radio station - said the deputy of lbc, i'm sorry - said the deputy secretary general of nato, mirceaaccording to him, the decision to start negotiations with russia will be made by ukraine independently, and now by the north's leadership. the atlantic alliance has a moral and legal responsibility to continue helping ukraine with everything necessary to fight against russian aggression. below is a short quote from nato deputy secretary general mircha dzhuana. even if sooner or later they start talking about peace, it will not be about peace as such, but about armistice for rearmament and subsequent return. it is very important for us to ensure that ukraine becomes closer to nato and the european union. after all, the best guarantees would be if ukraine became a member of nato, but we all understand very well that we will not be accepted until the end of the war in ukraine. well, the gradual and such confident departure from moscow continues in armenia. relations between armenia and russia are not going through the best of times. the prime minister of the country, nikol pashinyanyan, s

, lbc.a very long time of doing opinion led journalism, which is fine. it's legitimate with politicians fronting it, and i do think there's a difference between, say, somebody like nigel farage, who is a is a national figure, who's not really been he has never been really prominent within one of the two major parties. i think there's a difference between nigel farage doing an opinion led show and a serving tory politician reading news bulletins because there's breaking news, and ofcom have made that judgement and they've said one's appropriate and one's not. so i think broadly speaking it's a sensible set of conclusions. but i do think there's a balance. and i think there's a balance. and i think the best journalism is done by journalists. >> jacqueline, what do you think ? >> 7- >> i'm ? >> i'm fairly 7 >> i'm fairly sort ? >> i'm fairly sort of 7 >> i'm fairly sort of agnostic about it because the whole thing about it because the whole thing about news, i spent 35 years now involved in par

this was on lbc. he never said a word. he tookit lbc. he never said a word. he took it all on the chin in the way you have to when somebody comes, as that lawyer did, and said the opposite to you, you are quite bright enough to work out where the line is and there are many politicians who could be presenting, right, who would actually almost certainly lose votes rather than gain votes in that six weeks. tessa >> i mean, i, i still think that ofcom is regulating for a world where there's only one broadcaster, right. and that, frankly , though we have to frankly, though we have to follow due impartiality. that was important when there was 1 or 2 licence fee funded , limited or 2 licence fee funded, limited bandwidth channels . there are bandwidth channels. there are now channels on everything and any view you put on, twitter is entirely unregulated. anyway. yeah. >> i think we all recognise that social media is the wild west. to be entirely transparent , i'm to be entirely transparent, i'm sitting here dancing on your election grave, just waiting to sit in the

this was on lbc. he never said a word. he tookit lbc. he never said a word.e took it all on the chin in the way you have to when somebody comes, as that lawyer did, and said the opposite to you, you are quite bright enough to work out where the line is and there are many politicians who could be presenting, right, who would actually almost certainly lose votes rather than gain votes in that six weeks. tessa >> i mean, i, i still think that ofcom is regulating for a world where there's only one broadcaster, right. and that, frankly , though we have to frankly, though we have to follow due impartiality. that was important when there was 1 or 2 licence fee funded , limited or 2 licence fee funded, limited bandwidth channels . there are bandwidth channels. there are now channels on everything and any view you put on, twitter is entirely unregulated. anyway. yeah. >> i think we all recognise that social media is the wild west. to be entirely transparent , i'm to be entirely transparent, i'm sitting here dancing on your election grave, just waiting to sit in the ho

yeah, who was, caught about a year ago, scolding an lbc , talk show host, scolding an lbc, talk show i believe, about, you know, his what is what is a woman kind of, you know, that line of questioning, you know, and how in what sense is a trans woman, a woman and she just kept going on and on and on about how unnecessarily toxic the debate is. this is such a gaslighting line, isn't it? >> yeah. o'brien class. yeah. >> yeah. o'brien class. yeah. >> stop forcing me to actually make sense. that's so toxic . make sense. that's so toxic. >> absolutely. i think those days are behind us and this is going to help us with the next mad thing, isn't it? because people are going to remember this. you know, you can't just have activists calling the shots and not not come up with some common sense. absolutely. >> i'd love it. i'd love to think you're right, chris, but i think you're right, chris, but i think the next thing we'll just come up and catch people off guard again. we had covid, you know, wokeness, blm every new one catches people off guard. i'm worried the new one is going to be euthana

lbc in creating its own regional ones and this is gratitude, therefore, for attracting young people,e for outreach media work. anyway, i think that your parents can be proud of you, and you, we know that you are from magilev, and your parents worked at the electric motor plant, your mom and dad are very impressive, how did they meet? yes, there really was a very interesting romantic story; my father served in those years. he served as a sailor in kaliningrad, and the mother, a large family from the belgorod region, which, unfortunately, we see, is now receiving various information, unfortunately, unpleasant, but from the belarusian region she at that time lived with her sister in in kaliningrad, at one of the dance evenings in the sailor’s house, they met, and you know, it was love at first sight, they had not parted for the entire period of my father’s service there, even i know that my father somehow... the last ringer rang call, and judging by the guitar, you were popular at school, but you probably also gained ladies’ interest in mechanical engineering, i was a modest person in g

word means is, launches is, is ofcom launches investigation lamb's investigation into david lamb's lbc is david lammy is a labour council, a labour mp , a labour council, a labour mp, mp and he's the shadow foreign secretary. it's hard to believe because david cameron is basically take over, taking over his thing , but basically take over, taking over his thing, but he's doing his entire thing, but he's doing on lbc what rees—mogg was doing with us is he was he had he had two jobs. he was a politician . two jobs. he was a politician. and supposedly according to ofcom, you're not supposed to do that. why is ofcom in everyone's face? this has this is not about schadenfreude. this is about ofcom wanting to remain relevant and being in power no matter who's in power they want to. well, actually, what it's about is there's hypocrisy that was exposed here because the, the, the supposed, violations that gb news had with jacob rees—mogg , news had with jacob rees—mogg, the other politicians have also been on other channels in this case david lammy. >> so when people complain because there are

thank you, what i love about it is that he on lbc and he was that he went on lbc and he was quite funny. he was quite it. he was quite funny about it. he was talking ferrari he talking to nick ferrari and he sort turned around and said, sort of turned around and said, yes, completely your yes, i've completely ruined your mate cred and probably mate street cred and probably all people would all the people who would normally trainers are normally wear those trainers are going rishi wears normally wear those trainers are going i'm rishi wears normally wear those trainers are going i'm not rishi wears normally wear those trainers are going i'm not going ishi wears normally wear those trainers are going i'm not going ishiit'sars them. i'm not going to. it's like endorsement from celebrity. >> yeah, well, in fact, we've got the prime minister's fulsome apology to adidas samba fans. let's look, well, first let's have a look, well, first of i issue fulsome of all, i issue an fulsome apology samba community, apology to the samba community, but in my in my in defence, but in my in my in my defenc

lbc case, where he suddenly found live on found himself reporting live on sir jeffrey donaldson, whos like, oh no, a politician is reporting news and so this is a controversy and question is, controversy and the question is, will in the same will they treat that in the same way i'm way as they've treated gb? i'm sure just it sure they will. i'm just it seems such a bizarre, arbitrary rule that, if rule anyway that, you know, if a politician is presenting a show and some, you know, important breaking comes in, they breaking news comes in, they can't tell, they can't read out the important breaking news. >> i mean, what are they afraid of? does fear will of? what does ofcom fear will happenif of? what does ofcom fear will happen if that occurs? >> it'sjust happen if that occurs? >> it's just very happen if that occurs? >> it'sjust very english >> it's just a very english thing, it? we're talking thing, isn't it? we're talking on it must strange on a break. it must be strange for just what for an american. just do what they yeah, much . i they want. yeah, pretty much. i remember adverts

do we mind that polticians present shows on gb news or lbc interviewing their mates?lity. well ofcom has just published research which will guide how they police these matters as the media regulator here in the uk. and in an election year the stakes are pretty higher. this is what andrew neil — the former gb news chairman — formerly of this partish — told the house of lords yesterday. if i'd stay chairman it would never happen. i would sadly never allow politicians to interview other politicians to interview other politicians from the same party. i just find it incredible. i think in these areas ofcom needs to backlog. here's what dame melanie dawes, chief executive of ofcom responded to andrew neills attack. we found gb news and preach 11 times this is an organisation that prioritises taking action. we found them in breach on a number of occasions on broadcasting. what did you do as a result? we put them on notice that fines are on the table and they do need to include the record. ,., , and they do need to include the record. , , , .,, and they do need to include the

next we go to lbc. >> thank you very much, prime minister. i just want to ask job center staff have already reported across the country unsustainable work loads and huge backlogs. under this plan they're going to have 400,000 more people to support into work. that is a lot of people. are you confident they're going to be able to manage that, and i have to ask as well and it's right and suspended from his position whilst the investigations into those continue. and he's no longer a conservative mp as i said. with regard to work coaches, they do a fantastic job, actually. and they deserve an enormous amount of praise for what they do because they're doing something actually incredible. i mean they are transforming peoples lives. moving someone off welfare into work is an incredibly special moment. and any of us who have worked with them or heard about their stories and talked with constituents, colleagues. >>> good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, april 19th. i'm ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. we begin this morning with

foreign office minister under theresa may dunng minister under theresa may during an interview with lbc, he claimed the conservative friends of israel group was, in his words, doing the bidding of the israeli prime minister. he said two of its prominent members, lord polak and lord pickles , lord polak and lord pickles, should be removed from the house of lords. well it's understood when the party had written to sir alan to inform him of the investigation, which could result in him being expelled, he said the case lacked substance and prove dangerously and could prove dangerously harmful tories reputation harmful to the tories reputation . meanwhile, an independent investigation into an attack which killed seven aid workers in gaza is being demanded by the world central kitchen charity. british nationals john chapman, james henderson and james kirby were among those killed by an airstrike. more than six. and in other news, more than 600 british legal experts , including british legal experts, including three former supreme court judges, are now calling on the uk to stop selling arms to

david lammy, present your show on lbc. public life. quickly on bofis through public life. quickly on boris johnson and of course kate, kate i at the time i you know, it's bad and like you say tom, it was because of the wider context of people having to put up with so many privations and that was the stark contrast. but it really is extraordinary to me, going on with me, now what's going on with lammy that somehow he thinks that her majesty's opposition is, is, is, is allowed to play by a different set of rules, that has not been how david lammy has played politics. he has always said that, you know, there should be, you know, the application to people application of rules to people regardless station regardless of their station colour or creed. and now he's asking for something quite different, if different, i think. look, if rain this, it's not the rain has done this, it's not the end world. doesn't end of the world. it doesn't need overdramatised need to be overdramatised just pay need to be overdramatised just pay back.

and there was all this reporting on it and especially on x and things and lbc and things like this, peopleer murray he over douglas murray because he was making speech and he said, was making a speech and he said, we need don't to we don't need we don't need to get nationalism just get rid of nationalism just because germany mucked it up a couple so couple of times. so it was a kind of deliberate joke, obviously understatement. obviously using understatement. that's a joke, right? and they all it like, oh, it's all reported it like, oh, it's fascism, hysteria. the fascism, but it's hysteria. the problem you're allowed a problem is you're allowed a range of views on the left, quite range of quite an extensive range of views ranging i'm a literal views ranging to i'm a literal communist tv , communist on mainstream tv, ranging all the way to diane abbott saying mao did more good than harm on one on than harm on bbc one on mainstream television. on mainstream television. but on the , of course, there's the right, of course, there's no equivalent of equivalent because presumably of the, , horr

rishi sunak was fielding questions from the members of the public this morning during a cringeworthy lbchich he made this soul searching admission . this soul searching admission. >> all the areas that i've set out, you know, when it comes to the nhs, that's the place where we've not made as much progress as i would have liked. >> you've made no progress. >> and you've made no progress. >> and you've made no progress. >> the list >> yeah, no, the waiting list today is higher it was when today is higher than it was when i office. i took office. >> we're on >> so while we're on the subject of prime minister's biggest of the prime minister's biggest failures, don't just failures, why don't i just rattle few more? okay, so rattle off a few more? okay, so there's been a record start to 2024 with over 5400 migrants arriving on small boats. so far this year. that's 43% up from the same time last year. the uk economy fell into a recession at the end of 2023, despite the much lauded national insurance tax cuts. stealth taxes mean brits have less and less in their pay packets in the round. meanwhi