gb news. >> 930 on thursday, the 2nd of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> thanks for joining and bev turner. >> thanks forjoining us and bev turner. >> thanks for joining us this morning. so about 300 people have been arrested during police crackdowns on pro—palestine protests. and a counter group at american university's. would you want to see our police get tough on protesters , too.7 on protesters, too.7 >> and much closer to home, students in leeds , newcastle, students in leeds, newcastle, bristol, manchester and elsewhere. they're protesting outside campus buildings in protest against, you guessed it, the war in gaza and rwanda's legal challenge after one migrant has voluntarily gone to rwanda. >> civil servants are threatening to scupper the plan completely. we'll tell you how. >> happy birthday. do we call her ma'am or princess caroline.7 charlotte. i've got the wrong . charlotte. i've got the wrong. wrong, wrong for princess charlotte celebrates her ninth birthday this morning. a new birthday this morning. a new birthday photo could be released

by the prince of wales, princess of wales any moment now. i think the princess caroline of monaco . i was gonna say. monaco. i was gonna say. >> who is princess caroline.7 we haven't got age gap about 50 years. >> i wouldn't call him, what do you officially call a child, princess? >> well, she is. she would be your royal highness. >> oh, imagine calling her that. >> oh, imagine calling her that. >> imagine if you were kate and william. >> you would not be expecting fellow children or the teachers to say that to charlotte or to louis or to george. >> would you? >> would you? >> the things my children would try and get away with, if i could call them your royal highness. what a parenting nightmare. let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com forward. slash yourself first for the very latest news with sofia . latest news with sofia. >> bev. thank you. >> bev. thank you. >> good morning. it's 932. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb

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back to andrew and. bev. >> morning. morning. 934 this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, i've resolved it. >> well, i've resolved it. >> i've checked on the buckingham palace website. she's nine years old today. princess charlotte. and her formal title is her royal highness princess charlotte of wales. so if you meet her, beverly, you can say to her, you can curtsy if you would like to, and to a nine year old and say, very nice to meet you, your royal highness. >> i wonder what her teachers do at school. you know, at school. >> can you imagine her putting her hands on her hips, saying, you can't say that to me. i'm a princess. you can't. i'm a royal highness. wouldn't that be funny? >> how do you raise a normal child in that environment? >> that is what a challenge it is. because, i mean, if you looked at the queen's children, would you argue? she raised them? well, i would say an an. >> yes. brilliant >> yes. brilliant >> prince edward. okay. >> prince edward. okay. >> yes. >> yes. >> charming prince andrew, not so much. no. william and harry.

well, princess of wales did her best, but she was taken away to when they were too young. >> and isn't that where princess anne did brilliantly, though? in telling zara and peter phillips you're not having any titles , you're not having any titles, you're not having any titles, you're going to be normal. they appear to be relatively normal. i mean, he's had a couple of marriages, hasn't he, peter? >> he's had one at least. >> he's had one at least. >> he's had one at least. >> he had at least one. and zara is fabulous. and they're both popular and they've made their own way and they've made money and successful in their own right. >> i mean, she's she's won olympic medals too. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> and princess anne was a very successful sportswoman, too. >> the moral of the story don't call your children your royal highness, if you can help it. >> and it's that whole new expression to. she's a right little princess. now, after one failed, a failed asylum seeker voluntarily went to rwanda. just to remind you, with £3,000 of pubuc to remind you, with £3,000 of public money in their pockets, the civil service unions, of course, they are now threatened to try to scupper the entire wanda plan by having a judicial review. >> that's right . the fda union, >> that's right. the fda union, which represents senior civil servants , claims that home servants, claims that home office staff could be in breach

of international law if they implement the safety of rwanda act. so who better to explain this to us than brilliant barrister and columnist sam falls in the studio. right, sam, break this down to us. what exactly is happening here? >> well, basically this this isn't about stopping the rwanda plan. it's about getting civil servants out of a catch 22 situation. >> it is. >> it is. >> and this is it comes down to bad drafting. you've got on one hand, an act of parliament that says civil servants have got to follow the civil service code. and that code says you've got to obey , to obey the law, and obey, to obey the law, and you've got to uphold the rule of law. on the other hand, you've got the rwanda bill, which says ministers. ministers can instruct civil servants to disregard the law if that law is an injunction from the european court of human rights. and so civil servants are saying, look, if you tell us to do this , we if you tell us to do this, we don't know which instruction from parliament. we're supposed to follow. is it uphold the law and the rule of law? is it

ignore the law. we need an answer. you didn't give us an answer. you didn't give us an answer in the in the bill, even though we asked you to. so if the ministers can't come up with an answer, the courts are going to have to. >> of course, it's about scuppering the around a bit. it's despised by the left. the labour party has voted against it 134 times. the fda union wants labour to win the election. the left a paranoid now that this rwanda bill might be successful. we've seen what's happening with with in ireland and northern ireland. sam refugees saying they're scuttling out of northern ireland into southern ireland because they fear being deported to rwanda. this is what it's all about. >> well, i don't if it is. >> well, i don't if it is. >> if you're right, it's a really bad plan because if they if they win this, it's not going to scupper the rwanda bill. it's just going to provide clarity and ask ministers to go back to parliament and get parliament to come down on one side of this or the other and that's what parliament will do, because parliament, if the fda get a judicial review and the judicial review blocks the civil servants from doing this, parliament can then force a vote compelling the

civil service to do it. yeah, and that's exactly right. and but it comes back down to just the stunning incompetence of ministers on this. if you're going to write a bill and, you know, we have disagreed on the rwanda bill, you know where i stand. you know, i think it's a bad bill. but if you're going to write a bill, it should do what it says on the tin. and this one, because ministers didn't have the courage to put their cards on the table and say, yes. what we're trying to do here is set up this fight with the european court of human rights. we want that fight. they didn't have the courage to come straight out and say that. so they gave this wishy washy clause that says ministers can instruct civil servants to ignore the law sometimes, maybe, which was actually already the law. and as a result, you've got this, this lack of clarity, which the courts have got to clear up. >> so what would the civil servants say? they are concerned about? what's what's the precedent? they're worried this would set. >> so the most important part of the civil service code is concerned here is the requirement to uphold the rule

of law. and the rule of law is the sort of fundamental principle of, of a functioning democracy, which is that where we agree, where we make laws or where we agree to laws, we have to stick by them. and we and that includes both domestic laws. so things like don't steal, don't murder people and international laws. and that's the treaties that we as a nation sign up to and say we're going to abide by and it's not just about individual laws, it's about individual laws, it's about the wider principle of saying when we say we're going to stick to a rule, we stick to it come hell or high water, unless we change it in an illegitimate way. and that's what the civil servants are worried about. and why this is such an important point to be making is that the ministers are asking them to do the opposite and say, yes, we've agreed to this law. we've gone out to our international partners and say, we're going to do this , and now we're going to do this, and now we're going to do this, and now we're just not know. >> can we just put a important caveat in here? it's not just

ministers saying that parliament has agreed it. it's gone through the commons. it's gone through the commons. it's gone through the house of lords, parliament has agreed it with a comfortable majority. it's not. you're just saying about ministers the whole machinery of government has been done.the machinery of government has been done. the proper democratic process. parliament has agreed that these flights should go to rwanda. and now a civil service union is thinks we'll do our best to overturn the will of parliament. >> well, the first part of that, you're absolutely right. that was the right. your right to correct me on that. but it's not about overturning the will of parliament, because parliament has also said to civil servants, you are to uphold the rule of law. so and again, that was the crag act. that was something that was passed by parliament in exactly the same way with the support of a majority . so civil support of a majority. so civil servants have got two conflicting instructions here, and we need to find a way to say which one of those instructions do you want to follow? and in my view, speaking again, personally and sort of from a political point , because and sort of from a political point, because i don't and sort of from a political point , because i don't know what point, because i don't know what the court is going to decide, i think upholding the rule of law as a is a is a much more

important thing than a winning a particular political battle over rwanda. >> this is a waste of time. >> this is a waste of time. >> they did this the fda in 2021 after the prime minister's adviser on ministerial codes decided that priti patel, the home secretary, had bullied civil servants, poor civil servants being bullied. there was a judicial review and boris did not dismiss his home secretary. yeah, this is just posturing and time wasting and it's trying to delay the flights going well. >> that was about the ministerial code, which is very different from the civil service code. so the and the ministerial code. so the and the ministerial code is, is in my view, not really worth the paper it's written on because it's just it can be overruled by the prime minister at a whim. so it's much more important for ministers to sort of cosy up to the prime minister than actually act ethically. that's a whole other problem. but the court was right. the court doesn't have any power to enforce the ministerial code. this is a different thing because it's not just parliament that is imposed. the minister, ministers that have imposed the ministerial, the civil service code, it's

parliament that passed an act saying we need a civil service code and that has then gone on to say we're targeting this much wider principle, which is the rule of law . right. and the so rule of law. right. and the so the court may give clarity on that. >> the other question that it raises, again, is how did the politicians or the politicians legal teams not know this would happen? >> well , that is why the mind >> well, that is why the mind boggles, to be honest. >> because you know what they were told this would happen. and in fact, the tom hickman kc, who's one of our greatest public lawyers , wrote an article a in lawyers, wrote an article a in december for i think it was i first read it saying, look, this is going to create a problem for you. you need to just you need to amend this clause. i mean, tom again was very sceptical about the bill, but he said, if this is what you want to do, you need to amend this clause to give clarity, to say, yes, we're going to be out, out and out about saying we're going to breach international law on

this, or we're going to be out and about saying we're not going to breach international law. >> no. if the european court is going to block the flight to rwanda, we don't even know that this is a lot of supposition and crystal ball gazing here, sam. >> yeah. and that might be for me, that's the biggest sort of legal challenge for it, that it's a bit hypothetical. so it may be it's not a bit. >> it's hugely hypothetical. they may remember the british supreme court cleared the original flight to rwanda. it was an unnamed european court judge blocked it. there's no reason to suppose that they'll block this flight again now. parliament's approved it. >> i think the reason what i'm saying is, isn't the fda , the saying is, isn't the fda, the civil service, jumping the gun well under normal circumstances, i would probably agree with you . i would probably agree with you. >> the reason i don't is that things are going to move really quickly. and i you know, i've beenin quickly. and i you know, i've been in this this sort of situation with the benn act litigation back in 2019 when we're talking about leaving the, the, the european union without a deal and what we had to deal with is something that a decision can be made so quickly

that before the court can give clarity, you have irreversible consequences . his ire flight has consequences. his ire flight has gone. civil servants have broke. the minister, the civil service code. so what civil servants are asking is for the court to avoid that problem. give them advance nofice that problem. give them advance notice of just what to do in this situation . if the european this situation. if the european court issues an injunction and then we won't we won't have the sort of, you know , the chaos sort of, you know, the chaos that could really, really ensue from civil servants not knowing what to do. and let's let's not forget that civil servants under recent governments have had to resign . fine. because they've resign. fine. because they've been asked. senior civil servants have had to resign because they're being asked to breach international law and if the government really is serious about getting its getting the flights off the ground to aranda, it can't have its senior people quitting in the middle of the in the middle of the operation because they're being asked to do something that's, that's against their code . that's against their code. >> fascinating. okay. >> fascinating. okay. >> thank you, sam. and just your take on this, on these protests,

really, we'd love to hear your opinion on this in, in america and, and also here look at academia. and students have a long history of being some of the most agitated protesters . the most agitated protesters. this is what students have done for years. but obviously this time it's it seems to be ramped up another level , time it's it seems to be ramped up another level, and particularly the police moving in in america . we've got in in america. we've got pictures here. this is live in california . california. >> it's got very unpleasant, very unpleasant. >> and can you understand how this febrile atmosphere has developed in relation to this conflict. >> yeah, i think it's always such a difficult thing to talk about. such a difficult thing to talk about . and we've we've talked about. and we've we've talked about. and we've we've talked about this on, on this show, how when we're talking about this, it's so important to talk about the, the need to cut down on anti—semitism and stamp that out completely, the need to recognise the importance of israel's existence. and yet at the same time, it's equally important to talk about the need

to make sure that israel obeys the laws of war and the need to protect innocent civilians. and i think you have two sides of this that both come from legitimate perspectives and are not being able to come together . not being able to come together. but what's really problematic is those legitimate perspectives are sort of being used as an excuse to shut down the other the other side. and we this debate is being framed as either you support israel and therefore support everything that israel does , or you support palestine, does, or you support palestine, and therefore you support hamas . and therefore you support hamas. and that shouldn't be the case. >> and what is happening we've seen in these american campuses, sam, that some of the protesters are trying to stop jewish students going to university, thatis students going to university, that is shameful. >> yeah, that's absolutely shameful. >> and in the same way, you've had sort of, you know, extremist, pro—israel protesters who are sort of attacking the attacking the students provoked, yeah, into defending their, their. and so you've got, you've got groups on both sides

behaving abominably . however, behaving abominably. however, i think it's also really important to mention you have large groups on both sides that have been behaving really well. and i saw it was a clip on youtube, on twitter that i saw from columbia university. and you had jewish students and protesters sort of talking, having a having a conversation and really sort of working it out in a way that's far more mature than adult politicians. >> yeah, sam, it's always good to talk to you. that's the barrister. sam. we're going to be talking, of course, about how some of the student protests now are springing up at our own universities here in england, a number of universities, their sit in protest and nothing like on the scale of america. and dear god, let's hope they don't get as bad as a thousand arrests of students in total in america over these protests on both sides of this debate. >> right up next this morning, princess charlotte celebrates highness. her royal highness celebrates her ninth birthday. today. we're going to be looking at her and what this might mean for the family today. this

gb news. >> now. beverly's very excited . >> now. beverly's very excited. it's the ninth birthday of princess charlotte. hrh princess charlotte. who is princess charlotte. who is princess charlotte of wales? of course . charlotte of wales? of course. >> she's lovely. >> she's lovely. >> isn't she a cutie? >> isn't she a cutie? >> lovely. her mom has said actually, behind the scenes. she said she's the one that's in charge with the brothers royal fans. >> aren't they always? >> aren't they always? >> aren't they always? >> aren't they always around the world waiting to see whether the princess of wales will release a birthday photo of charlotte this morning? >> so let's talk to the former bbc royal correspondent, michael cole. michael, she is a little cracker , isn't she? and she's cracker, isn't she? and she's she's just looks fabulous and she's just looks fabulous and she's got that cheeky grin. it's become a tradition , hasn't it, become a tradition, hasn't it, that we see a photograph of the three children on their birthday . and i think everybody's looking forward to one today. >> good morning andrew. good morning bev. how wonderful to be

nine years old and let's say happy birthday princess charlotte. i'm sure she is at school this morning. no bunking off school just because it's your birthday , and i'm quite your birthday, and i'm quite sure that she is, as you've intimated, a joy to her mother, particularly at the time, as she's undergoing treatment for cancen she's undergoing treatment for cancer. yes, the princess of wales. kate likes to do things her own way. she issued the birthday photograph for , prince birthday photograph for, prince louis last week. in the afternoon . so maybe later today afternoon. so maybe later today we will see another image. and she is a charming looking little girl. very much in my mind. a middleton like her younger brother, louis. whereas prince george , at age ten, he's always george, at age ten, he's always going to be ahead of her, he's very much a spencer, but she is third in line to the throne . third in line to the throne. since male primogeniture was abolished in 2011, including ,

abolished in 2011, including, interestingly, andrew, the prohibition on royal people marrying catholics that will also went out the window in 2011, she is, as you say, third in line to the throne and a charming little girl. i hope the photograph shows her in a pose of, a thoughtful pose. because quite often when you say to children , smile, all you get is children, smile, all you get is a lot of gaps in the teeth at that particular age, when their milk teeth are being succeeded by the permanent teeth. so happy birthday to her. she is. she's a great child, and i'm quite sure her father absolutely adores her. >> oh, thank you, michael michael kohler, happy birthday, princess charlotte, a lot of you getting in touch at home. a particularly about the protests in palestine. and one of you saying that, actually, bernadette says there are

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gb news. >> great. good morning. it's 10:00 on thursday, the 2nd of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. well at least 300 people have been arrested dunng 300 people have been arrested during police crackdowns on those pro palestinian protests. >> and a counter group at us universities would like to see our police getting as tough on protesters here and closer to home, students in leeds, newcastle, bristol and elsewhere are protesting outside campus buildings to support peace in gaza. >> how big are these protests going to become ?

going to become? >> and voters are heading to the polls today in a series of local elections across the country and a royal birthday, princess charlotte celebrates her ninth birthday this morning. >> a new birthday photo could be released by the princess of wales wales any minute now. >> yes, happy birthday to the daughter of the prince and princess of wales. as you say. turning nine will be discussing the similarities between her and the similarities between her and the late queen. plus, kensington palace may release a new photo so stay tuned . so stay tuned. >> can't wait. >> can't wait. >> donald trump in court the former president's hush money trail continues today , in the trail continues today, in the it's all to do with what's her name, stormy daniels. >> stormy daniels, stormy daniels. stormy daniels caused a bit of a storm in donald trump's life . life. >> but i'd like to see the latest polls. is he damaging trump at all? >> i doubt it, no, it does the

opposite, doesn't it, in america. >> and i think these protests and these seeming impotence of this authorities to stop jewish students from going to university is going to damage biden. >> and it should let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your say first though, the very latest news with sophia wenzler . latest news with sophia wenzler. >> bev thank you. good morning . >> bev thank you. good morning. it's 10:01. >> bev thank you. good morning. it's10:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your top in the gb newsroom. your top story this hour. 36 year old marcus aurelio audouini monzo will appear in court today charged with the murder of 14 year old daniel andrew gwynne following a sword attack in nonh following a sword attack in north east london. daniel was fatally injured as he walked to school on tuesday morning. four other people, including two police officers, were also injured. the met police say. monzo, from newham, is a dual spanish brazilian national. he has now arrived at westminster magistrates court he's also been charged with two counts of

attempted murder , two counts of attempted murder, two counts of grievous bodily harm, aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article . voters are bladed article. voters are heading to the polls today in a series of local elections across the country. there are elections in 107 local authorities across england , as well as 11 mayoral england, as well as 11 mayoral races. a by—election will elect a new blackpool south mp following the resignation of former conservative scott benton. police and crime commissioners will also be chosen. prime minister rishi sunak has been out campaigning today. meanwhile labour leader keir starmer was at the polling station and reform party leader richard tice was also out casting his vote this morning . casting his vote this morning. scotland's longest serving deputy first minister is expected to announce that he's launching a campaign to become snp leader and first minister. later, john swinney has received support from senior members of the snp since first minister humza yousaf announced on monday

he would step down. the perthshire north msp, who served as nicola sturgeon's for deputy almost nine years, will make a statement in edinburgh later today. statement in edinburgh later today . the former snp member today. the former snp member stuart crawford, doesn't have confidence in john swinney. >> it has been first minister before , back in, the sort of, before, back in, the sort of, turn of the century where i in fact was a was a, snp member and parliamentary candidate on two occasions, both of which i withdrew from . and there were withdrew from. and there were three elections in his last tenure , one general election, tenure, one general election, 2001, scottish elections in 2003. and the european election in 2004, in all of which the snp lost seats. so i don't have any great enthusiasm for him as a leader. and i think what we're looking at is if he becomes a leader, a period of managed decline , we're being warned of decline, we're being warned of widespread travel disruption after a night of heavy rainfall

and thunderstorms overnight, a care home in sussex was damaged by lightning strikes. >> that's according to west sussex fire and rescue. meanwhile yellow weather warnings remain in place across large parts of southern england. the met office said it could bnng the met office said it could bring difficult driving conditions and some flooding . in conditions and some flooding. in other news, students have set up sit in camps at some uk universities to protest israel's war against hamas. students in leeds, newcastle and bristol set up tents outside campus buildings in protest against the war in gaza. it comes amid violent clashes between the police and protesters at universities in the us . about universities in the us. about 300 people were arrested during police crackdowns on demonstrations at us universities yesterday . hundreds universities yesterday. hundreds of police descended on ucla campus as protests continue. there donald trump's been threatened with jail as he returns back to court later. the former us president will face

another hearing on further alleged breaches of a gag order. earlier in the week. he was fined over £7,000 for multiple breaches of different gag orders, with the judge suggesting he could be jailed if further breaches continued. us political analyst eric ham says donald trump is in a face off with the judge. >> i think what will certainly send many people in a tizzy is, in fact, if there's a way to actually jail donald trump, there are many who believe that it's nearly impossible to actually place a former president in jail because of the fact that there is a secret service, a duty to actually protect him. so of course, many people will be watching to see if, in fact, the judge is willing to go that far. if, in fact, the judge is willing to go that far . and i willing to go that far. and i think what we're seeing here is donald trump and this judge in a in a face off to actually determine who actually wins, because i think what we're seeing take place is a game of chicken between both of these men right now, and a group of

more than 10,000 black cab drivers are suing uber after accusing it of breaching taxi booking rules in london. >> a group action claim has been filed in the high court over ubers filed in the high court over uber's operations in the capital between may 2012 and march 2018. if successful , it could cost the if successful, it could cost the cab giant more than £250 million. and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or go to gb news. com screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts . now it's back to slash alerts. now it's back to andrew and . bev. yes. andrew and. bev. yes. >> what is the time ? it is 1007. >> what is the time? it is 1007. with britain's newsroom on gb news, andrew pearson bev turner. >> let's see what you've been saying at home, this person has said if he had to get everybody lined up against a wall, presumably to shout at them rather than anything more violent, he said at the top would be politicians, then it

would be politicians, then it would be politicians, then it would be civil servants, then it would be civil servants, then it would be civil servants, then it would be the judiciary, then it would be the judiciary, then it would be the media. and that is the road to freedom. i hope you wouldn't put us on that list as well here @gbnews. i don't think that's very fair, but this is about the fact that the civil servants are trying to stop the rwanda plan at the moment. >> i love sam when his opening line was this isn't because they want to stop the scheme. yes it is. >> yeah , the labour party >> yeah, the labour party failed, so they'll try and block it. >> debbie says. happy birthday charlotte. i bet she gets called her royal highness in front of uncle and auntie marcus markle. >> ha! >> ha! >> i bet she especially insists upon it. >> and i bet i bet meghan insists her children are called their royal highness. they won't be, are they prince and princess, well, that doesn't seem right, is it? yeah alan says civil servants should carry out the will of the parliament. i'm sick of the left blob running this country, deciding which ministers they will work with. start sacking a few and see the rest fall into line to protect their generous pension. and salary. it's a very good point. we've just spotted a story in the paper as well about the number of children being

prescribed sleeping pills in this country , three quarters of this country, three quarters of a million nearly prescriptions for under 16 seconds being given, sleeping tablets. >> i mean, it's outrageous. >> i mean, it's outrageous. >> it was. and it was 11 year olds who were the most frequently given what they're called hypnotics, accounting for nearly 81,000 prescriptions. >> well, why wouldn't 11 year olds be able to go to sleep? >> because they were on their computers all night. they're not. they're not. and their heads are racing social media, press pressure, say the experts, fallout from the pandemic worries about the future. >> or feed a toxic cocktail of worries that left children battling to sleep. >> it also makes the point again, doesn't it, that mums and dads should say to the kids, switch off the devices after dinner, 7:00 that's the trouble. >> they're wired and they're going to sleep and they're wired and they're worried about climate change, and they're worried about whether they've got the make up right or they look okay, or are they too fat, or are they too thin? all of that pressure on poor kids. what have we done? >> and you're saying your

children are now fretting about palestine? >> yeah. and saying, well, we should be supporting palestine, shouldn't we? they don't really want to, but that's kind of the feeling that they're getting at school. not that they don't want to. they're just saying i don't really understand it, don't really understand it, don't really feel it's anything to do with me. >> and they're getting a skewed version. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> well, we're seeing it at the moment, obviously in the universities all across the world. there were violent scenes yesterday. >> yeah. and that's 300 people arrested during police crackdowns. and some of those protests in the early hours of wednesday at columbia university in new york. and it's spread now in new york. and it's spread now in california, also now here in britain, students have been setting up a sit in campus camps at some universities to protest israel's war against hamas. >> we're seeing pictures of these were in newcastle yesterday, but what message is this sending to jewish students? well, gary mond is the chairman of the national jewish assembly. and maybe we start with that question, gary, what message are these protests sending to jewish students at these universities ? students at these universities? >> a highly negative one is the answer. >> what we're seeing is essentially intimidatory

behaviour by the so—called pro—palestinian students . and pro—palestinian students. and we're witnessing anti—semitism growing all the time across the country in so many walks of life. only yesterday in manchester, a woman was a jewish woman was thrown off a bus because she was she actually dared to criticise a pro—palestinian sticker, and we're seeing it everywhere now. and now it's now the turn of the universities and what we're witnessing in columbia and other universities in the states is going to happen here. and this is something we must not tolerate. >> gary, i saw some of the protest leaders are saying we're doing this because universities in britain are complicit in genocide in gaza. well, take a i fundamentally disagree with the fact there is a genocide going on in gaza, but how can they argue that universities who are teaching the next generation of leaders and doctors and in this

country are complicit in genocide in any shape or form? >> they can't, and it's not their business to, quite frankly, what is happening is that left wing ideals have taken over a whole generation or a whole generation of students, and this is leading, together with islamist fundamentalists supporting them. this is leading to what we're seeing at the moment. and quite frankly, the universities need to get tough if we see any form of intimidatory or threatening or violent behaviour on behalf of these demonstrating students , these demonstrating students, these demonstrating students, the universities need to suspend the universities need to suspend the students from their degrees . the students from their degrees. and if it means they don't graduate, so be it. please don't forget there's one very important point that differentiates students from everybody else the government. the british government is still funding to the tune of approximately £30,000 on average, every single student that's going through our university system , it is not the

university system, it is not the student's place. yes, they can have freedom of speech, but it's not the student's place to misbehave in the way that they are doing, and they need to be disciplined firmly. >> but that's a sit in is not is not preventing any jewish student going to university, as long as they are not prevented from doing that and they are not found guilty of antisemitic behaviour , for those protests behaviour, for those protests should be allowed to continue. surely >> up to a point, yes, but have a look at what's been happening in america . we're seeing videos in america. we're seeing videos of jewish students being stopped from attending their classes. we are seeing violent behaviour there on a tremendous scale, and i'm sorry to have to say, but we're america goes britain . we're america goes britain. >> i think we've we lost gary, lost gary. we just we just we'll get you back. gary. we just want to show these live pictures here of california, obviously we have the time difference. of course, here, here in california , we're here, here in california, we're looking at night time pictures here. where there were the

latest figures that there have been a thousand students in america arrested over these protests, which have turned violent against the police. now, i imagine some of these students would argue, well, we can protest for peace in gaza without being anti semitic. >> absolutely. and what's made it worse here? because pro israeli students or demonstrators have gone to these universities as they're outraged that jewish students were blocked from going to university, then the violence has kicked off. but the fault surely lies with the pro—palestinians blocking jewish students from going to their lectures . it's outrageous. lectures. it's outrageous. there's two. we've got gary back.i there's two. we've got gary back. i think . back. i think. >> yeah, two points here. firstly, these pro—palestinian students obviously don't know their history that since israel was created in 1948, there's been 6 or 7 attempts and generous offers made by successive israeli governments for two state solutions, and these have all been turned down. so if they want peace, just read

the history book and see what the history book and see what the hamas and their supporters are doing to stop that. second, i'm starting to hear news that hamas are rejecting the latest ceasefire proposal, which has been strongly supported by the british and american governments. if that is the case, we're going to almost certainly see prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordered the troops into rafah , and this is troops into rafah, and this is going to accelerate the matter to a considerable extent . and so to a considerable extent. and so the police in this country need to be ready . to be ready. >> and, gary, i can't see how hamas will ever accept a ceasefire because they've not given up the hostages. and also they are committed to the eradication from the face of the planet, the state of israel. >> i completely agree with you, andifs >> i completely agree with you, and it's a great shame that so many senior politicians across the world don't see it that way . the world don't see it that way. >> it doesn't look like there's any sort of peace solution in sight though. gary at the moment doesit sight though. gary at the moment does it how long do you think this conflict is going to a solution that has been spoken about would be for israel to

wipe out hamas physically on the ground, and then working together with sensible arab countries and the west to impose some kind of marshall plan on gaza , to eradicate the hatred gaza, to eradicate the hatred that there is for jews in that in that country. >> and to make sure that successive future generations of gazans do not grow up to hate jews and israel. that is the way forward. get rid of the violent people . people. >> events of the last six months will have done the polar opposite, though, gary, won't they? for children who've been orphaned in palestine, you could have said the same thing about the germans in nazi germany. >> and yet the marshall plan there succeeded over a few years. it will take many years . years. it will take many years. yes, of course, but then if one explains to these children, look what happened on the 7th of october, with so many jews being murdered , raped, have babies murdered, raped, have babies being beheaded , then it will being beheaded, then it will perhaps be possible to gain some

kind of understanding of the role that israel played. >> okay, can i just ask you, on a personal level, as a jewish man, have you experienced or seen or felt any uptake or increase in any anti—semitism towards you or your family? >> i can say that i personally have not, but i'm well aware of friends who have, and there are lots of little incidents . you lots of little incidents. you obviously familiar with the gideon falter incident that happened two weeks ago. gideon falter was not the first person to be treated this way. there have been many ordinary jewish people who don't crave publicity, who don't want to get on the news, who are having the same, or being behaved to by the police in the same way, near those hate marches, and i think that's important to appreciate that's important to appreciate that it's not just gideon falter. >> all right. that's gary mond, who's chairman of the national jewish assembly. gideon fall to just to remind people, was the, gentleman. he's an activist who was told by the police he was dressed. you look very jewish.

or i think that was the expression the police officer used. were advising you to walk away because your presence is provocative and was told he'd be arrested if he didn't walk away, which was shameful . particularly which was shameful. particularly when the metropolitan police commissioner then defended the copper. commissioner then defended the copper . he commissioner then defended the copper. he was not a young, inexperienced copper, but an experienced sergeant's conduct . experienced sergeant's conduct. >> but a lot of you getting in touch about the storms in the night, did you hear the storms in the night? >> i did 330, i think, weren't they? yeah. >> 4:00 in the morning. it was 4:00. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> talking about how extraordinary the thunder and lightning was at three, 4:00 in the morning down here. let us know your thoughts. and also asking what we're going to do for the bank holiday weekend. it's a bank holiday weekend. >> are you going away? have you got plans? let us know. you can send your messages to us. we'll read them out. we'll share them. you're going on the train. you're going on the train. you're driving train? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> fat chance. >> fat chance. >> yeah. are there strikes? >> yeah. are there strikes? >> oh, it's going to be. i don't even bother looking. i just presume there's always going to be strikes. now with the railways on a bank holiday weekend or repair works bus replacement service. the three words that are guaranteed to

make my blood run cold are still to come this morning. for news, presenters have accused the bbc of grinding down women over pay. we'll have the latest on that. this is britain's newsroom, where we're very much not ground down on

gb news. >> it is 1021. you're with britain. son heung—min gb news andrew pearson. bev turner. we've got our panel here. sam lister and carol anderson here know what she's doing? she's probably doing her makeup, man. >> carol, let's be honest. the last time she was on the show, she actually got up and walked out to go and cough. so anything. yeah, anything could happen today. >> she might turn up. >> she might turn up. >> she's she's going to be coming in in just a moment. >> i think i'll hold for her this story earlier. and it's depressing. i'm not a dad. it's terrible. but it shocks me. >> tell us about sleeping pills. yeah. >> so the prescription, the prescription rate is doubled in seven years for children on sleeping tablets, which is just

astonishing. >> i mean, children should not be having sleeping tablets at all. any, sir. yeah. i mean, just this just didn't happen in the past, did it? it was it was a case of, you know, children were tired out from running around, you know, nobody would have ever dreamt of giving a child a sleeping tablet, and i just don't know what's going on. >> carole malone must have slept in this morning. >> sleeping. i did not sleep in. i asked what time we're coming on. sleeping pills, and i went to the loo and i came. there was nobody there. i was just on my own. i was on my tod. no, no, no. 110. >> no. >> what? are you feeling? paranoid? >> no, not at all. are you? >> no, not at all. are you? >> lovely to see you. thank you. we've started with this. children being prescribed sleeping pills. yeah, yeah. can you imagine a world in which your parents would have said to you. do you know what, carol? to get to sleep tonight, we're going to medicate you. >> oh, no. you know what they used to give me? he's got a bit of butter with sugar on it. i don't know why, but that's what they gave me. it was soothing, i guess. yeah, but, you know, i was reading this stuff today that baby, there's 154 babies under the age of one year old being given these pills. now,

you know, a lot of the experts are saying, oh, it's the stresses of modern day life. a babyis stresses of modern day life. a baby is not under stress of modern day parents who haven't accepted that having a new baby involves having broken sleep. >> of course. >> of course. >> and of course, some babies never sleep, of course. >> and but you know what doctor gives a little baba? you know, a sleeping pill. and, you know, i think you're setting kids up for a lifelong addiction to pills. thinking a pill can cure everything. >> i've had some of these children in my house. so when my daughters have had sleepovers with their mates who might be 11, 12, 13, they arrive with their sleeping tablets. but you're kidding. i'm not joking. and mainly it's because they are so many of them are on adhd medication in the day in order to bring themselves down to sleep at night. they're on a kind of, what do you call it? like a treadmill of medication? >> and where do they get the drug from? >> well, they get them from the from the gp's, from the doctor. and there was i think there was separate stats in this story. i don't know whether samhsa mentioned while i was in the loo and step is stat saying that there's a there's thousands of teenagers being hospitalised for

addiction to sleeping medication. it's not just kids of 11 on tablets. and i've got to tell you i'm blaming parents here. do not give your kids the tablet or the phone just before . tablet or the phone just before. don't let them have it in the bedroom after dinner . bedroom after dinner. >> 7:00. >> 7:00. >> take it away from them. >> take it away from them. >> you've got to do your homework. do the old fashioned way. look it up in a book. >> you know, i was in, i was well, sorry. it is. >> it is the old fashioned way. >> it is the old fashioned way. >> they can't go on a device because it means they can't go to sleep. >> the trouble is drugs. >> the trouble is drugs. >> their homework is on a device. the homework is set by the school. >> the school schools are part of the problem. then the schools are a massive part of this. >> but it's interesting. i was in the dentist recently, my lovely dentist, and she said, i gnnd lovely dentist, and she said, i grind my teeth at night. that's the stress anxiety, whatever, suppose. >> and she. andrew pierce is your best mate. i do that, i almost do that. >> i only seriously well, i understand your pain perfectly. >> beth mead have a whole new set of teeth because he's. >> well, you've had a whole new you've had you've had a whole

new set. i might i still might not still my own, but what she said to me was, do not look at the telly before, like an hour and a half before you go to bed. it's the blue light blue light blue light. he's right. he's right on with it. it's the blue light. and i find that really hard. not even as i'm a grown up and i'm an adult, and i should, but i love watching rubbish telly before i go to bed. but i have to stop it if i want to sleep properly and not be anxious. >> it is the parents responsibility. >> yeah, kids should also be physically tired. i mean, yes, they're not. they're sat around on devices, they're not physically tired. you go to sleep if you they don't cycle to school, they don't walk to school. >> they taken in a car. >> they taken in a car. >> they taken in a car. >> they get to school, they sit around, they don't do what are we doing to our kids? >> are we doing to our kids? it's really difficult. >> i find parenting so hard at the moment because it feels like everywhere you turn, there's no other adult helping you raise your children. even at school, sport is now often optional. yes, kids crazy. they don't want to do it. the teachers can't be bothered to make them, and you can't make a child do anything anymore. no fashionable to make anymore. no fashionable to make a child do anything they don't

want to do. >> why can't you? >> why can't you? >> why can't you? >> why isn't it? why isn't a school sports compulsory? >> vie because it used to be bothered. >> the teachers don't want the fight. and then you'll have a parents in the background saying, oh well, she's very tired when she comes home from school, so don't make her run around the field. she's very tired. all she wants to do is sit on a phone when she gets home from school. i remember. yeah, because they are addicted. yeah, because they are addicted. yeah, they're addicted and like an addict. >> well, it goes back to have to break the goes back to this. >> we keep talking about politicians. rishi's talked about it other people have talked about it. should smartphones be banned completely completely laid out. >> it's too late. it's not going to happen . to happen. >> no, but it is happening. >> no, but it is happening. >> people want it to happen, but they're talking about it in france at 13. but kids, honestly, kids are smarter than we are. and they will get around it. i mean, they will have burner phones, they'll have little phones in their pocket. they'll, you know, like in prison, they have these tiny, tiny phones that they sneak in. kids will be using those, you know, they won't go round as an alternative around it, though. >> as an alternative to that, i talked to three kids recently, 15171 11, and their school was taking the phones off them as they were walking and all three of them got it. and even from the little baby at five to the

they said, we're distracted by them. we can't learn when they're there and we end up talking to the phone rather than talking to the phone rather than talking to the phone rather than talking to our mates. >> so when they do the homework, home, when they're doing their homework, malone, do they then have to be on that device? well, maybe they do, but but if you're checking a fact, i don't think that's a terrible thing. >> however, if you're spending your life on social media and talking to other people as opposed to physically talking to them, i think that's the problem . kids. kids aren't as social now as they used to be. you know, when i meet a kid now that can talk to an adult, i think good parenting, because the parent has taught them how to talk to people older than lots of kids, don't. they look down all the time. they don't want to. maybe it's just me, but yeah, but i'm hoping it's not. >> no, you're right. and they don't because they don't really talk to each other. yeah, they we did trick or treat at our house last year. and i had all these kids at the house about 13, and i'd gone to loads of effort and they all sat around on the sofa, all of them just like this. not even playing. and i went right, and i got the trick or treat basket. we put the sweets in and i went round and i took all the phones off. i

said, right, and i've locked them in the garage. and i said, right, go and play. and guess what? within about ten minutes they'd worked out how to play. yeah, yeah, it's so depressing. it's so hard. >> but it's right, isn't it, that children within the same family text each other? yeah, yeah. >> in the same house. yes, yes. >> from upstairs. because they can't be bothered to walk up. yeah. so how are they tired. >> the only shout come down for your tea. now you ring them and we wonder why they can't get to sleep. >> but i keep asking myself every time i read that this is all to do with the stresses and strains and anxieties of modern life. what stresses and strains do kids today have that we didn't have? at least they get to eat. and i'm not joking. i'm not not doing the i lives in a shoebox nonsense. but you know, when i was a kid, i wasn't, but when i was a kid, i wasn't, but when i was a kid, my mom and dad had a number of jobs to make sure we could eat every week. that was a bit of a stress for them, frankly, and a bit of a stress for me, although you wouldn't think so because i managed to find eaten later on in life that was the butter with the sugar in it they were giving you every night. >> yeah, yeah, right. moving on. let's talk about , this rwanda let's talk about, this rwanda blocked by civil servants , both

blocked by civil servants, both of you. >> goodness sake. honestly, it's the it's the fda, the senior civil servants , the top civil civil servants, the top civil servants are well paid. the ones who have the power . and they who have the power. and they have consulted they consulted their union. they say that actually the rwanda deal goes against international law. and so they may be they feel very uncomfortable , but we don't know uncomfortable, but we don't know if it will yet. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and the european court may not intervene anyway. >> absolutely. and so you know, but who governs you know, is it our government or is it the court in strasbourg ? court in strasbourg? >> we were talking to a lawyer, sam falzone, on ministers, this minister that said, hang on, you keep saying, minister sam, this has gone through the houses of parliament. it's gone through the commons, it's gone through the commons, it's gone through the house of lords, it's got royal assent we've done it the proper way. >> it's all there. >> it's all there. but >> it's all there. but civil servants in the home office particularly, are very resistant to many of the policies of the government of the day, and they would rather defer to a court in strasbourg than adhere to what our government has passed. >> did you think, sam, that dave

penman, the fda general secretary, he said today that that this , this, this plan, the that this, this, this plan, the rwanda plan actually undermines the integrity and impartiality of the civil service we do not have an impartial civil service. we have a civil service that is working against the good of the people in this country, just before we go get have to go to the news, ladies, should we have a look at this broken the picture of princess. >> there it is on her birth, doesn't she? oh, sweetheart. >> oh, my god, she looks. >> oh, my god, she looks. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> she looks like. >> she looks like. >> no, she looks like wills. >> no, she looks like wills. >> yeah, she does look like her dad. it's been released by the princess and prince of wales in just a few last few moments. there she is. >> thank god she's got kate's hair, though. she's definitely got kate's hair. >> you'd rather have william's face and kate's hair. >> yeah, all the way round. all right, here's the latest headunes right, here's the latest headlines with severe . headlines with severe. >> thanks, bev. it's 1031. headlines with severe. >> thanks, bev. it's1031. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb

newsroom. 36 year old marcus aurelio audouini. monzo is due to appear in court charged with the murder of 14 year old daniel anjorin following a sword attack in north—east london. daniel was fatally injured as he walked to school on tuesday morning. four other people, including two police officers, were injured . police officers, were injured. the met police say monzo, from newham, is a dual spanish brazilian national. he has now arrived at westminster magistrates court voters are heading to the polls today in a series of local elections across the country. there are elections in 107 local authorities across england as well as 11 mayoral races. a by—election will elect a new blackpool south mp following the resignation of former conservative scott benton. police and crime commissioners will also be chosen prime minister rishi sunak has been out campaigning today. meanwhile labour leader keir starmer was at the polling station and reform party leader

richard tice was also out casting his vote this morning . casting his vote this morning. scotland's longest serving deputy first minister is expected to announce he's launching a campaign to become snp leader and first minister. later, john swinney has received support from senior members of the snp since first minister humza yousaf announced on monday he would step down the perthshire north snp msp, who served as nicola sturgeon's deputy for almost nine years, will make a statement in edinburgh later today. will make a statement in edinburgh later today . former edinburgh later today. former snp member stuart crawford doesn't have confidence in john swinney . the prince and princess swinney. the prince and princess of wales have released a photograph of their daughter to mark her ninth birthday. catherine took the photo of princess charlotte with a beaming smile. it comes as the family continues to navigate catherine's cancer treatment .

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the suspect has now been named marcus aurelio, junior monzo , 36. >> he's just arrived at court. he's going to be charged over the death of daniel anjorin, who was only 14. paul love, he was on his way to hospital. he actually died in hospital. he was just a few yards from his home. >> horrendous. >> horrendous. >> when he was killed, what a lovely looking boy, isn't he? >> what a shame, bright boy . >> what a shame, bright boy. >> what a shame, bright boy. >> religious. religious family. yeah. and they scrimped and scraped to send him to that private school, in east london. bancroft's. which was, of course, where grace o'malley kumar , who died in the kumar, who died in the nottingham towers last year and she also went there. i mean, so that's a terrible shock for that school, isn't it? >> okay. up next, this morning, tv personality and apprentice star tom skinner is going to join us on the show to discuss the tea time turmoil faced by thousands of parents across britain. if you've ever been fighting with your kids about what they're going to eat for tea or your grandchildren, you don't want to miss this. it's

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tell you about him. he was leader of the snp. i think between 2001 and 2004. utterly useless , boring, dull. and you useless, boring, dull. and you know who got rid of him? >> what do you really think? >> what do you really think? >> yeah. do you know, got rid of him. 007 himself. sean connery, one of the biggest, most generous supporters of the snp 20 years ago from his home in the bahamas, said he's got to go because he's not cutting the mustard. so within months john swinney had gone and been replaced by, sir sean connery's great mate alex salmond. now, as it happened, was the right call because three years later, alex salmond became first minister. but oh double seven retired. wow. came out of retirement. so kill off john swinney. and now why do they think now , 20 years why do they think now, 20 years later, he's going to be any better? because he isn't. he's dull and grey and boring and he's another continuity candidate because he's close to nicola sturgeon and close to humza yousaf yusuf, who stood down, nicknamed hamza useless , down, nicknamed hamza useless, of course, not by the media, but by his own flippin sister.

>> well, sean connery get involved this time. >> difficult because he's dead . >> difficult because he's dead. >> difficult because he's dead. >> i thought you might say that from the grave. i couldn't remember the grave from the grave. >> did sean connery die a couple of years ago? >> and i actually, you know, i interviewed him when i was on the times . he interviewed him when i was on the times. he was a really, really nice bloke. oh, i bet. >> well, clearly involved in politics as well. wielding influence. yeah right. moving on. a new report shows that nearly a third of parents admit that they get stressed at tea time with their children. a third what are the other two thirds doing this one stressed with their children at breakfast and lunch as well. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> some of the top frustrations are kids refusing to eat what their parents made or the children giving the food to the dog.can children giving the food to the dog. can you imagine? what would your parents have done if you gave your food to the dog? >> well, we didn't have a dog, but, but tantrums. >> tantrums at tea time? who better to talk about this in the tv? personality, the entrepreneur and dad of three, tom skinner, who you may remember, of course, from friends is tom. you're a dad of three. tom i'm not a dad. bevin. you can have a great chat about this, but tell us, how stressful

is tea time in your home? >> well, you know what? i'm very lucky that we don't have no stress in my house. but british lion eggs have been doing a little bit of research, and they found that 1 in 5 parents just giving up cooking altogether because it's hard work. or they're going down a freezer aisles and getting the same food, chicken nuggets, pizzas over and over again. but let's listen. we've got we've got to think about the kids. listen. we've got we've got to think about the kids . we've got think about the kids. we've got to think about what they're eating, and we've got to make it a bit more fun. >> tom, how old are your kids ? >> tom, how old are your kids? >> tom, how old are your kids? >> so my little boy henry is three. and my twin girls, darla and roma, are 11 months old. oh, okay. >> so maybe maybe you're not quite in the areas yet where you've got all three of them arguing back with you, tom, and i wish you luck, but what should we be doing? what should we be doing then, as parents, to make it calmer and make it fun? because it is really stressful. parents are tired. at the end of the day. they've been working all day. they've probably sat in all day. they've probably sat in a horrible commute. what do we do ? do? >> well, look, listen, like we

should do a little bit more cooking and we all forget about this . but cooking and we all forget about this. but eggs. eggs are so easy. they're full of nutrition. there's so many meals you can do . like last week, me and my little boys, three years old, i made toad in the hole and i got him to sit on the couch and i crack an egg, put in the flour, a little bit of milk, mix it up, cut in a couple of sausages in the oven, a little bit of veg. job done. do you know what i mean? but there's so many meals you can do. scrambled eggs , you can do. scrambled eggs, fritters. and they're cheap. they're affordable and they take absolute seconds to make. it's simple . simple. >> it's such a good point because we talk, parents get lectured all the time, like plan ahead with your meals. and i can't plan ahead. i don't know what i'm doing this afternoon. i certainly cannot plan a week of meals, and eggs are my go to staple . you're absolutely right. staple. you're absolutely right. quick scrambled eggs, quick omelette, something like that . omelette, something like that. and actually it doesn't. nutritious food for kids does not have to be complicated or expensive, does it, tom megxit don't like my little twin. >> he's right. so i do, sliced

avocado, bit of scrambled eggs . avocado, bit of scrambled eggs. half of it goes on the floor. half of it goes on the floor. half it goes in there. god. but they love it. and it literally takes minutes, you know what i mean? >> and, tom, do you have a rule at the tea table with your little boy? >> i know he's only three. he's probably already got a tablet. has he? or some form of device? >> yeah, she's got a little ipad, but he's only allowed to use it after dinner. so and he and i only try and let him have it. he don't. to be fair, he don't have it every single day. but maybe 30 minutes once or twice a week. i try and keep him off it because i don't want him stuck to it all day, i mean, i'm surprised that it's only a third of parents are stressed by meal times. >> i would have thought it would have been 100% of parents that are stressed by meal . are stressed by meal. >> yeah, i mean, i that's a bit of rage. i mean, listen, we all know what it's like when you get indoors from work, your cream crackered and you think, well, i've got to get the kids out to eat, you know what i mean? so i think just making it, making it simple, like you haven't got to go and get the old pizzas and

the chicken nuggets and all the unhealthy bits and pieces, like there are easy meals, including eggs that take no time at all. and you've got so many different options, so many different opfions options, so many different options and get the kids involved. >> and is it important, tom, that dad and mum have the same food with the little one or not? >> i mean, i mean, yeah , i mean >> i mean, i mean, yeah, i mean look, look what we try and what we in my house, we all sort of try and make something that we can all have together. you know, like i said, the last week i've done a toad in the hole. i do a big, like, pasta dish, one of my favourites. you're going to think it's disgusting, but it takes minutes. he's tuna, boiled egg and pasta a little bit of butter. mix it all up. it's nice. you know what i mean? yeah. and you all sit around together and he's, you know, and he's cheap. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> can we ask you another story, tom? >> we all were shocked by and horrified by what happened in hainault, which is not far from where you're based in essex, your gym that you run has been groundbreaking, tom, in that it's a place where young men or

women, i suppose, can leave anonymously. anonymously leave a knife because they might be scared to take a knife to a police station because they think they're going to get a criminal record. can you tell us more about that? and how successful it's been? >> yeah, yeah. so obviously i, i own a boxing gym called boss gym and, look, there's a real knife crime pandemic in in in london, surrounding areas out to essex and, i just thought, you know what? like, not enough. not enough things are being done. so. so in my gym, i said, look, if you if you're scared, you need to you need advice. come down to my gym boss. gym. we've got an amnesty box. i will feed you. i will give you lessons. i've got trainers and they'll do it for free. i've spent £20,000 this year of my own money doing it, you know, and, i've been, i've been. i chat to the council. there's just. no, there's no, haven't got any money for funding to help young kids and, and there's, there's an age from like the age of 13 to 17 where they ain't old enough to get jobs or go in the pubs and they're, they're too

cool to hang around the park. so we need to find things. and they need occupation, don't they? >> we've got to keep them. we've got to keep them busy. we've got to keep them busy. tom. and we are unfortunately very busy. but it's been lovely to talk to you this morning. thank you so much. >> well done. >> well done. >> you with that scheme, tom? well done. you with that scheme. >> go home and make some eggs for the kids. couldn't agree with. right? >> thanks. good luck with the twins. >> thanks so much, tom skinner, that bloke. >> right. that's a great scheme. it's a great scheme. >> and you need more of it because they're always announcing amnesties for knife guns. and you think he's going to take a knife to a police station? >> you idiots? absolutely. they won't. >> do you want people like tom skinner happy birthday, princess charlotte. >> royal highness, to you. >> royal highness, to you. >> she's celebrating her ninth birthday. this wonderful picture has been released by the prince and princess of wales. i can't call a child her royal highness , call a child her royal highness, this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> now beverly's very excited. even though she's not been ianed even though she's not been invited to the birthday party of her royal highness. princess charlotte. she is, of course, third in line to the throne. she is, of course, the daughter of the prince and princess of wales. >> look. it's nice. it's a nine year old girl who's having a birthday at royal farms from around the globe. >> my old mate kevin maguire saying nine year old girl whose birthday who cares? >> i love the royal family now do i? i didn't, i was always a little bit ambivalent, but i think you get it with age, don't you? and also they are our british identity and we lose them up there. >> they're a bit of escapism too. >> and don't we need it? >> and don't we need it? >> and don't we need it? >> and they're cute. those kids they are. >> and i like the fact that they miss, but the boys misbehave at the photoshoots. >> i love louis, i have a real soft spot for louis. well, we've had this picture released this morning of princess charlotte on her ninth birthday, and our royal correspondent cameron walker joins us to bask royal correspondent cameron walkerjoins us to bask in the walker joins us to bask in the glow of a nine year old girl having a birthday. go on. cameron >> absolutely. happy birthday to princess charlotte of wales. of

course. kensington palace released the photograph in the last hour on their social media channels. it was taken by the princess of wales, princess charlotte's mother, in the grounds of windsor castle in the last couple of days. and it is a very modern way that they released it again, similar to prince louis last week , they prince louis last week, they released it on social media channels, first thanking the pubuc channels, first thanking the public directly for their kind messages of support for princess charlotte's birthday. unlike what they usually would do, which is release it to the press under embargo the day before so the papers can have it the next morning. but just looking at this picture here, her her face, princess charlotte's face, it reminds me of the late queen, queen elizabeth ii and also her father, prince william. it seems to be the same smile which, clearly shows that there are a family, of course. and, she's got some nice kind of braided bracelets on her right wrist as well, looking in details in the photograph, but she's very feisty, this nine year old girl. i think she's perhaps a little

bit more outgoing than, her brother, prince george , princess brother, prince george, princess catherine describes her actually recently as the one in charge. she was spotted, reminding her older brother george, who, of course, his future king, to bow to the coffin of their great grandmother, queen elizabeth ii, back in september 2022. she's also been known to keep her younger brother, prince louis, in check on a number of occasions . prince louis was a, occasions. prince louis was a, let's say, overenthusiastic with his waving to the crowds in the carriage during trooping the colour last year, and princess charlotte just very calmly put her hand on his to calm him down a little bit. and on the balcony , prince louis accidentally smacks her his older sister, in the head, which didn't go down too well with princess charlotte, but she clearly knew she was on display and did not make too much of a fuss and kind of let it slide, perhaps, in private , there was a bit more of private, there was a bit more of a reckoning to be had with her younger brother, but no princess charlotte, of course, turning nine third in line to the throne i >> cameron. quite a lot of coverage for the fact queen

camilla at the buckingham palace reception yesterday , just the reception yesterday, just the day after we saw the king back on official engagements for the first time, saying i've been trying to hold the king back because we know he's raring to go. he wants to do, he wants to be seen like his mother. and that's camilla admitting that she's struggling to tell him really to pace himself a little because he's still undergoing treatment, of course, for cancer i >> -- >> yeah. and i think the queen isn't the only one who's been trying to tell him to perhaps take it a little bit easy. i understand the king has been, incredibly frustrated and really wanting to get back out and about on public engagements. but of course, it's all subject to medical advice and probably by extension, his wife's advice as well. her majesty the queen, peter phillips, her nephew, of course, was saying that the king very, very frustrated that he's not back out on public duties, but now he is looking towards summer. very optimistic. >> okay . thank you. cameron. >> okay. thank you. cameron. cameron walker there. you've all been getting in touch this morning to tell us what you can

do on your bank holiday weekend. we will get to some of those messages. bank holiday weekend. what are you doing monday? >> i'm not working i am, i will be here on monday morning. >> i'm working. >> i'm working. >> magnificent work ethic . >> magnificent work ethic. >> magnificent work ethic. >> write a story that was spotted our caught our eye this morning is about the number of children being prescribed sleeping pills. has doubled in seven years. why? this is britain's newsroom on gb news alex deakin has your. britain's newsroom on gb news alex deakin has your . weather. alex deakin has your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. news. news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. some places seeing some pleasant warm may sunshine today, but staying fairly cloudy in the south and in eastern areas. a chilly breeze off the north sea had some big thunderstorms through the night across the south. still a few heavy downpours here and there this morning. parts of southern england, the midlands

and south wales in particular. the rain will ease a little bit through the day, but staying fairly dull and damp across the southwest. some brighter skies for east anglia , northern for east anglia, northern england, northern ireland and a good chunk of scotland. western scotland in particular, 21, maybe 22 degrees, but much cooler on these eastern coast with that breeze coming in from the sea and cooler with the cloud and the showery rain across the southwest and quarter. that rain will continue well into this evening as well. and then later in the night, we need to look at further pulses of heavy rain, potentially further thunderstorms coming into parts of east anglia further north. it generally stays dry. there'll be some clearer spells, but quite a bit of cloud that'll keep the temperatures up 9 to 11 celsius. to on tomorrow and it's a similar story. we're going to start pretty grey over the midlands and wales with some outbreaks of rain, but heavier rain coming into parts of eastern england. so a different feel across northeast england in particular. again, the potential for 1 or 2 thunderstorms, brighter day in southwest england again, chilly on some of

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gb news. way. >> 11 am. on thursday. the 2nd of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so about 300 people. i think that figure is greater now . have that figure is greater now. have been arrested during police crackdowns on pro—palestinian protests and groups at universities in america. would you like to see our police taking such strict action here and closer to home? >> students in leeds, newcastle, bristol and it's spreading elsewhere are now protesting outside campus buildings about the war in gaza and a royal happy birthday. >> princess charlotte celebrates

her ninth birthday this morning. this lovely photo has been released. don't even start talking about whether it's been edited. i can't have that conversation again . conversation again. >> so i'm bowing to the princess because she's hrh rwanda legal challenge. just one migrant has voluntarily, voluntarily gone to the african country and a leading civil service union. guess what? it's threatening to use the courts to try to scupper the plans for any more to go. of course they are . course they are. >> and we're going to be talking to a pharmacist about this shocking story about sleeping pills for children , including pills for children, including babies. nearly three quarters of a million sleeping pills for children being prescribed in this country. why? let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com forward slash yourself first though the very latest news with sophia wenzler.

>> thank you bev. good morning . >> thank you bev. good morning. it's 1101. >> thank you bev. good morning. it's1101. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . 36 year old the gb newsroom. 36 year old marcus aurelio arduini monzo ipso is due to appear in court charged with the murder of 14 year old daniel anjorin following a sword attack in north—east london. daniel was fatally injured as he walked to school on tuesday morning . four school on tuesday morning. four other people, including two police officers, were injured , police officers, were injured, the met police say monzo, from newham, is a dual spanish brazilian national. he has now arrived at westminster magistrates court 711 people were detected crossing the engush were detected crossing the english channel on wednesday, the highest number on a single day so far this year, according to home office figures . it to home office figures. it bnngs to home office figures. it brings the total number who have crossed the channel so far this year to nearly 8300. that's 34% higher than a total at the same point last year. in other news,

voters are heading to the polls today in a series of local elections across the country. there are elections in 107 local authorities across england, as well as 11 mayoral races. a by—election will elect a new blackpool south mp following the resignation of former conservative scott benton. police and crime commissioners will also be chosen. prime minister rishi sunak has been out campaigning today. meanwhile labour leader keir starmer was at the polling station earlier and reform party leader richard tice was also out casting his vote this morning . former deputy vote this morning. former deputy first minister john swinney has confirmed he's running to succeed humza yousaf as both snp leader and scotland's first minister. if successful, it will be the second time mr swinney, who was deputy first minister for more than eight years under nicola sturgeon , has led his nicola sturgeon, has led his party. he previously held the post between 2000 and 2004. speaking in edinburgh a short time ago, he confirmed he would

be running for first minister on the watch of the snp government to create a modern, diverse , to create a modern, diverse, dynamic scotland that will ensure opportunity for all of our citizens . our citizens. >> i want to unite the snp and unite scotland for independence i'iow. now. >> today could be the warmest day of the year so far after warnings for heavy rain and thunderstorms overnight across southern parts of england and wales, two buildings in sussex were damaged by lightning strikes overnight , were damaged by lightning strikes overnight, according to west sussex fire and rescue. a care home in elma was struck with damage to its roof while a university building in chichester sustained damage to its roof and power system. storms hit the south—east, south—west and wales. the met office has advised the storms might cause travel disruption and some flooding , leading to and some flooding, leading to difficult driving conditions on some roads , students have set up some roads, students have set up sit in camps at some uk

universities to protest israel's war against hamas. students in leeds, newcastle and bristol set up tents outside campus buildings in protest against the war in gaza. it comes amid violent clashes between the police and protesters at universities in the us . about universities in the us. about 300 people were arrested during police crackdowns on demonstrations at us universities yesterday, and hundreds of police descended on the ucla campus as protests continue there today and donald trump's been threatened with jail as he returns back to court later. the former us president will face another hearing on further alleged breaches of a 939 further alleged breaches of a gag order earlier in the week, he was fined over £7,000 for multiple breaches of different 939 multiple breaches of different gag orders, with the judge suggesting he could be jailed if further breaches continued . us further breaches continued. us political analyst eric hamm says donald trump is in a face off

with the judge today . with the judge today. >> i think what will certainly send many people in a tizzy is, in fact, if there's a way to actually jail donald trump, there are many who believe that it's nearly impossible to actually place a former president in jail because of the fact that there is a secret service, a duty to actually protect him. so of course, many people will be watching to see if in fact , the judge is willing if in fact, the judge is willing to go that far. and i think what we're seeing here is donald trump and this judge in a, in a face off to actually determine who actually wins . because i who actually wins. because i think what we're seeing take place is a game of chicken between both of these men right now . now. >> and the prince and princess of wales have released a photograph of their daughter to mark her ninth birthday. kathy lynn took the photo of princess charlotte with a beaming smile . charlotte with a beaming smile. it comes as the family continues to navigate catherine's cancer treatment . and for the latest treatment. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news

alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts. now it's back to andrew and . bev. to andrew and. bev. >> it's 1106. to andrew and. bev. >> it's1106. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. lots of you getting in touch at home about this sleeping pill story. adrian, who is a gb news member. thank you adrian for your continued and important support. so schools can't make kids do anything. restrictive practice has gone mad. i hated p.e, but i had to do it. or you met the wrath of the teacher . and lee wrath of the teacher. and lee makes a great point. unfortunately, i think the 60 year old's onwards are the last generation that were so naturally brought up. but unfortunately, this now this is progress and we have to accept it. but you don't have to get used to it. >> it wasn't just mum and dads as well who was strict, it was the schools. >> yeah, the teachers were strict at school and they worked with the parents and now it feels like the parents are against the school so often. yeah, we're talking about this because children in this country, in the grips of a sleep

crisis , the number of pills crisis, the number of pills dished out has doubled in just seven years. >> apparently it's the stresses of modern day life, including widespread use of phones and tablets, have left youngsters unable to switch off at night. so why are they giving them, though, to babies? how can they be? >> let's ask a pharmacist at torin, govind thorin govan. good morning thorin, thank you so much for joining morning thorin, thank you so much forjoining us. your you're much for joining us. your you're a pharmacist and so you are the person who sees the parents when they come to you with their prescription for their child. are you often aware that it is a sleep prescription like for the child. is that obvious to you? >> well, whenever we receive a prescription, we're always assessing the age of that, of the need. we're asking parents. i always involve parents in discussions about medication, but i mean, this is a this is a national issue that we're heanng national issue that we're hearing about here. and 154 of the prescriptions prescribed were to those under one years old. and this really is, you know, worrying to me that we're having such young people

struggling with sleep. i think this is part of some of the pandemic issues that are continuing to boil over and if we think about the pandemic, it's had a big impact on people's lives, children's lives as well. and to it is just make me sad to see the numbers being prescribed here. but nhs guidelines say , we wouldn't guidelines say, we wouldn't usually have sleep medication prescribed to kids unless it's for short term treatment . so for short term treatment. so really it sounds like these cases are extreme. need but even so, it's not a happy picture, is it ? so? it? so? >> and if it was in your pharmacy and you see the prescription, would you be aware that the prescription for the sleeping aid was for a baby under the age of one? and if you were aware, would you have a conversation with the parent to say this is not advisable? >> so my usual practice is if it's a child, i would always query with, you know, we're really, really hot on querying prescriptions for children . and

prescriptions for children. and i find out what the prescriber has told the parent about that medication, what they're expecting it for. i asked them what dose they are expecting to provide to the child because ultimately, you know, in that position, you've got a parent who is going to be doing the administration and making sure that a child takes their medication. >> and the temptation would be, if they don't go to sleep, i'll just give them a bit more, just give them a bit more. >> could you say no to the parent? i'm not going to prescribe this. >> so fundamentally with any prescription i have a duty of care. so if there's anything that i have concerns about, i raise that with the prescriber and with the parents. that would be part of my duty as a healthcare professional . and we healthcare professional. and we are not i'm not here giving out prescriptions here, there and everywhere. it's not a free for all. when you come into a pharmacy because we're a regulated healthcare professionals. so it's my duty to ask the question as to whether a prescription is needed or not. >> and in the case of a baby, could you imagine any scenario in which a baby needs that

medication ? ian, i can't help medication? ian, i can't help but think that medication is not for the baby. it's for the parents who don't want to wake up at 3:00 in the morning and do a breastfeed, or do a bottle feed or whatever it is. >> well, in my practice, i have to say i have never seen this scenario of a sleep medication for a for a child for a baby. i have not seen it, but i would be questioning it. i would be querying it. we do get we do get people coming into the pharmacy asking for certain medications which are known to induce sleep. and we ask a lot of questions about that because we're concerned that they could be coming in to buy those to get their child to go to sleep, and that's buying that over—the—counter. so i'm aware of these issues. we are aware of the ways that people may use medication in different ways to how they are actually there. so we're always on the lookout. i'm asking questions. that's part of my job, and i wouldn't be doing my job, and i wouldn't be doing my job, and i wouldn't be doing my job if i didn't do that. >> what are the side effects of a sleeping medication for a

child? because we're all sitting here. you and i are assuming this is bad. i think it is. i think it's bad because it develops a i think it develops a relationship between that child and medication as the solution to their problems. i think you teach that dangerously to children, actually, but what side effects might there be? >> well, they i hate to say this , but one of those side effects is drowsiness. and you'll see that written on the packaging. but we have to say it to patients and you know, it. it depends on different people, different ages as well as to and evenin different ages as well as to and even in an individual, if you took a sleeping aid, that would impact you differently to how it would impact me. and obviously not for a child , but if i'd had not for a child, but if i'd had alcohol, that would probably have a higher impact on me than if you haven't had alcohol. if, evenin if you haven't had alcohol. if, even in terms of just the grogginess, when you wake up, even for a child, they will experience that differently . but experience that differently. but this also comes back down to prevention . then what are we prevention. then what are we educating patients, parents and

even schools with when it comes to sleep? because it's all part of what are we teaching children? you know, 30 to 60 minutes before you go to bed? you shouldn't be using ipads. you shouldn't be using ipads. you shouldn't be using technology . but i see this even technology. but i see this even when we're out and about, you know, people do give their children an ipad to almost look after them whilst they're getting on with their day to day. it has a place, but i don't think it has a complete place in in the world we learn so much by looking at the prams, don't they? and seeing the world going by and learning things. but are they getting that from an ipad ? they getting that from an ipad? >> and darren, what does this say about doctors who are making these prescriptions to the 154 children under the age of one? and so the quarter of a million, under three quarters of a million under the age of 16 is this doctors being lazy? just get the problem off their hands. or because it seems to me a bit more serious, i think it's irresponsible. >> well , it irresponsible. >> well, it is. i would say 154 is not a huge number. if you

think about the number of babies and children born in this country, etc. but but i would also say it's a really difficult decision for a prescriber. and i think that by the same token, that i think that by the same token, that! go think that by the same token, that i go into all those details and ask those questions. when it comes to children, prescribers are more careful when it comes to children, and we do have to have this awareness as well that we're treating a child, and we also have to get that information from an adult. it's not easy to communicate for a child that they're not sleeping, is it? or why they're not sleeping in the same way that i might talk to you about how, you know, you might be, you might have got up early and you're not having the same sleep routine every day. it is hard to train children to get into sleep routines. i completely empathise with parents, even when i go and see nieces and nephews and i go and i'm leaving the house, i always try and say, send them to bed and then we'll say goodbye after because you can really disrupt sleep routines quite easily for children. yeah. >> very true . well, brilliant >> very true. well, brilliant pharmacist there. thorin govind,

full of common sense and caution. and that's what we need with children. >> but what does it say about these gps? half the time we can't get to see them. but frankly, some of these parents i don't think they're being helped by these gps. >> they're not. but then the gps are probably younger themselves and they don't have an adult or and they don't have an adult or a grandparent in their life. my mom is the one who's empowered me to say, shut the door and go make a cup of tea. and if they're still awake, then tell them, go to sleep. and then again you shut the door and my kids have always slept really well, but i have my mom telling me my mum will have six little grandchildren under the age of nine in her spare room, in her house. and guess what? those six little girls all go to sleep because they're more scared of nana coming back in than they are of staying awake. and we need a little bit of that good old fashioned, kind discipline with love. and it's like today's parents are so worried about getting it wrong that they're always capitulating to the children. >> i just can't conceive of sticking a sleeping pill in a nine year old's mouth because. because they can't sleep or they're having nightmares. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and get the kids off the

devices at least two hours, or they go to sleep . yeah, everyone they go to sleep. yeah, everyone knows that that's you're too wired when you go to. >> that's right. one of the messages says, so what if people are tired? how are they going to feel after a 12 hour shift, when they get a job, you know, and this is the thing we're thinking about. we are kind of pathologizing even just being tired. it's normal to feel tired and go to bed. the kids should be going to bed tired . and be going to bed tired. and graham says, where do the kids get the money for these mobile phones? the parents have got something to do with it. >> well, that's it anyway. look, still to come the harry potter star daniel radcliffe hasn't done much since. has he has refused to apologise to j.k. rowling. in fact, he says he's sad about their friendship ending and it's all over the rift over trans rights because he doesn't defend her right to say trans women aren't women. you're with britain's newsroom on .

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because obviously, it's suddenly come out of nowhere that , huge come out of nowhere that, huge numbers of migrants are leaving the uk , going into ireland and the uk, going into ireland and ireland do not like it, now ireland do not like it, now ireland are in this very bizarre situation where their court said that they can't deport migrants back to the uk because there is a risk of them then being sent to rwanda. and that makes the uk not a safe country right . so the not a safe country right. so the government satire died. the government satire died. the government is going to have to. the government in dublin is going to have to do what our government did and ignore the courts and legislate to make the uk a safe country, as we have done with rwanda. >> and we will ignore the legislation anyway. >> yeah. so it's a very, very, very ironic scenario that ireland, all these people in the, all the, you know, leaders in the eu looking down on the uk for what it's done over rwanda and are now having to do the same and the and the tents. >> maloney they were unlike us. we put them in hotels at vast expense. this is the refugees were in tents in dublin in particular, 1700 people were in these tents and there was no

sanitation, no toilets, no washing facilities. >> so you can imagine what the streets of dublin were like. but you know, this the thing. so what they did was they brought in a big air crane with a truck and they just mowed the tents down. i think the guardian called it people in quotes. >> were people in the tents? >> were people in the tents? >> no, of course not. they got them out the tents first. but them out the tents first. but the guardian called it cleansing, which i thought was a bit dramatic. but anyway, the streets probably did need cleaning after all that, and they've washed all the streets down and they've put them in. >> must have stank. >> must have stank. >> well, you can imagine if you're on your way to work and you're on your way to work and you're walking past people who have no toilets anyway, so they've now moved them to a place, where they have waterproof tents and toilet facilities and showers. and now the costs begin because they're an island, is going to get a taste of what we have had for the last, well, however many years, 4 or 5 years with people coming over. but i find their attitude hysterical. the screaming hypocrites . if we screaming hypocrites. if we hadnt screaming hypocrites. if we hadn't mowed down a load of tents, yeah, they would have said inhumane, cruel, whatever, now they're saying what? what is happening here? because 80% of the migrants they have had have

crossed through the border that island, the dublin insisted, together with the eu, that should be an open border. no cameras hoist by their own petard, one would say. right, thoroughly and utterly deserved . thoroughly and utterly deserved. and as sam just said, they want to send them back here. but their own courts decided that we're not safe. >> so i'm sorry. i'm enjoying every minute of this sunak, i think i think many people might be in the i think it's sunak kwasi has not to back down on this because he has said there's no way on god's earth we're taking the migrants back here, you know, not until france takes them back, which france won't. he which they weren't. so let's hope he keeps to his word . you hope he keeps to his word. you know, rishi is doing well at the moment, so let's hope he keeps to his word on this and does what he says he's going to do. >> so right. let's talk about the garrick club, shall we? oh, this is so. >> i have to declare an interest. >> i'm a new member. >> i'm a new member. >> a new member. >> a new member. >> i've only been a member about six weeks, and it's been maybe not after today, 1831, which is about the year that you were born, i think. >> isn't it? taking you a long time, andrew, to get your membership? so this has been

rambling on and on. so it was a guardian story. it was on front page of the guardian and we both sat that morning went, is it really that important? >> only cabinet secretary is a member of the garrick and he resigns. well what a worse time. what a worse, what a worse. >> so some of the members now, sam, are saying, if you don't let women in, there's about 1500 members. if you don't let women in. we're leaving. yeah but do you know what? >> what the funny thing is about this? it's not because they're so desperate to share all this space with women. it's because of the bad publicity. their statement says that the adverse pubuchyis statement says that the adverse publicity is affecting their professional relationships, and this is because they want women in their sting. exactly, stephen. but it's sting and stephen. but it's sting and stephen fry. >> yeah, yeah. but pearce, you have said and i know you have said that you don't want women in there because you don't want a bow to the guardians demands, and guardians does de—man say about women are in the club? >> they can buy a drink at the bar. >> we've been together. >> we've been together. >> we've been together. >> we have? yeah. and they've got i think there's only about one place they can't go, which is under the stairs. >> and i very small area. i

went, i went there, it sounds like i went there and they can be and they can be associate members but not full members and they can they can eat in the same place. >> so it's a lot of fuss about nothing. but what i find outrageous is that these so—called titans of british government, like the cabinet secretary and head of m16, panic because the guardian puts on the front page they're members of the club. the membership list, by the way, is public. it is a pubuc by the way, is public. it is a public list. resigned from the club, and now there's pressure for the club to take women . for the club to take women. what? because the guardian says so. yeah, exactly. >> why does i. >> why does i. >> why do i want that old rat to decide who's members of a club that's been around since 1831? >> members, carol have basically been blackmailed into virtue signalling. yes. that they will support women. i think you can be a member of this club and still think you like to have women to have equal rights. >> i think that a lot of women will say, do you know what? i don't want to be a member of your club. why would i want to go and sit with a whole load of people like pearce having out the week, and there's a lot of

them a lot older than him, let me tell you, there's a lot of old footage in there, and i've read a lot of women columnist saying just that. >> have your own women, have a women's only club. >> funny enough, i'm one person. >> funny enough, i'm one person. >> you are? i have written a column, he forgets, but there's been women's clubs and they don't. >> they don't like women. don't want to do it. you know, women aren't bothered about it. >> the last time i was at the garrick, there were almost as many women in the restaurant as men. >> and it's much nicer to be taken and have somebody pay for you.then taken and have somebody pay for you. then have to pay for yourself. >> that's exactly right. you can't buy a drink. >> there's going to be a vote for this on 7th of may, and the committee will decide whether they should admit women to the club. and would you give up your membership if they said no, i wouldn't give it up because it can take 3 or 4 years to get to get your membership. >> it didn't take me that long, because i had a very good campaign manager to get me in one piers pottinger, i'm sorry to interrupt you all, but we've got some breaking news now. >> we want to go to mark white. this is about the 36 year old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of the 14 year old boy who was killed in that sword attack in east london. a home security artist,

mark white, is here to tell us all about it. mark, what do we know? >> well, this was 36 year old marcus monzo from newham in east london. jules spanish , brazilian london. jules spanish, brazilian national who appeared in the dock here at westminster magistrates court. he was driven to court in a prison van which was escorted by police vans, arriving here this morning at westminster magistrates court for that appearance in the dock here at court number one of this magistrates court. now the defendant was wearing a prison issue grey tracksuit. he spoke only to confirm his name and he is charged with a number of counts, including murder. the murder of schoolboy daniel anjorin on tuesday morning, the 14 year old was killed just outside his house not far from hainault tube station in east london. this defendant also

faces two other charges of attempted murder two charges of grievous bodily harm, a charge of, aggravate burglary and a charge of possessing a bladed article. now, according to the prosecution, as they set out some of the details of this case, the first victim was struck by what the crown claimed was a samurai sword. that victim struck in the neck and injured , struck in the neck and injured, and a second victim was then allegedly attacked in their own bedroom. and then the third victim, daniel anjorin, was struck and fatally wounded in the neck by again by this samurai sword. two police officers were also attacked and seriously injured, according to the crown. now this man, marcus monzo has been remanded back into custody. he will appear again at the central criminal court. a date of the 7th of may

has been set aside, but they are trying to see if they can fit a court date in tomorrow morning. but for the time being, he has been remanded back into custody . been remanded back into custody. >> vie okay. thank you. >> vie okay. thank you. >> matt. >> matt. >> white court, we've got caroline. sam still with us? >> look, you know , this is this >> look, you know, this is this little boy, daniel anjorin . he little boy, daniel anjorin. he had such a bright future ahead of him, you know, he's a really clever lad. and his mum saw him after this happened. his parents. you never, never get over the murder of a child. but in this way, having seen it, i mean, it's just it's beyond. and, you know , it's interesting and, you know, it's interesting that today it's bad timing for starmer today . but in the papers starmer today. but in the papers it's been, it's been we've all been reminded his opposition to the use of tasers with police. you know we saw cops there . one you know we saw cops there. one of them nearly had a hand hacked off. another cop was hurt . and off. another cop was hurt. and two other members of the public hurt. you know, if there's those police people hadn't had tasers, there would have been dead

today. and starmer has been campaigning for years, along with a lot of other liberals, saying we shouldn't use tasers because they heard people and, well, they're supposed to hurt. but but that police officer who got you know, you have to get really close with the taser and that guy's wielding that sword, which is, you know, about two foot long. you have to get really close or they don't connect. >> we debate still yesterday on the program and we talked and i would say every police officer force should have a taser routinely. because police officers should not be forced, sam, into a situation where you're confronting someone with a two foot long blade and don't have any means to, to turn them the days of the whistle and the truncheon are over. >> that is true. i think, with taser, certainly. i think that tasers very much very pro police carrying tasers, but i think actually firearms, i think is a step too far. >> i agree with that. do you. >> i agree with that. do you. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i, i don't because you've got to think, carol, that in the last few years, particularly since covid, they've recruited so many police officers by zoom,

they don't really know who these people are. >> and so for me, it should only be the elite. it should only be the ones who've been properly trained, who you really know, who they are, but tasers. fine. but, but, but they are, they are highly trained and i and i think , you know, i was talking to two police, retired police chiefs yesterday and both of them said, you know, if you'd asked me five years ago about firearms on princes, we would have said , princes, we would have said, absolutely not. >> both of them are saying that the times have changed and that crime has changed. and violent crime has changed. and violent crime is rocketing . there's, you crime is rocketing. there's, you know, it's there's no way to control it anymore. and i'm not saying that every cop should carry a gun, but i think in circumstances like that they should be a gun because they could have taken him. you don't have to shoot to kill. you can take them down. >> you know, we have to wrap up there, ladies. thank you so much. sam and carol. latest headunes much. sam and carol. latest headlines now with sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> bev. thank you. it's 1131. >> bev. thank you. it's1131. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb

newsroom as we've just been hearing, a spanish brazilian national has appeared in court charged with the murder of schoolboy daniel anjorin in north—east london. marcus aurelio arduini monzo unsew, from newham in london, is also charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of grievous bodily harm. the prosecution alleges the defendant was armed with a samurai sword. daniel was fatally injured as he walked to school on tuesday morning . four school on tuesday morning. four other people, including two police officers, were injured . police officers, were injured. former deputy first minister john swinney has confirmed he's running to succeed humza yousaf, as both snp leader and scotland's first minister. if successful, it will be the second time mr swinney, who was deputy first minister for more than eight years under nicola sturgeon, has led his party. he previously held the post between 2000 and 2004, 711 people were

detected crossing the english channel on wednesday, the highest number on a single day so far this year. that's according to the home office figures . it according to the home office figures. it brings the total number who've crossed so far this year to nearly 8300. that's 34% higher than the total at the same point last year. 34% higher than the total at the same point last year . and voters same point last year. and voters are heading to the polls today in a series of local elections across the country. there are elections in 107 local authorities across england, as well as 11 mayoral races. a by—election will elect a new blackpool south mp following the resignation of former conservative scott benton. police and crime commissioners will also be chosen. prime minister rishi sunak has been out and about campaigning today. meanwhile, labour leader keir starmer was at the polling station earlier and reform party leader richard tice was also out casting his vote this morning . casting his vote this morning. and for the latest stories, sign

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tonight that technically, that's tomorrow, andrew. >> that starts at midnight. so i'm gonna go home and try and get some beauty sleep in between. are you actually this show? sensible? >> i think you should. >> i think you should. >> that's sensible. we've got so much coming up today, though. a large gin and tonic that won't help me for the programme through the night. >> no, that's. >> no, that's. >> no, that's. >> no, we're not advocating booze to get an energy drink. no, we've got so much coming up on on the show though this afternoon. and tom will be full of beans. full of beans, have you seen protesters are slashing tires of a bus, throwing e—bikes under the bus ? because this is a under the bus? because this is a bus that was flagged to take migrants from a london hotel to guess what the bibby stockholm barge. so we've got protesters donning covid masks , slashing donning covid masks, slashing tires. they don't want this bus to take migrants from a london hotel to the bibby stockholm. it's quite crazy scenes. we'll have some picture for you in bit. >> and the question is to what extent is this the sign of things to come? we saw the footage break yesterday of the home office rounding up those who have been earmarked to go to rwanda with these protests . now,

rwanda with these protests. now, on those, on those that are even going to go to the bibby stockholm, what more could we expect for those that have been earmarked to get on flights to rwanda? it could be a real moment of resistance and a test for this government. yeah. but also today, north of the border , also today, north of the border, we're expecting, a will she won't she moment will kate forbes this afternoon throw her hat into the ring to be the next snp leader? of course, in your airtime we've seen, john swinney declare mr exciting mr exciting. will he be coronated will this be a coronation or will he have a challenger. >> yes, because kate forbes is more popular with the general scottish public. is she not? but will the snp allow her to be leader, or will they just go with a boring continuity candidate? >> she could work with the greens with their mad views on gender identity and all the rest of it, because she's such a, by her own virtue, socially conservative. this is the problem here that the snp face. >> either they choose the candidate who's popular in the country but couldn't hold

together a coalition. they could not in parliament, or they pick the candidate who can hold together some sort of deal in the parliament, but is less popular in the country. >> he's grey and boring. he did it before and he was hopeless. >> and more from midday. nothing hopeless with emily and tom. for now, though, this is britain's newsroom on gb news. stay with .

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tonight at midnight on. gb news. >> 1140 with britain's newsroom on gb news. with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. you just finishing your digestive biscuit there? >> we haven't . what about yours? >> we haven't. what about yours? ihave >> we haven't. what about yours? i have to provide them. actually to be fair, bev does bring in croissants on a thursday. >> now , exciting moments if >> now, exciting moments if you're in scotland in particular, because john swinney , the former snp deputy first minister, has announced he's running to be humza yousaf replacement as leader of the scottish national party. >> here's what he had to say earlier this morning . earlier this morning. >> i want to build on the work of the snp government to create a modern, diverse, dynamic scotland that will ensure opportunity for all of our citizens . i want to unite the citizens. i want to unite the snp and unite scotland for independence , and that was just independence, and that was just before he got a ringing endorsement from andrew pierce, who said he was the most boring. >> he's boring. i've met him a few times, he's boring and he's dull and as i pointed out earlier, he was seen off when he

was leader of the scottish national party before, not by the voters, but by one. >> what's his name? sean connery. yeah >> who bev said. is he still very involved with scottish national party politics? said tricky. really, because he's been dead for three years. >> i should have known. >> i should have known. >> always on the pulse. >> always on the pulse. >> joining us now is our scotland reporter, tony maguire, a man who is on the pulse. how has this nomination, this thrown his hat in the ring? tony, how's it been greeted up there in scotland? >> good morning. well, certainly it was the worst kept secret essentially in scottish politics over the last few days. and john swinney it was seemed like one by one the humza yousaf's cabinet lined up behind to endorse the former deputy first minister. indeed, former leader of the snp way back in 2003. give or take and but indeed, you know, he came out fighting and he immediately addressed one of the key concerns , complaints of the key concerns, complaints of his detractors , which was how his detractors, which was how long would he really stick about

here? you know , he's made a name here? you know, he's made a name for himself as a as a loyal party man and as a key supporting character to the likes of nicola sturgeon. but he came out saying, i am not an interim and i am not a caretaker. he has full intention to take the party to a victory in the 2026 scottish election. you know, and obviously the interesting discourse that i've been around this political race ever since humza yousaf's resignation on monday has been on kate forbes as well. we're still to hear we'd expecting something of a statement, but i think the key there is in the wording. so john swinney on stage this morning, he said that he really wants kate forbes to play he really wants kate forbes to play a huge part in his government if he is successful in being elected as the snp leader and first minister and, and, you know, this was it, his launch event this morning. but this afternoon we are told that we will hear a statement from kate forbes. is that a signal that perhaps she will not throw

her hat in her ring? this time? lots of chat going on about if kate forbes was to end up running up again against the likes of john swinney. you know how much gravitas could she really have if she wanted to throw her hat in the ring? a third time, etc? you know, i think the snp, the party line is she still has some to learn . you she still has some to learn. you know, i undeniably she's been hit with the most vitriolic gibberish , shall we call it on gibberish, shall we call it on social media in the last few days? again bringing in her religion, which is always funny because of course , john man, because of course, john man, john swinney is a man of faith himself . so john swinney is a man of faith himself. so indeed, all eyes on kate forbes this afternoon . but kate forbes this afternoon. but john swinney will be feeling quite good about himself after this morning's event. >> all right, that's tony mcguire in scotland. of course, we'll know later this afternoon whether kate forbes is going to throw. it doesn't seem, tony, that she's going to. >> no, she probably should. >> no, she probably should. >> well, there'll be a probably it's what they, what they do at

the men in suits. it's what they, what they do at the men in suits . women in the men in suits. women in suits. they'll stitch up a deal behind the scenes. >> i think you'll probably get get swinney in. yeah, it is the men. >> yeah, right. still to come? we're seeing live pictures of police in california as they prepare to clear out more than a thousand pro—palestine protesters , as there's protesters, as there's a crackdown on student demonstrations going on right now across the us. we're going to be talking to an expert on this. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on .

gb news. good morning. it's 1148. gb news. good morning. it's1148. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. now we are joined in the studio by jennifer ewing, a spokesperson for republicans overseas. and, jennifer, we just want to bring some of this live footage in of events in america . footage in of events in america.

now, explain to us why this is issue, particularly because we've seen students over the years. they always love a good protest. and thank goodness that we do have students who will stand up for what they believe in. but this is tipped over now into something almost unprecedented. >> just listen on the radio. >> just listen on the radio. >> this is the violent demonstrations now at two universities over gaza. >> absolutely . and i think what >> absolutely. and i think what started out back in october sinner as very organic protests, you know, you know , free speech, you know, you know, free speech, all of that against what's going on in gaza, israel, all of that against what's going on in gaza, israel , that started on in gaza, israel, that started out very organic, student led something changed in the last week where this went from that issue, being, you know, led by the students to somebody else taking over. this is now very well organised. it's very well funded. it's spread all throughout the united states to various campuses. and this is no longer about the gaza israel issue. this is very, very anti—american . it's very anti—american. it's very anti—west. it's very anti—capitalist . so it's kind of

anti—capitalist. so it's kind of the rerun of the playbook of blm, of antifa. >> black lives matters , black >> black lives matters, black lives matter. >> you know, all the protests and the damage we saw in the february, excuse me, the summer of 2020. so this has moved beyond the original cause, i mean , sure, there's still some mean, sure, there's still some underlying things there, but it's moved way beyond that. you know, it's very well funded. look across at the tents. they all have the same array tents , all have the same array tents, you know, and they've even people who have admitted to saying yes , we are supporting this. >> and who would they be? who are those people? >> well, it's open society, which is george soros group. oh, him. yes for sure. and then we already know he supports different various das chicago , different various das chicago, san francisco, various places like that. >> and he got involved in britain in the anti—brexit campaign. >> yes, £400,000. he gave outrageous a foreign national getting involved in our referendum. >> exactly . so you touched upon >> exactly. so you touched upon the violence. now a lot of what's happening in some of these schools is the students,

you know, who are trying to get an education. you know, it's the season of finals and graduation , season of finals and graduation, a lot of the students are pushing back. so you've seen everything from some jewish students pushing back on the ucla campus. that's university of california , los angeles, the of california, los angeles, the university of north carolina . we university of north carolina. we saw these fraternity boys. i don't know if you saw this , that don't know if you saw this, that when a palestinian flag had been put up, a group of fraternity boys got together, pulled it down, put up the american flag, and somebody it was quite funny, said, give these fraternity boys a keg party. right. do you know how much has been raised a keg party? do you know? it's like what we all do in college. yeah, yeah. do you know how much has been raised in 24 hours? $300,000? >> wow. that's so. >> wow. that's so. >> that's serious money for a keg party, you know, which is kind of a joke that's organised, but it's people, like, that's all going to go for beer. it's all going to go for beer. it's all going to go for beer. it's all going to go for beer. and, you know, so there's a couple of things happening here for people who really are concerned about

the gaza israel issue, there are issues being hijacked by all of these protests. you know, you saw the people at columbia , the, saw the people at columbia, the, lock themselves in hamilton hall did damage, demanded, you know, humanitarian aid in the, you know, in the in the sense of, you know, their uber eats and all this sort of stuff. so it's gone beyond the pale. >> just is this damaging? trump has. sorry, it's not trump. biden has spoken out, but belatedly and not very emphatic. is this going to become an issue that's going to hurt him? >> yeah, i mean, that's a great question. and it's becoming very much a political issue. and you're seeing not only are you seeing some of the way the states handle it, right, say a florida and a texas will have cracked down quite hard, right? versus california. new york are probably where a lot of the violence and home of the democrats. exactly. so right there you've got biden. you're right. he took about a week or so to come out and say something very wishy washy . there's a

very wishy washy. there's a chance last night, which i can't repeat, but it was basically both sides of the protest. so the protesters and the anti protesters chanting f joe biden. so the joke is, oh wow. you know, we've united the country. >> so he's alienating both sides. >> he's alienating both sides a bit like a bit like the starmer situation here. >> yeah yeah absolutely a ceasefire and it dividing both sides. >> exactly. whereas trump has come out very much in favour. say let's take the new york situation very much in favour of the new york police department. you know, he's a big backer of the police . so he's come out and the police. so he's come out and say, hey, this was a really difficult job for them to do to break into this hamilton building and, you know, stop it. but as, as with everything with, former president trump, this would have never occurred on his watch, you know? so this wouldn't have occurred on his watch. you should have shut this down when they were in the tents. >> but this is the gift of being an opposition. >> it is. yes, very much. and a lot of these issues, you know, you were asking earlier about the court cases and while not

ideal because it's kept him off the, the campaign trail , before the, the campaign trail, before and after his trials in new york. he's been a genius, you know, sort of campaigner , in new know, sort of campaigner, in new york, which is which is usually quite blue. but he's gone to see the construction workers outside of jp morgan. that same night, biden went to a very, very expensive fundraiser with the actor michael douglas . so you're actor michael douglas. so you're really seeing the divergence of the candidates and, you know, kind of the real america versus the elites. >> okay. jennifer brilliant, fascinating. jennifer ewing there. now, of course we will be i will be back on monday and you will be enjoying a lovely bank houday will be enjoying a lovely bank holiday weekend. >> i think i'll be working because of these elections . because of these elections. >> are there andrew having a little break maybe. coming up on our show, you've been showing that extraordinary footage from the united states . we're going the united states. we're going to be heading to some rather smaller scale protests. actually in the united kingdom, it seems our students are playing copycat

. how far could that go? and also protests in london on a bus that's taking migrants from a london hotel to the bibby stockholm barge has had its tires slashed and e—bikes thrown under its path. what is going on? all that to come and what's happening in scotland? >> live events in our time. see that next? >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello again! here's your latest gb news weather brought to you by the met office. northern parts will stay dry as we go through the rest of today, but further south we have some thundery showery rain and that's in association with a front that's trailing across central parts at the moment. and we do have low pressure towards the southeast, and that's brought quite a blustery, breezy theme for many of us. but it is the heavy, perhaps thundery downpours across central parts of england and wales as we go into the night. that's most likely to cause some disruption in a few places. there will be

quite a bit of cloud for many of us, but towards northern northwestern parts of the uk, some clear skies. despite these though, temperatures not dropping a huge amount. many towns and cities, especially where it stays cloudy , will hold where it stays cloudy, will hold up in double figures. a bit of a wet start , then across some wet start, then across some central parts as we go through into friday and also watch out for some showery outbreaks of rain which could turn thundery, pushing across northern parts of england and southern scotland. two to the north of the areas of wet and cloudy weather. there will be some decent sunshine, so for northern scotland and also to the south, so across southern parts of england, i'm expecting some bright sunny weather and where we see some sunshine it is going to feel pretty warm but under the cloud and rain feeling markedly cooler than it has done recently. as we go into saturday and the weekend as a whole, there's a fair bit of uncertainty at the moment. it does look like it will be quite cloudy, with some outbreaks of rain for scotland and northern ireland, and some showers feeding up from the south and the risk of showers continues as we go through sunday and into bank holiday. monday as well. could turn heavy and possibly thundery at times .

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gb news. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on thursday, the 2nd of may. >> ireland orders police to man the border after ministers claimed migrants are flooding in from the united kingdom. rishi sunak warned dublin not to jeopardise the good friday agreement >> meanwhile, in london, dozens of masked protesters attempt to prevent a bus from moving migrants to a hotel. from a hotel to the big e bibby stockholm barge, reportedly slashing tires to stop the removal and continuity. >> candidate john swinney throws his hat into the ring for the snp leadership. he was nicola sturgeon's deputy and helped craft the failed coalition with the greens. will kate forbes

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