heart of president trump at the heart of negotiations to end the ukraine—russia war. but what's next? we'll go live to new york to speak to nelson. aspen. >> who will be crowned top dog. crufts 2025 takes place in birmingham. our reporterjack birmingham. our reporter jack carson will be there with the latest. >> well, 24,000 dogs at crufts over these four days at the event has been on in all shapes and sizes. only one can be top dog. >> and today is international women's day. we'll be hearing from an award winning female entrepreneur who has invented an important new app for families with food. >> and of course, we'll have all the day's top stories with journalist and broadcaster esther stanhope and podcast host louis oakley. there they are. welcome to saturday morning live only on gb news.

>> well, we first want to bring you a bit of a brief breaking update on that story from the centre of london this morning, because emergency services have been called to the palace of westminster, where a man has scaled one of the buildings. >> a video on social media shows a barefoot man standing on a ledge holding a palestine flag, several metres up elizabeth tower. if you're watching on television, you can see him there still now. we'll keep you updated updated throughout the programme as this develops. >> and don't forget, of course, we want to hear. we want to hear from you today. it's all about what you want to say. we want to hear your views on our stories. we want to hear your peaks of the week. of course. send in your highlights of the week. we want to hear those. and of course we've got jack carson live at crufts, so make sure you're sending your dog pictures in. that's our favourite part. >> isn't it? every week it's my favourite part of the show. >> we always find a way to bring dogs in. >> we do. >> we do. >> somehow i don't know how we do it, but somehow. easy. this week it's crust. but anyway, before we do all that, before we get to the dogs and all the

breaking news, lewis mackenzie has all your news headlines. >> thank you very much. good morning. it'sjust >> thank you very much. good morning. it's just after 10:00. i'm lewis mackenzie here in the gb newsroom. now let's go back to that breaking news. a man has climbed big ben draped in a palestinian flag. as you can see on your screens, emergency services are already on the scene. it's reported the incident started at around 8 am. this morning. a pro—palestine protest is set to begin outside the bbc offices at around 1 pm. today. it's currently unclear if the two events are related. we'll of course bring you the very latest, the latest as we have it in the gb newsroom. some more breaking news for you. now. at least 12 people have been injured in a shooting at a pub injured in a shooting at a pub in toronto. four victims have non—life threatening injuries. the others conditions are unknown. toronto police say the suspect was wearing a black

balaclava and was seen fleeing in a silver car, and is still at large. once again, we'll bring you the very latest as we have it. the reform mp rupert lowe, has been suspended from the party amid allegations he made physical threats against the party chairman, zaheer yousaf. mr yousaf confirmed the party had also received complaints from two female employees about serious bullying in mr lowe's parliamentary and constituency offices. in a statement, mr lowe said he was disappointed but not surprised to learn of what he said were false allegations. he also says that the allegations of bullying at his offices are not about him, and he is taking legal advice. the metropolitan police have confirmed it received complaints of a verbal threats made by a 67 year old man, and officers are carrying out an assessment to determine what further action may be required. on to the next story.

members of the russian spy ring are facing lengthy jail terms for one of what's been called the largest and most complex enemy operations ever uncovered on uk soil. the three bulgarian nationals were found guilty at the old bailey of spying on an industrial scale and putting lives of a nation's security at risk. commander dominic murphy, the head of the metropolitan police counter—terrorism command, detailed the threat they posed for. >> everything we have discovered the threat was quite broad, in fact. so yes, they were gathering information, what you might call lifestyle surveillance against individuals here in the uk. my concern has always been, though, what was that lifestyle surveillance going to lead to? and we have seen a long history of the russian state conducting operations here in the united kingdom, including lethal threat operations like the investigation in salisbury, so deeply worrying about the physical and information challenges created. >> donald trump says he's

working hard to get ukraine peace deal as soon as possible. the president was speaking in the white house after another major wave of russian attacks on its neighbour overnight. mr trump says that ukraine was taking tremendous punishment and a peace deal was urgently needed. >> the settle the war, get it finished. because if i'm not here, nobody's going to settle it. and president macron has said that and every president, everybody said that. the prime ministers and presidents, we're pushing very hard. that's all i'm thinking about now, as far as the question about security later, that's the easy part. the hard part is getting it settled. we got to get them. >> back on track. eurostar services have resumed today following the full line cancellation due to an unexploded world war ii bomb. operators were forced to cancel all 32 trains scheduled to run between london and paris after

the unwelcome discovery of an explosive was found near railway tracks in saint—denis. today marks international women's day. the annual celebration aims to champion women's achievements across all aspects of life. speaking at a visit to raf northolt, chancellor rachel reeves met with women personnel in the armed forces. >> well. >> well. >> it's. >> it's. >> fantastic at raf northolt to be able to meet with women personnel in our armed forces on our front line. international women's day is an opportunity to celebrate how far we've come, but also as a government and for me personally, as the first ever female chancellor of the exchequer to redouble our efforts to ensure that we have opportunities for women, which is why we are going further and faster on childcare and breakfast clubs to help parents, but particularly women, balance work and family life. >> tropical storm alfred has

made landfall on australia's eastern coast. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, with more than 300,000 homes left without power. the country's bureau of meteorology has warned the intense rainfall could lead to flash flooding as the major storm moves inland. authorities in the united states have confirmed that hollywood actor gene hackman died of natural causes a week after his wife, betsy, died from a haunt of virus pulmonary syndrome. it's been claimed that hackman was not aware his wife had died because of his advanced alzheimer's. their bodies were found in their home in new mexico last week, along with their pet dog. and finally four european brown bears at whipsnade zoo have woken up from hibernation. the bear's manner. minnie inaya and cinderella have finally gotten out of bed after

three months of deep slumber, signalling the start of uk spring. those are the latest gb news headlines. i'm lewis mackenzie. more from me in an hours mackenzie. more from me in an hour's time. >> 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. >> thank you very much for that, lewis. just a brief update on that breaking news this morning. emergency services have been called to the palace of westminster, where a man has scaled one of the buildings there. >> yeah, those watching on television will see the footage we've got live. that man has scaled the elizabeth tower, which houses big ben. people are pointing that out. that's correct. he's holding a palestine flag. he's several metres up the tower. and we're going to bring you all the latest as we get it throughout

the show. we've also got a statement from the metropolitan police in the last few moments. they say at 7:24 am. on saturday, march the 8th, officers were alerted to a man climbing up the elizabeth tower at the houses of parliament. officers are at the scene working to bring the incident to a safe conclusion. they are being assisted by the london fire brigade and the london ambulance service. >> we'll be bringing you all the latest on that throughout the show. now moving on to politics, and mp rupert lowe has been suspended from reform uk amid allegations he made physical threats against the party chairman, zaya youssef. >> well, reform uk chief whip, lee >> well, reform uk chief