boxt donald trump, who was meanwhile posted a video about gaza, which has created a massive response. i can tell you it really has upset a lot of people, but is it all what it seems? and how do you think donald trump will respond to stammer, not least his ideas and plans about defence spending? and when it comes to net zero, we know the what, don't we? but what about the how? today we�*ve got more the how? today we've got more details on that. and ladies and gents, let me tell you, it does not look pretty. it means

significant changes to our lives. and if carrots don't work to get us there, the stick will be out. let�*s discuss that also be out. let's discuss that also as well. we've spoken often and looked at a situation that might be occurring in your city as well. these kind of tent cities that are emerging, packed full of homeless people and migrants. what do we do with them all? one in manchesterjust now being closed down today. but i can tell you the people popped up a few hours later somewhere else. so what is then? the lasting answer to all of that? well, we've got lots to get through tonight keeping me company. i've got suzanne evans and paul richards. but before we get stuck in, let's cross live and give you your 6:00 news headlines. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines from the gb news room. donald trump

has confirmed president zelenskyy will visit him on ffiday zelenskyy will visit him on friday to sign a very big agreement. the us president had held his first meeting at the white house since his inauguration last month, joined by his billionaire adviser elon musk. attention quickly turned to the minerals deal with ukraine. >> president zelenskyy is going to be coming on friday. that's now confirmed, and we�*re going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement. and i want to thank howard and scott for the job you guys did in putting it together. really did an amazing job. and that will be on rare earth and other things like that. >> he went on to say the united states would not be making security guarantees for ukraine in its deal to end the war with russia, but that europe would. meanwhile, downing street has confirmed that ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will meet with sir keir starmer and other european leaders in london on sunday. it is thought that mr zelenskyy is planning to

make the trip to discuss defence. >> president zelenskyy is going to be coming on friday. that's now confirmed and we�*re going to now confirmed and we're going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement. >> in other news, sir keir starmer has refused to say if the deal to give away the chagos islands to mauritius would be funded from the increase in defence spending. the prime minister told the commons that the increase to 2.5% of gdp is for our capability on defence and security in europe, and described the deal being negotiated with mauritius as extremely important for our security. tory mp kieran mullan asked sir keir during prime ministers questions to give an unequivocal answer on where the money would come from, but the prime minister declined to say whether money for the deal with the islands would come out of the islands would come out of the increase in defence spending. in other news, seven companies named and shamed in the grenfell inquiry are set to

be investigated and face being placed on a blacklist following the deaths of 72 people in the 2017 grenfell tower fire. deputy prime minister angela rayner has given the government's response to the inquiry, published in september after seven years. >> we�*ve announced today that >> we've announced today that we'll be investigating those seven companies for professional misconduct under the new procurement act, which came into force last week, so we'll be taking that forward. we've said taking that fonnard. we�*ve said that the way those companies reacted was absolutely disgraceful what they did, and i outlined that in the chamber today. reading the report from sir martin was absolutely devastating to see, and the lack of remorse by some of these companies is disgraceful. and i outlined that again today in my response to the report�*s response to the report's findings. >> and the vatican has said pope francis's condition has improved slightly and his mild kidney problems have been resolved. the vatican also says that the pope ct scan has shown a normal

evolution of the pulmonary inflammation. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to michelle. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/poll. >> dr mohammad al—ubaydli. >> dr mohammad al—ubaydli. >> thank you very much for that. i�*m michelle dewberry. this is dewbs& co with you till 7:00 tonight alongside me, suzanne evans, the political consultant, and paul richards, the former labour special adviser. good evening to both of you. you're very welcome tonight, as are each and every single one of you at home. what's on your mind at home. what�*s on your mind this evening, ladies and gents? there is a lot that we need to discuss. you join the conversation all the usual ways. email me gbviews@gbnews.uk. go to the website gbnews.com/yoursay. or of course you can tweet or you can text me. but look, pretty much, i

imagine as we speak, keir starmer will be on an aeroplane going over to washington to meet donald trump. i�*d love to. wouldn't you just love to be a fly on the wall to see what he's actually really thinking? i bet it's absolutely fascinating what must go through the minds of these leaders when they�*re en route to go and meet the donald? i mean, i don�*t know what they i mean, i don't know what they do. do you think they do limbering up of their fingers and their hands to prepare themselves for the vice like grip that is about to come their way? do you think they need to do any practising of arm wrestling or what? it's all a very peculiar spectacle, isn't it, when they meet. but anyway, of course, we�*ve seen lots of pandering. some might suggest to donald trump, when it comes to things like foreign aid. there's been calls now to try and get a shirt put through parliament. when it comes to slashing foreign aid, i don�*t think that�*s going to be happening any that's going to be happening any time soon. listen to angela rayner. she very much supportive of keir starmer's decision yesterday. >> no one could have predicted the situation we are in in

europe at the moment and of course it was absolutely right that the prime minister said that the prime minister said that we had to increase defence spending because the number one responsibility of any government is to keep people safe. it is devastating that we have had to reduce the overseas aid budget. >> are you someone that's in >> are you someone that�*s in support of what labour did yesterday? >> i am, and i've been arguing for a while now. we need to increase defence spending for all the reasons the prime minister set out. and we've also minister set out. and we�*ve also said we're not going to put people's taxes up. so you have to then ask where's the money going to come from? and it takes tough decisions like this that that's where it's going to come from. and it's not it's not from. and it�*s not it�*s not ideal and it's not forever. but for now, we do need to put more money into defence. >> but surely, though, i mean this whole kind of argument and we saw it pan out a little bit as well in pmqs, there's still this worry from people. hold on a second. you're going to cut aid, you're apparently going to boost defence, but surely you're not going to use some of that money to pay mauritius to take

our land off us? >> well, that's a separate deal. and i think, as i said, i have said before, that deal does need looking at again, because i think with the change. >> of saying the money, surely this money, surely nobody would sit there. >> it needs to go into defence. absolutely. yeah. and by defence we mean frontline soldiers, you know, tanks and the things that will defend us in europe against the russians. >> do you think there'd be any justification for some of that cash getting rerouted to literally pay people to take our own land offers. >> personally? >> personally? >> no good. sensibleness. there you go. we�*ve got some good you go. we've got some good common sense at the start of the programme. that�*s what we like, programme. that's what we like, don't we? ladies and gents? don�*t we? ladies and gents? suzanne, where are you? >> yeah, absolutely. we've got to increase defence spending. you know, the geopolitics around the world are quite terrifying. we've got russia, we've got china, we've got iran, we've got home—grown terrorism, islamist terrorism from overseas. of course, it�*s got to be course, it's got to be increased. and i�*ve been arguing increased. and i've been arguing that it should be for quite a long time. but you're absolutely long time. but you�*re absolutely right to raise the chagos issue. why isn't keir starmer come straight out of the traps and 1