier without them? would we catch more criminals? would we deter more criminals? would we deter more crime? have your say. >> now at 6:16, let's take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. and nigel farage has hit back at the prime minister after sir keir starmer accused the reform uk leader of the party's, quote, dangerous politics, addressing members in

cornwall last night, nigel farage also took aim at activists who attempted to disrupt the event. >> let me give a message to antifa. let me give a message to two tier keir starmer. they've given a message to all of them. we will not be cowed. we will not be silenced by anybody. we are the british people and we want a common sense government back in charge of our country. we're going to fight for it and we are going to win. >> france is prepared to deploy fighterjets >> france is prepared to deploy fighter jets with nuclear weapons to protect europe amid potential american military withdrawal. it comes as frederick mertz, who is expected to be the next german chancellor, has urged britain and france to provide nuclear protection to achieve european independence from the united states. >> a court has heard. how it took just five minutes for thieves to steal the 2.8 million

point gold toilet from blenheim palace last year. oxford crown court has heard that the toilet was most likely broken up and has not yet been recovered. it weighed approximately 98kg and was created by an italian artist. >> but the good news is they left behind the toilet roll holder. >> wow, they left behind something there. >> well, that's that's something. >> yeah. what do you make of trump and macron yesterday? all the hand—holding. well between. >> them we have a saying it was a faff. it was false. false. >> and do you think. >> and do you think. >> oh come on. >> i think they can't. >> i think they can't. >> you see do you know what the these sort of photo opportunities are made for people like you. people who are naive. >> oh do you actually. >> oh do you actually. >> think they're the best? meet macron. macron? if you say his

name, emmanuel macron, and he will come out of there and he'll say, i couldn't stand him. >> well, it's not what he was saying. yesterday at this press conference, we got the clip of this. so he was saying we're really good friends and they kept holding each other. >> and you believe that? >> and you believe that? >> and you believe that? >> and then. no. do you know what i actually think it is? i think both of them are are men with big egos, and neither of them wanted to be the one to let go. well, they just kind of held on to each other. >> well, the one who's going to win always and is winning is donald trump. right. so macron little man, that he is, is trying to sort of make himself that he's he's as big as trump in all this and we're besties and all that sort of thing. but it's rubbish. it's false. of course it's false. >> well he was giving it his best shot. i mean at one point yesterday we'll hopefully get the clip for you in the newspapers a little bit later on. he grabbed trump's hand and put it on his lap. >> have we ever seen lucky? it was on his lap. have we ever seen? that was like i interviewed monica lewinsky. i did her first live british tv

interview. yeah. and i mentioned something about president clinton and she said, oh, you know, the president. do you? incidentally, i do admire her. i think she's very, very smart. and she said, you know, the president, do you? i said, actually, i have met him. i said, but unlike you, i only shook his hand. she laughed. she laughed. did she? >> she laughed. oh, you're lucky you got a laugh there. >> like, you know. but she laughed. she was. she was great about that. but that's true. but as as for this, macron is trying to look like he's trump's buddy. because trump is the man with all the power. >> yes. >> yes. >> in this. >> in this. >> he wants to escape some tariffs if he can. >> and i don't believe a word of it i don't believe it. yeah. >> well let us know what you think. do you think it is a bromance or do you think it's false? >> gbnews.com/yoursay alex burkill, good morning to you. on a rotten day in our part of the world this morning.

>> heavy showers first thing will be followed by a warm, cosy day. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. here's your latest gb news weather update from the met office. plenty of sunny spells on offer today, but also plenty of showers. and some of these could be a bit heavy with the risk of a little bit of hail and some thunder too. through this morning. the showers are most frequent across northwestern parts, but as we go through the day and into the afternoon, they are going to become a bit more widespread, spreading across many parts though towards the south—east, largely avoiding them here. like i said, some of the showers could be on the heavy side and there could be a bit of hail and thunder mixed in with them as well. temperatures are around or a touch above average for the time of year. many places towards the south getting into double figures. highs of around 11 or 12 celsius. more showers to come as we go towards the end of the day. but like i said, fewer showers towards the southeast of the uk. so a largely dry evening here with some clear spells, perhaps a

greater chance of a few scattered showers across more western parts of england and wales. plenty of showers still to end the day across northern ireland and much of scotland too, especially towards the west, some of them here still on the heavy side and there could be a bit of wintriness, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground. but as we go overnight we are going to see most of those showers clearing away and we are going to have largely clear skies, particularly towards the east, clinging on to those clear skies. meanwhile, further west, the cloud is going to build. we're going to have some rain pushing in and some strengthening winds too. where that happens, temperatures are going to pick up as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, but in the east it is going to stay quite will be some brighter weather ahead isd behind will be some brighter weather ahead is going nd will be some brighter weather ahead is going to stay"”"” chilly. there could be a touch will be some brighter weather ahead is going to stay quite east it is going to stay quite chilly. there could be a touch of frost in some places, also of frost in some places, also some mist and fog patches as some mist and fog patches as well. that wet weather in the well. that wet weather in the west does spread its way east west does spread its way east and southeastwards. as we go and southeastwards. as we go through wednesday, there's through wednesday, there's likely to be a bit of sleet and likely to be a bit of sleet and snow over the higher ground of snow over the higher ground of the hills, and there could even the hills, and there could even be some rumbles of thunder as be some rumbles of thunder as that rain pushes through. there that rain pushes through. there will be some brighter weather will be some brighter weather

ahead and behind ahead and behind the rain, but also plenty of showers feeding in through the afternoon too, and temperatures down a nudge compared to today by. >> expect a warm front moving from the kitchen right through to the rest of the house. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> now. if you have a golden toilet at home, time to christen it because we're going to give you a comfort break. and then we're back talking about. >> apple and hearing the question is what

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to win. cash another chance to win. text cash to 63 2321. entry cost £2 plus one standard network rate message or text bonus to 632325 entries. cost £5 plus one standard network rate message. go to gbnews.com/win. entries start from just £2. call 0903 6813232. calls cost £2 plus your network access charge, or post your name and number to gb 11, p0 post your name and number to gb 11, po box 86. nine derby de1 9tt uk only entrants must be 18 or over. lines close at 6 pm. on the 7th of march. please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. >> what what. >> what what. >> what? hearing loss. right. 8 million people in this country are already experiencing it. and the figure is set to rise. now we are wearing our. what are these called? >> these are airpods. these are airpods pro two. you will have seen these everywhere. people wear them to listen to music, listen to podcasts, to take

phone calls. it's an everyday item that millions of us here in britain already wear. >> your argument is, although you can hear see this and it's quite obvious and i would feel conscious walking around wearing that, it's very comfortable. whatever. and you think it's like second nature. >> it's like second nature. it's >> very clever. when i was 50 an everyday. doing this job. see,nature. ar. >> very clever. when i was 50 doing this job. see,nature. it's >> it's like second nature. it's an everyday. >> i'm going to say, what's that >> i'm going to say, what's that big white thing hanging out of big white thing hanging out of eamonn's ear? yeah. no. eamonn's ear? yeah. no. >> have you spent any time in >> have you spent any time in offices or commuting or on the offices or commuting or on the bus? you will notice people bus? you will notice people wearing their airpods. so apple wearing their airpods. so apple have come up with this great have come up with this great idea to implement a new feature. idea to implement a new feature. and it is essentially a hearing and it is essentially a hearing aid that works in your airpods aid that works in your airpods just for everyday airpods. so just for everyday airpods. so you take a test on your phone you take a test on your phone and it will tell you your and it will tell you your results, what you can and can't results, what you can and can't hean hean results, what you can and can't hear, how many decibels you can results, what you can and can't hear, how many decibels you can hean hear, how many decibels you can hear, and then it automatically hean hear, how many decibels you can hear, and then it automatically appues hear, and then it automatically applies it to your airpods. so appues hear, and then it automatically applies it to your airpods. so when you're listening to music when you're listening to music or i'm talking to you right now, or i'm talking to you right now, it automatically adjusts that it automatically adjusts that you can hear everything you can hear everything perfectly. >> very clever. when i was 50 perfectly. >> very clever. when i was 50 doing this job. see, we wear. doing this job. see, we wear.

>> earpieces. >> earpieces. >> earpieces. >> earpieces and i've been wearing these for 46 years of my life or whatever. and people screaming in your ear, but i went so. so i was having an update. i was having a new one made. and when i was 50 years of age and i went to the hearing aid place and they they said, while you're here, we do a test on your hearing. yeah that's good. right. so they did a test and it was really easy. and they fired noises. and you, you press a buzzer every time you hear it. >> and that's the way it works on the apple one as well. >> beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. >> it's all good. and i said at the end of that i said, so how was that. and she said oh that was that. and she said oh that was very good mr holmes. that was very good mr holmes. that was quite a normal result for a man of your age. you have the correct amount of hearing loss for a man your age. i said, how much is that? and she said, 30%, 30%. >> here you can only hear 30% or you're at 70%. >> you've lost. lost 30% of your heanng >> you've lost. lost 30% of your hearing capability by the time

you're 50 years of age. so if you're 50 years of age. so if you're watching this and you're thinking, this doesn't apply to me, how wrong you are. >> yes. and actually it's things like commuting, listening to music and restaurant noise. now, all these lifestyle factors that are making hearing loss even more prevalent in society. well, yesterday i went to the apple headquarters in london, where i met the vice president of health. she's an inspiring woman called doctor sumbul desai. and this is what she told me. yes. i thank you so much for joining this is what she told me. yes. i thank you so much forjoining us on gb news breakfast. it's really, really good to have you with us. thanks for we are so excited about this new feature. in terms of the quality of life, how is this going to impact the individual? >> it goes back to that point of heanng >> it goes back to that point of hearing is your connection to the world. it's how you communicate. it's how you build relationships. it's part of your it's core to your social being. and so our hope is that this will have impact, to be able to drive connections for those who have been suffering from hearing loss and allow them to experience those special moments. >> okay, so how does the hearing aid feature actually work?

>> it's really simple. and that is what's so beautiful about the feature. we designed it so it could be used across all age groups, all tech savviness if you will. you simply take a heanng you will. you simply take a hearing test right on your iphone using the airpods pro two. it creates a personalised heanng two. it creates a personalised hearing profile, which then automatically programs the airpods pro two to work as a heanng airpods pro two to work as a hearing assistive device. and so, just with a touch of a button, you'll now be able to augment the frequencies where you may need some assistance. and what's beautiful about the heanng and what's beautiful about the hearing test is it's a clinically validated audiogram. so we compared it to what is considered gold standard in the heanng considered gold standard in the hearing world. and the hearing aid will be will the hearing aid feature basically simply turns on and allows you to use it, not just when you're talking with one another like with another individual, but whether you're using it across phone calls, your media, your entertainment. so it's a really simple experience. >> and have you noticed, because this has been rolled out around the world before, it's come here to britain. but have you seen a

spike in people realising that they actually have hearing loss as a result of taking the test with this feature? >> i can anecdotally share with you that even just in my circle, in talking to people, people sometimes have picked up things that they didn't expect and noficed that they didn't expect and noticed that they had some heanng noticed that they had some hearing issues. what's probably been so impactful is the letters we get from customers. one of the ones that we just got last week was a grandmother who was able to hear her soft spoken grandchild for the first time by using this, and i think that is what's so special about it. we've already heard from customers around the world who have been able to use it over the past few months, how it's made an impact in their life. >> can we talk about you for a moment? because you are the most inspirational, incredible woman, and we want to talk to you

’—,—— experience. amazing experience. >> and you mentioned healthcare being personal, and it is, and i think for many people looking at this feature and wanting to use it, they will understandably be nervous about their personal health data being presumably put on the cloud. what are you doing to keep health data safe in your hands? >> well, i'm so glad you asked that question because at apple, we really believe that your data is your data, and in fact, so much so that your data doesn't get put on a cloud. your data is encrypted on device locally, so your data is on your phone or on your data is on your phone or on your watch. we don't actually put your data in a cloud. >> can we talk about the reaction to this rollout of this feature in the uk? your front page of the telegraph? >> we're thrilled, and i have to say, the uk government has been such a great partner. wes has been a great partner. you know, one of the things about our heanng one of the things about our hearing aid features is it's a regulated feature because it is held to the standards of traditional medical standards of heanng traditional medical standards of hearing aids. and as a result,

we have to go through the regulatory pathway and work with the government to get clearance and where the uk government and west have been so incredibly helpful, is bringing this to customers in an over—the—counter manner. it doesn't require prescription. you can simply just take the hearing test and use the feature. >> what are you most proud of that apple has rolled out in the health space so far? >> that's like choosing a favourite child. that's really difficult. cardio fitness is one that i difficult. cardio fitness is one that! use difficult. cardio fitness is one that i use every day. i love to kind of see where my cardio fitness and my vo2 max is. the women's health features i'm particularly proud of because we are, we were, i think, a company like ours getting behind women's health and talking about cycle tracking and ovulation and temperature changes that occur, educating individuals in that space. and then there's we receive letters every single day on our heart features, our ecg and our irregular heart rhythm and our irregular heart rhythm and high heart rate notifications. i literally hear from customers almost every day. we receive letters from they.

they write to tim, and we get those letters emails every day on how it's had impact. so i honestly can't pick one. they really are all pretty remarkable in their own way. >> and you've mentioned those letters clearly that they really touch you, don't they? how do they make you feel when you read those and see the impact that it's having on people's lives? >> they do and they motivate our team. they're like fuel for our team. they're like fuel for our team to do even more. and i think we all read them. and often, to be honest, they surprise us. we just received one recently. we have a vitals feature on watch where you're able to look at different metrics around your heart rate, your sleep, your respiratory rate. and this one totally shocked me. someone detected that they they noticed on their vitals feature that they got a notification they were feeling a little bit off. a few of their metrics were off. they went to the doctor. they ended up getting diagnosed with leukaemia. and so sometimes they even blow my mind in terms of what we see. and i think they're just having impact in ways that we couldn't even imagine. and i think that's what's so special about so many of them. so it's

so hard to pick one because each one of them have just had there's just stories for each one of them that truly stay with you. >> doctor, thank you so much. for speaking to us honestly. such a pleasure to meet you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> for everything you're doing in the health space as well. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> we're going to hear more of that conversation towards the end of the program today and online. you've got an extended version 15 minutes. >> yes. the whole sit down chat with her as well. but she's fascinating. lady, she was a tv journalist like us, worked at a news station in the us, then worked at disney. her mum got sick and she thought i need to become a doctor. she wanted to feel as though she could be helpful. she trained to be a doctor and now she works for apple as vp of health. fascinating woman. let us know if you would wear a set of airpods as a hearing aid. is that something that you would do? let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay. is it the future tech and health coming together like that? >> right? still to come have a look at these gorgeous huskies. they competed for grand prize over the weekend at paul coyte

will be here to tell you all about that. dougie. dougie. >> dougie. dougie. dougie. >> dougie. dougie. dougie. >> so cute. that's next.

>> good result for leeds last night. really important result. there were one nil down against sheffield united. they tell the story mate. >> well illan meslier the leeds goalkeeper. oh yeah. he's making a few players at the moment. he's a good goalkeeper but he's you know whether he's going to be the number one should they actually manage to go up which looks very likely. push the ball in his own net. so anyway you know it wasn't wasn't terribly good. but anyway leeds won three one. and they're looking very good for it. i mean daniel farke the leeds manager is a very happy daniel. so everything's going very well with them. chris wilder, the sheffield united

manager, he's already been up in the premier league with sheffield united, so it looks like they probably should both go up. but certainly leeds are the best bet at the moment and the best bet at the moment and the next 11 games they've got, ten of them are in the bottom half. i mean with the championship you never know what's going to happen but they're looking good for it. >> happy times in yorkshire then. >> absolutely. yeah. it's all looking very good up in yorkshire by the way. you know you mentioned that you're talking about the trump handshake with with macron. yeah i've, i've had i've had a similar situation with ange postecoglou which is you know when you, you shake hands, you must have had it where you dismiss and go with the it was in the tunnel. so spurs were playing man city. it was in the fa cup last year and as he went to walk through i went to shake hands with him and he looked the other way and missed. so i grabbed hold of that. >> it wasn't an accident. >> it wasn't an accident. >> it wasn't an accident. >> it was. do you think so? do you think he did it on purpose? well, he was looking the other way, so i'm not speaking to you. but anyway, then i started getting messages going. oh, that

was embarrassing. that was uncomfortable. and i go, what do you mean? how did you see that? so apparently it was live on itv and they had the camera straight down the tunnel. and as i'm going like that, it was all. >> so what you grabbed at his wrist? >> yeah i miss well he went like that. he was looking the other way and i've gone for the i've missed and grabbed the arm and it was just embarrassing. it was not nice. yeah. >> embarrassing. right? >> embarrassing. right? >> no. we know how you feel. >> no. we know how you feel. >> we should. these huskies at the at the commercial break there. tell us about these doggies. >> okay, well, it's the you know, i'm looking for a very important sports. is the british siberian husky dog championship. and this is it. it's in thetford forest in norfolk. they travel around. obviously we don't have the snow for this, so off they go. different classes. they have three dog classes, 16 rounds. you get 66 points for a win, 57 for second. and so it's exactly the same as you would get in lapland, but without the snow. >> without. >> without. >> the snow. and apparently the huskies have a lovely time because if they didn't then we wouldn't be. >> they really enjoy it, don't they? the huskies. >> they enjoy it so much. they

poo a lot. they run. >> do they? what is poo with excitement. >> you're on a theme today. >> you're on a theme today. >> with your i'm telling you fact, right? >> i've been pulled by huskies a number of times. right? and if you're behind them there, they get so excited. so poo comes out. so it goes in your direction, right? and unlike horse poo which smells really nice and coypu, which isn't bad at all, right? dog poo is a horrible smelling thing. >> right? okay. >> right? okay. >> and so i'm just saying if you're going to do that. >> you have to have the little bags, catch them and throw them up in the trees. that's the way. >> around degenerate into the ground and lot of bags there. >> okay. well were you in on the snow or are you on the. >> i was on the snow, right. >> i was on the snow, right. >> okay, so at least you could see it probably. >> come round to my house one night and i can show you all the pictures from the albums and bore you. >> to death. i'd very much like to see that. i thought for moment. >> you can't. »- >> you can't. >> smell it, but i. >> smell it, but i. >> can. >> can. >> tell you it wasn't good. >> tell you it wasn't good. >> danny mills, leeds legend, and his son george, one of our finest middle distance runners, both on together, coming up at

830. >> looking forward to that. >> looking forward to that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks, coyte. still to come, we'll be going through the papers with andy williams and susan evans. but first, if you're in search of some winter sun, here's the forecast for some of the top european holiday destinations. >> ready to soak up that holiday sunshine. >> won't we need some cover? >> won't we need some cover? >> no worries. all sorted. >> no worries. all sorted. >> allclear travel insurance. sponsors gb news travel destinations forecast. >> if you're heading away for some winter sun through this week, there will be some fine weather around across parts of the mediterranean, but currently around the eastern med it's still fairly unsettled. some heavy rain, some strong winds and temperatures well below average for the time of year. but these are gradually going to be lifting further west. a drier story across many parts of, well, france and spain. but there is some wet weather starting to push its way in as we go later on this week. otherwise some decent sunshine on offer. see you >> allclear travel sponsors gb news

>> let's say hello. good morning and welcome to political commentators andy williams and suzanne evans. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> morning you two. suzanne, should we start with we this footage that we've been talking about this morning of trump and macron, their bromance, their love in yesterday at the white house. >> it was quite astonishing, wasn't i? i was watching the press conference and it did make me laugh, though, how trump was very succinct. and then macron comes back with about 20 minutes of chat chat , chat chat chat. of chat chat, chat chat chat. but how interesting that that they're so sort of chummy together. and i seem to remember before they once held hands like that and grasped each other and wouldn't let go. and i think there is a lot of body language here. it's about, you know, i'm going to hold on to, you know, i'm holding on to you. i'm the guy who's in charge here. no, you're the guy who's i'm the guy who's in charge here. so as you say, very much a bromance, but also something of a little bit of a power struggle. >> not a bromance. it's

completely false, suzanne. >> exactly. a false bromance. >> exactly. a false bromance. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and macron, i he goes down in my estimation, because no one has the gumption to look disapprovingly at trump at all. >> well, i think the thing is, isn't it, that trump is almost a last hope? we've got this war now, the anniversary yesterday, three years since the invasion. everybody expected it to be over very quickly. everyone thought the sanctions that the west slammed on russia were going to work. i think it was pretty clear from the start that they were not going to work, and they clearly haven't worked. russia's economy is doing very well. the ruble was the best performing currency last year. and so here we. >> have convinced. >> have convinced. >> trump, trump, trump is the one that's going to try. >> he's the one with the power. >> he's the one with the power. >> there. >> there. >> is that. but trump didn't need to come in and say, well, zelenskyy's a dictator. he didn't need to get the us to vote alongside north korea, israel, hungary, belarus, sudan and against a resolution that said that russia invaded ukraine. >> yeah, but. >> yeah, but. >> but and there is he has

created a narrative that says, is it as simple as that? did russia really start the war when we all know factually that they did. >> russia started the war. but the thing is, trump's going into a negotiation, so he doesn't want to start a negotiation on the wrong foot by blaming one side or the other. you know, arguably he's wrong, absolutely, about putin, but he's also a very canny negotiator. >> yeah. and look, politics at this level is incredibly complex. >> but andy keir starmer, who doesn't have a personality really you know. but but i'm being serious. this is going to being serious. this is going to be a very interesting you imagine starmer in that situation. he's now got to follow macron. so how poorly does he become with with trump i don't think he's got it in it in himself to do it. but he will be showing up as even more faults . showing up as even more faults. if he does this bonhomie business. >> he's going to have to walk a real tightrope on thursday, and it's going to be incredibly difficult to walk out of that meeting unscathed, i think because trump holds all the cards, obviously starmer

privately will be thinking, i cannot stand this man and i cannot stand this man and i cannot stand this man and i cannot stand what he stands for. and actually, to your point about his personality, and i think there are many good things about keir starmer. i think he's about keir starmer. i think he's a man of integrity. i think he's a man of integrity. i think he's a good man. but what he's not is a good man. but what he's not is a performer. and we saw that yesterday. you know, firstly i think it's i understand that he's busy, but i think it's a shame he wasn't there in kyiv, round the table. he was doing it down the line, reading from an a4 piece of paper, literally phoning it in. and i thought that was it was a really poor display of statesmanship. >> actually, on the world stage. the thing is, with the trip on thursday is he's not a tactile performer like president macron. so even if they get away with the talk between the two of them, the first question from them, the first question from the journalist saying, do you agree with president trump that zelenskyy is a dictator? it's all going to fall apart because it will be so apparent that the two are at odds. >> well, i think that's true. and actually, i remember it was one of the sketch writers in the times made the point that when

macron found himself in difficulty yesterday, he switched to speaking french and obviously won't have that. >> won't have. >> won't have. >> that in his armoury. no. >> that in his armoury. no. >> suzanne, there's a story here about a teacher who's lost their job and because because of what you tell us. >> so it's a primary school teacher who was sacked after her pupil, who had english only as a second language, misunderstood a threat to whack him around the head. he didn't realise it was a joke. and so the teacher who, judging by his name is himself. not not not not, not originally from england or his family wasn't anyway. and it got more than 35 experience, got dismissed. this is an employment tribunal that made the decision. i think we've got another case here of activist judges, i'm afraid, who are making decisions that are not in the best. interests of the students, in this case, a teacher of that long experience. we know we're short of teachers, we're particularly short of male teachers. and here we are. another one is gone from

arguably a trivial matter that i think the child should have been told to get over. look, he didn't mean it. he made a mistake. it wasn't. it wasn't a. >> well, i'm from an era where they didn't joke about it. they just did it. they whacked you and they did everything. we got lifted up by our locks by, you know, so they'd grab you here. >> by your hair. >> by your hair. >> yeah. you want me to do it to you? they just. they lifted you up like that, and then they threw the duster at you at. >> oh, i certainly remember that happening in the classroom. the old blackboard. some people won't remember blackboards watching this. >> gosh. >> gosh. >> well, thank goodness we've moved on for that. but i do think i think what's concerning about this is that we're having enough trouble persuading people to go into teaching anyway. so this can't help. >> okay. going to have you two back in about 40 minutes. time for the moment. thank you very much indeed. we say good morning to alex burkill with the weather forecast. >> despite the morning rain. it'll be a nice warm, cosy day ahead. boxt heat pumps sponsors

of weather on gb news. >> good morning. here's your latest gb news. weather update from the met office. plenty of sunny spells on offer today but also plenty of showers and some of these could be a bit heavy with the risk of a little bit of hail and some thunder too. through this morning. the showers are most frequent across northwestern parts, but as we go through the day and into the afternoon, they are going to become a bit more widespread, spreading across many parts though towards the south—east, largely avoiding them here. like i said, some of the showers could be on the heavy side and there could be a bit of hail and thunder mixed in with them as well. temperatures are around or a touch above average for the time of year. many places towards the south getting into double figures. highs of around 11 or 12 celsius. more showers to come as we go towards the end of the day. but like i said, fewer showers towards the southeast of the uk. so a largely dry evening here with some clear spells, perhaps a greater chance of a few scattered showers across more western parts of england and wales. plenty of showers still to end the day across northern ireland and much of scotland

too, especially towards the west, some of them here still on the heavy side and there could be a bit of wintriness, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground. but as we go overnight we are going to see most of those showers clearing away and we are going to have largely clear skies, particularly towards the east, clinging on to those clear skies. meanwhile, further west, the cloud is going to build. we're going to have some rain pushing in and some strengthening winds too. where that happens, temperatures are going to pick up as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, but in the east it is going to stay quite chilly. there could be a touch of frost in some places, also some mist and fog patches as well. that wet weather in the west does spread its way east and southeastwards. as we go through wednesday, there's likely to be a bit of sleet and snow over the higher ground of the hills, and there could even be some rumbles of thunder as that rain pushes through. there will be some brighter weather ahead and behind the rain, but also plenty of showers feeding in through the afternoon too, and temperatures down a nudge compared to today by.

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>> way. >> way. >> good morning. a blow to households as energy bills are set to rise. >> we'll tell you in just a few moments what they have risen to. watchdog ofgem will announce the new energy price cap. >> and despite the government blaming soaring prices on the gas market, new analysis for gb news shows the biggest culprit is actually the explosion in subsidies for renewable energy and net zero policies. >> yes, ofgem expected to announce yet another energy price rise 5%, this time alongside water bills and your

council tax bill. the cost of living is getting even steeper. >> farmers are still fighting as the nfu conference takes place today. the government's been urged to reset its relationship with agricultural workers after months of protest. >> new powers for police and one of the biggest updates for decades. officers could search for stolen goods without a warrant. >> a change for ukraine. a spokesperson for downing street has said president trump's influence on the global conversation around the conflict has been for the better. >> rome wants or rivalry the french president, emmanuel macron, becomes the first european leader to meet president trump at the white house. but it's their awkward handshake that's gone viral. >> i said, that's not what we said. he's a smart customer, i will tell you that. how will you play? i have no idea. >> could your phone be the

secret to keeping healthy? apple thinks so. we have an exclusive interview with the tech giant about how they're planning to revolutionise hearing aids for everyone. >> hearing is your connection to the world. it's how you communicate. it's how you build relationships. it's part of your it's core to your social being. >> as almost a third of children have refused to go to school at least once in the past year. we're asking should there be harsher penalties for skipping school? >> and as portraits of our great political leaders have been removed from downing street since labour took to office, we're asking, is britain ashamed of its past? >> and in sport, we'll lead united looking more and more likely for a return to the premier league as they beat second place yorkshire rivals sheffield united three one last night. more premier league games tonight. and can manchester united save any more money?

>> we have sunshine and showers today and then a spell of more persistent rain arriving tomorrow. for more details on this, stick around as i'll have the info coming up. >> hello there. very good morning. good to see you on this tuesday morning. i'm eamonn holmes. >> i'm ellie costello and this is gb news breakfast. breaking news now from the energy regulator ofgem. the average annual energy bill will increase to £1,849 from april. that's the third consecutive rise to the energy price cap. that new figure represents a 6.4% a year increase in the typical sum that most households are going to pay for gas and electricity, or fraser myers is with us now the deputy editor of

spiked online. fraser, what do you make of these figures? >> well, this is going to deal a huge blow to people's household finances. it's actually larger than we were anticipating. most analysts were predicting 5%, which would have been damaging enough. and this comes amid other price rises, council tax, other price rises, council tax, other forms of taxes. people are being badly squeezed now. energy doesn't just affect consumers. of course. it affects the broader economy. this is going to be a big drag on growth. this is obviously the this on top of everything else. so obviously the price cap is for households. but britain is currently paying the highest energy prices in europe for our industry. that is dragging down growth that is causing manufacturing firms to close and shut up shop. we've seen car factories, van factories, steelworks, oil refineries all closing down because of mostly because of these ludicrous net zero policies that the government is determined to pursue. >> so what are you suggesting, fraser? you've seen the problems. you've seen why it's happening. you've told us why

it's happening. mainly because of these net zero policies. what do you think the solution is? is it too late to turn back? >> no, it's not too late to turn back. the solution is to net zero or climate change is not unimportant, but it can't be the main priority of energy policy. so for ten years, we've prioritised renewables, when really we still need to be using fossil fuels, using oil and gas. we have many resources to. >> do both things. do you think that we can reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, but still be in favour of the consumer? >> yes. the solution to that actually is through nuclear energy, which governments have also neglected. now that's totally carbon free, but that's slightly in the longer run. it takes a lot longer to build nuclear power plants. but we do have oil and gas reserves in the uk. we have plenty in the north sea that ed miliband has said he's not going to go after. the ban on fracking as well means that many. we've just discovered an oil field, sorry, a gas field in lincolnshire that could be accessed through fracking that would power the uk for the next

ten years. these opportunities are being neglected by the government in the pursuit of net zero. it doesn't need to do that. there's also the danger is that. there's also the danger is that there are other rises coming down the track. so people might not have seen this, but you know, in the brexit deal, the government's determination to get us closer to europe could also push up energy prices. we're going to be signed up to the european carbon trading scheme. in europe, they're worried that this is going to push up prices. in britain. that's not part of the conversation. so there are many dangers coming down the track. the government is going in the wrong direction on almost every front. >> so we've just heard that third successive increase in energy bills. who is this going to impact the most? talking about things coming down the track the national insurance rise. so businesses are going to be impacted by this energy price rise. and of course pensioners without their winter fuel allowance. >> pensioners who've had the winter fuel allowance taken away from them, particularly the poorest pensioners who that's going to affect most. i mean, many of course, there were many pensioners who maybe didn't necessarily need that, but still it was a good policy. it was it

was a policy that ensured that people didn't have to fill out ridiculous forms in order to get the money that they're entitled to. i think, you know, this is obviously going to be affecting poorer households more. they spend more on energy than or more proportionally on, on energy. and we don't want people to be freezing in the winter. you know, we're having cold winters. this is a particularly cold and bitter winter. >> freezing and blooming poor. >> freezing and blooming poor. >> yeah, yeah. and people are, you know, making choices between heating and eating. this is not where we should be in the 21st century. you know, we need we should have abundant energy. we should have abundant energy. we should have abundant energy. we should have low energy bills. all of this is possible. it will take a while, but it's not something that the government is seems interested in pursuing. it promised us energy bills would come down by £300. we know the opposite is now happening, and a lot of it is a direct result of the governments policies, but also previous governments. they haven't changed strategy. >> just want to bring you some reaction. reaction from some charities here and campaign groups already worrying about

next winter and the impact that it's going to have on people struggling to pay their bills, suggesting that the government steps in to support those groups. but how can they do that? they'd have to reinstate winter fuel allowance, would they not? >> that would be the most logical way to support people because, you know, then it goes to all old age pensioners who are the most in need there, people who, you know are put at genuine risk. if they're cold, it's a risk to their life. if they are cold at winter. in the same way, it's not perhaps as risky for other people. that would be. that seems like the most obvious solution. you do wonder whether they will cook or have to cook up some scheme to back—pedal that isn't called winter fuel allowance. give it some other name so they don't look, you know, so it doesn't look, you know, so it doesn't look like a u—turn. but surely it's not sustainable , this policy. >> okay fraser, appreciate your input. your take. have your say re what fraser's having to say. and we'll reflect that on the programme. let's go to adam cherry. he'll fill us in more. adam, where are you this morning and why?

>> morning. i'm in redruth, in cornwall, which is a town like all the others in this country. millions of households waking up this morning to the news that it's going to cost them more to light their homes and to keep them warm. you're just talking to fraser there. this is a higher than expected increase from ofgem. we were expecting 5%. that's what the analysis was suggesting. actually it's 6.4, so it's even worse. it's worth reminding you how where we were ten years ago and how badly it's gonein ten years ago and how badly it's gone in that decade since. so the electricity price cap in 2015 was £664. that's just electricity, 50% increase, £330 over the last decade and warm this winter analysis, which will now have to be revised because they're assuming it would be a 5% increase in total. it's now more than that. we're saying the average household is likely to pay average household is likely to pay around £750 more per year for their energy compared to 2020 and 2021, which is a 75% increase. as i say, it'll be

even worse than that. now that we've just had the latest figures, we are going to hear from the energy secretary, ed miliband, shortly. of course, labour were promising during the general election campaign that they would lower energy bills by as much as £300. well, that's not happening. don't forget again, you also mentioned this with fraser, that your council tax bill and your water bill is also going up. so the cost of living is going up steeply and people are feeling the squeeze. i'm going to be talking to people around here today about that, how they feel about that, particularly, as you said, about the zero net policies and the subsidies that are fuelling this increase. are people buying it? are people happy to keep that going given how much it's affecting their wallets? again, as well, given that the winter fuel allowance has also been removed for the poorest and for pensioners. >> yeah, really interested to hear what people in cornwall think about this. adam, thank you so much. >> yeah, so much news coming in today. and another story about a foreigner who's not being deported. and kemi badenoch is

going to take this one up. this is a burglar. this is a violent burglar. and he has been kept in this country and not sent back to albania because he says it would breach his right to a family life. you know, it's interesting that these people can disrupt other people's families and create lots of problems for people. and yet, as soon as the clock goes against them, it is a problem again. have your say. let us know. now, this is very interesting what we've got for you and miss ellie will explain. >> yes. hearing loss. it impacts 8 million people in the uk. only 2 million people actually wear devices in order to help it. such as a hearing aid, for example. >> there's a stigma, isn't there? >> a stigma associated with wearing big hearing aids. so apple are trying to fix that. and there's people damaging their hearing all the time with loud music, commuting to work in the tube and the buses, they're

really, really loud. even going to the local pub, it all damages are hearing and life does seem to be getting noisier than ever. so yesterday i went to apple headquarters in london, where they are hoping to use these apple airpods to create a heanng apple airpods to create a hearing aid device. a modern version, if you will. i spoke to the vice president of health, the vice president of health, the inspiring doctor desai. >> you know, hearing loss really affects so many because it's your connection to the world. it's your connection to each other. and, you know, the features really geared towards those who have mild to moderate heanng those who have mild to moderate hearing loss. and the numbers that you just cited are very consistent with what we saw in one of our studies as well, in the apple hearing study, that about 75% of people who actually could benefit from assistive devices don't use them. and obviously, that's for a number of reasons, whether it's stigma or comfort or just getting over that hump to get to the doctor to get it looked at. and so we're very excited about the potential of the impact this, this can have. knowing that

heanng this can have. knowing that hearing loss one is one of the reasons people start having social isolation, depression, but also it's a modifiable risk factor for dementia. so we're hopeful that this will be impactful in many ways. >> so this. >> so this. >> has heard all of that. >> has heard all of that. >> this is what they look like. the airpods pro two and the way it would work is on your iphone. you take a hearing aid test a bit like how you described that you did a few years ago. they play you did a few years ago. they play lots of sounds, and you tap when you can hear them on your phone, and then it creates a graph for you. it tells you what you're, what you are and aren't able to hear, and then it automatically adapts to your airpods. so it acts as a hearing aid. >> and this is not just about hearing. hearing is very, very important. but if you have not got good hearing and you're filling in the gaps, this is affecting your mental capabilities. and it relates to dementia and alzheimer's and all sorts of things in later life. and a few full interview with the good doctor there is on our website , gbnews.com/win. so website, gbnews.com/win. so there's what, 15 or 20 minutes

of you and. >> yeah, 15 minutes. sit down with doctor. yes. loads of you getting in touch this morning, angela says my apple watch detected that i had a nasty fall on the ice, and it started phoning the emergency services for me. and we. >> hadn't, had she? >> hadn't, had she? >> yeah, she hadn't actually fall on the ice. yeah. and it knows that you've had a fall and it calls the emergency services for you. but this is what is so good about the technological age that we're living in, where health and tech can come together to hopefully help. >> us for an ambulance. does an ambulance turn up? >> well, i hope so. i have to finish that story for us. let us know if the ambulance did show up and margaret says yes, yes, yes, i don't understand airpods, but at 83 years old, i'm unable to use conventional hearing aids. these could be a whole new life for me. i follow with interests and johnny says he's a retired engineer. he suffers with high tone hearing loss due to low frequency damage. i can hear the volume, but i can't separate the sounds in a crowded room. i've brought some airpods and i will use them in conversations with multiple people. the difference is amazing. i can actually take

part. and that's the sociability that you're talking about. >> well, i'm not really. there's lots of things i'm not aware of, but anybody who knows me will say, turn that tv down, will you? i'm not aware the tv's are. >> do you listen to it really loud? >> well, i listen to it at 70 volume. >> that is very loud. >> that is very loud. >> is that. what do you listen to, 35 or something? >> yeah, 30. i like to be on, on a nice even number. >> don't come round to my house. >> don't come round to my house. >> oh, dear. yeah. anyway, let us know what you think about that. would you use airpods? oh, we've got a flying airpod in the studio now. would you wear an airpod instead of a hearing aid? is that something that would. >> well, they become one and the same thing. >> yeah. would you use it as your hearing aid? let us know. >> yeah, right. i'll tell you what we'll do now. we'll go to alex burkill with the weather and the situation today, certainly in the london area, was heavy rain this morning. there was a bit of wind. it was dark, it was dreary. it was pretty awful. how long is it going to last for? let's go to

alex. >> ooh. a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm afternoon. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. here's your latest gb news weather update from the met office. plenty of sunny spells on offer today, but also plenty of showers. and some of these could be a bit heavy with the risk of a little bit of hail and some thunder too. through this morning. the showers are most frequent across northwestern parts, but as we go through the day and into the afternoon, they are going to become a bit more widespread, spreading across many parts though towards the south—east, largely avoiding them here. like i said, some of the showers could be on the heavy side and there could be a bit of hail and thunder mixed in with them as well. temperatures are around or a touch above average for the time of year. many places towards the south getting into double figures. highs of around 11 or 12 celsius. more showers to come as we go towards the end of the day. but like i said, fewer showers towards the southeast of the uk. so a largely dry evening here with

some clear spells, perhaps a greater chance of a few scattered showers across more western parts of england and wales. plenty of showers still to end the day across northern ireland and much of scotland too, especially towards the west, some of them here still on the heavy side and there could be a bit of wintriness, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground. but as we go overnight we are going to see most of those showers clearing away and we are going to have largely clear skies, particularly towards the east, clinging on to those clear skies. meanwhile, further west, the cloud is going to build. we're going to have some rain pushing in and some strengthening winds too. where that happens, temperatures are going to pick up as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, but in the east it is going to stay quite chilly. there could be a touch of frost in some places, also some mist and fog patches as well. that wet weather in the west does spread its way east and southeastwards. as we go through wednesday, there's likely to be a bit of sleet and snow over the higher ground of the hills, and there could even be some rumbles of thunder as that rain pushes through. there

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>>i >> i can't believe that we're making this next item matter of normality. we're asking, can we change the culture in this country to make attending school a normal thing? i'll just repeat that. make attending school a normal thing. you know what i mean. you had two parents as teachers, for instance. how normal was attending school for you? >>i you? >> i attended school every day, as did they. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yes. >> yes. >> well. >> well. >> a poll has found that that has changed because nearly a third of children have refused to go to school, refused multiple times in the past year. how would that have gone down in your house if you'd have refused to go to. >> are you kidding me? you wouldn't have had the refused. no, mum and dad. i'm not going today. that's okay, young

eamonn. that's fine. you look after yourself. what a lot of nonsense. what is it with parents these days? what is it? have the parents changed or the kids changed? honestly. >> is it gentle parenting? >> is it gentle parenting? >> well, a whack around the ear would sort it out. see how gentle that is? i mean, this is really. almost a third of children in the country have refused to go to school. refused at least once in the past year. now, i'm not saying i didn't say in sickness every now and again, but i wouldn't have picked. that's what word would have been used in your day for missing school bebe king school, hiking off school. >> bunking. >> bunking. >> bunking. >> mitching truancy. >> mitching truancy. >> you know, no one says truancy. >> that's what it would have been called in school, though. skiving. >> yeah. yeah, we would have called it something different. anyway, mr dougie beattie at school, he is now. if he was my teacher, i would go. i would have no worries about anything. bobby seagull joins us now and ayesha ali khan about all of

this. well, bobby, i think i've got to go to you first, mate, to really try and discover what the mood is. i understand, i understand people having a problem with school and not wanting to go. i understand that, but how normal is this? i mean, it was an abnormal thing in my day. how normal is it today? >> sadly, school absence is something that more and more teachers, heads of years, head teachers, heads of years, head teachers have to consider when they're trying to think about school strategies and how to improve performance. because ultimately, as an educator, as parents, the reason why we're so insistent on attendance is ultimately, the higher the attendance, the more likely children are to do well academically, and that boosts their life chances. so we as teachers and parents, we want children to have the best chance in life. but if you look at this survey here, it's been conducted with, i think, 2000 families. what they found is that the number one reason for children saying they don't want to go to school is that they're not

enjoying school. and that's really sad for me. one is like one children. i think they should enjoy school. but secondly, things can get tough and if you're not enjoying it, you should carry on and persist, not just miss school. and there are serious reasons i've seen in the report. i think like 8% of children said bullying. of course, for those reasons, schools should deal with that harshly and separately on the bullies, etc. but if you're missing school because you're not enjoying it, i think that's not enjoying it, i think that's not acceptable. you can't just say school is optional. and i think what's happened is that in covid, children have seen the relationship between schools and students change, whereas it used to be compulsory. you go to school every day. now it's seen as, oh, i don't feel like it. or maybe i have a working from home day. so i think the culture has changed, where parents, maybe slightly, are also guilty of encouraging children to think actually, you can skip school if you're not feeling it. >> i sher ali khan, what do you think? what's going on? >> well morning everybody. i agree absolutely there's been a massive shift in the attitudes towards attending. and like eamonn said, we never got a

choice. we had to go to school. my choice. we had to go to school. my mum was a school teacher and there was absolutely no way we could even pretend to be unwell. even, you know, like no toffee going whether you like it or not. but what i've seen as a i've been a teacher for 20 years this year is that a lot of parents, a lot of children have struggled. and you just mentioned covid and, and i do think that has played a massive part. and i've worked in special provisions. i've worked 1 to 1 with children. i've actually travelled to the homes of children who've been persistently absent from school and delivered 1 to 1 lessons with them. and what i have found is that there's some there are some real issues. and the report picks up on those mental health issues, children being bullied both physically and online when they've said, we don't enjoy school, there's always been some kind of issue around lessons. some schools are adopting the 100 minute lessons, which is one houn 100 minute lessons, which is one hour, 40 minutes, which is, as we know, it's quite for some

children. it's far too long. the school structure and also and a separate report, i read that the fact that parents themselves are working from home, the fact that they've changed their lifestyles and their working routines, and that's showing children will actually, if mum and dad can stay at home, will, so can we. but i do feel that one of the reasons cited was the lack of provision for children within schools. and i have seen this constant consistently throughout my teaching career, and we've seen a massive increase in children being diagnosed with all sorts of conditions like adhd and asthma. >> and i can't have i can't have this. don't have there's always there's, you know, you know, i really can't have this because when i think of school, i even enjoyed the unenjoyable bits, you know, you would come and you were going to have class with so and so today, and you would have been quite frightened of some of the teachers that you had, and you were really rubbish at the subject or whatever it happens

to be. maybe you're going to get shouted at or whatever it happens to be. i mean, i remember being in art class once and painting a painting, a picture and whatever way i'd doneit picture and whatever way i'd done it late the night before and it hadn't dried, and the teacher walked and teacher walked down and the wore capes and things, and he just lifted it, and he just rubbed it all over my hair and face. so he did. and look, you see, the thing is, bobby, i'm talking about something which would probably bring the police in on a case like that nowadays. but what i'm trying to say is, however awful that was, you were able to laugh at it. you were able to laugh at it. you were able to laugh at it. you were able to come away and say, and you never guess what he did, and look at the state of me and whatever. you didn't go back to your mum and dad and say, turn up at school and protest naked outside the gates. tie yourself to the gates. >> nobody's done that. i don't think anybody's advocating protesting naked outside schools. yes, there have been protests, rightly or wrongly. but but yeah. sorry, bobby, i've

cut into your your segment. >> i'm afraid the two of you were out of time. but thank you so much for your time this morning. that's bobby seagull and aisha ali—khan there for us. let us know what you think. gbnews.com/yoursay have we got two soft on skipping school, right? >> best years of your life for not. >> school. i loved school. >> school. i loved school. >> i loved school too. >> i loved school too. >> yeah, so. >>- >> yeah, so. >> did you. >> did you. >> even though there was so much, even though there was so much, even though there was so much bad about it, it set me up. going to the secondary school i went to made me the person i am today. >> yeah, i'd. >> yeah, i'd. >> agree with. >> agree with. >> this. because of saint malachy's college. >> and that that was that. anyway, back

>> welcome back. at 7.33, we're joined now by shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs victoria atkins. good to see you this morning, mr atkins. and can i

start by asking you about the energy price cap going to increase by 6.4%, higher than predicted to £1,849 from april? that's for a typical household. what's your response to that? >> well, this will be a blow to households across the country. and of course, it's the third consecutive price rise that we will see under this labour government. let's not forget dunng government. let's not forget during the general election campaign, they promised to cut our bills by up to £300 over the course of this parliament. this is yet another promise that they have broken, because they made promises at the election that they seemingly had no intention or way of delivering. now they're in government. >> your answer to the energy crisis then, and indeed saving the planet. >> well, we believe, first of all, that we can have a secure energy supply, but we've got to do it in a way that reflects our countryside and our population.

so these plans for plaguing our prime agricultural land with solar farms, with wind farms, this goes against not just energy security, but also food security, which obviously is defra shadow secretary. i'm particularly focused on today of all days when the nfu has come to london to have its conference and to listen to city steve reed about his plans for farming. and but what we need to see is a careful and thought through plan for energy, and my worry is that the moment we just have lots of plans from ed miliband to plaster our countryside with these renewable energies, whilst at the same time closing our oil fields in the north sea, which has a huge impact, of course, on each and every one of us and at the back of our minds as well, we will be remembering that terrible impact of the winter fuel payment being slashed for the most vulnerable pensioners in our society this winter alone. in my own very rural constituency, where not everybody is on the grid, a lot

of us have to fill up our oil tanks. that £300 would have helped people heat their homes this winter, and yet labour has removed that from some of our most vulnerable pensioners. >> but they've removed it from those people. they've removed it from city dwellers, they've removed it from rural country dwellers and as well. and who's listening to the farmers? because, you know, a lot of people, there's a lot of public sympathy and empathy for what they do and what they have to do for the country. but come on, whether it's you or whether it is labour, you had a chance to do more for them. you didn't do more for them. we're in the situation that we're in. i wouldn't be a farmer. would you be a farmer? >> well, if i may ehm, just take pick you up. at one point, even though we inherited the disastrous economic mess that labour left us in 2010, if you remember, you know the deficit was double what it is today. we had inflation higher than when we left it to labour in july last year. we had growth and so

on in a far, far worse state than we left to labour in july. nonetheless, the one thing we did not do was touch april and bpr, because we understood as a conservative government who had introduced it in the 1990s, that that spirit of entrepreneurship, that spirit of entrepreneurship, that spirit of custodianship, not just for family farms, but for all family businesses that had to be supported and encouraged by government. instead, this labour government have ripped the rug out from farmers and family businesses feet by imposing this family farm tax, this death tax on family businesses. which means that in a meeting that i called yesterday with the three main farming organisations, they were telling me very clearly that it is having a huge impact on their members plans for the future. people are stopping investing in agricultural machinery and buildings and so on because what's the point? rachel reeves is just going to take it from them, but also the horrible human cost that this policy is already having. you know, they

are there are genuinely conversations happening across kitchen tables up and down the country where people are asking whether their family can afford for them to continue living after april 2026, when this horrible policy comes in. we as conservatives have promised that when we're back in government, we will reverse this terrible, terrible tax because we understand and we care about the terrible impact it's having on our countryside and on our family businesses. >> okay, victoria atkins, we're out of time with you, i'm afraid. but thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you very much. thank you. right. >> mr paul coyte paul, football last night. football tonight. >> yeah. i mean, we'll talk more about sheffield united and leeds. danny mills, ex leeds player, is going to be with us very shortly. and his son, who won the 3000m in the british indoor championship at the weekend, george. so it's father and son. i was looking through famous parents and kids who have both participated in different sports and professionals. i got to tell you, i'm coming up empty

with this. anybody will remember anything, but it's really difficult that to actually find any. but anyway, they're going to join us later tonight. this premier league football brighton are playing bournemouth. so 90 against six. you've got crystal palace against villa. wolves against fulham chelsea will play bottom club southampton tonight at stamford bridge. so chelsea are having a little bit of a wobble. so who do you want to play wobble. so who do you want to play when things are going bad. the team that's only won two games. so that's tonight. the other story manchester united. now this is a story really. it's a business thing. it's more stories about more people being made redundant at manchester united. another 200 being made. now a lot of people would look at that and just think, well, how can there be so much money? and when you can spend £1 million a month on a player, but it's very difficult to try and marry the two because what i do understand, i think you probably you will as well, is that it's got to run as a business. yes, but then you can't then say to

the players, well, actually we're not going to pay you this much because that is the market value of professional footballers. >> and that's what they're getting paid at man city or liverpool, chelsea or whatever. >> the first, the first thing everybody goes, oh, you know, free lunches are going well. there's a lot of workplaces where you're not going to get a free lunch. yes, there happened to have got that at manchester united, but that's not going to happen anymore. and then three weeks, three weeks wages have, you know, three weeks of casimiro could pay for everything. but that's market value. >> and he's tied into a contract. >> it's uncomfortable viewing. it is. but unfortunately that seems to be the way it is. >> it leads to the question, did ratcliffe pay too much for what he got from the glazers? >> yeah, exactly. i mean, and it's also what he was prepared. you're not going to tell me that he's going to look back and think, well i wasn't aware because you can see what sort of a businessman jim ratcliffe is. he's a smart cookie. he knows what's going on. he knows what he was happy to pay, but they're trying to make it profitable, which it's not at the moment. >> if the glazers had have sold

to the saudis. yeah. on this, we wouldn't be in this position. >> you'd have free breakfast, lunch, dinner. bottomless pit. >> the thing is though, politically or religiously or something, they, as jewish people did not want to sell to the arabs. >> it's. but it it seemed a good idea when you've got someone like jim ratcliffe and for fans as well, you would think, oh, he's a manchester united. you know, there's that romantic thing about someone who's british and romantic, who's a british and romantic, who's a british and romantic, who's a british and a manchester united fan, that kind of fits better. but anyway, there's a lot of cuts being made because he's running it as a business, not just the way football clubs are always run. >> should have a quick look at the boxing. >> you know what? i really want to show you something else. let's have a little look at this. shelly—ann fraser—pryce, i'll tell you a little bit about her before i show you the race. she's spoken about one of her biggest races. two weeks before the race, her rival started sending pictures of her working out. she said, i was like, you can't be serious, girl. when you go to the race. you started giving me the eyes, trying to psych me out. the race was the

school. primary school, mums race. so what do you do? you're a three time gold medallist. yeah. do you take it easy or do you go for it? what would you do? >> i think. >> i think. >> you can help yourself. you'd have to go for it. >> let's see what happened. this is a couple of months ago. so here we are. shelly—ann fraser—pryce, one of the fastest women on the planet. oh, look at that. she's finished before the rest of them have even got off the blocks. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i just wonder if she celebrated giving it all the big one to them afterwards. but, you know, she said afterwards, look, what am i supposed to do? >> look at the distance? >> look at the distance? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, maybe whoever came second should be regarded as. >> the people's champion. >> the people's champion. >> i think the people's champion. yeah, i think so. >> thank you very. >> thank you very. >> much indeed, paul. we'll leave it there. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. >> we'll take a break. we're back with the newspapers right after this. and here's your weather hotspots around europe. >> can't wait to get in that sea. >> lovely and warm. >> lovely and warm. >> just like the feeling of having great travel insurance.

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>> we're delighted to welcome back andy williams and suzanne evans, political commentators. and i think, suzanne, the first thing we'll do is get straight into this energy price cap. and

it's a £111. they reckon on average is the price jump in energy bills. >> yeah. so from april the 1st till june the 30th this year, the average cost of your energy that's based on a jul fuel, electricity gas bill is going to go electricity gas bill is going to 9° up electricity gas bill is going to go up to £1,849. obviously, if your electricity only your bills are going to be even higher than that. and a shocking failure, i think of ofgem. let's not forget ofgem, the regulator, was set up in 2000 to protect consumers interests and to cut prices. it's gone up and up and up. they in my view, they've completely failed. >> well it's like the water regulator whatever. they're there to protect the interests of the companies, it seems, not the consumers. >> i think so, you know, also, sorry ed miliband promised labour party manifesto. we're going to cut your energy bills by £300. clearly that's not happened. >> we've got to ask the question. what planet does he live on? i know he's worried about our planet and it coming

to an end and whatever, but you know, who does he represent? >> well, he. well, his his his policies, his ideas. you know, this £21 billion for his carbon capture and storage programme, which is completely unproven. you know, let's not forget 12% of these bills that people are going to have to pay, people who are really struggling, pensioners who've had the winter fuel allowance stripped for them. 12% of what they pay is going on green taxes to fuel ed miliband's crackpot ideas more. if you're paying again, electric only 25%. so we're looking now £233 of your money on your bills every year on average, is going to go into these green taxes supporting energy companies engagedin supporting energy companies engaged in renewable energy who are wealthy enough as it is. and if they can't survive without taxpayer support, why on earth are they in existence? >> and we are inundated here with stories of people who just can't pay their bills. and we

talk about the right to family life or the way asylum seekers talk about their right to family life. and people think they're being robbed of this. i'm going to go into these more detail after 8:00 today, but people just they just don't know where they're going to be hit next. they just they don't have any money and now they have less. >> i know, and i think successive governments have failed to protect the people who really need protecting. and instead what we've had are really crude, broad brushstrokes approach to supporting people with energy bills. i mean, remember liz truss energy price guarantee, where we all got £66 a month for six months when there was that real the real peak of that spike that cost £23 billion. that's like £0.04 on income tax. i mean, it's actually, on reflection, complete madness that everybody in the country got 60, you know, multi, multi multi—millionaires were getting this money. it wasn't targeted. it wasn't thought through. i think there's a complete lack of sophistication about the way our, our energy policy works. i just want to push back a bit on

suzanne. you know we know that most of this is driven by massive spikes in wholesale gas prices. yes, absolutely. you're right. of course, some of what people are paying for is renewables. but we do need we do need a mixed approach to how we generate our energy. and i think i think labour is treading a reasonably sensible line, actually, by not chucking out the baby with the bathwater. they've just approved a massive new oil field. so i think sensible. >> approach, refusing to look at a massive great gas field that's there right under our feet, that could give us energy security for years. they're just ruling. >> that that remains to be seen. but the £300 pledge i mean, victoria atkins said she they labour had broken their pledge there. i mean that's this is for there. i mean that's this is for the end of the parliament to cut energy bills by £300. let's see. let's see on that. i'll be interested, by the way, to see what richard tice has to say, because as far as i can see, reform's policy here is a windfall tax on renewable energy, which is crackers. >> i agree. >> i agree. >> well, we've got him after after 8:00 this morning. suzanne, can we talk about mike amesbury, the labour mp? well, he was a former former labour mp. but anyway, the thing that i

mean, he. >> was the mp, this is the weird thing. >> he hasn't resigned. >> he hasn't resigned. >> he's a former former labour rep. >> i'm with you. got you. >> i'm with you. got you. >> yes. but the bit that amazes me about all of this. so there he is, mike amesbury. he thumps this guy, he gets sent to prison. he's sentenced to prison for, what, ten weeks? was it. ten weeks? yes. but the thing is, he's he's he's been paired by the houses of parliament while he's in prison. >> i mean, it's astonishing, isn't it? how many of us, if we had a job and were sent to jail, would still get paid? so he's still getting his mp salary of £91,366 a year. >> he hasn't resigned. >> he hasn't resigned. >> that's the system, you know, if he had any conscience, if he was a proper public servant, in my view, he would resign. and this is what reform the reform party is calling on him to do, because, of course, they're eyeing up a by—election in this seat as well. reform came second in the general election. now they were way behind. we're talking about an 18% vote share

for reform, as opposed to a nearly 53% share for mike amesbury. >> but but then if you take into account a disgraced mp and a government that's not doing so well in the polls, i mean, they could really be in with a shot here, couldn't they? >> they absolutely could. so he's got a ten week conviction, which is the minimum that's needed for a recall petition to be set up. so you have a recall petition in his constituency. if 10% of the electorate sign that, there's got to be a by—election. so it's popcorn stuff, could we have another by—election very soon? >> but labour won't want one, will they? because this is the they won't want to give it away to. >> no, no. absolutely not. 16th safest seat in the country. but as i say, reform are snapping at their heels. you've hit the nail on the head, ellie. labour are performing atrociously. it could be very interesting. >> those were depressing stories, but it gets more depressing. >> so i thought we were going to do something lovely. >> andy and suzanne. just imagine you're on an aeroplane travelling between australia and

london, and the person sitting beside you dies. what would you. what andy, would you like to have?! what andy, would you like to have? i mean, what can they do? what can they do? but anyway, it's a long journey. and with a dead body sitting beside you. >> i shouldn't laugh. >> i shouldn't laugh. >> oh, it's horrendous story. >> oh, it's horrendous story. >> so. yeah. so this is the story of, of a somebody who died or died on a long haul flight. and then they needed somewhere to, to put the body to put the corpse. so they basically used one of the vacant seats to, to situate this, this dead. >> body for. >> body for. >> the remainder of the flight. >> the remainder of the flight. >> that's not the dead body. that's the man who was sitting in the. >> well, i noticed the man is staring very, very decidedly straight ahead, trying not to look. >> you have to. >> you have to. >> be right. i mean, goodness. >> be right. i mean, goodness. >> me, it's almost. is it almost worse having them in a body bag? i don't know, i don't know. >> where the body begin to smell. >> well, not often. it's only about four hours. so. >> yeah, but then. there's the fluids that they can regurgitate

and all sorts of things goes on. >> well, apparently it had to land in doha for the health authorities to come on and take authorities to come on and take a look at the body, but they opened up the body in front of this poor couple. so that poor. >> did they take the body off? >> did they take the body off? >> they did eventually take the body off, but they wanted to take a look at it first. so that couple weren't moved along. and they took a look at that body. >> so i suspect. >> so i suspect. >> traumatising for everyone. yeah. potentially. >> probably if that ever happened to you. i mean, have you ever been on a plane or a train or whatever and someone has died beside you. >> but that is common practice. i was listening to a podcast the other day, and an air hostess was saying, you think that we put them in the toilet, you put the body in the toilet, you don't. you just have to find a vacancy. as you. >> say, you need to leave the toilet available. >> yeah, and put them there. but anyway, we're out of time with you both. andy. suzanne, thank you both. andy. suzanne, thank you very much. we'll see you in the next hour. let's get a check on the weather now because it's wet. wet, wet. >> heavy showers first thing will be followed by a warm, cosy day. boxt boilers sponsors of

weather on gb news. >> good morning. here's your latest gb news weather update from the met office. plenty of sunny spells on offer today, but also plenty of showers. and some of these could be a bit heavy with the risk of a little bit of hail and some thunder too. through this morning. the showers are most frequent across northwestern parts, but as we go through the day and into the afternoon, they are going to become a bit more widespread, spreading across many parts though towards the south—east, largely avoiding them here. like i said, some of the showers could be on the heavy side and there could be a bit of hail and thunder mixed in with them as well. temperatures are around or a touch above average for the time of year. many places towards the south getting into double figures. highs of around 11 or 12 celsius. more showers to come as we go towards the end of the day. but like i said, fewer showers towards the southeast of the uk. so a largely dry evening here with some clear spells, perhaps a greater chance of a few scattered showers across more western parts of england and wales. plenty of showers still to end the day across northern

ireland and much of scotland too, especially towards the west, some of them here still on the heavy side and there could be a bit of wintriness, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground. but as we go overnight we are going to see most of those showers clearing away and we are going to have largely clear skies, particularly towards the east, clinging on to those clear skies. meanwhile, further west, the cloud is going to build. we're going to have some rain pushing in and some strengthening winds too. where that happens, temperatures are going to pick up as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, but in the east it is going to stay quite chilly. there could be a touch of frost in some places, also some mist and fog patches as well. that wet weather in the west does spread its way east and southeastwards. as we go through wednesday, there's likely to be a bit of sleet and snow over the higher ground of the hills, and there could even be some rumbles of thunder as that rain pushes through. there will be some brighter weather ahead and behind the rain, but also plenty of showers feeding in through the afternoon too, and temperatures down a nudge

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ofgem reveals the energy price cap is set to rise by 6.4%, adding hundreds of pounds to your energy bills. >> ed miliband, the energy minister, reacts to the decision. is the government doing enough? your views. >> will be very worrying news for many families and it's dnven for many families and it's driven by the rise in global gas prices. but this government is

determined to act. >> despite the government blaming those soaring prices on the gas market. new analysis for gb news shows the biggest culprit is actually the explosion in subsidies for renewable energy and net zero policies. >> yes, the average household bill going up by £111 this year added to that water bills going up, council tax bills going up. are those net zero subsidies biting? are customers willing to keep paying for it? >> farmers they keep fighting. as the nfu conference takes place today. the government is being urged to reset its relationship with agricultural workers. >> new powers for police and one of the biggest updates for decades. officers could search for stolen goods without a warrant. >> romance or rivalry. the french president becomes the first european leader to meet president trump, as their

awkward handshake at the white house goes viral. it got worse than that. >> i said, that's not what we said. he's a smart customer, i will tell you that. you remember? how will you play? i have no idea what he's saying, but. >> could your phone be the secret to keeping healthy while apple thinks so? we have an exclusive tv interview with the tech giant about how they're planning to revolutionise heanng planning to revolutionise hearing aids. >> hearing is your connection to the world. it's how you communicate. it's how you build relationships. it's part of your it's core to your social being. >> so all over westminster, paintings, photographs depicting political leaders, great political leaders, great political leaders, great political leaders of the past have been removed since labour took office. so we're asking, is britain actually ashamed of its past? >> and in sport? leeds united

looking more and more likely for a return to the premier league as they beat second place yorkshire rivals sheffield united three one at bramall lane last night. four more premier league games tonight and manchester united. can they save any more money? >> we have sunshine and showers today and then a spell of more persistent rain arriving tomorrow. for more details on this, stick around as i'll have the info coming up. >> a very good morning to you on this tuesday morning. i'm eamonn holmes. >> i'm ellie costello and this is gb news breakfast. >> fascinating interview coming up between danny mills and george mills. george mills, the 3000 metre runner. danny mills, former leeds united footballer. yes, paul. >> father and son. >> father and son. >> raised questions for you or raised an association. >> for you? yeah, i'm trying to

work out because. are there many. >> sports stars and the sons or daughters of that person who are also professional sports people, but play a different sport? >> well, not exactly. take gary neville, for instance. his sister, i think her name is suzanne. she used to be top netball player. >> yeah. she's in australia now. yeah, yeah. >> and she's coaching in australia. >> yeah yeah yeah yeah. >> yeah yeah yeah yeah. >> so i know, but that's the connection. but it's not the connection. but it's not the connection you're looking for. >> so it's so there's only. so you've got danny then who played for leeds. played for england and his son george very successful. he's actually the third fastest miler as far as we've had. only sebastian coe and i think cram have run faster than him. i think he's faster than him. i think he's faster than he's ever done. >> but his margin was massive. >> but his margin was massive. >> oh yeah, i mean he won by 10s in the 3000m. so he's a really great athlete. so we're going to speak to both of them. so i'm very excited about that father and son you know. >> great. okay. we've got them at what 8:20 20. >> around 20 past. half past. >> around 20 past. half past. >> thanks, matt.

>> thanks, matt. >> thanks, matt. >> thank you, thank you. now a blow for households from the 1st of april 2025. the quarterly energy price cap will increase by 6.4% to £1,849 per year. >> how did they get away with it? 6.4%. you couldn't get a pay rise of 6.4%. well, for a typical household that will add £9.25 a month to your energy bill. >> an average of £111 per year. well, this morning the government is pointing the finger at the rising prices on the use of fossil fuels. >> the only way we can have the energy security that british people deserve is by getting off fossil fuels that are controlled by petrostate and dictators. >> and in the meantime, you'll go broke. analysis for gb news shows, the biggest culprit is the explosion of subsidies for renewable energy and net zero policies. >> well, in response to this increase, nearly 3 million households in the uk will now be eligible for the £150 warm home

discount next winter, bringing the total number of recipient homes to an estimated 6.1 million. >> look, so here's my point why give out rebates when they just shouldn't allow the increase in the first place? you know? >> or don't scrap winter fuel first place? you know? the first place? you know? >> or don't scrap winter fuel allowance for pensioners? >> yeah. adam cherry, our allowance for pensioners? >> yeah. adam cherry, our reporter with more on this. reporter with more on this. adam, good morning to you. adam, good morning to you. >> good morning. yeah. it's >> good morning. yeah. it's striking when you read those striking when you read those figures out, isn't it? i just figures out, isn't it? i just bnng figures out, isn't it? i just bnng figures out, isn't it? i just bring you a couple more to give bring you a couple more to give some context to this, to give an some context to this, to give an idea of how badly this has gone idea of how badly this has gone so quickly, actually. so let's so quickly, actually. so let's hear from the analysis provided hear from the analysis provided by warm this winter. actually, by warm this winter. actually, it's even worse than this it's even worse than this because they were basing this because they were basing this analysis on a 5% increase. the analysis on a 5% increase. the reality is it's 6.4%. even so, reality is it's 6.4%. even so, the organisation says the the organisation says the average household would have average household would have been likely to pay around £750 been likely to pay around £750 more this year for energy more this year for energy compared to winter 2020 2021, compared to winter 2020 2021, which is a 75% increase. just which is a 75% increase. just unbelievable. £750 more. and unbelievable. £750 more. and

then if you look at just then if you look at just electricity prices in the last decade alone, since 2015, it's jumped from £664 per year for the average household

jumped from £664 per year for theoverage household jumped from £664 per year for theoverage ifigure.)ld jumped from £664 per year for theoverage ifigure. so we all over that figure. so we heard from andrew bowie mp today. who is the shadow acting energy secretary. he said the latest hike in the price cap is a betrayal to the families, who ed miliband promised to save £300 on their bills. labour's election promise is shot and bills are on the rise. i'm here in cornwall. i'm going to be talking to local people about how they feel about that, how they feel seeing their bills rise and frankly, can they afford it? >> that's the question. adam, thanks very much indeed for the update. we're going to get reaction now from the deputy leader of reform uk. listening to that, richard tice. richard, good morning and good. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> yeah. although there's nothing much good about it when you, when you, when you see these prices and you hear these pnces these prices and you hear these prices and you try and think, what's this achieving and when will it achieve it? it's not even so much that we've got to pay even so much that we've got to pay more, it's that we've got to pay pay more, it's that we've got to pay more, it's that we've got to pay more on top of everything else. and this won't be the last

thing. and it just goes on and on and on. and it's as if nobody in government ever looks at people and think, how much can they take? >> eamonn it's far worse than that. i'm afraid that you've just played a clip of the energy secretary misleading the british people, blaming the increase in the price of gas. let me just tell your listeners and viewers the price of gas has fallen by 10% since the beginning of january. the price of gas is exactly where it was last november. so these price increases of 6.4% since january is totally due to the renewables subsidies. they're up 18% since last july. and the british people have been sold a complete and utter puff by this government. the all of this is on net, stupid zero. we're calling it out. if there was no net zero, there would be none of these price increases and bills would come down significantly.

thatis would come down significantly. that is the cost. the damage to the british people of net zero. our bills are up, our cost of living is up. jobs are being put at risk at places like cowley. they've gone at luton, the car industry. all of this is because of net zero and the government is deeply, deeply misleading the british people. >> so reform's plan for energy is to scrap net zero. i've got it here in front of me. reform uk's plan. so windfall tax on renewable generated power, solar farm tax on farmers that are taking the renewables subsidy, a ban on battery energy storage systems and legislate to force national grid to put cables underground. right. so this is a bold plan. but many would say this isn't free market, which is what you're supposed to stand for. >> again, that's an assumption. the point is that government is there to try and make life better for people and for markets to work. we haven't got a free market at the moment because of all the subsidies. so what our policies do is offset

these vast subsidies because of net zero and put the money back into people's pockets, not into the developers and the promoters of all these renewables, the vested interests in the renewables industry are making fortunes at the cost of the british people. so we're going to reverse that. that's our plan. we're going to protect the british countryside by protecting them from the blight of hundreds or thousands of huge, ugly pylons, as well as protect people from the dangers of the very expensive battery storage systems. one of which, even since i announced that policy some ten days ago, a new battery storage system, not yet operational, has just gone up in flames in essex, in the constituency of my colleague james murdoch. these things are dangerous. >> richard, i'm just looking at viewer comments coming through andifs viewer comments coming through and it's heartbreaking. it really is. what people are having to choose between. and people are very depressed by all of this. but basically they're

saying, i mean, here's a quote, but ed miliband had said, richard says fuel bills are going through the roof. well, there's a surprise. miliband must have known this would happen by pursuing this to net zero policy. however, the labour elitists don't care. says richard. i'm sure you'd very much agree with that. but here's my point. if planet warming, if climate control is an issue, you know, let's let's just accept it's an issue. what on earth do you do? how how can you address both? how can you care for the planet and how can you reduce fuel bills? what's the answer? >> really? actually. i mean, it's really quite simple. the climate's changed for millions of years. it always will. what you do is you adapt to it. two, 2 or 3000 years ago, it was a degree and a half warmer in the uk than it is now. human beings

adapt. they'll be much, much cheaper than thinking you can stop the power of the sun or stop the power of the sun or stop the power of the sun or stop the power of volcanoes. you can't. if we get rid of all of net zero, the bills will come down. the cost of living will come down. that's the critical thing to help people feel better off in their pocket at the end off in their pocket at the end of each week. it's really not very difficult. and this crisis was caused by the tories imposing net zero on us and has been accentuated by labour. and i'm delighted that reform uk we're calling it out. and it's funny, isn't it? we seem to be top of the polls. maybe people are listening to us. >> richard, can i ask you about something entirely different? and that is mike amesbury, the mp for runcorn and helsby. you will know he's been jailed for ten weeks now for assaulting a constituent. he hasn't resigned, so he will continue to receive his £91,000 salary. but there will presumably be a recall petition in these weeks and months to come. do you fancy your chances in his seat? reform

uk? >> well, we'll certainly be going for it big time and working very, very hard. we won't take anything for granted. nothing's easy. and indeed, nor should it be, of course. but we will go for it as soon as the by—election is announced. doesn't it tell you something about labour politicians that here's a man who punched and thumped some one of his constituents has been sent to jail, but he doesn't have the moral decency or integrity to resign and accept that he can't be paid by the taxpayer. i mean, honestly, in no private sector business would that be allowed to continue? but if you're a labour politician, just keep taking the shilling from the taxpayer, even when you're in jail. i think that tells us a lot about the complete collapse in integrity amongst socialists. >> richard tice we'll leave it there. thank you very much indeed. richard tice from reform uk. >> let us know what you think on any of those issues that we were

discussing with richard gbnews.com/yoursay. >> the national farmers union conference is taking place today. farmers fury continues against the government over changes to inheritance tax announced in the october budget. >> well, the government is being urged to reset its relationship with farmers and do the right thing. after months of protests. >> president tom bradshaw has called out the government for breaking promises with a morally wrong policy. that's a good point. morally wrong. i mean, things can be technically right or whatever, but morally wrong. katherine forster at the scene of the conference today for us. catherine, good morning to you. >> yes. good morning. well, the security at the qe2 centre, where this annual nfu conference is being held, is absolutely incredible. i've never seen anything like it. literally, for people that don't know the geography of central london. one

minute from the houses of parliament, there are metal barricades all around the centre. there are tractors all ready. and of course we've seen hundreds and hundreds of tractors. haven't we come to westminster before? so this is where the nfu president, tom bradshaw, will be speaking about 10:00, followed by the environment secretary, steve reed.i environment secretary, steve reed. i think he's likely to get a pretty rough ride, frankly, because the message from the farmers about those inheritance tax changes announced by rachel reeves in that bombshell budget last october, the farmers message is we will not go away. we will not stop. we will not give in. they've dubbed the prime minister starmer, the farmer hammer. they want the government to think again about those changes to inheritance tax. they say it's going to drag .

tax. they say it's going to drag. basically many family farms are going to be put out of business because they simply won't be able to pay the bill now. steve reed for the government will be trying to get them onto a better footing. he's promising investment. the government have said 5 billion over the next couple of years into farming also to improve profitability. they're saying that the seasonal worker visa route is being extended to get workers in to help pick those crops. also, that they want new government catering contracts to be prioritising british food. i have to say the anger is really off the chart with the government. i was at the oxfordshire farming conference last month. you could hear the horns of the tractors blaring outside all through steve reed speech. >> it'll be interesting to see what kind of response he gets today. catherine, thank you very much. we'll talk to you later. >> alex. we're going to talk to him now. he's got the weather

update. >> despite the morning rain. it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. here's your latest gb news weather update from the met office. plenty of sunny spells on offer today, but also plenty of showers. and some of these could be a bit heavy with the risk of a little bit of hail and some thunder too. through this morning. the showers are most frequent across northwestern parts, but as we go through the day and into the afternoon, they are going to become a bit more widespread, spreading across many parts though towards the south—east, largely avoiding them here. like i said, some of the showers could be on the heavy side and there could be a bit of hail and thunder mixed in with them as well. temperatures are around or a touch above average for the time of year. many places towards the south getting into double figures. highs of around 11 or 12 celsius. more showers to come as we go towards the end of the day. but like i said,

fewer showers towards the southeast of the uk. so a largely dry evening here with some clear spells, perhaps a greater chance of a few scattered showers across more western parts of england and wales. plenty of showers still to end the day across northern ireland and much of scotland too, especially towards the west, some of them here still on the heavy side and there could be a bit of wintriness, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground. but as we go overnight we are going to see most of those showers clearing away and we are going to have largely clear skies, particularly towards the east, clinging on to those clear skies. meanwhile, further west, the cloud is going to build. we're going to have some rain pushing in and some strengthening winds too. where that happens, temperatures are going to pick up as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, but in the east it is going to stay quite chilly. there could be a touch of frost in some places, also some mist and fog patches as well. that wet weather in the west does spread its way east and southeastwards. as we go through wednesday, there's likely to be a bit of sleet and snow over the higher ground of

the hills, and there could even be some rumbles of thunder as that rain pushes through. there will be some brighter weather ahead and behind the rain, but also plenty of showers feeding in through the afternoon too, and temperatures down a nudge compared to today. but by. >> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm front. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> thanks for listening this morning. thanks for watching. remember, we are on radio and if you're heading out in the car, you're heading out in the car, you can take us with you. remember? >> yes. no excuses. now it's time for the great british giveaway. if you want to be one of our two new winners, each with a new iphone, shopping vouchers and £10,000 in tax free cash, here are all of the details that you need. >> don't miss your chance to be one of two big winners in our latest great british giveaway, as we have two prize bundles that have to be won. there's two lots of a totally tax free £10,000 in cash. you'll also receive a brand new iphone 16,

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elected in government. so what's your view on that? i reckon we've got enough paintings to go round of enough issues and things to celebrate and things to commemorate and whatever. what do you think? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so we're asking this morning, are we ashamed of our past? if we're taking down these historical figures? well, they're replacing them, you say, with modern things like a covid anxiety. i think rachel reeves has got a nice modern painting about covid anxiety. lots of red swirls. anyway, let us know what you think about that on gbnews.com/poll say we're going to be talking about it

>> lovely. no pictures. paintings. do you like pictures of paintings? >> i love pictures of paintings. do you like pictures of paintings? >> i do, and i have. i like the

idea of collect movie posters or whatever. >> but you like portraits as well, don't you? yes. >> yeah, but i have this. what i think is everything outstays its welcome. so you can have, you can be into something for five years or so and then afterwards you think, well i'd like to move on from that. and that's what the government have done, because since labour came into power. portraits of winston churchill and other renowned prime ministers have been removed. >> yes, drawings, prints and photographs of the second world war have also been taken down since sir keir starmer walked into number 10. >> i'm sure what we're seeing, there is nothing to do. >> with. >> with. >> downing street. >> downing street. >> but anyway, it wasn't as brutal as that. but the question we are asking is britain ashamed of its past? political historian luke blaxill. luke, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. look, >> good morning. look, i >> good morning. look, i think there's a lot of history. there's a lot of history and a lot of people to be commemorated and a lot of aspects of history.

is it right that we should just concentrate on a certain avenue, for instance? >> no, i don't think it is. i think too often we're obsessed with remembering a tiny elite of great men at the top, and british history is a much wider and deeper story, sometimes from below as well. there are campaigners, activists, social reformers who deserve to be remembered, perhaps, as well as just statesmen and policy makers. and parliament shouldn't just be a churchill museum. i mean, there are 10,000 works of art in the parliamentary art collection, and perhaps, maybe taking churchill or the duke of wellington or william gladstone down for a rest in the archive, gives us an opportunity to tell stories, for example, of reformers like major john cartwright, henry hunt, robert owen, chartists like lovett and o'connor, trade unionists like john burns and william roberts, or maybe some women like ellen wilkinson, millicent fawcett or georgina brackenbury. many of those are very considerable

people who i don't think the public, or perhaps even the political class have ever heard of. so i do think it's important that we expand our purview of interest beyond the quite narrow pantheon of. >> political leaders. made me think when you were mentioning all those names and women and whatever, they are the obvious ones. but then people like, you know, i grew up in northern ireland at mo mowlam and i think, you know, she was a very significant politician and achieved so much. and it's not right that you sort of forget people like that and they're never mentioned again. and you don't introduce them to a whole new generation. >> absolutely. i mean, some people who feel as though they were in more recent political memory, like i can remember mo mowlam as well, may have faded from younger generations conceptions. and so it's probably important that they are memorialised. i mean, as for, you know, winston churchill himself, and obviously there are a lot of debates about his likeness, i suppose, being removed, he himself wouldn't

have wanted us to just simply kind of worship him when we could be learning the stories of other people. he wouldn't have wanted to have been placed on a pedestal. rather, he would have wanted to be critically remembered amongst others rather than just passively revered. >> it is a shame, though, isn't it, luke? when you look at this list, i mean, let's take the prime minister, for example. he has removed several paintings from his office, including a portrait of elizabeth, the first margaret thatcher, and also a portrait of william shakespeare. so that is our longest reigning monarch, our first female prime minister and our greatest ever playwright. there is now no trace of william shakespeare, by the way, in downing street. >> okay, you could say he's ticked that box. that's a. >> great shame. >> great shame. >> moving on. >> moving on. >> that's a great shame. do you not think and that's two women there that are being represented? >> well, certainly if i was keir starmer or indeed rachel reeves, i wouldn't have decorated my offices in that way and i would have kept those people there. but i think it's important to remember that portraits aren't

statues. portraits can be changed around. they can be placed into storage or moved to different places, whereas statues are much more permanent memorials. it's probably shouldn't be a surprise to your viewers that you know they've just put in. well, your viewers haven't, perhaps, but the british public have just put in labour with a thumping majority, and labour politicians have different political heroes to those that conservatives might have had. so probably we're going to see less prime ministers, less statesmen, more social reformers, more suffragettes, more ethnic minorities. i mean, at the end of the day, history is a mirror to our times. and if we change, that reflection will also change too. >> hence the well spoken look. i think i tend to agree with you andifs think i tend to agree with you and it's not easy. it's not easy to change like that. >> but you know. >> but you know. >> it's, you know, you can't say in my day we had this because it's not our day anymore. but anyway, look, thanks very much indeed. you've got people talking and thinking and we're going to reflect those views

throughout the programme this morning. that's have your say. >> yeah. pixie says britain isn't ashamed of our past. it's just that our government doesn't like britain. verner says. not me. i'm proud of our country, but it appears the labour party isn't. i think it's disgusting that anyone in number 10 has the right to do this. and tom says this government is certainly ashamed of what makes this country great. >> well, we've got a father and son, certainly not ashamed of each other. we've got mr and mr junior mills. so we have we've got danny mills and we've got george mills. one's a footballer. one's a runner. see if you can out paul coyte of those, but he'll be among it

here's paul, here's the sport. >> morning, paul. >> morning, paul. >> morning. sheffield united one, leeds three. top of the

championship. >> decent win for leeds. >> decent win for leeds. >> yeah, it really is. >> yeah, it really is. >> but you're doing well. >> but you're doing well. >> leeds are doing extremely well. yeah. the thing you've got. >> doing well. yeah. >> doing well. yeah. >> well you've got sheffield united in second. daniel farke who is the manager of leeds united. he's done it with norwich. you see very good at taking them up from the championship. is it going to work out. what if you know maybe i'm going a little early but. but anyway sheffield united one leeds three sheffield united went one nil up a bit of a mistake for the goalkeeper, but then leeds came through and now they've got 11 games to go. ten of them are going to be against teams that are in the bottom half. >> former leeds player danny mills. yes, we've got danny here and danny, we've got you there because you're a proud dad today. >> yeah, so always a proud dad. i'm sure. >> you are. >> you are. >> yeah but yeah no good good good weekend for my eldest. george won the british champs 3000m and qualified now for the europeans and the worlds in in

china later in next month. >> danny, he didn't just win. he just won in style. i mean, incredible distance between him and the rest of the field. it's exceptional, isn't it? >> yeah. we knew he was in good shape. he broke the british record on mo farah's british record. josh howie british record. josh howie british record a couple of weeks before that in northern france. so we knew he was in great shape. but it's one of those you still have to turn up, you know, you have to turn up, you know, you have to make the top two to make the championships. you have to, you know, perform on the day. and that's exactly what he did. fortunately, it was one of the easier watches. we've had some tough watches over the past few years. athletics, i say, is the most nerve racking sport to watch on the planet. it's like watching sudden death penalty shootout, you know, for seven, 12 minutes. whatever it is, it's not easy. one mistake and it can be over. so yeah, it's a nerve wracking one. >> what do you like then as a as a spectator especially? i mean, i know what it's like when you

watch athletics, especially when you're coming into that last hundred metres look. and there's son george there. he's with us as well. morning, george. >> morning. thanks for having me on, guys. >> you know what? i'm going to ask you this question instead of danny. what's your dad like when he's watching you? >> you'd be better off asking someone else, because i don't obviously don't see him. but from what i hear, it's . he's from what i hear, it's. he's stressed. >> george, congratulations on your win at the weekend. that's incredible. >> thank you very much. yeah, it was nice to. nice to get the win. actually my first british title in in five years. so it'd been a while but yeah very happy to tick that box with the process for the for the next couple of months. >> george, what sort of influence was dad on your athletic career? >> a huge influence, to be honest. obviously you've he's taught me the fundamentals of like hard work and discipline and, and how to apply yourself in a professional sport. so i think that's really helped me to

become a professional athlete and know how to live my life, to really get the best out of myself. >> you know, one of the great, great phrases and i think everybody goes through this as a kid and also as a dad, it's the they always say it's the happiest and the saddest day of your life. the moment that your son beats you at sport. and is that the same with you, danny? what do you remember when he beat you over on a foot race? >> yeah, it was quite a long time ago. you know, he's been substantially quicker for me for some time. although i've still faster than him over the marathon. he will tell me that he's yet to run one, and that is the only reason. but yeah, it's all my kids are better than me at pretty much everything they do now. so yeah, age is catching up with me. unfortunately. >> george, i remember being at school and, you know, running and i ran for quite a few years, middle distance running. and you the secret with what you do 3000m, for instance. let's take

that. that is an odd distance. thatis that. that is an odd distance. that is a strange distance to come to terms with, you know, how fast do you go out of the traps? how long do you hold yourself for? how do you avoid the stitches? you know, there's so much going through your mind there. >> yeah. so obviously when it comes to racing, it's almost second nature now. like you've done so much training over the years and you know your body so well. so you're pretty sure with what your body can deal with and what your body can deal with and what your body can deal with and what you can do and you just my cue is to just try and switch off my brain and, and let my body do the work, because i think going off instinct and feels the best thing you can do. >> coyte did you ever run? >> coyte did you ever run? >> no, i you know, i did have a go. i think i was always smaller than everybody else. so by the time i did run a marathon, i have actually run a marathon like danny. but middle distance. >> i mean, where i agree with george. no wonder danny beats him. a marathon is just just beating up your body. it's like a near death experience. >> you know what i love? and

danny will probably remember the golden era. i think even danny's too young to remember the golden era of cram and co and over it. and you've got, i think, your third fastest of all time when it comes to brits doing the mile. is that right george? because we still there's something very special about that mile record. i think you're faster than over and it's cram and coe. is there anything that, you know thinks, you know i want to do that and be the fastest miler everywhere? or is it now sort of 1500, 5000? >> yeah, of course i think you, you see the records from 15 to five k at the moment. and definitely further along in the future. and they're definitely things that i'm looking at and thinking, okay, i don't think that's impossible. maybe the longer distances are more likely in the future, but it's something we'll work towards. and if the right race comes then we'll we'll try to do it. >> danny. >> danny. >> do you follow football? >> do you follow football? >> i watch a lot. yeah, i watch, watch my brother mostly. now, i'm not not really a fan of the

team anymore, to be honest. but yeah, i'd say i'm. >> what is your brother supporter. >> of stands? so. so oxford fan at the moment i guess. >> danny what about leeds for the title? >> well the result last night was magnificent. you know, i thought they didn't turn up in the first half. not sure what was going on. you know, it was a really poor performance. but second half they came out. their forward line is exceptional. they've got eight forward players. you know they choose four. >> they could come from anywhere. >> yeah. and they just go for it. simple as that. it looks like now you know they should make the top two be very very disappointing. you know if they don't make the top two it looks like they'll be a, you know a fantastic derby manchester united and leeds next season. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> unless you get it completely wrong. >> we need somebody to beat you know. >> why not. probably going to be playing in the premier league and manchester united might be in a different league, so it may not happen. there's always going to be the cup. >> just guys.

>> just guys. >> just guys. >> just before we let you two 90, >> just before we let you two go, can i just ask what christmas day is like in your house? because i can imagine how competitive it must be over a game of monopoly or a game of jenga. i mean, with the two of you, how does it work? >> you don't really do. it hasn't happened for a few years, hasn't happened for a few years, has it? >> what's what's christmas day? so sportsmen don't have christmas day. we might do parkrun in the morning. it might be in a different country and that's about it. >> gosh gosh. well look happy christmas to you maybe. >> yeah yeah yeah yeah. >> yeah yeah yeah yeah. >> maybe be the first to wish wish it to you george. absolutely superb. it was great watching you on sunday. and danny always a pleasure to talk to you. good luck to leeds as well. we've got to leave it there guys. thank you very much indeed. have a good day. >> yeah. good luck. >> yeah. good luck. >> with the european, sir george. >> thank you. cheers. >> thank you. cheers. >> thank you. cheers. >> thank you, thank you. bye bye. >> that's coming up in a week's time. european indoor. that's his next one. and is and is danny mentioned the world championship outdoor. that's coming up in the summer. so wish. >> him well. >> him well. >> top man. thank you very much

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>> it's a delight to have suzanne evans and andy williams in the studio to continue their chat through the newspapers today. and the first story, ellie, that that you saw and just very concerning and very disturbing for everybody involved. just really awful. >> yeah. this is the daily mail. andy, a teen killer, was on his way to a school massacre. tell us a bit more about this. >> yeah. so this is the 15 year old who? a 19 year old, i think he was. who who killed his basically killed. killed his family, his mother and i think two sisters or two siblings. and then having, having committed that horrific act went off to go and commit basically a massacre at a school, was apprehended a mile from the school. horrendous story. obviously, what i thought was fascinating and really disturbing about this, though, is that he was seemingly inspired by two things. one, extreme violence that he found on the internet. and i think there's a really big

conversation to be had there about big tech companies and about big tech companies and about the role that they should play, but clearly are not playing enough in stopping that sort of content or at least moderating that content. and the second thing is, he seemingly was inspired by a video game he played. so he recorded this 72nd video where he said, i'm basically going to murder my sister. as retribution for a decision she made while they were playing a video game together, which is just incredible. now, of course, this individual has to be extremely disturbed. he wouldn't have done it otherwise, but there have to be concerns about the sort of content that that young people are accessing if these sorts of things are inspiring. >> well, we heard the same thing about axel rudakubana and extreme violence that he was looking at online, also plotting a school massacre. it's not the first time that we've heard this. something needs to be done. >> no it's not. i mean, i think what concerned me most about this story is that there seem to be several red flags that were quite clearly there before this

event happened that was somehow overlooked and, and, and not picked up on. and that is unfortunately a very similar story. i think we know with axel rudakubana the southport killer, he was referred to prevent nothing happened. and i just think we've got these violent people in society who people know about and why is nothing done.i know about and why is nothing done. i think this is another tragedy that could have been avoided. >> it is. and one thing i would just say, and i'm reluctant to politicise this, but quite often we see these incidents happen and people scream migration. it's to do with immigration. and in this instance, we have someone who was born in this country who has always lived here, who has no relationship as far as i know, with any other country. and actually what we see is that there are other reasons why people commit these acts, but it's not just because they always. >> have been, i think. but i think people will be shocked by this because, again, this is something that we associate with america. the school shootings now in this way, this this particular case that didn't

happen. but the fact that this is now commonplace in britain. >> and i noticed that because this happened in luton and luton, councils gave advice to local schools saying you need to beef up your security. i mean, that's really alarming. they should have to say that. rudakubana anytime i see an image of him, it makes me sick. i don't want to look at him. i don't want to get his horrible, hideous face. and if there was an argument for the death penalty, i think he's the poster boy. it has to be said. my view? what do you think? let us know. >> suzanne. let's look at something totally different. shall we change the tone? this is in the sun newspaper this morning. meghan markle. her style is identical, says the headline, identical to princess diana. >> well, i think if you've got some photographs here of the spread in the sun, but basically what they've done is a double page spread of outfits worn by princess diana and outfits worn by meghan markle, and they have tried to compare and contrast the two. so i don't know. i

think it's a little bit of a non—story this. i wonder how difficult it would be to take two women and put them side by side and see who they're wearing the same kind of outfit, you know, there's a limit to the number of colours and styles of dresses and outfits that you can wear. possibly the most contentious one is the one that when they are actually wearing identical sweatshirts, i think. >> the. >> the. >> northwestern sweatshirts. >> northwestern sweatshirts. >> do feel this is a bit of a confected story, but they both look. >> these are various outfits that you see meghan markle and diana, and it's obviously a deliberate sort of copying of diana's style. >> i suppose there's a we're about to see some renewed scrutiny on meghan, because i think her next netflix documentary is coming out in the coming weeks. yes, with love meghan, which is her sort of effort to become a lifestyle guru. >> martha stewart. >> martha stewart. >> yeah, that's exactly it. >> yeah, that's exactly it. >> martha stewart is incredibly successful american, notwithstanding her prison sentence for tax avoidance. but yeah, she is incredibly successful woman. and i think

meghan markle's aping her. if she's aping diana in terms of clothes, maybe she's aping. >> you can see why she'd want to emulate princess diana, though, because she was one of the most fashionable women ever. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and loved by people. >> and loved by people. >> what do you mean, emulate? do you mean copy? >> well. >> well. >> again, it's anything. it's like macron, you know, sucking up to donald trump. it's all false. this is false. it's not. >> but you'd. >> but you'd. >> see why you'd want to copy diana's style because she is. >> so she's. >>- >> so she's. >> iconic wasn't she. >> iconic wasn't she. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> quite likes to fantasise i'm meghan markle and princess diana. i bet they'd have hated. >> each other. >> each other. >> i don't think they'd have got on at all. >> there was that guy in america who said, jfk, i knew john kennedy. and you, sir, are no john kennedy. she's no diana, this simple as that. let's talk about doggies with tails and a doggy wagging a tail. suzanne. yes. and there's a story with this one. >> there is. so there's a it's a dog called vizsla. i hope i pronounced this right. it's a dalmatian who has been banned

from crufts because it's had its tail surgically removed by a vet because it had a problem called happy tail syndrome, which meant the tail was wagging back and forth and it kept breaking and dislocating and fracturing. so crufts has said no. and the owner is very, very upset about this. but come on crufts, it's about the only non—woke, completely non—woke competition we have out there. it's all about perfection. it's all about beauty. no, no dissension from that. absolutely tolerated. so i'm not surprised by this decision. really. >> do you have a doggie. >> do you have a doggie. >> i not i look after i've got a lovely dog i'm looking after at the moment called otto. but he's. >> got a tail wagger. >> got a tail wagger. >> oh, he's got a beautiful bushy tail. he's a miniature schnauzer and he's adorable. >> i find crufts a bit. i mean, i must have full disclosure, i'm not a dog person, but i find crufts a bit disconcerting. you know, you see these dogs? well, they've been groomed within an inch of their life in a really unnatural way. it's all a bit. >> er and like i say, it's, you

know, as much as i would normally campaign against woke stuff, the fact that this is so obsessed with eugenics, it's doggy. eugenics. >> doggy, basically. >> doggy, basically. >> that's what it is. >> that's what it is. >> what i'd say about dogs is mongrels. your best bet all the time. >> they're certainly easier, i think, to look after. >> yeah. yeah, absolutely. and they live longer and whatever. and i would just say adopt, don't shop. >> yeah. that poor little dog as well. you've got no control over your tail. >> no. >> no. >> very sad anyway. andy, suzanne, thank you so much for your time. thank you this morning. really good to see you both. let us know what you think on any of those stories that we've been talking about today. gbnews.com/advent. let's get a check on the weather now, shall we? with alex, it's a horrible night. i actually woke up this morning at 2:30 this morning with the wind and the rain outside. yeah. and i think it's set to last throughout the morning. so let's get the details now with alex. >> ooh a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm afternoon. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. here's your

latest gb news. weather update from the met office. plenty of sunny spells on offer today, but also plenty of showers and some of these could be a bit heavy with the risk of a little bit of hail and some thunder too. through this morning. the showers are most frequent across northwestern parts, but as we go through the day and into the afternoon, they are going to become a bit more widespread, spreading across many parts though towards the south—east, largely avoiding them here. like i said, some of the showers could be on the heavy side and there could be a bit of hail and thunder mixed in with them as well. temperatures are around or a touch above average for the time of year. many places towards the south getting into double figures. highs of around 11 or 12 celsius. more showers to come as we go towards the end of the day. but like i said, fewer showers towards the southeast of the uk. so a largely dry evening here with some clear spells, perhaps a greater chance of a few scattered showers across more western parts of england and wales. plenty of showers still to end the day across northern ireland and much of scotland too, especially towards the west, some of them here still on

the heavy side and there could be a bit of wintriness, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground. but as we go overnight we are going to see most of those showers clearing away and we are going to have largely clear skies, particularly towards the east, clinging on to those clear skies. meanwhile, further west, the cloud is going to build. we're going to have some rain pushing in and some strengthening winds too. where that happens, temperatures are going to pick up as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, but in the east it is going to stay quite chilly. there could be a touch of frost in some places, also some mist and fog patches as well. that wet weather in the west does spread its way east and southeastwards. as we go through wednesday, there's likely to be a bit of sleet and snow over the higher ground of the hills, and there could even be some rumbles of thunder as that rain pushes through. there will be some brighter weather ahead and behind the rain, but also plenty of showers feeding in through the afternoon too, and temperatures down a nudge compared to today by. >> a nice bright morning will

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>> good morning. energy bills up again in another blow for millions of households. >> the watchdog ofgem reveals the price cap is set to rise by 6.4%. it adds hundreds of pounds to your energy bills. >> with energy minister ed miliband reacts to the decision. we're asking are the government doing enough? >> this will be very worrying news for many families and it's dnven news for many families and it's driven by the rise in global gas prices. but this government is determined to act. >> the conservatives victoria atkins says it's just another broken promise. >> they promise to cut our bills by ”p

>> they promise to cut our bills by up to £300 over the course of this parliament. this is yet another promise that they have broken. >> and despite the government blaming soaring prices on the gas markets, new analysis by gb news shows the biggest culprit is actually the explosion in subsidies for renewable energy and net zero policies. we spoke to richard tice from reform uk earlier. >> and the british people have been sold a complete and utter pie by this government. the all of this is on net stupid zero. >> well this energy bill rise is even higher than expected. but it's not the only bill rise, is it? water bills, council tax, business hikes, everything is getting a lot more expensive very quickly. can people bear it? >> and how much more can the farmers bear? they keep fighting. and at the national farmers union conference today in westminster, the government is being urged to reset its relationship with them after months of protest.

>> new powers for police in one of the biggest updates for decades, officers could search for stolen goods without a warrant. >> could your phone be the secret to keeping healthy? the technology giant apple thinks so. we have an exclusive interview with the tech giant about how they're planning to revolutionise hearing aids. >> hearing is your connection to the world. it's how you communicate. it's how you build relationships. it's part of your it's core to your social being. >> we have sunshine and showers today, and then a spell of more persistent rain arriving tomorrow. for more details on this, stick around as i'll have the info coming up. >> on this tuesday morning. a very good morning to you. wherever you're watching, wherever you're listening, i'm eamonn holmes. >> i'm ellie costello and this is gb news breakfast.

>> president xi. cops have been featuring those today. will from 7:00 this morning from the 1st of april. quarterly energy price cap will increase by 6.4% to £1,849 a year. >> well, for a typical household, this will add £9.25 a month to energy bills, or about £111 per year. >> the this morning the government is pointing the finger at rising prices on the use of fossil fuels. >> the only way we can have the energy security the british people deserve is by getting off fossil fuels that are controlled by petrostate and dictators. >> joined now by minister of state for home affairs, lord david hanson. good to see you this morning, lord hanson. and what's your reaction to the energy price cap increasing by 6.4% , because your government 6.4%, because your government promised to cut bills by £300. this is a broken promise.

>> well. >> well. >> well, it's a difficult issue andifs >> well, it's a difficult issue and it's a disappointing issue for government. but what we're trying to do and. >> what ed miliband this morning has done, is announced support for the poorest people in the community by announcing £150 support mechanism for around 6 million people later this year. and that will, i hope, help ameliorate against the difficulties that many people face. >> well, you had support in place with the winter fuel allowance and you cut it. we've just got this email in from a pensioner, philip, who says because of this announcement this morning, his heating will not be switched on until december the 1st if i live that long. heartbreaking stuff, he says. my lights are off. i'm eating salads, tinned sardines on buttered bread. no cooking for me. kettle used once in the morning for coffee and once in the afternoon for a cup of tea. this is not a bright future for me. this is a national scandal. aren't you ashamed listening to that? >> the government's taken an awful lot of measures to help

support people with the cost of living crisis. and what will happen with the energy cap and the measures that have been announced today is an additional help and support for around 6 million people. so there are very difficult challenges with energy. the ukraine war particularly, has been a major impact on energy prices, and what we have to try and do is to ensure that we support those who are most vulnerable, and that's what this government is trying to do. >> ed miliband has been a big pressure on energy prices as well. we've done research here on the programme, which shows that most of the increase lie at his feet, down to him and his green policies. >> well, we have to look at long term issues. eamonn and long term issues. eamonn and long term issues. eamonn and long term issues mean we have to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources. and that's what the government are trying to do through solar, through wind and through other sources and long term planning on nuclear. he's been in office for just over seven months. >> yeah, i get that. but, you know, if things are going really bad and, you know, people do not have money in their pockets and

purses and whatever, and they're feeling the pain and they get increases like this, is it not? i know you're going to say, you know, they get a supplement of £150 and whatever, but why, you know, why can't you do your bit by saying, okay, we'll take the foot off the accelerator here and we'll stop all this cost, all this spending happening, and we're there on the side of consumers. the world will last another 20 years without you guys having to save it. >> well, well, you say i think, eamonn we have to take measures to ensure that we have sustainable, long term energy sources. and long term energy means renewable solar, wind power and others as well as the long term nuclear, which is going to take a long time to achieve. we are trying to support the most vulnerable. £150, announced this morning by the energy secretary, is an important contribution. but make no mistake, it is very challenging times. >> can i ask you about mike amesbury, the ex labour, i

should say. but now the mp for runcorn and helsby has been jailed for ten weeks for assaulting a constituent, punching him six times. he's pled guilty to that. he's serving his time now, continuing to receive, i should say, his £91,000 mp salary. two questions for you. why has he not resigned? would that not be the morally right thing to do? and secondly, are you concerned about a by—election in his seat? because it is likely that reform uk could win? >> well, first and foremost, mike amesbury is no longer a member of the labour party. he was expelled from labour and he's no longer a labour mp. what? >> he is. >> he is. >> an mp. >> an mp. >> though his jail sentence is a matter. well, it's a matter for him. he's an mp but he's not a labour mp anymore. he's been expelled from the party. he is also appealing his sentence. so it's not really appropriate for me to comment on that while the sentence is being appealed. but but the key issue is, is whenever if there's a by—election, which i suspect there will be downstream, labour will take its case to the people

of runcorn and helsby will argue for a labour government and the things that we're doing, such as the police measures we're taking today of a record number of neighbourhood policing, record investment and new measures in the bill published today. and we'll take that case to the people, and they will have to decide, as they do in every election. >> what have they decided against you on the green policies, though? what ? i mean, policies, though? what? i mean, if you're really feeling a bad vibe on those, and i know you were talking about long term policies and i appreciate that, but i put it to you. you know, the uk is a pimple on the bum of the uk is a pimple on the bum of the world. what difference does us going alone and us creating this pain for ourselves mean when it comes to brazil? when it comes to india, when it comes to china, i could go on and on, but you know what i'm saying, david? >> yeah, yeah. but yeah, i think you would accept that the uk has to show leadership on these matters. we haven't got, you know, for my great grandchildren and grandchildren beyond now, we haven't got a sustainable future with fossil fuels. we need to look at how we can replace and

have alternative sources. and that's a difficult transition. but it's one the government has to lead on and one the government in this instance is leading on. and, you know, we can say what's happening with brazil. we can say what's happening with china. this government has to show leadership, and that's what it's trying to do. >> farmers will be gathering this morning at the national farmers union conference, just a few steps from where you are now at the queen elizabeth the second centre in westminster. will you be going along? will you be backing british and backing the farmers? >> i always back british. i did this in my constituency, and the government this week has announced that we will use government procurement to buy british food and buy british goods. that's an important contribution. and i've always worked when i was a member of parliament. i'm now in the lords. when i was an mp, i always worked closely with our farming community. it's important that we support them, that they are the breadbasket of britain. we have to support them. but but equally, we have to look at some of the measures that we've we've taken to deal with the deficit that the

current government has inherited from the previous conservative government. >> david, thanks for your time. really appreciate all the things that you had to say , and thank that you had to say, and thank you very much. but we're right at time. we've got to say goodbye to you. thank you. >> okay. pleasure. eamonn. take care. >> cheers. thank you. >> cheers. thank you. >> well, we're joined now by gb news science and health editor, lucy johnston. good to see you this morning, lucy. and we're talking about the price cut this morning. but really, the question on many people's lips is the true price of net zero. >> yes. we've had an analysis done by professor gordon hughes at edinburgh university. he was an adviser to the world bank on energy, and he's also an economist. and he's looked at the electricity portion of our bills. and the government is it's got this clean our clean power action plan, and it's trying to clean up and make all our electricity renewable by 2030. and what he's showing with his figures is that in doing that, he has increased our

bills, that the increase in our electricity prices have has 40% of that has been attributed to these clean sources. so we're having to pay for expensive workarounds. when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. we're paying for levies, and we're also paying for the wind farms to switch off when there's too much wind and it will melt the connectors. so it's a very expensive policy. and what he's arguing is it's a very laudable aim to go green. but we the government needs to be upfront about these costs and to explain them to the public and to admit that they are increasing our bills. now, the government came back to us late last night. it's totally refuted these figures and says that the main reason for the bills is the volatile gas markets. so one could argue we need to bring. >> the gas market isn't that volatile at the minute. the price is the same as it was last yeah >> well, we've had a we've looked at that as well. the

ukraine effect has, has sort of now now no longer is a is a fact. but the reason why we're relying on volatile gas markets is because we're closing our own sources of gas. we've cemented over the last well for fracking. we're making it difficult. >> to see when i look at this, and i'm not saying ignore the green policy and, you know, just walk all over it and whatever. but do you think from your research and your work, did you feel that there is another way to do this? could there be another way to achieve net zero? maybe we're going too fast. you know, maybe it needs to be slower. is there another way to do things and help people and the money that they're being charged for their energy? >> there's a survey out today showing 1 in 3 people are suffering with their health because of the fuel bills. so one has to look at all aspects of this. there are harms and benefits. and there is a big question in science about the way we should mitigate or adapt

to climate change and how far should we go. so that is a key question that scientists are arguing about. but it's very difficult to stand out and argue against climate, you know, on the on the policy against the policy because, you know, one could just say, well, you know, if we don't do it, the world will burn and all of that. but it's very. >> disputable your take on things and thanks for your investigation. it will feature on the station throughout the day for the moment. thank you very much indeed. >> thanks, lucy. now do stay with us still to come. we're going to be talking about these and hearing what do they have in common is the new innovation from apple to see what they can do heanng and making people in britain hear better. we'll

welcome back to breakfast. it's 916. now let's talk about heanng 916. now let's talk about hearing loss, because 8 million of us here in the uk are already

experiencing it. and that figure is only set to rise. >> well, that's exactly what has motivated tech giant apple to integrate a hearing aid into the latest airpods. >> which. >> which. >> we have here. yes. well, i paid a special trip to the apple headquarters in london yesterday where i met with the vice president of health, the inspiring doctor symbol hsi hsi. thank you so much for joining inspiring doctor symbol hsi hsi. thank you so much forjoining us on gb news breakfast. it's really, really good to have you with us. thanks for having me. are so excited about this new feature in terms of the quality of life. how is this going to impact the individual? >> it goes back to that point of heanng >> it goes back to that point of hearing is your connection to the world. it's how you communicate. it's how you build relationships. it's part of your it's core to your social being. and so our hope is that this will have impact, to be able to drive connections for those who have been suffering from hearing loss and allow them to experience those special moments. >> okay, so how does the hearing aid feature actually work?

>> it's really simple. and that is what's so beautiful about the feature. we designed it so it could be used across all age groups, all tech savviness if you will. you simply take a heanng you will. you simply take a hearing test right on your iphone using the airpods pro two. it creates a personalised heanng two. it creates a personalised hearing profile, which then automatically programs the airpods pro two to work as a heanng airpods pro two to work as a hearing assistive device. and so, just with a touch of a button, you'll now be able to augment the frequencies where you may need some assistance. and what's beautiful about the heanng and what's beautiful about the hearing test is it's a clinically validated audiogram. so we compared it to what is considered gold standard in the heanng considered gold standard in the hearing world. and the hearing aid will be will the hearing aid feature basically simply turns on and allows you to use it, not just when you're talking with one another like with another individual, but whether you're using it across phone calls, your media, your entertainment. so it's a really simple experience. >> and have you noticed, because this has been rolled out around the world before, it's come here to britain. but have you seen a

spike in people realising that they actually have hearing loss as a result of taking the test with this feature? >> i can anecdotally share with you that even just in my circle, in talking to people, people sometimes have picked up things that they didn't expect and noficed that they didn't expect and noticed that they had some heanng noticed that they had some hearing issues. what's probably been so impactful is the letters we get from customers. one of the ones that we just got last week was a grandmother who was able to hear her soft spoken grandchild for the first time by using this, and i think that is what's so special about it. we've already heard from customers around the world who have been able to use it over the past few months, how it's made an impact in their life. >> can we talk about you for a moment, doctor? because you are the most inspirational, incredible woman and we want to talk to you because it's international women's day on the 8th of march, and you have had such a varied career. >> i went to medical school, practised for a number of years, and then decided to really look at a company like apple, and they came calling, which was an

amazing experience. >> and you mentioned healthcare being personal, and it is, and i think for many people looking at this feature and wanting to use it, they will understandably be nervous about their personal health data being presumably put on the cloud. what are you doing to keep health data safe in your hands? >> well, i'm so glad you asked that question because at apple, we really believe that your data is your data, and in fact, so much so that your data doesn't get put on a cloud. your data is encrypted on device locally, so your data is on your phone or on your data is on your phone or on your watch. we don't actually put your data in a cloud. >> can we talk about the reaction to this rollout of this feature in the uk? your front page feature in the uk? your front page of the telegraph? >> we're thrilled, and i have to say, the uk government has been such a great partner. wes has been a great partner. you know, one of the things about our heanng one of the things about our hearing aid features is it's a regulated feature because it is held to the standards of traditional medical standards of heanng traditional medical standards of hearing aids. and as a result, we have to go through the

regulatory pathway and work with the government to get clearance and where the uk government and west have been so incredibly helpful, is bringing this to customers in an over—the—counter manner. it doesn't require prescription. you can simply just take the hearing test and use the feature. >> what are you most proud of that apple has rolled out in the health space so far? >> that's like choosing a favourite child. that's really difficult. cardio fitness is one that i difficult. cardio fitness is one that! use difficult. cardio fitness is one that i use every day. i love to kind of see where my cardio fitness and my vo2 max is. the women's health features i'm particularly proud of because we are, we were, i think, a company like ours getting behind women's health and talking about cycle tracking and ovulation and temperature changes that occur, educating individuals in that space. and then there's we receive letters every single day on our heart features, our ecg and our irregular heart rhythm and our irregular heart rhythm and high heart rate notifications. i literally hear from customers almost every day. we receive letters from they. they write to tim, and we get

those emails every day on how it's had impact. so i honestly can't pick one. they really are all pretty remarkable in their own way. >> and you've mentioned those letters clearly that they really touch you, don't they? how do they make you feel when you read those and they see the impact that it's having on people's lives? >> they do and they motivate our team. they're like fuel for our team. they're like fuel for our team to do even more. and i think we all read them. and often, to be honest, they surprise us. we just received one recently. we have a vitals feature on watch where you're able to look at different metrics around your heart rate, your sleep, your respiratory rate. and this one totally shocked me. someone detected that they they noticed on their vitals feature that they got a notification they were feeling a little bit off. a few of their metrics were off. they went to the doctor. they ended up getting diagnosed with leukaemia. and so sometimes they even blow my mind in terms of what we see. and i think they're just having impact in ways that we couldn't even imagine. and i think that's what's so special about so many of them. so it's

so hard to pick one because each one of them have just had there's just stories for each one of them that truly stay with you. >> doctor, thank you so much for speaking to us honestly. such a pleasure to meet you. >> and thank you. >> and thank you. >> for everything you're doing in the health space as well. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> and watching that with us. andrew and bev, who kick off at 930. >> we're interested in that video that you've just been we've just been watching. >> on with. >> on with. >> these airpods. >> these airpods. >> i think it's a brilliant idea. >> not for. >> not for. >> you. >> you. >> but andrew, do you know, i'm not asking you to tell me, but do you know if you suffer any heanng do you know if you suffer any hearing loss? >> i don't think so. >> i don't think so. >> well, i didn't think so. when i was 50, i went to have my ears tested. right. and they said. and they did things and they give you a buzzer and they, they fired a noise. and you go when you hear the noise, you click, click, click. and i'm thinking, this is easy. i'm doing this really well. beep beep beep beep beep. and they said, very good, mr holmes. you have hearing loss which is relevant to a man of your age, just typical of a man of your age. and i said, oh, what would that be? and they

said, and that was 50, 30% what? so by 50 you've lost 30% of your heanng? >> yeah, i. >> yeah, i. >> watched every tv program with subtitles on anyway. maybe that's why. >> no, that's partly because they gabble. >> well, they do gabble though. nobody talks clearly anymore. we would be talking clearly from 930 this morning. we're going to be dipping into the tom bradshaw's got the national farmers union conference this morning. is there going to be trouble there down at westminster? lots of security. >> about the energy price cap, how you can best try and cut your bill because these bills. yeah. what's the average bill going to be. £1,850. so that's such a lot of money. >> we're going to have lots of tips for people this morning. don't think this is just desperate. we will be helping you out. in terms of your energy bill. >> tips would be to get rid of our net zero policy. >> couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more, and let's get rid of ed miliband. at the same token, the net zero secretary. >> i like a wood burning fire personally, but there you go. i live in medieval england. >> thank you. we'll say goodbye to you and see you bright and early again in the morning. have yourselves a good day.

>> here's the weather. >> here's the weather. >> heavy showers first thing will be followed by a warm, cosy day. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. here's your latest gb news weather update from the met office. plenty of sunny spells on offer today, but also plenty of showers. and some of these could be a bit heavy with the risk of a little bit of hail and some thunder too. through this morning. the showers are most frequent across north western parts, but as we go through the day and into the afternoon, they are going to become a bit more widespread, spreading across many parts though towards the south—east, largely avoiding them here. like i said, some of the showers could be on the heavy side and there could be a bit of hail and thunder mixed in with them as well. temperatures are around or a touch above average for the time of year. many places towards the south getting into double figures. highs of around 11 or 12 celsius. more showers to come as we go towards the end of the day. but like i said, fewer showers towards the

southeast of the uk. so a largely dry evening here with some clear spells, perhaps a greater chance of a few scattered showers across more western parts of england and wales. plenty of showers still to end the day across northern ireland and much of scotland too, especially towards the west, some of them here still on the heavy side and there could be a bit of wintriness, perhaps a little bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground. but as we go overnight we are going to see most of those showers clearing away and we are going to have largely clear skies, particularly towards the east, clinging on to those clear skies. meanwhile, further west, the cloud is going to build. we're going to have some rain pushing in and some strengthening winds too. where that happens, temperatures are going to pick up as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, but in the east it is going to stay quite chilly. there could be a touch of frost in some places, also some mist and fog patches as well. that wet weather in the west does spread its way east and southeastwards. as we go through wednesday, there's likely to be a bit of sleet and snow over the higher ground of the hills, and there could even

be some rumbles of thunder as that rain pushes through. there will be some brighter weather ahead and behind the rain, but also plenty of showers feeding in through the afternoon too, and temperatures down a nudge compared to today by. >> expect a warm front moving from the kitchen right through to the rest of the boxt boilers

>> good morning. it's tuesday the 25th of february live across the 25th of february live across the uk. britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. so we're going to see an energy bills surge again. we're going to give you as much advice as we can this morning on how to manage these rising costs and what role is net zero playing. energy secretary ed miliband had this to say. >> this will be very worrying news for many families, and it's dnven news for many families, and it's driven by the rise in global gas

prices. but this government