of fake million, using thousands of fake id claims. how on earth has this been allowed to happen? >> and as the echr rules, the swiss government violated elderly women's rights by failing to do enough to combat climate change. the lawyer representing the claimants says it's right that climate action trumps democracy, fundamental and universal rights , which and universal rights, which matter irrespective of what the majority party decides. >> irrespective of what the majority decides, so is the words of the lawyer representing those elderly women in switzerland who've pushed forward, climate policy that was not voted for the most extraordinary ruling there that we'll be getting to more of later in the programme. >> yes, we're going to have lots later in the programme. >>reaction 're going to have lots later in the programme. >>reaction on going to have lots later in the programme. >>reaction on that; to have lots later in the programme. >>reaction on that one.1ave lots later in the programme. >>reaction on that one. soa lots of reaction on that one. so you'll want stay but you'll want to stay tuned. but also something curious . i don't

also something curious. i don't know you home the know if you at home have the latest software on your iphone, but there's been quite of but there's been quite a lot of outrage because if you type in, as you can see on the screen here, if you type in the word jerusalem into your emoji finder, what do you get? oh, well, you can see in the corner there you get the palestinian flag , which there you get the palestinian flag, which is quite curious. >> it is because jerusalem is currently a city that is divided in two. there is a palestinian side and an israeli side, but the new apple software only shows one, it only shows the palestinian flag. no israel flag there, even though there's a space for it. >> so the question is , is this >> so the question is, is this an act of protest from apple or the software company behind this, or is it just an accident? >> is it a oversight? an oversight of some coder somewhere or something more deliberate? really, really interesting stuff there. i was amazed , actually. you know, that amazed, actually. you know, that that little video we were playing, that's my phone . it is.

playing, that's my phone. it is. that was me typing out jerusalem. i recorded it a little bit earlier. >> you know what, >> but you know what, tom? i haven't got latest update, haven't got the latest update, so anything if so mine doesn't say anything if i jerusalem. there i type in jerusalem. but there you send views in you go. but send your views in post comments course. post your comments of course. gbnews.com forward slash your say new website where you say as our new website where you can get touch. you can argue can get in touch. you can argue with other, you can put with each other, you can put your forward, can your point forward, you can comment anything and comment on anything and everything. so please do gbnews.com slash gb news.com forward slash yourself. your yourself. let's get to your headunes. headlines. >> good afternoon. it's 12:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your top story this newsroom. your top story this houn newsroom. your top story this hour. children are being let down by remarkably weak evidence and toxic debate around gender. the cass review calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other nhs care. it says the toxicity of the debate around gender meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views. the review also found no evidence that the use of blockers, which delay puberty in children, led

to better mental health outcomes. the author of the report, doctor hilary cass, spoke about the concerns for children . children. >> safety i've been very concerned about is the lack of an evidence base. our systematic reviews from the university of york show that the evidence was really disappointing, and that's meant that we have to be really quite cautious about how we manage medical interventions. these young people have quite complex presentations. they've got a range of other issues that it's really important that we address . and i think one of the address. and i think one of the problems that's arisen is that people have stopped looking at them in a holistic way. >> meanwhile, parliamentary under secretary for justice laura pharis says it's a problem countries around the world have been grappling with. >> there has been a 20 fold, something like a 15 or 20 fold increase in the number of children being referred to this service in the last 10 or 15

years, and that's happened in many countries, many other countries. it's problem. countries. it's a problem. everybody's been grappling with. we're the government that asked hillary cass to conduct that review. this is a detailed , review. this is a detailed, empirical scientific review that should inform the way that policy is developed. and it shouldn't be a matter of trends or feelings or social cachet on how this very sensitive is developed. >> in other news, assaulting shop workers will be made a separate criminal offence in a government u—turn in response to a surge in retail crime. it's after a report found violent and abusive incidents against shop workers rose by 50% in 2022 to 2023. the government previously said it didn't think a law change was required. but today rishi sunak has announced the government would be amending its criminal justice bill to bring in the new offence. >> our track record in clamping down on crime is actually very positive. crime has halved since 2010, it's down since the start of this parliament and last year

we outlined new plans to tackle antisocial behaviour fraud , antisocial behaviour and fraud, which are already working. but i have concerned by rise have been concerned by the rise in crime, as i am sure in retail crime, as i am sure many others are either seeing it or social media, which why or on social media, which is why today we've a strong today we've announced a strong set to clamp down on set of measures to clamp down on retail crime. that's about new retail crime. that's about a new offence, brand new offence for offence, a brand new offence for assaulting workers assaulting shop workers using facial technology to facial recognition technology to catch perpetrators with cctv. but also greater use of electronic tagging of prolific shoplifters . it's been warmly shoplifters. it's been warmly welcomed by retailers and police. i've spoken to the prime minister, rishi sunak, speaking there now five members of a bulgarian organised crime group have been convicted of falsely claiming over £50 million in universal credits in the uk's biggest ever benefit fraud over a four and a half year period . a four and a half year period. >> the gang made thousands of false claims for universal credit, using either real people or hijacked identities. the investigation identified three benefit factories in london where repeated false claims for benefits were supported by forged documents . if the claims

forged documents. if the claims were rejected, the fraudsters would try again and again until they were granted. the defendants will appear for sentencing in may. some 7.4 million uk adults are still struggling to pay bills due to a high cost of living, according to a survey by the financial conduct authority. 1 in 9 adults had missed a bill or credit card payment in the six months to january 2024. 1 in 9 people also had no disposable income . the had no disposable income. the fca said the number had fallen from last year, but many households still feel heavily burdened . arizona supreme court burdened. arizona supreme court has reinstated a near—total ban on abortion from 1864. the court ruled that the state can enforce an 160 year old almost complete ban on abortion . the 1864 law, ban on abortion. the 1864 law, which precedes arizona becoming a state, makes abortion punishable by 2 to 5 years in prison, except when the mother's life is at risk. arizona voters may be able to undo the ruling

in a november referendum , and a in a november referendum, and a runaway racehorse found itself in a railway station in sydney in a railway station in sydney in australia. alarmed passengers leapt out of the way as the horse trotted along the platform, but when a train arrived, the driver kept the door shut to keep the joyrider out of the carriages. luckily, the cavalry soon arrived and the racehorse was taken home to its stable and will soon be back on the right track . and for the the right track. and for the latest stories , sign up to gb latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts now it's back to tom and . emily. back to tom and. emily. >> all right. it's 1208. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain. we have got a huge amount coming up on the show today, including that mad ruling echr over ruling from the echr over climate change. the lawyer representing represent ing the

elderly swiss women. we're going to reveal what she had to say, actually, her justification for her stance on this extraordinary . it is extraordinary. but first, the evidence supporting gender treatments for children is remarkably weak. that's according a major new review. according to a major new review. now, the cast report recommends holistic and personal care for children over hormone treatments and puberty blockers . and puberty blockers. >> the prime minister has supported the review, saying we simply do not know the long term impacts of medical treatment or social transitioning on them, and should therefore exercise and we should therefore exercise extreme caution. >> the paediatrician doctor hilary cass, also added that the toxicity of gender culture wars meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views well. >> gb news reporter ray addison can join us now for an overview. and ray, what is the breakdown of this report? what's it actually saying? well, it's 32 recommendations in total in this final version of the report. >> and doctor cass just raising serious concerns that nhs

england has let down young people. you mentioned this holistic approach. she's saying that from now on, any young person that wants any kind of gender affirming care should receive screening for conditions such as autism, and they should also have a mental health assessment as well. i think the concern has been that in the past, there's been a sort of an affirmation , a confirmation affirmation, a confirmation approach by the tavistock gender clinic, where he went in within a short number of sessions, it would be affirmed and confirmed that yes , you should continue that yes, you should continue down this this road of transitioning , instead of maybe transitioning, instead of maybe looking at other issues. there was absolutely no kind of psychological assessments being offered at the clinic over the last number of years . and of last number of years. and of course, she's saying that is a really severe failing . she says really severe failing. she says there needs to be extreme caution before prescribing hormones for children. a

clinical rationale for prescribing any masculinising or feminising hormones to under 18, and also for any children who are there who are yet to hit puberty. they should have what she's calling a separate pathway in terms of their care. and, thirdly, and finally, perhaps , thirdly, and finally, perhaps, you know, full research into the outcome, there's just been no research into what happens to these young people when they become adults, how they how they continue with their transitioning, whether they're happy with it, whether they're not, and obviously the medical consequences as well. so a huge range of recommendations within this cass report . this cass report. >> and, ray, it's interesting, the labour party, the labour frontbench , seem to have frontbench, seem to have accepted the recommendations in full as yet . full as yet. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, there seems to be a kind of a consensus, within been from, from from some charity organisations, the labour party and the government says it's, you know, considering them very

seriously as well, nhs england has not said that it is going to accept and implement all 32 of these recommendations. they issued a statement saying that they will set out a full implementation plan following careful consideration of the report and its recommendations. i've been back and forth with their press team trying to find out. does that mean you're accepting all 32 and you're implementing all 32? the answer is essentially no. they are not accepting all 32 yet. they may do at some future time, but they have not yet. and so it remains to be seen which of these really key and essential recommendations laid out by doctor cass will actually go forward. and one thing that i thought was very , interesting, thought was very, interesting, i think our viewers and listeners would find perhaps , concerning would find perhaps, concerning was that, i believe it was six of the seven adult gender clinics refused to participate in this report, and doctor cass

highlighted that she felt that that raised, serious concerns and caused problems for them because there was an opportunity there to see how 9000 young people who then transitioned to on the adult services with their genden on the adult services with their gender, care to see how they'd coped as they'd received gender, care to see how they'd coped as they'd rreportj gender, care to see how they'd coped as they'd rreport has gender, care to see how they'd co screening y'd rreport has gender, care to see how they'd co screening y'd autism, has gender, care to see how they'd co screening y'd autism, the of screening for autism, the mental health assessment, this is seems is all stuff that seems incredibly . and i incredibly reasonable. and i think that can find a middle way through on this issue that can be so fraught so much of the time . ray allison, thank you so time. ray allison, thank you so much explaining those much for explaining those details have thought that >> i would have thought that such would require the

such a review would require the mandatory. well, it would be mandatory. well, it would be mandatory from the nhs. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> participation from services that seems utterly bizarre, but anyway, let's discuss this further with the psychotherapist, lucy beresford, who joins us now. now, lucy, one of the things that this review highlights is how we've seen an increase in the number of young girls with gender dysphoria or questioning the body that they were born in. >> yes, the review points out that let's say 10 or 15 years ago, there were only really a handful of people that would present themselves to the services , and by and large, they services, and by and large, they would be, gender born males. but what seems to have happened, certainly in the last 5 to 10 years, is what can only really be described as an explosion of, birth females actually presenting and their presenting at a time of great radical physiological change. and historically, we know that quite

a lot of young females, as they approach adolescence, they go through quite a stressful experience because of the bodily and hormonal changes that really signify that shift from childhood to adulthood. and it is in only really in human species that you actually have such a big period , a chunk of such a big period, a chunk of time for adolescence to, in a way, have that transition down. and so there are questions to be asked about why this wasn't, why this particular change wasn't flagged up, because nothing really has changed in terms of human development. so why did we actually start to see, really an explosion of young girls presenting at a time of great emotional vulnerability? and as i say, adolescence is very normal, but it does tend to throw up quite a lot of stresses, particularly for young girls. and this may have been yet another example of that. >> i think it is important to

stress that and that that then what this report is recommending is clearly extreme caution in these cases, although it is important to also recognise this is still a vanishingly small proportion of all children . proportion of all children. overall, over 15 million children in the united kingdom, 3000 going through these gender services. that's 0.002% of it . services. that's 0.002% of it. >> yes, but that's where we're in the danger of looking at noise versus volume. that actually quite a lot of the ideology around this received disproportionate amounts of attention in the media. and in discussions more widely, and therefore, even though it was only a small number of children actually the ideas around it were reaching into parliament. there were huge articles written about it, documentaries made about it, documentaries made about it. it became something that was really a big part of the culture war. and this, in a

way, is what doctor hilary cass is really flagging up is the way in which children ended up being caught up in that almost used as a as a culture war football, because it then became something much larger than these children themselves. yes >> and i think it's important not to dismiss this on the grounds that, oh, it only affects a handful of people, because look at the because if you look at the statistics , you see that in statistics, you see that back in 2011, there were 250 referrals to a gender identity development service. ten years later, more than 5000. and of that group, two thirds were female looking who were feeling, who were gender questioning. so looking to potentially be become a boy. so there is an explosion. it is a genuine issue and it is something that every corner of our society needs to handle, whether it's schools, whether it's health services, which this review concentrates on, whether it's parenting families, it covers everything .

covers everything. >> yes. but as the review points out, even though there has been that explosion, it was only deau that explosion, it was only dealt with in one particular very narrow, focused way . and very narrow, focused way. and what she's arguing for is a much broader approach . and of course, broader approach. and of course, speaking as someone who works clinically with adults every so often, but not very often, but every so often i will have someone who will come to me for therapy who has been in that situation since childhood and nobody really listened to them. so the consequences of not taking it seriously for the small number of individuals concerned is very problematic. so this isn't about saying, oh , so this isn't about saying, oh, it's a problem that doesn't really exist. that's not what we're saying here. but what hilary cass really is highlighting is that there is needed a much more nuanced approach to this and what we saw historically was a very one size fits all model based purely on one piece of research coming out

of the netherlands. and actually what we really need to see is some is far more research for the for the longer terms issues that you've raised , but also in that you've raised, but also in the moment, what are we offering our young people ? they've been our young people? they've been failed in this system. they've been channelled or funnelled into certain treatment that perhaps wasn't relevant for them. and what we really need is a much more immediate front line approach, so that when someone does present, you are giving them mental health assessment immediately so that you can then set them on a more appropriate path. >> well, this has been an incredibly reasonable conversation, thank you very much for joining conversation, thank you very much forjoining us, lucy beresford, and for really finding this this middle way through, which i think is what this is the problem, this is the problem that the what this review suggests is that too many clinicians started firstly

affirmed young people's gender dysphoria without looking at other mental health issues that they may be experiencing, and so push towards treatment before considering a patient holistically. >> and this is what so many, particularly women and campaigners, have been talking about all along. so it's fantastic to have such a review. but it's a shame that not all nhs services got involved with it. >> no, you're absolutely right there. but i think what this review highlights, most of all, is shouldn't be is that there shouldn't be a 100% broad brush stroke approach on either direction. not all children should be pushed towards this, but also there are cases where this could be legitimate. but having those, opfions legitimate. but having those, options there and hang on, hang on, tom. >> and that extreme it calls it calls for an end to the prescribing of any hormone drugs to under 18 seconds. it cautions that extreme care should be taken before anyone under the age 25. transits and so this age of 25. transits and so this does go further than previous conversations. >> but this is talking about extreme care being applied. it's not talking bans. it's not

not talking about bans. it's not talking to trying talking about, trying to trying to transgender. to pretend that transgender. >> it's saying that gender medicine for children and young people is built on shaky foundations. that people is built on shaky foundis ons. that people is built on shaky foundis no ;. that people is built on shaky foundis no good that people is built on shaky foundis no good evidenceat people is built on shaky foundis no good evidence on the there is no good evidence on the long tum outcomes of these treatments that have been given to children, which is why it's supportive of the trials that will now take place. well, well, let what make of it. let us know what you make of it. gbnews.com slash. your gbnews.com forward slash. your say can get in say is where you can get in touch. >> well, now, in a landmark ruling the european court of ruling by the european court of human rights, they say governments have a duty to protect people from climate change. yes. >> follows a case brought >> this follows a case brought by a group of elderly swiss women who argued switzerland's government violated human government violated their human rights by failing to act quickly enough to address climate change. >> well, a strasbourg judges agreed, and the ruling can now trickle down to influence the law in 46 countries in europe , law in 46 countries in europe, including the uk. but this is important. emily and i have been looking into this case, and we were particularly struck by the justification given by the

lawyer who fought this case. yes well, we can listen to what she says about the conflict between democracy and combating climate change. >> well, in switzerland it's particularly problematic because they have referendums . they have referendums. >> and one of the defences run by the government was we had a referendum on this and the people decided they didn't want it. and therefore that's we've done our best effectively. but this is something that comes up all the time in relation to human rights. it's the conflict between this idea of democracy as just what the people choose and democracy as entailing some fundamental and universal rights which matter irrespective of what the majority decides , what the majority decides, irrespective of what the majority decide as well. >> it raises the question what is democracy , very interesting is democracy, very interesting indeed. we're now joined by john grant , who's indeed. we're now joined by john grant, who's a senior indeed. we're now joined by john grant , who's a senior lecturer grant, who's a senior lecturer in sustainable construction and climate change, john, thank you very much for joining

climate change, john, thank you very much forjoining us. lots of people are concerned that this ruling by the echr essentially , essentially just essentially, essentially just run runs roughshod through the idea of national sovereignty and democracy. what do you make of it? >> well, that's not true . >> well, that's not true. >> well, that's not true. >> what we're dealing with here is the, the flawed presumption that everybody making a decision has been informed in a balanced and scientific way. and, you know, the reality is that there is so much misinformation out there that that people are fundamentally a little too calm. >> so we're all a bit too stupid, john, to understand. >> we're all a bit too stupid. >> we're all a bit too stupid. >> stupid . >> we're all a bit too stupid. >> stupid. i'm saying >> we're all a bit too stupid. >> stupid . i'm saying that being >> stupid. i'm saying that being actively misinformed, not stupid. but there is an agenda here which is promoted by a number of media outlets and governments that there's nothing to worry about. and quite rightly, the people out there sort of accept those media outlets rather than the

scientific outlets, which i would say, you know, are putting forwards a much sterner and a much harsher future that we should prepare for. >> do we do this on any other issue, on any other political issue? do we say, oh, actually, you should probably not vote on whether you should replace your boiler or not because you're not. informed enough about not. well informed enough about it. do do on social it. do we do that on social policy? do that on tax and policy? do we do that on tax and spend? do that? we spend? do we do that? do we consult some some unelected group of people in order to say what people are or aren't allowed to vote on, on other issue? >> well, i'm not i'm not really qualified to talk about other issues. what i am qualified to talk about is the fact that we are in a climate emergency , and are in a climate emergency, and we need to act immediately, and if people are not informed enough to realise there's an emergency , then they're acting emergency, then they're acting from a false premise and that's all we, we i would like to, you know , to put forwards in that know, to put forwards in that all the public events that i've

been to and i've been to, dozens of them at the end of my presentation in which i, you know, would argue is a is a well measured and scientific based on nearly 200 years of science. people are completely shocked about the false information that they've been fed . this is going they've been fed. this is going to be too expensive. it's china's fault , all of these china's fault, all of these things. yeah. >> fair enough. but john, one of the arguments that's put forward by this group of elderly swiss women and they were backed by greenpeace , was that their greenpeace, was that their demographic group is particularly vulnerable to climate induced heat waves and therefore the swiss government, not doing enough about climate change, went against their human rights, but i've read and please do correct me if i'm wrong, but actually elderly people are more likely to die from cold weather than from heat . than from heat. >> well, that's true at the moment. that's a very good statistic . but the reality is statistic. but the reality is that older people are more vulnerable to extreme high temperatures because they often have illnesses that, you

have other illnesses that, you know, just a part of ageing and it makes them more vulnerable in the same way that very young people are vulnerable to extreme temperatures. both hypothermia covers high and low temperatures, and older people and young people are vulnerable to hypothermia . and we should be to hypothermia. and we should be prepared, and it is possible to prepared, and it is possible to prepare for people to prepare the environment for people so that they don't suffer extremely high temperatures or low temperatures. remember, this is climate change. we could very likely have very cold temperatures associated with this, as well as extremely high ones. this, as well as extremely high ones . this is not a this, as well as extremely high ones. this is not a gentle turning up of the dial . yes, turning up of the dial. yes, there's an average increase in temperature, but we could hear it. especially here in the uk. we could experience very cold winter temperatures. that's not off the cards . you know. we're off the cards. you know. we're not going to get what i'm struggling to understand here okay. >> is why is it, illegitimate that for someone who might well,

actually accept everything that you say, accept every single element of the fact that the climate is changing due to anthropogenic , actions, anthropogenic, actions, everything that you say completely bang on. but what if someone wants that? what if someone wants that? what if someone wants that? what if someone wants a more chaotic climate? is that an illegitimate? it might be a quirky political position , but quirky political position, but should they not be allowed to vote that ? vote for that? >> well, yes, but they should be allowed to vote for that totally honest about it. most of the people that talk to that don't people that i talk to that don't want change, expect the world to remain as it is now. if they don't change like like like if theyif don't change like like like if they if we don't, replace those boilers, we don't improve our houses. we don't change how we travel, what we eat , that travel, what we eat, that everything will just stay as it is now, which for most people in the uk, it's okay. yes, we could do a lot more money.

do with a lot more money. there's a there's a crisis there as fundamentally as well. but fundamentally there's this misunderstanding that if don't change that that if we don't change that everything will remain the same. and they don't realise that we're actually on a path. we're actually moving towards this and not changing will only speed up. >> you seem to be disagreeing with the echr who've said that actually, irrespective of what people vote for, we're going to do this anyway. here. people have voted for something and their vote has been thrown away. >> yeah. well, i mean, i've been on, on, on tv news a couple of times where i've been where we've had this debate and it's been explained that it's, it's tens of billions, maybe hundreds of billions to adapt to this. and so people just quite rightly 9°, and so people just quite rightly go, oh my goodness , what are you go, oh my goodness, what are you doing? we shouldn't be spending money like that. and of course, they don't end that discussion by , and in the long run, by saying, and in the long run, we're going to save a great deal of money. and unless you put that full narrative into the

discussion, people will quite sensibly only act on not spending hundreds of billions of pounds on changing because change is scary . and you need to change is scary. and you need to believe me that it's a better world that i want, not some sort of tree. john. >> john, i think that the concern is, though, that of course, the judges at the european court of human rights are acting in a very political way, which isn't necessarily what nations thought they were signing up for. but thank you very much indeed, john grant. you're a senior lecturer in sustainable construction and climate change. we're going to be speaking to danny kruger mp later on in the show. he's got some strong words to say about the echr. he considers a the echr. he considers this a massive overreach and the interesting thing here is that the echr many people who are in favour it , say that it's not favour of it, say that it's not a foreign court because british judges it . judges sit on it. >> the british judge >> well, the only british judge in voted against the in this case voted against the majority decision, said that this was massive overreach from the court undoing democratic processes. course he was

processes. but of course he was in a minority. >> didn't help. but it's nice to know at least that the british judge was sensible. but coming up, bulgarian gang, who up, the bulgarian gang, who fleeced more than £50 million of benefits in what's being called britain's biggest ever benefit fraud, it's good afternoon, britain, we're on gb news, britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> it's 1230. britain's news channel. >> it's1230. i'm britain's news channel. >> it's 1230. i'm sofia wenzel in the gb newsroom. your headunes in the gb newsroom. your headlines children are being let down by remarkably weak evidence and toxic debate around gender. the cass review calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other nhs care. it says the toxicity of the debate around gender meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views. the review also found no evidence that the use of blockers, which delay puberty in children, led to better mental health outcomes. the author of the report, doctor hilary cass, spoke about the concerns for children's safety .

children's safety. >> being very concerned about is the lack of an evidence base . the lack of an evidence base. our systematic reviews from the university of york show that the evidence was really disappointing, and that's meant that we have to be really quite cautious about how we manage medical interventions. these young people have quite complex presentations. they've got a range of other issues that it's really important that we address this. and i think one of the problems that's arisen is that people have stopped looking at them in a holistic way. >> assaulting a shop worker will be made a separate criminal offence in a government u—turn in response to a surge of retail crime. it's after a report found violent and abusive incidents against shop workers rose by 50% in 2022 to 2023, the government previously said it did not think a law change was required. but today rishi sunak has announced

the government will be amending its criminal justice bill to bnngin its criminal justice bill to bring in the new offence . and bring in the new offence. and tech giant apple has been accused of anti—semitism after displaying the palestinian flag instead of the israeli flag when typing in the capital jerusalem. some users with devices running on the latest software for the iphone have noticed the prompt in their predictive text function. however, not every user sees it . and for the latest user sees it. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts . com slash alerts. >> to politics now or at least elected politics. rather than politicians pretending to be judges. >> labour has pledged lawyers acting as political activists, what they call it. >> they call it legislating from the bench , the judicial the bench, the judicial activism. well, to real activism

now proper politics. the labour party has pledged to breathe new life into high streets with their new five point plan. >> yes, the party aims to rejuvenate high street shopping by tackling antisocial behaviour, shoplifting , which behaviour, shoplifting, which has risen by more than 30% in the last year. >> well, this comes as abusive shoplifters tougher shoplifters face tougher punishments . assaulting punishments. assaulting a shopkeeper will be made a standalone criminal offence , standalone criminal offence, which could lead to six months in prison. that's an announcement from the prime minister today, hopes that announcement from the prime mininew today, hopes that announcement from the prime mininew action hopes that announcement from the prime mininew action will hopes that announcement from the prime mininew action will crack; that announcement from the prime mininew action will crack down this new action will crack down on retail crime and protect uk high streets? >> well, gb news political editor christopher hope joins us now from a police station in surrey. well, christopher, thank you much indeed for joining you very much indeed for joining us what exactly us on the show. so what exactly are the government doing? i've heard this policy touted before . heard this policy touted before. >> that's right. hi, emily. hi, tom. >> that's right. the pm is looking at he's encouraging the use of panic buttons in shops, little cameras, filming people who are being abusive to shop workers and making very clear there will be a distinct ,

workers and making very clear there will be a distinct, a crime in which if you it will do more to protect shops , shop, more to protect shops, shop, shop owners and shopkeepers and make sure they are protected from any kind of violence and also measures to tackle shoplifting. earlier, he spoke to reporters about his plans, his. here's what he had to say. >> today we've announced a strong set of measures to clamp down on retail crime . that's down on retail crime. that's about a new offence, a brand new offence for assaulting shop workers , using facial workers, using facial recognition technology catch recognition technology to catch perpetrators with cctv, but also greater use of electronic tagging of prolific shoplifters. it's been warmly welcomed by retailers police i've spoken retailers and police i've spoken to today and, crucially, will demonstrate to our shop workers that we've got their back and also that we will do what it takes to keep our streets and our communities safe. that's what that's what everybody wants. that's what everybody wants. that's what prisons are full. what everybody wants. that's thwe're prisons are full. what everybody wants. that's thwe're inprisons are full. what everybody wants. that's thwe're in theyns are full. what everybody wants. that's thwe're in the midst full. what everybody wants. that's thwe're in the midst of|ll. >> we're in the midst of building the biggest building. building prison expansion programme in many decades. in fact, actually thousands and thousands of new places. we're also increasing sentencing for

the violent criminals , the most violent criminals, ending automatic halfway the most violent criminals, ending point,tomatic halfway the most violent criminals, ending point, because|alfway the most violent criminals, ending point, because|alfwajare release point, because those are the do , because the right things to do, because the right things to do, because the violent offenders the most violent offenders should jail for should be sent to jail for longer. what we're longer. that's what we're delivering, the way, all delivering, by the way, all opposed labour opposed by the labour party. when we pass those laws, the pm there, his plans to there, setting out his plans to ensure that those who do abuse shop get jailed. shop workers get jailed. >> although the six month jail terms under current plans wouldn't mean you go to jail at all, because the government is trying say that any any jail trying to say that any any jail terms a don't terms less than a year don't result in custodial sentence . result in a custodial sentence. but he they are building but he says they are building more now. also, and more prisons now. also, tom and emily, he was challenged about the you've been the cass review. you've been talking day on tv talking about it all day on tv news the issue of how, news and the issue of how, health staff treat transgender children. here's where i'd say about that. >> to welcome the publication of the cass report today, something that we commissioned. and it augns that we commissioned. and it aligns with our approach on this issue. and that's that, of course, we must treat children who are questioning their gender with and sensitivity , with compassion and sensitivity, but to recognise that we but we have to recognise that we need with extreme

need to move with extreme caution in these areas because we just simply don't know the long term impacts of what this all means. and children's well—being is uppermost in our mind, and that's why we've acted on the interim findings previously . whether that's the previously. whether that's the nhs banning routine nhs banning the routine use of puberty blockers , or indeed the puberty blockers, or indeed the guidance that we gave to schools about to how treat these issues in those environments, they're welcoming the cass report and welcoming the cass report and welcoming what he sees, as a more a more pragmatic approach towards dealing with children, so many of whom are troubled and are seeking out ways out from going through issues of adolescence. >> he's saying, let's let's go very slowly, very carefully. and in fact, labour are saying similar remarks this this lunchtime and just finally , lunchtime and just finally, because we're in spring and he has said those boats, those flights take off, taking flights will take off, taking people here illegally people arriving here illegally by, to rwanda. he was by, by plane to rwanda. he was asked in the interviews he gave today in surrey, when will those flights take off? taking migrants to rwanda? here's what we had to say. >> just saw the president of

rwanda in downing street this week. they are absolutely committed to delivering on our partnership, confident partnership, and i'm confident that all that they've got all the preparations place do preparations in place to do so. i'm committed stopping i'm committed to stopping the boats need a boats. we need to have a deterrent so that people come deterrent so that if people come here can't stay, here illegally, they can't stay, they'll be removed. that's why rwanda important. that's they'll be removed. that's why rwari'm important. that's they'll be removed. that's why rwari'm determinedant. that's they'll be removed. that's why rwari'm determined to . that's they'll be removed. that's why rwari'm determined to see at's they'll be removed. that's why rwari'm determined to see it's why i'm determined to see it through. first of all, need through. first of all, we need to through parliament, to get it through parliament, where has been where the labour party has been blocking a long time. blocking it for a long time. once and running, once it's up and running, i'm confident we'll be able to operationalise confident we'll be able to operati> no there. again from >> so no date there. again from the pm about the first flight taking off. but we do know that by thursday week, the by thursday next week, the government royal government hopes that royal assent will be granted on the rwanda bill. and after that, while all back to the while it's all back to the courts. so not yet no date courts. so not yet and no date yet for the prime minister about the first flights taking off. tom some really tom and emily, some really important lines there from the

prime perhaps most prime minister, but perhaps most importantly all, chris was importantly of all, chris was the wearing his the prime minister wearing his famous . hahaha. famous samba trainers. hahaha. no, he's had to issue a sort of apology elsewhere in the media today about wearing trainers with his suit. i did check he was wearing leather shoes like i am at all times with gb news. we dress up properly here at gb news tom and ellie. >> yes, i heard the prime minister issue an apology to the samba, adidas, adidas, samba community. >> yes, because he made them too uncool. he said oh goodness me christopher hope, thank you very much for bringing us all of that with the prime minister there as well. >> and chris is always cool, calm and collected, certainly, and dapper. but on the issue of shoplifting and the of shoplifting and the assault of workers in retail stores, a spokesperson for the british retail consortium , tom holder, retail consortium, tom holder, joins us now, tom, it's always concerning to hear that people going about their daily business are being treated in such a horrendous way. how big is this problem, and do you think making

assault of shopkeepers is a specific crime will help fix it ? specific crime will help fix it? >> so we've seen this problem rising to now record levels. >> last year the figure was around 870. >> incidents of violence or abuse each day. this year, 1003 hundred every single day . and hundred every single day. and that's far too much. we need to put an end to it. this standalone offence sends a clear message that such behaviour won't be tolerated, and after many years of campaigning by retailers and the british retail consortium , we're really pleased consortium, we're really pleased to see that the government has brought this in right now. >> now there are punishments involved in all of this. six months in prison is the maximum here. but the government was planning to get rid of short term prison sentences not so long ago. do you think six months is long enough ? months is long enough? >> well, i mean, that's a question for the courts. and the key is that we label a clear

deterrent, that we show that this isn't acceptable , but also this isn't acceptable, but also it will have other impacts. for instance , by making it instance, by making it a standalone offence, police forces will now have to record individual events. this means that we can actually get the data for assault of shop workers, see where the issues are, see and allocate resources appropriately for this issue because at the moment it was just being measured as part of sort of broader assaults and issues there. so there are some other impacts that make it a standalone offence that'll have that will definitely have a positive impact. >> well, thank you very much indeed. short and sweet, tom holder, who is a spokesperson for retail for the british retail consortium, very good to get your perspective all this. your perspective on all of this. i think should do a call out i think we should do a call out here ask, have witnessed here and ask, have you witnessed the shopkeepers on the assault of shopkeepers on your we've seen your high street? we've seen lots anecdotally talk lots of people anecdotally talk about how they've seen people just shoplift, but actual assault of shopkeepers, i'm sure it's common than people it's far more common than people might realise. >> yes. and is it is it reported in every instance? perhaps not.

for my part. i just feel fundamentally depressed now. and i walk into a shop and i see little bits of detergent in a in a sort of plastic box locked up because people just walk out with it. otherwise or you see people with little cameras now attached to their shop uniforms in a way that you didn't before . in a way that you didn't before. it seems like we're hurtling towards a lower and lower trust society. >> yes, very much so. and if you're the shopkeeper at a late night store, a late night, you know, an off licence or something, i can imagine you'd be fearful of who's going to come in. >> well, now you get corner shops that have the same of shops that have the same sort of security you'd expect security screens. you'd expect in well, let us know you've >> well, let us know if you've been anything been privy to anything like this. slash this. gbnews.com forward slash your own your your say. perhaps you own your own and this has happened. own shop and this has happened. >> from crime to >> but from petty crime to organised crime. now a bulgarian gang taxpayers out of gang fleeced taxpayers out of almost £54 million in what's been called britain's biggest ever benefit fraud. >> this is quite incredible. now, prosecutors said the gang treated the benefit system like

a cash machine to fund their own lavish lifestyles. yes, they were living like kings and queens while they were fraudsters. all of this money off us. the five who operated from three fraud factories in london, made around 6000 universal credit claims, fraudulent universal credit claims , of course, between 2016 claims, of course, between 2016 and 2021. so this was just five years, just five years, and all of this cash was used to buy expensive cars, clothing and dazzling jewellery. yes, but the question is just how was this such a large scale fraud actually allowed to happen in this country? you know, the government talk about cracking down on on benefit fraud, but should we get the thoughts now of data security expert and author ahmed ? i mean, authorjamal ahmed? i mean, jamal, this has been called the britain's biggest ever fraud case. how do you reckon this was allowed to happen ? allowed to happen? >> that's a really good question. why was it even allowed to happen in the first place? £54 million of taxpayers money gone just like that. and

what it really shows us. i know the department of work and pensions celebrating pensions is actually celebrating it, but what it shows us is just how inadequate the security and verification measures they have are that five people from bulgaria weren't that bulgaria who weren't that sophisticated could open up three offices in the back of shops and actually fleece the government and taxpayers. out of £54 million of hard earned taxpayers money, which should have gone to the most vulnerable people in society. and i believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. this is just one case that's brought there that's been brought to us. there must more going on like must be a lot more going on like this. and that's what's concerning these concerning is because these petty criminals or these, vile criminals, rather what they're doing is they're preying on the most vulnerable people in society and they're saying, hey, we can help you to get a national insurance number if you're new to the country, or we can help you claim for can help you to claim for benefits if you don't understand the and if don't the language. and if you don't understand what do. they understand what to do. and they was as a ploy to get was using that as a ploy to get information and harvest information and harvest information people information and harvest informight| people information and harvest

informight otherwise people information and harvest informight otherwise be people information and harvest informight otherwise be entitled who might otherwise be entitled to make those claims. and once they had some of their basic information, it was then using that fraudulent that to create fraudulent identities. they was using that to create fraudulent tenancy agreements claim things like agreements to claim things like housing benefit, using it to make kids that didn't exist. make up kids that didn't exist. so once they harvested that information off the unsuspecting, vulnerable public, they then really got there to work with the evil mind and started creating all of these fabricated evidence to be able to exploit the system to extract that money. and as you say, treat it like a cash machine. >> so this wasn't this wasn't just defrauding the taxpayer and stealing the money of anyone who pays tax. this was also taking money from people who could have claimed it themselves. >> yeah, they were pretending that they would help people. so just to harvest those details once they had those details, they adopted identities . they adopted those identities. sometimes they created fake identities and they used that to claim benefits . once they claim the benefits. once they had benefits, they had those benefits, they extracted and that's extracted that money and that's what to fund their extracted that money and that's what lifestyle,o fund their extracted that money and that's what lifestyle, including ir lavish lifestyle, including those istanbul and

those trips to istanbul and taking this away just from the benefit system . benefit system. >> how much credit card fraud and other types of fraud are happening at the moment? how easy is it for someone , a easy is it for someone, a criminal, to decide? you know what? i'm going to pretend my name is bill jones and he's got a credit. he can max out his credit card. how easy is this type of stuff if it's actually getting easier and easier for criminals to exploit people? >> because when you look at things like artificial intelligence and the other tools and all of the deepfakes and the voice cloning and everything that's going on right now, it's becoming more and easier to becoming more and more easier to convince unsuspecting people becoming more and more easier to convthey unsuspecting people becoming more and more easier to convthey are jspecting people becoming more and more easier to convthey are actually| people that they are actually from a bona fide organisation like a bank like hmrc. even royal mail post office saying, hey, we've got a delivery for you . and so got a delivery for you. and so what we're seeing now an what we're seeing now is an increase text messages increase in text messages and increase in text messages and increase email and even increase in email scams and even phone using phone calls, which is using social engineering. and the way they do that is by learning a few pieces of information from you. example, tom, what you. so for example, tom, what they might do is, hey, you've

got a bucha account. let's have a look at what email address you're using for that boots account. they try account. and then they might try and guess password, you and guess that password, you might bothered about might not be so bothered about your but what your boots account, but what they they know that they do is they know that someone actually someone like tom might actually use email and password use the same email and password in and they'll use the same email and password in and and they'll use the same email and password in and see and they'll use the same email and password in and see where|d they'll use the same email and password in and see where else they'll use the same email and password in and see where else they ll use the same email and password in and see where else they can try and see where else they can log start collecting that log in and start collecting that information. have information. and once they have enough information, they use enough information, they can use that social that to create a social engineering attack to extract more details you, to more details from you, or to actually commit fraud, pretending to be you and really password hygiene. don't use the same have same password everywhere. have a different password that you use for every single account. and if you that difficult, use

you find that difficult, use a password manager. i mean google offer password for offer a password manager for free. so there's things that we can next thing you want can do. the next thing you want to is wherever possible, make to do is wherever possible, make sure two factor sure you set up two factor authentication. even authentication. so even if someone hold your someone does get hold of your someone does get hold of your some credentials , some of your login credentials, there's always that second layer of will detect of security that will detect message or an email or some other way of verifying it. and often if you just do those two things, can get rid of 80% things, you can get rid of 80% of the attacks. other thing of the attacks. the other thing i if you're not i would say is, if you're not expecting email , if you're i would say is, if you're not expyexpectingemail , if you're i would say is, if you're not expyexpecting a1ail , if you're i would say is, if you're not expyexpecting a password,j're i would say is, if you're not expyexpecting a password, ife not expecting a password, if you're expecting phone not expecting a password, if you'ralwaysxpecting phone not expecting a password, if you'ralwaysxpeysuspicious ne call, always be suspicious and make is make them prove that it is actually them. and if you are worried, don't share any information. up. use information. hang up. use a different phone and you call the number you know directly number that you know directly to see listen to see if mps need to listen to your advice. see if mps need to listen to youjamal.e. see if mps need to listen to youjamal. but that's a really >> jamal. but that's a really important stuff. thank you. jamal ahmed, data security expert and author. >> i wonder if we can just replay the clip of these vile people just showering the room with £20 notes that they fleeced off us? i mean, it's quite extraordinary just using all of our hard earned taxpayers cash to fund their ridiculously lavish lifestyles. mean, what lavish lifestyles. i mean, what

kind of moral compass or lack of do you need to have to do this? look at them just showing off their money. it's like what drug dealers do is bad, isn't it? it's like something of it's like something out of breaking mentioned the breaking bad. i mentioned the credit cards earlier because i was series was watching the netflix series emily which is emily the criminal, which is that caught my attention. >> a reason you were >> is there a reason you were watching? sounds like watching? that sounds like it was this credit fraud, was all this credit card fraud, which very easy for which seemed to be very easy for some people to do, but thankfully people thankfully we've got people looking this stuff. but look looking at this stuff. but look at them just splashing the cash all floor if they all over the floor as if they earned if they earned it. earned it, as if they earned it. furious. we extradite too. furious. also, we extradite too. so three of them we arrested here this country , two of here in this country, two of them ran off and we extradited them ran off and we extradited them back here to face our justice system, which is curious. not what curious. i'm not sure what i make of that. curious. i'm not sure what i ma well,that. curious. i'm not sure what i ma well, so. . curious. i'm not sure what i ma well, so. so that we can >> well, so. so that we can spend even more putting spend even more money putting them courts, putting them through the courts, putting them through the courts, putting them right. them in our prisons. right. jolly coming up, jolly good. well, coming up, a brand new poll reveals the princess the most princess of wales is the most popular royal. but who's the least? more on that shortly

good afternoon. britain. it's just gone . 10 to 1. now. you'll just gone. 10 to 1. now. you'll never guess who's been revealed as the most popular royal. according to a yougov survey . according to a yougov survey. >> well, it is in fact, the prince drum roll. the princess of wales . of wales. >> it says it on the strap. it says it down there. if you're listening on the radio, if you're listening on the radio, you're listening on the radio, you will have had a bit of suspense there. >> catherine royal >> princess catherine tops royal poll three quarters of britons now of the now have a positive view of the princess of wales. and now, if you know these type of polls, most public figures always have a .net negative, don't they? >> really >> they really do. >> they really do. >> always have negative >> we always have a net negative , catherine. , but not princess catherine. how to do with how much is this to do with her sitting down? that candid, sitting down? that very candid, emotional, calm and emotional, but also calm and collected description of what she's been going through with her diagnosis ? shall we her cancer diagnosis? shall we speak to cameron walker, our royal , cameron,

royal correspondent, cameron, i hope that perhaps this yougov survey might, bring a smile to princess catherine's face. what do you think? >> well, quite possibly the princess of wales has always been of the most popular been one of the most popular members family. members of the royal family. with the public. in with the british public. and in fact, poll of yougov fact, this latest poll of yougov shows that the princess of wales's popularity is up six points since the start the points since the start of the year and back in january, she went into hospital for abdominal surgery as we now know, she surgery and as we now know, she is battling and undergoing treatment for, cancer. and i think this perhaps shows that the british public are very much on side with the princess of wales. she's never ever since marrying into the royal family had a major faux pas. she puts family first. she champions causes like mental health and the of things for the provision of things for early years. and i think perhaps the british government as well can see her as a real asset with that power of soft diplomacy. both she and her husband, prince william, has, when representing britain abroad as well. the,

when they went to boston , which when they went to boston, which i was lucky enough to go on as well for prince william's earthshot prize. they were so popular with american popular with the american public, particularly princess kate, who did, did kate, who did, who did engagements by herself as well. so i think this just shows that how how kind of popular she can be with the british public. >> no, really important stuff there and really, really there and a really, really good sort call refresher sort of wake up call refresher that, as david cameron once said, actually, and said, actually, twitter and britain are not the same thing. well, quite. >> yes indeed . >> yes indeed. >> yes indeed. >> cameron walker, thank you very much for bringing us that , very much for bringing us that, now don't go anywhere , because now don't go anywhere, because we're going to be talking with the conservative member of parliament, danny kruger, about this extraordinary echr ruling. it's a very, very vital conversation, and we're going to be looking forward to that , at be looking forward to that, at the top of the next hour. this is good afternoon, britain on .

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people who are kind of are going through gender distress aren't actually what we would have called transgender. >> they felt obliged to start them a pathway potentially them down a pathway potentially to irreversible. you know, either medication or surgery . either medication or surgery. >> it's not the echr that means we've got a crisis in our nhs. >> how is it that there's not enough worms? but there seems to be loads of maggots, rats, cockroaches, flies in our hospitals. we've got it all wrong. it's all going wrong somewhere. yes, somewhere from six. >> it's breakfast on gb news

way . way. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:00 on wednesday, the 10th of april. >> that's the echr rules that the swiss government violated elderly women's rights by failing to do enough to combat climate change. the lawyer representing the claim claimants says it's right that climate action. trump s democracy. well,

we'll be getting the thoughts of the senior conservative mp danny kruger on that issue. >> well, indeed. now a gang of five bulgarian benefit fraud cheats have raked in a whopping £50 million plus using thousands of fake id claims. how is this allowed to happen? and should we clamp down harder on benefit cheats? we'll be debating this . cheats? we'll be debating this. >> the nhs is to review all transgender treatment following a release of a bombshell report today claiming gender questioning children have been badly let . badly let. down. now, how is this one for size, apple has updated its operating system for iphones overnight, and there's been a curious change that has appeared on the keyboard. yes. if you type out

the word jerusalem, the little pictures, the little emojis that come up beside it, well, it's just of palestine. there's no israel. >> yes. so the question is really whether this is an act of protest from the software company or from apple itself, or whether this is just a harmless accident, but it's certainly led to lots of people saying, you know, this is a sign of anti semitism. this is a sign of political bias on the part of apple. now apple has been accused some characters accused by some characters previously of actually being controlled by jewish people, which is quite incredible by a palestinian politician in the past. and now to see that apple has now adopted the palestine flag as its emoji forjerusalem. flag as its emoji for jerusalem. >> it's not. there's two spaces there on the keyboard. once you type in jerusalem , there's those type in jerusalem, there's those there's those boxes. one of them's blank and one of them's with the palestine flag. why would it be so hard to show one picture of an israeli flag and one of a palestinian

one picture of a palestinian flag that would be supporting a two state solution? surely that would path would be the moderate path through here. would be the moderate path thr(well,1ere. would be the moderate path thr(well, curious. let us know >> well, curious. let us know what you make of it all. gbnews.com forward slash your say is where you can get in touch. but let's get your headunes touch. but let's get your headlines first. >> good afternoon. it's 1:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your top story this hour. children are being let down by remarkably weak evidence and toxic debate around gender. the cass review calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other nhs care. it says the toxicity of the debate around gender meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views. the review also found no evidence that the use of blockers, which delay puberty in children, led to better mental health outcomes. the author of the report , doctor hilary cass, report, doctor hilary cass, spoke about the concerns for children's safety she been very concerned about is the lack of

an evidence base. >> our systematic reviews from the university of york show that the university of york show that the evidence was really disappointing, and that's meant that we have to be really quite cautious about how we manage medical interventions. cautious about how we manage medical interventions . these medical interventions. these young people have quite complex presentations. they've got a range of other issues that it's really important that we address . and i think one of the problems that's arisen is that people have stopped looking at them in a holistic way. >> meanwhile, parliamentary under—secretary for justice laura pharis says it's a problem countries across the world are grappling with. >> it has been a 20 fold, something like a 15 or 20 fold increase in the number of children being referred to this service in the last 10 or 15 years, and that's happened in many countries, many other countries. a problem. countries. it's a problem. everybody's been grappling with. we're the government asked we're the government that asked hilary cass to conduct that

review. this is a detail and empirical scientific review that should inform the way that policy is developed, and it shouldn't be a matter of trends or feelings or social cachet on how very sensitive issue is developed. >> in other news, assaulting a shop worker will be made a separate criminal offence in a government u—turn in response to a surge of retail crime . it's a surge of retail crime. it's after a report found violent and abusive incidents against shop workers rose by 50% in 2022 to 2023. the government previously said it did not think a law change was required, but today rishi sunak has announced the government would be amending its criminal justice bill to bring in the new offence . in the new offence. >> our track record and clamping down on crime is actually very positive. crime has halved since 2010. it's down since the start of this parliament and last year we outlined new plans to tackle antisocial behaviour and fraud, which working. i which are already working. but i have concerned by the rise have been concerned by the rise in retail crime, as i am sure many others either seeing it many others are either seeing it or media, is why

or on social media, which is why today strong today we've announced a strong set measures clamp down on set of measures to clamp down on retail about a new retail crime. that's about a new offence, a brand new offence for assaulting shop workers , using assaulting shop workers, using facial recognition technology to catch perpetrators with cctv, but also greater use of electronic tagging of prolific shoplifters. it's been warmly welcomed by retailers and police i >> -- >> i've spoken to the prime minister, rishi sunak, speaking there now five members of a bulgarian organised crime group have been convicted of falsely claiming over £50 million in universal credit in the uk's biggest ever benefit fraud over a four and a half year period. the gang made thousands of false claims for universal credit, using either real people or hijacked identities. the investigation identified three benefit factories in london where repeated false claims for benefits were supported by forged documents. if the claims were rejected, the fraudsters would try again and again until they were granted. the defendants will appear for sentencing in may. some 7.4

million uk adults are still struggling to pay bills due to the high cost of living, according to a survey by the financial conduct authority. 1 in 9 adults had missed a bill or credit payment in the six months to january. in 2024,1 credit payment in the six months to january. in 2024, 1 in 9 people also had no disposable income. the fca said the number had fallen from last year, but many households still feel heavily burdened . arizona heavily burdened. arizona supreme court has reinstated a near—total ban on abortion from 1864. the court ruled that the state can enforce an 160 year old almost complete abortion ban.the old almost complete abortion ban. the 1864 law, which precedes arizona becoming a state, makes abortion punishable by 2 to 5 years in prison , by 2 to 5 years in prison, except when the mother's life is at risk. arizona voters may be able to undo the ruling in a november referendum , and tech november referendum, and tech giant apple has been accused of anti—semitism after displaying the palestinian flag instead of

the palestinian flag instead of the israeli flag. when typing in the israeli flag. when typing in the capital, jerusalem. some users with devices running on the latest software for the iphone have noticed the prompt in their predictive text function. however, not every user sees it . and for the latest user sees it. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com/alerts. now it's back to tom and . emily. to tom and. emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:07 now. the evidence supporting gender treatments for children is remarkably weak. that's to according a major new review. >> yes, the cast report recommends holistic and personal care for children over hormone treatments and puberty blockers. >> well, the prime minister has said that the findings show a need for extreme caution regarding children's gender care. >> whilst we must treat children who are questioning their gender

with compassion and sensitivity, but we have to recognise that we need to move with extreme caution in these areas because we just simply don't know the long term impacts of what this all means. and children's wellbeing is uppermost in our mind. >> there's the prime minister's response. the paediatrician doctor hilary cass , also added doctor hilary cass, also added that the toxicity of gender culture wars meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views. >> well, the co—founder and ceo of sex matters, maya forstater, can join us now to go through this. maya, i'm actually struck by the amount of consensus there appears to be with regard to this review, people who i would have ordinarily thought to be on either side of this debate, on either side of this debate, on either side of these arguments, are all saying this is an important and timely of important and timely piece of work . work. >> i think there's just no way of away from that of getting away from that conclusion. it's 400 pages. it's backed by, peer reviewed

research, and it's absolutely clear that there is no good evidence for transitioning children. so it's very difficult for organisations to, disagree with that. and so we've seen stonewall and mermaids, who for the past , stonewall and mermaids, who for the past, six, eight years at least have been promoting, giving puberty blockers and cross—sex hormones to children, changing their tune. and they're now saying they agree with this cautious approach. >> it was six months ago. that's very interesting isn't it, that some groups and activists appear to have changed their tune. why do you suspect that is . do you suspect that is. >> i think both the government and the opposition have welcomed this report. the way to evidence is undeniable and i think they've seen the way the wind is blowing, they have been promoting an unethical

unevidenced treatment to children, and putting these clinics , under pressure. and it clinics, under pressure. and it can't go on now, doctor hilary cass has been very careful in this review to strike a balanced approach , talking about how approach, talking about how everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, how there should be screening, for example , for autism and for mental health issues, for people that are going through the gender process , but also stopping short process, but also stopping short of saying that there's no such thing as a transgender child. >> in fact, it's saying that there there may in some cases be people who are transgender under the age of 18. >> i don't think she said quite that, tom, it's not about children going through a gender process and being screened out for having other, conditions. it's about looking at children holistically, not as gender patients, but as children who are distressed for some reason

and trying to work out why they're distressed and how that can be relieved. so the idea that this is about screening out other reasons so that children can get on the gender train is exactly what cass is not saying. >> no, maya, i think i think we might be talking cross purposes here because you're right. this is about holistic is talking about a holistic approach . but it's not saying approach. but it's not saying that transgender children don't exist . exist. >> it doesn't talk about transgender children. what it talks about is gender distressed children. and it says that clinicians have no way of knowing which of those gender distressed children might grow up and decide to be transsexual as adults . there's no way of as adults. there's no way of knowing. and so they're not trans children. they're children who are experiencing distress and the question is, should those children be given puberty blocking drugs that stop them growing up and stop them maturing sexually? and should they then be given cross—sex hormones which sterilise them? and the answer is very clearly no. so it doesn't make sense to

talk about those children as being trans children. hilary cass is very clear. we should just think of those children as children . children. >> maya, are you hopeful that this will change the way the nhs and other gender services are operating in this , in this operating in this, in this country? i we spoke earlier about how not all nhs services got involved with this review . got involved with this review. they weren't willing to potentially share important evidence. >> yes, i'm very hopeful and this will change what happens in england, and at the moment, children in wales are also treated, under the same regime , treated, under the same regime, it doesn't change what happens in scotland. and and it doesn't directly change what, private , directly change what, private, clinicians can do. but doctor hilary cass did give a very clear warning to gps not to enter into shared care arrangements with private prescribers who are acting

outside of the nhs, framework and also to pharmacists that they shouldn't be filling private prescriptions unless they believe that it's in the child's best interest and it's safe. so although she wasn't able to directly stop private prescribers, i think she did everything that she could to try and reduce this, private prescriptions with families , you prescriptions with families, you know, going outside of the nhs to these online prescribers, some of them not in the uk, who are still willing to give these drugs to children. >> again, this is about caution rather than absolutes. well, for maya, starter, thank you so much for joining us and talking forjoining us and talking through, what is a landmark review? yes. >> it's fundamentally about making that children aren't making sure that children aren't harmed, but in other news, a ruling by the european court of human rights says governments now have a duty to protect people from climate change. >> it's curious this. it follows a case brought by a group of

elderly swiss women who argued switzerland's government violated their human rights by failing quickly enough to failing to act quickly enough to address climate issues. yes, the strasbourg judges agreed, and the ruling can now trickle down to influence the law. >> in 46 countries, including the uk . the uk. >> well, now, emily and i have been looking into this case and we were particularly struck by the jurisdiction given all the justification, i should say, given by the lawyer who fought this case. listen very carefully here to what this lawyer says about the conflict between democracy and combating climate change. >> well, in switzerland it's particularly problematic because they have referendums and one of they have referendums and one of the defences run by the government was we had a referendum on this and the people decided they didn't want it . it. >> and therefore that's we've done our effectively . but done our best effectively. but this is something that comes up all the time in relation to human rights. it's the conflict between this idea democracy

between this idea of democracy as just what the people choose and democra as entailing some fundamental and universal rights which matter irrespective of what the majority decides . some what the majority decides. some things are more important than democracy . democracy. >> it's very interesting the idea of a conflict between what is voted for and what this particular lawyer thinks is a human right, in this case, climate change policy. >> we know better. we're joined by danny kruger, by conservative mp danny kruger, who strongly about who feels very strongly about this , danny, just your this issue, danny, just your reaction there to what the lawyer had to say. she was representing this group of swiss women who brought this case to the echr. it's quite curious what the relationship between the law and democracy . the law and democracy. >> yes. and you get this opinion increasingly vocalised by people who essentially don't believe either in democracy or indeed in nations. >> they think that some

questions transcend national borders, which of course, they do, and that therefore there should be some kind of world government or european government or european government that insists on, passing laws in our interests and in the interests of future generations. and by the way, i do understand the logic there . i do understand the logic there. i mean, if you if you decide that we're facing some existential crisis that requires the overriding of public opinion , overriding of public opinion, then you can understand why these people think that i disagree with them. and i think that the best way to serve the interests of the planet, which we all naturally in our lord balfe regard as totally foundational and essential, the best way to do that is to trust governments accountable to their people who themselves care very strongly things . so, strongly about these things. so, yes, we have a fundamental difference opinion about difference of opinion about where resides . and i think where power resides. and i think the best answer that question the best answer to that question is reside in national is it should reside in national governments, accountable to national . national populations. >> it's particularly striking in this case, danny, that the dissenting voice amongst the judges sitting on or ruling on

this case, the dissenting voice, was the british judge. what did you make of what he had to say? >> yes. >> yes. >> he made a very important point, which is that the court is overstepping its proper bounds and actually will end up harming the case, which we all share, which is about, ensuring a greener future . so i think a greener future. so i think it's interesting that the british judge saw sense in this case, but here we go. it's a majority court . the verdict majority court. the verdict appues majority court. the verdict applies to all signatories to the european convention on human rights and whatever the british, judge or indeed the british government or the british people might think it doesn't matter because this, this judgement now appues because this, this judgement now applies to all of us. >> and danny, does this ruling make it a little bit more likely that the united kingdom may eventually leave the echr, or doesit eventually leave the echr, or does it make it more likely, at least , that, governments may least, that, governments may ignore the rulings from echr ignore the rulings from the echr in future? >> well, you know, we are we are

bound by the by the treaty to comply with judgements made by the european court. >> other countries are not quite as, compliant as we are. so i'm afraid i think we should either obey the law or we should change the law. and in this case, that means leaving the treaty. in my view, leaving the view, we should be leaving the jurisdiction european jurisdiction of the european court altogether. the convention itself is a noble document that court altogether. the convention itsecan; a noble document that court altogether. the convention itsecan all1oble document that court altogether. the convention itsecan all subscriberment that court altogether. the convention itsecan all subscribe to ant that we can all subscribe to its aspiration . and when it was aspiration. and when it was drafted the 50s, it drafted in the 40s and 50s, it said some straightforward good things, way, things, including, by the way, the article that this judgement was based on, which was article eight, the right to family life, which really was about the right to marry and to have your private correspondence not tampered government . tampered with by the government. that literally what article that was literally what article eight was about. >> cases seem to >> all of these cases seem to hinge on article eight. this hinge on on article eight. this is can't deport people . is why we can't deport people. this is why we get climate legislation. mean , danny, legislation. i mean, danny, i wonder because i very often hear people in your position say that these rights were wonderful and noble and written by winston

churchill, but they're just not very good, are they? they're very good, are they? they're very ambiguous. they've been used lawyers things used by lawyers to mean things that didn't originally that people didn't originally intend . isn't a intend them to mean. isn't a better example of a bill of rights. what we had in 1688 and what the americans had in the 17805, what the americans had in the 1780s, limits on government power, rather than things that the government must do . the government must do. >> well put, well put. and i agree with that. and of course, the drafting of the european convention was intended to be a, as it were, a gift by the to british the continent of europe, escaping from the shadow of totalitarianism . winston totalitarianism. winston churchill didn't imagine that the uk would actually sign up to the uk would actually sign up to the convention itself in the early years. we eventually decided and while the decided to do so, and while the as i say, the aspirations are noble, jurisprudence , the noble, the jurisprudence, the application of the convention articles followed the articles have followed the continental model whereby the government decides what you can do and therefore insists on

that, rather than, as you say, limits the infringement of rights by others, including by the government. so yes , i do the government. so yes, i do think we should undo our membership of the convention, whether we need to replace it at all with some new bill of rights of our own, which british government has aspired to do in recent years or not, is a second question. but as we've seen today in other rulings today and in other rulings recently, notoriously the one that stopped the flights taking off, taking off to rwanda, it's evident that the european court is no longer serving the interests of the british people. and ultimately, if you believe that the british people are sovereign and we should be making i making our own laws, as i do, i don't that's any longer don't think that's any longer compatible with membership of the thank very much >> well, thank you very much indeed. danny kruger, really great to speak to you, conservative mp, it's interesting, danny says , we interesting, danny says, we should eitherjust leave the should either just leave the convention entirely or stick to it, whereas rishi sunak seems to be suggesting in a sort of vague way that we could ignore it on

some accounts, and he'll do everything he can when it comes to rwanda flights, etc, etc, to the rwanda flights, etc, etc, whereas danny is more of straightforward. >> are lots of >> yeah, there are lots of problems, with problems, of course, with leaving written leaving it because it's written into friday agreement, into the good friday agreement, and have all of and so then you have all of these northern ireland negotiations that have to negotiations that would have to start. i can see why rishi sunak is reluctant to think gung ho . is reluctant to think gung ho. let's leave this even though, philosophically , i think most philosophically, i think most conservatives would think what are known as positive rights. you know, the government must do this for you rather than negative rights , whereby the negative rights, whereby the government do to government can't do this to you. >> just bit too, too >> yeah, just a bit too, too much, bit too much his much, a bit too much on his plate start that plate to start attacking that perhaps . yeah, yeah. there you perhaps. yeah, yeah. there you go. we were showing. we go. we were just showing. we were the strap. were just showing on the strap. half more than half of tory voters, more than half want to half of tory voters want to leave there is a leave the echr. there is a little bit of a mismatch, perhaps, the perhaps, between the parliamentary members of the conservative party and the voters . voters. >> but there is also this, this, this, this, this difficulty with sort of what perhaps people would like in an ideal world and the practicalities of doing something that then make it so

very difficult. and perhaps that's why government ministers very often are, are sounding like they'd like to do something, but just can't. >> but this ruling sets quite the precedent , and this could be the precedent, and this could be used in this country. and i imagine it will be. but coming up, we're going to be debating whether we need to clamp down harder on benefit fraud. yes we're talking about this because it's emerged a bulgarian gang have fleeced the british taxpayer over a whopping £54 million. this was through benefit fraud claims. quite incredible. do we need do we need to crack down harder? that's the question

i >> -- >> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:26. now. a bulgarian organised

crime gang fleeced taxpayers out of. get this almost £54 million in what's being called britain's biggest ever benefit fraud. >> they clearly thought they'd get away with it. prosecutors said the gang the said the gang treated the benefit like a cash benefit system like a cash machine to fund their own lavish lifestyles . and judging by these lifestyles. and judging by these pictures we're showing you, it was rather a lavish one. look at all those £20 notes tied up and here's one of the culprits splashing the cash, throwing it up in the air, taking videos and having a good time of it, just making a mockery. but now they're going to jail. now they're going to jail. now they're going to jail. now they're going to jail. so there you goes around comes you go. what goes around comes around. our debate this around. but our debate this houn around. but our debate this hour, we're asking, should be hour, we're asking, should we be clamping down harder on benefit fraud in light this case? fraud in light of this case? >> and to debate this, we're joined by the former police officer , henry bolton, who officer, henry bolton, who thinks we absolutely need to clamp on harder on fraud clamp down on harder on fraud and anarchist and academic doctor lisa mckenzie, who thinks this case shouldn't distract from the fact that most people

are legitimately claiming benefits . yes, well, henry, benefits. yes, well, henry, let's start with you. what's your view , yeah, i of course your view, yeah, i of course that's true . that's true. >> most of the, claimants on on benefits are absolutely legitimate. >> and people who are needy and are quite rightly in receipt of those benefits. however we have had a, a distinct failing in this country for the last two decades or more in relation to the imported organised crime that has come along with immigration unmanaged, uncontrolled and sort of just free immigration, almost particularly from the eu , back particularly from the eu, back in between 2003 and 2006, i worked out of the british embassy in what's now the repubuc embassy in what's now the republic of northern macedonia, and running organised and i was running organised counter organised crime operations. from there we warned the government, then downing street, the cabinet office, that allowing bulgaria and romania into the european union would

open the floodgates to a massive amount of organised crime on human trafficking, people smuggling, but particularly on identity fraud, on insurance frauds, on benefits, frauds and so on. and narcotics , and as so on. and narcotics, and as a result of that, the european union decided to put a freeze on their freedom of movement for seven years. so they joined actually in two thousand and seven, 2014, they had freedom of movement like everybody else in the european union did. and at that point we had a just a flood of organised crime into europe and into the united kingdom. thing is , in the united kingdom, thing is, in the united kingdom, we have been far more laissez faire about paying foreigners benefits than they have in other countries. we've done fewer identity checks, we've done fewer security checks on these people because our resources have not been so well staffed. now, luckily, when it comes to bulgaria , back 20 years ago, we bulgaria, back 20 years ago, we established good relations with

boc, which is the counter organised crime organisation in in bulgaria that endures, we've got good relations down there, but we've got a serious problem in this country. >> dup henry, let's throw that over to lisa. lisa, we've been far too lax. >> jason, i agree with henry, that this is organised crime . that this is organised crime. this is not, people at home that need benefits , that are relying need benefits, that are relying on £108 a week if you're on pip, if you're on the on disability. this is organised crime. this has got no connection to the people who actually have paid their taxes into the system . and their taxes into the system. and they're perhaps at the other end of their life where they need , of their life where they need, pensions or whether they need , pensions or whether they need, disability payments or whether they've just lost their jobs and they've just lost their jobs and they need some, some support between jobs that the organised crime has got nothing to do with the people that actually need

the people that actually need the benefits. we've got a social system most of us pay into this our whole lives, and i think we should never, ever, sort of forget that when these sort of big headlines come in. yeah, we need to tighten the system up. this should not be happening. this should not be happening. this is disgusting. for every person country that sits person in the country that sits and pays their taxes and hopes that the state will look after them when they're needed it. so ihave them when they're needed it. so i have no argument at all with henry. but what i'm saying is, let's just remember that this is organised crime and nothing to do with with the general population. >> henry, we've seen an explosion in the number of people receiving benefits, particularly since the pandemic. do you imagine that there is a rise in fraud, too? >> yeah, i it's very difficult to quantify and measure any increase or decrease in fraud. >> fraud? the criminals are opportunistic. they will take advantage of any moment. so, for example , during the covid example, during the covid lockdowns and so on, there was

various things and payments made, to , to support people made, to, to support people dunng made, to, to support people during that period. there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that criminals would have identified those sort of occurrences as an opportunity . now, you know, of opportunity. now, you know, of course there is. there are people out there, british people, ordinary people , if you people, ordinary people, if you like, who are also opportunistic and they think they can get away with this or or the other, with this or that or the other, they always try that. but they will always try that. but that's not the of the that's not the bulk of the problem here. we're talking about over £50 million in one crime operation. now that's a lot of money, where do we if we want to, sort of deal with this problem? i think we've got to target the biggest , source of target the biggest, source of criminality rather than the small people. that's not to say that they should be innocent. back what this ultimately goes back to, it's rightly been back to, it's quite rightly been said. we pay our taxes. we pay our taxes because we want the government to do various things for one of those things for us. and one of those things is to secure ourselves against

organised criminality . organised crime and criminality. >> let's go back to lisa. lisa, what should now be done, we. >> sorry. so what should now be done?i >> sorry. so what should now be done? i think what we should do is again, recognise that there are, government agencies that are, government agencies that are absolutely failing us. this is failing us all. you know, you you might put me on the left of politics, but when it comes to benefit fraud and taking , money benefit fraud and taking, money away from people that absolutely need it, i. i have no argument in sort of cracking down on that. what i also want to say or say is, let's remember that there are lots of ways that people can defraud the system. you know, let's think of the big, massive companies that we kind negotiate out their tax kind of negotiate out their tax bills with. you know, let's let's think that there's a lot of money that we are allowing to slip the in this slip through the net in this country. the other end, slip through the net in this cou have the other end, slip through the net in this cou have got the other end, slip through the net in this cou have got people other end, slip through the net in this couhave got people who end, slip through the net in this cou have got people who are i, we have got people who are living abject living in absolute abject poverty we are not poverty because we are not managing our government agencies

properly or fairly well. >> if i can say, can i quickly say one of the things here is we cut our police, we cut our immigration services, and we've cut the people who are responsible for investigating these sort of things. >> and across board, whether >> and across the board, whether it's health, whether it's it's animal health, whether it's benefit we the people benefit fraud, we cut the people who are responsible for ensuring that these systems work and are efficient. and this sort of thing is not allowed to happen . thing is not allowed to happen. we cut all that to the bone. yeah. and that's a big problem . yeah. and that's a big problem. it needs to be properly resourced. >> thank you very much indeed, henry good thank henry bolton. good stuff. thank you well, doctor. you very much as well, doctor. lisa mckenzie. good debate there. >> well an outbreak of agreement as an outbreak of agreement. >> an outbreak of agreement. crack on the real crack down on the real fraud fraudsters . fraudsters. >> but coming up a british energy company commence energy company will commence with the north sea's with drilling the north sea's biggest oil fields discovered in the last 20 years, despite net zero. well, despite the echr . zero. well, despite the echr. well, we'll have all the details after your headlines .

after your headlines. >> it's 134. after your headlines. >> it's134. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb news room . your in the gb news room. your headlines. children are being let down by remarkably weak evidence and toxic debate around genden evidence and toxic debate around gender. the cass review calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other nhs care. it says the toxicity of the debate around gender meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views. the review also found no evidence that the use of blockers, which delay puberty in children , led to better mental children, led to better mental health outcomes. the author of the report , doctor hilary cass, the report, doctor hilary cass, spoke about the concerns for children's safety . children's safety. >> being very concerned about is the lack of an evidence base. our systematic reviews from the university of york showed that the evidence was really disappointing, and that's meant that we have to be really quite cautious about how we manage medical interventions. cautious about how we manage medical interventions . these medical interventions. these young people have quite complex presentations. they've got a

range of other issues that it's really important that we address . and i think one of the problems that's arisen is that people have stopped looking at them in a holistic way. >> assaulting a shop worker will be made a separate criminal offence in a government u—turn in response to a surge of retail crime. it's after a report found violent and abusive incidents against shop workers rose by 50% in 2022 to 2023. the government previously said it did not think a law change was required. but today rishi sunak has announced the government would be amending its criminal justice bill to bnngin its criminal justice bill to bring in the new offence. and tech giant apple has been accused of anti—semitism after displaying the palestinian flag instead of the israeli flag. when typing in the capital jerusalem. some users with devices running on the latest software for the iphone have noficed software for the iphone have noticed the prompt in their predictive text function.

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i >> -- >> good afternoon. britain. it's 20 to 2 now. british energy company inquest will start drilling in the north sea's biggest oil field . plus, there's biggest oil field. plus, there's some news about tesco. >> there is indeed . shall we >> there is indeed. shall we speak to liam halligan? and all of this economic and business related news? well, he's here with us with on the money . liam. with us with on the money. liam. the high street. well, it's suiting tesco quite nicely. record profits, i believe. and also the highest market share for a while. >> that's right. we've all been through this cost of living crisis. of course inflation still officially is above the bank of england's 2% target, though there are signs of inflation easing. yeah. let's just have a look at tesco's results before we go on to talk about the north sea. tesco of course, is the biggest uk retailer by some way. it has held up its market share even though some of the discounters

like aldi and lidl have made hay dunng like aldi and lidl have made hay during this cost of living crisis. tesco's profits there were £2.3 billion serious money, £2,300 million during the year to february and that's up from 882 million the previous year, an increase of around 160. so profits way more than doubling in a single year. tesco now saying that they see grocery inflation at a two year low. their figures that have been corroborated also by the british retail consortium, they put so—called shop inflation now at just 1.3. that's an unofficial number. during march we'll see what the official number is from the office for national statistics when it comes out next week. but what i would say here is that a lot of listeners and viewers will be thinking, crikey, is tesco making big profits because prices have been unjustifiably high during the recent period ? britain's biggest

recent period? britain's biggest retailer denies that. of course, though, i suspect a lot of gb news viewers and listeners will be very impatient now at the pnces be very impatient now at the prices they're paying in supermarket hits, and they'll be looking for price rises, not just to slow down, but prices to actually fall in the months to come. we shall see. >> liam just quickly on the on the story before we move the tesco story before we move on to the oil and gas, could this be down, could this be because they were the first to get clubcard ? it's proven get this clubcard? it's proven very indeed. in very popular indeed. bringing in the well , the tesco clubcard, if >> well, the tesco clubcard, if you go to harvard business school and do a sort of management degree, the tesco clubcard is a very long standing, example of sort of corporate, success story. it was an innovation back in the day. it's been around for , you know, it's been around for, you know, many, many years now. it's been mimicked across the world. and certainly it has really drawn the customers into tesco and as i say, this is a company that

employs 330,000 people. it's an absolute runaway success. named after tessa cohen, of course, founded in hackney in east london. i used to live right next door to the first ever tesco, tessa cohen was the wife of the founder of this incredible retailer, and it's making huge amounts of cash , making huge amounts of cash, which i bought some shares in. >> the old tesco would have done quite nicely . quite nicely. >> it to expand into >> it tried to expand into america that did not well america and that did not go well . tried shops called . it tried to open shops called fresh with a very fresh and easy with a very annoying and repetitive advert in something. and that in 2013 or something. and that was not a success. but here, over here. my goodness. but liam, we should move to oil liam, we should move on to oil and what on earth is going and gas. what on earth is going on in the north sea? >> this is a really interesting story, and i know both of you have been following this debate very, very closely as well. look the north sea is still a very, very important source of oil and gas, not just for the uk, but

indeed for europe. let's have a look at some of the numbers. it is quite astonishing. there are around 300 active gas and oil fields in the north sea still, but over half are due to cease production because they just expire, by 2030. so over the next 5 or 6 years or so, the nonh next 5 or 6 years or so, the north sea, it provides 83% of the oil that we use each year and 54% of the gas. we are a net energy importer in the uk, but we're still a significant producer in our own right. and guess what? despite everything you hear about net zero oil and gas combined, when you include transport account for 75% of all energy that we use, and that is not shifting much any time soon. even by 2050, according to the climate change commission, the government's kind of in—house conscience on green issues, we're looking at 25 to 30% of our energy being oil and gas by

2050, when we're meant to be at net zero carbon emissions. but look, the news today is that a british company inquest has said it is going to start drilling at one of the biggest north sea oil fields discovered in the last 20 years, despite the kind of quite hostile regulatory environment . hostile regulatory environment. the tories, of course, have extended the windfall tax oil and gas companies in the north sea. they used to pay 30% of their profits, in tax. it's now 75. and labour say they want to introduce a proper windfall tax . introduce a proper windfall tax. so yeah what's that, 80. 90. but despite these headwinds if you like, despite the fact that labour say they're going to stop all new oil and gas drilling if and when they come to government inquest are pressing ahead. this new site is 80 miles. east of shetland, which is relatively close in when it comes to the

nonh close in when it comes to the north sea. it could provide up to 500 million barrels of oil dunng to 500 million barrels of oil during its lifetime. and how much is that? well, the uk uses 1.5 million barrels in its own right every day, so it's a significantly chunky oil field. i think finally, we are going to see both tories and labour easing up when it comes to the nonh easing up when it comes to the north sea and allowing a lot more drilling of both oil and gas than they say that they currently are. >> very interesting indeed, because course people the because of course people in the industry worried. industry have been very worried. absolutely. regime , the absolutely. the tax regime, the regulatory regime, but they're still still going still going they're still going for , taking the risk. thank for it, taking the risk. thank you indeed. you very much indeed. liam halligan economics and halligan our economics and business editor. >> really issue >> no really important issue there scotland as well, there for scotland as well, interesting note, interesting to note. a poll out note. there's been a poll out today that shows for the first time the snp is now not the most popular party in scotland. the labour overtaken , so labour party is overtaken, so maybe this will feed into that. >> you surprised at home >> are you surprised at home coming up, we're going to be discussing one of our worst

fears closures because fears pub closures because boozers continue to battle with high energy bills, soaring interest rates and not enough customers . we need more people

i >> -- >> now here's a good story. for the end of an hour , britain's the end of an hour, britain's biggest pub company, stonegate might not survive past 2025 as it battles with debts of 2.3 billion. really worrying stuff. this the company, which has a network of more than 4400 pubs, including the slug and lettuce , including the slug and lettuce, says good night there, have you? i've had a i've had. i actually haven't been for ages. it's probably all my fault. haven't been for ages. it's pro oh,y all my fault. haven't been for ages. it's pro oh, this my fault. haven't been for ages. it's pro oh, this was fault. haven't been for ages. it's pro oh, this was back. haven't been for ages. it's pro oh, this was back in the day, >> oh, this was back in the day, you i used to go out you know, when i used to go out partying slug and partying at the slug and lettuce. you a good time? >> no. so they're an all right boozen >> no. so they're an all right boozer, they? but, they

boozer, aren't they? but, they haven't raised any money to finance their debt. sadly >> they're not alone. >> and they're not alone. hundreds our beloved hundreds more of our beloved boozers to shut boozers could be forced to shut this year as they battle with high energy bills, soaring interest the ongoing interest rates and the ongoing cost course i >> -- >> so what can be done to save the great british pub ? joining the great british pub? joining us now from his pub in kent, is landlord of the dog and wingham, mark you so mark bridgen. mark, thank you so much for joining mark bridgen. mark, thank you so much forjoining us here, pubs that have been having quite a hard time of it lately, not least in the wake of covid. first of all, how are you faring ? how are you finding business? >> yeah. good afternoon, it's there's no dressing up. it's very, very challenging at the moment . and it's on all fronts. moment. and it's on all fronts. the cost of living crisis is affecting everybody because it's affecting everybody because it's affecting our guests. so you know, less people are coming out, and i understand that we're all feeling the strain of our shopping basket, fuelling the car, heating the home, and. and

you know, people with mortgages going, going up considerably , so going, going up considerably, so i understand it, but yes , less i understand it, but yes, less people are coming through the doors and the other challenge is, is that the pubs feeling all of these cost challenges. so even the guests that do come through the door, the margin that we can earn from them is, is nearly non—existent. >> well, your pub is still open. so what are you doing right. >> we have a phenomenal product here, you know. and as the business owner, it's a real irony. you know, our product has never been better. you know, we're we're we're number 16 in the top 50 gastropubs in the uk . the top 50 gastropubs in the uk. oh cool. you know i'm lucky that i regularly get to to, chat to you guys which gives us profile. you know we're we garner national press. we, you know, we really try and raise ourselves above the competition. but even with all of that great news, it

is still a phenomenal challenge. you know, we, to give you an example of the footfall pressure, january to the end of october last year, our occupancy on our rooms was around 80% since the 1st of november, it's around 60. wow and nothing's changed in what we're doing, you know, in fact, our product is only improving. but we know that because we talk to our guests, they are feeling the squeeze on on all fronts. and, you know, when you're struggling with your bills at home, i'm guessing one of the first things that's under pressure is dining out in a in a beautiful gastropub, so we understand it. but having survived covid, all the support the government gave us, we, we could really do and the whole hospitality industry could really do with some help to get through this period. >> i don't know why people are

cutting down on going to the pub.the cutting down on going to the pub. the first thing i'd cut down was it would be on, tim subscription hahahahahahahahahaha . oh, i was hahahahahahahahahaha. oh, i was going to say i was, i was going to say sort of more fundamental things. i just ditched the car and go to the pub, but, but no. mark thank you so much mark fryston, thank you so much for really for joining us. really appreciate on forjoining us. really appreciate on this appreciate your thoughts on this really important issue. >> economy just >> really, the economy just needs doesn't it? needs to improve. doesn't it? frankly. people will needs to improve. doesn't it? franka. people will needs to improve. doesn't it? franka bit people will needs to improve. doesn't it? franka bit more people will needs to improve. doesn't it? franka bit more cash.ple will needs to improve. doesn't it? franka bit more cash. feel/ill needs to improve. doesn't it? franka bit more cash. feel like have a bit more cash. feel like they've got a bit more cash now. i people who there i guess people who are there are spending might go spending less. so you might go for just a one course instead of forjust a one course instead of your three courses. anyway, should trump should climate action trump national democracy? we'll be asking . break. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's going to be a fairly cloudy and mild afternoon for most

areas. after a brighter start to the we will see heavy rain the day, we will see heavy rain continue to move in from the west. that's at this weather front pushed across northern ireland. into parts ireland. now moving into parts of scotland and the southwest. so of rain to come for so plenty of rain to come for many western and northern areas through the rest the day. the through the rest of the day. the rain going to be particularly rain is going to be particularly heavy of heavy across western areas of scotland , into parts of scotland, into parts of northwest as here northwest england as well. here there some travel there could be some travel disruption and there is a weather force further weather warning in force further south. it will. the rain will push into parts of the midlands, but far southeast should but the far southeast should stay much the rain stay away from much of the rain across sussex kent across parts of sussex and kent this afternoon, it will this afternoon, and it will start a little bit by start to dry up a little bit by the of day the the end of the day across the southwest, but it's going to stay here through southwest, but it's going to staynight. here through southwest, but it's going to staynight. tonight ere through southwest, but it's going to staynight. tonight ite through southwest, but it's going to staynight. tonight it willough the night. tonight it will be a very night and see very mild night and we'll see that persistent rain start to sink so turn sink southward, so it will turn dner sink southward, so it will turn drier for parts the northwest drier for parts of the northwest as moves into the as this rain moves into the midlands the south midlands and into the south coast by tomorrow morning. and that bring lot of cloud that will bring a lot of cloud to south coast. so it's to the south coast. so it's likely to be a fairly dull start to but it is going likely to be a fairly dull start to a but it is going likely to be a fairly dull start to a very but it is going likely to be a fairly dull start to a very mild it is going likely to be a fairly dull start to a very mild startgoing likely to be a fairly dull start to a very mild start to ng likely to be a fairly dull start to a very mild start to the day. be a very mild start to the day. those the minimum

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gb news. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 2:00 on wednesday, the 10th of april. >> and i'm mark rowling from the echr. it says the swiss government violated the human rights of three elderly women by not doing enough to combat climate change. it could now influence law in britain. we'll hear from the lawyer representing the claimants , she

representing the claimants, she says. it's right that climate action democracy . action trumps democracy. >> a gang of five bulgarian benefit fraud cheats have raked in more than £50 million using thousands of fake id claims. how on earth was this allowed to happen? >> and the government launches a retail crime crackdown? assaulting a shop worker is to be made a separate criminal offence and multi—million pound facial recognition technology is to be introduced. now, one question that's come in on our gbnews.com forward slash your say page is from stephen oakley. and i want to ask you this question. actually tom, he says hi emily. could you tell me has angela rayner been put on the i've not seen has angela rayner been put on the for i've not seen has angela rayner been put on the for at i've not seen has angela rayner been put on the for at least i've not seen has angela rayner been put on the for at least 12 've not seen has angela rayner been put on the for at least 12 days. it seen has angela rayner been put on the for at least 12 days. that n her for at least 12 days. that is completely correct. >> not angela rayner >> not only has angela rayner not done any media interviews for the last couple of weeks, there's been something else

that's happened. the labour party has taken down facebook adverts that involve pictures of angela rayner, so it does seem that she is. she's gone to ground as things stand. >> kyrees i wonder why that might be. >> oh, i couldn't imagine , >> oh, i couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine it has anything at to do with the questions at all to do with the questions around affairs and the around her tax affairs and the releasing her around her tax affairs and the rele advice her around her tax affairs and the releadvice . her tax advice. >> it's funny when politicians, senior politicians, just seem to disappear for a little while, while something's rumbling. why the of a scandal is ongoing. >> it happened to diane abbott in the latter days of the 2019 election campaign . where, where election campaign. where, where suddenly she was not put on any media and there was there were question marks about whether she was still in the role of shadow home secretary. >> do you think sometimes they home secretary. >> igo,'ou think sometimes they home secretary. >> igo, timeiink sometimes they home secretary. >> igo, time for sometimes they home secretary. >> igo, time for s> igo, time for s

slash your say. but shall we get your headlines ? your headlines? >> good afternoon. it's 2:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your top story this newsroom. your top story this houn newsroom. your top story this hour. children are being let down by remarkably weak evidence and toxic debate around . gender. and toxic debate around. gender. the cass review calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other nhs care. says the toxicity of care. it says the toxicity of debate gender meant debate around gender meant professionals were afraid to openly the openly discuss their views. the review also found no evidence that the use of blockers, which delay puberty in children, led to better mental health outcomes . the author of the report, doctor hilary cass, spoke about the concerns for children's safety being very concerned aboutis safety being very concerned about is the lack of an evidence base. >> our systematic reviews from the university of york show that the university of york show that the evidence was really disappointing, and that's meant that we have to be really quite

cautious about how we manage medical interventions. these young people have quite complex presentation patterns. they've got a range of other issues that it's really important that we address . and i think one of the address. and i think one of the problems that's arisen is that people have stopped looking at them in a holistic way. >> meanwhile, parliamentary under secretary for justice laura pharis says it's a problem countries across the world have been grappling with. >> there has been a 20 fold, something like a 15 or 20 fold increase in the number of children being referred to this service in the last 10 or 15 years, and that's happened in many countries, many other countries. it's a problem. everybody's been grappling with. we're the government that asked hilary cass to conduct that review. this is a detailed , review. this is a detailed, empirical scientific review that should inform the way that policy is developed, and it shouldn't be a matter of trends or feelings or social cachet on how this very sensitive issue is

developed. >> in other news, assaulting a shop worker will be made a separate criminal offence in a government u—turn in response to a surge of retail crime . it's a surge of retail crime. it's after a report found violent and abusive incidents against shop workers rose by 50% in 2022 to 2023. the government had previously said it didn't think changing the law was required, but today, rishi sunak has announced the government will be amending its criminal justice bill to bring in the new offence. >> our track record and clamping down on crime is actually very positive . crime has halved since positive. crime has halved since 2010. it's down since the start of this parliament and last year we outlined new plans to tackle antisocial behaviour and fraud, which are already working. but i have by rise have been concerned by the rise in retail crime, as i am sure many are either seeing it many others are either seeing it or media, why or on social media, which is why today a strong today we've announced a strong set to clamp down on set of measures to clamp down on retail crime. that's about new retail crime. that's about a new offence , a brand new offence for offence, a brand new offence for assaulting shop workers using facial recognition technology to catch perpetrators with cctv ,

catch perpetrators with cctv, but also greater use of electronic tagging of prolific shoplifters . it's been warmly shoplifters. it's been warmly welcomed by retailers and police. i've spoken to prime minister rishi sunak speaking there now five members of a bulgarian organised crime group have been convicted of falsely claiming over £50 million in people credit, using either real people or hijacked identities. the investigation identified three benefit factories in london where repeated false claims for benefits were supported by forged documents. if the claims were rejected, the fraudsters would try again and again until they were granted. the defendants will appear for sentencing in may. a father has been jailed for life with a minimum tum of 22 years for murdering his baby son. four week old ollie davis was pronounced dead after being found lifeless in his cot in

october 2017, having sustained a catalogue of serious injuries, including multiple broken bones. his father , michael davis, was his father, michael davis, was found guilty at leicester crown court last month of murder and two counts of causing grievous bodily harm. ollie's mother, kayleigh diver, was jailed for seven years for causing or allowing the death of a child and serious physical injury. mr justice cotter said the murder of ollie was involved a devastating fatal spinal injury inflicted up to eight days before death . tech giant apple before death. tech giant apple has been accused of anti—semitism after displaying the palestinian flag instead of the palestinian flag instead of the israeli flag when typing in the israeli flag when typing in the capital, jerusalem. some users with devices running on the latest software for the iphone have noticed the prompt in their predictive text function. however not every user seesit. function. however not every user sees it . and for the latest sees it. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to

gbnews.com/alerts. now it's back to tom and . to tom and. emily. >> now it's 207. our top story this hour , a landmark ruling by this hour, a landmark ruling by the european court of human rights says governments now have a duty to protect people from climate change. >> well, it follows a case brought by a group of elderly swiss women who argued switzerland's government violated human rights by violated their human rights by failing to act quickly enough to address climate issues as well. >> we've been looking into this case, and we're particularly struck by the justification given the lawyer fought given by the lawyer who fought this let's take this very case. let's take a listen . listen. >> well, in switzerland, it's particularly problematic because they have referendums and one of they have referendums and one of the defences run by the government was we had a referendum on this, and the people decided they didn't want it. and therefore that's we've done our best effectively. but this is something that comes up

all the time in relation to human rights. it's the conflict between this idea of democracy as just what the people choose and democracy as entailing some fundamental and universal rights which matter irrespective of what the majority decides. >> yes, this funny idea of democracy being just what people choose. of course, that's not what democracy is. no, democracy isn't about people choosing democracy is about courts deciding what they're allowed to choose. well, that was the case put forward anyway. it appeared to successful echr . to be successful at the echr. let's get the view now of a barrister writer, stephen barrister and writer, stephen barrett can and, barrett can join us. and, stephen, view , is it stephen, in your view, is it problematic in the words of that, that kc, who represented the elderly swedish women , the elderly swedish women, problematic that people voted in a referendum and got it the wrong way? >> so, tom, you know that i am fully committed to law and the doing of law, and i do not like to do politics in public.

>> so all i will say is that if you think democracy is problematic , then that is your problematic, then that is your personal political opinion . it personal political opinion. it is a view that has been expressed by a variety of tyrants throughout the centuries. but it is not our current system, our current constitutional system does not think democracy is problematic . think democracy is problematic. and what i think has happened here, and i want you to know, this is there's a phrase the mask slipped . well, this mask has slipped. well, this mask has slipped. well, this mask has slipped. well, this mask has not slipped. it has been utterly torn away. >> this is a nakedly political court which is trying to achieve political outcomes. >> and if you turn around and pretend that you're being a lawyer to me and you say, oh, no, no, no, steve, a document that we all we all wrote 70 years ago means that actually we can do this on climate change. >> and i'm afraid i consider you to , to be simply wrong. i mean, to, to be simply wrong. i mean, there is it is not in any way sustainable to hold that position . this is rubbish. they

position. this is rubbish. they are ever since they declared that document a living instrument, which is just tosh . instrument, which is just tosh. they have been doing politics via this office building in strasbourg. and that is all that this is. this is a purely political action. it's an abomination. if you believe in democracy because it has overturned a direct an act of direct democracy. the swiss referendum . but but this is not referendum. but but this is not law and they should not be allowed to wear the veneer of law while they are practising politics. they should have no additional respectability beyond any other politician . and this any other politician. and this is their political opinions. this court, as far as i'm concerned, has no legitimacy as a court . a court. >> and stephen, how important is this as a precedent? how important is this ruling as a precedent ? and what impact could precedent? and what impact could it have on our democracy here in the uk? >> well, that that is the problem. and a lot of the time the problem. we have two problems with this court. one is that we don't recognise courts as political institutions. we have as political institutions. we

hav domestic courts work very , our domestic courts work very, very, very hard. i don't know if you the rwanda you remember the rwanda judgement, the president judgement, but the president of the extremely the supreme court went extremely delicately the political delicately around the political issues, making it very clear he had public political view on had no public political view on the plan, and he was just applying the law . and that's applying the law. and that's what our courts do. so that's one major problem. the other problem is that a lot of the other members this can other members of this court can just they have just ignore it. they don't have a precedent . they a system of precedent. they don't recognise it's case law as binding. fortunately binding. we unrwa fortunately do. and that is that is why this this political court is such a specific risk to us. you know, this judgement appears now to be binding upon our judges who binding upon ourjudges who will, who will if they've got any. i mean, if they've got any commitment constitution commitment to the constitution at will screaming at all, they will be screaming about will not about this because they will not want to be political. and yet this to force them to this is going to force them to be political. i mean, it's been doing this for a number of years that that you highlight the that you that you highlight the particular britain here. >> and the details really matter in this. so thank you for setting it out. is this why, in

your view, the only british judge who was deciding on this at the echr wrote a dissenting opinion, did not follow the other judges , and instead say otherjudges, and instead say no, this should not have been decided in the way that it was. >> yes, and, we should perhaps count our lucky stars that we have the judge that we have, at the echr . i mean, it's quite the echr. i mean, it's quite funny because it's actually, i think he was born in germany , think he was born in germany, therefore a german national. but he's our tradition . he's he's he's in our tradition. he's of our constitution and our law. and he follows our and so he he follows our principles and beliefs. and that's he dissented and that's why he dissented and said, look, this is politics effectively. he says this is politics, not law . and he's politics, not law. and he's quite quite damning. he quite he's quite damning. he says, know, may says, you know, this, this may effectively destroy court, effectively destroy the court, which very much which i think it very, very much may . but the lawyer who brought may. but the lawyer who brought this case was put forward by our judicial appointment system, and we to start asking we might want to start asking questions about our judicial appointment system. we might questions about our judicial appoito nent system. we might questions about our judicial appoito do it system. we might questions about our judicial appoito do that;tem. we might questions about our judicial appoito do that asn. we might questions about our judicial appoito do that as a we might questions about our judicial appoito do that as a democracy. want to do that as a democracy. we can ask questions. we're not.

it's a question our it's not a question of our elites and masters. it's a question us voters being question of us as voters being in so we might want to in charge. so we might want to ask our judicial ask questions, but our judicial appointments that appointments process put that that jessica simon forward, along man who actually along with the man who actually became our judge and ironically, became ourjudge and ironically, with some irony, it was the echr that actually selected the judge that actually selected the judge that we got. but yes, it is. it is fundamentally at odds with our with our tradition and our principles . our with our tradition and our principles. it is it is nonsense. >> stephen. stephen, how can we how can we change our relationship with the echr without leaving it entirely other countries, as you say, have a different way of doing things. what could we do in order to make sure that national sovereignty is primary? >> we could alter the way that it operates here by repealing or amending the human rights act so that we control the flow of its judgements into us. we are bound by treaty obligation to put into effect its judgements. but that's not the same as saying

that's not the same as saying that they have to be binding legal precedent here forever. they can become one offs. i mean, it would be it would still remain a novelty, but that's one option. if you didn't want to leave, but you just wanted to control it. leaving is a perfectly valid option. i mean, i'd very surprised now if the i'd be very surprised now if the swiss, long tradition i'd be very surprised now if the svi actual long tradition i'd be very surprised now if the svi actual respect long tradition i'd be very surprised now if the svi actual respect forg tradition i'd be very surprised now if the svi actual respect for democracy, i'd be very surprised now if the svi act start aspect for democracy, i'd be very surprised now if the svi act start talking or democracy, i'd be very surprised now if the svi act start talking about|ocracy, don't start talking about leaving. and i think one of their leading parties already has started to talk about about leaving. it is a slightly i mean, this all goes back to the philosophy of plato. there is a belief that elite individuals are best at running things, that the little people don't know what they're doing , bless their what they're doing, bless their bless little cotton socks, bless their little cotton socks, and need really and that we need really philosopher princes to run everything humanity everything every time humanity does that, we slide into a strongman dictatorship . as soon strongman dictatorship. as soon as mustard, you know, it's just it's just a very slippery slope that we've been on for about 25 years, since they politicised this court. and i think really now is the time to recognise it is political. as a court, i'm afraid, as an of protest, afraid, as an act of protest, i put word court in inverted

put the word court in inverted commas. time about commas. every time i tweet about this institution i i this institution and i don't, i don't no shame for that. don't i feel no shame for that. i respect all of our domestic courts because the courts of law and not places of politics, this is a place of politics. this is your protest. your little protest. >> it's it's a, you know, it's >> it's a it's a, you know, it's a form protest, isn't it ? a form of protest, isn't it? little quotation marks. thank you. going to you. stephen, we're going to have there. have to leave it there. but as always, to your always, fantastic to get your perspective stephen perspective on this. stephen barrett, of course barrett, who is of course a barrister a writer, barrister and a writer, so he knows onions . very knows his onions. very interesting. very interesting indeed. no, absolutely. and the way >> no, absolutely. and the way that it particularly affects britain as well, i think will will hit home with a lot of people that we follow this case law. we're sticklers for these rules. yet they're being rules. and yet they're being made against sort of our, our tradition of, of neutral law of law, not playing politics. >> and he's absolutely right. the swiss press are having a field day on this one, from what i've lots of lots of very i've seen, lots of lots of very angry, furious people who do not like precedent . but like this as a precedent. but shall we move on? >> bulgarian organised

>> yes. a bulgarian organised crime gang fleeced taxpayers out of almost £54 million in what's being called britain's biggest ever benefit fraud . ever benefit fraud. >> yes, well, prosecutors said the gang treated the benefit system like a cash machine to fund their own lavish lifestyles. the five, who operated from three fraud factories in london, made around 6000 fraudulent universal credit claims between 2016 and 2021. so this all happened within the space of about five years now. they used the cash to buy things like expensive cars, fancy clothing and jewellery, of course. coui'se. >> course. >> but just how was such a large scale fraud ever allowed to happen ? let's get the thoughts happen? let's get the thoughts now of hamish brown, m.b.e, a retired scotland yard detective inspector hamish, thank you for joining us this afternoon. this is the most extraordinary case. people hear about people cheating the benefit system in small ways, one way or the other. but £54 million? yes it's a bit more than extraordinary. >> it's absolutely disgraceful .

>> it's absolutely disgraceful. >> it's absolutely disgraceful. >> and let's not forget, this is hard earned taxpayers money, which has been dishonest, partly stolen, and they have managed to achieve this. >> yes, it's a fraud. it's a scam in many ways, but it's identity theft . identity theft. >> it's getting a people's identities using them. >> it is straightforward forgery , vie by getting documents, making up references , making up making up references, making up all sorts of valuable securities , all sorts of documents to present to people, to con them. and they've managed to get away with it. and it's utterly appalling. this has been allowed to happen. huge amounts of money. now i'm thinking it's the way forward. how can we just stop this happening again? and looking at various documents, i'm aware that the dwp and to be fair to them, they did jump on this when they saw the same claimants coming up.

this when they saw the same claimants coming up . so at least claimants coming up. so at least there was some intervention . there was some intervention. but, they're going to have additional powers as i understand. and furthermore, there's going to be a long term strategy, and i understand that probably nearly £2 billion worth of funds have, have been prevented from being stolen . so prevented from being stolen. so that's a step in the right direction. but it might be a little bit late on this one, on the praise side, well done to the praise side, well done to the metropolitan police for what they did and indeed the crown prosecution service, who often get a bit of slack from time to time . they actually got some of time. they actually got some of the suspects now , convicts back the suspects now, convicts back from bulgaria . so well done. and from bulgaria. so well done. and there's going to be another arm to this, you know, and this is going to go on. and this is the asset confiscation. ill gotten gains will be seized by the police put before the court and one would assume they will be

confiscated. and at least we can claw some of the money back. >> i mean , hamish, this, by the >> i mean, hamish, this, by the sounds of it, reading the description of these , these description of these, these people, these criminals, this was quite the operation. huge. so £750,000 in banknotes was found stuffed in suitcases at one of their homes. they discovered hundreds of claim packs containing forged and false documents. more than 900 digital devices. so presumably burner phones, different laptops and accessory is used to do all this fraud. i mean, it's quite extraordinary . they were running extraordinary. they were running this like a big, proper business, weren't they ? business, weren't they? >> they were running it like a business. but at the end of the day, this is organised crime and you wonder how many other you just wonder how many other people are doing this. of people are doing this. and of course doesn't just confine course it doesn't just confine itself to the united kingdom. it's a ever decreasing world in many ways. so this is a worldwide organisation and it is absolutely essential . there's

absolutely essential. there's cooperation between different police forces and indeed different law enforcement agencies around the world. this is never a victimless crime. it is never a victimless crime. it is hard earned taxpayers money and it is absolutely essential the dwp have those powers . there the dwp have those powers. there is that strategy and really we want to see results . one if it want to see results. one if it been prevented of people try this , they're going to be caught this, they're going to be caught and they're going to prison for and they're going to prison for a long time . a long time. >> well let's hope they throw away the key. hamish brown, m.b.e, retired scotland yard detective of course. m.b.e, retired scotland yard detect you of course. m.b.e, retired scotland yard detect you muchf course. m.b.e, retired scotland yard detect you much for urse. m.b.e, retired scotland yard detect you much for your thank you very much for your thoughts on that shocking story. >> few fun >> yeah, they had a few fun years our dime, on our years on our dime, on our pennies, pounds farthings, pennies, our pounds farthings, our millions. and, you know, the laws caught up with them. so good on the police for finding them, investigating this and getting them in jail. i mean, there is a question over whether we should have extradited the two ran off to bulgaria two who ran off to bulgaria and take to face justice take them back to face justice here. can see both sides take them back to face justice hethat. can see both sides take them back to face justice hethat. you'd] see both sides take them back to face justice hethat. you'd thinkboth sides take them back to face justice hethat. you'd think they sides take them back to face justice hethat. you'd think they could of that. you'd think they could

have forged a bit of a bit of a glow up, really. >> £54 million, five ugly mugs. right. well, you can't possibly call criminals ugly. oh, am i not allowed to do that? i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. no doubt, no doubt. please complaints coming in, don't go anywhere because up next, we'll discuss how assaulting shop workers is to be made a standalone criminal offence following pressure from campaigners that .

next. good afternoon. britain. it's 2:25, and we promised we get to them. you have been writing in with your thoughts on a lot of things that we have discussed. bnan things that we have discussed. brian has written in on the echr judgement , brian has written in on the echr judgement, saying how many

examples of nonsensical judgements do we need before our government realises the majority of british people would prefer our government to govern us instead of unelected , maybe instead of unelected, maybe mainly foreign judges? >> yes . i mainly foreign judges? >> yes. i wonder if it is a majority. it's certainly a majority. it's certainly a majority of, potential conservative voters, although there aren't that many anymore. >> but i've seen the polling on this, and most people don't have a strong view on it, perhaps because there haven't been many cases that are quite so prominent as this one, and also people see the issue. >> people see things happen, don't they? and they don't realise that it's because of the echr because of a particular echr or because of a particular ruling precedent set by the ruling or a precedent set by the european court. we're talking about nigel says we about pubs, too. nigel says we support our local butcher and fishmonger. quality is first fishmonger. the quality is first class and prices are class and the prices are reasonable. get good service reasonable. you get good service because they want you come because they want you to come back. that's you do back. yes, that's true. you do get very nice, personalised service when to a local service when you go to a local shop. >> like paula agrees. she says i try best to support the local

try my best to support the local business, but feel not enough people do. to love see people do. would to love see everyone coming together to save the british pubs and anton the great british pubs and anton says oh dear, anton says wetherspoons , slug and lettuce wetherspoons, slug and lettuce and similar places are not pubs, they are restaurants with a pubuc they are restaurants with a public bar. >> there few proper >> there are very few proper pubs left . pubs left. >> wetherspoons is a proper. but take anton. i will not take that back anton. i will not stand for that. wetherspoons is a pub. a proper pub. >> sell fry up , a proper pub. >> sell fry up, you can >> they sell a fry up, you can get a coffee, you can get a coffee but it's still it's they are and, and are an institution and, and a cheap pint . are an institution and, and a cheap pint. so are an institution and, and a cheap pint . so there you are an institution and, and a cheap pint. so there you go. >> and a very cheap pint. the best, the best prices that you can find in major cities. can often find in major cities. >> our >> but, and alan says our benefit an absolute benefit system is an absolute joke. the criminals should do time be deported. yes time and then be deported. yes i must agree with you there, alan. not benefit to society . not a benefit to our society. >> that's. that's your say. remember? news tom moore say remember? gb news tom moore say to get involved the to get involved in the conversation. but to royal conversation. but now to royal news. as the princess of wales has been revealed as the most popular royal, according to a yougov survey. but about yougov survey. but what about the of the royal family? the rest of the royal family? let's speak to gb royal let's speak to our gb news royal

correspondent cameron walker. princess catherine coming out on top . top. >> yeah, she certainly is. tom aap, no . six points from the aap, no. six points from the start of the year. of course, since then she's had abdominal surgery in hospital. she is still undergoing treatment for cancer as well. and i think there's been a huge outpouring of love and support for the princess since she princess of wales since she publicly that publicly disclosed that information us. of information to us. but of course, long list of course, we've got a long list of members of the royal family on that list. william is not that list. prince william is not far behind his wife. a net favorability of 73. favorability rating of 73. princess anne, only 13% of the british population , dislike her british population, dislike her or have an unfavourable opinion of her. she's number three on the list of most popular members of the royal family. she's also the hardest working. if you go by the number of engagements she has, guess he's at the bottom. u2 >> oh, guess he's at the bottom. prince andrew correct? >> yes, 6% of the british public have a favourable rating for prince andrew. of course, ever

since the infamous newsnight interview in 2019, which is now a film on netflix, which was released , last week, he has been released, last week, he has been pretty unpopular with the british public. and then just only just above him is prince harry and meghan. as perhaps you would also expect, they are very unpopular members of the royal family, with the british public, but not so much amongst young people , not so much among young people. >> that's very interesting indeed. >> that's very interesting indeed . well thank you, cameron, indeed. well thank you, cameron, really great to speak to you. our royal correspondent , as our royal correspondent, as even our royal correspondent, as ever, percent who are who have a favourable opinion of prince andrew. >> that's the question. >> that's the question. >> well, people say, you know , >> well, people say, you know, he was the late queen's favourite son. >> i you some >> can i give you some other statistics that are similar? 4% of ukip voters voted remain. 5% of ukip voters voted remain. 5% of obama voters claimed that president obama was the antichrist. as people voting for him, thinking he's the antichrist, and 4% of americans believe that lizard men are running the earth. >> now, i'm not sure what the

relevance is of that either, if you're wondering, but it's nice to know some little facts . to know some little facts. >> the relevance is that in just about poll , between 4 and about every poll, between 4 and 6% or weird are the weird answers. it's the nonsense in it's known by some people as the lizard man constant because that's the percentage of people who say they believe lizards are running the world and you don't know in polls. are people joking? are people know in polls. are people jokira ? are people know in polls. are people jokira bit are people know in polls. are people jokira bit loopy? are people know in polls. are people jokira bit loopy? are are people know in polls. are people jokira bit loopy? are theyeople know in polls. are people jokira bit loopy? are they not?3 just a bit loopy? are they not? are are people just sort are people are people just sort of a middle finger up of doing a middle finger up to the and say, i'm of doing a middle finger up to the going and say, i'm of doing a middle finger up to the going to, and say, i'm of doing a middle finger up to the going to, i'm and say, i'm of doing a middle finger up to the going to, i'm not and say, i'm of doing a middle finger up to the going to, i'm not going|y, i'm of doing a middle finger up to the going to, i'm not going to i'm not going to, i'm not going to play not going to, i'm not going to play but you always play your game, but you always get sort of noise. the get that sort of noise. on the weird question, about 6. weird question, about 5 or 6. >> well, coming up, we were >> yes. well, coming up, we were talking about angela rayner and where she was, and, and, we think they might have found her. i think we might have found her. we'll be showing you where she is. interesting . yes. not is. quite interesting. yes. not the best performance, perhaps. or appearance, should say. or appearance, i should say. >> a really it's a really >> it's a really it's a really interesting, really interesting appearance. happened . appearance. it's just happened. we're to we're going to bring it to you

after . after your headlines. >> it's 230. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb news room . your in the gb news room. your headlines. children are being let down by remarkably weak evidence and toxic debate around genden evidence and toxic debate around gender. the cass review calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other nhs care. it says the toxicity of debate around gender meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views. the review also found no evidence that the use of blockers, which delay puberty in children, led to better mental health outcomes. the author of the report, doctor hilary cass, spoke about the concerns for children safety. >> being very concerned about is the of an evidence base. the lack of an evidence base. our systematic reviews from the university of york show that the evidence was really disappointing, and that's meant that we have to be really quite cautious about how we manage medical interventions.

cautious about how we manage medical interventions . these medical interventions. these young people have quite complex presentations. they've got a range of other issues that it's really important that we address . and i think one of the problems that's arisen is that people have stopped looking at them in a holistic way. >> assaulting a shop worker will be made a separate criminal offence in a government u—turn in response to a surge of retail crime . it's after a report found crime. it's after a report found violent and abusive incidents against shop workers rose by 50% in 2022 to 2023. the government previously said it did not think a law change was required . but a law change was required. but today rishi sunak has announced the government be amending the government would be amending its criminal justice bill to bnng its criminal justice bill to bring the new offence . and bring in the new offence. and tech giant apple has been accused of anti—semitism after displaying the palestinian flag instead of the israeli flag when typing in the capital jerusalem . typing in the capital jerusalem. some users with devices running on the latest software for the iphone have noticed the prompt

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i >> -- >> good afternoon. britain. it's 2:35 now. assaulting shop workers will be made into a standalone criminal offence following pressures from campaigners. >> yes. ministers had previously ruled out calls to create a new offence, claiming it would not be effective. they've changed their tune. >> well. the new offence will carry maximum sentence of six carry a maximum sentence of six months in prison. >> well, gb news political editor christopher hope joins us now , christopher , tell me what's

now, christopher, tell me what's changed in the government's mind. why are they choosing now to make this a specific criminal offence? well >> hi, tom. hi, emily. that's right. i'm in horsham high street. it looks it's leafy , street. it looks it's leafy, leafy home counties here, but you might be surprised to know leafy home counties here, but you area|t be surprised to know leafy home counties here, but you area has surprised to know leafy home counties here, but you area has got prised to know leafy home counties here, but you area has got prhighto know leafy home counties here, but you area has got prhigh number this area has got a high number of shoplifting of reported shoplifting offences. and that's why there's a new idea called disc here, which they're trialling with the local police. and they all local police. and they are all these , there's like an open these, there's like an open whatsapp group with all these different got different shops have got a number, they call it, they ring it real information it in with real time information about shoplifters. and the idea is can almost is that police can act almost before these crimes take place, before these crimes take place, before they actually any shoplifting takes place. this comes as the government's announced today , plans to jail announced today, plans to jail people who assault shop workers . people who assault shop workers. here's what the pm rishi sunak, had to say earlier , announce had to say earlier, announce a strong set of measures to clamp down on retail crime. >> that's about a new offence, a brand new offence for assaulting shop workers using facial recognition technology to catch perpetrators with cctv, but also

greater use of electronic tagging of prolific shoplifters. it's been warmly welcomed by retailers and police. i've spoken to today and, crucially, will demonstrate to our shop workers that we've got their back and also that we will do what it takes to keep our streets and our communities safe. what everybody safe. that's what everybody wants. deliver. >> but prisons full. >> but the prisons are full. >> but the prisons are full. >> in midst of >> we're in the midst of building biggest building, building the biggest building, building the biggest building, building expansion building prison expansion programme decades, in programme in many decades, in fact, actually thousands and thousands of new places. we're also increasing sentencing for the criminals, the most violent criminals, ending halfway ending the automatic halfway release point, because those are the right things to do, because the right things to do, because the violent offenders the most violent offenders should be jail for should be sent to jail for longer. what we're longer. that's what we're delivering all delivering by the way, all opposed labour party. opposed by the labour party. when those laws. when we pass those laws. >> rishi sunak, >> that's the pm, rishi sunak, making that if you assault making clear that if you assault a shop worker, you'll get jailed or at least sentenced to jail for at least six months. of course, the government policy is not lock anyone up for less not to lock anyone up for less than at moment, so than a year at the moment, so we'll that one plays we'll see how that one plays out. certainly a crackdown. we'll see how that one plays out. and certainly a crackdown. we'll see how that one plays out. and emily|ly a crackdown. we'll see how that one plays out. and emily ona crackdown. we'll see how that one plays out. and emily on on'ackdown. we'll see how that one plays out. and emily on on on down. we'll see how that one plays out. and emily on on on shop. tom and emily on on on shop crime that's been overlooked or

overlooked for too long by police with people. and police with lots of people. and now idea starting now there's a new idea starting in we're seeing in horsham, where we're seeing lots being reported, lots of crime being reported, and is it cracks down and the idea is it cracks down on shoplifters. >> an interesting >> yes, it's an interesting policy from the conservative party it's party because of course it's a massive issue for so many places. but chris, we were talking earlier on the programme, emily and i were talking about where on earth angela rayner is. it's been two weeks been seen and weeks since she's been seen and lo and behold, she's now out and about up in teesside . about up in teesside. >> that's right. angela rayner, deputy leader of the of the labour party, under pressure about the alleged sale of a second home, whether or not she made any capital gains tax liability off that. and did she pay liability off that. and did she pay it or not? and also whether was she registered to vote and address? she wasn't living at? she has appeared and there's been . we don't know been protesters. we don't know who they they possibly who they are. they are possibly conservative protesters wearing tax inspector masks . but of tax inspector masks. but of course we heard, didn't we, yesterday from rachel reeves ,

yesterday from rachel reeves, she spoke to gb news in manchester about the idea of getting people to pay their tax and, and aren't they and, and, and why aren't they doing well maybe that's a doing it? well maybe that's a jibe at the attempt rachel jibe at the attempt by rachel reeves shut down on the reeves to shut down on the so—called tax gap, save $5 billion a year by 2029. well maybe the tories are asking by that by what they're doing today. if it is them, maybe they're saying well why can't angela rayner if she owes tax, pay angela rayner if she owes tax, pay it now? of course, angela rayner clear she's had rayner makes clear she's had advice. no tax due. nothing. advice. no tax is due. nothing. nothing wrong here. and keir nothing wrong here. and sir keir starmer accepted yes starmer has accepted that. yes they are two of those protesters. >> we're just showing a picture. they've got a banner. they've got the high with tax got the high viz on with tax inspector on the backs, which i guessis inspector on the backs, which i guess is quite amusing. >> it seems she ran into a >> it seems that she ran into a pub them, is, pub to avoid them, which is, i guess , at least keeping up with guess, at least keeping up with her image of a woman, of the people , but but, christopher people, but but, christopher hope, thank you very much for joining us there for talking through those two issues. really interesting. were just interesting. we were just saying, know, where on earth interesting. we were just saangela know, where on earth interesting. we were just saangela rayner? where on earth interesting. we were just saangela rayner? andre on earth interesting. we were just saangela rayner? and then earth is angela rayner? and then suddenly, suddenly, lo and behold, up, she pops.

suddenly, suddenly, lo and behyalso up, she pops. suddenly, suddenly, lo and behyalso those up, she pops. suddenly, suddenly, lo and behyalso those protesters pops. suddenly, suddenly, lo and behyalso those protesters .ops. suddenly, suddenly, lo and behyalso those protesters . tax but also those protesters. tax dodger question mark. >> yes. she's often got protesters following her. i mean, we've seen lots of shots of pro—palestine protesters , of pro—palestine protesters, heckling her. and now it's about the potential. so the tax dodging potential. so the tax dodging potential. so the evidence. but we're going to move on because the evidence supporting gender treatments for children weak. children is remarkably weak. that's according to a major new review. the cast report recommends holistic and personal care for children over hormone treatments and puberty blockers. >> well, the prime minister has said that findings for the show well, the findings show need well, the findings show a need for caution regarding for extreme caution regarding children's gender care. >> well, let's opinion >> well, let's get the opinion of writer and commentator charlie bentley. aster charlie , charlie bentley. aster charlie, thank you very much for joining us. now, as i understand it, as i remember, we've spoken before. now, you as a teenager , i now, you as a teenager, i believe, or a young woman at least sure whether you least weren't sure whether you were in the right body. you were confused over your gender, how did the response from the nhs , did the response from the nhs, how did the nhs deal with you ? how did the nhs deal with you? >> so i never made it to the

tavistock clinic, thank god, i was with ordinary mental health care first camhs as a, as a teenager and then ordinary adult care as a as a young young adult i >> -- >> and therapists were overwhelmed in trying to affirm the ideas i had about myself . the ideas i had about myself. and so when i came to them and said, oh, do you know, i don't i don't know that i feel sexual attraction towards people and they're like, oh, well, you know, of course that's very normal, etc. rather than normal, etc, etc. rather than saying, and why do you think that? >> and that? » and >> and when i said, well, i don't, i don't know that i feel like i feel like a woman. in fact, i feel like a woman. in fact, i feel like boy and i'm a boy like i'm a boy and i'm a boy trapped in a woman's body. and oh yes, of course. why do you think that? know , and it was think that? you know, and it was they just never interrogated . they just never interrogated. why i felt the way that i did, particularly not addressing my underlying comorbidities, including adhd and autism.

>> so they affirmed you is that what you're saying? so they didn't take a holistic approach . didn't take a holistic approach. they affirmed your feeling of gender dysphoria or gender questioning and sort of supported you on the way to going down that route? is that what you're saying ? what you're saying? >> so i wasn't funnelled that way by my particular therapists that i saw . i way by my particular therapists that i saw. i because i spent a lot of time on the internet , lot of time on the internet, internet, sites like tumblr, which were big at the time , which were big at the time, activists on there and fellow sort of transitioners and questioners at the time would advise you, go to your gp and say this, this and this, and obviously what this report has shown that a lot of ideology has gone into the increase in particularly young girls identifying as trans and seeking this kind of, gender and gender services to get cross—sex

hormones and surgeries and puberty blockers. and so the issue i had with with my therapist that they just therapist is that they just simply didn't question what i was so the fact that was saying. and so the fact that a never contradicted a therapist never contradicted me affirmed me meant that it only affirmed in my mind that, yes, so that must be the case that i am. i am a boy trapped in a girl's body, and therefore i should , you and therefore i should, you know, try and coerce my way into into getting these things done, because that's what make because that's what will make me better. that's what better. or at least that's what activists it's convinced me of. >> made it, be the case >> so what made it, be the case that you sort of snapped out of thinking that way? because, clearly you didn't make it to the gender clinic side of things . was it you who prevented that journey , or was there an journey, or was there an intervention , so it was it intervention, so it was it happened during covid. and so just before covid happened, i was sat in my gp's office asking for a referral to a gender clinic because i wanted surgery . clinic because i wanted surgery. vie, luckily that gp said no and i was so embarrassed. it sort of

took me a couple of months to work up the confidence again to go and see a gp, but then covid hit. i spent a lot of time sitting at home, on the internet as most people came as most people did, and came across peterson , who across jordan peterson, who talks about telling the truth , talks about telling the truth, and he kind of taught me self—interrogation skills. and by doing that, i admitted to the small sense of doubt that i had, and it was only small . but small sense of doubt that i had, and it was only small. but i admitted to myself that i didn't know that transition would in fact, make me feel better. it would just sort of push down the road. my problems . and so road. my problems. and so through listening to him, decided i was going to go and get a proper therapist. i got my autism diagnosis after that and addressed the underlying issues . addressed the underlying issues. and once i dealt with the underlying issues , identifying underlying issues, identifying as trans was a symptom rather than the problem. in and of itself was it wasn't that i had this incongruity. i had all

these other problems. and so oncei these other problems. and so once i addressed those problems , once i addressed those problems, the desire to transition and even the that i was a man even the belief that i was a man just because i have male characteristics in my temperament and my personality doesn't make me male . and so doesn't make me male. and so through that sort of under interrogating all these, these misconceptions that i had, the gender dysphoria distress went away. >> and that's that seems to be true with quite a lot of autistic children, autism and male traits are overlap to a large degree. well, charlie bentley, aster , really thank you bentley, aster, really thank you for sharing your story there. really interesting stuff. >> appreciate it. thank you very much indeed, well, in just a moment , much indeed, well, in just a moment, we're going to be discussing the latest iphone update and why on earth would we be discussing an iphone update ? be discussing an iphone update? well, the keyboard prompt now shows the palestine flag if you type in jerusalem. now, this is this just a mistake or is it some kind of act of protest from apple? >> really interesting stuff. we'll show you the details after

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i >> -- >> where is angela rayner? well, we found her. we found her. >> we have angela rayner, the deputy leader of the labour party, has been hit by tax protesters during a campaign eventin protesters during a campaign event in teesside. now, activists visibility activists wore high visibility tax inspector vests while holding a giant sign that said, angela rayner will ask the question. angela rayner, tax dodger with a big question mark at the end of it. there you can see it, angela rayner scurrying into a pub that angela into a pub and that angela rayner tax dodger banner, following her. >> course, angela rayner >> now, of course, angela rayner denies any wrongdoing at all and keir starmer is very much

supporting her, backing her. so are the rest of team saying are the rest of the team saying she's done nothing wrong and that but there she's done nothing wrong and that go. but there she's done nothing wrong and that go. a but there she's done nothing wrong and that go. a little but there she's done nothing wrong and that go. a little bit but there she's done nothing wrong and that go. a little bit of it there she's done nothing wrong and that go. a little bit of protest you go. a little bit of protest because a lot of people were wondering was, they wondering where she was, they were, this is a were, they were. and this is a relatively , campaign relatively rare now, campaign appearance the last two weeks. i think we haven't seen her. >> well, there you go. i'm glad we could let you know where she is. >> yes, it'll be is.— >> yes, it'll be a is. >> yes, it'll be a regular section on this. on this program. rayner, watch, no it won't. no, wait, well, apple, the technology company, the technology behemoth , are being technology behemoth, are being accused of anti—semitism after displaying the palestinian flag instead of the israeli flag, or indeed, instead of both of them when typing in the word jew . when typing in the word jew. millom on the iphone keyboard. >> yes. there you go. jerusalem little emoji. palestinian flag. well, users with devices running on the latest software update for the iphone have noticed the flag in their predictive flag prompt in their predictive text some flag prompt in their predictive text have some flag prompt in their predictive text have reported some flag prompt in their predictive text have reported not some flag prompt in their predictive text have reported not seeing users have reported not seeing it at all. well, perhaps they haven't update. haven't done the update. >> with gb >> well, let's speak with gb news reporter charlie peters for more sorry

more on this. charlie sorry about that. do you want to take this? emily. >> yes, charlie, what's going on and what's the reaction been so i think most of the controversy of was actually sparked of this was actually sparked by broadcaster riley broadcaster rachel riley pointing had pointing out that she had noficed pointing out that she had noticed the predictive emoji appearing when she was typing in the israeli capital, jerusalem. >> jerusalem is also claimed as the capital of the palestinian state movement, their statehood movement. neither claim is widely recognised, and it is, of course, fraught with controversy because , of course, in 2017, because, of course, in 2017, then president of the united states donald trump moved the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. our former prime minister liz truss, reportedly also, asked the foreign office to consider the same move in 2022, though our embassy remains in tel aviv. but the idea that this emoji should appear when jerusalem is typed in has attracted that concern, because the same emoji response does not appear with other capital cities

as well. earlier today, i spoke to the good people of west london to see what they thought about the emoji. >> it's a good move, to be honest actually, because jerusalem have flag jerusalem should have the flag of palestine only. no other flags because jerusalem is the capital of palestine. that's it. >> do you think that the palestinian emoji should appear when you type in jerusalem? because it's the capital of israel, i think both should israel, i think they both should appear. appean >>i appean >> i mean, because i think jerusalem it belongs to both jerusalem is it belongs to both faiths . faiths. >> so i think both of them should there. so if should be up there. so if there's way the there's a way that the palestinian israeli flags there's a way that the palestgoan israeli flags there's a way that the palestgo up israeli flags there's a way that the palestgo up there, aeli flags there's a way that the palestgo up there, that'digs there's a way that the palestgo up there, that'd be could go up there, that'd be brilliant . brilliant. >> rachel former >> rachel riley, the former countdown this is countdown host, has said this is an of anti—semitism. are an example of anti—semitism. are you concerned about the palestinian appearing when palestinian emoji appearing when you type in jerusalem? >> i wasn't aware of i'm afraid. >> yeah, but generally >> yeah, but i generally like rachel riley . well, in rachel rachel riley. well, in rachel riley's complaint to apple ceo tim cook, she said that double standards with respect to israel is a form of anti—semitism, which is itself a form of racism against jewish people. she asked

the ceo, please explain whether this is an intentional act by your company, or whether you have no control over rogue programmers . programmers. >> well, that's quite the challenge there, i know we've reached out to apple and, haven't yet got back to us, but, charlie, thank you very much for bringing us that confusing and slightly interesting story there. mean, a big business. >> it probably takes a while to find answer when something find the answer when something like all the all like this happens all the all the all the cogs. yes, the cogs. all the cogs. yes, they ai. knows ? they could blame ai. who knows? well, thank you very much, charlie. is all from us charlie. and that is all from us today. for watching. today. thank you for watching. but do worry, because the but do not worry, because the martin daubney is up next and he joins us now. martin, is joins us now. martin, what is coming show ? coming up on your show? >> yeah, there is only one of me, thankfully. >> well , the european union is revolting. >> we are just over an hour away from an historic vote that could tear the eu bloc apart on asylum and immigration, deemed too tough by the liberals, too soft

by the political right. macron frantically trying to get this bill through because it will spell chaos in the european elections, will be live from brussels for that vote. we can't deport afghan sex offenders in case they face a mob in their own country. >> 61% on not even getting sent out of the country. >> what about the human rights of brits? >> benefits for all £54 million today one bulgarian gang, the tip of an £8 billion black hole plus could the wettest spring on record mean no harvest? this this year? no crops, no food. that's all coming after your weather forecast. hopefully no more rain . more rain. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's going to be a fairly cloudy and mild afternoon for most areas. after a brighter start to the we will see heavy rain

the day, we will see heavy rain continue to move in from the west . that's this weather front west. that's this weather front pushed ireland west. that's this weather front pusimoving ireland west. that's this weather front pusimoving into ireland west. that's this weather front pusimoving into parts ireland west. that's this weather front pusimoving into parts of'eland now moving into parts of scotland and the south west. so plenty of rain to come for many western and northern areas through the rest of the day . the through the rest of the day. the rain be particularly rain is going to be particularly heavy areas heavy across western areas of scotland , into parts of scotland, into parts of northwest england well. here scotland, into parts of north'could ngland well. here scotland, into parts of north'could be and well. here scotland, into parts of north'could be some well. here scotland, into parts of north'could be some travel here there could be some travel disruption and there is a weather warning in force further south. it will. the rain will push parts of the midlands, push into parts of the midlands, but southeast should but the far southeast should stay from much of the rain stay away from much of the rain across sussex kent. across parts of sussex and kent. this it will this afternoon, and it will start a little bit by start to dry up a little bit by the of the across the the end of the day. across the southwest, but it's going to stay cloudy here through stay very cloudy here through the will be the night tonight it will be a very night and we'll very mild night and we'll see that rain to that persistent rain start to sink will sink southwards, so it will turn dner sink southwards, so it will turn drier of northwest drier for parts of the northwest as this rain into the as this rain moves into the midlands the south midlands and into the south coast by tomorrow morning. and that a lot of cloud that will bring a lot of cloud to coast. so it's to the south coast. so it's likely be a dull start likely to be a fairly dull start to but it is going to to the day, but it is going to be a very start to the day. be a very mild start to the day. those the minimum those are the minimum temperatures for tonight, and there way of there will be more in the way of dner there will be more in the way of drier and brighter weather on

thursday, particularly across the north and the east, where we'll see the best of the sunshine. it's going to feel quite that sunshine. quite warm in that sunshine. however, the south, however, across the far south, this of rain and cloud will this band of rain and cloud will unger this band of rain and cloud will linger through much day, linger through much of the day, particularly the particularly across the southwest, where there could be some of rain some drizzly outbreaks of rain into the afternoon. but in the sunshine, it's going be sunshine, it's going to be feeling highs of feeling very warm with highs of 20 degrees. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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>> assaulting a retail worker will now be made a standalone criminal offence, as well as banning offenders from certain shops. >> but is the government admitting they've lost control of our high streets? >> and next there's a damning report into nhs trans treatment for children and it finds remarkably weak evidence for prescribing puberty blockers to children who are being let down by a toxic debate around gender and the eu asylum pact. it's today a huge crunch vote nine years in the making, as the european union votes on an agreement to share the burden of accepting refugees, but could rogue meps sink the plan that is going to be one to watch. >> we'll be live for that. and the bulgarian benefit fraud gang, fleeced the gang, which has fleeced the taxpayers of more than £54 million. well, it's said to be the uk's biggest ever benefits fraud . but is that just the tip

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