president biden fires that russia will never have victory in ukraine as putin threatens a return to cold war nuclear tests. good morning. it's 6:00. it's wednesday , the 22nd of it's wednesday, the 22nd of february. this is breakfast on gb news with eamonn holmes and isabel webster dead and leading the news on this wednesday morning. the us president, our nato can remain unified , but nato can remain unified, but there should be no doubt our support for grain will not waver . nato will not be divided and we will not tire . so there you

we will not tire. so there you hear the us president issuing a rallying cry to ukraine's allies. it was a fiery address in poland , two days ahead of the in poland, two days ahead of the first tender, first three of the war. excuse me . it comes as war. excuse me. it comes as vladimir putin announces his country will halt its participation in the last remaining nuclear treaty it has, with america signalling a return to cold war nuclear tests . to cold war nuclear tests. millions of public sector workers will be offered a three and a half % pay increase as and a half% pay increase as ministers enter talks to end strikes below inflation rise and has been attacked by unions who called it a disgrace that will not prevent a walkout . an not prevent a walkout. an experts are warning that rationing of fruit and vegetables in shops could last weeks. supermarkets yesterday were forced to introduce limits on the purchase of out—of—season produce due to supply issues . produce due to supply issues. let us know what you supply. she said. i cannot believe that anybody just can't grow a lettuce. and then you might have.i lettuce. and then you might have. i mean, you can literally

crawl out of overnight. basically it's nappies. literally yeah. and then there's. well, i mean , what what there's. well, i mean, what what would it take to grow? i have no idea. she don't know the little packet of seeds. i think perhaps is the time to start thinking about growing our own. where we can to them. that tomatoes can move to them. that tomatoes yesterday. i need a window to grow tomato. certainly grow tomato. and certainly the idea seasonal fruit idea of eating seasonal fruit and veg perhaps to avoid these kind shortages. but there's kind of shortages. but there's nothing do, a full nothing worse to do, like a full fruit and veg straw and bowl. and i'm not happy that i can't get my usual. yeah okay. and let us know. you say seasonal stuff people don't understand. now, i know we need re—educating. i don't know what to have connection with the land. let us know what you think of all of that. could you be bothered growing your own lettuce? gbviews@gbnews.uk up uk? you gbviews@gbnews.uk up uk? or you can tweet us at . gb views. so can tweet us at. gb views. so the top story this morning is american president joe biden has

delivered a rallying cry to allies of ukraine in a defiant speech two days ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the war. doubts whether nato can remain unified . but there can remain unified. but there should be no doubt our support for grain will not waver . nato for grain will not waver. nato will not be divided , and we will will not be divided, and we will not tire . president prudence. not tire. president prudence. craving lust for land and power will fail . and the ukrainian will fail. and the ukrainian people's love for their country will prevail . democracies of the will prevail. democracies of the world will stand guard over freedom. today. tomorrow and forever . so very powerfully forever. so very powerfully written, optimistic speech from president biden that in stark contrast to the address from vladimir putin yesterday, it was his state of the nation address in which he announced russia would halt its participation in the last remaining key nuclear treaty known as new start . well, treaty known as new start. well, for the latest on all of this ,

for the latest on all of this, let's go to the defence editor of the evening standard. always good hear from robert fox. good to hear from robert fox. robert good morning to you this morning. robert this this treaty that russia has ended , is it any that russia has ended, is it any big deal ? that russia has ended, is it any big deal? what would you read into it? was it even being policed or monitored in the first place? yes. no the simple answer to your question , i mean answer to your question, i mean , this treaty is the last major treaty between the us. and russia was in trouble anyway. it was a new start. they were going to renew the treaty . it depended to renew the treaty. it depended on mutual monitoring as the previous two. but russia chipped away at the connivance of donald trump. in one case, it must say, because the russians anyway didn't like it. the monitoring and anyway, a big treaty about big nuclear weapons in today's

world is almost meaningless if you don't have china. and china wasn't participating in this . it wasn't participating in this. it wasn't participating in this. it was yet another excuse for a bit of putin bluster to challenge the americans and say that they would do it. he didn't go quite as far to say that he was going to resume a nuclear test again. but he was saying if you do it, if there's any hint that you're going to do it, we'll do it. and it was in stark contrast, wasn't it, from president biden's speech in warsaw . who really speech in warsaw. who really took a very optimistic view of things that nato was stronger than ever, that the love for freedom would always win over the blood lust of president putin. and will that have made any difference ? the words that any difference? the words that wonderful speechwriting undeniably will that have impacted on putin's resolve at all? no but i think that we're in a multi media world and even , you know, through social media, by hook or by crook and

underground or overground. but it's largely underground that these things do get through to russia. you couldn't be more right, but can't trust in style and content and approach between the rather dreary two hour speech from vladimir putin, which was full of paranoia and blame, it kicked off by blaming america and nato and the west for causing a start in this war, for causing a start in this war, for attacking russia in ukraine a year ago. as you say, by contrast to some of wind, as it were, and false promises and then 20 minutes of fighting in then 20 minutes of fighting in the open with an enthusiastic crowd really remarkably brilliant in terms of emotion and intelligence, brilliantly upbeat, saying this is democracy . this is what democracy looks like . we're not going to allow like. we're not going to allow an ai. it may not be a formal ally in nato, but a friendly power like ukraine, which is sovereign, independent ,

sovereign, independent, democratic in its own data and way of all the things that we have to support and we stand for. and it's what the likes is like. nato are about right. friday we reached the one year anniversary of president putin's so—called special military operation . do you expect operation. do you expect anything to change between now and then ? not much on the and then? not much on the battlefield . i'm not really battlefield. i'm not really interested in aspect of the military side of putin's speech. he didn't go into an assessment of what actually is happening on the ground. and it's to not good and certainly not to good faith either side, because ukraine is being severely tested . but being severely tested. but allegedly we are already in the opening stages of this great spnng opening stages of this great spring offensive by the russian forces, and they're not doing too well either. they've been terrible bloodletting in two

parts of the sector of iran's operation , and they're not operation, and they're not making the breakthroughs and the gains that they always claim . gains that they always claim. remember, they've got about 300,000 troops now in ukraine. they started off a year ago with 120,000 and about amount , 87% of 120,000 and about amount, 87% of russia's main military ground force capability is now committed in ukraine, and that's according to british mode assessments . robert, we are assessments. robert, we are speaking to bill browder later on in the program , the vocal on in the program, the vocal critic of moscow and human rights activist. and he talks about how russia , and about how russia, and particularly putin, needs to be at war to distract from the fact that the state has been stealing from the people. do you think that that kind of would explain why is the war? wall street journal's reporting this morning that jinping is planning to that xi jinping is planning to travel to moscow for a summit with putin in the coming months in order to continue to fund that war machine . what jinping

that war machine. what jinping is going to do is going to be extremely interesting. but to your first point. absolutely right. what putin was reinforcing and underlining. dotting i's, crossing t's yesterday. this is now a military dictatorship in russia. and it's a military dictatorship thatis and it's a military dictatorship that is war. and vladimir putin. succeed or fail as a military leader. not this is worrying . leader. not this is worrying. this actually worries the chinese because it means that, as i put in my editorial for the standard today , putin is now at standard today, putin is now at the top of the tree in terms of global stability of the global number one nuisance . he's a global stability of the global number one nuisance. he's a man of blood. he's coast upset and it could spread. there are signs the go could go to moldova. that's the chinese point. they don't want europe and unduly upset because they have such

interest in trading in europe . interest in trading in europe. they have great estate in the great ports like the rotterdam, europe, port and so on. so what is china going to do? i don't in the first instance, the g20 is saying i'm going to fund and i'm going to arm you russian because they note we know definitely they note we know definitely they devalue as well as other kind of arms. but there will be a lot of talk about solidarity . a lot of talk about solidarity. and of course, china goes into these things. for one thing, only for china's advantage. and we'll be after very cheap fuel gas possibly. but until but gas and oil from russia, which isn't so easy to get because the infrastructure isn't there by and large to really ramp up the energy exports into china . energy exports into china. interesting stuff. thanks for your analysis, robert, as always. we'll talk again later in the program . robert fox is in the program. robert fox is the defence editor for the evening standard. thank you very much. the tampa six is the time

now. millions of public sector workers are to be offered a 3.5% pay workers are to be offered a 3.5% pay increase as ministers enter talks in an attempt to end the strikes . okay, it's a below strikes. okay, it's a below inflation rise . obviously it inflation rise. obviously it hasn't gone too well with the union representing ambulance workers , for instance. they workers, for instance. they called it a disgrace and it will prevent any walkouts. well, joining us now for more is our head of digital news, dan fowler. i suppose the question is, and as the et. has it this morning, rishi sunak is mulling a 5% rise for some a possible 5% rise for some pubuc a possible 5% rise for some public sector workers, perhaps because of this extra headroom that was yesterday. that was found yesterday. they're taking more tax they're taking more in tax receipts they spending receipts than they are spending at the and we have the at the moment. and we have the big news that the nurses have suspended next suspended their strikes next week and i know that the education sector is also invited in unions to try and talk in the unions to try and talk and hash it out. so do we. can we expect to see some major progress, do you think? a breakthrough. i that's breakthrough. i think that's very that would be very possible. and that would be really by news really welcomed by our gb news viewers metres because we can see they are so up with see that they are so fed up with these strikes. i think what

we've this 3.5% offer, we've seen with this 3.5% offer, this is an opening gambit. the way happens, the government way this happens, the government will put forward what it thinks it can afford, which is what has happened that happened with this. and that then goes an independent pay then goes to an independent pay body then look other body who then look at other factors such inflation and factors such as inflation and decide they agree decide whether they agree with that. whether it that. and whether actually it should be more potentially. so i think we've seen from this think what we've seen from this 5% after reporting is, 5% that the after reporting is, which that in his which is keeping that in his back going with an back pocket, but going with an opening 3.5. and opening gambit of 3.5. and actually, the independent pay actually, if the independent pay body came said it's body came back and said it's more, they'd be willing to move on that does mean that on that and that does mean that there potential the there is real potential that the government its government can shift its position. could see an position. and we could see an end to the sticking point with the rcn been that steve the rcn has been that steve barclay far refused to barclay thus far has refused to talk pay for this year, talk about pay for this year, even ends in a couple even though it ends in a couple of a month. now, two of months or a month. now, two months time, april. so could that movement on or do that be movement on that or do you think discussions you think these discussions about once again just about pay will once again just be financial be about the next financial yean be about the next financial year, problem for the year, which is a problem for the nurses? so this is nurses? so this 3.5% is definitely talking about next yeah definitely talking about next year. but the reason they feel they've the strike action they've paused the strike action is 12 months pay and

is on the last 12 months pay and i we could see some i think we could see some progress. but think what we've progress. but i think what we've seen there's shifts in seen is there's been shifts in movement in sectors. and movement in other sectors. and i think we're seeing that think what we're seeing is that the see that the government can see that actually maybe there is there actually maybe there is a there is here, which is a way forward here, which would be welcome news all round. no wants strikes. the no one wants these strikes. the urgency about how urgency is spoken about how difficult them difficult this is for them walking patients and they walking out on patients and they would this one quickly too. would like this one quickly too. and this could be a very good news story for the prime minister the no talking minister in the end. no talking about news stories. dan is a very interesting man. he is head of here at gb news. of digital news here at gb news. and we always say we want to talk about is important to talk about what is important to you. hisjob is find out what you. his job is to find out what you. his job is to find out what you about. what do you are talking about. what do our listeners what our listeners and viewers, what are engaged with right are they most engaged with right now? really got them is now? what's really got them is actually what's going to happen in for a long time in scotland. for a long time we've seen nicola sturgeon has been a dominant figure in british politics and of british politics and a lot of our viewers metres love to hate her quite frankly , she is this her quite frankly, she is this big player and she's going to leave a big space and no one really knows anyone else in the snp as well as her. so we can

see that whenever news story see that whenever a news story is done about nicola sturgeon, people really engage people really want to engage with want to read with it and they want to read it. i don't think if you ask most the british public who is humza or kate forbes, humza yousaf or kate forbes, they'd clue. i think they'd have a clue. and i think that's can be very that's what can be very interesting in this snp leadership actually leadership contest is actually scotland the of the uk scotland and the rest of the uk getting to know who these people actually i think few more actually are. i think few more people know who kate forbes is today. after yesterday in what can be described, if can only be described, even if you with her as a bit of a you agree with her as a bit of a car crash, round of talks yesterday, trying to explain her views is there still and this is the big question that comes out of it all is a still room in politics for people to have religious views or is it on acceptable? and this is where there will be will. there is a clash here about what exactly liberal means ? does being liberal means? does being liberal means? does being liberal means? does being liberal mean that you can hold your own views and be free to talk about them? or is being liberal mean that you have to allow everyone else to have the same rights? and that is a

fundamental clash. and i think kate forbes is finding that she's losing that battle currently. said that her currently. she said that her leadership over and leadership bid is not over and she's saying you know, she she's saying that, you know, she very going fight very much is going to fight back, it, and that she back, stay in it, and that she still thinks she can become the first minister. but based on last 24 hours, that's looking pretty hard to see right now. so i was just interested that that r and listenership is r viewership and listenership is interested in scotland , not interested in scotland, not necessarily about devolution , necessarily about devolution, but certainly about the personalities involved . nicola personalities involved. nicola sturgeon and even be more amazed if they were interested in the northern ireland protocol and you tell me they are was interesting because non protocol is not just about brexit and northern ireland, it's about funding make up of the uk and also about the leash for country . we've seen time and time again .we've seen time and time again over recent years how brexit has led to clashes within the conservative party that has undermined its leaders . conservative party that has undermined its leaders. i think that's what we need is a village and right now is does she have the leadership in the strength to be able to bring his party

with him? we've seen the european research group, the eurosceptic mp is on his backbenches, that backbenches, have warned that they any deal on they will not back any deal on they will not back any deal on the northern ireland protocol, which undermines no one's place in and i think that's in the uk. and i think that's why he is very interested in his rishi sunak does he have that support? he actually support? can he actually carry this through ? well, the says this through? well, the guy says that he's calling his ministers bluff and there's reports that they've seen evidence or that they've seen evidence or that they understand that suella braverman and having made threats him yesterday on the threats to him yesterday on the northern ireland protocol bill actually won't quit over it. so sort of saying go ahead. yeah yeah. and the think this is this is where we get rishi sunak is he is calling the bluff and he's trying a different tactic to maybe to what we've seen from theresa was going theresa may when she was going through seven negotiations, through her seven negotiations, where bounce the where she tried to bounce the will make sure that all her will and make sure that all her party did back onside. and i would say the economics are certainly halligan done her certainly halligan has done her first broadcast interview with her that is going to air on gb news tonight . and would news tonight. and i would recommend watches recommend that everyone watches to get her view on exactly what

she thinks on okay. but as she thinks on this. okay. but as for of the people who for the views of the people who switch news and the union, switch on gp news and the union, if you put scotland and northern ireland together, you could say they are interested in what happens to the union and the preservation of the union. yeah, absolutely. i'll our viewers are very much supportive of the united kingdom as a whole. united kingdom as a whole. united kingdom. and that's what they me speak again they want to see me speak again later . thank very much later. thank you very much indeed, for the is the head indeed, dan, for the is the head of digital news here at gb news. right. the time is 617. let's bnng right. the time is 617. let's bring you up to date with today's top stories. shamima begum to find out if begum is due to find out if she's won an appeal against the decision to remove her british citizenship . bacon, who the citizenship. bacon, who left the uk teenager to join the uk as a teenager to join the islamic state, had her citizenship revoked on national security grounds in 2019. the environment secretary will praise farmers for feeding the uk in a speech later today . uk in a speech later today. she's at the national farmers union conference in birmingham. theresa coffey will stress the

importance of protecting the environment and sustain the whole food production . super whole food production. super markets are going to be rationing a growing list of fruits and vegetables over the coming weeks. bad weather across europe and africa is being blamed for the disruption in suppues. blamed for the disruption in supplies . and we'd love to know supplies. and we'd love to know if you'll see markets being affected. we've got pictures from where you do your shopping. is that what shelves look like? yes and do send those in and let us know. okay and we are talking about taxi of mum and dad about the taxi of mum and dad this morning as well. apparently, i think apparently, parents and i think probably could add grandparents into my folks are into this of my folks are anything go by the uk anything to go by in the uk spend 52 hours every month driving their children around is that all is that all? yeah there is a period in your in your child's life, i suppose when they're , you know, between they're, you know, between probably eight and 14 or so where you are constantly in that

taxi mode for them. but we we've only ourselves to play in the my day you just got on the bus got on your bike or got on the school bus to go to sporting events. but we had i mean, i used to have this terrible fallout with my wife that my son was a big hockey player and constantly having to bring him to hockey matches, fined to his hockey matches, fined well and good. but there was a school bus. i don't see why he had to go to the baby jesus on all sides. yes. three wise men following that. the escort. oh well, i haven't reached that stage yet. i think living in a city. and you said you talked about when you were growing up, you grew up in a city. so i think it's a lot easier to get about with so much. and, you know, whatever league or whatever you to do, whatever sport you have to do, your are all relatively your teams are all relatively close. in city, i mean, close. and in that city, i mean, we're about cities the we're talking about cities the size of leeds or or size of leeds or belfast or norwich or whatever. we're not talking cities the size of talking about cities the size of london, like a country london, which is like a country . and it's itself just absolutely massive. but so the

taxiof absolutely massive. but so the taxi of mum and dad and then, of course, then when they reach the stage where they can drink alcohol and whatever they like, alcohol and whatever they like, a bit of taxi of mum and dad as well. don't , they don't well. they don't, they don't like being seen. the state . like being seen. the state. exactly. elected. yeah from certain things. not that that appued certain things. not that that applied to any of my children but not of course not nor do they still none of them drink. no. i mean, just like their father. just like steamiest. it is quite strange , actually, that is quite strange, actually, that they do take the example for me, but i at 6:20 is the time after the break, we're going live to la. to speak to kinsey schofield . she'll be bringing schofield. she'll be bringing you the latest on the claim that meghan markle feels excluded from plans for the many of them laughing so she feels excluded from plans for the king's coronation. well there you go. how do you think she should get involved? i'm going to be talking about that after this .

welcome back. it's 622. still to come on the program this morning at a quarter to seven, there is johnny mercer, johnny mercer's , johnny mercer, johnny mercer's, the veterans minister . as the veterans minister. as president putin calls for an escalation of the war in ukraine. then at a quarter to eight, we're going to be fund in which airline has been named the worst for short haul flights by uk. passengers. still worst for short haul flights by uk. passengers . still pretty u.k. passengers. still pretty dire. and actually, you've got a million short haul flights anymore. the shovel ready flights and these flights. there we go . but you see is course we go. but you see is course everything thing because sometimes people just don't factor in where the airport is, how far away the airport will be. so you get a cheap flight and then this is the argument i have with my husband is, oh, i found a really cheap flight in

birmingham. right. okay. so we have to get up at two in the morning drive park there. it's not to me. i'd rather not a bargain to me. i'd rather go from the near airport at a slightly increased always slightly increased price. always an with you. an ongoing round. i'm with you. yeah, you. convenience yeah, i'm with you. convenience is a big factor as well. so your ongoing journey, isabel ongoing journey, as isabel was saying, get there , how saying, how you get there, how you again , is that you get home again, is that important to you? us know important to you? let us know what . gb news. right. pancakes. what. gb news. right. pancakes. last night , what. gb news. right. pancakes. last night, did you do them or did they go with you? did the princess of wales put her pancake flipping skills? this dress she's made me love a lot of the newspapers . and today you of the newspapers. and today you could question if that is even a pancake . and we will try and get pancake. and we will try and get a picture of it. but it's a oh, it's a mash. oh, it's a mess. well, it's embarrassing anyway but i love it was for air home where she was yesterday and she described and as a congealed blob. but the staff and the

residents of this care home were thrilled. she was like there absolutely no rogue reporter karen walker was there as well and sent this report . and then . and sent this report. and then. they were the ones that were made earlier, much nicer. but at the hands of the commissary , the hands of the commissary, pancakes may not be her forte , pancakes may not be her forte, but princess catherine certainly knows a royal recipe to make it to strive tuesday to remember residents of oxford house care home in slough were treated to a surprise visits by the princess. he's keen to get to know local communities close to her new berkshire home, the family run oxford house cares for up to 34 residents. it's time supporting them to live as full a life as possible. her royal highness shared a particularly special connection with norah much more . hugh's 109 connection with norah much more . hugh's109 years old. it's your birthday on two days before nine capital deputy manager charmaine saunders was thrilled. kate's mate . everyone feels

kate's mate. everyone feels special when she walked through the door. i think she makes you feel quite ease because she's very welcome in. she was very kind. she was calm , she involved kind. she was calm, she involved everybody. and i think that was the most important thing for us that nobody was missed out. she took to talk to the took the time to talk to the residents and she went to the staff, hygiene team, kitchen staff, hygiene team, kitchen staff had to go with pancake with princess saw with the chef. the princess saw how edge interactive how cutting edge interactive technology the daily technology can help the daily lives of residents . she enjoyed lives of residents. she enjoyed a virtual train ride which helps residents with dementia and had a go at table football on the sensory table . but it was kate's sensory table. but it was kate's culinary skills , which drew the culinary skills, which drew the biggest crowd in the conservatory, the princess jokes . her children prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis may have second thoughts about joining her in the kitchen. maybe through the way. i to do dining right now , i want to do dining right now, see dessert. there's no way . but see dessert. there's no way. but what did the staff think of her pancake making it was okay . i pancake making it was okay. i think i couldn't cook a pancake

with all of that media attention . but she managed to cook one. and i think she had a bit of fun doing it. she had a really good attempt, i think. i don't even think the pancake issue was her fault. maybe i needed to be grazed a bit better. the prince and of wales are making and princess of wales are making and princess of wales are making a point of engaging with communities on their doorstep for diaries expects for their tax. diaries expects to around great to send them around great britain st david's say is just britain. st david's say is just next week, the first time william and catherine will be marking wales's day of national pride with their new titles. cameron walker gb news berkshire . while the princess of wales stunned at the baftas at the weekend, you'll remember not only for her beautiful alexander mcqueen dress that she was re wearing , but also for her wearing, but also for her earrings . they were wearing, but also for her earrings. they were big, wearing, but also for her earrings . they were big, weren't earrings. they were big, weren't they? were . they weren't. they? they were. they weren't. michael. mm mm hmm. schwarzenegger bearing earrings . neither was she. floral earrings . they were just £18 earrings. they were just £18 from zara. and they've not only sold out in the store, but onune sold out in the store, but online wars have now put the

price at £90 believable. okay let's see if our royal and showbiz reporter kinsey schofield is line from los angeles is wearing ear rings this morning. no and if she was, you wouldn't know under that mop of hair, you would know. morning am , am and i found a life sized am, am and i found a life sized cut out of you online on an auction site as well, going for £70. so, i mean, do i want kate's earrings or do i want to look at you life size every day? i think i'm going with a it all depends , mate. good. that's like depends, mate. good. that's like well, what if you got on your hair? that's like a clara . hair? that's like a clara. what's that? what's shining on your it's. i don't have your head? it's. i don't have the earrings, but i do have the tiara. oh, lovely . right. so, tiara. oh, lovely. right. so, look, we have to start with the pancake flipping, because just when i didn't think i could love the princess of wales any more, she makes me feel better for my inadequacies because my pancakes look the same last night. look much the same last night. and kinsey . oh, you. and about ilse kinsey. oh, you. i've some of your work. i've seen some of your work. isabelin i've seen some of your work. isabel in the kitchen and it's

quite impressive. i no pancakes, but you were right. how sweet is she ? i love seeing these moments she? i love seeing these moments like these where she's brutally honest and self—deprecating . honest and self—deprecating. this is absolutely why we love catherine, the princess of wales . you know, she looks like a supermodel , . you know, she looks like a supermodel, but she has these real human moments like we all do . and i love that video. i do. and i love that video. i could watch it over and over out the duchess of sussex, i gather reports are that she's feeling left out and excluded from talk about the coronation . that's about the coronation. that's right . you know, meghan, is you right. you know, meghan, is you know, reports are that meghan is feeling like the palace is really only trying to persuade harry to come and that meghan is not a priority . and that makes not a priority. and that makes her very unhappy. she believes they are a unit and that they should it should be both of them that are wanted and the palace should be eager to have them both come. but allegedly the palace really is only trying to

persuade harry. that's their goal persuade harry. that's their goal. whether that's true or whether it's just deemed as a slight, which seems to be something that happens often with the sas exes, they interpret something differently than we would . that's up in the than we would. that's up in the air, but the allegations are that meghan is feeling exclu footed because, you know, she wants to be welcomed to. yeah. wonder why she mightn't be the such a and secure this one. now listen this south park fallout from this program has this program been as this been transmitted yet to them? has it actually gone out? yeah so hi she ran into bush. it yeah. oh she ran into bush. it yeah. oh she reacting to that . well she reacting to that. well baseless is one of the ways baseless is one of the ways baseless and boring is how the sussexes have responded to the south park episode. there was a story circulating and it was posted originally on fox news that they were looking into litigation, having their lawyers comb through the episode to see

if there was anything they could do. and the sussexes actually responded to that specific story, saying that it was baseless and boring and that, you know, there was no truth to it, which is well, actually, i take it back. they said it was a baseless and boring rumour, but they did not deny that their lawyers were combing through the episode to see if was any episode to see if there was any way they could sue. so perhaps they were. but a rare response from the sussexes. so definitely got under their skin and kinsey , i noticed on your tweet it made me smile. boring and basis pretty much describes the prince and princess of canada and south park's worldwide privacy tool . i park's worldwide privacy tool. i mean , sorry, not sorry. isabel . mean, sorry, not sorry. isabel. i'm being told we've got. what have we got, charlie oh, we do have we got, charlie oh, we do have a clip from south park. let's have a listen in live with the royal family you've had everything handed you about everything handed to you about your life has been hard your say your life has been hard and now you've written all about it. your new book, when? it. and your new book, when? yes, that's right. you say yes, that's right. fans you say my i are talking like

my wife and i are talking like you a book because you should write a book because your like stand by it. your family like stand by it. and then are like and then some are like journalists they're good job. journalists. they're good job. she didn't pancake flip yesterday . she wouldn't be yesterday. she wouldn't be pleased for that that we had to have been mocking that as well. thank you very much indeed. lovely to you. we leave lovely talking to you. we leave it there after the break. we're talking supermarkets rationing vegetables as we take a look through the papers with david miller and scarlett mcguire.

and let's flick you through the front pages and how they stack up on this wednesday morning times. first of all, as they do with russia's decision to abandon a key arms control treaty, saying it signals the return of cold war nuclear testing . the mail forces focus testing. the mail forces focus on sorry, on calls from

president joe biden for the west to continue supporting ukraine. telegraph reveals ministers believe public sector workers should get just a three and a half percent pay rise next year and the pancake flipping with the princess of wales features now, as it does from page to express as well. and they go with the story fruit and vegetables could be rationed for weeks , so you're going to find weeks, so you're going to find them in very short supply at supermarkets of climate supermarkets because of climate conditions and oh my goodness knows what. but anyway, basically it's bad news if you like a bit of lettuce or to my toes and that's you grow them yourselves. that's fine. if david mellor or scarlett mccgwire do just that before they go into the papers . david they go into the papers. david have you ever dabbled in the garden ? i walk through a garden, garden? i walk through a garden, yeah. garden? i walk through a garden, yeah . yeah. so not green yeah. yeah. so not green fingered . i'm sorry to say that fingered. i'm sorry to say that . no, ijust fingered. i'm sorry to say that . no, i just find kneeling down and getting all dirty. it's not really me. what about the

satisfaction of seeing something? giving the life to a piece of lettuce, sir? well, i'm sure. i'm sure that it's wonderful. and i do have to say that i love it. my sister has a vegetable garden, and when i stay with her, i get food that's just been picked and cooked and ihave just been picked and cooked and i have the new boiled potatoes, just as the garden. there is nothing to beat it. yes but now i don't do anything . so the only i don't do anything. so the only thing i would say is that although i didn't go in the garden much, i go into supermarkets, i am accredited supermarkets, i am accredited supermarket shopper here . yes. supermarket shopper here. yes. i'm glad not everyone realised that i got through to a few people, but i mean, i've not noficed people, but i mean, i've not noticed any of these shortages. right. okay, that's an interesting point. so we're asking our viewers if they've noficed asking our viewers if they've noticed it or not, because this can happen sometimes it happens one or two places. it's reported as the blanket thing. so we will try get picture this try and get a true picture this morning the scenes in your morning of the scenes in your feature. the is front page feature. the story is front page of have you of the express and what have you got about it? well

got to say about it? well i mean, the reasons i mean, the newspapers are taking it seriously because because the raw reasons. one is, is the weather in in spain and north africa, which means that the crops have not. but the other reason is that here in britain, i mean , people the farmers can't i mean, people the farmers can't afford the greenhouse to keep the greenhouses warm. and they're just going on to other things. and so actually in both it's both times it's a it's a longer term problem . and i mean, longer term problem. and i mean, i don't know how bad it is and i don't i haven't been shopping for a for a few days. i've just been living at home and but i mean, i do think it's a terrible shame if fruit and vegetable pnces shame if fruit and vegetable prices go up. but the farmers would say , you know, the would say, you know, the supermarkets have been pushing pnces supermarkets have been pushing prices down and pushing prices . prices down and pushing prices. we're just not making enough to live on. yeah. yeah. so this was funny. we had some labour spokespeople on. they were addressing national farmers addressing the national farmers union and the you just

union yesterday and the you just are they the party of business or the party of the farmers that we're trying to make out with the party of the farmers, but the party of the farmers, but the sucking up to the supermarkets goes on, supermarkets that goes on, whether is a necessary evil whether it is a necessary evil or not, i do not know. but i wouldn't like to be in hock to supermarkets, you know, you say, right, we can give you a million tomatoes. and they say last year we'll give give you a pond we'll give you give you a pond for each tomato . this year they for each tomato. this year they can them 30 for can say can give them 30 for each tomato when you're still stuck. oh yeah. and i mean and particularly with milk, i mean the dairy, the farmers the dairy, the dairy farmers guys then on the guys business and then on the other the supermarkets say other had the supermarkets say people expect cheap food. i mean, we we've got that real problem having because are all at the supermarkets are pretty tough and they're not easy to negotiate with at the end of the day a lot of people eat because properly because the supermarket is able to supply food at the price they can afford. god help us if they can't . okay, david us if they can't. okay, david telegraph, front page asylum

backlog. it's at its highest level on record . you know, look, level on record. you know, look, i think rishi should take up flipping pancakes because i think he might be quite good at flipping pancakes. one thing is clear, neither he nor any the other of them, others of them can sort out this asylum backlog, which is ludicrous . backlog, which is ludicrous. mean, if you look at the front page of the telegraph , the page of the telegraph, the backlog has increased 15,000 in just 12 months. it means taxpayers . this is a telegraph taxpayers. this is a telegraph facing unprecedented . 2.1 facing unprecedented. 2.1 billion billion bill for asylum seekers accommodation , seekers accommodation, subsistence and other associated costs, not i don't understand it. i spent five years at the home office. i don't understand why they're making such a meal of this. at the end of the day, what they have to do is get the law right. if someone turns up on beaches, they have no on our beaches, they have no rights . it should be determined rights. it should be determined

no rights to go into the english legal system. once the lawyers get to , there's a never ending get to, there's a never ending story, though. david but what we needis story, though. david but what we need is , is proper is proper need is, is proper is proper processing is what happened was that they they, you know, when the cuts came in, they they cut . and so instead of actually having processing, that takes weeks , right? we have processing weeks, right? we have processing that goes on and on. don't blame the lawyers. the a lot of people who come here. i'm a lawyer. i blame them all. i like a lot of people who come, a lot of people who come here are desperate. right. and the only way to get here is on those wretched small boats. and what we should do, you i don't agree with you see, i don't agree with that. there is . so if that. there's there is. so if you're an ask, if you're an afghan, how do you help? you afghan, how do you get help? you have are you can apply and have there are you can apply and if is if there is in your if there is if there is in your skill set the idea it's a total disaster solution. the whole

idea of people coming and seeking asylum is they seek asylum in the first safe place. these people travel halfway across the world and then they come and, you know , they they come and, you know, they they move in and think it's because they land up in a beach somewhere. we're going to take him in. we're mugs if we do. well, we have to leave it there very briefly and we will return to the papers. but we are joined by the minister for veterans affairs, johnny mercer. a very good morning you, mr. mercer. good morning to you, mr. mercer. first i believe, our first time, i believe, on our programme so good to programme with us. so good to see morning. to see this morning. you want to talk first of all about a big of support for veterans health care. tell us what you're pledging today. care. tell us what you're pledging today . yeah, look , i pledging today. yeah, look, i mean, it's not a pledge . it's mean, it's not a pledge. it's a delivery. the health innovation fundis delivery. the health innovation fund is a £5 billion program that essentially uses the best of british innovation technology to tackle really difficult wounds and injuries that troops are sustained over the past few years. also, the great company

yesterday looking at electronic losses and stuff like that . losses and stuff like that. there's 22 groups across the country . you're going to benefit country. you're going to benefit from this funding . and yes, it from this funding. and yes, it is news. there are some of our servicemen and women who struggle with wounds , injuries struggle with wounds, injuries and pressure. so is it just won't heal, you know, the commitments from these operations go on years afterwards. and i'm delighted as part we're part of government, we're delivering changing delivering on this and changing people's this is to people's lives and this is to the tune of people's lives and this is to the tune o f £5 people's lives and this is to the tune of £5 million, awarded to 22 projects. and the hope is that some of the innovations could then be learned from and appued could then be learned from and applied nhs in applied perhaps in the nhs in the future . yeah, i mean , that's the future. yeah, i mean, that's the future. yeah, i mean, that's the whole point. but i mean a lot of all advances in medicine and science have come out of the military during times of necessity, during conflicts and things like that. and yeah, the idea that some of this stuff idea is that some of this stuff is quite at moment, is is quite niche at the moment, is , on a small , you know, it's on a small scale, but if it does work it makes a massive difference to some of our most injured. and you know, there are people in this country will be waking up

this country will be waking up this morning with bedsores, awake and wounds or injuries. afghanistan and iraq, who really struggle with them on a day to day basis. and, you know, if we want to make this the best country in the world to be a veteran, there's a lot of facets to that around employment and mental health and things like that. this this is an that. but this this is an important part it well. important part of it as well. and, you know, it's good see and, you know, it's good to see this leading way in this country leading the way in this country leading the way in this well, good luck to this stuff. well, good luck to you.22 this stuff. well, good luck to you. 22 projects, quite innovative projects, the innovative projects, which the minister funding for today. minister is funding for today. johnny we turn to the ukrainian situation friday we reached that milestone of one year since the invasion began. what did you make of president biden in warsaw yesterday and what had to say . well, look, i think i think say. well, look, i think i think bottom is very strong yesterday. i think , you know, he's made it i think, you know, he's made it clear ukraine is not going to lose this conflict. a year on. people didn't expect kyiv to and the rest of ukraine to still be standing and fighting so hard

and, you know, they all the west is resilient behind them. the west is united. and, you know, it's not a fractured group. and i think that's very strong message. and it goes to putin. and look, i mean , the war is and look, i mean, the war is terrible. it's incredibly sad. i think what's going on is a tragedy. you know, the sort of murder of young russians that ukrainians and a pointless illegal occupation . i think it's illegal occupation. i think it's terribly, terribly sad . and, you terribly, terribly sad. and, you know, it's gone on this long and, you know, like everybody else , someone has come to an end else, someone has come to an end terribly sad, but also alarming to see president putin pulling out that new start treaty. and we were led to believe by the wall street journal this morning that xi jinping is preparing a bilateral meeting in moscow with president putin with possibly a sea of supporting the war, perhaps providing weapons to russia in the future . yeah, i've russia in the future. yeah, i've seen that speculation as well . seen that speculation as well. i'm not sure that that's what's going on. i think, you know,

it's pretty clear that chinese interference in this would not be welcome. but i think that's at a very embryonic stage at the moment. you know, russia is going to lose this war. you know, they've lost 244,000 troops already . i don't know, they've lost 244,000 troops already. i don't think any nation can sustain , let any nation can sustain, let alone you know, political operation like putin runs out of the kremlin. so you know, i think i think i think it's awful. i think it's sad. you know, this is not the age for this sort of thing. and i hope like everybody else, that the chinese don't get involved and, you know, the end of the war is forthcoming and we hope there's a resolution to we hope there's a resolution to we hope there's a resolution to what's going on in the public sector as well. pay talks today, we believe . pay talks today, we believe. 3.5% to be offered towards those pubuc 3.5% to be offered towards those public sector workers. that's not going to end anything is up . well, look, i'm mean, that's

the speculation around the figures . these are private figures. these are private negotiations have been going on for a long time now. you know, i just want to see these strikes come to the end. i think like everybody else in plymouth, in my constituency and across the country, i don't think these strikes helping anybody. strikes are helping anybody. i recognise that want to recognise that people want to be paid i recognise some paid more. i recognise that some of the conditions that our pubuc of the conditions that our public sector has work in is extremely challenging. but look, i think think i don't think i don't think people be going out on people should be going out on strike. we're an strike. i think we're an incredibly difficult situation at inflation and you at the moment. inflation and you know, above 10. that is the real challenging constituencies like mine driving up prices across the community. and if we you know, if we just go chase these pay know, if we just go chase these pay rises all the time, the bank of england even said themselves, you know, inflation is just going to rise and the situation gets so it's a very gets worse. so it's a very difficult situation. hope difficult situation. and i hope these negotiations is accessible. and i know the secretary state are working secretary of state are working hard and ensure hard to deliver that. and ensure that bring these strikes that we bring these strikes to an see what happens an end, wait to see what happens in those intensive talks between the royal college of nursing and

the royal college of nursing and the health secretary today. just before we let you go, i've just got to get take on shemima got to get your take on shemima bacon. going out bacon. she's going to find out today if appeal is today if her appeal is successful, she is the 23 year old who left the country in 2015 to join isis and live in the islamic state . should she be islamic state. should she be allowed to return to the uk? your view ? no that's a decision your view? no that's a decision for the home secretary and previous home secretaries , previous home secretaries, certainly. sajid javid, when he was home secretary, made the decision to revoke her citizenship. that's a decision for them. and the court she's clearly you know, she clearly represents a threat that, you know, there is a lot of information in that case that's not in the public domain. i don't think it's worth discussing it in public . i think discussing it in public. i think those decisions are made in the course and in the in the home office. and i'm sure they'll come to the right conclusion. johnny mercer, minister for veterans you veterans affairs, thank you very much for joining this much indeed for joining us this morning. back to the paper situation with david mellor and scarlett scott. front scarlett mccgwire scott. front page the telegraph. talked

page of the telegraph. we talked to johnny mercer there about it. pubuc to johnny mercer there about it. public sector to be offered three and a half % raise said three and a half% raise said that's not going to settle anything we'd like to think they've a lot in their back pocket to put forward yeah i mean it's interesting that the et. says 5% and we all know f.t. says 5% and we all know that that they've suddenly found extra money and the question is it it's interesting that that the times wants it wants it to go on tax cuts and the few things it should go on the money but can i say that public sector pay but can i say that public sector pay rises do not affect inflation? it's really private sector pay rises , but public sector pay rises, but public sector pay rises, but public sector what they affect is taxes ultimately but but where the money's coming from and so this this whole muddle about inflation, i mean, of course, we've got to get inflation down. and apparently it's going to come down. whatever this government does. but actually, what we've got to do if we if

want to get these strikes over, we've got negotiate. and at last at last , there are going to be at last, there are going to be proper negotiations between the royal college of nursing and the government. and, you know, this should have been happening for months. i mean, and only because as they threatened to walk out on cancer and accident and emergency only because they upped and upped the ante. and that's terrible. i mean, gillian keegan has extended the olive branch to you as well and said, look, come in, we can sit down and talk today as well as they all can meeting the health secretary. but they've declined to do that because it was only on the understanding that they had those two strikes had to pause those two strikes in schools next week and they wouldn't yeah, wouldn't do that. yeah, well because just because because they, they just don't believe i mean that's the problem is that she's because the an extremely political the eu is an extremely political union and they're in the business of causing as much disruption as they can on whatever pretext suits . but we whatever pretext suits. but we have to remember that there are very, very strict laws about going on strike and all the

strikes that there are have been overwhelmingly voted for. right. this isn't about union barons. this isn't about union barons. this isn't about union barons. this is about public sector workers who actually think that they cannot go on. and what's worrying is in particular in the health service and in schools is you've got an incredible shortages that are just going to get worse. the problem, though , get worse. the problem, though, is really just say we've been through this before in the seventies when . inflation seventies when. inflation touched 28. and that was because they were vaulting pay settlements that meant one year's pay settlement was used to trigger an even larger pay settlement the next year. and that we can't do if we're going to drive inflation away. we've got to keep pay down. but we've also got to keep our public services going and we've got to keep people i mean, you know, we have 100,000 vacancies in the nhs and people all working too hard and you know, whenever you

see jeremy farah, who's just going off to the, to the show says we can't go on if we have another epidemic , you know, the another epidemic, you know, the nhs isn't , people in the nhs are nhs isn't, people in the nhs are not going to be able to cope, they're all going to disappear off to western australia. well precisely where they'll get paid much more, have some sunshine and we may disappear off the planet of president putin. starts nuclear tests . this david starts nuclear tests. this david is front page of the times. putin signals the return of cold war nuclear tests, which he didn't actually. but he's ripped up this this treaty, which was signed during ronald reagan times . yes. in which when i was times. yes. in which when i was the foreign office minister, i had i had the british end of that. so yet another piece of history disappears under the lavatory, i'm afraid. but truth of the matter is that putin makes it up as he goes along. yeah you listen to putin, you would think that it was the west who had backed ukraine to start

this war. i worry about putin. he doesn't look at all well . he doesn't look at all well. question is, how is he? but one thing is certain. he talks a good game. then he's able to play. hopefully he remains sensible enough to know that a lot of the stuff he comes out with these threats of nuclear activities. and so on. he does understand, look , at the end of understand, look, at the end of the day, there can really be no big winner in a nuclear exchange. the americans are infinitely superior in their weaponry to the russians, but we don't want to ever find that because everyone is going to lose . but putin because everyone is going to lose. but putin is because everyone is going to lose . but putin is a dangerously lose. but putin is a dangerously unstable man. you know, i was talking to someone just the other day about what it was like when the soviet were in charge, because i sadly old enough to be in a foreign office minister looking after the old soviet union. the thing about the soviets , they were sclerotic old soviets, they were sclerotic old boys, but they you could pretty much know what they were going to do . i don't know what putin

to do. i don't know what putin is going to do. i don't think putin wakes up in the morning and knows what he's going to do. but the worrying thing is, if in the days of soviet the old days of the soviet union, somebody , you know, fell union, somebody, you know, fell off the perch. another equally sclerotic old thing would be nominate to take his place. who is going to take over from for putin the first time, one has to think it could be somebody worse, even more unstable , and worse, even more unstable, and even more dangerous . even more dangerous. provocative, because there was in all the years of the cold war, there was nothing like what we get at the moment . these we get at the moment. these licenced commentators calling for london to be nuked and all the rest of it is a very dangerous game. the russians are playing and also the dangers will become desensitised to it because we've heard him saying such wild things that we don't take any notice any stop taking any notice . you might have been any notice. you might have been arrested . i think some people arrested. i think some people really are frightened by it. i mean, that that they do worry that our what we're doing in

ukraine and our support for ukraine and our support for ukraine will lead us to put ourselves in danger. but, i mean, i agree with you is that putin goes on and on and on. but but, david, you're right. i mean, you just have no idea. i mean, you just have no idea. i mean, i was talking and i was thinking back as i, too, am old enough to remember the soviet union. and the problem with putin is i he's he's he's putin is i mean, he's he's he's a mad imperialist. i mean, he he really does want to take back the russian empire, the soviet estonia. yeah. yeah, that's exactly how many people in that gathering yesterday listening to him making that speech . the him making that speech. the question is, how many of them believe what he is saying ? well, believe what he is saying? well, was the general i mean, you know , if you were if you were very serious , you know, if you're serious, you know, if you're a high up soviet and you disagree with putin, you end up out of a window. i mean, it is appropriate. yes. okay guys, for the moment, thank you very much . david and scarlett, they will be in 40 minutes time with be back in 40 minutes time with more stories from the papers and

we're going to take a quick break after that. we'll have more on president biden's address to the world as those discussions with putin and his nuclear threat continue. and we'll about that after the we'll talk about that after the white. good morning . my name is white. good morning. my name is rachel ayers and welcome to the latest weather update from the met office. so it's all changed today to something just a little cooler with rain making its way southeast was throughout the day and this is all due to a low pressure system just to the north of the uk that has brought a cold front. southeast was through tonight and it's going to continue its way to continue to make its way south—east through the rest of today bring plenty of today. this will bring plenty of cloud this morning cloud to start this morning across southern across much of central southern and eastern parts of england and wales. and this will bring some patchy rain and drizzle as well that will slowly make its way southeast woods from this southeast woods away from this across the north. it's a bright start today. chilly, though, with plenty of sunny spells and some scattered showers that could just be wintry over the high ground. so cooler here, but

still clinging on to these slightly milder temperatures for one more day across the south and east as we go through the rest of wednesday, we'll start to see that cloud just clearing away from still away from the east, still clinging on to some patchy rain and drizzle , though, as well . and drizzle, though, as well. further north and west, clearing skies will allow for a patchy frost to form overnight as temperatures drop and we could see some icy stretches across parts of scotland and northern england to start the day on thursday . so a cold start for thursday. so a cold start for many tomorrow except the south and east where we will just see and east where we will just see a bit more in the way of cloud and some rain just lingering for the morning, though. brighter skies will come through the day . plenty of sunshine across wales and northern england as well as southern parts of scotland for a time before this next weather front makes its way into the far north of scotland, bringing some rain and a bit more in the way of cloud as well as some strong gusty winds. as some strong and gusty winds. so go into the weekend,

so as we go into the weekend, it's looking like it might just be a little bit drier after an onset or start to this outlook period, though, temperatures will be around average. they will be around average. they will cling on to some overnight frosts time night, frosts for a time night, especially addition of barrage . especially addition of barrage. in her first tv interview as homesick or three, suella braverman tells gb news she's proud to be british. i think there is a tendency to apologise and be a bit shy about our greatness, she vows to stem the tide of small boats crossing the channel. we need to ensure that we fix this problem of illegal migration. the home secretary says she won't sell out northern ireland and she's not afraid of controversy. so ela braverman talks exclusively to me liam halligan tonight on farage . gb halligan tonight on farage. gb news at 7 pm.

president biden vows that russia will never have victory in ukraine as putin threatens a return to cold war nuclear tests . hello there. very good morning to you. 7:00 on this wednesday, the 22nd on february. you're tuned into breakfast on gb news with eamonn and isabel. here's what's leading the news this morning . i think our nato can morning. i think our nato can remain unified, but should be no doubt our support for ukraine will not nato will not be divided and we will not tire . divided and we will not tire. the us president has issued a rallying cry to ukraine's allies in a fiery address in poland. two days ahead of the first anniversary of the war, veterans minister johnny mercer says it sends a strong message to the

russian president. the very strong yesterday. i think , you strong yesterday. i think, you know, he's made it clear ukraine is not going to lose this conflict a year on. people didn't expect kyiv to and the rest of ukraine to still be standing and fighting. so and you know, they are the west is resilient behind them . the west resilient behind them. the west is united almost as bad here. putin announces his country will halt its participation in the last remaining nuclear treaty it has with america. a return to cold war, nuclear tests , cold war, nuclear tests, millions of public sector workers will be off for two, three and a half% pay increase today as ministers enter talks today as ministers enter talks to end strikes . it's a below to end strikes. it's a below inflation rise attacked by the unions . they call it a disgrace unions. they call it a disgrace . and experts are warning that rationing of fruit and vegetables in shops could last weeks. supermarket yesterday were forced to introduce limits on the purchase of out—of—season produce due to supply issues . produce due to supply issues.

yeah and vegetables have got you all talking today. you should be getting back to the land. mike in west sussex says stores in horsham empty of basic essentials like vegetables but well—stocked with ice cream. i'm not vegetarian . if you not a vegetarian. if you are, you must going about every you must be going about every day you see, i have day hungry. but you see, i have to i needed one food to to say, if i needed one food to survive in life. ice cream. ice cream . ice cream. and the last cream. ice cream. and the last time i had a tony says no shortages in west suffolk aldi fully stocked that good to hear wendy maidstone . hello, wendy in maidstone. hello, wendy. good morning to you . you wendy. good morning to you. you can get a packet of seeds for 50 ppi. most supermarkets have compost for less than a fiver . compost for less than a fiver. what i've done is grow tomatoes and lots more in our garden. yeah, it's inspirational that. and sandra says we've got so used to cheap imports of fruit and veg, we've got out of the normal growing season. and she's absolutely right. we're totally out of sync with what grows when you're right all year round and i that's wrong. i to i know that's wrong. i need to rethink i eat fruit and rethink the way i eat fruit and veg. let us know your thoughts, your experiences at the shops

empty you want to know empty where you want to know mine? to live mine? yes. we used to live beside of fruit and veg. oh yeah . yeah. and they had the potatoes on the floor in the colleges the colleges and things and the thing was mice love. oh yeah, i can novel. and the can deal in the novel. and the mice go the potato mice would go into the potato a metaphor then go through metaphor and then go through into our five. your house into our five. oh, so your house was riddled mice mice? no, was riddled mice with mice? no, mice. the lovely mice. but anyway, the lovely fruit veg next to these two fruit and veg next to these two boiled beetroot all sorts of boiled beetroot do all sorts of things like that. but i know. i remember that like remember that things like bananas seasonal. you can bananas were seasonal. you can only get bananas or pineapples at times. they're at certain times. now they're flown in from ecuador. yes where did all go wrong ? that's the did it all go wrong? that's the thing. i just know you thought . thing. i just know you thought. well, look, our top story this morning is president biden delivering a rallying cry to ukraine's allies. it was a defiant speech two days ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the war. us with our nato can remain unified , but nato can remain unified, but there should be no doubt our

support for grain will not waver . nato will not be divided . we . nato will not be divided. we will not tire . president putin's will not tire. president putin's craving lust for land and power will fail . and the ukrainian will fail. and the ukrainian people's love for their country will prevail . democracies of the will prevail. democracies of the world will stand guard over freedom today. tomorrow and forever . while the freedom today. tomorrow and forever. while the amazes me about that, i mean often sleeping , about that, i mean often sleeping, you think is going to, you know, fall . he was on good you know, fall. he was on good form very fast very five months say yeah so obviously he has got that ability he he looks detached but he's not as we saw things really strong on foreign international politics is kind of his forte, isn't it? well look, the address followed in close succession just a few hours after vladimir putin's annual state of the nation address. it was in stark contrast because he announced russia was of its would halt its participation in the key nuclear treaty known as a new start .

treaty known as a new start. well, for more insight on this, let's turn to the financial and political activist bell browder with with all of this bill, very good to see by good to talk to you again. we were just comparing the two speeches, the two audiences there that they had.the two audiences there that they had. the thing is and the putin audience, the putin gathering there he went on for 2 hours. he was very dreary compared to joe biden , who 20 minutes he nails biden, who 20 minutes he nails it . how many people in not it. how many people in not audience would actually believe what putin is saying realistically ? well, it's really realistically? well, it's really interesting. i wish that you images of the of the audience . images of the of the audience. putin because i was watching these clips yesterday and it was really amusing to see these people expressionless people sitting there either sleeping or just, you know, clearly not them, you know, not getting into

them, you know, not getting into the whole the whole speech. i mean , this was totally , you mean, this was totally, you know, the audience not enthusiastic . they were just enthusiastic. they were just there for forum . they were all there for forum. they were all afraid of a camera catching their face and having the wrong facial expression. it was really something . and you're right. something. and you're right. this was sleepy vlad. this time . joe biden was amazing. he he he said what needed to be said. he's he told the putin this is an address to putin that america was strong, that we were that america was going to back ukraine, that that america was going to stand with us allies and that putin wouldn't succeed. and that's that's the message putin needs to hear right now . putin needs to hear right now. and biden also announcing that there would be further sanctions. and this is an area of your expertise. we're going far the with far enough in the west with sanctioning moscow . well, the sanctioning moscow. well, the problem is that that, yes, we're doing a lot of good stuff as far as sanctions are concerned . i as sanctions are concerned. i mean, the $350 billion of russian central bank reserves

have been frozen . 40 of the top have been frozen. 40 of the top oligarchs have had their assets frozen around the world. hundreds of billions of dollars. but the main problem with with sanctions program is there's huge elephant in the room. and thatis huge elephant in the room. and that is that that while all these some oligarchs are sanctioned and a lot of industries are sanctioned, russia continues to be able sell oil and gas outside of russia to the tune of between 500 million and $1,000,000,000 a day. it's just a huge, huge loophole . and just a huge, huge loophole. and as long as they can sell oil and gas in that quantity , russia has gas in that quantity, russia has enough money to buy weapons, to employ people , to send them to employ people, to send them to the front and to kill ukrainians. and so we have to figure out and say we it means we all all of us have to figure out how to cut off that flow of money to russia. and the main problem that that you have a lot of countries like turkey and south africa , indonesia, india , south africa, indonesia, india, who continue to do business with russia , they continue to buy russia, they continue to buy their oil and gas can by other

means . and those people are kind means. and those people are kind of wrecking the whole sanctions program for us. and so that's the that's the big loophole. it seems to me that the way you fix that problem is by basically saying those countries , you saying to those countries, you know, you either do business, you can either do business with us which make way. and we make up 50% world gdp or you can up 50% of world gdp or you can do business with russia, 1.7% of world gdp , but you can't do world gdp, but you can't do business with both . you choose . business with both. you choose. they would have to choose. and russia then choose. post war who they continued to do business with and what state the whole economic playing field is in. how do you see life post—war and normal relations with russia again ? high, quickly or slowly ? again? high, quickly or slowly? would those be built up again or does money talk? does the lust for energy ? where do you see it

for energy? where do you see it 7 for energy? where do you see it ? well, i you use a word here post war which which is a very optimistic word. and i think that this is a very long term word . i don't think that this word. i don't think that this war is ending any time soon. i dread to tell you that , that dread to tell you that, that neither side has any any intention of backing down the russian. putin can't back down. if he does, he ends up basically looking and he ends up losing power and if he loses power, he dies . and the ukrainians have dies. and the ukrainians have been raped murdered, tortured children taken away from them. they're destruction of unprecedented proportions. the ukrainians are not going to accept anything other than a total victory themselves. and so i think this war is going to go on for a very long time. but but to answer your question, if i'm wrong, if this war were to ensue , then i think it's going to be a long, long time before particularly goes back to business as usual, russia. look, i mean, there main business they

have is selling gas to germany and italy . austria, they've and italy. austria, they've already cut off the gas to these . they've turned out to be an unreliable an unreliable suppuer.i unreliable an unreliable supplier. i don't think that anyone's going to just jump into bed with them again and say, okay, we're going to make our economies dependent after economies dependent on you after what done. i think what you've just done. i think they've themselves back 30 they've set themselves back 30 years with this with this unbelievable behaviour that they've demonstrated recently, except you know, you were sounding perhaps optimistic now because you forget about china in all of this. and the wall street journal reporting morning that xi jinping's planning a trip moscow, something that no world leader wants to be seen doing apart from apparently him potentially talk about investing in the country, which is quite shocking . you talk about closing shocking. you talk about closing the loopholes that fund the war machine. that's a huge , huge machine. that's a huge, huge fund isn't it ? machine. that's a huge, huge fund isn't it? yeah. fund problem, isn't it? yeah. well it's really interesting because here . absolutely right. because here. absolutely right. china is a, you know, completely

could derail all of our sanctions efforts. and the thing that most worries me about china is not even doing business in russia, but several days ago at the munich security conference, the munich security conference, the us secretary of state made a very shocking , which is that he very shocking, which is that he said he believed that china was to start supplying lethal weapons to russia. and the reason why that's so significant is that russia has been running out of weapons they can't produce the weapons they need for this war, they've been traditionally after going the us going to north korea and iran, the two countries are so sanctioned they don't care what happensin sanctioned they don't care what happens in to get weapons and ukraine has had had a sort of advantage, i would say used to be able to get western weapons. and with russia running out of their traditional weapons, if china were to enter this game, if china were to supply weapons that be a total and very ugly game changer for ukraine in the war and it's not certain that

that's the case, that america perhaps was was trying to warn them off before did that and it's also certain that they would actually do it, that the chinese would actually do it because china it yes. is a big economy it's a mercantile economy. it's in an economy that depends on on their own well—being by selling stuffed the west. if all of a sudden actively getting involved in this war with weapons , that this war with weapons, that could end up very dramatically affecting their ability to sell to and to the americans and, to canadians and other people like that. and so , you know, this is that. and so, you know, this is i think right now it's all a bunch of posturing. sabre rattling. but if the chinese decide to go in and do that, that could really be a problem for the whole world. fascinating bill. bill, do us a favour. come back and speak to us again after 8:00 this morning. we've got so much to you and so much much to ask you and so much more. we want to hear from you. and that spill bride to there , a and that spill bride to there, a financier, political activist , financier, political activist, russian commentator and with so

much analysis and tales to tell. thank you very much . well, we're thank you very much. well, we're going to turn our attention now to domestic matters and uk politics and to our head of politics and talk to our head of digital news at falvey, who digital news at dan falvey, who joins in the studio. to joins us in the studio. lots to go with you , i suppose go through with you, i suppose strikes of the agenda. the strikes top of the agenda. the big news yesterday being that the rcn called off their strikes next temporarily going in next week temporarily going in to meet with the steve today. how hopeful away that there could be some kind of breakthrough here especially in the light of that announcement yesterday that there's a bit more headroom the treasury more headroom for the treasury the does feel like the moment it does feel like this announcement is a slightly different had different one. we've had previously this intensified talks feels like there is some wiggle room here and both sides feel there could a deal feel like there could be a deal . the cards, would be . the cards, which would be great because as one great news because no one as one of these to take place of these tries to take place and, know, strike action and, you know, strike action across sectors taking place across all sectors taking place since last june. the since since last june. so the idea some these strikes idea that some of these strikes could be on the cusp of ending would be would fantastic would be would be fantastic news. the interesting seeing the papers they've

news. the interesting seeing the papers spent they've news. the interesting seeing the papers spent off they've news. the interesting seeing the papers spent off this they've news. the interesting seeing the papers spent off this extra ey've news. the interesting seeing the papers spent off this extra 30 ve already spent off this extra 30 billion so surplus they've billion and so surplus they've got the times and i think the mail saying you know reduce taxes right now and then you've got the et. saying it should be spent on on public sector pay and it could be and that they think it could be about 5% offer to sector about 5% offer to public sector . i mean , hunt was talking quite . i mean, hunt was talking quite a lot yesterday about all of that, he was kind of backing that, and he was kind of backing off. he. yeah. think off. wasn't he. yeah. i think jeremy they've jeremy hunt is clear. they've got some fiscal headroom, but he's saying it's not as as he's saying it's not as much as everyone thinks billion sounds everyone thinks 5 billion sounds like. us. but like. it's a lot to us. but actually , in the grand scheme of actually, in the grand scheme of government funding , when you government funding, when you break down all of those, break it down to all of those, it go as far it might it doesn't go as far as it might initially sound. so he's saying, yes this is great news. but yes, this is great news. but actually we can't do everything that wants. can't that everyone wants. we can't give cuts. can't give these tax cuts. we can't maybe bills maybe reduce energy bills because they're set to go up in just a few weeks. and we have to still go ahead with that increase. we do that now, but maybe there some room maybe there is some wiggle room when to pay for, you when it comes to pay for, you know, 12 months. know, for the next 12 months. how do people really care how much do people really care about resolving public pay about resolving the public pay

sector situation ? the reason sector situation? the reason i bnng sector situation? the reason i bring this up with dan, he's our head of digital. he gets out there, he finds out is there, he you he finds out is interesting you what listeners and viewers want to talk about what's your overall picture client at time we write about strike action . people do not strike action. people do not want to read it. i think people are quite bored of these strikes . so actually i think this is a very positive story and people will be pleased to hear that there could be an anti strike action because people are just there could be an anti strike acti up because people are just there could be an anti strike acti up of:ause people are just there could be an anti strike acti up of it. se people are just there could be an anti strike acti up of it. but eople are just there could be an anti strike acti up of it. but the .e are just there could be an anti strike acti up of it. but the protocol;t fed up of it. but the protocol and nicola sturgeon and needs of nicola sturgeon always gets our audience interested . yes, when it comes interested. yes, when it comes to politics, is politics of to politics, it is politics of scotland at the moment and non—political people really non—political that people really care on scotland. what the non—political that people really interesting is, who are these people placing? nicola sturgeon nicola a big nicola sturgeon has been a big player uk politics in recent player in uk politics in recent years and any time a is about nicola sturgeon people want to read it. i don't think when comes to replacements and comes to have replacements and has clue who they really are. so we interesting. have that we been interesting. have that develops when it comes to the it's so much let's the

it's not so much let's say the ins and of the eu ins and outs of the eu negotiations people care about. it's rishi sunak it's about whether rishi sunak has his own has the strength in his own party this through , party to push this through, because time there's because every time there's brexit, about backbench brexit, we hear about backbench rebellions. not sure i've rebellions. i'm not sure i've been overly certain he has that support and bring us up date support and bring us up to date on the today on the on the news today on the protocol we're hearing that rishi could be the rishi sunak could be calling the bluff the rebels in not bluff of some the rebels in not only in his only his party but in his cabinet as well. yes. so these negotiations are ongoing and his own cabinet members are saying that actually if they don't meet their redlines, that they resign over this suella braverman has been threatening that through her allies and sources close to her allies and sources close to her liam halligan our economics editor does an interview editor as does have an interview with we are having at with her which we are having at 7 tonight. worth 7 pm. tonight. well worth listen hear directly from listen to hear directly from her and she has to say on all and what she has to say on all of this. but rishi sunak saying, quite i'm going to do quite frankly, i'm going to do what to done and you what needs to be done and you resign that's what you resign if that's what you think's but ploughing think's best. but i'm ploughing ahead for quite the ahead sets them up for quite the clash very good dan thank you very much indeed. keep telling dan think kind get dan you think kind of they get in touch with you dan. they can

get touch gb views gb get in touch at gb views gb news. man. thank very news. good man. thank you very much 716 is the time of much indeed. 716 is the time of very good morning to wherever you're or listening you're watching or listening from. bring up to date from. let's bring you up to date with shamima begins with top stories. shamima begins to find out today if she's won an appeal against the decision to remove her british citizenship . bacon, who left the citizenship. bacon, who left the uk as a teenage it to join the islamic state as a citizen ship revoked national security revoked on national security grounds . in revoked on national security grounds. in 2019, revoked on national security grounds . in 2019, supermarket grounds. in 2019, supermarket are going to be rationing a growing list of fruit and vegetables over the coming weeks. bad weather across europe and africa is being blamed . the and africa is being blamed. the disruption of supplies, retail is warning it could last weeks. and all of this comes as the environment secretary theresa coffee prepares to make a speech praising farmers . a conference praising farmers. a conference in birmingham today , thanking in birmingham today, thanking them for feeding the uk amid extreme weather events and a cost of living crisis. how would that go down? let us know your views on that study of university college london shows that active throughout adulthood

helps prevent dementia. the long term research has found that people who exercise as they get older and more to have good brain health than those who are less consistent consistent . less consistent consistent. i used to laugh exercise. they used to laugh exercise. they used to laugh exercise. they used to really look forward to doing it and then somewhere in my life, it just occur anymore . my life, it just occur anymore. well, probably all the years of doing breakfast television contributed to a lack of energy. that's my argument. anyway but when it comes to you, i think your brain is a muscle and this thing heavily exercise. i wouldn't worry about the dementia my brain was a muscle to be a success. i'm not seeing any evidence of dementia. i worry about that sharp as a tack. let's talk about rugby, welsh rugby team has delayed announcing their squad against england. they have a big six nafions england. they have a big six nations match on saturday due to an ongoing row over players contracts . this could actually

contracts. this could actually lead to strike action a very real threat. yes as the welsh manager, i mean, could not be worse. while in a news conference yesterday afternoon, coach warren gatland said he was the match against england. would ahead planned . i am confident ahead as planned. i am confident that the discussions that are taking place that hopefully something will get resolved today. i'm hearing positive things from from both sides. yes, i you know, hopefully the discussions be acceptable to both sides in terms of making some sort of compromise. and we can and get on with the game . can and get on with the game. unnasch. reporter for hawkins joins us now from principality stadium and paul, look, he's delayed announcing his squad line up that was supposed to be was it today or yesterday and that's now going to be later on in the week and lots of welsh rugby and i suppose it affects england fans as well. the matches impacted really about this yeah and don't forget , how this. yeah and don't forget, how many pubs do you see where are

signs up saying six nations on this weekend ? the hospitality this weekend? the hospitality industry, the wider here in cardiff are relying on matches happening in the six nations for needed trade. so there's a huge knock on effect for lots of people, not just within sport itself. it seems bizarre, but it is happening at the moment. you know, there's nurses on were going to be going on strike we should say also doctors railway workers still know enough picket lines. myself but now it seems that welsh rugby players determined to take action fundamentally, the kind of issues are ruling are they are striking because they need certainty and security when it comes to pay and contracts for what is really compared to the rest of us a very short career. let's drill down into what this dispute is with gary powell, who's a rugby analyst and commentator , joining us from gb commentator, joining us from gb news this morning. karen, good to to you. first of all, in to talk to you. first of all, in very simple terms, what is the dispute between welsh rugby players welsh well, players and welsh rugby? well, thank for having me. thank you for having me. essentially there are two

problems with the welsh players being happy with welsh rugby because they're really the negotiations for the new franchise agreement between the professional regions and the welsh rugby union. that's gone on a long time until that's agreed. the who employ the players can't offer them new contract and many players that level and some of the cash squad are coming out of contract at the end of this season. that time is carrying on they've got no certainty, but more goods, applications, etc. as is so often as happened in the last 30 years. but they are the victims of problems elsewhere in welsh rugby with the welsh rugby bosses all agreed with each other in terms of the specifics of the dispute the last few days , the regions under the new proposals funding agreement, , the regions under the new proposals funding agreement , the proposals funding agreement, the regions will have less money or whatever happens, but that has a knock on effect in three regards

given what's the players with the welsh rugby bosses, they want a more representation on the sub board which deals with the sub board which deals with the professional game. so this never happens and they feel like they can have input. yeah, that should be a compromise on that . should be a compromise on that. although the question will be whether they get any voting power on that. there are other aspects to it. one of the suggestions that the players find very controversial is that they should have participated in forward 20% of it would be performance related and the players are very concerned this because the overall funding from the welsh rugby union to the professional regions is going down anyway . so they're down anyway. so they're concerned that there'll performance pay will come in at the same time that their teams being funded less this quarter, getting weaker on their pay go down as they become more uncompetitive against the irish. yeah and so i'd say it's a dispute over paid security and

essentially it would be it would be enormous if the wales players do announce later today that they're strike, they're they're going to strike, they're not to against not going to play against england saturday, be england on saturday, it would be enormous. lose nine enormous. welsh rugby lose nine or enormous. welsh rugby lose nine 0 would or £10 million and there would be problems for the be enormous problems for the welsh rugby union, the regions and players . yeah, should and the players. yeah, should that , should that and the players. yeah, should that, should that happen. and the final issue is the unhappy at the restraint of trade of being 60 clubs. so i'm 60 caps to play outside of wales so they'd hope in that that can be reduced so that can play abroad meaningless. so a number of fundamental issues on terms and conditions and pay going. thank you . it's funny , it conditions and pay going. thank you. it's funny , it is conditions and pay going. thank you . it's funny , it is sport and you. it's funny, it is sport and it is different and obviously not as important to know wider society as things like railway workers and getting work on site and the nhs and all that sort stuff. but these are players who need to pay mortgages . players need to pay mortgages. players who have been suffering mental health problems . there have been health problems. there have been lots of documented cases of that. so it's important for them

to get the security and certainty in their pay and contracts heading the contracts heading into the future difficult, you know, future very difficult, you know, rugby lifeblood wales rugby is the lifeblood of wales and, it's really and, you know, it's really important for the economy here . important for the economy here. thanks, paul . on to another poll thanks, paul. on to another poll paul coyte and studio now after the break he's got all the other sports news but so this strike warning gatland saying that it's a possible it is a possibility like we should find out just now. there's three things that have got to be resolved and they've got to be resolved today.even they've got to be resolved today. even the 60 cap brawl where basically you've got to have 60 caps, at least to be playing abroad. and they're saying it's not fair, should be able to play wherever they want. and also the demand the players get, it's really mainly about the it's mainly about the the wages. it's mainly about the wages, to get it wages, but they need to get it sorted today because warren gatland that to gatland needs to mind that to tell you'd have to pay me a lot of money play. it a tough of money to play. it is a tough game. is a tough game. game. okay it is a tough game. but you wouldn't take 80% would you? you 100. but would you do that ears? is it worth

that to your ears? is it worth that to your ears? is it worth that fury watching the game, cauliflower now cauliflower ears playing now you know busted. know like dodging and busted. i mean , i was just blessed with mean, i was just blessed with looks could not too prissy looks that could not too prissy for beautifully for too rugby much beautifully is in television. people have always said that you never play rugby. allow you to rugby. i wouldn't allow you to play rugby. i wouldn't allow you to play of rugby. as you get play a game of rugby. as you get older, ears get bigger. older, your ears get bigger. i've that. i've noticed i've noticed that. i've noticed that. i don't you to notice that i'm telling you i share i'm just telling you i share a little neil diamond's got you have you ever seen neil diamond's is there you go there you know it's all about liverpool really champions league great start to nil up and then five to a hearing this loss at anfield lost their biggest everin at anfield lost their biggest ever in europe the story after this .

welcome back 729 still to come on the program this morning at a quarter past eight supermarkets of rationing fruit and vegetables will be speaking to the gardener wait for it that's a big one of big veg i love this guy. he's going to give us his tips on how to grow your own. my goodness. he knows how many couples are embracing the trend of in separate bedrooms. couples are embracing the trend of in separate bedrooms . they do of in separate bedrooms. they do it apparently strange for the babies. baby would like to think it's a baby. baby. that's what

happens when you sleep in separate bedrooms. yeah, but anyway, it's all about getting a better night's sleep. okay, so we'll be asking at quarter to nine. could a sleep divorce be right for you . am a big fan of right for you. am a big fan of that are you. well not all the time. but you know. that are you. well not all the time. but you know . well, my time. but you know. well, my wife insisted on us getting the biggest bed . that is so good. biggest bed. that is so good. that's a good of doing it. so it's called an emperor book, right? so it's bigger than a king size or double king size, it's very appropriate so basically it's about the length of this desk i am over there. i want to hand she is up here. paul coyte is and that keeps happy. she needs her space. so yeah, i get it. do you. yeah the future . no. no. okay. what way future. no. no. okay. what way do you sleep ? how do you sleep? do you sleep? how do you sleep? do you recommend separate to get along to stay married . along to stay married. right back. page is let's see how they

stack up this morning not good reading for liverpool. the mayor says cops and melt on the liverpool disappointing was wrong word last night to nail losing five two against real madrid at anfield star is front page madrid at anfield star is front page garcia his road to elland at leeds united look set to name ex watford boss as their manager and the express will strike. uncertainty remains over whether will line up against england six nafions will line up against england six nations this weekend whilst players saying they are threatening still threatening a strike we've just talked about. no, let's go to anfield last night, paul . yes to no liverpool night, paul. yes to no liverpool against real madrid. while who would have thought? well, jurgen said before the game that he was a little earlier on probably more after the final last year , more after the final last year, telling liverpool fans book your tickets for istanbul because going to the final. so i think there's probably a lot of scousers that are going expedia just trying to delete, delete.

is there a way that we can maybe change someone else because change if someone else because it to by the it ain't going to happen by the look it thrown away home look of it thrown away home advantage. well, yeah. well, the thing is the home advantage is very know very important. they know the away goals, one thing away goals, which is one thing doesn't but but when doesn't count, but but when you're five, two it you're losing five, two and it started so and got underway started so well and got underway , of there's the , of course there's the excitement, although we should mention the champions mention that the champions league music was booed by liverpool those that liverpool and for those that think you why on earth is that happening is because of everything that happened in paris so there paris for the final. so there was no respect there for uefa whether they should have been any . i don't whether they should have been any. i don't think they whether they should have been any . i don't think they should any. i don't think they should have been but anyway, they got have been. but anyway, they got off to a great start, great goal off to a great start, great goal. you in unison goals goal. when you in unison goals back the so then back of the heel. so then there's horrendous mistake by there's a horrendous mistake by tebow courtois go to up and tebow courtois to go to up and liverpool were thinking you know what this is the resurgence you know we've had a bad run but now things are turning around and then real madrid as they invariably do, they're an invariably do, they're just an unbelievable side they unbelievable side when they go behind. it against behind. they did it against chelsea against chelsea year, the done against manchester city . they know

manchester city. they just know how to win five, five and 46 and they absolutely destroy liverpool and i don't know whether it's worse to actually be to up and to have the feeling that things are looking so great and have the excitement to then have it taken away, then to not score at all. do you know what i mean? because it's just gone. the, the, the, the emotions that have just gone from one to the other. it was it really was bad to talk about the managerial merry go round. absolutely. leeds first all. having leeds first of all. yeah, having karachi karachi is karachi a happy karachi is probably known probably best known as being watford a years ago watford manager. a few years ago he the cup final he took them to the cup final and if you think, well watford, and if you think, well watford, a manager that's been fired by watford every manager, been watford every manager, has been fired by watford. so it's not such bad thing, but is such a bad thing, but gracia is a adaptable . he's not the a very adaptable. he's not the sort manager that's going to sort of manager that's going to go into leeds and say, this is way we're to play, we're way we're going to play, we're going change things. is going to change things. he is very this is one very adaptable. this is one of the good things him as a the good things about him as a manager. good man manager. he's a good man manager, which is what absolutely need. but absolutely what they need. but really think the mistake was, is

getting of jesse marsch when getting rid of jesse marsch when they left it so late? they did they left it so late? they it till after the they left it till after the world because like world cup because it looked like it a slight it might be in a slight resurgence. signs and players that marsch and that jesse marsch wanted and then gone. so i think it then jesse's gone. so i think it could be a decent. it could be a decent manager job for him, but it's also a flexible contract calling it, which i think flexible. but i think it just means they're not tied in. we'll see how go. yeah, we were early. we've got our on other people but we'll see how we go. but it's going to be a tough job for us. let us know what you think of that one. does that inspire qpr? they've changed managers as well. ainsworth, well. look, gareth ainsworth, i enjoy qpr legend over seven enjoy the qpr legend over seven years for club went years playing for the club went whickham ten years ago. assistant manager or just just caretaker manager then the job and then took them the championship but he's a he's he's a manager like no he's a great guy. he's a great in that he's into his music. he's what you call him a rocker. i'd call him a rocket. yeah. he drives a

mustang. he's in a band . and you mustang. he's in a band. and you know what i like about him? is that he's on the touchline. he doesit that he's on the touchline. he does it also. he doesn't talk in managerial talk. you know, the old usual . yeah. we'll take each old usual. yeah. we'll take each game as it comes and obviously blah, blah. tell blah, blah, blah. he'll tell like it and i love the fact like it is. and i love the fact that he will wear a leather jacket on the touchline and he'll wear cowboy boots. not good he a good for turf, but he makes a great change think he's a great change and. i think he's a very good appointment for queens park left park rangers. yeah, that's left them truly . okay, paul, them well and truly. okay, paul, appreciate it. thank you very much we'll a break. much indeed. we'll take a break. yeah. after that break, yeah. and after that break, we're we're talking about ofcom's of ofcom's investigation of sky news and itn nicola bulley coverage as we take a look through the papers with david and mccgwire .

it is itisa it is a man and it's about to lead the way. well go through the papers . we've got the former the papers. we've got the former chief secretary to the treasury, miller, and the former labour adviser to do that with us. this and scarlett, we're going to start with ofcom contacting and itv yesterday after the family singled them out in a statement after , the body was confirmed to after, the body was confirmed to be nicola bulley on monday. yeah, i mean, this is this is quite an interesting story because because if you read the tabloids all you get is how terrible the lancashire police

are. but actually the family are not happy with , with the media not happy with, with the media coverage at all and in particular after they asked for privacy she when her body was found sky and itv both frying them up and the family are furious and i what i am hoping is that this actually that we will look journalists tv and newspapers will actually think twice about what they do in the future because you know , these future because you know, these are ordinary families who are suffering the most appalling grief . and then they have to grief. and then they have to deal with the journalists as well. i mean, in the whole way i mean, you know, we're not even the social people with the social media people with ticktock us coming and saying these things i mean it the whole village was had what it was an invasion by people. yeah and they , they'd never had it for, i they, they'd never had it for, i mean just because in the middle of it we're a grieving family.

yeah absolutely. no, you know, ten or 15 years ago we wouldn't be talking about this because it would be normal practise you know, i know . got to ask know, i know. got to ask themselves how high do they think that news organisations get stories? and as you were saying yesterday , they're in big saying yesterday, they're in big competition now with social media. social media is it's a game , but they've always been game, but they've always been guidelines about doorstep thing when someone's just deceased. and know they'll be there will and i know they'll be there will be heads rolling over this 100% within itv and sky news, the to be because it can't be you know you cannot justify that ed really? no. no, but i mean what was clear from from the statement that was read out on behalf of the family is that that was just the tip of the iceberg . i mean, the way the iceberg. i mean, the way the nicola bulley partner, paul been portrayed as possibly it him, i mean, the spectacular fashion around it was was just terrible . and no, nobody seemed to be thinking in the middle of this, you know, is this is this guy

and his daughters, i think a symptom of the part of the problem is this. the public interest in this was fuelled by this lack of trust in. the police that we know and that can't just be the media's fault. i think the public genuinely felt this wasn't necessarily being handled that well and there was this kind of line between there's lack between there's a profound lack of trust of the police. you look at those two unprepossessing coppers once the deputy chief constable looks you know , constable looks and you know, and the superintendent they couldn't wait to throw that poor woman under the bus by actually ruining her to ruin her reputation before her body had been had been found . and i just been had been found. and i just think that the i that needs be a thorough examination of all of that but in particular why it was that lancashire police never secured the crime scene couldn't keep these idiots digging around and why they in particular felt

they had to reveal things about poor nicola bulley bully's health that seemed designed to do nothing except and make people think the weren't such total idiots as. people think the weren't such total idiots as . most people total idiots as. most people were concluding that they were right . let's let's go to the right. let's let's go to the male scarlett. there's a story here about what her peers what keir starmer thinks of boris johnson, what boris johnson of keir starmer. no one i'm loving about this is that actually it's all out in the open and starmer has said that he loathes boris johnson . now, i think i respect johnson. now, i think i respect the man's right to loathe whoever he wants. i think that's enough. i wouldn't hold that against him. oh, yeah, i against him. oh, yeah, no, i think. i think it is. i mean, bofis think. i think it is. i mean, boris has always been incredibly about him, but. but but you about him, but. but but if you think of difference between think of the difference between two, mean, here you have boris two, i mean, here you have boris eton entitled , all of eton oxford entitled, all of that. and then you have keir he sort of came up from a poor irish family , went to

irish family, went to university, worked his way through and he just i mean so when the two of them clashed and the first i remember the first prime minister's questions when bofis prime minister's questions when boris couldn't be bothered to brief himself and was completely floored by keir. and keir is a man who's always hard. so you can you can and also, i mean, bofisis can you can and also, i mean, boris is not known for his truthfulness, right and so, you know, surely not all the roaring take by was prince harry. i'd have the lawyers on, but i and i. and what's interesting about. so i think you're right. i think you know that sometimes you just need know that people loathe each other it was quite obvious that boris no stand keir and thought he was awful. and what's interesting about this is that although politically they they don't like each other there is some respect between rishi sunak and keir starmer that actually they do talk about security matters he the private phone them. yeah yeah but which i

think is right beginning of a famous romance . well exactly famous romance. well exactly i mean we'll really see not be pleased to hear that sir keir starmer admires him. but will that be an indication? i think i think that is too far to the left. oh, no. i mean, he thinks he's i mean, it was quite clear that he thinks he's weak, but it's like, you know, when theresa may was prime minister i mean, actually, for all their incredible differences keir starmer admired , he always said starmer admired, he always said she never compromise on national security . he you know, he worked security. he you know, he worked with her when he was deputy of the director of public prosecutions and she was home secretary and he trusted her on. but he that and that's the same with rishi sunak is he thinks as we've seen with the north and of the protocol is actually although you know many of us don't think he's a very good prime minister clearly keir starmer doesn't either and he's incredibly weak actually , he he incredibly weak actually, he he does do things for the sake of the country rather than, you

know, like boris . the country rather than, you know, like boris. boris is all about boris . know, like boris. boris is all about boris. let's be all about the times and there is a military vehicle called the axe . that's ajax. ajax, i guess so. yeah. as against i who were a football cleaner that called ajax season there was bathroom bleach . i'm sure you probably bleach. i'm sure you probably had a good scrub with a bit of ajax. yeah. and then people pronounce certain things. ajax but we'll go with ajax. okay yeah. so the ajax is what allowed me filtered that one out. it was. well he was a hero in the battle of troy, an ancient greeks apparently ajax. and it's a type of boat as well. the things she did sailboats privileged able to save privileged to be able to save this ship to me. but this armoured vehicle is it any good 7 armoured vehicle is it any good ? know it ? it's been going for ? know it? it's been going for 13 years back 2004. well, it hasn't been game that you know it's a project of me getting back in 2014 they signed a contract for 5.5 billion and it turns that the engine is so

noisy , the people can't actually noisy, the people can't actually operate it without grave danger to that. so health is it a tank or is it slightly less like? it's an armoured vehicle, so it's not tank, but it's sort of like what we used to call an armoured car pig , pig. we used armoured car pig, pig. we used to call whatever , that's what it to call whatever, that's what it used to call a police. no, no, no. they were, they were called get armoured anyway. rig up whatever they were called. this is that this the point why i have mentioned this. we keep on saying oh we got to spend more money on defence. everyone assumes if that money is spent on defence it will actually go to something useful. yeah. so is that the are notorious for wasting money and the reality is one of the reasons why any any treasury person will be sceptical about the demand for more for money the ministry of defence. a lot of it will go into the hands of, defence. a lot of it will go into the hands of , the defence

into the hands of, the defence procurement people, but there's no evidence it will ever come out as anything useful. and i wanted one little reflection from my time at the treasury where the ministry of defence was regarded as the least competent managers of public money. they built a bunker. okay under whitehall into that bunker was put lot of sensitive equipment cost a fortune there whatsoever a problem with this bunker which was which was that by the time you put in all the equipment there was no room for anyone to get in and off class plastic so if you were if you were at the treasury and i there they're looking to everybody saying that the armed forces woefully underfunded . they woefully underfunded. they neednt woefully underfunded. they needn't come with a begging bowl to you. but i think that what they have to do is come with something that's to work and look , i'm talking now, sadly, 30 look, i'm talking now, sadly, 30 years ago that that i'm sorry i recanted it's not a new thing that there's trouble with the

ministry of defence procurement. someone needs to get on on top of this and sort it out because one thing is certain. it's bad enough having to spend public money on stuff like, you know, everyone would much rather spend it on something else. if you spend it on something like you should get a proper bang for your butt and of course you don't get any bangs for that these bucks because these things will be well, will actually be used. well, talking buying for your talking about buying for your buck, goodbye buck, guys will say goodbye to you to be you because we're going to be talking short haul talking about short haul airlines in particular. the worst short airline voted worst short airline as voted by the public. david the british public. david mellor, scarlett mccgwire, thank you and with you very much indeed. and with there is top of our list. yes you believe it's been named the country's worst short haul airline , followed closely by airline, followed closely by ryanair, the based carrier received just one star out of five by uk. flies in the which consumer survey. okay, let's talk to travel journalist alison rice about this. alison i've never had the privilege or the misfortune to travel by to buy

was . have you misfortune to travel by to buy was. have you ? no, i haven't. was. have you? no, i haven't. hunganan was. have you? no, i haven't. hungarian based budget airline. but the good news is the ones ryanair wasn't the top of the west airlines they've picked by this hungarian based carrier, i should say with which magazine . should say with which magazine. they interview just over thousand people and ask them score the airline just travelled on so boarding experience cabin environment seat comfort know etc. value for money and cleanliness you know basically how much ajax checks do the crew use between . and with that? it's use between. and with that? it's really badly, but some you know they they fight fly from eight uk airports including birmingham edinburgh gatwick and luton . i edinburgh gatwick and luton. i think any agent watching will

not be surprised by this result . maybe some one would be surprised that ryan wasn't top again yet. but but alison, what never ceases to , surprise me, is never ceases to, surprise me, is no matter how often people are disdainful of ryanair , for disdainful of ryanair, for instance, or wizz air , it instance, or wizz air, it doesn't seem to stop people them at the end of the day , money at the end of the day, money talks. exactly. and actually, when you look at all the short term of airlines , you have to term of airlines, you have to think about how much you're paying think about how much you're paying for the flights and how much would it cost to be much more environment to knowledgeable and go by or drive your car so you know it is about value for money which does come out in in in this survey but surely what everybody wants to know is what's the best airline according to this . 8000 people

according to this. 8000 people first sounds that which magazines survey so which is best but by a small margin but by quite some as it say by country mile . yes. well yes. by quite some as it say by country mile . yes. well yes . the country mile. yes. well yes. the overall score in so with that was 8% and the winner was 80% and it might surprise people that it was jet to which is now officially the biggest holiday company in this country. they're beating tui, which was always the biggest in the old days is in competition for size with cook. but now jet to and again the travel agent watching will not be surprised at that and of course they are now licence to this year carry 5.9 million passengers to the end of september. whereas tui is . just

september. whereas tui is. just 5.3 million. and what a lot of people took into consideration was the policy in the old in the covid is to a very flexible policy that if you couldn't make your flight because covid, it didn't cost you anything to make a change. and it was much easier to get your money back instead of being fobbed off with a voucher. of being fobbed off with a voucher . and of being fobbed off with a voucher. and for a lot of people that fuss done. you i still have l, that fuss done. you i still have i, i think british airways, berkshire that i have to use by the end of september. i tried to use it last at the end of last and booked with my voucher and then they cancelled the flight. so i with another airline and paid but i still have a voucher lots of people will have so short haul airlines was their best jet to alison rice travel

journalist thank you very much indeed it's doors to manual cross check thank you very much thank you wake . we're going to thank you wake. we're going to take a break. after that, we'll be focusing on the speeches delivered by putin and also by president biden . stark contrast president biden. stark contrast yesterday with all those details after you forecast . good morning after you forecast. good morning . my name is rachel ayers, and welcome to you all. latest weather update from the met office. so it's all changed today to something just a little cooler with rain making its way southeast , which cooler with rain making its way southeast, which is throughout the day and is all due to a low pressure system just to the north of the uk that has brought a cold southeast was a cold front southeast was through and it's going through tonight and it's going to to make way to continue to make its way southeast through rest of southeast through the rest of today bring plenty cloud today as will bring plenty cloud today as will bring plenty cloud to this morning across to start this morning across much of central southern and eastern parts of england and wales . and this will bring some wales. and this will bring some patchy rain and as well that will slowly its way south eastwards away from this across the north. it's a bright start today. chilly, though , with today. chilly, though, with plenty of sunny spells and some

scattered showers that could just be wintry over the high ground. so cooler here, but still clinging on to this slightly milder temperatures for one more day across the south and east as we go through the rest of wednesday, we'll start to see that cloud just clearing away from the east, still clinging to some patchy rain under o'hare, though, as well . under o'hare, though, as well. further north and west, clare skies will allow for a patchy to form overnight as temperatures drop and we could see some icy stretches across . parts of stretches across. parts of scotland and northern england to start the day on thursday so a cold for many tomorrow except the south and east where we will just see a bit more in the way of cloud. some rain just lingering for the morning, though. brighter skies will come through the day . plenty of through the day. plenty of sunshine across wales and northern england as well as southern parts of scotland for a time before this next weather front makes its way into the far north of scotland, bringing some rain and a bit more in the way

of cloud, as well as some strong and gusty winds. so as we go into the weekend, it's like it might just be a little bit drier after an unsettled start to this outlook period, though, temperatures around . temperatures will be around. they cling on to some they will cling on to some overnight frosts for a time . i'm overnight frosts for a time. i'm jacob rees—mogg, the member of parliament for north east somerset. and i'm delighted to be joining gb news democracy shows that the wisdom of the is in its people. that's why i'm joining the people's channel to get rees—mogg get your wisdom. jacob rees—mogg state of the nation monday from 8 pm. on gb news watching .

president biden fires that russia will never have victory in ukraine as putin threatens to return to cold war nuclear tests . good morning. it's 8:00. it's wednesday, the 22nd of february. this is breakfast on tv news with eamonn holmes and isabel webster. welcome to the program. lead in the news this morning with our nato can remain unified , but there should be no doubt our support for grain will not waver . nato will not be divided waver. nato will not be divided and we will not tire . the us

and we will not tire. the us president issuing a rallying cry to ukraine's allies in a fiery address in poland two days ahead of the first anniversary of the war, veterans minister johnny mercer says it sends a message to russia. it was very strong yesterday. i think , you know, yesterday. i think, you know, he's made it clear ukraine is not going to lose this conflict. a year on. people didn't expect kyiv and the rest of ukraine to still be standing and fighting so hard and, you know, they all the west is resilient behind them. the west is united when it comes as vladimir putin announces his country will halt its politician participation in the last remaining nuclear treaty it has , with america treaty it has, with america signalling a return to cold war nuclear tests . public sector nuclear tests. public sector workers will be offered a three and a half% pay increase as ministers enter talks to end the strikes. it's a below inflation rise and has been attacked by unions who call it a disgrace and experts are warning that

rationing of fruit and vegetables in shops could last weeks . supermarkets yesterday weeks. supermarkets yesterday were forced to introduce limits on the purchase of out of season produce due to supply issues. we're actually going to an allotment or crossing their line by satellite. later in the program , just to get an expert's program, just to get an expert's view on, you know, can you meet the fruit and veg shortage by growing your own? we're also going to talk a little bit about sleet, whether or not there should be such a thing as sleet, divorce in your household, which involves sleeping in separate rooms. says, husband rooms. dylan says, my husband and we sleep in and i are both 75. we sleep in separate rooms. it's the snoring and different sleep patterns. and, my and, you know, it says, my lovely husband i've been lovely husband and i've been married years. still in married for 56 years. still in love and we sleep cuddled up even if we have to throw covers off summer to stay cool. off in the summer to stay cool. happiness a cuddle . i going happiness is a cuddle. i going to say no. know my wife doesn't like now there's . don't like them. now there's. don't touch. touch me. don't she touch. don't touch me. don't she would wake up to elbow me in the face ever had stayed in face if i ever had stayed in that direction. be. but that direction. it would be. but that's her. she gets hot that's just her. she gets hot for. yes, fair. i don't

for. yes, fair. and i don't blame her. she's lying beside me on the. i do think it's easy for temperatures to rise anyway. you know give us your know what to do. give us your sleep. secrets talking sleep. secrets we're talking about quarter to nine about out of the quarter to nine this . so let's start this morning. so let's start with our top story this hour. president biden delivered a rallying cry to ukraine's allies in the defeat speech two days ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the war. asked whether nato can remain unified , but there should be no doubt our support for grain will not waver. nato will not be divided, and we will not tire . president and we will not tire. president putin's craving . lust for land putin's craving. lust for land and power will fail. putin's craving. lust for land and power will fail . and the and power will fail. and the ukrainian people's love for their country will prevail. democracy is the world will stand guard over freedom today, tomorrow and forever free. jill

biden there that address following vladimir putin's annual state of the nation address in which he announced that russia would halt its participation in the key nuclear treaty known as new start. so the question for financial and political activists , bill political activists, bill browder this morning. welcome back , bill, is whether or not we back, bill, is whether or not we should take any more of his sabre rattling seriously because it seems to have escalate two things in that speech. putin yesterday. well, i think that we have to take everything he says seriously to and a certain extent, because he's a man at war. he's a guy who is continuing to escalate, ratchet up, kill ukrainian , is do the up, kill ukrainian, is do the most horrific things . but the most horrific things. but the one thing i would say is that just because he said he's withdrawing from a nuclear treaty kind of means nothing because he's been threatening nuclear war since the beginning of this war. and so i mean, all everything has been is on the table as far as putin is concerned. and we in the west

should understand that the one thing that this guy understands is raw, hard power. if we show him that we're tough , that we him that we're tough, that we won't be intimidated and that we are more powerful than him, he won't use these weapons. he won't use these weapons. he won't do do terrible things because he's also a bully who understands that when he's facing up to somebody tougher than him and talking about, well, certainly appearing tougher than him was jill biden . if we were to believe donald trump, he would be sleepy, joe, but sleepy joe was was wide awake yesterday , was he not? awake yesterday, was he not? yeah. he was giving a extremely powerful i think this is one of the best speeches he's ever given. this is going to be a historic speech. we're going to be watching this in many years to come. this was a speech, a defining speech, and nothing sleepy about it. the only person sleepy about it. the only person sleepy yesterday was sleepy vlad. his speech was a two hour speech, extremely boring . you speech, extremely boring. you should have seen the looks on the people's faces who are sitting in the audience from

russia that they certainly weren't inspired . oh, you know, weren't inspired. oh, you know, putin up close and personal. your reason to fear him. you're not one of his favourite people. it has to be said. and what did you make of the man that you were looking at on that stage? i mean, just from a personal observation , you know, did did observation, you know, did did he look well to you, for instance ? did he sound well ? instance? did he sound well? well i mean, there's two things going on. how did he look? he looks fine. i don't think that, you know, everybody is hoping and praying and wishing that he is sick and that he's got cancer and he's going to die any minute. that's going be minute. and that's going to be the end our troubles. i, i the end of our troubles. i, i don't i don't see that. i, i think that fine think that that he's in fine form. he's got good doctors. i would imagine that from a health perspective, he'll be around for a longer. but if you listen a lot longer. but if you listen to the words that he said, these were of i mean, there was were words of i mean, there was insanity. he he was saying that we started the war. he was saying that that russia is

protecting itself from these terrible american arms and nato allies who are basically trying to destroy russia. i mean, it's truly black is white. white is black , you know, up his down black, you know, up his down kind of thing. i mean, it's , you kind of thing. i mean, it's, you know, to come up with such absolute lies with a straight face to this huge audience for 2 hours, that's the insane part of the whole story . and built your the whole story. and built your area of expertise, of course, being financed originally, obviously now doing human rights work as well. but how heartened white, to hear that president biden wants to introduce more sanctions in that speech yesterday and how meaningful is that, given this loophole where there are countries around the world continuing buy russian world continuing to buy russian gas oil ? well that's the gas and oil? well that's the problem. that that's the elephant in the room is that that russia gets between 500 million and $1,000,000,000 a day from the sale of oil and gas and we have done a remarkable job of

sanctioning russia, sanctioning russian oligarchs , sanctioning russian oligarchs, sanctioning russian oligarchs, sanctioning russian industry. the sanctions imposed on russia are the most devastating. well, the wide sanctions , any way anyone could sanctions, any way anyone could ever impose . but as long as ever impose. but as long as they're getting that billion dollars a day or $500 million a day, they're using that money to buy weapons , to pay soldiers, to buy weapons, to pay soldiers, to go and kill ukrainians. and that's the huge loophole you can drive a truck through that loophole. and until we find a way of stopping that money from flowing into russia, putin can continue to afford to fight this war. and to perpetuity and sanctions can either serve one of two purposes. they can either be a deterrent or they can be a punishment. we've long passed the idea that sanctions are a deterrent. putin started this war and we're not going to deter him from doing war with him from doing this war with sanctions. so they have sanctions. and so they have to be a punishment. have to be a punishment. they have to drain him of his financial resources and sadly, as as resources and sadly, as long as oil is sold, we're not oil and gas is sold, we're not going to succeed doing that. going to succeed in doing that. bill, to leave it there. bill, got to leave it there. thank much indeed , thank you very much indeed, bill. broader financier,

political analyst and political commentator. thank you very much. 8:08. well, let's get more on this and what's going on in the uk. we're joined by the assistant editor of the spectator, cindy yu. welcome to the program, cindy . and one the program, cindy. and one element to all of this, when we're talking about the funding of the putin war machine, of course, be china. we course, has to be china. we heard the weekend at the heard at the weekend at the munich security conference that antony blinken was genuinely concerned and that beijing was mulling supplying weapons to moscow . now we're reading in the moscow. now we're reading in the wall street journal this morning. xi jinping might be going for bilateral going to moscow for a bilateral meeting. absolutely. and meeting. yeah absolutely. and yesterday, foreign minister yesterday, the foreign minister , in moscow while , wang yi, was in moscow while putin was giving this speech. so it does seem like china is trying to support russia more than it has for the first year of this war and would be very concerning if it does that, not least because is the least because china is the second economy, second largest economy, a military its own right, military power in its own right, a power, but also a nuclear power, but also because in the first year of this war, it sat on the sidelines because it hasn't really either

really wanted to touch either side, even though rhetorically liked america does a liked to bash america does a bit. so if it was actually going to involved, that to actively get involved, that would concerning thing would be a very concerning thing to from the beijing to do. but from the beijing perspective, i'm not really sure what would it for them. what would be in it for them. cheap energy , cheap energy, but cheap energy, cheap energy, but they're at they're already getting that at they're already getting that at the no one is the moment because no one is buying yet. buying cheap energy yet. perhaps, and i don't perhaps, perhaps. and i don't have an inside track into beijing. could be beijing. well, could it be flexing muscles and a warning shot over taiwan and, you know, frustrations there that they're kind of saying, you know, if you want come for us, we can come want to come for us, we can come for yeah, could be it for you. yeah, it could be it could at the same. i mean, could be at the same. i mean, one argument is that, you know, if they this out, then if they drag this war out, then america will have less attention to in to focus on what's happening in the taiwan strait. but say, well, china, you know, if the people's army people's liberation army is going involved in europe, going to get involved in europe, then them are to be then few of them are going to be around the east china sea, around for the east china sea, where taiwan based. so i find where taiwan is based. so i find it very difficult understand it very difficult to understand the behind it. part of the rationale behind it. part of the rationale behind it. part of the reason as well , the rationale behind it. part of the reason as well, you the rationale behind it. part of the reason as well , you know, we the reason as well, you know, we haven't anything about haven't seen anything yet about more but blinken, more involvement, but blinken, the secretary of state on the

american side, was the one who said that the chinese are thinking and we know thinking about this. and we know that americans have these that the americans have these intelligence as way intelligence briefings as a way to pressurise chinese into to pressurise the chinese into not certain things as not doing certain things as well. suspect is also using well. so i suspect is also using it as some kind of leverage as well. talking about dragging things right and a bit of leverage . we've got public pay leverage. we've got public pay talks going on today. it leverage. we've got public pay talks going on today . it looks talks going on today. it looks like the opening gambit from the government is three and a half, which ain't going to solve anything . it has to be said. anything. it has to be said. matter of fact, what is seoul? the post office is still going on the train noise. the baristas. baristas talked about this in the. so nobody settled. nobody has settled . what i think nobody has settled. what i think the baristas had settled , the baristas had settled, haven't they? and it sounds like there could be headroom today in these the these intensive talks at the royal college nursing. and royal college of nursing. and also with nurses also the problem with the nurses is they've is that in scotland, they've settled. yeah, that's and that's a massive problem politically for westminster because it gave them some cover . right. it's not them some cover. right. it's not a it's not an english problem. the is look at nazanin's the problem is look at nazanin's , scotland, but actually the

nurses scotland last nurses in scotland as of last week settled and they're week have settled and they're not settling here. so the question is, well, what are you doing differently the doing differently that the scottish service is scottish health service is saying? well, that means that the of the scottish figure of settlement, which i think was 5, i mean, that seems to be the benchmark then everybody's benchmark then that everybody's going to to come to going to have to come to conclusions. so government are offering half. so offering three and a half. so basically what they have in mind, one would imagine, you mind, one would imagine, is you know, for five and we've know, settled for five and we've got a deal. yeah. and i think that, i they should tell that, i think they should tell you doing mean with you that doing mean with the amount that the strikes amount of cost that the strikes have on the country and have levied on the country and on people's health, know , i on people's health, you know, i think if anyone think nurses of if anyone deserves a pay rise and you just a cliche but it should be people in the health service especially after the last few years of the pandemic say if they're pandemic and say if they're going give them pay going to give them that pay rise, to come rise, if they're going to come to anyway, just come the to 5% anyway, just come to the table now than dragging table now rather than dragging it out, even more. it's funny, this time yesterday learned this time yesterday we learned that more money in the that there was more money in the treasury forecast. treasury than forecast. we're expecting of about expecting this headroom of about 30 already been 30 billion has already been spent this today.

spent by this time today. defence say they it defence people say they want it for from to be sent to for from jets to be sent to ukraine. we've got people calling be cut and calling for taxes to be cut and other people saying, well this gives to pay gives us enough money to pay nurses public sector workers gives us enough money to pay nso es public sector workers gives us enough money to pay nso what public sector workers gives us enough money to pay nso what do ublic sector workers gives us enough money to pay nso what do you: sector workers gives us enough money to pay nso what do you think? workers gives us enough money to pay nso what do you think? which rs . so what do you think? which way think the treasury way do you think the treasury will in all of this? well, will go in all of this? well, jeremy hunt says that there wasn't more money. wasn't that much more money. yeah that that yeah so i think that that rhetoric suggests that he's actually to any of actually not going to go any of those directions. on how those directions. depends on how hard strike, hard the nurses strike, about whether bend on that whether or not they bend on that one. i don't think we'll see one. but i don't think we'll see more defence and more defence spending and i don't think we will see tax cuts. okay, but we will see you after 9:00 today to talk about the the day sent to the stories of the day sent to you for the thank you you for the moment. thank you very indeed. thank you. 813 very much indeed. thank you. 813 now is time you're watching now is the time you're watching or to breakfast on gb or listening to breakfast on gb news with eamonn holmes in isabel webster. let's bring you up to date with today's top stories. and shamima is stories. and shamima begum is due find she's won an due to find out if she's won an appeal against the decision to remove british citizenship. remove her british citizenship. bacon, uk as a bacon, who left the uk as a teenager to join the islamic state, citizenship state, had her citizenship revoked on national security

grounds . in revoked on national security grounds. in 2019. the revoked on national security grounds . in 2019. the scottish grounds. in 2019. the scottish finance secretary says she's still running and in the running to be the country's next first minister after she came under fire for her religious beliefs . fire for her religious beliefs. katie forbes , a member of the katie forbes, a member of the free church of scotland, lost some of her high profile supporters after she said she would not have voted for gay marriage . liverpool endured marriage. liverpool endured their worst ever european home defeat to real madrid in the champions league last night, despite goals from darwin, nunez and mohamed salah brown made a staggered comeback, winning five two. liverpool will now head to spain for the second leg on the 15th of march . okay, so 15th of march. okay, so supermarkets and vegetables and fruit . yesterday asda introduced fruit. yesterday asda introduced vegetable rationing , limiting vegetable rationing, limiting customers to three per customer. that includes tomatoes, peppers

are in there as well. cucumbers apparently energy costs for british farmers are forcing them to turn off their greenhouses . to turn off their greenhouses. it's simply not economical for them to produce the street bread. so we are asking this morning in the light of these shortages, is it possible to grow your own? well, king of vegetables , gerald stratford and vegetables, gerald stratford and huge vegetable enthusiast, it has to be said, joins us this morning. i think you're in your potting shed, aren't you? usually when you speak to us, which absolutely love , it's which we absolutely love, it's form this morning. so form of rain this morning. so i'm in my small studio where i do my podcast, zooms it shut for . fair enough. fair enough. because it's not always fair weather when you're out growing your own, would you encourage people to respond to this shortage on the supermarket shelves by turning their fingers green ? well i was born and green? well i was born and brought up in an area where there wasn't a supermarket . and there wasn't a supermarket. and if you didn't grow your own , you

if you didn't grow your own, you didn't eat. so and i'm still waiting on carrots , potatoes , waiting on carrots, potatoes, asia are potatoes. i harvest did last september. i stored them in october in a cold environment and they're still go in until the new potatoes come in the end of april . yeah, i have carrots of april. yeah, i have carrots which i store asia are our best food . last what? over . which i store asia are our best food . last what? over. and do we food. last what? over. and do we really need ? i see some really need? i see some vegetables now. elizabeth in my shop where self—sufficient and if we haven't got her or not in the freezer we don't eat it and yeah, i'm not struggling at all. it is interesting, gerald , you

it is interesting, gerald, you refer to the past and when you were growing up or whatever, but actually i think this was very common in the sixties into the 70 east and then things changed big time that we went out of season and everything was available at all times of the yeah available at all times of the year. what would you say to people who were saying, oh, don't be ridiculous . i couldn't don't be ridiculous. i couldn't possibly grow my own ? how much possibly grow my own? how much land do you need or what do you need to grow something that's going to keep you in supply of greens ? you don't need acres and greens? you don't need acres and acres. yes. oh, you've got a lot. but because i'm a fanatic , lot. but because i'm a fanatic, i love my ipad , but you can even i love my ipad, but you can even grow things on a balcony , in grow things on a balcony, in a flat, in a small town or bucket . lots of things. cauliflower cabbage to potatoes in one bucket will give you a meal for

two or three days. so you don't have to have lots of space. no, but trouble is, gerald , i can but trouble is, gerald, i can kill a basil plant just by looking at it. i can't keep a bafil looking at it. i can't keep a basil plant alive for love or money, and i dread to think how much i could spend on i don't know. do you get potatoes? seeds i don't even how potato i don't even know how potato comes me. it's big. it's comes to me. it's big. it's potatoes that they grow , but potatoes that they grow, but they off. yeah. yeah. so they're seed potatoes. yeah it's called the tuber . tuber. that's the the tuber. tuber. that's the word in a one shire. ten or bucket. yeah no it has to be frost free. no not centrally but just above freezing. that will produce enough patel for a couple for two or three days. yeah and apart from giving it some water once a week , it looks some water once a week, it looks after itself. yeah gerald the

situation in the supermarkets, what we are used to, we're used to perfectly formed fruit and vegetables . we're used to vegetables. we're used to getting fruit all year round strawberries , christmas, strawberries, christmas, whatever, whatever it happens to be. do you think we've got to go away and have a rethink about this? i mean, we've got to make farmers, this whole business more attractive for farmers, for british industry and general, do you think we can reverse this? do you think we can turn this iran? do you think we need to rethink? what do you think the war the one thing let's talk potatoes that is a staple crop in this country and in the sixties there was no electronically controlled environment which farmers use today for store in their potatoes. you would have a barn , you would line it in straw. you would take your potatoes and put them in the barn and cover

them up with straw and then they would be used in what if and when. no electricity whatsoever, apart from a light. when. no electricity whatsoever, apart from a light . yeah, that's apart from a light. yeah, that's that's fascinating. and not worked . it it works. yes yeah. worked. it it works. yes yeah. i'm not i'm not sure there is an answer to this because people want things not they don't want to produce. so why don't we. so i'll produce this one. he was saying he was growing up on saying when he was growing up on their fridge their kitchen their fridge or their kitchen wall, they a and the wall, they had a dial and the arrow around the clock for arrow moved around the clock for the seasons telling which the seasons telling you which vegetables in season. vegetables were in season. i wouldn't a clue which, you wouldn't have a clue which, you know i, just got used know. well i, i've just got used to going to market and to going to sleep market and seeing strawberries oh seeing strawberries there. oh yeah. there. oh yeah. yeah. around non there. oh yeah. around avocados from far flung places. all the time. i mean obviously they're not native to here but you know we could do with we learning what actually could be grown easily here and when and when when and when. when and when and when and when. we a whole education. we need a whole new education. that's new we need you,

that's a whole new we need you, darrell. but what we've done, gerald, is we've broken the connection land and connection between the land and the shelf, really the supermarket to the land in the fridge, because basically people just see food, whether it's bacon or whether it is an avocado as something wrapped in plastic. and it looks as if it's been made in a factory really to true. we mustn't forget our schools . that's why it's got to schools. that's why it's got to star in your junior school and then go on to the next stage . then go on to the next stage. because if you do something when your child, you will remember it forever. yeah. even spy me, gerald. i'm going to try. i'm going to try. and i love that you took your hat off there, tipped your hat to him and with that comment was, so we're doing this side of need. people are going to things in in going to miss things in the in the supermarkets. you think, the supermarkets. but you think, gerald, should doing what gerald, we should be doing what you do out of love ? no if you you do out of love? no if you love something , you will succeed love something, you will succeed

. yeah, well , well love something, you will succeed . yeah, well, well put, love something, you will succeed . yeah, well , well put, gerald. . yeah, well, well put, gerald. thank you very much indeed . thank you very much indeed. gerald stratford. he likes school, vegetable or two or three, and particularly big ones. biggest he likes big ones. he does not. girls, you are the highlight of my morning gerald stratford from milton under wychwood in oxfordshire , which i wychwood in oxfordshire, which i bet is gorgeous . well, pancake bet is gorgeous. well, pancake tuesday was yesterday. here we are on wednesday and after the break, we're going to bring you the moment the princess of wales tried her hand at flipping. it was a flopping stuff. you was a flip flopping stuff. you think okay, for think so? okay, judge for yourselves this .

break oap your morning is going well. it is exactly 8:26 on radio, on television , online. this is television, online. this is breakfast on gb news the pavement. and it's about just recovering from seeing gerald in a suit. the advert there in the advert break. look him up on social been in that social media he's been in that john advert. believe john gooch advert. can't believe it . and gardiner yes that was it. and gardiner yes that was like to come the like on. still to come on the show this morning quarter to nine thousands to nine as thousands tend to separate a better separate bedrooms for a better night's more healthy night's sleep and a more healthy relationship . we'll ask now's relationship. we'll ask if now's the right time for a so—called sleep divorce . 9:15 today is sleep divorce. 9:15 today is national. mark three today. isabel has decided we should celebrate it today . so we're celebrate it today. so we're going to be making a marguerite here in the studio and we'll be

finding out about a special breakfast version. this especially for you, as i'm sure about tequila in the morning. yeah well, i'll take one for the team if i have to. yeah, we've got unusual ingredients in this one, but anyway , we just told, one, but anyway, we just told, you know, swallow. you can do it. do give it a go. yeah i got to say, your thoughts on all of the get involved. the topics. get involved. vaiews@gbnews.uk tweet at vaiews@gbnews.uk or tweet us at . gb news. this is isabel. vaiews@gbnews.uk or tweet us at . gb news. this is isabel . you . gb news. this is isabel. you will be getting me a reputation stuff because i mean , this is stuff because i mean, this is because i mean you. i mean, that it would be wrong if people thought that you liked a drink , thought that you liked a drink, wouldn't it? it would just a normal person. i like it to tila tequila . it's you normal person. i like it to tila tequila. it's you is normal person. i like it to tila tequila . it's you is getting tequila. it's you is getting touchy about it. i didn't say anything wrong with that at all. i'll tell you what, princess of wales made me feel better about myself yesterday. flipped pancakes and turns out neither can she just skills to the

can she. she just skills to the test during a surprise visit to a care home yesterday. okay so she described her attempt as a congealed blob under statement. but the staff and the residents were thrilled. she had turned out by road reporter cameron walker was equally as thrilled . walker was equally as thrilled. here's this report. and then . here's this report. and then. the ones that were made earlier , much nicer . the ones that were made earlier , much nicer. i'm sorry. pancakes may not be her forte, but princess catherine certainly knows a royal recipe to make it to strive tuesday to remember residents of oxford house care home in slough, which she did to a surprise visits by the princess. he's keen to get to know local communities close to her knew berkshire home the family run oxford house cares for up to 34 residents this time supporting them to live as full a life as possible. her royal highness shared a particularly special connection with norah. much more. here's109 years old. it's your birthday on. the job

is to take a full night's. capital deputy manager charmaine saunders was thrilled. kate's made everyone feel special when she walked through the door. i think she makes you feel quite at ease because she's so very welcome in. she was very kind , welcome in. she was very kind, she was calm. she involved everybody. and i think that was the most important thing for us that nobody was missed out. she took time talk to the took the time to talk to the residents and she went to the staff, hygiene team, kitchen staff, hygiene team, kitchen staff a pancake cook. staff had to go a pancake cook. the the princess how the chef, the princess saw how cutting edge interactive technology can help the daily lives of residents . she enjoyed lives of residents. she enjoyed a virtual train ride which helps residents with dementia and had a go at table football . on this a go at table football. on this sensory table . but it was kate's sensory table. but it was kate's culinary skills , which drew the culinary skills, which drew the biggest crowd in the conservatory, the princess jokes . her children prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis may have second thoughts about joining her in the kitchen. maybe to the way i want to do fine dining. kitchen. maybe to the way i want to do fine dining . they might to do fine dining. they might not be easy to see. there's no

way. but what did the staff think of her pancake making ? it think of her pancake making? it was okay . i mean think of her pancake making? it was okay. i mean , i think of her pancake making? it was okay . i mean , i couldn't was okay. i mean, i couldn't cook a pancake with all of that media attention , but she managed media attention, but she managed to cook one. and i think she had a bit of fun doing it. she had a really good attempt to, i think i don't even think the pancake issue was her fault. maybe the parent needed to be greased a bit better. the prince and princess of wales are making a point engaging with point of engaging with communities on their doorstep for stories. expect for their packed stories. expect to them around. to send them around. great britain st david's say is just next week , the first time next week, the first time william and catherine will be marking wales's day of national pride with their new titles. cameron walker gb news berkshire . and it will be hard to flip a congealed blob . yes. as i found congealed blob. yes. as i found out yesterday . so what? where do out yesterday. so what? where do you think you went wrong to? much better suits. heavy. yeah, it just. it needs to be really thin. and i was too high heat, too much batter. but by the third one, i've nailed it. but

the first two, the kids are like, you can have that one mum. well, most kids, most normal kids would eat anything in front years discerning nice years of discerning well nice because could because they knew they could only they were only have two. so they were holding for the good ones. holding out for the good ones. yeah, wasn't nonsense. yeah, it wasn't nonsense. yesterday interview yesterday we did an interview and someone said two is more than ample when comes to than ample when it comes to pancakes. mean , it was pancakes. i mean, it was pudding, yeah but you see pudding, so. yeah but you see the pancakes that you make at home are always completely different the ones you buy different from the ones you buy in supermarkets, which are much like yeah, like the american ones. yeah, they're muffins, they're more like muffins, i think texture. so we go maybe think by texture. so we go maybe have a picture of how i used to. i just think, you know, kate clearly doesn't eat much. so if it was the pudding or in the it was in the pudding or in the pancakes. okay look, let's take a break. just after half past it and after that, we're going to be talking the clampdown be talking about the clampdown on children vaping . okay. as you on children vaping. okay. as you take a look through the papers with david mellor and scarlett mccgwire , are .

25 to 9. very good to have you on board. front pages stack up like this. this morning is the times it's leading with russia's decision to abandon a key arms control treaty, saying it signals the return of cold war nuclear testing . and here's the nuclear testing. and here's the mail it says, joe biden's

address in poland in which he said vladimir putin will never have victory in ukraine. the telegraph reveals ministers believe public sector workers should get just a three and a half percent pay rise next year and the express we're talking about that fruit and veg could be rationed for weeks to come. rationing fruit and veg to last week's. the headline . i'm going week's. the headline. i'm going through the papers, not joining us in the studio david mellor and scarlett mccgwire . good to and scarlett mccgwire. good to see you both and having you back again. david you want to begin talking about a police officer or tell us a story about this? well, he's found on a train , well, he's found on a train, he's drunk and he is what they may says rather delicately caughtin may says rather delicately caught in a sex act. may says rather delicately caught in a sex act . well, we caught in a sex act. well, we what we what we went to see what. but it would have been very unpleasant for anyone. i didn't know the first time he was caught. that's the point. yeah. and the judge in the case, he was he was . and the judge in

he was he was. and the judge in the case said the chances of him keeping his job were close to zero. shows how much the judge knows because in fact , years on, knows because in fact, years on, he's still in the police force. this plays to one of the most troubling things to have come out in recent times about the police. and that is you can do a lot of really bad things as a police officer, but they still keep you on. how can one have any confidence in a man like that? and yet he is there administering the law. and who knows what else? i mean, is this just part of not just just part of, but is this part of the process by which we're seeing all these rotten apples coming out of the of the force? now, i think it's a good news story in the sense we're hearing about it and they're finding these men. i think what's so is this think what's what's so is this just more and more to come? because it's not in the papers. but but there was a story on the news yesterday about another yet another whatsapp group where they gather. i mean, one of the

whatsapp was talking about what to call your dog and said auschwitz, adolf or fred. and after my two favourite child killers, ian brady and west, i mean , what are we doing with mean, what are we doing with people like that, the police and then the way they talk about women? oh she's a woman, so it must be incompetent. and then. then we're expected to trust them . i mean, is really that you them. i mean, is really that you would have to say not all men are like that, right? i not saying all that like you were saying. what makes those man like that? want what? there must be something within the organisations which they work which sort of and it's like a greenhouse for them. it's a little power being a dangerous thing. yeah but you're a copper. you got power. over, over, over , over people. and what i think is simply outrageous is that they continue with these whatsapp groups because you see, it's one thing for some constable to feel think horrible

things , which he doesn't dare things, which he doesn't dare reveal . but of course once it's reveal. but of course once it's obvious that the bloke is slurping tea in the canteen next to you or you know , doing all to you or you know, doing all manner of other things around the station, he thinks the same. they're emboldened to say and possibly then do awful things. another story that's not in the papers yet today. but i'd really like to get your views on it because we're getting a judgement, a written judgement later on from the special immigration appeals commission later on from the special im shamima appeals commission later on from the special im shamima appeals and mission later on from the special im shamima appeals and i|ission later on from the special im shamima appeals and i justyn on shamima begum. and i just want to where you both want to know where you both stand that. we've got emily stand on that. we've got emily thornberry on the programme in the hour. we'll get the next half hour. we'll get her as well. david, i'll her views as well. david, i'll start i mean, do you start with you. i mean, do you think she a citizenship think she had a citizenship revoked should she be revoked in 2019? should she be allowed come the allowed to come back into the country? why because she what she to do long after could she chose to do long after could had the excuse of being a child . she said all kinds of dreadful things about the kind of killing that was going on when a number

of innocent people were were murdered in the most awful circumstances . and i just think circumstances. and i just think , you know, she's had a chance . , you know, she's had a chance. why should she come back? well i think, first of all, it was completely to have her citizenship ship revoked. right. that she's not a bangladeshi citizen. she can never go to bangladesh. she's basically stateless. we don't have a right. she could set a precedent. if you accept her in andifs precedent. if you accept her in and it's not. so i'm beginning with right back. she should never have had it revoked and she is not a danger. i mean this is this is somebody who is groomed online went out there at 15 since then she's had three pregnant seas that have resulted in dead children. tragic, but absolutely tragic angel, why is why is she a danger? it is completely from everything she does, everything she says the way she behaves , the way she way she behaves, the way she dresses, that she's she's actually given up since we found that so far to be fair. but the

view of the courts this well, i mean there's that a lot of people who actually i mean in the security services who do not believe that she's a threat . she believe that she's a threat. she could be it's like you have gang members and people who've been in gangs, in jail and they go back and they explain why you shouldn't be in gangs. she is the greatest reason why nobody should go and join isis. the way she's been treated . i mean, she she's been treated. i mean, she wants to back. anthony lloyd, who is the first journalist, the times journalist who found her his friends have been killed by. isis said he did not. he found her. she he called her a guppy. 19 year old. i mean, but he also an unrepentant. and i don't not shocked by saying decapitate . shocked by saying decapitate. well, i mean, ijust think i think if you've lived out there, i mean, she just she was very young.she i mean, she just she was very young. she didn't know what she was doing. i mean, ijust young. she didn't know what she was doing. i mean, i just think she could i think she should be brought back jailed probably. right. | brought back jailed probably. right. i think an

right. but actually, i think an incredible she could be a force for good. and instead going to be left to rot in a syrian camp force for good. well, i'm sure every one of us could be a force for good . even the people around for good. even the people around this table. but there's no evidence that that's what she wants to be. there's no evidence she repented as quickly as she could have done. and i just think, you know, we cannot be a soft touch where someone can go off behave outrageously like off and behave outrageously like that and that will take them back other countries in the back of other countries in the world. should a few world. she should discover a few more them. i think. okay, more of them. i think. okay, that's online in the telegraph . that's online in the telegraph. we were reporting on this story this morning and this is the american satirical cartoon site , the park where harry and meghan the sussexes were lampooned on it. and we hear david, that they will not be suing. apparently, they will not be suing. and of course, that's because, sadly, the law requires you have to have a case before you have to have a case before you sue. however, what i find

extraordinary is that these the sensitivity , you know, that they sensitivity, you know, that they actually believe that if someone satirised is them, they can be they have the right to sue effectively to prevent it. it's this awful sense that they have of themselves and their signifier icons. but i just find appalling. well, let's watch it and see if you find it appalling or you find it funny or you find it satirical . here we go. the it satirical. here we go. the live with the family. you've had everything handed to you, but you say your life has been hard and you've written all about and now you've written all about it. new book, when? it. and your new book, when? yes, right. say my yes, that's right. you say my wife are talking, you wife and i are talking, you should write a book because you're finally stop it and you're finally like, stop it and then like journalists . oh, then start like journalists. oh, gosh, let's call it . i mean then start like journalists. oh, gosh, let's call it. i mean . gosh, let's call it. i mean. that's what satire is this a satire . it takes famous people satire. it takes famous people and makes fools of them. and boy, did that one do that . okay. boy, did that one do that. okay. well, they have decided that

from what we're hearing online and on the daily telegraph will not be suing over that. and what about this vaping story, professor chris whitty, who we all came to know during the pandemic and those briefings from from number 10, he's worried that there's been marketing of these vapes directed at children . scarlet, directed at children. scarlet, this is in the mail. yeah. no look, vaping is bad for you. i mean, it might not be quite as bad as smoking cigarettes, but actually no, nobody. nobody should be vaping to they're being marketed at children . but being marketed at children. but also, i mean, one of your producers keen, you said, oh, but there's masses of teenagers who go around vaping. it's become really, really trendy. i mean , it's really just i speak mean, it's really just i speak as an ex—smoker who, you know, said that if i make 80, i will start smoking again. i mean, giving up smoking was really difficult. and the thought that you'll we now know 14, 15, 16 year olds should not be vaping. i mean, what we want to do is we

want to cut it out completely, not give another reason to wreck our life. it does seem wrong that you can market something young people , it's going to be young people, it's going to be bad for them. i mean, we could walk london, central walk around london, central tonight and because i notice tonight and i because i notice these things because someone who my attention to them there are these candy stores these so—called candy stores where are full of trashy sweets and full of vapes. and they are designed to bring in children , designed to bring in children, including quite young children . including quite young children. and the vapes are always flavoured in some attractive way. i think it's just it's, you know, some i know some of these awful people who says something has got to be done about some of these terrible i mean, when i when i was a kid, one used to watch some toy turn and there was a character called mr. grasser and a listened to it. and mr. grasso said, it's disgraceful. it ought to not be allowed. and i'm told at home i'd becoming like, oh, that's what we'll have to call you in. yeah. david mr. grosser well.

mr. what do you make of the roald dahl editing that is that is going you've discovered in the time some page 11 that two of the publishing bosses involved in this decision had previously, what were they previously, what were they previously said that what a wonderful thing it was. i mean, they described him as the managing director of penguin , managing director of penguin, said it was some of her favourite reading memories and one of the greatest pleasures of being a parent has been reading with my two boys and sharing stories together. but my favourite reading memories are courtesy of roald dahl. well, that was ten or 11 years ago now roald dahl could be thrown under a bus what i find disgraceful is that i guess it's because the family are not protecting him at the end of the day, there's copyright in these things and they can only make these changes if they can get away with it. but i think that the family have obviously sold out his literary

heritage and the publishers don't see they should have to defend it. but what's awful is the banality. i mean, have you seen some of the alternative? oh mary, you've gone as white a sheet. new mary, you've gone as still as a statue because you can't be can't be white. don't be. and then don't be foolish. my grandmother said you can't go round pulling the hair of every lady you meet that has now become don't be foolish, my grandmother said. besides there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs, and there's certainly nothing wrong with i mean , you think with that. and i mean, you think to yourself, come on now. because the whole point about roald is foul. yeah he roald is he was foul. yeah he was a person of absolute i mean, deeply anti—semitic , really deeply anti—semitic, really quite a horrible person. and he wrote horrible post. i'm with philip pullman. you know, i'll either have him or don't have i can't have half of it. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. but actually we do have to remember the enid blyton who i read this a child, i mean, was deeply racist and it

was changed. and her books are still slightly different. don't you? things like racism , which you? things like racism, which are unacceptable in any circumstance. fair enough . but circumstance. fair enough. but to take out things like references to wigs because , it references to wigs because, it could cause offence to people who wear wigs. well, the problem is, once you start you, then you then are looking at every single sentence instead of just. but i mean, yeah , okay. if you, if you mean, yeah, okay. if you, if you want to read mean ugly books, read roald dahl can't have you know, you can't reference know, you can't have reference as to people look . matilda as to how people look. matilda old version. i'm fed up with you useless bunch of must have known useless bunch of must have known us new version i'm fed up with you useless bunch of squirts squirts squirt well a lot of may take exception to squirt but don't know guys hope you do take exception. i've got to say goodbye to both of you. bye mr. grouse. everything okay? this because we're talking about beds and we're talking about sleeping arrangements. after arrangements. coming up after the latest news headlines for the latest news headlines for the time at 12 minutes tonight,

the time at 12 minutes tonight, the us president will meet eastern nato allies later to show support for their security. president said in president biden said in yesterday's speech that nato's more than ever it follows more united than ever it follows moscow's suspension nuclear moscow's suspension of a nuclear arms control treaty . the high arms control treaty. the high court will hear the first stage of a challenge against the metropolitan police over investigation into lockdown parties at number 10 legal campaign group the good law project says the force failed to send questionnaires to boris johnson or explain why his attendance at lockdown parties was lawful . a study by college was lawful. a study by college london shows staying throughout adulthood could to prevent dementia. the long term research has found people who exercise as they get older are more likely to have good brain health than those who are less consistent . those who are less consistent. now, for a lot of people not staying active does not involve the bedroom. because if you

living with someone, how do you feel about separate bedrooms ? feel about separate bedrooms? well, that's a good question. there is a growing number of couples who have decided to go for so—called sleep divorce . the for so—called sleep divorce. the hashtag separate bedrooms has gained more than 1 billion views on tiktok . and social media on tiktok. and social media users say that at night—time, they kick the partners out of bed. why to get a better sleep while sleep. coach max. kirsten is here with us. kick him out . is here with us. kick him out. good morning. good morning . it's good morning. good morning. it's a good one. i like it is actually a thing. and getting a sleep divorce, which doesn't sound as bad as it sounds to sounds like the end of a relationship, but it is a thing that can almost invigorate some relationships because if everyone's tired and grumpy continuously, that's not going to be good . it sort of there's to be good. it sort of there's the first part is to bed the side, which doesn't mean you have to leave the room and not everyone has a spare, let's be honest, or a room big enough for

a super king bed or whatever. it isn't always that easy. so the sofa, darling , or at least a sofa, darling, or at least a decent sofa bed. but i mean, it's the last resort. surely i would have said that moves if the partners snores. you can obviously encourage them to do things , but get some decent things, but get some decent sound blocking earplugs. this is 35 decibels. 46 decibels. that can help if it's to do with they come to bed later or work shifts and there's a lot of movement and there's a lot of movement and sound earplugs. and then eye mask, because if someone's turning on the light when you're asleep, that's disruptive . if asleep, that's disruptive. if it's to do with getting in and out of the bed and there's movement. separate beds is a good idea. very, you know, going back in time . there are now beds back in time. there are now beds that they're it's the eliminate motion transfer to say yes, we want to get into the bed now the person doesn't sort of bouncing . yes, there's a number of my

favourites are panda , there are favourites are panda, there are others and it really is about how they're designed. so that you don't get that jolt. so if you don't get that jolt. so if you don't get that jolt. so if you don't see the light, you don't dial down the snoring . but don't dial down the snoring. but isabel and i have this common problem. i suppose , which is problem. i suppose, which is getting up in the middle of the night and turning on things like hairdryers and, you know, trying to groom yourself , trying to to groom yourself, trying to wash and shave and isabelle's. well so the en suite bathroom issue , i mean , sometimes there issue, i mean, sometimes there are no alternatives. other than just not to turn the lights on. if electronic appliances are noisy, move them elsewhere . noisy, move them elsewhere. there's a, there's a negotiations. ultimately if it's the snoring, if it's just unbearable and there is a spare room or the kids have left or just somewhere, you think that's a real thing? you're not denying it's a real it's a real thing. but could we be blowing it all out of proportion of this becomes an acceptable way or standard way of doing things. a sleep, divorce . then you see, i

sleep, divorce. then you see, i think the danger is and this is where it puts pressure on people like that when it becomes like me, that when it becomes a norm , non divorce when you like norm, non divorce when you like together you that puts the pressure on because it's saying we know you knew what's expected of you then. well as a sleep coach , i see people with more coach, i see people with more severe problems. but snoring is a severe problem if people are in a separate room , both will in a separate room, both will probably sleep much better. yeah, the disturbances won't be there. deepest sleep will belong to the cycles of sleep, which should be uninterrupted other than when we get a call to nature. but there is a thing. i mean, all the blue blocking glasses will help, but technology at night will and coffee. when is it the wrong time ? the depth of sleep. it can time? the depth of sleep. it can often be really improved by eliminating the causes of other things. what if you create bad habhs things. what if you create bad habits during a sleep divorce, for example ? we don't share for example? we don't share a bed when i'm working early shifts, and so i become a bit of a myself up like a what

a wrapping myself up like a what would you call it, in the duvet. and then at the weekends i get accused of being a duvet hog unfairly. strangely, i have been accused of similar. unfairly. strangely, i have been accused of similar . yeah, accused of similar. yeah, there's always one, but look, i think i think there's a lot to be said from having times apart . i think all relationships, the time is as important as time apart is as important as the time together. i've spoken to plenty couples who've to plenty of couples who've moved the bedroom moved out of the bedroom situation. two bedrooms and the excitement is sneaking the other's room becomes a whole new thing that goes back to sort of teenage that's good enough for the queen got to be good enough. there are three things i remember when i was, you know, ten or 11 or so, there was a programme on television at teatime every night called crossroads on itv. and meg mortimer and her husband . and mortimer and her husband. and they always slept . it was they always slept. it was separate beds, fine . does this separate beds, fine. does this most strange because it didn't relate to sort of everyday life but they had single beds in their bedroom and that's that's a way for some people the north

wing and the soft wing . but wing and the soft wing. but look, all masks here , plugs in look, all masks here, plugs in your own , do so many things, set your own, do so many things, set your own, do so many things, set your own, do so many things, set your own duvet, have your own duvet . and there are even ways duvet. and there are even ways to have under the bed, under the mattress surface of your topper, preferably you can adjust the temperature because in summer that's big deal because people are at different temperatures. yeah, i'm always freezing and heat makes it hard to sleep . so heat makes it hard to sleep. so there's a but it's also subjective and personal . i mean, subjective and personal. i mean, everyone has to find what works for them. i mean, i even study the people who study it clean all the research and then apply what you think suits good man . what you think suits good man. max, max, kirsten is a sleep coach. get in touch with us this morning and let us know how you slept last night. and we did actually have some emails thinking , oh actually have some emails thinking, oh yeah, we get your own or your partner or whatever. the sweet one. even in norwich of my lovely husband, i've been married 56 years, still in love, sleep up even if we have sleep cuddled up even if we have to throw the covers off the

to throw the covers off in the summer stay cool. so you go summer to stay cool. so you go away it it's just away to do it right? it's just after tonight we're going after five. tonight we're going to a break. we'll have more to take a break. we'll have more on joe biden and his big address in yesterday. after the in poland yesterday. after the break. tonight special edition break. tonight a special edition of thrash . in her first tv of thrash. in her first tv interview as home secretary , interview as home secretary, suella braverman tells gb news she's proud to be british. i think there is a tendency to apologise and, be a bit shy about our greatness. she vows to stem the tide of small boats crossing the channel. we need to ensure that we fix this problem of illegal migration. the home secretary says she won't sell out northern ireland and she's not afraid of controversy . not afraid of controversy. suella braverman tories exclude to me. liam halligan. tonight on barrage . gb news news 7 pm.

president biden vows that russia will never have victory in ukraine. has putin threatens a return to war. nuclear tests . return to war. nuclear tests. hello there. good morning to you. exactly 9:00. it's wednesday, the 22nd of february on gb news. this is breakfast with eamonn and isabel. hey. so sleazy. the news this morning .

sleazy. the news this morning. doubts with our nato can remain , but there should be no doubt our support for ukraine will not waver. nato will not be and we will not tire . as president will not tire. as president issued a rallying cry to ukraine's allies in a fiery address in poland , two days address in poland, two days ahead of the first anniversary of the war, veterans minister johnny mercer told us this morning it sends a message to the russian president, morning it sends a message to the russian president , the very the russian president, the very strong yesterday. i think he's made it clear ukraine is not going to lose this conflict . a going to lose this conflict. a year on, people didn't expect kyiv to and the rest of ukraine to still be standing and fighting so hard and, you know, they all the west is resilient behind them. the west is united. all of this coming as vladimir putin announces that his country will halt its participation in the last remaining nuclear treaty it has with america . it treaty it has with america. it signals a return to cold war nuclear tests , according to some

nuclear tests, according to some pubuc nuclear tests, according to some public sector workers, will be offered a three and a half% pay increase as ministers enter talks to end strikes. the below inflation rise has been attacked by unions who called it a disgrace and to warning that rationing of fruit and vegetables in shops could last weeks. superman markets were forced yesterday to introduce limits on the purchase of out of season produce due to supply issues. and we'd love to hear from you got 30 minutes to send us your thoughts via twitter email. you know what to do . email. you know what to do. well, leading the news on this wednesday morning, president biden has delivered a rallying cry to allies. it was a defiant speech two days ahead of , the speech two days ahead of, the first anniversary of the start of the war. doubts whether nato can remain unified. but there should be no doubt our support for ukraine will not waver. nato will not be divided and we will

not tire . president putin's not tire. president putin's craving lust for land and power will fail . and the ukrainian will fail. and the ukrainian people's love for their country will prevail. democracy to the world will stand guard over freedom today, tomorrow and forever . while president freedom today, tomorrow and forever. while president biden's optimistic speech was in stark contrast to the address by putin at the annual state of the nation, in which he announced russia would halt its participation in the key nuclear treaty known as start of more analysis. let's once again talk to cindy, who joins us in the studio for this half hour of the show. and cindy , the contrast show. and cindy, the contrast between the two could not have been starker really and people have called president biden's sleepy years, it sleepy joe and years, but it felt like sleepy vlad , long, felt like sleepy vlad, long, bonng felt like sleepy vlad, long, boring delusional speech from moscow rambling as well where he could have repeated himself a few times. but when some people say have said it was delusional,

but i actually think that it really shows inside his mind how the russians are seeing this conflict. you know, they actually do believe that it's an existential crisis for them. and when president biden is speaking in warsaw, you know, i think putin has a point that the americans are using this as a proxy war. you know, we on the west have to admit that, you know, we are seeing this as a battle between the west and russia and possibly china as well, though i. no, no, no, certainly not. you know, if they wanted to end this now, we would this would over. it this would be over. no, no, it all. but at the same time, before the you know, before the war, you know, ukraine about nato ukraine was talking about nato expansion. was talking about expansion. you was talking about joining nato. expansion. you was talking about joining nato . and i know if you joining nato. and i know if you were in moscow, i think were sitting in moscow, i think a lot of people would be concerned about this international organisation which is russia is designing and to fight russia coming to the russian coming right up to the russian borders. when we talk borders. so i think when we talk about speech delusional, about his speech as delusional, i actually it's very hard i think actually it's very hard to have dialogue and understand whether moscow is coming from if we actually completely write off

everything he's saying and recognise that what i'm saying at the moment is, you know, not not frequently said, but , you not frequently said, but, you know, comes to this war, know, when it comes to this war, i think there is more in this than about that being about putin thinking that this is an existential crisis for russia, then often it credit for then we often give it credit for what on the strikes , the royal what on the strikes, the royal college of nursing uplifted and surprised people i think yesterday by saying they will pause their strikes next week to allow for talks today with the health secretary lots of reports in the papers about where the government that agreement government wants that agreement to be, three and a half, 5% for pubuc to be, three and a half, 5% for public sector workers. what is your assessment of how fruitful these talks today could be and where we should be, what we should be paying a public sector workers? well, i think 3.5, if it was just going to be that is probably enough the probably not enough for the unions. already unions. i mean, they've already come fighting. so i think come out fighting. so i think you'll really have to talk about backdating. how back are backdating. how far back are you going go? we are going to go? because we are reaching of reaching the beginning of another the another payday and the government want to do another payday and the gov

any backdating. but you know, if the nurses in scotland have a 5% pay the nurses in scotland have a 5% pay and you're offering pay increase and you're offering 3.5% to have 3.5% here, you're going to have to them something else that to give them something else that they are going back to they possibly are going back to this and previously this current year and previously as we'll see. as well. so i think we'll see. but is a positive sign. but it is a positive sign. they've called off strikes they've called off the strikes and polish being played and polish six being played though the national though by the national education union also union because they were also ianed union because they were also invited for intensive talks today the secretary today by the education secretary on the condition that they paused their strikes as well next week, they refused . next week, but they refused. yeah, this is this is part yeah, well, this is this is part of problem with all of these of the problem with all of these people right? people having strikes, right? because laying on the because everyone's laying on the pressure together. and you would, if you would, wouldn't you, if you a union this industry union leader, this industry that's the that's not striking at the moment. that moment. you're thinking that here's for me to here's an opportunity for me to lay at a when lay on pressure at a time when the government is looking like it's going to give way on some of things. so, yeah, of these things. so, yeah, playing politics, say, playing politics, as you say, but move. cindy, stay but a smart move. cindy, stay there. back you there. we'll come back to you a little bit later on in the program. but for now, thank you very indeed. labour has very much indeed. labour has accused of accused the government of sleepwalking staffing sleepwalking through a staffing crisis crown prosecution crisis at the crown prosecution service. figures now show the number of prosecutors employed

it has fallen by almost a quarter in the space of just a yeah quarter in the space of just a year. shadow attorney general emily thornberry joins us now . emily thornberry joins us now. emily, good morning to you . for emily, good morning to you. for people who may not grasp this, why , emily, does it matter the why, emily, does it matter the amount of people, the amount of lawyers we have at the crime prosecutions service ? so the prosecutions service? so the crime prosecution service is essentially the organisation between police and the courts. they are the solicitors quite often. they're the advocates that criminal cases to court and it's quite difficult to attract the best talent and quite difficult to keep it because they're so overworked and underpaid and so and not recognised. and recently they've lost in the last year it seems they've lost 25% of their of their prosecutors . that means their prosecutors. that means that the delays in the courts, which are already appalling, are only going to get worse. we too many cases that are cancelled

simply because there isn't a prosecutor and cases are taking too long to prepare to get to court. and the police may do the investigating, but they do it under auspices of under the auspices of a prosecutor. so we need do something about this. do you know you are the victim know that if you are the victim of it will take on of a rape today, it will take on average a thousand days for your case to come to court? if indeed it does come to court a thousand days and, you know, for victims, for witnesses the delays that are happening within court system appalling . and the system are appalling. and the stress that people go through as a result is just something which is unconscionable, view . is unconscionable, in my view. justice delayed is justice denied. and the government just seems to be completely complacent it . so we do complacent about it. so we do have a solution which we offer to government today , which to the government today, which is we should. there are is that we should. there are things called prosecutors and they are specialists in they are the specialists in criminal law. they're not general lawyers , but they're general lawyers, but they're specialists. so they're like so . so that's what their speciality is. and they've been working for the crime prosecution for prosecution service now for years . we think that they should years. we think that they should be to up being full

be able to step up to being full prosecutors , and that will prosecutors, and that will actually increase the number of prosecutors we have by 50. prosecutors that we have by 50. and i do think, you know, now is the time when we should be putting the pump . putting all hands to the pump. we getting be doing we should be getting be doing something about the something serious about the crisis within our criminal justice system . then the crisis justice system. then the crisis runs all the way through it. we don't runs all the way through it. we dont enough runs all the way through it. we don't enough police don't have enough police officers. much officers. we have too much crime, enough are getting crime, not enough are getting caught. those are caught. but even those that are getting caught taking too getting caught are taking too long their to long for their cases to be processed and through the processed and get through the court we offer today court system. so we offer today as part of the solution to crisis in the criminal justice system . i what's really system. i think what's really scary well is that there's scary as well is that there's a big key area is like organised crime or counterterrorism where these cases are backing up , these cases are backing up, we're not getting these prosecuted prosecutions and the pubuc prosecuted prosecutions and the public are not being protected in the way that they should be. absolutely absolute lutely and the people who prosecute these cases need to be valued and need to be supported . and that's

to be supported. and that's simply not happening at the moment . the in all the moment. the in all the independent reviews of the crown prosecution service , that they prosecution service, that they are overworked that they, that their casework is simply far too big for them to be able to do it properly. and the that properly. and the idea that we've lost 25% of them over the last year will just make the situation i don't want situation worse. i don't want to be alarmist, i want to tell be alarmist, but i want to tell you, viewers truth, you, tell viewers the truth, which have a criminal which is that we have a criminal justice system, which in crisis and we have government that is and we have a government that is not dealing with it seriously. well, look, sticking with counter—terror and the courts, if you will, we are expecting a written judgement on shamima begum who had her citizenship revoked and such a javid in 2019. d0 revoked and such a javid in 2019. do you think should be allowed back into this country ? allowed back into this country? ihave allowed back into this country? i have to say that if i have been the home secretary, i what i would have done would have been to brought her back to this country and made her face criminal charges for the offences she's clearly offences that she's clearly committed . i think that she committed. i do think that she should face justice, but that's not course that the not the course that the government's government's government's taken. government's decided to take away his citizenship. be

citizenship. that will be decided a later stage. decided today at a later stage. i that the amount of focus i think that the amount of focus that put on. begum that we put on. shamima begum actually distracts from actually distracts us from something which i is even something which i think is even more important, is the more important, which is the children of these women children of many of these women and children, british and the children, british citizens languishing citizens who are now languishing camps whatever their parents camps and whatever their parents may they may have done, they are innocent. they're innocent victims. and the moment they victims. and at the moment they have nowhere well, have nowhere to go. well, i think that our ought them. think that our ought to be them. yeah, i suppose the focus is on shamima begum because in ways she's test isn't she. she's the test case isn't she. and if as you would have her come back into this country, it would a floodgate, would it would open a floodgate, would it not, who are moment not, of people who are moment stateless, have dubious stateless, who have very dubious and security to this and national security to this country being allowed back into our prisons, which we already know ground for know are breeding ground for extremism in this country. know are breeding ground for extremism in this country . well, extremism in this country. well, what do you want ? extremism in this country. well, what do you want? i mean, i do think that people should face justice. i think that if they commit offences should they should face justice. i believe in the justice system . i believe in the justice system. i believe that people who have done something should be brought before court be tried. before a court should be tried. and they have done something

and if they have done something wrong, punished. wrong, they should be punished. we justice system we should have a justice system that is all you that works. this is all you know, this is certainly sounds like the circular and in any event, what we don't want and it will be a threat to possibly our country maybe other countries is for there to be a large cohort of people who are stateless, who have future, who have no hope, who are living in camps somewhere, what happen to them? what will they think about the west ? what threat will they be west? what threat will they be in the long term to the west or their children will be to the west? in the long term, we do need an international to need as an international to community through and community think this through and not hands people. not wash our hands of people. i think that if people have committed offences, they be tried, should be to tried, they should be sent to prison. that's how it should work . emily thornberry the work. emily thornberry is the shadow attorney . thank you very shadow attorney. thank you very much time , your much indeed for your time, your comments the comments and highlighting the fact that prosecutors, not the crown prosecution service, are done , 25. why is the job as so done, 25. why is the job as so unattractive and? what are we doing about it? what is the

government going to do about because we all lose organised crime doesn't get prosecuted, contact doesn't get prosecuted . contact doesn't get prosecuted. there's so much extra to that. meanwhile, jurors continue to hear testimony , the murder trial hear testimony, the murder trial of former nurse lucy let be today. of former nurse lucy let be today . the 33 year old faces 22 today. the 33 year old faces 22 charges, some of murder, some of attempted murder to which she has pleaded not guilty. we go to our reporter, sophy ripper, who has the latest from manchester crown court. good morning, sophie. good morning to you both. we're into five of the lucy levy trial now . manchester lucy levy trial now. manchester crown court, the nurse has been charged with the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of a further ten babies between 2015 and 2016. while she was working at the countess of chester hospital, she denies all of those charges against. now, over the past few months , the over the past few months, the jury over the past few months, the jury have heard about each of the babies involved in this case on a one by one basis over past

week or so, the focus has been on child ele is now shifted on to child ls twin brother child m now child alan child m a quite unique because although that the third set of twins involved this case, they the only sets of twins in which both siblings survived . now we've already survived. now we've already about twins , child a and child about twins, child a and child b in which child a was allegedly murdered by lucy. let be. we've also heard about twins e and f in which a child e was allegedly murdered by b, but in the case of child l and child m twin boys, it's alleged that lucy let b tried to murder them both on the ninth in 2016. child l an incidents of insulin poisoning of which he survived . and over of which he survived. and over the past few days, child and the jury the past few days, child and the jury have heard was injected had air injected into his bloodstream , which he also

bloodstream, which he also managed to survive. not today. we're expecting to hear from some more witnesses surrounding child m and we're going to be bringing you the latest updates from manchester crown court as we get them. appreciate that. so if we thank very much indeed with the time now, exactly a quarter past nine, we will take a break. nicer matters after the break. it's national mark. we're not talking pizzas, though . no, not talking pizzas, though. no, no, we're talking about drink margarita. but with a breakfast twist as a nod to the time of day that we're. so stay with us. whilst we whip up a little bit of a twist on a classic cocktail

right. things have taken a turn . well, yes. have this it's a 90 minutes past 9:00 on this wednesday towards wednesday . wednesday towards wednesday. this is ash wednesday night. going to make me feel bad . oh, going to make me feel bad. oh, i haven't given up alcohol for lent, luckily, but to do it today. so lent starts. does it starts today. oh, today. yes, that's why you have to say so anyway , this is a margarita anyway, this is a margarita because . guess what, guys? it's because. guess what, guys? it's national malaga today. so we're going to talk to anna sebastian about what makes perfect margarita. and you got a little twist on this for breakfast twist. yes absolutely. well, firstly, happy, happy margarita

day. it exactly. please to day. try it exactly. please to the team . status quo had a song the team. status quo had a song they margaery the time. did they. they did my word for. yeah. yeah. so what is a classic margarita. what's in this? so classic margarita today obviously was celebrating national. today is actually the 75th anniversary of the original margarita that has cointreau tequila we're using patron here today and also some fresh lime juice and of course, a little bit of salt in there as well just to elevate it. it's delicious. what is? the salt, therefore. so think one of the reasons why the margarita is so popular is because this has those elements that saltiness, that sweetness, that bitterness as well. and freshness, which i think why people love it. and it's become one of the most popular drinks the world. popular drinks around the world. so you say become because it's not a british traditional not a very british traditional cocktail, but it's become cocktail, is it? but it's become a one in the uk now. very much so. i mean, the origins of it, it was actually created in 1948 and it was create in dallas and

texas. obviously the sun, it's obviously very different from the here the uk and the weather here in the uk and was a dallas socialite called margarita smith that decided that she wanted to combine two of her favourites the spirits that she had in her cupboard, which is cointreau and tequila and make an amazing cocktail so they added lime and little bit they added lime and a little bit of and salt. i always find of salt and salt. i always find that cocktails. it's that it elevates cocktails. it's like you're cooking, like chefs when you're cooking, you on all your food you put sauce on all your food andifs you put sauce on all your food and it's the same actually in drinking us. i'm drinking to cook one for us. i'm absolutely to do that will be that's the pleasure. so we're going start and this the going to start and this is the thing be fun. thing cocktails meant to be fun. you make them at you you can make them at home. you don't need equipment if you don't need equipment if you don't at home. a don't have this at home. a nutribullet is fine. an egg cup is fine. so we're going to be starting off 30 mils of cointreau here this is a cointreau just here this is a cointreau just here this is a cointreau and cointreau is an orange and orange flavour, an orange orange flavour, it's an orange uqueur orange flavour, it's an orange liqueur it's actually one of liqueur and it's actually one of the liqueurs you the most popular liqueurs you can probably over 500 can find in probably over 500 cocktail margarita, cocktail recipes. the margarita, the as well, the cosmopolitan as well, tequila as well. i always say this is very much a sunshine spirit. it's a happy drink to

dnnkis spirit. it's a happy drink to drink is start with tequila. just makes everybody happy. it is. and i think it's because the algarve actually grows in the sunshine so it picks up all of that light and then we can use that light and then we can use that smells of lime juice as well and just choose this moments before. so fresh lime juice is always the best one to use and that's really it. and i would say just prepare glass. we've done a salt rim here and i've just done on half of it actually as well because we often as a lady with lip gloss and you get yourself in a pickle with a glass covered in an ice, you get ice everywhere. but just having it on the side is perfect . and on the other side you can sit nicely. exactly. so . that's sit nicely. exactly. so. that's how ice twist. do you like it . how ice twist. do you like it. it's very nice because you know what amy and despite being irish doesn't like to drink so this is a compliment if you're getting him on i'm really happy to hear that this is just pouring in and it's just as you can .

that this is just pouring in and it's just as you can. i that this is just pouring in and it's just as you can . i always it's just as you can. i always recommend drinking it straight away now. i'm sure you do . and away now. i'm sure you do. and you could just garnish simply with a piece of lime as well . with a piece of lime as well. well, the bit i'm very, very keen on, anna, is isabella talking about the salt . let me talking about the salt. let me see how you actually digest the salt with the drink shows how it's done. yeah, i mean. i'm more than happy to try it and go for so you're not. your tongue has been on the salt on your lips. it has, it just gives that i think , it opens up the palate i think, it opens up the palate a little bit. it gives that saltiness. it goes really well with the freshness as well. and you go have little bit of you can go have a little bit of that then go the other that and then go on the other side and try that as well. so nicely done. that's interesting. it is. it is. and it's really all of this can make at all of this you can make at home. don't to work in home. you don't to work in a cocktail be able to do this cocktail bar, be able to do this as well. mentioned your mom, as well. you mentioned your mom, i going we have them i was going to say we have them at the moment. marmalade at the moment. so the marmalade actually used that in your actually i've used that in your dnnks actually i've used that in your drinks as well. so this is it's a bit of a twist. a couple of a bit of a twist. so a couple of different so we're different cocktails. so we're calling breakfast

calling this a breakfast margarita. also margarita. there is also a breakfast martini well. but breakfast martini as well. but the that sets up, the key ingredient that sets up, paul the key ingredient that sets up, paul, marmalade, as it's a paul, is marmalade, as it's a very thing to have with your breakfast you breakfast in the morning and you only drink margaritas for breakfast. what i mean, i think is like a mary or i think i think it has to be known as i can't confirm or deny you seem to be a happy person to be up by an orion ready go anna is a dnnksin an orion ready go anna is a drinks in hospital expert on this national day otherwise known as ash, sweat and sticky cheers and she's so much happy about you all you guys who've tuned in on the radio and on tv . we'll be back tuned in on the radio and on tv .we'll be back in tuned in on the radio and on tv . we'll be back in the morning .we'll be back in the morning from 6 am. to do it all again. obviously it's a good day. have a wonderful day. bye bye. cheers. good morning. my name's rachel airs and welcome to all the latest weather update from the latest weather update from the all changed the met. so it's all changed today to something just a little cooler with rain making its southeast was throughout the day and this is all due to a low

system just to the north of the uk that has brought a cold front southeast was through tonight andifs southeast was through tonight and it's going to continue to make its way southeast through the rest of today. this will bnng the rest of today. this will bring plenty of cloud to start this across of this morning across much of central and eastern central southern and eastern parts of england and wales. and this will bring some patchy rain and drizzle as well that will slowly make way eastwards slowly make way south eastwards away from this across the north. it's a bright start today. chilly though, with plenty of sunny spells and some scattered showers that could just be wintry over the ground. so cooler here , but still clinging cooler here, but still clinging on to these slightly temperatures for one more day across the south and east as we go through the rest of wednesday , we'll start to see that cloud just clearing from the east, still clinging on to some patchy rain and drizzle here, though, as well . further north and west as well. further north and west , clearing skies will allow a patchy frost to form overnight as temperatures drop and we could see some icy stretches across parts of scotland and

northern england to start the day on thursday. so a cold start for many tomorrow, except to the south and east where we will just see a bit more in the way of cloud and some rain just lingering for the morning, though. brighter skies will come through the day. plenty sunshine across wales and northern england as well as southern parts scotland for a time before this next weather front makes its way into far north of scotland, bringing some rain and a bit more in the way of cloud as as some strong and gusty as well as some strong and gusty winds. we go into the winds. so as we go into the weekend, it's looking it might just be a little bit drier after an unsettled start to this outlook period , though, outlook period, though, temperatures be around temperatures will be around average . they cling on to average. they will cling on to some overnight frosts for a time

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