i >> -- >> 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 .7 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 there's just too many people. what we used to regard as just parts of the burden of daily life, ordinary life. we're now saying it's our mental health and we have to be at home and we have to be paid by the taxpayer. they've got to get a grip with it. >> but something's happened. something's happened. you only have to look around the supermarket. how miserable everybody looks, though they do look miserable. we locked down the country for two years of healthy people, and we wonder why there's a reverberate in. i think that was partly to do with it. but has it swung too far? the pendulum in terms of, as andrea says, just kind of pathologising normal human emotions. gb news. com forward slash your say is the website to get in touch with us this morning. first though, the very latest news with sam. >> bev and andrew thank you very much. very good morning to you. the headlines just after 930, it's being reported that scotland's first minister, humza yousaf, is considering resigning rather than facing two confidence votes later this week . sources suggest resignation is now an option on the table , but

now an option on the table, but that a final decision hasn't been taken. the snp leader has been taken. the snp leader has been struggling to secure support after he terminated a power sharing deal with the scottish greens last week . the scottish greens last week. the uk and irish governments are due to meet in london later, amid an escalating row over migrants , escalating row over migrants, with the eu also being drawn into the argument. the irish government says it's seen an increase in asylum seekers crossing from northern ireland, and plans to return them to the uk. however, sources in westminster suggest that britain won't take back any migrants unless the european union also accepts those coming across the engush accepts those coming across the english channel in small boats . english channel in small boats. well, that comes as a senior border force officials have raised concerns that people crossing the channel in small boats are, they say, using children as human shields to evade police . in just one week, evade police. in just one week, over 900 migrants crossed to the uk, with 359 arrivals on saturday alone, 51 of those were

rescued after running aground. meanwhile preparations are underway for detention and transfers to rwanda, marking the final phase of the home office implementing the government's plan. it's being reported that people suffering from some mental health issues will lose access to their sickness benefits as part of big welfare changes. the times newspaper has suggested that ministers will propose offering meaningful support like counselling instead of benefits payments. charities, though, claim the moves about cost cutting and not about care. however the government argues it shouldn't be paying people to deal with ordinary difficulties in life . new laws protecting in life. new laws protecting consumers from hacking and cyber attacks are now in force, with all smart devices required to meet minimum security standards . meet minimum security standards. manufacturers of products like phones, tvs and smart doorbells are now legally required to protect internet connected devices against possible access by criminals. devices against possible access by criminals . weak default by criminals. weak default

passwords, such as admin or 12345 will be banned, and users will be prompted to change them . will be prompted to change them. those are the headlines from the newsroom. for more, do sign up to gb news alerts. you can scan the qr code there on your screen or go to our website gb news. common alerts . common alerts. >> real madrid. very good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner andrew pierce. we're actually just talking about the fact that humza yousaf might resign during this show. that's what we're just looking at now. >> so we think he could be gone within an hour and a half. he won't be missed. and if you're in scotland, we'd like you to tell us exactly what you think about him and the possible replacements in mating. how quickly it's all fallen apart for the scottish national party government. nicola sturgeon was one of the most longest serving leaders in europe. powerful master of all, she surveys , she master of all, she surveys, she resigns and it's fallen apart. >> why? because he's wasn't a strong enough replacement, i think. >> no, but he was her choice. so

they backed him even though he wasn't clearly up to it. >> right. so don't go anywhere this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay to let us know your thoughts. and the government has hit out at the eu accusing them of double standards following ireland's pledge to send asylum seekers back to the uk. >> i love this story. tensions rose after a senior minister in ireland threatened to draft emergency laws, amid concerns that rishi sunak plan to redirect asylum seekers to rwanda means people are coming from northern ireland into the south because they're dreading being sent to africa. >> so piers pottinger now is with us, the founder of europe's biggest pr firm, bell pottinger, with a wealth of political experience under your belt as well, piers, so how is this going to play out for sunak now? because it does appear that even the suggestion that rwanda flights will take off is acting as the deterrent that he hoped that it would, but not necessarily in the interests of ireland. no no, i mean, it's certainly appears to be working in some cases and some people are put off and we've seen on news bulletins people , the bbc

news bulletins people, the bbc particularly interviewing, as they love to do , people trying they love to do, people trying to get across to this country and some of them are definitely put off. >> but the funny thing now is that ireland is seeing what it's like being in the eu , because of like being in the eu, because of course, we'd like to send a lot of these legal immigrants back to france, but we can't because of eu laws, which i'm still a bit baffled by because i thought we'd left the eu, but ireland , we'd left the eu, but ireland, of course, who are in the eu can't send them back to us? >> no, and we're refusing to have them anyway, and we don't want them anyway. >> quite rightly. yeah, so it even though it's a tragic situation in some cases , it's situation in some cases, it's quite amusing to see the irish in this predicament. but quite amusing to see the irish in this predicament . but i do in this predicament. but i do think that even though the rwanda policy i've never thought would work properly, and we're only talking about few hundreds of people being flown out there, i do think it's had a little bit

of an effect in a key week for rishi. >> yeah . also, piers, in the >> yeah. also, piers, in the sunday papers came the revelation that the european people's party, its most famous member, is ursula von der leyen, the head of the european commission. they are now looking at a safe third country to process asylum applications. so we're there first. well, maybe they'll send them to rwanda , they'll send them to rwanda, maybe they will. >> and i mean, and also, i think rwanda, i saw some research that said rwanda is a lot safer than london. yeah. well, ireland certainly they solve more crimes than they do in london. and of course in ireland says we can't send these asylum seekers back to britain because britain's not a safe country because of our policy on rwanda. >> you couldn't make any of this up. >> no. i mean, if sadiq khan wins the mayoral election, i'd like to send him to rwanda on a fact finding mission to see how they solve crime . they solve crime. >> well, talking of crime, mark white's very excellent package, piers, about how some of these wretched men are using children as shields, as human shields to stop them getting on the boats.

>> of course, one died the other day, and that's tragic. absolutely tragic. but i mean, these these criminals who are making a huge sums of money by human trafficking have no morals , have no integrity. they don't give a damn. they're just interested in money to fuel their own lifestyle. it's horrific, but again, it's very hard to stop this, particularly when the french don't seem to be helping us much. and the french police normally are quite keen on a punch up, and i'm surprised they haven't actually stopped more people when we saw some of the footage of them trying to pretending to stop people, which they could easily, surely have done. also, they just puncture the dinghy, stop them floating. easy. it seems to me that the french are really doing a very poor job, and we ought to be focusing more on getting. it's the one thing the labour party have got right on their immigration policy is to say they want to focus more on getting the french to do more.

and that, i think, is indeed a worthwhile exercise if they'll ever do it. >> let's talk about this developing political situation in scotland. the scottish man. yes. hallelujah. scottish history. >> so all right, well, history. >> so all right, well , just just >> so all right, well, just just give us your opinion. of course. when, when nicola sturgeon stepped down and it was kate forbes or humza yousaf. yeah and, and the job obviously the first minister went to humza yousaf . i first minister went to humza yousaf. i personally first minister went to humza yousaf . i personally was yousaf. i personally was a little disappointed. i quite like kate forbes . i felt she like kate forbes. i felt she i think some of the things she said were a little bit controversial. >> she was crucified because she had, she was honest and said she didn't believe in sex outside of marriage and she didn't believe in same sex marriages. >> well, she was a bit weird, let's be honest. in the 21st century, she's entitled to her view. >> she's very christian, to her fact that she told us honestly what she felt, even if it was going to be controversial. >> and i mean, i think she was the nearest thing the snp had to a sensible person. yeah, but scotland will be rejoicing today because usaf is doing the first sensible thing he's ever done. and that's resign. he's completely useless. he's made a mess of everything he's done,

and the snp are responsible for doing huge damage to scotland, which is far worse off than england because of the snp. nobody else. the snp are to blame for the appalling decline in education, the rising crime, the terrible drug deaths and also which, as a scot, i find deeply upsetting the way the snp have fuelled not just sort of friendly rivalry but deep hatred for the english and it's part of the united kingdom. we're the same island and the snp unforgivably, have stoked this antagonistic attitude for years and years. so much so that it's very hard to reverse. and when i go back to scotland i find it very, very unsettling . very, very unsettling. >> it's interesting you think ten years ago we had the referendum , which was going to referendum, which was going to be once in a was it once in a

generation referendum? it's all over now, isn't it? >> i mean, nobody's talking about independence because finally, i mean, i think every decent scots person has now realised that the damage the snp have done to their country is so great, they have to go and forget independence, which is pie in the sky anyway. >> their own chief, former chief economist has said it would never work, which indeed it wouldn't. and also the ludicrous idea of going, separating from england and then going into the eu, which is an even bigger bureaucracy and administration that would cause them much, would give them much less independence. >> and what currency is absurd and what currency would they have? >> well, i don't i don't think they'd have any currency because they'd have any currency because they'd run out of money by then. >> we shouldn't forget. also, the mad law they brought in just a couple of weeks ago, which is what is it now? 12,000, 13, 14,000 people. you know, this new hate crime law and also their position on gender? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, both of them are absurd. yeah. they're not focusing on the fundamental

issues that affect everyone in scotland. and they've still got the snp ongoing scandals . was the snp ongoing scandals. was the snp ongoing scandals. was the continuing investigation into peter murrell . there's also into peter murrell. there's also the ferries scandal that's still there. there's the road. >> they promised that never five years delayed the ferries and 400 million over budget. >> yeah, 400 million of scottish taxpayers money wasted by these incompetent fools . and doing a incompetent fools. and doing a partnership with the greens was also crazy because the greens, if possible in scotland, are even crazier than the snp. i know it's hard to believe this this other big story that we're talking about this morning, piers, our inboxes is full of people getting in touch about this. >> where we stand and as a country, and how we feel about the mental health issues. and, the mental health issues. and, the conservatives saying that we need to stop just dishing out benefits to people who are just the worried, well , a lot of the worried, well, a lot of people getting in touch, trevor said. it's not the genuine sick and long—term disabled that the new policy is aimed at. it's the young people who got used to

furlough and have decided to live on benefits. if the young you've got the mental trauma of having to get up and set a time to go to work and commit to being at work for seven hours, five days a week, that is the normal pressure of life. it's not an excuse for a lifetime of benefits. we what's your take on where we are at now? it feels like we need a bit of a reset on the fact that we are quite resilient. yes i think there are, as always, more than one side to every story here. >> and there's no doubt that with covid it affected a lot of people's mental health much more, longer term than we had maybe first thought. but there's equally a great british malaise of malingering . and people who of malingering. and people who use this mental health as an excuse for not turning up to work and maximising their benefits . now those people need benefits. now those people need to be stopped. and i think the government's right to look at this. but equally , mental health this. but equally, mental health problems are immense in this country and any doctor involved

in mental health would tell you that my own mp, doctor rosena allin—khan varne, who's labour mp, she was their spokesman for mental health and she stood down because she didn't feel the labour party were doing enough for mental health either for, so it's not just the conservatives it's not just the conservatives it's actually i think a serious problem that does need proper addressing. but the problem with mental health is that the boundanes mental health is that the boundaries are so hard to pin down, and you need really , real down, and you need really, real experts to be looking at this and making the decisions on benefits. i think the idea of getting people who are not medical, making decisions on whether they're fit or not fit is a mistake. >> it's this, this, this personal independence payment, which can range between 75 and £108 a week to it's now being paid to 3.5 million people, irrespective of whether they can work or not. yes. i mean it's being given out like confetti.

>> well this is the problem we have become . i mean, we are have become. i mean, we are a kind and compassionate country. that's one reason so many illegal immigrants want to come here because they can take us for a ride. yeah. and the problem is , is the is being able problem is, is the is being able to isolate the real genuine cases. yeah. versus the malingerers , as i said. and it's malingerers, as i said. and it's for any government, any bureaucrat, it's a very difficult problem. and it's been exacerbated by covid without any doubt very interesting. >> but i wouldn't lay that at the government's feet. >> i don't think that's fair. >> i don't think that's fair. >> i don't think that's fair. >> i think that's very fair thing to do. i don't think it was exacerbated. exacerbated by covid, but by covid policy, by locking healthy people . if we locking healthy people. if we locking healthy people. if we lock up healthy young people, take their education away from them, close businesses, people lose their houses. then let's not be surprised that we've got i think with hindsight, i think of mental health. >> with hindsight, you could have we could have been handled better. i agree, but i don't think the actual root causes of

mental health are this government's fault. and i think we've as a country now have got into the, the routine of blaming the government for everything. it's one shouldn't do that. one should really look at the problem. >> government, almost every government in the world did the same thing. >> it is worth saying that i agree, but also i think covid also created a society where they said, thank you very much. >> yeah, of course, handing out money and we've got to get them out, as you said, with, with, i mean, look at the civil servants who don't want to go into the office, even two days a week, for goodness sake. >> i know, and the point is, going into an office is good for mental health because you're with other people, you're getting some sort of sense of community. i agree, as opposed to staying at home, malingering and just tucking into another great can of strong cider. >> right. thank you. oh, that sounds quite nice. can we go home and do that bit early. good to see you. right, up next, assisted dying laws in the spotlight once again as westminster debates the issue this afternoon. we're going to have more on that in just a moment. this is britain's

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gb news. welcome back to britain's newsroom on gb news. i just want to read one of the messages from our viewer. tony. he says mental health crisis. i totally agree with andrew. the population confused, not getting what they want as a mental health issue. gps are given a tick box assessment tool, which is too easy to answer to indicate a mental health issue. as a now retired psychologist, says tony, with many years of receiving inappropriate referrals, he would say 85% of them were for people who just had an unrealistic expectation of what they feel they deserve in life. my they feel they deserve in life. my professional opinion is both parents and schools are not teaching children coping mechanisms , and the reality that mechanisms, and the reality that actually looking for mental health issues, as opposed to teaching coping strategies is so true that tony, i mean, some people are taking time off work

because they've had a relationship break up. >> i'm sorry. get on with it. >> life. you know what? life feels hard. it does feel hard at the moment. it does feel hard. >> it's not mental health. >> it's not mental health. >> it's not mental health. >> it's called it's called the what happens in life. yeah. up and down. we have our up and down moments. yeah. it's just called life's true course. i mean it's not it's not, it's not smooth and nor should it be. yeah. be boring . and why should yeah. be boring. and why should the taxpayer keep funding it. >> yeah. well it feels like that doesn't it. okay. >> right. that's our thoughts. >> right. that's our thoughts. >> yes. >> yes. >> now the petition to legalise assisted dying was signed by more than 200,000, which is why there's going to be an a debate today in westminster hall, which is the second chamber of the commons, as to whether people should have the right to legally take their own lives. >> so graham nichols joins us now, the director of affinity at gospel churches . good morning gospel churches. good morning graham. lovely to see you. do you think that we should be changing the law around assisted dying to, facilitate the needs of people like dame esther rantzen, who's saying that she

wants a choice as to how she ends her life, no, i don't think we should be changing the law, i think there is, the case is to do with when treatment is withdrawn and that difficult sort of decisions, whether it's taken, turning the machine off or not, taking a particular line of treatment, but actually positively intervening to end someone's life, i think morally, as a christian, it's wrong. but i also think, practically speaking , it opens the speaking, it opens the floodgates for all kinds of situations, including the ones you were just talking about. actually, people with mental health issues, people who've just had a relationship breakdown, people with disabilities saying, well, you should probably end my life because it's not very worthwhile ehhen because it's not very worthwhile either, so i think it would be disastrous for families. it would be disastrous for the doctor patient relationship . so doctor patient relationship. so i think there's nothing good about it, even though i understand that the emotional sort of persuasion of 1 or 2 cases where people might talk about, well, i want the autonomy to be able to do that, but it's not it's not 1 or 2 cases, though, is it?

>> it's a lot more. i mean, there's many people who are living to a much older ages now, graham, and they're terminally ill and they're very sick and they're in great pain. and it's very, often the treatment they're having, they feel degraded and they've just had enough. >> yes, i understand i meant1 or 2 high profile cases, but of course there are more cases across the country, of course. but, it degrading and all those kind of words you're attaching a label to someone who's at the end of their life. which doesn't necessarily have to apply. there is dignity in dying, not in the way that people use that expression , but there is dignity expression, but there is dignity in dying, that that person still exists as a human being, and they can be treated with dignity. and actually, these days, they can be treated in a, in a pretty much pain free way, and i want to respect the person right up to the point that they naturally die and to not disrespect them by ending their life, i don't think it's a right choice they're making. i don't think it's a wise choice that anyone would make to end their

life. but i think worse than that, the pressure that will fall on many people will be horrendous, okay. thank you. sure. sweet. thank you. graham. we appreciate your perspective. graham nichols there, the director of affinity at gospel, churches , i am sort of on board churches, i am sort of on board with the idea that you should be able to have some control over the end of your life. however, i think what i've realised is it would affect how we live every day while we are alive. if you thought you could always control the end of your life, wouldn't it affect every day when you wake up and how you live your life? >> i also worry about the thin end of the wedge. look what's happening in canada where that law now is being changed to allow children to be given, dignity. and that's not what that was about. >> all right. still to come, a gb news exclusive on the extreme rise in violence. but first of all, here is your 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

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gb news. away. >> good morning. it's 10:00 away. >> good morning. it's10:00 on monday, the 29th of april. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me. bev turner and andrew pierce on the brink. >> humza yousaf . the snp leader >> humza yousaf. the snp leader could quit imminently. he hasn't drummed up enough support to survive two confidence votes. the first minister has called a press conference for midday

migrant. >> violence spikes . border force >> violence spikes. border force officials claim channel migrants are using children as human shields in a gb news exclusive . shields in a gb news exclusive. >> is there a possible summer election? the prime minister refuses to rule out a july contest, but is it a ploy to keep some of those unruly mps on side ? side? >> and a royal recovery? king charles is to return to public life as he prepares to meet cancer patients following his own diagnosis and disability benefits overhaul, as millions are set to lose payments, the government argues it shouldn't be paying people to deal with ordinary difficulties in life. >> but do the cuts risk damaging the people who really need the help? >> we'd love to hear your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com forward slash yourself is the place where you can let us know your opinions and your messages have been

coming in this morning. first though, the very latest news with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just coming up to 10:02. leading the news this morning. scotland first minister humza yousaf could resign rather than face two confidence votes this week. sources suggest he's considering stepping down, but a final decision hasn't been taken. he's been struggling to secure support after he terminated a power sharing deal with the scottish greens last week, and we are expecting later . a statement from hamza. humza yousaf, outside bute house. we will bring that to you when we get it here on gb news uk and irish ministers are due to meet in london later amid an escalating row over migrants, with the eu also being drawn into the argument, the irish government says it has seen an increase in asylum seekers crossing from northern ireland, and plans to return them to the

uk. however, sources in westminster suggest britain won't take back any migrants unless the european union also accepts those coming across the engush accepts those coming across the english channel in small boats. well, our home and security edhon well, our home and security editor, mark white, has said this morning that authorities in dubun this morning that authorities in dublin are concerned about the impact of the rwanda plan . impact of the rwanda plan. >> percent 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 . rwanda. >> well, that comes as senior border force officials have raised concerns that people crossing the channel in small boats are, they say, using children as human shields to evade police. in just one week,

over 900 migrants crossed to the uk, with 359 arrivals on saturday alone. 51 of those were rescued after running aground. meanwhile preparations are underway for detention and transfers to rwanda, marking the final phase of the home office implementing the government's plan. in other news, it's being reported people suffering from some mental health issues will lose access to their sickness benefits as part of a big welfare change. the times newspaper has suggested that ministers will propose offering meaningful support like counselling and therapy, instead , and charities claim the move is about cost cutting, not care. however, the government argues it shouldn't be paying people to deal with ordinary difficulties in life. minister mel stride told gb news this morning that the uk can't afford spiralling increases in the welfare bill. >> 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 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. >> mps will this afternoon debate whether assisted dying should be legalised for people who are terminally ill. campaigners and famous faces are expected outside parliament ahead of that debate. it's after more than 200,000 people signed a petition backed by dame esther rantzen , calling for the change. rantzen, calling for the change. assisted suicide is currently bannedin assisted suicide is currently banned in england, wales and in northern ireland. in scotland, it's not a specific criminal offence, but people who help others to end their own life do risk being charged with murder or other offences, and those who oppose a change in the law say vulnerable people could be pressured into anything ending their lives . pressured into anything ending their lives. hundreds of border force officers at heathrow

airport have begun their four day strike today in a dispute over working conditions, the pcs union says more than 300 of its members are walking out until 7 am. on friday in protest over plans to introduce new working patterns, which would see around 250 staff forced out of their jobs. the home office, though, says it does have plans in place to minimise any disruption at passport control and that they remain open to discussing a resolution with workers . new resolution with workers. new laws protecting consumers from hacking and cyber attacks are now in force, with all smart devices required to meet minimum security standards . as security standards. as manufacturers of products have phones, tvs and smart doorbells are now legally required to protect internet connected devices against possible access by criminals and weak default passwords such as admin or 12345 will be banned and users will be prompted to change them . and prompted to change them. and finally, before we head back to andrew and bev, we're being

warned to brace ourselves for even more food price rises with been even more food price rises with beer, biscuits and bread among the items expected to jump. the wet weather means that harvests of barley and wheat could be down by as much as a fifth, and storms and flooding throughout the last few months have forced british farmers to constantly delay sowing crops . that warning delay sowing crops. that warning comes just as food prices are beginning to fall following soaring inflation that was sparked by the global gas price crisis . that's the latest from crisis. that's the latest from the newsroom. for more, do sign up to gb news alerts. you can scan the code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts. now, though, it's back to andrew and bev . bev. >> 1007 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> just a couple more of your messages before we go on to our mark white package. rich has got in touch and said the strange thing is, i know a lot of people on various benefits and various

states of health. everyone i know who should be getting pip can't get it, and everyone who shouldn't be getting it does. it's totally bizarre. i know a guy who couldn't look after himself, had major cognitive problems and poor health, repeatedly denied pip. others get full rate just for being mildly autistic. i wish that someone could explain this and fix it. >> this is pip is personal independent payments, which i was referring to. the pay to 3.5 million people who get them irrespective of whether they can work or not. yeah yeah. so lots of people, lorena said. i have severe mental health issues, emotionally unstable personality disorder, and regularly , self disorder, and regularly, self harm . it's difficult to get pip. harm. it's difficult to get pip. the assessment process isn't easy. it's very stressful . it easy. it's very stressful. it makes me mad that people, the government, think mental health can be improved by talking therapy. i definitely don't sit at home with a can of cider each day as your guest suggests. >> the thing is, it's for people like lorraine that's what the government should be helping them. it's the people like ryan who are swinging the lead. >> why have we done though? especially the next, the younger generation, the self—harming, particularly with the young youngsters, particularly young

girls, is just terrible off the scale now. >> border border force fishers have told gb news of concerns that channel migrants get this. it's shocking. are using children as human shields to stop police punching their small boats. >> so mark white was given exclusive access to the small boats operational command in doven boats operational command in dover. and here's what he found. >> 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. they're 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'sjust on each boat is now common. >> it's just it's just not safe. the way it's constructed . and i the way it's constructed. and i mean, this is typical where if there was a cut or a punch 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 life jackets . 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 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 prone

to breaking down. >> you look at the engine, you might think, yeah, that's a proper engine. some of 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 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. >> well, mark white joins us now with some breaking news. morning mark. what's happening, we're getting reports of another rescue underway in the english channel. you'll remember, of course, last tuesday, five

people died when their boat got into difficulties off the coast near boulogne. well a bit further up, this time off the coast of calais as we speak. a rescue operation is underway with reports that some migrants are in the water. so we await to see exactly what will happen with that. unfortunately, this is just what is par for the course when these criminal gangs are pushing boats off into the engush are pushing boats off into the english channel on a day like today, when conditions are just not suitable. i mean, there's no suitable conditions for these boats. let's be honest. you saw in the report there they are flimsy boats that are absolutely packed to the gunwales with dozens of migrants , and that dozens of migrants, and that makes them completely unseaworthy. and it only takes , unseaworthy. and it only takes, you know, the odd wave and they're in serious trouble. >> do we know how many are involved in this one? >> mark, we don't . all we know >> mark, we don't. all we know is, of course, the pattern for these small boats going into the channelis these small boats going into the channel is that they usually

carry at least 50 or 60 people on board that boat that, got into difficulties last tuesday had 112 on board because of a new tactic, an emerging tactic there where groups of migrants, mainly from africa, who don't have the to money pay the criminal gangs thousands of pounds, stormed the boats as they're launching and fight their way, fight amongst the other migrants on those boats to get on. and as such, 112 people were crammed onto this boat last week that got into trouble. we don't know if the same thing has played out on this occasion. we don't know any of the circumstances. just at this rescue operation is underway. >> bizarre thing about last week was the boat carried on even though five people had died and there were lots in the water. they carried on and the vessel carried on to england, escorted by a french ship, of course, such as the determination of those on the boats to get to the uk, about 50 of them did come off because it was clearly so dangerously overloaded it would

never have made it anyway . never have made it anyway. >> so of course those that were rescued and subsequently five died. then another 50 agreed to come off and went on to a french vessel and were taken back to france. but 58 continued on the boat and made it to the uk. and we know that a number of those were actually subsequently arrested and two have been charged in connection with the deaths. just briefly, are we seeing any impact yet that the rwanda bill may be a deterrent, not necessarily from france? i don't think so at all. but of course, we're hearing from the irish government that they believe that 80% of the migrants who've come into the republic of ireland, in recent weeks, have come from the north and the concern is that they're coming because of rwanda . i mean, i because of rwanda. i mean, i will point out that for many years, the loophole that they're saying they don't want migrants to exploit here has been operating the other way in that

thousands of migrants who've come in through open borders in europe have ended up in dublin and have then gone up and over into the uk border on the other way. so there's a meeting that's taking place today, an intergovernmental meeting of foreign ministers, irish and british foreign ministers, which will discuss this topic. but it's becoming quite an unseemly row, a huge irony because of the great fuss they made about having no border between the nonh having no border between the north and south after brexit. well, yes. and they are going to try and push through a law so that they can return those migrants who are coming down from northern ireland back to northern ireland. but britain has said it's not going to tolerate that quite right. unless, of course, france agrees to a returns agreement to take the migrants that are crossing the migrants that are crossing the channel back. >> okay. all right. thank you, mark, and keep us posted on that, developing rescue in the channel. >> we're joined now by political commentator peter spencer. peter, morning to you . thank you

peter, morning to you. thank you . good morning. peter, we're going to hear from the prime minister a little later in the program. but while we're talking about rwanda and migration, i suspect he's quite happy because it does seem there might be a little ray of light emerging over this policy. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, he's certainly already picked up that very point. say, look, you know, just shows that, the whole idea of this hugely expensive, i have to say, rwanda scheme was to act. it's psychological warfare is to act as a deterrent. so people think, look, there's no point coming to, to, to, to uk because immediately you're going to be shuffled off to some place. in africa, which has at best a questionable record on human rights. oh, and by the way, it's a one way ticket. so that's it. you're not coming back to uk ? end of story. back to uk? end of story. however, i think it's fair to say that the problem with them popping say that the problem with them popping across to from across the border into the republic of ireland is one of those many

uncanny , dissipated and uncanny, dissipated and unintended consequences . and i unintended consequences. and i have to say that this is very much part and parcel with the whole brexit thing, that the problem with with the border between the republic and the north of ireland was something that was not anticipated when brexit was being negotiated. so just as you solve one problem, potentially you actually open another can of worms. and it's not surprising that the irish are extremely cross about it. i mean, you know, back in the day, the brits sent a gunboat up the liffey in the easter rising. i don't imagine that go as far as sending a gunboat up the thames, but they're nonetheless jolly cross about it. >> peter, i was just saying earlier off air we were chatting . i was lucky enough to go to morocco recently for a little break. and when you walk through the streets of marrakesh, the poverty is extraordinary . there poverty is extraordinary. there are men with their feet bound in rags because they don't have shoes. and i looked around and i thought, it's no wonder people want to come to this country

when they're living in such abject poverty. if this is a global issue and we do accept that the majority, let's say, of people on those boats are just desperate for a better quality of life, how do we handle that? with countries working together? how? >> i mean, that is a huge geopolitical problem and how, how and how in god's name we address that. i really , really address that. i really, really do not know, because the point you make, bev, is absolutely valid. of course, there are monumental inequities between living standards in the west and so many places in other parts of the world. i mean, there is monumental injustice here, isn't there? and i frankly, i cannot see a solution to it. and i think it'll take and take many, many years before it does get resolved. i mean, i would add one other thing though, although there is a certain proportion of asylum seekers who most certainly or they're actually

economic migrants , there's also economic migrants, there's also a significant proportion, probably a majority who are actually escaping persecution and torture and a fear of being murdered. and, i mean, i mean, we come back to the overall problem in uk of, the swirling numbers of asylum applications . numbers of asylum applications. and of course, this makes a lot of people jolly cross because it's jolly expensive to put them in hotels and so on. but if the home office were to actually get its act together and process their claims within a matter of weeks instead of, as is often the case, over a year, that would save the nation an awful lot . lot. >> okay. all right. thank you very much. political commentator peter spencer there. it's very pink. that wasn't it. >> very pink. very pink. >> very pink. very pink. >> he does like pink, but i'm sick of the foreign secretary, by the way, who, by the way, last week confirmed that we would not have to leave the european court of human rights over the rwanda policy. and i say that he would never allow

the prime minister to leave, but also saying, blaming brexit, the reason we've got such a large number of people pouring across europe is because of his flipping policy in libya, when he went to war in libya and deposed gaddafi with the french president. and it's been a nightmare ever since that country . country. >> so much of our western policy in the middle east has led to this, of course, to this crisis. but in terms of those people who just want to live a better life, they are economic migrants. and i do understand it. but we can't take everybody. we'll be lovely if we could, but we can't. >> we're full up. >> we're full up. >> we're full up. >> we just can't take that many desperate people. so what is the solution? let us know what you think at home. gbnews.com/yoursay is the website to get in touch with us on.and website to get in touch with us on. and also we're going to be talking about, well, we have done a discussion about the assisted dying, at genius said we put animals out of their misery, but we allow humans to suffer. >> well, that's that's esther rantzen's point, isn't it? >> she had three major deaths in her family her husband, her mother and her dog. and the dog had the civilised death. yeah.

>> still to come, the return of the king as the monarch prepares to resume royal duties, we'll have the latest on his majesty's

gb news. very good morning. it is 1024. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. and also our panellists with us former labour adviser matthew laza and author and broadcaster emma woolf. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning to you both. right. shock rwanda move front page of the guardian emma. the home office is going to launch a major operation to detain asylum seekers in preparation to move them to rwanda. this did come as a bit of a shock. i. >> yes , and i don't know what to >> yes, and i don't know what to make of it. apparently this is the beginning of the home office's kind of crackdown. i mean, what what's the effect going to be? it's a kind of major detention operation when migrants, when asylum seekers turn up for their routine meetings at immigration centres, apparently they're going to be detained and moved to detention

centres here. good. but is this a sort of look at us acting tough before thursday? yeah. also, what effect is it going to have?i also, what effect is it going to have? i should have thought that most people who hear about this and word spreads when you're in and word spreads when you're in a kind of that kind of community word spreads. people won't be turning up for their meetings. they'll be going rogue. so i wonder if it's going to have unintended consequences . absolutely. >> and i think it's part of this get tough policy, because of course they're going to round up more people than can go to rwanda should they fly to even and hold them for 10 to 12 weeks now? >> i mean, is that even a sensible thing to do, to plan to do? because flights are not planned? remember that today in july? >> sorry, i didn't mean to. so as we were hearing from mark, you know, one day's worth today, you know, one day's worth today, you know, one day's worth today, you know yesterday's boat's worth would be enough to go to go to rwanda. so this seems to be, as emma says, this seems to be, as emma says, this seems to be pretty much the atrix. when actually the numbers who are going to go are quite low. >> but what's happening in northern ireland, you can see the irish minister actually said on the record the fear of rwanda is driving people from northern

ireland migrants into the south because they do not want to go to rwanda, which is why they're now going to try and change the law. >> good luck with that. >> good luck with that. >> well, they're going to face the same problem that we had about whether we think people back to france. yes. i mean, it is the kind of domino effect, isn't it? it's a kind of it's just shoving the and it reminds us we need to we need to tackle the problem at source. >> it's a sign, matthew. it's it is a deterrent to those people in the north. that's why they're getting out of northern ireland. they think they're going to go to rwanda. >> i mean, she may be using it as a political machine by tackle the problem at source. so we need to do much more to tackle the criminal gangs, which is why labour's got its plan to smash the gangs, including its cross—border police force. >> are they going to smash the gangs, matthew? do tell. well, one of the ways is by using the anti—terror legislation, which other, for example, the belgians have done very successfully. >> and so the numbers coming from belgium has significantly declined because, for example, it means you can get people's mobile phones, take them off them and, and check where, you know, and trace back where they're coming from. look, it's not a magic solution, but we want to stop people ever getting on those small boats in france because they're putting their

lives at risk as well. then stop them. well, then stop them. can ideal them. well, then stop them. can i deal with the french? the other problem about this detention plan is that you're going to have. >> of course, you're going to have hundreds and hundreds of protesters at these detention centres. if anyone is laid a hand on, there's going to be legal challenges. critics are calling this a catastrophic system meltdown that they're not. no one is going to be detained and forcibly moved to detention centres because it will simply be people gluing themselves to railings. standing outside, the human rights lawyer there, of course. >> and of course, there isn't all legal aid. there isn't that much capacity in the detention centres. the reason, of course, people are in hotels is because the detention centres ran out of space a long time ago, so i think it's a good headline in search of a solution feels a little bit like style over substance. >> absolutely. isn't it totally. shall we move on to millions on disability benefits? we're talking about this reforms to the benefits system based on your mental health, matthew. yeah, absolutely. >> well, there's two stories being floated today. both on the same subject, but one is that millions of people who have mild quotes, depression and anxiety are going to be taken off sickness benefit, particularly

pip. personal independence payment, which is the main benefit for those who are deemed not fit for work and therefore they don't have to seek work. 3.5 million people, which is absolutely 3.5 million up. but there's another story which has been floated, which is that the people that people are going to be paid in vouchers rather than cash and are going to have to submit receipts for their spending. this is disabled people now. i mean, that is going to go down with people who've got, you know, very serious health conditions because this is a decent society. those with serious health conditions should be supported . the idea that people supported. the idea that people are going have to be sort of submitting their, you know, aldi and lidl receipts, first of all, the bureaucracy that that would involve, if that seems to me another one of these, the government's rather desperate sort of feeling , they've got to sort of feeling, they've got to be seen to be doing things before thursday and the elections before possible challenge to rishi, etc. so i mean on this, on this taking people with mild depression off benefits, supporting people with mild depression sounds a good thing. but there's nothing in it about supporting people, and it seems a bit of an antidote because keir starmer is with his newest mp, doctor dan poulter,

today launching a plan for 8500 mental health workers in schools, which is funded and it's not from, it's from, it's from a clamp down on a private eqtu from a clamp down on a private equity tax loophole. it's not the non—doms. >> do you know his nickname in parliament, i've heard a few. >> invisible man, i didn't even know he was still an mp. and he's got a 23,000 majority. why doesn't he have a by—election? well because i've never seen in ipswich and suffolk. >> was he never the invisible man? >> absolutely never. >> absolutely never. >> well he's not. >> well he's not. >> and what do you think about him crossing picket lines, which he did regularly as a doctor, crossing picket lines in the bma, of course, is not an if labour affiliated union. >> so that doesn't get do you support people crossing picket lines? look, we were clear we didn't support the junior doctors strike. so and one of the reasons he's not there is because he's working hard for his local nhs. and look, he's said absolutely clearly that he i mean, the only cure is a labour government, which i think is what the british people want as well. we need an election i was expecting i was half hoping that rishi would call one where we were on air. >> i just want a word from you on this change of benefits. yeah. people are people who need

it. are going to be are going to be devastated today, genuinely. >> but hold on a minute. what does mild mean? because i bet you if you asked someone do you have mild depression. do you have mild depression. do you have mild depression. do you have mild anxiety. they say no, it's suddenly extremely severe. so i think it's one of these invisible problems. it's very hard to diagnose, you know, issues you don't know how how do you measure it? i'm not unsympathetic to those with genuine mental health problems. of course i'm not. but i can say, as many people have said, the best thing for depression and anxiety is work, work, purpose, social interaction , purpose, social interaction, often being in the world taking part. and so people do need support. and i like the idea of having more mental health workers. they do need support. >> a colleague was telling us earlier just >> a colleague was telling us earlierjust now how a friend of earlier just now how a friend of his, has been signed off sick because she's grief stricken over the death of her mother. that's that's called grief. that's that's called grief. that's not mental illness called grief. >> this is not that is bereavement counselling that you need a couple of evenings a week? >> absolutely . grief can be >> absolutely. grief can be severe. you go, but you do. of course you do. >> and that's they need support. >> and that's they need support. >> there's too much of that. >> there's too much of that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's so easy to say, you know, being cruel to people who are anxious and depressed. no,

it's actually not good for them themselves to be isolated . themselves to be isolated. >> had a major relationship break up. we've all had one of those. it's pretty horrible . you those. it's pretty horrible. you have to go to work and get on with your life, but you need to forget about it. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> this feels all stick. the more i can contemplate this this morning, it just feels cruel. >> there's no yeah, you're right i >> -- >> there's no detail about how they're going to support people in this announcement. it's all leadsom. you seem to be get tough. >> the thing is the anxiety issue is off the scale at the moment of what we might have grown up as just thinking, well, you're just worried it is bev. >> but the answer is also resilience. you've got to have you've got to inculcate and build up resilience in our young people. >> you need to if your confidence is so low that you can't get dressed in the morning, if you are so lacking in any sort of strength, you can't even pick up the phone to inquire about a job. then you learn. people do and people will be suicidal. >> and also, it's why it's important to support people in schools, because 120,000 children are waiting more than 12 months between diagnosis and treatment. >> and it's awful, right? still to come. sorry. we've got to go to come. sorry. we've got to go to a quick break. we're going to

take some live pictures of bute house as well. it's widely expected that humza yousaf is preparing. there. it is. front doon preparing. there. it is. front door, preparing to resign his front door for much longer. first minister there we will have that and more after your morning's news with sam . morning's news with sam. >> very good morning to you. 1033 the headlines from the newsroom this hour . as we just newsroom this hour. as we just heard, scotland's first minister, humza yousaf, could resign rather than face two confidence votes this week . confidence votes this week. sources suggest he's considering stepping down. but a final decision hasn't been taken so far. he's been struggling to secure support after he terminated a power sharing deal with the scottish greens last week. well, as we've just seen, here's another quick look at that front door. the scene outside bute house in edinburgh, where we are expecting to hear from humza yousaf, possibly at lunchtime. we will bring that to you live here on gb news uk and irish ministers are due to meet in london amid an escalating row over migrants , with the eu also

over migrants, with the eu also being drawn into the argument. the irish government says it's seen an increase in asylum seekers crossing from northern ireland, and plans to return them to the uk . however, sources them to the uk. however, sources in westminster suggest that britain won't take back any migrants unless the european union also accepts those coming across the english channel in small boats . that comes as small boats. that comes as senior border force officials have raised concerns that people crossing the channel are using children as human shields to evade police . in just one week, evade police. in just one week, over 900 migrants crossed to the uk , with 359 arrivals on uk, with 359 arrivals on saturday alone . 51 of those were saturday alone. 51 of those were rescued after their boat ran aground . meanwhile, preparations aground. meanwhile, preparations are underway for detention and transfers to rwanda, marking the final phase of the home office implementing the government's plan and it's being reported that people suffering from some mental health issues will lose access to their sickness benefits as part of big welfare changes, the times newspaper

suggested ministers will propose offering meaningful support like counselling instead of benefits payments. charities, though, claim the moves about cost cutting and not about care. however the government argues it shouldn't be paying people to deal with what they've called ordinary difficulties in life . ordinary difficulties in life. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the qr code there on your screen or if you're listening on radio, go to gb news. common alerts . alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a look at the markets this morning. >> the pound will buy you 511.2513 and >> the pound will buy you $1.2513 and ,1.1694. the price of gold is £1,869.56 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8180 points. >> cheers britannia wine club

proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> anything still to come? all eyes on edinburgh from midday. you're excited about this? >> well, i think he has the nickname implies he is flipping useless and he's going to go . useless and he's going to go. and he was nicola sturgeon's puppet. frankly, he only got the job because he was nicola sturgeon's mate and they're paying sturgeon's mate and they're paying a price now. he wasn't simply wasn't up to it and he's gone because he's going to go because he's not going to survive a confidence vote. they've fallen out with the greens over some wildly overambitious green targets, which was going to cost people such a lot of money. >> but what? >> but what? >> and that law the other week, you know, about hate crime law. yes >> the fact that you could now be found guilty in scotland of inciting hatred by a conversation, you might have over your sunday lunch, well, it's all backfired, hasn't it? humza yousaf is apparently preparing to resign as first minister and leader of the snp.

we will bring you that very latest news when it breaks. this is britain's newsroom

gb news. >> now we've got some good news. because the king will return to pubuc because the king will return to public life. we think he's going to carry out some duties tomorrow. >> wow. and with just a week to go before prince harry visits the uk to mark the 10th anniversary of the invictus games, could the family see a reunion? ingrid seward editor in chief of majesty magazine joins us now. good morning ingrid, lovely to see you. sometimes with feuding families, it takes an unexpected and potentially life changing event to bring them together. are we going to see that now ? see that now? >> i don't think we're going to see, william and harry together, but i do think that , king but i do think that, king charles will make an effort to see his son. he'll want to see him. they'll both be in london at the same time, i believe,

because it's, the prime ministers meeting. so there is no real reason why harry shouldn't see his father. but, you know, for william, it's a bit different . so, maybe they'll bit different. so, maybe they'll get together. but i would only be guessing. and my guess is that they probably won't. >> invictus games. ingrid. it has been a great triumph for prince harry. we shouldn't take that away from him . it'll be that away from him. it'll be fascinating because he's going to be at that service, i think, at saint paul's next week to mark the 10th anniversary of the invictus games. mark the 10th anniversary of the invictus games . will it be odd invictus games. will it be odd if there is no other member of the royal family there? because that's what i'm hearing. there'll be no royals there at all, apart from harry, i also i also heard the same thing i gather that the actor damian lewis is actually reading the poem invictus, and i think that harry will probably want to, you know, to take the main stage himself. >> this is his baby as if it were. and it's something he's worked out very hard , and worked out very hard, and perhaps one could say one of his

few successes. so i think he will want to claim the high ground , and king charles coming ground, and king charles coming back to work. this is this is great news and probably, i think maybe a little sooner than we expected. >> yes. i mean , obviously none >> yes. i mean, obviously none of us are oncologists. we don't know the ins and outs of what's wrong with him, but he, you know, as far as everyone's concerned, he's been raring to go. he's been held back from going, you know, going out and about. going, you know, going out and about . and now he finally will about. and now he finally will be able to, but obviously his doctors are going to keep a very careful eye on him . careful eye on him. >> he's and they're still talking ingrid at the palace that later in the year he will be going to australia for an official visit with queen camilla. that would be pretty arduous if he's still having treatment . treatment. >> yes. i mean, it's because as the government heads of heads of government meeting in samoa as well , and he government meeting in samoa as well, and he was going to tie them both in. i think that is entirely dependent on how he is. and, you know, as we know, we've

heard so much about it. it's different for everyone. so we can't double guess how he's going to be yet by the way, i think it's by later in the year. we hope he doesn't overdo it too much now, there was some polling over the weekend, ingrid wasn't there, about how the princess of wales remains incredibly popular with the public. still >> oh, yes. i mean, she's always going to. and i think people are, you know, i think there's a huge groundswell of sympathy for her being the mother of three children and, you know, having a very high pressure job. and yet, you know, having to keep it completely in the background. and i think, you know, when we do eventually see her, i mean, again, we don't know when we're going to it may not be till later in the year, but it doesn't diminish her popularity one tiny bit, and what of meghan? do i read that she's off to africa or something to get in touch with her colonial roots? >> yes, she's well, she's she's going to apparently she's going

to nigeria with harry. >> they've been invited there. because when she did her sort of dna test, she discovered she was 43. i think nigeria. dna test, she discovered she was 43. i think nigeria . so she 43. i think nigeria. so she wants to discover her roots. you're absolutely right. and that's. so they're going on a on a trip together. >> do you think there's any chance you might stay there ? chance you might stay there? >> she's just like a parody of narcissist. >> andrew, i know you're hopeful, but i don't think so. >> sadly, she's just she's just like the ultimate narcissist. >> if you had to write a character and what would they do? i know what they'd do. they would look at their own dna. they'd work out where they were from. they'd go back and look into their history. i mean, it's always about her. presumably there's a netflix documentary going to be attached to this sister ingrid. >> oh, definitely . i can't >> oh, definitely. i can't imagine that they would actually want to travel all that way without a tv crew with them. >> yeah, very true. all right. thank you so much. ingrid seward, the editor of chief of majesty magazine. >> when i read it, i thought, this is parody. >> is this, like, parody? she's just the gift that keeps on

giving , isn't she? giving, isn't she? >> to discover her colonial ancestral roots, nigeria and harry. so he's going to not be here for long because he's got to then fly out to nigeria to be with his wife, or whether he's going back to america and then joining her out there. >> i foresee another documentary in which she tries to clone herself , possibly working with herself, possibly working with the giants of the tech, the biotech world, to create more. >> meghan markle's. you'd love that, wouldn't you? >> yeah, i mean, i wonder if there are any markle in nigeria. >> well, i guess well, listen, it sounds like she's piqued your curiosity. you're obviously going to watch this documentary , going to watch this documentary, aren't you? >> i doubt that very much. well, i probably will have, yes, maybe i probably will have, yes, maybe i will. morbid curiosity, if you can have that. such a thing would you watch it at home? >> would you like to see meghan markle go and retrace her roots in nigeria? right. lots of your messages coming in this morning. but still to come. after humza yousaf terminated his power sharing agreement with the greens, the move seems to have cost him his position . a cost him his position. a scottish first minister, you're with britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> say ministers are going to overhaul disability benefits. they tennis with millions facing the biggest welfare reform in a generation. we heard this before. >> so those who suffer from depression and anxiety could lose cash handouts in favour of talking therapies and social care packages. >> well, gb news spoke earlier to the secretary of state for work and pensions, mel stride, about this overhaul. and this is what he had to tell us, poorly 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? >> so we're joined now by political commentator benedict spence. good morning benedict. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. lots >> good morning. lots of >> good morning. lots of people getting in touch with us this morning. it's 50 over 50, i would say some people saying yes, get those who are swinging the lead off benefits. there's too many of them. and the other 50% saying things like this. so this is steve. i had a breakdown 15 years ago resulting from a number of massive life changes. it was just too much. i had three weeks off work, was diagnosed and medicated. i still am, but i went straight back to work. i agree that some people have more extensive issues, but these are the minority. it's nonsense that so many are on long term sick, sorry, that's not quite what i wanted it to say. there are those people saying i've really, genuinely struggle and people like steve saying, come on, get out there and work . and work. >> i think, i mean, this is the difficult thing, isn't it? whenever we have a conversation

about out of work benefits is that you immediately have the extremities, as lots of people say, there are too many scroungers , lots of people not scroungers, lots of people not getting back to work. and then from the other side, you have this idea that no, everybody who is on out of work benefits absolutely deserve them. and it is impossible to conceive that anybody could ever be trying to be playing the system. when, of course, we all know that the reality is going to be somewhere in the middle. reality is going to be somewhere in the middle . you know, that's in the middle. you know, that's the nature of how these things tend to work. the long and short of it is the out of work unemployment benefit bill is too large, and you can't get away from the fact that it is absolutely skyrocketed since the start of the government's, measures , fears surrounding the measures, fears surrounding the covid pandemic. that's when you see the sort of the significant uptick. but, you know, under the previous, you know, in the sort of the pre boris johnson era under when iain duncan smith was in charge of, work and pensions, we were able to get these numbers down quite significantly . and actually nobody was sort of suffering unnecessarily . you of suffering unnecessarily. you know, it it's the sort of thing that i'm afraid does require, i think, a bit of a firm hand. and

of course, you understand that there are always going to be people who perhaps might slip through the cracks a little bit in the system. there will be people who will be unfairly penalised. well, that's to be expected. but broadly speaking, just because there are people on out of work benefits who deserve it doesn't mean that the state should not go after trying to reduce the numbers of people who shouldn't be on them is an interesting expression that mel stride has used about people being parked on benefits, which i think is quite an interesting use of words . use of words. >> and if you consider how much the benefit bill is now for us sustainable £50 billion for working age sickness benefits, but then there's benefit that it's going to rise by another 20 billion before the end of the decade. how can they possibly know that, i suppose that that's just a forecast based on current trends. i suppose it's shocking or something. >> sorry, that is a shocking figure that would be 70 billion. >> it is a shocking figure. yeah. that's basically what we've just been able to pledge for upgrading the armed forces to get them to, you know, not not get them to a level that isn't even ready to deploy yet. you know, it's a huge amount of

money, and when you think about it, all the other things that we're told we need money for, we need money for schools, we need money for hospitals. actually, this is something that could be going towards plugging those gaps. and if there is a suggestion that there are people who don't necessarily need to be on this benefits, it's of course the right thing to go after. i suspect that the forecasting comes from the changing in demographics. actually, more people are getting older and actually long before they get to pension age. increasingly, a lot of people are effectively clocking out of the workforce. people will say that they have a certain lifestyle related diseases that clock in, you know, long before they can claim their pensions. know, long before they can claim their pensions . fair enough in their pensions. fair enough in some cases. but this is obviously, an estimation. but as you say, it's an unsustainable amount of money. yeah. and that's the thing. if your society, if your economy doesn't actually generate the money to support people, it's all very well saying, well, it's inhumane not providing people the means to sort of live off the taxpayer. but the uk economy is stagnant and has been for a very long time. benefits are a luxury that most countries can't afford. we are fantastically lucky that we can have them in this country, but your economy has to keep pace with that and

ours isn't. >> we have. it's heartbreaking actually reading the inbox today because there are a lot of people at home at this time of the day who are genuinely disabled and they can't go to work, and we have to also recognise that those people very, very much need state support because what else do they have if they don't have taxpayer money to help them in the morning? but something happened during lockdowns, benedict, whereby young people in particular got used to the idea that if life is a little bit difficult or something happens, even something as mild as what coronavirus was for the vast majority of people, the government will pay you to just stay at home and they're tech addicted. they don't eat well , addicted. they don't eat well, they don't get fresh air. they don't have purpose. what do we don't have purpose. what do we do with those people? >> oh, it's incredibly tricky . >> oh, it's incredibly tricky. and i mean, it sort of ties into the it must be said, i think it ties into a sort of a national malaise in terms of, you know, you're right to pinpoint this. things are a little bit

difficult. so shrug your shoulders and, what are you going to do? we see the same thing, actually, when it comes to the discussion around mobile phones and social media amongst children, they shouldn't have them . they're dangerous, it's them. they're dangerous, it's difficult not to give them to them. what are you going to do? and it's that lack of frank, frankly. it's that lack of, i suppose, gumption, the lack of sort of can do attitude. yeah. not for young people, actually. i'd say from older people towards policy , it's difficult towards policy, it's difficult towards policy, it's difficult to get people off of benefits, get them back into the workplace, it's difficult to raise your children properly. that's not coming from sort of 20 year olds. that's coming from people in their 40s. and a lot of people, of course, in government, who are necessarily older. >> we got to go. >> we got to go. >> benedict, great to see you. as always. don't go anywhere. here's the news. >> 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 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 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 , 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 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 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 sperm . boxt boilers sperm. >> answers of weather on

gb news. away. >> 11 am. on monday, the 29th of april. this is britain's news on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so, humza on the brink. >> so, humza on the brink. >> the snp leader looks set to quit today, holding a press conference after his government faces a vote of no confidence. we'll bring you the latest here on gb news. >> migrant violence is spiking border force officials claim

channel migrants are using children as human shields. they've told us this in a gb news exclusive and dying with dignity. >> the dame dame esther rantzen and prue leith join a host of celebrities and campaigners as they back a change in the law on assisted dying. let us know your thoughts this morning . send your comments to morning. send your comments to gbnews.com/yoursay first though, the very latest news with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 11:00. the headunes it's just after 11:00. the headlines from the newsroom this houn headlines from the newsroom this hour. as we've just heard, scotland's first minister humza yousaf could resign rather than face two confidence votes this week. sources suggest he's considering stepping down, but a final decision hasn't been taken so far. he's been struggling to secure support after he

terminated a power sharing deal with the scottish greens last week. this, for those watching on television, is a live shot of bute house, his official residence, where we are expecting to hear from the scottish first minister in the next hour . we will bring that to next hour. we will bring that to you live here on gb news in other news, a rescue operation is underway in the channel with a migrant boat running into trouble off the coast of calais. that comes as senior border force officials have raised concerns that people in small boats are using children as human shields to evade police. in just one week, over 900 migrants crossed to the uk with 359 arrivals on saturday alone, 51 of those were rescued after running aground . uk and irish running aground. uk and irish ministers are meeting in london amid an escalating row over migrants . the irish government migrants. the irish government says it's seen an increase in asylum seekers crossing the border from northern ireland, and that it plans to return them to the uk. however, sources in westminster suggest that britain

won't take any migrants back and will only do so if it can send people who arrive in small boats back to the european union . it's back to the european union. it's being reported that people suffering from some mental health issues, including depression and anxiety, will lose access to their sickness benefits as part of new welfare changes, the times newspaper has suggested. ministers will propose offering meaningful support like counselling, instead . charities claim the instead. charities claim the move is about cost cutting , not move is about cost cutting, not care. however, the government argues it shouldn't be paying people to deal with what they've called ordinary difficulties in life. minister mel stride told us this morning that the uk can't afford a spiralling increase in the welfare bill. >> 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

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. >> mps will this afternoon debate whether assisted dying should be legalised for people who are terminally ill. campaigners and famous faces are now gathered outside parliament ahead of that debate this afternoon. it's after more than 200,000 people signed a petition backed by dame esther rantzen, calling for the change. assisted suicide is currently banned in england, in wales and northern ireland. in scotland, though, it's not a specific criminal offence. but people who help others to end their own lives do risk being charged with murder or other offences. those who oppose a change in the law say vulnerable people could be pressured into ending their lives. hundreds of border force officers at heathrow airport have begun their four day strike in a dispute over working conditions . the union says that

conditions. the union says that more than 300 of its members are walking out until 7 am. on friday in protest over plans to introduce new working patterns, which would see around 250 staff forced out of their jobs. which would see around 250 staff forced out of their jobs . the forced out of their jobs. the home office, though, says it does have plans in place to minimise any disruption and that they remain open to discussing a resolution with workers . new resolution with workers. new laws protecting consumers from hacking and cyber attacks are now in force, with all smart devices required to meet minimum security standards. manufacturers of products like phones, tvs and smart doorbells are now legally required to protect internet connected devices against access by criminals. common passwords like one, two, three four, five are being banned in the uk as part of that world first legislation, and users will be prompted to change them . and finally, we're change them. and finally, we're being warned to brace ourselves for even more food price rises with beer, biscuits and bread among the items expected to jump

the wet weather means that harvests of barley and wheat could be down by as much as a fifth, and storms and flooding throughout the last few months have forced british farmers to constantly delay sowing crops. that warning comes just as food pnces that warning comes just as food prices were beginning to fall following soaring inflation that was sparked by the global gas price crisis . that's the latest. price crisis. that's the latest. for more. you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the code on your screen, or go to gbnews.com slash alerts for more, though it's back to andrew and . bev. and. bev. >> good morning. it's 1105. and. bev. >> good morning. it's1105. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, we think we're pretty sure that we pretty much know humza yousaf is going to resign as scotland's first minister and snp leader. he's holding a press conference around midday today. we will be there live. >> of course. let's get the latest from gb news scotland reporter tony mcguire. >> good morning tony. good

morning. so what are you being told there on the ground ? told there on the ground? >> good morning. well indeed. this has been another rough weekend. after the end of last weekend. after the end of last week for humza yousaf and as he promised, he wrote to all of the party leaders over the weekend asking them to meet him at separate meetings at bute house behind me, the official residence of the first minister. and all of them declined his invitation. that then led to increased speculation overnight andindeed increased speculation overnight and indeed this morning, that the first minister was on the precipice of handing in his resignation and shooting off around an hour ago, we got word of a press conference being held here at bute house, where it's believed quite strongly that that will be the outcome . now, that will be the outcome. now, it's only been just over a year since we were last here for the resignation of nicola sturgeon and many people will be looking at the year under humza yousaf and wondering what he was able

to achieve in that time. now he did have opportunities to perhaps break that deadlock. of course, those 63 votes from the snp in those two crucial votes of no confidence happening at holyrood this week , he holyrood this week, he desperately needed at least one other vote and that was widely thought that that could come from alba's single msp, ash regan. of course, she was former snp herself, but now with the alba party , she gave her alba party, she gave her conditional list for conditional support for this vote and indeed, humza yousaf has decided to, not accept that. now, that is probably because you know that whether he looked for support from the greens or from alba, huge chunks of his party would have found issue with that. and then that then leads him into just a similarly awkward situation . so this awkward situation. so this morning, as i said, it's widely believed he is going to hand his resignation in. and much like

the situation that got him into this place on thursday morning last week , it very much looks, last week, it very much looks, at least at this point, that he's going to jump before he's pushed . pushed. >> okay. thank you very much, tony. well, joining us now is michelle ballantyne, former msp for south scotland region and former labour mp ivor caplin . former labour mp ivor caplin. they are there now both of them. good morning . so michelle first good morning. so michelle first of all your reaction to this news that humza yousaf is set to resign ? resign? >> well, i don't think it will come as a surprise to most people . i mean, he has been people. i mean, he has been quite an embattled first minister. he's spent most of his time rolling back on all the things he said he was going to support at the beginning. so whether it's a deposit return scheme, you know, his ability to push through things, the climate change agreement with the greens, his, national care scheme, which he's sort of pushed down the line as well. he's ditched the ban on alcohol advertising and the expansion of the highly protected marine areas. and he seems to have

little positive ideas to deliver to the electorate. i mean, the sum total of big ideas. so far has been freeze council tax again, which he just completely blindsided councils with, and he certainly isn't delivering, the red to meat his activists where independence is concerned. i mean, he's really just carrying on what nicola sturgeon said is, oh, well , on what nicola sturgeon said is, oh, well, we'll on what nicola sturgeon said is, oh, well , we'll seek oh, well, we'll seek a referendum if we get a mandate from through the votes on elections. and it's just looking more and more like he cannot unite the party in any way whatsoever either. and meanwhile you've got labour on the ascendancy and he can see the writing on the wall, the same as the rest of us can. and would he want to spend another year with a divided party, with no support from the rest of the parliament and just no ideas to take forward? >> before we bring you in, i just want to ask you, michelle, you saw him close up is the truth. frankly, he just wasn't up to the job, frankly, from my personal opinion, yes, i you

know, i've watched him in action. i've been in a meeting with him where, frankly , he with him where, frankly, he didn't tell the truth about what was going on, i don't think he's somebody. if i was in his party, i would want a leader, he doesn't have anything to really, make you want to get behind him and support him. he was nicola sturgeon preferred candidate because he was going to keep her legacy . he because he was going to keep her legacy. he was going to because he was going to keep her legacy . he was going to prevent legacy. he was going to prevent too much trouble for her. i think , but he hasn't really think, but he hasn't really succeeded in doing that either. so i think, you know, the hums of useless name really has been a credit to the people who donated it to him either. >> what will this now mean for the snp ? the snp? >> well, i'm a i'm a long way away from, from scotland, bev. >> oh, you're a long way from us how. >> now. >> you've lost you . >> you've lost you. >> you've lost you. >> i'm sorry. let's go back to. we'll try and get him back. michelle i mean, this is whatever we think of, nicola sturgeon. she was a dominant figure in the scottish

parliament, and it's been one disaster after another since she went the stupid law. they brought in the hate crime law. the changes about gender recognition, is and just ten years ago, we had the ballot on independence . independence is independence.independenceis oven independence. independence is over. and the snp are going to do very badly. it seems that the general election as well . general election as well. >> yes. i mean, independence was their raison betteror, you know, thatis their raison betteror, you know, that is what they exist in effect , to deliver and they have effect, to deliver and they have failed, yes, they brought about a referendum and when they lost that, alex salmond stood down and nicola sturgeon stepped in, as the automatic candidate. interestingly she was actually sort of the lead person , the sort of the lead person, the lead face, if you like, of the independence referendum and everybody often seems to forget that. so alex salmond was punished for not getting over the line, but she, in effect wasn't, but she obviously was married to the chief exec, peter murrell. and they ran the snp

with a rod of iron. you know, you were not allowed to step out of line, we've all seen all the sort of video clips that have been circulated during all the problems they've had , and it was problems they've had, and it was made quite clear that if you in any way opposed, disagreed, spoke out against it, you were punished, so the snp was a very, very tight ship under the morals and the morals have gone and all those, you know , a lot of what's those, you know, a lot of what's going on isn't necessarily humza yousafs fault, but it is a symptom of that releasing of the pressure that they were all kept under to, to tow the line and do as they were told, and now, you know, the morals are out of the picture for the purposes, you know, they can do what they like, sorry, i'm just need to put some power on my system. that's okay. don't worry. >> well, we lost power completely from ivan kaplan, so we're doing quite well with you. michelle. i don't know if we can get ivor back. actually, no.

we've lost. we've lost ivor, which is . which is a shame, who which is. which is a shame, who do you think will step into the shoes of humza yousaf, kate forbes , a divisive figure but forbes, a divisive figure but popular amongst some people . and popular amongst some people. and |, popular amongst some people. and i, for one, really admired her. her honesty with her controversial opinions and the fact that you shouldn't have sex before marriage . before marriage. >> well, i mean, the i suppose the really positive thing about kate and i have to say, i did have time . kate forbes i have have time. kate forbes i have respect for her as an individual because she has her beliefs and she sticks by them . what we see she sticks by them. what we see in a lot of politicians now is, is they don't have principles that they live by, she does . and that they live by, she does. and i think for that reason alone, you know, whether you agree with or disagree with or like what she has to say or dislike, what she has to say or dislike, what she has to say, you have to respect the fact that she is she is a woman of her own beliefs that she's willing to live by, she only lost narrowly to humza yousaf , which i think was yousaf, which i think was a surprise in some quarters. but

then if you want somebody who actually has some intelligence, has some backbone in, you know, has some backbone in, you know, has things she really believes in, she is your candidate. the others that are in the running, are some of them are quite new to, to the parliament, some of them have obviously, you know, neil's come up from, from westminster, but i think that there isn't a clear outstanding candidate at the moment, and if humza resigns today , they've humza resigns today, they've only got 28 days to bring in a new leader. so it could be a real bunfight. and it will depend on the rest of the parliament and whether they agree. >> well, let's bring ivor caplin, ivor caplin i can't i'm sure you're smiling broadly deep down because this chaos in the snp can only be good for the labour party . in scotland. you labour party. in scotland. you used to be the dominant party. you haven't been for a long time. what have you got? 1 or 2 mps now? this is going to be good news for you come the general election, andrew, the simple answer to that is yes ,

simple answer to that is yes, but i mean, just to look at what has been going on in the, in the, in the snp, you know, i mean, it's been a bit like this ever since they changed leader. it's not been a very, you know, wholehearted , feeling as far as wholehearted, feeling as far as people i know in scotland have been saying. so i mean, i think it is quite difficult to see how they can get out of this in any sort of way , and i'm not sure sort of way, and i'm not sure that whatever they try and do is going to be very effective in some ways. how the snp is being regarded in in scotland, it appears to me, and i'm an outsider, of course , here, is outsider, of course, here, is very similar to how the tories are being regarded in in large parts of london as in large parts of london as in large parts of london as in large parts of england, and the point being that once that that starts to happen, it's very difficult to happen, it's very difficult to get to get, to get away from it. and you know, we can we can

go back in time and see when this has happened previously, but we don't need to do that, so i think that the snp is going to have a tough time in the general election, whenever that comes about. >> okay. all right. thank you both. michelle ballantyne, there , a former msp for south scotland and former labour mp ivor caplin this morning, thank you very much for joining us. ivor caplin this morning, thank you very much forjoining us. as you very much for joining us. as we say, we're watching that front door. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> at bute house, i'm never quite sure why we watch front doors . i quite sure why we watch front doors. i mean, i'm not sure. is he going to come out of it? >> well, his press conference will be inside because unless he does, when theresa may resigned or boris resigned, liz truss resigned. >> remember, the microphone goes outside the dais is there with the government crest on. but i don't think so. i think he's doing a press conference inside bute house, and, maybe he's going to surprise us. maybe he's going to surprise us. maybe he's going to surprise us. maybe he's going to battle on, but it doesn't feel like it. >> what do you expect him to say? >> who will he blame? >> who will he blame? >> he'll only blame. >> he'll only blame. >> well, he'll say the dupuchous >> well, he'll say the duplicitous greens because he. because he just decided that the

scottish people couldn't possibly sign up to. but it was the deal that his predecessor did. nicola sturgeon on net zero. >> yeah, to be honest, whoever he blames will depend on what he wants to do next, won't it? that's what it will. it won't come out and say that the green agendais come out and say that the green agenda is all wrong. if he wants to go and work for a green lobbying group and they'll have a temporary leader while they have a new an election. >> but, you know, this is terrible timing, isn't it? >> just. absolutely. yeah right, don't go anywhere. we have got a lot more to come, including what is going to affect the price of been is going to affect the price of beer, bread and some other yummy things that we all eat. you're not going to like this, but don't go anywhere. britain's newsroom on .

gb news. >> well, we're back with the panel >> well, we're back with the panel. with us. we've got matthew lazor and emma woolf, and they've got lots of stories they want to talk about . what they want to talk about. what are you going to talk about first? >> potholes. potholes. sorry. potholes >> we can never get enough potholes queued on potholes. tell us about the potholes. >> should i start my sentence with the most boring words as a cyclist? no. i know we talk about potholes a lot, but the state of our roads, the state of. and we're talking about london. but the state of the roads nationally is absolutely scandalous. and there's now information that these contractors fill, fill potholes in with really cheap stuff, cheap filler, which sounds like a sort of bad botox joke, but cheap filler, which then cracks and explodes the minute a bus or and explodes the minute a bus or a lorry drives over it. and then the contractors get paid a second time. >> if there's a pothole near me, which we had this conversation the other week, we did where it keeps, we keep getting the same pothole keeps getting fixed. >> that's exactly what we said to our pothole . to our pothole. >> it's giving a sticking plaster rather than a yeah, i

was talking to an mp last week who says that the tories, because the tories have said they put extra money into fixing potholes. they've all been told to go and point at potholes for their campaign by conservative headquarters. but he says i'm not going to do it because it keeps destroying my constituents cars who were emailing me at 6:00 in the morning saying that they've just taken the bottom off their, you know, and it's injuries as well. >> it's lost economic , you know, >> it's lost economic, you know, kind of productivity and all of that. but you can have serious injuries. hundreds of people have died. they have, silly cyclists 2018. >> but the tories said when they cancelled the northern link of hs2, the £8 billion saving would be ploughed into potholes, of which 800,000 has been allocated. yeah, the rest won't be spent till 2030. another con? >> exactly. it's another con and it's and it's and it's, you know, it's deeply unfair because it's then setting up expectations that as you say, people are looking at the potholes in their area, they think they're going to get fixed, but actually they've got to wait a decade. the conservatives are now promising a £700 million a year pothole fund. >> but that's funny. >> but that's funny. >> they've suddenly it's not due to start till after the election . yeah. so good luck to those

tory mps who think they're pointing at a pothole is going to save them. yeah i doubt it is. >> but but for cyclists it's it must be scary at times. >> really scary. i know people who've broken their pelvis going over a pothole . i've got a three over a pothole. i've got a three year old on the back. what do you do when a crater opens up in the road? what do you do? do you swerve around it and risk going into the traffic? or do you go overit into the traffic? or do you go over it and under it and risk breaking your collarbone or your pelvis? honestly, potholes are really, really appalling, you know, and people think, oh, it's only potholes . only potholes. >> but actually what you're describing is one of these. it's another one of these little things. >> that's exactly what i was going to say. >> ties into this mental health crisis we're in. and this benefits sickness crisis. if you fall off your bike and break your pelvis, that affects your family, your job, your parents. >> like reverberation, it's a bit like waiting list, because nhs waiting lists, of course, don't just affect the people who are waiting on them in pain, but it also affects the economy because again, that impacts people's ability to work. or if they've got, you know, if it's a grandparent, you know, can't care for a toddler, you know, it's all this, this domino effect. that's right. and the other thing is people have a

real sense of sort of malaise at the moment about their community. with crisis in the high streets, which is broadly outside government control. they're more could have been done to reinvigorate them, but it just seems the sense that our everything's falling apart, you know, you just conversation. nothing works. yeah. you know, i only get post every i get like 20 letters like once a week, you know, it's just nothing quite works in this country. and it adds to that sense. but is there going to be is there switch going to be is there switch going to be flicked if keir starmer is in downing. >> no it's not. >> no it's not. >> and that's and one of the things is labour's key is trying to capitalise on this malaise with using the old ronald reagan question do you feel better off than you did in this case 14 years ago, and the answer is no. and the problem is, as you say, there isn't a switch because unlike when labour came in in 97, when the money was flowing, there ain't no money. so you can't just suddenly fill those potholes, sort out the high streets just like that. and i think expectations management is going to be hugely important, particularly particularly when it comes to the nhs. >> matthew, which is of course is labour's strongest point and people will think a labour government now everything's going to be rosy and it won't be i'io. 110. >> no. >> and i mean wes streeting, who

is our very impressive health spokesperson, shadow health secretary, has been clear that a he's going to buy capacity in the private sector in the short term. but you need reform. so fingers crossed it's not just and he's been and i mean it was quite fun when he said i'm going to take on our, you know, the middle class people who say we can't change the nhs or can't use private, private things, and that surely i'm going to do that. so fingers crossed that some reform would back it. but that needs to happen in other areas. we haven't heard so much in education. >> yeah, well well, talking of which, emma, there's a poll that's found that almost half of patients hardly ever or never see the same gp. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and continuity of care is so important. >> i really really think so. i remember my gp years ago was the same gp who had originally told my mum you're having another baby like, and it was a family doctor who had been with us for like 20 years. matthew has some amazing stats , amazing amazing stats, amazing statistic, difference in mortality. >> bmj the british medical journal, which finds that patients who kept the same family doctor for more than 15 years. this was up to 2018. they

had a 25% lower chance of dying at the end of it, 25. i mean, i have a prescription and they haven't bothered checking for ages. and then suddenly i got a call . we do it online. got call. we do it online. got a call. we do it online. got a call last week, but it was actually from the gp that i that i knew that i'd seen or i haven't seen. and suddenly you actually, i felt this huge sense of kind of relief that you're speaking to somebody who knows who you are and knows, you know, the circumstances is why they originally prescribed the medication in the first place. so you can have a grown up conversation. but you see that statistics. >> but the statistics have backed this up in maternity care for decades , as it was known for decades, as it was known that if you had a midwife that you knew the continuity of care, there was less perinatal mortality, less postnatal depression, better breastfeeding, less drugs needed in birth, fewer caesarean sections . but because it was sections. but because it was just a person looking after another person, it's never funded. if there was a pill, imagine if there was a pill that would give you 25% less chance of dying. the pharmaceutical companies would and the government would buy it up. but because it's just a human being looking after another human being, matthew, they're not funding. it's also the placebo

effect is really important in health care. >> really, really important when you have confidence in your care, when you have confidence that you can talk to someone. i find with younger doctors, and this is maybe unfair, that they will stare at the screen. they don't even look at the thing that you're presenting with. they stare at the screen. they ask you some questions. you repeat everything that you've repeated for the last 1020 years. whereas with older doctors , maybe they're not so up doctors, maybe they're not so up to date. maybe they haven't just trained , but often they're trained, but often they're actually looking at their patient. they're talking to their patient. my father, who is in his 90s, used to say before he died, he used to say, you know what the first thing a doctor did, i'll take your clothes off and lie down on the couch. they would look at you. they would . they would. >> that's quite exciting. >> that's quite exciting. >> but they would look because you banged your thumb when you were doing so. >> let's have a look. >> but they would look at you. they would look at the patient's body. >> they would pick up other things, check. >> they would look at things, not stare at a screen and fill in tick boxes. >> and what's frightening about this is that the gps are actually kind of fight back against the what seems to be the sort of peer reviewed medical evidence. professor camilla

hawthorne, who's the chair of the royal college of gps, says that, it's always it isn't always necessary for a patient to see the same gp or even a gp for every appointment . for every appointment. >> well, you know, well, i always think of nick robinson, who was the director of the bbc. he was waiting in a doctor's surgery to see he couldn't see his doctor. he had seen another doctor previously and was seeing a different doctor and he was still ill. but his own gp was walking past him and she said, well, look at the state of you, you better come in and see me. he said, well, i can't get he'd got cancer. and the doctor could just see how much weight he'd lost. >> he could see because he knew him and he could compare. >> he'd known him for 20 and he was looking at him rather than staring at a screen. >> i'm not saying literally saved his could have saved his life. >> even if it's a young doctor who seen you more. several who've seen you and got that continuity of care. i mean, these figures are actually unveiled by the lib dems, to be fair to them. and the worst region is the south east, where only a quarter of people had seen the same gp in the past two years, which of course ties in with discontent in the blue wall, which the lib dems are trying to in traditional tory

territory, trying to capitalise on. >> yeah, but how do we well, let's move on. let's get it. just how we fix nhs. we can't do that on one day can we? emma tipping yes, the legal requirement is changing about tipping . tipping. >> yes. >> yes. >> so in french restaurants they used to be the service complete. the 15% service charge that was included in prices. so you knew where you were. wasn't like in america where every time you order a beer or a glass of wine, you've got to leave more money each time. now, french restaurants, parisian restaurants, parisian restaurants are changing. there's a bit of an arms race to get higher tips. i know you've both been away recently , higher both been away recently, higher tips. and this is thought to be ahead of the paris olympics, so they're all kind of jockeying for position. so what do they want? they want more than you get really quite searly service in france and particularly in paris, you get pretty surly waiters and things like that. but you didn't have to worry about the tip thing. they had no kind of they had no interest. yeah. and now they're going to they're going to be jockeying for, for tips. >> are you uncomfortable about tipping. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean i think i like ithink >> i mean i think i like i think tipping is a great thing when you can express gratitude for the service. it's a bad thing

when it's just it's just it's just on the part of the bill. and of course, one of the consequences of, i mean, i you know, i must admit i tap away with my car, but one of the consequences now is, of course, you know, a lot of places are cash free, a lot of restaurants are cash free and graceful, and therefore you can't, you know, say, i'll take the service charge off, i'll give you it all just becomes terribly awkward. yeah. so we're sort of we're sort of wedded into this model of the service charge being stuck on the bill. >> add it to the list of other irritating things which are making people depressed. >> country's going to hell in a handcart, isn't it? >> well, well, this is, of course, but you see, i like to take a little bit of cash and then if i pay for my bill on my card. but i will directly tip the waiter. yep. yeah. with the with the money. >> same at the hairdresser. i'll always leave like a fiver or something. yeah i don't have that problem. >> yeah i have to tip myself. >> yeah i have to tip myself. >> but separate to the tip. >> but separate to the tip. >> but separate to the tip. >> but in israel the first question is. and how are you going to pay your service charge? and sometimes they chase you down. >> and in america you get abuse or very, very surly service. if you don't keep throwing down the greenbacks, you know, and if the service isn't great, you're not going to get a tip and tipping it at british pubs, of course, these new tip machines where you can tip so infuriating you've

ordered, you've ordered half a pint of bitter and they want to know if you're going to tip them. >> yeah, no i'm not. >> absolutely not, matthew, can we talk about the weather? >> absolutely. so, look, it looks like. okay. fingers crossed. i don't want to tempt fate, but it looks like it's been a grim april, hasn't it? how about you? but i had the heat on, well, he's out yesterday. >> yeah, and the umbrella. we saw a little bit of sunshine yesterday, but it looks like from wednesday. certainly in the sort of south and east of the uk, temperatures are going to get up to, dare i say it, 20 degrees. >> oh, my god , it's good to see >> oh, my god, it's good to see that wet april is behind us. >> but don't get too. it's not going to last that long, but at least there'll be some sunshine later in the week. >> brilliant, right, matthew, thank you so much for that. we're going to be bringing you any more news on this at humza yousaf resignation after your morning's . yousaf resignation after your morning's. news. >> a very good morning to you. it's just after 1130. the headunes it's just after 1130. the headlines from the newsroom this houn headlines from the newsroom this hour. scotland's first minister, humza yousaf could resign rather than face two confidence votes. this week we're expecting a news

conference in edinburgh in the next half an hour or so. well, the scottish first minister has been struggling to secure support after he terminated a power sharing deal with the scottish greens last week . scottish greens last week. speaking in the last few minutes, labour leader sir keir starmer says people in scotland are being failed by an snp government. >> i despair at the situation in scotland . it's absolute chaos scotland. it's absolute chaos now from the scottish parliament, from the snp, so you've got chaos in the scottish parliament, you've got scotland, chaos in the westminster parliament and, you know the scottish people are being fundamentally let down. 1 in 7 are on waiting lists. there's a cost of living crisis and all the snp can offer is chaos. and we've got to turn the page on this now. we need that general election and a fresh start . election and a fresh start. >> a rescue operation is underway in the english channel, with a migrant boat running into trouble off the coast of calais. that comes a senior border force officials have raised concerns that people making the crossing

are, they say, using children as human shields to evade french police. in the last week, over 900 people arrived in the uk, with 359 migrants intercepted on saturday alone. 51 were rescued after running aground . mps will after running aground. mps will debate whether assisted dying should be legalised for terminally ill people this afternoon. it's after more than 200,000 people signed a petition backed by dame esther rantzen , backed by dame esther rantzen, calling for the change. assisted suicide is currently banned in england, in wales and northern ireland. in scotland, it's not a specific criminal offence, but people who help others to end their own lives do risk being charged with murder or other offences. that's the latest from the newsroom for now. for more, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the code on your screen, or go to gb news. common alerts . common alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club

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depth . depth. >> well he fell upwards didn't he. >> failed. he did. >> failed. he did. >> he failed upwards. >> he failed upwards. >> overpromoted perhaps one year and one month in the job. >> and now he's been found out potentially we'll have to wait and see. but look, another big breaker that we're going to have for you is just before 1 pm. we're expecting a press conference between british and irish delegates because there's an almighty row going on over illegal immigration at the moment. they want us to take the migrants back. we're saying no unless we can maybe send them out to france, which isn't going to happen. we've also got the eu copying the rwanda plan. yeah yeah. and that exclusive from mark white on migrants channel. margaret's using children as human shields. but yet just before 1 pm. we'll take that conference live. so make sure you're locked in for that. >> yes. lots of live events today. we're also going to be discussing harry and meghan, their non—royal royal trip to nigeria. what's all that about? is that a snub to the royal family? >> colonial roots? >> colonial roots? >> my god , it's like a parody, >> my god, it's like a parody, isn't it? >> well, well, well, it is a bit really, isn't it? >> i think they're trying. >> i think they're trying. >> i think they're trying. >> i couldn't believe i was reading, i thought, this can't be right. this story we're gonna have to explain to everyone who they are, aren't they? >> first. but but, hamburg as well. just a final one for you as well. they want the sharia and the caliphate. some people

in hamburg . so this is, you in hamburg. so this is, you know, really, i think visible now, visible now . impression of now, visible now. impression of what, you know, radical islamic immigration is doing across europe. so we've got footage of that. so we'll be weaving all of that. so we'll be weaving all of that in. yeah. >> very boring stuff. >> very boring stuff. >> brilliant. >> brilliant. >> that's great. patrick and emily from the dream team for now though, britain's newsroom on .

gb news. >> 1139 you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson . bev turner. pearson. bev turner. >> so, border force officials have told gb news of concerns that channel migrants are using children as human shields to stop police puncturing their small boats. >> our home security editor, mark white, was given exclusive access to the small boats command in dover. here is his exclusive report . exclusive report. >> this is a rare look inside the small boats operational

command at dover harbour. the small boats operational command at dover harbour . as we 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 . just not made to any standard. and 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 . and i the way it's constructed. and i mean, this is typical where if there was a cut or a punch 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 life jackets . 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 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 prone to breaking down. >> you look at the engine, you might think, yeah , that's might think, yeah, that's a proper engine, something you might expect. however, the organised crime groups , they put 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 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 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 at the small boats operational command in doven >> so our home security is mark white joins us now. mark the question that we were just contemplating how easy was it for gb news to be given access to that sort of system, not easy at all. we've been asking for the better part of two years now to be allowed down there to take a look. it's clearly very sensitive. while we were there filming, another boatload of migrants came in. 66 of them were being offloaded . so there were being offloaded. so there is some real concern. they do occasionally have foreign media in there because they want to get their message out to people from around the world. for

instance, they had vietnamese tv and recently , because they want and recently, because they want to get their message to people from vietnam, don't come in small boats because you'll get turned around eventually you'll get sent back to vietnam. in fact, vietnamese migrants now account for the biggest single group on the small boats. >> will they get turned around and sent back? >> well, eventually. yeah i mean, three years time the albanian system worked a bit better in that the albanian government was willing to take them pretty much straight back again. so the numbers coming on the small boats from albania have completely dried out. however, having said that, they're now coming in lorries that are being picked up on the borders of eastern europe , and borders of eastern europe, and they're being driven to northern france and coming across that way. >> the business with the children, though, is disgusting . children, though, is disgusting. >> what they're doing with these children, well, this is a real concern. it has to be said. it, i think, goes to some way to really highlighting what are

very worrying levels of violence now that are occurring on the beaches of northern france, because these migrants are desperate to get across, the last thing they want is a french policeman coming up and puncturing their boat. so they're now fighting back. they're using, in some cases, machetes, even firearms are being used to threaten the french police , and as well as french police, and as well as that, they're lifting up children. they're using women to be fair, there are very few women and children on these boats, but usually 1 or 2, and they're being used to try to, act as human shields so that the french don't come near them. >> mark, you know this topic better than anybody. and i was saying earlier that having just been recently in marrakesh and seeing the extreme poverty, i don't blame these people for wanting to be economic migrants. and come here. it doesn't mean that i think they should, but i understand their motivation for doing so. do you see enough collaboration around the world

to tackle that problem? >> well, not really, and i think the international community does need to get together to think about how on earth they are going to deal with what is global poverty. poverty because on the beaches of northern france have been many, many times over the years and previously at another broadcaster speaking to those people who want to come to the uk, the vast majority told me they wanted to come over for a better life, not because they were fleeing for their lives. and yeah, they're leaving behind desperate situations with dysfunctional governments . but dysfunctional governments. but does that fall into the criteria of what the refugee convention was set up for, to help these people who were in fear of their lives? no, they are effectively economic migrants, but of course, they have a wretched situation they're trying to get away from. and i think these problems need to be solved in their own backyard, in their countries, with other investment

on an international scale, though, not just individual countries, because there are, you know , quite, i think, very you know, quite, i think, very accurate and legitimate estimates saying that within a few years time you could have a billion people on the march because of poverty, because of climate change and all of the above. >> but isn't this part of the agenda 2030? the un global goals that we've heard so much about ? that we've heard so much about? and i my understanding is that by 2030, if you are considered a climate migrant, you will have a right to go and live anywhere. >> well, that might be an aspiration of the united nations. but with without a shadow of a doubt, individual governments would never put up with that. even in europe, where there are policies on accepting people coming in as asylum seekers into the european union, you're seeing a marked shift there where they now want to ape there where they now want to ape the policies of the uk in terms of looking for third party

countries, that they can send people who are coming illegally into the european union to have their asylum system, their asylum applications , then asylum applications, then considered in those countries meeting even ursula von der leyen's party, the queen of the european commission is looking at a safe third party, a safe third country. amazing because they know they are looking at they know they are looking at the global situation and they know that it is becoming unmanageable. yeah, well, many, many hundreds of thousands who crossed into europe last year and that will only grow in the years ahead. >> incredible. >> incredible. >> all right. thank you mark. fascinating now still to come, i'm going to be joined by a lead campaigner from dignity in dying to speak about their campaign as mps today debate whether euthanasia should be legalised in the uk with

gb news. >> now, after a petition to

legalise assisted dying was signed by more than 200,000 people, mps will today debate whether it's time to give people the choice to legally take their own lives. right here in the uk . own lives. right here in the uk. >> so joining us now from dignity in dying is dave pearce. good morning, dave, thank you for joining us. so you you are forjoining us. so you you are in support of us changing the law around this very controversial issue just to explain to us why. >> i think fundamentally, it's because the law at the moment is very dangerous for dying people. it forces them to either suffer against their wishes, take matters into their own hands , matters into their own hands, often in a, you know, in secret to protect their family or if they can afford it, to travel all the way to switzerland to have some sort of choice at the end of their lives. and they have to go sooner than they would wish to be able to make that journey. so really, that's just a terrible choice for someone to have to make at the end of their lives. and it would be much better if mps could come up with a safer and more compassionate law that would work for the country as a whole.

>> and what would you what would you recommend? dave? you've studied this area for? for a very long time. they have to be terminally ill. with so many months predicted to live, what would be your perfect solution? >> well, i think the evidence that the health select committee compiled is really helpful in answering that question . and answering that question. and they said, basically there are two models, and one of those models is assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. and that model they established does not slip or become enlarged as over time and remains the law that's put in place. so i think that's that's the way to go really. so we can give choice and control to dying people . but we can also to dying people. but we can also have safeguards and protections for any potentially vulnerable people. and that would be the model i would support. >> dave, i we have at the moment, of course, because we don't have any of this legislation. we wake up in the morning and we don't know if today is our day. you know, god forbid, for any of us. we just don't know when, when death might be around the corner. does this therefore change not only the end of life, but how we

might feel every day getting up in the morning and the choices that people might make? >> i think the real change it would make is it would give great comfort to people knowing that they have that sort of emotional insurance policy. if they were suffering at their end of their life, to be able to relieve themselves of that suffering. and that's what we see in places where assisted dying is legal for around a third of people, go through the process, go through all the safeguards and are eligible for assisted dying, but choose not to have it because they've got it there as a as a comfort. and that in itself is a huge benefit for the whole of society. >> what kind of other safeguards, though, dave, would we have to put in place ? because we have to put in place? because what often happens with these sorts of regulations is they start in one guise and then they morph and they edge and edge and edge into something which it could be unimaginable at the first iteration. >> often i think we've seen the health select committee really identified that there are two models, a broader model and a more specific model . and we more specific model. and we don't see laws for terminal

illness and mental capacity being expanded beyond that original, construct . so i being expanded beyond that original, construct. so i think that's the route to go, really to have a law that's very clearly for dying people at the end of their lives. and you can have a number of safeguards in the same way that we have, you know, checks around mental capacity at the moment. we have doctors involved in the process . doctors involved in the process. there are many ways that and really parliament needs to answer that question . the answer that question. the current law is very dangerous andifs current law is very dangerous and it's bad for dying people. so how can mps come up with the right law for the country that's safe and compassionate? >> the people who worry about this day point to what's happening in canada, where the law is being expanded and expanded and could even involve young people being given the choice to have assisted dying. i think that would alarm people here. >> i think there's the potential for that to be alarming. yes, but what i would like to make absolutely clear is that's not what we're talking about here. all the assisted dying , what all the assisted dying, what they were talking about in canada. >> dave, sorry to interrupt you, but that's how it started . and but that's how it started. and that's and this is now where it's progressing to .

it's progressing to. >> it did start in the parliament that way. but unusually , their their legal unusually, their their legal system had already decreed that it must be a wider law so that expansion was always inevitable . expansion was always inevitable. whereas in this country we can make an assisted dying law that's only for terminal illness, and it will stay on those terms like we've seen in oregon, in the united states over 25 years. and that law has not been expanded at all. so that's why i support, choice and control for dying people. but but nothing broader for those reasons. >> okay. fascinating thank you. dave. dave pierce, the director of fundraising and marketing at dignity in dying. right. we are done for today. we are . up next done for today. we are. up next is good afternoon britain with patrick and emily today. see you tomorrow. >> the dream team. >> the dream team. >> well, welcome aboard . we >> well, welcome aboard. we start with the breaking news today that any moment now, humza yousaf of the leader of the snp is expected to resign as first minister of scotland. >> yes, in just a few minutes. mr yusuf is set to give a

statement. we will bring that to you. live and in full right here on gb news. >> now the noises are that he's going to quit. it looks like arguably the wokeist most progressive politician is going to have to step down afterjust to have to step down after just a year and one month as first minister, because shakira , he minister, because shakira, he couldn't run a government. >> well, the scottish tories are claiming victory. they say we saw off sturgeon and now we've seen off yusuf. his short tenure has been marred by missteps . seen off yusuf. his short tenure has been marred by missteps. his hate crime bill was a catastrophic embarrassment that saw him reported to the police around 1800 times. in the first few days he's been overtaken by scottish labour in the polls, and independence looks to be deadin and independence looks to be dead in the water. >> he was nicola sturgeon's preferred pick, of course, as her successor, despite many people thinking he had a track record of failure in his previous roles as transport minister, justice minister and health minister. we're looking at live pictures here of the lectern there with the scottish flag behind. >> yes, indeed. look, keep your eyes on that because any moment now we are expecting humza

yousaf , who is, as it stands, yousaf, who is, as it stands, the first minister of scotland to stand behind that plinth . and to stand behind that plinth. and all the noises suggest that he is actually going to resign. massive question marks now aren't there as to exactly what happens next. let's just keep on these pictures now. so that is where humza yousaf is actually going to be standing. we believe that his wife is joining him as well. it looks like he might be about to throw the towel in. i believe we're going to go to our scotland reporter tony maguire shortly for the very latest on this as well. but i think it's important, isn't it? as we digest what may be about to happen, to have a little look at humza yousafs track record when he was transport minister, he was fine for driving without insurance, the correct insurance when he was health minister, waiting times went up and he had to appoint a minister for nhs recovery when he became first minister. when he was justice minister, crime rose and since becoming first minister, well, things haven't got that much

better. he's reportedly overseen the contraction of the scottish economy, missed a&e targets. nhs waiting lists have increased by 9.5% on the year before he took over , and there's lots more as well. >> he was labelled a trailblazer, wasn't he, by the times magazine. could this be the quickest rise and fall of a first minister in scotland ever ? first minister in scotland ever? he was meant to be a progressive beacon for scotland . that's what beacon for scotland. that's what lots of people were saying. and now it looks like he could be resigning afterjust a year and resigning after just a year and one month. now it's worth saying there is a huge media presence outside bute house there in edinburgh. there's anticipation . edinburgh. there's anticipation. there's crowds of public too, who are interested to see what's going on. >> yeah, look, make sure that you get in touch with us. okay? so gbnews.com/yoursay it's worth noting he's also made some inexplicable decisions as first minister. he decided to go on a family holiday to qatar, didn't he? which houses hamas leaders? just a couple of months after hamas invaded israel, he unilaterally announced that scotland will be the first part

of the uk to welcome refugees from gaza . i'm not sure how from gaza. i'm not sure how popular that would have been with the vast majority of people in scotland. he overrode the decision to initially hand. i think it was £100,000 worth of scottish taxpayers money to the united nations. he gave them a quarter of £1 million. that was whilst his relatives were still in gaza and of course, did he make was the fatal decision to end that power sharing agreement with the scottish greens. >> he stood there, he said he was going to run a new government. he put out letters to different people of different parties to try and get some kind of cooperation. it does appear as if that's dead in the water. now, should we go to our scotland reporter tony mcguire , scotland reporter tony mcguire, who is there in edinburgh for us? tony, bring us up to date . us? tony, bring us up to date. >> good morning. is it morning ? >> good morning. is it morning? it's hard to tell. everything is quite so fast moving here. it's so electric , as you were just so electric, as you were just saying. there. there is at least probably about 50 to 60 members of the public here on top about

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