world awaits what will come of donald trump's ukraine plan, i'm going to be joined tonight by bestselling author and twitter files publisher michael shellenberger, plus, as the bbc extols the virtues of mass migration in the nhs, a truly bizarre story. this week on the bbc website, i will be speaking to one man who knows more than most about this. he's not only revealed something deeply concerning within the nhs, he's not only a top surgeon, he also happens to be my uncle. that state of the nation tonight with me, matt goodwin right here on gb news a great show coming up. now. i'll also be joined tonight by my top panel contributing editor to novara media, michael walker and assistant editor of the telegraph, poppy coburn. but first, it's time for the news bulletin with katie bowen. >> matt, thank you and good

evening. these are your latest headlines. gb news understands this evening that 20 countries are in talks about joining a coalition of the willing to keep the peace in ukraine. it was announced earlier today that the uk government has signed a £30 million deal to provide ukraine's armed forces with more advanced attack drones to tackle russian aggression in the black sea. sir keir starmer said the uk will play a leading part in terms of defence and security. posting on x after that eu leaders summit in brussels, president zelenskyy said that, quote, everyone must ensure that russia, the sole source of this war, accepts the need to end it. and tonight, eu leaders have agreed a statement in support of ukraine. without hungary and ukraine. without hungary and ukraine. zelenskyy says he is going to saudi arabia next monday and will meet with the saudi crown prince. we'll bring you more on this developing story as we get it. well, that all comes as defence secretary john healey has met with his us counterpart, pete hegseth, a short time ago. earlier on, the white house said that they had

made no decision at this time on the legal status for ukrainians in the us. the trump administration confirmed that they had stopped intelligence sharing with ukraine last night. triple killer kyle clifford has been found guilty at cambridge crown court of raping his ex—partner, louise hunt, in an attack which saw him murder her and her sister with a crossbow and her sister with a crossbow and their mother with a butcher's knife. the 26 year old was found guilty by a jury at cambridge crown court after around 45 minutes. clifford had previously denied rape. he previously denied rape. he previously admitted murdering louise hannah and carole hunt at their home in bushey in july last year. clifford was tried in his absence after refusing to leave his cell at hmp belmarsh. and, just briefly, some breaking news this evening. president donald trump announced a short while ago that mexican and canadian goods will be exempted from the 25% tariffs that he imposed earlier this week. that

exemption will last for a month, and the president has said that steel and aluminium tariffs will not be modified. we'll bring you more on that story as we get it. those are the latest gb news headlines. now let's go back to matthew. >> 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 tonight to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. and welcome to two tier britain. some of you may remember the labour government's ruthless crackdown on the riots and disorder that followed the southport attack last summer. it puzzled many people. how could it be that the prime minister, keir starmer, the man who took the knee to the black lives matter movement with his deputy, angela rayner, just hours after the mob had pulled down the statue of edward colston in

bristol, just hours after that mob had harassed and assaulted police officers, how could he all of a sudden be a law and order prime minister? it didn't end with the crackdown on rioters. the prime minister, keir starmer, withheld information from the public regarding the terror charges of the southport suspect, claiming if he hadn't, it could have prejudiced the trial, even though numerous cases emerged from the past where keir starmer had referred to other terror attacks as such. within hours, then, it emerged in january that an internal home office report, get this, had described the idea of two tier policing as a far right extremist narrative. well, the last 24 hours have turned the last 24 hours have turned the government's narrative completely upside down. why? because the independent reviewer of terrorism terrorism legislation, jonathan hall kc, has claimed that it was a failure to disclose the facts about the southport killer axel rudakubana that risked prejudicing the trial if the truth had come out earlier. there would never have been an information vacuum, he says. but it gets worse than that. not only did the prime minister,

keir starmer, handle southport catastrophically, but we now have definitive proof today that we are living in a two tier society. the sentencing council, shockingly, has issued new guidance that would make prison sentences get this less likely for racial, sexual, ethnic and religious minorities. in a statement, the council justified its effectively racist policy and i'll call it what it is. it's a racist policy on the grounds that there are disparities within the judicial system, and therefore outcomes should be rectified in this manner. the labour government has distanced itself, distanced itself from the guidance, with justice secretary shabana mahmood saying that she completely disagrees with the guidance. but just this evening, the times newspaper has reported that these guidelines were drawn up off the back of david lammy's report from 2017. shock, horror! but the policy also stems from the most sacred of new labour legislation, the equality act. so much that is wrong with britain goes back to that piece of legislation. labour may say that they want these rules

scrapped. they may say they don't agree with two tier sentencing, but they would neven sentencing, but they would never, ever dare touch the equality act. so look, what i'm saying tonight is as long as the equality act stays in place, as long as it remains unreformed, we are destined to become a two tier country indefinitely. and that's something, of course, that's something, of course, that nobody of sound mind in this country wants to see. as even this country wants to see. as ever, let me know your views at gbnews.com/yoursay or tweet me. meet me on x at goodwin mj. but i'm joined now by author and human rights activist ayaan hirsi ali, who has been documenting what's happening in western societies more closely than many other people. thank you, ian, forjoining us now. many people out there tonight will be reading about this two tier justice will be reading about this two tierjustice system, will be reading about this two tier justice system, wondering how on earth any civilised society can allow this kind of imbalanced approach to justice to take place. and they'll be asking this central question, i think. how on earth has this happened and what's behind it?

>> it's ideological. and i think that ages ago, when you had jeremy corbyn, he was very transparent about what he wanted to do and where he wanted to take the labour party. but there's this mind virus of wokeism that has infected the labour party. and with keir starmer and others, they were able to present themselves to voters as a safe pair of hands that can be trusted and then, meanwhile, use guidelines and guidances in these tricks to impose the theory of it's social, it's critical theory, critical race theory, in this case, impose it on britain. and it's absolutely wrong. i mean, it's absolutely wrong. i mean, it is taking a wrecking ball to the rule of law. it's going to destroy the trust between citizens and the government or what's left of it. and it is going to destroy the trust between citizens across the board, between the groups that

are mentioned in the sentencing guidance. so i think it should be stopped. and i agree with you. it's all in that equality act and any serious party that wants to restore britain to its rational, commonsensical justice system where we are all equals, all equal before the law, they will have to start by repealing the equality act and by getting out of the echr and all of these, yeah, add ons to the system. >> that i mean, i've often made the i've often made the argument, ayaan, that if we're really to genuinely turn the tide in this country, we really need to begin by repealing much of the blairite legislative legacy from the early 2000, late 1990s, early 2000, the equality act, the human rights act, many of the problems we experienced today that we see today go back today that we see today go back to that new labour government. the reality looking at these sentencing guidelines, if people out there watching aren't clear as to what we're really talking about, what these guidelines essentially about, what th