gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. and, of course, all across the uk. coming up after yesterday's shock decision by a top judge to disapply the rwanda plan to northern ireland, meaning more asylum seekers could pour into the country. we've been speaking to locals in county down for their furious reaction. next up, a shock new poll shows a nigel farage comeback could be an extinction level event for the tory party and to rev it up further, nigel himself said this regardless of what i decide to do next, the conservatives are toast . anyway, we'll have a full toast. anyway, we'll have a full update on that and presently there are huge protests in the georgian capital of tbilisi as

tens of thousands of people protest against a controversial new law that's been branded authoritarian and russian inspired. tensions are running high and will keep you across that story as it breaks. and also another live story. a huge manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were dramatically shot dead and a suspected drug boss escaped. he's now france's most wanted man. he's at large. we'll have all the latest in this coming hour. all the latest in this coming hour . was the show always hour. was the show always a delight to have your company an action packed show today? loads of live breaking news, and also lots and lots of comments. what planet are they on? is the question i'm asking yesterday when judge humphreys disapplied the rwanda bill in northern ireland. of course, the inevitable consequence of that would be that more asylum seekers would possibly pour into northern ireland from the

mainland, as they have in the repubuc mainland, as they have in the republic of ireland, because they won't be deported to rwanda. the locals weren't consulted, but we have been and asked them today live for their reaction . you will not want to reaction. you will not want to miss it. were the people's channel and we've asked them directly. fantastic stuff. that's all coming. get in touch the usual ways. gbnews.com/yoursay. but before we kick into the show is your headunes we kick into the show is your headlines with sam francis . headlines with sam francis. >> martin, thank you very much and good afternoon to you. it's just after 3:00. the top story from the newsroom this hour . and from the newsroom this hour. and we will start with some breaking news coming to us out of georgia , where there are angry scenes in the capital this afternoon with riot police moving into the nation's parliament after protesters there broke through the exterior barriers. we can take. you live there to tbilisi. if you're watching on tv. take. you live there to tbilisi. if you're watching on tv . these if you're watching on tv. these are the live pictures of crowds gathered outside the parliament building there, and the protests

come after lawmakers passed a foreign agents bill, which requires organisations receiving funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence. opponents though, are dubbing it the russian law, comparing it to the russian law, comparing it to the tactics used by vladimir putin to target his critics in russia. georgia's government says it is needed the bill that is to promote transparency. it's being seen as a test of whether the country stays on a path towards integration with europe, or possibly pivots back to russia . meanwhile, a major russia. meanwhile, a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead. three others were seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. vehicles were rammed at a toll booth on a motorway in anchorville, in the north—west of the country , and the images of the country, and the images on social media showed at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was seen to be in flames. the car appeared to have been rammed

into the front of a prison van. local media now naming the suspect as mohammed, a, who's in his 30s and reportedly has ties to powerful gangs in the city of marseille . a home office marseille. a home office minister says the good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. it's after a judge at belfast's high court ruled that parts of the government's illegal migration act should not be applied in northern ireland. responding to an urgent question from the dup, tom pursglove said the government intends to appeal against that judgement and would not be deterred. he said from its rwanda plan , the families of its rwanda plan, the families of three people stabbed to death in nottingham say the killer valdo calocane should never have been released, should never be released, should never be released after it was ruled. his sentence is not unduly lenient. faldo calocane killed barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last year. his sentence had been referred to the court of appeal after the 32

year old was given an indefinite hospital order due to evidence of paranoid schizophrenia . the of paranoid schizophrenia. the rate of unemployment is at its highest level for nearly a year, while wage growth is unchanged at 6. there were 26,000 fewer job vacancies in the three months to april, while job vacancies in the three months to april , while the months to april, while the number of people in work dropped by 85,000. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, struck an optimistic tone this morning, saying that wages are outstripping inflation. but it could be an unhelpful sign for those hoping for a cut in interest rates. the prime minister is calling on shoppers to back british produce as he hosts the second farm to fork summit at 10 downing street. labour says the conservatives though, have driven farmers to breaking point and have pledged a new deal they say will put money back in farmers pockets. but rishi sunak told members of the food industry that britain must reduce its reliance on fruit and vegetables from overseas . overseas. >> we are going to stick to our

plan, supporting you to keep creating great jobs across the united kingdom and keep making the food that we know and love so dearly and specifically to our british farmers. i do want to say this we are with you . to say this we are with you. >> there are warnings today that britain's upcoming fleet of ships and submarines might be outdated before they even hit the waves, former royal navy commander rear admiral chris parry says there's an urgent need to swiftly adapt to evolving warfare technology . evolving warfare technology. that warning comes after the defence secretary addressed the annual first sea lords conference, heralding what he calls a golden era of shipbuilding for the royal navy. grant shapps told us the government's making that critical investment because britain will need to fight and win future battles . and finally, win future battles. and finally, some tech news. openai has launched a new model of their artificial intelligence platform , chatgpt, this time one that can teach maths , sing and engage can teach maths, sing and engage in conversation. the chatgpt

84902 is free for all users and it will be rolled out over the next few weeks. meanwhile, though, a rival called claude is already available across europe that's been developed by amazon backed start up anthropic. the company says a special method of training means their technology is bound by a set of values to avoid doing harm, like spreading misinformation, bias or even election interference . that's election interference. that's the latest from the newsroom . the latest from the newsroom. another update at 3:30. until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts . com slash alerts. >> thank you sam. now we start with the latest setback to rishi sunak's plan to finally stop the boat. and the government is fighting back after a judge in northern ireland yesterday ruled that migrants should not be sent to rwanda, while the uk government will appeal against the ruling from mrjustice humphreys. he said yesterday

that parts of the uk's illegal migration act undermine human rights protections guaranteed in the region under post—brexit arrangements . but defence arrangements. but defence secretary grant shapps has dismissed those concerns. so we don't accept this ruling. we absolutely are going to appeal it. we will ensure we will do everything that's required to make sure, as you described it in the northern ireland can't be in the northern ireland can't be in this position because we believe firmly in being able to control our own borders. and we've been being prepared to take action to get to that. i have to say tooth and nail resistance all the way from keir starmer, who has no plan to deal with this at all, whereas we are at least making sure that we're passing this legislation and we won't let northern ireland be an exception. exemption to the rule in the united kingdom ? well, in the united kingdom? well, it's chaos as usual, isn't it? on the rwanda front. and let's speak now to our northern lie—in reporter dougie beattie dougie, welcome to the show. you're live in county down. yesterday we

were astonished when this was announced during the show. and we just said, as sure as night follows day , surely what will follows day, surely what will happen to northern ireland is what happens to the republic. asylum seekers will pour in there because they won't be fearful of being deported. and the big question is, dougie, what planet are these people on and how have the locals taken it? >> well, two things to that, martin. number one is i have questioned this for quite a while . the protocol went into while. the protocol went into place, and i do believe that judge humphreys is partially right in his reading of this bill, because article two of the protocol says that eu law can supersede uk law , and that was supersede uk law, and that was meant to be just for the movement of goods. but then northern ireland assembly collapsed because unionists didn't like this. it then went to the windsor document or the windsor agreement between ursula von der leyen and rishi sunak. he came to northern ireland, hailed it as a great deal.

unionists still wouldn't go back in until the framework document was actually put into place. now the framework document was not agreed between the eu and westminster . that was westminster. that was a westminster. that was a westminster deal. an article 46 of that says that there can be no break, or difference between the uk or this part of the uk and the rest of the uk. but of course, if you go back to article two and the protocol, it says that it supersedes uk law. so therefore he has a case in what he's saying. and either nobody read the small print or they you find rightly it was going to happen. and of course this is now put the dup in a very difficult electoral, problems. and it has also put sinn fein in a lot of problems because sinn fein is the largest party in the republic of ireland. when i was talking to people in the republic late last night, they were saying to me, there's no benefits to this because what they see this as is that their electoral masters in

dubun that their electoral masters in dublin are not prepared to face down the eu on the immigration problems that are coming there. and they prefer then to try and flood ireland. as it was put to me, they said ireland, north and south was going to become a dumping ground for the eu's immigration field policy and i spent a bit of time out in the boatin spent a bit of time out in the boat in the, in the round northern ireland today and asked a few people a few questions about what they thought of this . about what they thought of this. >> think you shouldn't be bringing them anymore in because of the screws overrun, the hospitals were overrun, the communities were overrun. they're just should not be bringing that many people in when we can't even look after our own. >> if i was one of them, i would come here personally, i think the need to rehost their own community before they start rehousing other people. >> nothing against immigrants, but it's getting beyond a joke when our own people can't get house. >> i don't know why i would be against it. >> well, there you go, martin. the unionists in the north speaking exactly the same

language as nationalists in the south. there is not enough infrastructure in ireland. we only have 7.2 7.3 million people. both north and south towns like this that i'm standing in now in cumber , standing in now in cumber, county down, is a beautiful place to live. but it's right out in the sticks. and of course you then have problems with schooling, with health and really getting back and forward to work with transport services, etc. and people do not want to see their culture being changed, because if you empty a million immigrants into northern ireland, there's only 1.8 million of us here already. immediately the culture will change. and of course, those immigrants will be entitled to all the uk taxpayers money because of course, northern ireland is part of the uk. >> dougie beattie excellent report and you've been talking sense on this for absolutely years. thank you for continuing to do so. we'll return to you in the next hour. thank you very much. and now i'm joined by the

barrister and the writer, stephen barrett. stephen, it's always a delight to have you on the show once again, my friend. i turn to you to try and help us unpick the legal framework here. a lot of people watching the show may naively have believed that when we brexited the sovereign british rules would reign supreme, and things like this , where northern ireland, a this, where northern ireland, a part of the united kingdom not a part of the united kingdom not a part of the european union, can suddenly decide. actually it talks, it responds, it answers to strasbourg, not westminster. please try and help me make sense of this. yes. so the case has happened not because the judge has any view on the rwanda policy, but because the judge has implementing the system of laws which parliament has built. so first of all, parliament made this mess . and it was very this mess. and it was very interesting to hear, i think probably a throwaway comment from suella braverman, but the suggestion that actually they were they were misled about the effect of the windsor framework.

now, i don't personally have an awful lot of sympathy with them because at the time of the windsor framework, i wrote about exactly what it was, and i was pilloried in public, and people were very rude to me, despite the fact i was obviously correct and have now been proven once again to be correct . again to be correct. >> what the windsor framework doesisit >> what the windsor framework does is it puts northern ireland under eu control and even the government has admitted that. and what the government has said today is , oh no, no, no, the today is, oh no, no, no, the courts made a mistake because it controls all of northern ireland, but it doesn't control asylum and immigration, which i think is technically wrong. the court thinks that's technically wrong, but even if it were true, it's an admission that the eu runs everything else in northern ireland. and when a foreign power runs part of your country, you either put a hard border in and siphon off that part of your country, effectively losing it . country, effectively losing it. or the entirety of your country is read by led by this foreign power. >> and the eu is currently blocked ing our foreign policy. >> now it's also fair to say the

echr the ruling said that it was against the echr, but they were actually a bit more sophisticated in dealing with that problem. i've been looking at the judgement , as you'd at the judgement, as you'd expect in detail, and the judge is really quite critical of what they've done with the windsor framework. >> i mean, they've put the good for the belfast good friday agreement into law . agreement into law. >> now, it was never intended to be law and it hasn't been law since it was signed. but the windsor framework puts it into law. and the judges got quite a sardonic throwaway line about putting in a document which has got constructive ambiguity . it's got constructive ambiguity. it's not really helpful for law, and it isn't really helpful for law. you know, if i bang on about anything, it's that we need clarity so they put the belfast agreement in and the judge has with absolutely no, he won't want us to touch this with a bargepole. but just by applying the rules he's gone. well look it breaches eu law, it breaches human rights law. it breaches the belfast agreement. i'm going to use the and interestingly, the power he has to disapply statute, which is quite strong power, not a power that judges normally have, but he he has

that power through eu law. and so he said obviously eu law powers and i will disapply the statute and the rwanda plan is now in absolute mess . statute and the rwanda plan is now in absolute mess. i don't see how they restore it without a border . a border. >> stephen. so am i correct in layman's terms of assuming then, that actually, justice humphreys isn't the problem here. he's the symptom of a legal framework that was deliberately or specifically or accidentally. but whatever the cat flap was left open for these particular types of, pickings because the agreement itself that the british government signed had flaws in it . flaws in it. >> yeah. you've got to think of a construction of laws like a piece of computer software. and if you write really bad computer software and it breaks and it crashes and it doesn't work, it's not the fault of the computer. it's the fault of the people who wrote the software. and parliament wrote this software. and i have to say, martin, i think it is probably about time i say this, but it

does look to me as though some people in this country are trying to use law to stop political outcomes, so they're trying to do something we call entrenchment , which our entrenchment, which our constitution says you cannot do entrenchment. we are allergic to entrenchment. we are allergic to entrenchment because entrenchment because entrenchment is anti—democratic . entrenchment is anti —democratic. but entrenchment is anti—democratic. but it does look to me things like putting the belfast agreement into law, things like not really leaving the echr, things like, you know, leaving the ecj in control of belfast. none of this is for any real reason. i suspect, none of this is for any real reason. i suspect , other none of this is for any real reason. i suspect, other than controlling the united kingdom. and it does look as though control of the united kingdom has been given away, and thus democracy has been fundamentally undermined. i mean, those people in northern ireland are under eu control with no representation at all. and this does look to me like a sinister plot. you know, at the end of the day, nobody wants to say things like that because it sounds a bit a bit crazy, but if it walks like a duck and it quacks, you know, i've been doing this enough years, i doubt this is accidental. this looks more like the eu wanting to retain control

of the uk. >> stephen barrett excellent as even >> stephen barrett excellent as ever. you just crystallise complex things into terms that laymen like me can understand. thank you so much . brilliant as thank you so much. brilliant as even thank you so much. brilliant as ever, stephen barrett. thank you . now there's still plenty of time to win our brigittes cash prize of the year so far, a whopping £20,000. and it's also tax free. now imagine having that in your bank accounts this summer. you've got to be in the draw for a chance to win it. and here's how. >> don't miss your chance to win our biggest cash prize so far. >> don't miss your chance to win our biggest cash prize so far . a our biggest cash prize so far. a totally terrific £20,000 in tax free cash to make your summer spectacular. you could use that cash to splash out on a holiday, make the garden glam, buy new car or just save it for a rainy day. whatever you'd spend £20,000 on, make sure you don't miss the chance to make it yours for another chance to win £20,000 in tax free cash . text £20,000 in tax free cash. text win to 63232. text cost £2 plus

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welcome back and gb news viewers now can see live pictures from tbilisi, which is the capital of georgia. tens of thousands of people are

protesting against a controversial new law that's been branded authoritarian and russian inspired. it's about foreign ownership of media. 20% or more has to be declared , can or more has to be declared, can be controlled and can even be fined . people feel like it is fined. people feel like it is the long arm of the kremlin and people are not happy. that's what they're protesting about. if anything happens, we'll cut life back to that as and when . life back to that as and when. now to a controversial vote in the house of commons, an mps face being barred from attending parliament if they are arrested for serious sexual or violent offences . well, i'm joined in offences. well, i'm joined in our studio by our political correspondent, catherine forsa. catherine, this is a serious story. what's the detail? >> yes. so last night there was a very, very close vote and it passed by one vote. and the upshot of it is that an mp or somebody else who works in parliament, if they are accused of a serious sexual or violent offence, if they are arrested,

they could then be barred from attending the parliamentary estate. they'd still be able to go about their business representing their constituents, etc, but they wouldn't be allowed potentially in the palace of westminster. now, the government had wanted to make it a higher bar where only if you were actually charged would this kick in. but an amendment put forward by wendy chamberlain of the lib dems were supported by laboun the lib dems were supported by labour, were supported by, a few conservative mps, including theresa may and it was carried by one vote. now natalie elphicke remember her? a hard core conservative mp up until last week, whose husband, of course, was convicted of very serious sexual offences, voted for this amendment. so her vote as a labour mp tipped the balance. so there's various different ways of looking at this. some people are very unhappy because they think, what

about innocent? until proven guilty? but plenty of mps are delighted because they feel there's a power imbalance in westminster and often very influential , very important. influential, very important. people can get away with all sorts of bad behaviour because they hold the power, so people like jess phillips, who was previously the shadow minister for safeguarding, was absolutely delighted. but in the debate yesterday she spoke quite powerfully. let's have a look at what she had to say today, just today, just on this one day. >> i've spoken to two women who were raped by members of this parliament, two just today. that's a fairly standard day for me. and i noticed that these are not the people who've so far been mentioned much today, and some of them told me what they wanted me to say today, and so i

will just read out, actually some of what they sent to me. so it to the exclusion at the point of charge sends a clear message to victims that not only will we not investigate unless a victim goes to the police , but we will goes to the police, but we will not act unless their charge, which happens in less than 1% of cases. which happens in less than 1% of cases . so what's the point with cases. so what's the point with essentially what this victim said to me ? said to me? >> so the people who fought for this amendment say this is about safeguarding . this is about safeguarding. this is about people in the thousands of people in the thousands of people work on the parliamentary estate feeling safe at work. one note, though , we had the case note, though, we had the case a while ago that andrew rosindell , while ago that andrew rosindell, a tory mp, was charged with very serious sorry , was arrested for serious sorry, was arrested for very serious sexual offences and he stayed off the parliamentary estate for a year or more . but

estate for a year or more. but ultimately he wasn't charged. so there is the potential, of course, for mistakes to be made . course, for mistakes to be made. >> katherine forster thank you for that update on a vital issue . now to a poll that suggests the tories could be almost wiped out if nigel farage returns to frontline politics, the gb news presenter has said he'll make a decision about his future in the next few weeks. while the poll found that if farage made a dramatic comeback, then conservative share of the vote would drop from 25% to just 21, a drop of four. and the study was conducted by jl partners polls and their co—founder, tom lubbock, joins me now . tom, lubbock, joins me now. tom, welcome to the show. a lot of people are getting very excited . people are getting very excited. willy won't he in. out. in. out. shake it all about . if he does shake it all about. if he does come back, your poll suggests there'll be a dramatic impact . there'll be a dramatic impact. is there? >> i'm not getting your audio, martin. >> okay. you can't hear me. the

poll basically says this that the labour party would lose 4. it would go down from 45% to 41. the tories will go from 25% down to 21. that means both parties would lose 4, indicating that it's not just potentially conservative voters who would defect to reform in the event of a farage return . we can't get to a farage return. we can't get to mr lubbock. katherine forster is still with me. this is precisely rishi sunaks worst nightmare, isn't it? a farage return clearly would have a profound impact, might not still be enough to get them any or even many seats at all, but it will be a hammer to blow wards making sure the conservatives got battering. >> yes . worst nightmare. the >> yes. worst nightmare. the words you used were exactly the words you used were exactly the words that i was thinking, because the conservatives all very worried about reform already, and the fact for them potentially , although they potentially, although they probably won't get any seats

themselves to cost the conservatives a good few seats in a forthcoming general election. now, if nigel farage and he likes to keep us all guessing because he works for this channel and none of us know what he's going to do. but if he came back and led reform that straight away, reform would go up in the polls. and although that would hurt other parties too, it will damage the conservatives more than anybody else. so this is a very, very real worry for them. and i think the survey jl partners, they talk about it potentially as sort of an extinction level event for the conservatives >> and i wonder what that would mean. we had, somebody from electoral calculus the other day, and when we were looking at the metrics after the locals, oh, so it would be only 100 conservative mps remain. and the interesting thing would be who would be left? because of course, the conversation is will the conservative party rebuild from the right, which a lot of conservative voters might like? but if nigel farage comes back, what's likely to happen?

interestingly, catherine, is that the margin of defeat could be even greater, and therefore people like priti patel, people like suella braverman and people like suella braverman and people like kemi badenoch might lose their seats anyway. >> yes, exactly . and some >> yes, exactly. and some projections, you know, all these polls that we have have said that the conservatives could end up with 90 seats. and at that point, people as you say, like priti patel would go that many people tip for a future leader . people tip for a future leader. kemi badenoch her seat is super, super safe. but you know what is a super safe conservative seat? because we've seen majorities of 26,000 overturned, haven't we, in the last year or two, and penny mordaunt , her seat is penny mordaunt, her seat is already looking in danger. so she is another favourite. she's seen as somebody who could perhaps unite the party. i think that's a pretty tough ask . but that's a pretty tough ask. but she is also likely to go. so who might they be left with? >> the katherine forster. thank you for stepping in there. and we will go back to tom lubbock

after the news. he will rejoin us. there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00. i get the latest from france, where at least two prison guards have been shot dead after heavily armed men ambushed a prison van to free an inmate who's believed to free an inmate who's believed to be a drug lord. but first is your latest news headlines. it's sam francis. >> martin, thank you very much. good afternoon from the newsroom. it'sjust good afternoon from the newsroom. it's just after 3:30, and we will start with the story leading the news this afternoon, angry scenes continuing in georgia with riot police now moving into the nation's parliament after protesters there broke through the exterior barriers . if there broke through the exterior barriers. if you're there broke through the exterior barriers . if you're watching there broke through the exterior barriers. if you're watching on television, you can see here pictures of those protesters as they clashed with police earlier this afternoon . and that came this afternoon. and that came after lawmakers passed a foreign agents bill requiring organisations that receive funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence .

as agents of foreign influence. and we can now take you live to tbilisi, the capital of georgia, where crowds are still gathered outside the parliament building. opponents are dubbing the bill that has now come into force as the russian law, comparing it to a tactic used by vladimir putin, who targets his critics . who targets his critics. georgia's government says it's needed, though, to promote transparency . it's being seen as transparency. it's being seen as a test of whether the country stays on a path towards integration with europe , or integration with europe, or possibly pivots back towards russia . a major manhunt is russia. a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured dunng three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. vehicles were rammed at tollbooths on a motorway at anchorvale in the northwest of the country. images on social media showed at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was seen to be in flames. the car appeared to have been rammed into the front of a

police prison van. local media is naming the suspect as mohammed a, who's 30 and reportedly has ties to powerful gangsin reportedly has ties to powerful gangs in the city of marseille . gangs in the city of marseille. meanwhile, a home office minister says the good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. it's after a judge at belfast high court ruled that parts of the government's illegal migration act should not be applied in northern ireland. responding to an urgent question from the dup, tom pursglove said the government does intend to appeal against the court's judgement and would not be deterred from its rwanda plan . deterred from its rwanda plan. and the families of three people stabbed to death in nottingham say the killer, valdo calocane , say the killer, valdo calocane, should never be released after it was ruled his sentence is not unduly lenient. valdo calocane killed barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last year. the 32 year old, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia , was given an schizophrenia, was given an indefinite hospital order.

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about a couple of minutes ago, and a poll suggests that the tories could be almost wiped out if nigel farage returns to front line politics. well, the study was conducted by jl partners. polls and their co—founder tom lubbock joins me now. tom can we hear you? >> yeah. hi. good to be with you, martin. >> hurrah! fantastic poll. and to put it bluntly, rishi sunak worst nightmare. tell us the detail. >> yeah. so we surveyed 2000, a representative sample of 2000 members of the public, and we asked them, how are you going to vote? >> and then we asked them this extra question what would you do? how are you going to vote if nigel farage comes back to lead the reform party? one of your presenters and the results are quite striking. >> labour and the conservatives both down four points, which is obviously bad for both of them. >> but it's almost an extinction level event for the conservatives just because of the way the electoral system works in this country. >> and it's fascinating that the polling would change with equity for both of the two main parties there, tom, because we've always

been told that if you vote for the reform party, you're splitting the tory vote. in actual fact, it seems that both of the main parties would shed votes to reform if mr farage were to return . were to return. >> yeah, well, we saw this in brexit that, you know , it brexit that, you know, it campaigns that nigel farage leads. >> they do have this cross party appeal. they appeal to disenfranchised labour voters as much as they do conservative voters. and remember, a lot of these labour voters in the past were conservative voters just because of the way votes have shifted since 2019. so not that surprising to see it, but it's a real elephant in the room of british politics right now. will nigel farage come back or not? >> and if that were to happen, tom lubbock, it will be a six point swing to reform from 10 to 16. and no doubt a lot of the tory big beasts will be kissing goodbye to their seats. thanks for sticking with us. tom lubbock, co—founder of jl partners polls and sharing their fascinating stuff. thank you very much . thanks. now we've got

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from georgia now. and protesters have broken through barriers outside the parliament building. but riot police have now begun to disperse that sizeable crowd , to disperse that sizeable crowd, and the protests have erupted after georgia's parliament has passed a controversial foreign agents bill, which many say threatens the civil liberties of people living in the country. well, we can now bring you live pictures from the georgian capital of tbilisi you just saw there. and we can also bring you in our reporter, charlie peters, for more on this breaking story. charlie, dramatic scenes from the georgian capital. what's causing this? well as you said, martin, it is that so—called foreign agents law. >> now, some detail on what that law that's passed 84 to 30 in the georgian parliament, and it's third and final reading, it would give companies that have 20% of their foreign funding must register as being under the influence of a foreign power. so that would have huge

ramifications for ngos and activist groups in the caucasus country. and campaigners there are calling it a russian law because a similar bit of legislation was passed by vladimir putin in 2012. in belarus, alexander lukashenko, the leader there , has also the leader there, has also passed similar legislation. belarus, of course , being a key belarus, of course, being a key partner and ally of russia . now partner and ally of russia. now the president of georgia says that she will vote against this legislation, which will give a two week delay to it being passed. but parliament is likely to vote again on that matter and passit to vote again on that matter and pass it for the fourth time now. there were scuffles in parliament earlier today when that voting took place and in reaction to it, the us, uk, germany, italy and france have all urged the bill to be withdrawn in just in the last few moments, the uk is europe minister nusrat ghani said that the situation in georgia was

concerning and in conversation with the georgian ambassador , with the georgian ambassador, she urged restraint and said that the bill must be withdrawn now. georgia is an aspiring nato country. it's also, since december been an aspiring eu member state and the georgian dream party, the party that's in power in tbilisi, have said that they are also looking to achieve that goal, which is extremely popular in georgia. vast majority of the people there, some 89% being in favour of joining brussels in the most recent polling. but this would have huge ramifications for that potential. joining now , with potential. joining now, with many of the campaigners rioting today and campaigning and protesting against this law, they are saying that russia is involved in that legislation. for their part, the kremlin, its spokesperson , dmitri peskov, has spokesperson, dmitri peskov, has said that this is an internal matter and then we do not interfere in the affairs of other countries. well, of course, russia invaded georgia in 2008, backing the breakaway

regions of abkhazia and south ossetia in the north. in a similar move to the situation in ukraine in 2022, there were dissident pro—russian groups in those areas, and russia has supported the annexation of that part of georgia since there is a significant anti—russian sentiment throughout georgia since that process. and that's why you're seeing so much of that protesting today against this upcoming legislation . this upcoming legislation. >> fantastic update, charlie peters. and the interesting thing about this, of course, is that thing about european union fast track membership. the eu want it, georgia wants it . want it, georgia wants it. vladimir putin doesn't want it. is this why this intervention, this meddling could derail the whole plan? charlie peters, thanks for joining us with that update . now moving on. a huge update. now moving on. a huge manhunt is underway in france after two police officers were shot dead following an armed ambush and a warning that some viewers might find these images

distressing. several gunmen with heavy weapons were seen freeing an inmate after carrying out an orchestrated attack on a prisoner convoy, where it's the kind of thing you might see in a movie or a video game, but it's very real. it happened today, and i'm joined now by our security editor, marc white. marc, hugely dramatic scenes on the streets of france, the manhunt now is underway. i understand france's most wanted man. what's the latest ? man. what's the latest? >> yes. this is a man called mohammed amara, described as the boss of a narcotics network down in marseille. now, we've got two pieces of video that we can show you. one shows those armed men armed with ak 47 seconds as they ambush that police vehicle . and ambush that police vehicle. and ambush that police vehicle. and a new bit of video as well, just in that shows the moment that one of the vehicles driven by the armed gang was used to smash

into the front of that police or prison service convoy as it came through a toll booth on the a1 54, which is in southern normandy now. what happened then was absolutely horrifying. these individuals at least four, maybe more with ak 47 seconds, got out of their vehicles and started firing at those prison officers. at this hour , we're told that at this hour, we're told that two prison officers are confirmed dead, another three at least seriously injured in that hail of bullets. now, this man, mohammed amara, had appeared in court. he'd been convicted for a number of drug related crimes and aggravated burglary crimes as well. but he was also indicted just recently for the kidnap and the killing of an individual in a drug related crime . time down in marseille. crime. time down in marseille. big problems in marseille martin

with the drugs problems and drugs gangs. 50 people just in the last year alone have been shot dead in gang feuds down in marseille. it is in many of the areas around marseille lawless. there's real concern about the way that the judiciary there has been infiltrated by these drug gangs as well. and, uppermost in the minds of the investigators here, will, will be how this gang knew exactly what the route of this prison vehicle convoy was when it left court and was heading back to a prison with this individual, this highly dangerous individual who is now, as you say, martin, france's most wanted man. >> astonishing scenes and that manhunt. now has the very highest level of gendarme input. operation sparrowhawk, the same degree of attack as when they

were looking for the charlie hebdo attackers in 2015. marc white, thank you for that update. we'll have the latest on that story, of course, as it breaks through the show. now on a new weight loss drug could reduce the risk of heart attacks , strokes or heart failure. and obese people, even if it doesn't help them to shed the pounds. fascinating stuff. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 351. i'm martin daubney on gb news now to what's being hailed as the biggest medical breakthrough. this century. a study has found that a new weight loss drug could reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes or heart failure in obese people, even if it doesn't help them shed the pounds. fascinating stuff. and joining me now to discuss this is nhs practice nurse naomi berry. naomi, welcome to the show. thanks for joining

naomi, welcome to the show. thanks forjoining us. so people will know about these these fat jabs. they'll have read about them some magnitude and all the rest of it. but they were initially brought out as a diabetes drug. but now it seems they have another beneficiary side effect. tell us more . side effect. tell us more. >> so we know with this magnitude, like you say, it's been out there for a while now for diabetic patients . for diabetic patients. >> what we didn't link it to was the weight loss. and we are seeing a significant reduction in weight . and when diabetic in weight. and when diabetic patients are taking it, the reducing the weight but actually becoming improved in the diabetes as well. and some people are going into remission of diabetes too. so there's some really good articles out there that show it does work. >> now naomi , that show it does work. >> now naomi, a that show it does work. >> now naomi , a lot of people >> now naomi, a lot of people say it's cheating taking a tablet or taking a jab isn't the way we should eat healthily. we should exercise. we all know that. however this is a huge breakthrough. we saw something similar with statins , didn't we,

similar with statins, didn't we, for cholesterol and now they are massively and widely prescribed. do you think this will go the same way? do you think in the end the benefits, the cost saving to the nhs, to the tax burden will be so great that this this drug could become very mainstream? >> yeah, i think you're right there. >> i think eventually this drug will become where it's first used. the problem is we're using it all over the world, which is reducing the amount of people that can get hold of it. >> but we are reducing the risk of the need for secondary care for obese patients. >> it has its uses and it's used when it's used correctly. >> it works really well. >> it works really well. >> we just have to remember that if you're going to go on it, you need to be seeking health advice first. prior to going on it, because you can get these drugs on the internet quite easily with a with a quick consultation i >> -- >> but of course, we shouldn't be going down that route, should we, naomi? people should be coming to see people like yourself again. the full consultation. >> yeah, they need the thorough consultation at the moment

within west yorkshire, tier three and tier four weight management programs are the one that can prescribe it. and within primary care we can refer and we do refer depending on guidelines and meet but definitely speak to a general, a gp, a practice nurse , a gp gp, a practice nurse, a gp before going buying these privately . privately. >> superb. thanks forjoining >> superb. thanks for joining us. fascinating stuff. and naomi barry i also read earlier that it can be used to moderate the cravings of people addicted to alcohol as well. another side benefit that we perhaps didn't know about at the start. fascinating stuff. thank you very much for joining fascinating stuff. thank you very much forjoining us. nhs practice nurse naomi barry found tastic stuff. now the government will appeal a judge's ruling that migrants in northern ireland cannot be deported to rwanda. our man on the ground dougie beattie has been speaking to locals in county down today and they're not at all happy. they feel that once again, out of touch judges are making decisions that will affect their lifestyles, that they will see asylum seekers pouring into

northern ireland, as we've seen in the republic of ireland , in the republic of ireland, without any consultation with the people's channel. we gave them a voice. i martin daubney on gb news britain's news channelis on gb news britain's news channel is your weather is aidan mcgivern . mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. it's a very different day today across some eastern and northern parts of the country. outbreaks of rain. although the rain does tend to ease.it although the rain does tend to ease. it turns to showers as the day and the week goes on and we've got low pressure bringing further downpours into tuesday, wednesday and thursday. but that low anchor towards the southwest is also bringing quite a keen breeze into southwestern areas , breeze into southwestern areas, the showers fading away as we go into the evening and overnight. the rain in the east tending to fragment with some drier spells developing but a lot of cloud

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gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. thanks for your company. it's 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcast live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . westminster all across the uk. on today's show, after yesterday's shock decision by a top judge to disapply the rwanda plan to northern ireland, meaning more asylum seekers could pour into the country. coming up, a judge has ruled that nottingham killer valdo calocane sentence was not unduly lenient. but the mother of one of the deceased slammed the decision as utterly flawed and has vowed to continue to fight for justice. and there are huge forjustice. and there are huge protests in the georgian capital of tbilisi as tens of thousands

of tbilisi as tens of thousands of people protest against a controversial new law that's been branded authoritarian. and even russian inspired tensions are running high. and we'll keep you across that story for you as it breaks . another huge breaking it breaks. another huge breaking story. a manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and a suspected drug boss has escaped . the drug boss has escaped. the biggest manhunt in recent history is currently underway to bnng history is currently underway to bring you all the latest as that story breaks. that's all coming in your next hour. story breaks. that's all coming in your next hour . what planet in your next hour. what planet are they on? it's a question i often ask on the show, and yesterday made me ask that same question again in northern ireland that decided to opt out of the rwanda plan. how could that possibly be a thing? i thought northern ireland was part of the united kingdom. i thought they answered to westminster and not to strasbourg. well, justice

humphreys thought differently, but those actions have consequences . and we've been out consequences. and we've been out on the streets of county down today talking to the locals, real people with the people's channel about what they make about these out—of—touch elites and the decisions that affect them at street level, will be there soon. let us know what you think on this topic, this cherry picking or we still actually under control of brussels and strasbourg , despite the fact we strasbourg, despite the fact we allegedly brexited get in touch. gbnews.com/yoursay. but before all of that , it's your all of that, it's your headlines. sam francis . headlines. sam francis. >> very good afternoon to you . >> very good afternoon to you. it's just after 4:00 and leading the news. this afternoon. georgia, there have been a huge number of riot police who have broken up crowds there of protesters who believe their nafion protesters who believe their nation is on a path to dictatorship . you can see here, dictatorship. you can see here, if you're watching on television, the moments after demonstrators broke through the barriers outside the parliament

building , where a controversial building, where a controversial law has been passed, the foreign agents bill puts limits on media and non—governmental organisations , which receive at organisations, which receive at least a fifth of their funding from abroad. well, these are the live scenes in tbilisi , where live scenes in tbilisi, where crowds are still gathered outside after those recent clashes with police officers. critics are calling the bill the russian law and think it will damage aspirations for georgia to join the eu. however, georgia's government insists the bill is needed to promote transparency . vie well transparency. vie well meanwhile, a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured dunng three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. earlier vehicles were rammed at tollbooths on a motorway at ancerville in the north—west of the country. images on social media also showing at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was seen in flames. the car appeared to have been

rammed into the front of a police van. local media has named the suspect as mohammed, 6, named the suspect as mohammed, a, who's 30 and reportedly has ties to powerful gangs in the city of marseille . in the us, city of marseille. in the us, house speaker mike johnson stood silently beside donald trump outside court this afternoon as the so—called hush money trial continues. there he's the most senior member of the republican party to appear with mr trump dunng party to appear with mr trump during the case. the former president is accused of trying to cover up a payment to former aduu to cover up a payment to former adult film star stormy daniels to boost his 2016 election campaign. speaking to crowds outside the court earlier, mr trump criticised the case. the prosecutor and the judge. >> the gag order has to come off. so when you ask me a question about the people that we're talking about, i'm not allowed to answer. there's never been anything like this in the history of our country. it's a scam. it's election interference

at a level that's never taken place before . place before. >> turning to news here in the uk now and a home office minister has said that the good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. it's after a judge at belfast's high court ruled that parts of the government's illegal migration act should not be applied in northern ireland. responding to an urgent question from the dup earlier, tom pursglove said the government does intend to appeal against the court's judgement and that it would not be deterred from its rwanda plan. the families of three people stabbed to death in nottingham are demanding the killer is never released. that's after the court of appeal ruled today that his sentence won't be changed. valdo calocane killed barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last year. the 32 year old, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was given an indefinite hospital order for the bank of england, says that there's some way to go

to get inflation down after the latest wage growth figures. data from the office for national statistics shows that wages in the first three months of the year are unchanged at 6, outstripping the cost of living increases . meanwhile, the rate increases. meanwhile, the rate of unemployment is at its highest level. for nearly a yean highest level. for nearly a year. there were 26,000 fewer job vacancies in the three months to april. while the number of people in work dropped by 85,000. the prime minister is calling on shoppers to back british produce as he hosted the second farm to fork summit at 10 downing street this afternoon . downing street this afternoon. labour says the conservatives, though, have driven farmers to breaking point and they've pledged a new deal that they say will put money back in farmers pockets. but rishi sunak told members of the food industry that britain must reduce its reliance on fruit and vegetables from overseas. >> we are going to stick to our plan, supporting you to keep creating great jobs across the united kingdom and keep making the food that we know and love

so dearly, and specifically to our british farmers. i do want to say this we are with you and finally open. >> i rather has launched a new model of their artificial intelligence platform, chatgpt. you may have heard of it this time though . it's one that can time though. it's one that can teach maths, it can sing and engagein teach maths, it can sing and engage in conversation. the gpt four is free for all users, and it's expected to be rolled out over the next few weeks. meanwhile though, a rival called claude is already available across europe . that one has been across europe. that one has been developed by amazon backed start up anthropic . the company says up anthropic. the company says its special method of training means their technology is bound by a set of values to avoid doing harm , like spreading doing harm, like spreading misinformation, bias or possible election interference . that's election interference. that's the latest from the newsroom for now. another update at 430. until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts .

gb news. com slash alerts. >> thank you sam. now we start with the latest, yet another setback to rishi sunak's plan to stop the boats and the government is fighting back after a judge in northern ireland ruled that migrants should not be sent to rwanda. well, the uk government will appeal against the ruling from mr justice humphreys . there he mrjustice humphreys. there he is and his wig. and he said yesterday that parts of the uk's illegal migration act undermine human rights protections guaranteed in the region under post—brexit arrangements. but defence secretary grant shapps has dismissed those concerns. >> so we don't accept this ruling. >> we absolutely are going to appeal it. we will ensure we will do everything that's required to make sure, as you described it in the northern ireland, can't be in this position because we believe firmly in being able to control our own borders and we've been being prepared to take action to get to that . get to that. >> i have to say tooth and nail

resistance all the way from keir starmer, who has no plan to deal with this at all, whereas we are at least making sure that we're passing this legislation and we won't let northern ireland be an exception. >> exemption to the rule in the united kingdom . okay, grant united kingdom. okay, grant shapps putting on his best rictus grin , but let's talk rictus grin, but let's talk about that now with our political editor, chris hope, who joins me in the studio. endless drama , endless delays, endless drama, endless delays, endless prevarications. we expected the labour party to kick back. we expected the law to kick back the ngos, the charities, the luvvies, the lawyers, the lyric writes. we didn't expect northern ireland to kick off about it, but that's exactly what's happened. >> as you said yesterday, it's because of northern ireland's status with sovereignty shared with the eu, uk and the eu. number 10 has been quite bullish today. they're saying that within 7 to 9 weeks that's that's less than two months, possibly the first flights will take off for rwanda. the enforced flights will take off for rwanda. they said they found 1000 migrant have identified

them. they can go on the flights there in mainland britain, they're saying this ruling is about the illegal migration act. bits of which haven't yet been appued bits of which haven't yet been applied because of the supreme court ruling last year. the safety of rwanda act is meant to deal with that. so this is a bit of a kind of technical issue, nothing more than that. number 10 is making clear today. you heard there from grant shapps they will appeal this decision, by that judge . so i think they by that judge. so i think they are on the front foot here. and, you know, it may just work that you know, it may just work that you do get 1000 or so taking off before the election. and then what will sir keir starmer do? they will access plan and they're hoping that's a dividing line into the election. >> i admire your optimism . >> i admire your optimism. you've also got a pint of beer still to a bat with the prime minister on this. but we spoke with stephen barrett earlier, barrister, who just looked at the minutia, the technical detail of this arrangement. and he he concluded this, it's not just this humphreys who's the problem. he's merely unpicking loopholes, flaws, deficiencies

in the windsor agreement, in what's already out . the what's already out. the framework of legislation has allowed this backdoor attack, this this unscrewing of the cat flap to the european court of human rights. and actually, it's because we didn't brexit properly that we're getting back into this mess again. we get back into whether the windsor framework was right. >> all this northern ireland protocol bill, the boris johnson idea, which would disapply areas of the echr. well, we are where we are and i do think this is going to a big battle with the strasbourg, with supreme court, probably when the when we have a first battle going through the courts in england and wales, thatis courts in england and wales, that is the next step in this situation. >> actually, chris, if rishi sunak said, you know what, let's have it. let's have a battle with strasbourg that might land well with the electorate. >> he said he wants it. martin i think the haters might like to see it. >> but chris, you've got some exciting news. you've just been over there. >> well, talking to people close to rishi sunak over in parliament, they are saying there could be another defection tomorrow. well, we saw one last

week with natalie elphicke. i think net that worked okay for keir starmer on the left. they're unhappy with with natalie elphicke about her past views on small boats. so backing for boris johnson and the like. but i think voted to see another person leaving the tory party joining labour. there's a suggestion they could be spinning it because they're trying to call out labour for not doing it tomorrow. but the suggestion amongst people close to the pm there could be a defection tomorrow again towards laboun >> so yeah, just to be clear, so that defection is from the blue corner to the red cornen that's right. it's another tory lost two sir keir starmer. >> that's right. we come off the dan poulter that emerged in the observer newspaper a few weeks ago. last week last wednesday we saw natalie elphicke literally crossed the floor of that deal, was struck at 11:30 am. before it happened. number 10 people around rishi sunak are saying they think there could be another one tomorrow. now there could be trying to say it to me so i can say it on air to gb news viewers because they want to. if it doesn't happen, then you know they've shot keir

starmer's bolt early, maybe, but they are saying it to us, so we're saying it to you. >> it's interesting. within westminster, within the bubble, there's all the minutiae of the elphicke defection, what it means, her baggage and all the rest of it. but i think you're right. i think voters just see this as something more, more binary. and that is this. this as something more, more binary. and that is this . if binary. and that is this. if somebody who i've joked is so far to the right wing, you know, she could fall off the white cliffs of dover . if she can cliffs of dover. if she can defect to the labour party, then why can't i? it gives us it. >> it gives a permission to vote labour at the next election, you know, indication. i mean, it is true that dan poulter and natalie elphicke, neither of them had a long a big support base, maybe a support base of one each themselves. they don't act on behalf of a bigger group of people. they are loners in the party. they they've been ignored in preferment. the party. they they've been ignored in preferment . there was ignored in preferment. there was a chance that that that would happen. but i do think that stepping back, it just looks like people leaving a listing ship. i do think, though, it's not all over for rishi sunak yesterday was been very clear that speech we heard yesterday

from the pm, advisers tell me was him saying i am now out of the woods. the danger point was last week, post local elections, i am now the guy who's going to fight the next election. get behind me and here's my here's my offer to you as a as a tory leader. and prime minister. so yesterday was about talking to his own mps as much as viewers of gb news. >> but that might take a bit of a kicking if there is another defection. chris hope always on the front line, always got your finger on the pulse. thank you very much for joining finger on the pulse. thank you very much forjoining us. now let's get back now to that rwanda northern ireland story, because i'm joined by the immigration lawyer hardeep singh banga. welcome to the show. huab banga. welcome to the show. hijab always a pleasure to have your company. how many times have we had this conversation yet again, more bedlam, more confusion, more loopholes, more trickery , more tap dancing. and trickery, more tap dancing. and this time, northern ireland. i don't think even you would have expected to northern ireland have been leading a revolt. >> would you know, i mean, it's quite a surprise, really. >> but however, what they're saying is technically right, it's saying, well, hold on. >> the supreme court of the uk

said the rwanda wasn't safe and you legislated around that and now this is a threat to the windsor framework. >> and the threat to the northern ireland protocol, which has kept the peace for x amount of years. so this is a whole new hot potato to handle. >> but this government have made it very clean >> look, it's very technical. >> look, it's very technical. >> as christopher said earlier , >> as christopher said earlier, that they're going to get round it, they're going to appeal it. >> but it might just result in asylum seekers leaving the uk and going into northern ireland and going into northern ireland and then crossing the border into ireland. we already know ireland, is troubled by this . ireland, is troubled by this. they've said last week that 80% of asylum seekers coming into ireland are from northern ireland are from northern ireland itself, and they've patrolling the border as such, they're questioning the uk, how they're questioning the uk, how the uk is allowing these people to leave and to get to northern ireland, just like the uk. >> questions france. and when ireland actually said, well, we're going to send these people back to the uk, the uk's response in a, let's say, layman's terms was, well, you can't, governor, they're not

oui's. >> ours. >> you know, you've got to send them back to france. so now there is going to be some political two and froing. >> but however, i don't think they're going to prevent flights flying off from the uk to rwanda. and i don't think it's going to cause much of a delay. it's specific to northern ireland only. >> yeah, but that's the specific point, isn't it? >> yeah, but that's the specific point, isn't it ? hojjat >> yeah, but that's the specific point, isn't it? hojjat is that all of us thought that the northern ireland was a part of the united kingdom. we certainly thought tooth and nail for that dunng thought tooth and nail for that during brexit. and yet, precisely these kind of incidents, these fracture points show us that perhaps northern ireland is still under the orbit of the european union. well, specifically the european court of human rights, because the windsor framework, right from the beginning, many people point out, had these fractures, had these weak points, had these flaws, isn't that precisely where this this latest loophole is coming in? and the big question is haljarp, who calls the shots strasbourg or westminster? >> well, in answer to those

questions, this is poor drafting and this is what happens when you famously don't listen to the experts . we've had too much of experts. we've had too much of the experts. well, the good ones were giving a good advice, saying this is going to cause us trouble down the line. you need to beware. but we were told we had an oven ready deal which was supposed to deal with all of this. now, this is a big, big problem and the experts have now turned around and say, well, we told you so that this was going told you so that this was going to be a problem. and the government are now looking at each other saying, god, you know, wish we would have listened. now it's a bit of a pickle to get out of, but ireland, northern ireland is right in what it's saying. technically, the uk now have legislated around it, but it cannot risk this northern ireland agreement. it cannot risk the windsor framework. it will appeal it, but it won't prevent them sending a flight back because for rishi sunak this is flagship thing. he has chosen this hill to live on or die on. he has said, i am going to put a people on a flight to rwanda. he's promised your viewers and the viewers of gb news and his voters that he's

going to get this done. and, you know, even if it's one person, he ignores the fact that he spent half £1 billion trying to send back 300 people a year, out of which possibly we might have to take 50 back. and that's not going to stop. >> in fact, any if anything, last week has taught us that the rwanda scheme has caused more people to come to the uk . people to come to the uk. >> it's not acted as a deterrent. so we can call it, i tell you who calls, i don't know who calls the shots. london or strasbourg, but i can tell you what we can call this totally bonkers and that's what it is. >> hi. it's chris in the studio with martin. you're an immigration lawyer. would you be advising migrants right now to get on the first boat to northern ireland to escape the attempt by the home office to send them to rwanda? >> well, if it's if it's the news, if this is the news that's coming in, i don't think they'd need much advising. they know that if they've got a rwanda notice. right. here you go. northern ireland isn't sending

people to rwanda. they're quick already. we've already seen an influx into ireland now past ireland. there's nowhere to go. so perhaps ireland is now going to become the last refuge, as per say, of people . and people per say, of people. and people will be going there. but the uk doesn't want that, because what the uk wants is for northern ireland to say, you know what, we accept your law. we won't accept this, won't upset the windsor framework. but what needed to happen, christopher, was you were quite right. we needed to identify this in 2016 and needed to legislate around it. the experts should have been listened to and this government hates listening to experts as we know, and afterwards loves blaming everyone else. whether it's lawyers, teachers and nurses , doctors, railway nurses, doctors, railway workers, people on disability benefits, even journalists. christopher, this government blames everyone else accepts itself. it won't take credibility . it won't put your credibility. it won't put your hands up and say, sorry, we got it wrong. and they totally got it wrong. and they totally got it wrong. and they totally got it wrong on this one. >> hey, sing bingo. you've had your weetabix. always a delight

to have you on the show . thank to have you on the show. thank you very much. now, chris, he's got a point. he's got a point. and many people, myself included, did point out that the brexit agreement had these fractures. many, many brexiteers said no, this is going to play straight into the hands of strasbourg. it's going to play straight into the hands of people like hajjam of the immigration lawyers who were just experts at picking holes, picking loopholes . that's why picking loopholes. that's why we're in this goes back to sovereignty. >> who's in charge of northern ireland? is it the eu or the uk? and because that was fudged, there wasn't allowed to be a hard border. dublin was very clear about that. we agreed to that. on on the island of ireland, you've now got this contested space about who's in charge. sovereignty wise, the eu is seen to be so by these laws, by the by the judge there. i politically i'm now watching at the irish sea sea border . if the irish sea sea border. if they bring in any suggestion of checks of people leaving britain for northern ireland, there will be hell to pay, absolute hell to pay be hell to pay, absolute hell to pay in, in amongst the tory

right, the dup, there'll be issues with the peace process. i think the long lasting peace process, thank goodness in northern ireland, if they start bringing in checks to stop people going across to the island of ireland, as the lawyer there was saying he would be advising his clients, there will be a complete, problem for the government. >> and yet an astonishing poll last week, chris said that 50% of people living in the republic would like greater border checks to make sure not so many asylum seekers make it into the country. chris, we have to move on. we'll have you back in the next hour. fantastic stuff. now time for the great british giveaway and your chance to enjoy a spectacular summer with an extra £20,000 in cash, tax free in your bank account. it's our biggest cash prize of the year so far, and here's how you could make it yours. >> you really could be our next big winner with an incredible £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer. what would you spend that on? well, whilst you're thinking about it, listen to some of our previous winners getting that winning phone call

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welcome back. your time is 426. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. the families of the victims of the nottingham attacks have said they face their own life sentence of ensuring valdo calocane is never released. and that's after the court of appeal ruled today that his sentence was not unduly lenient. barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates were killed in nottingham last june. calocane was convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, given an indefinite hospital order, and baroness carr said today that there was no error made when the original sentence was delivered. and let's cross now to our reporter, ray addison , to our reporter, ray addison, who's outside the royal courts of justice. ray a case that

horrified and moved the nation. the family would have been hoping for something quite different today, but they didn't get it. what's the latest ? get it. what's the latest? >> yeah. the family's deep and deeply saddened by that ruling that was announced this afternoon , this morning by lady afternoon, this morning by lady chief justice, baroness carr, lord justice eddis and mr justice garnham. of course, it followed a bid by the attorney general, victoria prentis, for calocane to be given what was called a hybrid life sentence. now first under that, that requested sentence, he would have been treated for his paranoid schizophrenia and then he would have served the remainder of his sentence in prison. of course, lawyers for the attorney general arguing on wednesday that calocane crime has warranted a sentence that included an element of punishment, and that appears to

be the key element that many people involved in this case feel is lacking. the punishment of calocane. just to recap briefly, what occurred. of course, in january, the 32 year old was handed an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility of students barnaby webber and grace o'malley kumar. now they were both 19. they were walking home from a night out in nottingham . also, 65 year old nottingham. also, 65 year old school caretaker ian coates. he was on his way to work when he encountered calocane in the early hours of june 13th last yean early hours of june 13th last year. now calocane . he then year. now calocane. he then stole ian coates's van and he attempted to murder three pedestrian ian's by driving the van into them. now, speaking earlier on in the court, baroness carr explained the reason behind the ruling .

reason behind the ruling. >> there was no error in the approach adopted by the judge. the sentences imposed were not arguably unduly lenient. leave to refer the sentence as is refused . it is impossible to refused. it is impossible to read of the circumstances of this offending without the greatest possible sympathy for the victims of these terrible attacks , and their families and attacks, and their families and their friends. >> now, baroness carr, explaining that during the trial, all of the experts agreed that at the time of the attacks, calocane had been in the grip of a severe psychiatric episode, and she said that the court simply could not ignore that medical evidence and that the judge in his trial had been

entitled to conclude that a penal element was therefore unnecessary . she also stressed unnecessary. she also stressed that it unnecessary. she also stressed thatitis unnecessary. she also stressed that it is believed that it's very unlikely that calocane will ever leave the psychiatric hospital where he is now. as we know , though, the families of know, though, the families of the victims deeply upset with this decision, doctor sanjoy kumar, the father of grace o'malley kumar, also spoke outside of the court after that ruling. this is what he said. >> the nottingham attacks were entirely preventable. the nottinghamshire police failed to execute a warrant for many months . a flawed investigation , months. a flawed investigation, no toxicology overreliance on psychiatric report leicestershire police failed to arrest valdo calocane. this is a failure of two police forces , a failure of two police forces, a failure of two police forces, a failure of two police forces, a failure of the mental health trust along with nottinghamshire

council, as well . council, as well. >> well, emma webber, the mother of barnaby , whether webber of barnaby, whether webber rather also issued her own statement saying today's ruling proves how utterly flawed and under—resourced the criminal justice system in the united kingdom is. it also illustrates the urgent need for urgent reforms in the uk to uk homicide law. she says that calocane should become the next ian brady and fred west by never being released from custody . now, released from custody. now, calocane did attend the ruling today via video from ashworth hosphal today via video from ashworth hospital. that's the high security psychiatric hospital in liverpool. he remained silent throughout, not even speaking to confirm his name and the judges in this case saying it's very likely he will now spend the rest of his life in that psychiatric hospital.

>> from outside the royal courts of justice and the barnaby's mother, emma webber, added this trial by doctors and was deeply flawed , and she will continue to flawed, and she will continue to fight for justice now. flawed, and she will continue to fight forjustice now. there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00, including why have thousands of people in georgia clashed with riot police? is it simply disobedience, or is there government acting against their civil rights? more on that next. but first, it's your headlines andifs but first, it's your headlines and it's tatiana sanchez . and it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories from the gp newsroom. angry scenes are continuing in georgia this afternoon with riot police moving into the nation's parliament after protesters broke through exterior barriers. if you're watching us on television, you can see these live pictures of protesters clashing with police. it's after lawmakers passed a foreign agents bill, which requires

organisations receiving funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence . we agents of foreign influence. we can take you live to tbilisi now , where crowds are still gathered outside the parliament building . opponents have dubbed building. opponents have dubbed the bill the russian law, comparing it to a tactic used by vladimir putin to target his critics . it's georgia's critics. it's georgia's government says it's needed to promote transparency , vie. it's promote transparency, vie. it's being seen as a test of whether the country stays on a path towards integration with europe, or pivots back towards russia . a or pivots back towards russia. a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. vehicles were rammed at toll booths on a motorway at anchorvale in northwest of the country. images on social media showed at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was in flames. balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was in flames . the an suv that was in flames. the car appeared to have been rammed into the front of the prison van. local media is naming the

suspect as mohammed a, who's 30 and reportedly has ties to powerful gangs in the city of marseille . a home office marseille. a home office minister says the good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. it's after a judge at belfast's high court ruled that parts of the government's illegal migration act should not be applied to northern ireland. responding to an urgent question from the dup, tom pursglove said the government intends to appeal against the court's judgement and would not be deterred from its rwanda plan and the families of three people stabbed to death in nottingham say the killer should never be released after it was ruled his sentence is not unduly lenient. valdo calocane killed barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last year. the 32 year old, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was given an indefinite hospital order. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the

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scene you'd expect to see in a movie or a video game. but this happened today in france and now france's most wanted man is a subject of a huge manhunt. what's the latest ? what's the latest? >> well, this man is mohammed amara. a very dangerous individual . amara. a very dangerous individual. the boss of a ruthless narcotics network who is still at large this evening with members of his gang. now we've got three pieces of video that we want to show you to illustrate the horrific nature of what happened. the first is a shot of the police vans or the prison vans coming through at that tollbooth on the a154, and then one of the vehicles driven by the gang who ambushed that prison convoy smashing into the front of the larger van. and at that point, a number of gunmen exit that vehicle and another vehicle in ambush. those prison

officers and that particular incident can be seen from another video that was taken by another video that was taken by a member of the public on a bus that shows quite clearly to of the gang carrying ak 47 assault rifles as they went about shooting at those prison officers without mercy, killing two prison officers and critically injuring three others. the third bit of video we want to show you was taken , we want to show you was taken, we want to show you was taken, we think, from that same bus, but that's showing us the very understandably nervous, panic stricken members of the public. passengers on that bus, on their hands and knees, crawling to safety from the gunfire outside of this bus. as those gunmen continue to free this individual , mohammed amara, and take him to safety, one of the getaway

vehicles was found burnt out a short distance away from this crime scene. so this man, still at large, one hundreds of officers from the gendarmerie , officers from the gendarmerie, as well as other law enforcement agencies in france now involved in what is a widespread manhunt, looking for this gang that has links to the southern city of marseille. this man was wanted initially for aggravated burglary and theft offences . so burglary and theft offences. so burglary and theft offences. so burglary that involved, threats of violence and menaces. but now also he has been charged in connection with the abduction and murder of an individual in gang related violence down in marseille . a lot of violence in marseille. a lot of violence in that southern city, some 50 people shot dead in the past year alone as authorities try to grapple with the huge explosion

in drugs related violence in many of france's urban centres of population . of population. >> and mark, that's the kind of story you've been covering extensively . vie the amount of extensively. vie the amount of firepower of armoury that is now in the hands of these guns. entire areas of places like marseille, a complete no go areas that points to the fact that this could this guy just simply vanish and not be found? or do you think the biggest manhunt going would locate him ? going would locate him? >> well, there certainly are a lot of intelligence on this guy. he is known to the authorities. his gang members are known to the authorities. but you highlighted a real problem in terms of the number of weapons that are in the hands of armed criminals throughout france. the real concern , varne, is that real concern, varne, is that a lot of these armed gangs are very closely linked to islamist extremism in cities such as marseille, and there is

crossover between these gangs, the kind of gangs that then turn to religious violence that target police officers and others on a regular basis . in others on a regular basis. in france, they are grappling with a huge issue here that has manifested itself now in normandy, normally pretty peaceful up in northwest france, but in that area of southern normandy , two prison officers normandy, two prison officers killed , three others critically killed, three others critically injured. thank you, mark white for bringing us up to speed. >> and as that manhunt progresses of course we'll keep you abreast throughout the rest of the show. mark white, thank you very much. now moving on. let's bring you some incredible scenes from georgia. now, protesters broke through barriers outside the parliament building, but riot police have begun attempts to disperse the crowd. as you can see on your screen now, the protests erupted after georgia's parliament has passed the controversial foreign agents bill, which many say

threatens the civil liberties of the people living in the country. as you see, we have live pictures from the georgian capital of tbilisi and we can now also bring in our reporter, charlie peters, for more on this breaking story. charlie, welcome to the show . so this ostensibly to the show. so this ostensibly is about a clampdown in media liberty, a clampdown on free speech. and many people , speech. and many people, charlie, are saying the long arm of the kremlin may be to blame. >> because it has passed 8430 in the georgian parliament and what has been described as a youth led protest movement on the ground at the moment are concerned that with 20% of foreign funding towards any institutions must register as being in the interests of a foreign power, so that would mean severe restrictions for ngos or media organisations working within georgia. so this has been reacted very severely

by the protesters on the ground . by the protesters on the ground. these protests are going on for several days now, and the events we saw today saw some clashes with riot police outside the parliament. and the last half hour or so, those riot police have withdrawn away, designed to protect mps who were voting inside to pass this bill for the third time. but it's understood that the president of the country will now pass a veto on the law , which will require it the law, which will require it to be voted on again in two weeks. but with such a significant majority for the law, it's almost certainly going to be voted through again, many of these protesters saying that russia is behind this move. the kremlin's spokesperson, dmitry peskov, said that it's an internal matter and that they don't interfere with the politics of georgia or any other country. in 2008, there was a russian backed invasion of georgia and the abkhazia and south ossetia regions in the north of the country, where many

russian dissidents were organising. this has been a consistent theme of controversy within the country since 2008, and the current government georgian dream has been in power since 2012, when the kremlin voted in their own version of this law. there's also similar legislation in belarus, a major ally of russia. now there's been, as you can imagine, significant international reaction to this legislation passed today with the us, the uk, germany, italy and france all urging the bill to be withdrawn. and just in the last houn withdrawn. and just in the last hour, we've heard from uk's europe minister nusrat ghani , europe minister nusrat ghani, who said that the bill must be withdrawn and that she issued that statement to the georgian ambassador earlier today. >> julie peters, fascinating stuff. and also an extra geopolitical edge here. georgia wants to join the eu. the eu wants to join the eu. the eu wants georgia to join nato. would like georgia to join in. and of course, vladimir putin doesn't want that. could he be

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. channel. >> welcome back. it's 451. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. now, these are not just any shoplifters. these are m&s shoplifters . yes, even one of shoplifters. yes, even one of the country's biggest retailers isn't immune to the shoplifting epidemic that's sweeping the country . and now archie norman, country. and now archie norman, who's the chair of marks and spencer's , has said that the spencer's, has said that the police are not interested in tackling the problem. more than 430,000 shoplifting offences were logged by forces last year , were logged by forces last year, and that's up 37% on the previous 12 months. well, joining me now to discuss this is steve turner, who's the police and crime commissioner for cleveland. welcome to the show steve. so some strong words from archie norman, the boss of marks and spencer's. but the good news is in cleveland, you boys and girls are clamping down on shoplifting, much above the national average . 23.1% of cases national average. 23.1% of cases solved on your patch versus 15% the national average. 3% the low

in some places it's come to something, steve, that 23% of cases solved is good news, but it is good news. but my question is this do you think the thieves are winning , i think just to are winning, i think just to correct you on one thing there, martin, i was i'm the former police and crime commissioner for cleveland. >> as of last friday, but, yeah, the strategy we've put in place in cleveland is working, and we there's a really strong retail strategy for, for the, the incumbent now to take forward and build on. >> but i think to your point , >> but i think to your point, thieves are winning to a point. and i think what we've got to look at is why is that? now there's a number of things for me when i see big retailers like m&s talking about police giving up, i then contradict that with the fact that they they ditched 7000 staff last year from their shop floors whilst still making a profit of nearly half £1 billion. and, and i think that's

been part of the problem across our big retailers where they've cut staff in the name of profit. it's making it much easier for the for the criminals to win. and then on top of that, i think our our justice system needs our ourjustice system needs needs some real reworking done because you're in a situation now where even prolific shoplifters are highly unlikely to go to jail because we just haven't got the prison places for them , that they're that it's for them, that they're that it's down to a lack of staff in the shops. >> surely it's down to a lack of bobbies on the beat? no, >> surely it's down to a lack of bobbies on the beat ? no, because bobbies on the beat? no, because you can catch as many you can catch as many shoplifters as you like. >> and we've got great cctv , >> and we've got great cctv, we've got great processes now, but it's about getting to the underlying cause of that problem and the underlying cause is retailers are making it easy for thieves now compared to what they were 5 or 10 years ago. and then when the police do catch them, then there's no deterrent. the criminal justice system just lets them back out. now, i'm not one of the i'm not one of these that wants to see every

shoplifter sent to jail, but i think prolific shoplifters. >> i'm afraid we have to leave it there. we've simply run out of time. but thank you for joining us on the show. now stick with us. love loads on rwanda and northern ireland. but first, it's time for your weather. it's aidan mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello! it's a very different day today across some eastern and northern parts of the country. outbreaks of rain. although the rain does tend to ease. although the rain does tend to ease . it turns to showers as the ease. it turns to showers as the day and the week goes on and we've got low pressure bringing further downpours into tuesday, wednesday and thursday. but that low anchor towards the southwest is also bringing quite a keen breeze into southwestern areas, the showers fading away as we go into the evening and overnight, the rain in the east tending to fragment with some drier spells developing, but a lot of cloud

around . and with that cloud, around. and with that cloud, temperatures in most places will stay at 11 to 13 celsius, but with some lengthier clear spells and lighter winds. for northern ireland, temperatures will dip into the single figures here. so a fresh start for northern ireland for western scotland. but bright skies here. plenty of sunshine . and actually it's a sunshine. and actually it's a mostly fine day for northern ireland with just 1 or 2 showers. scotland seeing the finest weather with plenty of warm sunshine once again. cloudier further south and into northern and eastern england. we'll see further showers some longer spells of rain for east anglia. 1 or 2 showers for the southwest, but actually plenty of fine weather here as well. and highs of 20 to 21 celsius. thursday starts off with a fair amount of sunshine. actually southern parts of the uk keep that sunshine going into the afternoon , but there will be afternoon, but there will be some showers developing in places away from the showers. feeling pleasant enough with lighter winds and we keep the sunny spells and showers late. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. sponsors of

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gb news. >> hey, frank. good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. welcome to the martin dalby show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, the migration advisory committee has sensationally rejected government demands to clamp down on the number of student visas doled out to foreign students. and that's despite pleas to cut record net immigration of 745,000 last year alone. next up, there's even more bad news for harry and meghan , and i'll for harry and meghan, and i'll tell you why. their charitable foundation has been listed as delinquent. and i look ahead to a huge night of football. manchester city are away to tottenham. would you believe it? many spurs fans want their team

to lose. that's all coming up in your next hour . with the show, your next hour. with the show, always a pleasure to have your company. we've got a dramatic manhunt in france . we've got manhunt in france. we've got riots in georgia and closer to home in northern ireland. we've been speaking to locals in county down about sensational plans to disapply the rwanda bill to northern ireland. now, in this hour, we're looking at student visas almost half a million of the things last year, record numbers of foreign students coming in and ministers wanted a clamp down. well, guess what the migration advisory committee has rejected it, instead siding with the universities . why do we need so universities. why do we need so many universities? why do we need to prop them up with foreign students who force out british students, and many of them, 63% of them stay on in the united kingdom after their

student visa expires. is it a back door? a gimmick , a back door? a gimmick, a migration con to get students into the uk? get in touch, let me know your thoughts and go to gbnews.com forward slash your save. but before all of that is our news headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much. the top stories from the gb newsroom in georgia. huge numbers of riot police have now broken up crowds of protesters who believe their nation is on a path to dictatorship. demonstrators broke through the barriers outside the parliament building, where a controversial law has been passed. the foreign agents bill puts limits on media and non—governmental organisations , which receive at organisations, which receive at least a fifth of their funding from abroad . these are the live from abroad. these are the live scenes in tbilisi, where crowds are still gathered outside after clashes with officers . critics clashes with officers. critics are calling it the russian law and think it will damage

aspirations to join the eu. however georgia's government insists it's needed to promote transparency and. a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy . ambush on a prison convoy. vehicles were rammed at tollbooths on a motorway at anchorvale in the northwest of the country. images on social media showed at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was in flames. the car appeared to have been rammed into the front of the prison van. local media is naming the suspect as mohammed a, who's 30 years old and reportedly has ties to powerful gangs in the city of marseille . in the us, city of marseille. in the us, house speaker mike johnson stood silently beside donald trump outside court this afternoon as the so—called hush money trial continues . he's the most senior continues. he's the most senior member of the republican party to appear with mr trump during the case. the former president

is accused of trying to cover up a payment to former adult film star stormy daniels to boost his 2016 election campaign. speaking to crowds outside the court, mr trump criticised the case. the prosecutor and the judge. >> the gag order has to come off. so when you ask me a question about the people that we're talking about, i'm not allowed to answer. there's never been anything like this in the history of our country. it's a scam. it's election interference at a level that's never taken place before . place before. >> a home office minister says the good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. it's after a judge at belfast high court ruled that parts of the government's legal migration act should not be applied in northern ireland. responding to an urgent question from the dup, mp tom pursglove said the government intends to appeal against the court's judgement and would not be deterred from its rwanda plan . the families of

its rwanda plan. the families of three people stabbed to death in nottingham are demanding the killer is never released. after the court of appeal ruled his sentence won't be changed. valdo calocane killed barnaby webber , calocane killed barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last year. the 32 year old, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was given an indefinite hospital order. in other news, the bank of england says there's some way to go getting inflation down after the latest wage growth. data from the ons shows wages in the first three months of the year were unchanged at 6, outstripping cost of living increases . cost of living increases. meanwhile, the rate of unemployment is at its highest level for nearly a year. there were 26,000 fewer job vacancies in the three months to april, while the number of people in work dropped by 85,000. the prime minister is calling on shoppers to back british produce as he hosts the second farm to fork summit at downing street.

labour says the conservatives have driven farmers to breaking point and have pledged a new deal they say will put money back into their pockets. but rishi sunak told members of the food industries that britain must reduce its reliance on fruit and vegetables from overseas . overseas. >> we are going to stick to our plan, supporting you to keep creating great jobs across the united kingdom and keep making the food that we know and love so dearly , and specifically to so dearly, and specifically to our british farmers. >> i do want to say this we are with you and two some royal news. >> the first official painted portrait of the king since his coronation has been unveiled at buckingham palace . the oil on buckingham palace. the oil on canvas shows his majesty in the uniform of the welsh guards, of which he was made regimental colonel in 1975. the portrait by british artist jonathan yeo was commissioned in 2020 to celebrate the then prince of wales's 50 years as a member of the drapers company. in 2022. in the drapers company. in 2022. in the new portrait, the king is

depicted sword in hand with a butterfly landing on his shoulder. for the latest stories , sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now back to . martin. >> thank you tatiana. now we start with a shock decision from the migration advisory committee says that the uk's graduate visa route is not undermining the integrity and the quality of the higher education system and should remain while the scheme , should remain while the scheme, of course, allows overseas students to stay in the uk for 2 or 3 years after graduation , i'm or 3 years after graduation, i'm now joined in the studio in westminster by our political edhon westminster by our political editor, chris hope. chris, welcome back to the studio 745,000 net migration to the uk last year by a country mile, the biggest tranche of that or student visas, 457,000 of the

things issued last year alone. forget about small boats. that small beer compared to this menaces. today i've asked for a clampdown . they've been knocked clampdown. they've been knocked back. and guess why? because the migrant migration advisory committee says we shouldn't worry about putting universities out of business. >> it's the elephant in the room. net migration, legal migration in the treasurys have been very relaxed about this. they see it as a way to improve and get the get the economy going. but the problem is allow more people into the country are our net value to, to our profitability. although our, our , our value to the economy per person falls . and that's the person falls. and that's the problem here. and that's why tory mps are so concerned about it. you see a lot from the pm about illegal migration. small boats and the like, and that seems a lack of control of borders. but net migration, the treasury being very relaxed by having big numbers coming through the doors, they're forecasting 400,000 this year. net. there was a feeling there's a view here from the migration advisory committee. that figure could come down to 200,000 a yean could come down to 200,000 a year. but whether that's with

jiggery pokery year. but whether that's with jiggery pokery taking students out of the migration figures could allow that to happen. not clear yet, but there's no question here. this is a blow, i think, for anyone who thinks this government will control net migration. i've got to say, though, the labour is hardly there either. these numbers were around the tens of thousands 20 years ago. they're nowhere near that now and nowhere near that for a long time in the future. >> and this is legal migration through the front door, not illegal migration via dinghies. this is something they could control. they could pass a law , control. they could pass a law, pass legislation to get rid of it. but the fascinating thing about this is that the treasury has targets. they're going in a different direction because they want more students . they're want more students. they're bothered about the university losing its financial stability , losing its financial stability, about job losses, about course closures. but aren't we bothered about keeping immigration down? >> we're bothered about the economy , too. and it comes down economy, too. and it comes down to who do you want to come here? so arguably to have people who are arriving here to work our universities are the high end graduates who we do want here. even though we're not building enough homes to house them. so

is a debate. i think, in politics about whether you want more migrants to come through the door, if they're graduates or will be graduates and stay here and contribute to the economy. >> except we could do that if we got the elite people in who paid the top wonga , but in smaller the top wonga, but in smaller numbers, because there are there's manifest examples of mickey mouse degrees of some courses that don't even exist , courses that don't even exist, or universities that don't exist, of students who don't go along to any lectures. and the staggering statistic is the stay on rate. those staying after their course has expired has gone up from 21% in 2019 to 63. frustration is two thirds remain in the country. >> and the frustration is that martin, as you rightly say, that the government is allowing these big numbers to come through the door and labour aren't offering anything differently, but they are allowing 5 million people to sit on on benefits and not go back to work. and the problem is bringing importing labour like this does not make us all per head, per capita richer. and that's the debate. i think at the heart of this entire

conversation, it just seems once again, the treasury department, the migration advisory committee, whoever these departments are, they're rowing in a different direction to what people voted for to take back control of immigration and our borders. >> moving on. you've got some juicy gossip. there could be chris, potentially. and the defection . what's the length of defection. what's the length of a third defection? >> in the past few weeks from the tories to labour? that is what is being talked about by people close to the pm. rishi sunak will there be another one tomorrow? will we see a natalie elphicke figure crossing the floor of the house of commons, literally crossing the floor from the tory benches to the labour benches? there is talk. they are expecting another one tomorrow. now, i've been around journalism for long enough to know that they might be trying to spin it, to raise expectation . when it doesn't happen, people ask labour, where is your defector gone? so there could be that feeling. but certainly it is. talk over there will happen tomorrow. the whips on high alert for a defection tomorrow. >> but the main thing is it seems to be one way traffic. it seems to be one way traffic. it seems to be the direction of travel, the defections from the

blue corner to the red cornen blue corner to the red corner. the momentum is there and, you know, we get bogged down in the minutia and the detail. the westminster, the internals. but in broad brush strokes. chris, do you think they just face the voters if natalie elphicke, you know, a right wing mp so right wing she could fall off the white cliffs of dover . if she white cliffs of dover. if she can go to the red corner, then i too can. >> as a voter, i think it does give a feeling that this party is listing , and it does look is listing, and it does look like it gives voters permission to vote labour if they haven't voted labour before. they look at natalie elphicke, both elphicke and dan poulter before her were, lone mps without big groups of people around them. they were not preferred in ministerial posts. really, i think that i think that would for me , that is, you know, i can for me, that is, you know, i can see why labour did it. there's a concern amongst the left wing support base for labour. why are you lie—ins like natalie elphicke who has backed the small boats? might rwanda plan who backed boris johnson to come over to labour. but i think stepping back from those who

want following the minutia of politics, it looks like the people are leaving this tory party and joining labour. it gives you permission to vote. labour >> and is it 65 and rising mps that weren't standing ? what's that weren't standing? what's the latest number? >> well, i think it's well into the mid 70s now. it was 75 for memory in 1997, so we haven't quite got over the figure who fled the party in 97. i do though think that the reason why we are seeing more than normal is this. this is the first planned election since 2015. we've had two emergency elections in 17 and 19. it's the first time we've had an actual a full five year parliament and then a chance to stand down. so mps are planning for the future, but it looks like more tory mps are quitting than labour ones, as i've just seen nigel farage walk in outside there. >> can i quickly talk to you about this poll that came out? tom lubbock, the co—founder of jl partners. we had him on earlier. nigel farage comeback could be an extinction level event for the conservative party with with nigel reform going to 16% from 10% without labour on,

45 without farage to down 41 with farage. tories go from 25 down to 21. interestingly, there both parties losing four percentile points, suggesting it's not always a case of splitting the conservative vote. he's tight lipped . we don't know he's tight lipped. we don't know which way he's going to go, but nevertheless, rishi sunak worst nightmare. >> it's tempting, isn't it, for farage to come back in. he knows he's a mischief maker. he wants to cause problems for the tory party he feels let down. by the way, he stood down his own candidates in 2019 for no real thanks to the tory party bequeathing the majority which the tories have squandered over the tories have squandered over the past four years. since that election in 2019. what we're looking at is crossover . will looking at is crossover. will there be a point in the polls when reform are more, more, more popular than than the tory party? not yet, but certainly i think you could see a 5 or 6 point boost to reform if farage came across . perhaps viewers can came across. perhaps viewers can email him in tonight on his programme and say, go on, nigel, say what your plans are. well it's outside there now. >> he's got a bit of a smile on

his face. he's listening to this. he's going to be telling the punters later on of his next move. chris so always an absolute delight to have you in the studio now. moving on. a huge manhunt is underway in france after two police officers were shot dead following an armed ambush on a warning that some viewers might find these images distressing. several gunmen with heavy weapons were seen freeing an inmate after carrying out an orchestrated attack on a prisoner convoy earlier on today, and i'm joined now by our security editor, mark white. mark shocking scenes, something reminiscent of a movie or a video game, but it happened in france and now the largest manhunt in recent history is underway for france's most wanted man. what's the details ? wanted man. what's the details? >> well, at this hour, mohamed amra and his gang, who ambushed that prison van and brought him to, safety, or at least got him out and sprung him from that

prison van. they are still at large and are being hunted by authorities. we've got some bits of video, the first bit of video showing that, one of the vehicles used by the gang, to smash into the front of one of the prison vans as it was coming through that tollbooth on the a1 54, which is in southern normandy. another bit of video was shot from a passenger on a bus that shows the armed men with ak 47 seconds outside that bus. as they are ambushing the prison vans and freeing this very dangerous individual. and then a third piece of video, which was again taken from inside that bus, but showing terrified passengers on the floor of the bus crawling on their hands and knees, trying to get away from the gunfire outside of that vehicle, we're

told that two of the prison officers in that convoy were killed. three others critically injured, and the one of the vehicles that was used in the ambush found burnt out a short distance from the scene of this ambush. so the man himself, mohamed amra, to according the authorities, was the head of a ruthless crime gang, linked to narcotics down in the southern city of marseille, a city that has very significant problems with gang related crime that is unked with gang related crime that is linked to the drugs trade. >> mark, as you said earlier, very heavily armed, very heavily motivated and strong links to islamist terror groups . islamist terror groups. >> it's one of the big issues of concern for french authorities, particularly in the likes of

marseille. they've got a huge problem with gang crime down there, but it's linked , in quite there, but it's linked, in quite a large degree to islamist extremism. there's crossover between many of the gang members and jihadism , many of the gang and jihadism, many of the gang members, in marseilles and other urban centres of population have acquired ak 47 seconds and other deadly weapons and have gone on, to commit terrorist attacks against police officers and other people across france. so some real concern , but not some real concern, but not islamist linked this particular crime. it is, pure criminality at the moment, in which this head of a dangerous narcotics network is at large, along with members of that gang who freed him in this ambush in southern normandy earlier this morning. >> hey, thank you, marc wyatt,

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>> it's something so new. >> it's something so new. >> the first news channel to be launched in britain in over 30 years. >> launched to represent the views of the british people . views of the british people. >> to go where other broadcasters refuse to go. >> how do you find out about the story in the first place? >> launched with one aim to be the fearless champion of britain, it was an absolutely fantastic atmosphere here. >> this is gb news holibobs channel gb news britain's news channel. >> welcome back your time is 524. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. now to yet another setback for harry and meghan, because their charitable foundation has been listed as delinquent for failing to submit its annual report and registration fees on time. now the charity has claimed it's missing. files were declared on time. well, joining me now is the former royal correspondent, michael cole. michael, always a delight. here we go again . yet delight. here we go again. yet more bad news for harry and

meghan . they've been called many meghan. they've been called many things, but delinquent. that's a new one. >> the check is in the post. have we ever heard that before? i think we have now in america. they invigilate charities a lot more vigorously than the charity commission does in this country, where many dubious organisations pass themselves off as as charities, when in effect, they are lobbying organisations with various political agendas. but in america you have to reregister every year and you have to send a check and what the archewell foundation, which is their personal charitable arm, says that they filled in all the paperwork, but they forgot to send the check . forgot to send the check. interestingly, and this is a small note, but an important one.the small note, but an important one. the word check was written in the british way q—u—e at the

end , instead of american normal end, instead of american normal practice check, every american refers to a check and writes the check that way. so perhaps this was the influence of the new british pr guru they've taken on board. >> of course, meghan. and we see her in all her loveliness there, says that she's done with britain, done with the uk. >> in other words, it's an american way of saying finished with us. >> and yet she seems to be very concerned about her image in this country. >> and has hired a pr person from an agency here to burnish their credentials and shine their credentials and shine their image. >> here we see them , up in >> here we see them, up in whistler in british columbia, launching a new idea of his brilliant. and it has to be said, it's brilliant, initiative for the invictus games, which i think we can all applaud. >> but of course, all that came free. >> meghan, that's just celebrated. its 10th anniversary. invictus. all the things that he did, which were

were good. the sentebale charity in africa and of course, his two tours of duty , in the uniform of tours of duty, in the uniform of the queen, were all before he met and got engaged and got married to meghan markle . so, at married to meghan markle. so, at the moment they're delinquent . the moment they're delinquent. but, the check it will clean the moment they're delinquent. but, the check it will clear. we presume , and that their charity, presume, and that their charity, which cannot function unless it has paid its dues, will then continue to do its good work, as i'm sure the two principals would wish it to do. >> well, many people might wish that meghan would check out of britain, but that's enough of that. can i, talk to you about another scurrilous rumour? there's a very frothing, gushing piece in today's daily mail saying that the nigeria torch you called the meghan tour very brilliantly is actually a warm up act for what it might look like if she decides to run for us president. now, this is a

long standing rumour, michael. a lot of people putting wind in the sails of this is it. do you think something that she might consider in the future? has she got a hope in hell of ever becoming the president? >> yeah. martin there's plenty of precedent. i mean, ronald reagan was the president of the screen actors guild, and he went on to be a successful governor of california and then a very successful two term president of the united states. arnold schwarzenegger, married into the kennedy family and was also a successful governor of california and might have gone on to be a presidential contender, but for the fact that he was born in styria in austria, the son of a policeman and you have to be born in america in the 50 states in order to be able to run as a president. but she has made no secret of her affiliation to democratic politics, maybe this

is martin, shall we say, the third act in the drama of her life. first act being a successful, actress in a legal soap, second act marrying a royal prince and becoming a royal prince and becoming a royal duchess. third act politics, plenty of people have gone into it. there are precedents. and, maybe that's what she sees herself doing. >> interesting. because also, schwarzenegger and ronald reagan were also very popular. can i quickly ask you about the king's new portrait ? i think we can get new portrait? i think we can get that up on screen and have a look at it. now, may i say, michael, it's very red, to be uncharitable , it looks a bit uncharitable, it looks a bit like extinction rebellion might have already got to it . have already got to it. >> well, of course it's the welsh guards. >> and red is very much part of the tunic. red is very much part of the welsh dragon. but you know something? this guy jonathan yeo, is an absolutely brilliant portraitist . when brilliant portraitist. when prince charles was young, he did

a portrait of him sitting in a canvas chair, looking very contemplative at a polo. it was a brilliant portrait. and he also did that portrait of the two brothers, william and harry, in their household cavalry uniform, standing together casually . uniform, standing together casually. he's uniform, standing together casually . he's absolutely casually. he's absolutely wonderful. he's the son of tim yeo, who was a rather controversial, mp tory mp for south suffolk, not very far away from where i am at the moment, and if anybody wanted to have their portrait painted, they'd be very lucky to have tim yeo to doing it. but i think it's rather strange . you get the rather strange. you get the portrait of the king looking out in monochrome, almost, isn't it, from this sea of red. really. rather like if you've ever seen any old portraits of the green man looking out through a wreath of green leaves, it's a little bit like that. maybe a little bit like that. maybe a little bit sinister. i'd love to know what the king thinks of it, it certainly makes an impact . you

certainly makes an impact. you cannot, avoid noticing a sea of red. >> it certainly does. and we morphed seamlessly there from the portrait of his majesty . the portrait of his majesty. back to you, michael cole. it's hard to tell who looked the most regal. always a pleasure to have you on the show, michael cole. you take care. my pleasure. cheers, mate. now, there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, and i'll be joined by and 6:00, and i'll be joined by a massive doctor who fan and ask him if he agrees with claims that doctor who is now more doctor, woke . but first, it's doctor, woke. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines. and it's tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon. the top stories from the gp newsroom. a major manhunt is underway in france after two prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured dunng three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. vehicles were rammed at toll booths on a motorway at anchorvale in the north—west of the country . anchorvale in the north—west of the country. images on social media showed at least two men in

balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was in flames. the car appeared to have been rammed into the front of the prison van. local media is naming the suspect as mohammed amara, who's 30 years old and reportedly has ties to powerful gangs in the city of marseille . angry scenes city of marseille. angry scenes are continuing in georgia, with riot police moving into the nation's parliament after protesters broke through exterior barriers. it's after lawmakers passed a foreign agents bill, which requires organisations receiving funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence. this is the scene in tbilisi now, where crowds are still gathered outside the parliament building. opponents have dubbed the bill the russian law, comparing it to a tactic used by vladimir putin to target his critics. it's being seen as a test of whether the country stays on a path towards integration with europe, or pivots backwards towards russia . pivots backwards towards russia. a home office minister says the

good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. it's after a judge at belfast's high court ruled that parts of the government's illegal migration act should not be applied in northern ireland. responding to an urgent question from the dup, mp tom pursglove said the government intends to appeal against the court's judgement and would not be deterred from its rwanda plan . and the its rwanda plan. and the families of three people stabbed to death in nottingham say the killer should never be released after it was ruled. his sentence is not unduly lenient. valdo calocane killed barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates in june last year. the 32 year old, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was given an indefinite hospital order. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmelites .

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cure, not punish. surely there must be another way for the families to face some sort of justice. an excellent point . justice. an excellent point. well made. thank you very much to wendy . that's my favourite to wendy. that's my favourite part of the show because i'm now joined by michelle dewberry , of joined by michelle dewberry, of course, the queen of prime time political debate, judy , are you there? >> indeed. hello. are you receiving me, martin? >> loud and clear, my darling. what a treat for you eardrums and all of the viewers too, of coui'se. >> course. >> coming up tonight , i want to >> coming up tonight, i want to look same as you, actually, into this situation surrounding mps and whether or not they should be, prevented from getting into parliament at the point of arrest. i've got a twitter poll running, so tell me your thoughts on that. >> also, birmingham city council , you've got teachers, sorry, teaching assistants, support staff going off on strike now all about equal pay. >> but is it as simple as a man and a woman being paid differently for the same job? i also want to look into some of the things that esther mcvey has been saying about banning rainbow lanyards. one of my

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the latest reboot of the show as hectoring and tiring. and despite the push back , though, despite the push back, though, the latest season of the show has received critical praise in just its first week of release, gaining a remarkable 97% approval on rotten tomatoes , its approval on rotten tomatoes, its highest rating for over ten years. well, joining me now is the manager of the who shop, owen luckhurst. what a magnificent set that is . is that magnificent set that is. is that a real tardis behind you there, mate? >> it is a real tardis. yes. >> magnificent. so let's get straight to the chase . a lot of straight to the chase. a lot of people saying that doctor who has become doctor woke. he won't be the daleks who exterminate the timelord with the tiresome plotlines about racism and feminism . what do you reckon? feminism. what do you reckon? >> oh, the thing is, with doctor who, it's always trying to be current, and trying to be up front about modern day stories , front about modern day stories, as it were, so it does like to,

you know, pick up on certain topics. but i mean to say that it's woke , i mean, you could say it's woke, i mean, you could say that doctor who's been woke ever since the beginning in 1963, because it's always been a groundbreaking show, always trying to , trying to think of trying to, trying to think of the word. yeah, always trying to pick up on topics, as it were , pick up on topics, as it were, and. yeah, just trying to be current and relevant, about society back in the glory days, back in the good old days of tom baken back in the good old days of tom baker, i don't think we dabbled with trans politics or went back and examined the evils of the empire. >> we scrapped it out with the cybermen. we just got down to bafic cybermen. we just got down to basic sci fi action. you're not concur that this overlaying of identity politics has just become a bit tiresome , and has become a bit tiresome, and has alienated quite a lot of people ? alienated quite a lot of people? >> i mean, back in the 1970s,

you know, people didn't talk about, you know, being trans or, you know, sexuality or anything like that, whereas, you know , like that, whereas, you know, today's society does. so, you know, to pick up on that, it, it is relevant , i know, to pick up on that, it, it is relevant, i think, in today's views and it is something that i think people, you know , it is think people, you know, it is something that should be spoken about. i think now, of course, we can argue with some justification. >> the doctor is a fictional character, doctor , maybe i'm character, doctor, maybe i'm wrong. maybe i'm i'm going to offend the doctor who community massively here by by saying he's not real. so of course the time lord can morph into whomever he or she wishes to be. but some people do believe that the journey, if you like the transition there, i say of the doctor is framed through modern gender ideology and politics. some people just find it a bit

bonng some people just find it a bit boring and just get back to blasting daleks out of the ocean . i mean , with with doctor who. . i mean, with with doctor who. i mean, ever since, say, 1963, yeah. i mean, ever since, say, 1963, yeah . it's always you've always yeah. it's always you've always had your monsters. you've always had, you know, going back in time forward in time , and then time forward in time, and then also. yeah, just all, you know, dropping on on, you know, random historical , you know, figures, historical, you know, figures, and then you've got some plotlines where it will talk about certain things, whether it's, you know, the environment or things like that , and in or things like that, and in recent times people say, oh , recent times people say, oh, yeah, it's, you know, it's, it's shoved in your face, sometimes it can be a bit on the nose. and ihave it can be a bit on the nose. and i have spoken about this, you know, on my previous interview back in november , but it's back in november, but it's always a topic that, you know, it's always going to be picked on at some point, yeah.

>> now, own the tardis behind you. you said it's real. can you go into it for us? is it functioning? >> well? this one's locked . i >> well? this one's locked. i mean, you see, we can't have, you know, all and sundry, you know, just going in and, you know, just going in and, you know, creating paradoxes and causing holes in time. >> well, maybe if we could get in that tardis, we'd go back to the good old days of tom baker, or get some of the scriptwriters to stop meddling with identity politics. owen luckhurst, thank you very much for joining us. a magnificent looking set you've got there. i can notice a few of the bad guys from doctor who history behind you. the manager of the who shop, owen lock luckhurst. thank you very much for joining us on the show. now, forjoining us on the show. now, the biggest game of the premier league season kicks off in just over two hours time, but many fans of one of the teams involved are hoping they'll lose . confused? i'll explain all in a few minutes. . confused? i'll explain all in a few minutes . they don't want a few minutes. they don't want their hated rivals to win anything. i'm martin daubney on

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has just walked in over there. his show of course is at seven now. earlier on in the show we talked about a new poll that came out today from jl partners , came out today from jl partners, which says that a nigel farage comeback could be an extinction level event for the conservative party. it pointed out that if nigel farage were to come back, the reform party would surge to 16% from its current ten. meanwhile, the labour party would decrease from 45 to 41, but still be the way favourites and the conservatives go down from 25 to 2421 beg your pardon? interestingly, both of the big two parties losing four percentile over to reform. so a lot of you been getting in touch about the prospect of mr farage returning to front line politics, adrian says this rb voting reform at the next election. the tories cannot pull anything out of the hat now. but dave says what's the point of all this? it will just split the vote and let sir keir starmer

sail into number 10. michelle adds this maybe mr farage, dunng adds this maybe mr farage, during the tories and being their leader would stop sir keir starmer. a lot of people, of course, have been talking about the idea of nigel crossing over to the conservative party. could he be the knight in shining armour? many people felt previously that may have been bofis previously that may have been boris johnson. david adds this the problem with the conservative party now is that they are no longer conservative. david, i hear that every single day. many, many people out there believe the same thing. mark says this bringing back nigel farage is the only way the conservative party can now survive when the, has a different take. very incisive, wendy adds this would mr farage want to give up what he has now? i think he'll wait to see if donald trump wins in america. but if he does decide to throw his hat in the ring, it will probably be with reform. and finally, on this topic, malcolm,

as this farage wouldn't be great as this farage wouldn't be great as as an mp as he would actually have something to do and stick with it all. he has ever done, even going back to his eu days, is to criticise others. there we go. a balanced set of views. now. earlier on in the show we spoke about the rwanda bill being disapplied in northern ireland. we spoke to voters in county down earlier, dougie beattie was on the streets and the notion is this that the repubuc the notion is this that the republic of ireland declared the uk wasn't a safe country. they decided they wouldn't fly people to rwanda from the republic of ireland. and we saw a surge of asylum seekers going over the border into the republic as a consequence of that. yesterday, justice humphreys said the same would now apply to northern ireland, prompting the obvious conclusion that asylum seekers would also flood to belfast as well as dublin. people in county down telling us they were furious about this. they weren't consulted, they didn't vote for this and they didn't want

anything to do with it on that, tam says this the british government are spineless. they won't stand up to the courts or the eu. and dennis says this, so far as i understand by the judge ruling that illegals cannot be sent to rwanda from ireland, that in fact he's just given the green light for all illegal immigrants to leave the rest of the uk go to ireland or northern ireland and they will still be safe. so we should be seeing an exodus of illegals . am i missing exodus of illegals. am i missing something? dennis? i don't think you are . i think that would be you are. i think that would be the consequence and i just sometimes wonder if politicians have thought all of this through. the people in county down today didn't think that was the case. they felt they hadn't been listened to and they felt very, very concerned . now i'm very, very concerned. now i'm going to quickly move on to a massive game of football tonight , a title clincher and the premier league in the offing kicks off around about two hours time. of course it is manchester city versus tottenham hotspur, the biggest premier league game of the season takes place

tonight and there's delicious twist to that game. and it's this if tottenham beats manchester city, they'll keep alive their hopes of qualifying for next season's champions league. but if tottenham hotspur win, it will leave arsenal on the brink of winning the title. and there's no wonder, no wonder that many tottenham fans hope their side loses everything this evening. it's astonishing that tottenham hotspur think they'd rather lose and not qualify to qualify for the champions league, because that would mean if they beat city, that arsenal would be the premier league winners, and that would probably be the worst thing that would happen for any tottenham hotspur fan . i'll be watching that. fan. i'll be watching that. i hope you will too. i'll have a couple of beers and that's all from me for now. dewbs& co is up next. of course, that runs six till seven. don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow morning. it's breakfast with eamonn and isabel then that's followed by britain's newsroom at 930 with andrew and bev. and of course, all the drama with pmqs live at midday . and that's with chris midday. and that's with chris hope and gloria de piero and

then tom and emily with good afternoon britain from 1:00. then it's my mish. i'll be back tomorrow at three. i've been martin daubney. this is gb news. thanks for joining martin daubney. this is gb news. thanks forjoining me. now is your weather and it's aidan mcgivern. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. it's a very different day today across some eastern and northern parts of the country with outbreaks of rain. although the rain does tend to ease, it turns to showers as the day and the week goes on and we've got low pressure bringing further downpours into tuesday, wednesday and thursday. but that low anchor towards the southwest is also bringing quite a keen breeze into southwestern areas, the showers fading away as we go into the evening and overnight, the rain in the east tending to fragment with some drier spells developing, but a lot of cloud

around . and with that cloud, around. and with that cloud, temperatures in most places will stay at 11 to 13 celsius, but with some lengthier clear spells and lighter winds. for northern ireland, temperatures will dip into the single figures here. so a fresh start for northern ireland for western scotland. but bright skies here. plenty of sunshine . and actually it's a sunshine. and actually it's a mostly fine day for northern ireland with just 1 or 2 showers. scotland seeing the finest weather with plenty of warm sunshine once again. cloudier further south and into northern and eastern england. we'll see further showers . some we'll see further showers. some longer spells of rain for east anglia. 1 or 2 showers for the southwest, but actually plenty of fine weather here as well. and highs of 20 to 21 celsius. thursday starts off with a fair amount of sunshine. actually southern parts of the uk keep that sunshine going into the afternoon , but there will be afternoon, but there will be some showers developing in places away from the showers. feeling pleasant enough with lighter winds and we keep the sunny spells of showers late. >> that warm feeling inside and

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