up action packed show coming up over the next three hours. top story cleverly on immigration. on first, rishi says rwanda will come into operation in the coming weeks. next minute, james cleverly says rwanda is not the be all and end all. another week, another nightmare for on immigration for the tories. our next story, 10 pm. tonight, uk time . the ceasefire in israel time. the ceasefire in israel gaza war will end and the hostages will cease. except there could be a dramatic late intervention from the egyptians and that ceasefire could be extended. charlie peters will be here with all of the latest on this fast moving story. next story , fantastic post britain . story, fantastic post britain. post—brexit britain is on something of a roll. £20 million, billion quid the other week with south korea to billion quid at nissan car plant last week and now a 29.5 billion brexit boost trade deal will have all the details from liam halligan. and finally , it's the halligan. and finally, it's the covid inquiry, which means once

again, they're queuing up to put the boot into boris. this time it was a turn of london mayor sadiq khan who said lives could have been saved if he'd had his hands on the levers of power. does he have a point or is it a cynical power grab from the mayor? that coming up in the mayor? all that coming up in the next hour . so get in touch on next hour. so get in touch on james cleverly. he appeared in the commons for his first questions a moment ago . i questions a moment ago. i thought he was going to get a grilling. they barely landed a glove on him. what's the latest? it's calamity. do you it's a total calamity. do you have in the have any faith in the conservatives to single conservatives to get a single person to rwanda? any time this conservatives to get a single pers

smuggling gangs will be destroyed as he seeks to reaffirm government's reaffirm the government's commitment illegal commitment to stop illegal migration. james cleverly made those comments as he faced questions in the commons for his first time since home secretary. he's addressed the latest immigration figures as well as the government's efforts to stop small boat crossings . small boat crossings. >> the people who are being smuggled are seen as just products. they are expendable in the eyes of those people smugglers . we have to do smugglers. we have to do everything we can and we will do to break their business model. i commend the work of my right honourable friend, the immigration minister, who has recently been to bulgaria to where in close cooperation with our international partners in bulgaria , we have seized boats. bulgaria, we have seized boats. we have seized engines. we are breaking the business model . breaking the business model. >> earlier , the prime minister >> earlier, the prime minister said he's committed to reducing net migration, admitting the numbers are still too high. >> it's encouraging that the office for national statistics last week did say that the numbers are already slowing, but

we need do more. i've already we need to do more. i've already taken to the taken action to tighten the number of dependents that students can bring when they come and study here. we'd seem a very in those very sharp rise in those numbers. and that measure that i took represents the single biggest bring down biggest measure to bring down legal that anyone's legal migration that anyone's ever of course , as we ever taken. but of course, as we need to do more, we will look at that there are abuses need to do more, we will look at th.the there are abuses need to do more, we will look at th.the system, there are abuses need to do more, we will look at th.the system, th

pwc survey this year of thousands of global ceos rated the uk the most attractive investment destination in europe. >> the uk's first human case of the h1n2 virus has been detected. the strain is currently circulating in pigs. the uk health security agency says the person has fully recovered after experiencing a mild illness . there's increased mild illness. there's increased surveillance in surgeries and hospitals in northern england as authorities work to establish the source of the infection the mayor of london says lives could have been saved if he'd been allowed to attend cobra meetings at the start of the pandemic. sadiq khan has told the covid inquiry he was kept in the dark by the government and he'd lobbied prime minister to go lobbied the prime minister to go into . when says into lockdown. when he says he doesn't understand why he as the mayor or the greater london authority were not invited to emergency meetings , i was emergency meetings, i was alarmed, but i by what i was being told in relation to where

we were and where we may go to. >> and i will never forget that sort of feeling of . lack of sort of feeling of. lack of power, lack of influence , not power, lack of influence, not knowing what's happening in our city. >> egypt says it expects 11 israeli hostages will be released later as negotiations continue for the release of 33 palestinians. so far, hamas has released 58 women and children and israel's freed 117 prisoners as negotiators are also said to be close to agreeing an extension to the four day truce, which is set to expire today . which is set to expire today. >> intensity of the fighting in gaza has meant that humanitarians have obviously struggled to do what is needed. and we know, i'm sure your viewers who've been following this for in recent weeks have known how difficult it is to get aid supplies in, supplies in, but also to get people out .

but also to get people out. >> meanwhile, elon musk has voiced his support for israel , voiced his support for israel, telling the country's prime minister proper ganda that inches minister proper ganda that incites murder must be stopped. the tech entrepreneur who has faced criticism after anti—semitic content appeared on his social media site, has been touring a kibbutz that was attacked by hamas . on the 7th of attacked by hamas. on the 7th of october, around 50. barclays bank branches have been forced to close after activists glued their door shut. extinction rebellion says it's holding the biggest fossil fuel financier in europe accountable for its climate wrecking crimes . climate wrecking crimes. barclays says it aims to be net zero by 2050 and is set 2030 targets to reduce the emissions that finances in five sectors, including energy . this is gb including energy. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now back to .

martin >> thank you very much, tatiana. okay, we start with the migrant crisis and rishi sunak invited the best and brightest grad uates from around the world to the uk , saying they can stay the uk, saying they can stay here with families for at here with their families for at least years. but speaking least two years. but speaking earlier, sunak claims he's taking action to reduce the number dependents students number of dependents students can the uk . well, this can bring to the uk. well, this comes as the prime minister reportedly agreed to raise the salary threshold for migrants to £40,000 as part of a pact with suella braverman amid tory pressure to cut record levels of legal migration. gb news viewers can see pictures of illegal migrants arriving in dover early this morning. on your screen now and just yesterday, seven small boats were escorted into british waters by our friends at the french coast guards. merci beaucoup, lads . okay. beaucoup, lads. okay. immigration minister robert jenrick has been facing questions in the house of commons this afternoon as he was asked by one of his own backbenchers what the conservatives policy on rwanda

actually was . actually was. >> when my right hon. >> when my right hon. >> friend, the prime minister and i set up, set out our comprehensive plan this time last year. it had many facets , last year. it had many facets, one of which and an extreme important component of which was our rwanda plan. >> but it was not the only element of our plan. >> and we have worked intensively over the course of the last 12 months on each and every other facet of that plan and those on the opposite benches gear. but is that plan working? yes, it is. and you can see that from the fact that we are almost the only country in europe where the number of illegal entrants is falling . illegal entrants is falling. >> it has fallen by more than a third compared to a 30% increase in the rest of europe and almost a 100% increase in italy . a 100% increase in italy. >> now, none of that, none of that negates the importance of

interjecting a further critical deterrent, and that is the crucial element of the rwanda scheme , and that is the scheme, and that is the difference between those of us on this side and the opposition on, because frankly, they don't want to stop the boats and they don't have the stomach to do a policy like rwanda . policy like rwanda. >> do you ever watch these people and think , do they people and think, do they actually believe what they're saying themselves ? booths maybe saying themselves? booths maybe that's anyway, that's just me. anyway, i'm joined by our political joined now by our political correspondent joined now by our political corresp always joined now by our political correspalways pleasure. joined now by our political correspalways pleasure . it's olivia, always a pleasure. it's groundhog day again, isn't it? here we are. they're split. this morning. rishi sunak said that immigration to rwanda , the immigration to rwanda, the rwanda plan is imminent. then james cleverly said it's not the be all and end all. we saw him moments about half an hour ago getting grilled on the topic. not very well. grilled he got off very lightly. he banged on about few boats in about stopping a few boats in bulgaria but basically seven bulgaria, but basically seven more were brought in by more boats were brought in by our friends on the french coast guard last night. it's a calamity no matter what what they say, they're not stopping they say, they're not stopping

the and we don't seem the boats and we don't seem to be any nearer to a single flight getting rwanda, do we? getting off to rwanda, do we? >> well, as you say, it does seem as though cleverly seem as though james cleverly got very lightly indeed. he got off very lightly indeed. he talks the of boats talks about the number of boats going year . talks about the number of boats going year. and yes, going down this year. and yes, thatis going down this year. and yes, that is true. but the evidence suggests that most of that is to do with the weather. the weather here this year has been worse than last year, and it simply hasn't been possible for migrants the numbers migrants to cross in the numbers at last at which they cross last year. it's really to do what it's not really to do with what the has done. it's the government has done. it's not really to do with the deal that they've struck with france, which taxpayer a pretty which cost the taxpayer a pretty penny. it is basically just about the weather. so yeah, i would say james cleverly got off very that . it was very lightly on that. it was really i thought , really interesting. i thought, to robert jenrick put so to see robert jenrick put so much emphasis on the rwanda plan , saying it's an extremely important part of their immigration policy. reading between the lines, i would say that the immigration minister is feeling bit peeved. he feeling a little bit peeved. he was in under suella was brought in under suella braverman between them. they they they finesse the rwanda

plan. they got it to the stage that we saw a couple of weeks ago as we now know, suella braverman put a lot of pressure on the prime minister to decrease legal migration as well and robert jenrick was standing by her side every step of the way. now james cleverly has been brought in and as apparently sort of dismissed the rwanda plan as well. he called it not the be all and end all. and that's politest words that that's the politest words that the home secretary used the new home secretary used about said, about the rwanda plan, he said, rumoured allegedly, he said something about it, which something else about it, which i couldn't repeat on tv. so it feels as though there is a bit of a split perhaps, right at the top government over the top of government over the rwanda plan between home rwanda plan between the home secretary the immigration secretary and the immigration minister. now that that doesn't seem particularly conducive to rishi sunaks assertion that flights to rwanda are going to take off very soon. generally in the conservative party no one is really expecting any flights to take off to rwanda before spring. at the absolute earliest. and if we really are heading for a may general

election, then spring isn't really good enough. >> yeah , call me a cynic. >> yeah, call me a cynic. i think there's more chance of me landing on the moon than there is anyone being deported to rwanda. christopher hope, as you know, olivia offered rishi a pint of beer , a single pint of pint of beer, a single pint of beer that one a legal immigrant would go to rwanda before the next general election . he next general election. he wouldn't that. now, i wouldn't even take that. now, i know westminster is know in westminster beer is not cheap, one pint, he wouldn't cheap, but one pint, he wouldn't even do olivia think even do that. olivia i think people are at and people are looking at this and they're lose they're just starting to lose faith again, faith and we're seeing again, a split in the telegraph today. this rumour that of course suella braverman asked rishi sunak to raise that salary, that skilled worker minimum salary to £40,000. it's currently 26,000, of course, which might explain why the government issued . why the government issued. 322,000 low skilled worker visas last year , including 87 87,000 last year, including 87 87,000 increase and 154,000 dependants through the front door, not through the front door, not through the front door, not through the back door, not illegally , but legally. so on illegally, but legally. so on this topic, they're also crucially and deeply divided,

aren't they ? aren't they? >> they are. they're deeply divided. suella braverman apparently wrote up this document when rishi sunak was trying to recruit her as a potential home secretary before he was made prime minister. and according to her allies, she said, i will only become your home secretary you agree to home secretary if you agree to these four policy proposals , these four policy proposals, models which she hoped would get net migration under control, according to her allies. rishi sunak verbally agreed to all four of these policy proposals . four of these policy proposals. you mentioned some of them. there raising the cap, the salary cap at which migrants are allowed to come over here from 25,000 to 40,000, clamping down on the number of dependents that students workers can students and that workers can bnng students and that workers can bring over. apparently rishi sunak agreed to them and then reneged on them when he'd got her as his home secretary. now allies of the prime minister say that suella braverman was incompr , but that's the reason incompr, but that's the reason why she had to go. and i think there will be there will be some

viewers who think that that assessment might be valid. she was home secretary for over a yearif was home secretary for over a year if she wanted these things done so much , how come they done so much, how come they never happened ? suella never happened? suella bravermans allies, of course, would argue that she she argued and argued with the prime minister, but the prime minister was not to listen to was determined not to listen to her injuries. was determined not to listen to her injuries . hinckley was determined not to listen to her injuries. hinckley now rishi sunak seems to be very seriously mulling over exactly what suella braverman proposed over a year ago . there are rumours that the ago. there are rumours that the salary at which migrants can come over here will rise by exactly the amount that suella braverman suggested. there is going be a clampdown on the going to be a clampdown on the number of dependents that universe bring universe students can bring oven universe students can bring over. and so now the prime minister is doing what suella braverman wanted him to do about a year ago. but i think with a general election so close and no more official migration, legal migration statistics expected before then , it might end up as before then, it might end up as too little, too late . too little, too late. >> and olivia, we were just showing pictures a moment ago of

boats coming into dover last night. seven boats brought over by a friend and the french coast guard. a suitable moment if ever there was one, because £500 million is what we give the french each year to stop this happening. and yet you get the feeling, moment that feeling, olivia, the moment that these up their chest these lads are up to their chest in water, the french just waved them through. fact, give in water, the french just waved them a|rough. fact, give in water, the french just waved them a taxiih. fact, give in water, the french just waved them a taxi servicect, give in water, the french just waved them a taxi service to give in water, the french just waved them a taxi service to our give them a taxi service to our waters. big questions as well. need to be asked, don't they, olivia, being total olivia, about this being a total waste half waste of money given half a billion the french, it seems billion to the french, it seems seemingly totally ineffective . seemingly totally ineffective. >> yeah , i think there will >> yeah, i think there will definitely be a discussion about that because every time this problem emerges, what the government seems to end up the solution always seems to end up being, well, let's give some more money to the french, to police borders. police the borders. better i mean, to to the the mean, to be fair to to the the scheme that the government introduced last year, this scheme, allow english border scheme, to allow english border patrol officers in french border patrol officers in french border patrol areas in order to watch the flow of migrants. it could be argued that it is working a

little bit because, as i say, the number of small boats is down. most of that, as i say, can be explained by the weather, but it possible that that 500 but it is possible that that 500 million the has million given to the french has made a bit of a difference, that french has improved a french policing has improved a little bit. but given amount little bit. but given the amount of money, is it enough? >> olivia , you're a more >> olivia, you're a more charitable soul than i. but thank you very much for joining us. and i think you're dead right about the weather. it's nothing to do with the coastguard. the weather. coastguard. it's the weather. rishi sunak would be better off doing dance the white doing a rain dance on the white cliffs of dover. you me. cliffs of dover. if you ask me. it'd be effective than it'd be more effective than giving all money to the giving all this money to the french. the french. and he can't stop the boats. starting to me like french. and he can't stop the boat:canute.tarting to me like french. and he can't stop the boatscanute. olivia to me like french. and he can't stop the boatscanute. olivia utleyz like french. and he can't stop the boatscanute. olivia utley ,like french. and he can't stop the boatscanute. olivia utley , thank king canute. olivia utley, thank you for joining king canute. olivia utley, thank you forjoining us. now king canute. olivia utley, thank you for joining us. now with the tory party in turmoil over migrants , both legal and migrants, both legal and illegal, immigration minister robert jenrick has been on his feet in the house of commons. he was asked if he's doing all he to can stop people coming to the uk other countries whilst uk from other countries whilst some of those coming here to claim asylum do have genuine grounds for asylum. >> are economic migrants

>> many are economic migrants making spurious claims to game the system for some nationality. as our grant rates are out of sync with european countries and that's why we've undertaken extensive work to lower them for example, the grant rate for albanians reduced from 53% in june of last year to 19% in june of this year , and has fallen of this year, and has fallen further since as this remains unacceptably high. last month we added india and georgia to the list of safe states to speed up the process of returning people who've travelled from those countries to the united kingdom illegally . quite clearly, there illegally. quite clearly, there is more work to be done and we don't want to create any additional pull factor to the united kingdom . united kingdom. >> well, there you have it . the >> well, there you have it. the immigration minister is certain he's doing as much as he can. do you believe him? do you believe anything that they say anymore? a of people don't. i'm a lot of people don't. i'm seeing all over the place, seeing this all over the place, even very conservative even on very, very conservative media just saying media outlets. just saying they've lost faith in

they've completely lost faith in this they've broken this government. they've broken promise after promise after promise after promise after promise in every election since 2010. they promised to get migration and the numbers migration down and the numbers have just gone through the absolute roof . well, we'll have absolute roof. well, we'll have lots more on this story throughout the show. and there's plenty coverage, course, plenty of coverage, of course, on website. gbnews.com and on our website. gbnews.com and you've make that you've helped to make that the fastest national fastest growing national news website country . so thank website in the country. so thank you each every one of you you to each and every one of you for that. now it's the last day of the four day ceasefire between israel and hamas. but will truce extended to will the truce be extended to allow more hostages and prisoners to be freed? i'm martin daubney on gb news and we are britain's channel .

mornings from 930 on gb news is earlier with eamonn and isabel, the 79 hostages who were held by hamas were released yesterday . hamas were released yesterday. >> your voice, your voice . >> your voice, your voice. >> it'sjust >> your voice, your voice. >> it's just every time we play that video of emily hands being embraced safely there, it makes me tear up. >> it was a great personality , >> it was a great personality, great character. footballers love players love to play for him. it was great fun, but also an amazing football coach. so forward thinking, great football ideas , you know, special person. ideas, you know, special person. >> she took a cornflakes box and you cut it up and you can turn it round. >> did you make that? >> did you make that? >> and you should make that you can make what are you what did you what's true breakfast with eamonn and isabel monday to thursday from 6 am. welcome

back to the show it's 323. >> you're watching or listening to me. martin daubney on gb news as well. later this hour, i'll have news of almost 30 billion quid's worth of fresh investment in post—brexit britain and find out what nigel farage has been getting up to once again in the jungle, there's been another rumble down under. now to the latest on the ceasefire between israel and hamas is due to end at 10:00 this evening. uk time. but egypt, qatar and the united states want the truce to be extended to allow for more hostages and prisoners to be released. and according to reports , there is likely to be reports, there is likely to be a two day extension for 20 additional israelis and 60 palestinian prisoners to be released. well, to go through this now, get fully up to speed. i'm joined in the studio now by our reporter peters . so our reporter charlie peters. so some good news there. i mean, it's images the few it's amazing images the last few days particularly of young

days of particularly of young emily hand being reunited with her father, elderly women being released. and now it looks like it be extended. it could be. >> that's the likely reporting coming out of the israeli media in the last couple of hours. and there is concern also that hamas has offered a list via qatar of the prisoners it wants to release today the hostages, i should say. they want to release today. and the israeli side has reportedly rejected that list because it would split up families as now. yesterday i spoke with a family member of maya regev, a girl who was released by hamas two days ago. she was rushed into hospital for surgery on her leg, a gunshot wound she endured over 50 days ago, heavily infected, could have been amputated. luckily, after several surgeries, she's been she's come out healthily of that when a much better state. her brother is still being held by hamas. and i think the israelis are now seeing this as a as an intolerable situation to give one child back to a family but ignore the other. so a very controversial situation there

for hamas as they try to engage with the israeli side, offering new hostages back to them. and those in tel aviv turning around and saying that's not good enough. >> now, presumably, charlie, some of the prisoners being released, the palestinians are unsavoury times. the sort of people that may cause a security risk to israel. so how how long can this go on for and what level all of prisoner could be released ? because we've already released? because we've already seen some of the people involved in the october 7th attack had already been imprisoned and released as part of one of these deals. so it does in itself carry a security risk, doesn't it? >> well, for many years, israel has held palestinian prisoners in controversial sentences, often they're accused by human rights watch and other ngos of holding them in a kind of quasi extrajudicial circumstances, years waiting for charges or trial. but many of the prisoners they're releasing are quite severe characters. many of them convicted terrorists. we had an attempted suicide bomber released yesterday in exchange

for some of those hostages. but then not even the most severe characters that they could release. both sides are releasing. and it's appalling to think of it in this way. but that's the way they're looking at they're lower value at it. they're lower value hostages and prisoners. hamas are to hold on to the are going to hold on to the soldiers they and soldiers that they have. and they're going to hold on to they're also going to hold on to they're also going to hold on to the because the nine the americans because the nine remaining americans they have keeps table keeps washington at the table and that global. and keeps washington at the table and qatari: global. and keeps washington at the table and qatari pressureand keeps washington at the table and qatari pressure oni keeps washington at the table and qatari pressure on that indeed, qatari pressure on that mediating system , whereas the mediating system, whereas the israelis, they're holding to on some of the worst offenders of the palestinian side that they're keeping on when things well, that these well, assuming that these deliberations and meetings between all the sides continue, i think we could see some more extreme characters and some more americans pushed forward onto the exchange if they've already releasing suicide bombers. >> i mean, there will be some really unsavoury characters to come out of the woodwork then from from the palestinian from the from the palestinian prisoners oh, yeah. >> mean, the idf and police >> i mean, the idf and police operating in the west bank as

well have captured , ed, many well have captured, ed, many deeply appalling terrorist characters over the years who have been convicted of not just carrying out attacks, but more crucially, planning them. any security organisation wants to remove the command and control structure before it moves the fighters . anyone can put fighters. anyone can put a trigger, but the most dangerous minds are those that prepare and plan attacks. and those plan these attacks. and those will be the minds and the convicted terrorists that the israeli will be hoping to israeli side will be hoping to release. if these these release. last, if these these continuing talks go on. >> thank you very much, shirley peters, for bringing us up to speed on delicate situation speed on that delicate situation in now, sadiq khan has in israel. now, sadiq khan has claimed lives could have been saved if the government had worked him more closely worked with him more closely dunng worked with him more closely during the mayor during the pandemic. the mayor of london has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry today, joined by gb today, and i'm joined now by gb news reporter lisa news london reporter lisa hartle. lisa, the london mayor was putting the boot into boris and claiming that if it had been down to him, things could have been lot better off. does he been a lot better off. does he have a point or is a mayor or

have a point or is it a mayor or power grab ? well he told the power grab? well he told the inquiry today that he felt completely left in the dark at the start of the pandemic. >> so that's in february and early march. he said he asked repeatedly attend cobra repeatedly to attend cobra meetings so that he could be aware of what happening, but aware of what was happening, but it wasn't until the 16th of march that he was finally allowed to attend a cobra meeting and he said that when he attended this meeting, he felt winded exactly winded just by learning exactly how dire the situation was . and how dire the situation was. and we've got a clip to play you now of speaking today at the of mr khan speaking today at the inquiry . inquiry. >> how many of those around cobra knew issues around diversity, co—morbidity , diversity, co—morbidity, intergenerational households , intergenerational households, overcrowded accommodation? how many people around cobra knew, for example, in london, when there are more people who work in zero hours contract work in the we work in the gig economy, we work in frontline jobs where they can catch this virus. and so my point being is, look, it's horses for courses . in this horses for courses. in this particular case, i can see no

explanation at all why , you explanation at all why, you know, the gla the mayor of london, we weren't around that table. i think lives could have been saved if we were earlier . been saved if we were earlier. >> sadiq khan said that if he had been allowed to attend cobra meetings earlier than he did, that he thinks that he would have been to save more have been able to save more lives. when he was asked why this was because powers, the this was because his powers, the powers has, limited, powers he has, are limited, he said because at a cobra powers he has, are limited, he said you're.e at a cobra powers he has, are limited, he said you're ablea cobra powers he has, are limited, he said you're able to zobra powers he has, are limited, he said you're able to lobby and meeting you're able to lobby and he would have been able to lobby the earlier, said. he would have been able to lobby theit earlier, said. he would have been able to lobby theit turns earlier, said. he would have been able to lobby theit turns out, earlier, said. he would have been able to lobby theit turns out, he rlier, said. he would have been able to lobby theit turns out, he was said. he would have been able to lobby theit turns out, he was the said. he would have been able to lobby theit turns out, he was the one. as it turns out, he was the one lobbying government to lobbying the government to go for the for a lockdown. he was the one lobbying government to shut lobbying the government to shut down because down public transport because people be safely people couldn't be safely distanced and so the virus would spread. he also said that his office efforts to keep office had made efforts to keep to contact with mayors from to make contact with mayors from around the world to be able to see what was going on with the pandemic in other countries before coming here. and pandemic in other countries be1said coming here. and pandemic in other countries be1said that coming here. and pandemic in other countries be1said that he ming here. and pandemic in other countries be1said that he was] here. and pandemic in other countries be1said that he was surprisedd he said that he was surprised when he spoke to when mrjohnson wasn't aware of the fact that lockdowns were in place in places like milan and people

were being fined if they weren't adhenng were being fined if they weren't adhering rules. and he adhering to the rules. and he said that mr said he was surprised that mr johnson didn't know about this. and feels the uk and he said he feels like the uk missed the opportunity to missed out on the opportunity to have of elsewhere in the have a view of elsewhere in the world what was happening and therefore perhaps better therefore perhaps prepare better over here. we've also heard today from andy burnham. he was he's the mayor for greater manchester. he also said that he repeatedly asked to attend cobra meetings, but he wasn't invited to a single one. he said that he and other mayors had nowhere to go to voice concerns or to share information , so they resorted to information, so they resorted to communicating with people through the media. he said that the london centric decision making had negative consequences , and an example he gave is that he believes that manchester was taken out of a lockdown too soon, and that was because manchester hadn't quite reached the peak that london had. and he said therefore that left manchester with the higher rates of covid infection for the rest of covid infection for the rest of 2020. he also said that asking government for financial

help and support for people who are self—employed at the time who needed to self—isolate but couldn't because they needed to go out and work, he said, asking for advice on that was like shouting he's shouting into the abyss. so he's he's continuing to give evidence now to the inquiry at covid inquiry. and then this afternoon, if there's enough time, because all of these keep running over , we're going to running over, we're going to hear from liverpool's mayor, steve lisa hartle thank you >> okay, lisa hartle thank you for bringing us up speed . for bringing us up to speed. it's worth looking this, it's worth looking at this, isn't under sturgeon isn't it? because under sturgeon in scotland, drakeford in wales, khan and burnham in khan in london and burnham in manchester, they wanted manchester, they all wanted harder longer harder, sooner, longer lockdowns. wanted more lockdowns. they wanted more power. and i wonder in the fullness time, when we look fullness of time, when we look back, a good thing that back, if it's a good thing that they were kept of it because they were kept out of it because sadiq gave fines for sadiq khan gave 6000 fines for people masks on the people not wearing masks on the london underground. remember london underground. i remember those people those times. i saw people getting fined and getting arrested and fined and crying pleading with crying and pleading with officers not to find them. a single mum who afford single mum who couldn't afford to dodgy times to feed her children dodgy times and pleasant times. and i wonder if sadiq khan, if he'd been in charge, a bit charge, may have been a bit worse. well lots more still to

come between now and 4:00. but first, here's latest news first, here's your latest news headunes first, here's your latest news headlines sanchez . headlines with tatiano sanchez. >> martin, thank you. this is the latest from the newsroom. the home secretary says the business model of people smuggling gangs will be destroyed as he seeks to reaffirm the government's commitment to stop illegal migration. ian james cleverly made the comments as he faced questions in the commons for the first time as home secretary . first time as home secretary. he's addressed the latest immigration figures, as well as the government's efforts to stop small boat crossings . small boat crossings. >> the people who are being smuggled are seen as just products. they are expendable in the eyes of those people smugglers. we have to do everything we can in and we will do to break their business model. i commend the work of my right honourable friend, the immigration minister, who has recently to bulgaria, where recently been to bulgaria, where in close cooperation with our

international partners in bulgaria, we have seized boats, we have seized engines and we are breaking the business model . are breaking the business model. >> nearly £30 billion is being invested into new projects in the uk. the prime minister's told the global investment summit there's positive momentum in the economy , particularly for in the economy, particularly for science, tech and creative industries . the science, tech and creative industries. the uk's first human case of the h1n1 flu virus has been detected . the strain is been detected. the strain is currently circulating in pigs. the uk health security agency says the person has fully recovered after experiencing a mild illness . there's increased mild illness. there's increased surveillance in surgeries and hospitals in northern england as authorities work to establish the source of the infection . the source of the infection. eqypt the source of the infection. egypt says it expects 11 israeli hostages will be released later as negotiations are ongoing for the release of 33 palestinians. israel had objected to the list originally sent by the terror

group, which would split up families . group, which would split up families. but officials group, which would split up families . but officials say families. but officials say they're close to resolving disagreements with hamas. negotiations are also underway for a two day extension to the truce , which is due to expire truce, which is due to expire today. it's understood that it would include the release of a further 20 israeli hostages and 60 palestinian prisoners as and the mayor of london says lives could have been saved if he'd been allowed to attend emergency cobra meetings. the start of the pandemic. sadiq khan told the covid inquiry he was kept in the dark by the government and had lobbied the prime minister to go into lockdown . for more on all into lockdown. for more on all of those stories, you can visit our website, gbnews.com . our website, gbnews.com. >> for stunning gold and silver coins, you'll always value. rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. >> here's a quick snapshot of

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investments in the uk economy worth a total of £30 billion over three times as much as the first summit that was held just a couple of years ago. that will support tens of thousands of jobs right across the uk . it jobs right across the uk. it will create more, sunak says this is a positive momentum for the uk economy. >> it didn't sound very positive, did he? but the bank of england governor doesn't seem to his optimism. once to share his optimism. once again . andrew bailey says again. andrew bailey says britain's growth outlook is the worst. he's ever seen. well joining me now is liam halligan. our economics and business editor with on the money . so, editor with on the money. so, liam, you can always rely on the bank of england governor to absolutely pour a cup of cold sick onto onto things can't you the return of project fear from bailey on the day 29 billion quid's worth of investment. bailey on the day 29 billion quid's worth of investment . why quid's worth of investment. why can't enjoy the moment can't we just enjoy the moment and there's a great future and say there's a great future in post—brexit britain ? in post—brexit britain? >> it's fair to say that

>> i think it's fair to say that andrew bailey's probably lost his slot at the top of jeremy hunfs his slot at the top of jeremy hunt's christmas card list . hunt's christmas card list. >> the timing does seem a little bit strange and also, i mean, there's nothing factually about what the bank governor of the bank of england is saying. >> that's his opinion. but on a day like this, it does seem a little bit odd. why? because at hampton court to west of hampton court to the west of london, there 200 odd of the london, there are 200 odd of the world's ceos. world's leading ceos. >> british government >> what the british government is trying to do, rightly so , do is trying to do, rightly so, do is trying to do, rightly so, do is emphasise just how good this country is at attracting what we call fdi . call fdi. >> that's foreign direct investment. let's have a look at some of the numbers here. >> so in total, the uk has a stock of foreign direct investment in this country of £2.7 trillion. >> that's £2,700 billion. >> that's £2,700 billion. >> that's £2,700 billion. >> that's pretty much the size of our entire economy . of our entire economy. >> that's a stock of foreign direct investment over many, many years . many years. >> we're about third in the world each year at attracting

foreign direct investment after the americans and the chinese, we've got more foreign direct investment in this country than france and germany combined. >> quotes despite brexit. >> quotes despite brexit. >> if you want to add that the government says, and these are government says, and these are government numbers, foreign government says, and these are goverrinvestment)ers, foreign government says, and these are goverrinvestment createdeign government says, and these are goverrinvestment created .gn government says, and these are goverrinvestment created . 1000 direct investment created. 1000 112,000 jobs in the uk during 2022, which is pretty chunky . 2022, which is pretty chunky. >> and some of the recent announcements which i suspect are included in that 29 billion figure, are so airbus, the us aeronautical giant, has done a deal with rolls—royce, which of course makes some world class jet engines. there building planes for air india, a huge contract there . contract there. >> bmw, of course, is making the new mini in cowley in oxford , new mini in cowley in oxford, stellantis, up there in ellesmere port. >> i was recently there , car >> i was recently there, car making centre for the uk. they're making a whole range of new electric vans in particular, but also cars up there and tata have announced that they're going to build a gigafactory, the conglomerate tata are

the indian conglomerate tata are going to build a giga factory making batteries for evs in bridgwater in somerset . so bridgwater in somerset. so there's an awful lot of fdi out there's an awful lot of fdi out there . but just on a day like there. but just on a day like today, andrew bailey, he's up in the north of england and he decided to tell the for newcastle , i think it's the new newcastle, i think it's the new castle post, one of the excellent north east newspapers that he thinks the growth outlook in the uk is now without doubt that the worst in my lifetime . so it's not exactly a lifetime. so it's not exactly a good day to say that. i mean, we all want an independent bank of england. and it's interesting because just today a reports come out from the bank of england on the bank of england, from the lords economic affairs select committee. it doesn't sound like that will set the world on fire. the lords economic affairs select committee. you me, committee. but believe you me, this one of the most this is one of the most important economics committees in country . it includes in this country. it includes martin lord, mervyn king, a former governor of the bank of england, and the committee is really, really be critical of

the bank of england for not being independent enough, for having too much groupthink, for being controlled by the treasury . so maybe in light of that report, the governor wanted to report, the governor wanted to report demonstrate just how independent he really is by saying something which will, as you say, go down in the treasury like the proverbial cup of cold, sick . sick. >> is there something in the job description? do you think, mark carney and now is it in the dna of these people? i don't know. just all talk of britain down. >> this is a relatively new thing. so i've known and followed, you know, several governors of the bank of england. now, when i first became a journalist, the governor the bank of england governor of the bank of england was george. know, was eddie george. you know, he was eddie george. you know, he was household name, was hardly a household name, but his , as they say, his his eyebrow, as they say, packed a mighty punch in the city because all it took was an eyebrow and banks eyebrow from eddie, and banks would then would start behaving. then we had independence of the bank of england in 97, eddie george stayed , but he was never stayed, but he was never grandstanding . and lord king was grandstanding. and lord king was not a grandstanding kind of governor of the bank of england.

i think it's fair to with i think it's fair to say, with mark coming in in 2013, mark carney coming in in 2013, that was when the governor of the bank of england became a sort you sort of really sort of, you know, public figure. yeah, that's right . that's right. >> a media position. >> a media position. >> he was seen as a rock star, central banker because he was relatively young and, you know, telling genic, i'm told. but i think andrew bailey has taken the sort of doom and gloom up to new levels, really . he i mean, new levels, really. he i mean, the bank of england for most of last year were predicting a recession in the uk and they were almost an outlier in predicting a recession. and it didn't happen and no acknowledgement that it didn't happen. no sort of apology or we got wrong. they've just got that wrong. they've just sort know, cranked up sort of, you know, cranked up the doom ometer again. and it's a weird, really , because a bit weird, really, because we've already had successive we've already had 14 successive interest the interest rate rises from the bank england. you think bank of england. and you think now while the bank of england obviously to obviously doesn't want to encourage and encourage inflation and inflation is still pretty high at 4.6, still well over at 4.6, it's still well over double the bank's 2% target. but you you do get a sense now that the economy needs to grow. that's why the bank of england

the economy needs to grow. that's to y the bank of england the economy needs to grow. that's to y the stopped england the economy needs to grow. that's to y the stopped raisingd seems to have stopped raising interest if you think interest rates so if you think the economy needs to grow and by golly, does need to grow , why golly, it does need to grow, why would use your position as would you use your position as the central banker of one of the world's leading central banks based solely to the world based solely to tell the world on day a massive on the day of a massive investment that the investment summit that the economy that you're trying to regulate is in the doldrums? i don't get it. >> i haven't got it since the days of brexit. i don't get it now. but thank you for trying to make common of make some common sense out of it. we had a bit of a laugh about it too. thanks, liam. always you. always a pleasure. thank you. now of now board members at one of britain's wealthiest charities now board members at one of britathe wealthiest charities now board members at one of britathe wealbecause arities now board members at one of britathe wealbecause apparently face the sack because apparently they're and privileged . of they're white and privileged. of course they are. i'm martin daubney on gb news. and this is britain's news channel

me, michael portillo gb news britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> welcome back. it's 346. you're watching or listening to me. martin daubney on gb news now 4:00 and now the latest on the migrant crisis and get the view of a former labour minister. but meanwhile , a young minister. but meanwhile, a young hindu family in birmingham believe they are being targeted by a group of youths in their area religious area because of religious symbols they have displayed in their home. the front has their home. the front door has been repeatedly kicked and they have harassed, have been repeatedly harassed, both home out in both at home and when out in public. they've been speaking to our west midlands. reporter jack carson this is the moment a group of boys attacked the home of a young hindu family in birmingham. >> the family who wished to

remain anonymous, moved to the uk from india and have lived in the city for eight years with their young daughter often moving into a new house. two years ago, finally got to years ago, they finally got to hold a housewarming party and, as is hindu tradition displayed religious signs on the front of their home. shortly afterwards, in , the first incident in july, the first incident occurred at around 8:00 pm. >> we heard a big bang and when we first saw in the video footage, we have seen that someone has stepped on the door and kicked our door with their foot. it happened a couple of times and that's how it started. >> as the harassment continued, the family tried to confront those responsible, but they were met with the islamic slur. sophia an offensive term directed at non—muslims . directed at non—muslims. >> as you are a over the next couple of months , a further four couple of months, a further four incidents occurred . incidents occurred. >> the same youths also targeted the family when they tried to visit the ladywood leisure centre. >> we are entering and they saw us okay and they just grabbed,

surrounded us. this is the first time i'm experiencing like someone is surrounding us and saying some bad stuff and they grabbed him. my husband, and they started like saying , we'll they started like saying, we'll punch you on your face and tell me, how did that make you feel? i was just shivering outside and just continuously crying. yeah yeah. >> they had really had several panic attacks. my daughter also did not want to sleep in this home. she was so terrified. and she didn't want to come back and that's the impact , what she she didn't want to come back and that's the impact, what she had. so that couple of months were we felt really like living in a prison. yeah the incidents were reported to the west midlands police and an email shown to gb news. >> they tell the family they've spoken to all the identifiable youths and that the youths admitted to the harassment . the admitted to the harassment. the police have told the family they won't incidents police have told the family they wo hate incidents police have told the family they wo hate crimes incidents

police have told the family they wo hate crimes due incidents police have told the family they wo hate crimes due to ncidents police have told the family they wo hate crimes due to there tls as hate crimes due to there being insufficient evidence to prove the racially motivated comments are beyond a reasonable doubt. all of the doorbell footage has been passed on to the instead, they're the police. instead, they're going forward with a community resolution which they say will give the children conditions , give the children conditions, ones attend the family's ones not to attend the family's home again to home address again and not to approach them . the family don't approach them. the family don't believe enough , he said. believe this is enough, he said. >> we have to go to this one and it's choice . it's our it's not your choice. it's our choice. like the community resolution that's what. and the email , if you see it's resolution that's what. and the email, if you see it's very, very, very rude. it it felt like we are not a victims . we are the we are not a victims. we are the criminals in response, a west midlands police spokesperson told gb news our officers have been investigating reports of harassment against a family in birmingham for some time now. >> a detailed investigation was carried out, which included speaking to the victims and the young people responsible for the offences at length , the parents offences at length, the parents offences at length, the parents of the young people were supportive of police action and we satisfied that we are satisfied that a community was the community resolution was the correct step to take, given the

young of the people involved young age of the people involved and their history of non offending. taking the offending. when taking the decision to move ahead with an out—of—court disposal as out—of—court disposal such as this , we into account the this, we took into account the feelings wishes of the feelings and wishes of the victims, overly victims, but overly criminalising these people would not proportionate in this not be proportionate in this case. now, the family has no case. for now, the family has no choice but to hope such a resolution works the youths resolution works and the youths stay for them. feeling safe stay away for them. feeling safe in this city again will not be easy.jack in this city again will not be easy. jack carson . gb news. easy. jack carson. gb news. >> a report there by jack carson . on friday night he won an award for his report in the royal tv society. breakthrough on screen for the on screen award for the midlands. mate. what midlands. well done, mate. what a great report. and i wonder how midlands. well done, mate. what a grthere port. and i wonder how midlands. well done, mate. what a grthere not. and i wonder how midlands. well done, mate. what a grthere not be 1d i wonder how midlands. well done, mate. what a grthere not be enough|der how midlands. well done, mate. what a grthere not be enough evidence can there not be enough evidence for to be a crime? we saw for that to be a crime? we saw we thugs trying to we saw muslim thugs trying to kick down a hindu family's door. i wonder that had been far i wonder if that had been far right thugs on a muslim family. might seen some speedier might we have seen some speedier arrests ? call me a cynic. moving arrests? call me a cynic. moving on, one of britain's wealthiest charities is getting rid of white members is all in white board members is all in the name, of course, of diversity. tudor trust says

diversity. the tudor trust says its board is almost entirely white and privileged, and now it is forcing staff to learn about what it calls racial justice and white supremacy culture. here we go again . i'm white supremacy culture. here we go again. i'm joined by alka sehgal go again. i'm joined by alka sehgal, cuthbert , who's the sehgal, cuthbert, who's the director of don't divide us. aukus. always a pleasure to talk to you. how are you here we go again. it's white privilege . again. it's white privilege. people who are being told they have too much privilege. they're being told they're too white. they took knee to black they took the knee to black lives matter during lockdowns. now they're taking knee and now they're taking the knee and surrendering the chop. surrendering to get the chop. is this legal ? surrendering to get the chop. is this legal? well surrendering to get the chop. is this legal ? well well, this even legal? well well, that's a very good question , martin. >> i think this you know, this charity is making itself a laughing stock , really. i mean, laughing stock, really. i mean, they're meant to be helping marginalised groups . and what marginalised groups. and what have they done by helping them get grants and what have they done? they've actually suspended giving grants for a start. giving any grants for a start. so that's a very odd way of fulfilling your charitable mission. you know, they're meant to be serving their community,

right? they say they're making these changes to be more representative of the communities which they serve. but the community they serve includes white people and it includes white people and it includes privileged people . it's includes privileged people. it's not a sin to be white or to be privileged. i mean, it seems to me that this kind of we hear this so often, you know, we've got serve the needs be got to serve the needs of the be more representative of our community and that just seems to be a cover for really a new form of racism . i mean, you know, of racism. i mean, you know, you're not meant to discriminate against people on basis of against people on the basis of their skin colour. and if you're a professional organisation, you would think you would value the experience, the efforts , you experience, the efforts, you know, all the work that the existing trustees have done over the years in giving grants, not kind of, you know, decide you're going to submit them to some kind of maoist style retraining , kind of maoist style retraining, re—education course . re—education course. >> well, don't you think a lot of people now are seeing through this for what it is? and basically racial justice means

less white people. it means more racism against white people. that's what it stands for, isn't it ? it? >> yes, it does. in— >> yes, it does. i mean, it? >> yes, it does. i mean, it's really divisive and i think it does more than that. i mean, it encourages a very lazy , encourages a very lazy, reductive way of thinking, you know, where it encourages us to see ourselves as and see other people as just as like ciphers for skin colour. and you pop, you for skin colour. and you pop, yo” p0p for skin colour. and you pop, you pop everyone on some grid of power and then you just sort of attribute brownie points. it's a kind of, you know, it's an elite political ideology that's being, you know , pushed into our you know, pushed into our institutions means using the language that's trying to present itself as being, you know, kind and nice and democratic when actually it's the opposite of all those things really . really. >> and alka, most of the bad things in humanity is driven by power and money. it's starting to feel like the racial justice industry is precisely driven by power and money. it's more money

for people like them, it's more power for people like them. and it's power, money and it's less power, less money and less work for people aren't less work for people who aren't like this case are like them, who in this case are white ? white people? >> well, that's right . i white people? >> well, that's right. i mean, it isn't. i mean, it the awful it isn't. i mean, it the awful it isn't. i mean, it the awful it is a horrible re racialisation of our society and of our culture really. and it's, um. it's a very it's quite it's a very effective way of putting people on the back foot , you people on the back foot, you know, so that you kind of, you know, so that you kind of, you know, not to become quite self—centred , boring even, even self—centred, boring even, even to the point where to ask a question about it. i mean this is just, you know, there is no there's no reason for this. there's been no there's been no , there's been no there's been no, you know, incidents of racism to which this is a response. this is a new elite , which is not is a new elite, which is not just black people. it's white people as well. but the point is, whatever skin colour you are, these people share this, this sort of system of beliefs, you know, this ideology in

social, racial justice, this ideology that the whole of society has to be remade. and you know, it's a very radical one. it thinks anything that is anything that already exists must be tainted by the past. it's like they can't they can't. you know, we're not allowed to use our own thinking and judgement to decide which bits of our past , which bits of our of our past, which bits of our norms. we want to keep. >> okay. alka sehgal, cuthbert , >> okay. alka sehgal, cuthbert, we have to leave it there. director of don't divide us. thank you very much for joining us the show. now us on the show. and now the tudor the tudor trust has issued the following statement the tudor trust embarked on a well trust has embarked on a well publicised its publicised step change in its mission , which involves mission, which involves reviewing priority of reviewing the giving priority of the charity to reflect contemporary needs of our grantee community. we, as part of that planned evolution , the of that planned evolution, the trustees resolved to refresh the board with the objective of making its more representative of the demographic and lived experiences of the communities we serve. so there you go . now, we serve. so there you go. now, rishi sunak has promised a new treaty with rwanda, has been

delayed once again , and downing delayed once again, and downing street has admitted the plan to send asylum seekers to the african nation was not a silver bullet in stopping channel crossings i'm martin daubney on gb news and this is

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me. loads coming up in the next houn me. loads coming up in the next hour, our top story, another immigration nightmare there for the rishi sunak the conservatives. rishi sunak insists his rwanda plan will come into force in the coming weeks. but then james cleverly said not the be all and end said it's not the be all and end all. meanwhile, seven boats get the red carpet treatment and are brought into dover by the french . it's another calamity. groundhog day on immigration now , next story, dramatic news. the ceasefire looks likely to be extended tonight. it was due to kick in at 10 pm. uk time, but to allow more hostages and prisoners to be exchanged and released. that looks like it's going to be extended. charlie peters will have all the latest on that breaking story next up after a man went on a rampage in ireland in dublin last week stabbed three children and a teacher . conor mcgregor, the mma teacher. conor mcgregor, the mma fighter , launched into a war of fighter, launched into a war of words, warning the government. you'd better ensure ireland's safety or i will. the police are investigating . mcgregor could investigating. mcgregor could this spark a very unlikely political rise of the boxing

champion ? and finally, champion? and finally, shoplifting is going through the roof as we approach christmas, we go out with a team in huddersfield where they have a novel approach to ending shoplifting by putting undercover cops in there to try and clamp down on the scourge of shoplifting in huddersfield. all of that coming up in the next hour. of that coming up in the next hour . so it's of that coming up in the next hour. so it's calamity in the conservatives once again over immigration. last week, the legal figures came out 745,000 through the front door, 45,000 through the front door, 45,000 through the front door, 45,000 through the back door illegally ending is and they just can't seem to agree to try and get this stopped. let us know. have you got any faith whatsoever in this conservative government? vaiews@gbnews.com. loads more coming in the next hour. but first is your news headlines with polly middlehurst. it .

with polly middlehurst. it. >> martin thank you. good evening to you. well, the top story today, the home secretary says the business model of people smuggling gangs will be destroyed as he seeks to affirm the government's commitment to stop illegal migration in. james cleverly made the comments as he faced questions in the commons for the first time as home secretary . he's addressed the secretary. he's addressed the latest immigration figures. you were just hearing about, as well as the government's efforts to stop small boat crossings as the people who are being smuggled are seen as just products. >> they are expendable in the eyes of those people smugglers. we have to do everything that we can and we will do to break their business model. i commend their business model. i commend the work of my right honourable friend, the immigration minister, has recently been minister, who has recently been to bulgaria, where in close cooperation with our international partners in bulgaria, we have seized boats, we have seized engines, we are breaking the business model . breaking the business model. >> well, earlier on the prime minister did say he's committed

to reducing net migration , but to reducing net migration, but he admitted the numbers are still too high, encouraging that the office for national statistics last week did say that the numbers are already slowing. >> but we need to do more. i've already taken action to tighten the number of dependents that students can bring when they come and study here. we've seen a sharp rise in those a very sharp rise in those numbers and that measure that i took represents the single biggest measure to bring down legal that anyone's biggest measure to bring down legaltaken. that anyone's biggest measure to bring down legaltaken. but that anyone's biggest measure to bring down legaltaken. but ofat anyone's biggest measure to bring down legaltaken. but of course ne's biggest measure to bring down legaltaken. but of course ,e's biggest measure to bring down legaltaken. but of course , as we ever taken. but of course, as we need to do more, we will look at that abuses of the that and other abuses of the system. of course, act system. we will, of course, act on that because levels on that because the levels do need down. are too high. >> well, also in the news today, nearly £30 billion is being invested into new projects right across the uk . and the prime across the uk. and the prime minister told the global investment summit he was pictured there just then. if you're watching on television, there is positive momentum in there is positive momentum in the economy , particularly, he the economy, particularly, he said, for science , tech and the said, for science, tech and the creative industry . as rishi creative industry. as rishi sunak said, the uk's low tax

approach and culture of innovation give it a compare additive advantage. we are setting about making this the best place in the world to invest and do business. >> now. i'm unashamedly proud of britain and there is a growing momentum right here in the uk right now. don't just take my word for it . pwc survey this word for it. pwc survey this year of thousands of global ceos rated the uk the most attractive investment destination in europe i >> -- >> now a lam >> now a five year old british boy has died after falling into a swimming pool while on holiday in egypt. ian logan derrick is from birmingham , died on friday from birmingham, died on friday while on a family trip away. he was described by a family friend as a cheeky, mischievous, happy little boy. a go fund me page has been set up to help cover the costs of his return to the uk and his funeral. the costs of his return to the uk and his funeral . now the uk's uk and his funeral. now the uk's first human case of the h1n2

virus has been detected. the strain is currently circulating in pigs and the uk health security agency says the person has now fully recovered after experiencing what they're describing as a mild illness . describing as a mild illness. there's increased surveillance now in surgeries and in hospitals in northern england as the authorities work to establish the source of the infection . the mayor of london infection. the mayor of london says that lives could have been saved if he'd been allowed to attend cobra meetings at the start of the pandemic. sadiq khan has told the covid inquiry he was kept in the dark by the government and he lobbied the prime minister to go into lockdown. he says he doesn't understand why he as mayor or the greater london authority weren't invited to emergency meetings. i was alarmed by what i was being told in relation to where we were and where we may go to and i will never forget

that sort of feeling of lack of power, lack of influence , not power, lack of influence, not knowing what's happening in our city. now, news away from home. eqypt city. now, news away from home. egyptis city. now, news away from home. egypt is saying it expects 11 israeli hostages will be released later on today as negotiations continue for the release of 33 palestinians. is so far, the terror group hamas has released 58 women and children and israel has freed 117 palestinian prisoners . 117 palestinian prisoners. negotiators are also said to be close to agreeing an extension to the four day truce, which is set to expire today. minister of state andrew mitchell says the current pause in fighting in gaza shouldn't be a one off. >> the view of the british government is that we should do everything we can to ensure the hostages are released as speedily as possible . and the speedily as possible. and the longer that this pause continues, the greater chance there is for humanitarian aid to get into gaza and for progress to be made .

to be made. >> meanwhile, ellen musk has voiced his support for israel, telling the country's prime minister propaganda that inside murder must be stopped. the tech entrepreneur who has faced criticism after anti—semitic content appeared on his social media site x, has been touring a kibbutz that was attacked by hamas on the 7th of october. that's the news from gb news across the uk. on tv in your car on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. this is britain's news channel. >> thank you, polly. now we start with the migrant crisis and rishi sunak has invited the best and brightest graduates from around the world to the uk, saying they can stay here with their families for at least two years. but speaking earlier, sunak claimed he's taking action to reduce the number of dependent students that can be brought into the uk. well this

comes as the prime minister reportedly agreed raise the reportedly agreed to raise the salary threshold for migrants to £40,000 as part of a pact with suella braverman and amid tory pressure to cut record levels of legal migration in gb news, viewers now can see pictures of illegal migrants arriving in dover early this morning and just yesterday, seven small boats were escorted into british waters by french coast guards. merci beaucoup. let's and with the tory party in turmoil over migration, both legal and illegal, immigration minister robert jenrick has been on his feet in the house of commons. he was asked if he's doing all he can to stop people coming to the uk from other countries. >> whilst some of those coming here to claim asylum do have genuine grounds for asylum . many genuine grounds for asylum. many are economic migrant s making spunous are economic migrant s making spurious claims to game the system for some nationalities, our grant rates are out of sync with european countries and that's why we've undertaken extensive work to lower them for example, the grant rate for

albanians is reduced from 53% in june of last year to 19% in june of this year , and has fallen of this year, and has fallen further since as this remains unacceptably high. >> last month we added india and georgia to the list of safe states to speed up the process of returning people who've travelled from those countries to the united kingdom illegally . to the united kingdom illegally. >> quite clearly, there is more work to be done and we don't want to create any additional pull factor to the united kingdom . pull factor to the united kin me m . pull factor to the united kin me does this just feel now >> me does this just feel now like tinkering as rome burns well, i'm joined by our political correspondent olivia utley . welcome to the utley olivia. welcome to the show once again . so we saw james show once again. so we saw james cleverly on his feet there talking about people or products. he was getting his first commons grilling, but he got off rather lightly, i thought. didn't really seem to come out with anything too substantive . and the fact of the substantive. and the fact of the matter is the party is deeply divided. suella braverman has been league over that over the been a league over that over the weekend the £40,000 salary weekend that the £40,000 salary thing her idea. rishi agreed

thing was her idea. rishi agreed to it and then didn't do it another week , another massive another week, another massive division immigration for the division on immigration for the conservatives . conservatives. >> well , absolutely. as you say, >> well, absolutely. as you say, martin, it does feel as though james cleverly got off pretty lightly, lightly. he was mainly asked about illegal migration, despite the story really this week being about legal migration hitting that record high of 746,000 last year . on the 746,000 last year. on the subject of illegal migration, he said that there is a decrease in the number of boats crossing the channel the number of boats crossing the channel, which is true. but if you look at the evidence in more detail, it suggests that actually that drop is more to do with weather than in any with the weather than in any than policy that the than with any policy that the government implemented . on government has implemented. on the subject of legal migration, which everyone is talking about, he did get off very lightly . but he did get off very lightly. but if you read between the lines, i think there is a little bit of disagreement right at of disagreement right at the top of government about the rwanda scheme and how to implement it, whether it's possible to implement it. james cleverly has

said that the scheme isn't the be all and end all and then a little bit later we had robert jenrick, the immigration minister, stand up and say it is an extremely important part of the government's strategy to end legal . illegal migration. and legal. illegal migration. and unsurprisingly, you've got quite a lot of conservative mps now asking, well , a lot of conservative mps now asking, well, hang on a minute, what is our strategy on illegal migration? ian? meanwhile, as you say, there is this row brewing over legal migration. according to suella braverman and her allies , before she and her allies, before she became home secretary, when rishi sunak was trying to recruit her, she said she would only take the job if rishi sunak agreed to four of her policy proposals to reduce net legal migration. apparently according to her, he just ignored her and reneged on that promise. and now we're in the situation that we're in the situation that we're in the situation that we're in where legal migration has never been higher. now it looks as though rishi sunak might start implementing some of those proposals. it looks those policy proposals. it looks pretty that the number pretty definite that the number of dependents that students

bnng of dependents that students bring over will now be cut out and it looks likely that the salary threshold at which a migrant can come over, a working migrant can come over, a working migrant can come over, a working migrant can come over here will be raised from . 26,000 to be raised from. 26,000 to £40,000. but obviously for quite a lot of conservatives, that will be too little, too late. not least because we're not expecting another set of official annual legal migration statistics before the next election. so even if the conservatives do manage to push a dent in those huge numbers, then the effects won't really be felt until long after the next general election . general election. >> yeah, and isn't that the point there? focus on stopping the boats, which they can't do. the only boat they've stopped is the stockholm seven rocked the only boat they've stopped is the night ckholm seven rocked the only boat they've stopped is the night withlm seven rocked the only boat they've stopped is the night with al seven rocked the only boat they've stopped is the night with a with an rocked the only boat they've stopped is the night with a with a rocked the only boat they've stopped is the night with a with a fullzed up last night with a with a full french coast guard in attendance . and yet the numbers of those coming through the front door legally with visas rubberstamped by this conservative government is absolutely massive in comparison. when you look at their promise. we forget this in 2019, olivia , the tory manifesto

2019, olivia, the tory manifesto pledged to reduce overall numbers below 239,000. well, 745,000 last week . those numbers 745,000 last week. those numbers have been obliterated and they're handing out these visas like confetti. and even the students alone, 378,000 students, plus 96,000 dependents. well, that's a city the size of liverpool right there . you've got a whole city there. you've got a whole city there. you've got a whole city the size of liverpool just in students and now they're they're tinkering around the edges. and i just think a lot of people in conservative land, olivia, in the in the, in the telegraph and the in the, in the telegraph and the mail, the express gb news, they don't believe anything they say any more than the conservative party. total conservative party. it's total calamity . calamity. >> well, absolutely. i mean, it is pretty embarrassing that the conservative manifesto promised to get those numbers down to around 200,000, and they're now, you more than three times you know, more than three times that. you know, more than three times that . the government will argue that. the government will argue that. the government will argue that some of the spike in legal migration over the last year or so is temporary. and yes , there

so is temporary. and yes, there is some truth in that. obviously we've had a very generous refugee program for ukrainians coming over here and from those fleeing hong kong . we've also fleeing hong kong. we've also seen a perhaps a slightly artificially high spike in the number of students coming over here with dependents over the last couple of years, because a lot of students who wanted to last couple of years, because a lot of overents who wanted to last couple of years, because a lot of over here who wanted to last couple of years, because a lot of over here during nted to last couple of years, because a lot of over here during thei to last couple of years, because a lot of over here during the covid come over here during the covid years weren't able to and so delayed their migration to the uk until the last couple of years. but none that years. but but none of that really explains the absolutely colossal spike like in legal migration figures after the last year or so. and as you say, that argument is pretty unlikely to wash with conservative voters around the country and with conservative mps too. >> and a huge point of difference now with the student visas as well . olivia is the visas as well. olivia is the number that are remaining to stay after their course expires in 2019. used to be around about 20. stayed and now it's skyrocketed to 65. so they're staying in the country and many times it seems that you can buy

your way in for a few thousand pounds into a course and then stay in britain with health care for life people , i think, for life and people, i think, are to feel extremely are starting to feel extremely exasperated this. yet we exasperated by this. and yet we still have a government at civil war about this issue . war about this issue. >> well , absolutely. and war about this issue. >> well, absolutely. and one i've seen sort of like left of left of the party, conservatives argue in recent days that actually this 750,000 figure is artificially inflated because lots of these student migrants will, they say, go back to their home countries after they finish their degree. but as you say, that isn't really true anymore about 60% of them end up staying here. one measure that suella braverman proposed to try and get around this to try and sort of close this loophole, if you like, because it is kind of a loophole if you've got lots and lots of students coming over here, often with up to four dependents, ing courses, dependents, do ing courses, which perhaps aren't particularly economically valuable, it does seem like some of them at least might just be

going getting on to those degree courses simply to find a route into the uk and then staying here indefinitely. one way that suella proposed suella braverman has proposed proposed about a year ago to close that loophole was to prioritise graduates coming over here to russell group universities that is something that james cleverly and rishi sunak are said to be considering . but again, with these numbers already over here, will it just be too little, too late ? be too little, too late? >> and i wonder who's in control of this. i mean. well, the answer is none of them. they've totally lost control. but if the leak to the telegraph is true that suella braverman stipulated she wanted the salary the minimum salary of a skilled worker to be raised from 26,000 to £40,000, which seems fair because that would then mean people were coming in who actually were skilled rather than workers , as than more menial workers, as rishi agreed to that, but then didn't do it. it'sjust rishi agreed to that, but then didn't do it. it's just yet more bedlam . bedlam. >> i mean , it is a real mystery,

>> i mean, it is a real mystery, i think, to pretty much everyone as to why that threshold, that salary threshold has stayed so low. borisjohnson salary threshold has stayed so low. boris johnson wrote a column in the mail a few days ago saying that the way to fix the legal immigration problem is to raise that salary threshold to raise that salary threshold to 40,000. well he was prime minister for a few years. he could have done it. suella braverman thinks that this is a solution well. well, was solution as well. well, she was home secretary for a couple of years. why didn't she do it? rishi sunak and james cleverly are about it now, but are talking about it now, but lots of conservatives are just asking, well, why hasn't it already been done? the answer seems to be that business leaders in the uk are obviously pretty reliant on foreign laboun pretty reliant on foreign labour. and there is this, this, this argument which often proves to be true really, that that there are some jobs which british workers won't do. and so some of these jobs are put down under the category of jobs that we need immigrants for sure. and so you end up with immigrants coming over here to do something like welding jobs, which lots of conservatives argue could

conservatives would argue could be brits over here be done by brits over here already. it seems that that already. so it seems that that is where the sticking point is . is where the sticking point is. no politician wants to annoy those business leaders who are dependent on foreign labour. but of course, lots of brexit voting mps and brexit voting members of the public would argue that part of the point of brexit was to reduce our reliance on foreign labour and to help train up british workers to take some of those jobs. so why hasn't that really worked that is going to be a question for the prime minister and home secretary in the coming and months. the coming weeks. and months. >> olivia utley bang on as ever. and i think that's a question that electorate are to that the electorate are going to answer come answer in their millions come the next general election because said, you because as i just said, you know, pledge the know, 2019 manifesto pledge the conservatives to know, 2019 manifesto pledge the con overalles to know, 2019 manifesto pledge the con overall numbers to know, 2019 manifesto pledge the con overall numbers below to get overall numbers below 239,000 and we and yet we had 745,000 last week provably measurably a failure . now former measurably a failure. now former labour minister for europe, denis macshane joins me now to go through this. this is just an issue that we seem to talk about

non—stop, denis, but the tory party just cannot even agree to disagree . i mean, today james disagree. i mean, today james cleverly said this is about stopping boats in bulgaria. meanwhile, seven boats got a got a french escort into dover yesterday . the only boat they've yesterday. the only boat they've stopped is the bibby stockholm home. is this issue going to absolutely sink the party come the next general election? and more to the point what are you not going to do instead? >> possibly not really. for me not going to do instead? >>answer,y not really. for me not going to do instead? >>answer,y was really. for me not going to do instead? >>answer,y was aally. for me not going to do instead? >>answer,y was a bit. for me not going to do instead? >>answer,y was a bit myr me to answer, i was a bit my flavour was exhausted when i read suella braverman is now calling for £40,000 minimum wage for immigrants. my god, i fought for immigrants. my god, i fought for the minimum wage for 20 years against the tories when it came in £40,000. i mean, imagine all the pensioners of britain saying , oh, all the pensioners of britain saying, oh, i'm going to all the pensioners of britain saying , oh, i'm going to become saying, oh, i'm going to become an immigrant. suella will pay me 40 grand a year. it's ridiculous . it's ridiculous for huge swathes of employers. let's let's just martin, martin and denis, it'll start up cafe. we can't afford to pay £40,000 to somebody who cleans it . yeah,

but. >> but then. but then the counter argument directly to that would be we shouldn't be importing people to come and work in cafes. we should be paying work in cafes. we should be paying do paying brits a decent wage to do so used to be a labour party position. >> certainly is. don't >> it certainly is. and i don't think the last government delivered on it. you can read my diaries coming out in a couple of weeks time. plug, plug and all the time in i say we're all the time in it i say we're not our own people . i not training our own people. i mean, i'm representing a working class area. mrs. thatcher abolished apprenticeships that worked well. they still worked quite well. they still worked quite well. they still work in germany, the work well in germany, the netherlands and france and switzerland, train switzerland, so they can train up more french, swiss germans to do less reliant on do jobs slightly less reliant on on incoming labour. but we just have abolished all that. you mentioned, i think a welder. you want a good welder , then you're want a good welder, then you're not going to find many brits where you'll find a lot of poles or czechs. but we banished all of those because what rishi has doneis of those because what rishi has done is import up to 962,000 men and women from nigeria to pakistan, india, philippines

means when they're waiting to be trained in portsmouth, in rotherham , in blackpool. rotherham, in blackpool. >> dennis i need i need to try and probe you, at least for , for and probe you, at least for, for and probe you, at least for, for an answer on that second part. and that is we know the tories have made a complete pig's ear of it's probably of this. we know it's probably going to sink them in the election. looks it's election. it looks like it's curtains for them. what are the labour going do? labour party going to do? because heard because all we've heard from from far is from keir starmer so far is we're the people we're going to smash the people smuggling well, cleverly we're going to smash the people smugsaying well, cleverly we're going to smash the people smugsaying today, cleverly we're going to smash the people smugsaying today, clone's were saying that today no one's managed how on managed to do it so far. how on earth to suddenly earth they're going to suddenly do well, let's just say by some >> well, let's just say by some miracle, you could send labour shadow out onto shadow ministers out onto the coast france with a very good coast of france with a very good stanley slash all the stanley knife and slash all the zodiacs so there'd be no more people coming for about people coming by boats for about a . and then they start a week. and then they start coming again. a week. and then they start coming again . and it's a minor, coming again. and it's a minor, minor factor compared to 962,000 odd people arriving into britain ianed odd people arriving into britain invited by this government to replace the people we expelled back to europe . now, what labour back to europe. now, what labour what what. i agree with you. i'm watching it very carefully because i'm out on the doorstep for candidates. it's going to be

a big issue and labour has to come up with a credible plan. there isn't one there yet. there isn't one in other european countries where i can promise you it is an enormous election and voter issue. nobody has a particularly easy answer . we particularly easy answer. we haven't got time to go into bonng haven't got time to go into boring sort of geopolitics. >> is it a feeling then, that labour don't really need to do anything on topic if they anything on this topic if they just long enough, just keep quiet for long enough, the in a the tories will lose. and in a sense they'll they'll wriggle off don't need off the hook. they don't need the can the answer because they can patently can patently say patently voters can patently say the tories are failing. so spectacularly. >> no. the older saying >> yes or no. the older saying of is that parties of politics is that parties don't win elections. governments or parties lose them. i mean, labour under corbyn lost 1 or 2 very, very well. the second disastrously, but fine. but in come keir and yvette and rachel and the david lammy, all the other ministers, it's is their problem and if they're not thinking about it now what my diary shows because i'm there in number 10 in the foreign office in 1997, if you haven't thought

about it before, you've got no time to think about it. once you're in office. >> great words, denis macshane. don't forget man, tony don't forget your man, tony blair, doors properly blair, opened the doors properly to country . a little barb to this country. a little barb at the end there. thank you, denis. now, let's bring you some breaking and qatar breaking news, and that's qatar says been says the gaza truce has been extended by two additional days . extended by two additional days. is that truce has now been extended by two additional days . extended by two additional days. is the ceasefire between israel and hamas was due to end at 10:00 tonight, uk time , but 10:00 tonight, uk time, but that's now been extended to two additional days and stay tuned because our reporter charlie peters is going to bring us bang up to date with the latest from the middle east. martin the middle east. i'm martin daubney this is daubney on gb news and this is britain's news

monday to thursdays from six till 930 . till 930. >> welcome back. it's 427. you're watching or listening to me? martin daubney on gb news. now, later this hour, i'll have more fallout from last week's riots in dublin after conor mcgregor waded into the row over the levels of immigration in ireland . but in the last few ireland. but in the last few minutes , qatar's foreign minutes, qatar's foreign ministry has confirmed that the ceasefire in gaza has been extended by two additional days to allow for more hostages and prisoners to be released . the prisoners to be released. the deal will reportedly see the release of 20 additional israelis and around 60 palestinian prisoners. well i'm joined in the studio now by our reporter charlie peters. so,

charlie , we have this deal charlie, we have this deal within touching distance an hour ago. and now the last hour it's happened. this is great news. >> it'll be ten tonight and ten tomorrow. that's likely the process that they will follow with the palestinian numbers being split accordingly to manage that process. we've also received in the last hour some details of the palestinian prisoners released yesterday by the israeli side, all of them under 18. and the charges that they are in for possession of weapons , explosives, ammunition weapons, explosives, ammunition belong to an unknown terrorist organisation . one of the charges organisation. one of the charges in there and also damage to the security area. so relatively minor offences, as i said in the last hour, they're releasing low value prisoners in exchange for hostages at this point. but as this process continues and more and more hostages are released , and more hostages are released, we could see the israelis releasing more serious commanders of terrorist activity . but more good news in the last hour with this update. a two day ceasefire extension on the qataris. of course, central to

this process. they are that mediator between the islamic world and the west. they host the political office of hamas and they also conducted similar efforts in 2021 when they also hosted the political office of the taliban in doha. so they have this opportunity to mediate and gather parties . but of and gather parties. but of course, one of the reasons why they can do that is because as so many of the nefarious actors from a western perspective, are in in qatar and lots of reports of hamas top brass , murderous of hamas top brass, murderous terrorists, you know, living the life of riley in qatar. >> playboy style lifestyles in casinos and sheltered with their tax affairs. and yet qatar now is able to mediate like this is this process of mediation in in a sense of them whitewashing their own reputation ? their own reputation? >> well, it's an opportunity for them to flex their muscles and gain further influence throughout the world. the fifa world cup was, of course, a significant step towards doha, becoming at the forefront of the international imagination . and

international imagination. and these opportunities are a further effort to do that regardless of your perspective on the situation in doha, it's clearly an example of magnificent state craft and foreign relations . in the last foreign relations. in the last houn foreign relations. in the last hour, though, in terms of what has been achieved with these releases, we've heard news about people released from the people being released from the sheba medical centre where i was for much of my reporting last month of the month in israel. many of the less urgent medical cases were sent there in tel aviv, more urgent ones were sent to sakura medical centre, which is in beersheba, just a few kilometres east of the gaza strip. but those released from the hospital in the last hour include emily hand, that four year old irish israeli girl sorry, not four year old young irish israeli girl who was released yesterday . girl who was released yesterday. those really heartwarming but wrenching scenes of her being reunited with her father. it's one of the most astonishing stories i think i've ever seen in 28 years. >> you know , he he basically >> you know, he he basically said he wanted to her be dead because he feared the torture

and the persecution of her. and yet here are. you mentioned yet here we are. you mentioned about low value. who are the about low value. who who are the most valuable assets hamas about low value. who who are the mos haveiable assets hamas about low value. who who are the mos have and assets hamas about low value. who who are the mos have and the ets hamas about low value. who who are the mos have and the leverageiamas about low value. who who are the mos have and the leverage theys will have and the leverage they can afford . what kind of high can afford. what kind of high value hostages are there and . value hostages are there and. >> well, they've the israelis have lost 70 troops in the conflict since they invaded into the gaza. they've lost over 300 overall. but on the october seventh attacks, many of the soldiers who were feared dead were, in fact, captured. so the most high value targets in terms of hostages that hamas will be holding on to be those holding on to will be those soldiers from the idf. many of them extremely young, some of them extremely young, some of them reservists, a lot of them women, also being held by hamas inside that labyrinth of tunnels inside that labyrinth of tunnels in terms of the high value prisons that the israelis have, they won't really release that information because they they have detained over a thousand people without charge in in inside israel. the palestinians who they allege are involved in terror activities. we just don't know who they are. >> okay. julie peters, thank you

for on for bringing us up to date on the situation gaza. there's the situation in gaza. there's lots more still to come between now i'll get some now and 5:00. and i'll get some of views migrant of your views on the migrant crisis of course. but first, here's your latest news headunes here's your latest news headlines polly middlehurst headlines with polly middlehurst i >> -- >> martin, thank you. let's bnng >> martin, thank you. let's bring you some more on that breaking news. you heard just a short time ago. qatar has said a truce between israel and the hamas terror group has been extended now for two days. it's expected that the fresh agreement will see the release of more hostages. we heard from the qatari foreign minister a short time ago that that truce would be extended and that comes after egypt said it expects 11 israeli hostages will be released later on today with negotiate sessions ongoing for the release of 33 palestinians so far , hamas has released 58 so far, hamas has released 58 women and children and israel has freed 170 been prisoners. when that release happened , as

when that release happened, as you'll see it live here on gb news other news today, and the home secretary is saying the business model of people smuggling gangs will be destroyed as he seeks to reaffirm the government's commitment to stop illegal migration. james cleverly made the comments as he faced questions in the house of commons on his first occasion as home secretary . home secretary. >> the people who are being smuggled are seen as just products they are expendable in the eyes of those people smugglers. we have to do everything we can and we will do to break their business model. i commend the work of my right hon. friend the immigration minister , who has recently been minister, who has recently been to bulgaria , where in close to bulgaria, where in close cooperation with our international partners in bulgaria , we have seized boats, bulgaria, we have seized boats, we have seized engines. we are breaking the business model . breaking the business model. that now nearly £30 billion is going to be invested into new business projects in the uk.

>> the prime minister has been speaking at the global investment summit and he said there's positive momentum in the economy, particularly , he said, economy, particularly, he said, for science tech and the creative industries . and our creative industries. and our other main headline today, the uk's first case of a new strain of swine flu has been detected in the north of england. the uk's health security agency says the individual contracted what's known as the h 1n2 strain. they have since fully recovered after experiencing what's been described as a mild illness . described as a mild illness. there is, though, now increased surveillance in surgeries and hospitals in northern england as authorities try to work out the exact source of that infect person. those are the latest news headlines. more on all those stories by heading to our website, gbnews.com . website, gbnews.com. >> and thank you very much , >> and thank you very much, polly. now let's get more on that top story . the tories

that top story. the tories battle to solve the migrant crisis. earlier today, immigration minister robert jenrick was asked by one of his own backbenchers what the conservatives rwanda conservatives policy on rwanda actually was . actually was. >> when my right hon. >> when my right hon. >> friend, the prime minister and i set up, set out our comprehensive plan this time last year. >> it had many facets , one of >> it had many facets, one of which and an extreme important component of which was our rwanda plan . but it was not the rwanda plan. but it was not the only element of our plan. >> and we have worked intensively over the course of the last 12 months on each and every other facet of that plan. >> and those on the opposite benches gear. >> but is that plan working ? >> but is that plan working? yes, it is. and you can see that from the fact that we are almost the only country in europe where the only country in europe where the number of illegal entrants is falling. >> it has fallen by more than a third compared to a 30% increase

in the rest of europe and almost a 100% increase in italy . now, a 100% increase in italy. now, none of that, none of that negates the importance of interjecting a further critical deterrent, and that is the crucial element of the rwanda scheme. and that is the difference between those of us on this side and the opposition, because frankly , they don't want because frankly, they don't want to stop the boats and they don't have the stomach to do a policy like rwanda . like rwanda. >> when people just laugh at you, when the question comes up in the comments and lots of you have touch about top have been in touch about our top story and that of course, is the tories migration . tories battle over migration. bernadette says this this fiasco is getting worse by the day. and it seems every time sunak makes a pledge to actually do something about it. another politician comes along to take to make a complete fool of him. what is going on within the conservative government ? conservative government? bernadette many, many people echo that sentiment. it just seems like they can't agree to

disagree . they're falling out disagree. they're falling out continually this time it's suella and rishi. pauline also says this all the politicians of all sides just talk and talk. when will anybody do anything positive ? fair point. actions positive? fair point. actions speak louder than words, and yet all we see are record numbers coming through the front door and the back door. stephen says this i have absolutely no faith in the tories. they speak powerfully but deliver nothing . powerfully but deliver nothing. you will get more of results with laurel and hardy and george . oh yeah, i know what you mean. keep you keep your views coming in to gbviews@gbnews.com. well, stephen, you got me laughing on telly. well, i just four weeks ago until christmas. hurrah! and there are fears that the shoplifting epidemic will only get worse ahead of the big day. our yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley has been out and about with police who are targeting criminals to crack down on shoplifting in the run up to christmas . up to christmas. >> plainclothed police officers

are covertly patrolling shops in huddersfield to catch thieves in the act. it comes as shoplifting in england and wales has risen by a quarter in the past 12 months, costing . retailers £953 months, costing. retailers £953 million a year. >> and west yorkshire is the second worst affected region . second worst affected region. >> it is a problem and small businesses, especially , we get businesses, especially, we get targeted and obviously coming up to christmas, there's cost of living crisis. >> you know, we are seeing an increase in shoplifting . so this increase in shoplifting. so this hopefully prevention piece that we're doing around, you know, making it so that it's making it so that so that it's harder for criminals come to harder for criminals to come to huddersfield target the huddersfield and to target the small businesses. we're trying to that to make a living. that plainclothes can actually plainclothes team can actually add just added a different variance. really so they can go in and watch and obviously not be seen and not be and then can apprehend offenders. the undercover action here also supports the rollout of smartwater forensic spray . smartwater forensic spray. >> it involves marking high value products with specific dna

that's linked to specific shops . that's linked to specific shops. >> it assists us when we arrest shoplifters with products on them , and they can be linked to them, and they can be linked to individual stores. >> and it helps get convictions in court. >> the scheme's funded by huddersfield business improvement district to protect retailers income and safety . the retailers income and safety. the scheme is to send a clear message. we are watching you so don't come into the town centre unless you're going to behave nicely and actually pay for your goods. >> 63% of retail crime is committed by repeat offenders , committed by repeat offenders, so the huddersfield bid rangers know who they are, the police know who they are, the police know who they are. hence the undercover working so we can be proactive . give in our responses proactive. give in our responses now and we can make a difference this christmas. >> shopkeepers in the town like david whittle feel reassure aired by the campaign. >> he owns a family run ladies fashion boutique and is always vigilant in protecting their stock. >> everything in the shop , >> everything in the shop, everything is tagged. >> yes , i'm not naive. we lose

>> yes, i'm not naive. we lose 1 or 2 things. recent we've had a lady who has brought her own handbagin lady who has brought her own handbag in and left her handbag and taken a new handbag. you can't be complacent, but it is fighting crime . obviously. when fighting crime. obviously. when people are hard up or they're struggling for money, then crime sometimes increases. so anything that bid and the police can do any authority can do to help is very, very helpful. >> the message here is shoplifters beware as you just don't know who might be watching you. >> anna riley gb news huddersfield , great stuff. huddersfield, great stuff. >> anna. now the mixed martial arts fighter. conor mcgregor has criticised ireland's immigration policy in the wake of last week's riots in dublin. now police are reportedly investigating mcgregor's posts on social media as part of an inquiry into online hate speech .

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system . our culture of system. our culture of innovation and our people. this summit has galvanised new investments in the uk economy worth a total of £30 billion over three times as much as the first summit that was held just a couple of years ago. that will support tens of thousands of jobs right across the uk . it jobs right across the uk. it will create new growth and new opportunities . opportunities. >> i think rishi looks a bit tired there anyhow. sunak says this is a positive momentum for the uk economy, but the bank of england governor doesn't seem to share his optimism. andrew bailey says britain's growth outlook is quote , the worst he's outlook is quote, the worst he's ever seen . well, joining me now ever seen. well, joining me now is liam halligan, our economics and business editor with on the money . so just when you get some money. so just when you get some good news, liam, 29.5 billion quid's worth of good news andrew bailey comes along regular as

clockwork bank of england governor and pours a cup of cold sick on it . sick on it. >> he's a bit of a christmas grinch, isn't he? i don't think he's going to be the he's going to be on the chancellor's christmas card list or near the top of or certainly not near the top of it. this investment summit it. look, this investment summit , hampton court, just to the west of london, course, it's west of london, of course, it's the third investment summit this is an initiative that began under prime minister boris johnson and it's worth saying a lot of people knock the uk, but we are are well up there in the world. when it comes to attracting what economists call fdi, foreign direct investment. and as the chancellor and the prime minister have been saying today, this investment summit, i wouldn't all that 30 billion wouldn't say all that 30 billion has been attracted today, but they've managed to put together recent investments that add up to 30 billion. and today is the sort of celebration of them. so let's have at some of the let's have a look at some of the numbers the overall numbers here. the overall stock of foreign direct investment at the moment is actually 2700 billion. that's over many years. how much has been invested in the uk? that's £2.7 trillion,

which is getting on for the size of our annual gdp, the overall size of the uk economy in a yeah size of the uk economy in a year. and as i say, we are marching the third in the world when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment. second, behind only america and china, which of course are the world's biggest two economies. and we get more foreign direct investment in this country than france and germany combined . france and germany combined. that foreign direct investment it created, says the government. these are government numbers , these are government numbers, one 112,000 jobs in the uk last yeah one 112,000 jobs in the uk last year. and just think of some of the recent announcements that we've had, and i'm sure these are that 30 billion. are included in that 30 billion. we've had airbus, the huge us aerospace company, they've teamed up with rolls royce, who make world class jet engines doing a big contract for air india. we've had german thoroughbred bmw, they've announced that they're making the mini in cowley. we've had stellantis that french based automotive company in ellesmere

port . i was up automotive company in ellesmere port. i was up there just a month ago. they've announced big investment in a whole range of new evs , including britain's new evs, including britain's most popular ev electric vehicle van and the west country in bridgwater in somerset . tata, bridgwater in somerset. tata, the indian conglomerate . they've the indian conglomerate. they've announced, of course, that they're going to be a gigafactory there , creating gigafactory there, creating those batteries for those electric vehicles. so there's an awful lot of foreign direct investment coming into the uk. martin you might say despite brexit. >> yeah, and that brings me neatly on to the bank of england, because it just seems to be like part of the job description. now, certainly since and now this since mark carney and now this new fella, bailey timing is everything. and just let rishi have a good news day. why did he have a good news day. why did he have it today? have to do it today? >> well, a bit in have to do it today? >> tooth well, a bit in have to do it today? >> tooth these a bit in have to do it today? >> tooth these days.3it in have to do it today? >> tooth these days. martin in have to do it today? >> tooth these days. martin and the tooth these days. martin and i before bank i remember the days before bank of independence of england independence when i became a journalist in early became a journalist in the early 90s. was the 90s. eddie george was the governor, you know, not a household name, but massively respected. and then we had an independent central bank under labour from 1997. we still do , labour from 1997. we still do, and he remained steady. eddie he

wasn't emoting on the telly. he wasn't emoting on the telly. he wasn't sort of giving statements as a running commentary on how the economy was doing . lord the economy was doing. lord mervyn king was the same who was governor until 2013. but i think with mark carney coming in, he was seen as a sort of rock star, central banker for him, being the bank of england governor was a stepping into a career a stepping stone into a career in of international finance in sort of international finance and quangos going on about the environment, which seems to be his main interest. environment, which seems to be his main interest . and now we've his main interest. and now we've got andrew bailey and the bank of england was for most of last year predicting a recession in the which didn't happen. but the uk, which didn't happen. but now the governor to be now the governor seems to be using today day. he was up in the north—east giving a visit and he told a newcastle based newspaper that this is in my lifetime . i'm the worst lifetime. i'm the worst conditions for growth that we've ever seen. now timing is everything. when you're running one of the most important central banks in the world, we've interest rises we've had 14 interest rate rises as the economy really on a as the economy is really on a knife edge. are we going to

avoid recession? is that a huge tax burden that it wasn't given any relief ? the autumn statement any relief? the autumn statement last wednesday , is it still last wednesday, is it still going to crush growth or are we going to crush growth or are we going to crush growth or are we going to get some growth because we've got inward investment, we've got inward investment, we've got inward investment, we've got the new enterprise zones, we've tax cuts. zones, we've got some tax cuts. no knows. it's all no one really knows. it's all about confidence . s and that's about confidence. s and that's why words can often into why words can often turn into reality when it comes to the economy. and certainly there's been some words from the been some strong words from the government investment been some strong words from the governn some investment been some strong words from the governn some less investment been some strong words from the governn some less than nvestment been some strong words from the governnsome less than strongient ant but some less than strong words from the bank of england. governor liam halligan as governor liam halligan superb as even governor liam halligan superb as ever. always rely on a bank >> we can always rely on a bank of england governor to of england governor coin to resurrect thank resurrect project fear. thank you very much. okay. last week dubun you very much. okay. last week dublin experienced its worst violence in decades after three young children and a woman were stabbed in the city centre in broad daylight. 34 people were arrested as police cars, buses and trams were later set alight that evening, while shops were looted and there was widespread damage. and now the mixed martial arts fighter conor mcgregor has got involved. he's

criticised ireland's immigration policy and police are now reportedly investigating mcgregor's posts on social media as part of an inquiry into onune as part of an inquiry into online hate speech. we're now joined by kevin maher, who's an author and a commentator on british and irish politics. kevin, welcome to the show. it's always a pleasure . we spoke last always a pleasure. we spoke last week on this topic about that gruesome in incident in dublin. kevin a lot of people took to the streets and were rightly angry about what had happened. of course, opportunists went too far and then conor mcgregor got involved and he made a particularly interesting comment when he said basically , ali, you when he said basically, ali, you need to our government needs to ensure ireland safe dodi or i will. and now the police are investing , hating him over that. investing, hating him over that. wouldn't the police time be better spent trying to stop people going on a rampage in the first place or controlling ireland's borders ? ireland's borders? >> in short, yes. it would. the

garda siochana and their commissioner , drew harris, are commissioner, drew harris, are under a lot of political pressure. >> pressure. >> he's got to he's got to account to irish politicians tds on wednesday for the for the police failure very widely criticised across irish politics and probably won't make it i suspect it yes i think there's a kind of there's a kind of blaming the wrong the wrong thing here. what's what's going on in ireland is there is enormous concern about the scale of inward migration over the last sort of ten, 15 years, 20% of ireland's home—grown of ireland's resident population is now foreign born. that is a very , very high rate. and there's lots of issues with with particularly in the dublin conurbation area, lots of issues with housing, lots of issues with housing, lots of issues with cost of living and access to public services. so you put all this together and you get a very kind of febrile mix, a very kind of febrile condition in ireland at the moment. and the political class, fianna fail and fine gael, of fine gael, the kind of tweedledum tweedledee of

tweedledum and tweedledee of irish politics that have governed literally since since the 1920s, both in coalition together principally to keep sinn fein out from the 2020 election, basically just allowed this situation to kind of drift and drift and drift. and it's got big ramifications because there's been a lot of social discord around immigration, particularly in the dublin area over the last year or two. and they've just been asleep at the wheel on on all of this. and along comes somebody like conor mcgregor, may be looking to mcgregor, who may be looking to trade kind of mma cage for trade the kind of mma cage for the political one, potentially . the political one, potentially. and we've got an election year likely as well . there's going to likely as well. there's going to be an election by march 2025. so it'll probably come this year. we've also got a president election in ireland in 2025, so who knows, perhaps he's going to throw his hat into the ring on the political front. but but there's a real sort of sense of, i think the irish public have woken up and actually felt , woken up and actually felt, look, we're a hospitable people . look, we're a hospitable people. all we've wanted to take lots of

ukrainians in. we've been quite relaxed about migration and newcomers coming . but three newcomers coming. but three quarters of the irish population are now saying enough's enough . are now saying enough's enough. perhaps we've gone a bit too far down this road. we want our politicians to do something about it and kevin, in the absence of that action, maybe someone like conor mcgregor, who certainly has the profile and the knowledge , the face base, the knowledge, the face base, people who is , and he people know who he is, and he said, i am in the process of arranging, believe me , i'm way arranging, believe me, i'm way more and i have backing. >> there will be change in ireland, mark my words , the ireland, mark my words, the change needed. it wouldn't be the most surprising thing if a boxer got involved in politics. we've seen actors become the president of the usa . president of the usa. >> absolutely. i mean , i suspect >> absolutely. i mean, i suspect conor mcgregor has been doing what he does for quite a while. i must get i mean, eventually you must get sick the knocks and sick of taking the knocks and the you must look the blows and you must look at other career options. i other career options. but i mean, the age of mean, we're in the age of political disruptors. so kind of anything happen. and as i anything can happen. and as i say, you've got a you've got a position where, okay, okay, kevin, afraid we have to

kevin, i'm afraid we have to leave it there. >> trade blows on this >> we could trade blows on this topic night. you for topic all night. thank you for joining us. once again, a reminder of the news we broke a little this hour. qatar little earlier this hour. qatar says the ceasefire between israel been israel and hamas has been extended we'll have extended by two days. we'll have much that after much more on that story after the i'm martin daubney on the break. i'm martin daubney on gb and is

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news loads coming up in the next hour, news loads coming up in the next hour , our top story. the tories hour, our top story. the tories are revolting yet again on immigration. rishi sunak says rwanda is coming in a matter of weeks. james cleverly in the same afternoon , said rwanda is same afternoon, said rwanda is not the be all and end all. meanwhile seven boats get a french escort across the channel into dover. mercy muroki lads . into dover. mercy muroki lads. another calamitous day in immigration for the conservatives . our next story. conservatives. our next story. dramatic extension of the ceasefire in israel , which was ceasefire in israel, which was due to expire at 10:00 tonight, has now been extended for another two days to allow more hostages to be released. and palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange. we'll have the latest on that from charlie peters in the studio with us next up, harry is a fool , said next up, harry is a fool, said king charles, about that netflix series of course, this is the latest dirt being dished out in showbiz end game books. a lot of people might think king charles had a good point . and finally,

had a good point. and finally, nigel downs a pint of testicles. grace dent chickens out another argument about brexit and nigel farage sings rule britannia . it farage sings rule britannia. it can only be the rumble in the jungle. have all the latest from i'm a celebrity . get me out of i'm a celebrity. get me out of here. that's coming up the here. that's coming up in the next hour . and never mind. next hour. and never mind. scobie had the tories got a scooby doo about immigration? it seems they cannot stop falling out about it . turns out that out about it. turns out that suella braverman demanded the £40,000 salary idea . rishi sunak £40,000 salary idea. rishi sunak agreed to it and then dropped it. meanwhile, cleverly is saying a different thing to rishi sunak and none of them can seem to agree what to do about it for the it. is it too late for the tories? are they simply running out time? get in touch all out of time? get in touch all these ways . vaiews@gbnews.com. these ways. vaiews@gbnews.com. but first, here's your news headunes but first, here's your news headlines with polly middlehurst

. martin. >> thank you . good evening to >> thank you. good evening to you. well, our top story tonight , the home secretary has said today the business model of people smugglers will be destroyed he sought to destroyed as he sought to reaffirm the government's commitment to stop illegal migration. james cleverly made the comments as he faced questions in the house of commons for his first time as home secretary. he's been addressing the latest immigration figures , as well as immigration figures, as well as the government's efforts to stop small boat crossings . small boat crossings. >> the people who are being smuggled are seen as just products. they are expendable all in the eyes of those people smugglers. and we have to do everything we can and we will do to break their business model. i commend the work of my right hon. friend the immigration minister, who has recently been to bulgaria , where in close to bulgaria, where in close cooperation with our international partners in bulgaria , we have seized boats. bulgaria, we have seized boats. we have seized engines, we are breaking the business model . breaking the business model. >> james cleverly well, earlier the prime minister said he's

committed to reducing net migration, admitting no, though the numbers are still too high. >> encouraging that the office for national statistics last week did say that the numbers are already slowing, but we need to do more . i've already taken to do more. i've already taken to do more. i've already taken to action tighten the number of dependents that students can bnng dependents that students can bring when they come and study here. we've seen very sharp here. we've seen a very sharp rise in those numbers , and that rise in those numbers, and that measure that i took represents the to the single biggest measure to bnng the single biggest measure to bring down legal migration that anyone's taken. but of anyone's ever taken. but of course, as we need to do more, we will at that and where we will look at that and where there the system, there are abuses of the system, we on that we will, of course, act on that because the levels do need to come they are too high. come down. they are too high. sunak hour, sunak now in the last hour, qatar confirmed a truce qatar has confirmed a truce between israel and the terror group hamas will be extended now for two extra days. >> and here in the uk the government's pledged to help a drive forward of a political process for peace in gaza. it's expected that the fresh agreement will see an exchange of more hostages , ease and of more hostages, ease and prisoners between israel and

hamas. it comes after egypt said this morning it expected 11 israeli hostages to be released today. negotiators actions are ongoing for the release of 33 palestinians so far. hamas is releasing 58 women and children and israel freeing 117 palestinian prisoners . palestinian prisoners. meanwhile, elon musk has voiced his support for israel , telling his support for israel, telling benjamin netanyahu proper ganda that incites murder must be stopped. the tech entrepreneur who's faced some criticism after anti—semitic content appeared on his social media site , has been his social media site, has been touring the kibbutz that was attacked by the hamas terror group on the 7th of october. he now here in the uk, nearly £30 billion is being invested into new projects . s the business new projects. s the business manager and the prime minister told a global summit today there is positive momentum in the economy , particularly in the economy, particularly in the areas of science, tech and the

creative industries, rishi sunak said the uk's low tax approach and culture of innovation give it a competitive advantage . it a competitive advantage. >> edge we are setting about making this the best place in the world to invest and do business. now i'm unashamedly proud of britain and there is a growing momentum right here in the uk right now. don't just take my word for it. pwc survey this year of thousands of global ceos rated the uk the most attractive investment destination in europe . destination in europe. >> now a five year old boy, a british boy, has died after falling into a swimming pool whilst he was on holiday in egypt. keelan logan darren. she's from birmingham , died on she's from birmingham, died on friday whilst he was on a family trip away . he was described by trip away. he was described by family, friends as cheeky, mischievous and a happy little boy, a gofundme page has been set up to help cover the costs

of his return to the uk and the funeral . now the of his return to the uk and the funeral. now the uk's first human case of the h1n2 virus has been detected in the north of england . the strain is currently england. the strain is currently circulating in pigs and the uk health security agency has said the person has now fully recovered after experiencing what they're describing as a fairly mild illness. there is, though, increased surveillance in surgeries and hospitals in northern england as the authorities try to work out the exact source of the infection , exact source of the infection, the mayor of london said today lives could have been saved if he'd been allowed to attend cobra meetings at downing street at the start of the pandemic. sadiq khan was told the covid inquiry that he was kept in the dark by the government and that he'd lobbied the prime minister to go into lockdown. he says he doesn't understand why he, as mayor of london or the greater london authority itself were not ianed london authority itself were not invited to cobra emergency

meetings . an agreement has been meetings. an agreement has been struck between the government and england's top doctors that could bring an end to strike action. officials have agreed to action. officials have agreed to a deal that will see consultant nts receive 4.9, 9.5% investment on pay on top of a 6% pay rise already awarded this year. union members will now vote on the proposal , members will now vote on the proposal, which, if passed, will see strikes called off. while the health secretary , victoria the health secretary, victoria atkins, says she's relieved because the strikes have caused disruption for millions of patients . yes, everybody is patients. yes, everybody is concerned that since december last year, 1.1 million appointments have been rescheduled due to strike action. this is why it was essential that we got to a fair and reasonable settlement with consultants, which we have through this deal. there have been weeks and weeks of work leading up to this point, and i'm extremely grateful not just to the unions, but also to my

predecessor , steve barclay, who predecessor, steve barclay, who helped with many of the important steps along the way . important steps along the way. victoria atkins there. you're with gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying, play gb news. this is britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> thank you very much, polly. now we start with the migrant crisis and rishi sunak has ianed crisis and rishi sunak has invited the best and brightest graduates from around the world to the uk , saying they can stay to the uk, saying they can stay here their families for at here with their families for at least two years. have least two years. let's have a listen . listen. >> but don't have a monopoly >> but we don't have a monopoly on talent in this country, and we recognise that nearly half of our most innovative companies have an immigrant founder. our most innovative companies have an immigrant founder . so if have an immigrant founder. so if you're an innovator , an you're an innovator, an entrepreneur, a researcher , you entrepreneur, a researcher, you should know that the most competitive visa regime for highly skilled international talent is right here in the uk. and let me just give you one

example. all our new high potential individual visa means that if you're a young person who's graduated from a global top 50 university, you can just come to the uk and stay here with your family for two years to just explore your work, study, invent it. nothing like that exists anywhere else in the world. >> but speaking earlier, sunak claimed he's taking action to reduce the number of dependent students can bring to the uk . students can bring to the uk. well, this comes as the pm reported he agreed to raise the salary threshold for migrants to £40,000 from 26,000 as part of a pact with suella braverman amid tory pressures to cut record levels of legal migration. gb news viewers can see pictures of illegal migrants arriving in dover early this morning and they got a french coastguard escort across the channel merci beaucoup, lads. and just yesterday, seven small boats were escorted into british

waters by french coast guards. well, with the tory party in turmoil over migration, both legal and illegal, immigration minister robert jenrick has been asked if he's doing all he can to stop people coming to the uk from other countries . from other countries. >> whilst some of those coming here to claim asylum do have genuine grounds for asylum . many genuine grounds for asylum. many are economic migrants making spunous are economic migrants making spurious claims to game the system . for some nationalities , system. for some nationalities, our grant rates are out of sync with european countries and that's why we've undertaken extensive work to lower them. for example , the grant rate for for example, the grant rate for albanians reduce est from 53% in june of last year to 19% in june of this year , and has fallen of this year, and has fallen further since as this remains unacceptably high. last month we added india and georgia to the list of safe states to speed up the process of returning people who've travelled from those countries to the united kingdom illegally . quite clearly, there illegally. quite clearly, there is more work to be done and we

don't want to create any additional pull factor to the united kingdom . united kingdom. >> i'm going to speak now to nile gardiner, who's a foreign policy analyst and is also the director of the margaret thatcher for freedom at thatcher centre for freedom at the heritage foundation . anne, the heritage foundation. anne, thanks for joining us. the heritage foundation. anne, thanks forjoining us. nile, it's always a pleasure to talk to you . last week we had the to you. last week we had the legal migration figures, eye—watering numbers, 745,000 through the front door, 40 legal, fully stamped, fully approved by this government and absolutely obliterating the 2019 manifesto pledge of the conservative party, which was to reduce overall numbers below 239,000. a lot of people now are going to be starting to think now this government hasn't got a scooby doo , what it's doing and scooby doo, what it's doing and whatever it it can't whatever it says, it can't control the borders. and they've utterly their utterly failed on their manifesto . manifesto pledge. >> martin thanks very much for having me on the show today. and the figures you were describing there absolutely disgraceful. >> they're unacceptable. and a

conservative government should be reducing net migration rather than increasing it. >> and this has to be a top priority, of course, for the conservatives. i have to say , i conservatives. i have to say, i think the removal of suella braverman as home secretary was an absolute disastrous move. suella was determined to, i think, reverse this kind of open borders approach that we've seen. but she was thrown out of out of office. that was a terrible move by by the government. we need to see the conservative government taking some real action here, starting of course, with withdrawal from the european convention on human rights, because nothing can be done. terms done. i think in terms of stopping illegal migration until the actually withdraws from that treaty. and also we have to see a determined effort to reduce the flow of legal migration into the flow of legal migration into the uk. the proposals that suella braverman had were actually very good proposals . actually very good proposals. they should be implemented

immediately and rishi sunak i think on the immigration front there's been too much mixed messaging confusion within the conservative government . that conservative government. that has to change and i think his leadership on the immigration issue has been very poor so far. >> and it's fair to say, rishi, today was extolling the virtues of foreign students who can come to britain and stay for two years after their courses expire. yet the fact of the matter is, nigel, last week we found out 37 378,000 of those student visas were issued, a 58,000 increase plus 96,000 dependents, relatives, wives , dependents, relatives, wives, children and so on and so forth. and 65% of those people remain in the uk once their course expires . that's in the uk once their course expires. that's a in the uk once their course expires . that's a city the size expires. that's a city the size of liverpool . they're coming in of liverpool. they're coming in through the front door and they're being stamped through by this government. i put it to you, nigel, that small boats and stopping illegal immigration, of course, is a pertinent point. but the front door is wide open .

but the front door is wide open. >> yeah, i think , you know, the >> yeah, i think, you know, the government has addressed the issue of both . illegal migration issue of both. illegal migration to the uk, the small boats crisis and the issue of rising legal migration. and i do think it's scandalous that you have hundreds of thousands of dependants of students studying in the uk coming into into british cities and this has to end . i mean, british cities and this has to end. i mean, this this is i think, a completely the wrong direction for the government to be to be taking and with regard to the small boats crisis , put to the small boats crisis, put the royal navy in place to stop the royal navy in place to stop the boats coming send a clear message to the french. it's unacceptable to be sending over large numbers of migrants from french shores over to the uk . french shores over to the uk. have the royal navy put a stop to this, take some real action. my to this, take some real action. my former boss, margaret thatcher, would have put an end to this immediately. she there seems to be a lack of spine, a lack of backbone , frankly, in lack of backbone, frankly, in the british government right

now, including the prime minister's own office. this has to change. a conservative government should control the flow of legal and illegal migration coming into into the uk. this is what a conservative government has pledged to do. it needs to stand by those pledges to the british people . and we to the british people. and we have seen , i think, far too much have seen, i think, far too much weakness and a sheer lack of resolve from the prime minister and from the government at this time. and nigel, briefly, if we could , do you think the tories could, do you think the tories can turn this around now or is this just mission terminated ? this just mission terminated? >> and also on that point, if things are looking bleak under the conservatives , what do you the conservatives, what do you think a future would look like under a keir starmer government ? under a keir starmer government? >> have to say the >> well, i have to say the outlook for conservative outlook for the conservative government extremely grim, government looks extremely grim, according of the polls. according to all of the polls. that's what happens if you don't actually implement conservative policies as a conservative government . your own voters are government. your own voters are desert you. as for labour, of course there'll be ten times

worse . the labour party would worse. the labour party would implement catastrophically bad immigration policies. i would expect the level of illegal migration and legal migration would would double at least under the labour party. there would be an absolute disaster. also, of course they would start to try and dismantle brexit as well . labour would be to try and dismantle brexit as well. labour would be a real threat to britain. the conservatives have got to get their act together and if necessary they need to put a new leader conservative party leader of the conservative party in an in place who can actually win an election . election. >> okay. now gordon, a great thought as director thought to you as ever. director of margaret thatcher centre of the margaret thatcher centre for the heritage for freedom at the heritage foundation us foundation, joining us there live washington , d.c. thank live from washington, dc. thank you very much. now former labour minister europe, denis minister for europe, denis macshane, joined me earlier and he had this to say about sunak and braverman's plans. >> my flavour was ghosted when i read suella. braverman is now calling for £40,000 minimum wage for immigrants. calling for £40,000 minimum wage for immigrants . my god, i. i for immigrants. my god, i. i fought for the minimum wage for

20 years against the tories. when it came in £40,000. i mean, imagine all the pensioners of britain saying, oh , i'm going to britain saying, oh, i'm going to become an immigrant. suella will pay become an immigrant. suella will pay me 40 grand a year. it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous for huge swathes of employers. let's let's just martin, martin and denis . it'll start up cafe. we denis. it'll start up cafe. we can't afford to pay £40,000 to somebody who cleans it and all the time in it. i say we're not training our own people. i mean, i'm representing a working class area . mrs. thatcher abolished area. mrs. thatcher abolished oppress ships that worked quite well. they still work well in germany, the netherlands and france and switzerland, so they can up more french, swiss can trade up more french, swiss germans jobs , slightly germans to do jobs, slightly less on on incoming less reliant on on incoming laboun less reliant on on incoming labour. but we just have abolished all that. you mentioned, i think a welder. you want a good welder , then you're want a good welder, then you're not going to find many brits where you'll find a lot of poles or czechs. but we banished all of those because what rishi has doneis of those because what rishi has done is import up to 962,000 men and women from nigeria,

pakistan, india , the pakistan, india, the philippines, when they're waiting to be trained in portsmouth , in rotherham, in portsmouth, in rotherham, in blackpool . blackpool. >> it's worth pointing out i did probe dennis a few times on what the labour party would do instead, and he didn't give me a satisfactory answer . anyway. you satisfactory answer. anyway. you can get lots more story can get lots more on that story on website thanks to on our website and thanks to you, gbnews.com fastest you, gbnews.com is the fastest growing national news website in the country. it's got breaking news and all the brilliant analysis come expect analysis you've come to expect from gb news. so thank you one and all for making that website such success. now, no one such a huge success. now, no one has yet followed the uk's lead and european union . but and left the european union. but there's no doubt that across the continent people sick and continent people are sick and tired of the eu. europe is revolting . i'm martin daubney on revolting. i'm martin daubney on gb news. this is britain's news channel.

&co & co weeknights from six earlier with eamonn and isabel, the 17 hostages who were held by hamas were released yesterday . were released yesterday. >> your voice, your voice , it's >> your voice, your voice, it's just every time we play that video of emily hand being embraced safely, there it makes me tear up. >> it was a great person , a >> it was a great person, a great character. footballers love players love to play. for him, it was great fun, but also an amazing football coach. so so forward thinking. great football ideas, you know, special person . ideas, you know, special person. >> you should take a cornflakes box and you cut it up and you can turn it round, you make it

and you should make stuff. >> you can make . >> you can make. >> you can make. >> what do you what did you what's true breakfast with eamonn and isabel monday to thursday from 6 am. >> welcome back. it's 523. you're watching or listening to me? martin daubney on gb news. now, in a few minutes, i'll get an expert's view on why so many people on the continent are getting sick and tired of the european union. what took them so long and finding out what nigel getting up nigel farage has been getting up to. jungle, to. of course. in the jungle, another down under. now another rumble down under. now as we've been discussing, qatar has confirmed that the humanitarian truce in gaza has been extended by two additional days to allow for more hostages and prisoners to be released. the deal will reportedly see the release of 20 additional israelis and 60 palestinian prisoners . well, for the latest prisoners. well, for the latest on this now, i'm joined in our studio by reporter charlie lee peters. charlie, this story has been breaking over the last

couple of hours. what's the latest hamas have latest information hamas have said last ten minutes said in the last ten minutes that the palestinians set to be released by the israelis tonight include three female minors and 30 male children as well. >> so it's 33 expected to be released in just breaking in the last ten minutes, according to hamas. and it's anticipated that the israelis will receive ten hostages in exchange . that was hostages in exchange. that was their demand earlier today. we're also getting some preliminary details from reports from israel on who some of those palestine libyan released prisoners are. one of them is reportedly 16 year old nafud ahmed. now, two years ago, she was in prison for 12 years and fined 50,000 shekels after she was convicted of attempting to murder her israeli neighbour with a knife. so, again, we were talking earlier about some of the low level offence . she's the low level offence. she's being released. i think we're now moving into the sort of the medium tier of prisoner. now we're at people , we're looking at people,

attempted murderers, people who are israelis. so are trying to kill israelis. so they're stepping it a notch they're stepping it up a notch in kind of prisoner in terms of the kind of prisoner they're in exchange they're releasing in exchange for those hostages . so that's for those hostages. so that's one the women that's one of the women that's reportedly released tonight. >> guess that's the kind >> and i guess that's the kind of horse trading they have to do to get the result. they want to free and children, free those women and children, the hamas free those women and children, the those hamas free those women and children, the those on hamas free those women and children, the those on the hamas free those women and children, the those on the ground hamas free those women and children, the those on the ground tunnels.s and those on the ground tunnels. they're release some they're having to release some people who could no doubt go on to be a future terror threat to israel as well. >> israelis will say that >> the israelis will say that they terror threats. they are ongoing terror threats. these threats these people, they are threats are being released are immediately being released back into the control of hamas. and of course , their mission is and of course, their mission is to continue the destruction of that terror organisation . an but that terror organisation. an but i think even the israelis know that's such an ambition is going to be near impossible to achieve if hamas can just blend back into the civilian population and many of those terrorists that they're releasing , convicted they're releasing, convicted terrorists, we should stress , terrorists, we should stress, will undoubtedly return to the same strategy . erg we've also same strategy. erg we've also heard reports in the last hour that the palestinian side ,

that the palestinian side, hamas, have been struggling to locate many of the hostages that they're trying to offer back to they're trying to offer back to the israelis, the numbers of women and children reportedly being held by hamas fluctuating quite rapidly today. and it's understood that they're kept throughout the gaza strip . it's throughout the gaza strip. it's unknown, obviously, precisely their whereabouts , if they knew their whereabouts, if they knew their whereabouts, if they knew the israelis would be there and, you know, double time with you know, in double time with their special forces. but so they're still gathering people. and that's potentially why it's ten at a time as they seek to get many women and children get as many women and children back into in exchange for back into israel in exchange for those delay the those prisoners to delay the next of the military operation. >> great stuff. charlie peters, thank you for bringing us fully >> great stuff. charlie peters, thank speed.�* bringing us fully >> great stuff. charlie peters, thank speed. excellent us fully up to speed. excellent stuff. okay than seven years okay it's more than seven years since to the since the uk voted to leave the european union. and while no other country has yet for other country has yet voted for their of brexit, there their own form of brexit, there is growing anger with the eu across continent . just last across the continent. just last week, the dutch election was won by the populist party for freedom , whose leader geert freedom, whose leader geert wilders wants a referendum on whether country should leave whether his country should leave the . and in the wake of the

the eu. and in the wake of the dutch result, italy's deputy prime minister declared that a new europe is possible. well let's speak now to former brexit party mep and chief whip brian monteith for his thoughts on this. brian good afternoon to you, captain. always a pleasure. europe is revolting , it seems. europe is revolting, it seems. the seeds of brexit are being planted elsewhere and we're seeing eurosceptic movements resurgent now in holland , in resurgent now in holland, in netherlands, sorry, in italy and in france. do you think we could be in for another brexit partner i >> -- >> i'm not convinced yet that any country is going to rush to have a referendum , but i do have a referendum, but i do think that the trend of growing euroscepticism is going to continue and it's going to be dnven continue and it's going to be driven by two things. >> one is the endless increase in immigration action, and that's legal immigration, not especially just illegal immigration. but secondly,

what's going unnoticed is, in fact , how much the eu itself is fact, how much the eu itself is changing. and just last week the european parliament voted to actually make it more federal to change the way laws are introduced and to stop nation states having the ability to block new laws . so we're going block new laws. so we're going to see more tension as the eu pulls itself apart in different ways. >> and brian, it's fascinating thing to see what's happening in germany . germany thing to see what's happening in germany. germany has just done some independent border control deals with neighbouring countries poland, the czech republic, austria and switzerland. they've dramatically beefed up security checks on their borders . this checks on their borders. this was hugely resisted by the politicians within germany, but it's gone through and guess what? the numbers of illegal immigrants getting into germany has plummeted. it's gone down to 300 from 700 every single day. so once again, brian , when it

so once again, brian, when it comes to border control, nigel farage led the way. now, the germans of all people are following suit. and yet the political classes in their ignorance still resist that . ignorance still resist that. >> yes, we saw this also during the covid pandemic. the idea that the eu would be the saviour of europe when in fact we got into great difficulties as the threats from covid rose and people needed and all sorts of restrictions, suddenly started being brought in by nation states, the idea that the eu can do everything for the countries that are its members and take decisions for them is immediately rejected when countries are actually under real pressure and the countries are under real pressure on immigration. and so that's why they seek to do deals. but the truth is , is that where people truth is, is that where people are feeling the pressure from immigration is actually in issues like housing. and there's

a particular problem in housing in the netherlands and in the repubuc in the netherlands and in the republic of ireland. and that's why the immigration exacerbate , why the immigration exacerbate, that's the tensions and can lead to scenes of violence because people feel that nobody is listening to them and they want change and do you think briefly there will be another vote at there will be another vote at the moment? >> quickly italexit the italians, their favourites at 7 to 1. don't forget meloni is just in a bespoke deal with albania to have offshore containment of illegals in albania. so the appetite seems to be bubbling up. brian well, there is some sense that if deals are done , alleviate deals are done, alleviate pressure, then, then the idea of having other countries leaving the eu will recede. >> i still think that the greatest threat to the eu in the medium to long term is in fact what happens in france and how successful marine le pen might be in the next presidential

elections. that's the one to watch. i think if a big country, a big member like france were to have a referendum, then you could see the eu broken into a fantastic brian monteith, former brexit party mep, chief whip and columnist for the scotsman. >> thank you very much for joining me on the show. always a pleasure. well, there's lots more to come still between now and 6:00. i'll tell you why. king charles apparently branded prince harry fool , and he prince harry that fool, and he might have a point. but first, there's your latest news headunes there's your latest news headlines middlehurst headlines with polly middlehurst i >> -- >> martin, thank you . well, our >> martin, thank you. well, our top story today, the home secretary says the business model of people smuggling gangs will be destroyed. that as he seeks to reaffirm the government's position to stop illegal migration. james cleverly made the comments today as he faced questions in the house of commons for his first time as home secretary. he's

addressed the latest migration figures, as well as the government's efforts to stop small boats crossings . small boats crossings. >> the people who are being smuggled are seen as just products. they are expendable in the eyes of those people smugglers. we have to do everything we can and we will do to break their business model. i commend the work of my right hon. friend the immigration minister, who has recently been to bulgaria, where in close cooperation with our international partners in bulgaria, we have seized boats, we have seized engines , and we we have seized engines, and we are breaking the business model . are breaking the business model. >> well, qatar has confirmed a truce between israel and the hamas terror group will be extended now for two days here in the uk. the new government has pledged to drive forward a new political process for peace in gaza . and it's expected that

in gaza. and it's expected that that fresh agreement will see an exchange of more hostages and prisoners between israel and hamas . that likely to happen hamas. that likely to happen today. hamas. that likely to happen today . it comes as egypt said it today. it comes as egypt said it expects 11 israeli hostages to be released today and negotiations are ongoing for the release of 33 palestinians so far , hamas has released 58 women far, hamas has released 58 women and children , and israel has and children, and israel has freed 117 prisoners . now nearly freed 117 prisoners. now nearly £30 billion are being invested in new projects in the uk. the prime minister has been talking at a global summit , saying at a global summit, saying there's positive momentum in the economy, particularly in the areas of science, tech and creative industries . rishi sunak creative industries. rishi sunak says the low tax approach and culture of innovation in the uk give it a competitive advantage . give it a competitive advantage. and the uk's first case of a new strain of swine flu has been

detected and the uk's health security agency says the person contracted what's known as the h. one and two strain. and that's similar to a virus found in pigs . they have since fully in pigs. they have since fully recovered after experiencing a mild illness. there's increased surveillance and surveillance now in surgeries and hospitals in the north of the england. as the individual involved was from nonh the individual involved was from north yorkshire . as the north yorkshire. as the authorities try to work out exactly where the source of that infection came from , i'm those infection came from, i'm those are the headlines. more on our website gbnews.com . for website gb news.com. for website gbnews.com. for a valuable legacy your family can own gold coins will always shine bright. >> rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial

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the queue. 17.4 million people would have liked to have bought that pint. i did it. and in the jungle, nigel was downing pints of blended animal bits, including testicles and alligators, feet and that was amazing. and now for grace, dent has chickened out. she looks a bit malnourished in fact, it looked like she had less meat on her than one of those crocodile feet. we've got all that coming up later in the hour. but before before that . more now the before that. more now from the book that criticises pretty much every member of the royal family except harry and meghan . funny except harry and meghan. funny of that. now, omid scobie claims king charles called harry that fool after the prince's comments in a netflix documentary , scobie in a netflix documentary, scobie writes in his book end game, which is being released tomorrow, that the king didn't want people to talk about his son. but after harry made various allegations about the royals, charles refers to him as that fool . and it comes as that fool. and it comes as scobie reveals on good morning america that he knows the

identities of the senior royals who made comments about prince prince archie's skin colour . prince archie's skin colour. >> do you know who made the comment about archie's skin colour? >> the names were mentioned in letters between meghan and charles that were exchanged some time after the oprah interview. >> we know from sources that charles was horrified that that's how meghan those that's how meghan felt those conversations were and that he wanted to sort of as a representative the family , representative of the family, have that conversation with her. and i personally think and it's why i personally think that they have been able to move forward with some kind of line of communication afterwards, though, may not see eye to though, they may not see eye to eye it makes you wonder if eye on it makes you wonder if any of it's true. >> do you believe any of it? because, i mean, let's face it, they can say what they like about the royal family. they're not to respond and dignify not going to respond and dignify it credit reply, it with with a credit reply, scobie has made a fortune off of this tittle tattle, and now he's finally turned his guns on harry. and about time he is basically the sussexes chief pr

he's been having a pop at everybody is cause huge damage to the royal family something it's completely unforgivable particularly when the late queen was still alive. and yet here he is finally calling harry that fool. but even then , he's having fool. but even then, he's having a go at charles and charles has got a good point, hasn't he? you know, he was saying some terribly things terribly damaging things during that documentary . and that netflix documentary. and people are justifiably fed up about it . now people are justifiably fed up about it. now to people are justifiably fed up about it . now to give people are justifiably fed up about it. now to give his thoughts on this story now as royal commentator richard fitzwilliams. richard, thank you for joining us on the show. thanks for coming on to gb news. so here we go. here we are once again. in the end, game is constant rolling on. will there be anything left that we haven't heard by the time the book comes out ? out? >> well, i think the important thing as we await the public version of this book, i would add that the new york times have reviewed it and think it's pretty awful. >> it's well worth just remembering that omid scobie , a

remembering that omid scobie, a journalist who purports to know about the royal family, is someone who is a dreadful dread , someone who is a dreadful dread, awful writer. so what you're going to do with this book, as you did in finding freedom, which is about how harry and meghan found freedom by leaving the royal family >> what you're going to do is to wade through the most awful prose . prose. >> we know that regarding what else he says, yes, there have been some particularly nasty extracts that i've been reading. we hear how king charles is envious of his sons . envious of his sons. >> we hear, for example , that >> we hear, for example, that catherine, the princess of wales , shivers whenever she hears meghan's name. there was an extra that was leaked to people magazine in which was saying how harry had so late regarding the

queen's last illness and the whole thing. it seems to me to be perfectly poisoned , but it's be perfectly poisoned, but it's fair to say that there seems to be an appetite for it. >> spare was an international bestseller. it seems that the market for tittle tattle is global and is substantial. it's made omid scobie absolutely minted. so it seems people like this, i just can't for the life of me understand how there's anything left in this book. i mean , it's been in the press mean, it's been in the press globally for absolutely weeks now . how. >> now. >> well, they've had extracts, but the point , of course, is how but the point, of course, is how many people will buy the book, but also how much he'll get paid for promoting the book. >> and the fact is, obviously , >> and the fact is, obviously, he he finding freedom . he he finding freedom. >> we did find out through a court case which meghan brought against the mail on sunday, that that the sussexes had cooperated this point is a fact. >> she had a brief denied with

reference to finding freedom . reference to finding freedom. and harry was also quoted as saying that he hoped that their cooperation with it remained in the background . so far as this the background. so far as this bookis the background. so far as this book is concerned , the sussexes book is concerned, the sussexes say they had nothing to do with it, and scobie, who apparently, according to the new york times, has a complete chat in the book which says that the sussexes everything that goes sends mean what you've got is a very negative and cruel portrait of the princess of wales. i mean, i think that the quotes that we've seen emphasise the fact that this is supposed to be a book about an institution that is dying . omid scobie said it would dying. omid scobie said it would be happy to make money out of it. of course, whilst this is happening, it could rescue itself, but it's in a dreadful state. what will discover obviously , is a portrait of obviously, is a portrait of events that very clearly will be very, very, very sympathetic to

the sussexes the new york times had a lot of fun about the chapter dealing with them and the chapter dealing with catherine is apparent and pretty cruel. she's human because he's seen her in fits of giggles, this sort of thing. seen her in fits of giggles, this sort of thing . but it's this sort of thing. but it's this sort of thing. but it's this level that i think makes scobie somewhat of a loathsome puffball . scobie somewhat of a loathsome puffball. he's scobie somewhat of a loathsome puffball . he's deliberately puffball. he's deliberately trying to make his a megabucks out of tittle tattle gossip and innuendo. and if it's anything like finding freedom that had no index and it wasn't sourced so you couldn't verify anything that was there. >> and richard , briefly, if we >> and richard, briefly, if we could, one of the most damaging revelations is this speculation about the skin colour of archie and scobie's going there with that, isn't he? he said he knows who said it and he's going to name them. and these are the most serious and damaging allegations towards the allegations of all towards the

royal family would have made the late queen ashamed . late queen ashamed. >> are they are, as you say . but >> are they are, as you say. but of course, it's worth remembering that harry then changed the accusations of racism to unconscious bias. and so you must ask yourself why scobie is bringing this issue up and the only reason is, quite frankly , it's this is pure frankly, it's this is pure nastiness. an institution needs to learn and move on the facts are, however, that scobie is simply seeking sensation. that's what the book should be called. >> okay. well it's a snappy title. royal commentator richard fitzwilliams, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you much for show. thank you very much for joining us. now, nigel farage has been in the jungle for more than a week . has been in the jungle for more than a week. i'm going to bring you with how many of you up to date with how many of my colleagues is getting my gb news colleagues is getting on. martin daubney on gb on. i'm martin daubney on gb news. and this is britain's news channel.

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martin daubney here on gb news. now to the latest heat of political debate on i'm a celebrity and nigel farage has come under fire yet again over his views . let's take come under fire yet again over his views. let's take a come under fire yet again over his views . let's take a look at his views. let's take a look at when nigel and fellow campmate fred sirieix clashed on last night's show . night's show. >> what's the three benefits of brexit? >> self—government , which we >> self—government, which we already had . we did not have. already had. we did not have. >> okay , fred. >> okay, fred. >> okay, fred. >> there's no point if you believe that. >> if you believe that you don't understand what the european union is. understand what the european uniso is. understand what the european uniso what was second >> so what was the second benefit? hopefully take back our >> well, hopefully take back our territorial >> well, hopefully take back our terrbut al >> well, hopefully take back our terrbut when i'm talking about >> but when i'm talking about benefits, about benefits, i'm talking about something all right. something tangible. all right. >> nuclear submarine >> the nuclear submarine deal with australia could not have been european union been done as a european union member france already been done as a european union menaer france already been done as a european union mena contract. france already had a contract. >> as. >> simple as. >> simple as. >> but we could have done it with france. >> made laugh . >> that made me laugh. >> that made me laugh. >> in fact, the french were really pissed off about that. >> of course they were good. >> of course they were good. >> a lot of people in life are persuadable. >> fred sirieix is not one of them, but the point about it is we can make a mess of it ourselves choose to, and ourselves if we choose to, and

that and that's what we are doing. >> and i've always argued that. >> and i've always argued that. >> argued that what >> i've always argued that what do they do it? >> you know, seen nigel do >> you know, i've seen nigel do it in real life dancing rings around clowns fred , not around clowns like fred, not hope of ever winning hope in hell of ever winning a debate about brexit with nigel farage, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. when it comes to the b—word, got battered . well, b—word, fred got battered. well, joining me now to discuss this is showbiz reporter steph . is showbiz reporter steph. steph, it wouldn't be the show without an argument about brexit, but why do they keep going back for more? they can't land a glove on farage. >> well, martin, as i told you last week, nigel is going to be the brexit punch bag when it comes to i'm a celebrity me. >> you know, celebrities such as fred sirieix, who is a keen remainer, he's looking for someone to blame about brexit and clearly it's going to be nigel, who rarely should politics and reality shows ever mix . but that is politics and reality shows ever mix. but that is what happens when you have politicians on shows such as i'm a celebrity,

get me out of here. you're going to get a lot of the luvvies martin as i like to describe them, who are angry about brexit, who are angry about immigration, as we saw last week with nyla rose. so they are going to be always putting forward disbelief and forward their disbelief and shock about what's happening towards someone like nigel. but the thing is, they keep on losing. facts losing. nigel has the facts here. you know, yesterday fred wanted to say, you know, the nhs was due to get £350 million a week, which then nigel came back and said actually spending is up is actually £500 billion a week. so this is all working in nigel's favour because he is an intelligent man, especially when it comes to brexit. yeah >> and fred, just turning into that remainer ball that we've all been cornered by in, in a pub, but he just simply needs to understand that you are dealing with a force of nature . if you with a force of nature. if you go after nigel about the b—word, you're going to get battered . you're going to get battered. but we've seen the first casualty in the jungle. grace dent, the food critic. she's chickened out. >> yeah , she was looking very

>> yeah, she was looking very unwell. martin over the past two episodes, you know, she didn't look herself. she's been put up for the bushtucker trials on the touchdown trial of terror. they had to get a medic who had to come to the camp and syringe her ear full of critters that had managed to get in there. so, you know, a lot of people for our entertainment were looking at these put these celebrities being put through challenges. through their challenges. but it's almost like squid game. and, know, they're their and, you know, they're their health be affected by some health can be affected by some of these challenges. and i think she's just had enough of it. you know, do more than the know, once they do more than the three camp, are three days in the camp, they are still get that get that still going to get that get that paycheque i wouldn't paycheque. so i wouldn't be surprised other surprised if there's other celebrities had enough surprised if there's other celewants had enough surprised if there's other celewant to had enough surprised if there's other celewant to walk had enough surprised if there's other celewant to walk out! enough surprised if there's other celewant to walk out .enough surprised if there's other celewant to walk out . we ugh surprised if there's other celewant to walk out . we see it and want to walk out. we see it each . there is always each year. there is always someone who's had enough after a week. quite challenging week. it is quite challenging and they still get that paycheque . paycheque. >> you know, i don't understand how you can all way to how you can go all the way to the jungle and then say, oh, the food isn't very good, oh, i'm not getting a very good night's sleep. oh, i miss my family. what that didn't you see

what part of that didn't you see coming ? coming? >> you know, but that's the thing, martin. they signed for this. they get they get paid after doing the first three days. so after the first three days, they know that they get paid to show up. and paid regardless to show up. and that's all they've had to endure . problem is . but i think the problem is with someone like grace dent, she's specify diet. she's got a very specify diet. she's critic , so she's she's a food critic, so she's used to having the creme de la creme of food. and don't think creme of food. and i don't think she expecting the public she was expecting the public to sign so many sign her up for so many bushtucker trials. so she's a paid woman regardless . so if she paid woman regardless. so if she wants to leave now, she's still going to get paid. >> okay, steph takyi, thank you very much for bringing us up to speed. in speed. and i'm joined now in studio in studio by michelle dewberry in her faster stripes. her go faster stripes. >> hello my go faster >> hello yes my go faster stripes. i used to have this tiny little car. my second car was going to say a fast car, but it was my second car and it was like a chick centre. you remember those tiny little things. to have things. and it used to have these go stripes down the these go faster stripes down the side i thought i was cool side and i thought i was so cool . dressed like . anyway, i'm not dressed like my and i've got my second cat. and i've got to say , more like a liquorice

say, more like a liquorice allsorts. yeah. good allsorts. yeah yeah. good thoughts. also confess i've thoughts. i also confess i've jumped the bandwagon now i'm jumped off the bandwagon now i'm no watching. or at least no longer watching. or at least i wasn't. as of last night. i'm a now because a celeb now because it's christmas now. my christmas movie season now. my trees up early. i've gone early. i've decided i want a little bit of christmas festivity. so it was alone. it's way too was home alone. now it's way too early to plug back what's early to plug back in. what's way to get your tree 7 up. up? >> i thought the 1st of december. least know, december. at least i know, but i'm all the and i'm fed up with all the doom and gloom in the world. >> with all the >> i'm so fed up with all the negativity going that negativity that's going on that i've want bit i've just decided i want a bit of cheer in my life. so of festive cheer in my life. so you better than you know what's better than putting the lights on, putting all the lights on, all the getting involved , the twinkles getting involved, feeling upbeat, beautiful i >> -- >> got a quick minute to let us know what's coming your know what's coming up on your menu your tonight. menu on your show tonight. >> well, not my >> oh, yes. well, not my christmas no christmas tree. there'll be no pictures and i've christmas tree. there'll be no picttoes and i've christmas tree. there'll be no pictto say, and i've christmas tree. there'll be no pictto say, but and i've christmas tree. there'll be no pictto say, but i and i've christmas tree. there'll be no pictto say, but i do and i've christmas tree. there'll be no pictto say, but i do wantd i've christmas tree. there'll be no pictto say, but i do want to 've got to say, but i do want to talk about immigration. suella bravermans and bravermans four point plan. and james words james cleverly is his words today well . schoolkids when today as well. schoolkids when your teachers are going on strike because you're being frightened by frightened of being abused by your a simple your kids, i'm asking a simple question kids not being question are kids not being taught to respect authority in

this and not, why this country? and if not, why not? also, should we charge people if they miss their gp appointments? how that appointments? how would that look you get the look like? how would you get the cash? would that cash go to? cash? who would that cash go to? and more to get and lots more as well to get stuck into . stuck into. >> sounds fantastic. talk about respect going down the road. two kids tried to me on my way kids tried to mug me on my way home on friday night. do you know kicked and know what? they kicked me and they bounced off little shrimps. they taste nottingham they bounced off little shrimps. thywell. taste nottingham they bounced off little shrimps. thywell. thanke nottingham they bounced off little shrimps. thywell. thank you nottingham they bounced off little shrimps. thywell. thank you nott much.| as well. thank you very much. coming writes coming up, dewbs& co writes after the break. see you after the break. i'll see you tomorrow. three till did tomorrow. three till six. did they really? >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> afternoon. i'm alex deakin. this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. staying cold throughout this week. frosty mornings. sunny by day. but there is the possibility of a little bit of snow later this week. mostly rain showers that we've been seeing more of them to seeing today. more of them to come evening overnight come this evening and overnight across northern england and eastern elsewhere , many eastern england, elsewhere, many places and clear and places will be dry and clear and it will turn cold, especially over central and southern scotland . the showers returning scotland. the showers returning to northern scotland . we'll have to northern scotland. we'll have some only really over some snow, but only really over the the hills in the

the tops of the hills in the south with many places just about above freezing. south with many places just ab0|still above freezing. south with many places just ab0|still a above freezing. south with many places just ab0|still a cold bove freezing. south with many places just ab0|still a cold startfreezing. south with many places just ab0|still a cold start to ezing. but still a cold start to tuesday . patchy cloud over the tuesday. patchy cloud over the midlands wales 1 or 2 scattered showers here, but that should tend to melt away . we'll see tend to melt away. we'll see more showers coming into northeastern scotland and by the end of the day we could easily be seeing some sleet and snow even to low levels here. for many, though, it will brighten up bit sunshine many, though, it will brighten up offer bit sunshine many, though, it will brighten up offer for bit sunshine many, though, it will brighten up offer for tuesday sunshine many, though, it will brighten up offer for tuesday afternoon. and offer for tuesday afternoon. temperatures, , struggling temperatures, though, struggling 4 to 6, seven, maybe 8 or 9 across the south—west. but feeling the wind feeling colder with the wind again north—east, feeling colder with the wind againcolder north—east, feeling colder with the wind againcolder on north—east, feeling colder with the wind againcolder on wednesday,:, feeling colder with the wind againcolder on wednesday, a more even colder on wednesday, a more extensive frost to start the day and the showers coming into northern scotland. northern and eastern scotland. and along the east coast of england. we'll have a wintry flavour them . so some sleet flavour to them. so some sleet and in places. the odd and snow in places. the odd rain shower south—west, but shower in the south—west, but again, places dry and sunny again, many places dry and sunny . later this week, however, it stays cold. but as this low pushes up from the south—west, there is the possibility to see a of snow around. so stay a bit of snow around. so stay tuned to the forecast over the next days

many cancelled . what do you make many cancelled. what do you make to this? is this just one of those things or is it time to charge people if indeed they cannot make or do not make their appointments and get this, everybody right. teachers as a school have gone on strike. no, it's not because of money or anything like that. instead, it's because they are being abused their pupils. yeah, abused by their pupils. yeah, you heard that right. i'm asking you heard that right. i'm asking you tonight, our kids being raised to respect authority . raised to respect authority. indeed. i've got all of that to come in the next hour. but before we get stuck in, let's cross live for tonight's latest headunes cross live for tonight's latest headlines with polly middlehurst