to interview him due been unable to interview him due to his condition. four other people were injured, including two police officers. earlier, buckingham palace said the king's thoughts and prayers are with all those affected . with all those affected. assistant commissioner louisa rolfe says the suspect was not known to them. >> the 36 year old man arrested at the scene is currently in hospital having suffered injuries when his van collided with a building . injuries when his van collided with a building. he has injuries when his van collided with a building . he has been with a building. he has been arrested on suspicion of murder at this time. given his injuries, we have been unable to interview him . we know there is interview him. we know there is speculation about his background , including police contact with him and despite urgent and extensive checks today, we have found no trace of a prior incident involving him so far. >> a jealous ex—partner who killed a mother in front of her two young children, has been handed a life sentence. 46 year old robert moyo attacked 35 year old robert moyo attacked 35 year old perseverance ncube in her bedroom before chasing her into

the street. once there , he the street. once there, he stabbed her through the heart with a meat skewer. he's been told that he must serve a minimum of 27 years. king charles has revealed his shock at being diagnosed with cancer , at being diagnosed with cancer, as he returned to official pubuc as he returned to official public duties for the first time since that diagnosis. he visited a cancer treatment centre alongside the queen to meet medical specialists and patients. when asked about the state of his health, he said, i'm well. the king has been announced as the new patron of cancer research uk, taking over from his mother, the late queen elizabeth. sir keir starmer says the people of scotland should be allowed to have a say on who becomes the next leader of the snp , after a motion of no snp, after a motion of no confidence in the scottish government was tabled by the labour party there. that will be debated and voted on tomorrow. humza yousaf announced that he was stepping down as first minister on monday, and he will continue in his post until a replacement can be found . and

replacement can be found. and finally, donald trump has been threatened with jail for violating a gag order in his hush money trial. judge juan meshan fined the former president $9,000 and warned him that any further infraction could lead to incarceration. meshan had imposed the gag order to prevent mr trump from criticising witnesses and others. he was fined $1,000 for each of nine online statements . each of nine online statements. trump has argued that the gag order violates his right to free freedom of speech . for the freedom of speech. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gbnews.com/alerts. back now to . tom. >> good evening. you're watching farage with me, tom harwood. now let's start tonight with that shocking stabbing in east london earlier today, where a 14 year old boy has been tragically killed . several people, killed. several people, including two police officers,

were also attacked by the assailant. the man who was wielding a sword. while the metropolitan police have now confirmed that a suspect remains in custody in hospital after being tasered and arrested on suspicion of murder. let's get the very latest from mark white, our very own home and security edhon our very own home and security editor. mark, this was a shocking day in london. >> yes it was. and that 36 year old suspect, because of injuries that he sustained in that van which collided with a house in thurloe gardens, just not far from that tube station. a whole community will be devastated by the heartbreaking news that a 14 year old boy was killed in a horrific sword attack in hainault this morning that saw four others injured, including two metropolitan police officers i >>i -- >> i can't imagine what that poor boy's family are going through, and they have my deepest heartfelt condolences

and i know the thoughts and prayers not just of this community, but our whole country. my prayers are also with the other victims of this horrific attack and their loved ones. >> so that was the local mp, wes streeting. there just really talking about the impact that this has had on the local community. and, you know, of course, tom, just how very significant an incident is when you have the king talking about it. the prime minister leader of the opposition and other senior politicians all expressing their shock at what has happened and also extending their their thanks and gratitude and best wishes to those police officers who moved in to arrest this suspect . and we've seen that suspect. and we've seen that footage very dramatic , released footage very dramatic, released in the last hour of the moment. this suspect was arrested, captured on a doorbell camera . captured on a doorbell camera.

it shows groups of police officers firing multiple taser shots to try to subdue this 36 year old before eventually being able to get him to the ground and put the handcuffs on him. as i say, he has not been questioned as yet, but police have been making very urgent enquiries to determine whether they knew this individual, what they knew this individual, what the potential motivation might be. they have said so far they have not been able to find any record that they have had any interaction with this man before . and as for the motivation, clearly they do not know what his motivation is yet until they're able to speak to him , they're able to speak to him, they're able to speak to him, they will be searching his home address, probably other addresses linked to him and his family and friends as they try to build a picture of what on earth it was that motivated him to carry out. what prosecutors say, of course, was an absolute

horrific attack. at 7 am. this morning in east london. >> it was absolutely shocking. and in so many ways, so very unusual. but mark, i put it to you that in one other way it perhaps wasn't so unusual. and that's this. london is experiencing an epidemic of knife crime. we've seen the statistics shoot up, particularly in the capital and in some ways this unusual incident just fits into that same repeated pattern . same repeated pattern. >> well, it does, because knife crime comes in many different forms . there is the street forms. there is the street violence that we see time and again , involving usually young again, involving usually young men carrying knives and using them to settle disputes , to them to settle disputes, to coerce others , we see that we coerce others, we see that we see domestic incidents and we see domestic incidents and we

see other, attacks that are targeted or motivated by what we don't know in this certainly falls into the wider category of knife crime, 22% up in london last year. and incidentally , the last year. and incidentally, the home secretary, james cleverly, wrote last month to, the london mayor about that rise in knife crime. those figures saying that actually that 22% rise in knife crime in london skewed the figures for the whole country because there would have been a slight decrease in knife crime across the country as a whole. but when you take into consideration 22% of a rise in london itself , it consideration 22% of a rise in london itself, it meant that there was a 5% increase across there was a 5% increase across the country as a whole. tom >> not quite. that is an extraordinary statistic that without london, knife crime would be falling across the

country, but including london. in those statistics it actually means that that knife crime on the whole, is up 22% rise. extraordinary statistics mark white, our home and security edhon white, our home and security editor. thank you for giving us that overview . well, i'm that overview. well, i'm delighted to be now joined in the studio by tony long. he's a former met police specialist firearms officer and instructor, and tony, what struck me most about looking at that footage , about looking at that footage, that new footage, the doorbell footage . firstly, seven officers footage. firstly, seven officers are there to try and apprehend one suspect and then a further four rush into the fray, so many officers to take down one suspect and 22 minutes after they first received that call . they first received that call. >> well, yes, of course, it's you know, we are in london, so, there are more police officers, although if you speak to response officers, they'd probably be surprised to find that out because there are so

few of them on the ground. but one thing we are able to do in london is to get numbers to the scene quite quickly, because they're mobile , that said, of they're mobile, that said, of course, if you looked at that footage, i could only see two of the people that were were obviously taser , equipped. so obviously taser, equipped. so most of the officers that were there trying to deal with them, trying to contain him, and i suspect the reason it took so long is because, you know, to get within, get close enough to, to contain him, you know, you're going to be within striking distance of him, even a taser, although you've got some distance between you, it takes very little time for an aggressive person armed with a, with an edged weapon to actually close that gap on you. and so they would have been hesitant. they would have been trying to block off it escapes. they would have been trying to keep the pubuc have been trying to keep the public away, of course, nowadays, you know , biggest part nowadays, you know, biggest part of the problem is, is keeping people with, with their phones out from trying to take pictures of it. so it's a very difficult situation to deal with, a hugely

difficult situation. >> one of the most striking things here is that two of the five people that ended up in hospital, one, of course, sadly died. two were police officers who received serious injuries, injuries that required surgery injuries that required surgery in hospital today , people have in hospital today, people have been asking should these officers themselves be better protected? some of them only have batons. few of them have tasers , even fewer still tasers, even fewer still firearms. now, as an ex firearms officer yourself, what's your view on the utility of more police officers having that capability ? capability? >> i'm very torn on this, i think from a purely from a moral standpoint, i think it says something about a society that are prepared to pay the salaries of men and women to protect them , but then don't give them the equipment to protect themselves. so, you know , i hear it all the so, you know, i hear it all the time. oh, i wouldn't really like to see british police officers

armed. well, i'm sure you wouldn't, but are you going to do their job unarmed? because do theirjob unarmed? because i certainly wouldn't want to do it in this day and age without a handgun. i spent 25 of my 30 years as part of an armed, armed team. and so therefore, i had the privilege and some would say the privilege and some would say the luxury of carrying a firearm, but the vast majority of officers don't have that a good percentage wouldn't want to. >> well, this is what i was going to come on to because there has there have been surveys of serving police officers . and i've found it officers. and i've found it perhaps quite surprising that so many have said they don't want to use firearms, but also reports of firearms officers now handing back their weapons. >> so it's interesting you should say that , because should say that, because whenever there has been a survey , rather in the same way that you were surprised by london's knife crime statistics skewing the whole country . when the the whole country. when the police federation have done these surveys in the past, they've been done across the whole country. and of course, a huge amount of officers don't

feel the need for, you know, if you're working in a predominantly rural area, you've never found the need to go. but i guarantee if you ask some of the young officers that you see responding to that situation, whether or not they would like to be better prepared, then i think some would. that said that what you've just pointed out , what you've just pointed out, the way in which police officers are treated, after they've been involved in a situation where they've had to resort to their training, you know, this has come to a light recently . we've come to a light recently. we've got a trial that we're all awaiting the outcome of. yes, with with the officer that shot chris kaba, and yes, i mean, normally. so 19 or 19, which is the central firearms command, that not only train every firearms officer in the met, but also supply the armed response vehicle, the specialist firearms teams. normally on a typical yean teams. normally on a typical year, they'll get something in the region of about 250 applicants. when they ask people to apply six, six, six. that's all they've got. and also there's a lot of officers who are armed who are trying to get

out of frontline , proactive out of frontline, proactive armed policing to go to safer what they perceive to be safer, roles such as close protection. and this is partly because of how we treat our police officers who have had to fire their weapons. >> just just lastly, if you would i know that you have had a pretty torrid time of it being raped through the system after you shot and killed an armed assailant. yeah yeah. >> so. so i shot someone, rather foolishly, i suppose. literally about 100 days before i was due to retire at the end of my 30 years service. and then i faced a criminal charge of murder at the old bailey, ten years after . the old bailey, ten years after. so. so seven years after i had retired and ten years after the incident, so, you know, that's not typical, but investigations that don't necessarily result in charges. i mean, i can think of two officers specifically now whose investigation took something in the region of six years, when they went to court ,

years, when they went to court, the crown prosecution service offered no evidence. and now they're awaiting gross misconduct things for when the judge actually commended them at court for their courage . and now court for their courage. and now they're awaiting, you know, misconduct. so the way in which officers are treated, it always almost seems to me that certain politicians and certainly the iopc , as a whole seem to think iopc, as a whole seem to think that if a police officer discharges their firearm , they discharges their firearm, they have in some way done something wrong simply by virtue of the fact that they've pulled the trigger. no police officer wants to pull the trigger. it's one of those things that you train to do that you hope you you will never have to do. but people forget that they've been trained to do that. yeah, and it seems that, you know, it seems completely perverse and it can hang over their heads or hung over your head for ten years before that was brought. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> it hasn't affected me. no, i'm all right there. >> well, tony long, thank you so much for coming in, sharing your story. but also commenting on

this, this really horrific event in london today. i should mention that you were also the author of a book , lethal force, author of a book, lethal force, all about this subject. highly, highly recommended. now coming up, we're going to be talking about the nhs and its constitution. yes, a proposed reform to the constitution of the nhs to talk about biological sex. we'll be diving into that

next. good evening. it's 7:20, and you're watching and listening to farage with me. tom harwood. now, did you know that the nhs has a constitution? well, it does, and the constitution provides various rights for patients . people who use the patients. people who use the nhs. in 2010, this was updated to include the importance of the ability of people within the

nhs. patients to choose whether they're on a male or female ward . this was a sex based right that was introduced to the nhs, but now it's being updated and the language is being changed, but not in the way that language is usually changed when it comes to our health service. no, it's being changed to include the importance of what the government call biological sex. so instead of the sort of pamphlets that we've seen often in emphasising the importance of something called chest feeding rather than breast feeding, no , rather than breast feeding, no, this is language going back in the other direction, at least that's the proposal for the constitution of the nhs . but constitution of the nhs. but let's talk through it now. i'm joined by sharon davies, the women's rights campaigner and former olympic games swimmer sharon. thank you for making the time this evening, usually when we see language being updated in documents to do with the nhs, it's going in the other direction , it depends on what direction, it depends on what you call the other direction. i

think this is all about fact and truth. so the front page of the telegraph today says that biological sex is a fact. now, biological sex is a fact. now, biological sex is a fact . you biological sex is a fact. you know, there are only male and females. there are only two gametes, a large and a small. and human beings cannot change their sex. so it's not kind to anybody to tell young children in particular that that isn't the case. so i think we just have to be honest. and in things like medicine where it's really important that we are checking a male for prostate cancer and we're checking a female for cervical or ovarian cancer , that cervical or ovarian cancer, that we know that you know, what sex people actually are . and people actually are. and obviously in something like sport, you know, you mentioned that i'm a you a feminist campaigner. i'm really just a sports campaigner. you know, i'm really just been on board with regards to trying to get the equal opportunities for people that are female in sport to the same opportunities that males have. and obviously in a physical activity like sport , physical activity like sport, it's really important that we can categorise that by sex. and so therefore we have female races. so that 51% of the world's population get to have those opportunities .

those opportunities. >> now there will be those that say that this is a very, very minor issue that the government is sort of press releasing and promoting today, that it affects such a small proportion of people in the country and the serve in the census that was carried out in england and wales very recently, just nought point 1% of the of the public reported that they were transgender female, just 0.1% reported that they were transgender male . so they were transgender male. so should we really be spending so much time focusing on something that really affects so very few people , i think what you've just people, i think what you've just said is an unbelievably disingenuous, you know, i'm sorry, you just said that only the trans people matter. 51% of the trans people matter. 51% of the population in this country are female, and women's rights at the moment have been under attack constantly. whether that's with regards to dignity and safe spaces, whether that's with regards to the loss of their language. i mean, it's insulting to be called a chest

feeder or a cervix. however. i mean , and this didn't happen to mean, and this didn't happen to men, only happened to women. it was only women's languages that were attacked. so i'm sorry, tom, that's unbelievably disingenuous to say that only affects a small number of people. it affects a huge number of women. how they are referred to and whether they get equal opportunities and dignity and safety in their in their private spaces. so no. absolutely not. i let's move forward and we need more often. you're right that when it comes to ridiculous language like chestfeeding that is palpably nonsense. >> but , but is palpably nonsense. >> but, but but that hasn't necessarily been the forefront of any of this conversation. but perhaps what would matter more would be a government to focus on.the would be a government to focus on. the 44,000 cases last year of women and men being forced to be in mixed sex wards , which was be in mixed sex wards, which was meant to be out of the rules, which was meant to be out ruled in 2010. but because of the pressures that the nhs is under,

those rules are routinely being broken irrespective of anything to do with transgender people . to do with transgender people. >> yeah, absolutely. and, you know, and this comes down to safety because we know figures wise, you know, the sexual offences, 98% are by men or by males . okay. so it's females males. okay. so it's females that need that protected space. you're right. i mean the nhs is under unbelievable stress and strain in every single direction. but i think women are quite frightened at the moment and quite scared when they go into those sort of places. they can't say, please, i would like, you know, a female doctor, i would like a female carer, you know, i know of horrendous stories of disability, people who have have been physically and verbally assaulted because they've just said i would like a female to tend to me, please, and that we've got to be able to have this open, respectful debate for both sides, for everybody. you know, everybody needs to be thought of and be kind to. but for a long time, i think women have just been literally the ones that are supposed to succumb. and no one is thinking about being kind to

them. and i can tell you in sport, no one has been kind to the women. we're just being told we're not entitled to what the men have still got. just today in the states, there was a bunch of five girls that were throwing the shopper in west virginia and they decided to, to say , we're they decided to, to say, we're not going to throw the shot, but because they just introduced a 14 year old boy who wanted to throw the shot. and instead of saying, okay, well, we'll remove the boy, they banned the five girls from the women's category of shotput . you know, i mean, of shotput. you know, i mean, it's outrageous. i don't know what girls are supposed to do. are we just supposed to say we don't matter? you know, and just move over? >> i think i think you're right. i think you're right that in the united states there are some extreme examples of this going very, very wrong. some exclusionary examples of this. but but to return to the united kingdom , that's not true. kingdom, that's not true. >> so here in the uk there's still 57 sports that don't protect the female category. and we still have five combat sports. that's sports fighting sports. that's sports fighting sports that don't protect the female category . female category. >> can we return to the nhs

because because i want to focus on this issue that that is being changed today, that or being proposed to be changed today that, that the word biological will be added into this. right. for sex selective care, is that actually a change to what is being offered? will that actually be treated as a change? >> i think we've had to add this word biological, but sex has been hijacked, so it's the same with the equality act of 2010. you know, the word sex is protected so we can have sex discrimination court cases and women can be protected. but that word has been muzzled and sabotaged. so to bring the word back to biological sex, it means that everyone understands exactly what that is. that's the biological reality of males and females and if that's what we need to do to bring clarity, then that's what we need to do. and i you know, i'm very pleased that we've had this move today.

i'm very pleased that the cas report has come out, that we're actually being able to look at statistics and we'll be able to say we need to take care of our vulnerable young children who are being potentially influenced by something which they're being sold a lie. they've been sold a quick fix, which in the long term is not going to do do them any good. and you know, we can see by the number of autistic children the number of children from vulnerable backgrounds, that they're massively overrepresented in the trans community. so that's not that's not normal. that's there's something there. there's alarm bells that need to be rung there. we need to make sure that we're just proper precautions. that's all. >> of course. and the cas review does set out that there are various areas of concern. but it also does say that there are various areas that are totally legitimate. and i think that perhaps the cas review here is striking the right balance that some on both sides of this debate tend to often not strike that that doesn't respect the rights of both camps here. perhaps the cas review actually is a path forward that can bring

people together. >> i hope so, i hope so. ithink >> i hope so, i hope so. i think what we've had, what we've not been able to do for quite a long time is to have that open, respectful, factual debate, because for a long time, stonewall's agenda was to close that down with the no debate, you know, the agenda that they had. and that's certainly appued had. and that's certainly applied to sport. the moment you say come and we look at the stats, can we look at the peer reviewed science? we literally were just called names and it made anyone's life horrendous. who wanted just to say, can we have fairness and honesty ? so have fairness and honesty? so i think we've got to move forward where we can be 100% honest and we can try to help everybody and, you know, that's that's young females, that's sports people, that's trans, trans gender people. that's all of us. you know, we can live together. we should be able to live together. and i'm sure we can well, that's a harmonious note to end on. >> sharon davies. thank you very much for joining >> sharon davies. thank you very much forjoining us. former olympic games swimmer there . olympic games swimmer there. now, coming up on the programme, we're going to move to wales. yes. it's not just the first minister of scotland who's been

under the microscope in the last 14 days, leading to his resignation, of course, but the first minister of wales is now under the microscope. two it all centres around two donations, each worth £100,000. and get this their donations from a convicted criminal will be getting to that story after

good evening. it's 7:33. and you're watching farage with me. tom harwood. now we're going to turn our attention to wales. because it's not just scotland that it's experiencing, wobbles in its leadership app. of course, the first minister of scotland resigned sensationally on monday, but now perhaps united kingdom attention will be turning to another country in our union that is wales, where the first minister, vaughan gething, he's been in the job

around six weeks, but already huge scrutiny is being applied to two donations that he received from a convicted criminal, each worth £100,000. now let's get straight into the detail with martin shipman . now detail with martin shipman. now he's the associate editor of nafion he's the associate editor of nation kumri, and he broke the original story about what is going on here now , can you just going on here now, can you just break down for us? because it's quite a complicated story. what is what is the charge being levied against the first minister? >> well, i was tipped off, a few days after the ballot had opened for the welsh labour leadership contest, that , these donations contest, that, these donations had been made to mr gething and in fact, they appeared on the electoral commission's website. but i was also tipped off that the, the individual who owns the

relevant, company that had made the donations had, been convicted some years ago for two quite serious environmental offences and indeed they were regarded as so serious that he got, suspended prison sentences on both occasions. and what he was doing basically was dumping toxic sludge , in a site of toxic sludge, in a site of special scientific interest, which is called the gwent levels, which is near newport in south wales. and ironically , south wales. and ironically, it's quite a totemic area for the welsh government because , the welsh government because, they made a big thing about stopping the m4 relief road going through this particular area. and then you've got a situation where the businessman, who , is, giving money to the, as who, is, giving money to the, as he became first minister and welsh labour leader is actually dumping toxic sludge in defiance of the law, in this area , so, of the law, in this area, so, there's been a lot of very

serious concern, not only amongst opposition . often, amongst opposition. often, politicians in wales , but also, politicians in wales, but also, it's the case that, a lot of labour people are very upset about this as well because mr gething, only had the support of a minority of the members of the labour group in the senate of the welsh parliament. anyway, and when this came out, they were extremely upset about it. it later came to light and i was tipped off about this as well, that the, the company that had, given the donation to, to him, in fact owes £400,000 to, the development bank of wales, which is wholly owned by the welsh government. and before becoming elected as the first minister, mr gething was the economy minister. so he had responsibility for that bank. so obviously people are saying, look, this is this just looks so

bad and so appalling. so there's been a lot of, anxiety in wales about this and i've written quite a lot of stories about it. and in fact, tomorrow in the senedd, plaid cymru have got a debate where they are wanting there to be caps on the donations given to individual politicians. but it's something that hasn't really got the attention, which i think it deserves on a uk wide basis. yes, and i think it's, it's a good thing it's been led to this now. >> but martin, just to set out the facts, vaughan gething as economy minister, presided over a bank that gave £400,000 to this company. this company led by a bloke who's been given two suspended sentences for this sludge dumping. and then that same bloke gives £200,000 to vaughan gething and vaughan gething, then becomes the first minister of wales. what does vaughan gething himself say to? because i suppose those are all incontrovertible facts. >> well, the incontrovertible

facts, all he says, really, whenever he's asked about this is that he hasn't broken any rules, there was a move to refer him under the ministerial code , him under the ministerial code, to the previous first minister, mark drakeford . mark drakeford mark drakeford. mark drakeford had advice from his officials that, technically vaughan gething had not broken the ministerial code and therefore, there wasn't anything to do about that , complaints have been about that, complaints have been made to the standards commissioner. to the standards commissioner has refused to investigate it. fully, and so, you know, people have come up against a bit of a brick wall, but there's an awful lot of unhappiness, in the senate about this, but it goes wider than that because whenever there's a story done, there's an awful lot of comments coming from ordinary people in wales about this. and so it's bringing not just mr gething into disrepute, it's bringing it's bringing the labour party into disrepute, but it's also bringing the entire

institution into disrepute. you know, people are saying, well, how on earth can this be the case that this is, regarded as okay to accept such a huge amount of money from a criminal? and incidentally, mr gething had previously been involved in, effectively lobbying, the environmental regulator, natural resources wales on behalf of this criminal, saying go easy on him. >> this is what i wanted to come on to because doesn't this company want some permissions that the welsh government can grant, there's a lot of controversy over this. >> there is. well they want to build a big solar plant , which build a big solar plant, which would be attached to the national grid and would obviously make a lot of for money this company, but that has to be approved by the welsh government. and who's in charge of the welsh government? vaughan gething. curiouser and

curiouser, i'm afraid, martin. >> that's all we have time for. >> that's all we have time for. >> but, thank you very much for joining us. of course, vaughan gething denies any wrongdoing here, but, there are serious, serious questions to answer. no doubt. that, of course, was martin shipman, associate editor of nation kumri. now it's time for what? the farage. and today we're talking missing migrants because thousands of migrants earmarked to be on those first planes to rwanda . well, they've planes to rwanda. well, they've gone missing. they're not turning up on the government's, registers. they're not clocking in to see those home office officials that they're supposed to each week or every several weeks . now, what on earth might weeks. now, what on earth might have happened to these people, and might the government have made a bit of an error here in terms of earmarking the people saying you're going to rwanda, but then not doing anything to track them down? might these migrants have gone missing? and more pertinently, where might these migrants have gone

missing? two because of course, it was the irish deputy prime minister, micheal martin, who was saying the rwanda scheme is, making ireland the home to many thousands more migrants than otherwise would be the case. he said the rwanda scheme is the uk government is almost pushing migrants to dublin. we can see on our screens here the scenes in dublin this tent city that has popped up with so many more migrants now in ireland, perhaps , well, at least according to the irish government trying to escape the rwanda scheme. but is the irish government right when they say that we are here at farage have been looking at the data i want to show you this graph. it's the level of, asylum applications in ireland measured by the thousands. you can see it by the thousands. you can see it by year, relatively stable for many years. but when does it shoot up? 20, 22 and 2023 measured in thousands , so many measured in thousands, so many more. thousands. over 13,000 asylum applications in ireland .

asylum applications in ireland. well, that's before the rwanda scheme got passed through parliament. and here's just one more graph to show the scale of what's going on in ireland. perhaps why the irish government might want to blame the brits for their migration troubles. this year. the number of asylum applications in ireland could be four times the number in the uk per person, four times the scale and tents across dublin. it's a growing political issue there. no wonder they're blaming the brits now . now, another issue brits now. now, another issue that of course we'll be covering here on farage next. the case of sextortion, the national crime agency has issued a warning to all schools across the country about this dangerous crime. what is it about? we'll tell you all the details after

good evening. it's quarter to eight, and you're watching farage with me. tom harwood. now the national crime agency has sent what's being described as an unprecedented alert to teachers across the country after cases of what is known as sextortion. that's when people , sextortion. that's when people, often teenagers, often children, are tricked into sending intimate photographs of themselves to people posing as interested partners, but who turn out to be criminals , often turn out to be criminals, often based overseas. they then extorted with threats that their photographs will be shared. well, let's first talk to shaun sutton, the head of education and partnerships team at the national crime agency. shaun just how prevalent is this issue ? >> well, 7- >> well, we 7— >> well, we are ? >> well, we are seeing a significant increase in this particular type of crime, which is why we've taken that unprecedented step of sending out an ncaa alert to all education, establishments across the uk , it's risen by about 149%

the uk, it's risen by about 149% from neck to neck. the national centre of missing and exploited children have given us those. those figures from 22 to 23, and it is a particularly insidious crime. we are used to dealing with crime types against young girls and women. typically, onune girls and women. typically, online tends to be the sexually motivated covid casework tends to be predominantly female . this to be predominantly female. this because it's financially motivated, sex cruel extortion. we are seeing that the target group are young boys. typically we see it from our work between the ages of 14 to 18, but they do target young men as well up to the age of 30 is the typical band that we're seeing there very quickly engaging their potential victims with, communication that very fast becomes intimate. these images, these profiles, if you like , these profiles, if you like, tend to be either fake that the criminals have created or they are. you may recognise the

female profiles that they're using because they may have been hacked. so you may think you know these individuals, but the important thing is you won't recognise the characteristic of how they're speaking to you. as i said very quickly, become intimate. they'll try and get an intimate. they'll try and get an intimate picture from their victims by first potentially increasing their trust and sending a picture of what is alleged to be them. but of course, is a fake female profile . and then as soon as they get that information, they very quickly manipulate their victim into sending them money, with the with the threat that they'll release those intimate pictures or a faked intimate picture that they'll pretend to have of you to your friends and family. >> sean, what should people do if they're concerned? >> well, i think the first step is to know that it's a threat in the first place and to understand what that looks like. so if you do get that approach from a profile you don't know, and it very quickly tries to take you from the platform

you've met on, say if it was instagram or facebook, they may try and take you off to somewhere private to message saying let's have some fun. our recommendation would be never to do that with somebody that you don't know, or a profile that isn't acting as you would normally expect them to, so refuse to come off the platform. and also, you know, we're telling parents as well as teachers to try and raise the awareness with their own children because they try these, these offenders try to keep their power base by saying , you their power base by saying, you can't share this with your parents, you can't share this. it's embarrassing. i'm going to tell all your friends your life will be over. so what we're trying to get parents and teachers is to be more open about these potential, crimes so that it takes the sting out of the tale. so what we're saying is, do tell somebody if you can't tell the police, if you can't tell the police, if you can't tell the police, if you can't tell a teacher, tell an aduu can't tell a teacher, tell an adult you trust, even tell a friend you know, what we're trying to tell people is you're not alone. you're not the only person that will have fallen for these hundreds of other people

have, too. >> yeah, well, sean, thank you so much for talking us through this serious and growing problem , it's. no, it's really, really is serious. sean sutton, head of education partnerships at the national crime agency. thank you. well joining me in the studio now is christine cunliffe, the principal of elves ascot, an independent school and this is such a difficult issue because children have died. because of this, there's been the most recent tragic case of a of a of a scottish boy committing suicide after this. after this issue. >> absolutely. and the word insidious is probably one of the most evil things i think you could do to anyone, never mind a child. and i think it is the key issue here, is to talk to your children so that it's never seen as something that you can't talk about, and that no problem. any problem in life, you know, you should share with an adult as well, because these things are going on and it is getting worse, and it is probably something that all parents need to understand can happen very easily to any of their children.

>> and this is happening more and more to teenage boys, how do you approach this as a head teacher? how do you approach this with your pupils? >> well, i think it is. i think with our pupils we're very open and transparent in our community. and i've got sons myself, and i think it's having those questions and not being and having those conversations where you're not it's not embarrassing to talk about it and to so young men especially will be looking for relationships. they'll be looking for that special relationship. and often the person they're to talking is not who they think it is. and that's where the danger is. and my advice would be whatever, doesn't matter what the relationship, do not send any images of any kind like that anyway, because once they're out there, they're out there for good, and they could be used now or in the future. and to talk to your parents, talk to your teachers about how you can have those talking relationships, you know, invite someone to be with your family, for example, you know, come and meet me for a coffee. my mum and dad will probably be sat in a car down the road, but to have those normal relationships away from being online, is there a risk here that it's so normalised for

, particularly teenagers, particularly teenage boys, to engagein particularly teenage boys, to engage in what's known as sixteen, that that , that almost sixteen, that that, that almost an abstinence policy is it might fall on deaf ears. >> and that's, that's the thing because all schools have very good online training and all the all the education materials are out there and all the warnings are out there, and teachers are well trained as well. but it's like with anything with young people, sometimes it falls on deaf ears and they probably don't realise the absolute dangers of it. and i think once you fall into that trap and once you're in there, you feel that you're in there, you feel that you're on your own and you feel that it's there's no way out when there is. so my advice is just tell someone, just be brave, tell someone that you're in trouble and it can be sorted out. and these people should be held to task. >> well, christine, kind of really important advice there for parents, for anyone who knows any young person, because it is a dangerous world out there. well coming up next, we're going to be talking to jacob rees—mogg because jacob, you have a programme on next state of the nation . what is the

state of the nation. what is the state of the nation. what is the state of the nation, the state of the nation? >> well, we're going to be talking beginning about claire coutinho's important speech, saying that net zero isn't going to be about setting rigid targets that ruin the economy. and this is really important because it's such a big change. all we've had to date are rigid targets that will have been damaging the economy . the damaging the economy. the secretary of state has changed that, and i think this opens up an important political divide. it's very good ground for the conservatives to get on to saying, let's actually have cheap energy in a growing economy , leaving the labour economy, leaving the labour party to carry on with its hairshirt lark. >> well, the words come cheap, don't they? but the government still does have rigid targets. it might have moved some of them from 2030 to 2035, but that remains a target. >> does it not move them to 2135? >> if were up to me. but i agree, we need to go further. but this is a big statement of intent. it builds on what the prime minister said last year in september, which moved back some of the targets. the boiler tax has been delayed for a year. i think this needs to go further,

but it's a really important start. does this tie in at all to what's happened in scotland in the last couple of days? >> of course, it was the shifting of targets that were well, the scottish government described them as ambitious. others might describe them as punitive, that really led to the failure and the downfall of the first minister. >> this is really important that people were all in favour of green targets when the economy was booming and they felt well off as soon as there was a cost off as soon as there was a cost of living problem and energy pnces of living problem and energy prices went shooting up, suddenly people thought, i don't want to be cold and poor. and the policies that we have adopted have set targets for some years in the future . every some years in the future. every time they get closer, people abandon them because nobody wins elections by beating up their own voters . that's what the snp own voters. that's what the snp realised when it abandoned its targets . the greens exist to targets. the greens exist to manufacture hair shirts. i mean, they are the hair shirt manufacturers of britain and wish to be an exporting business. the conservatives have always been in lying. people choice over their own lives and

pochettino has also been advocating technological solutions and recognising that they will take time to develop and most importantly, she said, that people will carry on using more energy rather than less, which is just a practical reality of economics. well, there we go. >> jacob rees—mogg up next. that's it. been it for me on farage. stick around though, because it's an important debate coming up. >> looks like things are heating up boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb news is . weather on gb news is. >> time for your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. good evening to you. a different day tomorrow in the east. we'll have much more cloud compared to today, whereas in the west it should be a little brighter still. some wet weather around though across parts of wales and southwest england this evening, affecting the west midlands too. that showery rain working into southwest scotland at the same time . a few showers at the same time. a few showers coming into eastern england, particularly norfolk , suffolk particularly norfolk, suffolk and up towards lincolnshire. many other areas there will be

dry, quite a mild night temperatures in some towns and cities staying in double digits onto wednesday and a very different day across the northeast of england and eastern scotland. much more cloud around. there will be some rain at times here as well, particularly across the far north—east through the late morning into the early afternoon. a much brighter day, though, for wales and southwest england. we'll see some sunny spells for northern ireland and particularly western scotland, 18 degrees likely here and further south with a bit of brightness we might get close to 20 celsius, but in the south, late on. look at this. some heavy rain working up from france and we could well see some big downpours and some thunderstorms , particularly thunderstorms, particularly through the early hours of thursday morning across southern england , maybe the midlands and england, maybe the midlands and parts of south wales. so some rumbles of thunder, some flashes of lightning, they'll be clearing away during thursday morning, but still staying cloudy with some showers in the south on thursday. many places elsewhere seeing some good spells of sunshine but cool and cloudy on some of these north

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gb news. >> hello. good evening. it's me, jacob rees—mogg on state of the nation. tonight, the energy secretary, clare pochettino, has courageously warned that net zero agenda could crush british businesses if not implemented properly. but surely it's time to delay the agenda, as we must put the british economy first. chairman of the 1922 committee, sir graham brady, has said tory members shouldn't pick leaders while the party is in government . i would remove that final vote for members, when the party is in government. >> but as ever, i'll be making the case that the voice of the

people is the voice of god. sir keir starmer has put his flip flops back on for the second time in a week. first, he went from defunding the police to funding the police. now we've gone from not knowing what a woman is to knowing what a woman is. plus, god save the king. our sovereign is back to public dufies sovereign is back to public duties today after his cancer diagnosis as he visits a cancer centre in london with the queen. but which other member of the royal family is putting her dancing shoes on for a spin in the strictly ballroom state of the strictly ballroom state of the nation starts now. i'll also be joined by my most theatrical panel this evening , theatrical panel this evening, barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes, and the pr consultant and former labour aide stella santykiu, as always, as you know, i want to hear from you. it's a crucial part of the programme. email me mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's what you've all been waiting for. the news bulletin with ray addison.

>> good evening, i'm ray addison in the gb newsroom, video has emerged showing the moment police arrested a man wielding a sword in north—east london. officers cornered him at a property , bringing the suspect property, bringing the suspect to the ground with three separate taser discharges. he's been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 14 year old boy. the 36 year old suspect is now in hospital. police saying that they've been unable to interview him yet due to his condition . four other to his condition. four other people were injured, including two police officers . earlier, two police officers. earlier, buckingham palace said the king's thoughts and prayers are with all those affected. assistant commissioner louisa rolfe says the suspect was not known to them . known to them. >> the 36 year old man arrested at the scene is currently in hospital having suffered injuries when his van collided with a building. he has been arrested on suspicion of murder at this time. given his injuries, we have been unable to

interview him. we know