you for your company were leading this morning on the news of another royal development, a major security breach at the london clinic, as a member of staff has been accused of snooping on the princess of wales's medical records . wales's medical records. >> trump hits out at nato nigel farage has sat down with donald trump in an exclusive interview. >> how can you defend you if you're not paying your bills?

we're not going to defend you. it's very simple . it's very simple. >> at 7:00 this morning, we're expecting the latest inflation figures, with economists predicting we should be seeing a drop . drop. >> a smoke free generation. today, the government will introduce a new bill aimed at banning children aged 15 and younger from being sold tobacco products. we'll be talking to the government about that shortly . shortly. >> i wanted to thank you very much. i was scrupulously polite because i thought silly to be too rude at that stage. again and we have a fairly low key . and we have a fairly low key. >> and today marks the 50th anniversary of the failed kidnapping of princess anne along the mall. we'll be looking at that event and how royal security has changed. >> and in the sport this morning, gareth southgate calls up an 18 year old to the senior england squad, a world rugby wants lots of rule changes to make the game more popular , and

make the game more popular, and jon rahm has revealed his champions dinner menu for the masters. hopefully they like a lot of spanish food , a bit of lot of spanish food, a bit of a dull and damp one for many of us today. >> there will be some sunshine for northern ireland and western scotland, and another pretty mild day across the south—east. join for a full join me later for a full forecast . forecast. >> well, here's one to get our knickers in a twist tonight. this morning, another day. and what's deemed to be more headache for the royal family. the headlines scream out kate's medical record security breach. so this has been investigated at the london clinic. the london clinic is the hospital where the princess of wales underwent her surgery in january . yeah. surgery in january. yeah. >> hospital bosses are now looking into claims a member of staff was caught trying to access her private medical details . a senior hospital details. a senior hospital bosses have spoken to kensington palace about the potential breach. >> joining us now, royal, an

entertainment reporter for the sunday mirror, sarah robertson, sarah, morning to you. >> morning, eamonn . morning, isabel. >> good morning. well, sarah, i, i look at this and i think, what is the fuss? it's a hospital , is the fuss? it's a hospital, surely anybody is entitled to look at anything going . look at anything going. >> well you say that, eamonn, but we're talking about the future queen here, the princess of wales. and from the very start, everything surrounding kate's medical diagnosis has been shrouded in secrecy, which is, as we've seen, has blown out of all proportion. this last few weeks with people wanting to know what's actually wrong with her when she disappeared for so long. but it turns out that a member of staff was caught snooping and trying to access information on the princess. so this shows just how tight they have been in terms of, the secrecy surrounding kate and why she was in hospital, what

operations she was having. that must have been just the smallest , tiniest amount of staff that would have had those details going to hand. so someone , going to hand. so someone, somewhere has been trying to find out more information and they were caught doing so, which is actually a criminal offence . is actually a criminal offence. so if they were trying to find out that information with which to sell it on and to use in, in other ways, because at the end of the day, you're patient confidentiality eamonn, as you know, is, is, to give that away is against the law. you know, doctors take a hippocratic oath, but when, when they pass on doctors and to, to sell that on or to give away someone's medical private medical information, confidential medical information without their say so is against the law. yeah. so it looks like the law could have been broken. now, metropolitan police, as of yet haven't yet responded to what's gone on. they've not said if

they've launched a probe, if they're looking into this, but they're looking into this, but the are as you've the police are aware, as you've reported, it's a very, very reported, and it's a very, very serious breach of trust. and that prides itself on that hospital prides itself on having that level of trust in terms of the high profile people that come through its doors. yeah >> the privacy watchdog have been informed the information commissioner's office have launched an investigation into this. you point out, criminal this. as you point out, criminal activity. this is a hospital, though favorited by i think it was prince philip who was who was prince philip who was who was often treated there. but the king is still having his cancer treatment through the london clinic. so how much of a problem is this for the reputation of the and do you think the hospital? and do you think that royals might think that the royals might think twice it in the future? >> well, as i've just said, yes, of course you you would be worried if it was somewhere that you had chosen because you thought that your information would be sacrosanct and be safe, and that no one would be able to access it. you would be very cautious and very alarmed indeed

to think that actually this could be falling into the wrong hands. it just you would question it safely and, and privacy and make make makes you think twice. do i actually want to go and spend money to go and go and stay there. so king charles i mean he said he said he's got cancer. he's fighting cancer again. he hasn't said what kind of cancer he's fighting. and it's just very dubious that someone in this clinic is trying to obtain this level of information. and we've also seen a lot of stuff has been coming out in the foreign media about kate's condition. they've printed allegations that we've never said here. and it makes me wonder , does that come makes me wonder, does that come from from what's been going on now within the clinic? has it been a leak from within the clinic? >> do you know more than you have revealed so far? for instance , i'm not saying any instance, i'm not saying any more than what i said on on air

eamonn , i'm afraid, but look, eamonn, i'm afraid, but look, it's been a very, very, very strange few weeks. i i was on your colleagues patrick christys show last week, and i said the way that this has been handled from the very start by kensington palace. >> so, so it's been a very fact that the hospital has, has approached palace. approached kensington palace. does is someone does that mean there is someone out there who is peddling this information ? information? >> then i would hazard a guess. yes the fact that the hospital themselves are the ones to alert this shows that we have to take this shows that we have to take this very, very seriously indeed and that there has been a serious breach of patient confidentiality involving our princess of wales . and that's princess of wales. and that's worrying, especially in the times that we're living in with misinformation flying around and we've seen the power of conspiracy theories on the internet , how they can take hold internet, how they can take hold the wrong information in the

wrong hands is frightening when it comes to high level british pubuc it comes to high level british public figures such as the prince of wales. >> sarah, would you recommend that she should come clean about whatever is wrong with her? because the longer she doesn't, it builds this up into something that it hopefully is not. but it seems to be more serious if she doesn't talk about it . doesn't talk about it. >> well, again, that's what's led ehm into these conspiracy theories taken hold, because there was just this tiny, tiny, tiny little bit of information given at the beginning, which was that she had an abdominal surgery . and from that moment, surgery. and from that moment, the word abdominal surgery , the the word abdominal surgery, the internet just ran rife with all sorts of craziness, people saying that she was having tummy tucks, facelifts bbls i'm not going to go into what that is the most ridiculous claims , all the most ridiculous claims, all the most ridiculous claims, all the way to the really, really insidious stuff that's been going around to say that she was, dead . so this is and that's

was, dead. so this is and that's why they were asking for proof of life to actually see the princess of wales. so this is the level that we've been talking, dealing with and, and again, as i said from the very start, it's been mishandled . the start, it's been mishandled. the queen was very reticent. she always said that royal family medical diagnosis should have been made public. king charles went in and said that he had cancen went in and said that he had cancer. and so because he was honest about it, and because queen camilla, when she had a hysterectomy, was honest about having a hysterectomy, that's what led to so much turmoil going on. and just this, this roar of mrna flying through the airwaves. >> and we can all bet our lives, frankly, that the princess of wales wanted to keep this private for whatever reason. and the fact that somebody has been snooping at her private records will only add insult to injury, and what's already been a very difficult few weeks for her majesty. we have to say goodbye to you, sarah robertson. for now. thank you. royal and entertainment reporter, the sunday very much.

sunday mirror. thanks very much. >> you. and the time, >> thank you. and the time, 6:09. former american president donald trump would keep the united states in nato if european countries stumped up their fair share of the bills. >> yes. this follows comments that he made last month saying he would encourage russia to attack any nato country that failed to meet the alliance's 2% of gdp. defence spending target. let's take a listen to exactly what he said . what he said. >> yeah, but you know, the united states should pay its fair share. not everybody else's fair share. not everybody else's fair share. not fair enough . i fair share. not fair enough. i believe the united states was paying believe the united states was paying 90% of nato. the cost of nato could be 100. it was the most unfair thing. and don't forget, it's more important to them than it is to us. we have an ocean in between. some problems. okay? we have a nice, big, beautiful ocean and it's more important for them. they were taking advantage and they did. they took advantage of us on trade and they took advantage. >> on if they play fair, if they start to play fair, america's there. >> yes 100.

>> yes 100. >> and you can watch nigel farage interview in full, donald trump, it's on our website . trump, it's on our website. right. it was shown last night at 7:00 on the channel. it's on our website gbnews.com. >> well, let's get the thoughts of former advisor the bank of of former advisor to the bank of england friend we should england and friend we should point out donald trump roger point out of donald trump roger gewolb, us in the gewolb, who joins us in the studio. good morning you. studio. good morning to you. presume seen that presume you have seen that interview full? interview in full? >> i did , i did interview in full? >>idid,|did| interview in full? >> i did , i did i and interview in full? >>idid,|did|and| interview in full? >> i did , i did i and i suppose >> i did, i did i and i suppose characteristically bombastic from your friend there. no, i thought that , i thought that thought that, i thought that first of all, nigel did a splendid job hosting the interview. i think he brought out all the right questions, and i think donald trump, as always, i think donald trump, as always, i find it quite refreshing , i find it quite refreshing, whether i agree with what he's saying or not, that unlike virtually all of our politicians, i'm not listening to spin and waffle. he's a he is a very rough, tough businessman and he tells you like it is. and i think he answered the

questions very openly and honestly last night, if you look at what the british bookies are predicting in terms of the odds for who's going to win in the autumn , what does that tell us autumn, what does that tell us about the likelihood of seeing a second turm of trump in office? an awful lot. i always talk about our bookies because they wouldn't still be in business after all these. we've got the best bookies in the world. they wouldn't still be in business after these hundreds of after all these hundreds of years they got it wrong too years if they got it wrong too often, isabel . and the odds. as often, isabel. and the odds. as often, isabel. and the odds. as of last night, i didn't check. i'm so sorry this morning, but were trump was odds on. that means you get less money than you bet. he's such a favourite. and he was on 10 to 1. so if you bet £11, you win ten. in other words, you get back 22, sorry. 21 and biden was on 22 to 11. so trump 10 to 11, biden 22 to 11.

and michelle obama 220 to 11. so it's pretty clear and remember the bookies always shrink the odds a bit to make money. so they're probably a little bit better than that. >> interesting. okay, so if you were a betting man, you'd be putting your money all on trump then. >> yeah, i mean, i think that i just don't understand the democrats , why they can't field democrats, why they can't field somebody better than old joe, but i but if they were trying to field michelle obama under, what scenario would you see her appearance? well, there was a lot of talk eamonn that she didn't want to, a second tiny factor is that she has absolutely no experience whatsoever. >> she hates politics. she hates. i've read both of her books, and she says she absolutely loathes everything about politics. and as explicitly said, multiple times, she stand away. she would never stand away. >> . it's like jeremy hunt. >> go. it's like jeremy hunt. i'm always saying, could you walk any bank in the world walk into any bank in the world with a with no financial

with a cv with no financial experience whatsoever and be told here, go run this country saw how they treated her husband and hated the way they and she just hated the way they attacked him. >> said it attacked him. >> said >> and she said that it was just a dirty game, well, you know, some he some people would say he deserved it, but she didn't deserved it, but but she didn't like but she didn't like it, like it, but she didn't like it, so i don't i see her, as a very, very unlikely figure, michelle obama the rest of them. >> kamala harris, robert kennedy . kennedy. i mean, there's a whole list of them. the bookies have gotten the odds just go shooting way up. >> okay, okay, talking about shooting way up, shooting way up, shooting way down. 7:00 today we're going to get the latest inflation figures, what do you think? >> i don't think it's terribly relevant one way or the other. i mean, if it goes up a bit and. oh, look at this. we're out of recession or it goes down a bit, it doesn't really affect our daily lives. what affects us as ikeep daily lives. what affects us as i keep banging on about and this week i have launched quite a big campaign. i want andrew bailey, governor of the bank of england,

and jeremy hunt, governor of the bank of england, and jeremy hunt , the chancellor, and jeremy hunt, the chancellor, to resign if they do not lower interest rates and lower taxation. enough is enough . i taxation. enough is enough. i mean, heaven forbid that the bailey osiris and his thick skinned friends actually raise interest rates a bit because inflation has increased . but inflation has increased. but when again, it's going to be coming from things that have gotten nothing to do with us three little kids, you know , we three little kids, you know, we didn't make it happen. it's food. it's material, it's houses. how does raising money and burdening us further help? so, yeah , i think it's really so, yeah, i think it's really pretty irrelevant if these gents don't stop ploughing money into the tory war chest for huge tax cuts just before the general election. and and, you know, taking all of our money. people can't live like this. >> yeah. and just to explain so we're expecting the figures at 7:00, 7:00 and we've got, inflation at 4. all the smart

money is on it coming down, maybe half a percent. yeah. and the next interest rate decision for the bank of england is actually tomorrow. tomorrow. but that's soon for them to that's too soon for them to probably course. or do probably change course. or do you they have taken you think they might have taken in of the. in all of the. >> think will to see >> i think they will wait to see what federal reserve does in what the federal reserve does in america particularly, what the federal reserve does in ame never particularly, what the federal reserve does in ame never seems)articularly, what the federal reserve does in ame never seems to ticularly, what the federal reserve does in ame never seems to have rly, what the federal reserve does in ame never seems to have at, what the federal reserve does in ame never seems to have a mind who never seems to have a mind of his own. i'm sorry, sir, you know, but that's how i feel , he know, but that's how i feel, he always slavishly follows the fed . and the situations are totally different. number one, they have their own energy supply. yeah. and number two, they have a huge amount of money. $1.7 trillion under the mattress from the pandemic that people are now spending with alacrity. and so that's what's called demand pull inflation, which will be curbed by raising interest rates. look what happened. it started going up. they raised interest rates. inflation dropped by more than half like a rock. here we have cost push non consumer driven

inflation. the baleares raised rates 14 times. and he and his friends at the watering hole failed to notice that it had no effect. through 14 different rises on i mean how many football managers would you let onto the pitch? isabel to play the 14th match with the same playbook as the previous 13 games they'd lost? yeah, i don't know what power these these chaps have got, but we've got two completely unqualified people. my friend alex brummer, the city editor of the mail for decades , said in an exclusive decades, said in an exclusive interview with me that bailey is not an economist and he does not have the intellectual capacity for this role. >> it's not just purely down to him, though, is it? i mean, there is a monetary policy committee who make those full of interest decisions together, which upon which included you once upon a time. never. >> i've never been on the mpc, never been on the okay, even in the lords. i'm you the house of lords. i'm glad you raised even the house of raised that. even the house of lords select committee on economic only two months economic affairs only two months ago was in the most silken

british language you can imagine, but read between the lines criticised the bank of england and bailey for one appalling forecasting and modelling of what's going to happen. two horrible handling of inflation three groupthink where no diversity. what happened to die? no diversity of opinion is allowed . and they've just allowed. and they've just appointed somebody the other day who is exactly the same. >> okay, well, i'm going to forecast you'll be back at 7:00 this morning to look at exactly what those figures are. roger. we look forward to that for the moment. thank you very much indeed.thank moment. thank you very much indeed. thank you. some other stories coming into the newsroom . got for you . this is what we've got for you on this wednesday morning . usa on this wednesday morning. usa has warned gaza's population of 2 million are experiencing severe food insecurity. >> us un agencies have said that nonh >> us un agencies have said that north gaza could face famine by may if there's no pause in fighting and more effort to get more aid in the secretary of state antony blinken was speaking in the philippines

ahead of his eighth trip upcoming to the region since the october 7th attacks, 100% of the population in gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity . levels of acute food insecurity. >> that's the first time an entire population has been so classified . classified. >> vaughan gething is expected to be officially nominated as the next first minister of wales today. the welsh labour members chose mr gething to be their next party leader on saturday, succeeding mark drakeford , who succeeding mark drakeford, who had held the position since 2018 and stepped on yesterday . and stepped on yesterday. >> businesses are implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives without an evidence base, according to a report by the independent inclusion at work panel that was commissioned by kemi badenoch, it found employers want to do the right thing are introducing thing, but are introducing measures support of measures without the support of evidence .

evidence. >> well, after the merlin's around lancashire and greater manchester were ravaged by wildfires, five years ago, new legal powers have now been imposed to prevent something similar from happening again. >> yes , three local councils >> yes, three local councils alongside the fire service and the police , have worked together the police, have worked together to put a public spaces protection order in place ahead of this summer. >> our north west of england reporter that's sophie reaper has more on this story. >> in june of 2018, wildfires broke out across the moorlands of lancashire and greater manchester. habitats were destroyed, wildlife was killed, nearby communities were rocked as i arrived at the scene. >> at the time you're confronted with a multitude of challenges. firstly getting the fire under control, safely deploying people and resources to the incident. we have the support of over 40 partners to extinguish this fire and it involved almost literally

almost a thousand appliance movements. >> the wildfire on winter hill would soon combine with another burning across saddleworth moors near greater manchester that was when a major incident was declared it might be hard to tell on a day like today, but in the summer of 2018, the hot, dry conditions here on winter hill meant the flames could spread rapidly , and by the time they rapidly, and by the time they were under control over a fortnight later, an area close to 4500 acres of moorland had been destroyed , and now been destroyed, and now lancashire fire and rescue have partnered with local police as well as the councils in bolton, chorley and blackburn with darwen to introduce new legal measures in an attempt to prevent future wildfires of this scale . scale. >> it's a public spaces protection order and this is for fines for criminal offences and

they will go up to £1,000. and we're talking about fireworks , we're talking about fireworks, we're talking about fireworks, we're talking about sky lanterns, we're talking about barbecues, we're talking about camp stoves and we're talking about campfires. >> a report in 2020 found that these fires cost more than £20 million and exposed 5 million people to pollution above the recommended level. thus, it's no surprise these new legal powers have had overwhelming public support. >> the public consultation we did here had a really high 90% support for this. people were really concerned that we do something to protect residents, that we protect those businesses, and also to protect our tourism, which is really important for the bolton economy. and also the standout issue of animals and birds as we head into the warmer months. >> these measures are now actively being enforced, but

only time will tell if they can actually stop the fires. sophie reaper gb news news. >> okay, the time now, 22 minutes past the hour of 6:00 on this wednesday morning. hope your day is going well. >> yes, and we're going to get a check on the weather forecast to find out what your day is going to look like, here's alex deakin. >> with a brighter outlook with boxt sponsors of weather boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. a bit of a drab start for most of us today. dull and damp, the brighter skies are going to be across northern ireland and western scotland, where we should see some lengthy spells of sunshine should see some lengthy spells of short sunshine should see some lengthy spells of short supply, sunshine should see some lengthy spells of short supply, generally nshine should see some lengthy spells of short supply, generally dryine in short supply, generally dry and fine across the south—east. it may cheer up here, but a damp start for eastern scotland. southern scotland. the will southern scotland. the rain will tend ease here through the tend to ease here through the day, but pretty dank day, but it stays pretty dank

across northern england, particularly yorkshire, parts of north rain and north wales. the rain on and off, but fairly to the off, but fairly light to the south mostly dry and south of that. mostly dry and still pretty mild . 18 celsius is still pretty mild. 18 celsius is possible with a bit of sunshine, some sunny skies across the northwest, day here northwest, a cooler day here with a fresher feel in the cooler air, but still plenty of sunshine . feeling pleasant sunshine. feeling pleasant enough.the sunshine. feeling pleasant enough. the rain and drizzle will trickle away from eastern parts of england through this evening. of the uk will evening. much of the uk will become dry by midnight, but then after midnight, more rain comes into the far northwest, the winds picking as well . winds picking up here as well. quite of cloud around. quite a bit of cloud around. could see some mist fog could see some mist and fog where keep some clearer where we keep some clearer skies. temperatures may rural skies. temperatures may in rural spots close to freezing onto spots get close to freezing onto thursday generally thursday then, and generally a dry fine day for england and wales. a brighter day, certainly to the east of the pennines compared to today. still a fair bit of cloud elsewhere, but some bright or sunny spells in the south. outbreaks of will bright or sunny spells in the south.in utbreaks of will bright or sunny spells in the south.in across

for most of us, with temperatures generally in the teens. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> do you have much contact with wild birds? i yes, i watch a lot of birds in my garden and actually lots of pheasants at the moment, but you don't running around. >> oh no, i don't touch them. not unless my cat brings them in and the rspca, the animal agency, recommending that we agency, is recommending that we all stay at least six feet. >> that's sort of length of a human being away from any bird, particularly pigeons. and seagulls, because they spread avian flu as well . avian flu as well. >> and i've seen a few pigeons looking a bit worse for wear actually, recently they'll have avian flu. yeah, yeah. really bad. >> or they've been drinking alcohol or something like that . alcohol or something like that. >> i don't really like pigeons. seagulls are beautiful, but i don't even think pigeons have got that on their side. seagulls are beautiful.

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parkinson. we'll be playing that after the short

break. 50 years ago today, we're going to bring you back in time. 1974 is the year. and another princess faced a security breach i >> -- >> at this m >> at this time, an armed man attempted to kidnap princess anne near buckingham palace after he shot at police and bystanders, then broke into her car when she was in the back seat. >> our royal correspondent, cameron walker. this really was shocking at the time and still shocking. he looks back on events and how the royal family's protection is very different as a result . different as a result. >> this man had a gun and, he shot 50 years ago. >> the mall, famous for its pomp and ceremony, turned into a

sinister crime scene. the daughter of queen elizabeth ii, princess anne, and her then husband , captain mark phillips, husband, captain mark phillips, were driving back to buckingham palace from charity event. a palace from a charity event. a ford escort cut up their royal car and they were forced to stop. armed with two pistols, assailants ian ball got out his car and approached the princess. he shot her protection officer, inspector james he shot her protection officer, inspectorjames beaton, he shot her protection officer, inspector james beaton, who tried to disarm him. beaton returned fire but missed before his gun jammed. he was shot twice more as he tried to protect the queen's only daughter. died davies, former head of royal protection, thinks police in 1974 were unprepared. >> well, it was totally inadequate then. the different because nobody actually thought anything like this could happen. there was no defensive driving training in those days. what you should have done, somebody pulls out, you like that , was to drive out, you like that, was to drive through him. >> meanwhile, ball attempted to kidnap princess anne. he demanded a reported £3 million

ransom, which he plans to give to the nhs as well. >> he said i had to go with him, i said. i didn't say anything, i wanted to go, thank you so much. i was scrupulously polite because i thought it was silly to be too rude at that stage. again >> bell and chauffeur also tried to help but was shot, as was nearby journalist brian mcconnell. pc michael hills, who'd been guarding the queen mother's residence on the opposite side of the road at clarence house, also came to help. ian ball shot him, too, but he managed to call for backup. >> when he shot the policemen. we managed to close the door. >> you eventually got the door back again. back open again. >> the door back open. but >> lock the door back open. but in the process of getting the door open the back of my door back, open the back of my dress from top to below dress split from top to below the shoulders went it and the shoulders went out of it and that his most dangerous that was his most dangerous moment. but i former boxer ronnie russell, passed by and realised what was happening. >> he then punched ian ball as hard as he could. there are

various accounts of what happened next, but the end result was that ian ball was arrested and ball pleaded guilty to attempted murder and kidnapping. he was sectioned under the mental health act, having been diagnosed with schizophrenia. nowadays close protection officers are highly trained miraculously , those who trained miraculously, those who were shot survived and princess anne visited them in hospital. queen elizabeth ii awarded the george medal to the boxer who punched ball. the other heroes that night were also rewarded , that night were also rewarded, saying today the princess royal is consistently rated the hardest working member of the royal family, a firm support for her brother the king, who continues regular cancer treatment. cameron walker gb news. >> what a legend she is. what a story, what a story. but the way she's she makes jokes about it all just sums her up. really. she's really tough. >> princess anne and my two colleagues around me here, who

are not minor in age at all, but they they weren't born or they don't remember this. and this is an amazing story. and i do think this is really worthwhile , this is really worthwhile, playing again, you know, to see that whole interview, it's one of those stories i'd always known about the famous kidnapping attempt, etc, with princess anne, but just to hear that, i didn't know the rest of it, you see how serious it is? >> i had no idea how serious it was. >> the media frenzy today, if that had happened. i mean, considering how crazy everyone's going over a picture about the security breach that princess of wales has experienced this wales has experienced with this hospital imagine hospital note story, imagine this in today's day and age. >> so when you talk about how she reacted to it and how funny she reacted to it and how funny she was talking about it, let's remember that probably remember that that was probably only was with only about because she was with captain phillips that captain mark phillips in that interview. probably only interview. so it's probably only about it about ten years after it actually happened. i mean, it actually happened. so i mean, it was a really serious she was scrupulously polite, scrupulously exactly what i would well. would have said as well. >> absolute yeah >> absolute legend. yeah >> absolute legend. yeah >> your memories very welcome on that. views or your

that. are your views or your opinions very welcome. gb views the gbnews.com. so are we going to the break. are we going with what is the sport line with you paul. what is the sport line with you paul . so we've got a couple of paul. so we've got a couple of big manchester united stories. yeah gareth southgate's over a lot of the newspapers today. erik ten hag will be delighted . erik ten hag will be delighted. >> i wouldn't you know i wouldn't put too much into this yet because is this talk about sir jim ratcliffe and more sirjim ratcliffe and more interviews that he's done saying about what he's going to do with manchester united? erik ten hag he's he's going to be the manager for, for some time. but there's always going to be links around southgate . he's around gareth southgate. he's just the bookies just been made the bookies favourite over should favourite to take over should that job become available, but it's very easy to be able to do that, isn't it, thinking, oh yeah, the euros are coming up and should england do well at the euros, maybe it's manchester united, is he a successful united, but is he a successful club manager? i would club manager? well i would manchester fans be happy manchester united fans be happy with him coming in don't know middlesbrough. >> yeah got they relegated. >> really wasn't so for

>> it really wasn't so good for him. so a good fa man. but him. so he's a good fa man. but whether he coming into the premier i don't know. premier league i don't know. but the about a the main story about a manchester united player is kobe manu. 18 years old manu. now he's 18 years old manchester united midfielder i mean terrific. came mean he's been terrific. he came in november months ago. in in november 5th months ago. he in the manchester united he was in the manchester united under 21 team. a year ago he was called up for the first time for the under 19 seconds. and now he was training with the under 21 seconds yesterday and then got a call saying, we'd like you to come and join senior come over and join the senior squad. he a text from text squad. he got a text from text from steve holland, who's gareth southgate's this is southgate's number two. this is how works. you know you how it works. you know you always think when called always think when you get called up england for the first up for england for the first time, be a on time, there'll be a man on a white horse or you'll get a telegram something or a big proclamation. but it's not. it's just text that says bring your just a text that says bring your boots. we to see you at boots. we want to see you at saint george's park. was saint george's park. he was already it's a really already there, so it's a really exciting for him 18 to exciting time for him at 18 to be able to join up with the senior squad. i hope someone senior squad. and i hope someone like ben white, who's decided that to be that he doesn't want to be involved in the england setup,

we'll look that think, we'll look at that and think, see missing. so good see what i'm missing. so good luck him. see what i'm missing. so good lucino, him. see what i'm missing. so good lucino, we]. see what i'm missing. so good lucino, we won't miss anything >> no, we won't miss anything with the, the master's dinner. so, on the on the night that the masters is won. yeah. there is a dinner at the augusta, national. >> yeah, it's a golf club. >> yeah, it's a golf club. >> it's a couple of days. a couple of days before the tournament starts. it's the champions dinner. so the champions dinner. so the champion the before champion from the year before will then devise a menu . there will then devise a menu. there we are. i was going to go. there's the menu there. now, this is john rahm, you might think that maybe there'd be more saudi arabian dishes where, where playing days. where he's playing these days. but spanish . but spanish, it's very spanish. they always have something very typically them. typically that suits them. there's tapas there as you can see, which looks excellent. this is this is going be rather is this is going to be rather good. there's the basque ribeye there . or you could have the there. or you could have the turbot or the puff pastry cake with custard chantilly with custard and chantilly cream. dessert. all cream. there is the dessert. all the former winners of the masters that were obviously still every year they go still alive every year they go to the masters, they will all be there at the champions dinner.

sandy lyle, back in 89, had haggis tiger woods, because he was only 21 back in 1998 when, with a selection of mcdonald's, you know. oh yeah tiger it's typical tiger. >> there's a nice there's a nice crab salad a basque crab salad. >> you know what to do if you get win yourself win yourself the masters. >> it could be that could be danny, danny willett. you know danny, danny willett. you know danny willett who was the engush danny willett who was the english winner? yes. complete out blue. decided to go out of the blue. decided to go something very english. and he had. mini cottage pies. had. it was mini cottage pies. yes. starter. and had a proper roast sunday dinner for everybody. yorkshire puddings? probably. what? what is this big? >> what is this thing i'm eating? i think i think i'd prefer this one, i think so, it looks lovely. >> anyway. >> anyway. >> very fancy. >> very fancy. >> couple of weeks to go. the masters. just a great, great event. with they event. starts with that. they wear green jackets of wear the green jackets of course. you remember we course. and you remember we talked about that. but talked all about that. but that'll we can't eat that. >> thank you very much paul. >> thank you very much paul. >> paul will be back serving up his course for 27, this his second course for 27, this morning, stay with us. we're

going to be taking a look at the papers in just a moment. we've got renee hoenderkamp and andy jones for that. and you are, of course, to breakfast on gb course, tuned to breakfast on gb news isabel.

>> just going to get some reaction from andy jones and renee hoenderkamp. doctor renee hoenderkamp about this, so—called medical security , so—called medical security, breach, for the princess of wales, i'm not at all annoyed by this at all. people work in a hospital . all people should be hospital. all people should be allowed to see records. i don't see what the issue is here at all. >> are you serious? >> are you serious? >> i'm serious. i'm serious. if i was in a hospital and somebody said to me, even, so and so has been looking up your records, i think. well, the work here. yeah, but eamonn, a high yeah, but eamonn, you're a high profile celebrity. >> they were

>> if you thought they were going to then sell that private information about how information about you, how would you i think have you feel? well i think they have the right. >> just can't sit say >> i just can't sit and say you're not allowed to do this. if that's their job and that's what they're they've got access to. don't i don't see the to. so i don't i don't see the issue to. so i don't i don't see the lssli�* to. so i don't i don't see the issll think a massive issue. >> i think it's a massive issue. why as a doctor have a legal why as a doctor you have a legal and an ethical responsibility to protect your patient's confidential you're confidential information. you're briefed confidential information. you're briefypeople should have only people that should have access information are access to that information are people that need to be involved in patient's care with the in that patient's care with the permission patient. permission of the patient. and that's ends . permission of the patient. and that's ends. so if that's where it ends. so if somebody who's a not involved in the b hasn't got the care and b hasn't got permission to look is trying to look, they being struck off look, they risk being struck off from their medical body if they're doctor or a nurse. and they're a doctor or a nurse. and so should. right. so they should. right. >> everybody's now >> so everybody's now speculating about what is wrong with how bad it is. and with her and how bad it is. and whatever , whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, should she come out and should she not just come out and say , this is what's wrong with say, this is what's wrong with me? i didn't want to have to tell this, but this has just been unbearable. the no, we're disagreeing this morning. >> you know what? i think that

your medical records are absolutely critically personal to you and everybody's decision on who knows what about your your medical condition is yours and yours alone, whether you're the princess of wales or the cleaner at the hospital , it cleaner at the hospital, it doesn't matter. it's up to you. who knows ? and we don't own her. who knows? and we don't own her. you know, we might say, oh, taxpayers pay for them. we don't own her. she's a human being and she is entitled to decide who knows what about her. and we should leave poor girl alone should leave the poor girl alone before we push her a place before we push her to a place that really would be unhappy that we really would be unhappy about. >> okay, we're going to >> okay, well, we're going to pause and pause the pay per view and introduce this introduce our minister this morning. very much. morning. thank you very much. we've maria caulfield. she's we've got maria caulfield. she's the parliamentary under—secretary for under—secretary of state for mental women's mental health and women's health. just want to start health. and i just want to start maria, morning you maria, good morning to you because i know that you still work in, in, in work actively in, in, in healthcare as a nurse and get your reaction to the story we're just discussing this morning, the news of the alleged invasion of the princess wales's of the princess of wales's privacy with snooping on her medical records. what do you make that ? make of that? >> well, i don't want to comment

specifically on her case, princess of wales, because it is under investigation. i understand by the information commissioner, but more widely for you know, it for all patients. you know, it is against the rules, to be looking at patients notes if you're not involved in their care and if you don't have their permission. these are pretty strict rules that have been in place for a long time. and that crosses across all sectors in hospitals and communities, settings . and so it's pretty settings. and so it's pretty strict rules for a reason, because these are people's confidential notes. and so you're my nursing regulator. the nmc would , certainly investigate nmc would, certainly investigate any breaches by nurses, but these are pretty sensitive data for anyone. and that's why those rules are in place. >> and of course, this isn't just anyone we're talking about. this is the future queen. and obviously you don't want to comment on on the individual case, a principle, you case, but as a principle, you know, serious know, are there serious questions, think, for questions, do you think, for this hospital forward for this hospital going forward for the be able to trust the royals to be able to trust it? a favoured it? it's been a favoured hospital for the royal family for years. for many years. >> it seems that they, you

>> well, it seems that they, you know , there's been an insistence know, there's been an insistence that they have picked up. they've the right thing. they've done the right thing. they've done the right thing. they've it to they've reported it to the information commissioner. so information commissioner. and so those restrictions those those, restrictions and those safeguards place and they safeguards are in place and they seem to have identified a problem and acted on it pretty quickly . but problem and acted on it pretty quickly. but as i said, you know, the princess of wales has been pretty candid that she was having surgery and won't be in action until easter. action until after easter. i want to respect that and don't really want to speculate her really want to speculate on her individual case, but just to reassure down individual case, but just to reascountry down individual case, but just to reascountry that down individual case, but just to reascountry that these down individual case, but just to reascountry that these rulean individual case, but just to reascountry that these rules are the country that these rules are in place for everyone, and if there is a breach of those, they will be investigated by the information and will be investigated by the infor health and will be investigated by the infor health care and will be investigated by the infor health care regulators|nd will be investigated by the infor health care regulators will your health care regulators will also action against also take action against individuals breach those individuals who breach those rules as well. >> let's talk about the rules under secretary of state, as regards, can you tell me what is the single biggest entirely preventable cause of ill health disability and death? what is it ? >> 7- >> so it's 7 >> so it's smoking and it causes over 80,000 deaths a year. and

that's just the individuals it affects . that's without the affects. that's without the families and loved ones who lose people from smoking related illness, whether that's cancer or heart disease. it's entirely preventable. and so the legislation we're bringing forward to parliament today will, for the first time ever, introduce a smoke free generation. so anyone who turns 15 this year will never be legally able to buy cigarettes, going forward . going forward. >> an awful statistic. >> an awful statistic. >> cigarettes. yeah. 80,000 lives in britain every year are taken because of smoking in some form or other. >> that's right. and that's without looking at the additional illnesses that people have that they don't necessarily die from . so we've got die from. so we've got respiratory illnesses, things like strokes , even your teeth. like strokes, even your teeth. you know, smoking has a devastating impact on your gums. it costs the country as a whole about £17 billion a year. so although we make some tax revenue from tobacco products, we actually spend far more on treating the consequences. >> it's been a pet project. so

the prime minister hasn't it? but i put it to you that perhaps on this he might be a bit behind the curve. you speak to any parent of youngsters in secondary school and they're none are smoking. the none of them are smoking. the issue only issue is vaping and you only have at the front of the have to look at the front of the times this and they're times this morning and they're seeing now between vaping seeing links now between vaping and have been and cancer. how have we been right to push people towards vaping? and do we need vaping? and do we perhaps need to against to look at legislating against vaping our young ? vaping to protect our young? >> well, legislation that >> well, the legislation that we're forward does we're bringing forward does include measures on vaping as well. already illegal to well. it's already illegal to sell vaping sell nicotine based vaping products children, but there products to children, but there is a loophole and manufacturers have created flavoured vapes instead, which don't have nicotine. but we don't necessarily know the safety profile of those vapes either. so in the legislation, it we will close that loophole. and so any vaping will no any vaping product will no longer to be sold to longer be able to be sold to a child flavoured products. the way they're sold the packaging where displayed in where they're displayed in shops. you're right, shops. because you're right, we don't children start on don't want children to start on a of vaping because our a path of vaping because our motto is if you if you don't smoke, don't vape, and children

should never vape because we are not 100% sure about the long tum safety effects vaping safety effects of vaping overall, quickly , we're overall, very quickly, we're expecting inflation figures out in the next few minutes. >> widely predicted to come down by something like half a percent. is it time for the bank of england bring interest of england to bring interest rates well ? rates down as well? >> well, i'm sure the bank of england look at the england will look at the inflation rates today. but this is, you know, if it comes down as predicted, this is good news for ordinary folk up and down the top of our the country. it's on top of our cut national insurance, which cut in national insurance, which is through the increase is coming through the increase in living wage, which will in the living wage, which will happen, know, next month, happen, you know, next month, the in the of the reduction in the cost of energy bills. so you know, it's coming together for people. people time over people have had a hard time over the couple of years, but the last couple of years, but hopefully our plan working hopefully our plan is working and people start to feel and people will start to feel that difference their pockets. >> okay, maria, you very >> okay, maria, thank you very much caulfield is much indeed. maria caulfield is the parliamentary under—secretary of for under—secretary of state for mental and women's mental health and women's health. much health. thank you very much indeed. health. thank you very much indeed . doctor renee hoenderkamp indeed. doctor renee hoenderkamp and joins us now at and andy jones joins us now at renee. any word on smoking? what

would you say about smoking? >> i think this is the most ridiculous overreach from government that i've ever seen on health. why? because you're going to have a ridiculous situation where a 55 year old can't buy cigarettes and a 56 year old can. it's a nonsense law that other countries that were introducing it, like new zealand, the zealand, who were the trendsetters, now abandoned zealand, who were the trenbiggesty, now abandoned zealand, who were the tren biggest problemyw abandoned zealand, who were the trenbiggest problem is abandoned zealand, who were the tren biggest problem is we|ndoned zealand, who were the tren biggest problem is we were ed our biggest problem is we were doing very well on smoking. children were not taking up smoking, but now children are taking up vaping who would not have smoked. so we've actually encouraged them to do something else that we don't know the safety profile of. >> well, she swerved that question, saying it's already illegal youngsters vape. illegal for youngsters to vape. but she pointed but actually, as she pointed out, all these out, there are all these flavoured vapes and we don't know consequences. but new know the consequences. but new emerging science is showing links emerging science is showing liniso where would have seen >> so where you would have seen children without without cigarettes in their pocket, they now vapes in pocket. now have vapes in their pocket. so created a new industry so we've created a new industry because tobacco companies because the tobacco companies know that their money is shifting away from smoking. so they've found a new market. >> okay, andy, have you ever had

a cigarette your pocket? a cigarette in your pocket? have you tempted? well, eve r. >> even >> yeah. there have been a >> yeah. oh, there have been a mum's watching. there have been evenings a evenings where i've had a cigarette. but renee makes the valid that i believe valid point that i believe until very recently, was very recently, smoking was becoming who's becoming phased out. who's becoming phased out. who's becoming unsexy to becoming sort of unsexy to smoke? certainly not in, in around the office. you weren't smoking bars and now smoking in pubs and bars and now young people, they've been offered pink bubble gum flavoured vapes. these flavoured vapes. i mean, these aren't aimed gentlemen of the aren't aimed at gentlemen of the age of myself and eamonn. these are aimed at teenagers. these are aimed at teenagers. these are and actually, are aimed at kids. and actually, if the sales of if you look at the sales of vapes, they spike at around 4:00 till kids are coming till 6:00 when kids are coming out school and colleges. and out of school and colleges. and i think there's a perception that vaping is very healthy, is actually healthy when actually isn't. you're inhaling in a load of unnatural chemicals that we haven't properly studied haven't really properly studied social media. >> renee. young people are >> renee. and young people are becoming less happy than older generations as they suffer. i quote the equivalent of a midlife crisis. yeah. >> i mean, i've been looking at this for quite a while now

because i've got, as you have isabel, a young person, and i want to think about it. very good piece last year in the spectator. why are our teenagers so unhappy? which looked at a massive data that massive cohort of data that shows 30% us kids are shows that 30% of us kids are now depressed? think about that. kids being depressed , 10 to 24 kids being depressed, 10 to 24 year olds, suicides are tripled. it's the equivalent in the us of nine plane loads of young girls crashing every year. and if that happened, we would no longer allow flying and we then should look at why this is happening. and there's a really clear correlation in that the more time they spend on screens, the more unhappy and lonely they are. so they're communicating with people 24 over seven, but they're lonely. i said to andy in the break, it's almost like having a lung condition and going to your doctor about it, and your doctor saying it's because smoke but you carry because you smoke but you carry on smoking. know what's so we on smoking. we know what's so we all what the problem is, all know what the problem is, the solution surely impossible, which is to get these youngsters off their phones . off their phones. >> absolutely. i think the other

hideous problem of this is comparison. you know, i grew up in an era without social media, and you would compare yourself to other kids your class , to other kids in your class, sometimes unfavourably. but they were a similar experience were living a similar experience to you. we're now comparing our children. teenagers are comparing to kids the comparing themselves to kids the other side of world. and other side of the world. and they're why aren't we they're saying why aren't we aren't skinny and as aren't as skinny and as attractive and wealthy as attractive and wealthy and as successful brilliant as successful and brilliant as them. and them. and this is sort of 12 and 13 olds. 13 year olds. >> but it's impossible. you >> but it's not impossible. you can your children bricks, can give your children bricks, don't give smartphones. don't give them smartphones. and, know, you not say and, you know, you would not say when you get to 13, you're old enough to cope all of these things. >> the whole of the internet born comparison is the thief of joy, born comparison is the thief of joy, self—harming. >> all of this, as you say, these tripling of suicides in these tripling of suicides in the bracket. have to the 10 to 24 bracket. we have to protect young people. why protect our young people. why isn't more on this issue? >> i don't understand all of these things come back to parenting and actually, i'm going your going to say it putting your kid in a screen is easy. in front of a screen is easy. parenting it's lazy parenting. okay, said lazy. said okay, you said lazy. i said easy. it's harder to not. easy. it's much harder to not. we don't give our five year old a all or screen. she

a phone at all or screen. she gets minutes in the morning gets 20 minutes in the morning before know where i'm before you know where i'm listening the two of listening and i think the two of you, you're talking total nonsense is how then take nonsense is how do you then take a phone away from a 15 year old? well, know, it's tough. it's well, you know, it's tough. it's called tough love. they will called tough love. but they will say, everyone their say, is everyone else in their class, everyone their class, everyone else in their parents have do it together. parents have to do it together. >> i really believe all >> i really believe if all parents agreed amongst themselves parents agreed amongst thetheelves parents agreed amongst thethe same thing, then it do the same thing, then it wouldn't issue of peer wouldn't be an issue of peer pressure . take it away from the pressure. take it away from the kids. it just i don't know why you your child you would give your child something effectively something that will effectively harm say. three harm them. as you say. three planeloads of young girls crashing the united states crashing in the united states every ban flying. 990 every year we'd ban flying. 990 my gosh, even worse. >> and the other thing is the worry that they're importing into their lives. there's teenagers are watching teenagers who are watching horrific images round the clock from around the from gaza, from around the world. watching school world. they're watching school shootings from shootings and things from america they've america where they've been offered live video things. offered live video and things. you when i was 13, 14, you know, when i was 13, 14, i wouldn't know any of these things were going on. i was blissfully unaware. and the human stop human brain doesn't stop developing obviously renee developing until obviously renee 20, and you've got these

20, 21, 25. and you've got these young these blank young brains, these blank circuits that have been imprinted with all of this horrifying video and information, and it will have an impact on them. are >> yeah, i don't know, do you think, andy, then what we're talking about cigarettes there and how bad it was for previous generations that at one stage we'll look back and we'll say. and to think they used to give kids mobile phones when they were. yeah, absolutely. >> really think i >> i really do think that i think heading a mental think we're heading for a mental health, big mental health health, a big mental health crisis. and and, you crisis. and we are and, you know, i as someone who know, i speak as someone who doesn't have any kids, but i like your idea of collective parenting, you say, look, parenting, where you say, look, our are all friends at the our kids are all friends at the school to say school gate. we're going to say they're have social they're not going to have social media. are they only allowed media. or are they only allowed social a home computer, social media on a home computer, not their phones, so can not on their phones, so we can regulate it? and i think you have have collective ruling have to have collective ruling and collective parenting, right? >> diversity. >> let's talk about diversity. kemi is saying that kemi badenoch is saying that diversity backfired. and diversity has backfired. and what mean? what does she mean? >> story in the telegraph >> so a story in the telegraph kemi badenoch discussing that diversity drive has been

counterproductive . she didn't counterproductive. she didn't say, let's end all diversity, and diversity is a complete nonsense. she says that the edi industry, which is the diversity industry, which is the diversity industry of all of these sort of think tanks, people being employed in offices, we spend 500 million a year on as a country on edi initiatives and workers, which is twice as much as any other country. and so she says that a lot of it's given us little tangible impact. a lot of it's increased , annoyance and it's increased, annoyance and prejudice. rather than solving this when you come back, i'd like the both of you to talk about this, sign that's at king's cross railway station , king's cross railway station, which is celebrating, i don't know what it's celebrating. what is it? >> what's ramadan? >> what's ramadan? >> it's ramadan, that's what we're into now. yeah. so if that was a christian quote , would it was a christian quote, would it be acceptable, should it not just be something from winnie the pooh or whatever positive thought? why not? do you get more positive thoughts from winnie the pooh than anywhere else? religion is divisive. you

put somebody's religion up there. somebody says, this there. somebody else says, this is religion, therefore i'm. >> religion about tolerance >> religion is about tolerance from >> religion is about tolerance frorno it's not. wow. an eye for >> no it's not. wow. an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. you know, it's not about tolerance. religion is very separatist. it know, it's not about tolerance. reli to n is very separatist. it know, it's not about tolerance. reli to be; very separatist. it know, it's not about tolerance. reli to be said. separatist. it know, it's not about tolerance. reli to be said. however,t. it know, it's not about tolerance. reli to be said. however, all: has to be said. however, all that and we threw it in that and more, we threw it in the box. you have a say with it. gb views gb news. com. come back and speak to us about it. good morning, alex deakin. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. a bit of a drab start for most of us today. dull and damp, the brighter skies are going to be across northern ireland and western scotland, where we should see some lengthy spells of elsewhere. sunshine of sunshine elsewhere. sunshine in , generally dry in short supply, generally dry and fine across the south—east. it here, but a damp it may cheer up here, but a damp start for eastern scotland. southern scotland, the rain will tend to ease here through the day, it stays pretty dank

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for many of us today. there will be some sunshine for northern ireland and western scotland , ireland and western scotland, and another mild day and another pretty mild day across southeast. me across the southeast. join me later a full forecast later for a full forecast. >> well, some breaking news to start this hour in the last few moments, the office for national statistics has released the latest inflation figure. and joining us now to give us that figure is liam halligan in the studio. and it looks like a bigger than expected drop . bigger than expected drop. >> yeah this is a drop from inflation was 4% in january. that means between during that means that between during the year to january prices rose 4. that's double the bank of england's 2% target. that headune england's 2% target. that headline inflation number, isabel, is now down to 3.4, a little bit lower than expected. that's a two and a half year low. so prices are still going up. but during the year to february they went up by 3.4. what does this mean. well off

the bat it means that when the bank of england's monetary policy committee meets tomorrow, the nine economists there who set interest rates, they're more likely now to lower interest rates from where they currently are, 5.25. but i still don't think they're likely enough . i think they're likely enough. i still think interest rates tomorrow will be held at 5.25, but this number definitely bfings but this number definitely brings forward the day when those interest rates will start to fall. >> and do you think the government will be pleased with 3.4? this is still not in the 2% mark that they set out at the beginning of last year as being their target. so, you know, is this a good news story for the government today? >> it is a good news story for the government. inflation has been in december and been at 4% both in december and january . the been at 4% both in december and january. the fall in inflation has come all the way down from 11.1% back the autumn of 11.1% back in the autumn of 2022. the fall in inflation 2022. so the fall in inflation has stalled. but now there's lower inflation. that should mean lower interest rates. it means the governments will pay less on the debt that less interest on the debt that they borrow . it means consumer

they borrow. it means consumer sentiment should improve as mortgage holders have to pay lower payments every month. so this isn't going to suddenly take us to the sunlit uplands of a buoyant economy, a pre—electoral feel good factor. but certainly if inflation hadnt but certainly if inflation hadn't fallen this morning, but certainly if inflation hadn't fallen this morning , then hadn't fallen this morning, then the panic in downing street would have become even more intense. we've been there before, haven't we? we certainly have. >> thank you very much, liam. stay us. i'm sure we've got stay with us. i'm sure we've got plenty more we can get from. from yeah from you? yeah >> let's get opinions now. from a adviser the bank of a former adviser to the bank of england. roger gewolb on this a former adviser to the bank of engliroger. yger gewolb on this a former adviser to the bank of engliroger. yger gto olb on this a former adviser to the bank of engliroger. yger gto two )n this a former adviser to the bank of engliroger.»ger gto two and|is one. roger. 3.4% to two and a half year low. what do you think? >> well, i think these are numbers that please the economists, but they don't really have much to do with us. i've been saying for over a year and a half since the first interest rate rise, that rates should not have been raised because this is not unlike the states. this is non consumer dfiven states. this is non consumer driven inflation. this is caused by food and energy and foreign

wars and things over which people like us have no control . people like us have no control. the 14 rises that the bailey, osiris and his thick skinned monetary policy committee colleagues who won't listen to anybody , have instituted, have anybody, have instituted, have actually inflamed and prolonged the time. >> well, they're meeting tomorrow. i mean, will they prolong even more ? prolong even more? >> i think that they might well prolong or they might drop it a quarter of a percent. but they absolutely need to start lowering interest rates because inflation, our non consumer cost push inflation is falling by itself as it always does. previous bank of england administration plans have not touched interest rates. when we had this kind of inflation ian. and they have caused tremendous damage to the economy. half a million businesses are said to be going to the wall, mortgage arrears are up by more than 50. they have unnecessarily crushed

this country and they need to start to reverse this. now and if they don't, i am saying that both andrew bailey, the governor of the bank of england, and jeremy hunt, the chancellor, should resign because they are crushing us too much crushing us with too much taxation and too much interest rate burden. okay. >> we'll just, liam , i don't >> we'll just, liam, i don't know how much of that you heard, but all of this is self made. according to roger here, what's your take on that? >> i think there's something in. what? roger says. there's also lots of global trends going on here. the whole of the western world has been suffering from high price inflation, high high food price inflation, high energy inflation. worth energy inflation. it's worth saying electricity prices saying that electricity prices in the uk have been particularly high because of the way we run our electricity market here. that's a big reason why inflation in the states has been much lower than it's been here. and inflation here has been higher than much of the european union as well. interesting on food price inflation, which roger mentioned. indeed food

price inflation. this time last year was up at 19. so in a single year prices went up by almost a fifth. and people, you know, going shopping will definitely have noticed that food price inflation in january was 8. but it's now down to 5. that's for me so far. the headune that's for me so far. the headline that i've seen food price inflation sharply down, still high. if food prices are going up by 5% in a year, we all feel that. but that food price inflation is definitely slowing down now. and i think it's worth saying that uk inflation is now very similar to the states. the last us number for february was 3.2. we're now at 3.4. but look across the western world inflation is higher than it should be. this is why interest rates are staying quite high. this is why the economy is feeling squeezed. >> there was a scary story yesterday about electricity supply around the country and how we get our electricity from wind farms out in the north sea,

and whatever , and literally we and whatever, and literally we will have to put up thousands and i mean thousands of miles of pylons to establish a new grid of supply in this. so this is going to be billions and billions of pounds onto people's electricity bills for years to come. so no good news there. we'll leave this thought for the moment because we now cross to the shadow secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy. we say good morning to jonathan reynolds . morning to jonathan reynolds. and jonathan, first of all, your reaction to this two and a half year low of 3.4. >> yeah. good morning . well of >> yeah. good morning. well of course, warmly welcome any fall in inflation, both for what it means for households and for the government finances that is extremely welcome news. i think as your programme has already identified, of course, for a lot of people who are watching this morning tuning the news, morning tuning into the news, they'll i have they'll welcome it, as i have done. they'll still point done. but they'll still point out that times are hard, that food are still high, that food prices are still high, that the tax burden is high, the

economy hasn't performed as people and i think people would want, and i think we've got to acknowledge people would want, and i think we've but got to acknowledge people would want, and i think we'vebut gcterms:knowledge people would want, and i think we've but gcterms of owledge people would want, and i think we've but gcterms of owl> well, look, i understand the argument that was put forward there. i've got to say it's not one ican there. i've got to say it's not one i can agree with. i think first of all, i think we will see an interest rate cut. the bank of england is, of course, independent in that process. i think they'd want to see inflation come down a little bit more because there's lot more because there's a lot of uncertainty. still of uncertainty. still in terms of some of big events like the some of the big events like the red sea, that might affect that, the argument that the inflationary pressures were external look. external to the country. look. yeah. you that in yeah. but how you tackle that in terms you tackle the terms of how you tackle the interest rate, the monetary policy, don't policy, the country has, i don't think know, think necessarily, you know, where come from where those pressures come from doesn't from fact

doesn't get away from the fact that got respond to that you've got to respond to that. i would direct my that. where i would direct my criticism would be towards the government because liam government because as liam halligan correctly identified. and some of the and if you look at some of the reasons we've uniquely reasons we've been so uniquely exposed to inflation, well, exposed to high inflation, well, exposure fossil fuel exposure to high fossil fuel prices, doubling prices, the government doubling down than finding down on that rather than finding alternatives. lot of people alternatives. a lot of people not backing the labour market after the pandemic because they're waiting nhs they're waiting for nhs treatment. the treatment. that's the responsibility of the government. looking government. i think even looking at agreement with at the way the agreement with the was done, the european union was done, where got a lot of where we've got a lot of friction still terms of food friction still in terms of food pfices friction still in terms of food prices how food and agri prices and how food and agri products are transported between here european here and the european union, those i think those are the things i think the government have have government should have have looked a much looked at and been a much greater priority . but what greater priority. but look, what we to see ultimately is we all want to see ultimately is that interest coming that interest rate coming down. because got to redo because if you've got to redo your mortgage or you're looking at the government's borrowing costs, that what will at the government's borrowing costs the it what will at the government's borrowing costs the biggest what will at the government's borrowing costs the biggest effect|at will at the government's borrowing costs the biggest effect|at that. have the biggest effect on that. >> rachel reeves >> yesterday, rachel reeves delivered keynote and delivered her keynote speech and lots commenting lots of people were commenting that actually she outlined that actually what she outlined didn't dissimilar to didn't sound that dissimilar to what prime minister. what are now prime minister. when he was chancellor, rishi sunak said in his may speech in

2022, identifying three 2022, identifying the three key points. mean , you could you points. i mean, you could you could even the, you know, could even use the, you know, the that you guys have now the idea that you guys have now subscribed to groupthink well i >> although i'd strongly push back on both points respectively, i would say what you have seen there from rachel is a very strong argument for why stability and discipline are actually quite exciting when it comes to the public finances. that that is the foundation you build all the exciting stuff on in terms of public services, funding, being to funding, people, being able to get mortgage, people being get a mortgage, people being able to have decent and reasonable energy prices. and i think the contrast rachel think the contrast that rachel has is really with has made there is really with what we've seen, first of all, with people like liz truss and kwasi kwarteng, when they had that caused that mini—budget that caused such in the public such a big hole in the public finances . but also, be finances. but also, to be honest, what saw at the end honest, what we saw at the end of the last budget with jeremy hunt, all of sudden you hunt, where all of a sudden you have think he have this aspiration, i think he called aspiration rather called it an aspiration rather than abolish than a commitment to abolish national employees. national insurance, black insurance, £46 billion of black hole. cannot go back to the hole. we cannot go back to the kind of decision making we saw

with liz truss and kwasi kwarteng, because that what kwarteng, because that is what has caused such a significant problem for households and for the and actually, the government. and actually, i think that argument for stability welcome. and stability is very welcome. and in to the in big contrast to the government how they government and how they have behaved last 14 years. behaved over the last 14 years. but upset unite, haven't but you've upset unite, haven't you, this? you, with all of this? >> rachel very much >> rachel reeves is very much wed to conservative wed herself to conservative principles, bringing around wed herself to conservative princases, bringing around wed herself to conservative princas a, bringing around wed herself to conservative princas a proportion ing around wed herself to conservative princas a proportion of| around wed herself to conservative princas a proportion of gdp. nd debt as a proportion of gdp. we've had the general secretary, sharon graham, if you sharon graham, saying if you stick fiscal stick to phoney fiscal rules, rule taxing wealthy and rule out taxing the wealthy and pander profiteers, you pander to the profiteers, you end in a straitjacket of your end up in a straitjacket of your own are your big own making. these are your big backers . backers. >> well, look, i'd respectfully again say to anyone who doubts what rachel said , fiscal rules what rachel said, fiscal rules are not phoney. if you want to see funding in public services, into infrastructure, into all the things i think we all want to see, the discipline you show is crucially important to that. so let give you a very so let me give you a very tangible example. a years tangible example. a few years ago 2021, were projected to ago, 2021, we were projected to spend a country on our spend as a country on our national debt, on our interest payments. year, £29

payments. this year, £29 billion. actually, what we are spending £82 billion. so spending is £82 billion. so there's huge increase in there's been a huge increase in what government spends what the government spends there. and for what? for nothing. servicing same nothing. for servicing the same debt. nothing. for servicing the same debt . and the reason for that is debt. and the reason for that is if behave, as i say, like if you behave, as i say, like liz truss or kwasi kwarteng, did you end up not having the confidence you confidence of the people you need to borrow money from effectively that effectively to finance that national debt? and so discipline doesn't limit your ability to do the good things people want. discipline gives you means discipline gives you the means to deliver and when it to deliver on that. and when it comes people, by the way, comes to people, by the way, saying we shouldn't be focusing on we shouldn't be on growth, we shouldn't be focusing a economy. focusing on on a faster economy. well, feel that way, focusing on on a faster economy. well should feel that way, focusing on on a faster economy. well should have el that way, focusing on on a faster economy. well should have lovedt way, focusing on on a faster economy. well should have loved the y, focusing on on a faster economy. well should have loved the last they should have loved the last 14 years, because we have to be frank, had an economy in that time that hasn't in terms of how productive the economy is, but had growth that want had seen the growth that we want to we've seen be to see. we've seen it, to be honest, swelled the main honest, swelled by in the main higher immigration. but that isn't level of economy isn't a higher level of economy per head, is the real per head, which is the real measure how successful you're measure of how successful you're doing. very, very doing. so i'm very, very confident argument confident in the argument that labour putting labour and rachel is putting forward put forward forward and has put forward in that substantive lecture that very substantive lecture lastjonathan, thank you very much

>> jonathan, thank you very much indeed. reynolds the indeed. jonathan reynolds is the shadow state for shadow secretary of state for business, and industrial business, energy and industrial strategy. and roger, you were listening to what he had to say there. anything you'd like to comment on? >> yes. i'm very disappointed to hear the loyal opposition agree with this mistaken bank of england policy and government that interest rates affect inflation. when i predicted that we should not be raising rates, i also predicted that messrs sunak, hunt and bailey would all claim credit for them when they fall, as they always do by themselves. frankly, since wheat started growing in ancient biblical egypt, the prices go up and down. how in the world, mr reynolds, you just said it, and i'm going to replay that clip over and over. how in the world can keeping interest rates where they are now and not lowering them and not bringing them down, down, down, gradually stop houthis from firing on shipping

in the red sea are you people crazy? can't you see what's going on and what you've done? >> okay, just a final thought from you, liam. in all of that, i mean, interesting to hear labour banging on about growth now really adopting a tory mantra. >> there's a lot of similarities between what liz truss and kwasi kwarteng was saying and what rachel reeves is now saying. there are differences in style. of course, rachel reeves isn't going to the permanent going to fire the permanent secretary of the treasury when she comes in. she wants to bolster the power the bolster the power of the treasury. she's trying to convey that know, much that she's, you know, very much a safe pair hands just to a safe pair of hands just to say, back in the real world, petrol i'm looking at petrol prices. i'm looking at some the print here. some of the fine print here. petrol prices in february were 3.9% lower than in february 2023. diesel prices were 11% lower on the year. i think motorists will feel that prices are now easing , though, as roger are now easing, though, as roger says, you know, we, the bank of england, has been very, very slow to this party to lower interest rates. on the other

hand, a lot of gb news viewers and listeners will want interest rates to stay high because they'll be pensioners living on fixed incomes. they haven't got a return their savings a decent return on their savings for years. so if you've got a mortgage or personal loans, clearly you want the bank of england to lower interest rates tomorrow. i don't think it will, as i've said, but if you're living on a fixed income, living on your savings, you'll be happy that rates are staying that interest rates are staying high. okay? >> okay, gentlemen, thank you both indeed. much both very much indeed. much appreciated. the interest appreciated. so, the interest rates, 3.4. that's a two and a half year low . so the bank of half year low. so the bank of england will meet tomorrow. its interest rate committee will meet to discuss where we go from 5.25% on that . other stories 5.25% on that. other stories coming into the newsroom. this is what we've got for you. with the time at 716, a major security breach is being investigated at the london clinic. >> that's the hospital where the princess of wales underwent surgery in january. hospital bosses are now looking into claims a member of staff was caught trying to access her

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i >> -- >> 20% of all police officers plan to resign in the next two years. why? because they don't believe they are being paid enough. >> yeah, there's been a survey by the police federation, and they found that around 22% of police officers are unhappy with their pay. and there is

extremely low morale. >> now, let's say they, certainly as regards the met police, they started 36,000 £775,000 a year, 36,775 now, a separate survey found that a fifth of officers skipped meals to save on money. so, we're asking this whole question. would you do the job for that money? 36,775 yeah, our police officers paid enough. >> let's get the views this morning. former met police detective in chief inspector mike neville. thinks police mike neville. he thinks police officers are paid enough. but we've also got the views of former police officer and podcaster oliver laurence, who thinks they're not. well, let's start with you, mike. put the case, then. 36 grand is enough to put yourself in harm's way. is it fortunate you don't become a soldier or a nurse or a police officer to make money? >> you do it to service. service before self is the royal british legion, motto. and that's what i've always believed in. my

whole family have always served in the armed forces or the police , and my daughter is police, and my daughter is a nurse, my son is a teacher. you do these things for the good of the community. you've got enough money. i don't believe any officer is, missing meals and things like that. there's enough also enough for overtime and things like that. but when you join the police, it's . the pay join the police, it's. the pay isn't a secret, it's there , you isn't a secret, it's there, you know, what you're going to get. and the trouble is with the police is the recruiting, the wrong people, the recruiting experts, stewed ants and the like. they're not recruiting as many exiled forces as they used to do. people who are committed to do. people who are committed to serving the community. and that's what you should do when you join the police. it's not a matter money. you should matter of money. you should have enough money to survive. on which believe amount of which i believe that amount of money your commitment money is. but your commitment should to the public, not should be to the public, not yourself, well, you know, a lot of you say makes sense, but of what you say makes sense, but a lot what you say is just a lot of what you say is just rubbish , basically, mike, rubbish, basically, mike, because wouldn't wouldn't do because i wouldn't i wouldn't do that job to be faced with the dregs of society day after day

after day. the worst fierce of society, people spitting in my face, insulting me, going to attack me, whatever, whatever, whatever . and you say that, whatever. and you say that, they're not recruiting enough, ex—forces or whatever. probably because when people left the forces, they were being paid much more than they're getting when they're joining the police. mike. no, not at all. >> eamonn you get less money, you look at the money, the private soldier gets is about half of that. and the facts are you do it to serve your community. whether people spit in your face or you grit them. your job in your face or you grit them. yourjob is in your face or you grit them. your job is to in your face or you grit them. yourjob is to serve. and that's your job is to serve. and that's not bad thing. and that's what not a bad thing. and that's what we've turned very selfish we've turned into a very selfish world we're concerned world where we're more concerned with others. with ourselves than others. >> well, oliver, i mean, >> okay, well, oliver, i mean, those are some pretty strong words sort of words there. it's sort of implying police officers implying that police officers that thinking of quitting implying that police officers tha'almost nking of quitting implying that police officers tha'almost mercenaries,ting implying that police officers tha'almost mercenaries, you are almost mercenaries, you know, money grabbing, selfish. but they but people are saying they skipping meals. they can't afford live on it. we all afford to live on it. we all know how expensive capital know how expensive the capital is to live in. >> yeah. good morning amy, and

good isabel. yeah, we good morning, isabel. yeah, we are really in a grave situation and point service and i take the point service before like before self. but sayings like that food on the table that won't put food on the table . doesn't keep up with the . it doesn't keep up with the interest rates that our police officers are facing with their mortgages. immune to the mortgages. then on immune to the cost living crisis. and cost of living crisis. and as you quite rightly pointed out, policing one of the policing is becoming one of the most, not the most dangerous most, if not the most dangerous vocation this country with vocation in this country with the you the challenges they face. you know, part different know, i'm part of many different welfare do with welfare groups to do with policing the uk. one those policing in the uk. one of those trojan being where we see trojan well being where we see day and day out, police day in and day out, police officers struggling to put food on out on the table, reaching out for help, through financial help, not through financial mismanagement. just they mismanagement. it's just they cannot make ends meet. and if we want attract quality people want to attract quality people into policing, if we to into policing, if we want to retain good people in policing, then we've got to pay them appropriately. so they don't have to have the stresses and the anxiety of each month having to work out they're going to to work out how they're going to pay to work out how they're going to pay bills . if we don't do pay the bills. if we don't do that, if we don't tackle these issues , retention and recruiting issues, retention and recruiting into will remain one of into policing will remain one of the greatest challenges our society faces over the next

decade. >> yeah, that word retention that you use there, oliver. >> you see, mike, that's the thing . i mean, i suppose you pay thing. i mean, i suppose you pay what you pay at the start, but where does where does it go? and you know, the terms and conditions, time off, you know, that sort of thing , that's that sort of thing, that's a problem isn't it? retention for me. >> well, i think the reason we've not retaining people is that the police service went to this model of, oh, we can have people who join and just do five years and leave. whereas what used to happen is people used to join from the armed forces, and they do the full 30 years. that's what they intended to do. so is police mismanagement so that is police mismanagement at very top. they're at the very top. they're recruiting the wrong people, but there people out there in there are people out there in there are people out there in the industry and the the security industry and the like are peanuts. and like who are paid peanuts. and the facts are these that are covid where industry was crashing , the police could been crashing, the police could been in the police because you've got a secure job. i saw people who were idle, lazy, and they always got paid the same money. but so in it's a secure job

in the police it's a secure job and you serve your community. and when you're on as a pc, you can be on over £40,000. that's not a bad way of considering most people. so i think the honour of serving your community is enough. >> yeah, i don't disagree. a huge honour, but i mean, we had a report, i can't remember who it was from recently which talked about the level of protests that were facing in the caphal protests that were facing in the capital, bringing forces from capital, bringing in forces from around , offices around the country, offices here, being brought in on time off, it being unsafe , off, it being unsafe, sustainable at the level that it's at. that's got to have an impact on morale, doesn't it, oliver? >> it has a huge impact on morale , isabel. and you look at morale, isabel. and you look at the sacrifices and not only police officers are making, but their are you their families are making. you know, you start to look at know, when you start to look at the hours and the commitment required, know, policing the hours and the commitment reqla'ed, know, policing the hours and the commitment reqla 9i, know, policing the hours and the commitment reqla 9 to know, policing the hours and the commitment reqla 9 to 5 know, policing the hours and the commitment reqla 9 to 5 job.)w, policing the hours and the commitment reqla 9 to 5 job. youyolicing the hours and the commitment reqla 9 to 5 job. you know,] not a 9 to 5 job. you know, you've investigators, you've got investigators, homicide detectives, working hours hours hours and hours and hours to solve some biggest solve some of the biggest challenges london's communities face. efforts face. and all of those efforts and of these investigations and all of these investigations and all of these investigations and these protests, they and all these protests, they take they take a toll on

take part. they take a toll on officer welfare and, yes, policing once upon a time used to be a safe and secure job. but you see, since since theresa may's period of time as as in government, we saw significant cuts to police funding. we saw significant cuts in police pensions. it's no longer the attractive job. it used to be. so if we're going to attract police officers and people and members of the public into what was once a fantastic vocation, we've got to look at police remuneration and we've got to pay remuneration and we've got to pay police officers pay our police officers appropriately the appropriately for the environments they today. >> gentlemen, thank you both very much indeed. asking our viewers listeners , would you viewers and listeners, would you do it? have you done it? would you do it on that money? how big a factor is money in all of these things? gb views or gb news just really quickly before we move on, the closest i've ever come to being actually two incidents to being a police officer was once when i was filming to camera as a filming a piece to camera as a start out reporter, where i had to, get a police dog to to, try and get a police dog to run at me, and i had to shout. >> were, you know,

>> and they were, you know, trying get dog revved trying to get this dog revved up.and trying to get this dog revved up. and had one of those up. and i had one of those protective things on this protective things on and this dog picked me up in its jaws and spun me round. more spun me round. and the more i screamed, excited the screamed, the more excited the dog was awful. and the dog got. it was awful. and the police officers were dying police officers were all dying laughing. remember laughing. but i remember thinking be able to thinking to actually be able to deal with a violent criminal to cope with dog with teeth like cope with a dog with teeth like that. not for me. and then i've also kind of also done all the, kind of training do as a training that you do as a journalist, you go and journalist, where you go out and you get molotov cocktails chucked and they pull chucked at you and they pull your i just your hair and honestly, i just hated i give full credit hated it. so i give full credit to police officers. put to police officers. they put themselves in harm's way. really difficult they do difficult job. so they do deserve respect. >> ordinary out in belfast. >> but there we go . >> but there we go. >> but there we go. >> paul coyte. imagine if he was a police officer . you'd be the a police officer. you'd be the friendly. >> the friendly, bobby. >> you'd be the friendly, bobby. >> you'd be the friendly, bobby. >> be evening all. i'd be >> i'd be evening all. i'd be one of those dixon of dock green. that's who i be. >> yeah, yeah, whatever we hear, whatever we hear, raymond, i'll be. >> i'll be. honestly, i'd like to part of a swat team. to be part of a swat team. >> yeah, you'd be good at a swat team. >> yeah, well, or maybe we could

be, like in the sweeney. you and me, starsky and hutch. >> be in the custody >> i'd like to be in the custody suite where i can. you know? i know they're secure, and i can lock them up. >> that'd be fun. i'd rather be in a custody suite. yeah, that would be nice. >> i'd prefer have a suite of >> i'd prefer to have a suite of custody. yeah. >> indeed. yeah. what >> indeed. indeed. yeah. what have you got for us? >> i'll tell you what we've got in this sport. i mean, let's face rugby can be difficult face it, rugby can be difficult to understand at the to understand with rules at the best there's going best of times, but there's going to few changes as far as to be a few changes as far as that's concerned. and russia are holding version of the holding their own version of the olympics, they are calling holding their own version of the oly|friendship they are calling holding their own version of the oly|friendship games.are calling holding their own version of the oly|friendship games. the alling holding their own version of the oly|friendship games. the irony! the friendship games. the irony is lost

>> right. here's paul to talk about the sport. and, there's a lot of man united news. and sir jim ratcliffe, i'm sort of. i think, indicating the way he would like to see things go in as regards involvement of teams and managers, which it sounds

quite exciting. >> every time you hear sir jim talk about this, he's talked about the stadium. we're now going to have the greatest stadium in europe. he's talking to turning old trafford into there's rumours about gareth southgate from southgate that's not coming from him, the other thing him, but also the other thing that come from who. >> southgate. >> southgate. >> not even come >> well no it's not even come from southgate. it's rumours. it's actually betting it's mainly actually betting companies having gareth companies that are having gareth southgate favourite to be southgate as the favourite to be the manager, but that's but the next manager, but that's but i just, you're the next manager, but that's but ijust, you're a manchester i just, if you're a manchester united is a favourite united fan, is a favourite amongst know what amongst you, let us know what you that. you think about that. >> ? >> i wonder? >> i wonder? >> i wonder? >> i don't think so, i think so, i don't think many fans of clubs would actually want him to be their manager because of history . thing too, jim . but, the other thing too, jim ratcliffe said he's talking ratcliffe has said he's talking about huge money signings because united, because manchester united, of course, of money in course, spent a lot of money in the past on too much money. well that's it. and he paid too much. >> for too >> they sell them for too little, pay them much little, they pay them too much while they're there. >> and he's a businessman and he knows how it works. >> and they're older. they're at the their casimiro for the end of their casimiro for example, million. the end of their casimiro for example,think|illion. the end of their casimiro for example,think he'lli. in >> they think he'll be going in

the summer. saying that the summer. so saying that recruitment is looking for recruitment now is looking for young players and is the young players and this is the way that football's going. all big all clubs this big clubs and all clubs do this now. and was talking. now. and i was talking. >> what's point of >> otherwise what's the point of having academy if you don't having an academy if you don't do that. >> p- >> correct. yeah. >> correct. yeah. >> also looking around >> and also looking around europe makes europe it also makes a difference, you know with the new rules and brexit etc, new eu rules and brexit etc, bringing young players over from europe they can't do europe now because they can't do that but i was that as they used to. but i was talking of football talking to a head of football only a week ago, and it's only about a week ago, and it's really interesting what they do, because now not just about because it's now not just about getting that decent, getting players that are decent, that footballers. lot that are good footballers. a lot of is about personality of it is about personality because don't want to bring because they don't want to bring someone in. that's going to be a bad egg that then won't settle in, will then destabilise in, that will then destabilise the of the so what the rest of the side. so what they not just look at the they do is not just look at the player, also look at the player, they also look at the family and they look at the friends and they look at the sort of person he is. so that's the way they seem to recruit these days. there's a lot more to it than just he's a good player. if he's a good player and he's got a good and he's not got a good personality, ain't going personality, he ain't going to be because not

be brought in because it's not going work with the rest of going to work with the rest of the team, right? going to work with the rest of the we've right? going to work with the rest of the we've had t? going to work with the rest of the we've had the six nations. >> we've had the six nations. >> we've had the six nations. >> we're going to look at some revision what's revision of rugby rules, what's being here, a few being talked about here, a few bits pieces. bits and pieces. >> rugby have said this. >> world rugby have said this. there's you're there's you know, if you're ready for rory over the blue cards in football. but 20 minute red cards going used in red cards is going to be used in rugby. is what they're rugby. this is what they're talking player off, talking about. player sent off, they're that minutes they're saying that 20 minutes after minutes can be after 20 minutes he can be replaced. if a player sent replaced. so if a player sent off, he be replaced . not he off, he can be replaced. not he can't come back on, he can off, he can be replaced. not he carreplaced 3ack on, he can off, he can be replaced. not he carreplaced with on, he can off, he can be replaced. not he carreplaced with another�*ne can off, he can be replaced. not he carreplaced with another one. n be replaced with another one. lower heights. looking lower tackle heights. looking at tmos, var . so tmos, which is the var. so there's problems in rugby as well as football. as far as video and well as football. as far as videis and well as football. as far as videis the and well as football. as far as videis the role and well as football. as far as videis the role of and well as football. as far as videis the role of water this is good. the role of water carriers . now medics and physios carriers. now medics and physios say cannons . well you'd be say water cannons. well you'd be surprised. sometimes they are needed. surprised. sometimes they are needed . but water carriers, the needed. but water carriers, the people that come on and bring the water to the players, coaches are now coming on bringing water on. so like bringing the water on. so like rassie erasmus for south africa did that bit of coaching, a little coaching. there you go. have a little drop of water. it happened the weekend. neil happened at the weekend. neil jenkins wales over. he

jenkins from wales came over. he started having a go at the referee because pretended to referee because he pretended to be water. so be carrying the water. so they're going to say, right, all this got stop. and this has got to stop. and there's a lot more of that as well. so just to make well. so they just want to make changes make it a changes to make it make it a better sport. >> have no issue a >> again, i have no issue a manager or coach being able to pass instructions in any pass on instructions in any stage. i don't see why they can't do that during game. can't do that during a game. that opinion on that. >> but running on the pitch though, carrying water and do this and do that, there'd be a lot of water interruptions. >> to try and get the >> yeah, very to try and get the ball in play a bit more, not less. yeah, absolutely, absolutely. >> so the russian games you're talking now. talking about now. >> right. >> yeah. right. >> yeah. right. >> well russia when it >> well russia firstly when it comes the olympic games and comes to the olympic games and when the ban is and when we know what the ban is and now individual athletes, they now as individual athletes, they actually but not actually can compete, but not under russian flag. russian actually can compete, but not und

seven from belarus. but the ioc have slammed the russian decision to hold something called the friendship games. i don't know how many friends they have these days, but there was 1 in 84, which they did when they decided to boycott the los angeles olympics. so the friendship games is probably going to be russia and probably belarus . okay. and i going to be russia and probably belarus. okay. and i imagine maybe north korea possibly. but i think that's it can only laugh political. >> not even funny . >> not even funny. >> not even funny. >> not even funny. >> not a lot of sport. >> not a lot of sport. >> well that's it. that's the irony of the whole thing. that's what they call quick word, about, players and, playing playstation. >> yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> luciano spalletti , who is the >> luciano spalletti, who is the italian manager, very unhappy because he says his players aren't getting enough sleep. in the old days, it used to be because they were out on the town, you know, staying up till all in with all hours, coming in with a hangoven all hours, coming in with a hangover. these the hangover. these days, the players coming completely players are coming in completely exhausted because they've got no sleep, busy sleep, because they're busy playing playstation. and he's saying is, saying how ridiculous it is, whereas doing is whereas what they're doing is playing games of what they

should be doing professionally on a pitch, pretending to do it, which is stopping them doing it well. >> he's banned it. has he? >> he's banned it. has he? >> yeah. he's banned it as much as he can, but they're sneaking in playstations to little in playstations to have a little game because. >> just have to have >> but even just have to have a phone and you can play a game. you can redknapps come out, you can do redknapps come out, hasn't he. >> and you've got to get >> and said you've got to get rid of phones. it's the one thing wrecking young thing that's wrecking young players country. players in this country. they're getting on them with their careers off. getting on them with their car> thank you mr paul. >> thank you mr paul. >> 8:20 renee >> see you again 8:20 renee hoenderkamp jones. they're hoenderkamp a&e jones. they're going

so. renee and andy are back here, and they're talking about the stories making the news today, and a big thing. andy king's cross station today , king's cross station today, they've put up this islamic message, on one of its customer

information boards. right. which are there to display train times. but i presume the times. but i presume if the trains aren't running, times. but i presume if the trains aren't running , they've trains aren't running, they've got nothing else to put on them, so anyway, is the holiest so anyway, this is the holiest month for muslims. the ninth day of ramadan. and the central london station featured a hadith of the day. tell us more. and there it is. what does it actually say? >> well, i'll read it for you. it's the hadith of the day and it says the prophet muhammad pbuh, which , peace be upon him, pbuh, which, peace be upon him, said. and then it has a chapter, a verse . all the sons of adam a verse. all the sons of adam are sinners, but the best of the sinners those who repent sinners are those who repent often, a sort of often, which has a sort of repent your sins, isn't it? which is the sort of thing that all sorts of religious preachers of various faiths say outside train stations around the country, king's cross country, the king's cross station pushed back. lots of station has pushed back. lots of people complained this is people complained about this is why this ram down why we're having this ram down our i just want to know our face. i just want to know whether my train is on time or not. i want to know what a not. i don't want to know what a religious verse says. the king's cross, cross station has cross, king's cross station has

pushed said, we pushed back and said, well, we put the put messages throughout the year on our boards, whether on all of our boards, whether it's it's it's easter, whether it's ramadan, whether wall, ramadan, whether it's the wall, whether passover. i've not whether it's passover. i've not necessarily messages necessarily seen any messages previously myself, although maybe eye it. but maybe i've got my eye on it. but i will say i'm sick to i will also say i'm sick to death of the train companies just constantly giving me messages. there you go, messages. mind. there you go, don't oh, by way, it's don't run. oh, by the way, it's ramadan . see it, say it sorted. ramadan. see it, say it sorted. and i'm desperate to know whether my train is on time or not. i need to be somewhere and it's just pop ups going, oh, on the on the 29th of april, in sort of six weeks time, the train is going to be delayed for two hours because of roadworks. this just didn't believe him. >> i totally agree with you. this idea messages. for me, this idea of messages. for me, it's football matches, premier league can't to league matches. i can't go to watch a premier league match without still for two without standing still for two minutes. reason or minutes. for some reason or cause of which are lovely cause many of which are lovely and sad and goodness knows what. but i'm just there to have a good time that day. i'm not there to think of anything else in world except my team in the world except my team winning particular winning that particular day. >> don't have any

>> yeah, it's i don't have any particular view on whether or not they should promote messages publicly, but when you want your train, all i want, i don't want my brain occupied by anything else. my brain occupied by anything els> but also religion is the most divisive thing. >> it is planet. >> yeah, it is planet. >> yeah, it is planet. >> it is. so as soon as you put up >> it is. so as soon as you put up somebody's religion, someone else disagrees with it. >> , when he's telling you >> well, when he's telling you to sins, religion is to repent your sins, religion is the divisive thing. >> i think it's human interpretation of it. because that message, how can you disagree that? there's disagree with that? there's nothing i nothing divisive about it. i think most religious people would that is isabel. would say that. that is isabel. you're the point. you're missing the point. >> so missing the >> that is so you're missing the point. naive. i mean, i grew point. so naive. i mean, i grew up ireland. up in northern ireland. >> that's that's the people >> that's the that's the people misinterpreting message misinterpreting the message they're because you they're not missing. because you talk for an eye. talk about an eye for an eye. >> that's the old testament message. actual christian interpreting. >> interpreting the >> they're interpreting the message it. it message as how they see it. it is divisive. >> the christian message is tolerant. >> someone's religion. i'm committing and somebody committing a sin and somebody else's not. it's else's religion i am not. it's divisive . divisive. >> of other thing that could >> of the other thing that could be divisive about is be divisive about this is i would be interested to see in a month's time when it is passover, whether or not there

will be a message for our jewish members society, and whether will be a message for our jewish m> so but anyway, it's about there's never anything christian promoted anywhere in a still official christian. christian. >> i agree and i think that's what we should be doing. you know, we get told that we can't have christmas. you know, scenes anymore because that might be offensive to someone. but no one cares if this is. yeah, it's we either completely or we don't. >> there we go. maybe there should left in speaker's should be left in speaker's corner, shouldn't it? if that's what want. corner, shouldn't it? if that's whtthat's want. corner, shouldn't it? if that's whtthat's quite agree with andy. >> that's quite agree with andy. >> that's quite agree with andy. >> are fed up being preached >> are you fed up being preached at. or are you cool with that? doesit at. or are you cool with that? does it give you better does it give you a better understanding of everybody else's religious views and things? let us know. >> let us let us know. >> let us let us know. >> renee. let's see if we got a better, better understanding of rachel reeves, financial or

fiscal after her big, fiscal views after her big, lecture, as it's called last night, she's saying we won't repeat the mistakes of new laboun repeat the mistakes of new labour. she's been talking about channelling, thatcher and sounding increasingly like rishi sunak circa 2022. i mean, it's going on. >> it's absolutely bizarre, isn't it? the most successful labour government in history was new labour, you know, in power for a very long time were heralding things like the minimum wage for workers, children's tax credits, in—work tax credits. but now apparently that wasn't a good thing to do, which i'm really confused by, because what they are going to do, i think because it was word salad, lots of words, not much policy is they're going to give unions more power. they're going to worker more power to give the worker more power and are businesses are and business are businesses are actually be stymied by actually going to be stymied by these employment laws where these new employment laws where nobody's probation nobody's allowed a probation period. able to period. you won't be able to fire anybody. we basically are going like france and going to end up like france and thatis going to end up like france and that is supposed to drive growth. i just don't see those

two things sitting together because what businesses are going to do is actually draw in and back and wait and see and sit back and wait and see how it pans out. >> she also talked about not making mistakes of new making the mistakes of new laboun making the mistakes of new labour, but has said that she's going to take on gordon brown's policy only borrowing to policy of only borrowing to invest, not borrowing, just to run a hospital. >> i don't know if anybody's told her we're actually right over our credit card on over our credit card limit on borrowing. let's let's talk borrowing. yeah let's let's talk about, hotels for migrants. here and what it is, what it is costing , i and what it is, what it is costing, i went and what it is, what it is costing , i went back to belfast costing, i went back to belfast three weeks ago, and there were 17 one seven hotels around belfast which were, taken over and are used now solely to house migrants solely . belfast hasn't migrants solely. belfast hasn't got 17 hotels to offer up, but that rules out people going out for sunday lunch or for a snack on a wednesday night or something like that, in all these hotels . and the problem is these hotels. and the problem is huge and no one is really

talking about it. >> quite so. one of the government's initiatives to move people out of those hotels was to move them to places like barges or former military bases, or places where they weren't on the edge of town, or potentially bothering people, or there would be conflict with be conflict, conflict with communities. however richard, according the front of according to the front page of the and elsewhere, the guardian and elsewhere, rishi cost £46 rishi sunak's plan will cost £46 million more than the current system a system that, you know, putting migrants in hotels, etc. is supposed to cost us £6 million a day. but these new schemes, plus the rwanda scheme, are us more are actually costing us more money. the other position money. and the other position i've got is yes, people say the rwanda scheme and yes, people are putting people on barges, etc. a deterrent to stop etc. is a deterrent to stop people coming, it's only people coming, but it's only a believable deterrent if you're actually anyone to actually sending anyone to rwanda. course, if you're rwanda. and of course, if you're not sending there and not sending anyone there and it's working , then it's clearly not working, then it's clearly not working, then it doesn't work as a deterrent and doesn't us any and it doesn't save us any money. this issue of putting money. and this issue of putting people you've got people in barges, you've got the huge converting huge issue of converting these places they're places to so that they're suitable habitation. suitable for human habitation. and they're saving us and also they're not saving us any anyway. and so is it

any money anyway. and so is it worth any of the hassle? >> think this is we're >> i think this is we're completely missing the point here. calculating the cost here. we're calculating the cost of a room in a hotel or on a barge . what we're not factoring barge. what we're not factoring into this is the cultural cost of these people coming into small towns and small villages, where they are actually changing the culture and the feel of things. women are scared to walk out at night near these hotels. shopkeepers and tourists are not going any more. shopkeepers are losing the how losing money. there's the how many of these people are crimes? are going into the criminal are they going into the criminal activity? going to activity? what are they going to do next 20 years? how do for the next 20 years? how much are going to pay in much are we going to pay in benefits? that's that benefits? that's not in that calculation. so frankly, i don't care much barges are costing care how much barges are costing . these people to be sorted . these people need to be sorted out. need to turning boats out. we need to be turning boats back, letting them put foot back, not letting them put foot on our shores in the first place. because culturally there is a major problem here. >> why don't just sit with >> why don't you just sit with the big bus or lorry and every time a boat comes in or whatever, we say, hello, welcome. >> you're very welcome. here's a bus for you. and we're now

getting on board that ferry, and we're going to calais. that's where you're we're where you're going. we're bringing across from bringing you right across from whence you came. why don't they just that? just do that? >> why don't they do that, >> yeah. why don't they do that, eamonn? don't they say, eamonn? or why don't they say, okay, don't know you are. okay, we don't know who you are. we're going to process you quickly. until point, quickly. but until that point, you're going to be in this lock detention centre where we're going you, keep you warm going to feed you, keep you warm and safe because you're running away from something you're scared until know you scared of. until we know who you are whether not have are and whether or not you have anything this country, anything to offer this country, or have anything to or whether we have anything to offer as an asylum seeker. offer you as an asylum seeker. >> position, the >> but the position, the situation so flawed that even situation is so flawed that even when we have processed somebody , when we have processed somebody, gone the appeals, gone through all the appeals, gone through all the appeals, gone all the legal gone through all the legal hurdles, plane hurdles, they're sat in a plane on the runway ready to go. they still don't leave. we're not in control of the legal side of the situation. we're not control situation. we're not in control of of people of the physical flow of people through different through the through different countries. country. countries. in our own country. we don't have any control of any element. don't just disappear? >> the legal side? disappear? >> whylegal side? disappear? >> why don't side? disappear? >> why don't side' mean, disappear? >> why don'tside'mean, perhaps >> why don't i? i mean, perhaps we the reason there is so we could. the reason there is so many laws already place ,

many laws already in place, there is so much regulation in place, but there isn't the political to will enforce so much of the changes that need to take place. >> there's also a massive industry this lawyers industry around this of lawyers and people who are and charities and people who are making from keeping making fortunes from keeping these the country. these people in the country. >> thank much >> renee, thank you very much indeed, andy. you. see you indeed, andy. thank you. see you guys in 40 minutes time we guys again in 40 minutes time we say alex say good morning to alex deakin. here's weather. here's the weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. a bit of a drab start for most of us today. dull and damp, the brighter skies are going to be across northern ireland and western scotland, where we should lengthy spells should see some lengthy spells of sunshine of sunshine elsewhere. sunshine in , generally dry in short supply, generally dry and fine across the south—east. it cheer here, but a damp it may cheer up here, but a damp start for eastern scotland. southern the rain will southern scotland. the rain will tend to ease here through the day, but stays pretty dank day, but it stays pretty dank across northern england,

particularly parts of particularly yorkshire, parts of north . the rain and off north wales. the rain on and off but light to the south of but fairly light to the south of that, mostly still that, mostly dry and still pretty celsius is pretty mild. 18 celsius is possible with a bit of sunshine, some sunny skies across the northwest, cooler day here northwest, a cooler day here with a fresher feel in the cooler air, but still plenty of sunshine. feeling pleasant enough. rain and drizzle enough. the rain and drizzle will trickle away from eastern parts england through this parts of england through this evening . much of the uk will evening. much of the uk will become by midnight, but then become dry by midnight, but then after midnight, more rain comes into north—west, the into the far north—west, the winds up here as well. winds picking up here as well. quite a bit of cloud around. could see some mist fog could see some mist and fog where we keep some clearer skies. may in rural skies. temperatures may in rural spots get close to freezing onto thursday, then , and generally a thursday, then, and generally a dry fine day for england and wales. a brighter day certainly to of the pennines to the east of the pennines compared to today. still fair compared to today. still a fair bit of elsewhere, but some bit of cloud elsewhere, but some bright sunny spells the bright or sunny spells in the south. outbreaks of rain will move across and move in across scotland and northern ireland the northern ireland through the day, a blustery and fairly day, so a blustery and fairly wet day here, rain on and off throughout, again, fairly mild for us, with for most of us, with temperatures generally in the

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8:00. and it's wednesday, the 20th of march, and you're tuned into breakfast with eamonn holmes and isabel webster. >> and here's what's leading for us morning. us this morning. >> a royal security >> a major royal security breach. the hospital where the princess of wales was treated as launched an investigation over claims staff to access claims staff attempted to access her medical records, which are private . private. >> trump hits out at nato nigel

farage has sat down with the president in an exclusive interview. >> and you, if you're not paying your bills, we're not going to defend you. it's very simple. >> inflation figures are out with economists talking about the latest drop that there has been. >> inflation is down from 4% dufing >> inflation is down from 4% during the year to january to 3.4% in february. the cost of living crisis is easing for some. but will it be enough for the bank of england to cut interest rates tomorrow ? interest rates tomorrow? >> i want you to go. thank you very much. i was scrupulously polite because i thought silly to be too rude at that stage. >> and today marks the 50th anniversary of the failed kidnapping of princess anne along the mall. we'll be looking back at that event. and how security changed as a result . security changed as a result. >> and in the sport this

morning, football, gareth southgate calls up 18 year old to the senior england squad . in to the senior england squad. in rugby, former wales captain sam warburton has hit. i'll get warburton, thank you very much. has hit out at scotland players brad . that's it. that's it. it's brad. that's it. that's it. it's either a bread or a rugby player okay. right. sometimes both. italy are happy with how italy are not happy with how they were treated in cardiff by they were treated in cardiff by the way, and in golf. talking of food, jon rahm has revealed his champions dinner menu for the masters. i hope they like tapas and a little bread well. and a little bread as well. >> of a and damp one >> bit of a dull and damp one for many of us today. there will be some sunshine for northern ireland and western scotland, be some sunshine for northern ireleanotherwestern scotland, be some sunshine for northern ireleanother prettyn scotland, be some sunshine for northern ireleanother pretty mild tland, be some sunshine for northern ireleanother pretty mild dayj, and another pretty mild day across join me across the southeast. join me later full forecast later for a full forecast. >> now. more headaches for the royal family. a major security breach being investigated at the london clinic. the hospital where the princess of wales underwent her surgery in january

i >> hospital bosses there are now looking into claims a member of staff was caught trying to access her private medical detail, they've spoken to detail, and they've spoken to kensington well about kensington palace as well about the potential breach. >> okay, let's talk about this now with our royal correspondent, cameron walker, who's in studio. cameron put who's in the studio. cameron put this in context for us. this in in context for us. i mean, people will either fall into the category that this is awful, terrible, or it's awful, this is terrible, or it's awful, this is terrible, or it's a . that's staff a hospital. that's what staff do. yes. a london clinic is >> yes. if a london clinic is the private hospital in central london the princess london where the princess underwent abdominal underwent that abdominal surgery, was there for surgery, she was there for around two weeks now. i have contacted the london clinic this morning. as of yet they have not responded. but what mirror responded. but what the mirror is reporting is at least one member of staff allegedly accesses accessed the princess of wales's private medical information . they also say the information. they also say the mirror that bosses have launched a probe into that, and have contacted kensington palace informing them of the alleged breach, as well as saying that there would be a full investigation now. >> ken, so what does that mean?

the former kensington palace, that private may that oh, the private details may well that oh, the private details may welwell , quite possibly, i think >> well, quite possibly, i think it was a warning for them. kensington palace told me last night that it's a matter for the london clinic, this is london clinic, but this is potentially very serious eamonn because is a criminal offence because it is a criminal offence to access somebody's private medical an medical details. if you're an nhs staffer or indeed private medical staffer as well, without a the consent of the patient and b authorisation from what's called the organisation's data controller, i.e. unless you're directly involved in the princess's medical treatments, then you should not be accessing that information. now these are all allegations, but is the is the interview is the information not worthless because under those conditions, who can pubush those conditions, who can publish that? well quite possibly. possibly. that is a good point. the first thing i would say is it could just be, if true, a very nosy staffer who just wanted to know because of all the conspiracy theories onune all the conspiracy theories online blowing up. it could online blowing up. or it could be something sinister , like be something more sinister, like they were planning to sell it.

so course this just so of course this is just an allegation speculation. allegation and speculation. nothing's been confirmed, but they a potential they could. there is a potential for somebody to that for somebody to sell that information karen. for somebody to sell that infcit1ation karen. for somebody to sell that infc it just n karen. for somebody to sell that infc it just feelskaren. for somebody to sell that infc it just feels like 1. for somebody to sell that infc it just feels like the >> it just feels like the world's gone mad, doesn't it? i mean, here we are with the woman who quite clearly doesn't want to about is wrong with to talk about what is wrong with her. just insult to her. this is just insult to injury. absolutely is. injury. well, it absolutely is. >> princess has >> the princess of wales has always still always maintained and still maintained recover maintained she wants to recover in the privacy of her own home at windsor. clearly we had the video in the sun yesterday of her and william at the weekends walking of the farm walking outside of the farm shop, palace, shop, kensington palace, i think, perhaps maintains that the princess wanted privacy, but they weren't perhaps too upset about it because it has seemed to have quashed a vast majority of that conspiracy theories . but of that conspiracy theories. but then again, we wake up to headunes then again, we wake up to headlines again this morning about another major issue with the princess of this time the princess of wales, this time about alleged, breach of her about an alleged, breach of her privacy. >> but, you know, let's put this into i would say that. into context. i would say that. who this? well, who published this? well, apparently social apparently the chinese social media almost in meltdown apparently the chinese social medweek almost in meltdown apparently the chinese social medweek as.most in meltdown apparently the chinese social medweek as they in meltdown apparently the chinese social medweek as they were eltdown apparently the chinese social medweek as they were reporting last week as they were reporting that the king, king charles was

dead. >> yeah, that was the russian media, was it? >> yeah. yeah so tell us what happened there. >> well, a russian media organisation put out fake organisation put out a fake statement is statement alleging which is completely false before i say this, that his majesty the king had away, which was had passed away, which was completely , completely false. completely, completely false. both embassy. both ukrainian british embassy. sorry the british embassy in ukraine and russia both put out a buckingham a very strong denial. buckingham palace did something very similar as well. so it was just complete fabrication. but as you say, eamonn the blew up on social media, all this speculation , all these fake speculation, all these fake statements that swimming, swinging around internet and swinging around the internet and it's seems to be, hysteria , it's just seems to be, hysteria, almost all these royal stories on social media and the palace clearly do not want to dignify any of it with a response because it is just total nonsense. and yet it does seem to seep into mainstream media how. >> now. >> but, my friend, we are running a story also today from 50 years ago. princess anne, and you have reported on this already this morning, a gunman getting into her car, breaking

into her car on the mall. right. and she does this interview a number of years later on the michael parkinson show. and it is absolutely fascinating. and we were just saying today, you compare seriousness of compare that the seriousness of that to some of the stuff that's going about speculative stuff. and i mean, we i don't know how we would have dealt with that stuff 50 years ago. yeah, i mean, no social media 50 years ago, perhaps the world has lost its nerve a little bit with all this princess of wales conspiracy theories. >> i have to give the london clinic a right of reply, by the way. so is them talking to way. so this is them talking to the firmly believe the mirror. we firmly believe that patients , no matter that all our patients, no matter their status, deserve total privacy and confidentiality regarding their medical information. what they information. so that's what they told last night. told the mirror last night. >> cameron, thanks much >> cameron, thanks very much indeed. >> right now, inflation and the office for national statistics has reported it has fallen to 3.4% for february , four from 4% 3.4% for february, four from 4% in january. and in the last houn in january. and in the last hour, the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has responded this is the

lowest headline rate for two and a half years, but most encouragingly, food inflation, which was nearly 20% a year ago, is now just 5. >> and what this shows is that the plan to bring inflation down, it was over 11% when rishi sunak became prime minister. now just 3.4. that plan is working, but we do need to stick to it and see it right the way through i >> -- >> okay. liam halligan, our business and economics editor. what do you got to say to that? >> well, this is the lowest inflation since september 2021. pfices inflation since september 2021. prices are still rising, but dufing prices are still rising, but during the year to february, they rose by 3.4% compared to 4% dufing they rose by 3.4% compared to 4% during the year to january, and compared to 11.1% back in the autumn of 2022. so for many of us, the cost of living crisis is easing, and this is mainly because food prices are now rising at a slower rate. they're still going up, but they're rising at a slower rate. food

price inflation in february was down at 4.5, from 7% the month before and from up at 19, the highest in 45 years this time last year. so there has been a big squeeze, particularly on food, petrol and diesel. prices are also down on the year, though they've ticked up, as will many of us. drivers will have felt over the last month or so. all eyes now on the bank of england tomorrow, will the monetary policy committee cut interest rates from i interest rates from 5.25? i don't think it will because inflation is still well above the bank of england's 2% target. but be in no doubt this is better news for rishi sunak. had inflation stayed at 4% or come down only a little bit, a lot of tories in the house of commons would have said, crikey, the economy's not going to get better. we need to have an election straight away rather than waiting for autumn. than waiting for the autumn. this an interest rate cut this makes an interest rate cut more it makes an more likely. it makes an election in the autumn rather than the summer more likely to. >> okay, liam, thanks for

explaining that for us this morning. let's get the reaction this morning to the latest inflation figures from jack carson, who joins us from birmingham this morning. good morning , jack. where are morning to you, jack. where are you what people saying you and what are people saying there it all. there about it all. >> well, i'm live here this morning and all throughout the day on birmingham high street. getting that reaction to, of course, latest inflation course, the latest inflation figures. people quite figures. initially people quite happy with the fact that it's gone to down 3.4% in the year to february, feeling like that is quite a significant drop from maybe we've seen before, maybe what we've seen before, certainly the past few certainly in the past few months, it's only dropped months, where it's only dropped by a kind of 0.1 or 2 by a few kind of 0.1 or 2 percentage point, but somebody really probably summing it up quite well that it's good news that inflation is falling. but he just said, i don't really think like i'm feeling it. of course food inflation has come down. the main one. that down. that is the main one. that of course impacts in of course impacts people in their everyday as they go their everyday lives as they go shopping getting their food shopping and getting their food for their families and themselves. maybe is themselves. so that maybe is better food inflation better news that food inflation is falling. but of course, it's

across the kind of whole last couple of years that is . but of couple of years that is. but of course it's still inflation. so it's still going up. it's not deflation. prices in the shops aren't falling . they are still aren't falling. they are still rising a little bit, mainly over the past kind of year and month. so it's the petrol prices and what people are paying at the pump that is really impacting them. they've gone up once again, people really feeling that because really , as that impact because really, as we from all of the people we know from all of the people we've to over the past we've spoken to over the past few is few months, every penny is counting moment. so there counting at the moment. so there are certainly more positive, of course, that inflation is falling, certainly not falling, but certainly not people necessarily that cut through whether they're through of whether they're feeling in their pockets, not feeling it in their pockets, not necessarily really much of a driving factor in whether they feel like the government certainly doing enough at certainly are doing enough at the moment. and being the moment. and there being people are being people on the street are being supported enough. of course. jeremy clear today jeremy hunt, very clear today that he says that this is, of course, good for the economy. the uk is moving closer towards that bank of england target of inflation at 2. but rachel

reeves he's criticising this morning saying that prices are still high despite this latest fall . fall. >> okay, jack, with that thanks very much. as you say, you'll be there throughout the day. we will see you again a little while later on. >> the rwanda immigration bill returns to the lords today, and it's been revealed that barges and bases cost more to house and raf bases cost more to house than hotels for migrants . than hotels for migrants. >> the national audit office also says only two sites are up and running, so far less than half capacity . the government half capacity. the government insists it will maintain these sites are cheaper in the long run . run. >> let's get the thoughts of our homeland security editor mark white on this one. mark, good morning to you . morning to you. >> good morning to you. yes, the government him in just simply can't catch a break with regard to the migration asylum seeker issue. every day they get battered with fresh negative headlines. and today it's all about the accommodation of these

asylum seekers in the more purpose built centres, such as old raaf bases and the bibby stockholm barge in portland. remember, of course, that rishi sunak last august said he wanted to get from the to get away from the overreliance on hotels which take these hotels out of commission for communities that rely on these hotels for weddings and other functions in their local area, but instead they have been taken over hundreds of them by asylum seekers . so he wanted to move seekers. so he wanted to move away from that model and have more purpose built centres. but what the national audit office is now saying is that that £1.2 billion bill for housing at the moment, about 900 asylum seekers, it will rise to about 3000. it's going to be 1.2 billion, 46 million more than if those people were actually still housed in hotels now. but the home office is saying is actually that the national audit office figures are taking the

set up costs for these bases as well . so there's redevelopment well. so there's redevelopment costs here. for instance , raf costs here. for instance, raf wethersfield, in essex and raf scampton in lincolnshire. the original costs of redeveloping these sites were estimated at about 5 million each. they've soared. raf wethersfield, £49 million. it's now costing and scampton is going to cost £27 million. so those costs are being weighed up by the national audit office. what the government is saying is actually in the longer tum it is going to be cheaper. it makes sense that if you put lots of people together in purpose built accommodation, it's going to be cheaper than paying £8 million a day on all of these hotels across the country. and it is, you know, a pertinent issue as it continues, because just this morning, we've got more boats , morning, we've got more boats, coming across the english channel. we've got a break in the weather after some pretty

dodgy weather recent days, 90 dodgy weather in recent days, 90 have arrived in dover so far this morning. another two boats have just made it into uk waters, so probably about the same number again. waters, so probably about the same number again . and all these same number again. and all these people need to be accommodated somewhere. >> indeed . mark white, thanks >> indeed. mark white, thanks very much indeed. >> thank you, let's find out what the weather is going to do on this wednesday. alex dickens, the man with the big picture . the man with the big picture. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. a bit of a drab start for most of us today. dull and damp. the brightest skies are going to be across northern ireland and western scotland, where we should some lengthy should see some lengthy spells of sunshine. elsewhere, sunshine in a generally in short supply, a generally dry and the southeast. and fine across the southeast. it cheer up here, but a damp

it may cheer up here, but a damp start for eastern scotland. southern the will southern scotland, the rain will tend here through the tend to ease here through the day, it stays pretty dank day, but it stays pretty dank across northern england, particularly parts particularly yorkshire, parts of north rain and off north wales, the rain on and off but light to the south of but fairly light to the south of that, mostly dry and still pretty mild. celsius is pretty mild. 18 celsius is possible a bit of sunshine, possible with a bit of sunshine, some skies across the some sunny skies across the northwest, day here northwest, a cooler day here with a fresher feel in the cooler but still plenty of cooler air, but still plenty of sunshine. feeling pleasant enough. rain and drizzle enough. the rain and drizzle will trickle away from eastern parts england this parts of england through this evening of the uk will evening for much of the uk will become dry by midnight, but then after midnight, more rain comes become dry by midnight, but then afte|the dnight, more rain comes become dry by midnight, but then afte|the farght, more rain comes become dry by midnight, but then afte|the far northwest. ain comes become dry by midnight, but then afte|the far northwest. the omes into the far northwest. the winds picking up here as well. quite a bit of cloud around. could see some mist and fog where we keep clearer where we keep some clearer skies. temperatures may , in skies. temperatures may, in rural spots get close to freezing on thursday then, freezing to on thursday then, and generally a fine day for and generally a dry fine day for england wales. a brighter england and wales. a brighter day, to east of day, certainly to the east of the compared to today. the pennines compared to today. still fair bit of cloud still a fair bit of cloud elsewhere, but some bright or sunny south. sunny spells in the south. outbreaks will move in outbreaks of rain will move in across and northern across scotland and northern ireland through day, ireland through the day, so a

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>> 2024 a battleground year. >> the year the nation decides. >> the year the nation decides. >> as the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election. >> who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives ? who will rise and their lives? who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together for every moment. >> the highs, the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. >> gb news is britain's election . channel. >> thank you. this morning. most of you believe police officers are underpaid and as regards inflation and the latest figures are winner, says my reaction to this slight fall is so what? green taxes are still there . green taxes are still there. energy prices are too high. house prices are too high. immigration, legal and illegal, are still there and most depressingly , jeremy hunt is depressingly, jeremy hunt is still there, as well , mel says

still there, as well, mel says these prices are determined by global forces and nothing jeremy hunt or his plan will affect those prices. he's saying as well, we're going to return to royal matters. >> now, we've been discussing a little bit earlier in the program, the security breach for the princess of wales. but we want to cast your minds back 50 years ago because 50 years ago today, what happened, princess anne? >> t- w was an anne? >> was an attempted kidnap >> there was an attempted kidnap on her. the year was 1974. she was in a car. i think, with her husband or her husband to be. and there was an attempted huack and there was an attempted hijack by an armed man who shot at bystanders. >> well, our royal correspondent , cameron walker has been looking back on the events and a really fascinating interview with the princess royal and the reaction to this story. >> this man had a gun and, he shot 50 years ago, the mall, famous for its pomp and ceremony, turned into a sinister crime scene. >> the daughter of queen

elizabeth ii, princess anne and her then husband , captain mark her then husband, captain mark phillips, were driving back to buckingham palace from charity buckingham palace from a charity event. a ford escort cut up their royal car and they were forced to stop. armed with two pistols, assailants ian ball got out his car and approached the princess. he shot her protection officer, inspector james beaton, officer, inspectorjames beaton, who tried to disarm him. beaton returned fire but missed before his gun jammed. he was shot twice more as he tried to protect the queen's only daughter. died davies, former head of royal protection, thinks police in 1974 were unprepared. >> well, it was totally inadequate then. the training was very, very different because nobody actually thought anything like this could happen . there like this could happen. there was no defensive driving training in those days. what you should have done, somebody pulls out. you like that, was to drive through him. >> meanwhile, ball attempted to kidnap princess anne. he demanded a reported £3 million

ransom, which he plans to give to the nhs . to the n hs. >> to the nhs. >> renee said i had to go with him, i said i didn't say anything. i wanted to go so much. i was scrupulous , was much. i was scrupulous, was polite because i thought it was silly to be too rude at that stage. again >> and chauffeur also tried to help but was shot, as was nearby journalist brian mcconnell, pc michael hills, who'd been guarding the queen mother's residence on the opposite side of the road at clarence house, also came to help . ian ball shot also came to help. ian ball shot him too, but he managed to call for backup when he shot the policeman. >> we managed to close the door. >> we managed to close the door. >> you eventually got the door back open again. >> the door back open. but >> lock the door back open. but in process of getting the in the process of getting the door back, open back of my door back, open the back of my dress from top to all the dress split from top to all the shoulders went out of it and that was his most dangerous moment. i, former boxer moment. but i, former boxer ronnie russell passed by and realised what was happening. >> he then punched ian ball as hard as he could . there are

hard as he could. there are various accounts of what happened next, but the end result was that ian ball was arrested . ball pleaded guilty to arrested. ball pleaded guilty to attempted murder and kidnapping . attempted murder and kidnapping. he was sectioned under the mental health act, having been diagnosed with schizophrenia. nowadays, close protection officers are highly trained police outriders and back up vehicles are common practice. miraculously those who were shot survived and princess anne visited them in hospital. queen elizabeth ii awarded the george medal to the boxer who punched ball . the other heroes that ball. the other heroes that night were also rewarded . today, night were also rewarded. today, the princess royal is consistently rated the hardest working member of the royal family , a firm support for her family, a firm support for her brother the king, who continues regular cancer treatment. cameron walker gb news is gosh, what a story, what an absolute story. >> be more princess anne. that's my motto of the day. she's just so dry. the way she delivers that line. i was scrupulously

polite . i suppose you would be polite. i suppose you would be in that situation . in that situation. >> you would be. keep your views to gb views gb news. >> com we go to wales now and vaughan gething ing is a man who is officially to become the next first minister of wales this afternoon, replacing outgoing minister mark drakeford. >> now getting beat jeremy miles to narrowly win the welsh labour leadership election with 51.7% of the vote. >> oh, let's go to gb news political correspondent katherine forster, who's there to bring us all the atmosphere and what else is happening today. >> catherine, good morning to you . you. >> borough da eamonn and isabel from the beautiful cardiff bay. yes the end of an era yesterday, as the now former first minister mark drakeford and resigned, he made a quite emotional, speech. his wife, claire passed away very suddenly last year. let's

just take a little listen to some of that . some of that. >> for me personally, the last 12 months has been the hardest and the saddest of my life , and and the saddest of my life, and people will not see beyond the chamber, those small acts of kindness that happen every day from people in every part of this chamber that help someone to get through those very, very difficult times . difficult times. >> the leader of the opposition , >> the leader of the opposition, m andrew rt davies, was almost in tears as well, paying tribute to mark drakeford despite their huge political differences. he said how kind he had been to him personally when , he had been personally when, he had been ill. it was a very civilised affair but at the end of an era and today history will be made

because vaughan gething mark drakeford, successor will become the first black leader in europe. so a really big moment here. there's going to be a vote. but we know that he will be chosen and then a letter will be chosen and then a letter will be sent to the king. the king will reply , then he will take an will reply, then he will take an oath and he will take his place as the leader of, oath and he will take his place as the leader of , of, the as the leader of, of, the government here in the senate behind me, quite a lot of controversy. it was very narrow, a very narrow win for him. and also there's been a lot of questions over a £200,000 donation given which he accepted for his campaign from a company tied to a man who had twice been convicted of environmental offences. also, he faces a very big in—tray, doctors strikes ,

big in—tray, doctors strikes, nhs waiting lists, of course. then the hugely controversial 20 mile an hour zone that's been introduced in urban areas. here, farmers protests, not to mention not very far down the road , port not very far down the road, port talbot, the steelworks where the coking ovens are closing months ahead of schedule. so a lot to do here for this incoming first minister. >> catherine, thank you very much indeed. paul coyte up next with what's happening sports wise, we have everything. >> a little football , i've got >> a little football, i've got a little bit of rugby. and what do you think is the hardest sport to play? i'll tell you what. oh we'll see. >> homer abroad. >> homer abroad. >> no, we're in the world. anywhere in the world of all the sports. anywhere. what is the hardest one to actually take part in hurling? >> sumo wrestling. okay, see? >> sumo wrestling. okay, see? >> okay. we'll see. >> okay. we'll see. >> could be after this

now. come on. you're talking about this. most difficult sport in the world. >> well, give us. give us some opfions >> well, give us. give us some options or. >> okay. or. >> okay. or. >> well, well, look , it's >> well, well, look, it's a survey that's been done. sports difficulty. so the sport, there's marks for endurance , there's marks for endurance, strength, power. i could be talking about you, couldn't i? oh, this could be. >> does it involve an animal? >> does it involve an animal? >> no, no. so what are you thinking? line timing. what are you thinking? no i'm thinking of, like, a horse riding event. >> no, no, no something, no power. >> speed, agility, flexibility. flexibility, gymnastics flexibility, which is gymnastics . you out of ten for . you get ten out of ten for gymnastics. flexibility, nerve durability hand—eye durability, hand—eye coordination and an elliptic and elliptic aptitude. >> yes. maybe on that, what is it called? the beam . it called? the beam. >> oh, on the beam. you need a bit of agility and all the rest of it. i still think it's some sort of wrestling or combat or.

>> correct, no, it's some sort of combat is right. >> okay. >> okay. >> but number one, japanese or chinese or boxing . boxing is the chinese or boxing. boxing is the most difficult sport because of everything. if you think how hard it is that someone smacking you in the face, the fact you've got to think it's everything. so they say that that across all those , all the criteria that those, all the criteria that i just gave you is the hardest sport. second is ice hockey . i'm sport. second is ice hockey. i'm not sure about that. >> well, no, i think it's the same thing. it's quite violent. and those pucks. yeah. and also you've got to be skating . yeah. you've got to be skating. yeah. it's hockey but you've got it's like hockey but you've got to skate. it all carries to skate. playing it all carries huge risk. >> i've never find ice hockey an enjoyable thing to watch. >> no, no. doesn't american sports like most americans. >> yeah i agree american sports. >> yeah i agree american sports. >> the thing is, with this >> see, the thing is, with this and i think this is an american survey because they've got american football. number three i on. most boring i mean no, come on. most boring really . really. >> yeah. basketball. >> yeah. basketball. >> do you like number four rah rah girls on it though. they're good. >> they work hard. >> they work hard. >> cheerleaders. >> cheerleaders.

>> they cheerleaders. >> they they do cheerleaders. they do the an elliptic they do tick the an elliptic aptitude as well . wrestling. is aptitude as well. wrestling. is there basketball arts. aptitude as well. wrestling. is thertennisztball arts. aptitude as well. wrestling. is thertennis atall arts. aptitude as well. wrestling. is thertennis at seven. arts. aptitude as well. wrestling. is thertennis at seven. gymnastics no. tennis at seven. gymnastics at eight. >> this is definitely racing's not in there because i mean horse riding is the most dangerous thing you can do . dangerous thing you can do. >> yeah, but half of it is done with a horse. so if you could have, like, the horse and then, then you get half each for the horse or the rider, great horse and then you can put you it, and then you can put you on it, you able win. you wouldn't be able to win. >> yeah there is maybe >> so yeah there is some maybe he maybe would. one of he would, maybe he would. one of the jockeys on really the top jockeys on a really rubbish horse and it would beat you the really great one. you on the really great one. just saying. okay. >> just see. well >> well we'll just see. well maybe just give it a go. maybe we'll just give it a go. and football proper football is down number 10. but down as number 10. but apparently is they the apparently that is they are the most difficult sports. yeah it's nonsense. you asked me to tell you a, i'm just a piano you i'm just a, i'm just a piano player . player. >> i'm just passing it on there. >> i'm just passing it on there. >> there's hockey in there. >> there's no hockey in there. there's no ice hockey. >> it does, it goes through. >> oh it does, it goes through. there's a lot of list, right? field hockey. tiddlywinks is in it. 53 by the way. >> quite tricky. >> that is quite tricky. >> that is quite tricky. >> absolutely. so i'll tell >> yeah absolutely. so i'll tell you about kobe mania. go on then

kobe mania. >> new breakthrough guy. >> this season for manchester united. >> yeah 18 years old in the midfield. >> yeah 18 years old in the micwe d. talking about young >> we were talking about young players coming through. that's what of game what the future of the game is. and been signed up. and he's now been signed up. well, say up. he's been well, i say signed up. he's been brought to play for the brought through to play for the england senior five england senior squad. five months was the months ago he was in the manchester 21 team manchester united under 21 team a called up to the a year ago, called up to the under 19 for england. so there he is. he's with the under 20 ones at saint george's park. he is. he's with the under 20 ones at saircome'ge's park. he is. he's with the under 20 ones at saircome and park. he is. he's with the under 20 ones at saircome and see k. he is. he's with the under 20 ones at saircome and see us in gets a call. come and see us in reception. you've called up reception. you've been called up to join the senior squad. and of course, he's really, really happy. course, he's really, really happy 6 course, he's really, really happy. a fantastic happy. and it's a fantastic he's fantastic when happy. and it's a fantastic he's fant hear when happy. and it's a fantastic he's fant hear about when happy. and it's a fantastic he's fant hear about ben when happy. and it's a fantastic he's fant hear about ben white, vhen happy. and it's a fantastic he's fant hear about ben white, who's you hear about ben white, who's from said that i from arsenal, who said that i don't want to play england . don't want to play for england. it should be the pinnacle of any player to for their country player to play for their country , and taken it the right , and he's taken it the right way. who knows whether he'll way. and who knows whether he'll be the next couple be playing over the next couple of games. so it's good news for him he's a good player. i him and he's a good player. i think ben white will regret that. will it. that. i think he will regret it. i does regret it because i hope he does regret it because any turn down their any player to turn down their country, i think is whatever the reason is going to be a mistake,

because you won't get asked back again, feeling again, i'm feeling a bit peckish. talk about again, i'm feeling a bit peckish. masters talk about again, i'm feeling a bit peckish. masters menus? ut menus? masters menus? >> yeah, the masters is >> yeah, yeah, the masters is coming augusta masters, coming up. the augusta masters, which favourite golf which is my favourite golf tournament, this is where tournament, it's. this is where they patrons. they don't they have patrons. they don't have spectators. have have spectators. they have patrons. it's patrons. it's just a it's a throwback to olden times. it's a bit posh. it is extremely posh. and what they have is the is the champions dinner, which is always a couple of nights before the opening of the tournament. so the champion from the year before gets to choose the menu. >> and so they all turn up in green blazer. >> of course they yeah. >> of course they do. yeah. because you know the green blades, green jacket, blades, the green jacket, they're take they're not allowed to take the green away augusta. green jacket away from augusta. they're allowed to wear the they're only allowed to wear the green if they're green jacket if they're the current champion they current champion anywhere they want. new want. but after this new champion they have to keep their green in their own locker green jacket in their own locker at national. and they're at augusta national. and they're not allowed. they're allowed to expect it to wear it at the golf course, but not allowed to wear it elsewhere. >> elsewhere. yeah. >> elsewhere. yeah. >> but anyway, >> yeah. excellent. but anyway, we the menu, which jon we have the menu, which is jon

rahm , very spanish menu. i know rahm, very spanish menu. i know we saw it just there. i think we may that again. there's may see that again. there's a lot of tapas involved. very spanish traditional menu. some of menus that of the other menus that i've seen the scottish seen in the past scottish scheffler last year, cheese burger and cheese. >> come on danny there we are. >> come on danny there we are. >> there's the menu that they'll be enjoying this year danny willett english golfer that willett the english golfer that one. surprisingly in 2017 many cottage starters with a cottage pies starters with a proper roast dinner. tiger woods had a mcdonald's selection. sandy lyle in 89 had haggis. so always something that reflects the person. >> and that's what had a nice lunch yesterday . lunch yesterday. >> i had a chicken and lentil soup. did you very nice. followed by a salmon teriyaki. oh i love salmon teriyaki. >> yeah, with some sesame seeds on it . yes. and spring onions. on it. yes. and spring onions. >> vegetables around it which is, which is really nice. >> is that your stomach rumbling? i heard as you said that there was a rumble. was he you. there might have been a rumble coming from somewhere. it was a run up the half hours. was a run up in the half hours. >> oh , that's so warm. it's just enough.

>> have you seen these weren't. it's here. they were it's so warm in here. they were down weren't about down there, weren't they. about 7:30. beautiful. 7:30. oh they're beautiful. >> me. i thought it was >> goodness me. i thought it was you putting me to you that was putting me to sleep. not the temperature . sleep. it's not the temperature. >> thank you. it's not. >> thank you. it's not. >> it's my calm, soothing voice. now relax. you're not in tomorrow. >> good night. >> good night. >> okay. with that, we'll take a break and then we're going to look through what's in the papers. today we'll have a bit of ding dong about that. of an old ding dong about that. hopefully us after hopefully you can join us after this.

>> 843. we are looking at the newspapers this morning in the company of renee hoenderkamp and andy jones. renee sort of pains me to bring kate up, but actually, i want to go to the star because i think they've nailed it with their headline. this morning. world goes mad after woman goes shopping . i after woman goes shopping. i mean, they really have. i mean,

this this is just the gift that keeps on giving now, isn't it? i actually feel that we should have left her alone. and because of the conspiracy theories onune of the conspiracy theories online and the pressure she was unden online and the pressure she was under, she was forced to issue that photograph, which when i looked at it, i thought, well, what lovely photograph. but it what a lovely photograph. but it turns that it was turns out that it was photoshopped whatever photoshopped and whatever else, and crazy. and now it's just gone crazy. and help but think, and i can't help but think, isabel, if the newspapers did not putting it on isabel, if the newspapers did not front putting it on isabel, if the newspapers did not front page, putting it on isabel, if the newspapers did not front page, payinging it on isabel, if the newspapers did not front page, paying people] the front page, paying people for pictures of women going shopping, this would all just go away. >> well, on that note, should we not talk about it anymore? shall we on? we move on? >> let's about tax a&e. >> let's talk about tax a&e. yes, hmrc is introducing an annual the year and annual break over the year and the idea is that you'll have no alternative but to go online and fill in your own tax returns. which leads to problems, of course, because sometimes people don't get it right and then they might be prosecuted and all sorts of things. >> and sorry to interrupt. it's quite the break too. it's not like a couple of days the tax

office won't be answering your calls. talking calls. they're talking about from to september from april the 8th to september the taxpayers will be the 30th, taxpayers will be unable to call the tax office for help with their tax return. they're trying to drive you online. bring it back at online. quite. bring it back at all. >> if you're going to break april, may, june, july , august, april, may, june, july, august, the months of the year. the six months of the year. >> yeah, course they're >> yeah, of course they're coming back. >> yeah, of course they're conwell, ack. >> yeah, of course they're conwell, you've got to consider >> well, you've got to consider these people who are these poor people who are working home from hmrc. working from home from hmrc. they do need to on holiday as they do need to go on holiday as well. know, like well. eamonn you know, it's like when through to my when i get through to my bank, they seem affronted if i've called they say, can we ask called and they say, can we ask you you didn't go online? you why you didn't go online? >> wanted to speak to >> because i wanted to speak to a being. heaven forbid a human being. heaven forbid they don't get that. >> i've been self—employed 15 years. hmrc website is absolutely if you try absolutely appalling. if you try and pay a bill to hmrc, there is no massive blob on the website that says pay your bill here or find how much you owe like you do with, say, british gas or severn trent water or whatever . severn trent water or whatever. instead, you have to granularly go text that's go through tiny text that's almost sized font try almost bible sized font to try and anything you have to and find anything you have to log 2 or 3 times. it sends

log in 2 or 3 times. it sends you questionnaires. i just want to know much i have to pay. to know how much i have to pay. what is bill? and it's what is my bill? and it's drowning superfluous, drowning in superfluous, dreadful information . every time dreadful information. every time i log in, it asks me if i'm disabled. well, it's my login. why disabled this why do i wasn't disabled this month? going be month? i'm not going to be largely speaking, would largely speaking, i would personally the personally change the information so much information myself. it's so much extraneous information. i find it and i'm really it stressful and i'm really computer literate and digitally literate. a pensioner literate. if you're a pensioner or if you were less able bodied or if you were less able bodied or you were a single mum with lots of kids in the background, all that sort of stuff, it's an absolute nightmare . and for them absolute nightmare. and for them to disappear they're not to disappear and say they're not offered phone service for offered any phone service for six months, well, some are saying they might saying is saying they might prosecute if your tax prosecute you if your tax affairs correct. it's a affairs aren't correct. it's a trap it's wrong. let's trap and it's wrong. oh let's talk about flashing . talk about cyber flashing. >> cyber flashing is men who send lewd, awful nude pictures of themselves in this particular case. and it was a guy who sent a his name is nicholas hawks , a his name is nicholas hawks, and he sent unsolicited,

explicit photos to a 15 year old and a woman at. and as a result, he's been put away for 66 weeks. >> good. and not a not a minute too soon. we know that this kind of crime , however innocuous it of crime, however innocuous it may seem, is actually quite often an entry crime to other, more serious sexual crimes. often an entry crime to other, more serious sexual crimes . when more serious sexual crimes. when cousins started with flashing and ended up murdering a girl and ended up murdering a girl and let's sorry sarah everard let me say her name, not a girl. and i think it's brilliant that this has happened. i think it's brilliant that it's out there so that other people who think that this may be okay and they can do it, don't do because they're it, don't do it because they're deterred. but we also need to make that we're make sure now that we're actually giving people who commit deep , commit sexual crimes deep, decent sentences that it is decent sentences so that it is a deterrent. you know, it's still going on day in, day out. women are still scared to walk the streets. and this is just part of it. >> it's worth saying i absolutely applaud that message , absolutely applaud that message, but it's worth saying that whilst we are saying that this guy has been to prison for

guy has been sent to prison for sending nude images of himself, he's actually long he's actually got a long history, a storeyed history of various offences. yes he's various other offences. yes he's not. yes as not. just didn't believe. yes as to did it. to why he did it. >> but here's the point, you just used the terms, which really surprised doctor. you really surprised me, doctor. you said, innocuous. said, however innocuous. now, if i took. >> i said it may seem >> no, i said it may seem innocuous. >> well, i don't think it's innocuous even. nor it be innocuous even. nor should it be seen to seemingly innocuous. seen to be seemingly innocuous. if took a picture of my if i took a picture of my genhaua if i took a picture of my genitalia and decided to send it to you. i mean, you've seen everything anyway, but not not literally on eamonn. >> but yeah, in your role as a doc. >> but, you know, why should i get any gratification out of that? why should i be so at the very basis for being so rude, so intrusive into your life? and i think there are two groups of men, men who feel that this is innocuous and that they can do this, and men who would never in a million years think of doing this. >> and that's the same with everything, isn't it? men who think rape is innocuous and

something is there right? and men majority, the men who don't. the majority, the majority do not think majority of men do not think this do you not think this is okay. do you not think rape is okay? but unfortunately there are plenty don't. and there are plenty who don't. and we to be able to find them, we need to be able to find them, expose put them expose them and put them in prison. >> p- p— prison. >> you've been flashed >> i'm sure you've been flashed in your lifetime. i mean, as a schoolgirl, i was flash at least twice. we're talking about twice. and we're talking about innocuous, giggled innocuous, and we just giggled about at the time and we about it at the time and we never reported it. and as an adult, now know i should have adult, i now know i should have done something about it. and i feel bad about because god feel bad about that because god knows went on to at knows what they went on to do at a later stage. but that's what i think you by innocuous, is think you mean by innocuous, is that, know, it's not that, you know, it's not necessarily as having necessarily seen as having touched anyone or assaulted or harmless. touched anyone or assaulted or har people it's harmless >> people think it's harmless because it's only a picture. it isn't harmless because a, you are actually possibly traumatising a 15 year old girl or a woman, whoever you send it to. but b it may just be a utany to. but b it may just be a litany of where else you're going with sexual crimes. >> sure. and also with the digital crime like that, it leaves an indelible digital trace police follow. trace that police can follow. and also shouldn't. it and also it shouldn't. it reduces the burden of a victim

having to then stand up in court and say, well, this happened and this this happened. this happened. this happened. well, the image. i well, you've got the image. i don't this person. don't know this person. this person image. person sent this unwanted image. it an easy crime it should be an easy crime to prosecute. >> do women feel less >> so why do women feel less inclined if at all, to do the same sort of thing ? same sort of thing? >> oh, i wish you know, i think that testosterone has a part to play that testosterone has a part to play in this. and i think we need to accept that men and women are intrinsically different because of that difference hormones. and difference in hormones. and i think quite an aggressive think it's quite an aggressive act. a hunting act, isn't act. it's a hunting act, isn't it? comes with that male it? it's it comes with that male macho thing. so i'm not saying that women don't do this, because i'm sure there are examples where they do, but examples of where they do, but men certainly seem be more men certainly seem to be more sexually the way sexually predatorial in the way that things . that they approach things. >> and i just wonder, though, if prisons are rigged to take such offenders and what form of tokenism this sentencing was yesterday , because if they there yesterday, because if they there are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of men who do this, are they all going to end up in jail? i

suspect not, no, but i suppose punishment isn't just sort of a prison sentence, is it? >> i mean that having your collar felt being dragged in front of the court, having this go on your record is in every papen >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, that is a deterrent, isn't it? and i think the removing the veil of secrecy of this sort of behaviour where you can, somebody can send their private to thousands of private parts to thousands of women and get away with it. >> maybe, maybe some men will think they do >> maybe, maybe some men will thinkand they do >> maybe, maybe some men will think and that's they do >> maybe, maybe some men will think and that's a they do >> maybe, maybe some men will thinkand that's a win they do >> maybe, maybe some men will thinkand that's a win isn't' do >> maybe, maybe some men will thinkand that's a win isn't it.) that. and that's a win isn't it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and the bbc be rolling >> and the bbc may be rolling out adverts for the first time in the uk. >> a&e. so yeah, it's part of the bbc's licence. >> we pay the licence so >> we pay for the licence so they don't have any, any advertising the bbc's advertising on. but the bbc's bbc sounds, they're sort of secondary that are then secondary products that are then released apple and spotify. released on apple and spotify. they're to paid for they're going to allow paid for adverts these products, and adverts on these products, and that could lead to when you're listening archers for listening to the archers for instance, a secondary instance, on a secondary platform, suddenly an platform, having suddenly an advert a commercial product. advert for a commercial product. now, you might that's now, you might think that's a small but if you are small thing, but if you are a small thing, but if you are a small producer who's already

producing against this producing products against this huge tide of bbc material and indeed companies like gb news who have to have paid for adverts this seems like a doubly unfair advantage if the bbc already you have to legally pay already you have to legally pay a just to consume any a tv licence just to consume any broadcast content for the bbc to then say, oh well, we're going to advertising money as to have advertising money as well, is grossly unfair. and yes, i admire and like a lot of bbc content and i'm proud to have worked on various different bbc you try bbc products. but if you try and google anything, the first two, three, four pages that come up are bbc products , whether are all bbc products, whether it's pie recipe it's an apple pie recipe or a weather report, and the bbc bleeding into all these areas which aren't really public service already, service broadcasting already, and to charge advertising and then to charge advertising for top it, is killing for it on top of it, is killing so much independent content and so much independent content and so much independent content and so much competition. >> and the then are these opfions >> and the then are these options that you can pay extra money online or on streaming to avoid adverts . avoid adverts. >> and i think people have found ways to a penny to avoid. do you.

>> i don't do it. >> i don't do it. >> i don't do it. >> i don't love an advert, but i do come from a company that needs adverts so i understand their role so i don't pay to avoid them. no, i haven't paid to avoid them but i can understand why do you want irritating? >> so there are some stations i will watch that have. so amazon prime for example, has adverts now, so i pay for my prime. but now, so i pay for my prime. but now i have to watch ads as well. but i think i can upgrade to lose the ads if i want to, but i don't take the second option. do i watch tyt or because you want to support tide , you want to to support tide, you want to support amazon. to support tide, you want to supthey're|azon. to support tide, you want to supthey're really struggling. >> they're really struggling. >> they're really struggling. >> if you watch >> but also if you watch something playback, can something on playback, you can fast through the adverts fast forward through the adverts as not necessarily. >> not necessarily. >> not necessarily. >> not necessarily. >> not always. no, no. on some products you can do it couple products you can do it a couple of times, can't you? >> they give the >> and then they give you the whole block. >> i think itb, i don't >> you, i think itb, i don't think you you can't nor sky think you can, you can't nor sky or sky. >> you can't do it. yeah. >> but equally, bbc starts >> but equally, if bbc starts taking advertising their taking advertising on their products, to take taking advertising on their pro the :s, to take taking advertising on their prothe advertising to take taking advertising on their prothe advertising money take taking advertising on their prothe advertising money from all the advertising money from other smaller independent producers, to producers, and they're going to disappear. and we're going to

have of political views, have one set of political views, one set of one publisher producing so much it's producing so much content. it's nota quick word renee about >> a quick word renee about seagulls , birds and pigeons. seagulls, birds and pigeons. >> well, this is a little bit fun and a little bit not. it's another scare story that if we go near a seagull, we might get swine flu, which is a load of tosh. avian flu. surely avian. sorry. oh, yes. thank you. it's h1n1 avian flu. >> avian flu. she's not >> flu, avian flu. she's not vet. >> there has been one farmer in the entire world. in china who has died from catching something from a nonsense . from a bird. it's a nonsense. and i'm tired of this. scaring people about what they might catch your lives. catch go about your lives. stroke a seagull if you want, but the advice in the but take the advice in the story. bring them into but take the advice in the storyhome. bring them into your home. >> have you ever tried stroking a seagull , >> have you ever tried stroking a seagull, who earth >> have you ever tried stroking a seagull , who earth would a seagull, who on earth would ever seagull? this is fine. >> yes, they mostly don't stroke a seagull. and don't invite a seagull into your home. i mean, i don't know about you. i'm always inviting seagulls into my house. they're great party guests. brilliant charades. guests. brilliant at charades. such shame. i can't bring them such a shame. i can't bring them in the house. >> very scary. yeah. >> very scary. yeah. >> flying rats , that's what they

>> flying rats, that's what they are. horrible. >> spread it. you might >> you can spread it. you might not contract it yourself or not get contract it yourself or die, you could spread it if die, but you could spread it if you contact. no. you come into contact. well, no. >> because you're >> allegedly not, because you're not contract it. not going to contract it. >> you don't get it on the >> so if you don't get it on the feet of your shoes or something, i don't know. >> there be some risk >> there must be some risk getting close to a dying getting too close to a dying pigeon or whatever. andy. thank you. delightful. you. you've been delightful. thank informative thank you both very informative and today. thank you both very informative ancthank today. thank you both very informative ancthank you. today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> as alex deakin. he's got >> as will alex deakin. he's got your what's your forecast. here's what's in store. your forecast. here's what's in st0|looks things are heating >> looks like things are heating up. boiler is sponsors of up. boxt boiler is sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. a bit of a drab start for most of us today. dull and damp, the brighter skies are going to be across northern ireland and western scotland, where we should lengthy spells should see some lengthy spells of elsewhere. sunshine should see some lengthy spells of short elsewhere. sunshine should see some lengthy spells of short supply, ewhere. sunshine should see some lengthy spells of short supply, generally nshine should see some lengthy spells of short supply, generally dryine in short supply, generally dry and fine across the southeast. it may cheer up here, but a damp start for eastern scotland. southern scotland the rain will tend ease here the tend to ease here through the day, stays pretty dank

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gb news. >> good morning. it is 9:00 on wednesday, the 20th of march. you're tuned into breakfast with eamonn holmes and isabel webster. >> thanks for your company. thank you for tuning in. and a major royal security breach. the hospital the princess of hospital where the princess of wales was treated has launched an over claimed an investigation over claimed staff attempted access her staff attempted to access her private medical records. the latest on that in a moment. >> oh, and we're going to be talking about the london clinic. of course, an alleged data breach and the princess of wales kensington palace not commenting

i >> -- >> trump hits out at nato nigel farage has sat down with donald trump in an exclusive interview. >> not going to defend you if you're not paying your bills. we're not going to defend you. it's very simple . it's very simple. >> inflation has fallen this morning more than expected 3.4. >> and what this shows is that the plan to bring inflation down, it was over 11% when rishi sunak became prime minister now just 3.4. that plan is working . just 3.4. that plan is working. but we do need to stick to it and see it right the way through i >> -- >>a >> a smoke free generation today , the government will introduce a new bill aimed at banning children aged 15 and younger from being sold tobacco products. earlier we spoke to the government about this . the government about this. >> i wanted to go. thank you very much. i was scrupulously polite because i thought silly to be too rude on that stage.

again . again. >> 50 years since that interview was broadcast, it was a failed kidnapping of princess anne in the mall in london. we'll be looking at that event and how royal security has changed as result. >> bit of a dull and damp one for many of us today. there will be some sunshine for northern ireland and western scotland, and another pretty mild day across the southeast. join me later full forecast . later for a full forecast. >> now the big royal story . >> now the big royal story. today a major security breach has been reported and is being investigated at the london clinic. that's the hospital where the princess of wales underwent surgery back in january, executives there have now been looking into claims a member of staff was caught trying to access the princess's

private medical details. senior hospital bosses have spoken to kensington palace about the breach. >> well, joining us now is gb news royal correspondent, cameron walker, which, i mean, you've been covering what has got to be described as this unprecedented period for the royal family of interest. latest twist in this insult to injury, when kate is trying to privately recover from something. what's the latest? >> absolutely. there's been so much hysteria over last much hysteria over the last couple weeks online, couple of weeks online, particularly conspiracy theories around the princess's health. we know went into london know she went into the london clinic in january, private clinic in january, a private hospital central london, to hospital in central london, to have a planned abdominal surgery. this is the clinic which is trusted by members of the royal family, politicians, celebrities for being discreet with private medical information. the mirror this morning is reporting that at least one member of staff allegedly tried to access the princess of wales's private medical information. now i have contacted the london clinic this morning. as of yet we have received no response. the information commissioner's office has indeed responded to

us and they said that we can confirm that we have received a breach report and are assessing the information provided. now. kensington palace says this is a matter for the london clinic, but it's particularly it could be very serious because accessing someone's medical information without consent of the patients or indeed authorisation from the hospital, is potentially a criminal offence. basically, only medical staff who are directly involved in the princess's treatment should be able to access it, so it could be particularly serious for them. but as i said, the london clinic not responded as of yet, this could go a number of yet, this could go a number of ways. i mean, certainly one of ways. i mean, certainly one of two ways. she either system doesn't say anything or she comes out and says, look, guys, this has now got ridiculous. quite simply, this is the operation i had. this is why i didn't want to talk about it. i hope you understand. and now, will you just clear off and leave me alone? >> i can imagine the princess is going to maintain a dignified silence on this one. we know that she wants recover

that she wants to recover in private. we her. private. yes, we saw her. a couple of paparazzi pictures and that taken by a member of that video taken by a member of the public of her and william at the public of her and william at the the the windsor farm shop. if the princess decide disclose princess does decide to disclose any information , it's going any more information, it's going to be on her terms. and i think it's going be when it's going to be back when she's back duty. back on public duty. >> you've been out >> and, cameron, you've been out with prince of wales this with the prince of wales this week and he's very much been the front express, front of the express, saying focusing forwards, focusing on driving forwards, not these rumours, not on all of these rumours, which quite frankly have gone mainstream, haven't they? you know, sensible people know, rational, sensible people talking crazy talking about all these crazy theories, going be able theories, is he going to be able to do that? i mean, he was asked questions and think kate came questions and i think kate came up when he was in up yesterday when he was in sheffield, you know, can he do what wants to do and keep what he wants to do and keep calm carry on? calm and carry on? >> did. i mean, prince >> he did. i mean, prince william. he wasn't prompted to talk brought her talk about kate. he brought her up someone talking up himself. someone was talking about and said, about early childhood and said, well, wife's well, actually, that's my wife's area. should sat here area. she should be sat here next but prince william, next to me. but prince william, as you said, very much focussed on work homelessness on his work with homelessness and in and trying to prevent it in six flagship locations across the country. but inevitably, the headunes country. but inevitably, the headlines on the headlines were all on the princess, think i can

princess, and i think i can imagine getting a little imagine they're getting a little bit frustrated these this bit frustrated that these this hysteria consistently hysteria online is consistently overshadowing the work that they do. course, don't have do. but of course, we don't have long until easter long to wait until easter sunday. we don't have long to wait until easter , which wait until after easter, which is kensington said wait until after easter, which is princesssington said wait until after easter, which is princess would said wait until after easter, which is princess would be said wait until after easter, which is princess would be backsaid wait until after easter, which is princess would be back on! the princess would be back on pubuc the princess would be back on public duties. and i suspect they are really hoping when the princess is back on public duties, several independent cameras have filmed her. the speculation will die down. okay, cameron , thank you very much cameron, thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date. >> appreciate it. the time 9:05 to wales now vaughan gething is a gentleman who will officially become the next first minister of wales. that will happen today. >> yeah, and he's replacing mark drakeford. beat jeremy drakeford. gethin beat jeremy miles to narrowly win the welsh labour election. he labour leadership election. he got 51.7% of the vote. that's now go to our political correspondent katherine forster who's there in cardiff in cardiff bay, and she'll tell us more about what to expect today. >> good morning catherine border, eamonn and isabel from cardiff bay. >> hope you like my one word of

welsh . so former first minister welsh. so former first minister mark drakeford resigned yesterday and gave a really quite emotional resignation speech. let's just have a little look at that first. >> for me personally , the last >> for me personally, the last 12 months has been the hardest and the saddest of my life and people will not see beyond the chamber. those small acts of kindness that happen every day from people in every part of this chamber that help someone to get through those very , very to get through those very, very difficult times. >> lbc, sky, bbc so the end of an era. >> mark drakeford was first minister here, of course, for five years. through the covid years, wales had the most strict restrictions of any corner of the united kingdom. but a new

chapter today with vaughan gething am , former health gething am, former health minister and economy minister, taking up the position. there will be a vote after 3:00 this afternoon. a letter will be sent to the king. the appointment will be made official. there will be made official. there will be made official. there will be an oath. he's got a very big in—tray of pressing issues to deal with. but let's talk now to deal with. but let's talk now to sam rowlands. he is msp for nonh to sam rowlands. he is msp for north wales. thank you very much for to talking us on gb news today. vaughan gething will be the first black leader of any country in europe. this is quite a moment for wales and the uk more broadly, isn't it? >> yeah, it's a really important day for wales and as you say, for, for the uk more broadly. but i did hear in your introduction about a change of an a change the guard, an era, a change of the guard, perhaps in welsh perhaps here in welsh government. simply isn't government. that simply isn't the gething has the truth. vaughan gething has been of at least some been part of at least some machination of government here in last in wales for at least the last decade. he's had responsibilities set around

responsibilities to set around health and sadly some of health and sadly seen some of the figures in terms of the worst figures in terms of covid deaths during time as covid deaths during his time as health and more health minister here and more recently, minister recently, as the minister for the economy . sadly for me, the economy. and sadly for me, here wales, wales is in the here in wales, wales is in the worst position the uk when it worst position in the uk when it comes to the economy. so more of the of it. the same labour by looks of it. >> these matters, as you >> many of these matters, as you say , are devolved to wales. but say, are devolved to wales. but one thing that isn't is industrial policy and the steelworks at port talbot. there's going to be thousands of job losses as a result of policies made in westminster by a conservative government, is it any wonder that conservative lives are are struggling in wales and around the country ? wales and around the country? >> it's a really difficult time for those workers in port talbot at the moment. i've been really pleased that the uk government have stumped up £1 billion have stumped up half £1 billion worth support the worth of cash to support the investment at the site there, and also £100 million worth of money to support people transitioning from one job to the next. what we haven't seen

from the welsh government here, who have responsibility who do have responsibility around here wales around the economy here in wales , we have seen a penny come , we have not seen a penny come from them support those hard from them to support those hard workers there in port workers out there in port talbot. so we need to see welsh up to ,. . up to the government stepping up to the plate we've seen plate as we've seen uk government the moment, government do so at the moment, the that vaughan the £200,000 that vaughan gething campaign gething accepted to his campaign by who had convictions for by a man who had convictions for environmental offences. >> do you think that money should be being given back? >> that's a matter for vaughan gething and the labour party. there's lots of disquiet amongst members of the senate here, particularly within the labour party at the moment. i'm aware that even on monday evening, around 14 of them met in a meeting here in the senate, because of that disquiet amongst the that's a matter for the group, that's a matter for the group, that's a matter for the party to deal with the labour party to deal with amongst themselves question amongst themselves and question themselves how they themselves in terms of how they run leadership campaigns. themselves in terms of how they run of leadership campaigns. themselves in terms of how they run of course,ership campaigns. themselves in terms of how they run of course, there's ampaigns. themselves in terms of how they run of course, there's alsoaigns. themselves in terms of how they run of course, there's also ajns. themselves in terms of how they run of course, there's also a lot >> of course, there's also a lot of disquiet, isn't there, in westminster frank hester westminster over frank hester and the 10 million. but thank you very much for to talking us on gb news this morning. so back

to you now from cardiff bay, a very big day in wales and history being made. >> thank you catherine. and to those of you who maybe might be trying to get your breakfast onune trying to get your breakfast online today, isabel has got an update. >> yeah. breaking news. greggs, the bakery company, i suppose you could describe them as is reporting this morning that they are having significant problems at their tills, forcing them to close their doors in stores up and down the country. you'll be aware that there have been a series of these sorts of glitches. usually it's sort of food outlets. it seems to be tesco, sainsbury's as well. if you've been affected, we would love hear from you. just love to hear from you. not just on breakfast, but of course on britain's which britain's newsroom, which follows touch follows us at 9:30. get in touch gb com what is gb views gb news. com what is going on here? i think donald is another that's also recently another one that's also recently mcdonald's has also recently had one of these. >> i suppose should be >> i suppose this should be what's not breaking news, what's called not breaking news, but breaking news. >> good. that's why they >> oh very good. that's why they pay >> oh very good. that's why they pay the big bucks, yeah . pay you the big bucks, yeah. >> there we go. right. well, keeping right across that andrew

and bev from 9:30. good morning guys. >> this is a calamity i go to greggs at westminster station tube station i do, i do. >> you've never eaten by a coffee without milk in it? >> probably by the tea and coffee. but they do a very nice vegan sausage roll look. >> oh, he's lining us up. no, i just like vegans on sausage rolls. >> and you see quite a lot of politicians in there. you do? i have heard the westminster one is closed. >> i can confirm the westminster one is closed. it this one is closed. so it is. this is, you know, this is the heart of britain. greggs. backbone of britain. greggs. the backbone about of britain. greggs. the backbone aboso mcdonald's, sainsbury's, >> so mcdonald's, sainsbury's, tesco's at the same time. now greggs. is this the russians. >> well he's turning into a conspiracy theorist. >> i believe that to you, bev. >> i believe that to you, bev. >> know what? it's we had >> you know what? it's we had a guy the show last week about guy on the show last week about this and, and he said a lot of these software systems get updated the same companies updated by the same companies around same time. around about the same time. and that might explain these glitches, though. >> very odd? look at >> isn't it very odd? look at this reversal. you with this role reversal. you with youn this role reversal. you with your, facts and your, you know, facts and explanations and you with the conspiracy .

conspiracy theories. >> you just have to you know, the thing is, look, we're in the middle of massive social change. and a big of it is this and a big part of it is this tech that in tech revolution that we're in the well, i hope the middle of. well, i hope you're right. when goes you're right. when it goes wrong. and there's about it wrong. and there's much about it that don't like, i agree. yeah that i don't like, i agree. yeah we haven't discussed it enough. it's all happened on it's just all happened on our, you all been you know, while we've all been looking way, of looking the other way, all of these changes can't have these changes mean we can't have a sausage roll. princess anne, 50 ago. yeah. had this 50 years ago. yeah. she had this extraordinary andrew extraordinary encounter. andrew will remember it because presumably it 50 presumably you covered it 50 years presumably you covered it 50 yeaare. princess anne was held >> are. princess anne was held up in her car with with her then husband, mark phillips, husband, captain mark phillips, by toting kidnapper who by a gun toting kidnapper who who shot a policeman three times. times who we are talking to on the program. we yeah. >> i can't believe he lived to tell the tale. >> james benton. yeah. amazing and he's now. he got the and he's 81 now. and he got the george cross because he saved the princess. was heroic. the princess. she was heroic. she just flatly refused to get out the back of the car. she just flatly refused to get out the back of the can so princess anne isn't it? isn't it so princess anne really is . so so princess anne really is. so that's an extraordinary. and it feeds into security because that changed forever.

changed security heroes forever. and politicians course, and politicians and of course, security . the princess of wales security. the princess of wales security. the princess of wales security. what a terrible breach. nearly of her personal health records. absolutely not acceptable. >> and vaping and causing cancer . finally we can talk about vaping. >> is there a link not being this sort of panacea that's saving all the teenagers? >> they're all addicted horribly i >> -- >> we spoke to maria caulfield about that this morning, and she was quite keen to sort of bat it off, saying it's already illegal for youngsters smoke off, saying it's already illegal for yes,ngsters smoke off, saying it's already illegal for yes, buters smoke off, saying it's already illegal for yes, but all smoke off, saying it's already illegal for yes, but all these )ke vapes. yes, but all these bubblegum ones, don't know bubblegum ones, we don't know what are, but that's what the risks are, but that's a completely complacent attitude. >> is. and parents are >> it is, it is. and parents are furious about the access that children have to vapes. yeah, okay. >> e’- w see us fl!“ w 9:30. have >> guys, see us from 9:30. have a show. thank you very much a good show. thank you very much indeed. is great indeed. this is the great british giveaway. we're going to tell about. now. you've tell you about. now. you've still time to get your share still got time to get your share of the spring shopping spree and an incredible £12,345 in tax free cash. here's how you do it. >> time is ticking on your chance to win the great british

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issues, but they would be down except i have a standard order in the morning. >> so you got in before the glitch. >> so are you behind the glitch? >> so are you behind the glitch? >> how hot that is. feel how nice. >> oh, it's still warm. still warm . warm. >> and, there we are. so, we're ahead of the game . really. and ahead of the game. really. and if you are in scotland, if you are in glasgow, this morning, fear not, because it is time for this year's scottish baker of the year awards. >> all the finalists will >> yeah. all the finalists will be judged across a range be judged today across a range of and here to tell of categories. and here to tell us more about best biscuit, of categories. and here to tell us morcelebrationt biscuit, of categories. and here to tell us morcelebration cakesrit, of categories. and here to tell us morcelebration cakes etc. is scone, celebration cakes etc. is our scotland reporter tony maguire, and you're with the previous winner tony, good to see you . see you. >> good morning. yes, wendy diamond, mimi's bakehouse in edinburgh and i'm joined here today by ashley haaland. she's the manager of mimi's bakehouse, across the many stores here in edinburgh. and as you mentioned there she is, last year's winner . so who better to talk about, this year's awards and what's

expected and whether it's a piece of cake or a bit of a trifle, it's going to be her. so, ashley, thank you so much for joining me. and tell me forjoining me. and tell me a little bit then about what it meant to the staff here and across your stores to win last year's award for bakery of the yean >> it was such an amazing achievement. we'd actually won bakery cafe eight years in a row, so the big award was in our sights always, and we'd never managed to win for our bakery. cafes are so important to communities, so to kind of represent that side of it, where it's just grab and go it's not just about grab and go was important and really was really important and really exciting. fantastic. >> and course, the other >> and of course, the other thing think people are wanting thing i think people are wanting to you know what? to know is, you know what? participating in this competition in scotland is known for, you know, brand scotland . for, you know, brand scotland. what did it tell you about the length and breadth of the country and the talent and the produce that's out there, it's just so exciting to be part of part of scotland and all the, as you say, the variety from the

highlands, you know, to to, dumfries and galloway and there's bakeries all across the country that submit. so it's not a geographic win. and a geographic anyone can win. and all different bakery types all the different bakery types say wholesale bakeries say like wholesale bakeries or retail cafe bakery. and just retail or cafe bakery. and just to really represent what it means to a scottish baker, means to be a scottish baker, which is really, really exciting at time. at this current time. >> can tell us a little >> so can you tell us a little bit then about you're not able to go for the big award this yean to go for the big award this year, but tell us a wee bit about, you know, some advice, i guess, for this year's participants. you know, there's so categories, but i'm sure so many categories, but i'm sure you've got some advice there that will help people across all categories. yeah i mean i would just say go for it. >> even if you win one of >> like even if you win one of the bronze awards for a project, i means a lot have on i know it means a lot to have on your customers recognise your shelf. customers recognise that recognise quality, that they recognise quality, they what that means. they understand what that means. so that are so the fact that there are so many awards many different awards to win, i think is really, really positive. when comes to positive. and when it comes to the big one, just go for it, because any bakery, any size can win and it just you just have to prove doing prove that you're doing your best working and

best and working hard. and i think a really good think it's a really good opportunity for any of opportunity for any bakery of any for it. any size to go for it. >> fantastic. and of course, how did last year's big win of the big award really shape your year ahead? the rest of ahead? you know, the rest of year and into 24, for us, as year 23 and into 24, for us, as a bakery cafe, we are in the baking industry, but also the hospitality industry really hospitality industry is a really tough market now. i'm sure tough market just now. i'm sure everyone's of restaurants everyone's aware of restaurants and closing across the and cafes closing across the country various country due to various factors. economic factors. so for us just to that behind us, just to have that behind us, just give really boost to push give us really the boost to push forward and have the best year we in terms of not being we could, in terms of not being bogged down those sort of bogged down by those sort of scary out there scary stats that are out there and bills that and the scary big bills that come and try and just focus come in and try and just focus on the fact that we are, you know, have this positive award and we can push forward and try our this family our best to keep this family legacy business going. >> one very last >> fantastic. and one very last question. are your toes question. how are your toes working today? >> well. you don't to >> very well. you don't go to greggs, come to mimi's. >> there we have it, we'll >> well, there we have it, we'll be looking over the judging later and of course, later on today. and of course, may 10th is when those may the 10th is when those winners announced . winners are announced. >> the appetite, giving us a

lovely appetite this morning. must smell. >> there's nothing like the smell of baking goods, is there? >> there is. you're trying to sell a house. get that loaf in the oven. that'll sell it for you. no problem. so, let us know who your favourite is. if who your favourite baker is. if it's get in touch it's greggs, get in touch because you'll be affected by that breaking story that breaking or baking story this morning, lots of them closed and down the country. closed up and down the country. having technical issues, apparently with apparently at the till with taking payments kind backbone taking payments kind of backbone of greggs of britain, frankly. greggs aren't they . yeah. fuelling aren't they. yeah. fuelling everybody go their everybody as they go about their business. so this could be a big one. >> we've had the busiest time of the day for them of course, donald sainsbury's and tesco's in as well. in recent days as well. >> is going on, personally >> what is going on, personally i prefer a poached egg and toast, which would be really so healthy. no it's not. you don't like a poached egg? >> i do love a poached egg. yeah. so runny. >> very good, breakfast will be back 6:00 tomorrow morning back from 6:00 tomorrow morning for of your for the rest of your. your morning? you've got beverley and andrew. there from andrew. they're on there from half nine, hope you enjoy half past nine, hope you enjoy that. a day. and that. have a good day. and thanks company this

thanks for your company this morning. bye. morning. bye bye. bye bye. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. a bit of a drab start for most of us today. dull and damp. the brightest skies are going to be across northern ireland and western where we western scotland, where we should lengthy spells should see some lengthy spells of elsewhere. sunshine of sunshine elsewhere. sunshine in supply, generally dry in short supply, generally dry and fine across the southeast. it may cheer up here, a damp it may cheer up here, but a damp start for eastern scotland. southern the rain will southern scotland the rain will tend ease here through the tend to ease here through the day, it stays pretty dank day, but it stays pretty dank across northern england, particularly parts particularly yorkshire, parts of north the on and off north wales, the rain on and off but fairly light to the south of that. mostly dry and still pretty 18 celsius is pretty mild. 18 celsius is possible with bit of sunshine, possible with a bit of sunshine, some sunny skies across the northwest, a day here northwest, a cooler day here with a fresher feel in the cooler air, but still plenty of sunshine. feeling pleasant enough. and drizzle

enough. the rain and drizzle will trickle away from eastern parts of england through this evening . much of the uk will evening. much of the uk will become by midnight, but then become dry by midnight, but then after midnight, more rain comes into northwest. the into the far northwest. the winds picking up here as well. quite bit of cloud around. quite a bit of cloud around. could see mist and fog could see some mist and fog where keep some clearer where we keep some clearer skies. temperatures in skies. temperatures may, in rural get close to rural spots get close to freezing to on thursday then, and generally a dry fine day for england and wales. a brighter day, certainly to east of day, certainly to the east of the compared to today. the pennines compared to today. still fair bit of cloud still a fair bit of cloud elsewhere, but some bright or sunny the south. sunny spells in the south. outbreaks rain will in outbreaks of rain will move in across scotland northern across scotland and northern ireland through the day, so a blustery and fairly wet day here. rain on and off throughout again, fairly mild for most of us, with temperatures generally in teens. in the teens. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> talking about greg's he's had a vegan sausage roll. >> i have, i have we weren't talking about greggs because it

failure. the tills aren't working. yeah. this is not this is follows sainsbury's tesco's mcdonald's is something afoot. >> nothing works anymore does it. has it affected your breakfast this morning? gb views at news. com and course at gb news. com and of course the princess of wales. this huge security breach doctors trying to look at her notes. we'll be

i >> -- >> good morning. 930 on wednesday, the 20th of march. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. so, kate's security breach this morning. shocking claims that unauthorised staff at the london clinic attempted to access the princess of wales's private medical records. who are they ? medical records. who are they? what do they know? and have they been sacked ? been sacked? >> a potentially very serious breach of private medical records . but what is the records. but what is the consequence for kensington palace and indeed the london clinic? more details shortly

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