. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> welcome to free speech nation with me josh howie. this is the show where we take a look across the spectrum of culture, current affairs and politics and try and reintroduce some common sense to ’— yeah, yeah, yeah. i mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. i mean, i love amelia perez and nora and the brutalists and wonderfully strong films. it's a good time to celebrate. we need to celebrate these films and these filmmakers. >> the awards have been handed out. i'll keep you up to date with those a little bit later this evening. now it's back to free speech nation. >> for the very latest gb news, direct your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to. qr code, or go to. gbnews.com/alerts. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> welcome to free speech nation with me josh howie. this is the show where we take a look across the spectrum of culture, current affairs and politics and try and reintroduce some common sense to them . coming up reintroduce some common sense to them that.ing up reintroduce some common sense

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> hello! welcome to. >> hello!elcome to. >> headliners. >> headliners. >> where we give you the best. >> where we give you the best. >> of. >> of. >> tomorrow's newspapers with the. best of today's comedians. but first things first. >> we're going to have. >> we're going to have. >> a look at. >> a look at. >> the. >> the. >> front pages. >> front pages. >> of the guardian. don't be fooled by putin. >> lammy warning. >> lammy warning. >> as ukraine tensions rise, the telegraph trans doctors given clean records. the times starmer to offer youth visa scheme for europe. so more front pages in a few minutes. but first let's go to the guardian. >> hello. >> hello. >> hello. >> hello there. josh, how are you? >> i'm very well. how are you? >> i'm very well. how are you? >> i'm very well. how are you? >> i like that tie. >> i like that tie. >> thank you so much. i like youn >> tie as well. thank you very much. >> what are. we starting with? >> what are. we starting with? >> the guardian. >> the guardian. >> the guardian.

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> good morning.come to britain's newsroom, live across the nation. gb news with andrew pierce and me dawn neesom. and we've got a cracking show for you today. >> we certainly have. but before we get stuck into it, yet another extraordinary story about a migrant allowed to stay in this country. last week we had some bloke couldn't possibly go because his son might eat the wrong chicken. chicken nuggets in our begum. >> you know what? i think i'm convinced there are people in a room, right? coming up with the maddest reasons people apply to stay in this country. but not eveni stay in this country. but not even i could come up with chicken nuggets. and that was after i remember the story about the paedophile who had to stay in this country for the sake of his children. >> if only that you wouldn't. you wanted to keep him away from his children. >> certainly away from everybody else's children. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but no, no, he had family rights. so this one. >> this is a slovakian jailed over a shovel

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> keir starmer has been humiliated., the german chancellor has rejected starmer's plans for ukraine. so last night our prime minister said this. >> on ukraine. we are at the very early stage of the process. europe must play its role and i'm prepared to consider committing british forces on the ground alongside others if there is a lasting peace agreement. >> now it's emerged that olaf scholz stormed out of a meeting with european leaders and is refusing to put troops in ukraine. this is exactly why the idea of a european army is a complete joke. it could never work. european leaders can't agree on anything. but just look at how embarrassing this is for starmer. he's been sucking up to the eu for years. he's on record calling for a second referendum. >> it's right that parliament has the first say it's right. the parliament has the first say. but if we need to break the impasse, our options must include campaigning for a public vote and nobody is ruling out remain as an option. >> before the election. starmer went off wi

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> thank you, sofia, and hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at the best of tomorrow's newspapers with the best of today's comedians. first things first. let's see what we have in the front pages. the independent leads with zelenskyy calls for european independent leads with zelenskyy calls for of ropean independent leads with zelenskyy calls for of google taking down scathing of google taking down content for russia and china, and seemed to gloss over the fact that google also takes down content for, for the british government and for the european government. >> well, they only don't like google now because they've now taken all the those dates off the calendar. so they've taken like international women's year and all that stuff down. so now google google have gone based apparently. but yeah, this is just another reminder that these massive corporations are not your friends. they will do whatever it takes to maintain power, maintain their profits in all these different countries. so basically, google has cooperated with autocra

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> welcome back to state of the nation.pending has to rise, but how can it be paid for? rise, but how can it be paid for.7 i don't want to be one of those people who calls for more money for defence, but won't say how to fund it, because that's basically a dishonesty on the british public. so donald trump has made it clear that the era of blank checks from the united states is over, but the threat from russia remains. this means we must find the cash from an economy that is overtaxed and low growth. there is no room for tax increases, so spending priorities must be changed. choices to be made. defence needs more. and it must come from other budgets. so first for the chop in the firing line is overseas aid at nearly £14 billion a year. at least half of it should be redirected to defence. it's time to stop the absurd overseas aid spending, which includes 5 million on wait for it transforming feminist funding in iraq. 25 million for green urban growth in somalia and 38 million for green growth in nepal. if you've got some gree

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back tote of the nation with me christopher hope. now, here was vice president jody vance's criticism of europe today. >> i'm not even blaming the europeans. i'm actually saying you follow the lead of joe biden into censorship and mass migration. follow the lead of donald j. trump, and that's free speech, borders and sovereignty. that came after what appears to be a widening rift between the us and europe on the russia ukraine negotiations, he was reform uk nigel farage, appearing to disagree with his good friend donald trump on gb news earlier today. >> you should always take everything donald trump says seriously. you shouldn't always take things that donald trump says absolutely, literally. zelenskyy is not a dictator. but but it's only right and proper that ukrainians have a timeline for elections. >> well, gb news understands that sir keir starmer is now offering to host a downing street summit for european leaders to discuss the european response to donald trump's attempts to end the wa

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> hello! welcome to. >> hello!elcome to. >> headliners. >> headliners. >> where we give you the best. >> where we give you the best. >> of. >> of. >> tomorrow's newspapers with the. best of today's comedians. but first things first. >> we're going to have. >> we're going to have. >> a look at. >> a look at. >> the. >> the. >> front pages. >> front pages. >> of the guardian. don't be fooled by putin. >> lammy warning. >> lammy warning. >> as ukraine tensions rise, the telegraph trans doctors given clean records. the times starmer to offer youth visa scheme for europe. so more front pages in a few minutes. but first let's go to the guardian. >> hello. >> hello. >> hello. >> hello there. josh, how are you? >> i'm very well. how are you? >> i'm very well. how are you? >> i'm very well. how are you? >> i like that tie. >> i like that tie. >> thank you so much. i like youn >> tie as well. thank you very much. >> what are. we starting with? >> what are. we starting with? >> the guardian. >> the guardian. >> the guardian.

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> hello and welcome britain's newsroom live across the ukgb news with andrew pierce and dawn neesom. >> indeed in for the lovely bev turner. yes, yes, she's off having a lovely half term break with the little'un, so i'm left in charge of, you. >> know it doesn't work. >> know it doesn't work. >> good luck. that it does in my world. >> however, we heard wes streeting talking today about the fall in the 2 million increase in appointments. both you and i are rather sceptical about that. and then we read in the daily telegraph. >> today. >> today. >> what do we see? >> what do we see? >> this is my favourite story. >> this is my favourite story. >> even more money on mad diversity in the nhs. >> yeah, forget the baftas. these are new awards, right? these are new awards, right? these and the awards that make you very angry. nhs hospitals, those are the ones you depend on. signed up to an anti—racism awards scheme that awards them to meet race quotas. and get this these hospitals get a bronze, silver or a gold medal for how many diverse appointmen

. >> james matthewson. >> james matthewson. >> keir starmer has been humiliated., the german chancellor has rejected starmer's plans for ukraine. so last night our prime minister said this. >> on ukraine. we are at the very early stage of the process. europe must play its role and i'm prepared to consider committing british forces on the ground alongside others if there is a lasting peace agreement. >> now it's emerged that olaf scholz stormed out of a meeting with european leaders and is refusing to put troops in ukraine. this is exactly why the idea of a european army is a complete joke. it could never work. european leaders can't agree on anything. but just look at how embarrassing this is for starmer. he's been sucking up to the eu for years. he's on record calling for a second referendum. >> it's right that parliament has the first say it's right. the parliament has the first say. but if we need to break the impasse, our options must include campaigning for a public vote and nobody is ruling out remain as an option. >> before the election. starmer went off wi

joining me now is former labour spokesman at james matthewson, james that reset i mean does starmer doesot of resets doesn't he. so now we're resetting our relationship with the eu. what's going on here then. >> yeah you're absolutely right johni >> yeah you're absolutely right john i think the word reset is has probably been one of the most used in politics over the past six months. >> black hole. black hole. >> black hole. black hole. >> exactly. and i think reset is up there with the rest. but yeah this is this is what they're aiming to do. it's trying to really reset that relationship and take things back to basics and take things back to basics and start new relations with the eu to say what benefits can both the bloc and britain get from a new relationship? you know, people have changed, figures have changed, and there's new kind of people in in leadership roles in the eu. you know, the brexit that enough time seems to have passed since brexit, where, you know, many of the things that were said on both sides dunng that were said on both sides during that debate and during the refer

. >> malcolm grimston james matthewson. >> welcome to britain's newsroom with andrew and bev back together this week live across the uk. so if you woke up this morning thinking you were having a bad day, imagine waking up, opening the curtains and seeing this in the road. this is the sinkhole. >> well. >> well. >> there. >> there. >> are now surrey. >> are now surrey. >> yep, two massive sinkholes. we talk about potholes a lot. well, this makes potholes look fairly innocuous, doesn't it? if you're listening on the radio. >> 65 foot wide. that's incredible. >> 21m long. so it's nearly a swimming pool's length. >> and it's very deep. and the locals are saying they're blaming heavy lorries going through this small village. this is a small village in surrey and it caused the. but the road was built on sand. >> that's right. so it was a former sand quarry where these houses were built. it's on the a25, the road into godstone, the a25. obviously. can you imagine the disruption that's being caused in that area this morning? it's a major road with loads of trucks go down it. >> 30 houses evacuated

. >> also james matthewson. gbnews.com/win. >> so let's start with david lammy, foreign secretary.s urging european countries to develop sanctions against people smuggling gangs as he meets counterparts at the munich security conference. president zelenskyy had this to say earlier about russia's invasion of ukraine. >> this is not just madness. this is russia's stance. a country that launches such attacks does not want peace. not country that launches such attacks does not want peathatiot began with the revelation that donald trump had talked to vladimir putin for 1.5 hours the other day, and then we had the situation where the us president yesterday spent 20 minutes talking, not as europe was expecting, about security, probably having a go at europe, defence spending, talking about ukraine, only a passing reference to any of that. jd. vance spent most of it basically having a go at europe, saying that they were collectively beginning to suppress free speech, that they'd forgotten what they stood for and taking particular aim at the uk, i have to say, and scotland specifically. and

. >> james matthewson. >> hello! good afternoon. it is 2:00 on the 16th of february.olutely no more. i've got no idea either. this is the weekend on gb news now. some really big stories for you today. another attack in europe. a syrian asylum seeker is arrested in austria on suspicion of murdering a 14 year old boy in a seemingly random stabbing attack, leaving everyone asking when will this end, if indeed it ever does? and meanwhile, pressure mounts on nato members to up spending after ukraine's leader zelenskyy demanded a european army. >> really believe that time has come, the armed forces of europe must be created. >> oh, interesting one, that one. meanwhile, our foreign secretary, david lammy, made britain's loyalty known. >> i will say to trump what i said to the ukrainians. the uk has 1517 01:02:04,