>> good morning. tuesday the 11th of march. live across the uk. britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. so what's happening to the political right.7 x reform deputy chairman ben habib has hinted that he and rupert lowe could launch a splinter group to challenge nigel farage. we'll have the latest. and that north sea inferno. foul play is not ruled out after an oil tanker collided with a container ship ten miles off of grimsby, around. >> the fire is still raging and one crew member is still unaccounted for as search and rescue is called off, with questions being asked as to how exactly this collision happened.

>> and should we be deporting all foreign criminals? the conservatives are pushing for all offenders from overseas to be removed from britain, as it's revealed that a quarter of people convicted of sex crimes are foreigners. >> and a rural land grab. farmers may be forced to sell fields for less than their value if they're seized to build new homes or hospitals. the housing minister, matthew pennycook, has this to say about it. >> we're unashamed about the fact that we do want to see greater use of these powers. as i said, to build the homes, we need to bring forward the critical infrastructure we need. we do need to unlock more land, to assemble land more efficiently. >> and benefits britain. sir keir starmer says the number of people out of work is indefensible, and he's looking to slash the welfare bill. >> i takeover, top scientists warn next year, artificial intelligence will become officially smarter than humans. how concerned should we be?

>> high class bottle service three stages specially designed for our stunning dancers, private suites and more. you can turn your experience at penthouse club into anything you desire. >> does that look like a good night out to you? well, soho is getting a strip club. the penthouse club is going to offer fully nude stripteases and cirque du soleil style performances in london. this is a change. is it for soho and is it good for business? >> do you want to know where? >> do you want to know where? >> she wants to know. >> she wants to know. >> where she wants to know where you sign up for membership? i think this is quite an extraordinary story. actually. >> this is. >> this is. >> this is soho. used to be there used to be the raymond revuebar strip bars, the bunny girls back in the 60s and 70s, 60s and 70s. well, i used to read about them. so this is this has almost gone under the radar. westminster council has approved

the return of a strip club with pole dancing, and they want to appeal to a mature female audience. >> bev turner they want to appeal to a mature. >> female audience. >> female audience. >> well, they're obviously going to have male strippers too. >> oh. >> oh. >> they are not all bad. >> they are not all bad. >> that's why she wants membership. >> it's not all bad. i will try and talk about that story this morning, without getting the childish giggles that we often get. gbnews.com/yoursay to let us know your thoughts this morning. first though, here is katie bowen with your news. >> bev and andrew. >> bev and andrew. >> thank you and good morning. it's 9:33. these are your latest headunes it's 9:33. these are your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. the coastguard has called off the search for a missing crew member after a ship carrying toxic chemicals collided with a us military jet fuel tanker. fires on those vessels involved have continued to burn overnight, which are being monitored by coastguard aircraft. the crash took place on the north sea off the coast

of east yorkshire, with emergency services rescuing 36 crew members. so far, investigators haven't ruled out foul play following multiple explosions yesterday morning. breaking news out of russia this morning. at least three people have been killed in the moscow region after ukraine reportedly launched its largest drone attack on russia in three years. the attack, which was comprised of at least 91 drones, comes as peace talks between the us and ukraine are set to get underway in saudi arabia today. it also follows reports that president trump's special envoy, steve witkoff, plans to travel to russia and meet president vladimir putin this week. elsewhere, the conservatives have said they will push for labour's borders bill to be changed to require all foreign nationals convicted of a crime to be deported. the party said they would table an amendment to they would table an amendment to

the border security, asylum and immigration bill requiring any foreign national convicted of a crime to be removed from the country, including anyone charged with or convicted of an immigration offence. it comes as foreigners are convicted of up to a quarter of all sex crimes, according to a report in the telegraph newspaper. data from the ministry of justice shows that 15% of sexual offences, including rape, were accounted for by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023. shadow business secretary andrew griffith spoke to gb news earlier on. >> at a time when our jails are full where the government's releasing hardened criminals from jail, why keep foreign offenders ? who should be the offenders? who should be the responsibility of the countries that they've come from? why doesn't it happen? well, very much of that is the interlocking between the human rights system, the legacy that we inherited from tony blair and previous governments and the courts. this whole domain of endless appeals

has expanded over time. and that's what kemi and our shadow home secretary have been talking about. >> and birmingham bin workers have begun what unites describes as an indefinite all out strike following a period of walkouts that began last month in a dispute over pay. over 350 workers began strike action in january over the scrapping of the safety critical waste recycling and collection officer role, resulting in pay cuts of up to £8,000 for 150 workers. residents in the midlands have complained as they continue to find rodents in their homes. those are the latest gb news headlines. now let's go back to bev and andrew. >> very good morning to you. tuesday morning britain's newsroom with andrew and bev until midday of course. right. it's still rumbling on this reform conflict. this this

breakaway faction rupert lowe possibly ben habib possibly forming a new party possibly funded by elon musk. >> and actually, this has got credence because it's on the front page of the financial times. now, the ft would not put on the front page. they say this elon musk is expressing interest in backing an alternative to reform uk. following the spat last week between farage. blah blah blah. so the allies say he's indicated he would support a credible alternative party. look, we don't want to see a split on the right. no, we want a party that will take on labour and the tories, who've let this country down for decades. >> but what i'm finding baffling about this story, and in fact, i watched a debate about it this morning on an alternative channel, and nobody is mentioning the fact that underpinning all of this is not just your interview with rupert lowe. it's the serious bullying, bullying allegations against members of his team of rupert lowe office. now they have put out a statement on x this morning denying anything has

gone wrong, painting a picture of absolute harmony, professional and personal harmony. but it's signed by members of that team. my understanding is that two of that team are accused of the bullying crimes. >> i don't know because we don't know the names of the people who've been accused. >> that is his office. and so the speculation being that two of those people are under swinging on a giant legal hook. let's put it like that. >> my understanding is they've already left. >> that's not my understanding. >> that's not my understanding. >> right. well, there we are. >> right. well, there we are. >> but this is what's so difficult, right? is when you're talking about situations in the pubuc talking about situations in the public which have strong legal processes going on behind closed doors, it's very difficult to know what you can and can't say about these situations. and it is being interpreted, therefore, as nigel farage is threatened by the success and the popularity of rupert lowe, that might be absolutely, patently untrue. and whilst it's all going on legally behind the background, and there are two female complainants

whose names are not getting mentioned and who are not getting any of the airtime on this story, i think we have to be very careful until this has all come out to see what the situation is. >> yeah, and of course, rupert lowe people will say that this was turned into a great drama unnecessarily not by the reform bringing in the kc to investigate, because that was already the bullying allegations were being investigated. parliamentary authorities. it was the decision of the chairman, zia yusuf, to announce to call in the police on the thursday, which is the day my interview coincidentally appeared or not so coincidentally appeared with rupert lee, where he raised 15