net. >> yes, more problems for the government. they've earmarked nearly 6000 people eligible to be sent to rwanda, but it now turns out that over 3000 of them, they don't actually know where they are. i'll bring you more details shortly . more details shortly. >> the nhs states that sex is a biological fact, and changes that will see trans women banned from female wards . from female wards. >> and what next for scotland? the search is underway for the next first minister, following humza yousafs dramatic resignation. >> did the repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm ? helm? >> the duchess of edinburgh has become the first royal to visit ukraine since russia's invasion . ukraine since russia's invasion. buckingham palace says the visit was in solidarity with the women, men and children impacted by the war and the olympic

javelin thrower fatima whitbread will be using her own experience of foster care to launch a campaign to help disadvantaged children . children. >> and she'll be joining us here in the studio today and in the sport this morning. >> leicester city sealed the championship title last night. they beat preston three nil. what on earth is the premier league spending cap all about? well, i'll try and work that out . and i have the sorry tale of the norwegian ingebrigtsen's big contrasts across the uk through the rest of today. >> sunny for some cloudy and breezy with outbreaks of rain for many others. i'll have the full details on the forecast coming up shortly. >> top story this morning, a government report has revealed that the home office has lost contact with more than half of migrants that were set for deportation to rwanda . how does

deportation to rwanda. how does that happen? >> yes. well, according to the figures, just over 2100 identified for removal can be located out of 5700 asylum seekers. >> now, this comes at sources claim the home office has accepted many migrants would be absorbed, abscond due to the implement nation of the scheme. in response, the government has reiterated the prime minister's plans to get flights off the ground over the next few months. >> well, our gb news political correspondent katherine forster joins us from westminster. good morning to you. look, previously they thought that the £49 a week allowance and free accommodation would be enough of an incentive to keep the asylum seekers checking in with the home office. but it seems the rwanda deterrent means a lot of them have just decided it's not worth it and have gone underground. >> yes, that's right, it and have gone underground. >> yes, that's right , these are >> yes, that's right, these are people who arrived illegally . people who arrived illegally. mostly, though not all, on small boats. between january 22nd and june of 2023 that have been

deemed eligible for this scheme. nearly 6000 of them, but they only actually know the location of less than half of that number. these are people that regularly have to check in with the home office, which leaves over 3500. so the home office simply at the moment cannot locate. now it was leaked in the papers yesterday that as of yesterday, the home office is supposed to be rounding up people and putting them into detention centres from which they cannot leave, ready to be sent on these flights to rwanda that the government has said will be taking off from july. but of course, easier said than done because you know this £49 a week that you mentioned in the free accommodation. yeah, that's great, but if you are going to be sent to rwanda on a one way ticket, and bear in mind that these thousands of people have already been told that their asylum claims are, inadmissible

and that therefore they are likely to be sent to rwanda , are likely to be sent to rwanda, are they really going to stick around for accommodation and £49 around for accommodation and £49 a week waiting to be sent to africa, when many of them have taken huge, huge risks, at risk their lives really to cross the channel to get to britain . so it channel to get to britain. so it will be interesting to see how successfully the home office can track these people. and of course, we've now got the ongoing row with the republic of ireland who claim that there's many, many people that have come in to the united kingdom illegally now crossing over to ireland, because of course, there they will be safe from being sent off to rwanda. >> catherine, just briefly , >> catherine, just briefly, we've got the health secretary coming up in the next half hour. victoria atkins. she's going to be talking about renewing the nhs constitution, which they have to do every ten years. and she's talking about making sure that there are wards that are single sex only, which a lot of people will think is common

sense. but perhaps surprisingly , sense. but perhaps surprisingly, nhs bosses have come out and said actually, culture wars should be kept well away from the health service . the health service. >> yes it is, and i think this will, this will be welcome news to many, many people up and down the country and women in particular. and you'd think that some single sex wards were the standard, but very often still , standard, but very often still, because of the capacity in the nhs, people do end up on mixed sex wards. now the health secretary , victoria atkins, as secretary, victoria atkins, as one of a number of plans being announced today, is going to say that the nhs should go by biological sex and that, you know, any woman who says she wants to be on a single sex ward should and will have that right. and if that means that a transgender woman, is not allowed to be put on that ward, then they will need to be put potentially in a separate room. so i think this will be positive

news. it is a consultation, but certainly we've moved a long way, haven't we, the government now, feeling very confident to say openly, we need to go by the definition of biological sex. we need to protect women and single—sex spaces >> thank you very much, catherine. thank you. that's going to create a row or 2 or 3 or 5 or 6, isn't it? you know, to say that, gender doesn't . to say that, gender doesn't. what does? what is it saying? >> well, women should be treated in women only wards, essentially, and they shouldn't be treated alongside men. do you have any extra bits? >> then you shouldn't be in a woman's ward. yeah. so that's that's an interesting one. what was the other thing she was talking about there? >> rwanda? yeah. asylum seeker? no no no no no, people aren't interested in rwanda. >> oh, they're not interested. they're bored stiff. people are bored stiff. you see how ridiculous that half of all people. right? you come into the country. well, this is terrible. we'll stick you up in some hotel that we've commandeered or whatever. and then they have no

idea where anyone is. well, no idea. >> very , very alarming. you >> very, very alarming. you know, these people often come in without papers. we don't know who they are. and being, you know, being able to keep track of them is an absolutely essential part of the processing scheme. and to then have these people just disappearing into the wherever they've gone, we don't know who they are, what they're capable of. a lot of people, i think will be concerned by that. was that an unintended consequence of these rwanda flights? because it's this is the deterrent that has suddenly caused them to go, we haven't got the money. >> we haven't got the resources to look after this. and, you know, like people like the lawyer who we had on yesterday, the human rights lawyer, whatever. i've just got to get it through their head. we cannot be responsible for the problems of the rest of the world. we haven't got the money. we haven't got the money. we haven't got the resources. we can't look after our own people. so why are we expected to look after everybody from all around the world who are on some sort of hard luck story, let us know your views on that. gb news. com forward slash. have your say. well, in scotland , the snp is

well, in scotland, the snp is preparing for a leadership contest after humza yousaf announced his resignation on, he admitted he underestimated the level of upset he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. a bit late now, humza. >> well, he will continue in his post until a replacement is found. >> i bear no ill will and certainly bear no grudge against anyone. politics can be a brutal business. it takes its toll on your physical and mental health. your family suffer alongside you. i am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. i'm afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me , from seeing a lot more of me, from now, let's go to kevin schofield . kevin's the political editor of the huffington post. so kevin , he underestimated the fallout. the level of offence that that that he caused a bit late now

isn't it? >> oh, yeah. you can see that again. yeah. i don't know what he was thinking, really. it was. it was the manner in which he dumped the greens last week, rather than the act of dumping them himself . he dragged them them himself. he dragged them into his official residence in edinburgh. then he sent them out to face the music. and understandably, they were very unhappy, and they took their first opportunity that came along to exact their revenge, and that was to say that they were going to vote, in favour of a conservative motion of no confidence in humza yousaf. and from that moment on, his political career was over. effectively, he didn't have the numbers, to defeat that motion . numbers, to defeat that motion. and so we ended up yesterday with him chucking it . with him chucking it. >> it's interesting when we look at, well, not only where the party has gone and what it represents. i mean, a lot of people have been critical, haven't they, that it's become one a issue or two issue party obsessed with independence, but also things like trans ideology. and they've neglected the important things like running the country, education and transport and all the rest of

it. what will happen if john swinney, who seems to be the favourite at the moment , gets favourite at the moment, gets crowned as the new leader because he of course he's massively in favour of trans self id and also an lgbt curriculum and is proudly progressive as they say. >> well yes, so humza yousaf if he presented himself in the leadership contest last year as the continuity candidate, the one who would continue, nicola sturgeon's legacy john swinney was nicola sturgeon's deputy first minister. so he's been described as the continuity continuity candidate. so what you might get is more of the same when a lot of people in the snp would say, well, that's what's got us into this mess in the first place, so maybe we need to try something different. i think the person to keep an eye on later today will be kate forbes, who narrowly lost out to humza yousaf last year. forbes, who narrowly lost out to humza yousaf last year . she was humza yousaf last year. she was very critical of the nicola sturgeon legacy in last year's leadership contest. if she were to stand again then it would be a proper contest, a battle of

ideas of where the party should go in the future. but it looked yesterday as though all the senior party figures were starting to row in behind john swinney, stephen flynn , who's swinney, stephen flynn, who's the westminster leader, supports john swinney . his predecessor, john swinney. his predecessor, ian blackford, also said he supports john swinney . so supports john swinney. so certainly there's a big move amongst senior snp figures. i think for, john swinney to get the job without a contest and get it over and done with as quickly as possible and try to move on. but if kate forbes announced that she's standing and obviously all bets are off, but who? >> john in general, you know, looking at the other parties, does one of them stand to gain more than than others? with the demise of the snp ? demise of the snp? >> yeah, well labour certainly are, on the march in scotland at the moment. there was another poll out yesterday which showed them, i think, one point ahead or neck and neck with the snp. as far as holyrood voting intention is concerned, the same goes for westminster, voting intention. the labour are very optimistic about picking up a lot of seats in scotland, at the

general election. so yeah , general election. so yeah, labour at the moment are rubbing their hands with glee at at the state of the snp and hoping that they can usurp them as the pre—eminent party north of the border, the conservatives, they're still roughly around about 18, so they're not as well placed as labour to take advantage of the snps troubles. >> i heard sir keir starmer being described yesterday as a very lucky general because he's only had to sit back and watch the tory psychodrama in westminster. the collapse of the snp leadership had absolutely no policies forward particularly, but really see the poll ratings go through. i mean, there's some truth in that, isn't there? >> absolutely . well, you've only >> absolutely. well, you've only got to look at the chaos that there's been with the conservatives going through different prime ministers. now the snp seem to be following their lead. i think it's largely because of the fact that both parties have been in power for such a long time. the snp have beenin such a long time. the snp have been in power now, remarkably, for 17 years in scotland and eventually political gravity kicks in and, you can no longer

be as popular because you've made mistakes. you've been involved in scandals, controversies , and these things controversies, and these things all catch up with you. and i think that's what's happened with the snp. now >> okay. kevin schofield, thanks very much indeed. thanks, kevin. >> cheers. at the time, 6:13 o'clock. some other stories that we've got for you on this tuesday morning. and a ceasefire could be reached between israel and hamas within days after a potential deal was put forward. it includes a 40 day end to the fighting. in return for the release of hostages. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has said the only thing standing in the way of an agreement is hamas, with foreign secretary lord david cameron calling the deal very generous . calling the deal very generous. >> the parents of the nottingham stabbing victim, grace o'malley kumar, are backing calls to award their daughter, the george cross, after she lost her life attempting to save her friend barnaby weber from the knife attacker valdo calocane calocane high security hospital order is set to be reviewed next week , set to be reviewed next week, after the victims families expressed their outrage that the

killer avoided a prison sentence following his sentencing in january, four police officers have been shot dead, four others injured. >> its gun battle in north carolina. the officers were in the process of serving an arrest warrant before the fugitive opened fire. the man in question was killed during the exchange . was killed during the exchange. two other suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident . incident. >> now the duchess of edinburgh has become the first royal to travel to ukraine since russia's invasion in 2022. >> yeah, she was representing the king and at a time when the royals are looking especially pared back, it's sophie's visit. we're asking, is it a sign of her growing prominence? and i think actually she has got the royal blessing from king charles on this one. we're going to go to kinsey schofield on all of this for the answers. what do

you think of sophie of edinburgh , you know, how is she accounted for herself ? how is she coming for herself? how is she coming across? and has she been anointed by charles as well? >> first of all, i just want to confirm that i'm your favourite schofield. because that was that was alarming to me to see that kevin schofield was also appearing on the program . appearing on the program. >> oh, but it's an awful name for me. believe me . you know what? >> amen. >> amen. >> don't. what do you mean? i don't want to associated with that name . that name. >> right. amen. all right. >> right. amen. all right. >> well, i never even think of you like that. you're just kinsey to me. >> i'm having a coughing fit how. >> now. >> that's wonderful. excuse me. >> that's wonderful. excuse me. >> i think sophie has been coined the royal family's secret weapon. as of late, her path was not the easiest one, but she's living proof that patience is a virtue. and if you work hard and stay focused your time to shine will come. you know, she was under immediate scrutiny when she hit the scene because she was a self—made career woman. a young woman who was incredibly

successful. she was a commoner and, you know, she looked so similar to princess diana when she was younger. so they were constantly pit against each other when it came to beauty and fashion, you know, she tried and failed the half in, half out route, but unlike, you know, who she ultimately chose the family. and despite some of that chaos, she was rewarded for her loyalty . so, absolutely, i think that the king very much believes in the king very much believes in the duchess of edinburgh is so grateful for her contribution, and we saw real leadership with her today. >> justin kinsey, to see that she actually bumped the prince and princess of wales off the front of some of the newspapers this morning. she made it onto the front of the telegraph , the front of the telegraph, whereas it was the brand new picture that we haven't seen to mark their wedding anniversary. that's made it onto the front of the times and i suppose that shows you know how significant that visit is. and how prominent she's becoming. i mean, the late queen's favourite daughter in law also meeting with president zelenskyy. >> and during her surprise stop,

she spoke to survivors of sexual violence and torture and heard from children who had been returned to ukraine after being separated from their families. and when she met with president zelenskyy she gave him a private note from the king and they discussed how to support these survivors of sexual assault in conflicts . i know some people conflicts. i know some people might criticise this move as political , but might criticise this move as political, but this was might criticise this move as political , but this was without political, but this was without a doubt a very courageous visit from sophie. there are no guarantees in the middle of war, and it and it does just tell you how much faith his majesty has in his sister in law, i find it fascinating that you've got sophie. i know sophie, i used to work with her over, well, 30 years ago, but . work with her over, well, 30 years ago, but. but work with her over, well, 30 years ago, but . but somebody years ago, but. but somebody who's not a royal by birth, like catherine middleton. and they do such a good jobs, they really adapted to the roles that , have adapted to the roles that, have been put before them . been put before them. >> yeah, i think that they understood the assignment . i

understood the assignment. i mean, to i think that these are two people that respect the monarchy, grew up in families that admired the family and understood what the ultimate objective was , and that is to objective was, and that is to serve, that is, serving others. and when you prioritise other people and you realise that the job is bigger than yourself, i think that you can create wonderful opportunities and, you know, elevate some of these charities and, and change the world, make the world a better place. and these are two women with between sophie and catherine that are absolutely doing that. >> i suppose meghan markle, you know, she could have been doing that, as well. but that's a whole different ball game. it is. it is funny. it is strange when you look at catherine, when you look at sophie and you look at meghan markle's attempt, well, she didn't attempt to integrate into the royal family. i think that's the whole problem. wasn't it? >> and sophie, the duchess of edinburgh , was very loving

edinburgh, was very loving towards meghan, attempted to have a relationship with her. the queen actually suggested that the two get together and that the two get together and that sophie mentor meghan and meghan said i've got harry and she rejected that offer. i would love to be mentored by sophie if she's watching. between meeting with foreign presidents like i'm my, i'll send you my phone number. i think that's a great opportunity, but no, she's i think that she was a great role model and it was a missed opportunity for meghan to learn how to navigate a difficult situation , and speaking of situation, and speaking of meghan, she's not going to be accompanying her husband , to accompanying her husband, to london next week. he's going to be doing a reading at the saint paups be doing a reading at the saint paul's cathedral, invictus commemoration . i think it's ten commemoration. i think it's ten year anniversary, isn't it? but she will be meeting him in nigeria. and it turns out she's 45% nigerian. >> it's 4343. but i also would argue that if you read tom bower's book revenge , he does bower's book revenge, he does have a chapter on the fact that she said she told elle magazine that she had maltese heritage so

she could get a free trip to malta, and then didn't actually execute the piece because they found out she did not have any of that heritage. so i don't, you know , with meghan markle, you know, with meghan markle, you know, with meghan markle, you never know. she's a chameleon. you never know who she's trying to impress. so i hope that she has a great trip. but i don't really i never know what what what she's saying. i never know if i should take it with a grain of salt or not, kinsey , we all like to think kinsey, we all like to think we're a bit exotic or have very exciting genealogy or whatever on this very program . and we had on this very program. and we had a genealogist. who did he look at? you? >> i refuse to give my dna to anyone. i always think you get set up for murder for that sort of thing. >> well, it depends if you've murdered anyone or not, doesn't it? but i it turns out, have murdered no one. not only that, when they looked at my genealogy, there's nothing interesting about it at all. i am 101% irish born and bred. nothing no contamination,

nothing from outside at all. irish, irish. >> well, so much so kinsey, that the genealogists came on the program and said they'd never found anyone as purebred. it would almost be identified to three streets in belfast that they did. they did. >> there was one other% or something. no, there was one other person that red—headed, ronan o'brien . ronan o'brien. >> yes. >> yes. >> conan o'brien. the very man, very man was done . very man was done. >> oh, yeah. yeah. >> oh, yeah. yeah. >> me and lebron two. magnificent hosts. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> that's right . >> that's right. >> that's right. >> we are at kinsey. we'll leave it there. thanks very much indeed for your contribution. >> favourite schofield. see you soon. thank you . soon. thank you. >> bye anyway. aidan mcgivern our favourite weatherman. here he is with an update. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hi there. good morning.

welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. sunnyin from the met office for gb news. sunny in the east today, but cloudy and breezy in the west with showery outbreaks of rain. the rain persistent first thing across northern ireland into parts of southwest scotland, west wales and the southwest of england . some heavy bursts and england. some heavy bursts and as the morning continues, that rain doesn't move along very quickly. so we'll stay damp across western areas. but the rain will tend to fragment into showers across parts of northern ireland, west wales and cornwall later on. meanwhile, it stays sunny out towards the east. 1 or 2 showers in the far east, but otherwise with the sunshine and lighter winds here. 18 or 19 celsius a very pleasant spring day in the west. the rain continues through the evening, but it does eventually fizzle away and well, it's going to become less windy as well. but further east, that's where the next band of rain moves in, and a lot of low cloud associated with it as well. so with a lot of cloud across the uk overnight and a bit of a breeze,

temperatures will stay at 11 or so in places. now we start off the day tomorrow with a lot of low cloud across eastern scotland and eastern england. some mr murch, freda and ha and outbreaks of rain also moving up the north sea coast to the west. any early rain disappears as brighter skies emerge. some decent sunny spells for western scotland and northern ireland, and feeling warmer compared with today. many places in the mid to high teens . high teens. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on gb news. >> now summer is just around the corner and we want it to make it sizzle for you. we have an incredible £20,000 cash offer tax free. >> i'm heating up. >> i'm heating up. >> you're heating up. this is how you can get your hands on it. >> we've blown the budget by giving you the chance to win a totally terrific £20,000 in tax free cash to make your summer

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championship so we'll be talking about that . what else have we about that. what else have we got. oh yeah. the spending cap this champions league and also the sorry tale of the ingebrigtsen's in norway as well. >> good man. okay, all

we just want to mention, to begin with. with paul. leicester city champions. yes. off the championship . they're back in championship. they're back in the premier league, as of next yeah the premier league, as of next year. and, my friend, it's a three nil win over preston. jamie vardy, how old is he? 54. >> 56. >> 56. >> yeah. incredible. >> yeah. incredible. >> 56. still playing. and he's going to move into the premier league i wonder if they're going to keep him. he's 37 years old. yeah. and scored two goals yesterday. yeah. and i assume that probably when they drop down into the championship then he might move. no. stayed at leicester. so there's no reason why when you're playing so well.

>> yeah. yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> age is age is just a number eamonn. >> he's like a greyhound. he is so fast . but he is so nippy and so fast. but he is so nippy and he's just great as a greyhound as well. >> yeah. yeah. because he's knocking on a bit. >> yeah. but i mean absolutely brilliant. i just don't know. i don't know if he'll be there next year or not. i mean who knows. but. well done leicester. yeah. >> they equal now if they win they've got one game left. so they've got one game left. so they they're promoted because that happened with the result. when leeds were beaten by queens park rangers on friday. so now it's four nil i know. absolutely. so they now are champions. now they it's 32. if they win their next game which is against blackburn, that will be 32 wins, which will equal a record from the second tier as the old second division, which go which was actually set by spurs. the spurs record is going to go 104 years ago, 32 wins in this in the and the thing is they had this little bad run as

well. so also it's the fourth yearin well. so also it's the fourth year in a row. i don't know whether you fancy this fourth yearin whether you fancy this fourth year in a row that a team has gone down and then gone straight back up. do you know who the others were? i'll be happy with one if you can just give me one of those. >> they went down and went up again. >> yep. and for last four years it's happened every year sheffield united, sheffield united. no no. but they did go back where they spent two seasons before they came back up. >> okay. burnley. >> okay. burnley. >> burnley is good right? yes right. london club white and black. west london, fulham, fulham and one more east anglia . fulham and one more east anglia. >> ipswich. >> ipswich. >> wrong. one round norwich , >> wrong. one round norwich, norwich, norwich city. so leicester, leicester are top 97. so then. so the championship is so tight and it always is every yeah so tight and it always is every year. so leeds we've got around 90 points. it's ipswich is either going to be leeds or ipswich . ipswich have got a game ipswich. ipswich have got a game in hand. they play tonight against coventry, the tractor boys, the tractor boys and it will be the return for them and

it's been a long time since they've been in the premier league, so it'd be a great story to see ipswich, so then it will go to the play offs. so it's all really is down to the wire is it always is. yeah. by the way did you say that i was not here because of the spurs. he did i did he really sperm that. what. when was this. because i heard rumours that were coming through. did you say that i didn't come in because spurs lost to arsenal. no, no. >> are you sure mr expressed concern for your mental health. okay fine. >> that's all it was in that case i appreciate that. >> what did you make of that match on sunday? >> you know what? this is true. my >> you know what? this is true. my voice you can hear is gravelly. in fact, some would say sexy. yes some would say. some would say some intimidating. but it was when spurs scored the equaliser, which was disallowed. i got so excited and then that was when my voice started to go and then it was disallowed. so i thought it was disallowed. so i thought it was disallowed. so i thought it was what's the song, so excited. yeah, yeah. and i just can't hide. >> i was exactly yeah, i know, i know, i know, i know, i know, i love you, love you, want you, yeah, yeah, love you, want you like me to know the lyrics.

>> is it. >> is it. >> but anyway it was. yeah. it's all gone. so i'm over that tonight. bayern munich versus real madrid . oh, by the way, can real madrid. oh, by the way, can i just ask, can real madrid. oh, by the way, can ijust ask, can i ask you one i just ask, can i ask you one more question? and this isabel might be able to help, let's say. well this is true. it will get to the end of the season and maybe for spurs, may it may for be if spurs lose to manchester city, who they have to play towards the end of the season, second to last game. it would be in spurs fans best interest to lose to manchester city , which lose to manchester city, which would mean that it would stop arsenal winning the title. so what do you do? do you cheer the other side? because i know there's a lot of spurs fans are thinking we don't want arsenal to win the title. we would prefer to lose that game, but thatis prefer to lose that game, but that is not a normal thing to do is to watch your own team. >> but then, you know i'm not a true football fan. >> well that's just well, what would you do in the interest of the club? >> got to do it. >> yeah. i mean, anything that impedes man city or liverpool.

yeah. >> that's what you. that's the same. but bayern munich versus real madrid semi—final of the champions league. that's the right first leg. >> english ingebrigsten the engebretsen's ingebrigtsen's the ingebrigtsen's now the ingebrigtsen's. >> it's a huge they're they're it's an athletic family. the seven children. gert is the father you've got. jakob ingebrigtsen is probably the best known athlete, middle distance runner and also the olympic champion. now, it's actually a pretty nasty story . actually a pretty nasty story. now there's a tv show called team britain, which is the biggest tv show in norway. exactly. and it follows trials and tribulations. it follows the athletes, follows gert, who is their coach . but something their coach. but something happened about a year ago, whereas the sons, three of the sons who were also athletes, so it's not only jakob, but there's hennk it's not only jakob, but there's henrik and filip as well, it's not only jakob, but there's henrik and filip as well , then henrik and filip as well, then moved away from the father and then they started pointing the finger, saying there was abuse that was going on, physical abuse, although he was the coach

and that he was treating them very badly. now, this was seem like the ultimate wonderful norwegian family story, like the waltons or something crazy like that. but it's all gone very badly wrong. and so then it's even gone to the police. now. now, these are, these are grown men. you've got henrik 30, 33. filip is 30 and jakob, who's 24, olympic champion, who's now saying, look, this has been going on. we're all terrified of the father and even though they are such great athletes and champions in their own right, it seems that this has been going on for a long time, that now they're going to the police about him. it's about a towel across the face, but this would be going on for a long time. and this is a huge story in norway because this is the greatest family in sport in norway. so it's all gone very, very nasty whipped with a wet towel. yeah. and i think that's. yes. and this. but the thing is they're saying that this is what you did to the children, but they were you know, they were older. you know, this only happened a

couple of years. >> never what it seems. >> never what it seems. >> it really is. yeah, it really is. it's a very interesting story. very sad story. and, but and a very, you know, very uncomfortable story. it's huge all over norway at the moment. >> okay, okay. >> okay, okay. >> well, as they say on the waltons, goodnight, jim. >> bob. yes, exactly. >> bob. yes, exactly. >> yeah yeah yeah yeah. 8:00 monday, monday monday monday night was 8:00 monday night, bbc two. because i never used to get to the end of it because i remember laying in bed and i could hear da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. >> that's quite a boring program. but we all. >> yeah, yeah i know, i know. it was in the blue ridge mountains of virginia in 1930s. the only exciting thing was when john boy went to new york and the r1, what was it? what was it? the graf zeppelin crashed. and when he was a reporter. that reporter. yeah. i might be going off on one here. >> and then of course, when the waltons wasn't on, it was the high chaparral. >> high chaparral? yeah. same time. yeah. yeah. i mean, i

remember the low chaparral. that was a long time before era. >> is this. this is what is the chaparral? >> do you know what a chaparral is? i don't know what a chaparrals. i know, too. >> what is a chaparral? >> what is a chaparral? >> it's a cactus. >> so what's a high chaparral? what is it? just cactus. so the whole thing is about the big cactus. >> so in the graphics of the titles of the program, there's a massive big cactus, right? so that's a high chaparral. >> but what's i don't understand the high part of the chaparral. >> it's tall. it's big. >> it's tall. it's big. >> right. >> right. >> it's the size of a tree. >> don't overthink it. >> don't overthink it. >> i'm really i know i've spent years wondering what a chaparral is, and i just can't see the point in it. i just don't a high chaparral, a big cactus. yes. >> name of the ranch. there you go. oh. >> that's it. it's the name of the ranch. oh, well, that makes more sense. yeah, right. i feel it's so great to be back. really >> and few people getting in touch saying. >> glad you found paul kwasi hiding in a cupboard under the stairs. >> right. >> right. >> i think possibly. thank you. we'll see more from paul a little bit later on.

>> right. let's get into what's in the papers. alex armstrong . in the papers. alex armstrong. nichi hodgson, both here in the big story. nicky is the nhs declaring sex is a biological fact? yeah. what will that mean ? fact? yeah. what will that mean? >> so this is really to do with trans women on women's wards, in hospitals. and the fact that they will no longer be able to stay there and it doesn't say where they're going to go, presumably mixed wards with private rooms or private rooms. so there are some more options available . but this so there are some more options available. but this is so there are some more options available . but this is off the available. but this is off the back of a lot of discussion about sex and gender. what's immutable, what's not, and whether trans people should be allowed in spaces where people feel vulnerable and afraid, particularly women. and this is really to do with women saying you were being erased. will you see? >> this is very brave , nicky. >> this is very brave, nicky. you know, because so many people have been criticised in the past

for speaking out about this and the u—turn from the nhs. yes, yes, that would have been an official line on this. what do you think, alex? yeah. >> no, i think it's good news and i think there's a lot of stuff that's come out of the nhs over the last 24 months or so. i think in particular sort of that, that takes away any, any identifiers of what a woman is. and we're talking about breastfeeding , for example, breastfeeding, for example, being called chestfeeding. and i just don't think that's appropriate . we, we just a appropriate. we, we just a woman's a woman. let's give some respect to women. you know, it's not been that long. >> to be clear. this is this is coming from the government, not the nhs. and nhs bosses have come out and criticised it . come out and criticised it. they've said it's important that the nhs is not dragged into pre—election culture war debates, and that the conversation and focus should be on funding, sorting out a&e waiting times and sorting out the nhs. >> drag themselves into this because they've created the terminology, have they not? and the rules and the practices , and the rules and the practices, and they've also been spending, you know, lots large sums and we're talking like people on salaries,

£150,000 a year for dni people to actually write these things that that are clearly upsetting the vast majority of british, british people, particularly women. >> and i think we just it just seems disrespectful. i don't know, maybe someone will disagree with me, but i think that women deserve to be treated with respect. and i think if this were men, they would probably be a bigger outcry from men going, this is nonsense. >> look, i've got to ask you both what you think. i mean, this story that we're leading on today, the home office saying they cannot locate more than half of, migrants, that, that, that have been identified for removal to rwanda . some somebody removal to rwanda. some somebody just decides right now, let's let's phone these people up and let's phone these people up and let's track them down or whatever. they've disappeared . whatever. they've disappeared. >> how come it beggars belief, doesn't it? how can you have migrants in your country who you are? they need to be processed one way or another. they need to either be given leave to stay, or they need to be removed. and you don't bother to find out or

keep an eye on where they actually are. >> there's obviously no system. >> there's obviously no system. >> there's obviously no system. >> there's no there's no system. >> there's no there's no system. >> i mean, this is absolutely going to destroy any confidence in rwanda. >> well, i'll just interrupt you there, nikki, because we have victoria atkins. victoria is the secretary of state for health and social care, and we'll ask her that that very same question. victoria how come you don't know where all these people are? good morning everyone. >> well, first of all, thank you for having me on the show. and i hope we'll be able to speak about the nhs constitution in a moment. but the issue of rwanda is really important because we are determined to send out this deterrent message to people who are perhaps thinking of making that journey across the european continent . continent. >> yeah, but if you can't find them, what's the point? >> so illegally that they will not be allowed to stay so if i may just deal with this point about the numbers so we know that the home office has identified the cohort of the first cohort of people that are

to be removed to rwanda now that we've passed the act, no thanks to labour. they voted against it more than 100 times, tackling immigration measures more than 100 times. but now, of course, we have to get down to the business of getting people onto those flights. we've chartered the flights. we have the airfields on standby. the flights. we have the airfields on standby . we've got airfields on standby. we've got the staff, can't find them. >> sorry. i keep going back to this. how come you've lost half of them ? of them? >> so on this point about the numbers though, eamonn, it's important to understand not there are different arrangements for different people . so for for different people. so for example, some people are detained , others are allowed to detained, others are allowed to live with friends or families , live with friends or families, but they should be reporting in to the home office regularly so that they keep that relationship up. now, of course , the home up. now, of course, the home office will be checking these people and will be finding these people, you know, the law enforcement visits are massively increased in the last year. that's important because we have to have the enforcement message around this, as well as the

deterrence message . but i don't deterrence message. but i don't know why anyone should believe we know that. you think you will find these people. >> i mean, your own impact assessment was that a few people might disappear through the system, but it appears a huge miscalculation when you talk about the deterrent effect of rwanda , did you ever expect to rwanda, did you ever expect to be losing half of those that your own government earmarked for removal? the incentive of £49 a week, and also free accommodation is clearly not enough to keep them checking in with you . with you. >> so i'd ask everyone to look at the evidence of what we've donein at the evidence of what we've done in the last year. so in the last, last year, we saw the number of small boats crossings fall by a third. this was not an expectation. that's important. >> and these people get to our country and then they disappear. they can just go where they want. they can do what they want. they can do what they want. and you haven't got a clue where they are, but forgive me, eamonn it is important because across the rest of the european continent saw a huge increase in people coming into europe ,

people coming into europe, whereas missing the point reduction. come on in, come on in. we'll bring you through the borders. come, we'll stick you up in a hotel and then you can disappear. do what you want anyway. >> and what is more, if i may just finish, just finish, we also removed 25,000 people last year. also removed 25,000 people last year . now, nobody pretends this year. now, nobody pretends this is easy. nobody pretends. unlike the labour party, that there are magic solutions to this. it is hard grind. but we have passed this piece of legislation. this week. that is good news. we know that it will begin to have a deterrent effect. and we 700 people, we will get the first flight off the ground within interrupting victoria . interrupting victoria. >> but 5700 people identified by the home office , 2145 are the home office, 2145 are continuing to check in with the home office, 3557 have absconded. that cannot be decided by any measure. that cannot be claimed to be a success or part of the plan , but success or part of the plan, but the there will law enforcement

will be after these people. >> so that isn't the end of the story by any by any means. and we know the success that law enforcement have had, and there's a range of measures that they can use that they've had, not just in removing 25,000 odd, my immigrants last year, but also importantly, making immigration raids and closing some 7000 bank accounts so that people cannot live or work in the united kingdom once they have fought. if they fall off the radar . so have fought. if they fall off the radar. so again, i nobody the radar. so again, i nobody the prime minister, the home secretary , none of us have secretary, none of us have pretended this is easy. we are up against organised crime gangs who are you know, they make a business out of this . but we business out of this. but we have we are taking measures to first of all, stop the flow of people coming into the uk and then we are dealing with them when they are here. and that is why the rwanda act is such an important piece of legislation. >> your, your speciality . now >> your, your speciality. now this is a big thing, today you are announcing , i don't know if are announcing, i don't know if you're announcing it as a government or you're not saying it on behalf of the nhs or the

nhs is announcing it, but the nhs is announcing it, but the nhs will today declare that sex is a matter of biology, and this is a matter of biology, and this is a matter of biology, and this is a significant shift against gender ideology. tell us more . gender ideology. tell us more. >> yes. so the nhs constitution is the document that brings together the values and the principles of the nhs. and this is a significant document because it sets out our rights and our responsibilities as patients, as members of staff and also as members of the public. and we are announcing today a consultation on reshaping and updating that constitution. it happens every decade and this is that moment now. and what we want to do is, is confirm that biological sex is confirm that biological sex is a right and a responsibility within the health service. so that if, for example, someone wants to have an intimate , have wants to have an intimate, have intimate care conducted by a person of the same biological sex as them, then they can request that and that that request that and that that request will not be dismissed.

it won't be sneered at, it will be treated with respect because we want to treat patients with privacy, with dignity and with safety . and not only are we safety. and not only are we looking at biological sex, there are many other important issues, including, for example, we are bringing in what's called martha's rule. we haven't called it that in the documentation because we want to make sure that everybody understands. but it's that idea that if your loved one's physiological, condition starts to deteriorate suddenly, that you can get a second pair of eyes to look over them, to check that the diagnosis and the treatment is correct. that's really important. there's also some really important work in there about unpaid carers making sure that their views are taken into account, and also the value of work, which of course is something that we've been talking about a lot recently on the issue of biology. >> you know, a lot of our audience will say this is common sense and see this move as a positive one. are you taking the nhs with you, though, on this ? i nhs with you, though, on this? i mean, the nhs bosses have said that actually you're dragging the organisation into

pre—election culture wars and you should instead be focusing on tackling a&e waiting times or sorting out decrepit nhs facilities. i mean, it's a legitimate point, isn't it? you shouldn't be just going after headlines, trying to get roll up your sleeves and sort those things out, including the junior doctors industrial strikes. >> so we are, we are. >> so we are, we are. >> so we are, we are. >> but we also think that given this is a once in a decade moment, it is important that we set those principles very much in the foundations of the nhs. and in fairness to the nhs, it is one organisation that has come out with this rather odd comment about culture wars. i would have thought you, taylor, the chief executive of the nhs confederation of nhs . yes, one confederation of nhs. yes, one would have thought that he would be as uncomfortable as i am at the eradication of women from our language. when i visit a maternity unit, i recently i was told that service users use the maternity unit and i realised eventually they meant women or mums or mums to be, but instead

they were using this very, very , they were using this very, very, inhuman. i think language of service users . we want to get service users. we want to get rid of that. we want the language to be clear. we want it to be as you say, used with common sense, because that is how, you know, we ensure that people understand what their care needs are, what they should be asking for, what doctors are explaining to them. and so the views of one organisation, i don't think should be taken as indicative of the organisation as a whole. in fact, nhs providers have come out in support of our efforts to bring privacy, dignity and safety into the very foundations of this document, but also to ensure that we're using language that we all understand. so as one of your panellists has said, you know, the idea that the word chestfeeding is used instead of breastfeeding ? i just think, you breastfeeding? i just think, you know, we should we should be spending far more time, as you rightly say, looking after, waiting lists, making sure that we're building on the waiting list reductions that we've seen in the last five months.

>> it'll get a lot of people talking today. secretary of state, thank you very much for your time. thank you for explaining that. we will now ask our viewers and listeners to have their say on sex being a biological fact or not. you heard from the secretary of state how the government plan to classify that, and that announcement will be made today. >> some interesting views. sorry, just coming out of that interview, dougal, she is the queen of word salads, all fluff and absolutely no substance . and and absolutely no substance. and other people saying she's talking garbage and not answering your questions. i don't think that went down very well with our audience, particularly this year of losing all these migrants, the lady is deluded. another comment this morning. >> nikki? >> nikki? >> alex, can i just say, you know what was hilarious about that whole thing was that we're talking about the government using clear language, right? and then the first part of that interview was the complete opposite of clear language . opposite of clear language. yeah. why can't politicians just come out and say we need to do better ? we've made a mistake. better? we've made a mistake. the home office needs clearing up. we constantly getting

stories. i mean, i must have read several this, this, this time. we've been on this panel for the last 18 months or whatever it's been hearing the home office losing people. what is going on? i mean, james cleverly really needs to come out and do something i haven't seen i haven't seen what he's been doing the last since he took over . actually, i haven't took over. actually, i haven't heard from him. it's a disaster. what's going on in the home office? it needs it. really. the government needs to get a grip. people are losing complete confidence in the. >> also the solution as well that she was saying is don't worry, the authorities will track them down. how much does that cost? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> you know we've all watched hunted. we know what the resources involved in these sorts of things. but i'm actually deadly, right? no. it's hilarious. expensive looking for needles in a haystack. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> i mean, okay, so she's going about, oh, you know, we're able to bust certain places where we know there are, you know, illegal immigrants. but actually, that's when they get tip offs from things. there are plenty of people who have very smart and will have had a plan all the time about how to go into the black economy and, you know, just kind of hide out somewhere. >> of course, it will only take long enough for people and then

and then a government in the future will just say, you know, we need to give an amnesty to people, and that's what people will wait for, because there just will be a massive black market of people who are willing to work. as you said, nikki, without without there being any government id, we don't even know who most of the people are who come here anyway. there's no ids for them. so it's the whole thing is baffling to me. it really, really is. and i'm so sick of hearing it. >> nadiya bychkova is my favourite dancer on strictly at the moment. >> she could be usurped. >> she could be usurped. >> by who? >> by who? >> none other than the lady you were about to announce. >> well, no, no, but she'll she'll always be a professional dancen she'll always be a professional dancer. but, she said she had a conversation recently with princess anne and princess anne, the princess royal, who's 73 years of age, told her last month that she wants to join on strictly and the show's cast. now, remember , she did take part now, remember, she did take part in celebrity. it's a knockout , in celebrity. it's a knockout, in celebrity. it's a knockout, in the 80s, which was quite embarrassing. >> i really i don't know if we can zoom in on this picture of the princess royal, given that

the princess royal, given that the royals, they've obviously stuck her face on top of a professional dancers. >> it's all, you know, a little bit far fetched, but i love the idea that princess anne could be doing the splits . doing the splits. >> very interesting. what do you think if she if she did take part, or would she ? part, or would she? >> well, the royals desperately need a makeover, don't they? in terms of how the public feel about them and they're kind of hedging towards that. i think it'd be actually really good for their brand if she did. >> well, can i just say it would be rather interesting to see royals be voted for, wouldn't it? i think that might be giving maybe the wrong impression. i don't know, maybe she could do a special episode. >> apparently the queen is really keen on it as well. oh really? camilla is a big fan and has been talking to the judges and my wife was on strictly, the queen would come to me and say, i've really enjoyed her last week or last week or whatever. >> so she does watch. she has to be said, russell brand , have you be said, russell brand, have you read this story about him being bapfised read this story about him being baptised at the weekend ? baptised at the weekend? >> and i've seen it. i've actually seen the video. >> have you really controversial ? >> comedian 7 >> comedian russell brand said he was baptised in the river thames on sunday, and he is now

a born again christian. >> right. >> right. >> i think he's given up buddhism then. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> he's off buddhism now. he's on to christianity and he rose from, i think he called it the toxic plasma from the river thames. >> i can't think of anywhere worse to be baptised. really it's absolutely vile. >> if anyone comes out of the thames cleansed, no , no. thames cleansed, no, no. >> holy. >> holy. >> yeah. more diseases than you're left with. >> but he lives. he lives away. up. he lives in henley or he lives in the posh bit. >> absolutely. maybe it's cleaner up there. yeah, maybe. yeah. i'm not thinking about. yeah, i was thinking about southbank, but, i mean, but we should point out he has obviously been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse, all of which he denies. >> but he now believes that he's been born again and cleansed of all the hurtful allegations. >> i just i all the hurtful allegations. >> ijust i mean, all the hurtful allegations. >> i just i mean, yeah, i don't >> ijust i mean, yeah, i don't think people i don't think that's a way to escape your past. i think, you know, if it's a spiritual journey you're going on, then great, good for you. but i don't know whether there needs to be some sort of big announcement that you've decided to convert to christianity, and that now you're a i just find

all that stuff. people. people do. people really look at it in this day and age and go, wow, you're a new man now. i don't think, well, he has a lot of very loyal followers, but the seasons of russell brand, you know, are kind of endless. >> i followed him for a long time because he fascinates me as a character, and the kinds of things he stitches together. there's some insight there. there's some insight there. there's some insight there. there's some smart there. >> clearly intelligent he is, but he all of a sudden he'll kind of put the wrong things together and come out with something that doesn't resemble common sense at all. >> so yeah, fascinating. fascinating. >> though my granddaughter was bapfised >> though my granddaughter was baptised on sunday as well. so there you are. there you go. it's all the end thing. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there. good morning. welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. sunnyin from the met office for gb news. sunny in the east today, but cloudy and breezy in the west with showery outbreaks of rain. the rain persistent first thing

across northern ireland into parts of southwest scotland , parts of southwest scotland, west wales and the southwest of england. some heavy bursts and as the morning continues, that rain doesn't move along very quickly. so we'll stay damp across western areas, but the rain will tend to fragment into showers across parts of northern ireland, west wales and cornwall. later on. meanwhile, it stays sunny out towards the east. 1 or 2 showers in the far east, but otherwise with the sunshine and lighter winds here. 18 or 19 celsius a very pleasant spnng 18 or 19 celsius a very pleasant spring day in the west. the rain continues through the evening, but it does eventually fizzle away and well, it's going to become less windy as well. but further east, that's where the next band of rain moves in. and a lot of low cloud associated with it as well. so with a lot of cloud across the uk overnight and a bit of a breeze, temperatures will stay at 11 or so in places . temperatures will stay at 11 or so in places. now we start temperatures will stay at 11 or so in places . now we start off so in places. now we start off the day tomorrow with a lot of low cloud across eastern scotland and eastern england. some mr murch fret and ha and

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gb news. >> good morning. fast approaching 7:00. in fact, it is 7:00 on the dot. it is tuesday, the 30th of april. may is fast approaching, and you are tuned into breakfast with eamonn and isabel. >> leading the news this morning , the home office admits that thousands more than 3500 migrants set for rwanda flights have disappeared in this country, have slipped through

the net. do you know where they are ? are? >> the nhs states that sex is a biological fact, in changes that will see trans women banned from female wards, for example, someone wants to have an intimate, have intimate care conducted by a person of the same biological sex as them. >> then they can request that and that that request will not be dismissed . it won't be be dismissed. it won't be sneered at. it will be treated with respect . with respect. >> the search begins for scotland's next first minister, following humza yousafs dramatic resignation. >> we've concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm . at the helm. >> the duchess of edinburgh has become the first royal to visit ukraine since russia's invasion in 2022. >> fatima whitbread uses her own experience of the olympics and foster care to launch a campaign

to help disadvantaged children . to help disadvantaged children. she'll be joining us live in the studio this morning. >> 915 so what a great athlete she was as well in the sport. leicester city sealed the championship last night. leicester city sealed the championship last night . they championship last night. they beat preston three nil so they won the title. england's two best players face each other in the champions league semi—final tonight and apparently everybody is up for sale at manchester united. even eamonn million . united. even eamonn million. >> big contrast across the uk through the rest of today . sunny through the rest of today. sunny for some cloudy and breezy with outbreaks of rain for many others. i'll have the full details in the forecast coming up shortly . up shortly. >> so our top story this morning and you might find this quite shocking. a government's own report has revealed that the home office has lost contact with more than half of migrants that they had earmarked for deportation to rwanda . deportation to rwanda. >> might find it shocking. i find it absolutely unbelievable

that such a big deal is made of people crossing the borders, landing on beaches, and they're accepted into the country. they're put up in hotels. you imagine somebody then tags them or accompanies them around the place or whatever, but no half of them have gone missing. half of them have gone missing. half of them have gone missing. half of them are untraceable . of them are untraceable. according to official figures, 2100 identified for removal can not be located out of 5700. more than that 2100 can be located. >> it's 3557. you can't. >> yeah, yeah, it's a lot. >> it's a lot. »- >> it's a lot. >> now, this comes as sources claim the home office has accepted many migrants would abscond during the implementation of the scheme. and boy, they've kept their word on that one. >> yeah, well, the government said and they reiterated the prime minister's plans to get the flights off the ground and we heard the minister a few moments ago reiterating all of that. but let's speak to our political correspondent, katherine forster. this morning, because, catherine, you'll have seen victoria atkins, frankly

squirming there and keen to talk about the success of getting the bill through, much to the dismay of labour and wanting to drum beat that drum. and meanwhile , beat that drum. and meanwhile, here we are with these shocking figures this morning . figures this morning. >> yes, indeed, another battle for the government, because, of course, as victoria atkins was keen to point out, the government won the battle of getting this safety of rwanda bill through parliament. they think they're going to get people on flights. but now we find that the nearly 6000 migrants that have been selected, people who came between january 2022 and june 2023, selected potentially to be sent to rwanda and have been told this , and the home office told this, and the home office actually doesn't know where more than half of those people are. some 3500 pounds. they don't physically know where they are. so how on earth are they going to send them to rwanda? now? the

government currently gives people free accommodation, a £49 living allowance, but of course, if you know that you're going to be rounded up, put in a detention centre, as was reported yesterday , that the reported yesterday, that the government were planning to start doing that as of yesterday , rounding people up and putting them in detention centres ready to send. are you really going to stick around to be rounded up? so it seems that a lot of these people have simply disappeared. now the home office are keen to say no, no, no. we've got other ways of keeping in touch with people. law enforcement will be able to find them and i do think, though, that that is going to be very difficult because really, what's to stop people just disappearing into the black economy, working for cash, keeping a low profile , cash, keeping a low profile, etc? or of course, just hopping across the border that is not a border into the south of ireland. and then that becomes the problem of the south of ireland , something that they are ireland, something that they are very, very angry about.

>> catherine, thank you very much indeed. and i say we are delighted to be able to welcome to speak to talk to george galloway, the mp for rochdale, and the leader of the workers party of britain, george , good party of britain, george, good morning to you. >> good morning. what a story. what a day. >> well you're absolutely right. every day is a big day. but but one of the things now about you, this is the first time in living memory that an avowedly socialist party to the left of labour will contest. you plan to contest every single seat at a general election . how are you general election. how are you going to do that, george ? going to do that, george? >> well, we've already got 500 candidates, so we thought this was the moment to declare to the country that there is an alternative to keir starmer. if you are a labour voter and all the signs are there's a very big market for that, the kind of labour we have now is tony

blair. without the laughs, without the polish led by an automaton. so wooden the birds are nesting in him and up to his neck in the gaza slaughter. so there's actually a lot of people looking for an alternative like us. and we've put together a eamonn candidates that you will find difficult to believe . monty find difficult to believe. monty panesan find difficult to believe. monty panesar, for example, the ace , panesar, for example, the ace, engush panesar, for example, the ace, english cricketer, is going to for stand us in south hall. we've got people from the tory party, ukip, labour, liberal democrat , were were building democrat, were were building a coalition of people that want a change in britain. and i think there's a lot of people looking for that change. >> well, it's interesting that in your sights the enemy seems to be other socialists seem to be the labour party as opposed to those who are diametrically opposed to you and the

conservatives >> yes, of course, we don't expect anything from the conservatives. rishi sunak the billionaire, is sitting there with the green card in his pocket. he's off to khalife to his mind is on the beach like some of our manchester united players, but his is the california beach. we don't expect anything from the conservatives, but there are millions of people , traditional millions of people, traditional labour voters, that are entitled to something better. we believe britain deserves better than the two cheeks of the same backside that are currently on offer, and i believe you think you're going to have most success in those constituencies with large muslim populations , and you've got your populations, and you've got your eyes firmly on. i think angela rayner's seat, which is ashton—under—lyne, where you actually think you may be quite successful. >> well, we have a candidate there of the very first rank. you'll be able to interview her

later today outside parliament, when we assemble , 170. i later today outside parliament, when we assemble ,170. i think when we assemble, 170. i think of those candidates who've made their way, in the early morning, with all the difficulties of britain's railways , to come and britain's railways, to come and be presented , angela rayner is be presented, angela rayner is a disgrace to her constituency and to any thing called labour, but, i've got the news for you that the vast majority of our candidates are neither asian nor muslim. they're white, english, scottish, welsh and irish. so we're actually looking for votes in every part of the country from every background. >> and george , we've got labour >> and george, we've got labour coming on a little bit later on in the programme. just elaborate why you think angela rayner is a disgrace not only to labour but to her constituents. >> well, i don't want to delve into her current claim like that. and our, under investigation by greater

manchester police . i'll just say manchester police. i'll just say that as someone who pretended to be a champion of left wing politics, working class background and all, she's gone hook, line and sinker with, keir starmer's, abomination of anything called the labour party. angela rayner, we call her. don't be surprised if she runs away from our candidate on the chicken run. >> george , the party's called >> george, the party's called the workers party. does it do what it says on the packet? is it for workers ? it for workers? >> absolutely, pro—brexit, anti—eu , identity politics. the anti—eu, identity politics. the kind of nonsense that's in the news today, the trans mania, none of that means anything to us. we want to unite people under the banner of their principle identity, which is that they depend upon their labour to live. if they lost

their job, labour to live. if they lost theirjob, lost a labour to live. if they lost their job, lost a wage labour to live. if they lost theirjob, lost a wage or a their job, lost a wage or a salary , they'd be in poverty. salary, they'd be in poverty. that's the biggest identity that most people in britain share . most people in britain share. and it's under that banner that we seek to rally them. yeah >> let me ask you, my friend, at what state do you think this country is in? i mean, every day we sit here, we get feedback from viewers and listeners. people are pretty depressed. what state would you say the country is in and what can be done about it? >> well, we haven't been in a worse situation since 1941, and there's no mr churchill to step into the breach, we are led by political dwarfs, and, i'm not referring to elevate our heels. rishi sunak political dwarf, who appear incapable even of controlling our own borders, even of keeping track of the people who are illegally coming

into the country. we're infatuated with. whether, boys can turn into girls for the duration of the school day and whether this quarter or that quarter of so—called diversity is being reached, we're fiddling while while britain burns. de—man and you're. >> are you actively looking for people or have you got these people or have you got these people to contest every seat? >> we've got 500. there are 650 seats. we will be making some exceptions, not standing where there are outstanding local independent seats, but they'd have to be outstanding , we'd have to be outstanding, we'd have to be outstanding, we'd have to be persuaded that they're in a better position to win than us. we showed in rochdale that we have the chance , to break through in british politics. anyone interested that's watching can apply to be a candidate, even at this late

stage, by going online at our website. >> and do they have to share your values? i know anti—nato pro gaza and not keen to proscribe hamas as terrorists . proscribe hamas as terrorists. is that the same position they we've got? >> manifesto, it's a very good one. i commend it to you. the very attractive, manifesto . they very attractive, manifesto. they need to support our manifesto. of course , and when monty of course, and when monty panesan of course, and when monty panesar, the great left wing spin bowler, can be a candidate for the workers party, you can see it's quite broad. >> yes, but i haven't read your manifesto. so i'm just asking you, do people that sign up for your party share your views on hamas, which is refusal to declare them as a terrorist organisation ? organisation? >> i don't think you know my views on hamas, neither do you have the bandwidth and definitely not the time , to definitely not the time, to absorb it all on me. then i commend you to read manifestos before you discuss them. >> please enlighten me. what

will your manifesto say about hamas ? hamas? >> it says nothing about hamas. will the workers party of britain, we're seeking to save britain, we're seeking to save britain . it's people like you britain. it's people like you that are obsessed by that question, not us. >> george, it strikes me that, maybe the audience that you're going for are the people that bons going for are the people that boris johnson broke through to that he won last time around at the general election . would it the general election. would it be right in that? >> yes, absolutely , we want to >> yes, absolutely, we want to make the red wall red again . we make the red wall red again. we want to return the voting patterns in these parts of britain that were let down by laboun britain that were let down by labour, fooled by boris johnson, and may want now to correct things by voting for the real deal >> george , there you are. you're >> george, there you are. you're back in the house. you're you're you're as an mp, how are you being received, my friend? because, you know , you're one of

because, you know, you're one of the smartest people that i've. that i've ever met, but, but your message doesn't always go down well with certain people because you don't play the game . because you don't play the game. so how are you being received? how are you being. could i just say maybe inverted commas tolerated well amongst the staff from the librarians to the, waitresses , ecstatically with waitresses, ecstatically with with selfies. >> they're very glad to see me back, as are the hansard writers , because finally, they've got speeches that are legible and not read off, a set of typewritten notes, and constructed by someone else , constructed by someone else, the, independent minded people that i was always friendly with are still , friends. but the are still, friends. but the sheep who merely , run just ahead sheep who merely, run just ahead of the whips, the sheepdogs , of the whips, the sheepdogs, they just keep their eyes down when i pass. labour are afraid

of us. eamonn, they know that we can do the same to them that your colleague nigel farage and the reform party, are set to do to the tories, namely, take a lot of their votes. >> and will you hold rochdale ? >> and will you hold rochdale? >> and will you hold rochdale? >> oh, we're very confident that we will do that . we actually we will do that. we actually expect an early election, which is why we're doing this today, and because we think it's an early election, we are already working in the rochdale constituency. i'm very , very constituency. i'm very, very confident that we will hold it. >> it is fighting talk. fascinating to talk to you, george galloway. thanks for coming on and we look forward to seeing what happens when the general election is called. appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you, george galloway. there it 716 is the time. >> now we're going to talk about the prime minister he has dismissed the idea of a deal with dublin to return asylum seekers crossing over the irish border into the republic . border into the republic. >> that's after shocking new

images revealed rows of tents lining the streets of ireland's capital as asylum numbers reach breaking point. let's go to northern ireland. reporter dougie beattie in belfast today to give us the whole context of all of this, douglas, my friend , all of this, douglas, my friend, interesting, i wasn't aware that there was a problem , in our part there was a problem, in our part of the world, northern ireland in terms of migrants looking to go into the south. so first of all, what are things like in northern ireland? how is northern ireland? how is northern ireland? how is northern ireland being affected by migrants ? by migrants? >> well good morning, good isabel and eamonn and yeah, welcome to belfast city airport where if we were to be believed by rishi sunak that the rwanda plan is working, the planes would be coming in here because, of course, of the common travel area we have, the common travel

area we have, the common travel area is allowing you to come between any were inside the uk and ireland. and once you're in that common travel area, you can travel with no passport, no identification. so in belfast at this moment in time, there is definitely an increase in immigrants . definitely an increase in immigrants. south belfast in particular. we covered that about three weeks ago on the program. but what the republic of ireland is saying is that many of these migrants are going across a borderless border. and again, you and i have talked about this in the past and straight into the republic of ireland. but back in the, brexit negotiations, leo varadkar was offered a smart border, a borderless border with electronics on it. there was no military posts, but he said not one camera, not one border on the island of ireland. and at that time, no one thought that the rwanda bill would come in, which would then threaten immigrants to be flown to rwanda and therefore in ireland's own

courts in the republic of ireland's own courts , then ireland's own courts, then naming britain as an unsafe place to resettle migrants. so today they are are discussing in the doyle legislation that may allow them to put back immigrants that have come into the republic of ireland, into northern ireland and the rest of the uk. but to do that, they would then have to say that the rwanda is a safe place to go. is a safe place inside britain because under international treaties you are not allowed to put somebody back into a place where they can be threatened or their human rights abuse . so for their human rights abuse. so for their human rights abuse. so for the likes of sinn fein, there is the likes of sinn fein, there is the largest party in the repubuc the largest party in the republic of ireland, doyle. they would then and only yesterday they called it, a horrendous piece of legislation, as in the rwanda bill. they would then have to back that. and if they don't back it, then immigration is going to continue into the

repubuc is going to continue into the republic of ireland. that is at breaking point. and we have covered this for two years inside the republic of ireland . inside the republic of ireland. i mean, we talk about the shocking scenes of tents, the most shocking scene of all. and it was what actually sparked the irish government into some sort of , of, irish government into some sort of, of, motion forward in this was late thursday night, early friday morning in wicklow in a place called newtown, mount kennedy, beautiful place in the wicklow mountains and to live there, you have to be pretty financially secure. and they decided to put an immigrant hostel in there, right beside a gaa pitch, which no company got into. and the garda siochana turned on. the locals pepper sprayed them and hit them with riot shields. that was the point of turning in this. riot shields. that was the point of turning in this . that was the of turning in this. that was the point that the irish government thought maybe they had gone too far and with elections coming, have to do something , far and with elections coming, have to do something, i don't know what the situation is like

in northern ireland, but in southern ireland, is it fair to say the migrant situation? and we're talking about 3500 of them simply vanishing off the face of the earth on untraceable . but is the earth on untraceable. but is it fair to say in southern ireland, it's a right mess ? ireland, it's a right mess? >> it's past breaking point. i mean, southern ireland was about 3.7 to 4 million people ten years ago. it's now about 5.4 million people, over a million of them are being identified as non—irish. and that's not including the ones that have come in illegally. ireland is in real problems with immigration and with these elections coming from europe. politicians are now starting to talk tough, but people down there want to see the colour of their money. >> okay, dougie, thank you very much indeed. >> that's our northern ireland correspondent, dougie beattie. there. that is amazing . 20% of there. that is amazing. 20% of the population of ireland is known irish. >> i wonder what percentage of

america is irish, though i mean irish. >> traditionally the diaspora, the irish diaspora , you know, the irish diaspora, you know, would be, would be very would be very big. but, but you see, that's a whole different situation because when those people, exported themselves, to america, they were wanted, they were needed, they were needed to build america. and it's a different situation , nowadays, different situation, nowadays, and we are i mean, this migrant situation is completely out of control . and when is someone control. and when is someone going to stand up and actually do something about it? when is someone going to admit we're out of control? i mean , you've heard of control? i mean, you've heard today there's just so many migrants . no one knows where migrants. no one knows where they are. they come into the country, there's a whole big hoo ha about them, but then they disappear. no one knows where they are, what they are doing. 7:22. let us know your views on this one. get in touch with us this one. get in touch with us this morning at the usual way. which is gbnews.com forward slash kwasi. >> and we start a bulletin with

some breaking news. this hour. and we are hearing in the last few moments that the premier inn owner, whitbread, is axing 1500 jobs across the uk. there are plans to slash its chain of branded restaurants by more than 200, in favour of building more hotel rooms . we'll get more on hotel rooms. we'll get more on that a little bit later on in the programme , and other stories the programme, and other stories that we've got for you include a ceasefire could be reached between israel and hamas within days after a potential deal has been put forward. it includes a 40 day end to the fighting in return for the release of hostages. the us secretary of state has said the only thing standing in the way of an agreement is hamas foreign secretary david cameron has called the deal very generous . called the deal very generous. >> the parents of the nottingham stabbing victim , grace o'malley stabbing victim, grace o'malley kumar, are backing calls to award their daughter , the george award their daughter, the george cross, after she lost her life attempting to save her friend barnaby webber from the knife attacker valdo calocane caloocan's high security hospital order is set to be reviewed next week, after the

victims families expressed their outrage that the killer avoided prison following his sentencing . prison following his sentencing. >> a big news story today nhs set to announce a landmark shift away from gender ideology . the away from gender ideology. the national health service will set out that biological sex is a fact and not a self—identified trying choice. for the first time, changes will ban trans women from women only wards and give women the right to request a female doctor. earlier, we spoke to the secretary of for state health. this is what she had to say. >> for example , someone wants to >> for example, someone wants to have an intimate, have intimate care conducted by a person of the same biological sex as them. then they can request that and that that request will not be dismissed. it won't be sneered at. it will be treated with respect, with privacy, with dignity and with safety. and not only are we looking at biological sex, there are many other important issues, including, for example , we are including, for example, we are bringing in what's called martha's rule. we haven't called

it that in the documentation, because we want to make sure that everybody understands . but that everybody understands. but it's that idea that if your loved one's physiological condition starts to deteriorate suddenly , that you can get suddenly, that you can get a second pair of eyes to look over them to check that the diagnosis and the treatment is correct. >> it's a pretty obvious story. pupils at schools with strict mobile bans on their phones get better. gcse results than those with lax phone use rules . with lax phone use rules. >> i just don't know when people are going to wake up to this phones thing. no phones for under 16. apart from the old fashioned bricks, i don't understand why it's so hard. it's bad for the mental health. it's bad for the mental health. it's bad for their sexual promiscuity. god knows what goes on. we've seen this worry on the front of the mail this morning about sex sextortion epidemic. all these boys killing themselves because they're getting forced to send pictures of themselves and awful stories. and then. and then you have the

issue of grades as well. it's a no brainer. take smartphones away for under 16 seconds. yeah. >> at school. at school. >> at school. at school. >> just can't see the point or can't see the point of it. what is the point? 7:25. let's get a weather update aidan mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there. good morning. welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. sunnyin from the met office for gb news. sunny in the east today, but cloudy and breezy in the west with showery outbreaks of rain . with showery outbreaks of rain. the rain persistent first thing across northern ireland into parts of southwest scotland, west wales and the southwest of england. some heavy bursts and as the morning continues, that rain doesn't move along very quickly, so we'll stay damp across western areas, but the rain will tend to fragment into showers across parts of northern ireland, west wales and cornwall later on. meanwhile, it stays

sunny out towards the east. 1 or 2 showers in the far east, but otherwise with the sunshine and lighter winds here. 18 or 19 celsius a very pleasant spring day in the west. the rain continues through the evening, but it does eventually fizzle away and well, it's going to become less windy as well. but but further east, that's where the next band of rain moves in. and a lot of low cloud associated with it as well. so with a lot of cloud across the uk overnight and a bit of a breeze, temperatures will stay at 11 or so in places. now we start off the day tomorrow with a lot of low cloud across eastern scotland and eastern england. some mr murch fret and ha and outbreaks of rain also moving up the north sea coast to the west. any early rain disappears, brighter skies emerge, some decent sunny spells for western scotland and northern ireland, and feeling warmer compared with today. many places in the mid to high teens. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

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we start the sport today by. congratulations to leicester city. well done. championship winners. >> paul. yeah. they're back up. first try. they dropped down last season. straight back up again. and they're champions of the championship , so jamie the championship, so jamie i mean we mentioned jamie vardy earlier, 37 years old, scored twice yesterday . you know you're twice yesterday. you know you're thinking well that's it. you know he's going to drop down now into the championship. and now

probably be it. but now is he going to still be in the leicester side going into the premier league next year? >> i was thinking about this this morning. you know the way there is big talk of a film being made of jamie vardy's life. did you write, you know, that he started in the lower leagues. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah it is quite a story. >> yeah it is quite a story. >> he won the premier title. this could be a good place to end it. >> you think so. >> you think so. >> well yeah that he wins again. he wins. >> it would be now. but then they're probably going to think maybe we could do the next bit. maybe that that'll be the sequel in the jamie vardy sequel. because you know there are people thought he looked a bit like wilfrid brambell from steptoe and son. >> get out of it. >> you get out of it, do you not you not have any of that? i think he's amazing. he is amazing. i'm not saying, you know, scoring machine. >> he's a greyhound. he's he's incredible . incredible. >> he is an incredible footballer. him 37 years old. they can equal the record of 32 second division wins should they beat blackburn at the weekend, which is the first time that's been done in 104 years, and the fourth year in a row we've had a team bounce up burnley, fulham

and norwich, but it's either leeds or ipswich that will go up with them and ipswich are playing away at coventry tonight. now if they do get to the premier league they could be facing a spending cap, what happened yesterday? what's proposed to happen right now? >> this is, this is a slightly long, convoluted system here. premier how long have we got 10s premier how long have we got 10s premier league clubs voted in favour of the spending cap. this is instead. but not all premiership clubs. that's correct. instead of those pazz rules, which is the profit and sustainability. so the ones that didn't manchester united were one. manchester city were one and aston villa and chelsea abstained because they couldn't make their mind up one way or the other. the reason now, the actual spending cap itself, it basically means it's going to limit outlay on wages , on agents limit outlay on wages, on agents before you could miss out on players and they will stay in the european league transfers as well. yes. so it's just trying to keep it limited. but then you've got teams . the reason you've got teams. the reason manchester united are opposing

it, because they're saying that we earn a huge amount of money from different from different avenues, different places, so therefore we can't spend it. whereas the profit and sustainability allows that. so the more money you can make outside, the more money you can spend. outside, the more money you can spend . whereas the cap, it spend. whereas the cap, it doesn't matter now what they're going to say is the actual cap is going to be now the way they actually work this out, it was four and five times, 4 to 5 times the amount of the lowest premier league club earned in tv revenue. how they come up with that, i don't know which was leeds with 112 million. so 4 or 5 times of that would be where the cap would be were the lowest earners last time they were in the premier league last time tv yeah, yeah, 112 million, which is still a huge amount of money. if you think how much that is just that's just tv revenue alone. >> big team. yeah you reckon you know they'd make your switch on. >> yeah. yeah. you'd think so wouldn't you. >> they'd think first up against qpr at the weekend didn't they. >> big time i know. but then again we'll see what happens

with if they make it up. because if they don't manage to go up which it looks like probably ipswich, i mean it could go either way then straight into the playoffs. but we'll see champions league tonight. yeah. real madrid against bayern munich. so england's two finest players i think jude bellingham and harry kane were facing against each other. i mean it could have been arsenal versus manchester city couldn't it. it could have been. but but it's not. it's going to be. and also the other one which we've got dortmund against psg. so should dortmund against psg. so should dortmund beat paris saint—germain and then bayern munich beat real madrid, the final is at wembley and the last time the final was at wembley, which was 2013. i was there, it was dortmund and bayern munich. you were there, were you? >> yeah, yeah , so my friend, >> yeah, yeah, so my friend, funny enough, we were talking about the waltons earlier on. ingus >> winger ingebrigtsen's . yeah. >> winger ingebrigtsen's. yeah. >> winger ingebrigtsen's. yeah. >> and they're in scandal. they're they're reality soap. thing is . yeah. all involved in thing is. yeah. all involved in scandal. but, i was thinking. so the name of mr mrs. walton, he was john. he was john, and she

was john. he was john, and she was olivia. no, she was olivia . was olivia. no, she was olivia. >> olivia. you're right. yeah. >> olivia. you're right. yeah. >> then. and then there was grandpa and grandma . who was grandpa and grandma. who was zeb? >> yeah. i remember when he died in that. yeah in the waltons. >> but also, grandma had a stroke in real life, and she kept her job on the programme. >> is that right where they portrayed her having the stroke on the programme . on the programme. >> is that right? >> is that right? >> so she couldn't really speak. >> so she couldn't really speak. >> and so they had to have her a stroke. yeah. that's amazing. so was john boy . yeah. who had the was john boy. yeah. who had the mole on the side. yeah. he got extra fee by the way for the mole because the mole actually ended up playing a character in the moles. it was amazing. it was john boy. it was jim bob , was john boy. it was jim bob, jim, bob and ben, which was the ginger one. ginger one. and the. you know what? how do i remember this? mary ellen? mary ellen, mary ellen. and there was erin. yes. and the little one was elizabeth. yeah, i scares me. the fact that monday night, 8:00 bbc yeah, it was in those days. >> mr paul, thank you very much. pleasure. appreciate that , good pleasure. appreciate that, good night, jim bob. good night. john boy. we've got, the newspapers coming up next. >> alex armstrong nichi hodgson

for that with us. we'll see you in just a moment

i >> -- >> we've got nichi hodgson. we've got alex armstrong, and they've got the stories making they've got the stories making the news. good to see you again, guys, i want to talk. alex first of all, about rents hitting a new high, the cost of renting privately in the uk , a new all privately in the uk, a new all time high. tell us more. >> you know , shocking stuff. >> you know, shocking stuff. again, we keep hearing these stories of the increased cost of living for people who are already clearly struggling. we're talking about rents now outside of london on average now sits about £1,300. this is a 34% increase in 12 months, £1,300. >> that's right. can you imagine paying >> that's right. can you imagine paying that in london? >> that would be, that would be

a steal here in london, frankly. >> i mean, you what? you're sort of minimum of three grand upwards . upwards. >> well, yeah. typical london rents now 2650, £50. sorry, which is again 5.3% higher than than 12 months ago. on top of that, we've got council tax going up. we've got the mayoral tax going up. and this is london i'm talking about. but i'm sure this is happening all over the country. it how are people going to afford to live? i don't understand it . to afford to live? i don't understand it. something's to afford to live? i don't understand it . something's got understand it. something's got to be done here. >> no one seems to care. alex >> no one seems to care. alex >> no, they don't care. >> no, they don't care. >> and you've got the banks and the building societies, the interest rate is not coming down. it's not going to going to come down. the bank of england don't give a damn either. they don't give a damn either. they don't care . and people are just don't care. and people are just squeezed until they break. >> and then you've got the government coming out going. you all need to get back to work. you need to work hard. you need to be more productive. i'm like, what's the point? every time i'm more productive, you just take more productive, you just take more off of me. >> i mean, i think one of the biggest problems in this country with rents is that landlords

have so much power. everything is so much in favour of private landlords and although there's been lots of campaigning to try and tip the balance a little bit with more renters rights, it isn't affecting the price, it isn't affecting the price, it isn't affecting the standard of accommodation and it just feels like a racket . everybody's just like a racket. everybody's just got to accept the price is going up and the standards coming down, and the fact that they can't save for a deposit to buy a house and there are not any houses to buy anyway. >> well, you know, my rent, my, my rent was about to go up to £3,000 a month. wow. i couldn't believe it. that was a that was a £400 increase. and that gets you out a two bedroom apartment, two bedroom apartment in london and nothing. no extras. you know. and they said they also said they want more deposit to go with it. i couldn't believe it. i was like, i've only been one for two year olds, are still living at home with their parents, of course. how can we ever save for a mortgage? but i suppose in any defence of private landlords, they are being squeezed as well because the interest rates, the borrowing rates going up for them. >> yeah, well, but that was always the point made about the interest rates . people's interest rates. people's mortgages would increase and then private rents would go up as well. because of that, i

don't know what we need to do. cap it, put a cap on it, subsidise it. i don't know, i don't know at least a tax cut or something to, to help us save for mortgages . for mortgages. >> i mean, there's, there's no way to save, you know, and if you do own over a certain amount of money, let's say you are a high earner. you then get taxed on your savings. so not only do you need to earn money, more money to, to make your rent, you then need to once you do reach that threshold, you're then paying that threshold, you're then paying even more tax and you're taxing your savings. i can't believe it. you might as well be taxed to breathe at this point. >> well, don't suggest it. no someone will will draw up plans for that front of the mail's caught my eye this morning in quite a lot of other papers . and quite a lot of other papers. and the inside as well. and this is about sextortion. an unprecedent warning to teachers from the national crime agency. and this is linked to a rise in suicides in the states and all around the world of young boys in particular. >> this is such a depressing story as well. so it's a national alert from the, as you say, the national crime agency. it's never been issued before, because we have a sextortion epidemic which is affecting pupils at school and children as

young as five. it just beggars belief that we can't get on top of this issue. i mean, the problem is when children are targeted for nude photos or they're told that maybe somebody has some information about them that's private and they're going to release it, they don't have the reasoning abilities of adults, right. and adults still respond to these things anyway . respond to these things anyway. so the fear amongst children, especially, as you say, young boys, teenagers at school, must be just kind of beyond the pale. and, it's just so upsetting . but and, it's just so upsetting. but the, the, this always this same problem that tech companies have got to start taking more responsibility for , for young responsibility for, for young people's safety and they don't tech companies and also governments. >> i mean, there could be more done on the issue of smartphones. and it's something ibang smartphones. and it's something i bang on about all the time, but i just hear it constantly left, right and centre about parents who feel they aren't able to hold the line for their own individual child, but peer pressure. all these kids want these smartphones not understand

, or being really aware of all of the dangers that we're talking about . the sextortion, talking about. the sextortion, the, porn , online porn, the the, porn, online porn, the sharing of images, whether it's affecting grades, which is the next story. we're coming on to you, alex. and the reduction in in their ability to achieve their potential. >> and do you also worry just just to add to that point, before we go on to the next story about artificial intelligence and how easy it is to fake these days, being a different person just filters and voice changes and all this stuff really scary for the future generation. and it feels where we've lagged behind policy wise and we've lagged behind very much. sorry. speak to but we isabel and i were talking earlier . earlier. >> we just. why this is even, a subject . why why why it is a subject. why why why it is a debate whether phones should be banned during classes at schools or not. but the study, latest study shows pupils at schools with strict mobile bans get better gcse results. >> yes. >> yes. >> yeah. you know, this is this is good news because it's actually i mean there's a lot of

people sort of saying that this is draconian and that we're actually putting kids behind by not giving them access to their mobile phones. but you know, that they're saying, you know, if we can get kids off of their phones during breaks, they actually socialise better together . if we can get them off together. if we can get them off their phones during classroom, they actually pay attention. surprise surprise. but as you said, eamonn, i don't know why this is a surprise to people. >> it was ringing a bell just as we're talking about it. we actually interviewed gillian keegan in february about a ban they are bringing in now of mobile phones in schools, and a lot of us were saying this should be the case already. hopefully this just reinforces then that this is a good decision to do that. >> you know, a lot of a lot of we see a lot of what we call ipad kids these days where they sort of sat in the prams with the ipad moving along and, you know, for, for at least there to be a space. i'm not saying this is all parents by i'm saying this is just a few. you see. but at least there's to be a space when you go to school, you go to the workplace, but you don't get involved in all of that. yeah. >> you see, but i reckon this isn't about banning phones in school. this is schools with very high standards, i would

say. and they just have it as natural. of course , you wouldn't natural. of course, you wouldn't be allowed a phone in the classroom and therefore their exam results are bound to be to be better. >> and we can't concentrate with them. >> i know i can't, i waste so much time on my phone when i'm meant to be writing. it's absolutely stop me from reading as much and stop me from writing as much and stop me from writing as many books. it absolutely has. >> the problem with our phones and i, my husband always says to me, you have to lead from the front. if you feel this strongly about the kids not being on phones and you shouldn't be on yours. and i'm like, but my emails are on there. your whole alarm clock. yeah, everything's on there. my newspapers are in my phone, so it's impossible to remove myself from the differences. >> consumption is what you're using it for versus what a child is. yeah, exactly. >> right. and that's what i hate being lectured to by kids who are basically saying, oh, but you're doing it too. >> no, i'm not doing it. none of your business. shut up. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> you know, it's a work thing and that's, it's a work tool for you. it's not for them. yeah. >> so but the main point as well is that the people, the tech bosses that create this technology do not let their own children use it. yes, yes. and thatis

children use it. yes, yes. and that is everything you need to know about it. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> well, jump and use your phone or whatever else you want now, because we're going to a short break and we're going to be back

here's a story in the daily mail today, which is patently wrong . today, which is patently wrong. absolutely wrong. we've got alex armstrong and nichi hodgson to talk about this. and it says women do not feel colder than men. nonsense, nonsense, nonsense , nonsense. i don't know nonsense, nonsense. i don't know a single woman that ever says she's warm or is warmer than me. nikki, how are you on the temperature? >> yeah. apart from when you're pregnant. isabel was just saying. because it makes you very hot carrying the baby. that's the only time you warm. and then you go back to being cold. yeah, well, apparently this research from, the national institute of health in maryland says that women are actually better at maintaining a lower critical temperature, it's they have more body fat. they're

better at keeping the same temperature. but i just think actually one of the big factors is i don't wear as many clothes as men, and that's why i'm cold most of the time. >> i don't know, my husband walks about in at >> i don't know, my husband walks about in a t shirt and doesn't seem to notice if it's freezing or hot, but i'm absolutely freezing the whole time. >> i think of, i think of there's a there's a small group of men who always wear shorts. you must have seen them. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> postman, postman. >> postman, postman. >> that's a perfect example. and no matter whether it's a blizzard or whether it's boiling hot, the shorts are always on. so there has got to be more to it than what this story. >> but is it a stoicism thing that men feel they have to be, cold to be manly? they have to weather the cold? no, i mean, like, so i actually enjoy it. >> i embrace the cold. i like to be cooler than i do to be hot, think. >> yeah, i would agree with be warm than cold. >> i know i'd much rather be cold than hot. yeah, but, i once was told by medical expert that it's to do with blood circulation and reproduction that a woman's blood goes

towards her reproductive organs and everything is kept warm and cooking sort of down there, but but i but i just think this is nonsense. i just think that every woman is cold, i agree. >> yeah. and feel it very easily. duvet hogging is a thing because we're cold. >> absolutely. and cold. feet warm you cold feet on your partner. >> if you've got a view on it, let us know, and you would like to prove us wrong or whatever. please do let us know. kyrees. we'll put the connection . we'll put the connection. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> gbnews.com/yoursay. we've just got time to talk about robot surgeons. alex. >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> yeah, a new future coming, everybody. robot surgeon has is able to cut lung cancer treatment cases by up to with a 95% success rate. that's up from 65. so this is this is looking like something that could be incredible technology save possibly millions of people. >> this is artificial intelligence then as well. at one use for it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> there's a bit of 3d mapping in there plus. but but it's

actually the rate that the robot itself can, can detect and get into the, the patient's lungs and measure the likeliness of there being cancer and then treating it . okay. this is treating it. okay. this is incredible. >> absolutely incredible nikki alex thank you both very much indeed.the alex thank you both very much indeed. the guys are going to be back in 45 minutes time. >> in the meantime, here's aidan mcgivern with your tuesday forecast . forecast. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there. good morning. welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news sunny in the east today , but sunny in the east today, but cloudy and breezy in the west with showery outbreaks of rain. the rain persistent first thing across northern ireland into parts of southwest scotland, west wales and the southwest of england . some heavy bursts and england. some heavy bursts and as the morning continues, that rain doesn't move along very quickly, so we'll stay damp across western areas, but the

rain will tend to fragment into showers across parts of northern ireland, west wales and cornwall later on. meanwhile, it stays sunny out towards the east. 1 or 2 showers in the far east, but otherwise with the sunshine and lighter winds here. 18 or 19 celsius a very pleasant spring day in the west. the rain continues through the evening, but it does eventually fizzle away and well, it's going to become less windy as well . but become less windy as well. but further east, that's where the next band of rain moves in, and a lot of low cloud associated with it as well. so with lots of cloud across the uk overnight and a bit of a breeze , and a bit of a breeze, temperatures will stay at 11 or so in places. now we start off the day tomorrow with a lot of low cloud across eastern scotland and eastern england. some mr merck fret and ha and outbreaks of rain also moving up the north sea coast to the west. any early rain disappears, brighter skies emerge, some decent sunny spells for western scotland and northern ireland, and feeling warmer compared with

today. many places in the mid to high teens looks like things are heating up . heating up. >> boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

earmarked for removal, but the home office can actually only find 2000 of those. well over 3000 are who knows where the home office doesn't. i'll bring you more later.

>> the nhs states that sex is a biological fact and changes that will see trans women banned from female wards. >> and what next for scotland? the search is underway for the next first minister, following humza yousafs dramatic resignation . resignation. >> it concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm . helm. >> the duchess of edinburgh has become the first royal to visit ukraine since russia's invasion . ukraine since russia's invasion. buckingham palace says the visit was in solidarity with the women, men and children impacted by conflict and the olympic javelin thrower fatima whitbread , uses her own experience of foster care to launch a campaign to help disadvantaged children. >> and she'll be joining us in the studio later this morning and in the sport, being 37 is not too old to be successful in sport. >> 37 year old jamie vardy scores twice for leicester

against preston as they seal the championship title yesterday, and also 37 year old rafa nadal moves on in the madrid open. and being 37 myself, i i'll be talking about it. thank you. >> big contrast across the uk through the rest of today. sunny for some cloudy and breezy with outbreaks of rain for many others. i'll have the full details on the forecast coming up shortly. >> top story this morning we hear this one. a government report has revealed that the home office has lost contact with more than half of migrants set for deportation to rwanda, so they have gone missing in this country. and we're talking about 3500 of them who have apparently gone off the radar with just weeks to go until the flights are due to take off. >> well, this report comes after rishi sunak said the rise in

asylum numbers in ireland is a sign that the threat of the rwanda policy is working well. let's speak to our gb news political correspondent katherine forster about all of this. and catherine, this seems to be an unintended consequence, then, of the rwanda policy that these people have decided that they don't want to be in touch with the home office anymore . with the home office anymore. >> yes, indeed, because there's 5700, we understand, that have been identified as potentially going to be sent to rwanda . going to be sent to rwanda. those people have been told that now, in fact , through the home now, in fact, through the home office's own documents, it now emerges that the government only knows the precise location of 2145, which means that over 3500. so the majority of them, the home office, actually does not know precisely where those people are now. it was leaked in the papers yesterday that as of yesterday, the home office were going to start physically picking people up and taking them to immigration removal centres where they would be

detained . until these flights detained. until these flights that the government have said are going to take off over the summer from mid—july, a regular drumbeat of flights through the summer, that's what rishi sunak has pledged. but of course, you know , if people don't want to go know, if people don't want to go to rwanda and they are not physically kept somewhere where they can't escape from, it is entirely foreseeable. i would suggest that many of them will simply disappear , potentially go simply disappear, potentially go work in the black economy, keep a low profile so that the home office cannot find them and cannot put them on these flights. and of course, we also know, according to the republic of ireland, that many of them are now making their way up through scotland, across into northern ireland. a hop, skip and a jump over the border which doesn't actually exist into the south. and then they become the problem of the republic of ireland. so an almighty mess and ireland. so an almighty mess and i think it just goes to show that over two years since this

scheme was first announced by bons scheme was first announced by boris johnson and over nearly two years since people were first put on a flight and then picked off one by one by the courts, and still not a single person to rwanda. now the government are saying they've got everything ready to go. they're saying yes. they don't know where exactly where these people are, but they feel confident. they will be able to locate them. well, time will tell very soon, saying that they're going to get law enforcement agencies to try and track them down at what cost? >> i'm sure lots of people will be wondering. another big announcement from government today, though. we spoke to the secretary of state for health and social care, victoria atkins, earlier about sex being a biological fact. this is something that a lot of people will welcome, but not everybody on board. let's have a listen. first of all, to what she told us this morning. >> for example, someone wants to have an intimate, have intimate care conducted by a person of the same biological sex as them. then they can request that and

that that request will not be dismissed. it won't be sneered at. it will be treated with respect, with privacy, with dignity and with safety . and not dignity and with safety. and not only are we looking at biological sex, there are many other important issues, including, for example, we are bringing in what's called martha's rule. we haven't called it that in the documentation because we want to make sure that everybody understands. but it's that idea that if your loved one's physiological condition starts to deteriorate suddenly, that you can get a second pair of eyes to look over them, to check that the diagnosis and the treatment is correct . correct. >> and your reaction to that, catherine. >> yes. well, i think this will be heartening to many people this news that, you know, people have the right to be put on a single sex ward or be treated by the same sex doctor if they want. and, you know, if there is a transgender woman , for a transgender woman, for example, that person may have to be accommodated in their own

room . but of course, it's easier room. but of course, it's easier said than done because it's all about resources , isn't it? and about resources, isn't it? and although these may be the guidelines and this is the nhs constitution, it's revisited every ten years, it's out for consultation. at the moment, single sex wards, you know, that should be happening already. and wes streeting, the shadow health secretary, has been very quick to come out and said that last yean to come out and said that last year, 44,000 times people ended up sleeping on a wards with members of the opposite sex when they shouldn't have been doing so. so i think there's a big question mark over resources . question mark over resources. labour also keen to pick out the fact that he says the number of people ending up, you know, on on mixed sex wars when they shouldn't has risen ten fold under the conservatives. so a clear direction of travel from the government. but of course, will the nhs have the resources to implement this? and also i thought what was shocking from what victoria atkins had to say,

she was talking about the language used in some of these nhs trusts and she was mentioning one nhs providers talking about service users by which they actually meant, of course, just women. >> don't forget about us. thanks, catherine. >> okay, we'll leave it there, this ireland situation and migrants and whatever goes on, northern ireland wanted some cameras and things on border checkpoints. the republic of ireland under leo varadkar said no, no, no, no, we're not going to have a single one now. they would kill to get cameras on the borders because it's all about migrants crossing from northern ireland and going to the republic, which the republic now do not like very much. dougie beattie there this morning to explain this, what is happening there, dougie ? there, dougie? >> well good morning eamonn. good morning isabel from belfast city airport. i asked northern ireland's immigration problem is starting to cause problems here, mainly in the round social

housing, because of course northern ireland, like every other part of the uk, like the repubuc other part of the uk, like the republic of ireland, has problem with housing. the housing, especially social housing. there's a big waiting list in this and many are seeing immigrants coming to northern ireland. they're being put on the list first. they're getting social housing, although not through the housing executive, through the housing executive, through a company called mears. and they supply and look after these immigrants when they come into northern ireland. so areas like south belfast are now seeing an extraordinary amount of immigrants coming to in that area. i mean, the likes of the lower ormeau road now has a huge romanian population in it. but since the rwanda bill has came through, many of those , it must through, many of those, it must be said, have decided, well, we don't want picked up . we're here don't want picked up. we're here illegally or we're here awaiting a waiting , illegally or we're here awaiting a waiting, our case being heard. and many of those have been in britain for years and years, still awaiting on the backlog

and they have then decided, well, if rwanda is going to happen, we're going to go across the border. now, this hasn't happened overnight . the border. now, this hasn't happened overnight. in fact, for many years it has been happening in dublin . their population in in dublin. their population in the republic of ireland has went from about 3.7 million, 3.4 million, up to 5.4 million. there's over a million people in the republic of ireland that it, do not describe themselves as irish. they're not irish nationals, and that's only the ones that are registered. so if you go into the likes of the centre of dublin, well, there's tents everywhere. and these migrants are now being put out into the countryside and that is causing the problems politically in the south of ireland when they were in working class areas. really the political classes thought well in round ballymun—finglas east wall, will they? nobody's really listening at this stage. but when they head to areas such as as we talked about before, newtownmountkennedy were the locals were turned upon on the

garda siochana they pepper sprayed them. they they sent their riot squad on them in order to enforce an immigration centre in the middle of the wicklow mountains. i mean, they live in that area. you have to be very financially secure. so it shows you the type how, just how much immigration is in to the republic of ireland when they're having to put these people into those sorts of middle class, upper class areas. and the real problem with all of this, right across the uk and the republic of ireland has to be said. it is because they have a non—contributory welfare system in order. in other words, you don't have to pay india to get the welfare out of it. and that's why the migrants are heading to the british isles. but is it becoming a real problem over the last couple of weeks since the rwanda bill? no no, that that has been going on for a couple of years now. and really, it's a bit like blowing

the leaves away from your own doorstep during the autumn. if you don't actually do something with them, you get up the next morning and the leaves are right back where they were again. and because the european elections are happening in the south of ireland, well, politicians are now deciding to make the right noises to make sure that they are saying, well, we are trying now to do something with this, but the very decent , hard but the very decent, hard working people of the republic of ireland and the republic of ireland is a beautiful, modern place to live. but they have not, as in britain , got the not, as in britain, got the infrastructure to deal with this amount of people . amount of people. >> but just just briefly, paint a picture for us as to what the situation is like in northern ireland and southern ireland. we saw the homeless people there. we, we, we hear that people are fleeing the uk through northern ireland to get into the republic. what is the situation in northern ireland? are there people sleeping on the streets in belfast and derry ?

in belfast and derry? >> well, there is people sleeping on the streets, but not so many migrants, of course, but the people that are sleeping on the people that are sleeping on the streets are saying, well, we can't get anywhere else because the social housing is being bought up by an arms length body and a body operating for the government. so the likes of beaver estate in south belfast, where it's nearly impossible to get a social house in there, what is happening is most of these landlords and hotels are being bought, are being put into contracts with private companies whose job it is to look after the placement of migrants , and the placement of migrants, and thatis the placement of migrants, and that is where the problem in the social housing is coming . and social housing is coming. and that's what's causing the lack of, housing in northern ireland for everyday families . and that for everyday families. and that is murdered the whole way across the uk. fortunately, and in most parts of europe. >> thanks, toogee . thank you >> thanks, toogee. thank you very much indeed. absolutely incredible . you think that

incredible. you think that people can't get social housing because it's going to migrants all the time? i know the areas that dougie was talking about there, and it's just like unbelievable to think that , unbelievable to think that, social housing is not available to people born and bred in northern ireland. have your say this morning, and we will reflect that , here's what you reflect that, here's what you do. gbnews.com/yoursay your say now the snp is preparing for a leadership contest after the scottish first minister announced his resignation yesterday. humza yousaf rafe admitted he underestimated the level of upset he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. he'll continue in his post until a replacement is found . found. >> i bear no ill will and certainly bear no grudge against anyone. politics can be a brutal business. it takes its toll on your physical and mental health. your family suffer alongside you. i am in absolute debt to my

wonderful wife , my beautiful wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. i'm afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me, from now . now. >> well, let's get the thoughts of the former scottish conservative msp michelle ballantyne, who joins us from scotland this morning . welcome scotland this morning. welcome to the program. look hard not to have a human reaction seeing humza yousaf make his resignation there and a lot of people saying it didn't matter who it was, it was sort of doomed, really from the start for him, i suppose the suppose the big question this morning is really where this leaves the snp , and if that sort of scottish national dream really is in tatters . tatters. >> yes. i mean, you're absolutely right. i mean, there was no doubt humza yousaf resignation speech was heartfelt. he talked about how heartfelt. he talked about how he felt and how it had affected him. and i think we would all agree with some of that sentiment. but the reality is, the morals, you know, both have a responsibility to bear in

what's now happened, nicola sturgeon pushed humza yousaf forward and he's not a strong leader. he never was. he never had those attributes that would recommend him to lead the party and in most people's views. and he was really their continuity candidate. but in giving him, in effect, a poisoned chalice, a load of legislation that was sort of doomed to failure, whether it was the bottle return scheme, deposit return scheme, whether it was the hate crime bill which has gone through but is a mess , you know, the is a mess, you know, the identity politics agenda with the gender bill, which obviously was subsequently challenged and failed, you know, humza yousaf did have a really bad plate to take forward, and then to top all that, a deal with a green party who are beyond weird when it comes to their policy decisions. you know, it was inevitable that that wasn't going to last, but humza took it with both hands because he

wanted that job so badly. that i don't think he really stopped and thought about what he was really going to be dealing with, and that actually it could end his career in a bit of ignominy, which is, of course, what's happened to him now, and he clearly is very upset about that. >> not surprisingly, not surprisingly, were you surprised at a statement which said he undressed , rated the level of undressed, rated the level of upset there would be, hums are always struck me as somebody who lived on a different planet. you know, there was so many times when i thought, really? you know, is that what you're actually thinking, you know, he i don't know sometimes that he has the level of engagement and intelligence to really look outward and think about what they're doing and saying and what is around him. i mean, the individuals that make up the green party were never going to take this lightly, you know, they were ministers and government and to be

unceremoniously kicked out at the break of dawn without much of any, as they would suggest , of any, as they would suggest, you know, proper discussion about it. of course, they were going to take it badly. about it. of course, they were going to take it badly . they going to take it badly. they were not going to roll over and allow him to do that, to him, and of course, for the rest of the parties in parliament, it is an absolute opportunity vie to hold humza yousaf to account. >> michelle, you'll remember in the 80s, i suppose, when the snp was was called the tartan tories, whereas now they've pretty much replaced those sort of conservative values very much with the progressive , liberal with the progressive, liberal views that we've become so familiar with in recent years. and is this a crossroads, really, when you've got someone like kate forbes, who very narrowly lost out to humza yousaf last year, but is probably more of that conservative ilk, versus somebody like john swinney, who i think seems to be the favourite at this point, who's very much back. the gender self id stuff, lgbt curriculums and the like, and which way do you think the party will go , i mean,

think the party will go, i mean, that's an interesting one because, you know, bear in mind that john swinney was alex salmond's finance. secretary, and he was very well respected in that position and well liked across the parliament, you know, across the parliament, you know, across all parties. he was part of that tartan tory brigade, if you like, somewhere he switched. now i might argue , he might say now i might argue, he might say differently that when nicola sturgeon took over and she pulled the party left and she swooped into the central belt and picked up all labour's votes and, and really went for that left leaning approach to all policies. john swinney didn't want to lose his seat, didn't want to lose his seat, didn't want to lose his seat, didn't want to lose his position in cabinet. so he suddenly became a left progressive liberal, whatever you want to call it, but actually . with that, he was but actually. with that, he was no longer the respected man that he was when he was part of alex

salmond's cabinet as finance minister, and in fact has faced no confidence votes himself in the time i was in parliament and had to be strongly backed by nicola sturgeon to survive. so i think what you have to consider is are we getting the true john swinney, you know, is was john swinney, you know, is was john swinney merely playing whatever game was in front of him to keep his position in the party? and i think there's a few people would, would be uncertain now . would, would be uncertain now. and i think if he does, if he does pull through and become leader again, that this won't be the first time. remember, he he was leader once before and it wasn't a great success. and he's been interim leader before. but if he does come, this may be as a chance for him to say, this is what i believe and this is what i stand for, and we might see the true john swinney in terms of what he believes in, but, you know, money's on the bet now as to which way he'll go. yes. >> the general election looming , >> the general election looming, will we see the true snp? how are they going to have to adapt, or will they not, or will there

for gains be regained at the ballot box come the general election? >> they'll have always have a core vote. you know, those that are absolutely wedded to the concept of independence. so, so they have a core vote, i think probably around 30, 35% will still vote for them. i think the issue really now is that the mess they have been put in, predominantly by the morals , you predominantly by the morals, you know that their war chest is , know that their war chest is, is, you know, been a bit bled dry. they don't have the funds like they used to have, they are all over the place politically. they're divided, you know, if they want to get anywhere near where they've been, they're going to have to find someone to lead them that they can all get behind. and at the moment, there isn't a candidate that really stands out. i mean, they're leaning to john swinney. so they say, but as i say, he's a tried and tested horse, and they see him as a sort of dependable pair

of hands that everybody basic likes. but, but, you know , kate likes. but, but, you know, kate forbes is very competent in her own way , but as you say, divides own way, but as you say, divides them. so i think the snp are headed for real troubled water in lots of different strands , in lots of different strands, whether it's the ability to finance themselves, the ability to have somebody who can lead them, but they'll still have a core vote and labour on the ascendancy. so it comes down to how many votes labour will take off. well, absolutely. >> they're the big winners in all of this. michelle ballantyne, we have to leave it there. former msp for south scotland region of the conservative party. appreciate your time this morning. >> in other news, with the time at 8:22, ceasefire could be reached between israel and hamas within days after a potential deal was put forward. it includes a 40 day end to the fighting in return for the release of hostages . release of hostages. >> the parents of the nottingham stabbing victim, grace o'malley kumar, are backing calls to award their daughter, the george

cross, after she lost her life attempting to save her friend barnaby weber from the knife attacker valdo calocane caloocan's high security hospital order is set to be reviewed next week , after the reviewed next week, after the victim's families expressed their outrage that the killer avoided prison following his sentencing . sentencing. >> four police officers have been shot dead, four others injured. a gun battle in north carolina. this was . the officers carolina. this was. the officers were in the process of serving an arrest warrant before where a fugitive opened fire. the man in question was killed during the exchange. two other suspects have been arrested . have been arrested. >> time now for a check on the weather forecast with aidan mcgivern . mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . sponsors of weather on . solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hi there. good morning.

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i >> -- >> 2020. for a battleground year i >> -- >> the year the nation decides. >> the year the nation decides. >> as the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election. >> who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives? >> who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together for every moment. >> the highs, the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. >> gb news is britain's election . channel. right. let's get into the sport . paul here with that today. >> can i just pick pick up on something, please? what, i heard that you'd said that i wasn't here yesterday. because yesterday i wasn't here yesterday i wasn't here yesterday . but i heard that yesterday. but i heard that you'd said, you know , put me you'd said, you know, put me right if i'm wrong. but i heard that you'd said that because arsenal beat spurs. i was upset, and that's the reason i didn't come in. is that true? correct.

right fair. fair. no. yes. fair enough. >> isabel . enough. >> isabel. she's gone into a coughing fit now. >> she. is she really? >> she. is she really? >> not for the first time, upset. >> were you out of ten? >> were you out of ten? >> out of 10 or 10? ten? yeah ten. 11. i was really upset. i've still got a sore throat, though, from the disallowed goal because i get so excited. you're the same . though, aren't you? the same. though, aren't you? you're very shouty when you when you watch football, i become less. >> i do because i get just. i don't expect much now. >> yeah. is that right? genuinely don't genuinely don't. well things manchester united. there's apparently going to be a fire sale. >> this is what i'm seeing i say including the manager. >> well, absolutely. including the manager. it seems that every bodyis the manager. it seems that every body is up for sale because now we've got ineos have moved in and they're trying to turn things around. and then there was the story about did you hear about the story about the fa cup with with the staff, where is usually staff of manchester united when they get to a cup final, they get travel, they get hotel, they get tickets, pair of

tickets wined and dined. this year it's different. it's just going to be one ticket and then you've got to pay £30 for the coach trip to go down. so they're cutting back on everything now. so it seems that even the entire squad is up for is up for sale, apart from kobe. menu, manu from manu , alejandro menu, manu from manu, alejandro garnacho and rasmus hoiland. so then two of them are 19 ones, 21 to him for at least 21. i think they see that, you know, he's going to be he's going to come through in the future. and apparently everybody else is up for sale. and ajax one erik ten hag back again because he did well there and it might not be a bad mix. i think we'll probably see the end of him. >> okay. >> okay. it's >> okay. it's pretty >> okay. it's pretty depressing >> okay. it's pretty depressing . >> okay. it's pretty depressing. you're looking like i did about 3:00 on sunday. so where do you begin? >> where do you begin? >> where do you begin? >> i mean, that business of, you know, cutting back on the staff. it's like in here they save money by not giving you newspapers and things . as if newspapers and things. as if that makes a darn bit of

difference, right? yeah. it's nonsense. >> yeah. there you go. anyway, look after the pennies and the pounds or something. i don't know what. >> well, what why, when you're paying >> well, what why, when you're paying players £400,000 a week, why are you worrying about £30 for a match ticket, leicester city beat preston last night. three nil. they did. wasn't just that result. it was the fact that result. it was the fact that it made them champions. >> they are they are now the champions of the championship. you know the trophy is the old first division trophy. you know, that's the old one. so they've now lifted that, so they were promoted . well they were promoted. well they were relegated last year. so promoted straight back up. so they're fine. they've won the title. so coming in second because it's second place is all important because that's the only other team that will automatically be promoted with them. league leeds or ipswich. it's going to be either leeds or ipswich. so leeds are on 90 points. ipswich are also on 90 points and they piay are also on 90 points and they play tonight, but they've played one game less so you'd think ipswich at the moment, but as always the championship is always the championship is always terrific and that will be going down well. >> good to get some old classical names back in the

premier league then. >> absolutely. good. good. yeah. yeah, absolutely. >> coventry. >> coventry. >> ipswich tonight. right. >> ipswich tonight. right. >> yesterday the premier league, they had a meeting. they seemed to agree that they wanted a spending cap on clubs. >> yeah. spending cap. it's with the profit and sustainability i know your eyes glaze over whenever i mention those words. but the spending cap it's just on players transfers , wages. on players transfers, wages. it's just as a club. it's not as innocent a cap on wages. it's just a cap on how much a club can spend. so they're working out an amount. but there are some teams that are saying, well, you know, this is not fair because we bring in so much money, we should be able to spend it. so it's early days, it seems likely. and if it happens , seems likely. and if it happens, it won't be next season. it'll be the season after. >> well, you can see how mediocre teams would be in favour of this, of course. >> of course it's the teams with less money because it would mean that there's a cap that everybody can only spend the same amount, which is not relative to how much money is being brought in, like the profit and sustainable rules. >> okay. >> okay. >> rafael nadal oh yeah. so rafa

nadal i mentioned he's 37 and we've got jamie vardy at 37, rafa nadal at the madrid open, it's clay court tennis season. >> i think we've got some some rafa nadal. we can see him in action. the guy is unbelievable . action. the guy is unbelievable. five time champion of the madrid open. he's going for it again pedro cachin he's played and he's managed to beat him . and he's managed to beat him. and you know i've never seen this before. and maybe , that's, before. and maybe, that's, that's that's fair over there. but anyway, what's interesting is that they actually changed. they exchanged shirts after the, after the match because cachin wanted to have nadal's shirt. i mean, we see it after football , mean, we see it after football, but i've never seen it after tennis. no. >> no, haven't. >> no, haven't. >> were you doing that when you were playing tennis? >> well, it's all very interesting interview yesterday with roy keane and he was with gary neville talking about swapping shirts at the end of it and he was, he was best. neville was saying he had a couple of shirts he'd got the shirt ronaldo and someone else. yeah. >> and he and keane said to him,

did did they ask for yours. >> yeah. and you find that they didn't. but he, he didn't have any time for swapping shirts. >> yeah. i can imagine. i won't do that. but but but there's always you can imagine if you're playing, messi or if you're playing, messi or if you're playing against ronaldo or any great names, the other players are always going to run to the to that player . are always going to run to the to that player. and it's like steve hodge, you ended up getting like £7 million for maradonas shirt. he had to do that quietly because after the argentina game of 86, when it was the hand of god, he went in and he was being drug tested and quietly did it because he knew all the other england players. i've heard this from other england players since that were really unhappy and say, what do you want that shirt for? you know, he's a cheat. you can't take that shirt. it's a disgrace. and he's going, yeah, yeah, yeah. so £7 million later, all these years later, it's like, well you know what, i'll take it. >> so eric cantona's shirt from 1996 and, it's a collar up though on it follows up on it. >> it reeks of aftershave. >> it reeks of aftershave. >> does it really? yeah, i love that. >> yeah, that's how it should

be. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> still, every now and again, you know, i've got a heung—min son shirt smells. it's like a cocoa butter smell. >> beautiful really. people's bill. >> not the not football players these days. there's not a not a whiff of bow on any of them. always very sweet smile. >> well thank you very much indeed. pleasure. >> we'll leave it there. thank you, still to come? we've got nichi hodgson. we've got alex armstrong, and

so we're going through what's making the news this morning with the political commentator alex armstrong. and the author and broadcaster nichi hodgson . and broadcaster nichi hodgson. welcome back to both of you and alex. let's start with amazing grace, so many of us were heartbroken by the tragic murders of grace and two others in nottingham last year. but it was grace as bravery in the face of her attacker that has led her to the front of the sun

newspaper today. tell us more. >> yeah, this is a fantastic campaign. the sun are backing here. this is a call to give grace o'malley, the saint george cross, which is a cross for bravery, obviously, she she was part of that horrendous attack in i think it was nottingham . in i think it was nottingham. and she, rather than running away, decided to stay and defend her friend who was obviously being attacked as well . barnaby, being attacked as well. barnaby, and now the petition from the sun is asking people to back this campaign and to get her this campaign and to get her this cross posthumously, which i think would send a really powerful message not only to british people who are, you know, standing up in in times that are very testing, of course, and in difficult scenarios. but also i think it's the right thing to do. >> i mean, it sounds like a great campaign. what is the what are the criteria to get the george cross? i actually in my naivety, i thought it was silly, all of them posthumously, but i mean, yeah, but isn't it for service people traditionally or for bravery? >> you know, i wouldn't want to say i'm not entirely sure, but that we do say here that the

medal is rare , and it has to be medal is rare, and it has to be recommended by the prime minister. so. and awarded by the monarch. so it's quite a big honour to, to receive it. and obviously now that that the king is back to his duties, it's a perfect time and a beautiful story. i think this would be a great timing to do this, and i fully support this, and i'm sure everyone watching at home would too. >> there have only been 160 george cross awards since it was introduced in 1940. it's reserved for the greatest heroism or off the, most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger, which is what that was i think she qualifies for. >> i think she qualifies with flying colours. yeah, well, let's let's back that campaign 100, absolutely . nicky, this is 100, absolutely. nicky, this is an interesting story that you've chosen. page four of the i that vaccines that any parent will tell you , causes such upset with tell you, causes such upset with little ones could be replaced instead with patches. so no more nasty needles. >> yes, this is really interesting. it's an early phase trial, which has been conducted at the london school of hygiene

and tropical medicine. and what they've created is these kinds of patches that can deliver the measles and rubella vaccine by by sticking on the skin and it gets rid of the need for injections and there's several positives about this. one is that it'd be much easier to roll out in developing countries, for example, obviously it gets rid of the pain factor. i've been there with that tiny baby. you hold them and it's just heartbreaking when they cry and they don't understand, but i think they're being a little bit optimistic because they're saying they're hoping that it would it would improve vaccine uptake, because obviously we've got a problem in this country, particularly with the measles vaccine and people not wanting to immunise their children. it's not going to solve the problem of people not trusting the actual vaccine itself, the delivery method? i don't think so. there might be slightly overegging the pudding in that way, but it's fascinating technology and it's great. >> i mean, if it works, that would definitely be my preference because i can just remember, even to be honest, right up until they were 5 or 6, absolutely. having to pin them down, holding them up close, bribing them didn't work, and

screaming the place down. awful. >> when nikki brought this story up in the green room, i said, i have vivid trauma of queuing up at school in a in our hall room and one by one screams of children and one of my friends, marika, she she she was the first, one of the first people who would go and get the jabs every time. bless her. and she would set the tone because it was traumatic and they just whack a jab. >> and that's when you're older. but imagine when you're little and you can't really rationalise or understand why it's difficult, but that sounds like progress. a couple of gardening stories here, a normal eco driver survey shows nearly half of gardeners do not plan to mow their lawn more than once in may to help the climate . what a lot to help the climate. what a lot of rubbish. >> yes, this is a this really caught me, this one, because i thought, well, if it's true. yeah, i don't believe 46. 46% of people are going to do this. i think it's 46% of the people who've been surveyed, which could have been as low as 20 people for all we know, because it doesn't tell you here, but

supposedly the point is this, this charity has said that they want to give mowing a break for two reasons. one, because obviously there are a lot of, petrol or, gasoline powered mowers which damage the environment. but there's also change, there's also not a lot of them as well. >> that's true. >> that's true. >> just there's other things as well. yeah. i just don't believe this. i don't believe that any man particularly says, you know what? i'm not going to cut the lawn more than once just because of the environment. >> apparently it's also promoting wildflowers to grow. and this is encouraging bees. and this is encouraging bees. and we as brits do really love the bees. yes. and it ties into the bees. yes. and it ties into the next story, nikki, about the chelsea flower show. and it's a huge thing at chelsea flower show last year that people are being encouraged not to dig up their weeds, to allow flowers to grow, to promote bumblebees and pollination. and all of these things. and people are becoming more aware of the need to do this. i would say. >> absolutely, absolutely. i think, i think biodiversity is a really good thing. and we're it's a beautiful country. i just moved to, to kew gardens,

actually. so my first time in there for years and i was like, wow, this is oh, have you been into the buzzy bee, yeah. whatever >> it's. but the lawns were all cut, but the lawns were cut. i was just even stole even stole my line. the lawns were cut and mowed. i will say that. but, you know, yeah. i don't think many people will be uptaken on that, but, you know, there we go. >> so, nikki, tell us about the chelsea flower show. this is in the telegraph, and they've been accused by some of dumbing down. yes. >> so this is mark gregory, who's a five time gold winner, at the show in terms of gardeners that he's been involved with. and he says that he doesn't want to see dumbed down gardens, rewilding, make good mend. i want to see glamour because the chelsea flower show is about glamour. i mean, i go every year. i'm actually really partial to it. i love it, but i mean, just because it's recycled or, you know, biodiverse or whatever doesn't mean it has to be not glamorous. i think he's a little bit behind the times. >> so i think there's room for both as well. >> yeah. so i mean that's kind of he's making his point. but i just think he's being a bit of a snob to be honest, there are

some incredible gardens there and they're often using recycled materials and they have to think about how they take them down and all the rest of it. >> okay. >> okay. >> how do they put them up in the first place? and it's amazing. yeah. >> it's incredible. >> it's incredible. >> it's incredible. >> it's such work. they spend all year don't they? >> putting it right, we will, take a break and we're going to be

b ra dfo rd bradford council. had 15,402 incidents of dumping rubbish fly—tipping last year, do you know how many of those cases they prosecuted ? they prosecuted? >> don't tell me none. >> don't tell me none. >> well, they don't give the actual figure. it's 0.23% of all of those cases , not 0.23. so of those cases, not 0.23. so less than 1. >> so basically you're allowed to legally fly tip around there. yeah. >> so fly—tipping in in general,

they're showing 11 councils around the country that just don't bother. they're all labour run and they're all quite bankrupt. i think the big problem is what people choose to spend their money on and, and the images and the, you know, they put it out and they say, we have a dirty, filthy area and you're very welcome to contribute to making it even dirty. and more filthy as a result of this. i think the message that sent out is very poon message that sent out is very poor, very bad. it's so depressing. >> also, i mean , wouldn't it be >> also, i mean, wouldn't it be an easy win to find people, isn't it? wouldn't it be an easy win to pump up the coffers of some of the most broke councils in britain? why wouldn't you go after it? what's the reason? what is stopping them? >> well, probably because it's quite hard to police. i think it happens often in the dead of night, doesn't it? right. and it's quite sort of clandestine. >> yeah. and also it sort of becomes a bit of a pandemic, doesn't it? i feel like when people start doing this and they and they get away with it, they'll do it again and they'll do it again, and then other people will go, do you know what? this area is already trashed. i might as well do the

same thing. i think that's how people see it. and they're like, what's the point? you know, because there's obviously there's obviously not enough policing as it is just to patrol the streets and get crime down, let alone flytipping and then these councils are bankrupt. so it's like, yeah, it's this sort of self—perpetuating problem, but communities need to take charge of their own local areas as well. people should love where they live. >> we go down our lane with our litter picker. >> yep. yeah. >> yep. yeah. >> little, little litter pickers. we don't have to bend over bin bags. i see all these kids flying out to thailand and places and cleaning up the beaches. >> so maybe we should start with our own cities. absolutely. you know, like we've got a big problem here, big problem here. and i'm seeing a lot of rubbish around london. london's getting pretty bad for this. yeah. plastic bottles and rubbish everywhere. it's horrible. >> you say it's hard to find them though. we have so much cctv in this country. that's true. i mean, we've got loads of evidence, but it's on country lanes, a lot of flytipping, isn't it? >> so farmland and all the rest of it. >> where there's a will, there's a way. meanwhile, russell brand, the comedian, who's in a lot of trouble these days as he's taken to dipping himself in the river

thames. why is that, isabel, well, he got baptised on sunday. he's given up buddhism. he's found christianity. this comes after what he describes as an incredibly difficult year, facing lots of allegations of serious crimes, including rape. but he believes he's now being cleansed. he's found god. those far be it from me to judge what goes on between a man and god. but yes, it is an interesting conversion. >> well, i don't know whether being cleansed in the river thames quite maybe sets the tone off very well , because the river off very well, because the river thames obviously, as we know, is pretty toxic at the moment . pretty toxic at the moment. there's a lot of sewage and rubbish in there, but, you know, i feel like anyone trying to escape their past by going through some sort of rebirth does deny the allegations. >> i hasten to add, even if it's a even if it's your own sort of, you know, troubles. >> obviously not, as you said. no, no criticism for anyone who's trying to find god. but i don't know whether that's the right mental health way to handle these things . perhaps get handle these things. perhaps get a therapist. >> i mean, well, he's done a lot of therapy, hasn't he? i mean, russell brand has always had an

affinity with jesus. actually, i've followed him for a long time and listened to his podcast for a long time. i can't do it anymore because it's just absolute bilge now, in my opinion, and i can't make head nor tail of some of the conspiracy theories that he comes up with. >> he's had an affinity with jesus. >> oh yeah, he's talked about jesus for years, at least ten years. and actually in kind of some of the strands of buddhism and all the other stuff that he's interested in, jesus is very important. you know, he's seen as a prophet in lots of religions. right, but i don't know the cynic in me sort of saying, is this just a kind of media trick to move the narrative on about russell brand? i don't know, i feel very cynical about it. >> so i mentioned before the break, the assisted dying debate, which has been carrying on this week. and, nikki, where do you stand on that? >> we absolutely need to have it. it's the most it's the kindest thing we could have. it's the last act of love, actually. >> good way of putting it. alex. >> good way of putting it. alex. >> yeah, i'm very much pro this with some guardrails. i think they obviously needs to be strong guardrails like a like an independent doctor to verify the claim and also be able to speak

to the family and the patient as well. but dame esther rantzen, who's put put a very, very passionate case for she's at stage four cancer, she's going to switzerland , i believe, to to switzerland, i believe, to have her end of life care , so have her end of life care, so i think there's an overwhelming support for this . support for this. >> well, it was a fascinating quote, rabbi romaine yesterday saying, for me, it's not about shortening life. it's about shortening life. it's about shortening death. yes. i thought that was very powerful. we have to say goodbye to nikki and thanks, guys , this morning. thanks, guys, this morning. thanks for your company. and we say good morning to aiden. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of whether on . gb news. whether on. gb news. >> hi there. good morning. welcome to the latest update from the met office for gb news. sunnyin from the met office for gb news. sunny in the east today, but cloudy and breezy in the west with showery outbreaks of rain . with showery outbreaks of rain. the rain persistent first thing across northern ireland into parts of southwest scotland, west wales and the southwest of england. some heavy bursts and as the morning continues, that

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gb news. >> good morning. welcome to the program. it is 9:00 on tuesday, the 30th of april. you're very welcome to breakfast with eamonn and isabel. >> with you on air until 9:30. leading the news this morning. the home office admits thousands of migrants set for rwanda have supped of migrants set for rwanda have slipped through the net and so far are untraceable . far are untraceable. >> the nhs states that sex is a biological fact in changes that will see trans women banned from female wards. >> and what next for scotland ? >> and what next for scotland? the search is underway for the

next first minister, following humza yousaf's dramatic resignation. >> the duchess of edinburgh has become the first royal to visit ukraine since russia's invasion. buckingham palace says she was visiting in solidarity with the women, men and children who are being impacted by the war. >> olympian fatima whitbread uses her own experience of foster care to launch a campaign to help disadvantaged children. she'll be joining us in ten minutes time. >> big contrast across the uk through the rest of today. sunny for some cloudy and breezy with outbreaks of rain for many others. i'll have the full details in the forecast coming up shortly. >> so it's a shocking story leading our program this morning and the government have admitted in their own report that the home office has lost contact with more than half of the

migrants that they've earmarked for deportation to rwanda. >> we are talking about 3500 here who have apparently gone off the radar with just weeks to go until flights are due to take off. >> and the report comes after rishi sunak said the rise in asylum numbers in ireland is a sign that the threat of the rwanda policy is actually working. >> let's go to our political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, tell us more i >> -- >> yes. quite something. this isn't it. eamonn and isabel, the home office have earmarked 5700, migrants, potentially to be sent to rwanda. they've told them that they're earmarked and now they can only actually make contact . know where just over contact. know where just over 2000 of those are. which means that 3500, they don't actually know where these people are. so how on earth are they going to round them up and this week is the beginning of when the government, it's been leaked, are supposed to be actually going physically getting hold of people, putting them into

detention centres, ready for these flights that rishi sunak says are going to be taking off by mid—july. a regular drumbeat of flights to rwanda over the summer. that is what the government is pledging. but my goodness, this really is a bit of a mess because it's not unforeseeable , is it? that if unforeseeable, is it? that if you tell people they're earmarked for going to rwanda and they don't want to go, that they might just sort of disappear, disappear into the black economy , keep a low black economy, keep a low profile, not be traceable, go over to ireland or whatever. and a lot of criticism coming out this morning, as you might expect. now, labour, the shadow immigration minister, stephen kinnock, has said this latest farce exposes the total lack of grip farce exposes the total lack of grip the conservatives have over the asylum system and the chaos at the heart of their rwanda policy . former home secretary policy. former home secretary priti patel, it was she and the former prime minister, boris johnson, who announced this scheme over two years ago now,

and she has said the government should have been increasing the number of detained sites and greek style reception centres which were in the new plan for immigration. i developed with home secretary. not surprising that she would say this, of course, because priti patel is one of many people report who would really rather like rishi sunaks job if and when, as is expected , the conservatives lose expected, the conservatives lose the next election . the next election. >> thank you catherine, thank you very much indeed. the shadow paymaster , paymaster general paymaster, paymaster general jonathan ashworth joins us now live from york. you can say good morning to him, jonathan. we're here today. we're talking about national insurance , and we're national insurance, and we're talking about pensions. your worry is your worry is pensions. yet the prime minister has decided to double down on the conservative plan to abolish national insurance if they win

the next election . what do you the next election. what do you see as the problem with that ? see as the problem with that? >> well good morning eamonn. well, first of all, a labour government would always give our pensioners certainty by honounng pensioners certainty by honouring the triple lock increases in the state pension. but rishi sunak has committed to a £46 billion plan to abolish national insurance, a commitment he cannot fund from money he cannot find unless he cuts the state pension by £96 a week or he taxes pensioners. he imposes a double taxation on pensioners. this is something that nigel lawson, back in the 80s remember him warned of when he looked at this proposal. or it could mean increasing the state pension age to 71, because there is a £46 billion black hole in rishi sunak sunak's plans. and unless rishi sunak explains today how he's going to fund this plan, pensioners will conclude that the pension will be cut under

the pension will be cut under the conservatives and the future of the pension is at risk under the tories. well since rishi sunakisnt the tories. well since rishi sunak isn't here, he can't explain that. >> but i can ask you to explain how you intend to maintain the triple lock which you have committed to doing. we've got lord william hague, former leader of the conservatives, saying it is ultimately unsustainable, and the institute for fiscal studies saying that this creates an insurmountable pressure for higher pension age because it will just be so expensive . expensive. >> we'll remember the triple lock increase and that. and just a reminder, the reason the triple lock was brought in, if you remember back in the 1980s, margaret thatcher and the conservative government broke the link between earnings and the link between earnings and the pension and the triple lock, the pension and the triple lock, the earnings link or inflation, or 2.5, which is higher is about restoring the pension relative to wages. and it's important for today's pensioners . but it's today's pensioners. but it's also important for tomorrow's pensioners, because everybody who's working today, paying

their contributions through national insurance and building, is building up a pension. this gives them certainty. well, the triple lock is in the government's fiscal projections. so government policy if you like, is that the triple lock is maintained. a labour government would maintain that triple lock as well. so it's in the government's baseline. but of course actually the conservatives are proposing to take £46 billion away from the national insurance fund that funds the pensions. and as i say, rishi sunak's got to explain why he's going to cut the pension by £96 a week. >> yeah, but i'm still not clear on your policy on this. the institute for fiscal studies have said that retaining it for a long time increases pension spending, which in turn leads to insurmountable pressure for a higher pension age. can you rule out that you won't increase the pension age in order to fund this triple lock ? this triple lock? >> well, there is an increase in the pension age has been agreed across parties. it's going up to 67 in the future. the future pension age increases are always reviewed periodically by all

governments , the expectation. governments, the expectation. well, the expectation is that when you look at these do these reviews, you take into account life expectancy. but of course life expectancy. but of course life expectancy, which has generally increased since the war, has begun to stall, in fact, have gone backwards for some of the poorest in society . some of the poorest in society. a lot of people say that's because of tory cuts and tory austerity. so when we have these periodic reviews of the retirement age , all these retirement age, all these factors are taken into account. but i come back , if you're but i come back, if you're taking £46 billion out of the national insurance fund, that that pays for today's pensions, one way in which you could make up that black hole is by increasing the pension age to 71. that may well be rishi sunak proposal. he needs to tell us if thatis proposal. he needs to tell us if that is his proposal or not. >> but whatever way you're obviously saying that none of us should trust our state pension to the tories . to the tories. >> yeah, absolutely. because they can only they can only fund this £46 billion bombshell by

cutting the pension by £96, taxing pensioners more as nigel lawson back in the day, rishi sunak's hero, of course, warned in a memo that we've released today or by raising the retirement age to 71. and the reason we're asking these questions is that rishi sunak was asked three times at prime minister's questions by keir starmer. will you rule out cutting the pension? three times he was asked three times he refused to answer. britain's pensioners, including gb news viewers, want to know what is the future of the state pension under the tories and how they're going to fund this £46 billion cut? >> jonathan ashworth you may not be able to answer me on this next question. i was a bit distracted during that because we are getting breaking news of a critical incident that's been declared in essex, and wes streeting has been tweeting about it. so i just thought in case you are aware of it, you may have some comments, but this is near, hainault i think is the correct pronunciation. tube station in redbridge a number of people reported to have been stabbed. at least one person has

been arrested and wes streeting tweeting that this critical incident has been declared. he says there are road closures in place and a male has been detained. are you aware of this ongoing situation at all, i'm not, but obviously that sounds extremely, extremely worrying. and if people have been stabbed , and if people have been stabbed, obviously we obviously all hope that they are okay. and but this sounds extremely worrying situation. it's obviously just breaking news there and i'm sure we'll find out more okay this morning. but that is a very, very worrying thing you've just put to me. okay. >> jonathan ashworth on that note, thank you very much indeed for your time this morning. and i believe we can now speak to our correspondent on the scene, he's not ready. oh, forgive me. we do have mark white heading there and we expect to pick up with him in the next few moments. but just to update you on what's been happening here in hainault tube station, in

redbridge, near essex, reports of a number of, of, stabbings and a reportedly one man has been arrested . we can go to mark been arrested. we can go to mark white night. >> mark. what more can you tell us? >> yeah. good morning. this is an incident that is unfolding around hainault tube station in east london, this morning reports that a man has stabbed multiple people. we're still waiting for a more definitive statement from the metropolitan police. they have just tweeted , police. they have just tweeted, though, to say that there is an ongoing incident that they are urging members of the public in this area around hainault station to follow police instructions on the ground. they're also saying , and this instructions on the ground. they're also saying, and this is important information, that a man has been detained. so if thatis man has been detained. so if that is the case, it might at least point to the immediate

threat , least point to the immediate threat, having been, dealt least point to the immediate threat , having been, dealt with threat, having been, dealt with in the sense of, this, critical incident that wes streeting was tweeting about there. now, the police have not confirmed that this is a critical incident that might be, just terminology that wes streeting is using there. so we are waiting. i've spoken to scotland yard and they say they are working on a more fuller statement, which they're going to put out, in the coming minutes. but they have just put out a tweet, as i say, urging members of the public, to obey the instructions of police on the instructions of police on the ground and confirming that one person has been arrested. now, there are reports from the scene that suggest as many as four people may have been stabbed, those those details. we have not confirmed these are quoting eyewitnesses at the scene who suggest that the incident may have started near a petrol station, which is just across the road from the tube

station, and then may have developed , into the station developed, into the station itself, or at least in the immediate area around there. so, as i say, we're waiting on a full statement from the metropolitan police. what we can confirm at this stage is that clearly a serious incident is unfold . seeing, there is video unfold. seeing, there is video out from the scene that shows all three emergency services at the scene in very heavy numbers in that area around hainault tube station has been sealed off. there is disruption. we understand, to bus and tube services in the area. the hainault tube station is served by the central line. so severe disruption in that area, as we get more details of exactly what has unfolded this morning, appreciate it. >> mark, thank you very much indeed. mark will keep us posted throughout the day here on gb news. and with that, we'll take

a break. the olympian fatima whitbread next. she opens up to us about her fostering , as, as us about her fostering, as, as a child and how she wants more of you to do it

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closing time if listening or watching on demand. good luck i watching on demand. good luck! >> now we've got double olympian fatima whitbread. delighted to welcome you to studio fatima , welcome you to studio fatima, not to talk about sport, but to you spent most of your childhood in care and you're passionate about helping those in care. so this is fatima's uk campaign. children and young people matter. what is this about? >> well, this is my campaign. it's to help rejuvenate the care system sector, to bring about a nationalistic framework . there's nationalistic framework. there's quite a few good things happening in the care system on the ground floor level, but it's spattered all over the place. there's no one voice, so i'm trying to harness the power of one voice, bring a nationalistic framework together scotland, wales, ireland, england and shared good practice and try to improve the care system. >> what is the care system when you say the care system, what are you talking about? >> children's care. what we provide for them on a daily basis. our children are fouled a

lot of the time in the care system sector, largely due to the fact it's antiquated. we need to start to improve it. and be more inspired, give more aspiration. you know, education. and i think that just recently, you know, we've seen, some of our governments, local governments have been putting children, 16, 17 year olds into a cheap accommodation when and where they get preyed and targeted . and you know, ask targeted. and you know, ask yourself is would you do that for your children? i mean, it's irresponsible. yeah >> you know, kriss akabusi is a regular on our programme and he also grew up in care. and i suppose you could argue much like you, sport really was a saving grace and helped him pull his life together. a lot of people aren't as lucky to have the ability and the and the incredible successes that you both had. i was reading 25% of people on the streets in this country have actually been in care and are so, frankly, messed

up care and are so, frankly, messed up by care and are so, frankly, messed up by their experience. i mean, you had some traumatising experiences yourself . experiences yourself. >> well, abandoned as a baby in some would say left to die, you know, a neighbour heard a baby crying and she hadn't seen anybody coming or going to the flat. and of course, the police came, banged a door down, rescued me and in, during a six months of my recovering from malnutrition there, the hackney borough council made me a ward, a court , which then i spent the a court, which then i spent the next 14 years of my life in children's homes. so my ministry today is all about fatima's uk campaign. children and young people matter. we've got a summit next year at the guild hall. april 2025, 23rd and 24th. and it's all about trying to influence the influencers and decision makers and having our children voice what it is for our asks and the importance of how we can improve their life outcomes and so what happened to you at 14 then? >> so you're in care until you're 14. what happened then? >> well, our sport was my saviour and i found the love of the whitbread family .

saviour and i found the love of the whitbread family. i'm very fortunate that i was fostered . fortunate that i was fostered. and of course, in a couple of weeks time we got national foster week and we have a shortage of 10,000 foster carers. there are 110,000 children in the care system, and we've got a shortage of thousand and ten carers. yes. and it's predicted eamonn in 2026 we'll have 26,000. and the problem we have 26,000. and the problem we have is that it's not just our young children, it's also our young children, it's also our young people because 18 to 25 year olds are bridging that gap, trying to get them from living independently in a care system to being independent. and a 33% of them, you know, within the two years, become homeless because they're not able to , to because they're not able to, to survive. so part of our campaign is also to bring the private sector in to help, because they also have a moral and ethical responsibility to try and skill up these kids to do all of that. >> and such a big deficit between , as isabel was saying,

between, as isabel was saying, the amount of people who are homeless and the amount of people who have been through the whole care system is fostering the answers, fostering. is it saying to people out there, do a job, you can do it. you might be in a position where you could give a child a loving, caring home. >> home. >> home. >> well, the best thing you can give a child is a love and security of a good home. and it may well be that you have love and a place in your home and a place in your heart. please give it to a child. the best thing you can give is a love and security. and we all know you know that they will not just survive, but thrive. and it's important. i'm doing everest base camp on may the 4th, and it's for to raise funds for children in the care system. so i've done a lot of training. i'm going out there doing a challenge. you haven't got to do any of that. but what you can do is get online phantom as campaign.com, give generously, help us make a difference to these young children. so important . important. >> when you look at what you've been through and what you have, i can use the term suffered, as

you said, until the whitbread family. >> yes, came along. >> yes, came along. >> how is that? in a way driven you and made you the person you are today ? yeah, 100. are today? yeah, 100. >> i mean, obviously that's my ministry today. it's come around in a full circle. there are a lot of good people out there that have done exceptionally well . you know, they come from well. you know, they come from the care system sector and what we want to do is show our young people in the care that it is possible there is life beyond that dark place that they see. and a lot of our young children get stuck in an area in their minds where they don't see a future for themselves. and what we're trying to do is show them that good role models out there, you can give them hope and there's nothing they can't achieve. >> and fatima, i don't know if you are okay talking about it, but in the break you mentioned that you suffered abuse when you were in children's homes. was anyone ever prosecuted for that? and do you think that that is still a big problem in care and is that part of your campaign is helping children identify the normal parameters of behaviour

and safe adults , and who they and safe adults, and who they can reach out and speak to? >> well, unfortunately, i mean , >> well, unfortunately, i mean, i was sexually abused and i've suffered, you know, like a lot of these children with trauma and triggers and it goes without saying with children in the care system, sometimes there have been, you know, abandoned and neglected and, and physically abused and at times, you know, obviously , you know, they're obviously, you know, they're invisible. they haven't been spoken with or to in a way that they can have their voice heard . they can have their voice heard. and that's really what we're trying to do to make sure these children are seen, heard and valued. >> you don't try to do anything you do things. you're a doer. you're a doer. you're one of my favourite people. same and it's famous campaign com fatima's campaign .com big love. >> well done. >> well done. >> she's my man tim eyman. yeah >> she's my man tim eyman. yeah >> thank you so much. thank you. really appreciate it. good luck with everest base camp as well. cheers. we will be back bright and early from 6:00. not

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gb news. >> 930 on tuesday, the 30th of april. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. so, breaking news as we come on air. a critical incident has been declared in hainault, north—east london, amid reports of several being stabbed at a station. the area's mp, wes streeting, has said. >> so we'll bring you the latest on that and don't send them back. the row over returning migrants to the uk from ireland is gathering pace, as the irish government now announces emergency laws to return the migrants to the uk and scotland's uncertain future. >> the search is now underway for the next first minister, following humza yousafs dramatic resignation. but what does it mean for the snp's dream of independence and a royal recovery? >> king charles to return to pubuc >> king charles to return to public life today as the king,

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