>> well. >> well. >> bbc news will bring you all the very latest until 6:00 this evening. today's top story. more than 30 casualties have now been brought ashore following a collision between an oil tanker and a cargo vessel in the north sea near hull. we'll be live on the coast to bring you right up to date on this dramatic developing story. elsewhere today, the home secretary has rejected an inquiry into the murder of sir david amess. >> the refusal to hold a public inquiry only adds to our suffering, and it makes us feel abandoned, ignored and disposable. >> as you can see there, his daughter, katie amos, was utterly furious with that decision and has labelled the

government's rejection as insulting. we'll have all the latest reaction throughout, and an exclusive interview with katie with charlie peters. also on the show today are labour simply a party of massive hypocrites? >> there will be no return to austerity. >> well, this comes as the chancellor looks set to take a sledgehammer to britain's benefits bill in a return to austerity that they clearly pledged to avoid. and an arch remainer is set to become the new canadian prime minister. here he is laying into our country. >> and their solution to take back control was actually code for tear down your future. >> and mark carney, the death of brexit project fear figurehead and former politically neutral bank of england governor mark carney, has been elected to replace justin trudeau as canadian prime minister. could this be a problem for great

britain? and that's all coming up in your next hour. but the show is a pleasure to have your company. we've got a packed show ahead. today in a short while, we'll speak to chris philp, the shadow home secretary, who suddenly thinks it's a good idea to cap visa numbers for migrants coming in through the front doon coming in through the front door. you know, work visas, family members, study visas, the kind of thing that should have been perhaps kept, i don't know, dunng been perhaps kept, i don't know, during the 14 years that you were in power. there's also a debate today at 4:30 in the commons, a petition of 200,000 signatures said it's time to stop all immigration for five years, to take back control of our borders. of course, that's expected to be brushed aside by parliamentarians who seem to live on a different planet. let's talk about today getting to its usual ways. gbnews.com/yoursay. but as your headlines. and here's sophia

wenzler. >> martin. >> martin. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> it'sjust >> thank you. >> it's just gone 3:00. >> it's just gone 3:00. >> these are your headlines. a major. rescue operation is underway off the coast. >> of east yorkshire. >> of east yorkshire. >> after an oil tanker. and cargo. >> ship collided in the north. sea near hull. the tanker, believed to be the us flagged mv stena. >> immaculate. >> immaculate. >> is on fire with lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter and firefighting teams at the scene. at least 32 casualties have been. brought ashore. at grimsby, but some crew members remain unaccounted for. witnesses report a massive fireball at the site around ten miles offshore. the incident is ongoing, with the coastguard coordinating with the emergency response. the family of sir david amess has. slammed the home secretary for rejecting a pubuc home secretary for rejecting a public inquiry into his murder, calling it unacceptable and insulting. yvette cooper says it's hard to see how an inquiry

would go beyond the trial of terrorist ali harbi ali, and a recent prevent review. the attacker, an islamic state fanatic, was referred to prevent years before stabbing the veteran mp to death at his constituency surgery in 2021. sir david's widow is urging the prime minister to reconsider ahead of their meeting on wednesday. his daughter katie says the response is adding salt to an open wound, accusing the government of brushing them aside. >> the home secretary has written to us ahead of our meeting to let us know that we will not be getting the public inquiry that we have been demanding. this decision is an absolute insult and a betrayal to my family and our father's memory. >> a man in his 30s has been arrested for entering the uk without permission. he is believed to be a palestinian

asylum seeker. abu wadee, who allegedly arrived on a migrant boat before posting extremist content online. it comes on the 10th day in a row that. >> more small. >> more small. >> boats have reached the uk waters. 150 migrants arrived this morning, taking the total since march, the first to over 2200. the government says it is cracking down on small boat crossings and strengthening border security, with new police and immigration powers. since the election, more than 2500 foreign criminals have been deported. a 23% rise on last yeah deported. a 23% rise on last year. in other. >> news. >> news. >> two british diplomats are being expelled from russia, accused of espionage in what is seen as the latest for tat move. moscow says the pair carried out intelligence and subversive work and must leave within two weeks. it follows the uk's expulsion of a russian diplomat last month, part of an ongoing diplomatic standoff. prime minister sir keir starmer has vowed to stand

by ukraine, pledging more defence spending and a coalition of the willing against russian aggression. moscow has condemned his calls for a peacekeeping force as tensions between the two countries hit new lows. and mark carney says canada will neven mark carney says canada will never, ever be part of the united states of america after winning the race to succeed justin trudeau as the country's prime minister. >> canada. never, ever will be part of america in any way, shape or form. >> the former bank of england governor is vowing to take on donald trump in a growing trade war, and says canada will impose retaliatory tariffs until americans show us respect. carney, who has never held elected office, won 86% of the vote and is expected to call a general election soon. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to martin. >> 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 sophia. now to the breaking news story coming from the north sea, as more than 30 casualties have now been brought ashore after a cargo vessel collided with an oil tanker earlier this afternoon, and some crew members are yet to be accounted for with both vessels. as you can see on your screens there ablaze off the coast of east yorkshire. we can now cross and speak live with gb news, yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley, who is a short distance away from the scene there. anna, a hugely dramatic incident that's now being treated as something of a maritime disaster. what do we know? what's the latest? >> yes, martin. hugely dramatic. we're here in withernsea, just

13 miles off the coast in the nonh 13 miles off the coast in the north sea, here in east yorkshire, where that dramatic incident unfolded at 10:00 this morning. you can't quite see the black smoke billowing from where we are today. it's quite a misty and cloudy day. we know that so far 32 casualties have been brought ashore, but some crew members are yet to be accounted for. people being brought ashore to grimsby and given necessary medical treatment where needed. we know that lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter were called to the collision at the humber estuary at around 10:00 this morning, after us flagged tanker called the mv stena immaculate, appears to have been hit whilst at anchor by the portuguese flagged container. so long and as you say, martin. footage shows clouds of black smoke billowing into the air

after the collision that happened this morning. we've got further images that are coming in as well. they show a large fire that spread across the nonh fire that spread across the north sea, and thick black smoke billowing upwards. and we've seen from these images as well that a rescue vessel appears to be spraying the blaze with water. of course, it's not just about saving people here and rescuing casualties. it's about containing that large scale fire that's going on across the north sea and the impacts that that will have on the environment as well. we know that. martyn boyers, he's the chief executive of the port of grimsby, said that 13 casualties were initially brought in on a windcat 33 vessel, followed by another ten on a harbour pilot boat and nine on another pilot's vessel. and mr bowyer said he'd been told that there was a massive fireball. he said it was too far out to sea around ten

miles away, but he said we'd seen the vessels bringing them in and that they must have sent a mayday out. luckily there was a mayday out. luckily there was a crew transfer vessel there already, and he adds that since then there's been a flotilla of ambulances to pick up anyone they can find, and the casualties conditions so far remain unclear. now, looking into this more, there's data that's come out of the tracking site, marine traffic, and that seems to indicate that one ship was moving and one was nearly stationary when this collision happened.the stationary when this collision happened. the stena immaculate had travelled from greece and was drifting at a speed of 0.1 knots at about 10 to 10 this morning. and that was when it was approached by the so—long from the north at a speed of 16 knots, which is about 20 miles an hour roughly, whilst it was en route from the scottish port of grangemouth to rotterdam. and it's still unclear what caused this incident. we know that

these ships should be manned 24 seven. we know that there's no sign that that ship appeared to steer away from the collision, so that investigation, along with this rescuing mission is still ongoing. we know that transport secretary heidi alexander has said she's concerned to hear of this collision between those two vessels. she thanked all emergency service workers involved. and we know that the us coastguard says it's assessing the likely counter pollution response that could be required following this collision. so as we get more information, martin, we will bnng information, martin, we will bring that to you. >> thank you. anna ryder there live from the coast. and just a few more details. the us vessel, believed to be filled with aviation fuel as part of a military supply convoy to vessels off of the coast there. so this has a strategic military overlay as well. that vessel, believed to be more or less at anchor before the collision. so

it was hit the cargo ship. beg your pardon? the us tanker moving at some speed. and as we can see there, a huge mop up operation in process. of course, the aviation fuel will be floating on top. that can be done away with by the detergent, by being hoovered up, by being contained. and of course, until now, the fire will be raging on. we'll keep you abreast of that developing story as we get more details throughout the show. now moving back to domestic politics, sir keir starmer promised to smash the gangs, but with an astonishing 2200 illegals arriving to our shores in just ten days this month in march, that's a record. it seems the people smugglers didn't get the people smugglers didn't get the memo, with at least 150 migrants now having crossed the channel illegally this morning alone, in an unprecedented 10th straight day of small boats crossings, can we ever take back control of our borders? well, we can now speak with gb news

political editor christopher hope, who's with the gentleman who hopes to do something about legal immigration there in westminster. chris, over to you. >> martin college green. here i am joined now by the shadow home secretary, chris philp. chris philp, what would you do to stop the gangs narrow and it is gone. >> well. >> well. >> look, i think the truth is. >> look, i think the truth is. >> we need a. >> we need a. >> removals deterrent. >> removals deterrent. >> we cannot have people crossing the. >> english channel. >> english channel. >> illegal immigrants like this. >> illegal immigrants like this. >> the numbers. >> the numbers. >> are up by, i think 28% under this labour government. 27 odd thousand since the election. >> the only. >> the only. >> way to stop this happening is that as soon as people get. >> here. >> here. >> they get immediately removed. >> they get immediately removed. >> somewhere else. >> somewhere else. >> that could be. >> that could be. >> their country. >> their country. >> of origin. it could be a safe third country. >> like rwanda. >> like rwanda. >> doesn't really matter. >> doesn't really matter. >> where. >> where. >> because if. >> because if. >> people know they're. >> people know they're. >> going to get. >> going to get. >> removed as. >> removed as. >> soon as they arrive here. >> soon as they arrive here. >> it. >> it. >> stands to reason they won't bother attempting the crossing in the first place. labour made. >> a. >> a. >> catastrophic mistake by cancelling the rwanda deterrence scheme before it even started.

>> so if you get back into power, you'll bring back the rwanda plan. that right? >> yes, it. »- >> yes, it. >> is right. >> is right. >> whether it's rwanda or somewhere. >> else remains to be seen. >> else remains to be seen. >> we'll certainly. >> we'll certainly. >> try rwanda first of all. but yes, absolutely. we need that removals deterrent so that if anyone crosses. anyone ci'osses. >> anyone crosses. >> the english channel. >> the english channel. >> illegally, illegally, off, they go straight away somewhere else and they can't stay here. >> italy has tried to do offshore processing. they've been told they can't do by european judges. you'll be in the same mess, won't you, in the next decade, if you win power again, you can't do it because european judges say no. >> well, we passed a law here in the uk, the safety. >> of. >> of. >> rwanda act, about a year ago to stop those judges preventing the operation of the rwanda scheme. and in fact, labour are about to stupidly repeal that act. they're doing that just at the moment. so we might need to legislate again. but we've also said just at the weekend we would essentially repeal the human rights act in relation to all immigration matters and pass the power for ministers, uk ministers to ignore a strasbourg court's interim order, a so—called rule 39 order, so that

we can take control of our borders and we can't have domestic judges or indeed strasbourg judges, with their interim orders stopping the uk government controlling our borders. that is unacceptable. it's got to stop. >> on legal migration. what's your plan there? >> well, we're. >> well, we're. >> tabling an amendment later on today to the government's borders bill, which will set up an annual vote in parliament, where every mp has to vote on a hard, legally binding cap on the number of visas that are given out each year. and when that cap is reached, the government would simply stop giving out visas. now, there was a version of this a few years ago in relation to non—european immigration. it was 20,000 a year, and when they gave out the 20,000, they just stopped giving out any more visas. so we've had that kind of mechanism in the past just for non—european immigration. we would like to reintroduce that for all immigration. there'd be an annual binding vote. >> and what would be what would be your cap right now? were you in power now? >> well, we haven't yet announced the figure. >> oh come. >> oh come.

>> on, we're going to we're going to do the thinking on that. but i'll tell you this, it'll be a lot, lot lower than any of the figures we've seen. >> under 100,000. >> under 100,000. >> it will be a lot, lot lower than anything we've seen recently and a lot, lot lower than recent forecasts. the numbers and mistakes have been made to speak quite honestly, chris. mistakes have been made by past governments. the numbers have been far too high and it just cannot carry on. we need an end to the era of mass immigration. it's gone too far. it's got to stop. >> by past governments, you mean five conservative governments. that's your party. i can hear martin daubney shouting at me at the studio to ask you the following question. why haven't you done this yet? you're a 14 years in power. you didn't pass the legislation you're proposing labour to do now? >> yeah, it was a mistake, to be quite honest. yeah, i mean mistake by the last conservative governments and a mistake by previous labour ones as well. yes, it was wrong. they got it wrong. and we are now coming up with specific, concrete ideas to sort this problem out in the future. that amendment to have a legally binding cap is one of those ideas. but there are lots of other amendments we're tabling as well. >> how will you resist other

departments, like the health departments, like the health department saying you can't stop net migration now we've got to get through a winter, a winter flu crisis? >> well, the health department, when the health and social care visa was set up a couple of years ago, they said only 6000 people would come into the uk. it turned out to be something like 300,000. look, the truth is sectors like the social care sectors like the social care sector and other bits of the economy that need lower wage labour cannot simply import it from overseas. what we've got to do firstly is get some of the 9 million uk citizens of working age who are not working back into the workforce, for example, by tightening up the benefit system, businesses have to do more to recruit and train uk residents and they need to invest more in technology and automation as other countries like holland and south korea do. and that will then reduce the reliance on cheap labour. >> so what's happening now is there'll be a committee hearing tomorrow at which your amendment goes to it, and you want to try and get it through, pass that committee and then or even the labour might vote it down off

that committee, then it dies. >> well, so the committee goes this week, next week and the week after we're tabling the amendment this evening, it will get voted on in committee. and if labour vote it down, we'll bnng if labour vote it down, we'll bring it back to the floor of the whole house and we'll find out if labour mps support border control or not. i'll be voting for it. conservative mps will be voting for it. we'll see what labour think. but they are weak on our border security. in fact, they've lost control of our borders since the general election, so i'm not holding my breath. >> i asked you about katie amos, the daughter of the late tory mp sir david amess, gave a brutally frank and honest a searing press conference earlier today, saying that it's insult not having a pubuc that it's insult not having a public inquiry into his murder. his death leaves an unimaginable void in her life. the killer, of course, is in prison. why didn't your government deliver on the on the public inquiry when you were in power? >> well, look, i've spoken to juue >> well, look, i've spoken to julie amos, david's widow, who is obviously devastated by david's murder, as we all are, who knew him in parliament. i

think we do need to get to the bottom of this properly, which is why the view i've taken as the relatively new shadow home secretary is that we should have a proper inquiry to find. >> a public inquiry. >> a public inquiry. >> yes, a public inquiry to find out why the prevent programme didn't stop this barbaric murderer from doing what he did. there are similar questions. in other cases. the redding murders is another case in point where we need to find out why prevent wasn't working. i'm, for example, very concerned that only 13% one 3% of prevents caseload. it relates to islamist terror terrorists, whereas 94% of terror murders since 1999 have been perpetrated by islamists. so there is a disconnect there. >> yvette cooper your opposite number says that there's no more that can be learned. we've learned lessons of southport. there's been a review of prevent. what's the point of having another public inquiry? >> well, i just don't accept that. i don't think we've fully got to the bottom of this in the

in the tragic case of david amos's murder or the redding case, the southport inquiry hasn't hasn't started yet. and it's not even clear if that inquiry will touch on whether the government were open and honest with the public after the murders took place. that's something of concern. the government are also refusing to have a proper national statutory inquiry into the terrible rape gangs. i'm mystified as to why yvette cooper and keir starmer are refusing to get to the truth of that. i'd like to see the people involved there held to account as well. >> see what louise casey's review finds on that one. there you have it, martin. chris philp, the tories here, not in power now, had 14 years, didn't do it. but trying to force the government to accept a legally binding annual cap on migration. and we'll hear shortly , maybe at and we'll hear shortly, maybe at some point what that cap might be back to you. >> yeah. how long is a piece of string? thank you very, very much, chris. always a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you. just returning now to the breaking news story coming from the north sea this afternoon, as more than 30 casualties have been brought ashore after a cargo vessel collided with an oil tanker, and some crew

members are yet to be accounted for, with both vessels ablaze. as you can see on your screen there off the coast of east yorkshire. what we know thus far is that the two vessels, one was a us registered oil tanker. that's the stena immaculate, believed to be a military supply vessel that was moving at some pace when it collided with a cargo vessel called the solingen, believed to be badged from portugal. the collision resulted in that massive fireball you can see there men overboard, 32 casualties thus far still ablaze. of course, the aviation fuel on board is designed specifically to be highly flammable, very highly processed fuel that's trying to be contained, trying to extinguish that blaze. and of course, we'll bring you all the all the latest details on this news story as they reach us. now, coming up, the family of murdered mp sir david amess are furious after the government

rejected calls for an inquiry into his killing. we'll have all the reaction to this, plus an exclusive interview with katie amos, sir david's daughter, with our reporter charlie peters. that's coming next with me. martin daubney on gb britain's news channel.

welcome back. it's 3:25 with me martin daubney here on gb news now today the home secretary yvette coopen today the home secretary yvette cooper. she rejected calls for a pubuc cooper. she rejected calls for a public inquiry into the death, the killing of her father, david amess. a national reporter. cody peters, spoke to his daughter katie amos earlier on today. >> katie, this morning, dan jarvis said that his thoughts were with you and your family as the home office said that they would not and the government said they would not push forward with a full public inquiry into

sir david's murder. do you think that his thoughts are enough? >> absolutely not. thoughts and words mean nothing to me at this point. we need action and i am being denied the action that is their duty to give me. my father was their friend. he was their colleague. he worked with them for 40 years. thoughts and words mean nothing. i need action. >> he spoke very movingly in your press conference about how your press conference about how you wake up every morning hoping that this is a nightmare that you're just going to wake up from and break free from. but obviously that's not the case. it must have been so painful for you to go through this process to fight against the system. when you're fighting your own struggles, in this case. >> you can't move on. you can't begin to grieve and think about what your future life might look like when you're still fighting for the answers. this happened to my dad in 2021. it's 2025. why am i still here? no offence. having to speak to you and hold press conferences. this should have been launched immediately

after the attack and there's no sense of drawing a line under things and moving on with the rest of our lives until we get the answers. my dad wouldn't give up on me, so i'm not going to give up on him now. >> the home secretary, yvette coopen >> the home secretary, yvette cooper, has said that after the prevent learning review and the coroner's report, there are no additional questions. what questions do you have about your father's murder? >> well, no questions have been answered that prevent learning review was just a piece of papen review was just a piece of paper. they didn't interview anybody. they didn't investigate anything. it was just a list of timelines and email trails. it didn't mean anything. i need to know who failed him, why they failed him. what has been done to stop an attack happening like this again? and we need to hold people accountable and change the system that allowed his murderer to go back into public and commit this terrible attack. >> you've also referred to other inquiries launched, such as those into the nottingham and the southport incidents. do you feel as though there's a reason

why your father's murder is being treated differently to those two incidents? >> well, i yeah, i mean, something obviously happened in the background that we don't know about and that we're not meant to know about, because why did they immediately launch an inquiry into southport and released their prevent learning review? why did they allow cameras into 10 downing street when they were announcing the nottingham inquiry? what is it in my father's case that the tories and the labour party don't want to see out there? and i intend to find out what it is and to expose it and to hold those people accountable. >> we talk about holding people to account. do you think that people are fleeing from this call for an inquiry to protect those who may be responsible for those who may be responsible for those failings? >> absolutely. because right now they're just brushing me under they're just brushing me under the carpet, sweeping me under the carpet, sweeping me under the rug. nobody wants to answer any questions because they're all protecting whoever made this mistake. they just want me to shut up and go away. but i'm not going to. >> you spoke on behalf of your mother at this press conference

today, when you received the letter on thursday from the home secretary. what was your reaction with her? >> i started shaking instantly. i could not believe that i was reading these words. it is an absolute insult, and it is a betrayal to my father's legacy and his memory. my mum. i messaged her saying there is no inquiry. she could not even read the letter for hours because she said i am so angry right now. i don't know what i'll do when i read that letter. then of course it's floods of tears and just disbelief and heartbreak all over again. my poor mother had a stroke after it happened to my father. that's why she's not standing with me today. can they not see the pain and the torment and the torture that they are still putting my father's family through? >> now, in the press conference, you also referred to the fact that you're, of course, going to this meeting on wednesday, but we're not going to be there with you.the we're not going to be there with you. the media won't be there. why do you think the media are being shut out of that meeting? and do you want us there? >> i want you guys there because

it's only because of you guys that my story is out there. i was meant to have been swept away years ago. it's only because of kind, caring people in the press and the public that people are talking about this. i want you guys to be there so you can see what is being said. why was nottingham allowed the press there? it's because they were going to announce a review, an inquiry and they wanted to look good. that is why we're not being allowed, because right now they're not announcing an inquiry and they don't want that on camera. >> when the government rejected your call for a public inquiry, how do you think that message was received by those who might wish to do harm to other mps, other would be terrorists? do you think they will be enthused and maybe even happy about this, about this announcement? >> yeah. to me it says, bring it on. we're not going to investigate. you come and kill a member of parliament in a church holding his constituency. we won't do anything about it. we won't do anything about it. we won't ask any questions. we'll just do paper review after paper review. so all they've done is further incensed people to

commit these terrible attacks. and i'm telling you right now, unless something is done, we will repeatedly be in this same situation. >> how much support have you had from politicians within the labour party privately about your request for a public inquiry? >> i have heard from the southend mp who says he's going to support us, and now it means going against sir keir and yvette cooper. i will really much welcome his continued support because that's going against his bosses. other than that, i don't believe i've heard from any labour mps that i know of. >> i saw andrew rosindell, tory member of parliament, in the room today, but you were obviously very critical of the conservatives as well. have there been other politicians supporting you in private as well, or do you feel it's a bit of a personal campaign at this point? >> it's definitely personal. andrew rosindell and i forgot to mention him during the conference, which i apologise for. he's been a great supporter. he's going to now go back and call other mps to join

the campaign. anna firth when she was in power, she tried to help us. kemi and pretty. they met with my mother privately and said that they're going to support us. so now is the time for people to come out and to stand up in the chambers and to say, we support the amos family, what are you hiding? let's do this inquiry now. >> what a formidable young woman. if there's one thing to come out of this terrible, terrible, avoidable tragedy, it is katie amos. i think she's got a huge future ahead of her future parliamentarian in the making there. you know, when young women, when mothers, when daughters get wronged like this, they can make formidable campaigners. and later in the show, i'll be joined by emma webber, who's the mother of barnaby webber, whose son he was killed, of course, in nottingham by a valdo calocane. she's also become a huge campaigner now, in response to the sir david amess report earlier, the government has said this sir david amess murder was a terrible tragedy and our heartfelt thoughts continue to be with his family

and friends. in the years since this cowardly attack, there have been several reviews asking how this could have been avoided, and we have seen significant improvements to the prevent programme, as well as stronger protection for mps. but we understand that the amos family are still looking for answers, and we take this incredibly seriously. and while we do not think a public inquiry would unearth any information that has not already been addressed, the home secretary has confirmed that we will further scrutinise all the reviews that have been taking place over the last few years, and we very much hope that this will help the family to get the justice that they deserve. there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00, including all the very latest. as yet, more than 30 casualties have been brought ashore following that collision between an oil tanker and a cargo vessel in the north sea near hull. we'll be live on the coast to bnng we'll be live on the coast to bring you all the details of this developing story. but first, here's your headlines and it's sophia wenzler.

>> martin. thank you. your headunes >> martin. thank you. your headlines at 333. jet fuel is spilling into the north sea after an oil tanker and. >> a. >> a. >> cargo ship collided near hull. the tanker, believed to be the us flagged mv stena immaculate, is on fire with lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter and firefighting teams at the scene. all crew on the tanker stena immaculate are safe and accounted for, according to the owner. meanwhile, at least 32 casualties have been brought ashore at grimsby, but their condition is unknown. witnesses report a massive fireball at the site around ten miles offshore. the incident is ongoing, with the coastguard co—ordinating the emergency response. now the family of sir david amess has slammed the home secretary for rejecting a public inquiry into his murder, calling it unacceptable and insulting. yvette cooper says it's hard to see how an inquiry would go

beyond the trial of terrorist ali harbi ali and a recent prevent review. the attacker, an islamic state fanatic, was referred to prevent years before the stabbing of the veteran mp to death at his constituency surgery in 2021. sir david's widow is urging the prime minister to reconsider ahead of their meeting on wednesday. in other news, a man in his 30s has been arrested for entering the uk without permission. he is believed to be palestinian asylum seeker abu wadee, who allegedly arrived on a migrant boat before posting extremist content online. it comes on the 10th day in a row that more small boats have reached uk waters. 150 migrants arrived this morning, taking the total since march, the first to over 2200. the government says it is cracking down on small boat crossings and strengthening border security, with new police and immigration powers. since the election, more than 2500

foreign criminals have been deported. a 23% rise on last yeah deported. a 23% rise on last year. and the king and queen have arrived at westminster abbey for the annual service celebrating commonwealth day. they are joined by the prince and princess of wales, and a2000 strong congregation. in a message, charles has called for restoring the disrupted harmony of our entire planet, the most important challenge facing humanity. he also paid tribute to the sacrifice and selflessness of commonwealth forces ahead of events marking 80 years since the end of world war ii. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in half an houn >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to

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>> welcome back! time is 339 with me martin daubney here on gb news. just returning now to the breaking news story coming from the north sea. and graham stuart, the mp for beverley and holderness, said he understood that only one person was now in hospital following that collision. and the tory mp added like many people across beverley and holderness and beyond, i've been watching the images from off the coast of withernsea with a deep, with a great deal of concern. i've now spoken with the transport secretary and i understand that only one person is in hospital, the other 36 mariners across both crews are safe and they are accounted for. so some good news coming out there. now it's emerged that the bbc pay senior managers who are from diverse backgrounds more than those who are not, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, ethnic minority, disabled and female senior

managers. will they earn larger salaries than those who are not from those backgrounds? and that's according to statistics released in the broadcaster's annual report. the revelations come despite the bbc having committed, of course, to equal pay- committed, of course, to equal pay. well, we can now speak with the former bbc correspondent danny shaw. danny, welcome to the show. so if you read these figures, it seems the way to get a bbc pay rise is don't be straight, white or male. i'm assuming then that means that you're shafted. >> well, a long time since i. >> well, a long time since i. >> worked for the bbc. >> worked for the bbc. >> full time, martin. but look, i think you've got to look at the figures for all staff. because i think the, the issue. with these figures are for senior leaders is that they're. >> probably quite. >> probably quite. >> small numbers. >> small numbers. >> i imagine. >> i imagine. >> you know, in the low hundreds. and they can be skewed by a very small number of individuals who may get large pay individuals who may get large pay rises, perhaps someone who's

extremely experienced from an ethnic minority background, for example, who suddenly joins that cadre of staff that is going to skew the figures quite considerably. so i think you need to look at the all bbc staff figures. and there women are paid 8% less people from minority ethnic black communities, 2% down lgbtq+ 7% down disabled people, 5% down. and so that's i think, what the focus should be. look, we want pay focus should be. look, we want pay parity. we want people from whatever background to earn broadly the same as others. there are always going to be some outliers here and there, particularly when you've got small groups of people involved. i think the bigger issue for the bbc at the moment are two things. firstly, the pay of people from working class backgrounds, which lags behind others for all staff. it's 3% down. for senior managers, it's about 5% down. that's a real

issue. and secondly, it's about diversity of thought. never mind what colour or background you're from. we need the bbc to be covering, particularly in news and current affairs, a whole range of stories and issues that affect the whole country and that matters to people across the country, not just by people who live in in london or in greater manchester, who perhaps have liberal backgrounds and have liberal backgrounds and have a cosmopolitan outlook. and thatis have a cosmopolitan outlook. and that is the most important thing. >> yeah, danny, i agree with what you're saying there. but two rights don't make a wrong. and when you look at the data now, it's astonishing that the bbc's take on equality is to pay lgbtq+ people 16.6% more than those who are straight to pay ethnic minority candidates, 12.6% more than those who are white to pay disabled people, 8.5% more than people who are not to pay women, 5.7% more than

men. you don't. you don't correct the wrongs of yesteryear by being discriminatory against the vast majority of people. now, two wrongs don't make a right. >> of course, two wrongs don't make a right. but we don't know whether the pay has been deliberately skewed in that way. >> well, that's what the figures. >> tell us. as i said, the numbers are probably going to be quite small. the numbers of senior managers will be pretty small, and therefore you can get a small number of people who can come in on large salaries. that can skew the figures. so i'd like to see more detail around the figures. obviously we need to be aiming for pay parity, but we should be doing that by looking at the whole of the bbc. around 20,000 people. do you. >> do you think, danny, do you think that you'd be saying the same thing if, if this was inverted? so, for example, if heterosexual people were getting 16% more pay than gay people, would you say, oh, it's only a small amount of people. if white people were getting 12.5% more than black people, would you brush that off? of course you

wouldn't. and that's the point. it seems that to discriminate against white heterosexuals, especially men, is totally a—ok in the eyes of the bbc. that's what the data tells us. >> there's a difference between disparities and discrimination, as i'm sure you will appreciate. martin. there are clearly disparities here. we don't know exactly the reasons for that. it may be, as i said, come down to it, that a small number of people from ethnic minority groups and other minority groups have been recruited on larger salaries. now, historically, over the decades that i was at the bbc, it was completely the other way round. you would walk around the bbc and you would see around the bbc and you would see a lot of black people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, working in working, doing cleaning shifts, working in the canteen. you would not see those people as managers at the bbc, as senior leaders at the bbc, as senior leaders at the bbc. and that's completely wrong. and i'm pleased, frankly, that that's being corrected. but obviously we need to get to pay parity. and crucially, we need

to get to a situation where there isn't groupthink at the bbc, but people can come with diverse views and opinions and topics like some of the issues that are covered on gb news that get covered on the bbc as well, because that is what concerns me more frankly, than some some disparities in pay. that may be due to just a small number of people in, you know, isolated examples. diversity of thought is what we should be aiming at. >> and on that we can totally agree. and i absolutely agree with you that the pay discrepancies for those from working class backgrounds is a travesty. when i used to work at the bbc, i was the only, how do you call it commoner often on the panels. perhaps that's why we're here today on gb news. dan schorr, thank you very, very much for joining schorr, thank you very, very much forjoining us on the show much for joining us on the show today. now, the bbc's report attributed the changes to workforce movements and not as a result of an equal pay. and it added to ensure that we portray the many diverse communities

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>> welcome back. it's 10 to 4 with me martin daubney here on gb news now. project fear figurehead on the former politically neutral bank of england governor mark carney has now been elected leader of canada's liberal party, taking 85% of the party vote and replaced the king of woke justin trudeau as the new prime minister. and here he is criticising brexit. >> and their solution to take back control was actually code for tear down your future. >> well, we can now speak with the canadian journalist michael taube. michael, welcome to the show. what is it that canadians saw in marc cohn that brits didn't? he hated brexit. he was the architect of project fear.

the doctor death of brexit. every time he opened his lips, sterling seemed to plunge. what do americans see in him that canadians see him? that brits didn't? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> that's a very good analysis, martin i like that. yeah. i mean, there's a lot of things going on. i mean, obviously the uk knows as well as canada is starting to learn that this man is a great problem. he was not a great success as the bank of england governor, as many of your british publications have said, the bank of canada governor, although he is taking credit in his own way for stating that i had a big role to play stating that i had a big role to play in the, you know, dealing with the recession of the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. he was certainly there, but his role has been inflated. but this is what we're learning about mark carney, that he likes to inflate everything. this is a man who is obviously very high in himself. he's a traditional liberal elite or modern liberal elite, whatever you wish to say. and we're learning very quickly that, you know, mark carney, who is now interestingly, martin, the first canadian prime

minister to have never held elected office in this country, and he's now serving in the top role, he said in an interview, some, you know, some months ago that, well, i always sort of find my way to the top. and i'm just paraphrasing a little bit. well, maybe he should have started at the bottom before he got to the top. >> and he also worked as a united nations special envoy for climate change since leaving the bank of england. so actually, is he just a mini trudeau, another mini king of woke? >> look, there's no question. and i wrote this in a spectator piece today that there's no question that he's more intelligent and capable than justin trudeau, the outgoing canadian prime minister is. but it was a pretty low bar to start with. so, i mean, obviously, you know, even a trained chimpanzee would be higher. i mean, obviously carney is an improvement. the question is whether he's any different or not. and the problem is, if you look at carney's policies historically, you know, believing in net zero emissions, which is almost impossible to achieve, wealth inequality, he

actually praised the occupy wall street protesters as having something credible in their actions, which is ironic since he had worked for goldman sachs and was part of the 1% that they actually criticised. and you look at now what he's sort of doing, he's walked away from justin trudeau's highly unpopular. carbon tax, which is not surprising. >> okay. i think we have to leave it there. we are struggling with your connection. michael taube, great fun. thanks for joining us on the show now. more to come in the next hour, including all the very latest from the collision between that oil tanker and a cargo vessel in the north sea near hull. we'll be live from the coast on location to bring you up to speed on this developing story i'm martin daubney on gb news fryston zou channel nature weather with alex burkill. >> despite the morning rain, it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello again! here's your

latest weather update from the met office for gb news. now as we go into tomorrow we are going to have a northerly wind pushing through that's going to bring some showers and also a change to something markedly chillier. for many of us. that northerly, colder air will be coming down behind a cold front, which is currently pushing its way southwards across the country. this front has brought a few showers, a bit more cloud for a time, but behind it we do have some clearer skies across parts of scotland and actually further south. there's quite a bit of cloud developing through the night across central southern parts of england and wales. and with that some outbreaks of rain, particularly towards the southwest, where we do get the clear skies, though, temperatures are going to drop quite a few degrees lower than some recent nights. a touch of frost possible first thing tomorrow morning, maybe even some icy patches. but in the south, a milder start to the day because of the cloud here, and there will be some outbreaks of rain around, particularly across parts of the south—west, devon, cornwall maybe getting off to a bit of a damp start, but that will quickly clear away. then actually across the rest of england, wales and into northern

ireland. a lot of bright weather to start the day. but across scotland, although there will be some clear skies overnight, it's going to quickly turn cloudier through tomorrow morning and with that we are going to have a scattering of showers pushing down on that northerly wind. those showers could be a bit wintry at times, so some sleet or snow over the higher ground and there could be some heavier showers. also some showers skirting around north sea coastal parts, but elsewhere most areas having a generally dry day, albeit some sunny breaks but quite a bit of cloud on offer. with that, temperatures are going to be lower than they have been recently, just about scraping into double figures at best, most places staying in single digits, so staying a bit chillier than it has been through some recent days. more showers to come as we go through the end of the day tomorrow, they are going to spread a bit further south and still some sleet or snow possible over higher ground showers. that's the theme as we go through. the rest of this week. should turn dner rest of this week. should turn drier by the weekend, but all the time staying a little bit chillier than of late.

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>> very very good afternoon to you. it's 4:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show here on gb news. we're broadcasting for you live from the heart of paddington. bring you all the very latest until 6:00 this evening. now extraordinary scenes here following a collision between an oil tanker and a cargo vessel in the north sea near hull. we'll be live on the coast on location to bring you right up to date on this dramatic developing story and elsewhere. today, the home secretary has rejected an inquiry into the murder of politician sir david amess. >> the refusal to hold a public inquiry only adds to our suffering, and it makes us feel abandoned, ignored and disposable. >> and that was sir david's

daughter there, katie amos, utterly furious with that decision and has labelled the government's rejection as insulting. we'll have all of the latest reaction throughout the show . and also on the show today show. and also on the show today are the labour party, simply a party of massive hypocrites? >> there will be no return to austerity. >> no austerity there, rachel reeves said. and this comes as the chancellor now looks set to take a sledgehammer to britain's benefits bill. well, that, to me, sounds like a return to austerity that they clearly pledged in the past to avoid. and the remainer is set to become the new canadian prime minister. here he is laying into our country. >> and their solution to take back control was actually code for tear down your future. >> yeah, the doctor death of brexit, project fear figurehead and the former apparently politically neutral bank of

england governor mark carney, has been elected to replace justin trudeau as the canadian prime minister. could this be a problem for britain? and that's all coming up in the next hour. welcome to the show. it's a pleasure to have your company. so often in life we see from tragedy heroes, heroines emerge. today, katie amos, the daughter of murdered sir david amess, gave an astonishing speech about her disappointment, her absolute fury, actually at the rejection of a full public inquiry into the murder of her father, sir david amess. i think she's going to be a formidable force in the future. and at 20 past the hour, in this hour, i'll also be joined by emma webber, the mother of barnaby webber, who was killed by valdo calocane in my home city of nottingham. since become a formidable campaigner, fighting for

justice, fighting for the public inquiry into her son's death and that was so cruelly denied to sir david amess daughter katie today. that's coming up in your next hour. get into its usual ways, gbnews.com/yoursay, but now's your headlines and here's sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. it'sjust >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. it's just gone. 4:00. these are your headlines. jet fuelis these are your headlines. jet fuel is spilling into the north sea after an oil tanker and a cargo ship collided near hull. the tanker, believed to be the us flagged mv steinem immaculate, is on fire with lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter and firefighting teams at the scene. one person has been hospitalised, while all crew members from both ships have been accounted for. that's according to the local mp graham stuart. meanwhile, greenpeace uk have said it was too early to know the extent of any environmental damage as the jet

fuel continues spilling into the sea. the family of sir david amess has slammed the home secretary for rejecting a public inquiry into his murder, calling it unacceptable and insulting. yvette cooper says it's hard to see how an inquiry would go beyond the trial of terrorist ali harbi ali and a recent prevent review. the attacker, an islamic state fanatic, was referred to prevent years before stabbing the veteran mp to death at his constituency in 2021. sir david's widow is urging the prime minister to reconsider ahead of their meeting on wednesday. his daughter katie says the response is adding salt to an open wound, accusing the government of brushing them aside. >> this should have been launched immediately after the attack and there's no sense of drawing a line under things and moving on with the rest of our lives until we get the answers. ineed lives until we get the answers. i need to know who failed him, why they failed him, what has been done to stop an attack

happening like this again? and we need to hold people accountable and change the system that allowed his murderer to go back into public and commit this terrible attack. >> elsewhere, a man in his 30s has been arrested for entering the uk without permission. he's believed to be palestinian asylum seeker abu wadee, who allegedly arrived on a migrant boat before posting extremist content online. it comes on the 10th day in a row that more small boats have reached uk waters. 150 migrants arrived this morning, taking the total since march, the first to over 2200. the government says it is cracking down on small boat crossings and strengthening border security, with new police and immigration powers. since the election, more than 2500 foreign criminals have been deported. a 23% rise on last yeah deported. a 23% rise on last year. in other news, two british diplomats are being expelled from russia, accused of espionage in what is seen as the

latest for tat move. moscow says the pair carried out intelligence and subversive work and must leave within two weeks. it follows the uk's expulsion of a russian diplomat last month, part of an ongoing diplomatic standoff. prime minister sir keir starmer has vowed to stand by ukraine, pledging more defence spending and a coalition of the willing against russian aggression. moscow has condemned his calls for a peacekeeping force as tensions between the two countries hit new lows. mark carney says canada will never, ever be part of the united states of america after winning the race to succeed justin trudeau as the country's prime minister. >> canada. never, ever will be part of america in any way, shape or form. >> the former bank of england governor is vowing to take on donald trump in a growing trade war, and says canada will impose retaliatory tariffs until americans show us respect. carney, who has never held

elected office, won 86% of the vote and is expected to call a general election soon. and the king and queen have arrived at westminster abbey for the annual service celebrating commonwealth day. they are joined by the prince and princess of wales, and a 2000 strong congregation. in a message, king charles has called for restoring the disrupted harmony of our entire planet. the most important challenge facing humanity. he also paid tribute to the sacrifice and selflessness of commonwealth forces ahead of events marking 80 years since the end of world war ii. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to martin. >> 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 sophia. now to the breaking story coming from the nonh breaking story coming from the north sea. and it's this 36 mariners across. both crews have now been accounted for. and graham stuart, the mp for beverley and holderness, said that he understood that only one person has now been hospitalised. think about it. that's a miracle. following that collision. but he added that he continued to be concerned about the potential ecological impact. it is understood that the stena immaculate oil tanker sustained a ruptured cargo tank after it was struck by a container cargo ship, stowlawn, causing multiple explosions and jet fuel to be released into the water. the ship's management firm, crowley, has just told gb news we can now speak with gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley, who joins us from the north sea coast there. that disaster, some 13 miles behind you. anna. anna, bnng 13 miles behind you. anna. anna, bring us up to speed. what do you know? it's miraculous in the

sense that only one person has been hospitalised. >> yes, martin. truly miraculous. and thankfully, all 36 mariners are accounted for and only one in hospital after what had happened. as you say, we're here in withernsea, just 13 miles away from where that incident occurred at around 10:00 this morning. you can see behind us the stormy seas and the conditions that people have had to be grappling with as this rescue was ongoing earlier today. you can't see the black smoke and the plumes that are still raging now from this morning. but this is the site where we're at 13 miles just away from where the incident happened. as you say, graham stuart, he is the local mp here, and he has given that information after being speaking to the transport secretary. he said like many people across the beverley, beverley and holderness and beyond that had been watching the images

happening off the coast here of withernsea with a great deal of concern but thankfully not as dramatic as what it could have been. certainly we know that what has been involved here is lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter being called to the collision at the humber estuary just before 10:00, and that involved us flagged jet fuel tanker called the mv stena immaculate, which was hit, appears to have been hit whilst at anchor by portuguese flagged container. so long. crowley is the firm that manages the stena immaculate. it said that the crew abandoned the vessel and that the mariners are safely a safe and fully accounted for. the firm said that the tanker sustained a ruptured cargo, which caused multiple explosions, and released jet fuel into the sea. and we've seen from footage coming out of this, the large plumes of black smoke that has spread across the nonh smoke that has spread across the north sea, billowing upwards,

with rescue vessels appearing to be spraying the blaze with water. it's still unclear what caused the collision, and it may take months to fully uncover a conclusion into what happened. but we know that investigators are at the scene and making their way there earlier today as well, martyn boyers, who's the chief executive for the port of grimsby, he said that there was a massive fireball after that collision and he added that it was too far out for them to see about ten miles, but they'd seen the vessels bringing them in and that they must have sent a mayday alert out. and we know as well the severe environmental impact that this may have as well, with such an oil slick across the north sea, the impact that that will have on the sea environment as well, you know, wildlife around greenpeace have said that it's too early to know the exact impact of any

environmental damage. they said that they're monitoring reports of the cargo vessel crashing into an oil tanker very closely. they said both the high speed of the collision and the footage of the collision and the footage of the aftermath are cause for concern, they said. right now their thoughts are with all those affected by the incident and the emergency services responding to the situation. but the magnitude of magnitude of any impact will depend on a number of factors, including the amount and type of oil carried by the tanker, the fuel carried by the tanker, the fuel carried by both ships, and how much of that has entered the water. so as we get more information on that, martin, we will update you. >> live on the north sea coast, just onshore from that dramatic collision earlier on today. and let's now continue the conversation with the retired rear admiral of the royal navy, chris parry. chris, welcome to the show. always a pleasure to have your company. these events are mercifully rare. these kind

of collisions and astonishing, almost miraculous that only one person has been hospitalised. looks like a very successful kind of evacuation of both craft from a layman's point of view. chris, how could this happen? i mean, these are two enormous craft. they're in open water like this. i mean, how could such a collision, in your experience, do you think have occurred? >> well. >> well. >> it's just one. >> it's just one. >> word negligence. >> word negligence. >> i think. martin. >> i think. martin. >> there's lots of ways in. >> there's lots of ways in. >> which this goes right, and. >> which this goes right, and. >> you have to have an awful lot of ways for it to go wrong. so these vessels, ones at anchor so it can't actually. >> move out of the. >> move out of the. >> way, that's the tanker. and you've got this container ship that's come down from grangemouth. >> on the way to rotterdam. >> on the way to rotterdam. >> it's got a radar. it's got a thing called ais. >> which tells us, tells the ship about. >> other ships that are around. it's also got gps , so it knows it's also got gps, so it knows where it is on the surface of the planet. and finally, you've got what we call a mark. one pair of eyes on the on the bridge. and it it will have

needed all those to have failed or to have been. >> ignored in. >> ignored in. >> order for this to have happened.the >> order for this to have happened. the visibility was quite good. the sea state was fine. i had a tanker actually try and run me down when i was commanding a destroyer in the gulf. it turned out there was nobody on the bridge and hadn't been for about an hour beforehand. it was an autopilot. the master's ticket got got. >> pulled for that. >> pulled for that. >> so i don't know. we'll have to wait for the details, but i have to say there doesn't seem to be any mechanical failure or steering gear failure. if you look on the tracking software, the thing comes straight down from the north and hits it straight in the side. >> so with all of your huge experience, it seems then that this was plotting a course and human intervention didn't come as it approached a stationary craft, which surely would have been inspired by human eyes, and something could have been done to avoid that collision. now, in terms of the collision and its

aftermath, i mean, we're seeing dramatic scenes here. chris parry of a huge fireball. obviously, the cargo of that us vessel, immaculate was aviation fuel specifically designed to be highly explosive. so a massive impact would have triggered that off when the hull has been breached and all that has now been spilled into the sea. how much of a pollution aspect does a huge outpouring like this cause? >> martin it depends on how many of the tanks have been breached. i mean, mercifully, it's not crude oil, it's not heavy oil, it's aviation fuel. so quite a lot of it is going to be burnt off. that's the first thing. and then it'll be dispersed very quickly depending on the wind and the tidal streams and things like that. so if you're going to get a spill, it's aviation fuel that you want. and frankly, the longer it burns, the better it is. now they've got everybody off both ships. i think that's the best thing that can happen. i think as you heard beforehand,

they're assessing the situation right now. but it's 13 miles offshore, 1013 miles offshore. the water column, of course, in the immediate vicinity is going to be affected, but hopefully the dispersal will allow. marine life to get back to normal as soon as possible. >> and chris parry, you make an excellent point there. this is highly buoyant. of course it will float on top of the water. it's volatile, so it will burn quickly and it will disperse into the atmosphere. not a great thing, but hey, if that was crude oil or something more heavy, it would be a much, much greater pollutant in terms of the ecosystem because that would be dispersed, of course. and that will take many, many, many years, if at all, to disperse naturally. therefore, it'd have to be contained and broken down. so actually, in the grand scale of things, this was, in a sense, probably one of the better fuels to have been ignited this way. >> yeah, i'm old enough to remember a disaster called the torrey canyon in 1967 when i was at school, and that took years

to disperse. the heavy oil was about 100,000 tonnes of that. and so, yeah, it's much better. it's aviation fuel. and chris, and as far as the evacuation of these types of craft, what would that look like? i mean, would it be an air evacuation? would it be an air evacuation? would it be an air evacuation? would it be an old school man overboard in escape vessels? what kind of escape opportunities would there be from craft like this? >> well, quite a lot of these modern vessels have automatic systems. you climb into the lifeboat, it's sealed, and it basically jettisons you over the side in a safe way. but it looks like everybody got away very early on in this. if you waited around for this, there's a huge inferno. i said earlier on elsewhere that this looked like a ship that had been torpedoed in the second world war, so you needed to get away pretty early. and somebody made a good decision on both ships to evacuate people as soon as possible. >> because of course, if you're if you're going overboard into that sea, then with that fuel being more buoyant, it would be

on the surface, it would be burning away. that'd be the last place you'd want to jump overboard physically. you'd be literally jumping into a fire pit. >> yeah, i think people have this in mind that if you have something like this, you get off the ship pretty damn quickly. and as i said, you've got modern systems now that put you in the water in a safe configuration. and normally they're covered as well, so you don't have to breathe in the fumes. >> and chris parry, now the post mortem will begin of how this happened. in cases like this you could be looking at a huge insurance claim, a huge legal claim. if it were negligence, if that was proven the case, then there's going to be one heck of a legal fight coming. >> well, absolutely not. just in terms of the damage to the vessels and people's lives, but also the local environment and the rescue efforts as well. you know, on the face of it, i can't see any other reason than negligence that obviously the facts haven't been brought out

yet, but i have to say, i can't see any other reason why this would have happened other than people being negligent. >> okay, thanks for your expertise. always a pleasure to have you on the show. retired rear admiral of the royal navy. chris parry, thank you very much for joining us today on gb news. forjoining us today on gb news. now i want to make your spring spectacular in our latest great british giveaway with your chance to win 17,777 lucky sevens pounds in tax free cash. here's all the details you need to enter. >> you could have £17,777 in tax free cash to play with this spring. cash to spend on anything you like. and if that wasn't enough, we're also going to give you not one, but two sought after designer watches and the latest mulberry handbag. how would winning that sound? >> oh my god, that's brilliant news. >> for a chance to win the cash, two watches and a designer bag. text cash to 632321. entry cost £2 plus one standard network

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welcome back. it's approaching 424 with me martin daubney here on gb news now. families of the nottingham stabbing victims have accused the national health service of gross and inexcusable voyeurism for illegally accessing their medical records. up accessing their medical records. up to 91 health workers looked up the a and e files of the three people killed in the attacks, adding to the trauma on relatives. it takes a number of pubuc relatives. it takes a number of public bodies where staff have been accused of illegally looking up details of the triple murder of valdo calocane to six after police officers, prison service and court staff, as well as counsel and mental health workers have also been caught out. we can now speak with emma webber, the mother of barnaby webber, the mother of barnaby webber, who was killed in those nottingham attacks. emma, always a pleasure to have you on the show. genuinely is this just feels like another indignity,

another trauma being inflicted upon the families. six sets of pubuc upon the families. six sets of public bodies dipping into the medical records. how does that make you feel? >> it's disgraceful. >> it's disgraceful. >> isn't it? hi, martin. it is. it is. >> nice to see you again. be nice to talk about something where it wasn't some sort of scandalous failure or revelation. but yeah, this one, this one is awful. we only. >> know about it a couple of weeks ago. >> we can confirm that it was at least. >> in fact, it's slightly more 91 individuals in that hospital trust accessed information about barnaby grace and ian for and the majority of them for no reason. and that's only come about as a result of us asking questions with regards to staff accessing information on calocane whilst he was under the care of the mental health trust, we wanted an audit effectively so we could see who had access, what to make sure you know that

the right investigations were happening with decision makers and then that that threw up an individual who had been suspected of looking with no no reason at their information in a&e. and then an audit has exposed at least 91 more information will come out shortly with regards to that. it's being investigated. it's just it's horror upon horror. how and why? you know, we refer to the term of rubbernecking when you see an accident, if you're driving past on the motorway and how individuals of all different levels within the hospital that we know have chose to do that is abhorrent. it's so hurtful. >> and this is, as you say, it's pure voyeurism. it's served no medical purpose. it's served no legal purpose. it served no investigatory purpose whatsoever. it was simply staff, as you said, rubbernecking, being nosey. it's a total

violation of your boys memory. >> yeah. it is. so it's not just data breaches. it's an invasion of privacy. it's abhorrent voyeurism. it really is. you know, on the, on the, on the back of how we've, how we've been treated and the, the negligence and the failures that we've been exposed to ever since june the 13th, 2023. and it just it never stops. it never, ever stops. and i think what's what's what's as worrying is that this has come about because of our concerns, because of our forensic analysis and challenging, of the agencies and organisations and individuals. and i don't think for a single second that we are a one off. i dread to think how often this happens, how much inappropriate behaviour there is amongst staff at all levels within agencies that are there to care for us

and protect us and serve. and, you know, as is illustrated here, they've they've done anything but that. but what we will say is that we've got the pubuc will say is that we've got the public inquiry, the statutory pubuc public inquiry, the statutory public inquiry, the statutory public inquiry that we have to fight tooth and nail for. we've managed to overturn and get u—turns with nhs england, with the iopc with regards to their alleged independent investigations. and what we will make sure is that every single, every single person, individual, organisation and agency who failed will be held to account. because if we don't do it now, it will never change. it will, it will never change. it will, it will, it will keep on happening and it can't we deserve better in this country and in, in in my boys name. if that's if that's what i have to do before i eventually shuffle off the mortal coil. then, then we will hold everyone to account. >> now, emma, i've been so

repeatedly moved by by your resilience and how you've just become this most astonishing campaigner since tragedy was foisted upon you. and i don't know if you saw earlier on, but katie amos, the daughter of sir david amess, who, of course, was tragically murdered today, was denied a full public inquiry, the inquiry that the nottingham families got. and she says she feels completely and utterly betrayed and traumatised by that. i'm sure you can empathise with what she must be going through. >> oh yeah. it's, it's this awful. it's a solidarity in you're in a club you don't want to be a member in. and it very much feels david and goliath a lot of the time. and i think breaking it down to its most simple structure is there's a right and a wrong. and if you know that something is wrong, and if you know that something hasn't been addressed or you're not getting the answers you deserve, then fight and fight and fight and don't stop. and if you have to use all the assets

that you have and the voice that that you have and the voice that that you've got. the same with katie, the same with us. none of us want to have the voice that we've got. but it's a choice we've got. but it's a choice we've made to use it as as she and i haven't met her, i don't know all of the details, but i do understand the horror that they go through every single day. and every time a letter from from an agency or an organisation comes in, that isn't what you want to hear and don't think you'll win every single battle that we that we have to wage over this. but we will win the war. >> okay, emma webber, it's just always an absolute pleasure to speak to you. and as you say, one day, hopefully under happier circumstances. but in the meantime, thank you so much for talking to us once again @gbnews love to you and all your family. >> yeah, and yours as well. cheers. bye. >> thank you. oh, i get so moved by speaking to her. i really, really do. okay, let's move on. the nottingham trust, which runs the queen's medical centre where the queen's medical centre where the victims were taken, has

apologised and said it will. it was investigating concerns staff may have inappropriately looked at the a and e record. there's lots more still to come to announce 6:00 , including project announce 6:00, including project fear figurehead and the former politically neutral. yeah, right. bank of england governor mark carney has been elected to replace justin trudeau as canadian prime minister. could this be a problem for britain? the arch, the arch enemy of brexit, is now in power in canada. but first, here's your headunes canada. but first, here's your headlines and it's sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. your headunes >> martin. thank you. your headlines at 431. jet fuel is spilling into the north sea after an oil tanker in a cargo ship collided near hull. the tanker, believed to be the us flagged mv stena immaculate, is on fire with lifeboats. a coastguard helicopter and firefighting teams at the scene.

one person is in hospital, while another 36 people from both crews are safe and accounted for, according to local mp graham stuart. the prime minister's spokesperson has said this is extremely concerning. we want to thank emergency services for their prompt response and they are monitoring the situation. meanwhile, greenpeace uk said it was too early to know the extent of any environmental damage as the jet fuel spills into the sea. the family of sir david amess has slammed the home secretary for rejecting a public inquiry into his murder, calling it unacceptable and insulting. yvette cooper says it's hard to see how an inquiry would go beyond the trial of terrorist ali harbi ali and a recent prevent review. the attacker, an islamic state fanatic, was referred to prevent years before stabbing the veteran mp to death at his constituency surgery in 2021. sir david's widow is urging the prime minister to

reconsider ahead of their meeting on wednesday. in other news, a man in his 30s has been arrested for entering the uk without permission. he's believed to be palestinian asylum seeker abu wadee, who allegedly arrived on a migrant boat before posting extremist content online. it comes on the 10th day in a row that more small boats have reached uk waters. 150 migrants arrived this morning, taking the total since march, the first to over 2200. the government says it is cracking down on small boat crossings and strengthening border security, with new police and immigration powers. since the election, more than 2500 foreign criminals have been deported. that's a 23% rise on last year. and the king and queen have arrived at westminster abbey for the annual service celebrating commonwealth day. they are joined by the prince and princess of wales,

and a2000 strong congregation. in a message, charles has called for restoring the disrupted harmony of our entire planet. the most important challenge facing humanity. he also paid tribute to the sacrifice and selflessness of commonwealth forces ahead of events marking 80 years since the end of world war ii. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in half an houh >> 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. >> crucial 24. >> crucial 24. >> sponsors the. >> sponsors the. >> gb news finance report. >> gb news finance report. >> and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.2901 and

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with me martin daubney here on gb news now. today the home secretary, yvette cooper, has rejected calls for a public inquiry into the death of her father, sir david amess and kate amos. sir david's daughter described the decision as an absolute insult and betrayal to her family during a truly heartbreaking statement. well, we can now speak with gb. news national reporter charlie peters, who joins me in the studio. charlie, you were at that press conference. it was astonishing in itself. but then afterwards you went to one side and you had a private word with

katie amos, an incredible individual. tell us more. >> well, she says that she's. full of anger, but also a sense of burning justice that she has to get to the bottom of what happened to her father and has to know who was involved in making the decisions that allowed the islamist terrorist ali harbi ali to murder sir david amess at a constituency surgery in october 2021. as you say, martin, the press conference was extraordinary. it was astonishing. it was also just extremely emotional. much of her statement delivered through tears. we learned soon after that the letter from the government, from the home secretary, yvette cooper, was sent and received by the family on thursday, but details were released this morning, just moments before that press conference started. i think the core part of the letter that i found was the section where yvette cooper says that there are no additional questions to be asked after the prevent learning review, details of which were released last month. the criminal trial of ali harbi

ali and also the coroner's report. so i asked katie amos first in this interview, what do you think about the idea that there are no additional questions? now? the home secretary, yvette cooper, has said that after the prevent learning review and the coroner's report, there are no additional questions. what questions do you have about your father's murder? >> well, no questions have been answered that prevent learning review was just a piece of papeh review was just a piece of paper. they didn't interview anybody. they didn't investigate anything. it was just a list of timelines and email trails. it didn't mean anything. i need to know who failed him, why they failed him. what has been done to stop an attack happening like this again? and we need to hold people accountable and change the system that allowed his murderer to go back into public and commit this terrible attack. >> you've also referred to other inquiries launched, such as those into the nottingham and the southport incidents. do you feel as though there's a reason why your father's murder is

being treated differently to those two incidents? >> well, i yeah, i mean, something obviously happened in the background that we don't know about and that we're not meant to know about, because why did they immediately launch an inquiry into southport and released their prevent learning review? why did they allow cameras into 10 downing street when they were announcing the nottingham inquiry? what is it in my father's case that the tories and the labour party don't want to see out there? and i intend to find out what it is and to expose it and to hold those people accountable. >> we talk about holding people to account. do you think that people are fleeing from this call for an inquiry to protect those who may be responsible for those who may be responsible for those failings? >> absolutely. because right now they're just brushing me under they're just brushing me under the carpet, sweeping me under the carpet, sweeping me under the rug. nobody wants to answer any questions because they're all protecting whoever made this mistake. they just want me to shut up and go away. but i'm not going to. >> you spoke on behalf of your mother at this press conference

today, when you received the letter on thursday from the home secretary, what was your reaction with her? >> i started shaking instantly. i could not believe that i was reading these words. it is an absolute insult, and it is a betrayal to my father's legacy and his memory. my mum, i messaged her saying there is no inquiry. she could not even read the letter for hours because she said i am so angry right now. i don't know what i'll do when i read that letter. then of course it's floods of tears and just disbelief and heartbreak all over again. my poor mother had a stroke after it happened to my father. that's why she's not standing with me today. can they not see the pain and the torment and the torture that they are still putting my father's family through? >> so we've heard there ktm is speaking very directly about the struggles that she's experienced, pushing for more information about her father's murder. and i think, martin, the

key point there was katie amos saying that she doesn't understand why that inquiry is being rejected. she thinks that someone is dodging accountability, that someone knows something, that the government doesn't want to be revealed. now, that's obviously conjecture at this point. we don't know who was involved in those decisions, but fundamentally they will remain unknown and that information will be remained separate from from public knowledge so long as that inquiry is not launched. >> charlie peters, something that really struck me during that really struck me during that extraordinary press conference that katie amos gave, she went, if a parliamentarian can't be kept safe, then how can any of us be kept safe? and of course, there have been multiple allegations, multiple inquiries ongoing into prevent prevents job to flag. this individual prevents job to pass on details to make sure he was detained and this wasn't allowed to happen. perhaps that is the issue here. the systemic failure to fail to pick up this murderer before he struck. >> well, the government will

always point back to the shawcross review, which was an assessment of prevents effectiveness launched after sir david amess murder. but with several recommendations put forward. they say that they've been enacted and there's been a serious effort to push that forward. there was an update given during the follow on process after that report. they'll also point, as you heard earlier, to the prevent learning review, which is always carried out when someone who's had contact with the counter—extremism duty goes on to commit an act of violence, or a terror attack of the like of the murder of sir david. but in the murder of sir david. but in the press conference this morning, gb news asked the family and their representative, what do you think people who might wish harm on mps will think when they see this review, this inquiry being denied and the family spokesperson said he said that if i were a terrorist, i'd be licking my lips at this decision because it says that pubuc decision because it says that public safety is not at the forefront of that decision making. obviously, the government would completely

reject that. they'd point towards all the reviews and the assessments they've done, and they would say, as the home secretary, yvette cooper, has said, there are no additional questions in this case, but it's clear that that has not satisfied the family. they are going to go to downing street on wednesday to meet with the prime minister, sir keir starmer, and also to meet with yvette cooper. and another key line from the interview we had with katie amos is that she said that she wants the media to be there. the media were present in downing street when sir keir gave some good news towards the families of the nottingham atrocity two years ago, when they were permitted to have that full public inquiry. so katie amos says that the media should be there for this experience, for this meeting, so that when sir keir starmer and yvette cooper potentially let them down again and disappoint them down again and disappoint them further in another face to face meeting, that we can capture that moment and let the whole country see it. >> mitchell eberechi eze, thank you for coming on today and thank you for speaking with katie amos. i have a funny feeling she will not be silenced. i've got a funny feeling she will fight on and on

and on. charlie peters, thank you very much for joining us today on the show. now, the government have said this, sir david amess murder was a terrible tragedy and our heartfelt thoughts continue to be with his family and friends in the years since this cowardly attack, there have been several reviews asking how this could have been avoided, and we have seen significant improvements to prevent programme as well as stronger protections for mps. we understand that the amos family are still looking for answers, and we take this incredibly seriously. and while we do not think a public inquiry would unearth any information that has not already been assessed, the home secretary has confirmed that we will further scrutinise all the reviews that have taken place over the last few years. we very much hope this will help the family to get the justice that they deserve. now moving on. if you're in search of some winter sun this year and who can blame you, then here is the forecast for some of the top european holiday destinations.

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>> welcome back. it's 10 to 5 with me martin daubney here on gb news now. the impact of

chancellor rachel reeves tax raising budget has been laid bare by dairy farmer richard clothier, who claims that the budget will hit his 164 year old dairy farm with an astonishing half £1 million of a tax bill. now mr clothier, manager managing director of the wyke farms in somerset, has been forced to hike prices following the chancellor's tax raising budget and described it as quite a shock and a difficult challenge. well, i'm delighted to say i can now speak with richard clothier to ask him. richard, welcome to the show. a lot of people were saying that the chancellor's figures don't add up on farming, but your tax rise is an astonishing half £1 million. tell us more. >> yes. it's a tough time, actually, for. >> farmers and manufacturers. the national. >> insurance increases. >> insurance increases. >> insurance increases. >> have been a. >> have been a. >> big. >> big. >> unexpected blow. >> unexpected blow. >> to. >> to. >> many food. >> many food. >> processors and manufacturers, and. >> the bill for our. >> the bill for our. >> business will. >> business will.

>> be about half £1 million. and we're being forced to go out and. >> talk to. >> talk to. >> our retail customers. >> our retail customers. >> in the uk. >> in the uk. >> and across the world to try and get. >> increases on our cheddar. to cover these. >> unexpected costs. >> unexpected costs. >> which have been. >> which have been. >> sort of thrown on. >> sort of thrown on. >> us at. >> us at. >> fairly short notice. >> fairly short notice. >> and this is also not just about the supply costs. of course. there's the minimum wage, national insurance hikes, but of course you're supplied by 150 farms. so all of them are feeling the pinch and they obviously have to pass pass those price increases upwards. and the net result, as many, many people predicted, is increasing prices for the consumer. we were told this wouldn't be a tax rise on working people. >> i think that all of. >> i think that all of. >> these things. >> these things. >> are. >> are. >> inevitably going to drive food inflation. and then if you. combine that with. >> the. >> the. >> changes in inheritance tax. >> changes in inheritance tax. >> laws as well, for farmers. >> laws as well, for farmers. >> it's all going. >> it's all going. >> to make it tougher. >> to make it tougher. >> to make it tougher. >> to produce. food and. and

produce food products in the uk. >> at a time when the uk is. >> at a time when the uk is. >> only about 50% self—sufficient in food. and we should. >> be. >> be. >> looking to produce. >> looking to produce. >> even more. >> even more. >> of our own food. >> of our own food. >> when we live in this, you. >> when we live in this, you. >> know, we're in this unstable. world environment. we should. >> be producing more of our own food. >> food security. >> food security. >> has to be treated as equally as important as defence. >> do you think that the government will listen? i mean, this, this, this conflict now has been going on for a long time. and the government, pardon the pun, just seems to be ploughing the same old furrow. >> i hope the government. >> i hope the government. >> does listen. >> does listen. >> because i don't i don't agree with their models. i think that the, the model i'm, i know 150 farmers in the region. i know them personally. i know a lot of their families really well. >> i can't. »- >> i can't. >> predict it and i. can't model it. so i don't. understand how the government can say that they can model it. and i, you know, i'd like them to look at it again because it could damage

the fabric of the countryside and family farms all across the uk. >> well, thank you very much for joining us today. and that's the champion cheesemaker, richard clothier. pleasure to have you accompany an eye—watering half £1 million. that's just one farm, half £1 million tax increases because of that budget. one farm. it's incredible. now moving on. there's plenty more coming in the next hour, including whether labour party are a party of hypocrites. because remember, they said there would be no austerity, there would be no tax rises for now. thereafter, billions of pounds in revenue in benefits cuts. that sounds to me like a party of austerity that's next to be martin daubney. but first, here's your weather .with alex burkill. >> ooh, a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm afternoon. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello again. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. now as

we go into tomorrow we are going to have a northerly wind pushing through. that's going to bring some showers and also a change to something markedly chillier. for many of us. that northerly, colder air will be coming down behind a cold front, which is currently pushing its way southwards across the country. this front has brought a few showers, a bit more cloud for a time, but behind it we do have some clearer skies across parts of scotland and actually further south. there's quite a bit of cloud developing through the night across central southern parts of england and wales, and with that some outbreaks of rain, particularly towards the southwest, where we do get the clear skies, though, temperatures are going to drop quite a few degrees lower than some recent nights. a touch of frost possible first thing tomorrow morning, maybe even some icy patches. but in the south, a milder start to the day because of the cloud here, and there will be some outbreaks of rain around, particularly across parts of the south—west, devon, cornwall maybe getting off to a bit of a damp start, but that will quickly clear away. then actually across the rest of england, wales and into northern ireland. a lot of bright weather

to start the day. but across scotland, although there will be some clear skies overnight, it's going to quickly turn cloudier through tomorrow morning and with that we are going to have a scattering of showers pushing down on that northerly wind. those showers could be a bit wintry at times, so some sleet or snow over the higher ground and there could be some heavier showers. also some showers skirting around north sea coastal parts, but elsewhere most areas having a generally dry day, albeit some sunny breaks but quite a bit of cloud on offer. with that, temperatures are going to be lower than they have been recently, just about scraping into double figures at best, most places staying in single digits, so staying a bit chillier than it has been through some recent days. more showers to come as we go through the end of the day tomorrow, they are going to spread a bit further south and still some sleet or snow possible over higher ground showers. that's the theme as we go through. the rest of this week. should turn dner rest of this week. should turn drier by the weekend, but all the time staying a little bit chillier than of late. >> judith raanan a nice bright morning will generate a lovely

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>>a >> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 5:00 pm. welcome to the martin daubney show here on gb news, bringing you all the very latest until 6:00 on today's show. extraordinary scenes following a collision between an oil tanker and a cargo vessel in the north sea near hull. as you can see on your screens now, we'll be live on the coast to bring you right up to date on this dramatic developing story. and elsewhere today, the home secretary has rejected an inquiry into the murder of sir david amess. >> the refusal to hold a public inquiry only adds to our suffering, and it makes us feel abandoned, ignored and disposable. >> well, it's astonishingly eloquent. daughter katie amos was utterly furious with that

decision, and has labelled the government's rejection as insulting. we'll have all the latest reaction throughout the show and also on the show today, our labour simply a party of utter hypocrites. >> there will be no return to austerity. >> no return to austerity. well, this comes as the chancellor now looks set to take a sledgehammer to britain's benefits bill in a return to austerity. they clearly pledged to avoid before they were elected, and an arch is set —— is set to become the remainer is set to become the new canadian prime minister. here he is blasting our country. >> and their solution to take back control was actually code for tear down your future. >> yeah, the doctor death of brexit and project fear figurehead and former politically neutral bank of england governor mark carney has been elected to replace justin

trudeau as the canadian prime minister. a man every time he opened his lips, sterling plunged. and could this now be a problem for britain? that's all coming up in the next hour. so huge dramatic scenes today off the coast of hull in the north sea. i'm about to speak to the local member of parliament. disaster narrowly avoided, at least in the human senses. incredibly, only one person hospitalised. all 36 crew members have have had their lives saved. but what next for the shore? what next? as as huge outpouring of aviation fluid potentially makes its way towards our shores. could there be an environmental disaster in the wake of an avoided human catastrophe that's coming next? get in touch. usual ways gbnews.com/yoursay. but first is news headlines and sophia

wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. your top stories this houh afternoon. your top stories this hour. jet fuel is spilling into the north sea after an oil tanker in a cargo ship collided near hull. the us flagged mv stena immaculate tanker is on fire with lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter and firefighting teams at the scene. one person is in hospital while the other 36 people from both crews are safe and accounted for, according to local mp graham stuart. the prime minister's spokesperson has said this is extremely concerning and we want to thank emergency services for their prompt response and they are monitoring the situation. meanwhile, greenpeace uk said it was too early to know the extent of any environmental damage as the jet fuel continues spilling into the sea. sir keir starmer has told donald trump he hopes talks between the us and ukraine would

have a positive outcome, which would enable the resumption of intelligence sharing and the supply of military aid. the prime minister and the us president spoke ahead of talks between the us and ukraine in saudi arabia, as efforts continue to find a peace deal to end the war with russia. it comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has arrived in saudi for a state visit, though he will not attend the talks with us officials. on tuesday. in other news, the family of sir david amess has slammed the home secretary for rejecting a public inquiry into his murder, calling it unacceptable and insulting. yvette cooper says it's hard to see how an inquiry would go beyond the trial of terrorist ali harbi ali and a recent prevent review. the attacker, an islamic state fanatic, was referred to prevent years before stabbing the veteran mp to death at his constituency surgery in 2021. sir david's widow is

urging the prime minister to reconsider ahead of their meeting on wednesday. his daughter katie says the response is adding salt to an open wound, accusing the government of brushing them aside. >> this should have been launched immediately after the attack and there's no sense of drawing a line under things and moving on with the rest of our lives until we get the answers. ineed lives until we get the answers. i need to know who failed him, why they failed him, what has been done to stop an attack happening like this again? and we need to hold people accountable and change the system that allowed his murderer to go back into public and commit this terrible attack elsewhere. >> a man believed to be palestinian asylum seeker abu wadee, who allegedly arrived on a migrant boat before posting extreme content online, has been arrested. abu wadee is understood to be a former key member of a militant group who has called for the slaughter of all jews and posed with ak 47

seconds. it comes on the 10th day in a row that more small boats have reached uk waters. 150 migrants arrived this morning, taking the total since march, the first to over 2200. the government says it is cracking down on small boat crossings and strengthening border security, with new police and immigration powers. since the election, more than 2500 foreign criminals have been deported. that's a 23% rise on last year. mark carney says canada will never, ever be part of the united states of america after winning the race to succeed justin trudeau as the country's prime minister. >> canada never, ever will be part of america in any way, shape or form. >> the former bank of england governor is vowing to take on donald trump in a growing trade war, and says canada will impose retaliatory tariffs until americans show us respect. carney, who has never held

elected office, won 86% of the vote and is expected to call a general election soon. and back in the uk, the king attended the annual commonwealth day event at westminster abbey with the queen, prince and princess of wales, as well as the prime minister and a2000 strong congregation. in his commonwealth day message, the king said restoring the disrupted harmony of our entire planet is the most important task facing humanity. outside was a large protest by the anti—monarchy group republic, who held up not my king and down with the crown placards from an area across from the abbey. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to martin. >> 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 sophia. now to the continuing breaking story coming from the north sea and 36 mariners across. both crews have now been accounted for. graham stewart, the mp for beverley and holderness, said that he understood that only one person has been hospitalised following the collision. but he added he continued to be concerned about the potential ecological impact andifs the potential ecological impact and it's now understood that the stellar immaculate oil tanker sustained a ruptured cargo tank after it was struck by the container ship solingen, causing multiple explosions and jet fuel to be released into the water. the ship's management firm, crowley, has told us what we can now cross and speak with gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley. anna, you're on the shoreline there, some 30 miles off the scene of this disaster, which now looks like a near miss, certainly in terms of the human impact. miraculously, all 36 crew members escaped with

their lives and now all eyes are on the investigation. how did this happen? what do we know so far? >> yes, martin, it truly is a miracle. after what happened earlier this morning that all 36 crew escaped with their lives, as you say. we're here in withernsea, just 13 miles out from where that incident happened at 10:00 this morning with the north sea. you can just see it raging behind us now that the cold and the wind, you can't see the impact of the plumes of smoke that were coming out from earlier this morning. but this just might illustrate a little bit for you the impact of what a rescue would be when you're facing conditions like this. we know that lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter were called to the collision just before 10:00, after a us flag jet fuel tanker called mv stena immaculate appears to have been hit whilst at anchor by the

portuguese flagged container. so long. graham stuart's the local mp here in withernsea. he represents the beverley and holderness constituency. he said that he'd been speaking with the transport secretary and he knows that 36 mariners across both crews are safe and well. crawley's the firm that manages the stena immaculate. it said that the crew abandoned the vessel and that all mariners are safe and fully accounted for, and that the tanker sustained a ruptured cargo tank which caused multiple explosions and released jet fuel into the sea. and in terms of what happens next? well, downing street say that the details of the cause of this collision are still becoming clear. we know that the fuel tanker was hit whilst it was docked. it was at anchor and it was hit by the cargo ship that was hit by the cargo ship that was going a range of 16 knots, around 20 miles an hour. we don't yet know why it didn't

stop or if in fact it tried to stop. we know that the prime minister's official spokesman said that it was an extremely concerning situation. he thanked the emergency services for their rapid response and said the department of transport is working closely with the coastguard to support the to support the response to the incident and that they're monitoring the situation and will continue to co—ordinate the response. the marine accident investigation branch has deployed a team that are currently conducting a preliminary assessment as well, that jet fuel is still spilling into the sea and videos have been circulated. footage, pictures as well, from the scenes showing clouds of black smoke billowing into the air, a large fire that's just spread across that area in the north sea, and rescue vessels appearing to be spraying the blaze with water. it may take

months for a conclusion into this investigation that's currently undergoing. we know that martin beyers, he's the chief executive of the port of grimsby east. he said that there was a massive fireball in the sky, but it was that far out, around ten miles away from shore, that they were unable to see that. and now there's of course, as well not just looking into why the incident and how the incident happened, but those environmental impacts that will be ongoing. we know that greenpeace uk said it's too early to know the extent of the environmental damage, and that both the high speed of the collision and footage from the aftermath are cause for great concern. >> thank you, anna ryder there on the north sea coast. just to add that the us military vessel there was it was supplying fuel to the us military. three mile no fly zone has now been set up off the yorkshire coast. and as anna just pointed out, the environmental aftermath. now services bracing themselves

onshore at cleethorpes and greenpeace also saying it's extremely concerning as they await potentially any of that aviation fuel to be washed towards the shore. and rodney, thanks for bringing us up to speed on that story. thank you. now, the royal family have been at westminster abbey today for a special service to mark the 76th commonwealth day. the king, alongside queen camilla, joined the prince and princess of wales, the princess royal, the duke and duchess of gloucester and they all celebrated this year's theme together we thrive, which honours the enduring spirit of the commonwealth family. well, let's join now. gb news national reporter adam cherry, who's been there all day at the commonwealth scene in westminster. glorious. coming together started off though. adam cherry had to be saved by a bit of anti—royal sentiment. some pursed lips protested, tried to rain on the royal parade. >> yeah, that's right, martin, they're actually just packing up behind me over my shoulder. the

republican anti—monarchists with signs saying down with the king, down with the crown. they were chanting as the royal family arrived at about 3:00 this afternoon. they actually brought along a giant t—rex, which they constructed right here on in front of westminster abbey. a bit of a scoop for you. i went and spoke to them. they said the dinosaur's name was charles because just like the monarchy, it belongs in a museum. we also, of course, heard from the king. it's his first commonwealth day celebration in two years. and the princess of wales actually, because both last year were, of course, receiving treatment for canceh course, receiving treatment for cancer. now, i'll just read you a short segment from the speech. in these uncertain times, where it is all too easy to believe that our differences are problems, instead of a source of strength and an opportunity for learning, the commonwealth's remarkable collection of nations and peoples come together in this spirit of support and, crucially, friendship. so as you said, the theme was together we thrive, calling for unity and

for peace. whether the people here wanted to hear those words is another matter, but a pretty special ceremony, i think. martin. >> yeah, and that's a commonwealth day . reception commonwealth day. reception begins about 630 this evening. the king and queen will be guests of the commonwealth secretary—general, and they will have dinner and a commemorative song by andrew lloyd webber to mark the inaugural commonwealth peace prize. adam, you were there. today, the flags are resplendent leaders from around the world turning up from the commonwealth. do you think the commonwealth. do you think the commonwealth has got any legs? is it still important? because of course, every time we have a commonwealth meeting these days, it seems to me that words are never far away from reparations, slavery and breakaways from the commonwealth. republic is a commonwealth. republic is a commonwealth still an enduring legacy? >> i don't know, martin. i think the monarchy itself still has a lot of respect and admiration throughout the country. you know, there might be criticisms of the commonwealth separately from that. and of course, as i

said, there are people here who are disgruntled with the entire thing and they're still here behind me. but overall, i think today's ceremony was the best of britain. and i think the royal family and the prime minister and the politicians in attendance will be happy with it. >> adam shiri, well done for kind of keeping those protesters at bay. that's our man there. live in westminster. adam cherry, always a pleasure to have you on the show. now then, here's a question for you. are the labour party a party of massive hypocrites? >> there will be no return to austerity. >> there'll be no return to austerity, the chancellor said before the election. now the chancellor, of course, previously pledging not to return to austerity. however, now the government are in power. they are said to be making plans to make cuts to the welfare system in the spring statement. we can now speak with gb news political editor chris hope. chris, welcome to the show. this would be seen by many people, chris, as another example of how easy it is to be in opposition. we'll back the formers, we'll

back the pensioners, we'll back the waspi pensioners and before government. no austerity, no return to the politics of george osborne. no, not on our watch. will be absolutely the party of the great british giveaways. and here we are now the reality bites. the benefits bill will have to be cut to bankroll this so—called black hole. once again. is this evidence, chris hope of the labour party doing a screeching u—turn once in power? >> hi, martin, and welcome back to college green here in westminster. i mean, no sign of the u—turn yet. what you're talking about is the 26th of march when we get these forecasts from the office for budget responsibility. what we're expecting is a speech on welfare, a green paper to be published. that's a green paper means a government proposals paper to be published next week , paper to be published next week, that may have as much as £6 billion to be cut from the welfare bill. but given we're looking at working benefits going up to maybe as much as 100 billion by the end of the

decade, it will barely scratch the surface. but already we're seeing a bit of noises off from labour mps concerned about how this looks. 80 mps, according to today's daily telegraph. they are resisting that kind of spending, the kind of cuts from the welfare budget. there's a limit to what they can do because we don't think these these cuts will require a vote in the house of commons. not unless maybe the conservatives find some kind of commons procedure to force a vote on it. that's unlikely. we there was whispers of it maybe being this week, but we think because the obr, .th e office for budget obr, .the office for budget responsibility, is due to send how much headroom. that's how much extra spending, how much space there is in terms of what the government can do this week. we think now it's going to be next week, and after that we're having this big spring statement. so lots of choices coming up from the government. but yeah, it's not easy. they always say that you you can you can, you can govern in prose but in opposition you're in in poetry. and that's i think the

big issue. >> now, earlier on today on the show, chris, you spoke to chris philp, the shadow home secretary, calling for caps on visas, calling for limits on illegal immigration, calling for all of the things actually, which they didn't do during 14 years in power. >> that's right. so this illegal migration legislation is going to be debated over the next few weeks in parliament. and the tories tonight are publishing what they want to be a legal cap on net migration. they want to try and get to a point where it will probably be voted down in committee stage. they'll try and bnng committee stage. they'll try and bring it back to the floor of the house. and the political trick they're doing here is to force labour mps to vote against having an annual cap on legal migration that will be on on their, their, their election leaflets over the next few years, and particularly at the next general election in 2028 or 2029. it won't go through. but as you rightly say, martin, and as you rightly say, martin, and as i said to chris philp, the

shadow home secretary, you had 14 years to do this. you went through five elections promising to cut net migration. nothing ever happened. we've had an apology already from kemi badenoch. the tories think they're clearing up their mess by requiring people who are giving a net benefit to the economy, only they get british citizenship. but even so, it's a bit too little, too late. and in fact, many might wonder, will even happen. because of course, is it realistic that you can suddenly say in year 8 or 9 of a 12 month period of a 12 month annual target, no more immigration when the nhs is calling out for it, or farmers are, they'll say, well, the fields will rot, the crops will rot. unless we get more, more people arriving here legally. that's the concern, i think. >> okay, chris, thank you very much for joining >> okay, chris, thank you very much forjoining us there. live much for joining us there. live from the heart of westminster. always a pleasure to have your company. now, we've got some breaking news for you now. and the former labour mp, mike amesbury has told the bbc that he will step aside at the earliest opportunity after he

was given a suspended ten week prison sentence for punching a man in the street. breaking news the former labour mp, mike amesbury, has told the bbc that he will step aside at the earliest opportunity after he was given a suspended ten week prison sentence for punching a man in the street. that almost certainly means that we're heading towards a by—election at the earliest opportunity. mike amesbury told the bbc he will step aside at the earliest opportunity. so incoming by—election, no doubt in the seat of runcorn now coming up, more than 2200 illegal migrants have crossed the english channel in the past ten days alone, marking a significant milestone. we discuss what can be done to stop. this surge. next. i'm martin daubney on gb business news

welcome back. time is 524 with me martin daubney here on gb news. well, we can now speak with melanie on who's the labour mp for great grimsby and cleethorpes. the area affected of course by that vessel collision earlier on today. welcome to the show mason. pleasure to have your company. before we talk about the disaster, the near miss of disaster, the near miss of disaster anyhow off the coast of your constituency, could i please ask you for your reaction to a breaking news story just happened? and that's the ex—labour member of parliament, mike amesbury for runcorn just announced he would like to stand down at the earliest possible opportunity. >> right. well, i'm obviously very sad for mike personally, but i think it's the right decision and we need to get these this by—election underway as quickly as possible and, and get back to the job. and the focus of being in government. >> okay. thank you very much for your reaction to that. let's

return now to the collision off the coast of your constituency earlier on today. hugely dramatic scenes. mercifully, nobody was killed in that. we believe only one person has been hospitalised, all 36 accounted for. but of course hugely concerning. now for the aftermath and what it means for the coast around you. a huge, rich, diverse ecosystem. what are the fears about the aftermath? what could happen next? >> i think that there are some real concerns from local residents and other sea users about the consequences of the fuel leakage that's coming out of the immaculate, and so to make sure that we've got all of the right resources in place to make sure that we contain as much of the damage that comes from that leakage as possible. and i just wanted to say a big thank you to all of the marine, coastguard, the police, ambulance, local hospital, rnli who have been spectacularly

quick in responding to this emergency and have done a phenomenal job making sure that 36 people are safe off those vessels when there were a number of explosions. so it could have been an awful lot worse. >> yeah, i think i think many people will echo that. it looked incredibly dramatic on screen. it's just amazing that nobody was hurt. and the investigation will now begin into how that happened. and we've been speaking to maritime experts on the show today. it looks most likely like it may have been human error from the tank, from the cargo ship heading towards that tanker, of course, laden with highly explosive military aviation fuel. >> absolutely. i mean, this is an incredibly rare occurrence on the humber. the people who are sailing those vessels are extremely experienced and very familiar with the tides and the processes from the marine control room that that operates

from grimsby. so, you know, there does need to be an investigation to establish exactly how this has happened, why this has happened, and to ensure that it doesn't happen again, because of course, it's not just the seafarers who were in danger as a result of this collision, but the people who then have to step in and undertake the rescue as well. >> and tell us about some of the impact potentially on shore for this. we know the cleethorpes area got lots of wonderful ecosystems. bebe puffins breed around here, lots of sand eels. so very delicate ecosystem that we won't want to see disrupted by this kind of catastrophe. >> well, absolutely. i mean, further up north we've got bempton cliffs, which is well known for its puffins that are reliant on sand eels as their main source of food. anything that disrupts that is going to be is going to be problematic. so i'm sure that the local rspb and the local wildlife trust will be doing everything that they can to. if there are any

reports of birds or any other wildlife finding themselves in difficulty as a result of the fuel spillage, that they will be there on hand. and i know that we've got cleethorpes wildlife, who are run by volunteers who have already said that they are going to be on call and available if anybody in the local area sees any of the consequences of this fuel spillage. >> well, thanks for your time and thanks for joining us today on gb news. that's moeen ali on the labour mp for great grimsby and cleethorpes. thanks for joining us on today's show. now moving on to keir starmer. remember he promised to smash the gangs, but with an astonishing 2200 illegals arriving in just ten days so far in march, it seems the people smugglers didn't get the memo, with at least 150 migrants have now crossed the channel illegally. illegally. this morning alone, in an unprecedented 10th straight day of small boat crossings, can we ever take back control of our borders? well, let's speak now with the director general, the former director general of the

uk border force, tony smith. tony, it's groundhog day once again, but it's getting worse. astonishing 2200in ten consecutive days. in march, sir keir starmer said he's going to smash the gangs. the gangs aren't listening. >> yeah, well what he would say to you, martin, i expect if he was here was that, you know, they've got this new law, as you know, that's going through parliament. well, i think there's another debate today about that which will give law enforcement more powers to investigate, arrest and prosecute. the human smugglers. but, you know, my own view. and igave but, you know, my own view. and i gave evidence myself to the bill committee last week or the week before. martin, is that a lot of the offenders, a lot of the mischief that takes place, of course, in france and further upstream. and so it's very difficult for uk law enforcement officers to actually do anything there. so although the powers are extraterritorial and legally we. can you're going to have to get the french police. you're going to have to get the italian police further upstream. other, other, you know, police agencies around europe and beyond are all

going to have to buy into this idea of arresting people over there, and then we're going to have to extradite them here to put them before a british court. and then. well, we all know what the british court's view is of people like this quite often. you know, we're already seeing human smugglers getting very lenient sentences or claiming permission to stay under human rights legislation or whatever. so i'm not, you know, i'm not altogether convinced that the criminal justice system is the right vehicle to try and break up these gangs. certainly we do need to get after the money. we do need to try and disrupt them, but we are already doing that. martin. we've been doing that for ages and ages. the problem, as you well know, is the business model. the business model needs to be broken. you need to cut off the money, and the way to cut off the money is to make it not worth it. to get in a small boat and pay your ,5,000 to a smuggler. then they'll stop but we they'll stop doing it. but we haven't been able to do that. the pull factor into the uk is still greater than it is into the eu. we're seeing our figures going up, and yet the external eu figures going down. so

clearly we've got a real problem in that people still think it's very worth it to pay a smuggler to get in a boat, and more and more of them are continuing to do it. and i'm afraid we're in a vicious circle, martin, until such time as we can get a removals deterrent back into this to make sure that people coming off boats are arrested and deported from this country. and if you can't send them to france and you send them your own country. that's why i supported the rwanda plan or something like it, because then they won't be persecuted in that third country. australia did it under operation sovereign borders. we tried it. we got messed about by the courts for 2 or 3 years. then we called an election and now look where we are. so i'm afraid, martin, i haven't got any good news for you. i am worried that actually this new bill won't work. it won't stop human smuggling on the english channel. and i'm afraid, you know, we've got another four years of this. i think unless the government does a complete u—turn, and i'm afraid i don't see that happening. >> tony smith, i fear you're right. this government made the

many u—turns. but this is a u—turn which many people want, which i fear we won't see happening. tony smith, always a pleasure to have you on the show. no doubt i'll have the same conversation many more times over the next four years. lots more still to come between now and 4:00, including the raf chiefs, who are launching a desperate search for pilots after a secret bid to discriminate against white male applicants has backfired on the wokerati. but first is your news headunes wokerati. but first is your news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. your headunes >> martin. thank you. your headlines at 533. mike amesbury is standing down as an mp, triggering a massive by—election in runcorn and helsby. the suspended labour mp has told the bbc he will step aside at the earliest opportunity, after he was given a suspended ten week prison sentence for punching a man in the street. in other news, jet fuel is spilling into the north sea after an oil tanker and a cargo ship collided

near hull. the us flagged mv stena immaculate tanker is on fire with lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter and firefighting teams at the scene. one person is in hospital, while the other 36 people from both crews are safe and accounted for, according to local mp graham stuart. the prime minister's spokesperson has said this is extremely concerning and we want to thank emergency services for their prompt response and we're monitoring the situation. meanwhile, greenpeace uk said it was too early to know the extent of any environmental damage as the jet fuel continues spilling into the sea. elsewhere, sir keir starmer has told donald trump he hopes talks between the us and ukraine would have a positive outcome, which would enable the resumption of intelligence sharing and the supply of military aid. the prime minister and the us president spoke ahead of talks between the us and ukraine in saudi arabia, as efforts continue to find a peace deal to end the war with russia.

it comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has arrived in saudi for a state visit, though he will not attend the talks with us officials tomorrow. now, the family of sir david amess has slammed the home secretary for rejecting a public inquiry into his murder, calling it unacceptable and insulting. yvette cooper says it's hard to see how an inquiry would go beyond the trial of terrorist ali harbi ali and a recent prevent review. the attacker, an islamic state fanatic, was referred to prevent years before stabbing the veteran mp to death at his constituency surgery in 2021. sir david's widow is urging the prime minister to reconsider. ahead of their meeting on wednesday. and the king attended the annual commonwealth day event at westminster abbey with the queen, prince and princess of wales, as well as the prime minister and a2000 strong

congregation. in his commonwealth day message, the king said restoring the disrupted harmony of our entire planet is the most important task facing humanity. outside was a large protest by anti—monarchy group republic, who held up not my king and down with the crown placards from an area across from the abbey. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to martin. 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. it's approaching 20 to 6 with me martin daubney here on gb news. let's get more reaction now to the breaking news that the former labour mp, mike amesbury, has said that he will step aside at the earliest opportunity after he was given a suspended

ten week prison sentence for punching a man in the street while stepping into the ring. now, as gb news political editor chris hope, who joins me live from westminster. chris, a knockout blow for the career of mike amesbury. but an opportunity now. surely this means a by—election will be in the offing. >> it does indeed. martin, welcome back to college green outside westminster. this is a seat up in runcorn and helsby. the mp was mike amesbury. of course, now he was found guilty of punching one of his constituents. he was given a ten week prison sentence, suspended for two years. he did spend three days inside jail. his first interview with local television for the bbc. he has said in terms that he is now going to stand down as an mp. he's currently winding up his office doing redundancy programmes for staff there, but that means there will be a by—election shortly in a few months time in this runcorn

seat. it was won by amesbury back in july last year, with a majority of 14,696. guess who was second reform uk reform uk will be looking at this licking their lips despite all the problems they've got with the current, he said. she said battle between rupert lowe and other senior members of the party. this is what matters, adding more mps to that party. >> i wonder on that point, chris, though, an excellent point. do you think they might be regretting now this their own political punch up, their own political punch up, their own political scrap? you know, the business of winning seats now awaits, and instead they're fighting each other, not their political opponents. >> it's totally it is. i think it's i think it does seem to me to be a bit ridiculous. they've fallen out over this. i've been talking to senior people in reform uk. they say there is no way back for this. the, the, the for rupert lowe is gone. that's

ended. and there's no no off ramp, as they say in politics, no way back in. it's gone because of what he's been saying on twitter in this big row. rupert lowe denies all wrongdoing. there's a kc investigating thousands of pounds being spent of people. i mean, a lot of viewers and listeners of gb news have followed reform uk. they've bought into, i think, the opportunity to overturn the establishment, the place behind me, the kind of the organised two party system. they are despairing. if you look at our feedback in our inboxes, martin, as i'm sure you're seeing the this party's inability to hold it together, this should be an opportunity to add another mp to their number. instead, they'll simply be trying to make up ground for the lost opportunity of losing rupert lowe. >> under now, because all eyes will be on this by—election. and as you know, chris, by elections are very expensive. they take a lot of manpower, they take a lot of motivation. they take a unhed of motivation. they take a united party with a decent

bankroll. and i wonder again, going back to our previous point, by elections need people to be like a coiled cobra ready to be like a coiled cobra ready to spring into action. well—funded, the labour party have said right at the outset they want another labour mp in this seat. they'll be gunning for this seat. does reform can it rise to the challenge as second place? in the previous election, many were thinking the bookies favourite to take this by—election. can they overcome this squabble, their own ringside drama and get in there and fight and win? >> well, it's 3 or 4 years. wait for the next election. i think they probably can do. i think that, you know, i don't know i don't know why they can't settle this between each other like grown ups, rupert lowe and waltz. their use of the chairman. and nigel farage is the leader. of course, it just seems a distraction, frankly, to their job, which seems a distraction, frankly, to theirjob, which is seems a distraction, frankly, to their job, which is to try seems a distraction, frankly, to theirjob, which is to try and their job, which is to try and challenge the establishment. the parties in westminster are the ones who have run this system for the past century or so, but

instead it's a distraction. but going back, it may well be that they can get past it and fight to win this seat up in runcorn and helsby. certainly a 15,000 give or take majority for labour is not safe, i think looking at the polls. but in just in the past two weeks, though, with the with what's happening in ukraine. sir keir starmer is strong showing on the international stage that could tip the balance back towards labouh tip the balance back towards labour. but we are facing a very difficult spending round coming up and then a forecast in the summer, a bad, difficult forecast later this month and of course, lots of tax rises going up and the cost of living getting worse, not easier next month. so although labour is doing well on the international stage, i think domestically it's still not proven. there's opportunity here for reform uk. if only they can get their act together. frankly. >> yeah. thank you very much. that's our own political heavyweight there live from westminster chris ho thank you very very much for joining us westminster chris ho thank you very very much forjoining us on very very much for joining us on the show. now the royal air force is facing a pilot shortage after a diversity hiring scheme

backfired. an official document is showing that the raf needs for a higher number of pilots in training, but they're so short staffed. the candidates who have previously rejected are being urged to reapply, as well as older applicants who have any relevant experience in flying related roles. let's speak now with the defence academic doctor andrew curtis. doctor curtis, welcome to the show carol surprise. the raf said. we don't want any more straight white men applying for the for the positions. and guess what? they're now short staffed. >> well yeah. thank you, martin, for having me on the show. i mean, i think it's a well—known fact that the raf has had considerable problems with its flying training programme for some time now. in fact, i think it was the highest priority of ben wallace when he was the secretary of state to get it fixed. but i think the problem has been owned by the current senior leadership for some time now. and actually, if you look at the statistics, the amount of time that it's taking pilots to

go through the training system has actually come down quite considerably. and now it's at a fairly reasonable three and a half years. so i'm not sure this is quite the problem that people are making it out to be. >> there we have to leave it there. thank you very much. defence academic doctor andrew curtis. well, in response to the story, the royal air force has said this. we have sufficient pilots and aircrew to conduct all current operations and service the front line. additionally, active management of the flying training system has reduced training times and the backlog of students. aircrew in the training pipeline. this good progress has enabled us to reopen aircrew applications for serving personnel. now moving on. if you're in search of some winter sun, then here is the forecast for some of the top european holiday destinations. >> dinner under the stars tonight. >> that reminds me of our travel

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>> welcome back. it's 10 to 6 with me martin daubney here on gb news now. in the last few minutes elon musk has taken to x previously. twitter of course to say that there was a massive cyber attack against x. and he

continued we get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. either a large coordinated group and or a country is involved. so there we go. a dramatic cyber attack on x elon musk responding on the platform that he owns now, project fear figurehead and former politically neutral bank of england governor mark carney, has been elected the leader of canada's liberal party, taking 85% of the party vote. and he replaced justin trudeau, the king of woke, as prime minister. and here he is criticising brexit. >> and their solution to take back control was actually code for tear down your future. >> well, we can now speak with the director of popular conservatives, mark littlewood. mark, welcome to the show. what did canada deserve to get the king of anti—brexit? a man who

every time he moved his lips, sterling plummeted. >> yes. >> yes. >> that's right, martin, isn't it? >> it's extraordinary, isn't it? >> it's extraordinary, isn't it? >> all these supposedly neutral. >> all these supposedly neutral. >> brilliant, expert technocrats. >> they nearly all seem to turn out to be woke left wing. arch remainers when they re—enter. >> the political field. i mean. >> the political field. i mean. >> we. >> we. >> saw that with sue gray. >> saw that with sue gray. >> we've now seen this. >> we've now seen this. >> with mark carney. 85% of. >> with mark carney. 85% of. >> the vote. >> the vote. >> you've just mentioned, i mean, positively. north korean. >> levels of endorsement. >> levels of endorsement. >> by the. >> by the. >> canadian liberal party. >> canadian liberal party. >> but yeah, i mean, i think we need to have a long, hard think about how people dip. >> in and dip. >> in and dip. >> out of politics if we are to have experts and technocrats, i expect them to be neutral. well, we knew all along that mark carney was a very staunch remainer at the. >> bank of england. >> bank of england. >> he said as much, pretty much at the time and certainly afterwards. and i think it's pretty questionable about how people who are supposedly neutral then emerge with their true political colours. and, as i say, overwhelmingly, maybe not

universally, maybe not universally, maybe not universally or unanimously, but overwhelmingly they all seem to have the same worldview, don't they, martin? >> and what would the doctor death of brexit claim to be ? death of brexit claim to be? politically neutral? now the curtain has been yanked back. he was a member of the wokerati all along. yes. >> absolutely. right. and, you know, colour me completely unsurprised, martin. you know, i think if you'd asked me to guess mark carney's political affiliations and political philosophy, i would have guessed it bang on, right? and now his coveris it bang on, right? and now his cover is indeed blown. we know exactly where he's coming from. look, the intriguing thing here for the canadians is exactly how long is he going to be prime minister for the canadian conservatives under the mightily impressive pierre poilievre had a stonking lead in the polls. that's fallen somewhat, because i think there's a certain sigh of relief that justin trudeau's finally gone. but it seems to me still more likely than not that it will be the conservatives who

form the next canadian administration. so probably we need to be keeping more of an eye if we're interested in the medium term, about what pierre poilievre is saying rather than what mark carney is saying. >> okay, thank you very much. mark littlewood, always a pleasure to have you on the show. that's all from me, ashley. i'll be back at seven. got some astonishing figures for the first time. the figures they did not want you to see. sex, crime, theft, violence, drug crime, theft, violence, drug crime in the uk. by nationality. incredible figures you will not want to miss. that's with me on farage at seven. of course. up next is dewbs& co, the fiercest debate show in town. i'll see you at seven. now, here's your weather with alex burkill. >> heavy showers first thing will be followed by a warm, cosy day. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello again. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. now as we go into tomorrow we are going

to have a northerly wind pushing through that's going to bring some showers and also a change to something markedly chillier. for many of us. that northerly, colder air will be coming down behind a cold front, which is currently pushing its way southwards across the country. this front has brought a few showers but more cloud for a time, but behind it we do have some clearer skies across parts of scotland and actually further south. there's quite a bit of cloud developing through the night across central southern parts of england and wales. and with that some outbreaks of rain, particularly towards the southwest, where we do get the clear skies, though, temperatures are going to drop quite a few degrees lower than some recent nights. a touch of frost possible first thing tomorrow morning, maybe even some icy patches. but in the south, a milder start to the day because of the cloud here, and there will be some outbreaks of rain around, particularly across parts of the south—west, devon, cornwall maybe getting off to a bit of a damp start, but that will quickly clear away. then actually across the rest of england, wales and into northern ireland. a lot of bright weather to start the day. but across

scotland, although there will be some clear skies overnight, it's going to quickly turn cloudier through tomorrow morning and with that we are going to have a scattering of showers pushing down on that northerly wind. those showers could be a bit wintry at times, so some sleet or snow over the higher ground and there could be some heavier showers. also some showers skirting around north sea coastal parts, but elsewhere most areas having a generally dry day, albeit some sunny breaks but quite a bit of cloud on offer. with that, temperatures are going to be lower than they have been recently, just about scraping into double figures at best, most places staying in single digits, so staying a bit chillier than it has been through some recent days. more showers to come as we go through the end of the day tomorrow they are going to spread a bit further south and still some sleet or snow possible over higher ground showers. that's the theme as we go through. the rest of this week. should turn dner rest of this week. should turn drier by the weekend, but all the time staying a little bit chillier than of late. >> expect a warm front moving from the kitchen right through to the rest of

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