to the martin daubney welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. and we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show , under—fire uk. on today's show, under—fire humza yousaf has been called a dead man walking after a no confidence vote leaves his future hanging by a thread. after his first year from hell. can the snp leader survive this nightmare week? next up, as immigration to ireland soars there, deputy prime minister has bizarrely blamed the uk and even the rwanda bill. but after another arson attack on an asylum hotel last night, around about an hour from dublin, an irish political leader will tell gb news why the blame lies solely with ireland's out of touch politicians . and tomorrow, touch politicians. and tomorrow, a group of pro—israeli protesters calling themselves enoughis protesters calling themselves enough is enough will stage a counter demo against the latest pro—palestine march and the group's leader will join me in the studio to tell us why . and

the studio to tell us why. and gb news political editor chris hope. earlier on today asks shadow chancellor rachel reeves how involved tony blair is in the labour party, and her frank answer might give you sleepless nights. you're not want to miss out on this one. and that's all coming up in your next hour. well, the show we've got an absolute corker coming up today packed with action is blair the back seat. prime minister in waiting is humza yousaf a dead man walking . is ireland on the man walking. is ireland on the brink. and we've got the legendary political pollster john curtice predicting there will be a second referendum to rejoin the european union. how soon and why will those answers are coming up? but look, this show is nothing without you and your views and let me know your thoughts on all the stories we'll be discussing today by

visiting gbnews.com/yoursay and joining the conversation. or message me on our socials . and message me on our socials. and we're of course @gbnews. but before all of that brace yourselves because it's your headunes yourselves because it's your headlines with tamsin roberts . headlines with tamsin roberts. >> thanks, martin. good afternoon. it's 3:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . wenzler in the gb newsroom. humza yousaf says he will not resign as scotland's first minister ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. he says that as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties. it's after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday , but humza the greens yesterday, but humza yousaf says he'll fight on. i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. >> so there's all that political

game playing happening from the opposition . opposition. >> it will not be taking part, and it will be getting, of course, on with the job. >> and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> in other news, students in paris have occupied the prestigious sciences po university to demand the institution condemns israel's actions in gaza, chanting their support for the palestinians and waving flags. many of the protesters can also be seen wearing headscarves and face coverings in solidarity with the people of gaza . it comes after people of gaza. it comes after similar protests at universities in the united states and australia . a 20 year old man has australia. a 20 year old man has been charged with conducting hostile activity in the uk to benefit russia. dylan earl is accused of masterminding an arson plot on london's businesses after allegedly being recruited as a russian spy. four other men were also charged in connection with the same investigation, and in a separate case, a former parliamentary researcher has been ordered not to contact mps after he was charged with spying for china .

charged with spying for china. christopher cash, who's 29, and 32 year old christopher berry, are accused of offences under the official secrets act. the pair appeared at westminster magistrates court this morning but were not required to enter any pleas . a primary school any pleas. a primary school teacher has pled guilty mid—trial to murdering her partner and burying his body in their garden . 50 year old fiona their garden. 50 year old fiona beal had initially admitted the lesser offence of manslaughter, stabbing 42 year old nicholas billingham due to loss of control, but denied murder. his partly mummified remains were discovered four and a half months after he was last seen in 2021. sentencing will take place next month and in the us, the actress ashley judd says the overturning of harvey weinstein's rape conviction is an institutional betrayal of her allegations of sexual assault by the hollywood producer helped spark the metoo movement, a major film star in the 1990s, she sued weinstein in 2018,

claiming he damaged her career after she rejected his advances. his 2020 rape conviction was overturned yesterday after a new york court ruled that he didn't receive a fair trial. the district attorney will now determine whether to seek a retrial, though he remains in prison for other crimes. ashley judd says the courts haven't served the needs of victims . served the needs of victims. >> this today is an act of institutional betrayal , and our institutional betrayal, and our institutions betray survivor of male sexual violence. i stand shoulder to shoulder with women who have bloody knees because male sexual violence may knock us down, but we get right back up and together we are in this struggle for freedom from male entitlement to our bodies . entitlement to our bodies. >> two men have been charged with immigration offences after the deaths of five migrants, including a young girl who were trying to cross the english channel. yun both who's 22 and from south sudan, and tajudeen

abdulaziz umar, who's also 22, and from sudan , were both and from sudan, were both charged with offences related to the deadly incident . the five the deadly incident. the five migrants were on one of many packed boats that pushed off from the beach at wimereux in france on tuesday morning, shadow chancellor rachel reeves told gb news the government is failing to stop the boats. >> we've got asylum seekers in hotels up and down the country, in hotels that were once used for local functions, for weddings, for graduations and it is not acceptable that the government have lost control of the borders in the way that they have. labour have got a plan to crack down on the criminal gangs at the heart of this , and also at the heart of this, and also to ensure that we properly process the claims and then people who have got no right to be in this country are quickly deported for . deported for. >> and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's back to .

martin. >> thank you sophia. now let's get cracking. and as speculation continues to mount over whether scotland's first minister will stay in post following the collapse of his power sharing agreement with the scottish greens , a defiant humza yousaf greens, a defiant humza yousaf had this response to the question of whether or not he will resign. >> well, i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition . happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win . comes, i fully intend to win. >> for now, he fights on but motions of no confidence have been tabled in both humza yousaf premiership and now also his government. but whilst he insists he will make minority government work, scottish labour

leader anas sarwar claims it is a question of when , not if, the a question of when, not if, the first minister resigns. well i'm joined now by gb news scotland reporter tony maguire. tony welcome to the show. another day of high drama and once again the sun is shining on you. but the storm clouds are gathering for humza yousaf. what's the latest? >> good afternoon. well, certainly another lively day, shall we say, in scottish politics, you know, almost as red an occurrence as two days of sunshine back to back. i think we'll find. but nevertheless, humza yousaf. he cancelled that earlier appointment in glasgow that 12:00 talk on independence and the labour market at strathclyde university, instead opting for a social housing press appointment in dundee and did he try as he might, he was trying to address the reason why he was there, as the press spoke to him in dundee. but of course there were much bigger fish to fry and his conversations with

the press, namely what is he going to do? has he considered his position ? and defiantly he his position? and defiantly he said repeatedly that he has not considered his position, nor does he intend to, which is quite incredible, really . when quite incredible, really. when you think about the blood in the water and the sharks seemingly circling in just the last 36 hours, how he could possibly not even have considered what could come next and next. of course, we do have those two votes of no confidence. first of all, tabled by douglas ross yesterday, a vote of no confidence in humza yousaf himself as first minister for his failings and government. now we've obviously heard over the last 24 hours that scottish laboun the last 24 hours that scottish labour, lib dems and of course the scottish conservatives, who have already signed that motion, so it will go to parliament next week. well they are going to vote against humza yousaf . the vote against humza yousaf. the greens also came out last night to say their intention is to

vote against humza yousaf, which makes ash regan. yesterday we called her the kingmaker. makes ash regan. yesterday we called her the kingmaker . today called her the kingmaker. today i'm calling her the king breaker because all the power is certainly in her hands. now onto the second vote. of course, if humza yousaf have a vote of no confidence is found against him. well, it doesn't look particularly good in him, but yet he can limp on. as untenable as that may be, however, a vote of no confidence in the government. well, that would essentially put us on an election footing here in scotland before westminster, of all things, which is quite incredible. however alba has come out and said that, you know, we should be beware of the glee, the political opponents should be. beware of their glee. and that, you know, they i don't think, have quite decided on how they're going to approach that . they're going to approach that. but patrick harvie, obviously co—leader of the greens and jilted yesterday morning behind me here at the first minister resident of bute house in edinburgh . well, he came out and

edinburgh. well, he came out and said that it's pretty clear that humza yousaf will be unable to unite holyrood and he has urged the snp to consider a replacement . who might that be? replacement. who might that be? so many questions left unanswered and yet every hour that i get to speak to you , it that i get to speak to you, it certainly seems like new things are happening all the time here. >> tony mcguire, high drama nonh >> tony mcguire, high drama north of the border. thanks for joining us. always a pleasure to have you on the show and join me now in our studio in westminster is our political correspondent, olivia utley olivia. an astonishing what appears to be end game now. and what a bitter irony . some might call it irony. some might call it a beautiful karma that ash regan , beautiful karma that ash regan, who was in the snp, went for the leadership campaign herself, finished third, left the party over the gender recognition bill. now the future is in her hands. >> well, it really is an absolutely extraordinary story. i mean, you couldn't write it. the snp is one seat short of a majority in holyrood, and the only other pro—independence msp

in that parliament is ash regan from the alba party, alex salmond's breakaway party. >> she fell out big time with humza yousaf and humza yousaf ended up saying that she was no loss to the snp. well, he might be regretting those words now because if she votes against humza yousaf in this vote of no confidence, which we are expecting to be held next week, then that is his leadership oven then that is his leadership over. you could argue that it's his leadership over in the in the medium to long term anyway, even if he survives this vote of no confidence next week. and it does look likely that ash regan may present certain conditions to yousaf and then end up voting for him in this vote. even if she does do that, and even if yousaf gets through next week, we could well get into a position very, very soon where the snp is just losing vote after vote in parliament. if you cast your mind back to the days of theresa may and the end game of theresa may and the end game of brexit, when she just didn't have that parliamentary majority, she couldn't get anything through parliament. she couldn't really govern. i think

we can expect to see something quite similar with humza yousaf, now that his junior coalition party and the greens have just totally turned against him. so even if he survives, next week , even if he survives, next week, i don't fancy his chances for the medium to long term. >> no, he's been branded a dead man walking and also he's saying he will fight on alex salmond taking no amount of glee. i'm sure calling him, he will be remembered as yousaf. the brief, but nevertheless he is limping on for now. we expected that, didn't we? not, not not a politician known for. how shall we put it? putting the party or the country before himself? he will limp on. but how long can he carried on? he appears to be mortally wounded in terms of his credibility or even his ability to rule. and then there's the bigger question, olivia, of the withering prospect. now of any chance of a second referendum on independence. >> well , i independence. >> well, i think to be fair to humza yousaf, i mean, he has played his hands pretty badly. he seemed to massively underestimate quite how angry

the greens would be when he dumped them unceremoniously from his coalition. but he played a very bad hand badly. he inherited that seat from nicola sturgeon. he was proudly that nicola sturgeon continuity candidate, which by the time sturgeon became embroiled in this huge , huge controversy over this huge, huge controversy over snp funding, which her husband too is massively caught up in, it became very difficult to be the to be the sort of nicola sturgeon continuity candidate. then, of course, the question of the second referendum has become more and more difficult to find a route towards the second referendum, the government here in the uk has essentially vetoed there being one in the near future. so there are people in scotland now saying, you know, well, what is the point of the snp? they've ruled for so long pretty much without opposition . pretty much without opposition. by pretty much without opposition. by the time humza yousaf inherited that role, it was already very difficult and it's just become a hell of a lot more difficult . difficult. >> let's give him credit for a minute and say he'll be frantically now trying to do some deals. he'll be doing a

highland jig of any potential deal possible. he'll be reaching out to the greens, he'll be reaching out to ash regan. he'll be trying to do anything he possibly can. what could he do, do you think, to offer the greens? i mean, it all fell apart on when they backed when he backtracked, the snp backtracked on net zero targets. maybe that was the case of reality hits ideology. they couldn't afford it. it was unworkable. is there any way, do you think, that the greens could be wooed back? >> i think that is incredibly unlikely , the greens and the unlikely, the greens and the snp, their policies. well, i mean, there is a good argument that the green policies in scotland were simply unworkable. there are plenty of policies that the snp has tried to implement. if the greens and they just haven't come to fruition, they just haven't worked. and as you say, it did feel as though it was a case of reality bumping up against ideology when humza yousaf decided to chuck out that that net zero very early commitment to net zero. so i don't think there's any chance of wooing the greens back. but i also don't

think there's very much chance. i mean, douglas ross, the leader of the scottish conservatives, tabled this vote of no confidence in in humza yousaf. obviously he's not going to be onside. the labour party issues there. you know they it's essential for them to get a big majority to absolutely smash the snp. the idea that they might buddy up with the snp, even for some sort of confidence and supply agreement, seems pretty absurd. and the lib dems in scotland have called the snp clowns. so every single party north of the border has come out really, really strongly against humza yousaf. his only chance really is ash regan. it's an astonishing alliance. >> if you look at the greens, the tories as the labour party, the tories as the labour party, the alba party all joining forces, this is unheard of. they are sworn foes ordinarily and yet they want to join up seemingly in a singular motion to give yousaf the chop extraordinary. >> well, exactly. i mean, one thing, humza yousaf really has doneis thing, humza yousaf really has done is united scotland, but not united scotland behind a second

referendum, as he might have hoped. but united scotland at least holyrood against him . it least holyrood against him. it is an extraordinary set of circumstances. i mean, looking at anas sarwar and douglas ross speaking in holyrood yesterday, it looked as though they were from the same party. this is labour and conservative, coming down like a ton of bricks on the snp and you can see some of the sort of staunch rivals looking back at the snp over years, absolutely loving every moment of this. and alex salmond, who of this. and alex salmond, who of course fell out with the snp party big time, really enjoying every moment of it, calling him humza. the brief i think was the was was the nickname he used. it'll be fascinating to see what happens next week. i think it is quite likely that yousaf sort of limps on, but will his position be tenable? will he be able to govern? will he be able to get any of his bills through? he doesn't have a majority. and not only that, but most of holyrood, the majority by one of holyrood, actively seems to loathe him. >> well, olivia lee high drama and then they'll be dissing off the bagpipes perhaps for his

funeral music. thank you very much olivia utley. on a dramatic day in scottish politics. and of course we'll have lots more on that story throughout the show. and there's plenty of coverage on our website gbnews.com. you've helped make it the fastest growing national news website in the country. so thank you very much. now there's still plenty of time to grab your chance to win a greek cruise. travel goodies and a £10,000 tax free cash bank balance boost. and here's all the details that you need to hop on board. >> don't miss your chance to win our biggest prize so far. there's an incredible £10,000 in tax free cash to spend however you like, plus, courtesy of a variety cruises, a bespoke seven night small boat cruise for two worth £10,000 with flights, meals, excursions and drinks included. your next holiday could be on us. choose any one of their 2025 greek adventures and find your home at sea. we'll also send you packing with these luxury travel gifts for another

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welcome back. it's 323. i'm martin daubney and this is gb news. now, the first cohort of people to be sent to rwanda have finally been identified with the rwanda bill. now law. the african nation has been declared as a safe country for asylum seekers. number 10 now hopes to get flights off the ground as quickly as possible. well, joining me now in the studio is our gb news political correspondent, katherine forster catherine, who took him a while, but now finally , it's been but now finally, it's been passed into law. they say they've earmarked around about 150 watertight cases to be sent as soon as possible. but the battle now begins, doesn't it? we know that the ngos , the we know that the ngos, the charities, the lawyers, the luvvies, the linekers , the echr, luvvies, the linekers, the echr, they'll all be going full guns ahead to try and stop it. >> yes, they will. and that's

why the government has factored in. it says 10 to 12 weeks they'd originally said they'd get people on flights by the end of the spring. well, we can argue about when spring ends, but i would say end of may. so they're looking now at mid—july. thatis they're looking now at mid—july. that is allowing for challenges because let's face it, there are going to be they say they've got the plane sorted, they've selected the people. they are a bit concerned about people absconding in the meantime. but ihave absconding in the meantime. but i have to say , i know you're i have to say, i know you're very sceptical. plenty of people think not a single migrant is going to rwanda, but the government does believe. and i was on the trip with the prime minister to poland and germany this week, and he was talking to us quite a lot. he's quite upbeat. they really do feel like at last they're making progress and they are confident that they are going to get, as they have said , a regular drumbeat of said, a regular drumbeat of flights going to rwanda from the summer. now we shall see, of course, because we've yet to see

anybody. but they do feel that they have have turned a corner with this. but i think when the first flights do take off, that really will be a moment. >> strange, strange things have happened this week. we found out that ryanair are prepared to fly those flights, so don't rule anything out. but catherine now this says that another knock on effect, another ripple effect ireland is brought into the equafion ireland is brought into the equation sensationally claimed yesterday that 80% of immigrants now arriving in ireland are coming from the uk. they're effectively saying that they're coming into england first through northern ireland, into ireland, and that's because they claim rwanda , which they've said claim rwanda, which they've said is inhumane and they will not enforce , means that people are enforce, means that people are going to ireland to avoid being sent to rwanda . sent to rwanda. >> it's an astonishing development, yes, but to be honest , i development, yes, but to be honest, i think it was always likely to happen because the fact is now micheal martin, the deputy prime minister, has said that this is happening, that the

rwanda deal that's , you know, rwanda deal that's, you know, just passed into law is already impacting on ireland because people are fearful of staying here. but the fact is, if you come into the united kingdom, you can go across to northern ireland, part of the united kingdom. there is no border between northern ireland and the south of ireland. that was as it has been for a long time, and it was a condition of the brexit deal was a condition of the brexit deal. there would be no hard border. so the simple fact is they have no idea who is coming from northern ireland into ireland now , the justice ireland now, the justice secretary that's quoted this figure of 80% and truthfully , figure of 80% and truthfully, they don't know this. they cannot know this because these people coming across at this non border are not monitored . so border are not monitored. so i think in many ways it suits the irish government to say, well, look this is all the fault of the british and their rwanda plan. not our fault because of course the irish government are having a real struggle now with pubuc having a real struggle now with public sentiment. the numbers of people arriving in ireland going

up. there's been protests, there's the housing crisis , etc. there's the housing crisis, etc. it's very difficult. this is a convenient way for them to pass the buck number 10 this lunchtime, saying, let's not jump lunchtime, saying, let's not jump to any conclusions, but i have to say this is quite good for the government, isn't it? because the flights are not taking off. but they're saying, well, you know, ireland are saying people are scared and too scared to stay in britain. the deterrent effect is already working, except a lot of people in ireland aren't buying that. >> we're going to speak to a political leader in the next houn political leader in the next hour, herman kelly, who thinks this is a complete and utter smokescreen. you've got some figures there, haven't you, catherine, about the shocking amount of people who've been refused asylum in ireland, who've even been deported, a shockingly low deportation number. yes, since the start of 2023, 7300 were refused. >> refugee status. >> refugee status. >> so they should be deported, should have gone less than 100 have actually gone. >> so, you know , it's very easy >> so, you know, it's very easy to look at what's happening in

the united kingdom, looking at the united kingdom, looking at the people crossing on the boats from the beaches in france . from the beaches in france. horrific. the events in the channel with those five deaths on tuesday morning, channel with those five deaths on tuesday morning , horrific to on tuesday morning, horrific to the violence of these gangs, you know, with weapons going for the police , quite dangerous for the police, quite dangerous for the police, quite dangerous for the police on the french beaches to , police on the french beaches to, to, but you know, other countries have these challenges too . we are not alone in in too. we are not alone in in fact, throughout across europe there is increasing talk about how do we deal with this. the numbers into britain are actually lower than lots of countries. i mean, italy, of course, is right on the sharp end of this. and other countries looking at offshore processing too. >> and people with good memories may well remember we saw those dramatic scenes in dublin where vehicles were set to fire because people were very angry about a stabbing by a failed asylum seeker there last night. another asylum seeker centre about an hour's drive south of dubun

about an hour's drive south of dublin , was also firebombed. dublin, was also firebombed. nobody was inside, nobody was hurt . but nobody was inside, nobody was hurt. but ireland is a real powder keg around this issue and the people are saying enough as enough. they're being called far right. leo varadkar a step down over this. the people are getting fed up of it and they can't keep blaming britain and rwanda. they need to take ownership of their own issues. surely >> yeah. and the thing is that ireland, geographically, it's right on the outer edge of europe. my family are from northern ireland, so a little bit different. but, you know, ireland is very different to the rest of europe. they're simply not used to this sort of level of numbers of people coming in and the population of ireland itself is quite small too. so it really is having a disproportionate impact. so it's not just in the united kingdom. there's a lot of people feel that their governments are letting them down on not controlling the borders. it's happening in ireland. it's happening in ireland. it's happening right across europe . happening right across europe. >> katherine forster excellent as ever. and please stick with us because we've got some dramatic, sensational footage of

that firebombing last night and the police reaction. it's an astonishing situation. and we'll talk to a political leader to give us the full inside story of an island that really feels on the brink. now there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00. as yet another pro—palestinian protest takes the streets of london tomorrow , the streets of london tomorrow, i'll be joined in the studio by the organiser of the counter—protest. but will we see more conflict in the capital this weekend? that's all coming up. but first, it's time for your latest news headlines and it is tamsin roberts as. >> martin, thanks very much and good afternoon from the gb newsroom. >> it's 330. scotland's first minister says he will not resign on ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. humza yousaf says as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties . negotiates with other parties. it's after the collapse of the

snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday, but the first minister says he'll fight on. >> i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays , not just the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win . comes, i fully intend to win. >> students in paris have occupied the prestigious sciences—po university to demand the institution condemn israel's actions in gaza, chanting their support for the palestinians and waving flags. many of the protesters can also be seen wearing headscarves and face coverings in solidarity with the people of gaza. it comes after similar protests at universities in the united states and australia . a 20 year old man has australia. a 20 year old man has been charged with conducting hostile activity in the uk to

benefit russia. dylan earl is accused of masterminding an arson plot on london businesses after allegedly being recruited as a russian spy for other men were also charged in connection with the same investigation . and with the same investigation. and in a separate case, a former parliamentary researcher has been ordered not to contact mps after he was charged with spying for china. christopher cash, who's 29, and 32 year old christopher berry are accused of offences under the official secrets act. the pair appeared at westminster magistrates court this morning but were not required to enter any pleas . required to enter any pleas. those are the headlines and for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alert. just scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts . gb news. com slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial

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i >> welcome back. your time is 337. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news now. tomorrow, a group of pro—israeli protesters calling themselves enough is enough will stage a counter demo against the latest pro—palestine march and the group's leader, attiya gawalmandi, joins me now in our studio. welcome to the studio. we met on parliament square. >> we met outside parliament square about a week ago .

square about a week ago. >> you were being harangued by some pro—palestinian protest for many, many months. you guys were expected to sit down and be quiet. now you're standing up and making yourselves heard. what made you come to that conclusion? >> well, it's been five months. we've been anticipating and waiting for the metropolitan police to really police those marches . we've been sold on the marches. we've been sold on the idea that those marches are peaceful and, we see week in, week in, week out and anti—israel israeli anti—jewish remarks. the sentiment of violence and mob rule, basically. and we felt that we had enough. i want to just correct you. it's not a pro—israeli protest. it's an anti—terror protest. got you. we don't have a problem with the palestinians. we have a problem with people who openly support their on our streets. and this is something we will not tolerate . okay. tolerate. okay. >> and we can see some footage here from the last time you had

a gathering. and can you tell me you sent through some footage earlier of the kind of vile abuse that you've been facing? itai. what kind of things have been screamed at you? >> well, as you can see from the films we sent in, you have people calling us killers, baby killers or rapists accusing us of the same horrible things that hamas did on the massacre of the 7th of october. we have people that openly threaten to kill us in front of the met police and the police just tell them move on because they are afraid to confront them. and i understand those police, those police officers, they are outnumbered and they don't feel safe. and this is what we want to be changed. we want the police to enforce the rules that are already exist. they just need to enforce them. >> it's we talk a lot in the studio across the country about two tier policing. i've been on these protests myself . i've had these protests myself. i've had stuff thrown at me, i've been harangued, but nothing compared to what you're talking about

here. a death threat openly happenedin here. a death threat openly happened in front of a copper and they simply did nothing. >> yeah, it took them 15 minutes and intervened. and intervention of a case that happened to be in the crowd and saw everything. and even then it took them 15 minutes to arrest the guy. we filed. i filed a complaint personally. never heard anything about the complaint. it's been now almost three weeks. we haven't even got a reference number to show for. >> of course the police aren't here and they maybe would argue that a different case could be. >> and i don't accuse anyone without knowing. >> but and often people are arrested for their own safety sake, but nevertheless . across sake, but nevertheless. across the board of your attendees, of your comrades, of your friends on these marches, there has been a huge uptick in anti—semitism. the figures speak for themselves between seven, eight, 900, depending on which month you take. tell me about the mood amongst british jews now, particularly in london. we knew initially after october 7th,

there was a huge sense of fear. are you now becoming more defiant? are you more determined to stand up and be heard? >> look, the jewish people are a resilient people. we passed in our history far worse . and we our history far worse. and we survived and we will survive. and we'll be standing strong. we, like every other law abiding citizen in this country, believe that law should be upheld. and we have our rights and we demand that our rights will be protected just like any other minority in this country. protected just like any other minority in this country . and minority in this country. and that's it. i think that's i think that summarises it all. okay >> well, i wish you the very best. thank you very much. >> thank you. please join us on the tomorrow at 12:30 in waterloo place. >> there you go. you've heard it here first. thank you for joining us. it's illegal monday in the studio. that march of course, is tomorrow. plenty more coming up on today's show. you're not going to want to miss this because we'll be debating why support for the labour party amongst gb news viewers has soared by an astonishing 13% in

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it's 345. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. labour leader sir keir starmer and his shadow chancellor rachel reeves, have been visiting the nonh reeves, have been visiting the north east today to learn about how cost of living challenges are affecting locals and gb news political editor chris hope sat down with rachel reeves and the battleground red wall town of darlington . take a listen. darlington. take a listen. >> rachel reeves, thank you for speaking to gb news here in darlington. the now head gareth davies said in january that fraud and errors costing taxpayers 5.5 billion a year in universal credit. but you're going after tax avoiders, people who might be legally avoiding tax . why not go after benefit tax. why not go after benefit cheats too? >> i've got no time for anybody thatis >> i've got no time for anybody that is cheating the system.

whether that is benefit fraud or tax evasion. and indeed want to toughen the rules, for example, on non—doms to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share of tax. but i think that there is something particularly abhorrent about taking money from the taxpayer, because what you're doing then is depriving our public services of the money they need. and so we will crack down on that fraud wherever it exists . exists. >> will the government bring down debt of the five first five years of a labour government? >> yes. i've set out a tough set of fiscal rules that an incoming labour government will abide by to bring debt down as a share of our economy, and to pay for day to day spending through tax receipts. and only subject to that will be able to make the investments in the things to grow our economy and improve productivity. >> the tories will cut the civil service to pay for defence spending to keep us all safe, and hit 2.5% of gdp by 2030, will you? >> well , we've already will you? >> well, we've already said that we've committed to spend 2.5% of gdp on defence. the problem

about the government's figures is they haven't set out how they will achieve it, and defence is too important to make promises like this without being able to say where the money is going to come from. so we want to get to 2.5. we want to do that as quickly as possible, but we'll have to do a review of defence spending and understand the state of the public finances. they. state of the public finances. they . say they'll get rid of they. say they'll get rid of tens of thousands of civil servants and pay for it. >> but you won't say that, will you? can't cost your plan, and it's an ambition, not a not a realistic possibility yet. >> well, when labour left office in 2010, defence spending was at 2.5% of gdp. since then, this government has made cuts that are . ummi is government has made cuts that are. ummi is now the smallest since napoleonic times. it's them that have reduced spending on defence. we are committed to get back to 2.5% of gdp. independent experts have said that the government have not put forward the level of detail that is needed, and i think defence is needed, and i think defence is too important to make

promises without being able to say how you can pay for them. >> so yes or no, will you hit 2.5% by 2030.7 >> well, we will hit 2.5% and we will set out the details of how we'll achieve that. >> beau biden. >> beau biden. >> well, nor can the government, because their plans are not fully costed and they haven't set those out. >> well, immigration gb news polling this week shows our viewers really care about illegal migration. if 10,000 migrants are flown to rwanda and it starts to deter the small boats crossings, will you still cancel that project? well, not a single flight. >> it's just taken off to rwanda. so far. in fact, the only people who have gone to rwanda are conservative home secretaries are. we want to stop the boats. that is absolutely essential to get control again of our borders after the conservatives have lost control . conservatives have lost control. but i'm not willing to spend money on expensive gimmicks and this has cost tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers money. that money should be put into cracking down on the criminal gangs and deporting. people have got no right to be in this country. if it's shown to work,

though, by the time you get into office, if you do, will you still scrap it? well, there's an awful lot of ifs there, chris, because at the moment, not a single asylum seeker has been sent to rwanda. the only people have gone there are, press teams with conservative home secretaries. this is an expensive gimmick, and it's a distraction from the real work that needs to take place to get control of our borders again . control of our borders again. and that is what a labour government is determined to do. >> the tories say that the fact that illegal migrants are flooding into ireland shows it's working by deterring people from staying here. is that a good thing ? thing? >> i mean, the idea that this government's immigration policy and asylum policy is working is for the birds. and asylum policy is working is for the birds . we've got asylum for the birds. we've got asylum seekers in hotels up and down the country, in the hotels that were once used for local functions, for weddings, for graduations. functions, for weddings, for graduations . and it is not graduations. and it is not acceptable that the government have lost control of the borders in the way that they have. labour have got a plan to crack down on the criminal gangs at the heart of this, and also to

ensure that we properly process the claims and then people who have got no right to be in this country are quickly deported. the government have not been able to deliver that, and incoming labour government is determined to do so. >> towns are planning to get more homes built. you say your party will take a bulldozer to the planning system . you want the planning system. you want more planning officers redefine what greenbelt is as a grey belt . is that enough to take on the nimbys? >> well, our approach is a brownfield first approach and i was in the west midlands yesterday in birmingham and birmingham and in walsall looking at two fantastic housing projects on brownfield sites. but the developers there say that what's holding them back from more development is a bureaucratic, bureaucratic and sclerotic planning system that makes it so slow , so and more makes it so slow, so and more expensive to build the housing that we desperately need. but there are also parts of what we call the grey belt, which is a car park, perhaps, or a petrol station on what is designated as green belt . and it's harder to

green belt. and it's harder to build on that, than it is , for build on that, than it is, for example, on a field in a town thatis example, on a field in a town that is wrong. we need to protect those green spaces in urban areas and have a brownfield first approach. and thatis brownfield first approach. and that is a challenge , you won't that is a challenge, you won't announce where your new towns are till after the election. >> why not? because we'll have a consultation on that in government. but we've got some fantastic new towns in britain from milton keynes to welwyn garden city, with their very old ones , aren't they? yes. and ones, aren't they? yes. and those a new towns that were pioneered by past labour governments that are beautiful places to live, aspirational places to live, aspirational places to live and will consult in government about when the new towns of the future so that families and young people have a chance of getting on the housing ladden >> do older people with with a paid for house, maybe paid off their mortgage, have a moral duty not to fight new development? >> well, people who have paid off their mortgage have often got children and grandchildren who are desperate to get on the housing ladder. that's why we've committed to 1.5 million new homes in the first term of a

labour government, but home ownership under the conservatives has fallen by half a million. the conservatives were once a party of home ownership . it's clear today that ownership. it's clear today that only the labour party is the party of home ownership in britain. >> so rosie duffield, your colleague in the labour party, she says your party has a problem with women. is she right? >> well, i'm really proud to be shadow chancellor in the labour party. and if labour win the next election, i'll be the first ever female chancellor of the exchequer. >> what about her criticism of the leadership? she says that keir starmer won't speak to her rishi sunak. he is nicer to her than keir starmer. >> well, i've been with keir this morning and he's out on the campaign trail, right now , rosie campaign trail, right now, rosie duffield is an important member of the parliamentary labour party. i've known her a long time, all of us over the next seven days are going to be hitting the streets and the doorsteps, as part of these local elections. but after that, we're back in parliament, and i'll certainly be seeing rosie then. >> apologies due to her. >> apologies due to her. >> well, i'm not sure what the

allegations are, but rosie is an important member of the parliamentary labour party. and as a woman in the labour party and along with angela rayner, you know, in a senior position in the labour party, i'm really proud of the role that labour women are playing in this local election campaign and the general election. whenever the conservatives have the guts to call it just fine. >> there's lots of talk about tony blair being involved in the reshaping of this labour party as it maybe gets into government later this year. are you talking too much? is he involved behind the scenes? >> i you know, i've got a huge respect for tony blair and i do speak to him, regularly , this speak to him, regularly, this week there was a headline that says that an incoming labour government will be even more pro—business than tony blair's was. and, that's an important commitment from us, because i know there's not going to be much money around for an incoming labour government. the inheritance from the conservatives will be the worst economic inheritance since the second world war. so it's important that an incoming

labour government to grow the economy, to have the money for pubuc economy, to have the money for public services works in partnership with business to achieve that growth, good jobs and prosperity all around the country . and that's what i'm country. and that's what i'm determined to do. >> but they worry about your employment reforms aren't they? about the issue for those on short contracts and whether they can get rights that will normally go to people who work for a while. >> the new deal for working people is an important part of our growth agenda, because we need to get more people back into the workplace and we need to ensure that once again, that work offers the security with a wage that you can afford to live on and the guarantee of ours. but this is a pro—business policy , and we're consulting policy, and we're consulting with business on all of our policies , including on policies, including on employment rights, rachel reeves finally told today to gb news here in darlington. >> thank you. thank you . >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you. thank you. >> well, fantastic stuff there from chris hope, including that giveaway line. is tony blair really in charge of the labour party? let's talk about first, it's your weather and it's annie shuttleworth .

shuttleworth. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update should stay dry for many of us through the rest of today , but there will be some of today, but there will be some heavy rain starting to arrive hggyv rain starting to arrive the heavy rain startinrr to arrive the south—west as iiii�*atv�*! rain startinrr to arrive the south—west as this heavy rain startinrr to arrive the south—west as this area into the south—west as this area of low pressure is arriving with these weather fronts, that's bringing the heavier rain we've seen across parts of cornwall so far today, and that will continue to push northward throughout the evening. so parts of devon, dorset, cornwall , of devon, dorset, cornwall, possibly south wales will see some heavy outbreaks of rain through this evening . and then through this evening. and then by tomorrow morning a further batch will arrive into the south—east. ahead of that, it's going to be quite a cloudy night for much of wales and central areas of england, but to the north of this area, across northern ireland and scotland. another clear and cold night. so we're likely to see a frost again in similar areas to where we saw this morning by saturday morning. but there will be a lot of sunshine around once again across northern ireland and

northwest scotland, parts of northern england as well. the best of sunshine will be in the morning on saturday. cloud will bubble up just as it has done today, and there is a risk of a few showers breaking out here and there, particularly at the coasts, for parts of wales and central areas will be quite cloudy and a cold feeling day. and into the south—east we start to see some showery outbreaks of rain by the afternoon, and we'll start to feel a bit warmer now. those showery outbreaks of rain become a large swathe of rain for sunday, so more areas are going to see a wetter day on sunday, particularly across eastern areas and across southern areas of england. now that rain will move out into the nonh that rain will move out into the north sea through monday and it's going to turn considerably milder with highs of 19 degrees on tuesday. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

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ihope >> a very good afternoon to you. i hope you're having a wonderful friday. 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. and we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster, all across the uk. on today's show under fire, humza yousaf has been called a dead man walking after a no confidence vote leaves his future hanging by a thread and after his first year from hell, can the snp leader survive his nightmare of a week? next, as immigration to ireland soars , immigration to ireland soars, there's deputy prime minister has bizarrely blamed the uk and even the rwanda bill. but after another arson attack on an asylum seeker site last night, an irish political leader will tell gb news soon why the blame lies solely with ireland's out of touch political class and legendary political pollster sir john curtice has predicted a referendum to rejoin the european union looks likely in the next 16 years and soon on the next 16 years and soon on the show , he will tell us why. the show, he will tell us why. changing demographics and the

labour party cosying up to brussels are likely to be the blame. and emmanuel macron is calling upon eu member states to buy from european weapons manufacturers, saying there is no defence without a defence industry in the nato. in an effort even to stop the eu from dying. but is the continent geanng dying. but is the continent gearing up for war? or how about just paying your nato due, lads? well, that's all coming up in your next hour . thanks for your next hour. thanks for joining us on the show. your pleasure. your company is always an absolute delight. now we've got a political leader joining got a political leaderjoining us shortly from ireland. dramatic scenes yesterday in dublin, another arson attack on a site earmarked for asylum seekers. nobody was hurt, but ireland is on the brink on the knife edge. the political class

is calling anybody who objects far riots, and now they're blaming the uk. they're blaming the rwanda bill. we're about to be joined by a guy who says the blame lies solely with ireland's out of touch woke political class. now, this show is nothing without you and your views. and let me know your thoughts on all of the stories we'll be discussing today by visiting gbnews.com forward slash d'orsay and join the conversation or message me on our socials . and message me on our socials. and of course we're @gbnews. but before all of that, it's your headunes. before all of that, it's your headlines . this tamsin roberts headlines. this tamsin roberts pippa catterall. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon from the gb newsroom . afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's 4:02. humza yousaf says he will not resign as scotland's first minister, ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. he says that as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties. it's after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens

yesterday , but humza yousaf says yesterday, but humza yousaf says he'll fight on. i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. >> so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition . it will not be opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> students in paris have occupied the prestigious sciences—po university to demand the institute condemns israel's actions in gaza, chanting their support for the palestinians and waving flags. many of the protesters can also be seen wearing headscarves and face coverings in solidarity with the people of gaza. it comes after similar protests at universities in the united states and australia . a 20 year old man has australia. a 20 year old man has been charged with conducting hostile activity in the uk to benefit russia. dylan earl is accused of masterminding an arson plot on london businesses

after allegedly being recruited as a russian spy. four other men were also charged in connection with the same investigation . ian with the same investigation. ian and in a separate case, a former parliamentary researcher has been ordered not to contact mps after he was charged with spying for china. christopher cash, who's 29, and 32 year old christopher berry are accused of offences under the official secrets act. the pair appeared at westminster magistrates court this morning but were not required to enter any pleas. both have been granted bail . a both have been granted bail. a primary school teacher has pled guilty mid—trial to murdering her partner and burying his body in their garden. 50 year old fiona beal had initially admitted the lesser offence of manslaughter due to loss of control after stabbing 42 year old nicholas billingham, his parkley mummified remains were discovered four and a half months after he was last seen in 2021. sentencing will take place

next month . two men have been next month. two men have been charged with immigration offences after the deaths of five migrants, including a young girl who were trying to cross the english channel. the migrants were on one of several packed boats that launched from the beach at wimereux in france on tuesday morning. a man from sudan and a south sudanese national were both charged with offences related to the deadly incident. shadow chancellor rachel reeves told gb news the government is failing to stop the boats. >> they've got asylum seekers in hotels up and down the country in the hotels that were once used for local functions, for weddings , for graduations and it weddings, for graduations and it is not acceptable that the government have lost control of the borders in the way that they have. labour have got a plan to crack down on the criminal gangs at the heart of this, and also to ensure that we properly process the claims and then people who have got no right to

be in this country are quickly deported. the to the us now and the actress ashley judd says the overturning of harvey weinstein's rape conviction is an institutional betrayal . an institutional betrayal. >> her allegation of sexual assault by the hollywood producer helped spark the metoo movement. a major film star in the 1990s, she sued weinstein in 2018, claiming he damaged her career after she rejected his advances. his 2020 rape conviction was overturned yesterday after a new york court ruled he didn't receive a fair trial . the district attorney trial. the district attorney will now determine whether to seek a retrial , though he seek a retrial, though he remains in prison for other crimes . ashley judd says the crimes. ashley judd says the courts haven't served the needs of victims. >> this today is an act of institutional betrayal , and our institutional betrayal, and our institutions betray survivors of male sexual violence. i stand shoulder to shoulder with women who have bloody knees because male sexual violence may knock

us down, but we get right back up and together we are in this struggle for freedom from male entitlement to our bodies . entitlement to our bodies. >> well, those are the top stories. and for all the latest , stories. and for all the latest, do sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. or just go to news.com.au alerts. now though, it's back over to . martin. it's back over to. martin. >> thank you tamsin. now is humza yousaf a lame duck first minister? well, that's the claim of the scottish conservatives following the collapse of the snp's power sharing agreement with the scottish greens. but a defiant humza yousaf has insisted that he will fight on and will not resign. >> no, i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in

affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course , on will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win . comes, i fully intend to win. >> well, motions of no confidence have been tabled in both humza yousafs premiership and now his government. but whilst he insists he will make minority government work , ash minority government work, ash regan, the alba party's sole msp and potential kingmaker or king breaker. in fact, in the upcoming no confidence vote, has said scotland deserves and demands a reset. said scotland deserves and demands a reset . well, joining demands a reset. well, joining me now in our studio in westminster is our political correspondent, olivia utley olivier. welcome to the studio. always a delight, he said. i will fight attempts to oust me for now, humza yousaf limps on, but how long can he last? >> well, he very much is limping. he's clutching onto the job by the tips of his fingers. there is going to be this vote of no confidence next week as we know, the snp is one seat short of a majority in holyrood.

that's why they had to go into this coalition with the greens in the first place. now the greens, the lib dems, labour and the scottish conservatives have already all said that they will be voting against humza yousaf in this vote of no confidence. presumably all of the snp will vote for him, which means that everything hangs on what ash regan chooses to do now. ash regan chooses to do now. ash regan was an snp msp. she then defected to alba after falling out with the snp leadership over her position on trans rights. she's of the j.k. rowling school of thought. she thinks that women's rights are being eroded. she didn't like the gender recognition act in scotland for example. now, when she left the party, humza yousaf said that she was no loss at all. well, he might be regretting those words now. what she what she says will decide the future of his political career. that said, even if she does end up voting for yusef, it could be that in the longer term his position becomes untenable. people aren't happy with the state of the. the snp haven't been for a while

now. nicola sturgeon and her husband's potential involvement in in financial misconduct, the alleged involvement in that has has cast the whole of the snp under a bit of a cloud, and it could be that moving forwards, humza yousaf is just unable to get any legislation over the line, in which case he might have to resign anyway. what's astonishing about this, olivia, is that sworn political enemies are jumping into bed with each other, such as their disdain, it appears for humza yousaf the greens, the tories, the labour party, the alba party joining forces when the when the momentum is such, when the gathering is such against you, is there any way that humza yousaf could do a highland jig and woo the greens back on board? >> can he offer them anything to make them change their minds, or do you think this is just a fait accompli now? >> well, i think it seems hugely

unlikely that he'll be able to get the greens to change their minds. it had already become a bit of a case in the scottish parliament of the green tail wagging the snp dog. the greens were having too much power, so the snp thought over their, their manifesto and their and their manifesto and their and their plan for governing . i their plan for governing. i think it's very, very unlikely that yousaf will jump back into bed with the greens. it was proved over the last year that that coalition is simply unworkable and as you've said, there , i mean, douglas ross, the there, i mean, douglas ross, the leader of the scottish conservatives, anas sarwar , conservatives, anas sarwar, they've both condemned, humza yousaf in the strongest possible terms. the lib dems to have come down like a ton of bricks on humza yousaf, so he will probably try to woo back a couple of couple of msps from, some, some various parties in order to try and get himself over the line. but i think it's really, really unlikely , which really, really unlikely, which means everything really does rest in the hands of ash, regan andisnt rest in the hands of ash, regan and isn't that an astonishing situation to be? >> they talk about political karma , but this is one a script karma, but this is one a script you couldn't write. it's almost a hollywood ending. here's

somebody who ran herself to be snp leader and i thought she was a very, very credible candidate. she's an excellent politician. and then she, on a matter of principle , decide to step down principle, decide to step down on all the gender recognition stuff and now she holds that solitary power . will yousaf try solitary power. will yousaf try and attempt to woo her into not dropping the axe? could she actually save his bacon ? actually save his bacon? >> well, she could save his bacon and she's already written a letter to him, an open letter to him suggesting that she will have some, some demands to make of him. and it seems quite likely that he will have to give in to her demands. and one of those demands. fascinating was making sure that women's rights are protected in scotland. so are protected in scotland. so are we about to see an snp about turn on issues of gender that would be a really, really interesting twist in this tale because that, and perhaps only that could get eshraghian back on side, but then they would have to do another spectacular

u—turn on the green targets. >> and isn't that the thing? it's like , can they trust humza it's like, can they trust humza yousaf at this point or will he say anything to try and keep his own political career alive? >> well, this is the issue. it really feels as though humza yousaf is sort of juggling a lot of different balls at the moment, trying to be something different to so many different people. and as i say again, it really does remind me of those final days of the theresa may premiership where she was desperately reaching out to the to the conservatives on on the right of the party who wanted a harder brexit, promising them little bits here and there. then she was going to the dup, promising something different, throwing £1 million here and there for various constituencies , in northern ireland, going to the left of the party, promising softer brexit, etc. and eventually it just became unworkable . and i think humza unworkable. and i think humza yousaf may eventually find himself in a similar situation . fantastic. >> so olivia utley always a pleasure. and now i'm going to be joined by the conservative, conservative former member of the scottish parliament, brian monteith. brian, always an absolute delight . brian, an absolute delight. brian, an interesting thing about this is that people seem to think it's a

given that all of the snp msps will back mr yousaf . do you will back mr yousaf. do you think that's the case or are they fed up with him to. >> i think it's likely they want to show that they support him, but there may well be over this coming weekend, a great deal of skulduggery going on. backchannelling, to basically try and get him to resign before he actually faces , a possible he actually faces, a possible denoument on wednesday , there's denoument on wednesday, there's also the possibility that , he also the possibility that, he survives, but then we get to the labour motion, which is a no confidence of the whole government. now, here's an interesting thing, because political incentives suggest that all parties except the snp would benefit from the government falling and eventually there having to be a general election in scotland for

a holyrood parliament, because every other party might think it would benefit and have more msps elected . so there'd be an elected. so there'd be an incentive to bring down the government , including the government, including the greens, including the liberal democrats and conservatives . democrats and conservatives. they all would see advantage in supporting the labour motion . so supporting the labour motion. so i think he's really up against it here because he could lose, lose the, the, both votes or, win one and then lose the, the latter one. >> brian knowing humza yousaf as you do, he probably will cling on for dear life until the bitter end. right. so what do you think is the most likely outcome if his leadership vote is lost, but not the entire party vote? because, as i understand it, the greens have said that. yeah, they're going to go with the vote of no confidence against him as an individual , confidence against him as an individual, but against the snp as an establishment, as an entity that's less likely to happen right? >> well, you might think that ,

>> well, you might think that, but as i say, yusuf has come. mr yusuf has come over as someone who's rash and intemperate and seems to make up things that go along and displays really bad judgement , along and displays really bad judgement, he was right. i recommended myself, a number of days ago that he should be breaking his bute house agreement with the greens, but the way he handled it was, was a complete train wreck, and inched complete train wreck, and incited them to come out even before it was had gone public for them to start condemning him. i think he is a character who the snp backbenchers will be beginning to think we would be better to shoehorn someone in in advance of all these votes happening, but when it comes to voting the government, the greens could see an opportunity, for actually strengthening their hand, for negotiating a better deal hand, for negotiating a better deal. so there's no election or for going to an election and

believing they could win more seats. now, of course , in seats. now, of course, in a general election year, all the parties are looking at that . parties are looking at that. they could see this sets us up. labourin they could see this sets us up. labour in particular, could say this will give us a platform for the general election if we do very well and they're expected to do well. so so the incentives are for a new government, not just the ending of yusuf. >> do you think that if things come to pass and mr yousaf does fall on his sword, brian monteith, he might be remembered as somebody who was killed by woke ? i mean, he backed the woke? i mean, he backed the gender recognition bill, backed the hate crime bill, backed net zero targets and forced to do a u—turn on that. meanwhile, the everyday matters of the electorate seemed to care about the economy, schools, crime, the nhs seemed to be totally neglected because here is a politician. here is a party more obsessed with ideology . obsessed with ideology. >> well, it's just like going back to student union days . it back to student union days. it reminds me that when there were hardly any chances to hold the

student union to account, they would do anything that they wanted, irrespective of what the mass student body would believe and want themselves , but when and want themselves, but when you could actually get a general meeting where people turned up or a referendum of the students, then the extremists would be thrown out. and this this is an example i think, of going walk, going broke, if politicians do not actually listen to what the pubuc not actually listen to what the public want , they want their public want, they want their schools better, they want their health care better , they want health care better, they want their roads, better. they want their roads, better. they want their housing. he cut spending on housing, i saw the clip. you put up. he doesn't mention he cut it by over £100 million. so? so the truth is that whoever's in government has to get back to basics and making devolution work, not actually following some ideology that nobody really has a majority for. >> okay, brian monteith , always >> okay, brian monteith, always a pleasure to have you on the show. of course, humza yousaf

will stick by his principles. he no doubt will say he believes he's doing the right thing by the climbers, by gender ideology , by hate crime bills and he will fight on. we'll be following that story, of course, incessantly with absolute detail as it rolls out over the coming days. and we'll have lots more on that story. of course, at 5:00, and there's plenty of coverage on our website, gbnews.com, and you've helped to make it the fastest growing national news website in the country. so thank you very much. coming up, the rwanda bill was finally passed this week despite human rights concerns, but it's already causing a massive stir because, according to ireland's deputy prime minister, the rwanda bill is causing migrants to head to ireland instead of the uk. i'll speak to a political leader soon who says thatis political leader soon who says that is absolute codswallop. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 423. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now is the rwanda bill is already working well with the plan to send asylum seekers to the central african nation being legalised earlier this week , the legalised earlier this week, the deputy prime minister in ireland is now claiming many are already avoiding the uk and choosing his country instead. this, as the irish government continued to deal increasing tension over rising immigration and housing shortages . well, joining me now shortages. well, joining me now in the studio to discuss this is gb news political correspondent, catherine forcer. catherine, welcome back. always a delight . welcome back. always a delight. so the bill finally given royal assent. we knew that was coming. rishi sunak adamant the flight will take ofcom what may. no ifs, no buts. talking a good

fight, if nothing else, within 10 to 12 weeks, he says. but catherine ireland are suddenly hoved into view as an issue. tell us why. it's a fascinating knock on effect . knock on effect. >> yeah, it really is, as you say, not a single migrant to rwanda yet, but the government are confident of sending planeload after planeload. they tell us through the summer. so we shall see, but today this big story on the front page of the daily telegraph saying that ireland's deputy prime minister, micheal martin, has said that the rwanda bill that only became law yesterday, only finally got through that huge battle to get it through the lords in the early hours of tuesday is already having an impact on ireland because , he says, what's ireland because, he says, what's happening is that people are fearful of staying in the united kingdom. so they've crossed the channel on small boats or possibly on lorries. we know lots of people still come on lorries , and rather than staying lorries, and rather than staying in the uk , they're going into

in the uk, they're going into northern ireland. and then of course there is no border on the island of ireland. you know, the eu were very, very firm on that in the brexit negotiations. there will be no border. so we effectively have a border down the irish sea for the purposes of, of trade. so basically people come into northern ireland, can then go straight into the south, no border, no checks. there's no way of knowing how many. but it's an easy way to get into ireland . easy way to get into ireland. and then of course you're back in the european union and you can't be sent to rwanda now, the justice minister had said that they estimate that 80% of the new arrivals are coming, that way, i have to say they can't actually know that because the whole point of the non border between the northern ireland and the south is that there are no checks. so they don't know this, but certainly i think it suits them to put some of the blame for the problems that they're having, which are considerable. and back onto the uk and also onto brexit rather than their

own policies and as some would say at their own failures . say at their own failures. >> okay. katherine forster, is that the case? well, let's find out now because joining us now is the president of the irish freedom party, herman kelly. herman, welcome to the show. an astonishing report that surprised us. this side of the irish sea. so here we go. it's the uk's fault. it's rwanda's fault. the soaring immigration in ireland is all down to us. what's the reality ? okay. we what's the reality? okay. we can't. we can't hear herman again . right. we're going to again. right. we're going to come back to you and we're going to get back to herman shortly. i do hope it's an astonishing situation. and what's been happening on the ground last night, for example, about an hours night, for example, about an hour's drive south of dublin. that a site earmarked for asylum seekers was a fire was set on and police came along. we've

seen, of course, previous riots in dublin over this. ireland very much feels on a knife edge . very much feels on a knife edge. >> yeah. and it's quite extraordinary because ireland , extraordinary because ireland, it's on the edge of europe geographically and in many ways. it was sort of set in the past in terms of being progressive or not, for a very long time now under the current government, they've moved really very fast . they've moved really very fast. ireland has changed very radically. i mean, it used to be a deeply conservative, deeply catholic country, but they want to be seen as progressive, to be moving with the times. and they're not bringing a lot of their own citizens with them. and this is really manifesting itself in these arson attacks, the riots that we are seeing a lot of irish citizens feel there's a huge housing crisis. we have one here. they have an acute housing crisis in ireland. two, they don't like seeing the numbers of people coming over. they feel that there isn't the infrastructure for them. and just to give you one figure, of

course, the population of ireland, nothing like that of the uk. but, since the start of 2023, they refused 7300 refugees vie status. basically, they turned those people down. but they deported less than 100. so there's thousands of people have had their asylum applications refused in ireland, but they are still there . still there. >> it's an astonishing state of affairs. so just to repeat that, 7300 refused asylum in ireland. at that point, they should have been deported . ed only 100 were been deported. ed only 100 were deported and that's a pitiful 1.37% deportation rate . and yet 1.37% deportation rate. and yet and that's historical way before rwanda came to pass. and yet the politicians in ireland are blaming the rwanda bill. they're blaming the rwanda bill. they're blaming the rwanda bill. they're blaming the united kingdom as a way through the back door, as it were, into ireland , failing to were, into ireland, failing to take any account of what's happening in the situation . and

happening in the situation. and leo varadkar, of course, before he stepped down, was routinely brandishing anybody who objected to this as far right. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and i mean, i have to say, number 10 this lunchtime poured a little bit of cold water onto this. they said, you know, it's too soon really to see, to make a direct link, but it suits the irish government . and i have to irish government. and i have to say, this is no bad thing for the conservative government at the conservative government at the moment either to have this. oh, you know, it hasn't even started yet, but it's already putting people off. people like marco longhi are saying, you know, the fact that asylum seekers are now starting to go elsewhere is clear evidence that the deterrent effect is taking place. well, of course, really what they want to do is stop people crossing the channel altogether. we saw, didn't we, those five deaths on the early hours of tuesday morning , just hours of tuesday morning, just after, the bill had finally finished its passage through parliament, two men charged today that eight year old girl tragically killed and a reminder

that, you know, people are risking their lives as france, the rest of europe. these are safe countries . but these safe countries. but these people, this huge industry, these people smugglers making vast amounts of money, trading on human misery by putting people onto boats that are not safe , they're taking the gamble safe, they're taking the gamble of getting to the united kingdom. and sometimes they are losing that gamble . and the losing that gamble. and the prime minister, who obviously beenin prime minister, who obviously been in poland and berlin this week, i was on that trip talking on the flight over there. we were questioning him about this and he was saying, we are doing this for compassionate reasons. it's not just that we want to stop it because , you know, it's stop it because, you know, it's not fair. it's the right thing to do morally because lives are being put at risk, lives are being put at risk, lives are being lost , being put at risk, lives are being lost, and this is not okay. >> okay. thank you very much. katherine forster. now, just to repeat, we will be speaking to herman kelly, who's the president of the irish freedom party. later in the show for an astonishing overview of what's

been happening in ireland. arson attacks the police involve quite incredible scenes. we will get back to herman kelly later in the show, but first, it's time for your latest news headlines andifs for your latest news headlines and it's with tamsin roberts . and it's with tamsin roberts. >> martin, thanks very much. good afternoon from the gb news room, it's 431. here are the headlines. scotland's first minister says he will not resign ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. humza yousaf says as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties. it's after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday , but the the greens yesterday, but the first minister says he'll fight on. >> on. >> i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays , not just the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition.

it will not be taking part . it it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win . comes, i fully intend to win. >> students in paris have occupied the prestigious sciences—po university to demand the institution condemns israel's actions in gaza, chanting their support for the palestinians and waving flags. many of the protesters can also be seen wearing headscarves and face coverings in solidarity with the people of gaza. it comes after similar protests at universities in the united states and australia . a 20 year states and australia. a 20 year old man has been charged with conducting hostile activity in the uk to benefit russia. dylan earl is accused of masterminding an arson plot on london businesses after allegedly being recruited as a russian spy. four other men were also charged in connection with the same investigation and in a separate case, a former parliamentary researcher has been ordered not to contact mps after he was

charged with spying for china. christopher cash, who's 29, and 32 year old christopher berry are accused of offences under the official secrets act. the pair appeared at westminster magistrates court this morning but were not required to enter any pleas. both have been granted bail . well, for the granted bail. well, for the latest stories , do sign up to gb latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. or you can go to gb news. common alerts. >> thank you tamsin. now in a few minutes time, could we be dragged dragged back into the european union? well, polling guru sirjohn european union? well, polling guru sir john curtice european union? well, polling guru sirjohn curtice says a new european union referendum could happenin european union referendum could happen in the next 16 years. he'll tell me why soon. but first, there's a new way to get in touch with us here @gbnews and here's bev turner with all the details. >> we are proud to be gb news

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welcome back. it's 437. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now prior to britain's official departure from the european union in january 2020, many disgruntled remainers took to the streets for months and months, demanding a so—called people's vote or a second chance to decide . and even following to decide. and even following our exit from brussels, many still hold hope that brexit can be undone and britain may 1st day rejoin the european project .

day rejoin the european project. well, yesterday, one of britain's most respected polling experts , professor sir john experts, professor sir john curtice, spoke at an event for a uk in a changing europe, predicting that britain will indeed have another referendum on our membership of the eu within the next 16 years, owing to two things ever changing attitudes and movements in age and demographics, and also something else. it might be something else. it might be something to do with the labour party. so is brexit a done deal after all, or are we heading back to brussels ? well, i'm back to brussels? well, i'm delighted to say i'm joined now by the legendary professor sir john curtice. always an absolute delight to have you on the show, john. so many gb news viewers now might be choking on their tea. the prospect of a second referendum. let us know why do you think that's looking likely? well, let's let me give you the context of where this comment arose . arose. >> so the basic point i was making at the time , at the event

making at the time, at the event a couple of days ago was that i reckoned that the referendum of 2016 would prove no more successful than the referendum of 1975. in resolving our relationship with the european union, that we're going to keep on arguing and debating this. so that's crucial. point number one. and remember that the referendum of 1975 was much more decisive in the vote to stay inside the then common market that it recorded than was the narrow vote in favour of brexit back in 2016. so that's .1.2 then. so you've just referred to , is that, you look at the demographics. well, look at current attitudes , current current attitudes, current attitudes. now on the polling, on average, it's about 58% of people who say they'd vote to rejoin varne, 42% say that they would vote to stay out. now, that's not an impossible pressure for politicians to row

against. but it's worth bearing in mind that we are already in a situation where seemingly more people would prefer to be in than to be out. then, as you've said, the third thing we need to bearin said, the third thing we need to bear in mind is the demographics and the demographics, are such that it's older people still who primarily want to be outside the european union, younger people who want to be inside it. and i'm afraid the natural rules of mortality mean that unless today's middle aged people are persuaded of the merits of being outside the eu to a greater extent than they are at the moment , that, that gradually, moment, that, that gradually, gradually the british public is going to get to be more pro eu. then the final point i would make is that, if you certainly look at the composition of labour support compared with the conservative support, you know, labour's vote is still about 75%

a pro eu vote. conservative one is about a two thirds a leave vote. so it's still a source of division between our parties. and so the question then arises, well, will we find ourselves at some point in the relative? i mean, i regard 2040s as a relatively distant future. but that at some point now, given that at some point now, given that structure that the labour party and or the liberal democrats may want to say, well, actually we should now be thinking about trying to rejoin the european union again, much will depend on the state of the british economy, how the relationship, how brexit works out over the next 5 or 6 years, but that, you know, none of us can forecast the exact pathway, but certainly you could see how, if indeed more people conclude that brexit perhaps wasn't such a good idea, who knows , given we a good idea, who knows, given we certainly have two parties who support is very strongly coming from that direction already. they may at some point find themselves under pressure , themselves under pressure, despite the views of their

current leadership, to be wanting to revisit the issue. and, you know, remember, martin, nobody thought until much before 2016 that we would ever revisit the issue again. so don't be entirely dismissive of the idea that perhaps we will once again revisit it somewhat earlier than might seem obvious at this point in time. >> now, sirjohn, i want to pick up on a point you made, which really kind of caught my eye in your speech, and it says, how's our relationship with the european union evolve? to what extent does the next labour government soften it or not? now, isn't this a key point? david lammy has said an absolute priority , an immediate priority priority, an immediate priority of a labour government will be stronger ties with brussels. tony blair, who we questioned rachel reeves today, seems to be much more involved with the labour party than perhaps might meet the eye, he , of course, is meet the eye, he, of course, is a huge europhile . so is the a huge europhile. so is the possibility. the distinct

possibility. the distinct possibility that sir keir starmer, who of course, led the people's vote campaign to turn brexit around, could this closer alignment , brexit around, could this closer alignment, ratcheting back towards brussels, be part of the softening up of the electorate? getting us used to the fact that brussels isn't the enemy? without a referendum, we might find ourselves going towards brussels anyhow. >> well, two points i mean one i'm inclined to say to you, the electorate doesn't necessarily need softening up because i've already suggested they've already suggested they've already softened to some degree. that said, well, two points to make. first is what have labour said they want to do? they said they want to have a defence and security pact with the european union. and i think that probably reflects the fact that since we've left, the european union has become geostrategic geostrategically more important, not least germany, because of the consequence of the russian invasion. invasion in into ukraine. the second thing they said is that they want to have a come to an agreement over food and agriculture , really, in and agriculture, really, in a sense, moving in line with

regulations to ensure they remain in line with those the european union. now, whether that's something that can be achieved and whether it can be achieved and whether it can be achieved quickly. while some of the experts will say to you, not necessarily obvious and not necessarily obvious and not necessarily something the european union will be desperately keen to give us, unless we're willing to soften in other directions that said, if you then go on to look at the polling evidence about attitudes towards softening the issue, thatis towards softening the issue, that is still the issue that works in the in the direction of the pro—brexit case is the idea that it gives us the ability to have more control over our own affairs, and that that sentiment is not entirely lost amongst those people who say that they would vote to rejoin. so insofar as what labour want to do is to have a focus on very specific aspects of our relationship with the european union, that does perhaps make more focus more. the more strongly on this issue of control and insofar as there

is an argument in favour of rejoining the bit of the case thatis rejoining the bit of the case that is weakest in the eyes of rejoiners is the issue of control. so focusing on the control. so focusing on the control issue very specifically is not necessarily the easiest ways of softening up brexit. >> okay. we have to leave it there. thanks for your expert insight. as ever. always a delight. professor sir john curtice. now plenty more coming on today's show, including macron is calling upon eu member states to buy from european weapons manufacturers , saying weapons manufacturers, saying there is no defence without a defence industry in an effort to stop the eu from dying out. is the continent gearing up for war? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel .

welcome back. it's 449. i'm martin daubney on gb news. well,

to discuss politics in the studio. with me now is the political commentator andy macdonald. and the former deputy chair of ukip, suzanne evans. welcome to the show. so we were just speaking fascinating with professor sir john curtice, a legendary polling guru. a moment ago , he reckons suzanne, within ago, he reckons suzanne, within 14 years there's going to be a second referendum to rejoin. and the key things are leavers are dying out, but most importantly, perhaps, to us here, the labour party , if it gets in, will get party, if it gets in, will get closer and closer and closer to brussels. what's your take on that. >> so heard it all before martin, to be honest. you know leaders are all old people. not true . nobody actually knows who true. nobody actually knows who voted and how. >> it's all done on polling . >> it's all done on polling. >> it's all done on polling. >> and as we know, there's only one poll counted. we also they also we were going to lose the eu referendum. >> and of course there was a resounding win for leave. >> i think also in 14 years time, i'm not convinced that the european union is even going to exist to rejoin. >> i think it's quite clearly falling apart. >> no doubt the eu commission did a jolly good job of making it as difficult as possible for britain to leave the european

union to put the frighteners on every other member member nation, but people are very angry about what's going on. you know, poland's furious, hungary is furious. >> france . populism is growing >> france. populism is growing in france. of course, we've had emmanuel macron complaining about this, this this week, today, talking about how the eu army that funnily enough, we were told didn't exist and wasn't going to happen. do you remember that fantasy ? a remember that fantasy? a dangerous fantasy, of course, nick clegg said so now we've got instead we've got macron saying we need to boost the eu army, goodness knows why he's he's complaining that populism is the reason for this. and ignoring the fact that france is falling apart. you know, umpteen terrorist attacks , crime is terrorist attacks, crime is rising and all the rest of it worldwide threats from all over the place. but no, it's populism and anti—eu sentiment that's a problem. what a load of absolute rubbish. yeah, i've always said i don't think that eu is going to last forever. you look at any, any kind of supernatural government that's tried to force

disparate nations with different cultures , different languages, cultures, different languages, different ethos together. they've always fallen apart. the ussr, yugoslavia, czechoslovakia , they don't exist. i think the eu is going to end up going the same way myself and andy mcdonald crack on. >> commonwealth has survived quite well, hasn't it? and that's that's a multicultural organisation . organisation. >> no it's not because it's not. >> no it's not because it's not. >> let's let andy ever say you've had a good crack. >> and no to fair i did, i did, i did answer the question there and vie macdonald, is this though a lot of people were saying they believe that sir keir starmer is a rejoiner in disguise as a referendum won't be on the table, but slowly getting cosier and cosier and with the bosom boys in brussels is the route. >> well , is the route. >> well, perhaps, but he's made it fairly clear several times he said it to a range of different journalists, different outlets that the labour party, the next labour government and any labour government that he is leading is not going to rejoin the eu. >> he wants better relations because honestly, the conservative party have made an absolute mess of the post—brexit foreign relations with the eu.

>> but i would just ask, you know, who is the foreign secretary at the moment? >> is it not david cameron, the man who in fact triggered the eu referendum, who led the case for remaining in the eu , liked it? remaining in the eu, liked it? so, you know, i think if we're looking at people to trust on the european issue, both sides of, you know, the opposition and the government have their skeletons in the closet. so i don't think going oh, well, keir starmer supported rejoining or remaining in the eu is really a fair line when the foreign secretary is in fact the man who caused all of the issues in the first place, the man who thought we'd disappeared into the aether and lo and behold, there he is, back again. >> and maybe that's the point. the entire establishment once again seems to be getting back towards brussels. which brings me on to my next point. we spoke to shadow chancellor rachel reeves earlier. i put a question via chris hope is sir tony blair actually pulling the strings behind the scenes? a lot of us, a lot of people out there, think that's maybe going on. she was very effusive, saying, oh yeah, we speak to tony blair a lot. how much of an influence do you

think sir tony blair will be on sir keir starmer and the future direction of the labour party? >> well, i think he will be actually quite a big influence. now, you might also remember another famous quote when keir starmer was asked which he which he felt more naturally aligned to westminster or davos. you know, the group of billionaire elites in switzerland who meet once a year and try and formulate policy that is supposed to be rolled out for this one world government. now, if keir starmer is in that camp, tony blair is very much in the davos camp as well. he's he's, i think, tipped to be the next head of the world economic forum, so yeah , there's the mood forum, so yeah, there's the mood music for you. clear as day blairite at davos starmer davos okay quite clearly i think they're in his pocket. he's a puppet master behind the scenes andyis puppet master behind the scenes andy is it a bad thing i mean sir tony blair knows how to win. >> is that what the labour party needed? >>i needed? >> i think you know any anybody hoping to be prime minister of any colour will look to former prime ministers from their party. you know, cameron said that he often sought advice from

margaret thatcher, someone who won a lot of elections for the conservatives, listened a bit harder. >> he might have done better. >> he might have done better. >> perhaps he could. you know, he only won, what, two elections, one and a half elections. >> but of course, keir starmer, who's hoping to win a landslide, anyone could dream of winning a landslide like the 1997 result that tony blair delivered. so i don't think it is a terrible thing that he is seeking advice from him, but also he runs the tony blair institute. this is a huge think tank. so many researchers, so much funding. you would be silly not to take into account, you know, some of the research that's coming out of there. they've got former conservative advisers, former lib dem advisers, former labour advisers working at the tony blair institute . you know, blair institute. you know, they're doing a lot of great stuff on al and tech. so i think it's not it's not silly for him to be listening to someone with such a powerful think tank behind them. >> and maybe that's why sir tony blair wants to get involved. he could get quite a good few quid out of it, couldn't he? anyway, we have to leave it there. thank you very much, suzanne and andy. we'll come back to you, of course, in the next hour. thank you very much. now play ball coming up later in the show. so stay tuned. i'm martin daubney on gb news. but first this your weather with annie shuttleworth.

>> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update should stay dry for many of us through the rest of today, but there will be some heavy rain starting to arrive into the south—west as this area of low pressure is arriving with these weather fronts, that's bringing the heavier rain we've seen across parts of cornwall so far today, and that will continue to push northwards throughout this evening. so parts of devon, dorset , parts of devon, dorset, cornwall, possibly south wales will see some heavy outbreaks of rain through this evening. and then by tomorrow morning a further batch will arrive into the south—east. ahead of that, it's going to be quite a cloudy night for much of wales and central areas of england, but to the north of this area, across northern ireland and scotland, another clear and cold night, so we're likely to see a frost again in similar areas to where we saw this morning by saturday morning. but there will be a lot of sunshine around once again

across northern ireland and northwest scotland, parts of northern england as well. the best of sunshine will be in the morning on saturday. cloud will bubble up just as it has done today, and there is a risk of a few showers breaking out here and there, particularly at the coast for parts of wales and central areas will be quite cloudy and a cold feeling day. and into the southeast we start to see some showery outbreaks of rain by the afternoon , and we'll rain by the afternoon, and we'll start to feel a bit warmer now. those showery outbreaks of rain become a large swathe of rain for sunday, so more areas are going to see a wetter day on sunday, particularly across eastern areas and across southern areas of england. now that rain will move out into the nonh that rain will move out into the north sea through monday and it's going to turn considerably milder with highs of 19 degrees on tuesday. looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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happy friday. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk . westminster all across the uk. coming up on today's show, under—fire humza yousaf has been called a dead man walking after a no confidence vote leaves his future hanging by a thread after his first year from hell. can the snp leader survive another nightmare week next up is immigration to ireland. source there, deputy prime minister has bizarrely blamed the uk and even the rwanda bill. but after another arson attack on an asylum seeker site last night, about an hour from dublin, an irish political leader has told gb news why the blame lies solely with ireland's out of touch politicians and prince harry dons military medals in his sunny montecito mansion to give an award to a soldier. despite being stripped of his titles. i'm asking, should prince harry give up his

military medals? and this one will ruffle some feathers out there, which is why we're doing it. and here's the question has feminism left middle age women single, childless and depressed, depressed ? well, that will be depressed? well, that will be the big debate. has feminism made women miserable? and that's all coming up in your next hour. what was the show? always a delight to have your company. shortly i'll be talking to a political leader in ireland. hugely dramatic scenes. last night, about an hour from dublin, a site earmarked for asylum seekers suffered what appears to be an arson attack . appears to be an arson attack. there have been a spate of them in ireland. you recall there was violence on the streets of dubun violence on the streets of dublin after a failed asylum seeker stabbed three people, including a child, and a teacher. ireland is full. they keep saying enough is enough, yet politicians call them far

right or racists for speaking out. now they are even blaming the rwanda bill and even the uk for soaring to immigration ireland. i'll be joined by a political leader who says that is absolute balderdash. now the show is nothing without your views and get in touch please. there's a new way of doing it. go to gbnews.com/yoursay and fire those comments across. i'll read out a bunch before the end of the show, but now it's time for your news headlines and it's tamsin roberts. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon from the gb newsroom . afternoon from the gb newsroom. here are the top stories at 502, humza yousaf says he will not resign as scotland's first minister, ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week . he says that as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties . negotiates with other parties. it's after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday, but humza

yousaf says he'll fight on. >> i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> police have named two teachers injured in an alleged knife attack in amman valley school as fiona elias and liz hopkins. they were taken to hospital on wednesday along with a teenage pupil with non—life threatening injuries. a teenage pupil with non—life threatening injuries . assistant threatening injuries. assistant headteacher mrs. elias thanked pupils for their resilience and said the incident has had an enormous impact on her colleagues. meanwhile, miss hopkins said she was deeply indebted to all the emergency services for their quick response. a teenage girl has been remanded to youth detention after being charged with attempted murder . a 20 year old

attempted murder. a 20 year old excuse me, a 20 year old man has been charged with conducting hostile activity in the uk to benefit russia. dylan earl is accused of masterminding an arson plot on london businesses after allegedly being recruited as a russian spy. four other men were also charged in connection with the same investigation . in with the same investigation. in and in a separate case, a former parliamentary researcher has been ordered not to contact mps after he was charged with spying for china. christopher cash, who's 29, and 32 year old christopher berry are accused of offences under the official secrets act. the pair appeared at westminster magistrates court this morning but were not required to enter any pleas. both have been granted bail . a both have been granted bail. a primary school teacher has pled guilty mid—trial to murdering her partner and burying his body in their garden. 50 year old fiona beal had initially admitted the lesser offence of

manslaughter due to the loss of control after stabbing 42 year old nicholas billingham, his partly mummified remains were discovered four and a half months after he was last seen in 2021. sentencing will take place next month . two men have been next month. two men have been charged with immigration offences after the deaths of five migrants, including a young girl who were trying to cross the english channel. the migrants were on one of several packed boats that launched from the beach at wimereux and france on tuesday morning. a man from sudan and a south sudanese national have been charged with offences related to the fatal incident. shadow chancellor rachel reeves told gb news the government is failing to stop the boats. >> they've got asylum seekers in hotels up and down the country in hotels that were once used for local functions, for weddings , for graduations and it weddings, for graduations and it is not acceptable that the

government have lost control of the borders in the way that they have. labour have got a plan to crack down on the criminal gangs at the heart of this, and also to ensure that we properly process the claims. and then people who have got no right to be in this country are quickly deported. the students in paris have occupied the prestigious sciences—po university to demand the institution condemns israel's actions in gaza, chanting their support for the palestinians and waving flags. >> many of the protesters can also be seen wearing headscarves and face coverings . it comes and face coverings. it comes after similar protests at universities in the united states and australia to the us now, and the actress ashley judd says the overturning of harvey weinstein's rape conviction is an institutional betrayal. her allegation of sexual assault by the hollywood producer helped spark the metoo movement, a major film star in the 1990s, she sued weinstein in 2018, claiming he damaged her career

after she rejected his advances in 2020. the rape conviction was overturned yesterday after a new york court ruled he didn't receive a fair trial. the district attorney will now determine whether to seek a retrial, though he remains in prison for other crimes. ashley judd says the courts haven't served the needs of victims . served the needs of victims. >> this today is an act of institutional betrayal, and our institutions betray the survivors of male sexual violence. i stand shoulder to shoulder with women who have bloody knees because male sexual violence may knock us down, but we get right back up and together we are in this struggle for freedom from male entitlement to our bodies . entitlement to our bodies. >> well, those are the top stories and for all the latest, do 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 tamsin. now is the writing on the wall for humza yousaf? well, the scottish conservatives have confirmed they will back a labour led motion of the confidence in the scottish government, meaning both of the main opposition parties will support a no confidence motions tabled against both humza yousaf and his entire government. and this comes after the leader of scottish labour, anas sarwar, confidently predicted that it was a question of when, not if, humza yousaf finally resigned. but the first minister insists he is going nowhere . he is going nowhere. >> no, i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting , of course, on

will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win . comes, i fully intend to win. >> well, is humza yousaf a dead man walking or could there be one final highland fling? well, i'm joined now by gb news scotland reporter tony mcguire . scotland reporter tony mcguire. tony, i keep saying it. the sun is shining on you, but the storm clouds are gathering around. humza yousaf was just about approaching the end of the week. he survived the week. can he limp on? >> well it's interesting martin, you know when you say that to me. the last time it was actually convinced i was reminded of something that happened last weekend. humza yousaf spoke at the believe in scotland independence rally in glasgow and he came out on stage and he said the sun always shines on the righteous. now scottish politics, opposition parties, they'll be feeling pretty righteous with the way that this week has ended. and because it is friday afternoon, well, i thought no better way than to give a rundown of where we are with all the major

political players here in scotland . so as you mentioned scotland. so as you mentioned there, obviously anas sarwar , he there, obviously anas sarwar, he had put in his motion of no confidence against humza yousafs government and that has then gone on to be backed by douglas ross and the scottish conservatives, who say they will vote for that now. anas sarwar he said that it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when and it's untenable that the snp can assume that it can impose another unelected first minister in scotland to replace mr yousaf without an election . now douglas without an election. now douglas ross, obviously leader of the scottish conservatives, he said that well , you know, it wasn't that well, you know, it wasn't necessarily him seeing eye to eye with anas sarwar and a lot of things. ultimately he wants to support this labour motion because he wants to get rid of the scottish government quite simply and on top of that, he knows that he is in the brink of

removing humza yousaf, of course, from his own vote of no confidence, which he lodged yesterday during qus. now confidence, which he lodged yesterday during qus . now they yesterday during qus. now they are almost the givens so into the more interesting territory. alba of course, the other scottish independent party and they understand that anas sarwar, they think is grandstanding and it's just an attempt to remain relevant. and meanwhile, obviously ash regan, who we spoke about at length about how she could potentially be the kingmaker or or king breaker, if you like. well, she's actually given a list of asks of humza yousaf if he is to expect her support next week. and that includes typical things like having independence at the top of the agenda, as well as more protection for women's and children's rights. interesting development this afternoon, though. she also wants the scottish government to invest in grangemouth refinery. of course, that was announced that that was going to be closing in november

last year with the loss of several hundred jobs. well, she's asked for the scottish government to invest in that and save some of those jobs. i can't imagine investing in a green refinery or an oil refinery and is going to sit well with the greens, and essentially it's giving this impression , giving this impression, certainly, that she is making humza yousaf choose between alba support or the greens. humza yousaf choose between alba support or the greens . now, support or the greens. now, patrick harvie, one of the jilted co—leaders of the scottish greens who walked out of bute house just yesterday morning, left the government and he has said that it's pretty clear that humza yousaf is unable to unite holyrood and it certainly seems like this week has taken its toll on humza yousaf and the scottish government . government. >> well, tony mcguire on a wonderful friday evening like that in edinburgh, most people now will be clocking off and heading down the boozer. humza yousaf, you suspect, will be going home to hide under the

duvet. tony mcguire. thank you very much for your input. duvet. tony mcguire. thank you very much for your input . these very much for your input. these past few days been excellent. let's get the thoughts now of the writer at think scotland. dean thompson. dean, welcome to the show by any reckoning, it's been a nightmare of a week . and been a nightmare of a week. and the incredible thing is that the greens have teamed up with the tories, with the labour party, with the alba party . with the alba party. historically, sworn foes have become friends to unite in the singular purpose of removing humza yousaf is—he, a dead man walking. >> well, yes, i think it's just a question of when, not if that he's ultimately pushed out. but by all accounts, thomasius . he's ultimately pushed out. but by all accounts, thomasius. his greatest problem is that he's not very good at politics. his political judgement has been pretty poor, even since the snp leadership elections were on going and were, by all accounts, people who i talked to say in person. he's a very charming ,

person. he's a very charming, very nice person. but i think charm was mistaken for competence and the lack of political competence and judgement has put him in a position where he has alienated all the opposition parties against him . against him. >> do you think there's any way out of this? dean thompson, there have been rumours that he's desperately trying to talk to the greens to form some kind of deal. and of course , ash of deal. and of course, ash regan. they were once colleagues. they were once friends. is there any way, because she could be that deciding piece of the jigsaw? the kingmaker , the king breaker? the kingmaker, the king breaker? is there anything that he could offer to her to stop her from dropping the executioner's sword ? >> well, 7— >> well, it's 7 >> well, it's unclear which opfion >> well, it's unclear which option is the least worst , if option is the least worst, if i can put it like that. for the for the first minister. on the one hand, you've got ash regan one hand, you've got ash regan on her list of demands. more independence, a referendum on

giving holyrood the power to have call a referendum a really madcap idea which would probably not be binding or constitutional . also very gender sceptical. it would require humza yousaf to u—turn on pretty much everything on the cultural side of things that would be politically damaging. humza yousaf of in alex salmond's pocket. you can imagine how that would go. on the other hand , does he try and the other hand, does he try and stitch something back up with the greens now? unlikely though it is, he . there might be it is, he. there might be a world where he could convince the scottish greens to abstain in any of these votes of no confidence. i have noted that lorna slater's went from yesterday saying the first minister can no longer be trusted to today saying we could have that conversation again , have that conversation again, which kind of opens the suggestion that the scottish greens may obe don't want to vote to bring down humza yousaf

if the queen over the water is a socially conservative kate forbes, because they have their own voters to answer to. so it's not. and then, of course, you've got the wild cards. fergus ewing, he's certainly got a history of being bold against the snp leadership, what history of being bold against the snp leadership , what does he the snp leadership, what does he do, it's unclear what the best opfion do, it's unclear what the best option is that does not result in a lame duck first minister who is politically discredited. >> okay. dean thompson from thinks gotland, thank you very much for your input. and of course, for now humza yousaf fights on. he said i will fight attempts to oust me, defiant for now, but it's the end of the week and a week is a long time in politics now. you get lots more of that story of course, on our website and thanks to you. gbnews.com is the fastest growing national news website in the country. it's got breaking news and all the brilliant analysis they've come to expect from us here @gbnews. so thank

you very much. now coming up, the rwanda bill was finally passed this week despite human rights concerns , but it's rights concerns, but it's already causing a massive stir because, according to ireland's deputy prime minister, the rwanda bill is causing migrants to head for ireland instead of the uk. is he right? i'm about to be joined by political leader who thinks that is absolute balderdash. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 520. i'm martin daubney, and this is gb news. now, the first cohort of people to be sent to rwanda as apparently have been identified with the rwanda bill, now law. the african nation has been declared as a safe country for asylum seekers at long last.

well, number 10 now hope to get flights off the ground as quickly as possible. at least that's the theory. and joining us now in the studio is our political correspondent catherine forcer. catherine fine . the rwanda bill, after all of that ping pong, more ping pong than the olympics bill pass got voted through today, got royal assent. you've been with the prime minister this week. they seem at last confident this will happen. >> they do. they're very upbeat. let's face it, rishi sunak has had a pretty torrid few weeks, 20 points behind in the polls, scandal after scandal . william scandal after scandal. william wragg mark menzies all the rest of it. but this week i think they feel they have turned a corner. they've got the rwanda bill through . it is now law. bill through. it is now law. they held a press conference. they held a press conference. they said they're going to get a regular drumbeat of flights going from mid—july 10 to 12 weeks, mid—july. i reckon . and

weeks, mid—july. i reckon. and talking to the prime minister, he was on this whirlwind tour of poland and germany. this big defence announcement went, on the plane. he was telling us that, they really feel confident . they feel that the people are going to go, they're confident it's going to act as a deterrent. and this was on the morning after it had finally made its way through parliament. and at the same time, those tragic five deaths in the channel tragic five deaths in the channel, including an eight year old girl. and, you know, we've had the arrest of two people smugglers today , the prime smugglers today, the prime minister was stressing that on the grounds of compassion as well. it's not just the right thing to do to act as a deterrent, because it's costing us a fortune to process these claims, put people up in hotels, but that it's, he believes, the morally the right thing to do to because it is going to they believe stop people making this very, very dangerous crossing. >> now the numbers mr sunak says

there are now 2200 detention spaces ready to go, 200 dedicated caseworkers ready to go. he reckons there's about 150 watertight cases ready to go, but we all know there's going to be a fresh onslaught from the legal system, from perhaps the european court of human rights, from the ngos, from the charities, from the laws, the luvvies, the lineker rights . the luvvies, the lineker rights. the battle's just beginning. >> certainly i think the reason they've given this 10 to 12 weeks when they originally said by the end of spring, i think thatis by the end of spring, i think that is basically factoring in the fact that there are bound to be some legal challenges . now, be some legal challenges. now, there's plenty of people, such as the former home secretary, suella braverman, the former immigration minister robert jenrick, who says this is not tough enough. it's simply not watertight . tough enough. it's simply not watertight. number 10 tough enough. it's simply not watertight . number 10 believes watertight. number 10 believes different now. we won't have very long to find out. but you know , they were saying we're

know, they were saying we're getting people out of hotels, we're freeing up hotels. you know, we're getting people processed . they believe they've processed. they believe they've got a good story to tell. say i would say, though, of course, despite the fact that rishi sunak likes to say over and over again, numbers were down a third last year, the numbers so far this year are up considerably on where they were a year ago. and okay, they've done a deal with albania , but now we're seeing albania, but now we're seeing large numbers of people coming from vietnam . from vietnam. >> and let's talk now about the next ripple of the wave. if you like ireland. and i thought an astonishing front page of the telegraph today. the irish deputy prime minister claiming that 80% of migrants going into ireland originate from the uk andifs ireland originate from the uk and it's our fault. and more to the point, it's the fault of the rwanda bill. what does he mean? >> well, yes, because he is saying that the rwanda bill, which has just become law yesterday , is already impacting yesterday, is already impacting on ireland because he says

people are fearful of staying in the united kingdom . so what the united kingdom. so what seems to be happening is they're going crossing the channel, going crossing the channel, going up through england into scotland, crossing over into northern ireland and then coming back down from northern ireland into ireland, hence into the eu again , because of course there again, because of course there is no border between northern ireland in the united kingdom and ireland , because during the and ireland, because during the brexit negotiations, it was a it was non—negotiable. was it? there was no question of a hard border on the island of ireland. so instead we've effectively got this trade border down the irish sea that the windsor framework, sort ought to address. now, i have to say, the numbers that they've given saying 80% are coming in that way and they can't actually verify that because the whole point of this non border is there are no checks. so they really do not know that that is what they reckon. i would say. i think it suits them to pass the blame for this back onto the uk, back onto

brexit, because they're having a lot of problems. there's a lot of tension in ireland now about the levels of illegal migration. we've seen lots of arson attacks, we've seen some riots. it's got very ugly and very, very nasty , so i think it is very nasty, so i think it is convenient for the irish government to blame the united kingdom. i have to say, i think it's quite convenient for the uk government, too, because they're able to sort of go, well, look, you know, we haven't even got anyone on a flight yet, but already this is sending people elsewhere. so do you think, i mean, in terms of stopping the boats , the best asset that rishi boats, the best asset that rishi sunak seemed to have was the weather, because that was actually stopping the boats. >> and now, by some sort of twist of fate, that that the people that we can't deport that, already to rwanda now might be going to ireland to avoid being deported to rwanda because ireland has said it stated it won't honour the treaty . it doesn't even think treaty. it doesn't even think the united kingdom is a safe country, because if they

returned to the uk from ireland, they might go to rwanda . and so they might go to rwanda. and so ireland in a sense, has been hung by its own petard . hung by its own petard. >> indeed, indeed. and i mean, of course, there's not just ireland unhappy with the rwanda bill and emmanuel macron, has been saying that it's a betrayal of values and it's going to prove totally ineffective . but prove totally ineffective. but of course, you know, we've got ireland on one side, we've got france on the other. we've already assigned or given 480 million to the french over the last couple of years and the next year or so, and the french are having massive problems now on the beaches. we saw the scenes, on tuesday morning. these big criminal gangs, these smuggling gangs, people making a lot of money off people's misery and increasing violent. now, these migrants, people with weapons, being very aggressive towards the police, simply the police can't stop all the people getting in to these boats. and as we saw on tuesday morning, in

their haste to get people on to their haste to get people on to the boats, these smuggling gangs, we ended up with almost twice as many people as the boat could take. and then these these deaths . deaths. >> okay. katherine forster, thank you for joining >> okay. katherine forster, thank you forjoining us in the thank you for joining us in the studio. always a delight. now across the country, nuclear test veterans and campaigners are suing the government over missing medical records belonging to those involved in atomic bomb programs more than 70 years ago, tens of thousands of british and commonwealth servicemen took part in various operations. and now veterans want their medical records to prove that they were exposed to levels of radiation, which have impacted generations of their family. our reporter, jack carson has this story. >> between 1955 and 1989, an average of 55 nuclear tests were conducted across the globe . each conducted across the globe. each yean conducted across the globe. each year, more than 30,000 young british and commonwealth servicemen served at british test locations in australia and

the pacific ocean, but in the years since, those who were involved say they've been ignored and lied to about their exposure to radiation . for exposure to radiation. for decades, lab rats international has represented the millions across the world. exposed to fallout from the testing programs and the families who still suffer today from illness and deformities in gloucestershire, founder of lab rats , alan owen meets with rats, alan owen meets with veterans dennis hayden and terry hughes , who were deployed to hughes, who were deployed to atomic test sites. >> dennis was posted to australia in the 1960s and has suffered countless health problems he believes are because of his exposure to radiation . of his exposure to radiation. >> when we were part of an experimental program that was set in motion right at 1952, at the start , they wanted to know the start, they wanted to know the start, they wanted to know the effects of radiation would have not only on the equipment that was being used, but on the men themselves. and that's why none of us had any protective clothing. when we went to the forward areas . forward areas. >> terry hughes was part of the royal fleet auxiliary. the support branch of the royal

navy. he was deployed to christmas island in 1958 and witnessed to the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, and the resident naval officer had to come out and explain to everybody there was nothing to worry about. >> it was only a bomb that would be exploded and we wouldn't feel any effects at all. and then we had a countdown for the bomb. five, four, three, two, one. and once again, we watched the fireball as it forms, proclaiming that britain joins the united states and russia as a hydrogen bomb power. my the united states and russia as a hydrogen bomb power . my wife a hydrogen bomb power. my wife had one miscarriage. my son can't have any children. i've got a granddaughter has an epileptic fit. >> last year, the government unveiled the nuclear test medal, recognising the military civilian and overseas staff and personnel who participated in britain's nuclear testing program in the 1950s and 1960s. but for lab rats founder alan owen, whose own father was a nuclear test veteran, the work is only just beginning. in september, they launched a legal challenge to the ministry of defence to provide the test

veterans full medical records, which they say they've been denied access to. >> we sit in this bubble as the nuclear test veteran community fighting against the establishment, and they will say, you know, ministers will go in parliament and say, all you've got to do is apply for your medical records and they'll give them to you. yeah it just doesn't happen. it's not a reality. they're not there to as easy, as accessible as just applying. they will fight you all the way. they will delay it. >> in response, a government spokesperson said we are grateful to all service personnel who participated in the british nuclear testing programme, which is why we have formally recognised them with an official medal. nuclear test veterans who believe they have suffered ill health due to service have the existing and long standing right to apply for no fault compensation under the war pensions scheme . the fight war pensions scheme. the fight for these veterans and their families lives on because thousands who came before never got the recognition and for justice their service. jack carson gb news fighting long and

hard for justice, which they surely deserve. >> well done. great topic . surely deserve. >> well done. great topic. now it's >> well done. great topic. now wsfime >> well done. great topic. now it's time for your latest news headunes it's time for your latest news headlines and it's tamsin roberts. >> martin, thanks very much. here are the headlines at 532. scotland's first minister says he will not resign ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. humza yousaf says as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties. it's after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday. but the first minister says he'll fight on. >> i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example , investing in like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part, and it will be getting of course, on

with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> tensions have flared at the prestigious sciences—po university in paris after pro—palestine students occupied the building. police had to intervene after pro—israeli protesters came to challenge them. students are demanding the university condemns israel's actions in gaza . it comes after actions in gaza. it comes after similar protests at universities in the united states and australia . the foreign office australia. the foreign office has summoned the russian ambassador after a british man was allegedly recruited as a russian spy. 20 year old dylan earl has been charged with conducting hostile activity in the uk to benefit russia. he's accused of masterminding an arson plot on london businesses. four other men were also charged in connection with the same investigation . and in a separate investigation. and in a separate case, a former parliamentary researcher has been ordered not to contact mps after he was charged with spying for china. christopher cash, who's 29, and

32 year old christopher berry are accused of offences under the official secrets act. the pair appeared at westminster magistrates court this morning but were not required to enter any pleas. both have been granted bail . well, for the granted bail. well, for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or simply go to gb news. corach rambler. that's . that's. >> thank you. times are now in a few minutes. the big debate has feminism left middle aged women single, childless and depressed? is feminism making women miserable? but first, there's a new way to get in touch with us here @gbnews. and here's bev turner with all of the details. >> we are proud to be gb news the people's channel. and as you know, we always love to hear your views. now there's a new

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>> welcome back. we're on the final furlong. i'm martin daubney on gb news. it's 538 now. the dictionary definition of feminism is the belief in social, economic and political equality of the sexes . well, equality of the sexes. well, women have made huge political, professional and legal progress in the past century, and it's become normalised to have women in positions of leadership and good luck to him. but in 2024, a prolific female journalist has argued that the shift to women focusing on careers rather than marriage and family life has been detrimental and that the

world we live in now would be auen world we live in now would be alien to any ideal thought of early women's rights campaigner honours. well, with me in the studio now to discuss this or the trade unionist andy mcdonald, who might be a feminist and the political commentator suzanne evans, who definitely is a feminist, definitely is a feminist, definitely is a feminist. now, this is a fascinating article. it was by petronella waltz today in the telegraph. she said this increasingly vie, i feel that feminism has failed my generation. feminism made the error of telling us to behave and think like, man, she's childless. she single, she's miserable. she thinks there are a lot of people like her. what do you reckon? >> i was really saddened to read her article, actually, because petronella is arguably a very successful woman and it was very depressing reading this article. she clearly is very depressed and very unhappy with her lot. but you know, she was talking about things like the west has outgrown feminist philosophy and should cast it off entirely . should cast it off entirely. that would be a complete disaster. i've always considered myself to be a feminist, even

back in the 80s and 90s, when feminism was becoming less popular. and you only have to look around the world how women are still struggling desperately . countries like iran, afghanistan, where women are brutally oppressed, well, it could go backwards here too. martin, look at what we've just had recently with the whole trans issue . we've got men trans issue. we've got men pretending to be women going into women's spaces. feminism is always going to be necessary. there's always , i think, going there's always, i think, going to be a kind of patriarchy that wants to take rights away from women. i think that's almost in a sense , the nature of things. a sense, the nature of things. and we always have to fight against. but the point of this article is that's all fine, but but putting your career, putting your professional life first and putting off having children to the point where it's no longer physically possible because there is the biological clock. >> she is saying that a lot of people in her peer group, and i know a lot of women like this, too, are saying maybe actually our parents had it right. maybe our parents had it right. maybe our parents had it right. maybe our parents generation who had kids earlier, like yourself, had

the right idea. >> yeah, i had my daughter when i was 28. i was very lucky, but that came at a cost. that came at a cost of being in a relationship with a man who was, quite frankly, dreadful. and there's nothing worse than being in an unhappy relationship, as i'm sure anyone who's been there would know, and i think this is what really saddened me about her article, is that she said she didn't know any women of her generation who didn't have children and were happy. i know umpteen women who didn't have children, who are extremely happy. so i think she's obviously in a kind of circle that's very different to mine , that's very different to mine, you can't have it all. none of us can have it all. and if feminism, feminism did promise it, i have to bring andy in at this point, andy, i don't know if you're a feminist or not. i won't, i won't out you, as it were. but from a man's perspective, i've, i certainly, you know, leaned on my missus to have kids. she wants to put her career first. she was 34 when we had our first kid. i was five years older. i basically emotionally blackmailed her into it because i do think that this

generation of women were told they could have everything , but they could have everything, but then if you put things off in then if you put things off in the end, you run out of time . the end, you run out of time. from a blokes perspective, what's your take on it? >> well, i mean, i think , you >> well, i mean, i think, you know, if you're going to bring children into the world, you've got to make sure that you're secure financially, socially, you know, you've got a nice place to live to bring, bring up your kids. >> you know, a strong income to bnng >> you know, a strong income to bring them up, you know, as best as you can. and i think we live in an age where both parents are expected to work and both parents have careers. we don't live in an age where the woman just stays at home and cooks. i think that's absolutely fantastic. and with that comes extra challenges. you know, of course women want to work. of course women want to work. of course women want to work. of course women want to be successful. you know, you look at some of the most successful women in britain. most of them have children. it's true, you know. yeah. if you look at even here in gb news margaret thatcher, someone that gb news loves, she had kids. yeah. but notoriously apparent . notoriously apparent. >> but that's what she's that's what the this article is saying a great many people petronella is saying don't end up having children. and it is true now that the that the birth rate of the uk is falling below

replacement, we're having fewer and fewer children. we're having them later on later in life . if them later on later in life. if you have your first later in life, it stands to reason you probably won't have more than one. and as a consequence, we one. and as a consequence, we are one. and as a consequence, we are reaching that point where there simply aren't enough kids being born. and a lot of that is lifestyle choice. >> well, it is lifestyle choices, but what's the alternative? you want to force people to have kids against their will. >> you could incentivise them. you could pay them . you could pay them. >> well, i don't think that's right either, because nobody should be incentivised to have a child, because having a child is an extremely difficult responsibility, as anyone who's had one will tell you, it's financially, as tough on you. it's the physical toll is difficult on women. the practical side. well, no. come on. you just have the nice bit of making babies. it's quite hard, actually giving birth to term, you know. >> i'll tell you why. i'll tell you why i disagree. i'll tell you why i disagree. i'll tell you what. no, no, i'll tell you why i disagree. >> and that is, you know, one thing i think men are hacked off aboutis thing i think men are hacked off about is this thing of we're oppressing women like i worked my whatsits off when i became a father to be a provider. my dad

was down the pit 47 years. i don't deny that in that generation. so. so blokes do their bit. >> that's not what i'm saying. >> that's not what i'm saying. >> and it means often we don't get to see our kids because we're always at blooming work, and that's potentially wrong as well. >> and now we have, you know, in this country, some of the best parental leave in europe, certainly. and indeed across the western world. >> don't you get two weeks. >> don't you get two weeks. >> well, at least you get something, you know, and there is a big push, as you know, to get a lot more than that. so that's that's good because i think it's very important. when i had my daughter, i was i was working i went back to work when she was just two weeks old. it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. i shouldn't have done it. frankly but i felt under enormous pressure to do it because i was self—employed, freelance. you're only ever as good as your last report. all right. >> good. well, let's move to on another story that's caught my eye this week. and this is a very surprising poll. you might think about the voting intentions of gb news viewers. i think we've got some graphics we can throw onto the screen now. so the first one is voting intentions. so how do people intend to vote if they watch gb news. now look at these figures, suzanne. news. now look at these figures, suzanne . it's incredible. so suzanne. it's incredible. so

apparently 39% of gb news viewers are going to vote for the labour party. 28 conservative, 20 reform 6. lib dems also , that's a very healthy dems also, that's a very healthy electoral split considering . but electoral split considering. but does that surprise you? does that surprise you that so many people that watch this show are going to vote for the labour party? >> it doesn't surprise me, because obviously being on gb news quite regularly , i meet news quite regularly, i meet lots of people who recognise me from that and they come from all walks of life. and i'm always amazed at the diversity of people that actually watch this channel. but i think this poll is really serendipitous because a lot of people seem to think gb news is the home of far right extremism, well, this just blows that out of the water, doesn't it? now okay, it was a small poll. just over 500 people. but come on, who on the left would have said last week that 200 out of 500 gb news viewers are preparing to vote labour? very, very few, i think. so this completely blows apart the gb news stereotype and the assembly from the political left. >> what do you reckon to this? >> what do you reckon to this? >> i mean, this is often people

from my side of the argument. they say to me, you know, andy, why do you go on gb news? it's all in vain. clearly it's not in vain. you know, some people have been listening. i think it's actually i don't think the labour party bit is the most interesting part, that the reform uk, that's 20. that's higher than the national average. the rest kind of fit in with the wider national polls. and i think i think it is a bit odd that so many labour party viewers watch gb news because they're not very vocal with it. you know, when you look on twitter, most of them are reform or the conservative side of reform. >> we have to leave it there. andy macdonald i don't think it's unusual, and that's because i think this audience is the red wall and the red wall. many of them lent their to vote the conservative party last time. you've been great. thank you. the pair of you still to come, prince harry dons his military medals and his sunny montecito mansion to give an award to a soldier . mansion to give an award to a soldier. despite being stripped of his titles. i'm asking , of his titles. i'm asking, should prince harry give up his military medals? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back 550. i'm martin daubney on gb news. we're on the final furlong now. moving on. prince harry has today come under intense scrutiny after he was seen wearing his military medals dunng wearing his military medals during an online presentation of the soldier of the year award. and though the duke of sussex is banned from wearing his ceremonial suit, he still donned his medals even though he's been stripped of his titles now. this has sparked a massive debate about whether the duke should be completely stripped of those military medals. well, joining me now to discuss this is the former british army officer and defence analyst and friend of the show , lieutenant colonel the show, lieutenant colonel stuart crawford. always a delight to have you on. so let's cut to the chase. he's been stripped of his titles. should he be wearing those medals ? he be wearing those medals? >> well, thank you, martin, and, good evening, i think , the

good evening, i think, the important thing here is, before i answer your question, which i will do robustly, is to differentiate between his honorary military appointments like colonel of the royal marines and so on and so forth , marines and so on and so forth, from which he, was was , required from which he, was was, required to stand down when he when he was no longer a working royal and, and the, medals which he gained during his active military service in the household cavalry. >> and, i can see absolutely no reason why the medals, which he won fair and square, should not be, worn at any ceremony which he deems to be appropriate. >> after all, he won them. they're his . they're his. >> and frankly, if he chooses to pin them on his swimming trunks, that's entirely up to him. >> you know, i mean, there will be lots of the old and bold huffing and puffing from the leather armchairs in various

london clubs over this. but the truth of the matter is, he he earned his medals. and we can snarf snarf about three of them being jubilee medals, which arguably quote someone he got from his grandmother. quotes of but so did lots of other people. and so it's to me it's just the same as me wearing my medals , same as me wearing my medals, and i only have two from my service, on remembrance sunday on my suit or on my great coat. they're mine. and i can do what i like with them now, lieutenant colonel stuart crawford, i'm sorry to disappoint, but we don't have a picture of prince harry with his medals pinned to his swimming trunks. but on a serious point, a lot of people in the us, veteran circuit families , friends of those are families, friends of those are saying another thing. and that is that prince harry has absolutely no right to give an award to an american serviceman or soldier. it's not his business to get involved in the us military. what's your take on

that ? that? >> well, i think that's a very, interesting viewpoint because historically , the us and britain historically, the us and britain have been the staunchest of allies and lots of military endeavours. and, you know, you don't need me to recount history of the first world war, second world war, korea , yeah. the world war, korea, yeah. the gulf, iraq, afghanistan , etc, gulf, iraq, afghanistan, etc, etc. so there's the closest of relationships . and, the other relationships. and, the other point i would make is that the award was made to this very brave ex us service woman who was severely injured during her military service for her country and has overcome , those injuries and has overcome, those injuries with some aplomb . and if prince with some aplomb. and if prince harry putting on his uk military medals to make that award to her, makes that a little bit more special for her, then who are we to deny it ? are we to deny it? >> okay, thank you for your input as ever. and that is former british army officer and defence analyst, lieutenant

colonel stuart crawford. thank you very much. i've got time for a quick couple of emails to blast through, bass says this on the labour party. rachel reeves states labour has a plan to stop illegal migration. does it involve magic wands or money trees, possibly even training flying pigs to tow boats back to france? i sense intense cynicism there in your take, bass wendy quigley says this on the snp. born and bred in scotland. back in my day, it was an amazing country, top class education and excellent work opportunities. well, we kept it running well. it's so sad to see what state scotland is in now. thanks for all of those. now, thanks for joining me this week. i've been martin daubney. next up is jobs and co. that's six till 7 pm. hope you have a fantastic weekend. i'll be back on monday, but for now it's time for your latest weather forecast and it's annie shuttleworth. have a happy friday! >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

news. >> hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update should stay dry for many of us through the rest of today, but there will be some heavy rain starting to arrive into the south. that's as this area of low pressure is arriving with these weather fronts. that's bringing the heavier rain we've seen across parts of cornwall so far today, and that will continue to push northwards throughout the evening. so parts of devon , dorset, cornwall, of devon, dorset, cornwall, possibly south wales will see some heavy outbreaks of rain through this evening. and then by tomorrow morning a further batch will arrive into the south—east. ahead of that, it's going to be quite a cloudy night for much of wales and central areas of england, but to the north of this area across northern ireland and scotland, another clear and cold night. so we're likely to see a frost again in similar areas to where we saw this morning by saturday morning. but there will be a lot of sunshine around once again across northern ireland and northwest scotland, parts of northern england as well. the best of sunshine will be in the

morning on saturday. cloud will bubble up just as it has done today, and there is a risk of a few showers breaking out here and there, particularly at the coasts for parts of wales and central areas will be quite cloudy and a cold feeling day and into the south—east we'll start to see some showery outbreaks of rain by the afternoon, and we'll start to feel a bit warmer now. those showery outbreaks of rain become a large swathe of rain for sunday, so more areas are going to see a wetter day on sunday, particularly across eastern areas and across southern areas of england . now that rain will of england. now that rain will move out into the north sea through monday and it's going to turn considerably milder with highs of 19 degrees on tuesday. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

an important statement from buckingham palace . and it's good buckingham palace. and it's good news. his majesty the king is to return to public duties after the positive effects of his cancer treatment, the statement reads. his majesty the king will shortly return to public facing dufies shortly return to public facing duties after a period of treatment and recuperation following his recent cancer diagnosis. to help mark this milestone , the king and queen milestone, the king and queen will make a joint visit to a cancer treatment centre next tuesday, where they will meet medical specialist and patients. this visit will be the first in a number of external engagements. his majesty will undertake in the weeks ahead. in addition, the king and queen will host their majesties the emperor and empress of japan for a state visit in june at the request of his majesty's government. as the first anniversary of the coronation approaches, their majesties

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