leo. >> it's 9:00. i'm ben leo. >> it's 9:00. i'm ben leo. >> tonight the uk is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air together with others. europe must do the heavy lifting. >> sir keir starmer welcomes his coalition of the willing to britain, and pledges boots on the ground and planes in the air to face off against russia. but closer to home today, 500 illegal migrants also joined the party as we suffered the biggest ever single day of small boat arrivals so far this year. so when are our leaders going to care about our domestic problems as much as foreign wars abroad? also tonight. farmers will take to the streets again on tuesday, but the met police has warned anyone bringing a tractor to town will be arrested. so where was that same approach to palestine or just stop 0il palestine orjust stop 0il marchers? joining me on the

panel tonight is businessman and activist adam brookes, the gb news contributor chloe dobbs, and the political commentator andy twelves. andy twelves. and in a very intriguing turn of events, sadiq khan extends a special invitation to president donald trump. >> vice president trump to a good curry on brick lane. maybe good curry on brick lane. maybe go and visit a place of worship in london. >> very big show coming up, including all of tomorrow's newspaper front pages. but first, let's get your news first, let�*s get your news headlines with aaron armstrong. >> hello. very good evening to you. let's get you up to date you. let�*s get you up to date with the headlines. the prime minister says europe will have to do the heavy lifting as he unveiled a four point plan to guarantee peace in ukraine. world leaders gathered at a

security conference in london earlier and agreed to keep military aid flowing into ukraine, while the war continues to increase economic pressure on russia. ensure ukraine's russia. ensure ukraine�*s sovereignty and security and deter any future aggression by vladimir putin. well, the summit comes after europe's leaders rallied round ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy following his confrontation with donald trump at the white house on friday. the row has created a divide between the us and its european partners. the prime minister rejected claims the us is an unreliable ally, and says any new deal to support ukraine must be backed by strength, with each country contributing what they can. >> we are at a crossroads in history today. this is not a moment for more talk. it's time to act. time to step up and lead and to unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace. >> well, the prime minister has also announced a £1.6 billion missile deal for ukraine. he

says it will provide 5000 air defence missiles, which will be made in belfast and will create up made in belfast and will create up to 200 jobs. well, volodymyr zelenskyy met king charles at sandringham immediately after attending the defence summit in london. charles welcomed zelenskyy to the norfolk estate forjust under an hour. ukraine's president, still dressed in military attire while a military helicopter departed the estate at around 6:30. the meeting comes days after donald trump was invited to the uk for an unprecedented second state visit. more than 500 small boat migrants have crossed the english channel earlier today. it is the biggest single day of arrivals so far this year, made possible by improving weather conditions in the channel. five border force vessels were scrambled to intercept them. it is almost double the previous record amount of arrivals, when 260 people arrived on the 13th of january. 260 people arrived on the 13th ofjanuary. israel's blocked humanitarian aid into gaza as it attempts to press hamas into

accepting a change in the ceasefire agreement. hamas has rejected a us proposal to extend phase one of the deal and phase one of the deal, and continue to release hostages and postpone phase two, which stipulated a full withdrawal of israeli troops from the strip. israel's prime minister says there will be further consequences unless the group changes its position, while hamas has accused israel of blackmail and has called on mediators to intervene. and pope francis has been taken off a ventilator and his condition is now stable. the pontiff suffered a breathing crisis over the weekend, but he is battling double pneumonia. he�*s in hospital for a 17th day now, or the vatican have released a fresh health update this evening. it says given the complexity of the clinical picture, the prognosis remains guarded. the pope was admitted to hospital earlier this month with a severe respiratory infection. those are the latest headlines. more from me at 10:00. >> for the very latest gb news, direct your smartphone. sign up

to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/advent alerts. >> good evening. hope you've had a pleasant weekend. the prime minister today pledged british boots on the ground and planes in the air in ukraine, as a face off against russia ramps up. >> the uk is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air, together with others. europe must do the heavy lifting. >> 0kay, heavy lifting. >> okay, i�*m going to be brutally honest tonight. i deplore their invasion of ukraine, but i have little interest in russia. i also have little interest in ukraine, other than i hope they win their war against the invaders. israel too, isn't my priority. gaza isn�*t my problem either. and this doesn't come from a lack of

empathy. i've spent many hours watching brutal videos of young russian and ukrainian men killing each other in filthy donbas trenches. some 1.5 million people have died. reportedly sons, daughters, mothers, fathers. i imagine the pain their families are feeling while leaders in dark suits talk about their future over expensive dinners on the continent. but ultimately, i have to care most about what's going on in this country, our country, because charity starts at home. migrant hotels decimating our communities. the invasion of our southern border. pensioners freezing to death. the landgrab on british farmers record high taxes. record high immigration. attacks on free speech, pakistani rape gangs. paedophiles being spared prison, the decimation of our military, our bloated civil service. criminal asylum seekers being allowed to stay here because their offspring don't like foreign chicken nuggets. i wish the ukrainians well. i've been the ukrainians well. i�*ve been there before. i�*ve spent time there before. i've spent time with their people. they are

generous. they're polite, they're hardworking. and as we've seen over the past three years, they are courageous. but i find it hard to get impassioned about a war that's nearly 2000 miles away, involving a country that's not even part of nato. and i understand some people are going to be watching this now, at this very moment, and calling me ignorant or uninformed. i've heard the arguments. ukraine is the last bastion against the russians invading mainland europe. poland will be next, they say. then putin is on our shores. but i also remember when we were spun into an illegal invasion of iraq using the lie of weapons of mass destruction. so forgive me if i distrust hypotheticals. it was only a few years ago the guardian of all people were telling us ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries on earth. and let's talk about the money, shall we? as well, how can a government plead poverty at home and buy their own research, subject up to 4000 pensioners to a cold death by scrapping their winter fuel allowance yet, yet find an extra £1.6 billion down the back

extra £16 billion down the back of the sofa to pay for trench and drone warfare between slavic adversaries. and also what happened to the £22 billion black hole? is there a magic money tree after all? 0r black hole? is there a magic money tree after all? or has all this conjecture from the government about being left an economic mess, simply been political spinning and lies? his performance and approval ratings at home are poor, to say the least. but the prime minister has earned plaudits this week for his work on the international stage. he hosted european leaders today and declared britain�*s priority was declared britain's priority was to protect a country suffering volatile times. >> we are at a crossroads in history today. this is not a moment for more talk. it's time to act. time to step up and lead and to unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace. >> the prime minister also met italian premier giorgia meloni today to talk about ukraine and, interestingly, tackling illegal migration. >> that i've been also proposing

a meeting between us and european leaders for if we european leaders. for if we divide ourselves, that will make us all weaker. and then on bilateral topics, i'm very happy about the work we've been doing together. >> number 10 said after their meeting, and i quote in a statement, the two leaders acknowledged positive progress made since their last meeting in joint work to tackle irregular migration. their words, not mine. they agreed secure borders are the bedrock of a secure economy. well, guess what happened just a few hours later. news today that 500 more migrants arrived on small boats across the english channel. the biggest single day of arrivals this year. you just couldn't make it up by7 this year. you just couldn't make it up by 7 am. today. 120 migrants had been taken to the border force processing centre in dover. an hour and a half later, that number had doubled or risen rather to 250. and by half three this afternoon, gb

news counted a total of 505 migrants as they arrived at dover harbour. so who are they? where are they from? what are their intentions? where are they going to end up? these are the questions that bother me. i wish ukraine well. russia can stop this war immediately by stopping their invasion. but for now, my priorities lie with making britain great again. let's get britain great again. let�*s get the thoughts of my panel now. the businessman and activist adam brookes, gb news contributor chloe dobbs and the media strategist andy twelves. good evening to you all. thank you for your company on this fine sunday. adam brookes, let's fine sunday. adam brookes, let�*s start with you because i can see you chomping at the bit there in the corner. what do you make of my concerns about the fact i think we�*re paying too much attention to foreign wars abroad and not the situation back home in the. >> the seine i, i agree with everything you said there to be fair because it's my opinion fair because it�*s my opinion too. and i've been very vocal on too. and i�*ve been very vocal on social media. this country is falling apart, you know, whether it's our roads, whether it's our health system, our policing, we

haven't got enough prisons, our hospital waiting list and the excuse every time from keir starmer is we do not have the money to fix this, you've got to put your taxes up. you know, they�*ve come for the businesses they've come for the businesses in the in the april budget. so i don�*t see how this all. let's all get behind ukraine. yes, i�*m like you. ukraine. yes, i'm like you. i want this to end. but only donald trump can end this, this war. putin is only going to listen to trump. he's not going to listen to starmer and macron or any of the european leaders. it's only when donald trump says enough is when putin stops and sits at the table. and i think the labour party are trying to spin this. starmer, you know, he did okay in the last week. he was a bit cringey. i thought with trump. >> i think he did it right, you know. but i don�*t think he. know. but i don't think he. >> was trying to spin this as his thatcher moment. no this is not your thatcher moment at all,

you know. and people need to remember that it only stops when trump wants this, this war to stop. >> i actually think keir starmer had his best week as prime minister yet. and that's saying something. but chloe, what's something. but chloe, what�*s your thoughts? are we paying too much attention to this ukraine situation? as i said in the introduction there some people will say they�*ll be watching will say they'll be watching this tonight saying yes, but then once ukraine falls, putin will then be knocking on the door of poland. then he'll be arriving on the shores of britain. do you buy that? >> look, i think that i was very proud of britain for being the first country when this war broke out, to really stand up and say, we support ukraine. we will help you. if countries didn't back ukraine and help them financially and with weapons, putin would have probably ended that war in a week as he had hoped to. so i'm glad that we have supported them. but we're getting to the point now where there has to be an end in sight. as adam says, this country is crumbling. taxes keep going up and up. we don't seem to have enough money for the electorate, and people are starting to feel like their politicians are putting people overseas ahead of them. and that is problematic. and i really

felt like although it was good for keir starmer to bring people together and have a conversation and talk about how we support ukraine going forward, i did not see any end in sight. they were saying there that the end of the war needs to be on ukraine's terms. and sure, of course, ukraine needs to be involved in negotiations and it has to be beneficial to them. but putin has to benefit in some way to agree to some kind of deal, or else this is never going to end. they've got a really utopian they�*ve got a really utopian vision about it and it's problematic. >> andy, do you agree that keir starmer is a bit of a jekyll and hyde at the moment on the world stage? and again, i say i give him it. he's done well this week, but domestically approval ratings are in the gutter. he's he's had a lower vote share than corbyn winning the election. and what they've done domestically since then is lacklustre to say the least. so it's a it�*s a tale of two halves. you�*ve got of two halves. you've got starmer, the international peacemaker. and then at home quite frankly he's been a bit useless. sure i think the domestic policy is always more. >> of a long term game. >> of a long term game. >> you know, you can't really

get short term. >> wins at home. but i think, you know, in your monologue you mentioned about making britain great again. >> and i think keir starmer has. >> and i think keir starmer has. >> actually shown that in the last week. you know, when we were at our, you know, our most influential, our most powerful, you know, just post colonial post empire, we were the powerbrokers of the world. >> and that's what keir. >> and that's what keir. >> starmer has shown. >> starmer has shown. >> this week. you know, when. >> this week. you know, when. >> zelenskyy and trump had their skirmish in the white house and they. stormed off. >> he was the one that called. >> he was the one that called. >> them both up and tried to. get them back. >> in the room today. >> in the room today. >> even, you know, bringing the european. >> leaders together, this is what britain. >> is for. we are. >> is for. we are. >> to. >> to. >> convene. we are. >> convene. we are. >> to bring. >> to bring. >> the. >> the. >> power together. and i think. >> power together. and i think. >> you know, our contributions to ukraine, you know. >> the 1.6. >> the 1.6. >> billion. >> billion. >> that's paying for itself through. the seized russian assets. >> so it's. >> so it's. >> not really a case of. >> not really a case of. >> well, we�*re. taking from the >> well, we're. taking from the farmers and giving to ukraine. >> we're taking from russians. >> we're taking from russians. >> and giving. >> and giving. >> to ukraine. that was yesterday's announcement. the yesterday�*s announcement. the 2.2, 2.2 billion freezing russian assets. there's another 1.6 billion today. that's fine. 1.6 billion today. that�*s fine. what you just said about starmer in the white house and being the mediator between zelenskyy and trump. but what use is it when we've got pensioners freezing at

home? we've got thousands of people coming across the border illegally, ending up in communities all up and down britain, affecting our very way of life. we don�*t know, as of life. we don't know, as i said, we don't know who they are, where they're from, what their intentions are. you�*ve got the very people the very people who put farmers, the very people who put food on our tables day in, day out, being attacked by the government, not for economic means. may i add a paltry £500 million a year? and what's the what's the point of all that, andy, when he's making such a mess at home? i mean, on some. >> of those, you know, you can hardly blame keir starmer. you know, i think you mentioned. the military being decimated. you can't blame him. he's only been in power seven months. you know, you look at migration. you can't really. >> blame him. it takes. >> blame him. it takes. >> longer than seven months to fix the small boats. >> crisis, smash the gangs. i think it's working. you know. think it�*s working. you know. >> he�*s. >> he�*s. >> speaking to giorgia meloni. giorgia maloney. >> the numbers are going up. >> the numbers are going up. >> hasn't it gone down 41%? >> hasn't it gone down 41%? >> no. >> no. >> no. >> no absolutely not. we've had over 25,000 come across on boats since starmer took power, which is going to put us on track for maybe up to 50,000 across the yean maybe up to 50,000 across the year. when they came into power in july. you then had the summer with nice clear skies, flat seas for people to cross, but they waited until the autumn after that peak time to actually appoint someone to be the head of their new border force commander. >> that was a civil. service appointment. that was a civil

service appointment. that wasn't keir starmer. keir starmer doesn't control the civil service. okay, adam, last words to you very quickly. on just to you very quickly. 0n just start starmer. we should be paying more attention to the uk than what's going on 100%. >> everyone, everyone i speak to in the real world and not online is pulling their hair out at the state of this country, ben. and if you ask them whether they would want ukraine prioritised or this country prioritised, it would be this country every single time. so this media spin that ukraine is everyone�*s be all and end all is wrong also. >> butjust all and end all is wrong also. >> but just to all and end all is wrong also. >> butjust to add it's spin >> butjust to add it�*s spin from the prime minister as well. when he had zelenskyy in downing street yesterday, he was saying all of britain, everybody across britain has your support. and i was just thinking, who are you speaking for? you've got 30 odd percent of the vote less than corbyn. and you're saying that everybody in britain, more than, more than any other party, though, more than any other party. >> peace deals now sending more missiles. how is that happened in a few days? how? >> okay. great start. thank you very much. moving on. a bit of a change of gear. it's the final

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welcome back to inla tonight. new welcome back to inla tonight. now the metropolitan police are new the metropolitan police are clamping down on the upcoming farmers pretest clamping down on the upcoming farmers protest in central london by banning those involved from attending in their tractors. so the force has tracters. so the force has imposed conditions under the

impesed conditions under the public order act. ahead of the demonstration on tuesday, after recent protests saw hundreds of tractors. and you can see them here on your screen blecking here on your screen blocking roads in the capital, including the heart of central government. whitehall, for hours at a time, a limited number of traders will be permitted, which are being arranged by the organisers with the prior permission of the met police. but critics argue that police are taking a much firmer approach to the farmers than they have with other large scale protests in recent months. i�*m thinking palestine protests, just stop oil and so on. so tonight i�*m asking, as the met tonight i'm asking, as the met police bans tractors from this week's farmers pretest, police bans tractors from this week's farmers protest, is this another example of two tier policing? well, i'm joined now policing? well, i�*m joined now by livestock farmer douglas turner and the retired scotland yard detective inspedor hamish yard detedive inspedor hamish brown. good evening to you both. thank you for joining me. hamish. i�*ll start with you. i suspect you�*ll probably defend the police, but what do you say to critics who are suggesting this is two tier policing in action? >> well, i�*m going to pick you >> well, i'm going to pick you up, first of all, on your comment. >> about the. the previous

demonstrations. >> that they blocked, westminster certainly did. but across the river is saint themas's hospital. so you might be preventing ambulances getting there. you might be preventing people going to dodors appointments, attending a funeral, i don't know, funeral, i don�*t know, a business meeting new, a right to protest. i'm absolutely with pretest. i'm absolutely with that. in articles 1011, european court of human rights is quite clear. freedom of expression absolutely essential. freedom of assembly, freedom of movement. article 11. yes. but let me tell you. and douglas as well, is that it comes with a caveat. beth do. that is, you can't both do. that is, you can't exercise that right if affects other people's human rights, like going to your doctor, going like going to your dodor, going to hospital, going to school and all the other things. so the met police or any other police force for that matter, has to draw the line somewhere. so no, it�*s line somewhere. so no, it's common sense policing not to

tear. >> okay, well, that sounds fair to me. i mean, that sounds like something i can get on board with. so why wasn't the same proactive approach applied to the likes ofjust stop oil, who terrorised london for years on end? >> well, they weren�*t adually >> well, they weren't adually bringing tractors as far as recall. >> but they were laying down in the. >> read specifically. wait a minute. they were doing specific criminal events? yes, they were arrested. >> well, they were laying down in the road. >> to go to court. not all convicted, but we've seen them convicted, but we�*ve seen them go to court and the full force of the law has been used. but thatis of the law has been used. but that is wholly different than flooding the area. it�*s very effective. i can understand why they do it, but flooding the area with that and the immense unfairness to probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. >> let's speak to douglas. douglas, you�*re causing trouble with your traders. keep them at with your tractors. keep them at home, will you? >> no, not. >> no, not. >> at all. >> at all. >> we�*re not going to keep them >> we're not going to keep them at home. >> you�*re going. you're going to defy the police. you'll bring

yours anyway. >> last time round, we had over 1400 tractors. we didn't block emergency services whatsoever. we were only in whitehall. and anybody that wanted to get through would get through. we do work with the met, but i feel that on occasions, as you rightly said, just stop oil. rightly said, just step oil. they were on the motorway, they're on the roads, they're sitting down. and what did the police do for them then? do you need a cup of tea? do you need a cup of coffee? are you okay? we never had that offer to us. however, we offered the police a cup of tea or a however, we offered the police a cup of tea era sandwich that cup of tea or a sandwich that were there with us. but it is. it's twe tier policing. there�*s one rule for them. one rule for us. as the police say to us that we do not cause big disturbances. we do not fight them. we do not throw paint over everything. we are there. and as it says, the final straw, because we are therefor because we are there fora rally. and in fad, when you rally. and in fact, when you other contributors says about the people that don't like the tractors, people love to see the tractors. if anything, they want to see more than anything else is a tractor. and the reason we

have tractors up there is because any other rally that's because any other rally that�*s up because any other rally that�*s up there protests, whatever you want to call it, it looks the same, same and same. if you've got tractors up there, they know got traders up there, they know it's the farmer. >> yeah. yeah, indeed. and the site last time of all the tractors honking their horns, i mean it was good fun. the kids loved it. hamish, you must accept that previously we'll go back to just stop oil because it's a good a good example you must accept, as douglas just said then, that there were occasions when the police were asking if the protesters were okay, would you like a cup of tea? so on and so on. i don�*t recall the same level of fairness applied to just oil, as we're potentially going to see new we're potentially going to see now with the farmers. >> well, firstly, this is a preventative measure with the with the banning the tractors. and it's not just some it's and it�*s notjust some it's actually under the public order adually under the public order ad. they can see it coming. so they're taking sensible measures to stop this happening in the first place. when you've got this mass sit down, which douglas quite rightly mentioned. incidentally, if you've got

hundreds if not thousands of demonstration demonstrators and it's going to take perhaps 2 or 3 police officers to arrest them, because that's just how it works. very soon you'll have no police officers at all, butjust police officers at all, but just still huge number of demonstrators. so it doesn't equate and douglas does raise no ambulances were were obstructed. how do you know they didn't have to take a different route. how do you know that taxi drivers may well have lost money out of this? how do you knew may well have lost money out of this? how do you know people didn't miss appointments and all the other things? it is effedive to see a trader. i�*m effedive to see a tractor. i�*m absolutely certain going through london. i live out in the country. it�*s lovely to see country. it's lovely to see tractors, but that's where they belong. not in central london, causing extreme hardship to other people. and that is not fair. and the police are there to hold uphold the law. >> douglas, would you like to respond to that? >> yes, of course. we work with the metropolitan police to make

sure that we don�*t cause any sure that we don't cause any problems. we've never, ever