critics, though, including education secretary bridget phillipson, paused that law last summer, warningt could expose universities to costly legal action. now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in an hour. now, though, it's over to matt 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 to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, after 15 months of war since the 7th of october attacks, a ceasefire deal between israel and hamas has been reached. the deal is expected to include the return of all of the israeli hostages held by hamas, with israel offering palestinian detainees in exchange. israeli soldiers will also be phased out of gaza. donald trump wrote on truth social we have a deal for the hostages in the middle east. they will be released shortly. thank you. now to discuss this, i'm joined by ori

at this stage, they are adamant, we have heard bridget phillipson, the education secretary come out thisa seven year national inquiry into the wider issue of child sex abuse which was carried out by professor alexis j. there was carried out by professor alexisj. there were a series of recommendations from that which have not yet been fully implement it, and what the government is saying is that the better thing to do would be to make sure that those iron fermented, and of course the government is pointing to the conservatives and saying, you didn't put these things in place on the back of the last inquiry, i have another one? 0k, helen, many thanks. 0ur political correspondent helen kat there. we are keeping an eye on the house of commons for you, and we will be bringing you, and we will be bringing you prime minister's questions as soon as it starts, we expected to begin in about five minutes or so. the health secretary wes streeting says some patients' experience of the nhs this winter makes them feel ashamed. this comes after a number of nhs trusts across england have declared critica

and is the economy in a death spiral, with millionaires leaving every 45 minutes.7 >> despite bridget phillipson the secretary of state for education, she apparently has no idea what's going on at universities. >> and far right rhetoric has real world consequences. >> well, welcome to the saturday five. now, not only have we got a temporary new presenter, we've also made a few tweaks to the format. so you lucky devils. now get us for a whole extra hour, guys. how about that? which we've actually we've called it the saturday five extra. how inspiring. in the five unleashed. sorry. in the five unleashed. sorry. in the five unleashed a new segment. one of us will hit the streets. wonder who that will be to ask the great british public the big question of the week. all great british public the big question of the gotek. all great british public the big question of the got another new >> we've also got another new feature. hi five. where do they come up with these? i mean, it's just fantastic where we talk about our highlights of the week. and of course, most importantly, we'll have more of you on th

critics, though, including education secretary bridget phillipson, paused that law last summer, warningt could expose universities to costly legal action. now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in an hour. now, though, it's over to matt 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 to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, after 15 months of war since the 7th of october attacks, a ceasefire deal between israel and hamas has been reached. the deal is expected to include the return of all of the israeli hostages held by hamas, with israel offering palestinian detainees in exchange. israeli soldiers will also be phased out of gaza. donald trump wrote on truth social we have a deal for the hostages in the middle east. they will be released shortly. thank you. now to discuss this, i'm joined by ori

however, it's now understood bridget phillipson is poised to bring back the act in a watered down version in the coming weeks, following widespread fury from academics. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in half an hour 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. >> very good morning. this is britain's newsroom with andrew and bev with you until midday. right. obesity is in the press a lot again this morning. now, a big issue around this is the idea of your body mass index. do you know what your body mass index is? well we can probably say looking at you, you're relatively healthy, at least physically. can't talk about your mental state or my health. but we know obviously that if you are a bigger person, you are much more likely to have cancer, to have heart attacks, diabetes, strokes, to have diabetes is the big one, of course, and we are failing to deal with it as a country, are we not? and in the papers this morning are some shocking statistics that 1 in 10 children are obese when they go to

it was really extraordinary that that bridget phillipson couldn't even bring herself to congratulate and your school on your latest exam results. why do you think that is.7 >> is? >> i really can't explain it. i don't understand, you know, i suppose maybe she sees us as a free school, as a success of the previous government, and so she didn't want to be caught out recognising that the previous government had done something good. which is really sad that politics can be so tribal. i think it's so important that if, i mean, the fact is, the conservative government over the last, you know, decade or more, in fact, 14 years, it's done an excellent job for education. and that's something all the reforms that's something all the reforms that were brought along before that were brought along before that have really given us all such energy and such enthusiasm in the, in our schools. why not build on that? and of course, there are issues like recruitment and retention is a huge issue for schools and continues to be. that is something that the conservative government did not address, and it's

education secretary bridget phillipson has begun a review of the national curriculum in a bid to make it more diverse. her review comes at the same time as theatre chief rufus norris has urged the government to make rac the fourth r for students. baroness claire fox will be with me to discuss whether children could benefit, and stefan kyriazis makes a theatrical new year entrance to the programme to discuss his first west end outings of 2025. and before all of that, your news headlines with sophia hill. >> thank you michael. very good morning. it'sjust >> thank you michael. very good morning. it's just gone 11:00 i'm sophia hill with your latest headunes i'm sophia hill with your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. our top story heavy snow overnight is causing disruption across the country, with manchester and liverpool airport having now reopened their runways. but leeds bradford airport runways remain temporarily closed until they're cleared of snow. the met office has issued two amber weather warnings for england and wales, forecasting 3 to 7cm of snow with rain in lower areas,