as we have heard from arlene foster, she has said that as first minister that she took responsibility how the executive handled things. but, she did say that she thought northern ireland should have locked down sooner to save more lives. as you alluded to, she was asked if northern ireland had sleepwalked into the pandemic because of that lack of planning, because ministers were not in place, and she absolutely refuted that. she said that she found that offensive, and she rejected it entirely. now, it is not the first time we have heard from baroness foster at the uk covid inquiry. last year, she said that the uk government should have stepped in to fill the void when there were no stormont ministers in place because of the devolved government collapse from 2017 until 2020. we have heard from health officials that the lack of ministerial guidance here in northern ireland it really affect how they could plan for the pandemic. northern ireland were said to be 18 months behind the rest of the united kingdom when it came to planning for such an eventuality. we are expecting to hear more f

this was arlene foster's response to suggestions that she passed blame onto the department of health.or what happened during the first wave of the pandemic. it was the virus that caused the damage to northern ireland, and we were trying to deal with what was coming at it because nobody had any appreciation of the scale of what was coming towards us. and actually, in mid—march of the meeting we had with the republic of ireland ministers, in those minutes, you can see that the chief medical officer, our chief medical officer, is saying that he felt that the peak was around 14 weeks from there. so wrongly and i say absolutely wrongly, we felt that we had time and we didn't have time. and that's a source of great regret. let's speak to our ireland correspondent, sarah girvin, who is in belfast. another big morning at the inquiry and the former first minister rejecting suggestions the northern ireland executive "sleepwalked" into the pandemic.

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arlene foster. today, my political panel will be discussing the turbulent few days of local and mayoral elections. can sunak survive to the next general election and are labour on course for a majority? we'll discuss all of that very soon. an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and it seems many brits are choosing not to see their gp's anymore. a recent lib dem survey has shown that only 47% of adults have been to see a doctor more than once in this last couple of years, and at that time he had only or rarely seen the same physician, doctor bhasha mukherjee will be giving her diagnosis on all of that. meanwhile over in america, they're tearing themselves apart over the war in gaza , tensions over the war in gaza, tensions have flared up at and they're at an all time high across american university campuses. these past few weeks, we've seen the campus of columbia university in new york becoming the epicentre of the battle. we'll be chatting to sarah elliott. she's the spokeswoman of the republicans ov

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arlene foster.r on . gb news. >> hello and welcome to your gb news forecast, brought to you by the met office. a mixed picture on sunday. sunny spells in the south. cloudier in the north. but where we do see the sunshine it is going to be feeling rather warm. so the best of the sunshine is parts of northern wales, central england and also down towards the south—east of england. cloudier skies persisting across northern ireland, much of scotland, with some outbreaks of rain here. but in the south—west we have got a weather system and that's bringing some more outbreaks of showery outbreaks of rain pushing its way northwards. but where we do see the sunshine, temperatures are going to be on the rise. we're going to see highs of around 18 or possibly up to 20 degrees in the southeast through the rest of the afternoon and evening time, clouds generally moving its way northward to parts of northern wales and also into the southeast of england, with some heavier outbreaks of rain pushing in here, cloudier

we will be hearing from her into late this afternoon and then from arlene foster tomorrow so we definitely should get more insight. i will interru -t should get more insight. i will interrupt you _ should get more insight. i will interrupt you because - should get more insight. i will interrupt you because i - should get more insight. i will interrupt you because i want l should get more insight. i will interrupt you because i want to take you to the court of appeal because the family of grace o'malley, speaking. the attorney general�*s case has not been successful. this is disappointing but not unexpected. the nottingham attacks were entirely preventable. nottinghamshire police failed to execute a warrant for many months. a flawed investigation, no toxicology, overreliance on psychiatric reports. leicestershire police failed to arrest valdo calocane. this is a failure of two police forces. a failure of the mental health trust, along with nottinghamshire council as well. missed multiple opportunities to prevent the nottingham attacks and the murder of our children and ian coates, is what h

. >> that's like saying, are you your arlene foster walking around your argument. >> that's like that'sling alcohol is it's selling alcohol to under 18 is unenforceable because parents buy themselves out, buy their kids alcohol. >> albi parents don't. >> albi parents don't. >> children need protection from bad parents i would argue, i would argue there are some parents. >> well, there is unfortunately. but anyway, lourdes, more to come on the show tonight we're going to be answering your questions and ask the five. get them in. annunziata rees—mogg is going to tell us whether the tories should bring back boris in this election. and i'll go head to head with alby in the saturday scrap . first of all, saturday scrap. first of all, though, we're going to get your latest weather with greg. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news weather. over the next 24 hours, it turns increasingly unsettled. we'll see cloud and outbreaks of rain across the country. and that's all thanks to low pressure, which is going to

and i mean, the conversation you were having with arlene foster earlier, you know, if you're a christiane seen as unelectable in many cases. i mean, tony blair famously said, we don't do god, or at least alastair campbell did. so i think we are guilty. all of us are guilty of double standards in hypocrisy. >> so can i ask then, do you do you recognise that double standard? can george galloway get away with saying things that you simply couldn't know? well, he has said things, and i think he's right to say that, you know, he's obviously getting a lot of kickback for it. >> but i said those things exact same thing seven years ago, and i got a lot of kickback against me. so to be honest, i got a lot of kickback against me. soto be honest, i think it is , lgbt activist groups like is, lgbt activist groups like stonewall and others, you know, related to this whole complex, who would my problems with them for sure. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> pushback. yeah. he was giving the problem. >> i think it's just the language that galloway used personally . like i language that galloway used personally. like

means nothing and that's the point of brexit for many of those, those, those dup mps, the peers, arlene fosterfought for it and this is why they're so concerned about it. chris olivia utley a depressing topic, but brilliantly done . brilliantly done. >> thank you very much. great stuff. really enjoyed that. now moving on, it's time for the great british giveaway and your chance to enjoy a spectacular summer with an extra £20,000 tax free cash in your bank account. it's our biggest cash prize of the year so far, and here's how it could all be yours. >> you really could be our next big winner with an incredible £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer. what £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer . what would you with this summer. what would you spend that on? well, whilst you're thinking about it, listen to some of our previous winners getting that winning phone call from us. >> i'm charles, i'm on £18,000 cash. it was just amazing. and as soon as it goes into your bank account, it just changes the life changing thing. just go for it . it's the life changing thing. just go fo

conservative mp for shipley, sir philip davies and former first minister of northern ireland, baroness arlene fosterou on all of this one, because obviously you've got a campaign to fight now, are you are you ready? are you geared up for it? is the timing problematic? >> well, i was shocked. i must admit, i wasn't expecting the election to be announced, i was expecting it to be in the autumn, like i think everybody else was. but yeah, it's as good a time as any. we've got to fight an election at some point. so why not? why not now? let's get on with it. and, yeah, i'm i'm as ready as i'm going to be. >> right. >> right. >> are the rumours to be believed that there are plots afoot to get rid of rishi sunak, reinstate the election and stop the election? >> no, that's that's absolute tripe. it's a prime example of why you should never believe everything you read in the newspapers , or preferably newspapers, or preferably anything you read in the newspapers. but certainly not everything you read in the papers. that is absolute tripe. >> what about letters of no confidence going in? >> no, it's absolute