and encouraged this to happen. and i'll be speaking to reform mp rupert lowe right here in the studio about it. meanwhile, president trump has promised the american public that they are going to get tired of winning. and as president zelenskyy says that he is going to sign the us deal that he is going to sign the us deal. it does appear that president trump has been right all along. i'll be debating. has the liberal consensus failed with tobias ellwood as yet another deportation scam emerges? 1500 illegal migrants have crossed the channel in the last few days. we're going to be talking about why this means. i think, that we must leave the european convention on human rights. plus, tonight i'll be speaking to former mumford and sons lead guitarist and host of the winston marshall podcast show about the dire state of christianity in the uk. as the church of england's twitter account decides to focus on net zero rather than shrove tuesday. that's state of the nation tonight with me. matt goodwin starts right now.

now i'll also be joined tonight by my top panel columnist and former mep , patrick o'flynn and former mep, patrick o'flynn and founder of novara media, aaron bastani. as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay or hit me up on x at goodwin mj. but now it's time for the news bulletin with sam francis. >> matt, thank you very much and good evening to you. just after 8:00, the top story tonight, the justice secretary is calling for new sentencing guidance to be reversed tonight, warning it risks a two tier justice from april. judges will be advised to consider a defendant's ethnicity, culture or faith when deciding punishment, along with factors like age and pregnancy. labour's shabana mahmood insists there will be no differential treatment before the law, and says she's writing to the sentencing council to push for a

reversal. campaigners, meanwhile, have welcomed guidance urging courts to avoid jailing pregnant women. the sentencing council says tailored sentences do reduce re—offending and they say it ensures fairness. let's bring you an update now from cumbria, where tonight we've heard that emergency crews have rushed to kendal rugby club just before 5:00, where two children have been struck by a black bmw on a sports pitch there. one of the children sadly didn't survive. another, we understand, is being treated by paramedics. a man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, and police say at this stage they believe it is an isolated incident with no links to terrorism. any more developments on that story from cumbria? we will of course bring to you. well, let's turn now to some breaking news international across greece, where riot police are tonight clashing with protesters in athens. these live pictures show of officers firing

smoke grenades and charging. >> through the streets. >> through the streets. >> well, what began as a peaceful vigil with lanterns lighting the sky and candles forming the number 57, has now spiralled into chaos outside greek parliament. demonstrators are demanding justice over greece's deadliest train crash, which killed 57 people last yean which killed 57 people last year, mostly students. tensions flared, though, as lawmakers debated earlier a censure motion against the government accused of failing to prevent the train disaster. we will keep across any developments on the streets of athens tonight as those protests and clashes with police appear to be continuing. in other news, the us has suspended intelligence sharing with ukraine, adding to an existing pause in military support in a move confirmed by trump's national security adviser and the head of the cia. but the freeze could end. mike waltz says president trump may restore military aid if ukraine and russia agree to peace talks.

speaking to the media, waltz said that trump would take a hard look at lifting the pause if negotiations move forward, and trump himself has said he's received an important letter from zelenskyy suggesting ukraine is ready to negotiate as soon as possible. addressing congress last night, he claimed there are now strong signals that russia is also ready for peace. a woman has told a court she could have been abused by more than 200 men in rochdale, but says there was that many it was hard to keep count. the complainant, known as girl a, says she was targeted from the age of 13 with her number passed between abusers. eight men, former market traders and taxi drivers are accused of preying on her and another girl allegedly plying them with drugs and alcohol. jurors heard that girl, a first, spoke to police in 2015, blaming herself at the time, but now realises she was just a kid who she says knew no different. the men all deny the

charges, including rape and indecent assault, and the trial continues this week. and just before i hand you back to matt in westminster, well, billions in westminster, well, billions in spending cuts, including welfare, are expected in the chancellor's spring statement later this month. the treasury is submitting plans to the government's official forecaster today as concerns grow that rachel reeves financial buffer has disappeared. sources say the world has changed since october's budget, when the obr suggested she had nearly £10 billion to spend. those are the latest headlines. a full round up from me at 9:00 here in the newsroom. now, though, it's over to matt. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome back, everybody to

state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, another shocking discovery in britain. get this. i could barely believe it when i read it. nearly1 million people in our country cannot speak english. according to official statistics, 10% of residents who were born overseas struggle to speak the english language. now, i don't know about you, but i think that speaking the national language is the least that we need to do to have an integrated, cohesive, prosperous nation. and in many local areas in this country, as i showed this week in my newsletter, using detailed information from the census, the reality is that integration is simply not happening. take, for example, the area of saint matthews and highfields in leicester in this area. more than 80% of people who are living in social housing were born outside of the uk, of whom only around half 52%, are currently working. according to the latest census, only 43% of people who live in that area were born in the uk. a larger number of people were born in

the middle east or asia. three quarters of people in that area are muslim, and shockingly, more than four in every ten people in that area are living in households that contain no adults who speak english as their main language. or consider their main language. or consider the area of tockington or monk's park near wembley stadium in this area. nearly 73% of people who live in social housing were born outside of the uk, of whom only 43% are currently in work. fully 35% of people in that area, more than 1 in 3, refused to identify with a british or an engush to identify with a british or an english identity, and instead choose a non uk identity only, which is an option on the census. fully one quarter of people here live in households, live in households that contain no adults who speak english as their main language. now, look, i think this is a national crisis. what is the labour government's plan? i'm asking you. capitulation is the answer. labour's plan is to surrender to this phenomenon, to not do

anything about it. the labour party's tower hamlets office has, in big letters on its facade, somali and bengali translations. now, you might think that this ghettoisation is a natural phenomenon that comes along with mass immigration, but our leaders have actively encouraged it. i think it's time that we prioritise people from this country when distributing scarce resources like social housing. i think newcomers should be expected to work. i think they should be expected to pay think they should be expected to pay tax into the collective pot, and i think they should be expected to identify with our country. and that starts with, at the bare minimum, learning our language, speaking english. i don't think our public sector institutions should be offering widespread translation services. people should learn english. as always, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay or meet me on x at goodwin. mj with me tonight in the studio is reform mp rupert lowe to discuss this, as well as my top panel columnist and former mep patrick o'flynn and founder of novara media, aaron bastani. rupert. the fact that nearly a million people cannot speak english on

one level is both interesting and sad, but on another level, it's telling us something about the integration story here in britain. >> well, matt, i couldn't have put it better in your introduction that myself. i mean, i think what you said i completely mean, i th