month in a row. rishi fifth month in a row. rishi sunak claims strike action has hindered progress, but insists he's still making headway. but despite the fall , lists are despite the fall, lists are still longer than when sunak took office. now shadow health secretary wes streeting will speak to us on gb news this very hour houn >> now it's such a big day to be speaking to the shadow health secretary. not only, of course, we've got these new numbers showing that, the waiting lists have now fallen for five months in a row. but also, of course , in a row. but also, of course, the cass review came out yesterday, and the shadow health secretary, wes streeting, has been changing his position on some of these issues. we want to know, what would you ask .7 wes know, what would you ask.7 wes streeting, the know, what would you ask? wes streeting, the shadow health secretary, one the people secretary, one of the top people in keir starmer's team, will be speaking to him a little bit later this hour. >> yes, he's his tune, >> yes, he's changed his tune, hasn't women are hasn't he? trans women are women, used to say. now he

women, he used to say. now he says little bit says things are a little bit more complex and has accepted the the cass the recommendations of the cass review. i also want to know review. but i also want to know he talks a lot about using the private sector in the nhs. he talks about reforms and shaking things up. how would he deal with the bma, the trade union who are leading the charge, and all of these strikes we're seeing? i'm not sure whether whether wes streeting will be able to handle them. >> you think there might be more strikes? i think there's a bit. >> a bit of rac could be >> he's a bit of rac could be potential. could be. >> he's a bit of rac could be poti1tial. could be. >> he's a bit of rac could be poti think could be. >> he's a bit of rac could be poti think that'sld be. >> he's a bit of rac could be poti think that's a be. >> he's a bit of rac could be poti think that's a really, >> i think that's a really, really argument because , really strong argument because, as rishi sunak says, that waiting lists would be 400,000 lower than they today if it lower than they are today if it weren't for all of these strikes. and if wes streeting wants come in and reform the wants to come in and reform the nhs, use more private sector involvement, all of this stuff are the wing bma, the trade are the left wing bma, the trade union of the doctors , union of the doctors, particularly the junior doctors. >> he's already rolled them up. >> he's already rolled them up. >> political people , he's are >> political people, he's are they to just take that they going to just take that lying they going to just take that lyiri think i don't >> i don't think so. i don't think hopefully we'll

think so. but, hopefully we'll be that to man be able to put that to the man himself the show. so himself later on in the show. so please your questions please do send us your questions for the shadow health secretary. he could be the man running the nhs in the not so far future . nhs in the not so far future. let us know. gbnews.com/your say. should we get headlines ? >> 7- >> good ? >> good afternoon. 7 >> good afternoon. it's 12:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your top story this houn newsroom. your top story this hour. the prime minister says the plan is working as new nhs figures show hospital waiting lists in england have fallen for the fifth month in a row. over 305,000 people have been waiting, more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of february . that's at the end of february. that's down from 321,000 at the end of january. the government and nhs england have pledged to eliminate all waiting lists of more than a year by march next yeah more than a year by march next year. rishi sunak said there's more to be done though. >> well, when i became prime minister i said that cutting

waiting lists was one my five waiting lists was one of my five priorities and whilst we haven't made much progress would made as much progress as i would have , today's figures show have liked, today's figures show that are making headway that we are making headway towards that goal. >> over the last five months, a reduction of around 200,000 in the overall waiting list, which is positive. and if it wasn't for industrial action, an extra 430,000 patients would have been treated . so whilst there's of treated. so whilst there's of course a lot more work to do, the plan is working. >> meanwhile, nearly half of workers have spent time looking atjobs workers have spent time looking at jobs outside the nhs, according to new analysis. researchers have found around 47% have looked at employment outside the nhs, with 14% applying for non nhs jobs between march and june last yeah between march and june last year. it's understood stress, workload, staff shortages and pay workload, staff shortages and pay are the top reasons for staff leaving the nhs . in other staff leaving the nhs. in other news, a man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a woman who was stabbed to death in the city as

she walked her baby in a pram. 25 year old habib masum stood in a glass fronted dock as he was told by district judge alex boyd . he will appear again at bradford crown court on friday. dressed in a grey sweatshirt and flanked by three security guards. he spoke only to confirm his name , date of birth and his name, date of birth and address during the six minute long hearing, 27 year old consumer akhtar died after being stabbed in bradford on saturday afternoon . a change in family afternoon. a change in family visa rules comes into force today as part of the government's plan to reduce immigration. it's part of the home secretary's promise to transform the uk's immigration system, cut unfair levels of migration and ensure those arriving here do not burden the taxpayer . the measure will see taxpayer. the measure will see the minimum income for family visas rise to more than ten, rise by more than £10,000 to £29,000, an increase of more than 55% by early 2025. this will have increased two more

times, rising to £38,700. the royal mail says it's working to remove counterfeit stamps from circulation after reports of fake ones. it follows calls from gb news for royal mail to investigate its systems. after an investigation , the telegraph an investigation, the telegraph reported china is flooding britain with counterfeit royal mail stamps as small retailers are buying forgeries online. it's understood that the fakes were causing a rise in complaints that stamps bought from legitimate stores were being deemed fraudulent, which can result in a £5 penalty. a new poll suggests rishi sunak and other high profile tories could keep their seats because of voter id confusion in the next general election . a poll by next general election. a poll by campaign group best for britain found 16% of people did not know that they would need photo id to vote in the upcoming local and general elections . it means general elections. it means around 5 million people could be turned away from polling

stations. the government passed the legislation in 2022, with the legislation in 2022, with the new rules coming into force last year. former prime minister bofis last year. former prime minister boris johnson has attacked rishi sunak's flagship smoking policy as absolutely nuts as he criticised the state of the conservative party at an event in canada. the prime minister's plan would prevent anyone who is turning 15 this year or younger from ever able legally from ever being able to legally buy tobacco products. >> some of the things that were were , were doing now, i think were, were doing now, i think that are being in the name that are being done in the name of conservatism . i think they're of conservatism. i think they're absolutely, absolutely nuts. but you know, we're banning cigars. and what is i mean, maybe , maybe and what is i mean, maybe, maybe you all think that's a great idea. i just can't i can't see what what point of what what is the point of banning of banning with the party of winston wants to ban? winston churchill wants to ban? i mean, don't don't enjoy our break. as they say in quebec. you know, it's just it's just it's just mad and a once a day migraine pill has been recommended on the nhs with a

charity claiming it could change the lives of thousands. >> the pill, sold under the brand name acquisita, has been given a green light for nhs use under new final draft guidance . under new final draft guidance. anyone who experiences at least four migraines day and a month four migraines a day and a month has tried at least three other methods, but found no relief, will eligible . and for the will be eligible. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews.com. slash alerts. now it's . it's. >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:08 now. rishi sunak will reportedly face a revolt from his cabinet if he decides to pull the united kingdom out of the european convention on human rights. at least 12 cabinet ministers to ministers are understood to oppose a move. oppose such a move. >> well, these include big names like the chancellor , jeremy like the chancellor, jeremy hunt, the justice secretary, alex chalk, and the home secretary , james cleverly.

secretary, james cleverly. >> meanwhile, new figures from the foreign office reveal that more than a quarter of britain's foreign aid budget was spent housing refugees and asylum seekers across the country last yean seekers across the country last year, as the total cost of accommodating them rose by £600 million. >> well, let's cross to westminster and speak to gb news political correspondent olivia utley on this. the cabinet is extremely divided over the issue of the european convention on human rights. do you get the impression that rishi sunak is actually moving actually genuinely moving in that ? that direction? >> i think rishi sunak might just might be moving in that direction. obviously up until now, government policy has been very much that britain will stay in the european court of human rights. but rishi sunak has been very frustrated recently with the court because he sees it as essentially the final stumbling block, which stopping the block, which is stopping the rwanda plan from actually being implemented. of course, implemented. then of course, yesterday we got that swiss ruling this eight elderly swiss women who went to the european

court of human rights and claimed that they needed compensation . and they were they compensation. and they were they they believed that their government worked hard government hadn't worked hard enough to stop climate change. and were unable to live and they were unable to live their lives as they would want to, as a result, the echr upheld that ruling , which essentially that ruling, which essentially paves the way for climate activists in the uk to sue the british government for not meeting, for example , the net meeting, for example, the net zero target. now that is a thorn in the government's side too. and when that happened , claire and when that happened, claire coutinho, the energy secretary here and a very close friend of rishi sunaks, a really strong ally of his , came out and said ally of his, came out and said that it was concerning. now i read that as perhaps claire coutinho sort of putting out some feelers on behalf of rishi sunak to see test the mood in the conservative party, to see if there was an appetite for potentially pushing leaving the echr on the conservative manifesto. of course, if rishi sunak did do that, he would get

a lot of plaudits from his, tend to be right, right. of the conservative party backbenchers . conservative party backbenchers. but he would face a revolt within his cabinet. it's thought that about by 2 to 1 cabinet ministers would like to stay in the echr. would rishi sunak take a risk like that? would he annoy the people closest to them? his inner circle that much to roll the dice ? on leaving the echr the dice? on leaving the echr conservative voters in the country might be quite pleased if he did 5050. they are now split on whether or not to leave the echr, so it's going to be a huge decision for rishi sunak , huge decision for rishi sunak, and i think a lot will depend on what happens next week with the rwanda bill. >> imagine conservative >> i imagine conservative party members are even more staunchly for leaving the echr yes. >> and yet the problem here with all of this discussion is there's no legislative time to withdraw from the echr before the election, even if the election is the latest date, it could possibly be. this stuff

isn't going to happen in a matter of months. it's a hugely complicated , which would complicated task, which would mean even if he's saying that, he absolutely gung ho he would absolutely gung ho leave the echr, it wouldn't happen because he's not going to win the election manifesto. i suppose olivia , does that mean suppose olivia, does that mean that it's almost like a sort of a gimmick manifesto, a free gimmick in the manifesto, potentially , potentially it is. potentially, potentially it is. i mean, i've spoken to people around the conservative party, people close to the conservative party who think that rishi sunak might end writing really might end up writing a really pretty bold conservative manifesto because it does look quite unlikely at this point that the conservative party is going to win. i think it all depends on what happens both with the rwanda bill next week and also with those all important local elections at the start of may, if rishi sunak gets the sort of hammering that most people are now expecting, he might feel that it's time to sort of throw caution to the wind and start talking about very bold policies, which could

alienate some people but could bnng alienate some people but could bring some of those red wall brexiteers back on board with the conservative party. it would be a sort of final throw of the dice remains to be seen. whether he has the sort of gumption, if that's what it is to do something like that. >> yes. and something >> yes. and olivia, something else that's appeared in the news headunes else that's appeared in the news headlines today, which quite headlines today, which is quite interesting, i suppose, is one word over half of our word for it. over half of our foreign aid budget is now going towards housing and accommodating asylum seekers and refugees within britain. so it's over half is being used domestically , which is fascinating. >> i mean, you could say that that's a sort of clever workaround that the uk government has done because , you government has done because, you know, there are plenty in the conservative party who don't like britain like the fact that britain contributes 0.7% of gdp to foreign aid . but, you know, foreign aid. but, you know, there is an argument that part of the point of that huge aid budget, which we have is to give britain sort of soft power overseas to show that are an

overseas to show that we are an international force to be reckoned with. if we're spending that money within the uk , do we that money within the uk, do we just lose that soft power element of the foreign aid budget, and it's a really, really interesting question. i think we should make clear we're writing down on the little words at the bottom of the screen. more than a quarter spend on housing refugees. that's that's on specifically , and a on refugees specifically, and a half of the entire foreign aid budget , half of the entire foreign aid budget, according to the telegraph, is going on in the united kingdom. so presumably not just on refugees, but on other projects within the united kingdom really serious kingdom as well. really serious money now being spent on all of this stuff. but olivia utley, thank you very much for talking through those, those significant issues for the prime minister. thank you. >> olivia. yes, lots of people would that our foreign would assume that our foreign aid budget solely aid budget would solely go towards and towards humanitarian and exercises in humanitarian projects outside of the united kingdom, in some of the most poor nations in the world.

instead, because of the problems we have with the migration crisis and asylum seekers and the crossings in the channel, it's being spent here instead. >> and yet some people might say, well , i mean, if we're say, well, i mean, if we're going 0.5, a going to spend 0.5, it's a little bit under that at the moment. if we're going have moment. if we're going to have to percentage to have a fixed percentage of gdp spend this stuff, gdp that we spend on this stuff, we well use that out on we might as well use that out on on the refugee situation rather than taking that out of other budgets. >> yes, some people might think money well spent, we're money well spent, but we're now joined political joined by chief political commentator at the independent, john , john, thank you john rentoul, john, thank you very much for joining john rentoul, john, thank you very much forjoining us on good afternoon britain . good to see afternoon britain. good to see you, on this, you, your thoughts on this, potential revolt within cabinet over the echr. do imagine over the echr. do you imagine that sunak might actually that rishi sunak might actually go this ? go through with this? >> no. >> no. >> well, as tom said, there isn't a time for legislation before the election. >> this is all about what might go into the manifesto. and it's all about actually i mean, before the before we get to the manifesto, it's all about getting flights off to rwanda before the before the election , before the before the election, and i think what rishi sunak

said the other day, that, that he wouldn't allow a foreign court to stop the flights taking off, i think that was that was aimed at putting pressure on the european court of human rights, not to interfere, if, if the flights actually do, start to go ahead. >> and what is the big, big issue here with regard to the battle within cabinet? after all, i don't think a single person in cabinet, if you really peered into their soul, genuinely believes they're going to win the next general election, they might as well chuckitin election, they might as well chuck it in the manifesto, mightn't they? >> not? >> why not? >> why not? >> , if. >> well, if. >> well, if. >> yes, if. well, no . i mean, i >> yes, if. well, no. i mean, i think the problem with that is that you end up in a situation , that you end up in a situation, that you end up in a situation, that john major himself in that john major found himself in in 1997 where he, he had to plead with, his, his own mps not to put opposition to the single currency in their personal,

manifestos, because, i mean , it manifestos, because, i mean, it would just divide the tory party down the middle. i mean, it's not just the cabinet. i mean, if you look at the parliamentary party, the one nation group claims they're claims 100 tory members. they're absolutely opposed to putting something like that in the manifesto, a commitment to leave the echr so i think that would divide the tory party deeply on the eve of an election campaign. >> john, i wonder if, the, the mood music is changing a little with regards to the echr among the general public, i imagine that perhaps readers of the independent and those working at your fine publication might scoff at the idea of leaving the echr. might think it's echr. they might think it's a far right idea, or something that headbangers think. but that only headbangers think. but then if you look at the, this ruling that we saw earlier on in the week with this relating to climate change and the swiss elderly women, i think a lot of people are starting to realise that perhaps it is acting in a political way and that it is infringing on national sovereignty in a negative way.

and that perhaps actually it's legitimate question whether legitimate to question whether we need to be a member. >> yeah, no, i think that that ruling really did not help the echr case because actually, in recent , in recent months, recent, in recent months, there's been evidence that the echr has been more political in the opposite direction because it's rewritten its rules about injunctions. you know, the you know, what stopped the rwanda flight in the first place? two years ago was was an injunction from the echr. now the echr has rewritten its rules so that it would only issue such injunctions in a much more limited set of circumstances in future. and i thought that was a response to british pressure, because, i mean, it is in in the end, it is a political court and it is subject to, to political pressures. mean , there was a pressures. i mean, there was a compromise reached, for example, on of prisoners votes , on the issue of prisoners votes, but you're quite right. this climate change, ruling, does suggest that the i mean, it emphasises that the court is, is

political, and would undermine support for, for our membership of it, even though i suspect most , of it, even though i suspect most, readers of the independent are strongly supportive of, of stronger action on climate change. >> and there is a strong argument from those that, oppose leaving the echr that this is just an incredibly complicated thing to do. almost every treaty that the united kingdom has signed up to in the last 50, 60 years has has been referencing this court, not least the good friday agreement. the belfast agreement that brought peace in northern ireland. are we going to go through another five years of negotiations over northern ireland in order to extradite, to extract ourselves from from another european institution, i think a lot of people might just feel, my goodness, that will make us all very tired. >> yeah, but i do think that's a bonng >> yeah, but i do think that's a boring and mistaken argument, tom, i mean, the point is , it's

tom, i mean, the point is, it's a question of principle. i mean, if do we believe in the in the european court of human rights in principle or not, and i, you know, i would have i would have said issues such as the good friday agreement are secondary to you know, i mean, it's to that. you know, i mean, it's a bit like it's a bit like saying, you know, brexit was a terrible idea because you'd have saying, you know, brexit was a te|you'd dea because you'd have saying, you know, brexit was a te|you'd haveiecause you'd have saying, you know, brexit was a te|you'd have to ause you'd have saying, you know, brexit was a te|you'd have to negotiatei have to you'd have to negotiate and renegotiate a lot of a lot of treaties which, which we treaties which, which, which we did. but, you know, the point about brexit was as a matter of principle, did we want to be a member of this international institution or not? and the same same applies to the echr spot on matter principle. matter of principle. >> of >> yeah, yeah, matter of principle. it will be one of principle. but it will be one of the biggest arguments because everyone will remember the brexit we've brexit years and think we've just done that. >> go through that again ? >> can we go through that again? can we go through that again? thank much, john thank you very much, john rentoul, speak to rentoul, very good to speak to you. commentator rentoul, very good to speak to you independent, |mentator rentoul, very good to speak to you independent, chief ator rentoul, very good to speak to you independent, chief political the independent, chief political commentator, , commentator, i should say, interesting. yeah, interesting. >> questions. and perhaps >> big questions. and perhaps a foresight there of some of the conversations that we'll be seeing in the run up to the election. be the election. what could be in the tory manifesto , frankly, what do

tory manifesto, frankly, what do you to in that you want to go in that manifesto? if it does go in manifesto? and if it does go in there, will it matter? gbnews.com forward slash your say. well coming up nhs waiting lists. they've dropped now for the fifth month in a row, but compared to last year, the same time last year, they're up up on 12 months. down on five months. who do you want to choose? well rishi says his plan is rishi sunak says his plan is working. we're going to speak to the secretary the shadow health secretary a little bit later on. this is good britain on .

gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's a much drier and brighter day for many areas of the uk. today will also feel quite warm in the sunshine, but if you're across the south coast, you're more likely to see cloudier skies and potentially some rain. that's weather that's because of this weather front that's sunk southwards through tonight. to through tonight. it's going to unger through tonight. it's going to linger southern areas linger for southern areas through the day. much of the rain pitted away from it.

rain has pitted away from it. but you're in southwestern but if you're in southwestern areas, parts areas, especially across parts of cornwall, you're more likely to see some rain through to see some drizzly rain through much of the day. clouds will be a thicker as well, a little bit thicker as well, extending to more southeastern areas. elsewhere, it areas. two elsewhere, though it should and bright day, should be a dry and bright day, it's going to feel warm in the sunshine, particularly across the we could see 20 the east coast. we could see 20 degrees parts degrees in parts of cambridgeshire , for example, but cambridgeshire, for example, but temperatures cambridgeshire, for example, but tempteens es cambridgeshire, for example, but tempteens quite widely through high teens quite widely through this evening. rain will return for pushing for northwestern areas, pushing into parts of northern ireland and scotland. and then western scotland. elsewhere, , it should elsewhere, though, it should stay largely but clouds stay largely dry. but clouds will through the night. will thicken through the night. it's going to be a bit of a dull evening and dull start to the evening and a dull start to the day, but it's going to be another temperatures another mild start. temperatures won't degrees won't dip much below ten degrees once far north of once again in the far north of scotland, you're likely to see a fairly bright start, but elsewhere, as i said, it's likely to be quite cloudy, with rain across this rain persisting across this northwestern patch through much of south for of the day. further south for central areas of england, parts of wales, south coast to of wales, the south coast to some will break out, some sunshine will break out, particularly as we head into the afternoon. may be a little afternoon. it may be a little hazy, it's going feel

hazy, but it's going to feel warm sunshine again warm in that sunshine once again with likely with temperatures likely climbing degrees, climbing to above 20 degrees, which warmest climbing to above 20 degrees, which the warmest climbing to above 20 degrees, which the year warmest climbing to above 20 degrees, which the year so warmest climbing to above 20 degrees, which the year so far warmest climbing to above 20 degrees, which the year so far. warmest climbing to above 20 degrees, which the year so far. hitarmest day of the year so far. hit >> hello? it's 1225. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain. now the nhs. nhs has had a little bit of welcome news today, as its waiting lists have fallen for the fifth month in a row. >> of course, cutting nhs waiting lists was rishi sunak's one of his top five priorities, and he's said that the statistics clearly show now that the government is making headway . however, of course sunak is facing criticism from his predecessor boris johnson, describing some of the prime minister's policies as absolutely nuts. and whilst these numbers have fallen five months in a row, compared to the same time last year, these numbers are up a little bit of spin. it depends. if you're if

you're a politician in favour of the government, you can say, look, five months of fools, but if you're a politician against the government, just back the government, just go back a few months and it looks few further months and it looks like it's increased. mean, like it's increased. i mean, statistics, lies, lies, damned lies and statistics. >> yes, the trajectory is going down, but yes, not for that long. gb news political editor christopher hope joins us now, christopher. rishi sunak will want to present this as a big win. is it ? win. is it? >> yeah. well, as thomas says, it's a trend in the right direction . it's five months direction. it's five months falling, 7.54 million people waiting for treatments is down 7.58 million, in february. that's the march stat, but these figures, they do mask, people in real pain. people are in pain , real pain. people are in pain, in agony, waiting for their treatment. i mean, for every single digit on that number is a voter in pain. so a lot of people and a lot of worry for them. so although it's a it's good news in a sense for his political prospects , maybe

political prospects, maybe millions of people are still waiting for treatment on a, on a service they pay for through their taxes. and that is a failure by this government. but it is getting better for, for them. i mean, as labour are saying, of course wes streeting will talk to you later for your programme . they're saying that programme. they're saying that waiting lists are still 320,000 longer than they when he longer than they were when he became these are became prime minister. these are far too long, however, way you cut moving in cut it. but they're moving in the direction , which is the right direction, which is why sunak quite pleased why rishi sunak is quite pleased today. >> and chris, you're going to be speaking the shadow health speaking to the shadow health secretary, wes streeting, a little later in this little bit later in this programme. we've had people writing in with some questions that they want asked, and one of the questions that keeps coming up, in fact, simon has said it on gbnews.com forward slash your say just a few moments ago . wes say just a few moments ago. wes streeting keeps saying that he's a big, bold reformer that he wants to use more private sector involvement in the nhs, that he's going to take on the sort of middle class lefties who are squeamish about that. what simon

wants to know is how on earth is he going to do that without resistance from the unions that run, the employment within the nhs? how on earth is he going to do that without more bma strikes ? >> well, we'll ask that question of wes streeting for simon. but for me, what wes would say, i think where he asked that question is that he he would like to bring in more private health care. he's made clear to me, when i worked for a different media outlet, that he would be happy to bring in more if he got these , this, this list if he got these, this, this list cleared. he would for them cleared. he would pay for them through the private sector. he says things, think says things, i think wes streeting, many of the streeting, which many of the unions wouldn't like, but he's willing put himself on the willing to put himself on the side of the patients. i think that's he's got a chance that's why he's got a chance here for trying to bring that down, there's question . i down, but there's no question. i think wes streeting is someone who probably most who i think unlike probably most other, i think he can do reforms to the nhs, which the tories would find quite hard to do . i

would find quite hard to do. i think i've often thought that the labour is the party which can reform the nhs, because they the labour is the party which can the»rm the nhs, because they the labour is the party which can the permissions, because they the labour is the party which can the permission to )ecause they the labour is the party which can the permission to doause they the labour is the party which can the permission to do so,e they get the permission to do so, whereas tory party they whereas if the tory party they are trusted by many, often are not trusted by many, often unfairly, on dealing with the nhs. yes. >> although it may be that the labour party can reform the nhs, but i think in some ways it may well like likely that well be like more likely that wes streeting will have difficulties because they need to have a closer relationship with the unions fighting back against the unions. lots of people labour party people within the labour party will absolutely to any, will say absolutely no to any, any, sniff of any, even sniff of privatisation, weren't they? >> and of course wes streeting been criticising those that have that have been opposed. what was the phrase he used? middle class lefties. that's the bma. >> exactly i know. >> exactly i know. >> well, i think wes streeting will know that the, the, the proportion of, of operations and work by the nhs are done privately. increase the most under tony blair and gordon brown's government. not under the tory government. and that's often forgotten. yes that's very

true indeed. >> well, we're going to stay tuned for that interview . very tuned for that interview. very interesting to hear what wes streeting say. also streeting has to say. and also on trans women are on the issue of trans women are women. he's changed on women. he's changed his tune on this, accepting the review's recommendations, at least recommendations, or at least accepting says accepting what the review says yesterday. there's been quite a lot of infighting this issue , lot of infighting on this issue, so it'll be interesting to ask him on as well. him on that as well. >> from the horse's mouth. >> hear from the horse's mouth. but all that, we're but before all of that, we're going have a little look at going to have a little look at the news headlines. so you the news headlines. so see you after that . after that. >> it's 1230. after that. >> it's1230. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your headlines. the prime minister says the plan is working as new nhs figures show hospital waiting lists in england have fallen for the fifth month in a row. over 305,000 people have been waiting more than a year to start routine treatment. ending of february . that's down from of february. that's down from 321,000 at the end of january. the government and nhs england

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britain. now, joe biden, the president of the united states, has vowed ironclad support for israel amid growing concerns that iran is preparing what's been described as a significant attack. >> could this be the beginning of wider escalation? could this be the start of world war iii? well, the president's comments come after iran's supreme leader repeated a threat to launch a retaliatory strike against israel over a bombing in damascus that, of course, killed several members of iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps . corps. >> well, let's go live to tel aviv now and speak to the foreign editor of jewish news, yotam confino. yotam how seriously is this threat being taken ? taken? >> i would say very seriously. israel has been on the edge for well over a week now after it allegedly killed a top iranian commander in damascus. and not only is it on high alert in the north, in the northern part of israel , but north, in the northern part of israel, but basically all over the country because it is expecting some sort of an iranian retaliation, israel

doesn't know, obviously, what's going to happen, but it's preparing for an actual attack from iran. and this could be basically all over israel. it could be in the north and the south or in the centre . and south or in the centre. and that's why israeli army has that's why the israeli army has begun , gps all begun disrupting gps, gps all over the country. so right now, if i'm going on google maps , for if i'm going on google maps, for example, it will show that i'm if i'm going on google maps, for ex iniple, it will show that i'm if i'm going on google maps, for ex iniple, it \inl show that i'm if i'm going on google maps, for ex iniple, it \in lebanon at i'm if i'm going on google maps, for ex iniple, it \in lebanon ,t i'm if i'm going on google maps, for ex iniple, it \in lebanon ,i'm1 in in beirut, in lebanon, i'm not in tel aviv. so it's trying to confuse any drones or missiles that might be be targeting israel. so yeah, it's a very serious situation. and that's why we hear constantly israel warning iran not to attack. yesterday, i was at a briefing with the defence minister, and he said that israel is ready to attack whoever , attacked israel. so if whoever, attacked israel. so if iran launches an attack , israel iran launches an attack, israel will attack iran, not any of its proxies , but iran directly. proxies, but iran directly. >> and that is that is what the world should perhaps be most concerned about . the idea that concerned about. the idea that this will turn from a local conflict that has been mainly contained within the gaza strip

to something where a state is attacking a state, and these are rich, powerful, countries with with large artilleries. of course, iran up until now has been operating through proxies and has had its proxies in yemen, its proxies , in, in, in yemen, its proxies, in, in, in syria as well . and, and lebanon, syria as well. and, and lebanon, sort of sort of work for it. this would be a very , very this would be a very, very different issue were this state to be involved. it's an incredibly wealthy nation . incredibly wealthy nation. >> yeah. first of all, i think we can we can divide the levels of threats that israel is facing into three. you have hamas and islamic jihad from gaza and the west is the it's a west bank, which is the it's a massive threat, but it's much lower than, for example, hezbollah , which is the second hezbollah, which is the second biggest threat from, from from lebanon . hezbollah has around lebanon. hezbollah has around 130,000 missiles, many of them precision guided missiles that can reach all over israel. and then you have iran . iran is a then you have iran. iran is a completely different actor.

first of all, it's a state. but it also has, more than 3000 ballistic missiles in his arsenal, many of which can reach israel now, ballistic missiles of that calibre could do a lot of that calibre could do a lot of damage to israel. israel has a very good defence, missile defence system. one of the best in the world, which is technically supposed to be able to shoot down these ballistic missiles. but if iran floods israel with ballistic missiles, both from iran, but also activates the houthi rebels in yemen and hezbollah, at the same time, israel is looking at at a catastrophe, and it's very hard to know if israel can actually fight against this. this level of attack and to what extent, extent is this a retaliation on the part of iran ? the part of iran? >> they're threatening to launch this attack because they say that israel struck the iranian consulate in syria. >> look, it's always a matter of when does history start? hamas would also say that, well, the

whole conflict didn't start on on october the 7th. iran would also say that, they would just say now that this whole escalation starts with israel assassinating the commander. that's not true. iran mobilised hezbollah on october the 8th to start attacking israel on a daily basis . and they have not daily basis. and they have not only hezbollah, but also militias in syria and iraq and, of course, the houthi rebels. so iran has started this. iran is behind this huge escalation , and behind this huge escalation, and they can say, well, we're just retaliating for an assassination of a commander. but israel is saying, well, you started attacking us that that's without attacking us that that's without a doubt , your attacking us that that's without a doubt, your your proxies have admitted it. we see this every day as paula has fired more than 3000 rockets at israel since october the eighth, the houthi rebels have fired ballistic missiles in southern israel. so, again, it's a it's a game of, when does history start for iran? they would like for it to start last week. and israel is looking at october 8th as the starting point now from a british perspective, this is

incredibly concerning because of course, if we move from a state performing operation against a non—state actor to a state attacking a state and missiles being fired from one to another, there then gets the question of what of united states involvement? >> what of further spill—over? what are the americans saying about this ? about this? >> so the americans are saying that the us committed to israel's security is ironclad. in other words, the united states will step in. that's that's the way to interpret this statement from joe biden. so he better back his words up with action if that's the case. otherwise, this will be another red line from the ipso. >> could you could you foresee a yotam, the united states going to war with iran ? to war with iran? >> i think it would be hard for them to back down from saying that the commitment to israel's security is ironclad . joe biden security is ironclad. joe biden might choose not to do it, but he will look extremely foolish. and i'm sure that inside the

united states, there will be many people who would be happy for not to go into war in for him. not to go into war in the middle east, but they will certainly of people who certainly be a lot of people who would leaving would criticise him for leaving israel when they're israel hanging when they're fighting on seven different fronts, from a state fronts, including from a state actor like iran. by the way, rishi sunak will also have to make a decision. is he going to watch israel defend, try to defend itself from basically seven different fronts? or will he step in and try to help? it's a big question. i do think the united states will step in. i'm not sure if the uk is willing to also step into this war. >> well, traditionally the >> well, traditionally when the united states has gone gone united states has gone to gone to operation or gone to perform an operation or gone to perform an operation or gone to war, they're most steadfast ally in terms of military cooperation and sharing information and even fighting and dying alongside the american troops has been the united kingdom, at least for the last 30 years. this raises huge, huge questions about what british involvement could be in the future. but of course, i send all of the best wishes from

everyone watching, no doubt towards you. and please do stay safe. it's a very risky time in israel right now . yotam confino israel right now. yotam confino thank you for your time. >> that is the last thing that i imagine the british public and the american alike would the american public alike would want a conflict, a direct conflict with iran . conflict with iran. >> well, it all hinges now on the ayatollah will will he fire these 3000 ballistic missiles at, at israel, or will he see the very real risk that it'll be far, far more missiles flying his way? >> i mean, people have been experts have been warning for how many about the threat how many years about the threat of . ash. well, let us know of iran. ash. well, let us know what you make of that. gbnews.com forward slash. your say is the address to get in touch. say is the address to get in touch . could you see the united touch. could you see the united states going to war with iran? and would we united kingdom follow? >> but nhs waiting lists closer to home they're falling. but the shadow health secretary says the prime minister has still failed the nhs . we'll be hearing from

the nhs. we'll be hearing from him after this

good afternoon. britain. it's 12:47, and we've been asking for your views on the nhs. the situation as it stands and how to fix it. indeed. what to ask the shadow health secretary now, michael has been in touch saying waiting lists . back michael has been in touch saying waiting lists. back in michael has been in touch saying waiting lists . back in 2013, i waiting lists. back in 2013, i had to wait nine months for surgery on six prolapsed discs. and when i got surgery , i was and when i got surgery, i was left, incompetent. or does he mean . well, the point is, these mean. well, the point is, these waiting lists are a perennial feature of the nhs . although

feature of the nhs. although i think it is fair to say they have got worse. >> what i'm seeing from some of these views coming in level these views coming in is a level of cynicism . you're not sure of cynicism. you're not sure that wes streeting could a that wes streeting could do a better he's promised this betterjob? he's promised this bold reform. he's promised use of sector. he's of the private sector. he's promised that he'll take on the unions and get these reforms through. but will he, when he comes to it , through. but will he, when he comes to it, dave has asked comes down to it, dave has asked ask wes streeting how he would solve the doctors strike. and i want a clear and precise answer. yes. a lot of the time you get a bit of a bit of waffle , don't bit of a bit of waffle, don't you? about how we'd be better at it. manage it, we'd it. we'd manage it, we'd have better what better negotiations. what do those look those negotiations actually look like? money can you put like? how much money can you put into nhs staff? into n hs staff? >> into nhs staff? >> let's go straight to wes streeting now , has joined >> let's go straight to wes streetingpolitical hasjoined >> let's go straight to wes streetingpolitical editor, joined >> let's go straight to wes streetingpolitical editor, chrisi with our political editor, chris hope. >> i mean tom, that's right. emily and tom. hello. i'm with wes streeting, the shadow health secretary wes streeting. it's good news for the party good news for the tory party waiting falling five months waiting list falling five months in row. in a row. >> well, know why rishi >> well, i don't know why rishi sunak's doing a victory. >> waiting lists higher >> lap. waiting lists are higher than when he became

than they were when he became prime he's promised to prime minister. he's promised to cut waiting lists. and you cut nhs waiting lists. and you also look at the performance standards on things like a&e ambulance response times. they are shockingly bad to the extent that people can no longer be certain that whether they dial 999 with suspected heart attack or stroke, or walk into a&e, that they're going to be seen on time in the right way. that they're going to be seen on time in the right way . so time in the right way. so i think by now, hopefully people have reached a conclusion that the longer the conservatives are in power, the longer patients will wait, labour has a proud record on the nhs, the shortest waiting and the highest waiting times and the highest patient satisfaction on record. but importantly , when but even more importantly, when looking to the future, we've got a to get our nhs back on a plan to get our nhs back on its feet, whether that's 2 million appointments a year its feet, whether that's 2 micut, appointments a year its feet, whether that's 2 micut, waiting ppointments a year its feet, whether that's 2 micut, waiting lists,tments a year its feet, whether that's 2 micut, waiting lists, fullyts a year to cut, waiting lists, fully costed, fully funded through extra weekend extra evening and weekend working , doubling the number of working, doubling the number of scanners get scanners so that people get diagnosed earlier , treated diagnosed earlier, treated faster, training up thousands more through red more gps and cutting through red tape.i more gps and cutting through red tape. i mean, i could go on and on, chris. and point that on, chris. and the point is that unless that unless you have that comprehensive at

unless you have that conwholeisive at unless you have that conwhole system at unless you have that conwhole system , at unless you have that conwhole system , you're at unless you have that conwhole system , you're not at the whole system, you're not going to get the nhs out of this terrible mess the conservatives have put, put us in. and the longer they're in power , the longer they're in power, the longer they're in power, the longer patients will wait. >> we've asked our gb >> well, we've been asked our gb news viewers today for their questions you. there is some questions for you. there is some cynicism about whether you can do going say . do what you're going to say. simon asks, will you do you have the have the, the, the the will you have the, the, the political will to take on the unions who might try and frustrate your attempts to use more private and more private care to try and clear these waiting lists? >> i think people can see that i'm prepared to put people's noses out of joint to do the right thing. when it comes to patients people patients getting people seen faster. accused, faster. i've been accused, chris, as you people have seen in recent days and weeks and months actually, of wanting to privatise the nhs over my dead body. would we privatise the nhs? i think one of the best things about it is that it's a pubuc things about it is that it's a public and that when you public service and that when you fall to fall ill, you don't have to worry bill. we've worry about the bill. but we've got in private spare got, in the private sector spare capacity, can afford capacity, those who can afford it are paying to go private. they are being seen faster.

working class people who can't afford it are being left behind. and i'd say to my and so what i'd say to my critics you let those people and so what i'd say to my crithe you let those people and so what i'd say to my crithe eye )u let those people and so what i'd say to my crithe eye andet those people and so what i'd say to my crithe eye and you )se people and so what i'd say to my crithe eye and you tell)eople and so what i'd say to my crithe eye and you tell them in the eye and you tell them that you're prepared to see them wait longer because of your left wing principles. i don't think that's right. i'm to prepared take on those arguments and do that's right. i'm to prepared takeright hose arguments and do that's right. i'm to prepared takeright thingarguments and do that's right. i'm to prepared takeright thing bmeents and do that's right. i'm to prepared takeright thing by patients,1d do the right thing by patients, because i came into politics to help people working class help people from working class backgrounds like mine, make backgrounds like mine, to make sure country backgrounds like mine, to make sure a country backgrounds like mine, to make sure a fair country backgrounds like mine, to make sure a fair crack country backgrounds like mine, to make sure a fair crack . country backgrounds like mine, to make sure a fair crack . and ountry backgrounds like mine, to make sure a fair crack . and that's gets a fair crack. and that's what a labour government will do. >> if you could clear that list with using the private sector for all of it, would you, if you could, i would. >> i mean, i think it's got to be a balance. and that's why as well as using spare private sector capacity, i've said, look over got to make sure over time we've got to make sure we've know, the we've got, you know, the capacity that the nhs capacity in the nhs that the nhs needs and, you know, take our 2 million extra appointments. what we're doing is taking the approach that we've seen actually that hospital right across the road from in across the road from us here in westminster, of sure that across the road from us here in wesget1ster, of sure that across the road from us here in wesget your of sure that across the road from us here in wesget your waiting sure that across the road from us here in wesget your waiting listsure that across the road from us here in wesget your waiting list down1at you get your waiting list down faster, using those extra capacity in evenings and

weekends , paying their staff to weekends, paying their staff to do it. but this shouldn't just be happening in in hospitals in the middle london. the middle of london. this should right across should be happening right across the and will fund the country. and we will fund that on tax that by clamping down on tax avoidance because we prioritise doctors, dodgers . doctors, not tax dodgers. >> another question here from alan, he asked will you continue to allow a&e to be used as an extension of a doctor's surgery rather than, as its name suggests, actions and emergency ? suggests, actions and emergency? >> no. and look, the crazy thing about this is that if someone can get a gp appointment, it costs nhs about £40. they costs the nhs about £40. they walk into a&e, costs the nhs walk into a&e, it costs the nhs about £400. so it's worse for patients being stuck in a&e. it's also more expensive for taxpayers and that's why, as well as training up thousands more gps, because poor old gps, there are thousands fewer now than there were in 2015. we're also going to cut through some of tape that holds of the red tape that holds them back. about back. they have about 40 accountability lot accountability measures, a lot of which distract them from doing doing . doing what they enjoy doing. patients really value them doing. and all the says doing. and all the evidence says we need , which is, you know,

we need, which is, you know, what and would the what you and i would call the family relationship and family doctor relationship and what the nhs jargon what the what the nhs jargon calls care . that calls continuity of care. that means people can see that family doctor relationship up doctor have that relationship up and get a gp appointment rather than going through the 8 am. scramble ending than going through the 8 am. scriin ble ending than going through the 8 am. scriin a&e ending than going through the 8 am. scriin a&e . ending up in a&e. >> and david asked to ask you, what is labour's actual plan to provide the necessary economic growth to fund the nhs ? growth to fund the nhs? >> well, look, we've got a serious plan to get the economy growing again, whether that's our industrial strategy that will see us support new green jobs, great british energy , for jobs, great british energy, for example, making sure that that this country invests in its energy industry, it has its own sovereign capability, isn't reliant on foreign energy, but also we don't have this absurd situation where european taxpayers own our energy suppliers , and british taxpayers suppliers, and british taxpayers don't see a return on that investment. you know, that will create more jobs, give britain its and cut its energy security back and cut bills . and that's plank bills. and that's just one plank of you take of our economic plan. you take things like life sciences for example. we've got some of the best, doctors in this best, best doctors in this country and some of the best

life our nhs and life sciences. but our nhs and our life sciences sector could work together work so much better together that , in work so much better together that, in turn, would work so much better together that , in turn, would create that, in turn, would create jobs, make we're delivering jobs, make sure we're delivering cutting edge medicine in this country and help to get our economy growing again. and i'd also just say on this, as with the nhs , you can judge on our the nhs, you can judge us on our record. economy had grown the nhs, you can judge us on our record this economy had grown the nhs, you can judge us on our record this government had grown the nhs, you can judge us on our record this government, ad grown the nhs, you can judge us on our record this government , at grown the nhs, you can judge us on our record this government , at the mn under this government, at the rate grew under the last rate that it grew under the last labour be labour government, there'd be tens of more tens of billions of pounds more available to invest in our pubuc available to invest in our public services or to put back into people's pockets . but we into people's pockets. but we are paying a heavy price for the conservatives. low growth, high tax, high inflation, high interest economy and wes streeting. >> while i've got you, i've got to ask you about the cass review. yesterday you came out in said you in favour of it. you said you support the recommendations. you owe colleague owe an apology to your colleague rosie duffield, the labour mp who has fought very hard on this space and been vilified by by her colleagues. >> i've before that >> well, i've said before that i think the way that rosie and actually people have been actually other people have been treated in terms of the abuse they've faced for speaking up is

appalling. i've, i've apologised before and i have no hesitation in doing so. again, i think one of the things that doctor castro's up in her report , which castro's up in her report, which has been pretty shocking in terms of the failure of these very vulnerable children and young is that we have very vulnerable children and youra is that we have very vulnerable children and youra toxic is that we have very vulnerable children and youra toxic politicalt we have very vulnerable children and youra toxic political debate ve very vulnerable children and youra toxic political debate in had a toxic political debate in this country where both people who raising concerns have who are raising concerns have been shut down. and also, you know, trans people who know, we've had trans people who are often at the worst end of the statistics on being victims of crime and suffering of hate crime and suffering mental suicide, mental ill health, suicide, self—harm . they have been self—harm. they have been absolutely, appallingly treated too. i think as political too. and i think as political leaders, we owe it to trans people, to campaigners to conduct this debate in a much more respectful and responsible way. and that's why, even with the general election hurtling towards us, i said to the government, i'm absolutely prepared to work with them on the cass the implementation of the cass review. labour wins the review. and if labour wins the general we're general election, we're not taking we taking anything for granted. we will implement the cass review too. >> well, wes streeting, thank you today on gb you for joining us today on gb news. there you have news. and there you have it, tom. streeting making news. and there you have it, tom.clear streeting making news. and there you have it, tom.clear he streeting making news. and there you have it, tom.clear he would eting making news. and there you have it, tom.clear he would useg making news. and there you have it,

tom.clear he would use anyaking news. and there you have it, tom.clear he would use any kind very clear he would use any kind of private required to of private care required to clear list . an clear this waiting list. an apology there rosie apology there for rosie duffield. backs the cass duffield. he now backs the cass review and the reforms there on duffield. he now backs the cass revi trans d the reforms there on duffield. he now backs the cass revi trans issue.reforms there on duffield. he now backs the cass revi trans issue. thanks there on duffield. he now backs the cass revi trans issue. thanks chris.on the trans issue. thanks chris. >> really interesting to hear from streeting. to from wes streeting. lots to digest . i hope we have a little digest. i hope we have a little bit time the break to bit of time after the break to be do so. lots of be able to do so. lots of things. make into things. want to make it into gbnews.com/your for say gbnews.com/your say for say we're going to get to that 100% private sector capacity. >> if he could, he would in

i >> -- >> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:00 on thursday, the 11th of april. >> cabinet revolt. rishi sunak will face a rebellion if he decides to leave the european convention on human rights. the chancellor, home secretary and even secretary have even the justice secretary have all voiced opposition to leaving . should we leave the echr? we'll be debating this very question shortly, and this comes as shocking stats show more than

half of the foreign aid budget is now being spent within britain looking after asylum seekers . and it's a brexit seekers. and it's a brexit success story as britain becomes the fourth biggest exporter in the fourth biggest exporter in the world. we've overtaken france, the netherlands and japan. france, the netherlands and japan . we'll be speaking to our japan. we'll be speaking to our economics and business editor liam halligan woop! >> and we just heard from the shadow health secretary with christopher hope, our political edhon christopher hope, our political editor. very interesting. he said, he could cut the said, if he could cut the waiting lists using private sector capacity, he would . very interesting. >> private sector. do you know what i do? >> i do wonder where all this private sector capacity i'm private sector capacity is. i'm not sure there is this abundance of private sector to capacity that we could just use at the drop of a hat. is that why it's safe for wes streeting to say,

oh , if i could use it to clear oh, if i could use it to clear the backlog, i would , because it the backlog, i would, because it means then he doesn't have to, because quite well, quite . and because quite well, quite. and he did insist that he is up for the fight, that happy to the fight, that he's happy to put noses out of joint in order to his reforms happen. to make his reforms happen. >> but here's the thing that's what the tories tried to do in 2011 and 2012, when andrew lansley the health lansley was the health secretary. he put forward the lansley reforms. and what was it? a fight with the it? it was a huge fight with the vested interests within the health service, and ended up losing his job as health secretary over that fight. the thing if wes streeting is thing is, if wes streeting is really up for the fight, has he really up for the fight, has he really sized up the people, the institutions, the vested interests that will be opposing him? >> yes. well, mike makes a good point. actually and this is something that perhaps is true. he says, to solve the continuous problem that is the surely problem that is the nhs. surely the route competence and the best route to competence and value money would be a value for money would be a continuous solution . continuous cross party solution. yes, i do agree with you. the nhs is treated as a political football constantly. one government tries to do reforms .

government tries to do reforms. everyone says it's too difficult, that stops. then they try another bunch reforms , try another bunch of reforms, then that stops and it just gets pushed around. meanwhile, we're all it. all supposed to praise it. >> this relies upon >> but this this relies upon politicians honest . this politicians being honest. this relies on politicians being consistent and cooperative of three things that i think are sorely lacking within the house of so there you go. >> do you trust wes? do you trust streeting sort the trust wes streeting to sort the nhs know. nhs out? let us know. gbnews.com/your . let's get gbnews.com/your say. let's get your headlines. >> good afternoon. it's 1:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . your top story this newsroom. your top story this houn newsroom. your top story this hour. the prime minister says the plan is working as new nhs figures show hospital waiting lists in england have fallen for the fifth month in a row . over the fifth month in a row. over 305,000 people have been waiting for more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of february. that's down from 3320 1000 at the end of january. the government and nhs

england have pledged to eliminate all waiting lists of more than a year by march next yeah more than a year by march next year. rishi sunak said there's more to be done though. >> well, when i became prime minister i said that cutting waiting lists was of my five waiting lists was one of my five priorities whilst we haven't priorities and whilst we haven't made as i would made as much progress as i would have liked, today's figures show that we are making headway towards that goal. over the last five months, a reduction of around 200,000 in the overall waiting list , which around 200,000 in the overall waiting list, which is around 200,000 in the overall waiting list , which is positive. waiting list, which is positive. and if it wasn't for industrial action, an extra 430,000 patients would have been treated so whilst there's of course a lot more work to do, the plan is working. >> meanwhile, nearly half of workers have spent time looking atjobs workers have spent time looking at jobs outside the nhs, according to new analysis. researchers have found around 47% have looked at employment outside the nhs, with 14% applying for non nhs jobs between march and june last yeah between march and june last year. it's understood stress, workload, staff shortages and pay workload, staff shortages and

pay are the top reasons for staff leaving the nhs . in other staff leaving the nhs. in other news, a man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a woman who was stabbed to death in the city as she walked her baby in a pram. 25 year old habiba masum stood in a glass fronted dock as he was told by district judge alex boyd. was told by district judge alex boyd . he will appear again at boyd. he will appear again at bradford crown court on friday. dressed in a grey sweatshirt and flanked by three security guards , he spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address dunng name, date of birth and address during the six minute long hearing. 27 year old kusuma akhter died after being stabbed in bradford on saturday afternoon . a change to family afternoon. a change to family visa rules comes into force today as part of the government's plan to reduce immigration. it's part of the home secretary's promise to transform the uk's immigration system, cut unfair levels of migration and ensure those arriving here do not burden the taxpayer. the measure will see the minimum income for family visas rise by more than £10,000

to £29,000. that's an increase of more than 55% by early 2025. this will have increased two times more, rising to £38,700. the royal mail says it's working to remove counterfeit stamps from circulation after reports of fake ones. it follows calls from gb news for royal mail to investigate its systems. after an investigation , the telegraph an investigation, the telegraph reported china is flooding britain with counterfeit royal mail stamps as small retailers are buying forgeries online. it's understood that the fakes were causing a rise in complaints that stamps bought from legitimate stores were being deemed fraudulent, which can result in a £5 penalty. and a new poll suggests rishi sunak and other high profile tories could keep their seats because of voter id confusion in the next general election . a poll by next general election. a poll by campaign group for best britain found 16% of people did not know that they would need a photo id to vote in the upcoming local

and general elections. it means around 5 million could be turned away from polling stations. the government passed the legislation in 2022, with the new rules coming into force last year , and britain's greatest year, and britain's greatest rower has questioned the decision to award prize money to track and field gold medallists at the paris olympics this summer. sir steve redgrave, who won five gold medals in five consecutive olympics , says that consecutive olympics, says that rewarding the best paid athletes with a cash prize is the wrong decision for the games, and money should to poorer sports. >> there are certain sports that are more privileged financially than others, but that's the whole thing the olympics whole thing about the olympics is that you're coming along. everyone's on a level platform . everyone's on a level platform. i'm, from that and you're making this into a two tier process of being able to afford , surely you being able to afford, surely you can do something much better than, than than giving the athletes, those athletes that are probably earning much more than that already, to other sports or of developing your own

sports, let's have a little bit of lateral thinking. this is this is for me is the wrong, wrong direction . wrong direction. >> and a once a day migraine pill has been recommended on the nhs, with a charity claiming it could change the lives of thousands. could change the lives of thousands . the pill, sold under thousands. the pill, sold under the brand name equita , has been the brand name equita, has been given the green light for nhs use new final draft use under new final draft guidance. anyone who experiences at least four migraines a day and has tried at least three other methods but found no relief, be eligible . and relief, will be eligible. 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 . back to tom and. emily. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:08 now. rishi sunak could face a significant revolt from his own cabinet if he decides to pull the uk out of the european

convention of human rights, with at least 12 cabinet ministers understood to oppose such a move i >> -- >> is it about 2 to 1? 2 to 1? at— >> is it about 2 to 1? 2 to 1? at the moment there's about 30in the cabinet, so that would make sense. include chancellor sense. these include chancellor jeremy secretary sense. these include chancellor jerenchalk secretary sense. these include chancellor jerenchalk and secretary sense. these include chancellor jerenchalk and the secretary alex chalk and the home secretary , james cleverly. so secretary, james cleverly. so very big names within cabinet vehemently against this. >> well, let's cross to westminster and speak to gb news political olivia political correspondent olivia utley. do you understand this is political correspondent olivia u live do you understand this is political correspondent olivia u live discussion derstand this is political correspondent olivia u live discussion within|d this is political correspondent olivia u live discussion within cabinet; a live discussion within cabinet right now, or is this just journalists making mischief? >> it sounds as though there is some sort of discussion going on, and it does seem plausible that rishi sunak might, just might. there's a lot of ifs and mights here be edging towards potentially putting britain leaving the echr on the conservative manifesto yesterday, claire coutinho, the secretary of state for energy , secretary of state for energy, said that she was concerned by the echr ruling that that essentially paves the way for climate activists in the uk to sue the government for failing

to meet net zero targets. she is a close ally of rishi sunak, is a close ally of rishi sunak, is a close ally of rishi sunak, is a close friend of rishi sunak and it did feel as though she was sort of testing the water to see if there was an appetite, both in the country at large and in the conservative parliamentary party for britain leaving the echr. i mean, we're certainly not there yet . i don't certainly not there yet. i don't think we should be expecting rishi sunak to be coming out and suggesting that britain leaves the time and the echr any time soon, and suella has said former suella braverman has said former home secretary, who personally always that she would like always said that she would like to leave the echr. she said that she has spoken to rishi sunak on numerous occasions about this. she has spoken to rishi sunak on nu|you»us occasions about this. she has spoken to rishi sunak on nu|you would asions about this. she has spoken to rishi sunak on nu|you would expectabout this. she has spoken to rishi sunak on nu|you would expect ,)out this. she has spoken to rishi sunak on nu|you would expect, and this. she has spoken to rishi sunak on nu|you would expect, and at s. she has spoken to rishi sunak on nu|you would expect, and at no as you would expect, and at no point did she get the indication that would be prepared to that he would be prepared to leave the echr. so i that leave the echr. so i think that from what i've been seeing, who i've been talking to, it sounds as though there might be kind of the discussions the beginnings of discussions behind the scenes, but with such a of the cabinet a big chunk of the cabinet absolutely, resolutely opposed to leaving the echr including very senior members of the

cabinet like home secretary james cleverly, i think rishi sunak would have a very tough time trying to, whip up the sort of support that he would need for such a radical measure. >> and olivia hearing >> and olivia were also hearing that over half of our foreign aid budget is now being spent in britain on issues including asylum seeker accommodation. is this in some ways, perhaps clever accounting on behalf of the government ? the government? >> well, i think that's a very good argument that it is , there good argument that it is, there are plenty of conservative mps and of course , conservative and of course, conservative voters who don't like the fact that britain spends 0.7% of its gdp on foreign aid. there are people who say that that money would be better spent at home, particularly in the middle of a cost of living crisis . it now cost of living crisis. it now seems as though the government is using some of that is actually using some of that money to address domestic problems. and sort of calling it the foreign aid budget. you could also argue that a big point, a big part of the, foreign aid budget is to get britain sort of soft power over

seas that kind of aid for trade slogan. that was that was bandied around a few years ago. theidea bandied around a few years ago. the idea that if you trade with. if you give aid now to a sort of up and coming countries in, in africa, then further down the line, they could be a good and loyal trading partner for britain. you could argue that by spending that foreign aid budget here, rather than overseas as it was intended, britain is losing out on that, on that sort of soft power element of the foreign aid policy. >> now, olivia , there's >> now, olivia, there's something that's very interesting that's happened in the last, the last hour or so on social media. >> oh my goodness. it sounds like i need the nhs waiting lists , but, olivia, nick lists, but, olivia, nick fletcher, the member of parliament for don valley conservative mp he seems to have taken to twitter today to endorse lee anderson. of course, a member of parliament for a

different party. >> well, exactly. i mean, lots of people in the conservative party, i mean, both definitely voters at home, but also mps really like lee anderson's style. they like that he is a straight talking, man who, who, who has been he was he was a labour party man, his, former miner. he's got that sort of back story to him, and he is prepared to sort of tell voters uncomfortable truths. but i think there are very few conservative mps who would actually as far as endorse actually go as far as to endorse lee anderson when he is, of course, now an mp for another party. it'll be really, really interesting to see what, conservative hq, what rishi sunak decides to do about this. will he discipline nick fletcher ? he obviously doesn't want to get into a situation where he's stripping nick fletcher of the whip. there are all the tory party has already been sort of decimated in the past couple of years by by elections and whip removals. most recently, of course, will wragg. so it seems unlikely at the moment that

rishi sunak will go that far. but obviously it is very, very bad for party discipline and it is not a good reflection of the leader of the conservative party. if conservative party mps feel like they have the they have the sort of power and the right to go out and start endorsing candidates from other parties, it does feel like conservative mps feel they can say anything at the moment and the leadership won't do anything. >> but thank you much >> but thank you very much indeed. utley we indeed. olivia utley shall we speak to gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson his view on this, nelson to get his view on this, breaking news, nick fletcher, backing lee anderson. >> well, a very dangerous thing for nick fletcher to do that, one of the rules about being an mp in a particular party is you don't support an mp in another party, so the likelihood is that you would get disciplined at the very least for this, the worst that could happen would be that he would lose the tory whip. >> do you think that's a serious prospect? because i suppose the very that he's put out

very reason that he's put out this statement backing lee anderson, it's a statement that he says, i think lee anderson is the greatest champion for ashfield . and i hope in don ashfield. and i hope in don valley, where nick fletcher is the , that reform voters would the mp, that reform voters would back a for back me. he's trying to do a for tat . although lee anderson tat. although lee anderson hasn't tweeted supporting, supporting nick fletcher, but clearly this is a breakdown in discipline. >> it certainly is, i mean, what he should be saying is saying is, as a tory mp, is that the best result for ashfield would best result for ashfield would be a conservative member of parliament, so he's certainly breaching what? breaching the rules of his own party. vie, by saying things like this. i mean, i think you may be right that discipline is breaking down all over the conservative party and the last thing that rishi sunak wants yet another wants is yet another by—election, which is almost certain to lose. but certainly if they stick to the rules , nick if they stick to the rules, nick fletcher is in real trouble. >> very odd behaviour, very odd behaviour. we're going to have to leave it there, nigel,

because we're heading to hartlepool. but to speak to hartlepool. but good to speak to you. is course , you. nigel nelson is of course, our senior political commentator. >> no really? really, >> yeah. no really? really, surprising and perhaps quite significant news there. yeah. we'll keep an eye on what happens with regard to how the conservative party respond to nick fletcher. >> bit of an odd move, but, in >> a bit of an odd move, but, in other news, today marks marks the first day of the trial of moroccan national ahmed ali of hartlepool. >> now he's been charged with murdering tenant terrence carney in october last year. >> now, today, the court heard ahmed ali shouted allahu akbar, meaning god is great, as he stabbed javid nouri, his housemate, in the chest. >> well, gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley is outside teesside crown court . outside teesside crown court. for us, anna, this is a pretty significant developments today. is this being now treated as a potential terror incident ? potential terror incident? >> good afternoon. that's not what i've heard in court in

terms of it being treated as a terrorist incident. >> but i can outline the facts of the case for you. and we heard from the prosecutor that the defendant said he wanted to kill both mr carney, the 70 year old man that was stabbed to death in the street, and also his housemate, mr nouri, who he's been accused of attempted murder for , due to the conflict murder for, due to the conflict in gaza and to further his desire that palestine would be free from the zionists, by which he meant israel, and the defendant said he would would have killed more people if he had been able to do so. and just to outline the facts of the case. and this all happened on the 15th of october, 2023. last yeah the 15th of october, 2023. last year. the defendant shared accommodation with mr nouri and also two other housemates. they were being housed by the home office. they were all asylum seekers and at first. mr nouri and the defendant got on. he was

even complimenting mr nouri for his housekeeping. how well and tidy he kept the house. and then it was began. they began falling out when he found out that mr noor had gone from being a muslim to a christian. so transferring from the islam faith to the christian faith, he found out that he'd began to visit the local church in hartlepool, and the defendant called him an apostate for doing this. the defendant reported this. the defendant reported this to the police. he said that he felt threatened and a couple of days later, that's when the attack was launched. it happened in the early hours of the morning on sunday the 15th of october. mr nouri was asleep in bed when the defendant burst into into the room, the prosecution told the jury today. and it was then that he stabbed him multiple times. the prosecution said that mr nouri was a stronger and bigger man and due to this was able to

fight off the defendant as that was happening . we've heard from was happening. we've heard from a 999 call that the defendant was crying allahu akbar, allahu akbar during the attack that was played out in court and heard by the jurors. now, as , as the the jurors. now, as, as the housemate was being tended to and police were on their way, the defendant then left the house and he started heading towards the centre of hartlepool . and that's where he tragically happened upon terence carney, a 70 year old man that was out for a walk . the court heard that a walk. the court heard that a regular went regularly, went for walks in the morning and that the defendant came upon him from behind and then stabbed him multiple times. we saw , footage multiple times. we saw, footage of the attack in which mr carney was shouting no, no, no, and trying to get away , but he was trying to get away, but he was fatally stabbed and he died of his injuries. police did try and

help him as they were heading to the house where the incident had happened, but were unable to save his life. then next in the evidence, we heard that police took a kitchen knife from the defendant during the arrest and that he was taken into custody, in which he was questioned . and in which he was questioned. and i just want to find you some quotes from from what he said in custody. he speaks, arabic and it was caught on, the footage of the, the police officers who then translated what was said dunng then translated what was said during the arrest and the defendant began by saying, for the people of gaza and allah willing, gaza would return to be an arab country. he went on to praise allah and spoke of him being displeased with those who went astray. he then went on to speak about palestine and said that the jews had divided the arabs. he said that his hands

were injured, otherwise he would have continued to do what he referred to as the raid . he referred to as the raid. he spoke of returning with an army of muhammad with the non believers having to pay tax to the muslims, and be humbled, then further on into to the interview, he did say that he described mr carney, the 70 year old man who died as an innocent victim. but he said they killed children and i killed an old man .then children and i killed an old man . then he is also being charged with assaulting two police officers after that interview. this trial continues and it's expected to last about four weeks. >> goodness me. well, anna riley, thank you so much for bringing us the facts of the case there. this will be one that we do continue to follow as it develops here on gb news. >> just the first day of the trial . and all of that trial. and all of that information has come out already . wow. shocking incident, yes, we will bring you any updates on that. and of course, when it

comes down to, sentencing, coming up, we are going to be debating a big question of the day . shall we leave the echr? day. shall we leave the echr? there's apparently a cabinet revolt on the cards. if rishi sunak were to suggest this , were sunak were to suggest this, were to decide to do it, the pm 12 cabinet ministers would say absolutely not. cannot leave absolutely not. we cannot leave the echr. but should he just do it? should we leave the european court of .

human rights? well, it's 125. you're watching and listening to. good afternoon, britain. thank you for joining us. now, we've been forjoining us. now, we've been talking about this throughout the show. pressure much the show. pressure is very much mounting sunak to mounting on rishi sunak to decide whether or not he wants to now, with to leave the echr now, with reports that he could face a revolt from cabinet ministers if

he decided to leave, what would be in the better interest of the british public? >> should we stay or should we go? >> simple question. joining us to debate this is broadcaster and journalist nina myskow, who believes we should remain firmly within the echr. and on the other side, we have former chief immigration officer at the uk border force , kevin saunders, border force, kevin saunders, who believes we couldn't leave soon enough . okay, kevin, make soon enough. okay, kevin, make the case for leaving. >> good afternoon . soon, right. >> good afternoon. soon, right. we should leave the echr tomorrow. >> it is a complete, utter nonsense . nonsense. >> we only saw, i think it was last week or the week before. a gentleman. i think he was from bulgaria. but i could be wrong . bulgaria. but i could be wrong. who was not the sort of person that we want in the uk. he was a really bad lad and we wanted to remove him and he claimed under the echr. and of course what happens , he won and we're stuck happens, he won and we're stuck with him. we need to come out of

this ridiculous piece of legislation. it doesn't work for what we want . what we want. >> so, kevin, this is about the deportation of foreign criminals i >> -- >> is it was a foreign criminal? yes. he claimed he claimed on the basis that if he was removed , it would infringe his right to family life . well, it wouldn't family life. well, it wouldn't refute his right to family life because he could take his family with him. he doesn't have to remain in the uk. but of course, that's not how the other side view it. and i'm sure nina is going to rip me to pieces. >> go on. and nina , well, first >> go on. and nina, well, first of all, kevin and hi to emily and tom, the european convention on human rights was set up in 1951, and one of the founding members was sir winston churchill, i think we all churchill, who i think we all agree is whatever people say is still a hero to all of us, and the basic principles were to protect the rights of

individuals, to protect human, rights and, and freedoms. individuals, to protect human, rights and, and freedoms . and so rights and, and freedoms. and so far, on the as far as the echr, which is nothing to it's actually not the eu, it's, it's wider than that. there are more countries that are in the eu. >> it's not an eu thing , it's >> it's not an eu thing, it's a european thing which is, which is different. and the only two countries that have left the echr one is greece. when it was taken over by a military junta, by the colonels and became a dictatorship, and the other one, the other country that's out is russia , who were thrown out when russia, who were thrown out when vladimir putin, invaded ukraine. now, do we want to ally ourselves with vladimir putin and the and the russian regime, or, and become pariahs on the world stage? for centuries, britain has , you know, we britain has, you know, we travelled the world bringing democracy , bringing the things democracy, bringing the things that britain are, is well known for , you know, decency, fairness

for, you know, decency, fairness , democracy around the world. and are we now to turn our back on all of that? >> well, kevin , why don't you >> well, kevin, why don't you answer that one? we've got countries like switzerland , countries like switzerland, countries like switzerland, countries like switzerland, countries like turkey, not in the eu, in the echr they seem relatively independent. >> we have, as nina says, 1951 was when we looked at, how we were going to run the world after world war two. excuse me, now that was so long ago that things have changed. so what we needis things have changed. so what we need is to look at what's happening today. we never thought we were going to have the situations happening, let's say, just in europe, what's happening today? so we need to be able to control our own borders . we need to control who borders. we need to control who we want in the uk and who we don't want in the uk.

>> yes, but kevin, we can do that without the we can do that if we if we treat the problem properly and we, we can do it and, and i'm sure labour although i don't vote labour i'm sure labour has. they have a plan they to treat the to treat the people smugglers at at source to and provide places within countries where they can be processed so they don't have to come here. i know it's a ridiculous. and the other thing is where where do you stand? where does your where does your morality come into this? we know you throw everything morality come into this? we know youjust throw everything morality come into this? we know youjust because 'ow everything morality come into this? we know youjust because youeverything morality come into this? we know youjust because you wanthing morality come into this? we know youjust because you want t01g out just because you want to break the rules. any game is easy win. if you break the easy to win. if you break the rules. and this is all about rishi desperate to get a rishi sunak desperate to get a plane off the ground to get to rwanda, who are selling off, by the way, the accommodation that's to be, set for, that's supposed to be, set for, for, for the refugees and who there's not enough space for them. i mean, if he if he got a

plane off the ground and a plane load there, there's no more accommodation. and then what? so this is all about this ridiculous , a farce of going to ridiculous, a farce of going to rwanda . there are there are far rwanda. there are there are far better ways of dealing with this and becoming a pariah on the world stage is not worth it . world stage is not worth it. >> kevin. would this make us panah? >> no, it wouldn't make us a panah >> no, it wouldn't make us a pariah at all. and i've worked in the immigration business for a long, long time . and if a long, long time. and if i could have a pound for everybody who has lodged a claim under the echr and won it, i'd be a multi—millionaire . because multi—millionaire. because people claim are under rights. human life in the uk and win because it's a ridiculous piece of legislation . of legislation. >> it's not a ridiculous piece of it. whatever laws we have should be administered properly. i mean, the office is i mean, the home office is absolutely not fit for purpose. look at the backlog , look at the

look at the backlog, look at the and if they if they're kind of getting through the back lot more quickly, then they are not processing properly. more quickly, then they are not proninalg properly. more quickly, then they are not pro�*nina ,| properly. more quickly, then they are not pro�*nina , do properly. more quickly, then they are not pro�*nina , do you properly. more quickly, then they are not pro�*nina , do you thinkarly. more quickly, then they are not pro�*nina , do you think we. >> nina, do you think we wouldn't have human in >> nina, do you think we wou countryve human in >> nina, do you think we wou country without n in >> nina, do you think we wou country without us in this country without us belonging to the echr? >> well, of course we would have human but , >> well, of course we would have human but, but, but many human rights, but, but, but many of of our greatest, of the many of our greatest, laws against, for instance, sexual abuse and domestic violence came via the echr you know, they, they, they have been, you know, fairly forward thinking , been, you know, fairly forward thinking, we've been, you know, fairly forward thinking , we've we've been, you know, fairly forward thinking, we've we've kind of dragged our heels at times . so, dragged our heels at times. so, you know, we need that to sort of aspire to. right. >> well, we started with kevin. we ended with nina . thank you so we ended with nina. thank you so much for both of your, points of view there. great debate . great view there. great debate. great back and forth. and no doubt this conversation, that this is a conversation, that will run and run. i don't think we've it today. we've quite settled it today. that we're going to solve it on this episode. are going to this episode. we are going to solve maybe solve it. yeah. well maybe next time ask to solve it. yeah. well maybe next time it ask to solve it. yeah. well maybe next time it for ask to solve it. yeah. well maybe next time it for us ask to solve it. yeah. well maybe next time it for us at ask to solve it. yeah. well maybe next time it for us at home. to solve it for us at home. >> let know you make of >> let us know what you make of it. gbnews.com/your

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this true little old us? >> yeah, the uk is the world's biggest exporter of financial services. >> by the way . >> by the way. >> by the way. >> legal services, shipping insurance. >> yeah , we are still a world >> yeah, we are still a world class economy in certain areas. >> and we're also the eighth biggest manufacturer in the world. >> so it's not all doom and gloom by any means. >> let's have a look at these numbers. these numbers are produced united nations, produced by the united nations, which for various historic reasons, world's reasons, tends to be the world's sort of leading authority on trade data . and as kemi trade data. and as kemi badenoch, the trade secretary, has been highlighting over the last 24 hours, we are now the fourth largest exporter in the world, after china, the us and germany. and that's up from seventh in 2021. so it's a big rate of growth. part of the reason why our exports are up is the growth of what we call professional services. they are financial services, legal services , insurance. we've also services, insurance. we've also been very good at exporting , by

been very good at exporting, by the way. education. yes. educational services. and on top of that, a big chunk of this increase in exports, tom and emily comes from the fact that the us has been exporting what we call liquefied natural gas, lng, to europe . and it's in lng, to europe. and it's in order to replace russian gas that europe, western europe has been using. and those lng gas exports from america, america , exports from america, america, now the biggest exporter of lng in the world, it's just overtook qatar. they come through the uk because we have better lng docking ports in milford haven in wales. also, the isle of grain in kent than other european nations. so we re—export port a lot of that lng gas through our interconnectors, which of course adds value, it's also worth saying, even though our professional services exports are up , total goods exports are up, total goods exports are up, total goods exports actually fell 4.4% over

the last year. that's the one bit of worrying news in these new statistics . of course, our new statistics. of course, our goods exports include our manufacturing exports . so we are manufacturing exports. so we are still a major manufacturer, as i said. but for me that's the one blot on the landscape. we have had a lot more exports from the uk, including exports to the european union, by the way, which are at record levels. quotes. despite brexit, partly because of those energy re—exports from the us via the uk that i just mentioned, but partly also because of services that we're managing to export to the european union. but it is a shame. i think, that our goods exports are falling , and that's exports are falling, and that's the one area where i'd like to see the uk's trade performance , improving. >> which areas could we boost exports in then? goods. that's a that covers all industries. pretty much. what could we improve at cars, what other things . where are we lacking? things. where are we lacking? >> i think where we're lacking.

and it's a really good question. i think where we're lacking is in competitive ness, our skills shortage is now pretty serious. there are lots of vacancies in the uk economy, even though there are quite a few people out of work . and there's often what of work. and there's often what economists call occupational mismatch in those job vacancies. so the vacancies are demanding skills that the people who aren't working often don't have. or there's geographic mismatch. people live in places where the jobs aren't demanded, but they there's a shortage of people in areas where the jobs are demanded. so we've got some concerns there. but the real big headune concerns there. but the real big headline for me in terms of uk competitiveness, emily, and why are goods exports as opposed to our service sector ? exports are our service sector? exports are diminishing a little bit. is the price of energy in the uk. we pay price of energy in the uk. we pay more for our, electricity households and particularly firms than any other major

western european economy. that's for all kinds of reasons that you and i and tom have discussed many times here on gb news, so i would like to see much , much would like to see much, much cheaper energy, such as they have in france with lots of nuclear spain, even in germany, energy tends to be cheaper than here in the uk, even though germany had a huge reliance on on russian gas for its manufacturing. complex, if you like. so for me, it's about competitive ness of goods exports, in particular manufacturing exports . and as manufacturing exports. and as pretty much any manufacturer will tell you, it's a very , very will tell you, it's a very, very energy intensive business. and the price that our manufacturers have been paying for energy has been eye—watering over recent years, and there's not that much sign that it's coming down fast. >> it's such a paradox about the uk economy on the specific on the technical stuff . we do it so the technical stuff. we do it so well financial services, bioscience, life sciences . but bioscience, life sciences. but when it comes to basic things like energy, transport, housing,

we're like a developing economy. so frustrating upside down, aren't we? liam halligan, thank you so much for bringing us the very latest there. at least some good news there. exports now the fourth largest exporter. i just wish we could have cheap energy in this country. >> is it too much to ask? is it too to our too much to ask of our politicians? it's fascinating that one the reasons our that one of the reasons our exports is because that one of the reasons our exporexporting is because that one of the reasons our exporexporting american;e that one of the reasons our exporexporting american like we're exporting american like gas they have got through gas that they have got through fracking , and that's something fracking, and that's something that we've banned in this country remained banned country that has remained banned for a decade. country that has remained banned for imaginee. country that has remained banned for imagine if we'd been >> imagine if we'd have been using natural gas and using our own natural gas and exporting that. how much higher could be third in exporting that. how much higher cou world? be third in the world? >> it could perhaps, but >> it could be, perhaps, but it's good news that our exports are at a record level to the european union . i like that one. european union. i like that one. anyway, coming man is anyway, coming up, a man is suing government for suing the government for allegedly making him allegedly get this, making him a climate refugee. what on earth is going on here? could the echr be

? >> 7- >> good ? >> good afternoon. 7 >> good afternoon. britain. it's 1:48. now. a man claims to have been made a climate refugee after his home was demolished because of coastal erosion. now he's suing the government. yes. you might have thought perhaps this man lived in bangladesh or the maldives ? the maldives? >> no, very much in this country. kevin jordan said he'd lost everything after sea erosion. saw his home demolished by the local council. >> well, the case comes after that landmark echr ruling backing swiss elderly women in saying that inaction on climate change violates their fundamental human rights, irrespective of democratic outcomes. well, joining us now is the senior meteorologist jim dale. and jim, is this chap who i understand is in norfolk. is he just being a bit cheeky. there's been coastal erosion

there since time immemorial and sometimes coasts erode. i mean, does he have a case here? >> yeah. okay. tom. >> yeah. okay. tom. >> good afternoon. emily. tom look, long time coming. this one. emily me and you met on the stairs a couple of days ago, and we were talking about this very briefly in of echr briefly in terms of the echr ruling in in switzerland. let's just say this is the start of things to come, let's take a step backwards first, though, and say the reason these things are happening is because the climate is ramping and not just in bangladesh , not just in in in bangladesh, not just in in america, not just in, in, thailand and places like this. but but yes, at home as well. and yes, tom, coastal erosion has taken place in the past, but it's accelerated . it's accelerated. >> and what evidence do you have to show that? because i'm willing to believe you that climate change is to blame for this chap losing his home, but i'm not convinced . i'm not convinced. >> okay, well, the first thing to say is i can't rule. it's not

my job. and perhaps not even yourjob my job. and perhaps not even your job rule my job. and perhaps not even yourjob rule on individual yourjob to rule on individual cases. because these cases will go court. it be some go to court. and it will be some judge sat there who will make the decision of whether the decision in terms of whether or not there's a plausible case. so, so each one of these things turn up and they will increasingly so, they need to be judged on merit. increasingly so, they need to be judged on merit . and i judged on their merit. and i can't say whether this particular place where this guy lives, as has suddenly accelerated it probably has , sea accelerated it probably has, sea levels starting to rise, certainly in terms of the number of storms and the ferocity of storms, that's all there . so the storms, that's all there. so the question is, is the and he's taken the government to court. are they acting fast enough ? are are they acting fast enough? are they going in the right direction? my answer to that is no, not. they're they're no, they're not. they're they're in in denial in reverse. they're in denial to a . they're they're a large degree. they're they're the they're, pushing for new oil licences, a green new oil licences, a green new oil licences in the rosebank field. so this is like going in the wrong direction. >> this man is a self—professed climate warrior. >> he's just trying to make a

political point here, isn't it? this is just activism. >> well, not not necessarily. >> well, not not necessarily. >> lost his house. i mean, >> he's lost his house. i mean, he's hardly a political point. when your house is gone. jim. >> jim, jim. hang on. you say you say there's going . there are you say there's going. there are new gas licences the new oil and gas licences in the nonh new oil and gas licences in the north true . the north sea. perfectly true. the macro picture here is that no country g20 has done more country in the g20 has done more than united kingdom to than the united kingdom to reduce indeed reduce climate emissions. indeed fossil fuel emissions, co2 emissions down by half 50% reduction since 1990. no other country, no other developed country, no other developed country has come anywhere close to the united kingdom. record on that. >> that's mainly that's mainly the auspices of the private sector rather than necessarily the government. and i'm not saying the government have done nothing. moving nothing. they're just not moving fast the fast enough. and now, on the back reform are doing, back of what reform are doing, they're trying to put the brakes on to take votes away the thing. >> home on a flood >> if you buy a home on a flood plain and you might expect this flood plain to flood once every 30 years, let's say the climate warms and that makes it more warms up and that makes it more likely once every ten years.

right yeah. do you have a case against this government, right yeah. do you have a case against this government , this, against this government, this, this country that's doing more than just about any other country in the world to try and slow that down? >> the surely . >> the echr surely. >> the echr surely. >> that's insane. >> that's insane. >> yeah, a point. >> yeah, that's a good point. and why these things go and that is why these things go to court, to be argued, be to court, to be argued, to be debated out. that's the exactly the reason why. whose fault is it? because let's let's just say climate is something we're all joined at the hip, you know, doesn't matter which country. and we've all do our and we've all got to do our little i'm not saying little bit. and i'm not saying for that britain is for one second that britain is the case scenario. we the worst case scenario. we could better. in could be doing better. but in this guy can only this case, this guy can only take the british court, the british court. he british government to court. he can't take anybody else to court. he going through court. so he he's going through that and he'll be the that process and he'll be the first one. and by the way, it won't governments going won't be just governments going forward. it will be i mean i mean, , i mean, i feel sorry mean, jim, i mean, i feel sorry for this chap who's lost his home, but mean , we're just home, but i mean, we're just reading today as well that china has 47.4gw of new coal has added 47.4gw of new coal power in the last year. >> that's more than double the

amount added by the rest of the entire world. i mean, whatever our government does , it's not our government does, it's not going to counteract that, is it? it's going to have absolutely no impact on the erosion of this coast. >> emily, i read exactly the same . and yeah, my jaw opened in same. and yeah, my jaw opened in exactly same way. when you exactly the same way. when you look at what china are up to in terms their emissions, terms of their coal emissions, that's that's wrong that's the that's the wrong message. whether message. and hopefully whether they can do it or not, chinese people will take their government the government to court in the future they their future when they get, their climate problems going, going forward. but look, yeah, we've all got to do our little bit and if this guy feels that this government responsible to, to government is responsible to, to whatever degree for his house falling into the sea, then so be it. that's a test case. that's what we go through. that's what the swiss ladies went through in exactly the same way and won, their case. i just make a marker here in the sand. these are the first of many going forward . first of many going forward. >> so i think you're right. >> so i think you're right. >> i think you're right on that, jim. i think you are right. and

that two days ago that echr ruling two days ago certainly the direction of certainly shows the direction of travel. thank you very much indeed, dale , always great indeed, jim dale, always great to speak to you. senior meteorologist then let meteorologist well, then let us know of all that. know what you make of all that. >> i'm sorry. if you buy a house on is really going on a cliff, is it really going to that much in the to have sped up that much in the last? house was falling off last? your house was falling off the falls the cliff anyway, if it falls off this opposed to next off this year as opposed to next yeah off this year as opposed to next year, say it's been year, and you say it's been marginally do have year, and you say it's been mcaseially do have year, and you say it's been mcase against do have year, and you say it's been mcase against against» have year, and you say it's been mcase against against the have a case against against the government really? >> well, you do. >> well, clearly you do. >> well, clearly you do. >> spoke china. now >> and we spoke about china. now we're speaking about we're going to be speaking about china the break china again after the break because might something because it might have something to of to do with britain's influx of counterfeit stamps. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's a much drier and brighter day for many areas of the uk today. it also feel quite warm in the sunshine, but if you're across the south coast, you're more likely to see cloudier skies and potentially some rain.

that's weather that's because of this weather front that's sunk southwards through tonight. it's going to unger through tonight. it's going to linger areas linger for southern areas through the day. much of the rain has away from it, rain has pitted away from it, but you're in southwestern but if you're in southwestern areas, especially across parts of more likely of cornwall, you're more likely to see some drizzly rain through much of day . clouds will be much of the day. clouds will be a little bit thicker as well, extending more south eastern extending to more south eastern areas. two elsewhere, though it should dry and bright day . should be a dry and bright day. it's going to feel warm in the sunshine, particularly across the could see 20 the east coast. we could see 20 degrees of degrees in parts of cambridgeshire, but cambridgeshire, for example, but temperatures to the temperatures climbing to the high teens quite widely through this evening . high teens quite widely through this evening. rain will high teens quite widely through this evening . rain will return high teens quite widely through thisnorthwestern in will return high teens quite widely through thisnorthwestern areas. return high teens quite widely through thisnorthwestern areas pushing for northwestern areas pushing into northern into parts of northern ireland and western scotland. and then western scotland. elsewhere, though, it should stay dry. but clouds stay largely dry. but clouds will thicken through the night. it's to be of a dull it's going to be a bit of a dull evening and a dull to the evening and a dull start to the day, going to be day, but it's going to be another mild start. temperatures won't ten degrees won't dip much below ten degrees once again in the far north of scotland. likely to see a scotland. you're likely to see a fairly bright start, but elsewhere, said, it's elsewhere, as i said, it's likely be quite cloudy, with likely to be quite cloudy, with rain this rain persisting across this northwestern through much northwestern patch through much of the day. further south for

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gb news. way . way. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 2:00 on thursday, the 11th of april. >> it is indeed. now nhs waiting lists have fallen for a fifth month in a row. rishi sunak claims strike action has hindered his progress but insists he's still making headway. shadow health secretary tells gb news he doesn't know why the prime minister is doing a victory lap. >> this comes as the pm faces a rebellion. if he decides to

leave the european convention on human rights, both the chancellor, the home secretary , chancellor, the home secretary, have voiced opposition to leaving and as the uk is flooded with fake stamps, reportedly from china, we're asking if this really could be beijing embarking on economic warfare against us. >> hope . >> hope. not. >> hope. not. >> now, i find this a very cunous >> now, i find this a very curious one. we've been talking about stamps on gb news for quite some time. after, quite some time. it was after, in fact , viewers and people who in fact, viewers and people who read the website started writing in saying, i'm getting charged for sending letters. turns out there is an, it's endemic, counterfeit stamps within the united kingdom. >> yeah. the recipients are being charged to receive letters . yes. so people are buying these stamps totally these dodgy stamps totally unknowingly and then getting. and then their recipients are getting fleeced . but it turns

getting fleeced. but it turns out there's another twist in the tale. and that twist is that could the chinese involved . i could the chinese be involved. i just think of all the sort of odd sort of arms of economic warfare . you could sort of, warfare. you could sort of, whack the united kingdom with stamps. >> it's not what you would expect is it? it's not what you would expect from a hostile state. on turn off the nuclear power stations, make everyone's iphones explode. >> i mean, like stamps. >> i mean, like stamps. >> don't give them ideas . >> don't give them ideas. >> don't give them ideas. >> oh, goodness me, if everyone's iphones explode , everyone's iphones explode, that's. i'll take that. that's entirely my fault. >> so the difficulty is , is that >> so the difficulty is, is that you really tell the you can't really tell the difference real difference between the real postage and the postage stamps and the counterfeit no. until counterfeit ones. no. until you're slapped with a fine. >> well, this is the thing. we've been looking at some of these comparisons, and are. these comparisons, and they are. they look identical . they are. they look identical. but the barcode is the way to tell they're now they're tell because they're now they're they're scanned. and obviously if doesn't match, if the barcode doesn't match, they can't be sent to and they

have to charge the recipient. >> well, this hour we're going to get to the bottom of all this. china this. do you believe that china could this as could possibly be doing this as a quite a economic warfare? quite incredible. say . incredible. gbnews.com/your say. yeah, with it's your yeah, stick with us. it's your headunes headlines. >> good afternoon. it's 2:02. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your top story this houh newsroom. your top story this hour. the prime minister says the working nhs the plan is working as new nhs figures show hospital waiting lists in england for lists in england have fallen for a fifth month in a row. over 305,000 people have been waiting for more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of february . that's down the end of february. that's down from 321,000 at the end of january . the government from 321,000 at the end of january. the government and nhs england have pledged to eliminate all waiting lists of more than a year by march next year. more than a year by march next year . rishi more than a year by march next year. rishi sunak said there's more to be done, though. >> well . when i became prime

>> well. when i became prime minister, i said that cutting waiting lists was one of my five priorities and whilst we haven't made much as i would made as much progress as i would have figures show have liked, today's figures show that we are making headway towards over the last towards that goal. over the last five reduction of five months, a reduction of around overall five months, a reduction of around list overall five months, a reduction of around list, overall five months, a reduction of around list , which overall five months, a reduction of around list, which is overall five months, a reduction of around list , which is positive. waiting list, which is positive. and wasn't industrial and if it wasn't for industrial action, an extra 430,000 patients have treated patients would have been treated . so whilst there's of course a lot more work to do, the plan is working. >> nearly half of workers have spent time looking at jobs outside the nhs . according to outside the nhs. according to new analysis. researchers have found around 47% have looked at employment nhs , with employment outside the nhs, with 14% applying for non nhs jobs between march and june last yeah between march and june last year. it's understood stress, workload and staff shortages and pay workload and staff shortages and pay are the top reasons for staff the nhs . in other staff leaving the nhs. in other news, a man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a woman who was stabbed in a city while stabbed to death in a city while she walked her baby in a pram. 25 year old habiba masum stood in front a glass fronted dock

in front of a glass fronted dock as he was told by the court that he would appear again at bradford court tomorrow . he bradford court tomorrow. he spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address during the six minute long hearing, 27 year old kusuma akhtar died after being stabbed in bradford on saturday afternoon . a change on saturday afternoon. a change to family visa rules comes into force today as part of the government's plan to reduce immigration. it's part of the home secretary's promise to transform the uk's immigration system, cut unfair levels of migration and ensure those arriving here do not burden the taxpayer. the measure will see the minimum income for family visas rise by more than £10,000 to £29,000, an increase of more than 55% by early 2025. this will have increased two more times, rising to 38,700. a moroccan asylum seeker on trial

for the murder of a pensioner told police he was motivated by the conflict in gaza . 45 year the conflict in gaza. 45 year old ahmed ahmed denies murdering 70 year old terence carney in hartlepool town centre , as well hartlepool town centre, as well as the attempted murder of his housemate javid nouri. he says he carried out the attacks as an act of revenge for what he says. israel's killing children in palestinian conflict. he is also accused of assaulting two female police officers who had interviewed him after his arrest, and the royal mail says it's working to remove counterfeit stamps from circulation after reports of fake ones. it follows calls from gb news for royal mail to investigate its systems after an investigation, the telegraph reported. china is flooding britain with counterfeit royal mail stamps as small retailers are buying forgeries online. it's understood that the fakes were causing a rise in complaints that stamps bought from legitimate stores were being fraudulent , which

being deemed fraudulent, which can result in a £5 penalty. and britain's greatest rower has questioned the decision to award prize money to track and field gold medallists at the paris olympics this summer. sir steve redgrave, who has won five gold medals in five consecutive olympics, says that rewarding the best paid athletes with a cash prize is the wrong decision for the games , and that money for the games, and that money should go to poorer sports . should go to poorer sports. >> there are certain sports that are more privileged financially than others , but that's the than others, but that's the whole thing about the olympics than others, but that's the withatthing about the olympics than others, but that's the withat you're bout the olympics than others, but that's the withat you're coming; olympics than others, but that's the withat you're coming along pics than others, but that's the withat you're coming along .ics is that you're coming along. everyone's on a level platform, from that , and you're making from that, and you're making this into a two tier process of being able to afford, surely you can do something much better than, than than giving the athletes, those athletes that are probably earning much more than that already. to other sports or of developing your own sports or of developing your own sports , let's have a little bit sports, let's have a little bit of lateral thinking. this is this is for me. it's the wrong, wrong direction . wrong direction. >> and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by

scanning the qr code on your screen. or go to gbnews.com alerts. now it's back . alerts. now it's back. to. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:07. now the nhs has had some rare welcome news today as its waiting lists have fallen for the fifth month in a row. >> yes, cutting nhs waiting list was, of course, one of rishi sunaks top five priorities. and he said the statistics clearly show the government is making headway . but here's what shadow headway. but here's what shadow health secretary wes streeting told earlier . told us earlier. >> i don't know why rishi sunak's victory . lap. sunak's doing a victory. lap. waiting lists are higher than they were when he became prime minister. he's promised to cut nhs waiting lists and you also look at the performance standards on things like a&e, ambulance response times . they ambulance response times. they are shockingly bad to the extent that people can no longer be certain that whether they dial

999 with suspected heart attack or stroke, walk a&e , or stroke, or walk into a&e, that they're going to be seen on time in right way. that they're going to be seen on time in right way . so time in the right way. so i think by now, hopefully people have reached a conclusion that the longer the conservatives are in power, the longer patients will labour has a proud will wait. labour has a proud record on the nhs, shortest record on the nhs, the shortest waiting times and the highest patient satisfaction on record. waiting times and the highest pati evenatisfaction on record. waiting times and the highest pati even more:tion on record. waiting times and the highest pati even more importantlyrd. waiting times and the highest pati even more importantly ,i. waiting times and the highest pati even more importantly , when but even more importantly, when looking to the future, we've got a plan to get our nhs back on its feet, whether that's 2 million more appointments year million more appointments a year to waiting lists, fully million more appointments a year to vfullyg lists, fully million more appointments a year to vfully funded:ully million more appointments a year to vfully funded through costed, fully funded through extra weekend extra evening and weekend working, doubling the number of scanners get scanners so that people get diagnosed earlier, treated faster, training up thousands more cutting through red more gps and cutting through red tape.i more gps and cutting through red tape. i mean, i could go on and on, chris. the point is that on, chris. and the point is that unless that unless you have that comprehensive at comprehensive plan that looks at the whole system, you're not going to nhs out of this going to get the nhs out of this terrible conservatives terrible mess. the conservatives have. >> wes streeting they're saying to chris that he could go on and on. well, let's cross to chris now and see what he made of the whole affair, because wes streeting very

streeting is always a very competent communicator, but i suppose if you're a labour party politician, you'll say waiting lists are higher than they were when sunak became pm. if you're a conservative party politician, you'll say, look at the last five months they've been going down down. yes, went up down and down. yes, they went up for now they're on for a while, but now they're on the i they're the right path. i mean, they're both . both right. >> yeah, they're both right. hello both. they are both right. and the point is, of course, that we have had this covid pandemic that and since, the tories came to power in 2019 and wes streeting was making the point since mr sunak became point that since mr sunak became prime in 2022, it's prime minister in 2022, it's gone up by over 300,000 or 300,000 more than it was then. so yeah , he can make these so yeah, he can make these points. i was struck by also in an interview, which aired an hour or so ago on on your show, how he said labour would use private healthcare to clear that backlog. all of those could go with private health care , wes with private health care, wes streeting said. well, i thought it was moment there, for it was a real moment there, for the labour party going after to

tory showing that tory tory voters showing that they're not going to allow or let, some kind of, some clinging to the idea of a nationalised national health service to get in the way of stopping people suffering, because each one of those, 7.54 million people waiting for treatment are in some sort of pain , some some sort of pain, some discomfort. and while mps might andindeed discomfort. and while mps might and indeed pms might claim a win five months in a row, it's still well over 7.5 million people waiting for care . and they are waiting for care. and they are in pain. and that is a service not working for them . and that not working for them. and that is that we're all paying taxes to that. to cover that. >> i'm not sure where all >> yes. i'm not sure where all this, spare capacity the this, spare capacity in the private coming from, private sector is coming from, but it's clear he wants to be bold when it comes to the nhs. >> he wants nhs workers to be working the clock. he working around the clock. he wants to use the sector wants to use the private sector to waiting lists. he wants to cut waiting lists. he wants to cut waiting lists. he wants to take on vested interests. he wants take on the middle wants to take on the middle class lefties who don't the class lefties who don't like the sound sector sound of any private sector involvement . what can do it involvement. what can he do it with? likes the bma?

with? the likes of the bma? >> i think if you're taking a look at it, i think the labour has the permission to do this kind of reform, which the tories don't . that in a sense that ever don't. that in a sense that ever since david cameron took over as leader back in the mid—noughties and said nhs will and he said that the nhs will not be touched. but if i'm prime minister, the tories have failed really to do proper reform there. obviously andrew lansley did his work with gps and combined commissioning groups, but i think if you take a step back, really the only proper root and branch reform, can be done by labour government done by a labour government because they have the permission to do unions and from to do it from unions and from their own supporters. their own, their own supporters. that's friends their own, their own supporters. th mr. friends their own, their own supporters. th mr streeting friends their own, their own supporters. th mr streeting think friends their own, their own supporters. th mr streeting think ,friends their own, their own supporters. th mr streeting think , thatis of mr streeting think, that they've got a chance to do some real change here, so i think and when we asked him in that interview earlier, will you take on will will interview earlier, will you take on face will will interview earlier, will you take on face down will will interview earlier, will you take on face down these will interview earlier, will you take on face down these vested you face down these vested interests of patients? interests on behalf of patients? he made clear he would. i mean, i what is interesting i think what is interesting about mr streeting is he's putting himself shoes of putting himself in the shoes of the . and i think often the patient. and i think often in these conversations about the nhs, about nhs, we hear a lot about employers, the government the employers, the government or the

nhs against the unions, but the voice of the patient is never heard . and if i think if labour heard. and if i think if labour can, can put their feet to their, their feet in the shoes of the patient, they won't go very wrong, well , the labour very far wrong, well, the labour party, of course, has been whacking the prime minister today, not only from whacking the prime minister tod'prime not only from whacking the prime minister tod'prime minister'slly from whacking the prime minister tod'prime minister's left'om the prime minister's left that he's a beating. boris he's taken a beating. boris johnson, of all people, has been talking in the last 24 hours. chris where is he and what's he said ? said? >> that's right. it's over in canada.in >> that's right. it's over in canada. in the middle of the night. he did some some chat about his legacy. of course, he's he's meant to be working on a book about shakespeare . he's a book about shakespeare. he's meant to be working a book for a book his memoirs , he was book on, his memoirs, he was spoke the smoking ban , spoke about, the smoking ban, which mr sunak announced in his, october speech and the tory conference last year. he said he questioned why it's happening now. the party of churchill wants ban cigars. he said wants to ban cigars. he said donnez moi un break, as they say in quebec, francophone quebec, of course , he's he knows

of course, he's he knows churchill well, he wrote the book, on churchill, a churchill factor , the reason why this factor, the reason why this matters and why it's a total pain for number 10, is that next tuesday is the vote on the tobacco and vapes bill in the house of commons. the second reading. and that's the opportunity mps to opportunity for tory mps to rebel and to send a message back to number 10 that why are we banning things as a tory government? that's why government? i think that's why the tie, he doesn't say anything by accident. boris johnson, he's speaking out a thursday speaking out now on a thursday as about what he's as mps can think about what he's saying and then vote for or against the plans on tuesday. very embarrassing if this must get through with support, get through with labour support, as as might be the case, as might as might be the case, the difference between us conservatives and our our opponents is that every, every time, their instincts are always about control and expropriation and coercion and taking your money and spending it on your behalf and regulating your lives and, and we are on the whole in favour of freedom . favour of freedom. >> when i look at some of the

things that were, were, were doing now i think, or are doing now i think, or that are being done name of being done in the name of conservatism, they're conservatism, i think they're absolutely nuts. conservatism, i think they're abso you.y nuts. conservatism, i think they're abso you know, nuts. conservatism, i think they're abso you know, we're nuts. conservatism, i think they're abso you know, we're banning but, you know, we're banning cigars and what what is i mean, maybe, maybe you all think that's a great idea . i just that's a great idea. i just can't i can't see what what is that's a great idea. i just can point n't see what what is that's a great idea. i just can point of see what what is that's a great idea. i just can point of banningt what is that's a great idea. i just can point of banning withit is that's a great idea. i just can point of banning with the the point of banning with the party wants the point of banning with the pa ban wants the point of banning with the pa ban , wants the point of banning with the pa ban , i wants the point of banning with the pa ban , i mean, wants the point of banning with the pa ban , i mean, donnie, wants the point of banning with the pa ban , i mean, donnie, donnie, to ban, i mean, donnie, donnie, moi and break, as they say in quebec. you know, it's just it's just it's just mad. >> boris johnson now talking about why he thinks that the cigarettes and smoking and cigars, particularly for the, for tories, shouldn't be banned. >> oh he's class act isn't he. >> oh he's a class act isn't he. >> don't you love a back seater prime minister? thank you very much christopher hope much indeed, christopher hope there. our political editor bringing us up to as bringing us up to speed as always. right. well, talk always. right. well, let's talk to johnston, health and to lucy johnston, health and social the social affairs editor at the sunday , lucy, i guess sunday express, lucy, i guess wes streeting is making quite a strong pitch that he'll be the man who's going to transform the

nhs and get rid of all these waiting lists. but lots of people are getting in touch and saying, well, they're not doing such a fab in wales. such a fab job in wales. >> no. and that's often seen with wales. >> when you look at the whole picture, the waiting list get any worse. >> there's 1 in 7 of us on a waiting list and if you look back to 2010, we had 2.5 million on the waiting list. so we need to knock billions off in to order bring it back to that pre—pandemic levels and just, say that we've reduced by 200,000 over the last five months. it's not enough. it's in the ocean . the ocean. >> it does sometimes feel like that drop in an ocean. but i suppose the other big health issue , related, of course. and issue, related, of course. and we've been discussing it here. we've just heard from the former prime minister boris johnson on this on this cigarette ban, i

suppose the medical community is quite in favour of this, but but we do know that the, the tax thatis we do know that the, the tax that is collected from cigarettes does go a long way to help fund the nhs. i mean, this is not a clear cut issue, is it? >> it certainly isn't. i think banning things is very controversial and there's not really evidence doing that really evidence doing that really wipes out the problem or of doing things. and often people just turn to different devices, if you know what i mean , so i'm not sure whether they're posturing or what the idea is there, we know that there's an increasing numbers of younger people , particularly, younger people, particularly, who are starting to pay instead, and younger people are now smoking because they're worried about vaping, because emerging evidence, it's a bit like whack

a mole, isn't it? >> lucy, i'm terribly sorry, but your line is a little bit dodgy, and we can barely make out what you're but we'll you're saying. but we'll speak to again soon. thank you to you again soon. thank you very much taking time very much for taking the time out johnson out of your day. lucy johnson there from sunday express there from the sunday express health there from the sunday express heeapologies audio . >> apologies for the audio. >> apologies for the audio. >> yes, it was a bit rubbish, wasn't sometimes these wasn't it? sometimes these things well today things just happen. well today marks of trial marks the first day of the trial of national ahmed ali of moroccan national ahmed ali of moroccan national ahmed ali of hartlepool, charged with murdering terrence carney in october last year. yes, today, the court heard ahmed ali shouted allahu akbar, meaning god is great as he stabbed javid nuri, his housemate , in the chest. >> well gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley is outside teesside crown court for us and can let us know what's been going on today. anna >> yes, as you say, it's the first day of the trial for ahmed ali. he is accused of the murder of terrence carney , a 70 year of terrence carney, a 70 year old man. he's also accused of the attempted murder of javid nouri, his housemate , and also

nouri, his housemate, and also the assault of two police officers. the. this these are charges that he denies. but the prosecution say that the defendant wanted to kill both mr noun defendant wanted to kill both mr nouri and mr carney because of the conflict in gaza and to further his desire that palestine would be free from the zionists, by which he meant israel , and zionists, by which he meant israel, and that the defendant said he would have killed more people if he had been able to do so. and just to outline the facts of the case to you, this is alleged to have happened on the 15th of october last year . the 15th of october last year. the prosecution said that al—ahd shared a house with three other asylum seekers that alids a moroccan national, and that this this housing was provided by the home office in hartlepool and that at first he got on with his housemate, mr nouri. he believed that he was a muslim and that he complimented him on cleaning the house and said that cleanliness

was the sign of being a good muslim. when it emerged muslim. but it's when it emerged that mr nouri had converted from the islam faith to become a christian and started visiting the local church in hartlepool, that this was something that allah did not like with his other housemates. describing him has been very much into his religion and it was on the morning of the 15th of october, where the prosecution say that the defendant burst into the room of his housemate and shouted allahu akbar! god is great! as he stabbed his housemate who was asleep several times. that's the attempted murder charge. mr nouri managed to fight him off and another housemate called the police. the 999 recording was played in which allahu akbar was heard being shouted by the defendant in the background and then the prosecution say that the defendant left the house heading

towards the centre of hartlepool, and that was where he stabbed mr carney to death. we have also heard evidence as well that he's been accused of assaulting two emergency workers, police officers, during his questioning and this trial continues . continues. >> riley, for bringing us that shocking detail there from hartlepool, we'll bring you any updates as that trial goes on. >> really shocking stuff there. but but the latest on what's being described as economic warfare from china. we'll bring you the details .

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britain. now, a gb news investigation found that counterfeit stamps are flooding britain, with some recipients being charged £5 just to receive their post. >> and according to an investigation from the telegraph, picking up on this , telegraph, picking up on this, china could well be behind it. yes, security experts and mps are calling the masses of fraudulent stamps an act of economic warfare. >> although china is denying wrongdoing as they always do. >> but let's get to the bottom of it now. ray allison, our reporter, joins us now. and ray, what on earth is going on here? and is it really credible to suggest that china is behind this ? this? >> well, it's certainly an interesting one. i'm here in horsham in west sussex , where horsham in west sussex, where rishi sunak was yesterday. now he looking at ways to tackle he was looking at ways to tackle retail crime. he was inside the swan walk shopping centre behind me, visiting the boots. now he may be wishing today that he'd actually gone into the nearby post office and asked them some

questions in there, because this is certainly a scandal, which is continuing to grow in pace now. of course , we've heard about our of course, we've heard about our investigation, the daily telegraph investigation as well has identified four chinese suppliers , they say, offering to suppliers, they say, offering to print up to 1 million counter fit stamps every single week and then selling them on to for as little as £0.04 each into the uk. now they're being then brought from online sites and including websites claiming to be the official royal mail store, and then they're being bought unknowingly by wholesalers and by small retailers , and then, of course, retailers, and then, of course, into the pockets of gb news viewers and people around the uk. of course, this all comes after that gb news investigation that found that britons across the uk are being charged £5 for allegedly dodgy stamps, which they felt that they had brought from official channels. but in some cases it's turning out then

to be counterfeit. now, of course, saying to course, shoppers are saying to us here at gb news that royal mail has a responsibility now to find and destroy these counterfeits , or they may simply counterfeits, or they may simply stop using stamps altogether. this is what they had to say. >> well, it concerns me that the wholesalers , the uk wholesalers, wholesalers, the uk wholesalers, are getting them mixed up in their , that raises some their supplies, that raises some questions as to why that's happening and where they get their stamps from, he said. >> royal mail on the front. >> royal mail on the front. >> and when the fake ones are also same royal mail. also the same royal mail. >> so just have to hope, don't i? >> i work in aviation and there's millions of fake parts going these days. so going around now. these days. so you have a problem the whole you have a problem in the whole world onto the world of fakes. going onto the market. ? >> well, shoppers are obviously very concerned that when they buy those stamps from official channels and they put their letter boxes , they letter in these post boxes, they hope they should expect that it will . however, will arrive safely. however, increasingly it would appear that there concerns over that there are concerns over that there are concerns over that and it's just simply not happening. now. the royal mail

is saying that they're working hard to counterfeit hard to remove counterfeit stamps circulation . they stamps from circulation. they regularly monitor online marketplaces detect marketplaces to detect suspicious activity, and they work closely with retailers and law enforcement as well. however, this is apparently a growing problem. >> yes. well, ray, the royal mail don't need this, do they? they've had quite a few pr problems recently, what with trying to reduce the of, trying to reduce the number of, oh, what do you call it? they were trying to reduce the days that you could actually receive post, and that posties would post, and that the posties would be . they've had be out and about. they've had all sorts of complaints about how is, and how costly the service is, and then this to happen, you then for this to happen, you can't a stamp . can't even trust a stamp. >> if you can't trust a stamp, what can you trust? sorry. come on. >> on. >> no, absolutely. i was just going to say if you. i don't know if we can see it now, but if you pan, you just pan if you pan, if you just pan around there's a around there, there's actually a card shop just down there. this is thursday card shop just down there. this is here thursday card shop just down there. this is here in thursday card shop just down there. this is here in horsham.iay market here in horsham. there's a just there a card shop just down there by the walk. chatting the swan walk. we were chatting to earlier that owns it to the lady earlier that owns it and runs it, and she was saying that increasingly when people do

come and buy cards, they don't even post them. they simply even then post them. they simply take them or send hand, take them or send them hand, deliver directly to their deliver them directly to their friends, she says. the days where would actually post where people would actually post these cards off for people are just really kind of come and gone now, and i think this is just going to to kind just going to add to that kind of mistrust, know, of that mistrust, you know, these delivery these concerns over delivery times, concerns over the rising price of stamps itself . but now, price of stamps itself. but now, of course, concerns that when you do buy a stamp, it may not be legit, i really, really interesting stuff. thank you very much. ray anderson. they're talking to us from horsham now. joining us is royal mail customer natasha, who received an apology from the royal mail after buying a counterfeit stamp from the post office. natasha, this is a fascinating story. how did you get this apology ? did you get this apology? >> well, it wasn't an easy one, ihave >> well, it wasn't an easy one, i have to admit, >> well, it wasn't an easy one, i have to admit , tenacity was i have to admit, tenacity was required, i, i had complained to them via having this same experience with an alleged counterfeit stamp on a letter that i'd sent to a niece of

mine, and i received the letter back, with the fact that it couldn't be delivered to the recipient because they hadn't paid the £2.50 penalty as it was back in 2023. >> and knowing that i'd purchased the stamp from legitimate sources. >> in fact, post office, >> in fact, a post office, i thought i just wanted to follow this through and see where i could get to with it. really, so i sent the original envelope and stamp off to royal mail customer services team. >> didn't hear anything back, followed it up with email after email, and just kept on getting fobbed off really with the fact that, you know , we have robust that, you know, we have robust systems in place and we've invested in this and we've found that our decision still stands and that the stamp was counterfeit, and then eventually there was a breakthrough. but there was a breakthrough. but the apology came from the post office as opposed to royal mail, along with a £25 cash voucher, but it's an interesting story, and i'm quite intrigued to see

how this all unravels , because how this all unravels, because there seem to be quite a lot of news networks picking up on this. and given i know this. and given that, i know that stamp i use was that the stamp i use was purchased from the post office itself and was a book of multiple stamps, i find it quite strange to wonder how one counterfeit stamp found its way into a book of authentic stamps, and the others all got used and delivered completely. >> okay, that's very strange indeed, because some people assume that these counterfeit stamps must have been bought off an online website like amazon or some service where they're some other service where they're not all checked, but actually to buy it from the post office itself. not expecting itself. you're not expecting that. you make of the that. what do you make of the suggestion china have suggestion that china might have something to do with this? people could people are saying this could be all from that country. >> well, isn't that interesting? i mean , i find, you know, stamps i mean, i find, you know, stamps are relatively low value items to fake. it's not like you're, you know, doing counterfeit £50 notes, but there's got to be an awful lot of them in the system somewhere. and to the layman, you just can't tell whether it's

a real one or not. a real one, but yeah, that's an interesting, interesting angle that i'm sure gb news are going to follow up on.andi gb news are going to follow up on. and i certainly, for one, will be following it. >> marvellous. well, natasha, will be following it. >> miyou lous. well, natasha, will be following it. >> miyou lous. much natasha, will be following it. >> miyou lous. much fortasha, will be following it. >> miyou lous. much for joining thank you very much for joining us that us and congratulations that you managed compensation managed to get some compensation in. it's a tricky thing to do and your tenacity has paid off. yes. >> let's hope if you use it to buy stamps , they won't be buy stamps, they won't be counterfeit. they'll be legitimate. but coming up in what's been described as a desperate relaxation of the rules, get this anyone seeking to join the royal navy will no longer need to prove that they can swim . what on earth is this can swim. what on earth is this about ? about? >> it's 232. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your headlines. the prime minister says the plan is working as new nhs figures show hospital waiting lists in england have fallen for the fifth month in a

row. over 305,000 people have been waiting for more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of february . that's down from 321,000 at the end of january. the government and nhs england have pledged to eliminate all waiting lists of more than a year by march of next year. rishi sunak says there's more to be done . a says there's more to be done. a man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a woman who was stabbed to death in the city as she walked her baby in a pram, 25 year old habiba masum stood in the grass fronted dock as he was told by district judge alex boyd. he will appear again at bradford crown court on friday. the 27 year old kusuma akhtar died after being stabbed in bradford on saturday afternoon . bradford on saturday afternoon. a change to family visa rules comes into force today as part of the government's plan to reduce immigration. it's part of the home secretary's promise to transform the uk's immigration system, cut unfair levels of

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>> good afternoon. britain. it's 2:37. now, here's something to raise your spirits. take a look at this scene in canada , after at this scene in canada, after mps voted down a motion that would have made the oath to king charles the monarch of canada, as well as the monarch of the united optional all united kingdom. optional all this for 113 saints. >> nays 197. saint cop26 to declare the motion rejetee. >> god save our king a standing order, order 03023 for us. god

save us! >> the canadian parliament there, in a spontaneous rendition of god save the king, keeping that oath to his majesty when they swear in made you happy , didn't it? happy, didn't it? >> made me very happy. made you very happy. tom spotted this clip earlier in the day and he said must play this. said we must play this. >> we absolutely have some uplifting news. >> was quite funny. >> for once, it was quite funny. that clip actually, the speaker looked if the was looked like as if the song was a rendition for him. who stood there said order, there listening. he said order, order and then he just let it happen. funny. let it happen. it's funny. just let it happen. it's funny. just let it happen. know what's happen. you know what's what's actually about this? >> because course, >> because of course, canada is a bilingual country, french and english, the only other english, and the only other place i've seen this, something like this happen is in the french parliament. when they sang stood sang la sang up and stood up and sang la marseillaise . yeah. and sang marseillaise. yeah. and sang their anthem. don't think their anthem. i don't think there are many singing parliaments in the world, but perhaps this is a unique

combination of french and british. in canada, you get the sort of instinct to sing, but also the royalism and the patriotism . patriotism. >> well, perhaps. can anyone remember a time when we've seen an eruption of song in the houses of parliament, the house of commons not allowed to sing, not allowed to sing, not allowed to? a lot of things are banned, but people still do them. our politicians still do them. but people still do them. our polthat's. still do them. but people still do them. our polthat's true, do them. but people still do them. our polthat's true, that'sem. but people still do them. our polthat's true, that's true, >> that's true, that's true, yes. did ban, drinking yes. when did they ban, drinking alcohol in there? yes. when did they ban, drinking alc could m haven't. >> could >> you could still do it if you're the chancellor. >> chancellor >> if you're the chancellor delivering statement , delivering a budget statement, you're allowed to drink. they never last never do it. that's the last one. ken clarke when he was one. was ken clarke when he was chancellor, was chancellor, and he was announcing in, in i think announcing a cut in, in i think it was whisky duty and took a swig of whisky as he did it. >> and it's all a bit pompous and theatrical, isn't it, really. >> but that's exactly what parliament >> but that's exactly what parlianpompous. >> bit pompous. >> bit pompous. >> back the top hat. >> bring back the top hat. >> bring back the top hat. >> pompous. >> say pompous. >> say pompous. >> to. used to to >> you used to. used to have to cover head , with a hat. cover your head, with a top hat. if point order to if you had a point of order to make during a division. now they had. kept a collapsible top

had. they kept a collapsible top hat under the speaker's chair. and when, when someone has stood up to make a point of order, betty boothroyd, there's video of this shouting get the hat . of this shouting get the hat. >> i'm sure they'd let you in with tie. with that tie. >> i think would let me in >> i think they would let me in with tie. this is lot with this tie. this is a lot more. >> thankfully, little >> well, thankfully, a little skinny have been >> thankfully, ties have been brought of brought back in the house of commons after john bercow after john bercow banned them. it's a glorious say to, not glorious tie, i must say to, not be, bash women at but be, to bash women at all, but some the standards among the some of the standards among the female mps have slipped recently. >> say , well, in terms of >> i'd say, well, in terms of just quality or just be to just quality or just be able to wear leggings really , or, i wear leggings really, or, i don't know, leopard print, i don't know, leopard print, i don't we can have a don't know, maybe we can have a bit leopard the bit of a leopard print in the house i'm sure. house of commons, i'm not sure. only on shoes. only on shoes. >> yes. theresa may her >> yes. theresa may and her fabulous shoes. there you go. fashion icon for the years. anyway shall we move on? let's move on, shall we? >> move on. a gb news >> move on. well, a gb news investigation revealed that investigation has revealed that the unable to say the home office is unable to say how many foreign national offender deportation orders it issued last year while responding to a freedom of information request,

responding to a freedom of information request , the information request, the department said it was unable to confirm figures due to a disruption to its data systems. >> oh well, that's great, isn't it ? so lots of confidence there. it? so lots of confidence there. joining us now is our reporter who broke the story, charlie peters, why has this happened? >> it's a good question, emily. well, last year , the chief well, last year, the chief inspector of the borders said that the home office was having a significant issue with its data management systems. indeed, the foreign national offender returns command did say that there was no single version of there was no single version of the truth, that they were comfortable with. in that report, we also heard from a staff member anonymously contributing to that report, saying that they would not be confident revealing any of that data to the public, and they were glad it wasn't up to them. well, last month we heard from the illegal migration minister, michael tomlinson , who in michael tomlinson, who in parliament said that the last bits of deportation order data they had was from september 2022. so we asked if they had

any from 2010 to 2023. they said it would be too expensive to gather that information again due to an overhaul of their information management systems. due to that crisis found by the inspector last year, that disruption causing a problem. and then when i went to the home office more directly and said, okay, if you can't do that full stretch the and the stretch due to the cost and the changes, at least just changes, can you at least just give me 2023? and they couldn't do it? as you can imagine, that's attracted some concern because while they're able to pubush because while they're able to publish the latest deportation data , the orders do matter data, the orders do matter because that could display a gap between the number of people they want to remove and the number that they are actually removing. last night, senior home office figures, speaking confidentially to gb news, told me that they were concerned that the detention estate had been reduced to significantly just 2200 spaces available to hold people during this process, which was leading to delays

allowing legal interruptions, judicial reviews, delays and eventually cancellation of the process . they reassured me, process. they reassured me, though, that some of the most dangerous offenders that this country tries to remove are successfully taken away on escorted chartered flights , in escorted chartered flights, in particular to jamaica and albania. those two countries in particular were pointed out to me as recent successes. however, it is concerning that we do have this information that they are unable to confirm the number of orders issued. last year, the home office told me that they did not recognise the claims that we were making and the concerns. they said that they regularly published data on the home office. but when it comes to this data, i did not get any. >> it'sjust to this data, i did not get any. >> it's just extraordinary. to this data, i did not get any. >> it'sjust extraordinary. it >> it's just extraordinary. it seems we keep hearing seems that we keep hearing stories about how the home office has lost this bit of data that's gone missing. this broke down. i mean, this is just a fundamentally incompetent department. >> well, that is the criticism being made by rob bates. the

research director at the centre for migration control, who told me in reaction to this story that this is a rudimentary part of national security. we need to have this data. it's about transparency. it's vital . and he transparency. it's vital. and he said that too many well—paid bureaucrats in the home office were missing this information. i think it's important to note, tom, this story has come at tom, that this story has come at a time when transparency of data in the home office , in in the home office, in particular migration, has particular around migration, has been a leading issue in our been such a leading issue in our national conversation. robert jenrick , the former migration jenrick, the former migration minister, is currently pushing for an amendment to the criminal justice bill that would require the government to publish data around immigration status and visa status, and indeed nationality, for any criminals , nationality, for any criminals, which could give a further indication of deportation status. and indeed, to what extent the government is successfully achieving those goals. but once one thing is for certain, they don't have the data of orders that they've issued for 2023, could there be

a significant gap between the number of people they're getting on flights and those they want to put on them? as it stands, we just don't know . just don't know. >> thanks, charlie. charlie peters there. our reporter great investigation . brian, it seems investigation. brian, it seems to me that the home office officials sometimes just c seem surprised that someone would officials sometimes just c seem surprisyasking someone would officials sometimes just c seem surprisyasking suchzone would officials sometimes just c seem surprisyasking such ane would officials sometimes just c seem surprisyasking such a question. i bother asking such a question. i mean, it's quite important for us to know if there is a mismatch between the number of deportation from deportation orders coming from the and actually the the home office and actually the number of people who are deported, be quite deported, that would be quite important , deported, that would be quite important, considering that the deported, that would be quite importoffice onsidering that the deported, that would be quite importoffice manages] that the deported, that would be quite importoffice manages torat the deported, that would be quite importoffice manages torat tjust home office manages to not just only or not be able to only lose data or not be able to compile it us, also they compile it for us, but also they lose people they serve, which is arguably more important. well, is important ? yes, yes. is it more important? yes, yes. >> and it just seems that this is of biggest is one of the biggest departments of government hires. such workforce force, such a large workforce force, and it just isn't on top of everything. i mean, there's probably an argument to break apart the home office and do separate in different separate functions in different sort of sub departments and also ideological within the ideological problems within the home office. >> i mean, stephen edgington,

our reporter , he's also been, our reporter, he's also been, finding out what's on finding out what's going on behind the scenes with all these bizarre workshops and diversity and inclusion events and waste of taxpayer money. there you go. that's the home office for you. >> well, coming up, we'll suella approach the summer holiday season, but stay wary , holiday season, but stay wary, holiday scams. you're going away next week. i am, yeah. there you go. summer holiday season. see ya. stay wary. holiday scams are on the rise and has emily carver fallen victim. more on that shortly. >> package holidays

i >> -- >> good afternoon. britain. it's, 10 to 3 now. have you started to make summer holiday plans ? i've just asked for some plans? i've just asked for some time off in june. emily's going away. >> yeah , that's news to me. >> yeah, that's news to me. emily. >> i told you earlier. you and

you're going away next week. so it's all symbiotic. you're going away next week. so it's two all symbiotic. you're going away next week. so it's two days. l symbiotic. you're going away next week. so it's two days. justnbiotic. you're going away next week. so it's two days. just forotic. you're going away next week. so it's two days. just for aic. you're going away next week. so it's two days. just for a few days. >> but, lots of people are thinking about what they're doing this summer now, and you might be wary . doing this summer now, and you might be wary. scammers might need to be wary. scammers are reportedly fleecing holidaymakers of hundreds of pounds with fake flights that never take off, or by booking houday never take off, or by booking holiday homes that simply don't exist. >> oh. well, these fraudsters are using social media as well as booking websites to target their prey . according to data their prey. according to data from lloyds bank, the victims of these holiday scams are losing an average of £765 every. gosh. wow. well, joining us now to discuss this is travel and aviation expert sally gethin , aviation expert sally gethin, sally, not to make this about me , but i'm going to make this about me. i've got a package, a package holiday booked, and it's all supposed to be super duper good value. could it be that my flights aren't actually booked and they don't take off? >> i mean, did you check that your provider is atol protected because that's one shortcut way

to make sure you are protected . to make sure you are protected. >> in the worst case scenario, say the company goes bust. >> for example . >> for example. >> for example. >> sally, i'm not sure i did. i'm sure i did, but i'm i'm not sure i did, but i'm gonna gonna hope it's all gonna i'm gonna hope it's all legit. going it's legit. i'm going to hope it's all legit. sally. legit. i'm going to hope it's all so it. sally. legit. i'm going to hope it's all so this sally. legit. i'm going to hope it's all so this is sally.you've got >> so this is what you've got homework. after this. homework. now after this. >> to >> this is what people need to look protection. look out for. atol protection. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean that's one of the, the stamps , you know, the badges of stamps, you know, the badges of authenticity. you can look for and also, whether it's amateur protected as well, which is the british travel agents association. and those two mean that, you know, any company operating with those is fully accredited. and, if you need more information , you can go to, more information, you can go to, you know, just google it or atol or arb to obtain a.org, but there are other ways to really protect yourself and what's worrying about this, this latest survey and the results is that scammers are really going after the 35 to 44 year old age group,

these are people often with families that are travelling on a budget hit by the cost of living. and so they're going out of the box out of these accredited sites, maybe to find accredited sites, maybe to find a good deal, perhaps on social media, for example, or third party websites . and that's where party websites. and that's where you've got to be super careful if you think you're getting a great deal and actually you're just money down just throwing your money down the drain. >> yes, always double check that website you're buying from website that you're buying from if you are on a website. but i mean, i'm looking at this this average amount lost £750. that seems like an astonishing amount of money to lose for an average . of money to lose for an average. >> yeah, it's actually six. sorry, 765, quid per victim , so sorry, 765, quid per victim, so yeah, that really is a huge amount. but you , you and i and amount. but you, you and i and everybody knows that even if you lose £30 or £50, it stings. it hurts, doesn't it? it's the thing about being scammed and only realising afterwards. and you know, one of the ways these scammers do it is they might use

a legit site start off with and maybe use your credit card to make some payment up front and deposit for example. but then they try you away and they try and lure you away and get make a bank transfer get you to make a bank transfer and top up payment. no and top up payment. no no no no no, don't do that. and especially also when your bank sends verification queries via a legitimate means of contacting you, you need to heed those alerts as well. so you've got to be a little bit old school about the way you go about protecting yourself. >> well, thank you very much indeed for joining >> well, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. sally gethin, aviation and travel expert . well, there you go. expert. well, there you go. >> really good advice. careful that emily, you probably should have taken before you booked your flight. >> w- w— >> all right, smarty pants. you know, hindsight, hindsight >> all right, smarty pants. you krarv, hindsight, hindsight >> all right, smarty pants. you kra great hindsight, hindsight >> all right, smarty pants. you kra great thing,;ight, hindsight >> all right, smarty pants. you kra great thing,;ight, it?1dsight is a great thing, isn't it? >> still need to >> to be fair, i still need to book for jean, >> to be fair, i still need to book forjean, so i'm book my flights for jean, so i'm going this advice going to follow this advice precisely. next, it's precisely. but up next, it's martin and what martin daubney. and what have you program? martin you got on your program? martin >> hello, guys. >> hello, guys. >> well, as we found out that there's £4 billion a year being spent on housing homeless asylum

seekers, a 239% boom. i'm asking, why should british taxpayers pick up the bill if they've been granted the right to remain? they could always get a job. if they need to be deported, be gone deported, they should be gone anyway. chaos in the anyway. plus chaos in the european reject european union as they reject the pact. the migration pact. >> poland and hungary first. >> poland and hungary first. >> others are sure to follow . >> others are sure to follow. plus, a clever trevor started a global support network of trevor's. we've got him on the show and jan leeming says she's too posh for the telly, but we've got the legend on my show later on. but before all of that, it's time for latest that, it's time for your latest weather forecast . weather forecast. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> who's . news. >> who's. hello. news. >> who's . hello. good afternoon. >> who's. hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. staying mild for the uk through the rest of the day and into friday too. but we will see some rain moving into the north west. this weather front that's have been affecting southern has created a few

southern areas has created a few wiggles and waves on it, and this wave push up into this wave will push up into northwestern through this northwestern areas through this evening. are evening. so northern ireland are likely some heavy bursts likely to see some heavy bursts of next few of rain through the next few hours before that moves away into western areas of scotland, northwestern cumbria in northwestern england, cumbria in particular like to see some heavier rain evening. heavier rain this evening. further south, though it should remain dry away from the coast and but it will and over the hills. but it will be cloudy night. be a particularly cloudy night. however, will be another mild however, it will be another mild start on friday. temperatures not double digits . not much below double digits. wherever you the best of the wherever you are the best of the sunshine first thing will be restricted north—east restricted to the far north—east of scotland and further south across scotland. it will be quite cloudy and wet through much of the day. also across parts of northern ireland, this area northwest area of northwest england as well though well further south, though for much central southern england much of central southern england and wales, the cloud will break much of central southern england an(and les, the cloud will break much of central southern england an(and there'll cloud will break much of central southern england an(and there'll be ud will break much of central southern england an(and there'll be somel break much of central southern england an(and there'll be some sunshine up and there'll be some sunshine by end of afternoon. it by the end of the afternoon. it will little hazy, but it's will be a little hazy, but it's strong enough to pick temperatures into the high temperatures up into the high teens, possibly the low 20s, by friday afternoon . now, that area friday afternoon. now, that area of rain sinks further south into parts north wales more widely parts of north wales more widely across northern england through

saturday and behind it we see some unsettled weather with showery of rain that's showery outbreaks of rain that's also going introduce cooler air to northern areas for to more northern areas for sunday, so more unsettled and cooler to weekend . but cooler end to the weekend. but across the south it should remain dry. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. day. >> are you. >> are you. >> very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting from the heart broadcasting live from the heart of westminster across the uk. >> today , as a new report claims >> today, as a new report claims homelessness among asylum seekers has soared by 239. >> i'll be asking why should british taxpayers pick up the tab now ? if you think we've got tab now? if you think we've got migration chaos here, it's bedlam in brussels because last night poland and hungary

sensationally rejected the european union's new migration and asylum bill that fines member states astonishing ,20,000 for every asylum seeker they refuse to take. >> man heart of >> our man in the heart of brussels will bring us up to speed. >> could slovakia be next? >> could slovakia be next? >> meanwhile, there's more chaos for rishi sunak as boris johnson put the boot into the pm, while in canada on the topics of defence, smoking and the spirit of this man, winston churchill. >> when i look at some of the things that were, were, were doing now, i think that are being done in the name of conservatism. i think they're absolutely, absolutely nuts. and >> it's all going absolutely nuts. could harry and william finally bury the hatchet? i don't mean between each of the shoulder blades, because it's rumoured that king charles could end up being the peacemaker. that's all coming up in your next hour