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News is it is turning drier and brighter over the next few days. Find out more with me in a little bit. Just a little bit of work on that accent, paul. Thats all. While many. Nil. Nil nil nil nil. While many. Nil. Nil nil nil nil. And now the from the nil. And now the from the latvian jury. Yeah , thats always the worst yeah, thats always the worst bit. Hey, heres a question for you. Yeah how old is too old to make a career comeback, do you think . What do you mean by in eurovision terms . No, no. No, no. General. General, there is ho. No. Oh, there is no age. Oh, there is no age. Well, william, its just that William Shatner wants to do another star trek movie at 93. Right. Right. And he hasnt done. Why not . And he hasnt done. Why not . He hasnt done one for 30 years. Generations with his last one week. Okay. Did he play. Did he play. So he wants to use, de aging technology to make him look younger. Right. Hes always looked quite young though, hasnt he . He just looks good for 93. He just looks good for 93. Hes got the hair of a 35 year old, hasnt he. Well i dont know how he. Anythings possible with al guys. Anythings possible. But hes exactly. But hes the only one. Hes the only one thats still alive, isnt he. Thats still alive, isnt he. How old of the star trek . Hes the only one thats still alive. The original nimoy. Theres yeah. Nichelle nichols, he went recently. Deforest kelley. Yeah, im surprised of myself. Im not even a star trek fan, but theyre all very good. Yeah. Very good. No, sulu is still about. Yes. Whats his name . Yes. Whats his name . Yes. Whats his name . Cant remember his actual name now. Name how. Name now. George takei. George takei. Yes, of course. Yeah, hes hes still going anyway. 103 george takei and looking great. He says, paul, well see you later on. Thank you. Get out. This isnt your slot. Sorry. Its 602. And it is the start of our program. The top story this morning, the ministry of defence has been hacked. And all fingers pointing this morning towards china. Towards china. Yeah. Now, the mod has confirmed to gb news that an external payroll system was hit andifs external payroll system was hit and its operated by a contractor which contained staff information, including names, bank details and in some cases , bank details and in some cases, home addresses. Theyve told us it was immediately taken offline for a full review. All payroll payments were made at the end of last month, and they dont expect any future payment delays ehhen lets talk to former labour mp denis macshane, who joins us now. I mean, this is hugely worrying, dennis, because it makes you wonder what on earth the chinese are trying to achieve with this. Oh, its very simple. Theyre not interested in the pay grades. The money paid in the mod. What they want are bank details, bank numbers, other connections. So then if they find any vulnerabilities, someones got a problem with marriage or whatever, then they beam in on that and we saw it. Its happening all over europe. The german far right party, the alternative for deutschland , alternative for deutschland, their politics isnt so important, but their chief european candidates almost had to stand down because he had a guy on his staff whos been exposed as a chinese spy. Alicia kearns, our very good chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, the Foreign Affairs committee, the house of commons. She was being investigated or examined for being tapped by the chinese earlier this year. And i mean, the wackiest story, if you like, in france, where actually president xi jinping of china is now on a big state visit with president macron. But the port of brest, which is a home to the French Nuclear submarine fleet and other warships right out of the atlantic coast, they suddenly found a rather lonely place. They suddenly found the last few years an awful lot of very Young Chinese ladies were enrolling for academic courses in the university and going out and maybe having building warm relationships with all the Nuclear Technicians and this, that and the other. And the french admiral was reported to the French National assembly on this. It is happening all over. And i mean, theyre being aggressive. A chinese , sorry, an aggressive. A chinese, sorry, an australian Helicopter Military helicopter was attacked by a chinese plane. The Prime Minister of australia, mr albaneses, Just Announced it was on a un patrol related to nonh was on a un patrol related to north keeping north korea under watch. And were not doing anything to push back. This is anything to push back. This is the tariff. Well, look on push back. Well, look on push back. Weve had weve had two people charged with espionage under the National Secrets act, including the person that was involved with alicia kearns. But there is, as you say, stephen, how do you push back . Because theres this dilemma. You have theres this dilemma. You have the financial pain that would come with cutting off such an important trade partner, giving these tiny sanctions sort of slap on the wrist. Were not slap on the wrist. Were not even calling them a threat, are we at the moment . Well, president macron is rolling out the red red carpet. I was with him. I know the i was with him. I know the namedrop i was with him last week in the elysee. But since you asked, we talked about the change of government in britain. But i was glad to see there the ambassador of taiwan and the representative of tibetans worldwide. The dalai lama is worldwide. The dalai lama is very frail now. So this chap sort of does the touring business. But france is luxury industry. Export industry would collapse overnight if the chinese werent buying louis vuitton. Look at our own foreign secretary whos refusing to recuse himself on dealing with china, even though he was taking an awful lot of money to promote chinese Investments Overseas and other work on behalf of china. Theyre taking us to the cleaners , and we dont have cleaners, and we dont have a policy, and its got to be across the board. But do we need a policy . In that sense, this is all smoke and mirrors. Youre not telling me we havent got significant assets within china ourself, as will america , as will many will america, as will many european countries, i expect. I remember when i was, chinese. Sorry, the minister for china gates, the Chinese Foreign ministry, and i had this huge briefing thing about that big from the foreign office. And i went for a pee. And when i came back, it had disappeared. Panic all round. And then we went for another pee as it were, had a cup of coffee and it reappeared again. So obviously they just photocopied it in a flash. Thats just the way they behave. Well, we have to call them out. Well, we have to call them out. We have to say, make clear, and it has to be done internationally. It wont be the Little England or the la Petite France or the grossdeutschland that does this. It will be all of us saying this must stop. Okay. Thank you very much. Denis macshane , former minister denis macshane, former minister for europe. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. And china and china. Appreciate it. And china and china. There and china and china. There you go. More relevantly. Thank you. Its interesting. I mean, on a very personal front, i think youre going to be concerned if youre going to be concerned if youre serving in the armed forces. Some veterans have been affected by this as well. So it is going to concern you, but i know the mod is offering support to and reaching out to those people whove been affected. So you just have to wait to see if youre contacted on that one. Yeah. To the middle east now, where israel has vowed to continue with its invasion of rafah in the south of gaza after rejecting a ceasefire offer from hamas. You know, the agreement was organised by qatari and egyptian mediators. But israel says the terms do not meet its demands. Well, this comes as israel ordered a partial evacuation of at least 100,000 citizens. Lets get the thoughts of the defence editor for the evening standard, robert fox, who joins us this morning, look , theres been so morning, look, theres been so much noise, hasnt there . Even from the likes of america, to try and stop this from happening. And yet its being described, isnt it, as targeted strikes on rafah that have begun, but a worrying moment the next 24 hours, i suppose. Yeah. Im next 24 hours, i suppose. Yeah. Im afraid next 24 hours, i suppose. Yeah. Im afraid weve heard yeah. Im afraid weve heard all this before about targeted strikes in and around rafah. There have been 1. 2 million. Theyve told 100,000 to get out of the way. Some started moving from early yesterday. They were moving for the sixth or seventh time since the war began. Were time since the war began. Were into the 214th day. No, youre absolutely right. Is that mr netanyahu . Netanyahu, the israeli Prime Minister, is determined to do this. He wants a fight to the finish. He wants to declare victory. The americans is not only anthony blinken, but bill burns , the blinken, but bill burns, the head of the cia, are extremely sceptical about the netanyahu plans. And thats where we are. And as you say, there are signs that the offensive has begun with bombing and now with ground operation, tanks have been seen moving in. I mean, in terms of israels position then on this, it is becoming increasingly thin , becoming increasingly thin, isnt it . I mean, when you look at what seems to be on the table with this deal, its a three stage plan, i think. Isnt it . And it does look pretty substantial. Substantial. Well, it does seem to offer the, the prospect that, what remains of the fighting force of hamas under yahya sinwar , which hamas under yahya sinwar, which is the point, will get out , is the point, will get out, because the Political Leadership and the sponsors of hamas, not only of qatar, but its particularly saudi arabia has been strong about this, saying youve got to win this, youve got to get this out, and we need a settlement with israel. The point on the other side is that there is a great fear, particularly from the liberal press, which is very strong in israel. Haaretz times visceral, particularly the english language, dailies are saying, now, look, youve split the country completely and youre just going on with the war. This is to netanyahu and his hardline settler allies in his government. Youre just going on, in order that you may survive, because once we have peace and the thing stops, youll be out of office, youll be on trial again, and thats the end of it. And its becoming a very personal survival game, according to the critics , very according to the critics, very divisive, even, as you say in israel, with some people convinced hes more interested in annihilating hamas than than trying to rescue any remaining hostages from there. Hostages from there. And what about here in the uk . Lots of papers reporting about these protests that weve seen at universities across america now reaching our shores. America now reaching our shores. A new tented camp in in oxbridge campuses as well. Is this something that were going to see more of, do you think as the humanitarian catastrophe increases over the next few days . Well, the humanitarian side of it, i would have liked to have gone into that, but its such a huge subject. Humanitarian law and the International Criminal court really are becoming factors in this. But lets look at protest. This. But lets look at protest. I think youre absolutely right. Protest is now a factor in the electoral cycle, and were going to see it big time in the engush to see it big time in the English Speaking world as we go into general elections in the uk and the us. Hmmhmm now, having said that, a lot of very interesting background writing is being written about it. This is being written about it. This is the symptom of a general gloom that politics isnt delivering in protest as her marvellous book by an lse professor called Jonathan White called in the long term, which points this out, its the absence of hope in so much of the politics. Look at the politics of local government politics. I dont criticise gb news for this, but most of the coverage was actually a game show forecasting whos up, whos down, whos winning. Not what its about, not what you can not what you can deliver. And to go back to your very strong point, protest is part of that. Yes they do feel aggrieved about, palestine and human rights there, but its part of a general feeling of grievance as well. And to answer your well. And to answer your question, ive been very long winded and apologise as the answer is absolutely yes. This is going to be a feature of our National Politics us, uk and certainly in countries like france and germany for the rest of the summer at least, and probably a lot more, its whether it makes a difference though, robert, i mean , so though, robert, i mean, so i mean, you could argue when you look at bidens position , i look at bidens position, i mean, one thing that they seem to have done is put on hold some munitions delivery to israel. I mean, is that a result of the protest . Is that just because of the general unease in the white house about whats happening . House about whats happening . I assume thats coming down the track. And this is quite clearly what blinken and burns have been saying to netanyahu , have been saying to netanyahu, because even things like, iron dome , you know, the famous, dome, you know, the famous, missile, it is very well famous now Missile Defence system, which is a complex of radars, of sensors , absolutely cutting edge sensors, absolutely cutting edge stuff and missiles. It does require a lot of american input in terms of part and technology. And theyre saying, go on with a war war and no jaw jaw as churchill, put it. And were going to start rowing back. This is the first sign that its going to happen. But if, if, netanyahu is going to say no to any possible solution, a political solution, a negotiated solution, which he appears to be saying at the moment were going to hear more of that. I think that things are getting very tough because biden doesnt want this a polluting his election campaign. Campaign. Okay. Robert fox, thanks very much indeed for your analysis this morning. Thank you. All right. It is 6 14. Lets have a look at some of the other stories heading into the newsroom this morning. And the United States and most eu nations are set to avoid the inauguration of russian president vladimir putin. The ceremony is going to take place at the kremlin today, and will swear him in for a new six year term. Hes already a longer serving leader than joseph stalin, with Putin Holding a continuing position as president or Prime Minister since 1999. The liberal democrat leader, sir ed davey , says hell table sir ed davey, says hell table a motion of no confidence in the government today in an effort to pressure rishi sunak to call a june general election. Sir ed june general election. Sir ed claims the disastrous local Election Results show the country has, in his words, had enough of rishi sunak and his out of touch government and the met gala has taken place in new york. If you care about these sort of things, garden of time was the theme, if you like, zendaya was there. Jennifer lopez, someone called bad bunny. No idea who that is. No idea who that is. No. And Chris Hemsworth, you know, it costs about 70,000 a ticket. Yeah the exclusive event is a benefit for the new York Metropolitan Museum and marks the opening of its costume institutes annual fashion exhibit. Absolutely crazy. Exhibit. Absolutely crazy. It is crazy. And yeah, its kind of a bit grotesque, isnt it, when theres all sorts of tragedies going on around the world, but its always interesting and entertaining to see people taking it so incredibly seriously as they contort themselves into some strange shapes. Ill never forget the year that kanye , and forget the year that kanye, and Kim Kardashian both turned up with what can only be described as well masks or gimp suits. Youre right there, conor. Just walking across the screen. Were on air, my lovely. On air, my lovely. I forgot we were on air. His face. Oh, bless him. Yeah were face. Oh, bless him. Yeah were talking about the met gala anyway. I mean, look, i have to say, conon i mean, look, i have to say, conor, our floor manager, would not get in the met gala dress like that. And i say, wheres the sparkle . Wheres the razzmatazz . Conor oh, dear. Well, that woke us up, didnt it, anyway, what are your best and worst memories from the met gala . Perhaps it just passes you by altogether. A bit like it does arcana. Never mind. Hes absolutely. Anyway, talking of sparkly outfits, the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in malmo. Yes, and stevens already been educating me about his favourite contestants for this yeah favourite contestants for this year. Weve had a sing along pre show. Shes unforgettable , its shes unforgettable, its a bangen shes unforgettable, its a banger. Its marcus and martinus who are the, the swedish entry. I mean, they probably wont win because you never win when youre doing it at home, but its a really catchy tune. Sweden always knocks out. Theyre very, very good, and they are identical twins. And i didnt realise this. And i said, well , only didnt realise this. And i said, well, only one of thems performing, the other ones always in the background. And steven said, no, its the same. Its different people. They just look the same. Its called being twins. So who is tipped to win this year and which countries should we keep a watchful eye on . Lets speak to entertainment reporter for the sunday mirror, Sarah Louise Robertson good morning to you. I hope youve been getting as excited as we have. Who should we be keeping an eye on, in your opinion . Hi guys, yes i am, it all kicks off today actually, and i was writing about at the weekend, so the favourites are actually switzerland, stephen, not sweden. This year not sweden. This year switzerland are running at 2 to 1 and their entry is a guy called nemo and the song is called nemo and the song is called the code and it is literally the most bonkers, craziest eurovision sort of poppy song craziest eurovision sort of poppy song that you could ever imagine. It poppy song that you could ever imagine. It mixes every sort of genre of music, and then theres like this huge chorus at the end andifs like this huge chorus at the end and its all about him being non binary and finding himself and all about acceptance. So and all about acceptance. So switzerland is tipped to be this years winner , but hot on the years winner, but hot on the tail is croatia. So croatias entry is a is a guy called baby lasagne. I dont know where he got that from, but the guy called baby lasagne. Yes. I mean, this is eurovision. Its mean, this is eurovision. Its all batus, you know what im saying . I know what youre saying. I know what youre saying. Yeah, its just bonkers. Its just crazy, you know. So. Yeah. So his his entry is about, a young man going around europe again, trying to find himself, trying to find glory, trying to find fortune. And i think theres a bit of a sad element as well to it, i think somewhere. But, i mean, hes obviously hoping for fortune on the night. And also up there is the night. And also up there is the netherlands and their song is called europa, which is obviously the most eurovision song entry, aptly named song, song entry, aptly named song, song title you could get, couldnt you . For eurovision. So thats very, dancey and very sort of netherlands. And if youre into like your techno beats and what have you, thats, thats up there, our entry though. Olly alexander it was at 40 to 1 on saturday. Hes now supped 40 to 1 on saturday. Hes now slipped down to 60 to 1. So weve plunged right down. I mean, when you think when we had amazing sam ryder and we were in that final, werent we. And we lost out to ukraine and fortunately olly is now slipped right down. Oh dear. I think end up finishing last. Yeah. And is that unfair . Obviously sam. Sam ryders superstar and, sam. Sam ryders superstar and, you know, very , very good. You know, very, very good. I mean, do you think that were that were right to be lower down this year , i mean, i like down this year, i mean, i like olly, i like years and years, but i think the track isnt quite right. But i think the track isnt quite right. I mean, i suppose there is craziness in the video, but i think theres been a lot of controversy around, this entry because of everything thats going on with the israel hamas conflict. And there israel hamas conflict. And there was all these calls, wasnt there, from, queers for palestine for, for olly olly to boycott , the concept. But then boycott, the concept. But then weve heard, over the weekend, over the bank holiday from ukraine, one of the ukrainian former winners, jamala and she, shed won for ukraine in 2016. And she says a boycott over the conflict is not an option for ukraine because for her country, she needs artists to be loud and creative. Was was the words that she used to remind the world about russias invasion of ukraine, so thats her stance on it. But with olly, theres been a little bit of controversy because he he made some comments in a documentary thats coming out about, the union jack being being divisive. And im like, what, what is he on about there . I mean, im in my red, white and blue, you know, we should be so proud to fly our flag. So i think thats not gone down very well. Its not going to be the gb news choice. Its not going to be the what is wrong with britain. And its it seems very rare that we actually put forward a proper, proper catchy kitsch sort of tune that would and it might not be the cup of tea of a lot of people who are watching right now, but thats what works with a eurovision audience. Yeah youre right stephen, its strange. We just cant seem to get it. I mean, we have obviously in the past with bucks fizz , havent past with bucks fizz, havent we. Which was so famous. And then there was katrina and the waves, which no one could ever forget that one either, so we do do well sometimes, but its just been such a long time. And sam ryden been such a long time. And sam ryder. Oh, i think obviously the whole ukraine conflict hadnt happened. Whole ukraine conflict hadnt happened. That would have been happened. That would have been our year. Sam would have got it. You know, he was on course to make history, wasnt he. But but the end you know, it went to ukraine, i just hes doing okay regardless of coming second. I had i had high ups with olly. Isabel you know, i did and not quite sure what what what what went wrong there. Yeah, it just hasnt happened. But i mean , im hasnt happened. But i mean, im a bit of the Terry Wogan School who used to call the. I used to love terry wogan. So did i, he made eurovision for me. He used to call the concert. Was it magnificently awful . Yeah. Magnificently awful . Yeah. Well ill tell you what i mean. The, the reason sam ryder did so well is he obviously fashions his hairstyle on you. Sarah. Oh, look, there you go. Oh, look, there you go. Oh, look, there you go. I dont know, you like a son. Ryden i dont know, you like a son. Ryder. Tribute act. Thats what ryder. Tribute act. Thats what you are. Is it saturday night, then . The final. Final saturday night. Final saturday night. Something to look forward to. Something to look forward to. Well be good. Really good to see you this morning. Thank you. Sarah, i appreciate it. Sarah, i appreciate it. Indeed. Ijust sarah, i appreciate it. Indeed. I just sort of think youve got to keep it kitsch. Yeah its the only way to do it. Its what people vote for. A little bit of nonsense. Take all the politics out. Although that is also quite funny. Sometimes politics is quite fun, and yeah, all the accents and all the time lags on the voting. Its all just part of the magic. Yeah, i shall enjoy that. A little bit of fun. Need a little bit of fun. We do. Now, as many of you will be aware, weve been nominated for aware, weve been nominated for a number of tric awards and this program has also been humbly nominated for best news program. If i may say its been humbly nominated, okay. Were thrilled, for best news category. So we would really love some help with trying to win it this year. Yes , you need to vote. Yes, you need to vote. Basically, weve got a qr code for you though yesterday that wasnt working, a lot of you got in touch, so if it doesnt work, this is where you need to go to poll dash tric. Org. Uk, you know, to get all our details for that on gbnews. Com. So vote now and, we might win again. You never know. Yeah, itd be good to win two years in a row, wouldnt it . Thatd be nice, in the meantime, lets get a check on the forecast. Whats the weather up to . Heres craig snell. A brighter outlook with boxt solar. Sponsors of weather on. Solar. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello there. Welcome to your latest ub news Weather Forecast from the met office over the next couple of days, High Pressure is starting to build in across the uk and thats introducing a bit more drier unsettled than what weve been used to. So out there first thing this morning, a bit of a dull start for a lot of us, but there is some sunshine along the south coast of england, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of scotland. The cloud will be thick enough in places to produce some spots of rain, and a few showers may well just develop further south, but for most it is a drier picture compared to monday. Most it is a drier picture compared to monday. And come the compared to monday. And come the afternoon, hopefully a lot of the uk will see some bright spells. The cloud will be stubborn across parts of scotland and northeast england, so feeling quite chilly here right throughout the day into the evening. Clearing skies initially, but that will allow some mist and low cloud to form and in towards the very end of the night, just watching this next band of cloud and rain, it may well just start to approach the far north west of scotland under the cloud cover, temperatures not falling much lower than around 8 to 10 degrees. But where we do see some clear skies. Degrees. But where we do see some clear skies. A bit of some clear skies. A bit of a chilly start on wednesday, but here we will see some sunshine elsewhere. A bit of a dull start, but the mist and low cloud will begin to burn away. So come the afternoon. Im fairly optimistic, a lot of us seeing some sunny spells. The exceptions really across the very far northwest of scotland. Maybe the far north west of Northern Ireland. Two. Here we see some cloud and some rain, but in the Sunshine Feeling pleasantly warm. Highs potentially reaching 20 or 21 degrees. That warm feeling inside and from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. And its begun. With the heat looming , and its begun. With the heat looming, summer is just around the corner. Believe it or not, unless youre in here, it feels like were already in the desert. Kicked off here anyway, we want to make it sizzle for you. Yes, we have an incredible £20,000 cash offer. Its up for grabs in our latest Great British giveaway. You just make it up as you go along. 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Please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Watching on demand. Good luck. Yeah, best of luck to you on that one. Now still to come, one Mothers Campaign for more security in stadiums following the Manchester Arena attack. Ill now. Almost seven years on from the Manchester Arena attack, the mum of one of the victims is campaigning for more robust security at uk venues. Yes, for the past five years, figen murray, the mother of martyn hett, has worked alongside the home office to try and get martyns law. Today she begins her biggest push yet to get this over the line. Yeah, our north west of england reporter sophie reaper sat down with her before the challenge begins. On the 22nd of may 2017, 22 people went to a concert at Manchester Arena but never returned home. One of those people was martyn hett, murdered by suicide bomber salman abedi. Its seven years nearly and i still cant go to bed before about 11 ish because i feel so ashamed and guilty as a mum because i was fast asleep in bed when he died, and i cant reconcile that. Ive got reconcile that. Ive got a martin shaped hole in my soul somewhere and thatll always be there. After the attack, the Manchester Arena inquiry found serious failings in security on the night, which could have prevented it from happening. As prevented it from happening. As a result, for the past five years, fegan has worked tirelessly to try and improve security at uk venues. About 18 months after martyn died , we went to a theatre in died, we went to a theatre in manchester and there was absolutely no security and that completely floored me. Then completely floored me. Then i looked into it and realised theres no legislation for security at all and i wanted to change that. I just want venues and places, Public Places to have a legal obligation to put security on and keep people safe. This morning, fegan will begin a walk from the spot where her son died. All the way to downing street. Theyll arrive on the seventh anniversary of the attack and until then, she wants as many people to get involved as possible. People can join us on the walk at different stages and help us make the point. And i believe in people power because really , the government may stall really, the government may stall the decision to get the legislation over the line, but the general public deserve to be safe and want to be kept safe. Sophie reaper. Gb news. Sophie reaper. Gb news. Idea needs to make sure stuff like that can never , ever happen again. And we wish you the best of luck with that. Walk or march as its been described over the next few days. Right. Shall we see whats happening in the world of sport . A lot, it seems there is quite a lot. Yes. Yes. Oh, really . Oh, really . Good. Shall we start with a little snooker . Shall we . Oh, yeah. Why not . New world champion. How do you feel about snooker . Because snooker was so popular years ago. Probably because there wasnt much sport. There wasnt much else on. No. No. Yeah. And then so everybody would watch it because it was the only sport on where hes had a real dip. Youve got darts which took off and they, theyve sort of showbizzle it up a bit and thats done very well. Where is snooker. What was the final people to watch it. But it doesnt get the viewing it used to. I find it a bit dull i gotta be honest. Yeah. Its exactly the same as it used to be, you see. What do you do with snooker . You know, but anyway, the winner, kyren wilson, won the World Championship for the first time yesterday. One 1840. I dont know what hes throwing up in the air there. What does that look like . Its confetti. No, it looks suspiciously orange. There we are. Just stop oil problems theyve had in the past. I automatically think, oh. Of course that happened last yeah of course that happened last year. So i was like, hold on, is that supposed to be there . Yeah, but theres kyren wilson from kettering. So his first title, he beat jack jones from wales. Thats jack jack by the way. Not jack as in jack jones the singer of the love boat. All right, but jones was 200 to 1, and also the ninth qualifier ever to get to the final. So he did extremely the final. So he did extremely well. But kyren wilson was the one that came through. He was a finalist before and the thing is, you imagine where snooker is always very quiet, refined and played this shot. And he was so excited as he was coming, knew he was going to win that final frame. So actually as hes frame. So actually as hes playing hes hes hes like putting the red and going get in. Yes. And then he straights straight to the next one screaming and shouting i was like well this isnt usual for snooken like well this isnt usual for snooker. Yeah. Maybe thats what it needs. Yeah. You know what andy murray style of like he really needs the crowd to get him. The emotion was there. The emotion was there. Hes like world champion, get in. So he was over. Well how much does he win . Well how much does he win . 500 grand. Okay, well think about it. Is that for a World Championship round. Well, championship round. Well, wimbledon is what, a million Everything Else is in the millions. But being the World Snooker championship. But this is the thing barry hearn, who has been in snooker and you know, he guided steve davis back in the day and hes been the chairman , of the, of the snooker chairman, of the, of the snooker and billiards championship. And and billiards championship. And the thing is with him, hes the one thats saying that the crucible, where they play it and theyve always played at the crucible in sheffield. Its too small. Its too much of a state and hes very much open to the World Championship, maybe going over to the middle east because thats what everythings going over there. Nine, 932 wow, is that right . Nine, 932 wow, is that right . I think so, yeah. How would you know . Is that just is that the theatre . I know you come out with this stuff all the time, but but 932 for a world final , i dont know, but world final, i dont know, but Everybody Loves the crucible and the crucible. Truly synonymous with the World Championship. So if they moved it away from there. But then again, as barry hearn says, things change. You know, sometimes youre going to move away. So theyre saying either rebuild it, make it bigger or were off somewhere else. Okay dear. Right. Lets have a look at football shall we. Palace and man united. Yeah i mean there were there were days these days in the past, probably up to even just a couple of years ago with the thought of Manchester United going to Crystal Palace and losing four nil was completely unthinkable. Whereas now you know what . Crystal palace were really good. And the way Manchester United are at the moment under erik ten hag, i mean, the guys got to go. I mean, the guys got to go. I mean this if you have a manager of Manchester United and theyre losing four nil away at Crystal Palace with respect and i say its like not unlikely but but its like not unlikely but but its just not good enough. Its just not good enough. Palace showed man united no respect whatsoever Oliver Glasner whos the manager thats taken over from roy hodgson a couple of months ago, has absolutely turned the turn the team around and they are looking terrific. So the most this is Manchester United. Some facts for Manchester United. Most defeats in a premier League Season ever. Now 13 one. So thats thats not very good. Theyve never finished below seventh in the premier league. Theyre currently eighth. So whether thats going to change most goals conceded since 1977 never finished a season with minus goal difference. Theyre currently on minus one right. So what would you do. Would you keep the manager . Well, oddly enough, its who who you replace him with because all this talk is about the ive forgotten his name. Now the guy at ipswich. Oh yeah kieran maguire. Yeah, yeah. Kieran mckenna. Yeah, yeah. Because he could, he could go couldnt he. A new fresh new young talent. What about david moyes. I hear he might be available soon. David moyes is going to be available because west ham have finally pulled the plug on him. Im glad they finally said this because i feel sorry for david moyes. Hes hes done really. He kept them from relegation in 2019, hes kept them in the top half of the league there in 22 and 21, won the Europa Conference League last year but this year they shipped five against palace, five against fulham, six against arsenal, six against liverpool. So its probably time for him to go. Julen lopetegui is the man thats probably going to come in who was at wolves, but david moyes at least i hope they give him a good send off at the london stadium because he knows that. Fond of him though, really. Fond of him though, really. Well thats it. I dont think they are every west ham fan i speak to. Its like all the footballs not good enough and he brought a trophy. The first time in 32 years its because theyve finally caught up with him as a young man. Have we still got that picture that we showed the other day . I bet we havent got it. I bet we havent got it on the system. No. You know what . David moyes, david moyes, when he played for john, firmly hold on. Oh my goodness. But you wont believe what youre missing. No well try and sort it out the other day of how david moyes used to look when he was playing for was it dunfermline . I think he was playing for him at the time. Bless me. Bless me. Hes hes improved with age. Hes hes improved with age. Hes hes improved with age. He has. Hes like a fine wine, grown into his looks, he has grown into his looks fabulous. Paul, thats enough of you. Paul, thats enough of you. Ive got the cold, the olympic cauldron for you in an houn olympic cauldron for you in an hour. Oh, yeah . Yeah, yeah. Is it nice looking . Its a bit. Oh, i was a bit underwhelmed, to be honest. Dont say that. I prefer to be whelmed. I was underwhelmed, right. I was underwhelmed, right. Oh, well. Well, see if you can warm it up a bit for us. I will welme up for you. I will welme up for you. Of course. Thank you. Of course. Thank you. Right. Stay with us still to come. Were going to be going through the front pages and the biggest stories of the day. Weve got Claire Muldoon and alex at 641. Good morning to you. Lets have a look at some of the newspapers today. And the times has israel, whove rejected a ceasefire as they continued their attack on rafa last night, killing, we believe at least 12 people. The mail is leading with greens facing fury over their failure to do to suspend a councillor who launched a hate filled tirade against a rabbi. The i this morning has a breakthrough in the Early Detection of alzheimers. Heres the express. Its leading. With britain facing a house price boom in the next four years. Next one. Its not awful. Next one. Its not awful. I want to rub my hands with glee on that one. Youre pleased about that . Youre pleased about that . Im really, really pleased. Im really, really pleased. If youre on the ladder, if youre on, if youre not. But except if its bad for people who arent on the ladder, its bad for us all because youve got to have movement in the ladden got to have movement in the ladder. You see what i mean . Otherwise it doesnt work. Yes. Yes. Yeah, but you do get very selfish with these sort of things. No, its true, its true. Anyway lets talk to journalist and broadcaster Claire Muldoon and broadcaster Claire Muldoon and political commentator Alex Armstrong. Morning to you both. Morning to you both. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. Claire, can we kick off with the i and this alzheimers study . This has been picked up in both the i and the guardian today. And i dont know about you, stephen, but i have had alzheimers in my family. My dad had it and sadly passed away. And my grandmother had it. So both paternal and maternal sides, and theres lots of links weve known historically, you know, environmental links, exercising of the brain , etc, exercising of the brain, etc, etc. But i just think its your bad luck if youre going to get it, youre going to get it and thats it. You can obviously minimise it and try and postpone it. What the papers are saying and what the new reports are saying, is that you can actually find out if you have got a predisposition to actually getting alzheimers. I dont know if id go for that test. I really dont, because sometimes you can then get on these trials and the progress that theyve been making in trying to at least slow the development of the, of the disease has been really incredible. In the last few years. Im sure weve had a couple of major breakthroughs, havent we . So yes, you probably dont want the bad news, but, you know, forewarned is forearmed. Yeah, i take your point, isabel. But personally, i think if i knew, id have it. I had the ding. I had the gene. Id be more inclined to actually think i had it. And then everything. I had it. And then everything. Every time i would stop and forget something, it would. It would only reinforce the fact that ive got alzheimers. Its a bit like those people. I mean, its not a direct comparison, but, you know, the people who have cancer and then say, actually, im not going to take the treatment. Yeah, because id rather have a better quality of life, life than a prolonged life. Yeah and its a little bit like that. I can understand exactly why youd say me too. Id rather just live the next 20 odd years without actually spending that time just worrying. Yes, yes, but, you know, i dont know whether it was Chris Hemsworth with his dementia or alzheimers, but he got he found out that hes got a 50 chance of getting it. Yeah. The actor. Yeah. The actor and so hes actually been taking time off work and he spent theres a whole documentary on netflix. Anyone interested should watch it. And hes saying and theres lots of studies saying that you can you can really potentially change your likeness of getting it or getting it young , by doing getting it young, by doing certain things in certain ways and having a certain lifestyle. And having a certain lifestyle. So, you know, i think goes back to that point that claire was making, is that do you want to know do you want to do something about it . If you do know and not just about doing something about it in terms of, you know, trying to prevent it, but also make sure youve got your house in order, make sure that everybody that you love is taking care of, that you love is taking care of, that they dont have any. Should have that anyway. Life is just too short. Yeah. You know, it really, really is. But you know, you might need power of attorney and all of that sort of thing. Well be doing that anyway. Well be doing that anyway. You should be doing it anyway. Well you dont tend to do that do you . If youre at my age or something would you know ive got power of attorney. Have you already noticed she didnt say our age. No, i know well, i am naughty, naughty. Isabel, you know youre not ten years younger than me. No, youre eight years younger than me. 41 i am. 41 i am. Yes, very nearly 42. Im just saying. I mean, i might be 50, but youve got that much in it. Im keeping very quiet in this conversation anyway. Yeah, you stay in your corner, alex. Move on. Move on. Yes. Lets talk about that, its this in the mirror this morning. Molly russell. Yeah, this is a really tragic story. Its really close to my heart because molly went to the same high school as i did in harrow in north west london. Yeah, hatch in high school. Really, really great school, by the way, and does a lot for young people there. But but of course, Molly Russell lost her life to suicide after viewing thousands, potentially thousands of harmful images online and, you know, that led to her self harm. And, you know, basically, the father of Molly Russell is urging for these Online Safety laws to come quicker. There currently has quicker. There currently has been passed through parliament this bill. But the issue is, is that the regulator is now having to go through consultation with big tech. So its taking a really long time now up to for people. Young people die a week is what this is what mollys fathers, charity is saying. So that thats quite a substantial amount of young people taking their own lives or being in this position. So hes asking for this legislation to be sped up, which is totally understandable. And theres some really good things in this bill that will protect young people. I do have other concerns about the bill in general and about, you know, how this is going to be policed because the internet is massive and i dont really know how one small regulator is going to be able to stop harmful images. If young people are going to big tech have to have to step up. It cant be down to the regulators, you know, entirely. And theyve got to have some sort of responsibility. And i dont know what the answer to that is, you know, well, you know, theyve got all these amazing ai and algorithms these days. Youd think thered be some way to say, if this person is under this age, you should be able to filter this. Able to filter this. I dont think any age should be able to watch harmful content. No, youre right, suicide, to be perfectly honest. You know, theres certain people fan, but i just think that some content is not appropriate. No youre right. No youre right. But there are certain people, groups of people that would use it for research and things like that. So theres obviously got to be some leeway there. But youre right, isabel, its more needs to be done. I mean, you know, youve got daughters as well. Claire so you must this must, you know, resonate. It resonates. And ill tell you something else. When i was growing up in the 70s and 80s and stuff, there was no no one i knew had death by suicide in the past two years. In my close circle of friends and extended panshin circle of friends and extended parish in chiswick for young people have taken their lives. Yeah, huge, huge dilemma. Yeah, huge, huge dilemma. Its not right, is it . Its not right, is it . Its not right. Its not right. Look, were going to leave it there. You too. Just for the time being. But thank you very much. Youre welcome. Youre welcome. And weve got the secretary of state for work and pensions, mel stride joining us now. Good to see you this morning, can i ask first about this, mod breach of security vie. Because this is hugely worrying, isnt it . Youve got to ask, how was this able to happen . Able to happen . Well, that and many other questions. The questions that questions. The questions that are going to need to be asked here, the defence secretary will be making a full statement to Parliament Later today and no doubt addressing some of those issues, but let me just say now that this is a third party, data set that appears to have been compromised, that has been shut down immediately by the ministry of defence in terms of external access to it. And of course, theyre providing, support and advice to those who may have been impacted. But we really need, i think, to wait until we have grant shapps statement, later today to find out more. Okay. But irrespective of perhaps that statement can you give your own view on whether or not we are taking a tough enough stance with china . Weve had a number of Cyber Attacks this yeah number of Cyber Attacks this year. Weve had this clear and persistent pattern coming from china. Weve had two, charged china. Weve had two, charged with espionage , under the with espionage, under the auspices of chinese intervention. Are we doing enough . Are we doing enough . Well, we dont know at this stage. And it may be that grant shapps has more to say later on this, whether this is china or another state actor, it does appeahi another state actor, it does appear, i think, at this stage, to be some kind of state actor. But lets lets wait to find out what we hear that as to china, weve made it very clear in our, defence review , in the refresh defence review, in the refresh of that review that china remains, i think weve defined them as an epoch making a challenge to the uk in terms of economic security. And thats why, obviously, weve taken action in the past in terms of getting huaweis hardware out of parts of our infrastructure here in the uk , and also in the uk, and also interventions in terms of Energy Security as well. So we do take this very seriously. But at the end of the day, also , they are end of the day, also, they are a very important economic partner and we have global challenges like Climate Change that we need to engage with china in order to address. All right. How do you were at the beginning of a new week here. Technically in terms of politics, how how does the government and the tory party pick themselves up and move themselves forward towards a general election, whenever that might be, with any degree of confidence, especially after the Prime Minister said yesterday. Prime minister said yesterday. Oh, it looks like were not even going to be the Biggest Party in the next government in the next parliament. Well, there are all sorts of, kind of predictions that one can make based on the local elections. My observations would be that these are this was a difficult time for the conservative party, theres no doubt about that at all. And theres no point in ducking that. But at the same time, they are very low turnout elections. The electorate, as we know, is very volatile. And i think there very volatile. And i think there are elements of evidence that whilst people may be disgruntled with us at the moment and we have to do some work there, and perhaps i can come on to that, that people are not naturally necessarily beating a path with great enthusiasm to labours d00h great enthusiasm to labours door. So i do think theres more to play for here than some are suggesting in terms of what weve got to do, weve got to continue to focus really firmly on those things that matter to the british people and the Prime Minister has set those out in terms of getting inflation down. Real wages now growing for each of the last nine months, weve cut taxes, National Insurance actually down by a third. So at an average salary is, you know, saving £900 per year, those are things. But the second thing weve got to do is weve got to be facing outward, not inward, and weve got to be united as a party. And i think thats something that youre going to see going going forward. Now, its interesting, isnt it . I mean, why dont you just put it all to the test and call a general election . I mean, the lib dems today have said theyre going to table a vote of no confidence, a motion of no confidence, a motion of no confidence in the government. And they think that there should be a general election in june. Why would you resist against that . Well, these these are decisions that are for the Prime Minister and that is the convention. And thats the case no matter which party is in power at the time, so, yes, of course, you know, the lib dems can table their motion and i would be very surprised if it gets anywhere. But, its for the Prime Minister to decide. He suggests ed, probably the autumn. And i think thats looking , the most likely looking, the most likely scenario at the moment. Yeah, but the idea of running and hiding, which is, is how it comes across now when things seem so desperate, are things really going to change that dramatically in the next couple of months . I mean , of months . I mean, realistically, does anyone think that you must know that your colleagues are saying when theyre not sat in front of a microphone or a camera, because weve all talked to them saying , weve all talked to them saying, well, time is up now. Well, time is up now. So i think things are changing. I mean, if you look at cost of living, we have seen a turnaround in the economy. Weve seen inflation down from 11. 1 to 3. 2. Weve seen real wages increasing, taxes beginning to fall on, the boats issue and illegal, immigration, migration down, weve seen the rwanda legislation go through. Were already seeing the deterrent effect of that, incidentally, with people now leaving the uk as a consequence of that legislation. Were seeing waiting lists in the nhs falling by 200,000 since september of last year. So we are seeing progress. There is more time between now and the next general election. I think it was Harold Wilson who said a week is a long time in politics. We have several months now before the next general election. The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, says that your gaslighting the British Public with the way youre describing the economy and that if we vote for the conservatives again at a general election, itll be five years more of the same. Chaos or years more of the same. Chaos or stability would be the choice if they voted for labour. Gaslighting us . No, not at all. What were seeing is exactly as ive set out, we are seeing an improving economic situation. We are seeing a gradual and but sustained improvement in those cost of living pressures and inflation, real wages going up, taxes coming down. Were seeing all that good stuff happening. What were going to get with labouh what were going to get with labour, who have all these, uncosted commitments. Theyre 28 billion that they were going to be putting into the energy that they seem to have. Are you turned on . But the policy yet still remains are examples of where we can really are in dangehi where we can really are in danger. I think, of going back to square one with labour because they have no plan at the end of the day. So i think its all very well for Rachel Reeves to make these comments, but shes overlooking, firstly, the progress, a clear progress that we are making and will continue to make. And also, i think rather gaslighting where labour are at the moment, which is that they dont have a plan, theyre not telling us enough of the detail. We know what theyve donein detail. We know what theyve done in the past when theyve beenin done in the past when theyve been in government, which is to borrow too much and to get into problems. And. All right, forgive me. But we hear a lot about the plan, and the Prime Minister says , keep the Prime Minister says, keep saying, well, they havent got a plan. Weve got a plan. We dont really seem to be very clear, to be perfectly honest, on what that plan is. And what it is doing, what it is actually, in real terms , in our pockets, in real terms, in our pockets, in our homes, delivering for us. So. Well, i think ive set some some of this out. So cost of living, for example, is very much part of our plan. We want to ease the pressures there. The Prime Minister about a year ago said the plan is to halve inflation in the year we beat that target. Government , so that that target. Government, so that is part of the plan themselves, as is getting taxed down. Yeah, but forgive me the idea of saying, well no , the plan is of saying, well no, the plan is that we want things to be better isnt very strong is it. No, no. Look, i think people do care that price rises have now fallen very dramatically in terms of inflation, in terms of whether the government had anything to do with that. Well, of course we did. We have an accommodative fiscal policy alongside the, Monetary Policy of the bank of england. We, for example, had to resist, a loss of Public Sector wage pressure. Of Public Sector wage pressure. Okay, in order to make sure that we got inflation down, there were active things that we had to do. We have to say goodbye. We really appreciate your time this morning. Mel stride, department of work and pensions. Thank you. Okay thank you. Okay lets see what the weathers going to do with craig. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello there. Welcome to your latest ub news Weather Forecast from the met office. Over the next couple of days. From the met office. Over the next couple of days. High pressure is starting to build in across the uk and thats introducing a bit more drier and settled than what weve been used to. So out there first thing this morning, a bit of a dull start for a lot of us, but there is some sunshine along the south coast of england, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of scotland. The cloud north of scotland. The cloud will be thick enough in places to view some spots of rain, and a few showers may well just develop further south, but for most it is a drier picture compared to monday. And come the afternoon, hopefully a lot of the uk will see some bright spells. The cloud will be spells. The cloud will be stubborn across parts of scotland and northeast england, so feeling quite chilly here right throughout the day into the evening. Clearing skies initially, but that will allow some mist and low cloud to form and in towards the very end of the night, just watching this next band of cloud and rain, it may well just start to approach the far north west of scotland under the cloud cover, temperatures not falling much lower than around 8 to 10 degrees. But where we do see some clear skies a bit of a chilly start on wednesday, but here we will see some sunshine elsewhere. A bit of a dull start, but the mist and low cloud will begin to burn away, so come the afternoon. Im fairly optimistic , a lot of us fairly optimistic, a lot of us seeing some sunny spells. The exceptions really across the very far north west of scotland, maybe the far north west of Northern Ireland. Two here we see some cloud and some rain , see some cloud and some rain, but in the Sunshine Feeling pleasantly warm. Highs potentially reaching 20 or 21 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning to you. Its good morning to you. Its 7 00 on tuesday the 7th of may. Welcome to breakfast with stephen and ellie. Isabel . Even so, you used to say stephen and ellie. Oh, who am i . I dont know, where am i . Its tuesday. Welcome to the program. Today, welcome to the program. Today, mps are set to be told of a massive chinese hack in the military ministry of defence targeting military personnel. Targeting military personnel. Earlier, we spoke to the secretary of state for work and pensions, mel stride, for the governments reaction. Shes a third party, data set that appears to have been compromised, that has been shut down immediately by the ministry of defence. Israel has begun operations in the gaza city of rafah after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected hamass ceasefire offer and the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in malmo today. As the uks Olly Alexander vies for the top gong. Vies for the top gong. And in the sport, erik ten hag is probably moving a little closer to the exit door at Manchester United as they lose four nil away at Crystal Palace , four nil away at Crystal Palace, you know what . Maybe david moyes could take over and go back there again. Kind of doubtful. But hell be leaving west ham. Thats confirmed at the end of the season and i will be revealing the new olympic cauldron. How about that for france 2024 . Good morning. It was a rather good morning. It was a rather mixed picture over the bank houday mixed picture over the bank holiday weekend, but the good news is it is turning drier and brighter over the next few days. Find out more with me in a little bit. So our top story this morning. The ministry of defence has been hacked and fingers this morning are pointing towards china. Well, the mod confirmed to gb news that an external payroll system was hit. Its operated by a contractor and contained staff information, including names , information, including names, bank details and in some cases, home addresses. Home addresses. Well, weve been told this was immediately taken offline for a full review, and all payroll payments were made at the end of last month, and they dont expect any future delays. Dont expect any future delays. Lets talk to madeline grant from the daily telegraph. Good to see you this morning. What do you make of this, madeleine . Well, i mean, its a very worrying thing. I mean, i think that the fact that it happened to a contractor, i mean, it may well have been that , you know, well have been that, you know, there was a reason that they went for potentially there was a there was a kind of a weak link in the system. But, you know, its not the first time in recent years that we have been hacked by china, you know, that in 2021, i think the Electoral Commission was cited and chinese backed state hackers were able to access the voting records of 40 million people, more likely in the recent years, it has actually been russia that has been responsible for hacks and so forth. But we really, you know, it just i think its a big warning against becoming a tool, complacent about the much bigger and more powerful threat posed by china. By china. So its a dilemma, i suppose, isnt it . Because they are such a big trading partner, we would be really hurt economically if we were to kind of react properly, i suppose, to this , properly, i suppose, to this, except the danger, if you dont react properly to this, is also hugely democratic, dangerous to our democratic process. And there are people who are saying, look, it comes right from the top. Youve got the foreign secretary whos quite openly had, you know, financially beneficial interactions with china, and hes not recusing himself from those deals as our foreign secretary, going around representing us on the world stage, if were not prepared to change that, then , you know, change that, then, you know, weve got to put up with this kind of stuff, havent we . Absolutely. And we are. Were playing catch up. You know, we had years of a very warm and benign sort of relationship with china that was pushed by cameron and osborne , and actually, you and osborne, and actually, you know, part of the, the difficulty has been as you, as you mentioned, the fact that our economies are so intertwined. But i dont i still dont really see i mean, obviously there is a rump of mps who care very much about china and in fact, i think some china sceptic mps were targeted for hacking earlier this year. Also but but on the whole, im not sure that were really hearing about, you know, how they might be trying to reorganise our economy, for example, change diverse , example, change diverse, supplying our supply chains, etc, so that were not so heavily reliant on china to this extent. But even if we were less reliant on china, china is still going to do these sorts of things. I mean, it looks like theyre trying to find people with financial vulnerabilities, to engage them as assets. Well, to engage them as assets. Well, thats standard espionage. Its what chinas always done. Its what chinas always done. Its what russias always done. And frankly , its what we do and frankly, its what we do and its what the americans do. So we shouldnt be that surprised, should we . Well, i mean, i dont i dont really know enough about that. I think perhaps you know more than me about the, the kind of the Long Term Strategy that that, that has been employed, for sure. I mean, ijust think that has been employed, for sure. I mean, i just think that, you know, that the threat from china is altogether very different. I mean, its were still recovering. We havent yet fully recovered from a pandemic, which, you know, every, every , which, you know, every, every, every month seems to bring yet more mounting evidence that that virus was engineered in a lab and escaped, whether deliberately or not, you know, the threat is, is an absolute orders of magnitude higher than than from any other country. And im not really sure that ive seen , the evidence that we are seen, the evidence that we are really, governing with that , really, governing with that, with that fact in mind, president xi jinping of china, in those pictures whilst you were speaking there on a state visit to france at the moment , visit to france at the moment, red carpet being rolled out there, what do you think . I mean, were going to find out more details today from, from grant shapps about this particular incident, but what do you think would be a proportionate and appropriate response, you know, are we going to be just calling summoning the ambassador in . Are we talking about more sanctions . I mean, about more sanctions . I mean, what exactly is going to make us you know, feel safe against these threats but also not undermine that relationship . Well, i mean , its very well, i mean, its very tricky. I think that really what we have to do is, is, you know, put a serious amount, perhaps more money than we currently put into our own defence, and into making our security as watertight as possible, and then in the long term, looking at how we can, perhaps rethink our Economic Policy so that we are less fully reliant on china and other countries that we might do business with. Obviously, were not going to stop doing business with china, but other ways in which we can sort of rebalance things from where they currently are. Are. Its the old adage, and i wonder if it applies to this, because obviously people see this and think we need to go in, you know, sort of all guns blazing if you like , but youve blazing if you like, but youve got to keep your, i mean, in this sort of situation, when it comes to geopolitics, youve got to keep your friends close and your enemies closer, havent you . 7. I 7 i mean, . I mean, i . I mean, i dont know, i 7 i mean, i dont know, i think we did a few a fair few years of, of cosying up to china and it hasnt worked out well for us. So. So no, i think you have to maybe keep them closer, but still being very mindful of the fact that they are, your strategic enemies and, you know, obviously i think weve been very weve been very distracted with domestic policy issues in recent years, but actually the, you know, the big cause of our troubles in the last few years was lockdown, which i think can be firmly laid at the door of china, and im not really sure that the world has sort of reacted, you know, to reflect that fact. That fact. Good to see you this morning. Thank you , to the middle east thank you, to the middle east now, where weve just learnt this morning that the Israeli Military have said that theyve taken control of the gazan side of the rafah crossing. Of the rafah crossing. It comes as israel said its vowed to continue its invasion of rafah in the south of gaza, after rejecting a ceasefire offer from hamas. Well, the ceasefire agreement was organised by qatari and egyptian mediators, but israel claims that the terms did not meet its demands. Well, israel had ordered an evacuation of at least 100,000 citizens from rafah. Lets talk to journalist yotam confino, who joins us from israel. Can you bnng joins us from israel. Can you bring us up to date with the latest j term . Absolutely. As you said, the israeli army has taken control of the palestinian side of the rafah border crossing. I was just in a briefing now with the military, they wouldnt say whether the military is going to keep control of the rafah border crossing, how long theyre going to be there, all we all we got, all we were told really, was that israel is continuing these limited operations in the eastern part of rafah , which is eastern part of rafah, which is where they have asked people to evacuate from. And of course, this comes after, as you said, hamas, came with their own ceasefire proposal. Israel said, listen, its the same demands that you have come up with for the past couple of months. We cant agree to that. So the operation is continuing. But i suspect that this operation rafah will take a very long time, mainly because its going to do it in very limited ways. Its going to take rafah and divide it into zones and simply go, zone by zone, until they have gone through all of the city. Yeah. Israel is saying that this is the last significant stronghold of hamas in rafah. But if possible, i know this is probably impossible, but if possible, if we can take the politics out of all of this and just focus on the humanitarian situation where were now going to see aid being blocked, presumably with this at the crossing in rafah, we know that there are huge numbers of people, amputees, children without parents intended encampments being asked to move again to places where there arent any sort of resources or there isnt any infrastructure for them, toilets or water or medicine. And you know, whats been the reaction of the International Community, not least from israels most, you know, prominent partner in recent years, america. Recent years, america. So the United States again, repeated yesterday that the United States is not supporting this operation. I think what this operation. I think what theyre saying publicly and what theyre saying publicly and what theyre saying publicly and what theyre saying behind closed doors, i think those are two different things. But obviously, different things. But obviously, like the rest of the world, if youre looking strictly at the humanitarian situation, then yes, of course this is a disaster , theres no way around disaster, theres no way around it. If you look at the political side of all of this, if you want to get rid of hamas, you have to go into rafah. There is no other option. Now, if you will allow hamas to stay in power in gaza, thats a whole different , thats a whole different, different discussion, because then you could easily say, well , then you could easily say, well, israel has damaged and hurt hamas enough, and now theyll withdraw from gaza and, spare the palestinians and rafah more suffering. Thats just not the case. But the International Community, all of all of israels allies are warning against this operation because of the humanitarian situation. Of the humanitarian situation. What about the pressure on netanyahu from within israel then . Because there you look at this ceasefire agreement, which, hamas has agreed to. Its a three stage process. And even though its not written in that sort of hints of giving up the Armed Struggle at the end of it, its a its a solid piece of work, and yet its been dismissed by netanyahu very quickly. Is dismissed by netanyahu very quickly. Is that going to put him at loggerheads with the israeli people . I dont think so. And i also dont think that its realistic for hamas to expect israel to withdraw from gaza and to go back to aukus six, where there is a permanent ceasefire and where hamas is in control of gaza, i dont think any israelis would like that. After what happened on october 7th, hamas has promised that they will do this over and over and over. So it leaves israel no choice. Hamas is not interested in a two state solution. Its not interested in peace with israel. Its interested in destroying the state of israel. So, the whole discussion about, how to go into rafah, when to do that. There are many different opinions initial about this particular issue. But the overall aim, which is to remove hamas from power. Im yet to find a single israeli who says , find a single israeli who says, yeah, we should allow them to stay in power. I suppose if you look at, yeah. Go on. Go on. Sorry. Im just saying, if you look at this proposal by hamas, its not being very flexible. First of all, its only allowing 33 hostages to be released, which is nothing really. They dont even know if theyre dead or alive. And secondly, theyre getting hundreds of palestinian Prisoners Released from israeli jail, some of whom have committed, some of whom have committed, some of whom have committed murder, who are in prison for a life sentences, all i was going to say was that a lot of the dissent that ive read about towards netanyahu and jerusalem is people who think that he has put the priority of, of, you know, getting rid of hamas above the safe release of those hostages. And there is that question mark about which one he should be focusing on more at the moment, no , that more at the moment, no, that youre completely right about. And i think that he has done a horrendous job in managing all of this. I think its been very clear from the beginning that for some reason, the hostages were not the First Priority, and even some of some of his far right ministers have said it outright, the First Priority is to, to destroy hamas. Now, i think that thats an extremely ungrateful way to treat the public. Its breaking social contract. You cannot allow 250 people to be taken hostage and then not do Everything Possible to get these people out. I think thats atrocious. And i think most people in israel think that this has been handled very, very badly , given that we still have badly, given that we still have 133 hostages held in gaza. 133 hostages held in gaza. Okay. Yasam confino, good to see you as always. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. The time 713 lets take a look at some of the other stories coming into the newsroom. And the us and most eu nations are now set to avoid the inauguration of the russian president , vladimir putin. The ceremony will take place at the kremlin today to swear in putin for a new six year term as president. Hes already a longer serving leader than joseph stalin, with Putin Holding a continuing position as president or Prime Minister since 1999. The lib dem leader, sir ed davey, says hes going to table a motion of no confidence in the government today to try to pressure the Prime Minister to call the general election for june. Sir ed says the disastrous local Election Results show the country has had enough of rishi sunak and his out of touch government and finally , the government and finally, the annual met gala has taken place in new york. The theme of this years event was garden of time, and it was hosted by zendaya, jennifer lopez, bad bunny and Chris Hemsworth. The exclusive event is a benefit for the new York Metropolitan Museum , and marks metropolitan museum, and marks the opening of its costume institutes annual fashion exhibition. Exhibition. Im just looking up bad bunny, whos a puerto , a puerto bunny, whos a puerto, a puerto rican rapper and singer. There you go. Okay, good. Thank you for clarifying that. In case you were wondering. In case you were wondering. And i was just googling who we were looking at on the red carpet there because wed listed all these people. But that was sydney sweeney, who in many ways is the woman of the hour. She was star of white lotus and a number of big movies. Shes also a huge donald trump fan, and she shes seen as sort of a big sort of i dont know how youd describe her pin up girl for all for the republicans. Yeah, yeah , for the republicans. Yeah, yeah, i think hes a pin up girl, too. He apparently. He apparently. So how Old Fashioned . So how Old Fashioned . How Old Fashioned . How Old Fashioned . Yes. Bad. Bad bunny. Its all very weird. Its so weird. I think the met gala is the weirdest event of all. And one that is quite fun to watch, but more as a kind of laughing at them rather than wishing you were there. And they would never think theyd never think that. And its just ridiculous. But emperors new clothes, isnt it the whole thing . Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Dont get yourself reminiscing by nice. All right, lets have a look at the weather for you. Heres craig. With a brighter outlook. With boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Hello there. Welcome to your latest ub news Weather Forecast on the metaverse. Over the next couple of days, High Pressure is starting to build in across the uk and thats introducing a bit more dry unsettled than what weve been used to. So out there first thing this morning, a bit of a dull start for a lot of us, but there is some sunshine along the south coast of england , the south coast of england, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of scotland. The the far north of scotland. The cloud will be thick enough in places to view some spots of rain, and a few showers may well just develop further south, but for most it is a drier picture compared to monday. For most it is a drier picture compared to monday. And come the compared to monday. And come the afternoon, hopefully a lot of the uk will see some bright spells. The cloud will be stubborn across parts of scotland and northeast england, so feeling quite chilly here right throughout the day into the evening. Clearing skies initially, but that will allow some mist and low cloud to form and in towards the very end of the night, just watching this next band of cloud and rain, it may well just start to approach the far northwest of scotland under the cloud cover, temperatures not falling much lower than around 8 to 10 degrees. But where we do see some clear skies. A bit of a chilly start on wednesday, but here we will see some sunshine elsewhere. 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She was our entrant in 2000. Anyway, were going to talk to her about eurovision in just a couple of minutes and i am looking forward to saturday. Yeah Eurovision Song Contest. Its always a lot of fun. I conic, anyway, its the, the semis kick off today, so well work out who actually gets into the final. Well know a little bit later on in the week. But one woman who made it right to the very top and hit that stage back in 2000 is the one, the only miss nicki french. And she joins us. Hello, darling. She joins us. Hello, darling. Good to see you. Good morning. And can i congratulate you on your rendition of the chorus of dont play that song again . Amazing i never, i never forget a word. I never forget a word. Word. I never forget a word. What do you think of this years entrance . Entrance . Its a mixed bag, to be honest. Its. Theres so many of honest. Its. Theres so many of them that are to my mind, theyre trying to shock or theyre trying to shock or theyre trying to send messages or whatever. You know, for me , i or whatever. You know, for me, i like a good old song. I like a song sung by a singer, and theres an awful lot that are doing sort of radical things this year. But the thing is, with eurovision, nothing is radical anymore because its all been done. Yeah, just singing a song would be quite radical, wouldnt it . A straightforward ballad , a straightforward ballad, just take us back to when you were there and i guess just sort of some of the drama. And ive watched the film about what they sort of imply its like to be as a contestant and the craziness and the parties, you know, how true is all of that. And when you look back , is it one of the you look back, is it one of the best times of your life . Oh, genuinely. Oh, oh, genuinely. Oh, absolutely. Its one of the best times , youre sort of carried times, youre sort of carried along on this huge cloud of positivity and optimism , and positivity and optimism, and fun. And youve got the host nafion fun. And youve got the host nation showing off their country to you. So, yeah, theres lots of parties and theres lots of, sort of official events that youre invited to. And its wonderful. And and backstage, all the acts are so supportive of one another. You know, its just great fun and its , its just great fun and its, its such an honour because youre representing your country. At the end of the day. And its wonderful, i was looking back at the video of you again, and i know youve still got the outfit , but i know youve still got the outfit, but it must have been. I cant get in it. No, thats. No, never mind. Its it. You just sort of think when that first beat of music starts, it must be absolutely blooming. Terrifying yeah. Oh it was. I walked out on the stage in semi darkness because theyre showing what are called the postcards at the side of the stage on these big screens to, to sort of introduce you, and i walked out and i looked out at the audience and most of them couldnt see me because it was semi dark and i just, i literally my, my thought was, dont muck it up now, girl, youve dreamt of this for so many years and that was it. And then the music started and that three minutes was like, whooshi it was just gone in a flash. Well thank goodness it went very well. And it was you didnt mess up your magical moment. I mean you know, imagine if something terrible happened and you tripped or. Oh itd be awful wouldnt it. With the world watching. What about the politics of eurovision. Because you talk about all the fun and the parties , but a lot of people the parties, but a lot of people dont like it, do they . Because lets be honest, britain often gets a bit of a flogging, we had success with sam ryder, but other times you feel like theyve just decided they dont like us before. Weve got very far. Yeah, well, theres, you know, theres half the countries, you know, how theyre going to vote before the songs are even performed. Yeah, thats kind of true. But a lot of that is neighbourly voting, i think. Yes, theres politics in there. Theres politics in there. Theres politics in there. Theres politics in everything. We know that. But but i think a lot of it is to do with neighbourly voting. You hear an artist and a song, that is played on your radio regularly because, you know , that artist, you know, know, that artist, you know, its like when, when one of the westlife guys was representing ireland. And so the uk was ireland. And so the uk was really keen because we knew him, we knew his stuff. And the whole thing with sort of greece and cyprus etc. Etc, you know, i mean, the lovely terry wogan used to make that a fun aspect of the whole of the whole show, whereas nowadays, yes, the politics gets in eurovision tries so hard to keep politics out of it as much as possible. Of course, they dont always succeed , but you know, the rest succeed, but you know, the rest of us, we just want a decent song contest and a huge, glamorous event, and you know, the good thing is that there is no runaway winner this year. You know, theres no sort of one country. Well, yes , i know country. Well, yes, i know stephen loves sweden. Great. I like it. Great. I like it. Im sold on it now as well. 100 love that song. Its great. Its great. But like your your lady an hour ago said, you know, sort of croatia are up there, switzerland are up there. Even finlands up there. Were not though, are we this year . Well, i dont know. I mean , since his i dont know. I mean, since his rehearsal started , the fans have rehearsal started, the fans have been really, really excited , the been really, really excited, the performance isnt my cup of tea, but i love the song. I absolutely love the song. And in absolutely love the song. And in a an evening of a lot of people, as i say, trying to make statements and trying to shock and trying to scare you, i mean, some, you know, theres some with hideous makeup on and things, its a song at the end of the day and its, its going to stand out because its a song. Its a good song, well, i, i the one to look out for that everyones talking about is ireland. Ireland. Oh, ive seen that blooming. Oh, ive seen that blooming. I know thats show me that one in the next break. Thats rather special. Rather special. I cant see that making it through to the final, to be honest. Nikki as always its a joy honest. Nikki as always its a joy. Thank you very much. Thank you so much nikki. Thank you so much nikki. I was just trying to think, what was the name of the song that katie price performed . Do you remember that . Oh no, 2005. Oh no, 2005. She sang not just anybody. It was such a car crash. Yeah, i think that was probably an all time low point. Sorry, katie. Time low point. Sorry, katie. Yeah, let us know which were your favourites, which have been your favourites, which have been your worst, british entries over the years and. Yeah. Who youre going to be voting for on saturday night . Saturday night . Yeah. I never pick a winner, ill tell you that. Oh, ill never pick a winner, but i do. I think the sweden one is really good. And nikki likes france. Apparently. I havent heard that one yet. You need to show me ireland. You need to show me ireland. I know we did. I know we did. Ireland is very special. Have a look. You can do that very quickly as we have a little break. Because paul coyte is going to be if you did look up ireland in the break. Im really sorry about that. That was fairly traumatic , bambi. Understand traumatic, bambi. Understand what happened there . Its called bambi. Thug i mean, paul coyte loved it, though, didnt you . Yeah, i did, it wasnt. Yeah, i did, it wasnt. Whats another year by johnny logan, though, was it . No it wasnt. Ive been waiting such a long time. Yeah. The white suit with the black shirt and the hands did do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and all that stuff. Yeah. Johnny logan, because he won it twice as a singer and as a songwriter, as well. So hes won it. He is mr eurovision. I dont think theyre going to win it this year. I dont think they are ehheh i dont think they are either. Everybodys just going yeahi either. Everybodys just going yeah i know, lets, lets make it really weird. Lets make it really out there and see if we can do it. Itsjust can do it. Its just a can do it. Itsjust a bit can do it. Its just a bit scary. Its just a bit scary. Ding ding a dong. By teaching the dutch winner from 1975 was my. Yeah, that was an absolute bangeh yeah, that was an absolute banger, wasnt it . Oh, its a wonderful song. Excellent write. And it sounded nothing like what i just did , so nothing like what i just did, so im feeling quite confused. Can we talk about kyren wilson . Wilson . Yes. Yeah. Kyren wilson from kettering. He has won the World Snooker championship for the first time. So well done to him, beat jack jones, jack jones who was a qualifier or and from wales and never expected to get so far 200 to 1 was jack and you know what and jack jones and it was in the final session. It looked like there was a chance he was going to get a maximum one for seven, which, you know, which is the ultimate, you know. Yeah, all reds and blacks and then finish off. But then he supped then finish off. But then he slipped up on one of the reds but won the frame started coming back because he was seven nil down after the first session. So disastrous start for jack jones. Slowly worked his way back. But kyren wilson was the champion and i mentioned earlier i love the fact that you very rarely see celebrations in the middle of the frame when he knew hed pretty much won it, and hes just finishing off and hes hitting a red, and each time hes like, come on, get in there. And then hed go over and play there. And then hed go over and play his next shot a little bit more. So he knew hed won, but he was getting very, very excited. I need something to liven it up, dont they . You think so . You think so . I mean, maybe is it is it definitely chiron . Chiron. Yeah. I tell you what. And this is if youre this is a bit geeky, but youre this is a bit geeky, but you know, those things on the bottom of your screen where it says sports roundup and all that . You see, they were called chirons back in the day. Were they chirons . No i dont yeah. And it was, so the fact its called chiron just makes you think, well, we put it on the screen every time you see his name on there. Name on there. And he said, oh, chiron. Karen. Thats a karen. Karen. Yeah, yeah. God yeah, yeah. God anyway, well done to him. Anyway, well done to him. Crystal palace and man united. Yeah obviously man united. Yeah obviously man united should have won this one. Well you would have kind would have thought so. You know what, if you look at just the names Manchester United and Crystal Palace, youd think the Manchester United wouldnt lose four nil at selhurst park. But Crystal Palace are doing very well at the moment. You know it was interesting. Is at the end of the game, Manchester United fans, Manchester United supporters went round to say thank you to the fans, which i think is very important because when theyve trapped. But then again youve got Manchester United fans, most of them are probably travelled about probably travelled about probably a couple of miles since it was in london. So anyway, so theyve gone over to them to salute. Okay. Oh, im just kidding. Soto go over and kidding. Soto go over and salute the fans, erik ten hag had already gone down the tunnel, which was not a good sign, but the fans were really seem to be appreciative and were applauding the Manchester United players. I cannot work that out. Are they true fans or were they . You know what i mean. It was a bit bizarre because it was a bad performance. Casamiro was awful and just not good enough. So and just not good enough. So theyre right at the moment. The worst theyve ever finished in the preakness is seventh, so its not very good. So erik ten hag is he going to curtains, i think yeah, i think so, i think so david moyes maybe want that job. Apparently job. Apparently hes moving on sooii. 500. Soon. Well he has. The thing is he has had the job. He was the one that came in after ferguson. That came in after ferguson. Yeah. And it didnt work out. I mean hes on a hiding to nothing. If any of you bloody follows alex ferguson, hes never going to work. So hed been around after that and then everton and now west ham. And hes done well at west ham. Hes done a good job at west ham. But it sometimes it just comes to the end. And i think fans have decided that you dont want him to stick around. So his contract ends at the end of the season. So they have announced that he wont be back. So at the end of the season, thats it. And it looks like julen lopetegui, the spanish manager, will come in. All right now , which it seems all right now, which it seems to follow perfectly on from watching Irelands Eurovision entry this year. Lets talk about cauldrons. About cauldrons. Why does that follow . Why does that follow . It was kind of witchy, was witchy that sort of a bit of fun . Yeah. Okay, cool. So always the olympic cauldron. Remember that london 2012 was unbelievable. There was lots of different. Do you remember there were lots of i dont remember. Do you not remember . There was like flames and they all joined in together. I do and there was lots of separate ones, which is in the museum of london, i think, now, but lets have a look. This is what parrot. Now see what you make on this. Im a little underwhelmed. So this is the parisian cauldron. That will the parisian cauldron. That will be paris 2024. Now thats the. Thats it. That is it. There on his right hand side. Hes standing there next to it. That is the designer. Its very minimalist. Its very minimalist. Its very minimalist. It is monsieur le seigneur. And it takes the form of a ring of fire suspended above a liquid surface. Surface. Its inspired by water and formal purity. Formal purity. I dont really know what that means, but theres the torches. Means, but theres the torches. But the actual ring of fire. Its just a ring. Thats it. Its just a ring. Thats it. Its just a circle. So i think itll still look pretty spectacular when its lit and in its in situ. But at the moment its just in a room. Yeah. With a handsome frenchman distracting. Frenchman distracting. Yeah. Yeah. Is he. Hes probably because youre not looking at the. Well, you know, the ring. Ring of fire. Ring of fire. Yeah. Looking at him. But remember, its just going to be. Im sorry. Im sorry. Im sorry. No. You want him to be spectacular. That does look like a bit of a washout. Itll be fine. Yeah, but then itll be. Well, the reason i have chosen that, its like. Come on. Yeah, its just a ring fight. Thats it. Give me a bit more. I mean, anyone could have come up with that. Exactly. I could have come up with that. Could you have come up with that . Yeah. Oh they do it in a circle. Yeah its. Yeah, its like an olympic ring. But one of them. And then therell be fire and it will symbolise and itll be all right. Well get into it. Itll be perfect. Itll look great. Youre right. It will look, will look good because itll just be big and much more tolerant than we are. I think so, yeah. Im not standing for this olympics nonsense. No, i see through it in a second. I do, i do, yeah. Good man. Right you to see you a little bit later on and were going to welcome Claire Muldoon and Alex Armstrong after this very quick break. And theyll be looking at whats making the news. See you in a moment. Right. We have the lovely Claire Muldoon and Alex Armstrong taking us through the papers. Taking us through the papers. Yeah, that was collective lovely. Both of you are lovely. I didnt need to repeat myself. Youre delightful. Alex armstrong. And lets start with you, alex. To make up for that slight, you know, unintended. Slight. We havent talked about this at all, really. But the snp, totally realigned themselves yesterday. They have their new leader, john swinney. Yes. Bring us up to date. New leader, old leader , new new leader, old leader, new leader, old leader. Its continuity candidate, isnt it . And i really im really looking forward to getting claires views on this. But you know i mean i spent some time up in scotland during the independence referendum, ive seen the backside of the snp, so to speak , who offered to pay for to speak, who offered to pay for me to get a cab home to london. One of their activists at the time. But, you know, john swinney is the continuity candidate. Obviously, kate forbes , highly popular person forbes, highly popular person amongst the scottish electorate, actually, who keeps on trying to go for it but has stood down. Now were back to old nicolas, favourite , favourite gang. Favourite, favourite gang. She used to have him on a leash. I think theres been plenty of backsides that have been opened up in scottish parliament, Scottish Parliamentary politics, recently, so yes, john swinney hasindeed recently, so yes, john swinney has indeed taken up the poisoned chalice, of the leader of the snp , now Scottish National snp, now Scottish National party. Hes now saying we want to align with the pro uk parties. Hey, independence. No, thats not what we really should be going on about because we dont really have the appetite for it. It seems as if since sturgeon left, then humza took over and now this. They are rudderless and john swinney was the one that was very much for, gender id for children. Im talking about children here in schools. And he wanted to implement. He wanted to exercise his right to implement the dangerous. I would say, information and telling children what they are and who they are and what they can be and what they cant be. Thats far too old for Young Children to behave, to, to, to learn from. I dont think this is a good appointment. I think this you would never think it was a i would. No, of course not. Because i am clearly very anti snp because i think it goes against the grain for the benefit of the whole of scotland, but also for the benefit of the uk. Hes found to take the poison out of politics and im sure thats something we can all he was the one that was great. Look we can, we can definitely agree on that. But whether its going to happen, i dont believe politicians take any poison out of politics. And quite frankly, he was actually one of the most poisonous msps that they had. He poisonous msps that they had. He has been. But not only that as well. I mean, the snp seem to have lost their entire purpose, which was to get independence. No identity now. No identity now. And as soon as the electorate have looked at what is it actually you are doing to our country . Theyve gone, oh no, we dont like that. We dont like that at all. So humza, humza useless has, has has has has no. Hes demonstrated two very good things. One, one that that , you things. One, one that that, you know, the snp when it comes to social issues in scotland have have been a disaster. Yes. And secondly that, that, that when the snp take their finger off the snp take their finger off the pulse of independence, theyre not very good at anything else. You know, the reason for this is because of the devolvement. I think we should scrap, i think rishi and devolution scrap devolution. Look what happened devolution. Look what happened in wales. Not going to happen. Scrap devolution. All these increased, all these powers have fallen under devolved powers. Theyre not protected. Health, education. I could go on transport. And this is all at the face and all at the knees and all at the feet of the snp. Pandoras box. So you cant shut it. Scottish national feels. Scottish national feels. Scottish national feels. No, not. All right, claire, lets look at the house price boom in the express. Well, we touched on this briefly earlier when you and eleanor, you and isabel were giving the stop it giving the doneit giving the stop it giving the done it myself. Dont worry. Dont worry. Dont worry. And giving the views of the papeh and giving the views of the paper. The front papers this morning. Britain is on verge of morning. Britain is on verge of a house price boom. But thats thats only good, as you both were saying, if youre actually on the market in the ladder. But for us there arent. Its not good because its just pricing everybody out. And this is an estate agent called savills. I think it is. Its put together this research, and theyve came up with the fact that house pnces up with the fact that house prices will rise, i think by 2. 8 or Something Like that. But 20 over the next four years, four years. Where does this mean youre, youre youre beaming. But im thrilled i listen, what are you going to do . What are you going to do . The money. Weve got some data out this morning. The average uk house price rose by 0. 1 in april on a monthly basis, after a fall of 0. 9 in march. This is according to halifax. A typical uk home cost halifax. A typical uk home cost 288,949in april, compared with 288,781. Sounds like a marginal difference, but over time is what were seeing over long penods what were seeing over long periods of time. This this is what it is. I mean, four years, 20 in four years. Theres quite a lot in the grand scheme of things. If we talk about inflation being 20 over four years, wed all be like that. Running around with our hands in the air. So the reality is, is that that house pnces reality is, is that that house prices dont follow inflation. They dont follow well , its they dont follow well, its obviously a supply and demand issue. Theres not enough houses being built to sustain our the amount of people we have in this country. So what youre going to get is a is a increase in people renting, which is going to drive money out of the economy into more , more of a landowners more, more of a landowners homes, which means you are going to get a very, very dissatisfied group of young people, particularly, who will be the electorate. Electorate. What does it drive money out of the economy . Well, what it does is it pushes the money from the poorest people who are trying to get on the housing ladder into more wealthy people, peoples hands, because theyre the ones who own more than one property. So, you know, you dont unless youre renting with living with the landlord. People like myself have to rent and were paying extortionate rents year on year going up. I mean, my last landlord tried to put my rent up £300 a month. So, you know, this this is a lot of money. People are talking about things that i could use to be saving for my first home. I cant because or putting it back into the economy to use a landlord, you know, landlords can only increase rent by 5. I mean thats, thats can they is that is that is that real . That is in legislation. Interesting only. No. They could do that. Yes so if you put it, if you want to put it up any more than 5, you can go, no, you cant do it. But anyway, any landlord thats making money off a fundamental human right, which is shelter, ive got a massive issue with. Well, there you go. You see, its because youre all better people than me and youre looking at the wider picture, and perhaps youd be very good politicians. Im afraid i am just going on personal situation and going, well, thats more money that the house is worth. When i, when i said we shall fund my retirement, which is why a lot of us buy houses , but only a lot of us buy houses, but only if, only if the price remains to increase. Increase. You know, so that if, if you have it to down what i paid for it. Well, well okay. Lucky you. Well, well okay. Lucky you. What follows. Boom. Yes. What follows. Boom. Yes. Crush bust. Herm. Crash. Get crush bust. Herm. Crash. Get some bargains. Bust. Get some bargains. Fryston. Bargains. Fryston. What about the cost of marriage . Because a lot of people we know say they cant afford to get married because theyre trying to save for a house. And all of this ties into how expensive it is, particularly for young people. But obviously older people get married as well. Yeah, this story is in the express. Clare, page two. My mums always had this adage that the more expensive the wedding, the shorter, shorter the yep, i agree, which is what she tried to tell me when she was like, this is your budget. Well, my eldest daughter, my incredibly beautiful eldest daughter, i think she might just get married to the lad that shes with who is a lovely lad. Oh, no pressure from mother then, saying it on the airwaves. No, but listen, she i said so lets lets get it done. Shes 26 now. Come on, lets get. No, no, i want to save up. But what do you want to save up for . Oh, i want the wedding, i want everything. Itsjust i want the wedding, i want everything. Its just this whole. Yeah, you know. Yeah, i get you want to have a lovely day, but dont lose sight of the most important part of that day. And that is the union between you and your husband to be. And thats the most important thing. Not Everything Else. Because basically, hardly anyones going to remember it. And its over in a flash. Its over in a khalife. As its over in a khalife. As a girl, i spent my whole life dreaming about my wedding, and then before you know it, its then before you know it, its the morning after. Yes. And so quick. Theres so much money in, you know, surrounding weddings. Now you can have your wedding planner. You can go for weeks before. I mean, youve just been through a wedding. Did you do all this planning and everything . And. Well, we planned, but we but we did it all ourselves, and we did it. It was. It was small and intimate, and i think its saying a think tank says marriages should be cheaper. You can get married for next to nothing if you want to get married. Married. Yeah. Yeah. Well, just just to give you some insight, this campaign actually came out of the centre for social justice, which is seeing duncan smiths, centre right. And they said they found 60 of people post covid felt lonely. And so this whole drive , lonely. And so this whole drive, this whole topic is because they want to see less loneliness, basically , and encourage more basically, and encourage more people. And weve also got a deflating population. Less people are having children. So theyre trying to encourage this sort of old school thought, which is get married, feel less lonely , have children, boost the lonely, have children, boost the economy, boost everything. And so i think its a good thing. Its a very good thing. Its a very good thing. People should point out that you can get married cheaply, because i think theres this misconception when you see onune misconception when you see online that you have to spend 50, 60 grand to get married and basically saddle yourself with debt. And ultimately, in my opinion, you hardly even know will have less. Because when you do go on to have kids, that money you could have spent on any number of things. I know people whove been, you know, when you went to the church, got married, it was family and friends. I dont know, not that many of them. Then they went to the local pub. Yeah, and paid for everyone to have a pub meal. Thats exactly the way it should be done. I mean, whats wrong . I think thats wicked. Love that. So do i. So do i, although not spending. But if i get married again, thats. I think what i will do. Yeah. I mean and someone said to me, oh they said theyre bloody good pub. The wedding was cheap. They said we only had a little wedding, a cheap wedding, 40 grand and they were thinking that was cheap. Yeah. Thats ridiculous. Yeah. Thats ridiculous. Yeah. Thats ridiculous. Maybe they had the equity in the house and the remortgaged to do it. Well, theyre talking about between taking between a home house price booming and picking between mortgage. If youre saying 40 grand, id be like, well, im not getting married. Simple as that. Oh, thats sad. Oh, thats sad. It is sad. Pop up restaurants, battle it out for the whats that . Funniest name on the high street. Funniest, funniest. There we go. I wasnt sure if it was a typo. Right. Take a chance on me, says the son, whose story is this . Yeah, this is the sons story. This is my story here. So indian eateries are lining up. I mean, a lot, not just indian eateries, actually plenty of other places, but but this is the funniest title, the funniest shop. And ill give you some examples of some of the, some of the, the titles weve got here. Barbra streisand , which is barbra streisand, which is a barbers, of course. Is it really . Yeah. Is it really . Yeah. Prince charming printing shop, furry godmothers dog groomers. Lord of the bins. Groomers. Lord of the bins. Waste clearance. Brilliant. Lord of the bins is lord of the bins. Lord of the bins. Theres another good one on here. Sherlock holmes. Locksmiths theres a theres a local pub near here, actually, in westbourne park, and its called the quiet night in. Oh, very good. I think its quite a good play on words in in the quiet, quiet, quiet night, quiet night in. Oh, stephen, dont overthink it. Oh dont get him on. She. She. There was a pub called the doghouse. Oh yeah, im in the doghouse. But you say that pub quite often. And there was, there was a, there was a curry house in shirley called the shirley temple. Oh. Which i mean, if there was years ago, whether its still there or not, i dont know. But thats a cracker, i think. Great. Oh, this is so british, isnt this is britain 20 took a chance on me. This is brilliant. Brilliant. Abba won eurovision. Of course. I think thats why its in the hit. The papers today, took a chance on me. There you go. There you go. There you go. Hes too young for that, claire. I know, i know, i is. I know, i know, i is. Im not that young. Im not that young. You are quite. I might look it, i might look it. That baby face ive got one minute. Where should we go . Weve got time quickly to talk about trump. Hes claiming the credit, claire, for our british drivers first form. Wasnt this hilarious audacity, thompson . You know hes facing major charges just now in american courts. The judge doesnt know whether or not to put him into prison. Even if he prison by the end of the week, even if he is in prison, he can still run for presidency, and he still might get it right. His popularity will go up. His popularity will go up. Of course it will, because thats whole his whole thing, isnt it . His fans just adore him. Whats he done now . Managed to even make our papers for different things. As usual, hes now taking credit for the formula win of lando norris. And he said, yeah, its my fault. You actually can tell them alex is hes lucky you. Trump is his lucky charm. See it . See it . He never would have won if it wasnt for me. It never would have happened. I made lando win. Frankly thats quite good. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah. There we go. There we go. Very good. All right, thank you both very much indeed. You both very much indeed. Well see you a little bit later on. Thank you. See you see. Thank you. See you see. Lets see what the weathers going to do for you today with craig snell. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Hello there. Welcome to your latest youtube news, Weather Forecast from the met office. Over the next couple of days, High Pressure is starting to build in across the uk and thats introducing saying a bit more drier unsettled than what weve been used to. So out there first thing this morning, a bit of a dull start for a lot of us, but there is some sunshine along the south coast of england, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of scotland. The cloud will be thick enough in places, debut some spots of rain and a few showers may well just develop further south, but for most it is a drier picture compared to monday and come the afternoon, hopefully a lot of the uk will see some bright spells. The cloud will be stubborn across parts of scotland and northeast england, so feeling quite chilly here right throughout the day into the evening. Clearing skies initially, but that will allow some mist and low cloud to form and in towards the very end of the night, just watching this next band of cloud and rain, it may well just start to approach the far north west of scotland under the cloud cover, temperatures not falling much lower than around 8 to 10 degrees. But where we do see some clear skies a bit of a chilly start on wednesday, but here we will see some sunshine elsewhere. A bit of a dull start, but the mist and low cloud will begin to burn away, so come the afternoon. Im fairly optimistic, a lot of us seeing some sunny spells, the exceptions really across the very far northwest of scotland. Maybe the far north west of Northern Ireland. Two here we see some cloud and some rain, but in the Sunshine Feeling pleasantly warm. Highs potentially reaching 20 or 21 degrees. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on she is a Third Party Data set that appears to have been compromised , that has been shut compromised, that has been shut down immediately by the ministry of defence. Of defence. Sunak has always taken a relatively dovish approach to china, but could this latest development herald a change of tack . Find out more with me very soon. Israel has begun operations in the gazan city of rafah after the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected hamass ceasefire. Well be speaking to Tobias Ellwood in just a moment. And the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest kicks off today in malmo, as the uks Olly Alexander vies for the top gong. Were going to be chatting to the 1981 winner jay aston, from bucks fizz this hour. From bucks fizz this hour. Really . Are you . Are you really . Yes really. Wow. In the sport. Follow that. I know im very excited about that. Manchester united you know what are not the team that they were as they lose four nil to Crystal Palace last night. David moyes finally confirmed he will be leaving west ham at the end of the season. And kyren wilson is the season. And kyren wilson is the new snooker champion of the world this morning. It was a rather mixed picture over the bank holiday weekend, but the good news is it is turning drier and brighter over the next few days. Find out more with me in a little bit. It shows how we dont do very well at eurovision. I mean, were still excited to talk to members of boxt boilers 1981. Well, you know, thats just because they were so outstanding i it was i mean, look, it caught the attention of the nation. We did it all at Primary School and everything. We had to sing it all along and yeah, a little bit, just marginally, but it was so exciting at the time. You look back at it now, its so dated and everything. Yeah, i dont see Primary School children getting into eurovision these days. Not in the same way, no, perhaps we did, but anyway. But there was less on the telly. Thats true. Yeah thats true. Yeah thats true. We only had three channels. We only had three channels. The good old days and obviously the voting and try to get those connections over from wherever it was. It can still be quite entertaining when it goes wrong. You know, you used to have to bounce the signal off the stratosphere. Thats how they did it, which is why which is why they kept well, the satellites , darling. Satellites, darling. Well, that does bouncing. Well, that does bouncing. Yeah, but its to a satellite rather than just bouncing it off the atmosphere. I mean, it was like it was all very hit and miss whether youd got a connection to latvia, wasnt it . But it was, it was the, the, the good old was the heyday, some might say heyday. Im showing my age. We better move on. The ministry of defence has been hacked. Fingers are pointing hacked. Fingers are pointing towards china. Its been confirmed by the ministry of defence to gb news that an external Third Party Payroll system was impacted, operated by a contractor which contained staff information including names , bank details and in names, bank details and in a number of cases, home addresses. Number of cases, home addresses. Well, theyve told us it was immediately taken offline for a full security review, presumably payroll payments were made and shouldnt be any future delays for anyone in the armed forces. Well, lets speak to olivia utley, our political correspondent, about all of this. And, olivia, as you were saying in the headlines there, rishi sunak has been characteristically dovish. Hes aware of the economic importance of china, but lots of people, the likes of Iain Duncan Smith and others who are a bit more hawkish, have been saying for some time now that this cant carry on like this. It seems like every week theres another, quite frankly , audacious quite frankly, audacious incursion, whether its a cyber attack or an arrest for , attack or an arrest for, espionage. So what what do you think the reaction will be, and what will we hear from grant shapps a little bit later on . Well, absolutely. I mean, this is a pretty serious breach. It has been made clear that, Computer Systems with sensitive, ministry of defence information on them havent actually been targeted. Its a separate payroll system, but still, this is active personnel who have been directly targeted by a third party who we at the moment assume is china. Now this is really, really awkward for rishi sunak, as you say as well. It is not by any means the first cyber attack of its kind. And in recent history sunak has been dovish and the leadership contest with liz truss. Truss contest with liz truss. Truss went really, really hard on china, saying that she would declare china an official threat to the uk. Declare china an official threat to the uk. Rishi declare china an official threat to the uk. Rishi sunak has declare china an official threat to the uk. Rishi sunak has said time and again that he doesnt think that at the moment has come to do that. He says that its really important economically to work with china and also for issues related to Climate Change. He says its important to work with china, but there are plenty in his Parliamentary Party who really disagree with him. Ian duncan smith heads a little group of conservative rebels who are very, very worried about the threat from china and think its time to essentially start treating, china as a sort of rogue state, a military enemy. Rogue state, a military enemy. What can we expect here from grant shapps . Well, my expectation is that he will try and sort of, fudge a little bit toe a bit of a line. Will he say that now is the moment to declare china as a threat . A few months ago, it sounded a little bit as though rishi sunak was beginning to edge in that direction. And it would certainly help him in terms of his own parliamentary security, if he could get some of those rebels like Iain Duncan Smith, back on side. So i think we can expect to see a bit of a toughening up of the position , toughening up of the position, but i dont think it will go as far as people like truss or duncan smith would like to see. Theres a real danger in doing that. I know people may think, yeah, great, weve got to sort of fight back. Weve got to take a real stance against this. But its those unintended consequences. I mean, why would you want to make a that public, an enemy of somewhere like china, which, you know, is economically huge , militarily economically huge, militarily huge, hugely influential in a part of the world that we where we do need to have some influence. I mean, it could really backfire on us. Exactly. And i think thats why sunak is so determined to try and stop the situation. Try and stop the situation. Inflation escalating. Obviously, president xi and president putin called themselves friends and china has started to say that the uk, ukraine war has heralded a new cold war between russia and china and europe, including britain, france and of course, the whole of the european union. So most leaders in europe, including rishi sunak , really, including rishi sunak, really, really dont want to escalate the situation in china. If you declare china as a military enemy , then you could be, you enemy, then you could be, you know, looking not too far off a world war ii situation with europe against russia and china. So i think that is why sunak really, really wants to keep this as diplomatic as possible. But there is a lot of pressure from his backbenchers and after the breach this morning, i mean, you can see why. Okay, olivia, thanks very much indeed. Lets bring in the former chair of the defence select committee. He was booked, actually, to talk to us about israel, and we will talk to him about that. But since were discussing this issue, a story that broke overnight, about china and the mod, lets talk to Tobias Ellwood about it all. Good morning to you. We were just hearing from olivia about the difficulty of striking that balance, really, between, trying to maintain world peace, essentially, and our Economic Prosperity , but also maintaining prosperity, but also maintaining our, our liberty and our democracy , which is, quite democracy, which is, quite frankly, being undermined by china at the moment. Yes, i think thats a fair summary. This is a serious attack by any sense of the word. It does have all the hallmarks of a hostile actor , and i think of a hostile actor, and i think it illustrates just how the character of conflict is changing. The digital terrain is now as important as the physical. And of course, you can attack a country from anywhere in the world and deny that you actually conducted that attack. And thats what were seeing more and more take place. Its a coercive way of causing disruption , sowing political disruption, sowing political discord and creating economic harm by breaking things down. And were going to theres one of the reasons why weve invested heavily in our own Cyber Resilience across whitehall. I understand in this case, it was to an outsourced contractor will have to wait to hear from grant shapps, one of the more tech savvy members of the more tech savvy members of the cabinet, actually, exactly whats actually happened in this case. But youre right to say that we, i think, have been too complacent over the last 30 years as to where our world is unfolding , why we havent unfolding, why we havent defended our International Rules based order. And china is on a clear mission. Make it really clear mission. Make it really clear they have a strategy of trying to sign up countries to their interpretation of our global order, which is competing with ours, and they are progressively going to challenge the United States dominance technologically, economically andindeed technologically, economically and indeed militarily. And this will eventually lead to a clash, a major clash, unless we find an off ramp. And right now were off ramp. And right now were seeing a combination of joining, if you like, of russia, china and iran. Three countries that and iran. Three countries that we have challenges with. These are not natural bedfellows, but coming together, to offer an alternative interpretation of where our world is going. Some big, Big Questions that we need to be answered. And no country individually can do that. It needs to be america. Britain and other allies as well. Looking at this in all seriousness , because this in all seriousness, because it will be the challenge, the challenge for the next couple of decades. Im intrigued by your phraseology , if you dont mind phraseology, if you dont mind me saying, because a lot of people with this sort of see it as an opportunity to go head to head, you know, weve got to really show what were made of. Im intrigued that you say what we actually need to do is find an off ramp, which sounds, frankly, on the surface, like a much more sensible solution. Does anybody really want to go to war with china . They have the biggest navy in the world, the biggest navy in the world, the biggest navy in the world, the biggest army in the world, the biggest army in the world, the biggest army in the world, the biggest air force in the world, and their capability in space. We dont really know, but its phenomenal. There needs to be a way that we can actually advance our world in a sensible aduu advance our world in a sensible adult , grown advance our world in a sensible adult, grown up advance our world in a sensible adult , grown up way. The idea adult, grown up way. The idea that we just say china bad is naive. It really is. Its almost infantile in that sense, its war mongering for all the wrong reasons. What we need to do is find a method of being able to live in coexistence. And as i say , a lot of this, the ball is say, a lot of this, the ball is in our court because the west does not have a strategy. We need to work with china on things like Climate Change. Thats the biggest existential threat , but thats the biggest existential threat, but ultimately we dont have a plan. For me, its the have a plan. For me, its the economics thats important. The last cold war that we were part of, russia , the soviet union was of, russia, the soviet union was pretty much independent. Chinas achilles heel is its reliance on access to the international oil, economy. It needs that to feed its own country. We need to be more robust in the rules on how we trade on security as well, and the movements freedom of movement. If we get that right, china should play ball because they require it. They needed as much as any other country. But at the moment were too subservient. Weve embraced china wanting to get to mature into a global statesman over the last couple of decades. And but last couple of decades. And but weve been not robust enough in World Trade Organisation rules andindeed World Trade Organisation rules and indeed security rules of the high seas. High seas. Yeah, their economy is in decline. I think it has a problem with unemployment as well. And we do need to be braver. I think youre right. What what do you want to see as a response . Obviously we dont know the exact details, but there will be an outcry, wont there . If its yet again, another slap on the wrist for the ambassador and a couple of, sanctions on minor people who, you know, will really not even touch the surface on this. Yeah. I mean, theres one question. I touched on it as how the character of war is changing because there arent really any penalties, international penalties, international penalties, penalties out there , penalties, penalties out there, agreed punishments. If somebody does a major security attack on that. So we need to agree some standards and values of what countries should be operating at this should not happen where russia or china are able to interfere either with, in elections, for example, in the cyber space, let alone a direct a targeted attack, as weve seen on the mod. And then there is this wider strategic question as to where our, countries go , to where our, countries go, where our the approach of these two, as i say, spheres of influence are actually heading. Many countries are often in the global south are actually stepping back, waiting to see which way the world is going to go. Thats actually where we are. Weve been so distracted by the war in ukraine, by covid and so forth to see where our world is actually falling. We are in is actually falling. We are in a very, very dangerous space indeed, and its going to require some Serious International statecraft to take us forward , okay, from one us forward, okay, from one crisis to another, then im afraid to say, lets have a look at the middle east. Should we . What are we to make of the Current Situation . Weve weve got israel, the idf, currently in rafah. And excuse me, apparently securing the gaza side of the border there. Weve got a ceasefire agreement from hamas, which looks to be pretty substantial, knocked out of hand , by netanyahu. And pressure coming from the United States. Where are we with all of this now . Well, it links in with the last conversation because this is just another hot spot where the International Community is not able to put the fire out, as were not doing in ukraine as well. Weve become too risk averse over the last 30 years. And we need to be bolder and more forthright in looking for a solution. The idea that Prime Minister netanyahu and i specifically named him, because i dont believe many people, as many people in israel, are supportive of this now, wants to close down the rafah crossing, along with the Erez Crossing in the north, and then karim karim shalom as well. It means that more and more people will face famine. The humanitarian aid is not getting in and that of course, then will worsen relationships between jerusalem, london, paris , brussels and london, paris, brussels and indeed washington dc. It takes us further away from getting the hostages out, further away from getting some form of government structure or security structure that will actually work. So this that will actually work. So this is compounding the matters, charging into rafah with those tanksis charging into rafah with those tanks is as bad as charging into gaza in the first place. Theres an absence of strategy as to where present Prime Minister netanyahu wants to go with this and we saw things escalate very quickly with iran that could easily happen again, how critical do you think the protests that were seeing, not only in america and the impact that that will have on the election there, but now at oxbridge here in the uk and our election year, you know, is that going to heat pressure on the wests reaction to whats happening . And weve seen havent we probably i think the first munitions delivery from the United States delayed to israel, probably linked to that very fact that there is a changing mood coming from from israels traditional allies. Is that likely to continue . Do you think . Well, just on those demonstrations themselves , were demonstrations themselves, were absolutely right that this is a country where youre allowed to demonstrate universities are a place of freedom of expression. I was i was, president of my own Students Union when i was at loughborough , and we went on loughborough, and we went on a lot of rallies to make noise. Thats absolutely the right and expectations, but it does need to be done peacefully and recognise that there are very much two sides to this. So yes, we want to get those, those crossings open to get the aid to in find a solution for the people of gaza. But i do hope that those demonstrations will distance themselves from the hamas leadership and their intentions. Its in the hamas own constitution to eradicate, to remove the existence of israel. So we need to be careful as to where how these demonstrations actually go. But yes , more widely, as i go back yes, more widely, as i go back to that point, if you deny aid getting into gaza, if the International Community is having to build a maritime jetty so we can get our aid in bypassing the land crossings from israel, then israel is clearly going to fall out increasingly with the International Community making, as i say, this situation all the more difficult to resolve. But our priority must be making sure that the food, the humanitarian aid, the water and so forth gets in to prevent famine, which the United Nations is very , very United Nations is very, very concerned about. And if we have to do that by bypassing israel , to do that by bypassing israel, then so be it. But as i say, theyre just compounds the situation worsens relationship between jerusalem and london and, dc okay. Tobias ellwood, really good to see you this morning as always. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Right. Lets look at some of the other stories heading into the other stories heading into the newsroom at 817. And the us and most eu nations will avoid the inauguration of russian president vladimir putin. The ceremony taking place at the kremlin today. Hes going for a new six year term. Of course. Hes already a longer serving leader than joseph stalin, with Putin Holding continuing position as president or Prime Minister since 1999. The liberal democrat leader, sir ed davey , says hell table sir ed davey, says hell table a motion of no confidence in the government today in an effort to pressure rishi sunak to call a june general election. Sir ed claims the disastrous local Election Results show the country has, in his words, had enough of rishi sunak and is out of touch. Government. Of touch. Government. Oh, and heres one to feast your eyes on the annual met gala has taken place in new york. Its the one the kardashians always bleat about at garden of time was the theme, this is sydney sweeney that i was telling you. Sydney sweeney, whos a, americas new darling. Right . There you go. Anyway, so there she is. Its all hosted by zendaya. Jennifer. Lopez, bad bunny, whos a fella we had to google, and Chris Hemsworth. It raises money for the new York Metropolitan Museum and marks the opening of its costume institutes annual fashion exhibit. I think thats bad, exhibit. I think thats bad, bonnie. Oh, there you go. Bonnie. Oh, there you go. Does look like a very bad bunny. Maybe its not bad. Bonnie. No. Well, we need to do a bit more research into bad bunny. I googled bad bunny. It looked like it. You still got it wrong. I might got it wrong. I dont know, i mean, its all just. I think the stuff and nonsense, all that sort of thing. Yeah, i know, it makes us sound a little bit, you know, stuffy, maybe, but i actually totally agree. The met gala turns me off. Id love to see dresses on the red carpet, but that one i think is a bit gratuitous and a bit emperors new clothes. You are invited to attend, but it still cost you 70,000 a ticket. Apparently ive not been invited. No, oddly, i couldnt afford it even if i was. But you see, i think with all that i cant. I know weve got to have light and shade in the world and all these fabulous sort of things happen. But then when you look at what everyone else is going through and whether its Economic Hardship or personal tragedy, as well talk about now, its you put it all in perspective. Its just nonsense, all of that, isnt it . Absolutely it is. Actually, believe it or not, seven years, nearly since the Manchester Arena attack and one mother of one of the victims is now campaigning as actually as she has done all along for more robust security at uk venues. Yes, for the past five years, figen murray, who was mum of martyn hett, has worked alongside the home office to try and get martyns law. Well, today she starts her biggest push yet to get it all over the line as our north west of england reporter sophie reaper reports. About 18 months after martin died , we went to a theatre in died, we went to a theatre in manchester and there was absolutely no security and that completely floored me. Then completely floored me. Then i looked into it and realised theres no legislation for security at all, and i wanted to change that. I just want venues and places, Public Places to have a legal obligation to put security on and keep people safe, because terrorism is sort of around us. Its not going to go away at all. Paying that womans gone through, i know and shouldnt have to the families of the of the 21 others in all of that, never mind the families of all the people who were there and came away but were badly affected and sophie reaper jones affected and sophie reaperjones is now i mean, you have to say, pheganis is now i mean, you have to say, phegan is an extraordinary lady. She absolutely is, steve. And ive worked with her for many years since the attack, and she really is an incredible woman. Really is an incredible woman. Now, the plan this morning is that she and her team will depart from here at the arena. In fact, the exact spot where her son tragically lost his life on the 22nd of may 2017. And over the coming 16 days, they will walk 186 miles all the way down to downing street. And as you were saying, that is in order to raise awareness around martyns law, a piece of legislation which she has worked on over the past few years, which would see increased and improved security at uk entertainment venues. Of course, the Manchester Arena inquiry finding that serious failings in security on the night of the attack could well have prevented it, and therefore could have prevented those 22 people, including martin, from losing their lives. Of course, theyll arrive at downing street on the 22nd of may, which will mark the seventh anniversary since salman abedi detonated that bomb here at the arena after an Ariana Grande concert. And those 22 people tragically lost their lives in that attack. On that day. They will travel from marble arch in london down to downing street , where its downing street, where its scheduled that fegan will meet with Prime Minister rishi sunak to really push and try and get this legislation over the line on that day. Theyll also be joined by many survivors and families of victims of other terror attacks that have taken place in the uk, as well as a plethora of other celebrities and politicians whom are supporting fegan to try and get martins law passed. Because that legislation , as we know, is that legislation, as we know, is incredibly important. And to fegan and the other families of victims of terror in the uk , victims of terror in the uk, wants it so that it will never happen again. Happen again. Okay. Good to see you. For now. I know youre going to keep us up to date as this goes on, actually, and it will be something to mark on the 22nd. Thanks very much indeed, sophie. Thanks very much indeed, sophie. Thank you. Right, lets get a check on the forecast. Heres greg craig snell with everything you need to know. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello there. Welcome to your latest ub news Weather Forecast on the metaverse. Over the next couple of days , High Pressure is couple of days, High Pressure is starting to build in across the uk. Lets introduce and take a bit more dry and settled than what weve been used to. So out there first thing this morning, a bit of a dull start for a lot of us, but there is some sunshine along the south coast of england, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of scotland. The cloud will be thick enough in places to view some spots of rain, and a few showers may well just develop further south, but for most it is a drier picture compared to monday. And come the afternoon, hopefully a lot of the uk will see some bright spells. The cloud will be stubborn across parts of scotland and north east england, so feeling quite chilly here right throughout the day into the evening. Clearing skies initially, but that will allow some mist and low cloud to form and then towards the very end of the night, just watching this next band of cloud and rain, it may well just start to approach the far north west of scotland under the cloud cover, temperatures not falling much lower than around 8 to 10 degrees. But where we do see some clear skies. Degrees. But where we do see some clear skies. A bit of some clear skies. A bit of a chilly start on wednesday, but here we will see some sunshine elsewhere. A bit of a dull start, but the mist and low cloud will begin to burn away. So come the afternoon and fairly optimistic. A lot of us seeing some sunny spells. The exceptions really across the very far north west of scotland. Maybe the far north west of Northern Ireland. Two here we see some cloud and some rain, but in the Sunshine Feeling pleasantly warm. Highs potentially reaching 20 or 21 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. A little bit of eurovision fever today, arent we . I think its sort of starting a starter, actually. Before the programme even began, when you introduced me to some of this years entrants, i did well. Its nice to have a bit of uplifting music to get you going before 6 00, but it is fun to look back as well. And look back. We will, because coming up, were going to be speaking to one eurovision winner. Who might that be . Oh, i dont know. But now we are getting geared up for eurovision. Now the grand final. The one that we all watch is on saturday. Of course, but its the semi finals that kick off today in malmo in south of sweden. Yes, and it is the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Contest. So were going to be finding out whos tipped to win this yeah out whos tipped to win this year. Which countries we should keep a watchful eye on as well. Yeah, so who better to ask than someone who has not only been and performed for us, but actually walked away with the trophy as well . Jay aston of bucks fizz from 1981. What an incredible time that was. I mean, i remember the fever that swept across the country at the time. Do you think it still has that same excitement . Jay i do, i think its had a big revival since we had obviously sam ryder here last year, coming second because it did go through a bit of an awful dip, didnt it, for about 25 years where we were coming last. And but i do think last year is really revived. The interest a lot of people didnt even know what eurovision was, but back in my day, you know, it was like the holy grail of entertainment. So no, its good. I mean, theres a big buzz, and we just, you know, hope we do better this yeah you know, hope we do better this year. I hope we, we end up in a top five and not in the bottom five. Well, what do you think are Olly Alexander . Who is our Olly Alexander . Who is our contestant this years . Chances are looking like. Because it seems to be he sort of splitting opinion. I think sam ryder was sort of popular from the get go, wasnt he . And everybody loved him. And if frankly, if it wasnt for ukraine, we probably would have won. We would have won that dont know that theres the same kind of momentum behind Olly Alexander this time. Olly alexander this time. If i could say, yeah, he is a great performer, and hell deliver on the night, i just think weve all been in agreement that it, that the, the song doesnt quite deliver. It sort of starts promising, and then it literally , it plateaus, then it literally, it plateaus, it doesnt build. And we were hoping theyd do something really interesting with the production , which they kind of production, which they kind of have. They have done , i mean, have. They have done, i mean, visually its quite interesting. Its just very much for the sort of pink votes, and i dont know whether that will cross over, you know, as much as we would need it. Its strong. Hes great. Itll look good. But i dont think its a winner. I think, you know, i think well be lucky to be on the right side of the leaderboard. Sadly, who . Well, who has caught your eye . Jay well, to be honest, i theres not really one that im going oh wow. Thats a clear winner , wow. Thats a clear winner, apparently its called baby lasagne by, croatia. Ive been hearing about baby lasagne. Lasagne. Its rimmed in, tagged in. So its one of those things that gets the audience going and they all cheer a bit like the song , all cheer a bit like the song, last year, which was cha cha cha. Oh, that was fantastic. And cha. Oh, that was fantastic. And they were going mad. Yeah. Yeah. And it came second. But, at the end of the day, its a song competition. So whether that will happen on the night, im sure that will be close to winning that one. And we all have fond memories, obviously, of your success at eurovision. But what are your memories of it . I mean, obviously a life changing moment for you. And weve been talking a lot this morning about the wackiness, the parties, the glitz, the glamour of the event itself. I mean, just take us back to 1981. I dont know how old you were at the time, but you know, how big a deal was this for you, and how fond are your memories . Well, it was a huge moment, you know, three minutes, silly song, that changed our lives. And were still working and still performing, you know, regularly that song. And it was an incredible experience , it was an incredible experience, it was bizarre because back in the day, eurovision was a big, big deal, you know . And i had a sort of, competition with my brother. He actually represented the uk the year before. I think he came second or third. So it was like it was a really big thing in our family. You know, everybody watched eurovision, so its like a bit i was a teenager , so it a bit i was a teenager, so it was a long time ago. But just those that competition changed our life and people embraced it. You know, i think the little skirt rip probably had something to do with it. It was just people remembered that they all gave us a few points and, it was just brilliant. I mean , so just brilliant. I mean, so exciting. I rememberjust as we won, we went through and there was just this sea of flashbulbs going from the press all over, all over europe. And then we know for the next 2 or 3 years, really, we were in and out of airports, travelling all around the world. So an amazing platform for any artist. Its that odd situation, isnt it, that we laugh about eurovision in this country, and yet when we do well, we couldnt be prouder and say for people like you, it makes a career. It really can. It can be the kiss of death or completely , you know, the or completely, you know, the beginning of something fabulous. So for us, its been amazing, and, you know, its just its hard to win that competition. Theres so many countries and theres so many different styles and some countries take it so seriously. I think if anything, we probably dont. But as you dont do well, generally the interest wanes naturally. So i dont know. I think there is a bit of a cult. I think theres a little cult. I think theres a little bit of a cult of people who love it. I mean, well both be watching on saturday night. I dont know if you get dressed up to watch it, have a couple of dnnks to watch it, have a couple of drinks or anything like that. People throw eurovision parties. How will you be watching jay . Ill be watching, cheryls having, a full on Eurovision Party at home, and shes already pinched my baklava. I brought some cakes to a gig. I went, oh, shall we give these to the band . She went, i want them for my provision party. So shes there all dressing up, and, i know what theyll be eating. Well, there you go. Well, there you go. Brilliant stuff. Jay, really good to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. Take care. Take care. Good luck to olly on the night. Yeah, absolutely. Good luck. Olly thinks hes going to need it. Yeah. Im not it. Yeah. Im not a fan it. Yeah. Im not a fan of the song. Its not my favourite. We like the swedish entry this year andifs like the swedish entry this year and its their home performance, so. 50. So. But they would they always. The thing i think about that is would they want to win again. It costs a fortune to put it on and they keep winning. I think theyve won more home disadvantage then i suppose, isnt it really. Yeah. You dont really. Yeah. You dont really. Its a good sweden always puts on a good pop. Yeah. They know how to do a bit of happy pop, dont they, lets talk about happy things. Summer just lets talk about happy things. Summerjust around lets talk about happy things. Summer just around the lets talk about happy things. Summerjust around the corner. Summer just around the corner. We want to help you make it sizzle with an incredible £20,000 in cash. Sounds very american. Sorry sounds very american. Sorry i dont know why i was overexcited. Very good. Anyway, it is our biggest cash prize to date. And every single penny could be yours. Heres how the next Great British giveaway winner could be you. With a massive £20,000 in you. With a massive £20,000 in tax free cash to be won. 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Lets go through all the sport this morning with paul coyte. Good morning to you. Good morning. Have you recovered from your bucs excitement . You know what . I was really excited by that. But you know, i was watching the other day was this shows what an anorak i am. The 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in its entirety. Oh song contest in its entirety. Oh with waterloo winning. Yeah. When waterloo won and that is some knowledge. Yeah, yeah, but its the 50th anniversary of abba anyway , Olivia Newton john abba anyway, Olivia Newton john was our entry and david vine, legendary sports commentator. He legendary sports commentator. He used to do the terry wogan thing, so he used to do the do the commentary. And then anyway, livvy newton john appears and then he goes and theres Olivia Newton john and shes a big spurs fan, so obviously shes going to be happy with the result against wolves. Id like she was a spurs fan. There you go. There you go. You never knew, did you . You never knew, did you . Already loved her. Already loved her. But that sealed the deal and ive realised that how much youve loved her even more. Right, Crystal Palace for Manchester United. Nil last night. Ouch. I know very bad for united. It just gets. It just goes from bad to worse. Im just looking at some of the facts. The most defeats in a premier League Season for them. Theyre currently on 13 and thats the worst ever. Never finished below seventh. Theyre currently eighth. Most goals conceded for Manchester United since 1977. And theyve never finished minus when it comes to goal difference. And theyre currently minus one. So if you think that erik ten hag is going to be the manager next year and any of us are going to stick with him, i would have another think about that. All right . Id be surprised if he sticks around. Can we have a look forward to tonight . Oh, yes, yeah, of course weve got, weve got the Champions League semi final, which is the second leg. Paris Saint Germain will play dortmund. So this is in Saint Germain will play dortmund. So this is in paris. Its apparently so. Well, currently dortmund are one nil up and it will go to paris. Dortmund are one nil up and it will go to paris. And then its, will go to paris. And then its, you know, killing mbappe. They say the greatest player in the world who didnt. He wants a good last time, was it. He wasnt. He wasnt so good. Thats right. Jadon sancho was the one who was really good. And looking at Manchester United, of course, hes a Manchester United player and erik ten hag has been very, very impressed. And so maybe the feud is over because hes now thinking, yeah, we could really do with a decent player coming back again. So anyway, thats tonight and then tomorrow night the other semi final, which is real madrid versus bayern munich, currently two two at the moment, can you bnng two two at the moment, can you bring us some more cauldron news, please . Oh, you want a bit more cauldron . Cauldron . Cauldron . Matthew, you want to see the cauldron one more time . Yes, because we need we need to remind ourselves of how exciting cauldrons normally are for the olympics. Blink and youll miss it. Thats it. The thing that. Thats it. The thing that. Thats it. The thing that. Thats it. That is the cauldron, by the way. Thats lit. So its not looking its best. It looks like a minimalist, you know, caravan fire as well. Fire as well. Well, you know, is that a model . This is what ive been thinking the whole time. Surely thats not the size of it. Surely thats thats the. Surely thats thats the. I mean, the thing is, the shape, its just a its just a circle and its just going to be fire. So its no amazing cauldron. Its always the most exciting part of the Opening Ceremony when the cauldron is lit. I would imagine its something about ten, 15, 20 times the size. But can you imagine if they make it and they 90, imagine if they make it and they go, there you go, and you go, no. 110. No. This is because if that is the actual one, yes. In all seriousness, my fire pit is bigger. Yeah, but money saving borrow that. They could borrow that cost of living crisis uses less fuel. Maybe use a swan vestards to actually light the thing. And then that would be up and up. It would go. It would all be a bit underwhelming. Im sure itll be all very underwhelming. Cauldron. It is. Underwhelming. Underwhelming, absolutely. Say that in french. Say that in french. Absolutely. Ill work on that absolutely. Ill work on that. Thats tomorrow. Well have it by tomorrow. By tomorrow. Thanks. Thanks. Coity over. Coity over. Coity over. Peter, dont you worry. Peter, dont you worry. 0. 00. 0. 00. Right, right. Weve got the papers out of your way. Just above me. Thankfully, Claire Muldoon and Alex Armstrong will be here. All right. Lets see whats in the papers this morning with journalist and broadcaster Claire Muldoon and political commentator mr Alex Armstrong. Good morning to you both. Good morning. Morning, claire. Lets have a look at the mail online. Should we, home office loses 21,000 Asylum Seekers in five years. Im not surprised. Im not surprised. Of course were not surprised when they present, especially at border force and they say the words asylum. Im si king. Thats it. They get a number and then theyre to free leave 21,000. Apparently theyve lost and you know, theyre working in the black market. Theyre being absorbed into the black economy. Its having a massive pool on, infrastructure in this country for schools, hospitals. I dont think many of them will be going to school, but you know what i mean. And then its just the case of why is this happening . Why, why, why, why cant we take control of our borders . Why cant we work something out . Why is this still happening . And thats notwithstanding the ones thats notwithstanding the ones that are coming over on the boats. Yeah. Yeah. This story, part of this story broke just before the local elections, didnt it, as well, when we saw that theyd lost loads of the people that meant to send to rwanda, for example. Its constant, isnt it . Its like an episode of the thick of it that keeps repeating itself. Yes. You know, they constantly are losing this data. What are they doing there . Where is James Cleverly . I havent heard from this bloke for months since he took over in the home office, so i dont really know whats going on. I think the pubuc whats going on. I think the public deserve an explanation as to how theyre being run. I actually coming to think of when i last saw James Cleverly, he was doing push ups in the downing street garden with rishi sunak, who had failed to go for a run because his dog hadnt been. Well, im sorry that that is not what they should be operating on at the moment. Illegal migrants are costing the taxpayer £14 billion in this country. The taxpayer is levied up to the hilt. Well, presumably if theyve gone missing, at well, presumably if theyve gone missing , at least at that gone missing, at least at that point, youd assume then theyre not living off the state. Well theyd know where they were. And thats thats really important because they are they are going into black market jobs. As claire correctly said, theyre not paying tax. Theyre not paying tax. And the law enforcement, which is paid for by us, is then being used to track them down. Yes. You know, theyre not in those hotel rooms. At least i dont. All right, lets have something to smile about and talk about, heineken, which obviously reaches the parts of the country other beers cannot. Indeed. Does yes. Well, good news for pubs, because weve seen thousands of closures since covid heineken are going to reopen 62 uk pubs this year. Theyre investing 39 million good on the uk into the star pubs chain. So theyre going to be helping to reverse that terrible swathe of pubs that closed, post covid. At least 62 are going to be opening this yeah are going to be opening this year. Hopefully theyre going to put a ton of investment into it, and theyre planning for more than 600 eventually. Supposedly. Is that uk wine uk wide . Is that uk wine uk wide . All up and down the country . All up and down the country . All up and down the country . Have they had pubs before in the countrys country . Yes, the us style. Yeah. Yes, the us style. Yeah. They also have heard of them before. Well you dont often know the sort of chain behind it all. Its like, yeah. So theres quite a few already, but its great. I just think this is really, i dont know whats dnven really, i dont know whats driven it, but they want to invest 39 million. Do you know what driven it. Its great. Its great. Well, im such a cynic, but you know that all that press last week about the bulmers cider orchards, where theyd torn down Something Like 300 trees. Oh, really . Yeah, 300 acres. Sorry, of apple trees, i think its trying to make up for that because obviously the sales inside have gone down and theyve been just ripping up 140 football pitches worth of apple trees last week. And that was all those pictures were out in the, in the press. I think theyre trying to make way for that. Well were were a country of drinkers, you know, 1000 jobs created. This is great news for britain. Its brilliant. Britain. Its brilliant. Really good news. Well i dont think many people will be hopping mad. Do you . Do you . Yeah, that is good. Yeah, that is good. However, as a segue into that one, ellen, hearty people are visiting the pub just once a month, so i wonder if heineken are actually aware of that post covid cost of living crisis, people are only going to the pubs once a month, and i urge everyone to go to an independent pub or any pub. Support your pubs. Yeah, you know you dont need to be drinking. You can have alcoholic free wines and beers at the moment. You can go in for a coffee but please use them. You know its so sociable. Them. You know its so sociable. Get together with a group of mates , meet up, have a book club mates, meet up, have a book club in them, have quiz nights , use them. Youre so right because with each other pub in our village and if it closed down, we would be really sad and yeah, i cant remember the last time we went. How we see. There you go. Youve got to be part of the solution to sort it out. Yeah send myself to the pub. There we go, meanwhile, we should. Maybe we should do our maths lessons in the pub. Alex, yeah. The Prime Minister is launching a maths academy. Yeah, another massive vote winner. Im sure the electorate are buzzing about boats, though. Guys , i actually think this guys, i actually think this isnt a bad thing. If you can find the alan turings of the future. Yeah. No, no, no, isabel is right. This is a good thing. We should invest in the education of young people. And im. Im pleased to see that that there is some movement to be to invest in the education of tomorrow because maths is important in the in the current economy with technology and everything. My point really was, is that right before an election, he cant deliver on this pledge. Right . He cant deliver, he cant dereh he cant deliver, he cant deliver, cant deliver on it. Right. So this is this is an election pledge. And really hes not hes not saying or putting policies forward that are inspiring the British Public. Were not a country of mathematicians , really. We might mathematicians, really. We might be a country of scientists, but not not necessarily known for our mathematics. Now, the thing is, is that youre trying to be, you know, keir starmer, whos coming up with big vision now for the uk. And theyre putting some stuff out there, which seems to be doing well with the tory votes. Well, i dont know. Well, i dont know. The tories would dispute that. I think a lot of people would say that the local Election Results last week showed that actually the labour party are failing to capture their imagination, and theres this proliferation of the non mainstream parties thats on the rise. Well, youre right there. Youre right there. But at the end of the day, i dont believe rishi sunak saying that hes going to lose when he talks about national polling. I dont think hes going to do as well as he says hes doing. So when and why did he identify the need for maths to be taught at secondary school level . Well, someone someone said this to me, right . Someone said this to me, right . Someone said this to me, right . Someone said this to me. They said hes hes running the country as a parent because hes looking at his kids going, where do i want to send them next . I want to send them to a Maths Institute. And i think that is a really good oh, hell be in la before long. He wont be sending them to his own. Would you send your kids to Maths Institute . Well, the post that stage, i think some of them ought to have been especially my son. He should have gone. Yeah. The only thing he can count to is the positions of his rugby team in the positions there, so i dont think i think we shouldnt need a Maths Institute. It should be taught in secondary school. Well, it really should be. It should be started at Primary School. But you think this is what a degree for, though . Breaking news. Breaking news. It is started at Primary School. But remember when you said, well, if you went into greggs, the person behind the till didnt even need a till. They did. Mental arithmetic i think has to be the key here and the times tables and you should be learning them. Parrot fashion. Yeah, there is no need for you not to. Were too reliant on these. Yeah. Yeah. No, thats absolutely right. No, thats absolutely right. Thats true. Yeah. Thats true. Yeah. 6 8 48. 6 8 48. Oh just throw it out there. I found the eight times table tncky found the eight times table tricky 11 times tables really tncky tricky 11 times tables really tricky as well. The what 11 times tables. Yeah. 11 2233 you see thats how you do it. Well done. But can i just say i should get to that institute quick. My sons been taught times tables. You just say the sum. Whereas we were taught ones 1111 two 1122. Thats how i use it. But you just skip to the end. Thats it. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, its no good skipping to the end. To the end. Youve got to put the effort in. All right. Okay. Remember where youre going wrong in a lot of things i think these gen zs i dont know. Well look good to see you both. Thank you very much indeed. Lets get an update on your weather with craig. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Hello there. Welcome to your latest ub news Weather Forecast from the met office over the next couple of days. High pressure is starting to build in across the uk and thats introducing a bit more dry and settled than what weve been used to. So out there first thing this morning, a bit of a dull start for a lot of us, but there is some sunshine along the south coast of england, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of scotland. The cloud will be thick enough in places to produce some spots of rain and a few showers may well just develop further south. But for most it is a drier picture compared to monday and come the afternoon , hopefully a lot of afternoon, hopefully a lot of the uk will see some bright spells. The cloud will be stubborn across parts of scotland and northeast england, so feeling quite chilly here right throughout the day into the evening. Clearing skies initially, but that will allow some mist and low cloud to form and in towards the very end of the night, just watching this next band of cloud and rain, it may well just start to approach the far north west of scotland under the cloud cover, temperatures not falling much lower than around 8 to 10 degrees. But where we do see some clear skies, a bit of a chilly start on wednesday, but here we will see some sunshine elsewhere. A bit of a dull start, but the mist and low cloud will begin to burn away, so come the afternoon. Im fairly optimistic, a lot of us seeing some sunny spells. The exceptions really across the very far northwest of scotland. Maybe the far north west of Northern Ireland. Two here we see some cloud and some rain, but in the Sunshine Feeling pleasantly warm. Highs potentially reaching 20 or 21 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning to you. One of us better speak. Its 9 00 on tuesday, the 7th of may. Today, mps are set to be told of a massive chinese hack in the ministry of defence targeting military personnel. Earlier, we spoke to the secretary of state for work and pensions, mel stride, about it. Stride, about it. Shes a third party, data set that appears to have been compromised , that has been shut compromised, that has been shut down immediately by the ministry of defence. Of defence. Trail has started operations in the gaza city of rafah after Prime Minister netanyahu rejected the hamas ceasefire offer. Earlier, we spoke to conservative mp for bournemouth east, Tobias Ellwood. East, Tobias Ellwood. Charging into rafah with those tanks is as bad as charging into gaza in the first place. Theres an absence of strategy as to where present Prime Minister netanyahu wants to go with this , and were to go with this, and were getting a little bit excited ahead of eurovision. It is the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on saturday kicks off today, though in malmo, as the uks Olly Alexander vies for the top gong this morning, it was a rather mixed picture over the bank houday mixed picture over the bank holiday weekend, but the good news is it is turning drier and brighter over the next few days. Find out more with me in a little bit. It just seemed rather strange that were talking about eurovision and the beginning of the semis, which is what happens today. The semis, which is what happens today. And then some people get today. And then some people get weeded out and then you get your finals on saturday, because youre always just used to be that you just, you know, you did the saturday. I know theyve eked it out though, and thats fine by me. It just means more more drama, more jeopardy, more shows, more parties. Oh yeah. Oh, but mind you, we dont necessarily need that because youve been doing such great renditions for us. This morning in the advert, break has been singing his little heart out. Yeah. Why not . Were not convinced, though, about our uk entry this year. No, i think its going to be hard to follow sam ryders success last year. Well, it was the year before. Well, it was the year before. Oh, sorry. Thanks very much indeed. Where were we last year . Where were we last year . How did we do . We did very badly last year. Okay. So well be fine then. Okay. So well be fine then. Well do better than that. Well do better than that. Youve just wiped her out of your memory. Ive cant even remember. I cant remember her name ehheh i cant remember her name either, yeah, but sam ryder is a hard act to follow, is what i was trying to say, but its all controversial to say i didnt like the samurai song. Oh, that is controversial. Yeah, i loved it. I really loved it. But maybe it. I really loved it. But maybe it wasnt very eurovision, actually. It was actually actually. It was actually transcending eurovision into sort of normal pop. Yeah, not that im an expert on these things. Like. Like. Like. Like a bit of pop on all of this, but, there you go. Let us know your thoughts. Gbnews. Com yoursay this morning if you want to get in touch right to our top story this morning. And the ministry of defence has been hacked. And all fingers this morning are pointing towards china. Yeah. The mod confirming to gb news that an external payroll system was impacted. How they raised it impacted hacked. Basically its operated by a contractor. It contains staff information of people serving in the armed forces, names, bank details and in some cases home addresses. Yeah. Which of course really worrying for all of those whove been affected. Theyve told us this was immediately dealt with and a full review will now take place. Payroll payments were made at the end of last month. They dont expect any future delays , of course, although that delays, of course, although that remains to be seen, pending this review , lets talk to our review, lets talk to our political correspondent, olivia utley, whos in westminster for us. Us. So we are going to get more information this afternoon. Are we . We will get more information this afternoon. At the moment, all we know is this payroll system from the ministry of defence was hacked, compromising the details of serving military personnel. Weve been assured that at, no Sensitive Information on ministry of defence. Actual computers has been accessed. But still, it is a pretty big data breach. Its very awkward for rishi sunak. Sunak has consistently been pretty dovish about china in the leadership race in 2022, when he was against liz truss , truss was against liz truss, truss said over and over again that if she were Prime Minister, she would designate china as an official threat to the uk. Rishi official threat to the uk. Rishi sunak said that he wouldnt do that and in office he has repeated again and again that he sees china as an important economic, not ally, but but maintaining ties with china is important for britains economy. Hes also said that its very important to keep ties with china for the sake of the climate. There are plenty of conservative mps who very much disagree with rishi sunak. They call it. They call themselves the china hawks. Iain duncan smith, former party leader, is among them. And there will be fuel to their fire today after this new breach. It will be really interesting to see what rishi sunak and grant shapps do to respond to this. Will they go the whole hog and finally designate china as a threat, or will they fudge it somehow and try and maintain those links with china while keeping their own backbenchers on side . Own backbenchers on side . Interesting. Thank you. Olivia well, joining us now is the shadow chief secretary to the shadow chief secretary to the treasury , darren jones. The treasury, darren jones. Darren, im not sure how much you were able to hear of what olivia was saying there, but where would your money be on what the response is going to be from the uk to this . Will it be a bit of a fudge or do you think we will come out with quite a hard line in response to to, china and this frankly repeated behaviour that theyve been demonstrating . Demonstrating . Good morning. Forgive me. My glasses. The sun is steaming my lenses up. To answer your question, i think first we need to hear the answer from the defence secretary in the house of commons today about what has actually happened and what the evidence is for that. Clearly, we need to have answers for the ministry of defence personnel who have been affected by this hack to reassure them of their privacy and security, and then we need to understand why we had it systems in the place that could be hacked, especially in, of all departments, the ministry of all departments, the ministry of defence. The broader question around Foreign Policy is, of course, relevant. There are a number of countries around the world who we know actively try to hack uk systems, as well as the systems of our allies, and we should be in a position to prevent that from happening. And then in those diplomatic conversations , making the case conversations, making the case that thats clearly not an appropriate way to behave. Appropriate way to behave. But is it . I mean, its interesting that there is obviously going to be a movement off the back of this from those who are more hawkish to say, yes, china is a threat to uk security. It needs to be dealt security. It needs to be dealt with more firmly. Is that a line the Labour Government would pursue . If you if you get into office at some point this year or you know, do we need to have a stronger diplomacy if we can sort of phrase it like that, stronger worded diplomacy, we so the approach that we take from being in opposition right now is that we need to compete where we need to compete, collaborate on issues, for example, on Climate Change, where we have a shared interest across humanity and on advanced Artificial Intelligence and those types of issues, but also to challenge our chinese counterparts when we are clear that theyve not been following the rules based order that we would expect from countries around the world. But of course, as the labour party in opposition right now, we dont have access to the intelligence information that the government does. And thats why well listen to the statement from the defence secretary closely in the house of commons later today. And if we win the general election, of course, well take a view in the round once we have access to that up to date secret information. Speaking of elections, then, lots of people trying to analyse whats happened over the last few days. A heavy losses for the conservatives but lots of people commentating that labour really didnt make the inroads that perhaps they should have done. Today your shadow chancellor , today your shadow chancellor, your boss in the treasury, is going to be making a speech saying that the tories are gaslighting the British Public, but the conservatives wont be having that there this week. Going to try and tell us were coming out of recession or expected to be inflation has come down. Cost of living is easing. Why are they gaslighting us . Well, the two points of your question are connected because our argument today is that until people at home, feel like they are better off than they were at the start of these 14 years of chaos from the conservatives, the economy in real terms has not been improving for them. Whilst we welcome the statistical improvements, we expect to come out of recession , expect to come out of recession, we expect inflation to come down. Thats a pretty low bar. That would be the starting position normally in this country. Not a point of success and celebration. And so Rachel Reeves , the shadow chancellor, reeves, the shadow chancellor, will be saying today until people at home feel better off in terms of their Family Finances and their experience of the economy , the country has not the economy, the country has not turned a corner. We need to end this chaos with the conservatives and go towards a penod conservatives and go towards a period of economic stability and growth under labour at the next election. The problem with that is that that labour would do exactly the same as the governments doing. If you were in power at the moment, you know, if there is a, you know, a 0. 1 growth in the economy, youd be saying, look, its growing. It may be very slow, but its growing and rather than saying, well, we need to wait until people feel like its growing. Like its growing. Well, if i might just say so, we wouldnt be taking exactly the same approach as the conservatives. One of the reasons that the economy tanked so quickly in the last few years was because liz truss and the conservative party announced a whole tranche of unfunded tax cuts, which sent the markets spiralling. Theyre doing it again now by pledging a £46 billion unfunded cut to abolish National Insurance. You just wont have that from the labour party. All of our policies are fully funded and fully costed. Well bring stability back to the uk economy and uk politics, and off the bedrock of that stability, well be able to reform the policies that we can as a government on planning on skills and other areas in order to unlock the private Sector Investment that this country has not had the pleasure of experiencing over the past few years because of chaos under the conservatives. Thats the way you grow the economy in a sustainable way. Okay, well, time will tell on that. Darren jones, shadow chief secretary to the treasury thanks very much for battling the sunlight for us this morning. It looks very promising out there. Thank you. Its hard work with your glasses. You know, at times glasses. You know, at times these people need some sunnies is what he needs. Is what he needs. Yeah, i dont know, though. I think its difficult. I think its easy to fully cost two policies, you know, thats thats all theyve come out with and fully costed. Out with and fully costed. Does that therefore mean, you know, theyre going to reverse National Insurance . Do we get no tax cuts. Everyones saying we need tax cuts. Weve got no tax cuts can increase borrowing party i, i dont know. Wed have to wait and see. Yeah. Anyway look lets look back. Should we. Seven years frankly ive struggled with that. Seven years since the Manchester Arena attack. Well, now the mother of one of those 22 victims is campaigning as she has done for a long time, for more robust security at uk venues. Yes, for the past five years, figen murray, mum of martyn hett, has worked alongside the home office to try and get martyns law put into place. Well, today she is doing something quite remarkable. Our something quite remarkable. Our nonh something quite remarkable. Our north west of england reporter sophie reaper sat down with her before a momentous challenge that shes undertaking gets underway. About 18 months after martyn died, we went to a theatre in manchester and there was absolutely no security and that completely floored me. Then i looked into it and realised theres no legislation for security at all, and i wanted to change that. I just want venues change that. I just want venues and places Public Places to have and places Public Places to have a legal obligation to put security on and keep people safe because terrorism is sort of around us. Its not going to go away at all. Well, our northwest of england reporter sophie reaper joins us now. And, sophie, youve known feigin for a long time. Figen forgive me. And she time. Figen forgive me. And she is an incredible person. Its not going to be an easy challenge, though. Over the next few days. No, absolutely not. And when i sat down with her yesterday, i had the opportunity to speak with her ahead of this challenge starting today. She did tell me that she and her partner have beenin that she and her partner have been in training for this building up , been in training for this building up, knowing that theyre going to be incredibly long distances , theyre going to long distances, theyre going to be covering. She also told me that one of the things that really drives her is this sense of guilt that she feels as a mother, that she was fast asleep when her son martyn, lost his life, and that she has a martin shaped hole in her soul. She told me, and that that will be there forever. Im sure thats a sentiment shared not only by the other families of the victims of the Manchester Arena attack, but also any of the families of victims of terror across the globe. Now, the plan today is globe. Now, the plan today is that figen and her team will depart from here at the arena in manchester, from the spot where martyn, in fact lost his life. Then over the coming 16 days, they will walk an incredible distance of 186 miles down to downing street. And the reason downing street. And the reason that theyre doing that is to try and raise awareness around martyns law. Thats a piece of legislation shes been campaigning on for over five years to try and improve security at uk entertainment venues, to try and prevent anything like the Manchester Arena attack from ever happening again. Okay, sophie, thanks very much indeed. Now, as always, coming up at 930, its britains newsroom. Andrew pierce and Farrah Fawcett majors are here to tell us whats going on. You know, i used to have poster. Farrah fawcett majors, i know youll find this hard to leave on my bedroom wall. I do find that hard to believe. Were you sharing with somebody else . My brother, who didnt fancy her at all . Oh, no. Oh, no. You see. You see. Farrah fawcett, i see martin belam this morning. I think its very charlies angels. Im loving it. I am loving it. I think its quite punchy. I think its quite punchy. Given the heat situation in here today. Yes, it is warm in here. Right . Weve got a really great show. This is the first time weve been back on air together. Of course, since all of those council and mayoral votes last week. Carnage for the tories despite rishi sunak shamies all to play for carnage. Actually, yeah, were going to be talking to Phillip Davis, of course, sir Phillip Davis now. Yes. Get it right. Get it right. Get it right. Husband and mp, gb news presenter. And were also talking about a very interesting story on the front of the telegraph today, facebook and instagram, now the source of 1 in 50 crimes. Thats really worrying when you think how many of us are not so much, but we put on facebook all the time buying stuff online. This is going to be a big, big problem. So were going to be talking to an it expert, say how to prepare yourselves and make sure youre not falling into this terrible trap. Weve got a live speech from Rachel Reeves. Yeah. Which i know. Yeah. Which i know. Andrew, contain your excitement, the prospect of watching that. Well , its interesting, well, its interesting, though, the gaslighting thing, because its like, look , because because its like, look, because it is totally flat at the moment i is it all being built up a bit by the tories . Well theyre pointing to one thing thats working very well for them. Inflation is coming down sharply and hell hit his 2 target. But it was 11. 5 18 months ago. And although inflation is coming down people are still paying more for their shopping every month. Yeah. And Eurovision Union jack rao. Oh what is it, this silly little contestant. Silly little boy. Whats his name . Somebody Olly Alexander a boy can you know. Well, isnt he, isnt he non binary as well . Is he . Is he . I dont know is he . Is he . I dont know what i can call him. Hes an idiot because you dont describe the union flag just before eurovision as divisive and nationalistic. Yes, its nationalistic because its the national flag. Yes, mate. All right, well, on that note, we shall see you at 930. Were going to talk about eurovision , in a couple of eurovision, in a couple of minutes after the break, in the meantime, though, were going to talk about the tric award. I want to do that in a minute. Come on, lets talk about that. Lets talk about our nomination for a tric award last time we won 707 andrew, because they never get nominated for anything i and this 5mm and this is our second time. And this is our second time. Were sorry with that. Were okay with that. Were happy in our own and were happy and were happy with our ratings. We just want gb news family to do well all across. Well all across. She doesnt mean that at all. Good. She does, we could do with lots of help, though. I hope youve cast your votes, guys. 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So yeah, theres lots of parties and theres lots of parties and theres lots of parties and theres lots of, sort of official events that youre ianed official events that youre invited to. And its wonderful. And backstage, all the acts are so supportive of one another. You know, its just great fun and its, its such an honour because youre representing your country at the end of the day. And its wonderful. My thought was dont muck it up now, girl. Youve dreamt of this for so many years and that was it. And then the music started and that three minutes was like, whoosh i three minutes was like, whooshi it was just gone in a flash. So a lot of people didnt even know what eurovision was, but back in my day, you know, it was like the holy grail of entertainment. So no, its good. I mean, theres a big buzz, and we just, you know, hope we do better this year. I hope we, we end up in a top five and not in the bottom five. Well, what do you think are Olly Alexander . Who is our Olly Alexander . Who is our contestant this years . Chances are looking like. Because it seems to be hes sort of splitting opinion. I think sam ryder was sort of popular from the get go, wasnt he . And everybody loved him. And if frankly, if it wasnt for ukraine, we probably would have won. We would have won that. Dont know that theres the same kind of momentum behind Olly Alexander this time. Alexander this time. If i could say, yeah, he is a great performer, and hell deliver on the night. Great performer, and hell deliver on the night. I just think weve all been in agreement that it, that the, the song doesnt quite deliver. It sort of starts promising and then it literally it plateaus, it doesnt build. And we were hoping theyd do something really interesting with the production , which they kind of production, which they kind of have. They have done , i mean, have. They have done, i mean, visually its quite interesting. Its just very much for the sort of pink votes, and i dont know whether that will cross over, you know, as much as we would needit. You know, as much as we would need it. Its strong. You know, as much as we would need it. Its strong. Hes great. Itll look good. But i dont think its a winner. I think, you know, i think well be lucky to be on the right side of the leaderboard. Sadly, who . Of the leaderboard. Sadly, who . Well, who has caught your eye . Jay well, to be honest, i theres not really one that im going oh wow. Thats a clear winner , wow. Thats a clear winner, apparently its called baby lasagne by, croatia. Ive been hearing about baby lasagne. Lasagne. Its rimmed him tagged in. So its one of those things that gets the audience going and they all cheer a bit like the song , all cheer a bit like the song, last year, which was cha cha cha. Oh, that was fantastic. Oh, that was fantastic. Oh, that was fantastic. And they were going mad. And they were going mad. Yeah. Yeah. And it came second. But, at the end of the day, its a song competition, so whether that will happen on the night, im sure that will be close to winning that one. Penny ding. Oh well done. Penny ding. Oh well done. There you go. You say Little Britain doesnt it. Doesnt it. All right. Were going to let steven have a day off tomorrow. Ill be back bright and early from 6 00 tomorrow. Up next, though, its britains newsroom with andrew and bev. Bye bye. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello there. Welcome to your latest ub news Weather Forecast from the met office. Over the next couple of days , high next couple of days, High Pressure is starting to build in across the uk and thats introducing a bit more dry and settled than what weve been used to. So out there first thing this morning, a bit of a dull start for a lot of us, but there is some sunshine along the south coast of england, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of scotland. The cloud north of scotland. The cloud will be thick enough in places to produce some spots of rain, and a few showers may well just develop further south, but for most it is a drier picture compared to monday. Most it is a drier picture compared to monday. And come the compared to monday. And come the afternoon, hopefully a lot of the uk will see some bright spells. The cloud will be stubborn across parts of scotland and north east england, so feeling quite chilly here right throughout the day into the evening. Clearing skies initially , but that will allow initially, but that will allow some mist and low cloud to form and in towards the very end of the night, just watching this next band of cloud and rain, it may well just start to approach the far north west of scotland under the cloud cover, temperatures not falling much lower than around 8 to 10 degrees. But where we do see some clear skies, a bit of a chilly start on wednesday, but here we will see some sunshine elsewhere. A bit of a dull start, but the mist and low cloud will begin to burn away, so come the afternoon. Im fairly optimistic, a lot of us seeing some sunny spells. The exceptions really across the very far north west of scotland. Maybe the far north west of Northern Ireland. Two here we see some cloud and some rain, but in the Sunshine Feeling pleasantly warm. Highs potentially reaching 20 or 21 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Morning. Very good morning. Morning. Very good morning. The First Time Since the local Election Results and the lib dems are going to try and bnng lib dems are going to try and bring down the government. They think they can trigger a motion of no confidence. Its going nowhere, probably going nowhere. And also were going to be talking to Hannah Bourne taylor. Shes the woman who goes naked and paints her body like a swift. The swifts are coming home in the next couple of days, and the government dont support giving them anywhere to live. Shes going to at 930 on tuesday, 7th of may. This is britains news from on gb news with Andrew Pierce and bev turner. Very good morning. Thank you forjoining us. So defence under attack. China is suspected of hacking the ministry of defence targeting military personnel. Do ministry of defence targeting military personnel. Do mps ministry of defence targeting military personnel. Do mps need military personnel. Do mps need to get tougher on china . The secretary of state for work and pensions, mel stride, spoke to gb news earlier. This is a third party, data set that appears to have been compromised , that has been shut compromised, that has been shut down immediately by the ministry of. Of. And a cybercrime warning. Facebook and instagram are now the source of 1 in 50 crimes. Were going to tell you how to try to avoid being a victim. Try to avoid being a victim. And the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in malmo today. But the uk entry Olly Alexander