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Counter. So a busy two hours to come. So put something cold and fizzy in the fridge or fire up the kettle or because were doing things differently tonight, put something and fizzy in the something cold and fizzy in the kettle a night of kettle and lets make a night of it. The headlines with it. First, the headlines with rory smith. Rory smith. Thank you very much. Leo storm, anthony saw 78mph. Winds hit some parts of the uk today, blocking 100 miles of railway between exeter and penzance. About half a months worth of rain fell in some areas, with a number of people having been evacuated from their homes in nonh evacuated from their homes in North Yorkshire due to flooding. The south west had severe road and rail disruption. Well a yellow weather warning remains in place until 10 00 tonight for the south east of england and east anglia. Weather journalist east anglia. Weather journalist nathan rao explains us the conditions, the wind speeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland. Its not the strongest storm that weve seen , but because of the time of yean , but because of the time of year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf and its houday all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are holiday season. The schools are off. Where going to be off. And where its going to be hitting the impact of this hitting and the impact of this storm today is likely to storm hitting today is likely to be same be greater than had the same sort of happened later in sort of thing happened later in the year. The year. Two French Police officers have been injured in clashes with migrants near calais around 60 people threw rocks and other missiles as officers tried to stop people smugglers launching a small boat. Well gb news can reveal that 15,100 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since the start of the year. Thats down more than 2500 on the same period last yeah 2500 on the same period last year. Pakistan is former Prime Minister imran khans party is calling for peaceful protests after a Court Sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts. Will this evening several of his supporters were arrested by police during a protest that mr khan was convicted of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to buy and sell items in state possessions. He is always denied any wrongdoing. Prosecutors in any wrongdoing. Prosecutors in the us have asked a judge to limit what donald trump can say publicly about a criminal case against him. They warn that mr trump may be taken to use evidence to target witnesses after he posted a message to social media that said, if you go after me, im coming after you. The former us president you. The former us president says hes being targeted for political reasons. Members of political reasons. Members of the rock band the kinks are paying the rock band the kinks are paying tribute to their former keyboardist john gosling, who has died at the age of 75. Yeah you really got me now you got me. So i cant sleep at night. So i cant sleep at night. Brothers ray and dave davies formed the band in the 1960s, before gosling joined in the 70s the kinks scored three number one singles in the uk , including one singles in the uk, including the iconic track, which you can hear now. You really got me. Hear now. You really got me. This is gb news across uk on tv in your car and Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news now though , saying play gb news now though, its back to. Its back to. Leo well come to mark dolan tonight with me. Leo kyrees. In my big opinion, donald trump in court again. But will these relent less indictments do anything other than help him become president again . In the big president again . In the big story . Costa coffee caused a stir by using a promotional image of a trans man with double mastectomy scars to promote themselves. Why are Big Corporations so intent on pushing this agenda onto us . We just want our cappuccinos and the legendary Edinburgh Fringe festival kicks off this weekend. Im joined by one of the funny men up there to discuss whether the woke agenda is killing comedy. And my take at ten big boned pop star lizzo is facing pressure following allegations of fat shaming by her dancers. But is it time to bring back the practise of fat shaming to tackle the escalating obesity crisis . Our sparkly friend of the show, Kinsey Schofield, joins us from los angeles for all your latest royal us and showbiz news gb news is the home of the papers with tomorrows front pages from 10 30 pm. So stay tuned for that with our three top pundits who havent been told what to say and who dont follow the script. Today we have of legendary radio dj and broadcaster mike reid , and broadcaster mike reid, broadcaster and former adviser to Boris Johnson, lord kulveer rangen to Boris Johnson, lord Kulveer Ranger. And congratulations to him on recently getting that promotion to the house of lords and former Home Office Adviser and former Home Office Adviser and political commentator claire pearsall. And tonight ill be pearsall. And tonight ill be asking the pundits , how do we asking the pundits, how do we tackle people smuggling gangs brazenly offering to help criminals escape back across the channel from the uk and is it time to bring back the ban on kids in pubs and with more adhd sufferers turning to marijuana to manage their symptoms , is it to manage their symptoms, is it time to legalise cannabis use . Plus, youre in emails. Even the spicy ones send them in to gb views gbnews. Com. This show has a golden rule. We dont do boring. Not on my watch. I just wont have it. Anyway. Lets get to work. And we start with my big opinion. Donald trump was big opinion. Donald trump was indicted this week and what feels like the 5,000,000th attempt by the establishment to bnng attempt by the establishment to bring him down is trump actually guilty or is an autocratic establishment attempting to imprison a political dissident . As weve seen with Alexei Navalny and Nelson Mandela . Of navalny and Nelson Mandela . Of course, im not saying trump is like Nelson Mandela. Nelson mandela openly advocated for terrorism. He didnt just send terrorism. He didnt just send a couple of vaguely worded tweets, the list of accusations against trump is as high as hunter biden at 4 am. After a night on the crack pipe accepting overseas money, collusion with russia, Sexual Misconduct , defamation, Sexual Misconduct, defamation, falsifying business records, paying falsifying business records, paying Stormy Daniels tax fraud, obstruct of justice, mishandling classified Files Associated with White Supremacy and election interference , and fomenting a interference, and fomenting a violent insurrection in. Im surprised they havent also charged him with non payment of his tv licence and running in the corridor. Is it fair . While the corridor. Is it fair . While i dont think that trump should run for president , it feels like he is being penalised for things that democrat leaders get away with. Biden had classified with. Biden had classified documents in his garage. Hillary used a secret server for classified emails. Bill clinton paid off a woman for Sexual Harassment, giving paula jones 850,000. Although true to his reputation as a deal maker, trump paid a much better looking woman. Stormy daniels only 130,000. Maybe bill clinton should have read the art of the deal before taking his trousers off and trump is accused of not accepting the election results. Well, i seem to remember in 2016, hillary didnt accept trumps victory. And in fact , trumps victory. And in fact, everyone on the left spent the next four years proudly protests that trump wasnt their president. Biden described trump president. Biden described trump as an illegitimate president , and in 2020, hillary even told biden not to concede the election under any circumstance. Liz and lets face it, every president clings on to the curtains and has to be taken out of the white house like al pacino at the end of scarface, although only a white although only a Biden White House would that plate of house would have that plate of cocaine for hunter , the january cocaine for hunter, the january 6th capitol riots hang over everything as trumps nastiest moment. Were told that they moment. Were told that they were a serious attempt at a violent insurrection. But come violent insurrection. But come on, ive been on stag dos more violent than that. There were little old ladies waving flags and men in fancy dress. Its the only violent insurrection action in history that politely stayed inside the velvet guide ropes. Theidea inside the velvet guide ropes. The idea that this rag tag bunch of fruitcakes armed with flags and horned helmets where a serious threat to the most militarily powerful nation on earth pull the other one. Insurrections need tanks, apache helicopters, cruise missiles , helicopters, cruise missiles, all the stuff that the American Government happens to have in fact, if you do want to commit an insurrection, then you generally need the Us Government on your side. Then you can on your side. Then you can topple any government you want. Topple any government you want. From guatemala to iraq , its from guatemala to iraq, its obvious that theres a two tier criminal Justice System in america, and with trump about to be tried by a judge installed by obama, it doesnt look like thats going to change. Interestingly, the charges trump were indicted for this week dont include inciting the riot. They relate to his attempts to overturn the election results. Now, i dont defend trump for this. He clung on far too long and embarrassed himself. But 2020 was a unique election with a lot of postal voting and electronic voting. And weve seen in russia how this can allow vote rigging. And there was that suspicious jump in bidens results after an early lead by trump. So while i dont believe that the election was stolen in this way, i can definitely understand trump making the most of the doubts. And look, i dont agree with trump that the democrats used electoral fraud to steal the election , and i dont want trump election, and i dont want trump as president in his first term. He start a single war. He didnt start a single war. And got shares in weapons and ive got shares in weapons manufacturers the sake of my manufacturers for the sake of my retirement plan. The usa needs to invade another country every three years. But in 2020, the democrats colluded with the Government Agencies and the Media Establishment and big tech to bury the hunter biden laptop story evidence of joe bidens son smoking crack with prostitutes, which could have swayed the election despite being true , it was classed as being true, it was classed as disinformation and tweets about it and stories about it were silenced, including in the new york post, one of the oldest newspapers in america. When we newspapers in america. When we talk about elections being stolen and democracy being subverted, this is what were talking about. The American People see it too, and theyll be the real jury for trump and biden. Biden. You made it. I made it. Im ehhen you made it. I made it. Im either. All right. You did. Okay. So so what do you think . Do you agree . Do you disagree . Gb views gbnews. Com. Ill get to your emails after the break. Reacting to my big opinion tonight are my brilliant pundits tonight , we brilliant pundits tonight, we have legendary radio deejay and broadcaster mike reid , a broadcaster mike reid, a broadcaster mike reid, a broadcaster and former adviser to Boris Johnson, lord Kulveer Ranger and former Home Office Adviser and political commentator. Claire pearsall coming up next in the big story cost. Oh, have a chat. Cost. Oh, have a chat. If they dont write it down, i dont do it. I mean, what do you make of the Trump Indictment . I mean, the Trump Indictment . I mean, starting with you, lord culver . Well look it, as you quite rightly said , theres a long rightly said, theres a long list of issues that building up, but this particular one does focus on the issue of the pressure. Pressure. He was appears to have been placing on various states, various officials. And theres been lots of interviews with his own people who felt quite uncomfortable about what was going on. Yeah so although, as a populist figure, he is obviously being attacked in this instance. Yes. There seems to be more of a case than there was before in a case than there was before in a lot of these things that we see coming through. And unfortunately, it looks like theres a whole build of momentum as well. But what it does mean, as hes saying, hes going to come back stronger. So what i really fear for is the American People getting caught in the crossfire of trump versus, you know, anyone whos coming up against him. Yeah. Coming up against him. Yeah. And it feels like the democrats could actually be doing it deliberately because, i mean, joe biden knows that the only person he can beat is trump. Trump you know, might have might get his own base energised, but he gets the democrat s energised even more so. I mean, claire, do you think so. I mean, claire, do you think do you think the democrats are actually playing this deliberately to ensure that trump Republican Trump is the republican candidate that they go up against . I think youre right. I think the democrats will see as their trump card , see trump as their trump card, if like, because hes going if you like, because hes going to do them so many favours with everybody looking at whats going on. Could be in prison . Going on. Could he be in prison . Whats you know, how many documents hed had and then Everything Else that the biden family going through gets family are going through gets pushed carpet. It pushed under the carpet. So it goes away. It goes quiet. And you bury it under the trump news. Now, of course, donald trump helps that enormously by going out there twitter , going out there on twitter, putting things there, saying putting things out there, saying hes come hes going to come and get people. Thats also going people. Well, thats also going to the American Public to wind up the American Public andifs to wind up the American Public and its going to take over social media its going to social media and its going to take the Election Campaign take over the Election Campaign as a whole has already been taken as evidence as well. After he made it. Just hours after he made it. Its working against himself. Knows that. He knows its he knows that. He knows its going that result. Going to have that result. He knows going to get knows that hes going to get more and more traction more headlines and more traction for campaign. And you can for his campaign. And you can see the sort of wheels behind it. Campaign just it. The Republican Campaign just going, keep going, going, brilliant. Keep going, keep keep writing, keep going, keep writing, because youre going to be out there youre going to be there and youre going to be leading the narrative. Make i mean, what do and i make i mean, what do you make all this . Have you you make of all this . Have you were of trump back in were you a fan of trump back in back in 2016 . Not necessarily a fan. Im always bemused the fact that always bemused by the fact that biden trump two best biden and trump are the two best american frontmen that the whole country can come up with when there so many there there are so many people there that and they are that are sharp and they are front after all. I mean , front men, after all. I mean, im impressed that im im seriously impressed that he can commit all these indiscretions whilst running and being president. Its extraordinary multitasking. Yes that he can do all these things at the same i mean, more at the same time. I mean, more charges than the light brigade really is. It kind of reminds really is. It kind of reminds me, going back 300 years to jonathan and lemuel Jonathan Swift and Lemuel Gulliver gulliver in gulliver of gulliver in lilliput, where theyre pegging him down. Theyve this great him down. Theyve got this great trump figure and the lilliputians are trying to peg him down. That feel to me. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean yeah, no, absolutely. I mean and also, i mean, do you think would you rather see ron desantis as the republican candidate . Because , i mean, i feel like because, i mean, i feel like at the moment, you know, people are kind of desperate to get even on the democrat side. Joe biden popular. Is biden isnt popular. America is not theyre being not sure if theyre being governed by by biden or governed by by joe biden or being haunted by him. So you know, he doesnt look well, biden. Biden doesnt look a well man. He doesnt look well. And hes losing. I mean, you get you get the feeling hes losing his his faculties. You his mental faculties. And, you know, he is 80 years old. Know, he is he is 80 years old. I wouldnt want my dads 80. I wouldnt want run to the wouldnt want him run to the shops to get me under the microscope. They with social microscope. More they with social microscope. More thaniey with social microscope. More than any ith social microscope. More than any othercial media more than any other president ial campaigns, these media more than any other pres are 1tial campaigns, these media more than any other presare under|mpaigns, these media more than any other pres are under theaigns, these media more than any other presare under the microscope. Two are under the microscope. People talking them people are talking about them every mean, it didnt every day. I mean, it didnt happen ago. Many happen years ago. And so many president s, as we all know, have probably got away with much probably got away with so much over years. Well, exactly. Over the years. Well, exactly. Mean, ronald reagan, they i mean, ronald reagan, they switched his press appearances to steps of to mainly being on the steps of helicopters where its very difficult question difficult to ask a question because this because youve got this deafening going deafening engine going, going on. But, i mean, would you would you rather see ron desantis . No, no, i really wouldnt. No, no, i really wouldnt. Theres an honest answer for you. I listen to ron desantis launching his campaign bid. It was done over twitter spaces, which is quite an unusual format to use, but quite clever at the same time. So you can see that theyre putting a lot of thought into how best they can control this, how they can get the message out there. But no, i think his beliefs are not quite what what what the american pubuc what what what the American Public need and certainly not what we need. I think youre right, claire, was that the that was where he was that the that was where he was being interviewed by elon musk. And it was musk. Yes. And it was innovative. Think innovative. But i think it showed gap between where showed the gap between where a president needs to be and where some of the candidates are. And theres a gap between the theres such a gap between the two between where they have biden and trump. Two between where they have biden and trump. These guys know biden and trump. These guys know how to play the game. The how to play the game. The problem the American Public have is they feel that theyre right at the end of the path , at the at the end of the path, at the end of their political sell by date. Yeah. And the others are still racing to catch up. Theyre all in their infancy. So theyve got this huge lag between up and coming and between the up and coming and the two elder statesmen , the two very elder statesmen, shall we say. Yeah. And theyre quite insular, the as well. Mean the americans as well. I mean they a global they dont look at a global situation. Theyre not looking at rest of the world. At the rest of the world. Theyre america. And theyre looking at america. And thats played to them. Yeah. And he was a very protectionist, quite nationalist figure, you know, and even his rhetoric now around ukraine, whereas other president s would have would have said, you know, this liberal this is western liberal democracy we are our democracy. We these are our brothers. Like world war democracy. We these are our broth hes like world war democracy. We these are our broth hes very ke world war democracy. We these are our broth hes very muchld war democracy. We these are our broth hes very much not var democracy. We these are our broth hes very much not like two. Hes very much not like that. He doesnt really care about what happens outside americas borders. Okay. Well coming up next in the big story, costa coffee have caused outrage this week after posing a new ad Campaign Featuring an animated trans man with mastectomy scars. Why do Big Corporation insist on cancelling women . Ill see you its time now for the big story. Go go broke has seen its new victim , costa coffee. The coffee victim, costa coffee. The coffee chain is facing boycott over its advert of a trans man. The image features a person who has had a double mastectomy, which is a breast removal surgery. The cartoon is on a Costa Express van, yet the company have refused to reveal where its located. Joining me now is the journalist and writer joe bartosh. Joe, how are you . Bartosh. Joe, how are you . Hello. Hiya hello. Hiya and, joe, should we be glorifying an irreversible surgery like this. Surgery like this. Im really sorry. Im afraid the. The sound cut out. Oh , right. Sorry. No. Can you oh, right. Sorry. No. Can you hear me now . Hear me now . Im imagining that youre asking me something along the lines. Lines. Yeah, you can probably guess where my questions are going. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . Yeah. So ill. Ill just plough on then and. And hope it works. Um, so plough on then and. And hope it works. Um, so i think whats really disturbing about this is that they are essentially celebrating a form of self harm , and its very hard to think of, you know, any other group that, that this would be normalised for. Its really concerning. Its glamorising concerning. Its glamorising a serious Mental Illness and its something that we know is contagious as well. So if you look if you look at the fact theres been a 5,000 increase in referrals to the gender Identity Services that tavistock clinic over the past decade. Clinic over the past decade. Clearly, this is a massive issue , um, with girls sort of hating their bodies. I mean, thats perfectly normal. Girls have always hated their bodies. It used to be self, you know, it used to be self, you know, it used to be self, you know, it used to cutting and then it used to be cutting and then it was anorexia. And theyve always been social been these sort of social contagions revolve around around girls their bodies. But girls hating their bodies. But to normalise something as serious cutting off your serious as cutting off your breasts, thats a serious Mental Illness. Body dysmorphia here. Thats not, you know, being inclusive of marginalised identity, thats celebrating self harm. Self harm. And joel, were seeing an increasing number of people coming forward and regretting their trans position. So young women , men who feel real rooted women, men who feel real rooted into the process. Sometimes the they present to doctors and clinicians with with gender dysphoria. But its mixed up with autism , depression, various with autism, depression, various other Mental Illnesses. And other Mental Illnesses. And theyre told that they can only have access to the therapy if theyif have access to the therapy if they if they take the path of transitioning and if theyre placed on puberty blockers , placed on puberty blockers, which are which are sold as something that just delays the irreversible and just delay the onset of puberty, but quite, quite, quite often have long term irreversible effects and in some cases, you know, stunt the genhaua some cases, you know, stunt the genitalia so there isnt enough material there to actually then properly transition. I mean , are properly transition. I mean, are you worried about this . Could be storing up problems for the future and we could see this could be a medical crisis unfolding in front of our eyes . Yeah, absolutely. I think it will be. And it is the biggest medical scandal of a generation. I think this will be looked back at in the same way as lobotomies and semiramide and all of those other horrendous practises that we now have, you know , moved we now have, you know, moved away from. And i think, away from. And i think, moreover, when you look at who owns costa, its actually owned by coca cola. You know, theyre by coca cola. You know, theyre not exactly a fluffy multi national, are they . I mean, if you if you look at their record, i suspect theyre factory workers bottling plants workers in their bottling plants dont have time to think about their gender identity. And i do their gender identity. And i do think theres sort of an irony there. There. You think corporations keep pushing this agenda. Weve seen it backfire for bud light, which which has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in sales since its share price into a tailspin. Weve seen it with target in america as well in the uk. Wicks received a lot of flak uk. Wicks received a lot of flak over their comments. I mean , over their comments. I mean, why . Why are corporations pushing this. I mean, i think in part a lot of them have signed up to sort of them have signed up to sort of esg style schemes. So like of esg style schemes. So like the stonewall scheme in the uk where they get rated, if they if they sort of hit various targets , i think thats a part of it. I think another part is just its just lazy virtue signalling. I think they know that theyre going mobbed on social going to get mobbed on social media if they dont sort of placate the trans. So thats what they do. So theyre actually doing it, too, big, big investment too, because big, big Investment Companies such as blackrock or vanguard say that you have to hit these these environmental these investment these sort of woke investment points, esg, environmental , points, esg, environmental, social and governmental. So you social and governmental. So you have to show that youre doing something positive for minorities, which in the in the end might not actually be that positive. And do you think this you know, so the companies are pushing this agenda to get access to that funding, but then do you think theyre theyre forgetting about what the actual customer could actually Customer Base could actually care about and their values care about and what their values could be . Yeah , absolutely. And i yeah, absolutely. And i think, you know, i wrote an article earlier this week looking at newspapers like the sun that used to promote page three and actually , i think three and actually, i think theres kind of weirdly a lot of symmetry between that being normalised and normalising the removal of breasts as well. I mean, you know, we now look back at, you know, 16 year old samantha fox and go, jesus christ, bit wrong. Christ, that was a bit wrong. And i think we will probably start at Companies Start looking at Companies Pushing nonsense pushing this sort of nonsense with the same sort of horror in a few years time. Well, joe, thanks so much for joining to about joining us tonight to talk about this its great to talk this issue. Its great to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you. Coming up next with the and coming up next with the pundits, with reports of people smugglers offering escape services for Illegal Migrants , services for Illegal Migrants, how do we stop this madness . How do we stop this madness . Plus, is it time to legalise marijuana . Ill see you in two minutes. Dont go away. Minutes. Dont go away. That warm feeling inside made from boxt boilers is proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good evening. My name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast brought to you by the met office. So its been quite a wet, windy and unsettled day across the uk and thats been due to storm. Anthony thats going to move away to the south east though, as we go through this evening to allow for some lighter winds to move in from the west. But we could still see a bit more in the way of cloud rain and some thunderstorms clinging into the south east a while. Also, south east for a while. Also, some blustery conditions here. Elsewhere, things drying up , some blustery conditions here. Elsewhere, things drying up, but we still see some showers we could still see some showers for coasts and there for western coasts and there will be some clear spells around. So in rural areas, temperatures might just drop into the single figures. This into the single figures. This will mean it will be a generally brighter, drier and calmer start to the second half of the weekend, though still some blustery conditions. Cloud and rain east anglia at first rain across east anglia at first cloud and showers soon bubbling up elsewhere and they could be heavy across scotland , northern heavy across scotland, Northern England and a chance of a thunderstorm for northern ireland. But generally feeling much more pleasant with those temperatures just creeping into the 20s in the south after the low 20s in the south after another chilly night, though, on sunday, it will be a bright start to the new week with plenty of sunshine around some showers soon starting to bubble up. But these will be less frequent and lighter in nature than what were expecting for sunday. But as we look towards midweek, it does look like things will settle down and become a bit drier with those temperatures on the rise to that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. Proud sponsors of weather on gb news. Welcome back to mark dolan tonight. Weve got some of your views sent in from john. We have donald trump is as guilty as anything on the 2024 election. Both donald trump and joe biden are yesterdays men who should not run again. Jim says costa not run again. Jim says costa must go out of business now. Harsh words from jim there. I think hes got a card for starbucks. As lynn says, it is a starbucks. As lynn says, it is a disgusting ad joking about the heartache of women who have breast cancer, never mind the self harm. When are these men self harm. When are these men going to be reckoned with . Talking about the costa ad with the mastectomy scars there. And theres one from my wife saying , why cant you run faster . , why cant you run faster . Anyway, back with me now and joining me throughout the show are legendary radio dj and broadcaster mike reid. Broadcaster and former adviser to Boris Johnson , lord kulveer to Boris Johnson, lord Kulveer Ranger and former Home Office Adviser and political commentator claire peirsol. Its profit season for people smugglers who have found a way to earn twice as much cash. Firstly, from bringing Illegal Migrants into the uk and now by charging up to 17,500 pounds to help them leave. Sounds like a lot of money, but when its when its half term that could actually work out cheaper than a ferry. Smugglers are using tiktok to advertise bespoke escape services for criminals in britain. Will this frightening britain. Will this frightening behaviour finally make us confront the truth about the small boats crisis . So what do small boats crisis . So what do we know about gangs brazenly offering to help criminals escape from the uk. Could escape from the uk. Could claire, starting with you . I mean, what do you make of this . In some respects you can think, well, theyre taking criminals out of the United Kingdom. Were not having to deport them. So therefore it does save the home office some money. But on the other hand, it just makes a mockery of the whole system that we have in place. And its using the United Kingdom as kind of criminal kingdom as some kind of criminal playground. And that cant be right. Social media right. And the social media platforms themselves need to have some kind of hold over it if its being broadcast across things like tiktok, then why arent they taking that down . Because its to going be quite obvious. You can do search words and all the rest of so those and all the rest of it. So those platforms should do it. But realistically, we need to stop organised crime its not organised crime gangs. Its not just be albanians. This just going to be albanians. This ones highlighted ones been highlighted at the moment think so much moment. I think that so much more work needs to be done overseas with organised crime gangs. If were were going gangs. If were if were going to problem properly. To tackle this problem properly. Yeah, lord i yeah, i mean lord carver, i mean, claire raises an important point there actually doing point that there actually doing what the government should be doing removing criminals doing and removing criminals from uk. From the uk. I it seems to be working i mean it seems to be working better than any home office. We outsource to these should we outsource to these guys maybe theyve got guys because maybe theyve got a model up that no model set up that we. Yeah, no joking this terrible. Joking aside, this is terrible. And can always and look, we can always understand that theres always an underworld, right . Since the dawn time, there have been dawn of time, there have been people out there can fix people out there who can fix things. Yeah, claires things. Yeah, claires absolutely how on earth absolutely right. How on earth is this being made available so easily on a social media easily on on a social media platform . Thats the first thing that you know, it wasnt like you could pick it up on back you could pick it up on the back of the pages or in loot of the yellow pages or in loot before it. You oh, you before it. You know, oh, you need out the country need to get out of the country quick, ring this number. But thats the way its being made available. We available. Thats terrible. We need that, not just need to look at that, not just look it, because report look at it, because the report says tiktok looking to shut says tiktok are looking to shut this when they see these this down when they see these adverts. Im sorry. I need the police and Police Involved here to go and find the who are placing find the people who are placing the adverts actually closing the adverts and actually closing these mechanisms, channels these mechanisms, these channels down, shutting these organisations it is organisations down because it is a function that is a serious function that is undermining their escape. Doing undermining their escape. Doing law and order in this country by leaving the country. Thats what theyre trying have committed serious crimes, serious crimes. I mean, mike, does does i mean, mike, does this does this that theres no this worry you that theres no theyll justice if theyll never face justice if theyll never face justice if they they a crime they if they commit a crime here . Talking some here . Were talking about some of the criminals whove committed murders, serious sexual theyre sexual assaults, and theyre just the country and just fleeing the country and escaping justice. People dont know escaping justice. Here, ple dont know escaping justice. Here, ipletheyre know theyre here, so theyre unregistered. Cant find unregistered. You cant find them. What are their names . Theyve got fake passport. Yeah. Theyre making theyre very adept at making fake passports, getting people in out social media in and out quickly. Social media should be more heavily policed than it is. I see some atrocious than it is. I see some atrocious things on there. It should things on there. It should really be heavily policed. Thats problem. And thats a major problem. And of course , immigrants talk about course, immigrants we talk about immigrants course, immigrants we talk about immigrseparate things here. Totally separate things here. People from war torn countries that we take in and look after is one thing. But you mentioned immigrants and actually immigrants and people actually sort off all the sort of slagging off all the time. But this is different. Its Illegal Immigrants coming time. But this is different. Its iliboats mmigrants coming time. But this is different. Its iliboats mmyoung; coming time. But this is different. Its iliboats mmyoung men. Ng time. But this is different. Its iliboats mmyoung men. Were in on boats all young men. Were spending billions these spending billions on these hotels. Always got an hotels. Theyve always got an internal army here. Yeah. And the adverts for the tiktok adverts for advertising, the smugglers smuggling routes coming over the channel to britain actually show the hotels. The hotels. They say, look at this four star hotel. Look at this stately home. This is what the british taxpayer is going to be paying for. You complain about it. I know one lot said we want bigger the bigger televisions and the bathrooms clean enough. And bathrooms not clean enough. And you think, minute, you think, wait a minute, theyre getting in and out. Theyre getting him in and out. So almost a raid. Theyre so its almost a raid. Theyre almost like raiders. Almost like viking raiders. Theyre doing the theyre coming over doing the business, getting away with the money back. Money and getting boats back. Theyre doing it in yeah, and theyre doing it in small boats as well. Anyway, what more what could be more quintessentially than quintessentially british than a trip pub picture . The trip to the pub picture . The scene in one hand, packet scene pint in one hand, packet of crisps the other, and the of crisps in the other, and the piercing shrieks coming from kids table next to you. Kids at the table next to you. Pubs restaurant used to be pubs and restaurant used to be for adults no young for adults only. No young kids allowed. Reality is , is that allowed. The reality is, is that nobody goes to the pub to enjoy other children. Is it other peoples children. Is it time to bring back the ban . No. Time to bring back the ban . No. This is a story that you see. Guilty, guilty , not guilty. Guilty, guilty, not guilty. Ive got two children, almost five and a three year old. Its been raining. If anyones noficed been raining. If anyones noticed , even though its noticed, even though its summer, weve been inside a our local Sports Centre all day. Theyve been running around with other children, driving other people crazy, but other people with children as well. Yeah so yes, we look for environments , yes, we look for environments, events where know its events where we know its challenging. Our own children are challenging for us, let alone for other people. So you want to be in environments where people are accommodating, are aware not going to aware of that. Its not going to ruin their experience. I ruin it. Their experience. I think pubs are environments where people are going to get some peace and quiet, away some peace and quiet, get away from things. Screaming from things. A screaming toddler, an unhappy baby, you know, maybe challenging in a pub environment. So i think its up to the parents, really. I dont think we want to ban children. I think we want to ban children. I think its up to the parents to consider the environment around them. Where are we thinking . Lets somewhere there lets go somewhere where there are children that we can are other children that we can join in. A nod and join in. We have a nod and a wink to the parents next to us. Were all in the same boat, you know, but make i mean, i can see you your head, but you nodding your head, but i disagree this. You nodding your head, but i disivee this. You nodding your head, but i disive got this. You nodding your head, but i disive got a this. You nodding your head, but i disive got a child, so ive got a child, so obviously im on im on the obviously im on the im on the my child can do. No wrong and can make as much noise as she likes. But i mean, pubs are places nobody its places where nobody goes. Its not nobody goes to not a library. Nobody goes to the to have a completely the pub to have a completely quiet, serene time. You quiet, serene time. Dont you think fair to be able to think its fair to be able to take children pubs . Take children to pubs . Agree. I think its i do agree. I think its parental control that should parental control that you should control fine. Of control to an extent. Fine. Of course. Yeah but its like the baby plane, isnt it . Baby on the plane, isnt it . Where the mother gives you that look. No. Look. Arent they sweet . No. Ive hours of this. Ive got eight hours of this. You know, and theyre willing. Yes. Lovely lovely. Youre saying . Nice. And probably yes. Lovely lovely. Youre saying . In nice. And probably yes. Lovely lovely. Youre saying . In the e. And probably yes. Lovely lovely. Youre saying . In the pub. D probably yes. Lovely lovely. Youre saying . In the pub. Theybably yes. Lovely lovely. Youre saying . In the pub. They give the same in the pub. They give you that aeroplane baby look and youre yes charming. Oh youre going. Yes charming. Oh lets to another but lets go to another pub. But they stories. Its like they can hear stories. Its like going a football match. If going to a football match. If you take young kid there, you take a young kid there, theyll language they theyll hear language they probably or probably never heard at home. Or maybe have. I dont know. Maybe they have. I dont know. Maybe thats a solution. So maybe thats a solution. If and jeffing at if you do enough and jeffing at the people bring the top, people wont bring their children. I mean, their children. But i mean, claire, you make of claire, what do you make of this . Claire, what do you make of thiswell, im old enough to well, im old enough to remember went the remember when you went to the pub with your parents, you sat outside bottle pop and outside with a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps because you werent allowed inside. Youre sitting in the car. You were sitting the car you were sitting in the car with window rolled open with the window rolled open a little and parents little bit. And your parents came have a good check on came out to have a good check on you and got to do some pork you and you got to do some pork scratchings youre if scratchings if youre lucky. If you were lucky. Yeah, that was expensive. But i think it expensive. Yeah. But i think it is the way parents is down to the way parents control their children. Yeah. Is down to the way parents contyou heir children. Yeah. Is down to the way parents contyou get children. Yeah. Is down to the way parents contyou get a1ildren. Yeah. Is down to the way parents contyou get a setren. Yeah. Is down to the way parents contyou get a set of. Yeah. Is down to the way parents contyou get a set of entitled and you get a set of entitled parents who believe that their child can do no wrong. They can leave the rubbish on the leave all the rubbish on the floor for everybody else to clear can clear up their child can run around well, that around screaming, well, that isnt right. Shouldnt be encouraging shouldnt we be encouraging people were facing a people to were facing a demagogue graphic cliff in the west. Shouldnt we be encouraging people to have children, though . Encouraging people to have chi|why . Though . Why . Why . Because otherwise wouldnt why . B any se otherwise wouldnt why . B any people. Wise wouldnt have any people. Have a real issue with now, i have a real issue with this, because having a child is very, difficult. Mean, very, very difficult. I mean, ive 14 old looked ive got a 14 year old looked pretty easy to me. I was at the birth, just popped i was at the birth, just popped out. I was at the birth, just popyeah. Ut. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So was the only yeah. Okay. So was the only woman on panel. Doesnt work woman on the panel. Doesnt work like that, sweetheart. But i think it is a very, very difficult thing to force your children people. Children onto other people. I mean, a 14 year old mean, i now have a 14 year old who can sit there and behave himself and look at his phone, and probably help and hed probably be more help to the home office than tiktok finding behind those adverts. But he will sit and he will behave. But i remember when he was smaller and there was a time when he wanted to be out of a highchair or out a pushchair highchair or out of a pushchair and around the floor and roam around the floor crawling i go crawling around. So i didnt go to any pubs, restaurants for about years because about three years because i couldnt that myself. The couldnt put that on myself. The stress on myself, but for stress on myself, but also for other are other people because if you are going its expensive to eat going out, its expensive to eat out. You dont ruin it out. You dont want to ruin it for everybody, let alone yourself. And you dont want your child eating things that they find on the floor scottish pub. To the floor of a scottish pub. To be think should be honest, i think you should keep parents. Be honest, i think you should keeyounrents. Be honest, i think you should keeyou keep. Be honest, i think you should keeyou keep parents out of pubs you keep parents out of pubs because have enough of because kids have enough of parents home, have parents at home, really have enough of parents of empty enough of their parents of empty parents the pub let parents out of the pub and let the kids it. The kids run it. Its a good we can try that one, mate. Anyway moving on, weve got an adhd charity that said of access to said that a lack of access to treatment and support from the nhs is driving people to self medicate. Nhs is driving people to self� target ate. Time for those the target wait time for those wanting diagnosis is 18 weeks, wanting a diagnosis is 18 weeks, but left in limbo for but some are left in limbo for up five years. With more up to five years. So with more adhd turning to adhd sufferers turning to marijuana to manage their symptoms, it to legalise symptoms, is it time to legalise cannabis to not to cannabis now . Not to not to judge someone on their appearance . But mike, you look like somebody who smoked a lot of marijuana. Yeah. I mean, what do you what do make of this . Do you what do you make of this . Ive never even had a cigarette. Can you believe that . Isnt that pretty wimpy . Ive never had a cigarette. Never even had a cigarette. Yeah, quite sure which yeah, im not quite sure which comes the syndrome or the comes first. The syndrome or the buying really . Whether buying of stuff. Really . Whether you youre you suddenly say if youre caught. Ive got the syndrome. So its okay. I really dont know. I know theyve closed down so many Marijuana Plants in this country. Yeah, no pun intended. Country. Yeah, no pun intended. There have been a lot of them all over the country. Theyre closed down. But i dont know. Im not medically qualified enough to know whether is enough to know whether it is good for or not. Lot of good for you or not. A lot of people say is. It calms you people say it is. It calms you and have im not and what have you. Im not qualified to say that. Qualified enough to say that. But it does work for somebody but if it does work for somebody but some people are weak enough but if it does work for somebody butitome people are weak enough but if it does work for somebody butitomleadele are weak enough but if it does work for somebody butitomlead one are weak enough but if it does work for somebody butitomlead on tore weak enough but if it does work for somebody butitomlead on to something ugh for it to lead on to something else. I can see that as well. Yeah. So there are two sides to that. Yeah. And i mean, lord, the, the thing with marijuana i was reading article a man reading the article and a man said that hed smoked marijuana since, since he was 15 and it was the only thing that helped with adhd. I was thinking, with his adhd. I was thinking, well marijuana is well maybe the marijuana is causing your adhd. Well maybe the marijuana is causing your adhd. I mean, its causing your adhd. I mean, its like like somebody saying, causing your adhd. I mean, its like drinking somebody saying, causing your adhd. I mean, its like drinking s01the ody saying, causing your adhd. I mean, its like drinking s01the only;aying, causing your adhd. I mean, its like drinking s01the only thing, oh, drinking is the only thing that over my hangoven and ive been drinking all my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and there a huge and also, there has been a huge increase in diagnosis of adhd. I think 400 increase since 2020. Yeah so whether it was lockdown on or whether theres other things and if we look at how its being diagnosed nowadays , its being diagnosed nowadays, there seems to be, you know, shall we say, a broader approach to diagnosis. Yeah so is there a market being created here for marijuana use as well . But i am marijuana use as well . But i am still very much of the view, maybe a bit Old Fashioned that these drugs do lead on to other things. Yeah. And i think if things. Yeah. And i think if were going to use it for medical purposes, then it needs to be in a very controlled manner and prescribed in a certain way. I dont think just by saying that it helps adhd. Therefore lets and therefore lets open and decriminalise im not decriminalise it. No im not that of the argument right that side of the argument right. Yeah. And clear. I mean, we can see with i mean lord with some adhd. I mean lord covid mentions the increase, the huge increase adhd diagnose huge increase in adhd diagnose gsces and ive seen this amongst my own friends. They get themselves diagnosed just to get themselves diagnosed just to get the grade speed prescribed. So the grade speed prescribed. So you get adderall or alvance or whatever , and all of a sudden whatever, and all of a sudden you can do you can do a tax return every day if you want. You can do a stand up routine in five minutes. Five minutes. And i think that we are better at recognising conditions from years ago. I remember at school there was a child who was considered stupid, but he was actually dyslexic and was actually dyslexic and if he was diagnosed today, would have diagnosed today, he would have had the help him, had all the help thrown at him, not sort of put in the not just sort of put in the corner and forgotten about. So i think Medicinal Cannabis think that Medicinal Cannabis definitely use. It definitely has a use. It absolutely does to be more absolutely does need to be more widely available. Help widely available. It does help with a friend with with adhd. I have a friend with ms who finds it extremely helpful. Yeah but it has to be prescribed. It has to be properly legislated. So i dont properly legislated. So i dont think its as easy as saying thats it, decriminalise cannabis youll solve the problem. Get it from barry around the corner. Well, quite. But i think you need to look at how youre going to do it. And are you going to remove barry from round the corner put into a more corner if you put it into a more medical position, you would take out of impurity and you out all of the impurity and you would the high, would start the really high, high cannabis coming high strength cannabis coming through so you then through as well. So you then stop all those plants being stop all of those plants being grown in somebody. Well, youve really thought this i want to buy my this through. I want to buy my cannabis you anyway , coming cannabis from you anyway, coming up iconic edinburgh up next, the iconic Edinburgh Fringe off weekend, fringe kicked off this weekend, but the woke agenda and but is the woke agenda and attacks on free speech killing comedy. Well find out from a comedian up at the festival. See you in three minutes. Dont go away. The iconic Edinburgh Fringe festival kicked off this weekend with both established and budding comedians flocking to scotlands capital to showcase their laugh inducing talents to human hunting spectators. Human hunting spectators. Despite being a roaring success for decades, the culture of censorship, perpetual offence taking and wokery is spreading to the world of comedy with an array of cancellations from Little Britain to Jerry Sadowitz. It begs the question is wokery killing comedy . Im joined now killing comedy . Im joined now by a comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, fresh from the stage, darius davies. How are stage, darius davies. How are you . Darius. Stage, darius davies. How are you . Darius. I cant hear you. You . Darius. I cant hear you. Can anybody hear darius . Oh, can anybody hear darius . Oh, nobody can hear darius. Thats. Thats a shame because hes got a very loud voice. Anyway, lets lets , well get the views of my lets, well get the views of my punst lets, well get the views of my pundits while we try and sort out that technical error. Have any of you been to the Edinburgh Fringe as performers or spectators . Spectators . No, not me. Not me. I no, not me. Not me. I havent. But i do enjoy watching the sort of the follow ups on on television , on social media. And television, on social media. And there was some really, really funny comedians out there. And i hope that people dont think that by not doing jokes, theyre going to be popular, because i think that you need to be offended sometimes and you need to have your beliefs pushed out. And is brilliant at doing and comedy is brilliant at doing that and it presents it in such a way that its accessible to all so may that continue. All so long. May that continue. I want to completely get to see oh, sorry, lord kelvin, no satire. You know, and you know, claire and i, weve been in politics for a while now, and so satire of politics is just brilliant. And we need that. We should never take that away. We should never take that away. We should be able to examine ourselves, laugh at ourselves, be be fun of in all those be be made fun of in all those kinds ways. Comedy, good kinds of ways. And comedy, good satire, really does that. And i think the edinburgh a think the Edinburgh Fringe is a microcosm of that. But it also pushes the boundaries, as claire says. And i think people like myself havent been and we probably should go because we probably should go because we probably at more probably end up at more political conferences than we should. Go to should. So maybe we should go to the fringe. The Edinburgh Fringe. Ever done stand up . Have you ever done stand up . Have you ever done stand up . I think im doing it now. I mean, make you. You must have been like a fan of python. I mean, weve of monty python. I mean, weve seen the power of satire to really the pomposity in really prick the pomposity in society. And i think thats what woke culture needs the leftist established it needs to be mocked. But anytime a comedian mocks it, you know , picks, picks mocks it, you know, picks, picks it, anything in ideology it, anything in the ideology that they get in trouble. Anyway, going back to anyway, were going back to darius. I think weve fixed those with sound. Those issues with his sound. Danus those issues with his sound. Darius theyre working now. Darius yes, theyre working now. Yeah, its working now. Yeah, its working now. I mean, it doesnt sound. It doesnt sound to me. It sounds like youre shoe box, but. Like youre in a shoe box, but. But yeah. Hows the fringe going like youre in a shoe box, but. Butyou . |. Hows the fringe going like youre in a shoe box, but. But its . |. Hows the fringe going like youre in a shoe box, but. But its going ns the fringe going like youre in a shoe box, but. But its going allthe fringe going like youre in a shoe box, but. But its going all right. Nge going like youre in a shoe box, but. But its going all right. Am going like youre in a shoe box, but. But its going all right. Am in ing like youre in a shoe box, but. But its going all right. Am in ag its going all right. Am in a shoe box. Im basically backstage of a comedy gig in the middle a cave. So my natural middle of a cave. So my natural layer as im from iran. But, um. Yeah, its going all right. And how do you feel that sort of woke culture is affecting comedy . I mean, weve seen like a bunch of cancellations over the last few years, not just, you know, the old school acts like chubby brown, like roy chubby brown, but people actually on the people who are actually on the left, are part of the clan, left, who are part of the clan, like Jerry Sadowitz, getting in trouble, and also alfie brown. Trouble, and also alfie brown. I mean, look, woke, yeah. I mean, look, woke, woke people. Theyre definitely out to kill comedy. I actually think that you can say what you want in comedy. Um, if youre good enough. And i think actually people on the right need to stand up for what they believe theyve seen what it can do. When you wake up brands like light and costa and they need to start coming out and supporting stuff they support because were very you know, people on the right are more passive, whereas people on the left will go actively try to cancel people and actively try to get people to silence them. And thats what theyre doing. But but you can see. Derek, you cant see come on, derek, you cant see that Jerry Sadowitz isnt funny enough. Jerry sadowitz enough. I mean, Jerry Sadowitz wasnt a lack wasnt cancelled through a lack of funny. Hes probably of being funny. Hes probably the funniest comedian ive ever seen. Offence. Seen. No offence. No, no, no. Jerry. Jerry no, no, no, no. Jerry. Jerry sadowitz wasnt sadowitz wasnt. Wasnt cancelled, sadowitz cancelled, but Jerry Sadowitz was cancelled by a bunch of, like, students. What like, blue haired students. What im we need to not im saying is we need to not give power to these blue haired students. So you and i both run a show called hate and live where we hate anything we where we hate on anything and we talk anything. Start the talk about anything. I start the show off and i say, listen, youre blue hair has power youre blue hair has no power here. Dont let them take here. And i dont let them take control of the show. And i think more people on the right and more people on the right and more comedians need to let more comedians need to not let them dictate whos in control. Were in control of whats funny, not a 19 year old student checking tickets. Checking the tickets. And fact, were yeah. And in fact, were seeing certainly from my experience in comedy, just a few people complaining thing can can destroy great things that huge audience is enjoy i mean hating live the show that youre running up at the Edinburgh Fringe thats hugely popular show and it has its improvised hatred. People write down what they hate, the audience write down why they hate it, goes in a bucket and then the comedians pull it and have to say why pull it out and have to say why they hate that thing. And theres no no excuses, nowhere to hide. And the audience love it. Just a few, a few it. And its just a few, a few blue haired students, as you see, you see, who complain in. But do you think those people are starting to power . To lose power . Think theres were on the i think theres were on the tidal wave is about to you know, its a cup of everythings turning. People have had enough. Theyre fed up. Theyve seen that these arent like these cancellations arent due to like theyre hypocritical all the lefties thats the problem the lefties thats the problem the left has got no principles. Everyones seeing it what it everyones seeing it for what it is. And saying, you know everyones seeing it for what it is. Anyl saying, you know everyones seeing it for what it is. Anyl know saying, you know everyones seeing it for what it is. Anyl know ifsaying, you know everyones seeing it for what it is. Anyl know if someones know everyones seeing it for what it is. Anyl know if someones saying what, i know if someones saying something being about something being mean about someone or making fun of them or making fun with them, and the audience is a very savvy and theyve seen through it and theyre bored of these woe theyre bored of all these woe is oxbridge students going, is me, oxbridge students going, oh, im a victim. And their parents are all millionaire benefactor, trust fund kids. And benefactor, trust fund kids. And then theyre telling other people what they can cant people what they can and cant say. I mean, people what they can and cant say. I mean, im people what they can and cant say. I mean, im bitter and people what they can and cant say. I mean, im bitter and i am i yeah, you do. You do sound bitter, but its very entertaining. Entertaining. And how have sales been for going hate and live terribly. Going hate and live terribly. Thank. Thank. Thank. And do you have your own show at the fringe as well . Do you want to plug that before we go . Hey, in live 1045 we sold out tonight. Im doing a solo run. Theres davies charming. The offensive from the 17th to the end. The waverly bar. So end. Um, at the waverly bar. So hopefully see charmingly hopefully see some charmingly offensive offensive offensive, charmingly offensive sounds like its an offensive show. Its going to be. Sounds like its an offensive show. Its going to be. Im saying i say whatever i want whenever i want. I dont care about them. Im not trying to please the industry. Im trying to please myself. People all i want people who are respect to respect me and i respect respect me and i dont respect them you come to my them. So if you come to my show and say, im with blue hair and you try and tell me im offended, i dont care because i dont you. Dont respect you. Well, coming up amazing. Well, coming up in my and thanks very my take at ten and thanks very much for joining my take at ten and thanks very much forjoining us, darius. Coming up in my take at ten plus size pop star lizzo is under fire fat shaming fire over fat shaming allegations. But should we, in fact, encouraging fact, be encouraging the practise is in just practise is back in just a moment. After the weather. Dont go away. Looks like things are heating up, boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Of weather on. Gb news. Good evening. 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Leo storm, anthony saw 78 mile per hour winds hit some parts of the uk today, blocking 100 miles of railway between exeter and penzance , about half a months penzance, about half a months worth of rain fell in some areas with a number of people having been evacuated from their homes in North Yorkshire due to flooding. The south west had severe road and rail disruption. Weatherjournalist nathan rao explains the conditions. Wind speeds of this storm storm anthony , are expected to be anthony, are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland. Its not the strongest storm that weve seen, but because of the time of year, the leaves, the time of year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf andifs the trees are all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are off. And where its going to be hitting the impact of storm today is of this storm hitting today is likely to be greater than had the thing happened the same sort of thing happened later the year in ukraine. Later in the year in ukraine. President Vladimir Zelenskyy says russia has bombed a Blood Transfusion Centre in the north west of the country. Mr north west of the country. Mr zelenskyy claims a number of people are dead and others are injured. But the president did not disclose how many fatalities there are. He describes the strike in the eastern Kharkiv Region as a war crime. Region as a war crime. Pakistans former Prime Minister, imran khans party is calling for peaceful protest votes after a Court Sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts. Illegally selling state gifts. This evening, several of his supporters were arrested by police during a protest. 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The king scored three number one singles in the uk , number one singles in the uk, including the iconic track, which you can hear now. Youve really got me. This is gb news really got me. This is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news. Now though, back to. To. Leo welcome back to mark dolan tonight with me, leo kyrees, our newsmaker tonight is the sparkly Kinsey Schofield bringing us the latest us royal and showbiz news. And weve got tomorrows papers at 10 30 pm. Sharp with full pundit reaction. Plus, full pundit reaction. Plus, well have tonights headline , well have tonights headline, heroes and back page zeroes , big heroes and back page zeroes, big stories, big guests and always big opinions. Here is my take. At ten. Big boned singer lizzo hit the headlines this week and the most bizarre me to scandal so far. When three of her dancers alleged theyd been sexually harassed, forced to work until they soiled themselves and fat shamed the Sexual Harassment allegedly involved eating a banana in an amsterdam nightclub in a way that definitely contravened the venues hygiene regulations. Venues hygiene regulations. Although its just good to hear that lizzo is getting some vitamins and fibre. I thought the only club shed be interested in was a club sandwich. Lizzo described the allegations as gut wrenching. Allegations as gut wrenching. That must have been some spanner to wrench her guts. Weve actually got a picture of it. For those listening on radio, heres a picture of the biggest spanner we could find. And its gary lineker. I dont want to have a go at lizzo. Shes got enough on her plate. In fact, i want to applaud her for fat shaming, although i have to wonder, how fat were the bodies if was one shaming them. If she was the one shaming them. We need bring shame. We we need to bring back shame. We have increasing obesity have an increasing obesity problem west, problem in the west, particularly since lockdown when the government , particularly since lockdown when the government, in their infinite decided to shut infinite wisdom, decided to shut the gyms and lock us in our houses right next to the fridge. Nearly two thirds of people in the are overweight and the uk are overweight and a quarter of them are obese. Our quarter of them are obese. Our corpulence brings a heap of Health Problems and costs the nhs billions. But instead of encouraging people to be healthy, society is applauding the obesity adverts, which used to present unattainable people section and rippling hard abs are now full of fat people and social media is full of fat activists pushing a message of fat acceptance thats got to be a tough job, by the way, being a fat activist, because if you get too active, you might stop being so fat. The tell us that we can be healthy at any size. It might make us feel better, but its just not true and its harming people. Cant identify as people. You cant identify as healthy. People need to know healthy. People need to know that obesity is unhealthy and we shouldnt sugarcoat it. The message because then theyd eat that too. People make excuses saying, oh, i have an underactive thyroid, no love, youve got an overactive fridge door left wing people say that poverty causes obesity and its hard to eat healthily on a budget. I disagree. A can of chickpeas is cheaper than chips. And no matter what you eat, its not going to cost more to eat a bit less of it. While its hard to dodge the adverts from Companies Like ben and jerrys pushing their sugary junk, and gary lineker using his status as a trusted sports star to flog unhealthy snacks to kids. We need to have some personal responsibility. Thats why its responsibility. Thats why its great to hear reports that lizzo is fat shaming her dancers and hopefully theyll fat shame her back. And then next year she can embark on the healthy bmi tour. Please dont accuse me of fat phobia. By the way, im only scared of them if theyre in front of me in the queue at a buffet. Anyway. What do you buffet. Anyway. What do you think . Do you agree . Do you think . Do you agree . Do you disagree . Do you want to see me . Cancelled email it to gb views at gbnews. Com. Ill get to your emails in just a few minutes. Reacting to my take at ten tonight are legendary radio dj and broadcaster mike reid. Broadcaster and former adviser to Boris Johnson , lord kulveer to Boris Johnson, lord Kulveer Ranger and former Home Office Adviser and political commentator. Claire pearsall coming up, weve got the papers. Oh, sorry , clare, what do you oh, sorry, clare, what do you make of that . Sorry. Its my first day doing this job. Im still getting used to the buttons. Clare, what do you make of that . I mean, do you think weve got a problem with the beastie that can be tackled with fat shaming . I dont think you necessarily need to use fat shaming, we need to use fat shaming, but we need to use fat shaming, but we need be a lot stronger at the need to be a lot stronger at the message that obesity is not shaming free. Shaming people, is free. Effective. Whats to its effective. Whats not to love well i dont love about it . Well i dont think you should do from think you should do it from a point of causing alarm to everybody. I think there are ways of doing it. I think youre quite right to point out that somebody is obese. They to do more is obese. They need to do more exercise. They need to eat less. Exercise. They need to eat less. I mean, we all know that. We all know that if you sit there and go through family of go through a family bag of cnsps go through a family bag of crisps watching the crisps while watching the television , going do television, its going to do nothing your waistline. So nothing for your waistline. So i do it needs be called do think it needs to be called out. I think there are ways of doing it. And i think that actually coming on television and about you get an and talking about it, you get an awful of grief, you awful lot of grief, but you should do it. Should be able should do it. You should be able to an open conversation, to have an open conversation, especially and especially with your friends and family. They are putting family. If they are putting on weight. Think people shy weight. And i think people shy away it, but it isnt away from it, but it isnt rocket science. We all know full well that you need to move around more. You need to eat less of those bad foods that contain sugar and carbohydrates that youre not going to use up. And you need to get outside, move around , do whatever. It move around, do whatever. It doesnt to expensive. Doesnt have to be expensive. And you can go for walk 20 and you can go for a walk 20 minutes, raise that heart rate. Youll be good. Youll be good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, lord covid, i mean, a lot of it is common sense. Like if just move more and eat if you just move more and eat fewer youll lose weight. Fewer pies, youll lose weight. Yeah. Look, i. Have agreed with most of i have agreed with most of what said, but at one what clare said, but at one point think going point today i think were going to and i think its not to disagree and i think its not known i think known by everyone. And i think one of the problems were having here is putting, you here is that by putting, you know, people up on know, fat people up on a pedestal , all were of pedestal, all were kind of normalising fat and so normalising fat people. And so what saying to some people what were saying to some people is okay pedestal. What were saying to some people is theyay pedestal. What were saying to some people is theyay pectake. What were saying to some people is theyay pectake out what i they could take out what i didnt mean to that. Didnt mean to do that. But you took the gold there. But but were trying. Were normalising it to young people that okay to be fat. And as that its okay to be fat. And as were saying, its not okay. Its not healthy for you. Its not going to be good for you in the long run. Its not going to be good for the nhs. So we have to say that its not good to be fat. I was surprised fat. You know, i was surprised when i saw actually the first time this was at the time i saw this was at the glastonbury i watching glastonbury when i was watching and lizzo perform with all and saw lizzo perform with all her who were all rather her dancers who were all rather large. Was kind of large. And i was kind of astounded because a very astounded because it was a very energetic performance and they had to do that. But youre thinking youve be quite thinking youve got to be quite fit healthy , so can you be fit and healthy, so can you be fat, fit and healthy at the same time . And i think the answer is this is you cant. Time . And i think the answer is this is you cant. So you have this is you cant. So you have to say that. But if you are overweight significantly overweight, a healthy overweight, thats not a healthy thing for you and for your future health. I mean, this is this is the question, mike, moving on to you. People seem to feel you. I mean, people seem to feel that they can identify as anything these you know, anything these days. You know, men as women or men can identify as women or people children can identify people can children can identify as cats. Fat people as cats. But fat people identifying as healthy at any size. Itsjust identifying as healthy at any size. Its just medically not true. I mean, what do you make of it . Yeah, i mean, you lose weight in the kitchen, not in the gym , in the kitchen, not in the gym, as they say. I fat shame every day. I think its good. I look in the mirror and i go, no, no, no, no, no, no. Then i go back to the fridge and it says, no, you dont. Yes, i do. Take the nofice you dont. Yes, i do. Take the notice off. I do think that in shopsit notice off. I do think that in shops it would be rather good to fat shame if they if products could identify you by your shape from a okay with the biscuits to something really seriously fattening. Dont you dare fattening. You go dont you dare touch me. So i think that will probably be quite good if had probably be quite good if we had audio to size in shops, audio reaction to size in shops, im sure that would work very, very well. So it might sell so many products, but hey mike, do you think that shops could could fat shame maybe the ice cream aisle could have, could have, could be particularly narrow. You get down it so you can only get down it if youve if youve lost a certain amount weight. Certain amount of weight. Thought you were sorry. I thought you were talking sorry. Say talking to all of us. Sorry. Say it again. Yeah, in fact. Yeah. Yeah, in fact. Yeah. What do you what do you think of this idea if supermarkets restrict the aisle width for fatty foods . Well theyve got theyve got all the notes on havent they. You look at 3 or 4 reds when you look at 3 or 4 reds its a red card in its like getting a red card in football. Think, no. Now football. You think, oh no. Now ive sent off the pitch by ive been sent off the pitch by this packet of something. And then the oranges. Thats then you see the oranges. Thats okay. Greens as okay. The greens are okay as well. But we do tend look well. But we do tend to look more dont we, at at more than ever, dont we, at at how calories is. But you do how many calories is. But you do need calories, you need fuel. You to keep going. Its you need to keep going. Its just what eat. And sometimes just what you eat. And sometimes its your body reacts to it. Its how your body reacts to it. I some people that eat what i know some people that eat what they skinny as rakes they like and a skinny as rakes and that put on and other people that put on weight theyve maybe weight because theyve got maybe thyroid glandular thyroid problems or glandular problems they cant help it. Problems and they cant help it. I think i think you can help yourself to a certain extent. And you know, the gang here is saying, you know, we know what sensible and what isnt, you know, but sometimes have know, but sometimes you can have a fair. A binge thats fair. Cheat yourself. Its great to heat cheat yourself. Its great to hear. Yeah from my panel that everybody is complete agreement is in complete agreement with me. The poll results me. Weve got the poll results in. You, will trumps in. We asked you, will trumps indictment help run for indictment help his run for president at 84 of you say yes , while only 16 of you say no. So that is quite a dramatic result. So trumps indictment, result. So trumps indictment, you know, youd think would maybe scupper his chances of becoming president could actually be helping him. Coming actually be helping him. Coming up, weve got the papers at 10 30 pm. Sharp with full panel reaction. But next, its the reaction. But next, its the newsmaker with gb news favourite Kinsey Schofield , talking all Kinsey Schofield, talking all things meghan and trump. See you things meghan and trump. See you in welcome back to mark dolan tonight. With me, leo kearse tonight. And lets have some of your views that youve emailed in gb views gb vaiews gbnews. Uk so alan says as an overweight person i can now say that im over the moon, that weve come back into fashion. Thats great to hear. Alan richard says, i always draw the short straw when i get on an aeroplane. The space is limited at the best of times without a pie eater taking up to seats next to me. I feel your pain, richard , i says. My pain, richard, i says. My husband is fat, shamed me until i lost the weight. Best thing he could have done for my health. I was on a one way ticket to type 2 diabetes, and lizzo was a fellow passenger. So thats thats the power of fat shaming. It can save relationships and the health of an entire family. The health of an entire family. A beautiful story there, christine says. And i swear to god i didnt write this myself. Great show, leo. Im enjoying it with a large takeaway pizza, as is my right live and let live. Let people indulge. Good for you, christian. Enjoy your pizza. Hope its got some some healthy toppings, though. Anyway, its time now for us news with the queen of american showbiz royal and political reporting , showbiz royal and political reporting, kinsey showbiz royal and political reporting , Kinsey Schofield. Reporting, Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey, how are you . Kinsey, how are you . Im so good to see you. And youre doing such a good job. Thanks, kinsey. Thanks, kinsey. And thanks. Thanks for joining us all the way from sunny l. A. It looks like youre having Better Weather there than we are here. Typical tuesday. Yeah. Sorry typical tuesday. Yeah. Sorry typical tuesday. Yeah. Sorry and lets start with the latest on donald trump. Tell us everything. Yeah i mean, you everything. Yeah i mean, you know, were really seeing , i know, were really seeing, i think in this particular case, he said that if you cant beat them, you got to persecute them or you got to prosecute them. So he really feels hes innocent in this particular instance. But he has pleaded not guilty to these federal charges that he once tried to overturn the election. And of the three the election. And of the three criminal cases hes facing , this criminal cases hes facing, this charge is really historic since it focuses on blocking the peaceful transfer of president ial power. Peaceful transfer of president ial power. The next president ial power. The next court date is august 28th, when a tentative trial date will be set. But i will say, as a tentative trial date will be set. But i will say, as an american between some of the scandals were seeing with the biden family and with all of the chaos surrounding , you know, chaos surrounding, you know, former President Donald Trump , former President Donald Trump, its exhausting. Were not its exhausting. Were not looking forward to the next election. And i think its really disappointing to see, as ive heard some of your panellists say, that this is the best we have to offer as a country. We expect better. We expect more from our leaders. And it does seem like theres a real void when it comes to moral compasses in our politicians. Yeah i mean, it does seem like a low point for american democracy and in such a such a pivotal time. And it feels like joe biden and donald trump, theyre the two candidates that nobody wants. I mean, would you would you rather see ron desantis . What do you think went wrong with ron desantis. Desantis campaign. Oh, wow. You know , thats oh, wow. You know, thats a really good question because i remember during the pandemic, ron desantis was the face of he was the maverick. Was the maverick. You know, we were all kind of impressed that he was making moves that no one else had the courage to make. I think where he probably went wrong was being critical trump and i think critical of trump and i think that turned a lot of people off. But im interested in rfc junior. You know, im a a pretty conservative individual and hes a democrat, but hes he he comes off as a bit of a maverick as well. And during the pandemic was banned from all of these social media sites for trying to ask some serious questions about vaccinations and the way that the country was. You know, branding them and enforcing them. But it would be nice to see some fresh blood. It would be nice to see some new new faces because cause it just seems like both the democrats with the biden family and trump, theres just so much drama surrounding it would be nice to just have some clean, some somebody clean, somebody happy, a nice young family show up without the skeletons in the closet. Wouldnt that just be amazing . I understand why aliens are coming, leo. I understand why everybodys talking about auens why everybodys talking about aliens lately. Based on the politics here in the states. Politics here in the states. And the duchess of walk, Meghan Markle spent her birthday without harry. Are there cracks appearing in this chaotic union . Oh, my gosh. Please send your thoughts and prayers. Its page six is reporting that meghan celebrated her 42nd birthday by going to see the barbie movie with Ellen Degeneres wife, portia rossi , and a few portia de rossi, and a few girlfriends. She also stopped by girlfriends. She also stopped by a local resort in Santa Barbara for dinner and drinks where she took photos with a bridal party that seems very seems very relatable and sweet and kind of fun. Not not a normal meghan fun. Not not a normal meghan story that we hear, but thats right. Prince harry stayed at home with the kids. Then when we did see them wednesday night when she was kind of in that black and white dress , it seemed black and white dress, it seemed like harry got in a different car. She was walking feet in front of him in the paparazzi shots. So i dont think that any of the things theyve done over the last few days to try to squash those , you know, trouble squash those, you know, trouble in paradise. The honeymoon is in paradise. The honeymoon is oven in paradise. The honeymoon is over. Rumours. I dont think anything that theyve done over the last few days has settled those. Those. And do you think i mean, there empire seems to be crumbling in the spotify deal is falling apart apparently the netflix deal is teetering as well and thats the big one thats worth 100 million perhaps they envisaged this this launch into a glittering , launch into a glittering, glittering career in the media. But really, people were just interested in that first document where they spilled the beans on the royal family. And after that, people are a bit like, nah, theres nothing else there. Yeah like, nah, theres nothing else the think|h like, nah, theres nothing else the think that were glued to the think that were glued to the soap because soap opera, right . Because i dont know of anything else that they do or anything else that they do or anything else that they contribute. It just seems like they talk about the royal family but. And thats it. But just in regards to that spotify deal , theyre on the cover of deal, theyre on the cover of People Magazine here in the states this week, and theyre theres an interesting quote in theres an interesting quote in there from a source close to harry and meghan claiming that they given no formal they were given no formal a formal lay of the land when it came spotify or how a podcast came to spotify or how a podcast works. And it says that they works. And it says that they were already unsteady on their feet before the ink was dry. And feet before the ink was dry. And they said that they did pitch a lot of ideas to spotify. But there was too much red tape and spotify wasnt moving fast enough for them, which call enough for them, which i call garbage on. Leo i just think that theyre always blaming other people. Its just like other people. Its just like when meghan said nobody helped formally trained her into becoming, you know, the duchess of sussex. No one helped her becoming, you know, the duchess of sussex. No one helped her in the royal family to seek the royal family you got to seek when are given an when you are given an opportunity as significant as the spotify deal monetarily and just blessing wise, you need to take the initiative. You need to be ambitious enough to open up a book, go google wikipedia, do whatever you have to do, but youve got to stop blaming other people. And i think that thats youve got to stop blaming other pe0|of. And i think that thats youve got to stop blaming other pe0|of thed i think that thats youve got to stop blaming other pe0|of the things|k that thats youve got to stop blaming other pe0|of the things that at thats youve got to stop blaming other pe0|of the things that the|ats one of the things that the American Public is tired of. Its always elses fault. Yeah, well, i mean, you can see hard im trying with my see how hard im trying with my opportunity covering for mark kinsey. And just quickly before we go , duchess are at war. Why , the duchess is are at war. Why why is meghan upset with kate . Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. This is such a wild story. And the People Magazine, an article ill be quick. The article and ill be quick. The People Magazine article. They say meghans over it. Shes, you know, trying to be above the drama. However, closer drama. However, a closer magazine , an article this week magazine, an article this week they say that meghan is really resentful of the fact that catherine never the princess of wales, never upon lies to her. And this source says to closer magazine that that meghan will tell anyone that will listen that the princess of wales had had a nasty edge to her and that she feels like she should be apologised to. Im so hostile about this story. Let go. Let god. You know, i think that the god. You know, i think that the princess of wales is precious, sweet, sophisticated kid and meghan needs to get over it. Meghan needs to get over it. I couldnt agree more. Well, thanks so much, kinsey. Thanks for joining us and please enjoy forjoining us and please enjoy the rest of the day there. Get some sunshine. I wish i could do the same. Coming up, weve got the same. Coming up, weve got the papers at 10 30 pm. Sharp with full pundit reaction. Plus tonights headline, heroes and back page zeroes. And i want to know yours. Email gb views at gbnews. Com see you in a moment. A brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Good evening. My name is good evening. My name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast brought to you by the met office. So its been quite a wet, windy and unsettled day across the uk and thats been due to storm. Anthony thats going to move away to the southeast though, as we go through this evening to allow for some lighter winds to move in from the west. For some lighter winds to move in from the west. But we could still see a bit more in the way of cloud rain and some thunderstorms clinging into the southeast for a while. Also, some blustery conditions here. Elsewhere things drying up, but we could still see some showers for western coasts and there will be some clear spells around. So in rural areas, temperatures might just drop into the single figures. And into the single figures. And this will mean itll be a generally brighter, drier and calmer start to the second half of the weekend. Those still some blustery conditions. Cloud and rain across east anglia at first cloud and showers soon bubbling up elsewhere and they could be heavy across scotland , northern heavy across scotland, Northern England and a chance of a thunderstorm for northern ireland. But generally feeling much more pleasant with those temperatures just creeping into the low 20s in the south after another chilly night, the low 20s in the south after another chilly night , though, on another chilly night, though, on sunday, it will be a bright start to the new week with plenty of sunshine around some showers soon starting to bubble up, but these will be less frequent and lighter in nature than what were expecting for sunday. But as we look towards midweek, it does look like things settle down and things will settle down and become drier with those become a bit drier with those temperatures rise to a temperatures on the rise to a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Yeah, its 10 30 news. Yeah, its10 30 p. M. News. Yeah, its10 30 pm. This is mark dolan tonight with leo kearse. And its time for this. Kearse. And its time for this. Now its time for a look at tomorrow mornings newspapers. Hot off the press. Theyre burning my fingers. Hot off the press. Theyre burning my fingers. So the burning my fingers. So the sunday telegraph leads with china will use electric cars to spy on britain. I think thats hacking into them, not actually driving them around. They also have drivers could claim millions in refunds after fines based on cctv ruled illegal. Fantastic. And dowden says that critics of migrant barrages must stop howling the independent leads with how tories cook the books to cut asylum numbers. Books to cut asylum numbers. 6000 migrants disappear from asylum lists in just three months as sunak boasts of cutting the backlog. But is he just fiddling with spreadsheets as the express has sabotaged . As the express has sabotaged . The home secretary says sir keirs web of cronies are blocking asylum laws , but labour blocking asylum laws, but labour insists it can clear a 13 year tory backlog of deportations. And theres a lovely picture of king charles there having a bit of whisky, a snifter of whisky, just like his his mum and his grandma would. The daily mail. Grandma would. The daily mail. Were going to save that one. Were going to save that one. Were going to keep that special brucey bonus as the mirror has shocked child hunger exposed jamie act now on Free School Meals. 1 in 4 of 11 to 17 year olds has a pal who skips meals. Apparently the observer has appalling state of warehouse jails revealed in shock data and theres a picture there of imran khan as well, the former pakistan leader. And he says when you receive this message, i will be arrested. And i will be in prison. It will be arrested. And i will be in prison. It seems to be a theme developing across the world, from navalny to trump and now hitting pakistan on the sunday people has time tock ads sale barbie tans linked to cancer are the blockbuster is used to flog deadly nasal sprays and the daily star finally has his shiny ball of fire spot in sky. Brits stunned by appearance of sun and sun is in is in quotation marks because i dont think any of us would recognise it right now. Anyway, lets get it right now. Anyway, lets get the views of my pundits. Mike the views of my pundits. Mike reid, laura kulveer , ranger and reid, laura kulveer, ranger and claire pearsall. I reid, laura kulveer, ranger and claire pearsall. I mean reid, laura kulveer, ranger and claire pearsall. I mean the claire pearsall. I mean the front cover of the daily telegraph, lord colville has got china will use electric cars to spy on britain. Is this a downside to the green revolution . Well, 7 well, yes, 7 well, yes, i . Well, yes, i think quite. I well, yes, i think quite. I think the issue here is any thing that weve now got that has got so Much Technology in in our cars , well, theyre barely our cars, well, theyre barely cars. Theyre totally, you know, almost self driving. Yeah. And almost self driving. Yeah. And also, like my car, it can be updated at night. New software coming in. You know ive got one of those things that elon keeps reprogramming at night. So every time i go into it the following day, the switches all in day, the switches are all in different it literally different places. It literally does happen really well. They change set in various change the set up in various things as you get things can happen as you get a new software dropped over new Software Patch dropped over because really what because thats not really what you youre tanking you want when youre tanking down the motorway, go to down the motorway, you go to wheres gone . Wheres the break gone . Behind ear. But yeah, but, but the amount of data that our cars are collecting and any kind of device. So the are of device. So the cars are kind of a euphemism for anything that were going to be utilise using that of an that will give more of an insight to what were doing. Our our living, our our way of living, our susceptible ality, our weaknesses. Thats all about data, personal data, building up a perspective on, say, britains or any country. A perspective on, say, britains or any country. And that is or any country. And that is something that can be used against us. So we do have to be ever cautious in the world, use the advantages of new technology , but be careful about who has their on the data that their hands on the data that comes from whether its our cars or toaster or our washing or our toaster or our washing machine or anything else. Yeah, i mean, mike, does this worry yeah, i mean, mike, does this wordoes make you want to does this make you want to get to the days of just get back to the days of just driving diesel truck around . Driving a diesel truck around . Oh, days. Oh, yeah. Oh, those days. Oh, i remember well. Yes, its remember them well. Yes, its interesting. Do they do they impregnate you . Do they put a impregnate you . Do they put a chip in there and what are they collecting . Know, loads of chip in there and what are they colstuckg . Know, loads of chip in there and what are they colstuck on know, loads of chip in there and what are they colstuck on the know, loads of chip in there and what are they colstuck on the m25 , loads of chip in there and what are they colstuck on the m25 for ads of chip in there and what are they colstuck on the m25 for an; of chip in there and what are they colstuck on the m25 for an hour us stuck on the m25 for an hour or two. Thats really going to interest chinese. If i were interest the chinese. If i were a, to watch that all day a, i want to watch that all day long. Like watching birds nesting in a box in your garden. Yeah. What going to use yeah. What are they going to use it for . I really dont know what data gather from data can you gather from that . I mean, its an interesting one, but as you phoned, if you phoned the car a of a politician, the car of a of a politician, for example, you could find out where where go, where the where they go, where they their off and you they drop their kids off and you could information to target them. And weve seen Chinese Secret Police west target police in the west target political dissidents. They political dissidents. So they could spy on on could they could spy on on people whove china and people whove left china and sought refuge. Sought refuge. Khazar, as you rightly say, computerised cant take computerised now you cant take the engine out and put it back in anymore. Doesnt work like in anymore. It doesnt work like that. So whether can that. Yeah. So whether they can cleverly youre cleverly hack into what youre doing actually hack into doing and actually hack into individuals or individual cars, i dont know. Mean its quite i dont know. I mean its quite interesting, isnt it . Are we all going to do it . Do we have the same technology . Can we do the same technology . Can we do it to chinese cars . Thats i mean, thats thats the question. Sure boffins and m16 im sure our boffins and m16 are working working on that. I mean, weve seen the mean, clearly, weve seen the power, the Car Companies have. I mean, when there was a disaster for in america, tesla downloaded an update to the cars that allowed them to have greater range. So the cheaper cars have an artificially limited range, the could take the battery could actually take you further. But because its the cheaper model, they limit how go. And that how far it can go. And that shows, you know, this this could almost the banking almost weve had the banking scandal you have your scandal where you can have your bank cut off. I mean, bank account cut off. I mean, this could be Car Companies. If your values align with the your values dont align with the car could cut off, car company, they could cut off, you know, stop your car right where it is. Could they cause a car crash if they can hack could they if they can hack in, could they cause a very eminent persons car to crash . Mean, yeah, thats thats i mean, yeah, thats thats another point. Massive orchestra, a or a massive orchestra, a massive collision. Yeah. But i think thats the point, isnt are you point, isnt it . Are you suddenly going get cancelled . Point, isnt it . Are you su kianly going get cancelled . Point, isnt it . Are you su kia goinging get cancelled . Point, isnt it . Are you su kia going to get cancelled . Point, isnt it . Are you su kia going to cancel cancelled . Is kia going to cancel me . Because doesnt like my views because it doesnt like my views on it is at the time . On whatever it is at the time . Because they know what my social media is, because they have my bank details, because ive got it finance. They know my it on finance. They know my address. They know my driving licence i think licence details. And i think thats the really worrying thing. Once got one set thing. Once youve got one set of data as to where you go, where you shop, what time you drop your kids off, it is quite frightening. How much of that is out there that we dont really appreciate . And then you link your car your phone as your car up to your phone as well. So doubling the exposure youve whos collecting youve got and whos collecting it, what are they going to do with so i do think it is with it . So i do think it is a massive concern and im sure that, as you say, the boffins at mi5 that, as you say, the boffins at m15 are looking. Can they do it in reverse . It is all turning in reverse . It is all turning a little bit. James bond for my liking. Yeah, dont want liking. Yeah, but i dont want to cancelled my so to be cancelled by my car. So i really that they stop this. Really hope that they stop this. No. I think the personal no. And i think the personal car has always been a symbol of personal freedom. Car has always been a symbol of perandl freedom. Car has always been a symbol of perandl fre and this is why in east germany, under the stasi, you germany, under the stasi, if you wanted i mean, number wanted a car, i mean, number one, it was a terrible car that youd you know, some youd get. And you know, some old lada, you had trabant and it would take seven years to actually arrive. But also actually arrive. But youd also be put on a list that said, this person autonomy. Person wants autonomy. This person wants autonomy. This person over where person wants control over where they instead following our they go instead of following our pubuc they go instead of following our public bus routes. Its always been about how much do we know about people and data that its always going data and that its always going to be the case. What we do need to be the case. What we do need to do is ensure theres a balance. Spoken, to do is ensure theres a balaworked spoken, to do is ensure theres a balaworked in spoken, to do is ensure theres a balaworked in this spoken, to do is ensure theres a balaworked in this industry , to do is ensure theres a balaworked in this industry for ive worked in this industry for the last 25 years in the it world. The growth of technology and data, comes together. But and data, it comes together. But we to make sure you move we have to make sure as you move into a digital society, we have to make sure as you move into will a digital society, we have to make sure as you move into will happen, al society, we have to make sure as you move into will happen, al scwety, we have to make sure as you move into will happen, al scwe have this will happen, that we have confidence in the people who have our data and were also got control over what happens as we go forward. Thats going to be a priority and actually something that politicians will have to look go. Look at as we go. We control data . Can we control the data . I mean, there trillions and mean, there are trillions and trillions of bits of data every day going through. Trillions of bits of data every day its ng through. Trillions of bits of data every day its ng titngh. About its not its not about controlling the data. Itll be about what are they going to do with do we have that with it and do we have that awareness . We to ensure awareness . So we need to ensure we keep the control over what companies the data. Yeah. And yeah, but im not sure i completely trust the government or to handle data or companies to handle that data well, what ive seen in well, given what ive seen in the the independent the past, the independent claire has the books to has how tories cook the books to cut asylum numbers. Do you cut asylum numbers. What do you make . Make of this . Well, Prime Minister has well, the Prime Minister has pledged stop the boats, that pledged to stop the boats, that that was one of his great pledges was on a podium pledges and it was on a podium and he stood there very proudly. And that hasnt and of course, that hasnt really as far as i can really worked as far as i can see. The numbers have gone down. Had the report today, weve had the report today, the numbers going down, down over six months. Over the period of six months. Did we not from last yeah. Did we not from last yean yeah. Did we not from last year, 2000, something to do with the weather. But i think that but i think isnt that what this about . This this is about . Apparently theyre this this is about . The apparently theyre this this is about . The books� ntly theyre this this is about . The books to. Y theyre this this is about . The books to cutieyre this this is about . The books to cut thee cooking the books to cut the asylum numbers and i think that this is looking at how you deal with this is looking at how you deal witiand it seems here the and it seems here the independent has got the details that the home office has withdrawn 6000 claims. Theyve just dropped off the books with nobody noticing and nobody telling Asylum Seekers themselves. And where are the Asylum Seekers . Well , they are still going to well, they are still going to be either housed in a hotel or they may have come over several years ago and are still just in limbo waiting. And i think thats the real crux of the matter, is that everybody focuses on those people coming across channel. But what across the channel. But what about the backlog we have, about the backlog that we have, which up in of which is up in the tens of thousands and they are sitting there have been waiting for three, four years in some instances , and now their claims instances, and now their claims could just have dropped off. So that Prime Minister can that the Prime Minister can claim that this is a success and the numbers are dropping. It the numbers are dropping. But it isnt is massaging isnt and it is massaging figures. You have some figures. So you have to at some point man up and accept you point man up and accept that you need to process these need more staff to process these claims. Have to step away claims. You have to step away from this fascination with stopping boats and actually look what do a little bit what you can do a little bit wider than that. But dont we needi wider than that. But dont we need i mean, lord, we weve got an asylum system that offers refuge to people who are fleeing persecution or danger in other countries, which is great, but people are abusing that system. And weve seen this recently. There have been leaks from from lawyers , is basically admitting lawyers, is basically admitting that game the system, the that they game the system, the school, the coach which cross channel migrants and how to how to cheat the system and stay in the uk. I think no system will ever be perfect. I think we have to accept that fact and we are a country that does seek to help people , whether theyre from people, whether theyre from afghanistan, ukraine, syria. We will always look to be there to support the people in need. What we do need to do is make sure the process works. And i think thats where we fundamentally let down and people have concerns. Must the boats concerns. We must stop the boats because thats just terrible. We dont want see more people dont want to see more people drowning kids and drowning and dying and kids and mothers in the channel thats just unacceptable. Thats why the Prime Minister is committed to stopping those small boats. But the process side, yes, there has obviously been a challenge in home office in how you in the home office in how you manage this. Numbers are manage this. If the numbers are going and obviously the going down. And obviously the independent certain bent independent takes a certain bent on stories , lets have on these stories, lets have a look whats with look at whats happening with those im sure those numbers, because im sure the Prime Minister will be scrutinised on this, especially in and the in the next six months and the next months. If the next 12 months. So if the numbers going down, the numbers are going down, the Prime Minister will stand up and say numbers are going say how the numbers are going down. Think theres down. But i think theres a Strong Enough political focus on this because do have to do this because we do have to do the right thing around getting this yeah. The right thing around getting thisand yeah. The right thing around getting thisand dovetail h. The and mike dovetail into the next on the cover of the next story on the cover of the express, which is sabotage by next story on the cover of the exp homehich is sabotage by next story on the cover of the exp home secretary, otage by next story on the cover of the exp home secretary, sayse by next story on the cover of the exp home secretary, says siry the home secretary, says sir keirs web of cronies are blocking asylum laws and it does feel the government that feel that the government that rishi he has the best intentions to try and deal with the small boats crisis. But every step of the way hes been stymied by either human rights lawyers who are helping people game the system or ngos or people in his own government or people in the home office or or they say, sir, keirs web of cronies is. Yeah, i mean, losing people is not new for us. Weve done it in the past. We did it. The peasants revolt about a third of the population somehow got lost and was it the 100 years war . No. Was it the plague . Oh, no. They just. When they just didnt count, people. Right. So then. Count, people. Right. So then. Theni count, people. Right. So then. Then i think William Walworth sent people out in the country and said, go and find out whats really happening. Suddenly really happening. And suddenly the again the population exploded again overnight. Hence the peasants overnight. Hence the peasants revolt. So yeah, weve got a habit of losing people even back in in the 1380s, we were very good at at just sidelining them and saying, oh, were not as many as we thought they were in the country. So we do have a history of it. So yeah, i mean, its yeah, i how could you its yeah, i mean, how could you have a 13 year backlog of deportations . You if you take someone like, like the Channel Islands like guernsey , if you islands like guernsey, if you commit atrocity on guernsey, commit an atrocity on guernsey, youre out the next day and you dont come back, youre banned. Youve on slightly easier to youre on slightly easier to manage the population on guernsey. Should imagine, is guernsey. I should imagine, is like ted island. Like father ted island. Well, we are an island. I mean, we should be able to manage it. 13 year backlog. Yeah. I manage it. 13 year backlog. Yeah. I mean , its yeah. I mean, its extraordinary. Yeah. Can ask claire to explain can i ask claire to explain the rishis a secret swifty story to me . Because i know the Prime Minister doesnt drink. Prime minister doesnt drink. And that, i thought and when i read that, i thought it a secret pint, it was him having a secret pint, but its not. Its not, is it . Its not. This was. I saw it released on social media. This morning that the Prime Minister ended up in a Taylor Swift Themed spin class in california. As you do. Class in california. As you do. As you do so, hes obviously a secret swifty. Right. But i think thats going to buy him was it taken by was taylor swift running the class because taylor swift wasnt there . And i think people thought that the people thought that all the secret were there secret service were there because was going because taylor swift was going to there and they out to be there and they found out it the Prime Minister of the it was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Right. Right. They disappointed, like were they disappointed, like disappointment . Yes. Were they disappointed, like distheresnent . Yes. Were they disappointed, like distheresnenfootage rishi theres no footage of rishi in coming up, in lycra anyway, coming up, weve from papers weve got more from the papers next. Plus, tonights headline , next. Plus, tonights headline, heroes and back page zeros. And heroes and back page zeros. And i want to know yours. Email gbviews gbnews. Com. See you in three minutes. Time for a couple more of your views. Emailed time for a couple more of your views. Emailed in to gb time for a couple more of your views. Emailed in to gb views. Views. Emailed in to gb views. Gb news news. Com. Patrick says if you look at the massive attendance at his rallies, its clear there is great enthusiasm for trump. He is being targeted by a weaponized Justice System due to the political establishments fear of his return to the white house in fryston patrick. Ive got to agree with a lot of that, trish says. As see jamie oliver has reared his head yet again, spouting in the mirror regarding Free School Meals , he must need Free School Meals, he must need another career. Now. His restaurants have all closed. Oh harsh. Anyway, hes just trying to do. Hes just trying to do something nice. Trish anyway, im joined by legendary radio dj and broadcast master mike reid, broadcaster and former adviser to Boris Johnson , lord kulveer to Boris Johnson, lord Kulveer Ranger and former Home Office Home Office Advisor and political commentator claire peirsol. And lets turn to our panels headline heroes. Actually, before we do that, were going to go through go over the front pages. We missed out. Weve got the daily mail that has fat cats, cash in, fat, fat cats, cash in on cost of living, squeeze. Thats living, squeeze. Thats a difficult headline to read. Im not to going lie. You did well. You did well. Yes i wont try and repeat it, but alleged loudly. People at the top of major businesses. So the ftse 100. Yeah theyre salaries are still getting bigger and whod have guessed right but there was something about performance and i think this is where people do get annoyed. You know we fat cats, okay, people who are heading big businesses, banks, energy the way energy firms, etcetera, the way we expecting them to take responsibility for thousands of jobs and so on and so forth. And deliver a result. But theyre not delivering. This is the thing. I mean, i dont mind people getting on ceos and executives getting remunerated they remunerated when they when they do when do badly, do well. But when they do badly, as the financial as we saw in the financial crisis, mean, there should crisis, i mean, there should have stakes around have been heads on stakes around around the square mile. It was the destroyed peoples lives. And instead they got golden payoffs while everybody else had to them it was they to bail them out. It was they move around the top. Move around at the top. Tend to move these people tend to move around from one company to another. Recently, a water another. So recently, a Water Company multi, multi, company was like multi, multi, multi millions in debt. And yet the people at the top are still earning big agree with earning big money. I agree with you. Mean, thats where you. I mean, thats where theyre get theyre doing well, then you get rewarded. The real rewarded. I think the real challenge now, though, is challenge right now, though, is that a lot of business and politics, especially through covid crisis, covid and the banking crisis, the taxpayers have to play more of a role in a lot of businesses i i i think thats why the scrutiny is coming in on some of these salaries and to some of these salaries and to some of these individuals. Yeah, because of the state in of the role of the state in their business, its socialism. Their business, its socialism. Weve got the moving on, weve got the sunday which leads with sunday times, which leads with the state. Now biggest the iranian state. Now biggest threat uk. The home threat to the uk. The home secretarys fears over spies links to gangs. So thats yeah, clear. What do you make of that . Well 7 well i 7 well i mean itd . Well i mean itd be quite interesting. I think we all know that there are problems in iran that there are problems in iran that there are problems in iran that the distance over there are trying to take control. And youre always going to have these gangs. I mean, it its not a stable region. So it should be no surprise. And when you destabilise places like iran, iraq, afghanistan, they all scatter and they all turn up in other places. Other places. But we havent done anything to destabilise iran. Its doing it itself. Is doing it itself. But it is doing it itself. But you dont know what other information is available them information is available to them as people are in the uk as to what people are in the uk that they may be interested in. It may be the state of it may not just be the state of the kingdom, it may be the United Kingdom, it may be some individuals that are here already. I think that theres already. So i think that theres probably a little bit more detail were never going to detail that were never going to get of quite rightly get hold of and quite rightly so. Services must so. The Security Services must have this locked away in have some of this locked away in their so itll be their back pockets. So itll be interesting what interesting to see what what bafis interesting to see what what basis they for this and how basis they have for this and how worried we should be. Yeah, absolutely. Anyway, yeah, absolutely. Anyway, lets our panellists lets turn to our panellists headune lets turn to our panellists headline back page headline heroes and back page zeros. Clare, whos your whos your headline hero . Your headline hero . Its going to be the Prime Minister of greece. The Prime Minister of greece, the Prime Minister of greece. The Prime Minister of greece. Not only did he give an awesome interview on a on a Morning Program quite recently, and he has offered british people who had to leave the island of rhodes during the wildfires , a free weeks holiday wildfires, a free weeks holiday next year to make up for it. But he doesnt have to send them very far. Yeah, he does. Lord covid, whos whos your headune lord covid, whos whos your headline hero . My headline hero is a black labrador called ello. Who found labrador called ello. Who found ,1 million in florence . Hes labrador called ello. Who found ,1 mil. Ion in florence . Hes labrador called ello. Who found ,1 mil. Hesi florence . Hes labrador called ello. Who found ,1 mil. Hes a lorence . Hes labrador called ello. Who found ,1 mil. Hes a sniffer . Hes labrador called ello. Who found ,1 mil. Hes a sniffer dog. S sniffer dog. Hes a sniffer dog. So does. He has his day job. So he does. He has his day job. Right. And he had a particularly good well, kind of good money. Well, he can kind of smell money, right . Yeah. Im smell of money, right . Yeah. Im one of puppies, you know, one of his puppies, you know, and. Breeds because. Wow. And. And he breeds because. Wow. And. And he breeds because. Wow. And just that. It was and not just that. It was obviously the person who had this Million Euros in a case could not explain what they were doing with it. So theyve been detained. Theyve been detained, yes. Government has yes. So the government has stepped in. Some innocent, innocent man have their made have done theirjob, made a million ,1 million off of his own hard work. And the governments taking didnt even have lottery to prove have the Lottery Ticket to prove that Million Euros. That hed got the Million Euros. Dont dog. I dont like this dog. I dont like this dog. He sounds like a grass mike. Whos headline here . Whos your headline here . The pound. Pound sounds like the pound. Pound should the headline, should be the headline, shouldnt minor shouldnt it . Yeah minor bury football been shouldnt it . Yeah minor bury footbifor been shouldnt it . Yeah minor bury footbifor a been shouldnt it . Yeah minor bury footbifor a very been shouldnt it . Yeah minor bury footbifor a very long been shouldnt it . Yeah minor bury footbifor a very long timen shouldnt it . Yeah minor bury footbifor a very long time now. Going for a very long time now. They were expunged four years ago the football ago from the english football league. Unfairly. We had two very owners who behaved very bad owners who behaved badly. The Due Diligence wasnt, badly. The Due Diligence wasnt, i think , done properly anyway. I think, done properly anyway. Weve been out of the league for four seasons. Were now back way down the tiers , but well fight down the tiers, but well fight our way back and weve just won our way back and weve just won our first three weve our first three games. Weve played years and got played in four years and got through our first round the through our first round of the fa so well, bury fa cup today. So well, Bury Football Club at gigg are Football Club at gigg lane are my heroes this week. Amazing and quickly clear. Whos your whos your back . Page zero. Sadiq khan, london mayor. The ongoing saga of ulez and he now has the audacity to tell my fine county of kent that it needs to create its own scrappage scheme for residents , even though hes for residents, even though hes the one making the profits out of the ulez lord kelvin, the bank of england 14th Interest Rate rise in a row when they said they werent going to do this, they wouldnt raise bank Interest Rates at this kind of accelerated pace. Plus, is it having the right impact on inflation . Will it have the impact on inflation . Do we actually what their plan we actually know what their plan is us . Come on, explain it is for us . Come on, explain it to us. For that, they need to us. And for that, they need to us. And for that, they need to to zero. To me, they to go back to zero. To me, they they need to find a way to say how theyre going to go back to zero. The of a man whos zero. The words of a man whos got index linked mortgage. Got an index linked mortgage. Right. Exactly right. Exactly right. Mine is david lammy, who astounded the medical world this week by telling us all that you could asthma. Could catch asthma. Catch asthma. You can catch asthma. You can catch asthma. What david lammy said. Thats what david lammy said. He astounded medical world he astounded the medical world who reeling at this who are now reeling at this great went he said, great thought. He went he said, would want your your son or would you want your your son or daughter catch asthma in the daughter to catch asthma in the london polluted brilliant london polluted air . Brilliant stuff. Beat that, stuff. You cant beat that, really. And got a viewer of and weve got a viewer of heroes and zeros. Tell tell tell heroes and zeros. Tell tell tell us what you think emailed them into gbviews gbnews. Com and thanks for watching tonight headliners is up after after the break ive noticed weve still got 30s to go. Ive come out got 30s to go. Ive come out this too soon. Lets see. Can i talk nonsense for 30s . This is the real test. Youve had a fantastic show. Youve had a fantastic show. Youve had a fantastic show. Well done. Fantastic show. You carried it off well, mark should be worried wherever he is on holiday, i think. I think mark is watching this, rubbing his hands, knowing his job is quite safe. This is a very difficult thing to do, spinning so many plates. But yeah , interest stage all the yeah, interest stage all the time. Yeah. Headliners is a time. Yeah. Headliners is a completely different show to do. I know exactly how that works. And if you are watching , do stay and if you are watching, do stay tuned for headliners. Weve got to front pages, but to dip into the front pages, but they deep into the front they go deep into the front pages to show , to talk about the pages to show, to talk about the stories throughout the rest of the thanks for the newspaper. But thanks for listening. Good listening. Happy lucas. Good night. Night. The temperatures rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news good evening. On. Gb news good evening. My name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast brought to you by the met office. So its been by the met office. So its been quite a wet, windy and unsettled day across the uk and thats been due to storm anthony thats going to move away to the south east though, as we go through this evening to allow for some lighter winds to move in west. But we could in from the west. But we could still see a bit more in the way of cloud rain some of cloud rain and some thunderstorms clinging the thunderstorms clinging into the south east while. Also, south east for a while. Also, some conditions here some bluster conditions here elsewhere , things drying up, but elsewhere, things drying up, but we could still see some showers for western coasts and there will be some clear spells around. So in rural areas, temperatures might just drop into single figures as this into the single figures as this will mean itll be a generally brighter, drier calmer start brighter, drier and calmer start to the second half of the weekend, though still some blustery conditions. Cloud and rain across east anglia at first cloud and showers soon, soon bubbung cloud and showers soon, soon bubbling up elsewhere and they could be heavy across scotland. Northern england and a chance of a thunderstorm for northern ireland, but generally feeling much more pleasant with those temperatures creeping into temperatures just creeping into the in the south after the low 20s in the south after another chilly night, the low 20s in the south after another chilly night , though, on another chilly night, though, on sunday, it will be a bright start to the new week with plenty of sunshine around some showers soon starting to bubble up, but these will be less frequent and lighter in nature than what were expecting for sunday. But as we look towards midweek, it does look like things will settle down and become a bit drier with those temperatures on the rise to the temperatures on the rise to the temperatures rising , boxt solar temperatures rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good evening. Im rory smith in the gb newsroom. The national in the gb newsroom. The National Crime agency is teaming up with social media firms to crack down on posts by people smugglers that encourage Asylum Seekers to cross the channel the Prime Minister says the new partnership between Law Enforcement and tech giants will tackle attempts to lure migrants into paying to make the journey. Group discounts free spaces for children and offers a false documents are among the posts at rishi sunak. Once removed to help achieve his promise to stop the boats. But labour says the action is too little , too late. Action is too little, too late. Ukraines president Vladimir Zelenskyy says russia has bombed a Blood Transfusion Centre in the north west of the country. The north west of the country. Mr zelenskyy claims a number of people are dead and others are injured. But the president did not disclose how many fatalities there are. He describes the strike in the eastern Kharkiv Region as a war crime. Storm