the seekers until france does the same. >> border force officials claim channel migrants are using children as human shields . it's children as human shields. it's a gb news exclusive, a clamp down on disability benefits as millions face the biggest welfare reforms in a generation, with many set to lose cash payments. >> yes, the cost of the welfare bill has rocketed now. conditions such as anxiety and depression may no longer get you benefits. i'll bring you more shortly . shortly. >> king charles is to return to pubuc >> king charles is to return to public life as he prepares to meet cancer patients following his own diagnosis. >> and campaigners and celebrities are set to gather outside westminster ahead of a commons debate today on assisted dying . dying. >> good morning. we'll see an east west split in the weather across the uk today. outbreaks of rain mainly reserved for western spots. the brightest skies always further east, but i have all the details later . on.

have all the details later. on. >> that assisted dying story in many of the newspapers today. so if you've got a view on it, we want to hear from you today. this is how you get in touch. esther rantzen. dame esther rantzen saying no one's going to force a health care professional to bump me off, but i don't want to bump me off, but i don't want to be forced to live longer than i want to. your views. get in touch, let us know and we'll debate that throughout the programme. >> our top story though this morning the government has accused the eu of double standards following ireland's pledge to send asylum seekers back to the uk. >> well, tensions rose after ministers in era threatened to draft emergency laws amid concerns the rwanda plan could increase asylum numbers entering the republic . the republic. >> well, let's speak to the immigration lawyer ivan sampson, who joins to us talk about this this morning. good morning to you. thanks for joining this morning. good morning to you. thanks forjoining us so early. just explain to us a little bit about sort of the dynamics of what's happening

here, because clearly the people crossing the channel are still coming. 900 last week, but it appears that rwanda legislation has spooked a number of people already in the country who've decided to try to get into ireland via northern ireland. and that is causing this row between dublin and westminster. >> indeed. i mean, asylum seekers can do that via stranraer . it's quite seekers can do that via stranraer. it's quite easy to get across the ferry with little or no id, but i don't think asylum seekers are that concerned, as you say, because if labour get in they will revoke the rwanda act. so in any case, in any people we send to rwanda would have to be brought back at a considerable cost. so i don't see really understand how this is going to be a deterrent unless there's a massive change in the in the polls that we're getting and, and conservatives get back in, which is highly unlikely. a labour nonsense. >> ivan, could you just explain to me why having gone to all this trouble that labour would think that it is in anyone's

interest to bring them back from rwanda? >> well , it's the law, rwanda? >> well, it's the law, eamonn. we've got to comply with laws , we've got to comply with laws, the government expects me to comply with laws. and if they want me to comply with laws, i expect the government to comply with our international treaty obligations. now, if we don't like those treaties , let's come like those treaties, let's come out of them. that's that's for voters to decide to bring a government that wants to do that. but we have to comply with international laws. the rwanda act is unlawful act because it appues act is unlawful act because it applies varne most sections of the human rights act. so you've got two different, different types of legislation in conflict with each other. you cannot also stop people appealing to the european court of human rights, which in fact it does through the back door by the secretary of state, overriding any interim measures by the european courts. so it's an unlawful act. we just have to admit it. well, we've heard the we've heard the arguments at length, i suppose you could say about the pros and cons of the rwanda legislation.

>> what i think is new is the irish element in all of this. and now the irish are also threatening to use emergency legislation in order to force us to take back those asylum seekers who have come into their country. that's double standards, isn't it? that's hypocrisy from the european union. until the french take our migrants that are crossing the busy shipping lane of the channel busy shipping lane of the channel, why should we be taking in asylum seekers from from ireland? >> well, we shouldn't, because there's no treaty for us to do that. every country who who has a migrant coming into their territorial waters or their territorial waters or their territorial land has to consider their asylum application within their asylum application within the meaning of the refugee convention. that's but it's very sad because it appears to me that these asylum seekers are the unwanted, we're playing ping pong with them, and nobody wants them. some of the most vulnerable people in the world fleeing. i mean, 60% of those crossing the channel are genuine refugees , has been described as refugees, has been described as illegal migrants or we don't want you. we, you know, go somewhere else. i mean, that

seems to be the attitude of all the countries , in the channel. i the countries, in the channel. i mean, all three france, britain and ireland. nobody wants these people. it must be, very sad for those, fleeing persecution , to those, fleeing persecution, to be treated in this way. >> yeah. i mean, that's the obvious message. i mean, the message is there, which nobody seems to accept, you're not wanted our countries can't take you. ireland, who had open doors to everybody . we now, of course, to everybody. we now, of course, are completely clogged up. i mean, the whole situation, even in the republic of ireland, has got totally out of hand. and they they're saying, oh , come, they they're saying, oh, come, come and stay with us all. be with us now. they don't want migrants. >> look, the countries have to work together. we can't do what australia did . and that the australia did. and that the government's copying operation sappy. this is where all this came about. push the boats back . came about. push the boats back. let's not have them. it came about from the australian model . about from the australian model. and it didn't work because the

australians realised the cost of sending people abroad was astronomical. it was like $1 million per person and i don't think the cost of sending it to people to rwanda is any much less than that, so that's not the answer. the answer has to be a treaty with the eu. it worked under the dublin convention. we need to have a similar treaty that if you don't claim asylum , that if you don't claim asylum, in in europe, you cannot claim asylum here. and if you do that, we will send you back the proper screening wasn't hugely successful, but i'm interested though. von der leyen, obviously the eu commissioner, she's saying that they now want to copy our rwanda deal. so you know, you can't have it both ways, can you, that we're these outliers and we're breaking all these european conventions and yet the europeans are now looking at what we're doing, going, oh, that looks like a good idea, isn't it? >> look, we've got to uphold the law. you cannot as a government, ask people to break the law.

it's wrong. the civil servants themselves are in a very difficult position because there was a policy of pushing back migrants and the civil servants. the border force said , we're not the border force said, we're not going to do that unless you give us immunity. i mean, this government really hasn't got a grasp of this problem. the border force are not securing our borders . our borders are our borders. our borders are really determined that people coming across by the weather, i mean, if you have nice weather, we have loads of people. if you have a bad weather, we don't. it's not by the, the actions and policies and strategies of our border force. and it's an absolutely shameful state of affairs. we need to sack the head of the border force, sir, the immigration minister, and get people in who can do the job, or even better, get rid of this government and get a new government in that can get a handle on this. >> and ivan, you're missing the whole point. this country can't take all these people. now we've got all sorts of do gooders like you who are saying, you know, rightly awful. were these people come from awful? what they're

going through, but it's awful what's happening in this country as well . and if you've got up to as well. and if you've got up to as well. and if you've got up to a million people a year coming in illegally or legally into this country, we do. we simply do not have the infrastructure we can't afford to look after them. we can't afford to look after the people who are already here. and people are saying, what about our own homeless? what about our own people who haven't got space in hospital and whatever ? and surely you can and whatever? and surely you can see we're just not capable of accepting all these people. >> well, let me correct those facts first of all for you. and we don't have a million people coming here who are costing us money, simply not true. asylum seekers account for about 40 to 50,000 people a year, a lot less than germany and france, for example. half of what they're taking can we afford 50,000 people? i think we can. the other 950,000 that you talk about, we can't afford , they about, we can't afford, they actually pay into the system. let me give you an example. they pay let me give you an example. they pay immigration health surcharge for medical treatment. so as

well as paying national insurance contributions for that treatment, they pay additional fee of that surcharge of £1,000 a year. so and they're paying into the tax system. most people don't have a huge proportion of net migration is made up of students who obviously aren't earning and they aren't paying national insurance and all of those things. >> but i accept your point about the percentage of people entering illegally. it's clearly a huge problem. it was interesting robert jenrick over the weekend saying he wants to see net migration into the tens of thousands. governments have been burnt by this. they won't pin a number down ever again , i pin a number down ever again, i don't think. but do you have a figure in your mind of what you think would be affordable, acceptable to you? >> we shouldn't. look, if we could have no migration at all. wonderful. if we had british people or settled people to do the jobs, that would be fantastic. the problem is we don't. the skilled, the shortage of skilled workers is putting our economy at risk. the

migrants that you know, people complain about, they are most of them are skilled workers under them are skilled workers under the skilled worker visa. we don't have people to do the jobs. so as long as there's a gap, we will continue to recruit people from abroad. now, if we have a long term plan to educate our youngsters to get those skills , get people into those skills, get people into those jobs, we won't need to rely upon foreign workers. so it's a long term solution, not a short term one. >> what a complex situation, ivan.thank >> what a complex situation, ivan. thank you for putting your your arguments and your counter—arguments with all of this. it's certainly food for thought for people. today we'll leave it with you. we'll ask everybody else watching and listening at home, what do you think of what ivan has had to say and what we've had to say to him? where do you stand on this? i suspect you listen to the arguments for and against, and you still say, sorry, the doors are closed. we're not interested . and, gbnews.com/yoursay have your say. your say is there get

involved in that. yes. >> conversation and sticking with the topic, border force officials have told gb news of their concerns of channel migrants using children as human shields to stop police puncturing their small boats. >> yeah, okay. we're going to talk about this. we're also going to talk about the irish situation. we want to know if you live in the republic of ireland and get in touch with us today, because we want to know your migrant experience. all very nice, all very good. then it all went very wrong. why? let's go to our homeland security editor, mark white. now mark's been given exclusive access to the whole small boats operation in dover. here's what he saw. >> this is a rare look inside the small boats operational command at dover harbour. as we filmed the border force vessel defender was alongside offload another 66 channel migrants the latest of more than 7000 who have arrived here so far this year. have arrived here so far this year . and this their mode of

year. and this their mode of transport large but extremely flimsy inflatable rafts made for the criminal gangs in back street factories . i mean, these street factories. i mean, these aren't seaworthy for anything because they are just not made to any standard. trevor taylor has seen increasing numbers packed into these vessels 70 or 80 migrants on each boat is now common. >> it's just it's just not safe the way it's constructed. i mean, this is typical where if there was a cut or a punch in one part of this boat, there was a cut or a punch in one part of this boat , the whole one part of this boat, the whole thing would go down. >> makeshift puncture repair kits and cheap pumps are often all the migrants have as they battle to stay afloat . and there battle to stay afloat. and there are very few, if any, effective life jackets. >> just show you an example of that. >> just show you an example of that . and that's probably not that. and that's probably not just for a child. they'll probably give that to an adult as well, saying that's going to save you . another example just save you. another example just back here is an inner tube. we

quite often see them or they're handed out in a packet to basically, if you panic, inflate one of those yourself and the engines two are completely unsuitable for the english channel unsuitable for the english channel, lacking power and to prone breaking down. >> you look at the engine, you might think , yeah, that's might think, yeah, that's a proper engine. some of you might expect , however, the organised expect, however, the organised crime groups , they put stickers crime groups, they put stickers like this on their c30 to try to trick you into thinking, oh, 30 horsepower. in reality, it's somewhere between ten and 15. it's a really not suitable to go on the boat itself, especially at sea. >> the surge in violence along the french coast is of huge concern to authorities on both sides of the channel. staff in dover have seen increasing numbers of migrants arriving with injuries , including stab wounds. >> the violence that is now shown to our french colleagues,

trying to prevent the launches, trying to prevent the launches, trying to prevent the launches, trying to save these people from from putting their lives at risk is huge. we've seen them attacked with sticks, metal bars , machetes, using women and children that are there to, you know, to, to, to cross, using them as human shields to prevent law enforcement taking action. and it's growing. it's getting w0 i'se. woi'se. >> worse. >> this key site here at dover harbour is where the channel migrants first set foot on british soil. of migrants first set foot on british soil . of course, if british soil. of course, if rishi sunaks rwanda plan comes to full fruition, then they won't be here for long. many of them will be on a flight to east africa , but those flights are africa, but those flights are likely still months away and as weather conditions improve in the weeks ahead, many more of these flimsy migrant boats will arrive in uk waters unseaworthy and dangerously overloaded. mark whyte, gb news is at the small boats operational command in

dover. doven >> mark, that's a big theme for us throughout the program this morning. some other stories coming into the newsroom. this is what we've got for you. >> reports claim humza yousaf is preparing to quit as scotland's first minister after deciding his leadership is no longer tenable. ministers have been told the snp leader decided over the weekend that there is no way for him to survive this week's vote of no confidence. we'll stay across that story for you this morning and bring you any updates as we get them and your views welcome. >> more human remains have been found in two locations in greater manchester. after a torso was discovered in a nature reserve, greater manchester police say they believe the victim was a man in his 60s from salford. his family have been informed and a british tourist who was seriously injured in a shark attack off a caribbean island is aware of what's happening and can communicate in intensive care. >> his wife has revealed. peter smith was savaged ten metres off the shore near the starfish hotel in courland bay, on the north coast of tobago, on friday

morning . morning. >> an awful story that so this man, he was aware he was being eaten, mauled, attacked by the shark. i mean, being in the water and just being devoured. >> i mean, the chances of a shark attack are so small, but i just still always have an irrational fear. every time i go in the sea, i just can't enjoy swimming in hot seas because i just always think i'm going to be eaten well there in the cold season. >> i as well here, there off the coast of britain. >> yeah, but they're not bitey ones. who they are. have we had any shark attacks? >> no they are. it's because the way the thermals of the world are changing, the sort of great. >> another benefit. >> another benefit. >> yeah. no, no they are, they are, 616 is the time governments set to overhaul disability benefits. millions of you facing the biggest welfare reform in a generation. yeah. >> so those who are suffering from conditions including depression and anxiety could now

lose their cash handouts in favour of talking therapies and social care packages. >> well, let's go to katherine forster, who's here to tell us more on all of this. forster, who's here to tell us more on all of this . do you more on all of this. do you know, catherine, whether this is needed or not, i'm just looking and thinking, here we go. another election game. make people think we're going to be tough on benefits . and, is this tough on benefits. and, is this serious ? serious? >> they are serious about it because basically it's costing the government, i.e. the taxpayer, ultimately an absolute fortune . and the cost has gone fortune. and the cost has gone through the roof since justifiable . justifiable. >> well, how can you turn around and say, well, you're you're disabled, therefore you don't deserve this. that's going to be a tough call to make. >> well, certainly. and there will be lots of people will be up in arms. but what the government is saying is particularly conditions like anxiety and depression that have gone up significantly, especially since this pandemic conditions, stuff that you can't really prove they are saying it's much better to keep people in work, and work can actually

be good for you and good for your mental health. and rather than basically paying people to sit at home, let's help you with talking therapies with other things . and they want to save a things. and they want to save a lot of money, because at the moment it's costing 50 billion a yeah moment it's costing 50 billion a year. working age sickness benefits. that's projected to go up benefits. that's projected to go ”p by benefits. that's projected to go up by 20 billion more by the end of the decade. a couple of problems. i think there's nearly 2 million people on nhs waiting lists for mental health treatment and support. so it's all very well saying you're better with talking therapies, but 2 million people waiting for mental health support, the government saying, are we going to give an extra 400,000 talking therapies? but still, you know, we've got these huge logjams in the nhs , but the government the nhs, but the government think it's needed. they say we can't afford it. taxpayers won't tolerate these rising bills . and tolerate these rising bills. and the other thing is, as you've said, they're making a dividing line with labour. labour haven't responded saying what they will do, but rishi sunak apart from

the defection of dan poulter, did have a really good week. also, he had the announcements on welfare benefits just over a week ago. then they finally get the rwanda plan through parliament. then he was in poland and berlin. i was with him. i have to say, this big announcement on defence spending. he did seem in a really, really good, upbeat mood. i mean, let's face it, they're 20 points behind in the polls. but he didn't seem to me like a man about to call a general election. >> okay, but we've got to pay for that. >> is he paying for it with these sort of cuts? pay for the defence spending? >> well, they've said that they're going to pay for the defence spending largely by cuts to the civil service 70,000 jobs that take it back to the size it was before the pandemic. we're not quite convinced that that is going to cover it. it does sound like ultimately there will be other cuts, some somewhere, and

we don't know where. so that's an open. >> so you thought the pm looked buoyed at the end of last week. then we've had dan poulter over the weekend defecting. huge blow. and we all know that the local elections are going to be i mean difficult is a mild way of putting it i suppose. and reports over the weekend of yet more tory rebel plots to possibly oust him. i mean, are we genuinely looking at a situation where there could be a vote of no confidence in rishi sunak, that there could be either a coronation or a new leader this time next week being announced? leadership contest of some sort. >> it is possible they need just over 50, letters to sir graham brady. the estimates from the rebels are currently 20 something, i personally think that it's unlikely to happen, obviously the conservatives are going to have an awful time with a local elections because the last time these seats came up , last time these seats came up, it was the sort of high water mark. it was the vaccine bounce. bons mark. it was the vaccine bounce. boris johnson 2021. so they're defending about a thousand

seats. they expect to lose about half of them. i think rishi sunak can weather that. i think if , if, some of the mayoral ones if, if, some of the mayoral ones that are up. ben houchen in tees valley conservative mayor andy street in the west midlands. if they both lost that . would send they both lost that. would send a very worrying signal. and i think then there could be a flurry of letters going in. whether it would be enough. i don't know. but yeah, some talk of penny mordaunt being lined up to be. she doesn't want it. well, why would you want it at this point, given the chances are they are going to be out of office, why would you not want to wait and be rishi with the poisoned chalice? exactly. so i personally think it's unlikely. but then, you know, boris johnson got an 80 seat majority. they got rid of him. we had another prime minister for seven weeks. they got rid of her. i mean, politics has been crazy, so never say never. so never say never. >> so never say never. >> yeah , true. anything's possible. >> so disability benefits,

welfare benefits , particularly welfare benefits, particularly those to do with mental health. if you're receiving those people should be worried that those may not last. well well certainly mental health what they're going to describe as sort of ordinary worries that ordinary problems of life that you need to be supported and work through those. >> i mean, obviously there's a spectrum with anxiety and depression, which goes from quite mild and able to function to potentially suicidal. so i do think the government has got to be very, very careful with this . be very, very careful with this. >> catherine. thank you, thank you. >> see, you. > see, i , you. >> see, i, i worry about paul coyte today. why? well, he's not here, right. he's not here. and, you know, it's just such an awful thing happened to him at the weekend. the north london derby. >> and i think that's why he's he's not here today. he's taken to his sickbed. definitely. he's not sick, you know, he's a big spurs man. he commentator. he, he introduced his players in half time entertainment and all

sorts of things at the tottenham stadium and you know, and then that that victory by arsenal, i just think sent him over the edge. >> it's been a bit too much. on dean >> it's been a bit too much. oh dear. well we miss you paul. we hope you get over it soon. >> i didn't say that. i said he isn't here. >> well i said i missed him. there you go, the story of the weather is going to be a country of two halves. marco petagna will explain it much better. here's your forecast. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . solar sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to mixed weather conditions across the uk during the week ahead, all of us seeing some rain at times, but temperatures will also be on the rise. back to the detail for today now and we've got an east west split weather wise across the uk, outbreaks of rain moving in across many western spots from the south, turning heavy at times accompanied by a fairly brisk breeze to that rain

reaching scotland as we head into the afternoon. so it's the east and southeast that's set to hold on to the best of the conditions. certainly the southeast of england seeing plenty of sunshine and in the sunshine it should feel fairly pleasant out and about with fairly gentle winds towards the southeast, two temperatures peaking at 16 or 17 degrees near a 12 to 14 towards the northwest. as we head into the evening and during the overnight period, further outbreaks of rain will move in across many northern and western parts of the uk, moving up there from the south and again turning quite heavy in nature at times accompanied by a fairly brisk southerly wind. so it's always the southeast holding on to the clearest skies. but wherever you are it will be a frost free night, certainly much milder than in recent nights. lows in the rain 7 to 10 celsius. as for tuesday, with the east west split continues with further pulses of rain moving up across many western spots. as we go through the day again, the outbreaks of rain turning heavy at times and still quite breezy out across western areas, whereas further east, plenty of fine weather around, lots of sunshine. but notice 1 or 2 showers developing across the southeast as we head into the afternoon. what temperatures are still on the climb, though? up to 18 celsius towards the

southeast, so still pretty warm for the time of year. near 17 degrees at best in the north that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers spots of weather on . gb news. >> stay with us. still to come. can we expect a reunion from king charles and his son prince harry as the runaway prince makes a comeback? find

>> and we're about to report on some good news. finally, for the royal family. as we hear that king charles is set to return to pubuc king charles is set to return to public life tomorrow . public life tomorrow. >> and with just a week to go before prince harry visits the uk to mark the 10th anniversary of the invictus games, could a family reunion be on the cards? >> okay, joining us now, a former bbc royal correspondent, michael cole. michael. morning good to see you, is it a priority , a family reunion or is

priority, a family reunion or is the invictus games the priority ? the invictus games the priority? >> good morning amy. good morning isabel. well, we're almost falling over the anniversaries. the royal anniversaries. the royal anniversaries at the moment. a week from today is the first anniversary of the coronation and as you say, prince harry will be in town next week for a celebration and a service of thanksgiving at saint paul's cathedral for the 10th anniversary of the invictus games. a brilliant, innovation by him, something which upon which we can congratulate him and to remember what he used to do when he was the happy prince and fulfilling a very vital function. and of course, today , function. and of course, today, may of all days, a bright and sunny day, 13 years ago that saw the wedding of the prince and princess of wales, at westminster abbey. and we were all getting together for that. by all getting together for that. by the way, a 13th wedding anniversary. i can tell you, is called a lace wedding. so if you

want to give gifts as gifts of lace or linen, table linen tablecloths, sheets and so on. so that would be appropriate next year. a bit of a problem for prince william, because a 14th wedding anniversary is an ivy vie wedding anniversary. and of course, the prince is dead set against anything to do with ivory not just stopping the trade, but he wants to get all the ivory out of the royal connections and have it destroyed. that maybe will have to wait if and when he becomes king. so, as you say , eamonn, a king. so, as you say, eamonn, a lot going on at these times. we'll see what happens when harry comes. i wouldn't be at all surprised if he has a meeting with his father. i cannot see in any way, shape or form that there will be a meeting with his older brother. the trouble there, is too deep. the trouble there, is too deep. the hurt is too deep. and that's going to take a lot of fence mending , if i can put it like

mending, if i can put it like this, i think, prince harry would have to, mend enough fences to completely encircle the 20 000 acres of the sandringham royal estate before his brother will start speaking to him again. so it will be an interesting watch for next week. but i think people will also be remembering , the glory of the remembering, the glory of the coronation, just a little bit over a year ago. >> yes. gosh hasn't that flown past and what a year it has been. and fantastic to see that the king has responded so well to his treatment. i was hearing this morning that prince harry and meghan are planning a trip to west africa soon. do you know what this is all about and why he's chosen nigeria specifically? >> yeah, well, of course nigeria is the most populous country in the whole of africa . and the whole of africa. and apparently they met somebody, who's a high up in kano in the in the nigerian capital, and he's invited them there and they've responded to it. it

reminds you of the sort of things that he was so good at doing. he he was a good communicator. he's a good public speaken communicator. he's a good public speaker, as we've witnessed, he was playing a very full part, in the royal family before he went into self—imposed exile in america. so we'll see what happens. i mean, i don't think this is a putative alternative court being set up in the california camelot on the hilltop in montecito. but why not go out there ? and the not go out there? and the duchess of sussex, meghan has made it very clear that she identifies very strongly with people from african heritage, and now she can see it, in all its glory in nigeria, which of course has very strong links with this country over, over many, many years. but i think we ought to have three cheers for the waleses today, because although they've been married for 13 years, they were together for 13 years, they were together for seven years before that. so in a way it's a 20th

anniversary, as well as being a 13th. and what has happened a lot has happened in that time, you know, three children and now the princess is so bravely, gallantly , and, commendably , gallantly, and, commendably, facing up to the terrible, challenges that come with cancer treatment while at the same time rearing and bringing up very nicely three lovely children in her hair, can't disagree with that, can i ask you why we. i mean, this is an obvious question, really, but why meghan isn't accompanying harry to london for this invictus games, event coming up, and indeed, the possible meeting with the king. >> well, obviously, they always have their own reasons. they don't tell us very much, but i think, isabel, you've twigged it anyway. you understand that, it would, of course , bring the would, of course, bring the spotlight onto her and i'm quite sure that neither of them wants that at this particular moment.

we have to remember that what prince harry did, he saw something that that was missing . something that that was missing. he'd served two tours in, in, afghanistan . i think he came afghanistan. i think he came back on a transport plane with coffins containing the bodies. the mortal remains of british soldiers, and he met and knew people who'd been terribly injured. and he he saw there was a need for this, and it was immediately recognised worldwide . i mean, more than a dozen, maybe 20 countries are now taking part in listing their, their disabled and injured service people in these games. and that's a brilliant initiative and i commend him for that. and i think everybody , that. and i think everybody, right. thinking people would do so. so it just actually underscores what's been lost, what he has lost out by severing ties with the country .

ties with the country. which he says he loves, and who will always love and what we've lost in the princess diana's second son. and, you know, i think of her because she's much missed, and she said to those boys, she made them promise when they were quite young that they would always be there for each other, but they would always support each other. and they made that promise. and i hope that maybe prince harry reflects upon his mother's wishes and his mother's words while he's here in london, the city of his birth, and maybe starts to do something, to reconcile at the moment, the sides are too far apart, but, who knows? there's always a possibility , i think, in this possibility, i think, in this life, one of the most terrible things you can ever see is brothers fighting and when they're brothers of the royal blood, it's somehow even worse. >> okay. sad thought , to end on, >> okay. sad thought, to end on, michael. thank you very much indeed. michael. thank you very much indeed . we'll we'll leave it indeed. we'll we'll leave it there. appreciate it. we'll have more royal, talk, 9:15 this morning. angela levin, the royal

author. we have her live on the program for her thoughts. >> well joined now to discuss the government's crackdown on disability benefits by the work and pensions secretary, mel stride. good morning to you. you are announcing what's being described as the biggest change to welfare benefits in a generation. and you've identified something that is a huge problem for taxpayers claims, having doubled since before the pandemic, costing us £28 billion a year. how are you going to resolve this problem ? going to resolve this problem? >> well, what we've launched today , today is a consultation today, today is a consultation on the future of something called the personal independence payment. that is something that's paid to disabled people as a contribution to the additional costs of their disability . disability. >> and look, you're absolutely right. that benefit along with others actually in terms of costs have been spiralling ever upwards . and we know that over upwards. and we know that over the next five years. currently, pip is due to be costing an additional £13 billion per year.

so we need to look at the financial sustainability of benefits , but specifically on benefits, but specifically on pip. i think it's very important. we also ask key questions about how it operates. is it properly targeting those who need the help most? one of the concerns i have, for example, are there are those with progressive lifelong conditions , where currently we conditions, where currently we know, sadly, people will not be getting better through time and yet they're having to go through reassessments, jump through bureaucratic hoops and so on. and i want to really look at whether that's appropriate. and we can't do things better. i want to look at best practice internationally, and i want to look at the nature of the support. that's actually provided. should it be cash benefits, or should we also be looking, for example, at health care support for those , care support for those, particularly those that are on pip through reasons of mental health conditions? >> explain that one to us, mel, because, the danger is that the people who are suffering in some

way, whether mentally or physically, will just be left without help. how do you see their treatment progressing ? their treatment progressing? >> well, if you have somebody who's on paper at the moment and they have a health condition, they have a health condition, they would be receiving typically a fixed amount of money per month in order to help them with costs. now, what actually may be more important in those circumstances will be effective treatment. now, the chancellor announced 400,000 additional talking therapies within the nhs, for example, in the last budget. now that combined often actually with assistance and help, getting people into employment if they're not already in employ payment and receiving a paper, the kind of things that can make a huge difference to people's lives. and we see different approaches , around the world. approaches, around the world. and in fact, we're very interested in our consultation interested in our consultation in looking what other countries are doing here. nobody is doing

it quite the way we're doing it. and i think there's a lot that we can potentially learn from what other countries are doing. >> and whilst we've been in the midst and we are still in the midst and we are still in the midst of the sort of policy blizzard coming from, from government at the moment, lots of announcements taking place. there are undoubtedly some challenges for the prime minister, specifically coming up. you've had the defection over the weekend, rumours of yet more rebellions and possibly a vote of no confidence for the prime minister. and of course, thursday looming large . how thursday looming large. how confident are you that this time next week we won't be talking about possibly a new prime minister, a new person to lead the conservative party >> no, i really don't think that thatis >> no, i really don't think that that is going to happen. and the reason is that i think my colleagues in parliament know that what we've got to focus on now are the great successes that we've had, and we've got to continue to communicate. so, for example, the reduction in the level of inflation down from 11.1 to 3.2, that's taking a lot of those, cost pressures off from people . real wages have

from people. real wages have been rising now for nine consecutive months. we've seen since september of last year 200,000 fewer people on those nhs backlogs. we've made this commitment to spend more on defence. we're cutting people's taxes right now, £900 per year, less in tax due to the national insurance double taxation that we've been reducing . so those we've been reducing. so those are the things that we've got to communicate. and i think the vast majority of my colleagues in parliament know that . in parliament know that. >> okay. i've got to ask you about the situation with dublin confrontation, confrontation brewing, frankly, between yourselves and them. how do you resolve this? i mean, do you think that there is a bit of hypocrisy going on here in terms of insisting we take back these asylum seekers that want to get away from the rwanda deal and seek refuge in ireland ? seek refuge in ireland? >> well, i think what we know is that we've now passed the rwanda bill and we're already seeing some of the effect of that happening in the sense that some people are now thinking, well,

i'm going to potentially be sent to rwanda and therefore, the uk is a less attractive place to be in. and that's the very purpose of the bill. now, as to what's happening in ireland, we're not in a position where we're able, for example, to return people to france who come here illegally, and so i think that, you know, is, is kind of plays into the discussions and the position that we're in when it comes to people that are going across the northern ireland, republic of ireland border. but look, we will be working very closely with irish counterparts . i know with irish counterparts. i know that the home secretary is soon to have a meeting with his , to have a meeting with his, irish counterpart to look at these things , but we certainly these things, but we certainly don't have any plans to, you know, be in there standing in the way of people leaving the uk. the whole purpose of the policy, in fact, is to act as a deterrent. and i think what you're seeing here is the early signs of that deterrent working stride. >> thanks for your time . thanks >> thanks for your time. thanks for your opinions. we'll we'll leave it there. thank you very much indeed. thank you. thank

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next. okay, so what's got everybody talking today? let's have a look at the front pages of the papers. guardian, first of all. >> yeah. they're leading with the home office's rwanda plan. as deportation preparations get underway. in a shock move today . underway. in a shock move today. >> you sound woman. who's that sort of film star? >> nicole kidman? >> nicole kidman? >> was it the nicole kidman? all right . and there's meghan and right. and there's meghan and harry and that's. well what's shein? >> well she she's just got a lifetime achievement award. the first australian to get it in la. last night, right. let's go to the mail. it says tens of thousands of foreign nationals are exploiting short term visas to stay in the uk. the mirror leads with rishi sunak facing

fresh demands to call a general election . election. >> time's up, they say at the telegraph, leading with the government accusing the eu of double standards after ireland vowed to send asylum seekers to the uk. >> times leads with threat to benefits which we've just been talking about, and joining us to go through what is there and making the news, we've got paula london and we've got kriss akabusi . very good to see you akabusi. very good to see you both. morning, right. where are we going to begin? here, chris, this whole thing about the depressed may lose benefits. we've just talked to the work and pensions secretary, about this. they're going to try and continue with therapies. they'll take the money away, but they'll still have to pay for therapies for people. yes. >> yeah. mark steyn. i heard you speaking to him , i think in speaking to him, i think in a societies is should be measured on how well it takes care of people who can't take care of themselves, it seems like an easy win for the government, but i've got experience of mental

health issues in my sort of family. and i do remember once this person, i'm trying to sort of protect him, this person really being upset because, his benefits were being taken away and his challenge was, well, you don't really know what's going on in my life. and he spiralled out and pretty quickly was put back on his medication again. i know this is talking about benefits as opposed to medication , but i'm wondering medication, but i'm wondering how you really assess whether people require this pip or not. now, i do get it that over the last sort of 20 years, we've got a lot more familiar and comfortable talking about mental health issues , you know, things health issues, you know, things like adhd, dyslexia , ocd in our like adhd, dyslexia, ocd in our lexicon now and people expecting to be compensated for it either in form of payment or treatment. >> yeah. i mean, particularly youngsters. >> yes, exactly . well, the >> yes, exactly. well, the treatment that the government tries to say, okay, let's go on to therapies, talking therapies,

cbt , you know, personal sensible cbt, you know, personal sensible therapy , gestalt. let's talk therapy, gestalt. let's talk about the issue because his . about the issue because his. position is some of them are just stuff we've got to get on. there is anxiety just being in life. >> well this is what mel stride said. he said we should not be paying said. he said we should not be paying people to deal with the ordinary difficulties of life. yeah. and i think the prime minister has said that he doesn't want to see those people who have genuine conditions being parked on benefits. and i think that was an interesting phraseology, language as well, because i think you can actually difficulties of life. well, that was mel stride, but i think the, the parked bit from, from the pm was interesting because actually what they're trying to say is getting back to work, having those social interactions can help with your mental health problems. not all of them. they're obviously talking about these speaking therapies and other practices. but to sit at home parked, dwelling on your problems. yeah. the thing is something for the country. >> well, no, i mean, we have to think about it fiscally, we need to have grown up conversations.

so many people are speaking about it and they're saying, how dare you demonise people that have mental health conditions? and this is not what i'm saying. in 2020, 42 billion was sent, was spent on people with disabilities. the health conditions. it's now 69 billion. this is not sustainable. and the fact of the matter is that people don't really like to talk about it. it's the elephant in the room. you can get more money sitting on your backside than getting up and going to work full time. and people that get pip, that's £700 a month. you do not have to have a physical disability to get that, and then you can get universal credit, and then you can get t—w—r—a. so this totals £1,500 and housing is on top. so a lot of people are breaking their back to go to work. and then people are sitting at home getting more money and you know, people that have physical disabilities that have physical disabilities that have a huge amount of empathy for and people with mental disabilities. but too many people are playing the system. >> it does seem like a dramatic increase since pre—pandemic, double. it's doubled in the last yeah double. it's doubled in the last year. yeah. >> people have got used to being paid to sit at home at covid and then, you know, if they know, they can go to their doctor, say

that they're depressed and sit at home and get more money than working full time in a job you don't like. this is why people are doing it. i think you said the word that you mentioned, covid. >> you know that was a massive, impact on people's mental health. and i don't know about you, but, i mean, i would i don't know anybody who would rather sit home for £700, but they get 704 hundred universal credit and 400. >> so that's £1,500. and then the rents on top. not many people work full term, full time and have £1,500 and their rent paid. so that's the problem . paid. so that's the problem. well it's a little too generous what you think you're say is the way to do it. >> gbnews.com/yoursay is it to generous? are we a nation of scroungers, as some people seem to think? or as grace was saying, that you should judge a society by how they treat their sick. and let's move on to something less controversial, shall we, paula? yeah. and rwanda , the guardian today rwanda, the guardian today talking about this operation to sweep up some of these guys that are going to be on the first flight wasn't expected to be so

soon. it's happening from today. >> do you know, i think it's absolutely amazing as they're tricking not tricking people. a lot of people that have been arrested that are asylum seekers, for me, they should be deported immediately because they're taking advantage of our good nature. you know, if you're a genuine asylum seeker, the last thing you should do is go to the country that's trying to help you and then commit a crime in their country. so once these people are on bail, they're catching them and saying, right, we're going to put you down to go to rwanda. so i think that's very, very good. and these people should be the first to be told to go the ones that are on bail. so yeah, it's a great thing i do feel bad for the irish people though, because a lot of british people that have come here, as asylum seekers are now going to ireland. so i do feel bad that they've got a big problem in ireland themselves. yeah. but yeah, i think it's a good thing. and i think this could you never know, rishi sunak could win the election if they were on the scheme works, they were on the scheme works, the irish thing i think has to be highlighted because too, for too long ireland chris was was shown as the land of milk and

honey for migrants. and the doors are open and everybody's welcoming. and then the tide turned big time. and now they're in a situation where they're saying, we're not taking people that are coming in from northern ireland because they're worried. the ones in northern ireland are worried that they may be rounded up and sent to rwanda. so they're saying, let's head across the border down south and down south, realised they've got a huge problem and their people have turned against this whole idea of open door policy. and so what what has to be done. well. >> so it's interesting for me then that the people who came across on boats, wherever they carried on, on lorries to the uk have actually gone back to the european union via ireland. we're saying , so my european union via ireland. we're saying, so my part is, okay, so send it back to the mainland europe. i'm not comfortable at this with around the policy business. i don't know how effective it's going to be except for i do get that. it will be a massive tick on mr sunak's box of i'll get the job done.i sunak's box of i'll get the job done. i said, i'm going to do it, i've done it. check me out.

so i think, you know, one of the other things about the election, he may be waiting to show that he's an effective politician, and he got the job done with people who, on that very first flight, i don't know how many people are going to be on the flight. one of the papers says that there was 5000 or 7000 people have come across into the country or small boats, since the turn of the of the year. well how many of those 7000 are going to go, or do we start with a massive queue of people that are here ad infinitum, which is start with the people that are on board, the ones that have already been arrested for a crime in this country, 100. >> because the main reason i want to stop the boats is because of national security and the safety of people. it's the safety these people, they're already on bail. when they've come over here. they're not going to be good british citizens. we don't want these people. yeah. i want to ask both of you when you're out and about shopping, have you noticed, the cost of living crisis and how expensive things are? >> i was watching a farming program last night, and they were talking about how the, they're terrible wet weather. chris, is really has has, just

killed, the wheat harvests and things like that. and therefore the result of all of this is bread, biscuits, beer. will rise in price. >> yeah, i think we've we've struggled since the war in ukraine and russia and then being a bread basket and we've seen, you know , interest rates seen, you know, interest rates the rise in retail costs . and the rise in retail costs. and you just go to the shops and just look at your, your basic necessities. how expensive it really is today. and then you've got this as a looming crisis coming down the road. i happened to be in lincolnshire last week visiting a brewery. what a great a great kind of new tradition brewery. and when you drive through, lincolnshire , you can through, lincolnshire, you can see the beautiful fields of cauliflowers and wheat aslef and the devastation of the rain. so i've been complaining because i can't play my golf. that's a small. that's small beer

compared to we can't feed ourselves . because we can't. ourselves. because we can't. >> food crisis. yeah. >> food crisis. yeah. >> we can't plant things in time. we can't harvest in time. you know, because the farmer relies on the conditions, obviously, to harvest in due time. >> yeah. yeah. i mean, grocery inflation is much higher than cpi. and i've noticed like even on deliveroo or other apps , on deliveroo or other apps, similar apps. i wanted to buy some ketchup, for instance. and on one on one supermarket it was £3 and another supermarket it was £5. so for the same boss for the same for the same size. so it's just blatant profiteering seeing if they can get away with it. but i was one of my favourite. biscuits are actually malted milk and i they're only £0.20 so that's still the same price. and i love them because when you say when you say that because shrinkflation has really come on my radar. >> yeah, same price, but half the packet. >> well that's good. i'll lose some weight then, you know. but yeah, the gross inflation is very bad. but you need to shop around because people are just taking advantage. >> there's a programme on channel 4 last night presented by the amazing denise van outen, and it was talking about, own brands as against branded and

soap powders and biscuits and whatever . and basically they whatever. and basically they came to the conclusion there is no difference. yeah there's absolutely difference. well i've just saved money buying the supermarket own brand. >> yeah. well, often i buy a brand by the same person. are they. so it's just a psychology. they're manufactured to come right out of the same factory distribution centre. it's just branded differently to the to get out of that habit of wanting the brand name. >> yeah, it's like makeup too. sometimes makeup can be cheaper andifs sometimes makeup can be cheaper and it's made in the same factory. >> and yeah, good, good, good guys see us again. >> 45 minutes, chris and paula, will it be a weather for farmers? >> let's find out from marco britannia . britannia. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb views. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to mixed weather conditions across the uk during the week ahead. all of us seeing some

rain at times, but temperatures will also be on the rise. back to the detail for today now and we've got an east west split weather wise across the uk. outbreaks of rain moving in across many western spots from the south, turning heavy at times, accompanied by a fairly brisk breeze to that rain reaching scotland as we head into the afternoon. so it's the east and southeast that's set to hold on to the best of the conditions. certainly the south—east of england seeing plenty of sunshine and in the sunshine it should feel fairly pleasant out and about with fairly gentle winds towards the southeast, two temperatures peaking at 16 or 17 degrees near a 12 to 14 towards the northwest. as we head into the evening and during the overnight period, further outbreaks of rain will move in across many northern and western parts of the uk. moving up there from the south and again turning quite heavy in nature, at times accompanied by a fairly brisk southerly wind. so it's always the southeast holding to on the clearest skies. but wherever you are it will be a frost free night. certainly much milder than in recent nights. lows in the range 7 to 10 celsius. as for tuesday, with the east west split continues with further pulses of rain moving up across money western spots as we go

through the day. again, the outbreaks of rain turning heavy at times and still quite breezy out across western areas, whereas further east plenty of fine weather around, lots of sunshine. but notice 1 or 2 showers developing across the southeast as we head into the afternoon in water. temperatures are still on the climb, though up to 18 celsius towards the southeast, so still pretty warm for the time of year. near 17 degrees at best in the north that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sperm . boxt boilers sperm. >> answers of weather on

gb news. way. >> and very good morning to you. it is 7:00. it's monday, the 29th of april, and you are tuned into breakfast with eamonn holmes and isabel webster. >> nice to have your company leading our news this morning. this is what we've got. tensions are growing between britain and ireland as number 10 attacks. european union double standards. he refuses to take back asylum

seekers if they come his way until france does the same with the uk . the uk. >> border force officials claim channel migrants are using children as human shields. it's a gb news exclusive , we've been a gb news exclusive, we've been talking about a clampdown on disability benefits. millions of you face the biggest welfare reforms in a generation. many of you set to lose cash payments. what do you think of that one? the work and pensions secretary, mel stride , had this to say mel stride, had this to say about benefits, along with others. >> actually, in terms of costs have been spiralling ever upwards and we know that over the next five years. currently, pip is due to be costing an additional £13 billion per year. >> charles is to return to pubuc >> charles is to return to public life as he prepares to meet cancer patients following his own diagnosis. >> and campaigners and celebrities are set to gather outside westminster today ahead of a commons debate on assisted dying . this is a big one. we're

dying. this is a big one. we're going to be debating it. >> good morning. we'll see an east west split in the weather across the uk today. outbreaks of rain mainly reserved for western spots . the brightest western spots. the brightest skies always further east. but i have all the details later . on. have all the details later. on. >> so our top story this morning. the government has accused the eu of double standards following ireland's pledge to send asylum seekers back to the uk , though tensions back to the uk, though tensions in this whole front are rising after ministers in ireland threatened to draft emergency laws because of concerns the rwanda plan could increase asylum numbers entering the public. >> in other words , as we go to >> in other words, as we go to our home and security editor mark white. mark so people who may be illegally in northern ireland and are are worried that they're going to be sent to rwanda. so they're thinking stuff this for a game of soldiers and they're crossing

the border, or they want to cross the border . cross the border. >> well, this is certainly what they're saying in the republic of ireland. i'm not sure how prevalent that actually is. i mean, bearing in mind that although the rwanda bill has now passed, we are still some months away from any of the asylum seekers that are earmarked to go to rwanda from being picked up and sent to rwanda . and quite and sent to rwanda. and quite honestly, we have had a situation where for years, many , situation where for years, many, many thousands of people that have come into ireland from europe, migrants who have come into ireland through europe, have used a loophole there to then move up into the uk through that open border and then across on the ferries across to the uk, with no checks at all. that has been happening the other way out of ireland for many years, as i say, so . so if there are some

say, so. so if there are some come going the other way, it's certainly possible. i'm not sure it's in the numbers that they claim in the irish republic at the moment. there may be other reasons that's driving them across the border , ties to across the border, ties to people that are already in the repubuc. republic. >> mark, what about this issue that you've been unearthing about migrants crossing the channel and using children as human shields ? human shields? >> a great deal of concern, really, about the rapidly intensifying levels of migrant violence that french authorities in particular are facing as they try to deal with these small boats taking off from almost 100 miles of coastline in northern france, police coming under attack from some machetes, even firearms. someone was injured, seriously injured at the weekend thereafter, being shot in the chest in a migrant camp near

dunkirk . and we've been told dunkirk. and we've been told exclusively by border force that migrants are increasingly using the children as human shields to stop the french authorities getting to them and puncturing these boats. i was giving exclusive access to the small boats operational command in dover. boats operational command in dover . this is a boats operational command in dover. this is a rare look inside the small boats operational command at dover harbour. as we filmed, the border force vessel defender was alongside and offloading another 66 channel migrants, the latest of more than 7000 who have arrived here so far. this year. and this their mode of transport, large but extremely flimsy inflatable rafts made for the criminal gangs in back street factories. >> i mean, these aren't seaworthy for anything because they are just not made to any

standard. >> trevor taylor has seen increasing numbers packed into these vessels 70 or 80 migrants on each boat is now common. >> it'sjust on each boat is now common. >> it's just it's just not safe the way it's constructed. i mean, this is typical where if there was a cut or a puncture in one part of this boat, the whole thing would go down in makeshift puncture repair kits and cheap pumps are often all the migrants have as they battle to stay afloat. >> and there are very few, if any , effective life jackets. any, effective life jackets. >> just show you an example of that. and that's probably not just for a child . they'll just for a child. they'll probably give that to an adult as well. saying that's going to save you. another example just back here is an inner tube. we quite often see them or they're handed out in a packet to basically if you panic, inflate one of those yourself and the engines two are completely unsuitable for the english

channel unsuitable for the english channel, lacking power and to prone breaking down. >> you look at the engine, you might think , yeah, that's might think, yeah, that's a proper engine. some of you might expect, however, the organised crime groups , they put stickers crime groups, they put stickers like this on their c30 to try to trick you into thinking, oh, 30 horsepower. in reality, it's somewhere between ten and 15. it's a really not suitable to go on the boat itself, especially at sea. >> the surge in violence along the french coast is of huge concern to authorities on both sides of the channel. staff in dover have seen increasing numbers of migrants arriving with injuries , including stab wounds. >> the violence that is now shown to our french colleagues, trying to prevent the launches, trying to prevent the launches, trying to prevent the launches, trying to save these people from from putting their lives at risk is huge, we've seen them attacked with sticks, metal bars, machetes , using women and bars, machetes, using women and children that are there to , you

children that are there to, you know, to, to, to cross, using them as human shields to prevent law enforcement taking action. and it's growing. it's getting worse . worse. >> this key site here at dover harbour is where the channel migrants first set foot on british soil. of course , if british soil. of course, if rishi sunaks rwanda plan comes to full fruition, then they won't be here for long. many of them will be on a flight to east africa , but those flights are africa, but those flights are likely still months away and as weather conditions improve in the weeks ahead, many more of these flimsy migrant boats will arrive in uk waters. unseaworthy and dangerous . overloaded mark and dangerous. overloaded mark whyte gb news at the small boats operational command in dover. >> okay, mark. well, thank you very much indeed for that. we appreciate it . appreciate it. >> the government is set to overhaul disability benefits and millions of you will face the

biggest welfare reform in a generation. >> those who suffer from conditions including depression and anxiety, could lose their cash handouts in favour of talking therapies and social care packages. >> let's find out more now from our correspondent katherine forster, with this one, we had the work and pensions secretary on highlighting all of this, i could maybe argue that it doesn't sound as bad as it did an hour ago when i was talking to you, because basically he was saying, right, if we would substitute the money, maybe rather than take it away. in other words, substitute it for other words, substitute it for other therapies or treatments. >> yes. and this is the argument that rather than just basically giving people money in disability payments, that mean that they end up staying at home and not working, not contributing to the economy, etc, that many conditions, obviously not chronic health conditions, but things such as depression and anxiety when they are at the milder end of the spectrum, that it would be much

better a for the government's balance sheets, but also for the people themselves if they were actually supported, given things like talking therapies , other like talking therapies, other ways of helping them and enabung ways of helping them and enabling them to actually work, even if it's part time, even if it's working from home. because of course, during the pandemic, we saw didn't we? in fact, lots ofjobs we saw didn't we? in fact, lots of jobs can be done from home. so if somebody is suffering from anxiety, social anxiety , gets anxiety, social anxiety, gets anxious about leaving the house or going to work. anxious about leaving the house or going to work . and or going to work. and potentially there's ways of working from home that could be found. so but i think worth beanng found. so but i think worth bearing in mind, we do have a waiting list of nearly 2 million people waiting for mental health support on the nhs, so it's easier said than done, but also the government really, this is largely about saving money because the welfare bill has gone through the roof and we're paying, gone through the roof and we're paying, i think, 50 billion a year on long term sickness benefits. and that's only going to rise. so the government really needs to sort of grasp

this nettle . and it's been this nettle. and it's been something that's been getting worse for a long time. and it's sort of been ignored. but of course it's a dividing line with laboun >> well, that's got to be one of the big reasons behind it as well. not just about finances, but throwing the gauntlet down to labour because they know labour can't afford it either. but they're also not going to want to say that they're going to get rid of it, because it will be difficult for them going into an election. so it's really put them in a corner. >> yeah, they're trying to lay all sorts of traps for labour, who of course are 20 points aheadin who of course are 20 points ahead in the polls. labour haven't said how they would respond to these planned benefits changes. there's a green paper out today. it'll be consulted on and who knows. you know, by the time of the election , these may or may not election, these may or may not come to pass , but labour will come to pass, but labour will have to deal with this huge increase in the cost of welfare sooner or later. >> this is what mel stride had to say when we spoke to him about 45 minutes ago. it properly targeting those who need the help most. >> one of the concerns i have, for example, are there are those with progressive lifelong

conditions where currently we know. sadly, people will not be getting better through time and yet they're having to go through reassessments, jump through bureaucratic hoops and so on. and i want to really look at whether that's appropriate. and we can't do things better. i want to look at best practice into nationally, and i want to look at the nature of the support that's actually provided . should it be cash benefits, or should we also be looking, for example, at health care support for those, particularly those that are on pip through reasons of mental health conditions? >> so they're saying , yes, >> so they're saying, yes, mental health. there's other ways of supporting people , but ways of supporting people, but also saying at the other end of the scale where people have really clear, illnesses that mean they can't work, they want to make it easier for them . to make it easier for them. yeah, to keep those benefits. and the government do . also, and the government do. also, rishi sunak thinks that this is a moral mission. rishi sunak thinks that this is a moral mission . and, you know, a moral mission. and, you know, they think it's simply wrong

that large numbers of people, i think, 2.8 million on long term sickness are simply sitting at home and not working, not contributing, and that it's also bad for them as well as bad for the economy . the economy. >> catherine, thanks very much indeed. let us know at home what you think about this story and i thought the language that mel stride chose in an interview, he's done with the times today was interesting. he said we should not be paying people to deal with the ordinary difficulties of life. do you agree or do you think that's trivialising some of the issues that people are trying to deal with? do you think perhaps we have become a nation of scroungers and it's time to turn that around? let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com forward slash your scrunching description . description. >> somebody said to me last week, she said, and what sort of benefits do you get for your disability? i said, get any benefits ? do you know you're benefits? do you know you're entitled to? i said, but i'm in a job. i earn. i said, well, it doesn't matter. you can you could still claim, i don't know if that's true or not. >> that is true. yeah. you can have a carer's allowance or

whatever else it is you wanted if you needed it and pay for it. >> that's right. if i can afford to pay for that. >> well, yeah, but but however however, but this whole thing about what mel stride said there that what did we used to do? >> these used to be just regarded as problems in growing up, problems in day to day life problems that everybody hit periodically. you deal with them, you get on with it and whatever. i'm not saying that's right, but i'm saying that's what we've been used to. that's the way it has always been, is it is it a symptom of society not being a community anymore , not being a community anymore, that people are having these crises, they aren't able to cope with them. >> people scattered from their families. people have become more isolated. there are more broken families. you know, there are so many sort of societal issues to all of this. >> be with you, with the family community sort of idea that it used to be, for instance, elderly people, they would i mean , my grandmother lived with mean, my grandmother lived with us in our home. >> so did mine until she died. >> so did mine until she died. >> a young person . and that was

>> a young person. and that was my mum says that was regarded as her duty. absolutely. and she had to become a nurse basically to my father's mother. and i'm not saying i'm not making any pronouncements saying, that's right. >> no, but i think those problems have always been there. but i think now we're turning to the government to say help because we don't have each other. we're just not we're not there for each other for whatever reason that we used to be. and that's our thoughts. let us know what you think and whether or not you are affected by this. >> i think an awful thing and, you know, some people may like this, but i think an awful thing is, you know, if you're born in scotland and you live in london, if, in my case, born in northern ireland and having to work in london, i've never got used to that. i mean, the idea that everybody i know with my whole sense of community and all my brothers, whatever, all live in belfast, i find that very , very belfast, i find that very, very difficult and it can be very lonely. yeah to, to do that. but, look, it's a whole , it's but, look, it's a whole, it's a whole issue. but i think isabel

raises a very interesting point about the breakdown of community and the breakdown of family and family's role in looking after each other , what role do we as a each other, what role do we as a family have to play in all of that? 715 is the time. >> let's take a look at some of the other stories coming into the other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. and there are reports that humza yousaf is preparing to quit as scotland's first minister after citing his leadership. is no longer tenable. ministers have been told that the snp leader decided over the weekend there is no way for him to survive this week's vote of no confidence, and will be keeping a close eye on any developments for you on that story. >> a british tourist who was seriously injured in a shark attack off a caribbean island is aware of what is happening and can communicate in intensive care. his wife has stated his name is peter smith. he was savaged ten metres off the shore near the starfish hotel and kurland bay on the north coast of tobago. that was on friday morning. we wish him well and worries are growing for the

financial collapse of thames water, with fears it could trigger eye—watering borrowing not seen since the chaos of the liz truss mini—budget >> officials are hoping thames water could be renationalised before the general election to avoid a total collapse . avoid a total collapse. >> and that thames water situation, i mean, you will gefer situation, i mean, you will get'er you may get a renationalisation and so disgusting has been the tenureship of these people who own these utility companies . the own these utility companies. the whole lot just needs to be taken back under public. i mean, it's a service. it's not a it's not or it shouldn't be a business. yeah. >> and you can guarantee that if that's what happens to thames water, all the other water companies will follow suit. it's not unique to thames water. the mismanagement and we all get affected by it and end up being more expensive for you and me. >> well, the political or the financial commentators are saying is the country can't

afford it. the country can't afford it. the country can't afford to take it back. but it's the right thing to do. it should be the right thing to do. and these people should be stripped of owning these utility companies. it's absolutely if you start looking into what they do not do, the pollution that they cause and what they're not prepared to do, they're not prepared. all this rainfall. and ilaugh prepared. all this rainfall. and i laugh about this every single day it rains. >> why haven't they built reservoir? >> yeah, but the thing is, come the summer, we're going to have hosepipe bans. >> i bet you there's a heatwave this weekend. we'll all be in complete panic mode. >> and the thing is, you'll be told it's your fault you're having too many showers, or you're having a bath when you shouldn't or you're watering your garden or whatever it happens to be. well, we say not your fault. their fault. and where they build houses and where they build houses and where they build factories and the amount of water that industry uses, no one seems to talk about that. >> and yet it could affect all of us. the cost of borrowing through the roof that would have impacts on mortgages and all the rest of it. it could be a huge problem. we'll keep an eye on that story for you. >> of course. all about money.

on well, it is, but it shouldn't oh well, it is, but it shouldn't be. marco pitanga, here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello! here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to mixed weather conditions across the uk during the week ahead. all of us seeing some rain at times, but temperatures will also be on the rise. back to the detail for today now and we've got an east west split weather wise across the uk. outbreaks of rain moving in across many western spots from the south, turning heavy at times, accompanied by a fairly brisk breeze to that rain reaching scotland as we head into the afternoon. so it's the east and southeast that's set to hold on to the best of the conditions. certainly the south—east of england seeing plenty of sunshine and in the sunshine it should feel fairly pleasant out and about with fairly gentle winds towards the southeast, two temperatures peaking at 16 or 17 degrees near a 12 to 14 towards the northwest . as we head into the evening and during the overnight period, further outbreaks of rain will move in across many northern and

western parts of the uk, moving up there from the south and again turning quite heavy in nature at times accompanied by a fairly brisk southerly wind. so it's always the south—east holding on to the clearest skies. but wherever you are it will be a frost free night. certainly much milder than in recent nights. lows in the range 7 to 10 celsius. as for tuesday, with the east west split continues with further pulses of rain moving up across many western spots as we go through the day. again, the outbreaks of rain turning heavy at times and still quite breezy out across western areas, whereas further east, plenty of fine weather around, lots of sunshine. but nofice around, lots of sunshine. but notice 1 or 2 showers developing across the south—east as we head into the afternoon. what temperatures are still on the climb though? up to 18 celsius towards the south—east, so still pretty warm for the time of yeah pretty warm for the time of year. near 17 degrees at best in the north. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> talking talking today and you are not happy on benefits. audrey says i know someone on benefits never worked a day. owns a big house, two cars, a

van, a recreational vehicle. he ought to get an oscar, danika says it's not as simple as saying you're depressed and just getting pip to get you £750 a month. you have to qualify for that. wait over a year for assessment to be spoken to as if you're vermin as well. the media hitting you. you have to prove you're actually ill. and a lot of people are declined to do that. >> yeah. we've also been talking about the issue of immigration and this row between dublin and westminster. martha is watching from ireland this morning. good morning to you. she says i'm irish. i live in the west in a small town called tulla. and even here we've got asylum seekers houses full of single men who have nowhere to go and nothing to do all day. i met one the other week in supervalu and almost no english. i wonder if they will ever even work , or they will ever even work, or just rely on the state and the big unspeakable thing keith is saying i am a 50 year old. >> i'm straight, i'm white, i'm english. i can't get any work because i don't take any diversity or inclusion boxes.

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right. time for some showbiz news. and hot off the red carpet

is ellie phillips. gosh, do you have a rest? >> i mean, it's been good because i stopped being sick two weeks ago, so suddenly i have this burst of energy. yeah, and i'm like, i can finally be at events on the red carpet last night. >> tell us everything. >> tell us everything. >> so last night, it was the variety club showbusiness awards, which is an annual event, and it was the 75th year of it. now this is a really important for an agent runs that. >> were you invited? >> were you invited? >> i know, oddly enough, neither was i. but there we go. >> nice one. jonathan, but yeah, so that was last night, 75th anniversary of it. and for anyone who doesn't know the variety club, it's a charity for disabled and disadvantaged children across the uk. and they do amazing work. and the reason last night's awards are important because they're the showbusiness awards. you're like, what's that got to do with it? but the people who are nominated, shortlisted and there are all involved in the charity in some way, so they've either given up their time to perform, and sell tickets to raise money, or they've donated themselves. so there's a lot of philanthropists there. last night i thought that i can say that word. anyway, and last night they raised over £250,000 for the charity. so it is a

really important one and it's a very good night. big winners on the night. dame joan collins, which was amazing. she was there and she was presented her award by sir andrew lloyd webber and she won for outstanding contribution lifetime to film and television obviously her career. she's 90 years old now. gosh she, she was there last night and i spoke to her on the red carpet and she was like, yeah, i'm carrying on doing more. just finished filming something. why why would i stop? why would i stop? and i asked her, i said, oh, what's the tip to being glamorous, you know, for this length of time? and she said, read my book. on hilarious, i loved it. >> she's a she's such an operation. >> she's an entrepreneur to the heart. she was like, buy my book. i was like, fine, fair enough. as well as that, a really important one. kate garraway, she won an award last night. it's the first red carpet outing that she's had since her husband derek sadly died and she was a really great spirit. she was a really great spirit. she was sad that her daughter wasn't there. you can see darcey there actually, i interviewed her last yeah actually, i interviewed her last year. they were at the national television award because darcey was in the middle of doing it a

levels, but she said that they are going to plan a nice family houday are going to plan a nice family holiday this summer. she said it's going to be very different because obviously derek won't be there and it was really nice for her last night to have that moment, that uplifting moment to win outstanding contribution to broadcasting and that was for tv and radio, because obviously a lot of people know her from good morning britain, which she's also on the radio as well. so that was a lovely one. and she was presented her award by ben shephard. they had a very special moment. james corden was there, controversial character, and it was really nice. he was presented his award by ruth jones from gavin and stacey, so everyone was loving it. >> there's always rumours about some sort of reunion between those two anymore on that, no. >> so we tried to ask and it's very much like, we'll see, we'll see. i think they will because of the success of the last christmas one, i think they definitely will do more on that one, and as well as that, shendan one, and as well as that, sheridan smith, she won outstanding contribution. they're all outstanding contributions to different things. but hers was as an actress and singer. so she was there as well. so it's quite a good one as well, because a lot of these awards, you go to the big stars aren't there. they just send in a video message.

but these guys all really want to be there because it's not just the recognition for themselves. it's drawing, drawing attention to the charity and what the charity does. and all of them in their speeches said how important it is that we help these disabled and disadvantaged children and they really do. and you hear about the stories through the night, whether it's donating specialist wheelchairs or taking them on days out that they wouldn't necessarily get to go on and enjoy those life experiences when they have things much more difficult than others. >> when i was young, the television schedules used to be interrupted by the variety club awards. there was a special program. that program was transmitted whether it was live or recorded, but that had, featured in the in the schedules for the evening. >> yeah, it's a shame it doesn't be honest because it is a really good one. and they had some great performances as well. alfie bow performed marisha wallace, and oddly enough, i was there doing the red carpet. my videographer this we noted an age difference here and ronan keating turned up and he said, who's that? >> i was like, no, you didn't, you didn't. oh gosh, that makes

me feel old. i was like, i know i feel old, and i'm not talking of lifetime achievement arts and we're talking serious hollywood a—lister now . a—lister now. >> nicole kidman in front of lots of the papers this morning, looking like an oscar herself in gold. >> incredible. >> incredible. >> balenciaga gown. bling bling, so she's been given a lifetime achievement award by the american film institute, the afi. she's the first aussie to ever receive this award . and ever receive this award. and even though she was actually born in honolulu, she grew up in sydney, australia. her parents were australian and they were just happen to be in honolulu on an educational trip when she was born, and so she technically has dual citizenship. she was presented the award by meryl streep. so another hollywood heavyweight there. and what was really nice is you've just seen their her husband, keith urban singer, he was there with their two teenage daughters and said in his speech he paid tribute to her and basically said that she showed him what love in action really looks like, because when they got married in 2006, four months into their marriage, he went into rehab and he basically

said she chose me. she could have walked away, but she saw me through that. she was my rock, so that was really, really important to see that moment. >> they're still married. >> they're still married. >> they're still married. >> they're still married now. and it was nice to see her as well, because obviously she's so incredibly successful with what she's achieved and all the films she's achieved and all the films she's been in. >> people forget, of course, she was married to tom cruise. >> yeah , she was married to tom >> yeah, she was married to tom cruise. she dated lenny kravitz. yeah, she had a great time, but no, she's still with keith. >> keith urban and she said that it's a privilege to make films, and it's. it's a privilege to be able to do what she loves and play. and very unconventional women, which i think she does really well, because i was looking through all the roles she's had in the past, and i'm like, you can't really put a finger on typecasting for her. if you look at everything she's done, and obviously she won an oscar. she won for moulin rouge, which is, i think one of see, i think that's one of her worst films, but i love the film. >> i had fun watching it. >> i had fun watching it. >> which would you say is her best film? >> i well, not necessarily just films. i loved her in cold

mountain nice, and i loved her in, big little lies. yeah, yeah, which was not a film, but so reese witherspoon beaten up housewife, and she was just phenomenal, phenomenal, and so reese witherspoon was there last night as well. >> sorry at this event. and she paid tribute to her as well. so that was really nice. so all these people she's worked with and i think that speaks volumes about who you are to work with when other people turn up and want to pay tribute to you in that way, she made a film in the house across the road from us about ten years ago. >> so she did. every day. there were just big spotlights outside this house, whatever. and then i saw the film. i can't remember what it was called, but, it was very good. it was a thriller where she was stalked by someone or whatever. >> oh, i watched that. >> oh, i watched that. >> yeah, she's she is very good at what she does. yeah, yeah. >> she's wonderful. she's wonderful. and i think my, i think my favourite probably would be the hours when she played virginia woolf, which was really good in that, i mean it was. >> yeah. no, she is really accomplished. and looks like a supermodel. i mean supermodel, so statuesque. >> isn't she incredible? i mean, she's ticking all the boxes, like to have four children to

achieve what she's achieved. it just shows women can do anything. yeah. >> hats off to her and hats off to you, ellie. well done. thank you very much indeed. >> thanks, ellie. appreciate it. just after 7:30. still to come paula london, kriss akabusi they're going to talk you through the biggest stories of the day, the stories that are

>> we are going through the newspapers this morning and having a look at what is making the headlines. the guardian leading with the home office's rwanda plan. as deportation preparations are underway from today. >> the mail says tens of thousands of foreign nationals are exploiting short term visas to stay in the uk. >> here's the mirror it leads with rishi sunak facing fresh demands to call a general election telegraph the government accusing the eu of double standards after the irish right after ireland vowed to send asylum seekers to the uk if

they cross over from northern ireland. and the times is leading with the threat to benefits which we've been covering throughout the programme this morning. >> okay, we've got kriss akabusi and we have got paula london. very nice to see you both. paula, want to start with postal deliveries, it may be the end of six day post. >> i think it's a good idea. many years ago we needed post so much. we need a six day post now. people have amazon people use emails. not everything is tangible now for communication. >> paula, not only did you have six day post, you had two deliveries a day. >> yeah, that's before my time. i don't remember that. really? >> yeah. had one in the morning. then you won a lunch time. >> oh i didn't know that. yeah, but i know my local post woman. she's really lovely. so it's quite nice a community feel, but we don't we don't need that. she does. she never carries so much post. i remember years ago they had a huge bag. >> now they have a huge fan. >> now they have a huge fan. >> yeah, yeah yeah, that's the way it's not necessary. things have moved on and changed.

>> it has moved on. but you know, i sometimes feel sad that we've all switched to amazon rather than royal mail and we'll miss it if it goes. you know, at some point it feels like it's heading that way. >> it's cheaper and more reliable, quicker. to be honest with you, i can always make an amazon. i get it that day. it's unbelievable, chris, raggy mama wasn't well before he fell ill on air. this is the presenter on itv who did the 10:00 news over the weekend and appeared to be getting significantly worse as the bulletin continued. it's in the bulletin continued. it's in the mail today and itv is getting a bit of flak for this. >> yeah, in a way i feel sorry for. i feel sorry that's too much. but. look, so what you have here is you've got a tv presenter who decided the show must go on and the majority of us will will know that sort of experience where you're not top of your game, but you crack on. now, the challenge here was it appeared that he was having stroke like symptoms. yes. you know, his his face was like

getting droopy. he was slurring his words. you could see he was determined. and so the challenge is that itv had a duty of care to get him off air and get him to get him off air and get him to the hospital asap, he's come out and said he wasn't feeling. he was feeling wobbly the night. the night before and at the time was determined to finish presenting the programme. i'm grateful for all the support that i've been given. so no, i don't know whether he feels he's got to say that or actually that's literally look, i cracked on. i didn't realise how bad i was, but i'm glad i was allowed to crack on now. >> their problem would have been they would have had nobody to substitute for him. >> yeah, but you know what? you get anybody in look. >> but they literally would have been security guard or producer or whatever. they wouldn't have had another presenter on staff. >> no, no. so yes. but if he i mean, god forbid, if there was a challenge here with you, somebody would come in. >> but somebody might ask you to what? to present . what? to present. >> no, but but no, you don't want that . you know what i kabuzic. >> i know you know what i could

be doing. >> the aim of homes. but no, i look, i think my point was, i get the idea. you know, you're sportsman , you know, you crack sportsman, you know, you crack on. you see, when you see olympics this year, there'll be very few people who will compete at the olympics. 100. now, i know it's difficult because he had symptoms that were serious looking , looking very serious. looking, looking very serious. he seems to be okay right here, right now. but i want to make is the majority of us from a certain generation. if you're a baby boomer generation, you crack on. yeah. >> there is nothing as bad, though as being ill or feeling ill on air, especially if you think you're going to faint, sick or be sick. >> be sick. >> be sick. >> i've had that dilemma when i thought i'm going to be sick, and i don't know where to be sick because there's lots of cameras pointing at me. it's actually terrifying just thinking you're going to sneeze. yeah, yeah, because you're like, oh, i can feel a sneeze coming. what am i going to do? and then am i going to do that thing where i hold it in and then i

go? or do i carry on? yes. i mean, it happens. so you know, it's not always as easy as everybody thinks. yes. being a news anchor. but we wish draghi well of course, and hope he's okay. >> assisted dying. paula is making the front page of many of the papers today. we're going to be discussing it in about 30 minutes time, here on the program as well, dear mr ransom, front page of the daily express. i'm fighting for my family and a lot of others in this. >> it's. i believe in being very transparent. i mean, six years ago, i lost my late father to merchant road, and i was very, very depressed. and i'm not going to lie, if someone said to me, you can die, have to die, and i would have said yes. me, you can die, have to die, and i would have said yes . and and i would have said yes. and i'm in a complete different place now. and for anyone at home that's going through depression, you know, things do get better. and my dad would be very proud from heaven watching me today. so i'm going to be sad. but so for me, no depression can get so much better. you can go from there to there. so definitely not. >> so what are you saying to yourself? while your father was ill, you would have said, pull

the plug. >> my father died of motor neurone. i was his carer and then he was in hospital for years. he was in intensive care for a year and a half and then a neurological hospital. and then when he passed, i wasn't told. when i got there he'd already passed and i for a long time i didn't want to live because i missed my father so much. and then i just concentrated on work and doing a job that he loves. >> you're applying this to yourself. >> you're not. yeah. >> you're not. yeah. >> so i'm saying no, no for assisted dying. because myself, i would have said yes and i wouldn't be here today. but if you're terminally ill, and especially if you're in pain, i can understand. but too many people we've been talking about earlier have mental health problems in this. we're seeing this. >> they would say yes, studies aren't we as well from from continental europe where people are fit and healthy physically. but saying they want to take this path died in canada, especially. >> we don't want to see thousands of people dying because they're depressed. things can get better. >> yeah, i, i feel probably on the same end of the spectrum as you on this. paula. i can see and have huge empathy, bravery to press the button as far as i'm concerned. >> no trouble with it at all. yeah. >> i think the difficulty is, is being there. you know, we're in

a generation where we're all getting older . a generation where we're all getting older. and for example, there's something called locked in syndrome. yeah awful. yeah. imagine if he was aware of everything and not being able to communicate. yeah, exactly. you can't move. you can't do anything. yeah so you're sort of atrophied inside . and i don't atrophied inside. and i don't know i don't know what joys there are in life when you're in that stage the option. >> but yeah, i think you should be able to sign something and say, count me out, pull the plug. >> i'm never going to get better. >> but depression obviously is. >> but depression obviously is. >> yeah. but also, you know, the thing that scares me is how are you sure that that person isn't being coerced into signing? yes. who cares or feeling? >> because my whole point is i don't want paula london making a decision on my behalf, saying, no, no, don't touch him and he'll be fine. >> leave me alone. i'm missing my point. >> if somebody's saying that they are being pressured into signing that they want to die by, say, somebody who wants their inheritance, yes. yeah, that would have a burden on older people because older people already feel like when they're not, doesn't want them. i think there's a danger of playing god. it doesn't mean i don't have huge sympathy and

empathy for the likes of esther rantzen. i totally see both sides, but it's not for me. >> so i had experience with my father, who'd come from nigeria, and god, how expensive it is when somebody's not in the nhs and you're paying for it. yeah, yeah, four weeks, six weeks, two months. i mean, you know, even like a little piece of wrapping £30 and of course, so this is awful because i didn't really know my dad. but you're thinking, yeah , this is so in thinking, yeah, this is so in that scenario it . will be easy that scenario it. will be easy to say, oh man, it's time to go now. no, he he didn't last too long. but when you've got that sort of dilemma dilemma, you can assign that ethically . you could assign that ethically. you could go, absolutely. >> well it happened in a calendar. a man, said that he was depressed and i don't know how many doctors agreed. and then his family were furious afterwards. they didn't even know. and they were like, he wasn't even that depressed. and he had assisted dying. >> i don't know everybody. >> i don't know everybody. >> everybody makes it a problem when it shouldn't be a problem. do you want to die? yeah.

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we' re we're all going to be bored silly next week. as prince harry returns to london. we are. he's going to be in the news every day. what he's doing. >> did he see the king? didn't he see the king? >> was he snubbed by his brother? >> anyway, he's back next week for the invictus games. what would he be without the invictus games, chris? well, so really i wanted to have a positive spin on it. >> so, you know, i think we should celebrate its ten years of the invictus games where, people who've had all sorts of life changing injuries. people who've had all sorts of life changing injuries . yeah, life changing injuries. yeah, have competed at the highest level. and he was he is such a strong advocate and right at the very, very beginning. it wouldn't be what it is today without his profile, his energy, his experiences as a as a soldier. and when i think of the

how we battled him, when i say we the talking media battered him over the last couple of years, rightly or wrongly, i don't join in. >> they're not bothering him over the invictus game. >> no, no. so. so when is invictus games come? can we just focus on him and invictus games and the and the salt? why? >> no, i'm just saying it won't happen. but i mean no no no. >> yeah. correct. >> yeah. correct. >> i want that to happen anyway. >> i want that to happen anyway. >> i want that to happen anyway. >> i probably think he would. >> i probably think he would. >> i probably think he would. >> i think he's tired of all. yeah. >> look you know he's gone to california montecito with his wife and him and his wife. he california montecito with his decided to go and live a different life. we don't need to talk about him. yeah, of course he's going to talk. is he going to speak to his dad? of course he's going to speak to his dad. he doesn't need a press conference. hi, guys. i'll speak to my dad. did i speak to my brother? none of your business. it's none of your business. of course. i've had a little something with my brother. sorry, brother. how are you? >> well, it's only because he's talked about it in spare. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> okay. about it. >> okay. about it. >> he did that. it is our

business and everyone takes our business and everyone takes our business anymore. >> well, yeah, but everyone takes a view because he's the oprah interview. >> he's taken slingshots at kate. we know kate's ill. people feel protective over william and kate, don't they? but i'm sure people are invested in it. but, you know, i agree it would be nice if we didn't talk about it. >> i'm sure. i'm sure that he has spoken. i'm sure, i'm sure he's spoken to his brother or his sister in law and said, sweetheart, i don't think you should say that. >> we might have said, why not? or something? do you think he's sure they're taking and go, hi, sweetheart. >> no, no. okay, okay, okay, okay. >> but what what i mean is he's giving his condolences to his sister in law. come on. he's not a beast, but anyway, wherever he is, let's not talk about that next week. it's the invictus games. ten years. he's the flagship of all those brave soldiers who got maimed in different places and are competing at the highest level. check him out. well said chris. >> well said, paula, thames water , we're a lot of stories in water, we're a lot of stories in the papers today. if a financial collapse may be looming and if it does, who's going to rescue them, it looks like the government is going to have to

rescue, but the investors don't want to put any more money in. they they weren't going to put in another 500 million, but they haven't taken dividends for years now . one thing though, i years now. one thing though, i mean, my water bill hasn't gone up. obviously my energy bills have gone up hugely, but i don't understand what is going on. they've got a problem with their union, not the union, the regulator. so that seems to be the issue. but the government has to step in. they will they find the money? >> yeah. but then what happens when the one next goes down and the next one and the next one. and you know, if this does trigger a kind of liz truss style economic crisis, what does that mean for all of us in terms of our mortgages and interest rates and borrowing? it is a worrying picture. and the fact that this has been able to get to this crisis point is disgraceful. and i certainly think that there should be some sort of legal action taken against these fat cats at the top of these waters they haven't taken. >> well, that's the thing. they should be legal action taken against the conservative government who sold it off in the first place, because it obviously was an impossible remit. >> they were sold off at far too good a deal for the utility companies like the train companies like the train companies as well. i mean, what

they did to british rail, the way they carved it up just means we have got a rail system that doesn't work and will never work. >> yeah, i was thinking to myself, you know, when you go to business school, when i had three years of business school, shareholder value, the only reason a business exists is for shareholder value. i was amazed when i heard that mantra shareholder value. now the shares of our water company not uk people, they're in china. there are all sorts of people. so they run their business. if it means sewage gets a better profit for the for the shareholder, that's what they're going to do. so you're right, the focus is not on i thought business was one for the community. business was run for the customer. business is run for the employee. no it's shareholder value. and that's what we're seeing here. and now. now what we had in 2008, the global financial crisis, we chucked billions at a global financial crisis because the banks couldn't fail. i wonder if that's the same here with water. the water companies can not fail, but looks as though they

may, dogs. >> now, chris, you've had a few dogsin >> now, chris, you've had a few dogs in your pen, do you? it says here feeding dogs raw meat. that could leave owners at risk of drug resistant superbugs in their animals, like e coli aslef. >> when you handle the meat and stuff and it's on your fingers and then you go back to your kitchen, you should wash your hands, obviously. then you go back to the kitchen, you get e coli in your chicken or your fish, whatever it is. but animals absolutely love, absolutely love it. i had three beautiful dogs doberman, rottie and a labrador. and gosh, when you're feeding them and you get the awful bones and you mix it all up with kibble and then you see your guys get stuck into that bowl and their eyes are all over the place. >> i kissed my dog. no, no, you kiss your dog. >> well, not proper kiss, but i like i kiss her on the nose. if she was eating all that awful stuff, i wouldn't do that. >> no, but what do you feed your dog? >> well, once a week i give her

something because i call it the living forever diet smoked salmon. but i give her, like, chicken breast and things like that. smoked salmon, chicken once a week because she's 16. once a week because she's16. >> so how old is she? >> so how old is she? >> what is she? what is she, the chihuahua miniature pinscher. >> oh, okay. it's good for her. i call it like, brain food. that's your. >> that's your handbag. that's. it's your handbag. i'm talking about big dogs. >> yeah, but i just. >> yeah, but i just. >> i wouldn't eat off all myself. >> i wouldn't be able to prepare it like hearts and livers. >> hi, all. >> hi, all. >> did your dogs live too? >> did your dogs live too? >> big dogs. >> big dogs. >> yeah. yeah, but. so two of them, 14. two of them. 14. that was good. yeah. one of them died early, then died early. he was only eight. had bone cancer. oh, shame. >> my friend got to leave it on that happy note. >> chris and paula back in 40 minutes time. >> here's your weather. >> here's your weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello! here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to mixed weather conditions across the uk during the week ahead, all of us seeing some rain at times, but temperatures

will also be on the rise. back to the detail for today now. and we've got an east west split weather wise across the uk. outbreaks of rain moving in across many western spots from the south, turning heavy at times, accompanied by a fairly brisk breeze to that rain reaching scotland as we head into the afternoon. so it's the east and southeast that's set to hold on to the best of the conditions. certainly the south—east of england seeing plenty . of sunshine south—east of england seeing plenty. of sunshine and in the sunshine it should feel fairly pleasant out and about with fairly gentle winds towards the southeast, two temperatures peaking at 16 or 17 degrees nearer 12 to 14 towards the northwest. as we head into the evening and during the overnight period, further outbreaks of rain will move in across many northern and western parts of the uk. moving up there from the south and again turning quite heavy in nature at times accompanied by a fairly brisk southerly wind. so it's always the south—east holding on to the clearest skies. but wherever you are it will be a frost free night, certainly much milder than in recent nights. lows in the range 7 to 10 celsius. as for tuesday, with the east west split continues with further pulses of rain moving up across many western spots as we go

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and refuses to take back asylum seekers until france does the same . same. >> border force officials claim channel migrants are using

children as human shields. this is a gb news exclusive . is a gb news exclusive. >> well, officials are deeply angered and deeply concerned about this new development and say they're very worried as well about a rapidly intensifying level of violence against the french police . french police. >> a clampdown on disability benefits, millions facing the biggest welfare reforms in a generation. many of you set to lose cash payments. the work and pensions secretary, mel stride, had this to say. >> that benefit, along with others actually in terms of costs, have been spiralling ever upwards. and we know that over the next five years, currently , the next five years, currently, pip is due to be costing an additional £13 billion per year. >> in royal news, king charles is to return to public life as he prepares to meet cancer patients following his own diagnosis , and campaigners and diagnosis, and campaigners and celebrities set to gather

outside westminster today ahead of a commons debate on assisted dying. >> we're debating at 8:20. >> we're debating at 8:20. >> good morning. we'll see an east west split in the weather across the uk today. outbreaks of rain mainly reserved for western spots. the brightest skies always further east, but i have all the details later . on. have all the details later. on. >> and the border force situation has got getting a lot of you talking. this is to do with ireland having a disagreement with the uk . disagreement with the uk. they're basically saying if people in northern ireland are frightened about being sent to rwanda, they are crossing into the republic of ireland. and if thatis the republic of ireland. and if that is the case, era will send those people back up north, uk disputed all of this. mark white will fill you in. mark, good morning to you . morning to you. >> good morning to you. yes. there is the british irish intergovernmental conference which is taking place in london,

which is taking place in london, which will of course be talking about this particular issue because there's a great deal of concern from dublin. they say that because of rwanda, primarily , that's their belief. primarily, that's their belief. anyway. 80% of the migrants coming into the republic of ireland, they say, have come from the uk. they want a returns agreement , they want to return agreement, they want to return those coming over that border back into the uk. however, the high court in ireland has said that would be unlawful to do so because the uk, according to this court, is not a safe country to return these people to because of the potential of them then being sent on to rwanda. and there are claims of hypocrisy being levelled against the government in dublin as well, given that, of course, for many years , migrants who have many years, migrants who have come into ireland via open borders in europe have then moved up into the uk and of

course across on ferries to the uk mainland as well, and also they say that, you know, a returns agreement from ireland , returns agreement from ireland, might be able to happen as long as we are able to return the many thousands coming across the engush many thousands coming across the english channel back to france. well, this comes against the backdrop , of course, of 900 backdrop, of course, of 900 migrants who have come in less than a week as the numbers continue to pile up in 2024. well, i've been given an exclusive look around the border force operational command in dover harbour, where they've spoken of the increasing levels of violence and the fact that migrants are even using their children as human shields against french police trying to get to their boats to puncture them . this is a rare look inside them. this is a rare look inside them. this is a rare look inside the small boats operational command at dover harbour. as we filmed the border force vessel defender was alongside

offloading another 66 channel migrants. the latest of more than 7000 who have arrived here. so far this year. and this their mode of transport, large but extremely flimsy inflatable rafts made for the criminal gangsin rafts made for the criminal gangs in back street factories. >> i mean, these aren't seaworthy for anything because they are just not made to any standard . standard. >> trevor taylor has seen increasing numbers packed into these vessels. 70 or 80 migrants on each boat is now common. >> it is just it's just not safe. the way it's constructed . safe. the way it's constructed. and i mean, this is typical where if there was a cut or a puncture in one part of this boat, the whole thing would go down. >> makeshift puncture repair kits and cheap pumps are often all the migrants have as they battle to stay afloat. and there are very few , if any, effective are very few, if any, effective

life jackets just show you an example of that. >> and that's probably not just for a child. they'll probably give that to an adult as well, saying that's going to save you. another example just back here is an inner tube. we quite often see them or they're handed out in a packet to basically if you panic, inflate one of those yourself and the engines two are completely unsuitable for the engush completely unsuitable for the english channel, lacking power and prone to breaking down. >> you look at the engine, you might think, yeah, that's a proper engine. something you might expect. however, the organised crime groups, they put stickers like this on their c30 to try to trick you into thinking, oh, 30 horsepower. in reality, it's somewhere between 10 and 15. it's a really not suitable to go on the boat itself, especially at sea. >> the surge in violence along the french coast is of huge concern to authorities on both sides of the channel staff in

dover have seen increasing numbers of migrants arriving with injuries, including stab wounds. >> the violence that is now shown to our french colleagues, trying to prevent the launches , trying to prevent the launches, trying to prevent the launches, trying to prevent the launches, trying to save these people from from putting their lives at risk is huge, we've seen them attacked with sticks and metal bars, machetes, using women and children that are there to, you know, to , to cross, using them know, to, to cross, using them as human shields to prevent law enforcement taking action and it's growing. it's getting worse. >> this key site here at dover harbour is where the channel migrants first set foot on british soil. of course , if british soil. of course, if rishi sunaks rwanda plan comes to full fruition , then they to full fruition, then they won't be here for long. many of them will be on a flight to east africa , but those flights are africa, but those flights are likely still months away and as weather conditions improve in the weeks ahead, many more of

these flimsy migrant boats will arrive in uk waters. unseaworthy and dangerous . overloaded mark and dangerous. overloaded mark whyte gb news at the small boats operational command in dover. >> well, that rwanda plan other repercussions coming from that. let's go to political commentator eamonn malley, who joins us live from belfast this morning. eamonn, so we're heanng morning. eamonn, so we're hearing that there is a possible conflict, if you are a migrant, i presume an illegal migrant in northern ireland, and you cross into the republic of ireland, they're saying, oh, no way, jose i >> -- >> well, i think this is inevitable, eamonn. you know , inevitable, eamonn. you know, because that's, that's that was the whole implication of the situation here where you have land borders with europe and these people will do anything to get into a settled community who are coming across in small boats effectively . according to the effectively. according to the irish statistics, 80% of recently arrived people in the

repubuc recently arrived people in the republic of ireland have come in via a northern ireland. that loophole was always there. now the irish government is a bit of a dilemma here because it's a country which was received for years, for generations across the world, when during famine and all the rest on the island of ireland, they've already got a huge ukraine consignment of people in the republic of ireland. there's already a huge housing problem in the republic of ireland. now the economy is very, very strong, which is something like 8 billion surplus. but the bottom line is they cannot build accommodation for people quickly enough . it's for people quickly enough. it's just not physically possible to build enough houses. just not physically possible to build enough houses . and with build enough houses. and with the arrival of thousands more of people coming in via northern ireland, the dilemma in the repubuc ireland, the dilemma in the republic of ireland is amplified. so the irish cabinet is now going to examine, is there a way of returning these people to britain? now? britain is arguing, of course, unless france sorts themselves out. there's no real solution to

this. the cancelling of this meeting between the justice minister of the irish republic and mr cleverly , the british and mr cleverly, the british justice minister, it looks pretty clumsy . and the excuse of pretty clumsy. and the excuse of mr cleverly to say, oh, a clash of diaries. that's a classic old, old excuse , i think, and old, old excuse, i think, and this suggestion that they might draw up some emergency legislation. >> it's pretty en vogue this move, isn't it, that if you don't like the way things are going, create some new rules, perhaps ignore some of the treaties that are there? what might be an implication from that? >> well, i don't even think the irish government have worked that out. there's a cabinet meeting going to take place, and they're going to discuss whether they're going to discuss whether they can, do anything about the loophole being used for these people coming into the republic of ireland. but i come back to the point that literally thousands and thousands of people left this island during famine and many, many other problems in search of accommodation and, escape , down

accommodation and, escape, down the years and for ireland to be seeing so publicly engaging and shipping these people wholesale back into britain. it's a difficult one, and i'm not sure there's going to be an easy solution to it. now. obviously it was a rather clumsy, comment, by the british to say that the that there are rwanda policies already starting because of the number of people who are going elsewhere. i think that that it was an error of judgement. now these loopholes, according to simon harris, the taoiseach, the irish premier, will not be tolerated. and if the irish government can undo those loopholes, they have their own migrant problems and they're going to try and deal with those, but they don't want more and more tents across the cities of the island of ireland. >> well, indeed, they do have their own migrant problems . and their own migrant problems. and i know you were talking historically, and the potato famine and emigration historically from ireland, but that's not the situation we're in today, louis says. i live in

dubun in today, louis says. i live in dublin , but any time i go into dublin, but any time i go into the city centre, you see homeless people . many are asylum homeless people. many are asylum seekers. many are not meant to be there. they are illegal and the irish government is delusional. they think they can relate to all refugees more than anyone else, and it winds everyone up . christopher says everyone up. christopher says the taoiseach of ireland was on about taking illegals as he's all for the eu now. he wants to take them back, but it's tough luck that they're in the eu, so they support mass migration. the people of ireland are finally waking up, but just reflect tourism and if you can, the social disturbances that there have been and why has there been a backlash against migrants in ireland, which historically has been so tolerant of them? >> yeah. well the bottom line is this, eamonn, that you have small towns dotted around the repubuc small towns dotted around the republic of ireland and a local hotel is suddenly allocated to 70, 80, 90 people. now that changes the whole, composition, the whole structures in many

ways of those areas. and people suddenly feel very threatened, rightly or wrongly , but they rightly or wrongly, but they certainly feel discombobulated and arising from that. you're getting very, very considerable protests on the streets, some of which become quite aggressive andifs which become quite aggressive and it's unseemly. all of this, particularly against the background of so many people leaving the shores of ireland. si king accommodation in england and in america elsewhere. but you, like some of these demonstrations, are past the point of being pacifist, are being, quiet or they are very, very disturbing . and, you know, very disturbing. and, you know, there are even suggestions that people are being moved on to where do they go? that's the dilemma for everybody. it's a common problem now in europe is a common is a problem in britain. there's no easy solution to this. the world is upside down at the moment. eamonn as we know. >> world on the move eamonn malley, thank you very much indeed for your time this morning. thank you.

>> bye bye. >> bye bye. >> thank you, thank you. other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. reports claim humza yousaf is preparing to quit as scotland's first minister. he decided his leadership is no longer justifiable. we hear ministers have been told the snp leader decided over the weekend that there's no way for him to survive. votes of confidence coming his way this week, so we'll stay across that this morning. we'll bring you any updates as we get them. >> worries are growing for the financial collapse of thames water, with fears it could trigger eyewatering borrowing not seen since the chaos of the liz truss mini—budget, officials are hoping thames water could be renationalised before the general election to avoid a total collapse. >> a british tourist has been seriously injured in a shark attack off a caribbean island. it happened on friday. he says he is aware of what is happening and he can't communicate, but he is still in intensive care. his name is peter smith. he was attacked in courland bay, north coast of tobago, on . friday.

coast of tobago, on. friday. >> now the government is set to overhaul disability benefits, with millions facing the biggest welfare reform in a generation. >> well, those who suffer from depression, from anxiety, could lose, could lose money in cash handouts in favour of talking therapies and social care packages. >> and lots of you have been getting in touch via our use your say part of our website on this. and adrian having his say i don't believe in assisted dying. my wife had stomach cancer and regularly would say i don't want to die, but she thought this is an assisted dying. so it says benefits on my list there. we'll come back to those views, shall we? a little bit later on. and katherine forster, you've got the latest on this. and this is a bold move from the government. it will ruffle feathers but it could also save a huge amount of money when it comes to the taxpayer, and also puts a bit of clear water between labour and the conservatives. >> yes it does. this is a nettle

that for a long time the government didn't really want to grasp, but they are grasping it at last, principally because the welfare budget is frankly out of control. currently £69 billion a yearin control. currently £69 billion a year in long term sickness and disability. that's going to rocket to 90 billion by the end of the decade. if nothing is done. so it's simply unsustainable . and what mel unsustainable. and what mel stride, the work and pensions secretary, has been saying is that things like low level depression and anxiety, as you as you mentioned before, isabel, the ordinary difficulties of life and perhaps these people suffering from those shouldn't be getting benefits, but rather should be getting assistance, like talking therapies and other support so that they can get back into work and contributing to the economy. >> and what have labour had to say about it all? >> very little. and i think this is partly vie. you know, we're only a few days off local elections . it's very useful for elections. it's very useful for the conservatives by appearing

to be tough on welfare. they're putting in another clear dividing line with labour. the labour party haven't said what they would do about this, although they have acknowledged that that the current cost is too high. so it will be interesting to see. but this, the rwanda plan. and then, of course, rishi sunak's big announcement on defence spending all three big dividing lines with labour for a long time, a lot of people criticising, saying there's nothing to pick between labour and the conservatives that is increasingly not the case. >> and, well, let's take a listen to what the secretary of state for work and pensions told us on this programme. a little bit earlier, mel stride was telling us what the overhaul will mean. >> is it properly targeting those who need the help most? one of the concerns i have, for example, are there are those with progressive, lifelong conditions , where currently we conditions, where currently we know sadly , people will not be know sadly, people will not be getting better through time and yet they're having to go through reassessments, jump through bureaucratic hoops and so on.

and i want to really look at whether that's appropriate and we can't do things better. i want to look at best practice internationally, and i want to look at the nature of the support. that's actually provided. should it be cash benefits or should we also be looking, for example, at health care support for those , care support for those, particularly those that are on pip through reasons of mental health conditions? >> people getting in touch this morning , catherine, and saying, morning, catherine, and saying, look, there's already a huge waiting list for me to get any therapy. mental health crisis. we saw dan porter quitting from the conservatives defecting. he's a psychiatrist in the nhs, obviously at the forefront of deaung obviously at the forefront of dealing with the mental health crisis in this country. is it realistic to say we're going to get people off benefits and into therapy if people are already waiting for huge periods of time? >> i think that's a really valid question. and of course, the nhs waiting list, the millions of people that are on those waiting for treatment, that's one of the reasons that so many people are on these sickness benefits and mental health services, particularly, i think, just under 2 million people. so it's very easy to say we're going to

give you talking therapies instead. but that is clearly not happening. anything like enough at the moment. so we will see. but yeah, as you mentioned, dan poulter big blow for rishi sunak at the weekend, an nhs doctor and an mp who's gone over to labouh and an mp who's gone over to labour. he's going to be out and about with sir keir starmer this morning talking about welfare , morning talking about welfare, talking about the nhs. so let's see what they have to say a bit later. >> later we will indeed. catherine, thank you for now, let's have a wee look at the weather situation and see what way it's shaping up for the week ahead. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello, here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to mixed weather conditions across the uk during the week ahead, all of us seeing some rain at times, but temperatures will also be on the rise. back

to the detail for today now and we've got an east west split weather wise across the uk, outbreaks of rain moving in across many western spots from the south, turning heavy at times accompanied by a fairly brisk breeze to that rain reaching scotland as we head into the afternoon. so it's the east and southeast that's set to hold on to the best of the conditions. certainly the south—east of england seeing plenty of sunshine and in the sunshine it should feel fairly pleasant out and about with fairly gentle winds towards the southeast, two temperatures peaking at 16 or 17 degrees near a 12 to 14 towards the north—west as we head into the evening and during the overnight period, further outbreaks of rain will move in across many northern and western parts of the uk, moving up there from the south and again turning quite heavy in nature at times accompanied by a fairly brisk southerly wind. so it's always the southeast holding on to the clearest skies. but wherever you are it will be a frost free night. it's certainly much milder than in recent nights. lows in the range 7 to 10 celsius. as for tuesday, with the east west split continues with further pulses of rain moving up across many western spots as we go through the day again, the outbreaks of rain turning heavy at times and still

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>> the year the nation decides. >> the year the nation decides. >> as the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election. >> who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives ? who will rise and their lives? who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together for every moment. >> the highs, the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. >> gb news is britain's election . channel. >> right. we're talking about assisted dying. now you'll have seen dame esther rantzen talking about this. she's become a bit of a sort of i don't want to say poster girl for it, but she's been very brave in speaking out about it, and there's been a petition to legalise it by more than 200,000 people. so today, mps are going to debate whether or not it is time to give people the choice to legally take their own lives here in the uk. >> okay, it's just the choice. so is it time we did legalise assisted dying? doctor jonathan

romain is a rabbi and chair of dignity in dying, and there is a catholic priest, father david palmer, who? >> well, i think it's fair to say , father palmer, that, you say, father palmer, that, you think there's no place for euthanasia in british law , am right? >> you're right. indeed, yes. yeah. and >> and why is that, father? >> and why is that, father? >> well, i mean, there's various practical reasons, but i think there's an underlying philosophical reason as well, if you go back to ancient rome, for example, the pater familias, the head of the household, the father had absolute power of life and death over his wife, his children , his slaves. they his children, his slaves. they didn't have any rights, but in our society now, that's changed. we believe that every human being, is sacred, has dignity , being, is sacred, has dignity, and that we don't have the right to take life . and that's to take life. and that's a fundamental understanding of had as a society for over a thousand years. and if you start shifting that understanding and, well, who gets to decide , the

who gets to decide, the government, the medics, the popular opinion , i think it's popular opinion, i think it's a very dangerous slope to go down. >> but, father, what about you yourself deciding when it comes to pain, when it comes to no dignity left? you mean you dont? dignity left? you mean you don't? you don't have to have me go through everything. but, you know, it can be a really bad, awful, messy, painful business. >> yes it can. and i just lost my mother two months ago, so i've recently been sitting at the bedside of someone that i love, who's who's dying . and love, who's who's dying. and it's a very difficult situation, but i think this is one of those issues where the, the weight is so huge that we individual cases don't always make good general principles. and i think that's one of one of those times. and we're not saying that there's not just a choice between dying with dignity, i.e. not just a choice between dying with dignity, he being killed or, or miserable dying, you know, the leaps forward in terms of hospice care and pain management are improving all the

time. and i would much rather see my energy go into improving that so that people don't die in great pain but die peacefully . great pain but die peacefully. >> well, let's bring in doctor jonathan romain, we were talking about dame esther rantzen a little bit earlier, and she said that she's personally overseen the deaths of a number of beloved pets with more dignity and compassion than she believes humans are often afforded . would humans are often afforded. would you agree with that? >> yes. i think a lot of your listeners would. and just to correct her, father palmer, this is not about somebody else killing you. this is not euthanasia . it's called assisted euthanasia. it's called assisted dying because it's only the person themselves who wishes to take their own life, in other words , it's not about ideology. words, it's not about ideology. this is about helping people and particularly helping people in great pain who are suffering and who are terminally ill. we're not talking about somebody mid life . we're talking about life. we're talking about somebody who's only got a few weeks to go and they've got an unfortunate disease. it could be canceh unfortunate disease. it could be cancer, motor neurone, parkinson's, whatever. and they

are horribly suffering now if they want to carry on till their last breath. great. and we should give them every support hospital, hospice, palliative care fully in favour of that. but for those people who say it's awful and dying, i don't want to stagger on. for the last few weeks i would like to let go then. assisted dying means that they can get a prescription from their chemist and they themselves take it . nobody else, themselves take it. nobody else, only they themselves. so it's not really about shortening life. it's about shortening death and shortening the pain of death and shortening the pain of death . and that's why it's so death. and that's why it's so important for those people who so wish, whether it's esther rantzen or anybody watching this program right now . program right now. >> father, you are a consecrated priest , but >> father, you are a consecrated priest, but you're also a human being as well. and you sat there with your your poor mother, your recently departed mother . would recently departed mother. would there ever have been any time that you would have been, that you would have weakened and thought if things were really bad for her? i would wish her to go. i wish that somebody could

press a button or she could take a pill. >> well, i mean, let's be let's be honest about what i see happensin be honest about what i see happens in these situations. the, the church would talk about what they would call double effects, so it's about intentionality, we know that people are often given morphine or whatever towards the end of their life, that to lessen the pain , but can have that double pain, but can have that double effect, that side effect of actually hastening the inevitable, that's already the situation . but the point is, the situation. but the point is, the intention is not to take the life. the intention is to ease the pain. and intention is important. we recognise it in law, like manslaughter or murder. and i just think if we as a society, we don't want to get to a place where we say we can intentionally, intentionally take a life. yeah doctor rahim, my concern stems from the pressure that people might feel, the sort of burden syndrome, whether people think that , okay, whether people think that, okay, they, they obviously may be suffering, but they also want to end their life because they feel their their children have had

enough. their their children have had enough . or, you know, there enough. or, you know, there could be all these sorts of other reasons that could lead them down this path. and that concerns me is that a concern? do you think that the slippery slope argument that this could end up people taking their own lives who actually aren't wanting to die, it's other people around them wanting them to die ? to die? >> no. and i'm saying that very definitely for two reasons. firstly, because there's just been an 18 month parliamentary select committee, the health and social care select committee, and they examined , different and they examined, different countries around the world where they have assisted dying and they have assisted dying and they came out very definitely as saying there does not seem to be a slippery slope, and, and what's more, i take quite a lot of inspiration for what's been happening in oregon. oregon introduced assisted dying 25 years ago. so it means we've got 25 years, a quarter of a century's experience , medical century's experience, medical records, knowledge. and they have not been a slippery slope. and the percentage of deaths has been more or less the same for 25 years. a lot of people apply

for assisted dying because they want to have the sort of emotional safety net of knowing that if things get really pear shaped and if they get absolutely agonising, then i can opt for it. but actually only a small number do. so it's really about helping that small number. the esther rantzen's of this world, the people who are dying in great pain and who want to let go. there's nothing sacred about suffering. there's nothing holy about agony. so if people want to say to god, thank you very much. it's been a great life. i just want to slip away a few weeks early. why are we forcing them to stagger on against their will? >> do you think that will change, doctor? do you do you think we're close? i mean, protests like today. are we getting closer to the day where things will be the way you envisage them to be? >> yes. and really , this is >> yes. and really, this is although it's new for england, it's not new for the rest of the world. america, europe, australia, they've all got it. it's actually coming closer. there are bills being proposed at this very moment in the isle of man, in jersey, in ireland, in scotland, we are one of the

last, and we've got the comfort, if you like, of knowing that it does work elsewhere and there's not been a single country in the world, not a single country in the world where they've introduced assisted dying and then thought, oops, we made a mistake . it seems to be working. mistake. it seems to be working. it's very good for those who so wish . it gives them the comfort wish. it gives them the comfort of knowing that there is a way out. i mean, i've been to too many hospices and hospitals where the nurses work really hard for people are dying in agony. why are we forcing them to keep that agony when we could give them another option? only if they themselves choose . if they themselves choose. >> gentlemen, thank you. thank you both very much indeed . we'll you both very much indeed. we'll leave it there. it's got people thinking and talking. appreciate your contribution. >> yeah, it is a topic people feel very strongly about. louise design has got in touch. she said more money needs to be poured into hospices and improving end of life care. she worries that once you open up this legislation, it's the thin end of the wedge. adrian's opposed to it. i don't believe in assisted dying. my wife had stomach cancer and regularly would say, i don't want to die .

would say, i don't want to die. she fought and she got her life back. it'sjust she fought and she got her life back. it's just another reason to give up, whereas sheila says locked in syndrome. it's where i'm headed with my miss. others know my wishes. i'm for all euthanasia and incredibly difficult topic. let us know your thoughts this morning gbnews.com/yoursay. >> we'll get yours on that on much more from paula london and kriss akabusi right

break. >> okay, so here's the situation. >> it's the olympic games this summer. the paris olympics. and i've already looked. and i thought, oh, we'll not be going to paris. everything will be pnced to paris. everything will be priced through the roof. i'll not be bothered with that. and here's a story. kriss akabusi and paula london, which says a legal requirement means 15% service charge must be included in the prices on restaurant menus in relation to the paris olympics. right paula, tell us

where you stand on that. >> well, i've read the story and what it looks like is that they're going to be wanting visitors to tip, but not french people, which seems kind of odd. >> so you only charge this if you're not french? >> well, at the moment, what they're doing, french people are saying they're listening to people. waiters give their bill to tourists and then they have to tourists and then they have to either tip 15 or 20, but they're not doing that to the french people. so it looks like this is going to continue throughout the olympics when they've got, i guess, over a million people visiting . so it million people visiting. so it seems quite unfair from the story that i've read, but can't even work out the logic of it. >> i mean, if you're going to charge people, charge everybody . charge people, charge everybody. >> yeah, but the french wouldn't stand for it. yeah, they wouldn't for stand it. >> they don't use the tip in the french. they don't really tip. oh, really? i think 1 in 5 tip. but it's not standard like americans. obviously americans are used to tipping. >> i remember going to america, the land of tipping, very first time with my athlete mates going into a restaurant, leaving because back then we didn't tip.

you know, this is like a and the waiter come chasing, hey, sir. hey, sir, do you do anything wrong? no. nothing at all. we didn't tip. what do you mean didn't tip. what do you mean didn't tip? he got tip, so we had to go and get our money out. there's a whole bunch of athletes. poor, poor athletes. yeah. and so you learn. so now i've learned that, you know, of course you do. do tipping. but like you said, i'm quite surprised if you go to paris that the local parisians would not be tipping. >> i'm not surprised. >> i'm not surprised. >> this is how it's reading, which is quite unfair, to say the least. yes. >> will it deter people from going there? probably not. i would love to go, but i haven't managed to get my hands on any tickets, so probably get a better view watching it at home anyway, but when you'd expect it to be a very pricey trip, you'd go. >> chris. >> chris. >> well, i'm not going. no. surprised? i asked him. >> i thought you'd be going. no. >> i thought you'd be going. no. >> oh, watch it. >> oh, watch it. >> i would if i could. got some tickets. i used to run track the same. yes. >> yeah. ashlee good edward harriers. that's a surprise. i know we come from the same area. i mean, i think about 30 years difference. no, i'm covered the

same area. >> yeah. gosh, i was 100m. he's obviously not that good. he's obviously. >> well i wasn't very good. >> well i wasn't very good. >> was your time. >> was your time. >> it was 12 point something. >> it was 12 point something. >> that's great as a kid you know one seconds a long time for 100m gives you big thighs 100m i don't know. >> i've got big strong thighs but not necessarily big. >> yeah, i don't have much behind. what will you be looking out for in the paris olympics, i'll be well, there's a guy called karsten warholm for the 400 hurdles, which was the event that i did when i was a youngster. and i'm looking forward to seeing what he would do against the mighty americans. he's totally revolutionised it. i mean, they're now around 45 seconds for the 400. wow. >> and what was your time ? >> and what was your time? >> and what was your time? >> i didn't say it in the same breath. i mean, i've still got the british record. i'm a british record holder. it's 47, 82. >> you say that as if you're ashamed. >> don't say it in the same breath. 40s seven seconds is incredible. >> yeah, because. because cast. because now what? i realised now we were jogging. see, it's all about mindset. so when we were running, you came out of the blocks round the turn and you were told to sort of just coast down the back straight, hit the

second turn, fight for home. yeah but now these guys are at the second. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> absolutely. yeah. and so look at that. and of course the humanity is amazing because it will give you the second burst. anyway. we weren't aware of that back in my day. so i reckon i could have won a half a second faster or so. but i look at what these guys are doing, i mean, you know, you're coming third 146. it is a great ed moses. 4702 would be. yeah, but they're getting new spikes, new kit. >> well done. on getting new spikes, new kit. >> well done. oh yeah . >> well done. oh yeah. >> well done. oh yeah. >> they're also getting all the psychology training. >> good job that you're running because you won't be able to drive anywhere. paula. we look at the express and they're talking about a £14 billion pothole crisis. yes. >> it's really serious because so many people are in accidents because of these potholes. cyclists, especially motorist s some of them have life changing injuries because of potholes. and now what? i've read that some people in vicinities are clubbing together and fixing the potholes themselves because they're damaging cars as well . they're damaging cars as well. is this a real problem? potholes. it really is. yeah.

it's for safety reasons. >> i mean, i've absolutely busted a couple of tires and potholes. the challenge you've got, though is if you, as a local resident, fix the pothole and then a cyclist falls down a pothole, they're coming for you. >> really? >> really? >> really. that's all for the cyclist to do that. >> well no, no. but anybody i mean you've taken over from the council if you, if you put your handin council if you, if you put your hand in there and let me come for you. >> well, sometimes you want a job doing, you have to do it yourself. >> i don't know why we talk paul coyte about fixing the pothole crisis, because it's unfixable. >> it will never be fixed. nothing. our roads will never, never be normal again. this deficit is just too much. >> never say never. >> never say never. >> no, absolutely never. i will say never. no. your roads will never be what we would be used to in the 60s or 70s. never. well, it depends how often the roads have been used. >> like, say there's a every road in the land has got potholes every because i expect my time looking at these every single day, getting depressed. okay, but what if someone lives on a private road and there's 20

houses and there's potholes? they can just fix it, and that's it. done, that's that's a very pncey it. done, that's that's a very pricey thing, though, as well, isn't it? >> if you live on a private road, they can probably afford it. but i think some and i don't have any potholes in my road. i just live in marylebone. >> you will get sued. you will get sued. so you soon sort yourself out. when you get sued because you fixed it. and in someone's damaged, it's not terrible. >> people feel afraid to sort things for that reason. >> so if your local association is going to come together and go at night when no one's around, write full speed ahead. >> handbrake turn as we hit the brake

news. chris. there's a big story in the papers here today. and i don't know what. everybody's upset or up in arms about it. and it is that, almost half of patients hardly ever see the same gp. do people really expect

to see the same gp nowadays? well i think if you're a certain vintage. >> indeed. so when i was a youngster, so like baby boomer, we had the same gp that came to our house. yes and so, so he it was he knew your history and intimately could support you. whereas today gp pooling you go to see your gp and it could be confusion if you're a little bit elderly because your first 3 or 4 minutes of your seven minute consultation is reviewing what's been done before. what did they say about this ? and it's just say about this? and it's just you just lost confidence in your gp. so i mean, i was very fortunate the last issue i had, this gp that i had insisted on seeing me every second week. they work every second friday. so i did see her. she was really, really good. but otherwise my experience at pauune otherwise my experience at pauline is atrocious. so i do get this. if you've experienced what we experienced in the 60s and 70s only to be now really

need your gp and he or she doesn't understand who you come from from adam. but if it's the difference between an appointment or not, say your assigned gp is booked up, another gp is available. >> i'll see the other gp. i don't have an ongoing health complaint. when i have an individual problem, i don't mind who i see, i just want the meds or the advice. >> yeah, so yeah, so if it's ad hoc then you're right. you can go see somebody because he or she is a professional. but if you've got an ongoing issue you don't want to. so what did what happened first? what have you been taking or have your blood pressure? you don't want all that. >> obviously they've done all of that before you come in. >> no. no chance. you've got no time gp yeah, i think that more people should move gps because a lot of people will have a gp and then just keep the same for gp 50 years. >> i left an apartment in central london, moved. i'm now out of the area, but i kept my gp because not a lot of people live in this area, so it's not busy. so a lot of people struggle to get gp appointments. i can see a gp the same week, so

if people are having problems they should move and get a different gp because people just think, oh, they'll just have to. you should move to get yourself a gp. >> no, no, sell your house gp, no change gps. >> i'm not even in the catchment area out there. >> paula for people to change doctors and get. yeah i think there's a big problem. go on a waiting list and start with a new gp. >> my gp is accepting people in covent garden, if anyone. >> that's probably quite a unique situation and i see the same person accepts people, but the doctors are not enough doctors. >> there aren't enough gps in the catchment of ten gp's to do that, but very nice that that's the service that. >> yeah, i'd like other people, you know, if they need a gp, you know, you can see the same person and get an appointment that week. >> bulus okay. >> bulus okay. >> there's an asylum loophole paula, that you want to talk about. it's on the front of the mail today. and this is about tens of thousands of foreign nationals entering the uk on visas are then lodging asylum claims to stay permanently. >> we're just being laughter around the world now. we need to stop paying because taxpayers like us are paying for these claims because they're getting legal aid, and they didn't just get one chance. if they don't

get one chance. if they don't get their asylum, granted, they have another go and another go and another go. staggering stats today, one in every 140 people that arrive on a visa then go on to claim asylum. so basically they're coming here legally. i think i quite like it here. let me picking fruit the easiest way to stay is to claim asylum. and then people like me and you are paying then people like me and you are paying for it. we're just being laughed at now. it's this really, really bad . very bad. really, really bad. very bad. >> no, i agree with you. i think we are being laughed at. i think, i think the whole system is in such a mess. too many loopholes. yeah. if we can do absolutely many lawyers loving it. lawyers loving it. yeah, yeah, yeah , yeah, chris, let's yeah, yeah, yeah, chris, let's talk about heat wave . i mean, talk about heat wave. i mean, honestly, we have had so much rain. i feel like i don't remember the time before the rain. i don't know about you. it's just every time i step outside and it's cold. i couldn't get the house warm yesterday, but a heat wave is on the way. >> well, the same. >> well, the same. >> be really, really careful. so you remember. can you remember the first time we had lockdown? it was march. yeah. and it was just stunning weather. and i remember being in my garden and,

you know, sort of playing in my garden. i'm a jack and it was just absolutely amazing weather. we're into end of april now and they're saying, okay, this cold april, actually april's going out and we can't expect a heat wave of sorts , but don't expect wave of sorts, but don't expect it to be exceptional. i'm expecting it to be exceptional. i want an exceptional i want blue skies , you know? i want blue skies, you know? i want long, sunny days. i want balmy evenings . you know, they're evenings. you know, they're saying it might get to 22, 23. know what, 2428? well we'll get there. >> i heard a rumour. i think it was jim dale who's a regular on this program. he told us, no. >> oh my god. >> oh my god. >> says we're gonna have a heat wave in may. >> no! stop him! that was the guy. >> so i can't believe what he's saying. >> no, that was a guy. i was i was when i was in the green room, i was trying to remember a guy. it was jim dale. jim dale in march was predicting amazing heat wave in april. >> yeah, he was, and i wasn't tell every every gardener i know

april. it was awful. >> well, it's on its way, he says now jim may. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> well your prophet, what a prophet he is. >> well, a long term forecasting. come on now. no, that's new life, though when i watch him, i do laugh. >> yeah, that was the one could. >> i mean, chris had a pod. blue skies. i think blue skies are amazing. i don't even care if it's warm as long as there's blue skies. >> i agree, chris wednesday with blue skies. gorgeous. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, and i mean the united kingdom. so when i was a sportsman's person, we'd go away in november and we'd come back here in april and we'd come back here in april and in april. the change in the topography and the geography was amazing. to see britain in bloom . great big bodacious green , . great big bodacious green, green hedgerow, beautiful flowers . that are i mean, the uk flowers. that are i mean, the uk was phenomenal and now look at it. >> if i could scooch out from november to april every year, that would be the dream. what do they call it in america? they're sunbirds, aren't they? they leave canada as a cold months and head to florida. >> well, a lot of people get

depressed in the winter. like lightbox is a really good at home. >> but it's not light, it's the cold. and as you say, the bare trees, it's just so grey and darkness. yeah, i do love spring and summer, front of the mirror today. the mirror is telling rishi sunak to get on with it and call a general election. so he's he's not saying whether it's going to be the summer. he's not saying it's not going to be the summer. >> chris. yeah. >> chris. yeah. >> look, i think it's really tough for mr sunak, okay? he's been a serial loser. i mean, the only way he got this is because of the internal wranglings within the conservative party we know truss was their favourite, but the conservative party over the last 14 years have had to deal with with a lot. i wrote down a list global financial crisis of 2008 that did austerity, didn't like what they did, but 2014, 2016 brexit, 2019, covid 2022 russia. now we're dealing with the conservative party have had to deal with a lot now. now do you really trust mr starmer, who changes his he changes his mind with the weather. i remember labour saying this we don't want to be a party of protest. we want to be a party of power. so

the naked ambition of that lot, they want to get in purely for they want to get in purely for the power. i don't believe they're going to do anything for they're going to do anything for the for the people, the rank and file. i don't so yeah, people give them a hard time. i really understand why he's holding on. he's waiting for his flagship. were under bill. he's waiting for some good news in the future , give him a break. >> thank you very much indeed . >> thank you very much indeed. kriss akabusi there. and paula london, thank you both. >> appreciate it. >> appreciate it. >> time now for a check. let's find out where the rain is going to hit today. that's all there is. marco pitanga. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to mixed weather conditions across the uk during the week ahead, all of us seeing some rain at times, but temperatures will also be on the rise. back to the detail for today now and we've got an east west split

weather wise across the uk. outbreaks of rain moving in across many western spots from the south, turning heavy at times accompanied by a fairly brisk breeze to that rain reaching scotland as we head into the afternoon. so it's the east and southeast that's set to hold on to the best of the conditions. certainly the south—east of england, seeing plenty of sunshine and in the sunshine it should feel fairly pleasant out and about with fairly gentle winds towards the southeast. two temperatures peaking at 16 or 17 degrees nearer 12 to 14 towards the northwest as we head into the evening and during the overnight period, further outbreaks of rain will move in across many northern and western parts of the uk, moving up there from the south and again turning quite heavy in nature at times accompanied by a fairly brisk southerly wind. so it's always the south—east holding on to the clearest skies. but wherever you are it will be a frost free night, certainly much milder than in recent nights. lows in the range 7 to 10 celsius. as for tuesday, with the east west split continues with further pulses of rain moving up across many western spots as we go through the day again , the through the day again, the outbreaks of rain turning heavy at times and still quite breezy out across western areas, whereas further east, plenty of

fine weather around, lots of sunshine . but notice 1 or sunshine. but notice 1 or 2 showers developing across the southeast as we head into the afternoon. what temperatures are still on the climb, though? up to 18 celsius towards the southeast, so still pretty warm for the time of year. near 17 degrees at best in the north that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsor of weather on

gb news. >> it's the 29th of april. very to good see you, eamonn and isabel. here. this is breakfast on gb news. leading that news this morning. >> tensions are growing between the uk and ireland as number 10 attacks. eu double standards and refuses to take back asylum seekers until france do the same. mark white has the latest. well dublin wants a returns agreement to send these migrants back over the border to the uk. >> but britain says it won't

accept any migrants back unless france takes the migrants back. who've crossed from the channel >> border force officials claim channel migrants are using children as human shields. it's a gb news exclusive a clampdown on disability benefits as millions face the biggest welfare reforms in a generation. >> the work and pensions secretary, mel stride , spoke to secretary, mel stride, spoke to us earlier that benefit, along with others, actually in terms of costs, are being spiralling ever upwards and we know that over the next five years. >> currently pip is due to be costing an additional £13 billion per year. >> king charles is to return to pubuc >> king charles is to return to public life tomorrow as he prepares to meet cancer patients following his own diagnosis. royal biographer angela levin, here at 915. >> oh good morning. we'll see an east west split in the weather across the uk today. outbreaks of rain mainly reserved for western spots. the brightest skies always further east, but i'll have all the details later .

on. >> i have a lot of questions, a lot of statements on health today. labour's mental health reforms to be announced today. they say, will give people their lives back. let's speak to ellie reeves. ellie is the deputy national campaign coordinator. we say good morning to her and ellie. what do you mean good morning? by giving people their lives back ? lives back? >> well, at the moment, people are struggling to access the mental health support that they need, which is why we've set out proposals to transform mental health services. so we would put in place 8500 special mental health workers and community hubs with open access in every community so people can get the support that they need. but we know that far too many young

people are waiting too long for mental health treatment, often in excess of six months, sometimes years. so we'll put a specialist mental health support worker in every school. so that mental health is tackled at a really early age to prevent problems getting bigger for people. >> kyrees what your position , >> kyrees what your position, the labour party's position is on the welfare reforms that the government are proposing today. they say that you're being sort of vague in response to it because you don't want to admit, actually, it's hugely expensive to continue to pay for people to be off work and sick , and yet be off work and sick, and yet not probably going to openly say these measures are needed to get people back into work. but can it really be right that people with, as you describe mental health problems are, as the prime minister puts it, parked on benefits ? surely getting back on benefits? surely getting back to work helps with that and helps with socialisation and moving forward . moving forward. >> yeah, well, the government

have published a consultation and we'll need to look at what exactly it is that they're saying. but they've had a long time to get to grips with this. the reality is that the welfare bill is too high and people that can work should work. but at the moment the system is set up in such a way that doesn't support people getting into work. so one of the things that we've said is that we will reform job centres so that there's a duty on job centres to work with other agencies to break down barriers for, good employment . so, you for, good employment. so, you know, for example, if someone can't work because they are on an nhs waiting list awaiting, i don't know, a hip replacement. well, there's no duty on the job centre to work with the nhs to make sure that things are happening and moving in the right direction. if someone has mental ill health, there is very, very little support for them unless they reach a crisis point, which is why we've put forward our proposals today, but also in relation to.

>> why can't you comment though, on on the proposals the government are putting forward? they're talking about, i think, 400,000 new places for, for speaking therapies . they're speaking therapies. they're investing a large amount of money as they describe it, in mental health funding, almost £5 billion of extra funding over the past five years. for those people, expanding mental health services, why won't you say whether or not you think that these plans are a good idea ? these plans are a good idea? >> well, we need to see the detail of it. and as i say, it's a consultation that's been announced. but what's really important is that there is that mental health support in place. and when you think about pip, for example, personal independence payments at the moment, it doesn't encourage people to try work , because if people to try work, because if someone who's claiming pip goes into work , then they risk losing into work, then they risk losing that benefit and going through a lengthy reassessment process. if the work doesn't work out for them. so it doesn't give people confidence to take that plunge of going into work. so that's why we have said that people

will be able to try work. they'll take that plunge into work without automatically losing that benefit. and the same with access to work as well. we would reform that. so people who want to get to in work who are disabled will know what support, what aids and assistance they would get before they take up that offer of work, knowing what they get, again, giving people the confidence to get into work . so that's what get into work. so that's what that's what we've set out in our proposals for reform. >> ellie reeves, we'll leave it there. thank you very much for your time this morning. appreciate it. and we're now going to talk to our home and security editor mark white. and mark, we're talking about, senior border officials who have told gb news that they're deeply alarmed that channel migrants are using their children as human shields . tell us more. human shields. tell us more. >> yeah, they've said this is a worrying development. clearly, it comes against the backdrop of a rapidly intensifying levels of violence that are facing french

police on the beaches of northern france as they try to reach these boats and puncture them to stop them getting into them to stop them getting into the water in the first place. and what's happening is that bands of migrants are attacking police with sticks and stones and machetes, even firearms , as and machetes, even firearms, as there was an incident over the weekend at a migrant camp near dunkirk in which a migrant from kurdistan, a kurdish migrant, was shot in the chest and seriously injured in inter sort of gang rivalries, there in the camps . and that is being played camps. and that is being played out on the beaches as well. and as part of that, increasingly what they're doing now is they're using children and women, in fact, to push in front to stop the french police getting to them and reaching these boats. they're really, really concerned about what is a deteriorate and chaotic situation. >> it sounds like that may have been a part in that tragedy we saw last week, where a child and a number of people were trampled

to death on board or underneath the boat. there were increasingly violent scenes, weren't there? there between the police and the people smugglers. it it why is it getting worse? why isn't this solvable ? why isn't this solvable? >> it's big business for the criminal gangs out there . so criminal gangs out there. so there's rivalry between the gangs for their share of the business. but on top of that, there are increasing numbers of migrants, particularly from africa, who are coming up, who simply don't have the thousands of pounds to pay the migrants to get on the boats. so they've adopted this relatively new tactic that is extremely worrying where when all the other migrants who paid for their tickets are pushing a boat out to sea, then you'll get a group of dozens of migrants storming them, rushing that boat , fighting them to get on the boat, which is indeed what happened last tuesday with about 50 african migrants who were fighting with the other migrants on the beach. there was 112 on that boat that normally holds about 50 or 60. it's overloaded

at 50 or 60. 112 is just ridiculous. >> mark. this kind of feeds into the whole debate, though, of whether the rwanda flights will active actively be a deterrent if they're facing these kinds of scenes and still prepared to cross the channel, will the chance that 1 in 100 of them might get picked up, popped on a flight which might or might not take off, have any impact on that decision to risk their lives and cross the channel at all? >> well, let's see how the rwanda plan actually plays out in practice . there have been a in practice. there have been a lot of kind of claims that it's only going to take 300 people. thatis only going to take 300 people. that is not my understanding of how it's going to work. i have always been off the impression that i've got from my sources that i've got from my sources that thousands will be sent and those coming across effectively, over a time period. there is a very high chance that they will be sent immediately, or at least within weeks, to east africa as it's up and running only if they are sending very significant numbers to east africa will the

rwanda plan be seen as a deterrent. otherwise, you're going to take the chance. if you think there's only, you know, a 1 in 50 chance that you're going to be sent off to rwanda, you're probably going to take that chance. >> thank you. mark marcus, our home and security editor. thank you very much indeed. the time is 9:09 o'clock. some are just around the corner. and here, right here, right now is the great british giveaway. >> yeah, £20,000 in cash up for grabs. here's how it could be yours. we've blown the budget by giving you the chance to win a totally terrific £20,000 in tax free cash to make your summer spectacular . spectacular. >> sure, you could use that cash to splash out on a holiday , make to splash out on a holiday, make the garden glam, buy a new car , the garden glam, buy a new car, orjust save it for the garden glam, buy a new car, or just save it for a the garden glam, buy a new car, orjust save it for a rainy day. or just save it for a rainy day. whatever you'd spend £20,000 on, make sure you don't miss the chance to make it yours for a chance to make it yours for a chance to make it yours for a chance to win £20,000 in tax free cash . text win to 63232.

free cash. text win to 63232. text cost £2 plus one standard network rate message or post your name and number two gb05, p.o. your name and number two gb05, po. box 8690, derby dh1 nine, jvt uk only entrance must be 18 or over. lines close at 5 pm. on the 31st of may. full terms and privacy notice @gbnews. com forward slash win please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. good luck , a watching on demand. good luck, a whole big agenda coming up at half past nine with andrew pierce and beverley turner in on britain's newsroom. what have you got guys? >> well, we're talking about this mental health crackdown as well as the calling it as the government. i'm a bit baffled as to who it's going to win any votes from. i'm not sure it's going to win any votes. >> well i think they met. it shouldn't be just about that, of course. but of course when an election is only months away. but i think a lot of people watching this programme would think, how are they? nearly 3 million people on sickness benefit. >> why? how can it have doubled since 2019? and the cost to the

taxpayer? we can't carry on at this rate. >> colleague was telling us just outside that a friend has lost. their mother has been signed off with stress. that's grief. >> yes. well, mel stride came out with this extraordinary but i actually think quite powerful comment and he said the welfare system should not be paying people to deal with the ordinary difficulties of life. >> yeah. relationship break up for god's sake. people getting mental health. it's madness. but also we're going to be talking about mark whyte's excellent thing on. yeah asylum and kids being used as human shields and good news, the king is going to be performing some official engagements . engagements. >> that's a good it'll be great to see him back. >> the bad news is harry's coming here next week. big service at saint paul's cathedral with any royals attend it. >> i don't think any royals are likely to, are they? but you know what it's all about the service men and women . i feel service men and women. i feel sorry for those who are involved in invictus that actually now all that anyone talks about about invictus is harry and meghan, rather than actually the incredible role the games have played in, sort of rehabilitate , played in, sort of rehabilitate, getting their lives overshadowed. >> and it has been a great operation by harry. it's a great

charity, but i'm afraid you reap what you. >> so yeah, guys, thank you very much indeed. look forward to seeing you from half nine. >> right. well, on royal matters, angela levin will be here. she'll have all the latest and all the big royal stories and all the big royal stories and lots more after this. see you in a moment.

>>i >> i just want to round off the programme today with a lot of royal news as to what's happening, including king charles. back to public life no later than tomorrow. and just a week to go before prince harry visits britain to mark the 10th 10th anniversary of the invictus games. could a family reunion of any form be in store? here's royal biographer angela levin. good morning. hello. good morning to see you. good news of the king's back. oh, wonderful. >> i mean, it's australia newspaper from australia rang me

at 6 am. and said can we interview you? it's going to be terrible news about the king. so the whole day i was absolutely distraught. and then it was absolutely magic to hear that he's actually going to be allowed to go out and meet people. not inside very much, but outside . take it easy. still but outside. take it easy. still having the treatment, but that he wants to go tomorrow to a cancer place where he can talk to the people who are suffering. i thought that was an amazing gesture because he can really boost them. i mean, that's what royals do when they go to hospital. people feel suddenly they can win and get well again. >> well, the trouble is you'll be under pressure to talk about his own condition . his own condition. >> no, i don't think. well, i don't think patients would ask him about that. you know, he would just be positive. he will control the conversation. won't he say which type of you got, your royal highness? i don't think they would. and i think that it also helps princess catherine because she can see what he's doing very well. and i

think a lot of this i have to say is the queen camilla. you know, i wrote her biography and she's got this very, very strong instinct of knowing what is right at the right moment and the fact that she could take all the fact that she could take all the nastiness that when , when the nastiness that when, when they separated from diana, that now she knows exactly what king charles needs and she's been there so solidly about the work and the engagements and also giving him when you saw the picture of their of their 19th wedding anniversary that came out yesterday , you can see that out yesterday, you can see that they are so interacted together . they are so interacted together. and i think that actually feeling your loved is just as important as having a pill. >> i think there's a lot of similarities between the queen and the princess of wales. i think they're both such great partners for the king and prince william, just temperamentally as well. they're very good in the background at supporting the

leading man and the sort of quite stoical and i can see why actually both of them have have chosen those leading ladies actually, which is obviously helped william get on better with his father. >> and camilla helped catherine know what to do when she joined the royal family what the protocol was, and to help her and catherine was very grateful, unlike meghan, who she tried to do as well and was not interested, and i think that's right. i also think that it's very important that someone gets what they need and what they like to recover from things, and not just medication. >> well , we've got next week. >> well, we've got next week. then prince harry will come over from la and he'll attend the invictus games and what can you tell us about that? well, that passed without controversy. >> it's. no, this will be at saint paul's cathedral to celebrate the 10th year of the invictus games. but he won't be going to see his father or brother . it's told that he won't

brother. it's told that he won't be here for very long. meghan's going to go straight to africa because she met the nigerian group and she likes that, so he'll be whizzing off. he won't see anybody, but he's no longer very popular . see anybody, but he's no longer very popular. i for the last couple of years have had lots of emails from people saying, can't you stop it? because he's turning it from trying to encourage the victims of war to be strong, to being a royal sort of show yourself off. >> we don't know for sure, though, do we, that he won't be meeting his father. i mean, his father allowed a visit last time he was in london for one of his court cases like we're seeing here. it was a short visit, but they did meet up. so there is a chance, isn't there, that father and son, he's going to rush off to africa to meet meghan there. >> you see, it's been said that she's not coming and he'll have to rush off. but what's interesting is that mike tilley, who is the husband of zara, the king's and niece. granddaughter?

the granddaughter? yes, that he's being given a high position to do something about the invictus games. i think harry is absolutely furious of this. it has been announced, but very quietly. some people say they want harry because he's the beginning of the whole invictus games and other people say that, it would be delightful that they don't do all this nonsense about being royal. they don't want meghan making speeches, they don't want her leading marches. she did lead of people who were in winning last year, and she walked as if she was at a dress show and they were walking behind her looking very angry because she doesn't really know very much about the army and the military. >> meanwhile, 13 years ago, as a country, we were all holding street parties and celebrating the marriage of the prince and princess of wales. kate and william can't believe it's been 13 years and i believe 20 years

since they got together . yeah, since they got together. yeah, it's been a lasting, lasting relationship . what an incredible relationship. what an incredible day that was. not only was it nice weather at this time in april, but i mean, it's almost a bit like jfk moment. we all know where we were as these two. yeah got married. don't you think it's one of those moments in history? i was working, remember i was hosting? i was working as well. i was in tetbury at one of the royal parties. >> people will remember where they were on that day. >> i think they do. >> i think they do. >> but what i remember world, they might. >> yes they did, i remember is the way they kept looking at each other. they had a special look and they would smile, you know, and, and had a sort of speech in silence, you know, and i think it's been a very happy marriage, very solid. she's been, as you said, very helpful with getting william to be know what a father is like, which he didn't really know because he wasn't that sort of a family. and she won't be able to wait today till he comes home from work with a tablecloth. >> it's late.

>> it's late. >> the anniversary there might be nice pretty lace things that he can get. just have to be a tablecloth. mind you, i've reached the stage in life where a tablecloth does. i love a tablecloth as a gift. so maybe that's what happens when you're my age. i'm same age as kate. >> i think the kids will make lovely cards because they're quite. yeah. good at. >> and look at all the lace she wore on their wedding day. on that. that was the first time anyone wore a dress like that. and then everyone i know tried to copy it. yes. after. after their wedding? yes. and i think it's happy memories. 13 years. wish them a very happy wedding anniversary today. and i hope that goes some way to helping her. >> and i hope that that will be a special day for her, her family will probably certainly ring or go around and see her and that will give her more courage and more hope. >> well, you don't expect the brothers to be meeting up then to offer congratulations on that one. but meanwhile , then after one. but meanwhile, then after invictus games, harry heads to africa. yes why is meghan so keen on this african visit ? keen on this african visit? >> well, she looked at her heritage and she found that she

was 43% african and so she said dunng was 43% african and so she said during the invictus games that she'd to love find out more about it. so one of the departments there of the government have invited her over there, because they would also like to have the invictus games there. and she's absolutely delighted to go. she'll be in heaven to see that, you know, there's people who understand her and what it's all about. i mean, it's nigeria that it's actually shown in the investigation . so she'll be very investigation. so she'll be very dna showed nigerian heritage. >> interesting. didn't know that. >> but she won't be. she'll be bypassing the uk. okay. >> sensibly wise. >> sensibly wise. >> yes until it got to leave it there. >> thank you very much lined up really really appreciate that. >> with the time at 9:24 we will say goodbye to you. thank you very much indeed for watching. we will be back tomorrow morning bright and early from six. >> yes we will all the way till

9:30, but up next it is britain's newsroom with andrew and bev. that is of course after your forecast. have a great day. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello! here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we hold on to mixed weather conditions across the uk during the week ahead, all of us seeing some rain at times, but temperatures will also be on the rise. back to the detail for today. now and we've got an east west split weather wise across the uk. outbreaks of rain moving in across many western spots from the south, turning heavy at times accompanied by a fairly brisk breeze to that rain reaching scotland as we head into the afternoon. so it's the east and southeast that's set to hold on to the best of the conditions. certainly the south—east of england seeing plenty of sunshine and in the sunshine it should feel fairly pleasant out and about with fairly gentle winds towards the southeast, two temperatures peaking at 16 or 17 degrees nearer 12 to 14 towards the northwest . as we head into the

northwest. as we head into the evening and during the overnight period, further outbreaks of rain will move in across many northern and western parts of the uk, moving up there from the south and again turning quite heavy in nature at times accompanied by a fairly brisk southerly wind. so it's always the south—east holding on to the clearest skies. but wherever you are it will be a frost free night. certainly much milder than in recent nights. lows in the rain 7 to 10 celsius. as for tuesday, with the east west split continues with further pulses of rain moving up across many western spots as we go through the day again, the outbreaks of rain turning heavy at times and still quite breezy out across western areas, whereas further east, plenty of fine weather around, lots of sunshine. but notice 1 or 2 showers developing across the south—east as we head into the afternoon. what temperatures are still on the climb though? up to 18 celsius towards the south—east, so still pretty warm for the time of year. near 17 degrees at best in the north. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> very good morning rishi sunak

to be taking a q and a this morning at 1015. we'll be bringing you some of that. >> you can be talking about rwanda. you can be talking about this crackdown on the mentally ill, who up to my view, quite a lot of the most swinging the lead 2.8 million on permanent sickness benefit. how can that be great? mark white package about children being used as effectively human shields by the by the asylum seekers crossing the channel. >> why

>> at 930 on monday, the 29th of april. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. very good morning. >> so, child. human shields . >> so, child. human shields. border force officials exclusively tell gb news that migrants are using children to stop police from approaching boats leaving france for britain. mark white has the latest . latest. >> well, officials say this is a deeply alarming development and it comes against the backdrop of rapidly increasing violence

towards police on french beaches i >> -- >> homes are on >> homes are on the brink. the snp leader could quit imminently after failing to drum up enough support to survive a confidence vote in the scottish parliament. >> get back to work . that's the >> get back to work. that's the government's message this morning, as they claim being back in the workplace is better than benefits for those who are suffering with their mental health. do you agree ? health. do you agree? >> and good news aurora recovery king charles to return to public life. but not all good news. yes harry's coming back to britain next week too, but not for long. we hope. >> and dying with dignity. dame esther rantzen and prue leith join a host of celebrities and campaigners as they back a change in the law on assisted dying . would you like to support dying. would you like to support that. change? and why are we in a mental health crisis in this country?

>> well, i don't think we are. i think