vimarsana.com

Alcohol and the sport . This morning the Champions League is now premier league less after Manchester City and arsenal both go out. Emma raducanu is on a roll. Shes beaten the former world number one and Ronnie Osullivan opens his Snooker Academy in saudi arabia. I wonder why that is. Its a beautiful start out there for many places and theres more sunshine to come this weekend, but before that happens there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on. Gb news. Breakfast on. Gb news. Now, i just wanted to , give now, i just wanted to, give a shout out to take that. Oh this morning. Theyre in trouble today, and i think its unfair. Why . Why . Because theyre doing theyre doing concerts and things again at the minute. And the sun is not happy. Yeah, because someone in the crowd has noticed that they they have a teleprompter at they they have a teleprompter at the back, which is basically just a massive screen with the lyrics on it, like what we have here. Well, yes. But are these scripts arent, you know, we dont know the 30 years old that weve learned off by heart. So, so theyre being theyre being nasty about take that saying, why will they, why do they have to have a teleprompter. Why will they, why do they have to have a teleprompter. Yeah to have a teleprompter. Yeah i mean i found heaven. Mean how mean i found heaven. I mean how long ago was that . I think i was at university when that came out. Its a very long time ago, darling, 30, 32 years ago. So theyve the words for them. Theyve got the words for them. Let me get close to this. Oh, let me get close to this. Oh, it really does have all of the lyrics there. I think thats fair enough. And its definitely for them, not for the audience. Oh, its for them. Yeah. Its not facing the audience. Its facing the stage, darling. But you, you know, you need that. Think its need that. I think its perfectly sensible. Theyve obviously well yeah, theyve obviously got a lot of content to remember. Lots of lyrics to remember. Lots of lyrics to remember. So there you go. So there you go. Its a fair play. Its a fair play. So i think, you know, take that. You hang on in there, boys. Dont take it to heart. Although i have seen, a video of them. You might come for me now if i say this. I did think they were looking a bit. Well, a bit like old man dancing on the stage. Yeah, yeah, i would agree. Okay it was, it was looking a little bit like cruise ship entertainers. I mean, to be you. The idea that they were a boy band in your 50s, i think is, is pushing it a little bit. Yeah. But nevertheless theyre still hugely successful. Hugely. Oh they are. Yeah. Well the same thing for blues. You know the band blue. Oh yeah. Yeah. So they are touring again and theyre just its theyre not really giving a lot the stage. It really is. Lot on the stage. It really is. Thats thats as far as they go. Thats thats as far as they go. And its a similar thing i think ive seen videos on tiktok and its Younger Generation its the Younger Generation seeing the first time. Seeing them for the first time. Theyre old theyre like, who are these old men dancing to . Well, know, the knees go, well, you know, the knees go, dont you . You get little bits of arthritis your joints. Of arthritis in your joints. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like youre like me, like me. Me his finger is me fingers, his Little Finger is quite isnt it. Very sore. Quite sore, isnt it. Very sore. I think its osteoarthritis but i think its osteoarthritis but i might be wrong. Enough self. Oh youve diagnosed yourself have you . Im on to the gp. Well ive booked an appointment. Good. 2027. Im in anyway , less of that and more on anyway, less of that and more on this because plenty of Politics Around today. Theres going to be lots of politics every day in the run up to this general election. Just you wait and see because people are desperate for it. It gets it gets another , it. It gets it gets another, lease of life. Any old political story when theres an election on. Anyway, unfortunately for the conservative party, its bad news for them this time round because one of their mps, mark menzies, has lost the whip over the alleged misuse of Campaign Funds. Yes number 10 have launched an investigation into the matter. Menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the house of commons. Yeah, hes the mp for fylde. His issued a statement saying i strongly dispute the allegations put to me. Ive complied with all the rules and declarations. Theres an investigation ongoing, so im not commenting any further. But what are all these allegations, i wonder . Well, lets put that to our Political Correspondent olivia utley, who can tell us more good morning to you, olivia. So another scandal to hit the tory party in an Election Year. This is a headache for rishi sunak, isnt it . Isnt it . It is a massive headache for rishi sunak. And this has the whiff of quite a big scandal, mark menzies , whos the mp for mark menzies, whos the mp for flied and a parliamentary, government trade envoy, has had the whip removed after allegations of fraud. What happened was, mark menzies was at home when , at 315 in the at home when, at 315 in the morning, he called his former constituency local manager, a 78 year old woman, and demanded that she transfer £3,000 of Campaign Money from his Campaign Fund because, he said, he was being locked up by bad people , being locked up by bad people, and the only way he could get out was if he paid them this money. The woman refused and in the morning, mark menzies went to his Current Campaign manager, a woman called shirley green, and asked her to transfer the money. But by this point, the sum had been raised to £6,500. She transfer the money and she did transfer the money and mark menzies was then released , mark menzies was then released, but its not at all clear whether he paid back that money. And that isnt the only allegation. Over the last couple of years, mark menzies has demanded that money be transferred over to his own personal bank account to pay for various medical procedures, at one point demanding £35,000 to be transferred. There was a time be transferred. There was a time when there was no money left in the Campaign Fund coffers, and Party Volunteers were paying their own personal savings. One woman cashed in her isa to help mark menzies out. Now, its not clear exactly what was going on, but it sounds like blackmail. Mark menzies has never confirmed his sexuality, but its rumoured that hes gay, and at one point he was accused of , being, paying he was accused of, being, paying a male rent. Boy, that was back in 2014. So this isnt the first scandal to hit this mp and its thought that what happened was he went he met a man on a dating app he went he met a man on a dating app, went home with the man, got into some sort of difficulty and then money was demanded from him. So its a pretty big scandal. Its not going to go away any time soon. And it is the seventh conservative mp that rishi sunak has lost in the last few years. Okay , olivia, for now, thanks okay, olivia, for now, thanks very much indeed. Well, the conservative party have issued a statement saying were investigating allegations was made regarding a member of parliament. This process is rightfully confidential. The party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them. Them. Now, dozens of suspected cyber fraudsters have been arrested across the uk after authorities brought down an illegal website used by thousands of criminals to defraud victims worldwide. Well, police have identified at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone as sophisticated online enablers train criminals to set up fake websites to scam victims into handing over personal details, mark white has the story for you this morning. Story for you this morning. Across the uk, dozens of suspected cyber criminals had a rude awakening as Law Enforcement here and around the globe moved in to smash a multi Million Pound online scam that defrauded many thousands of victims. Multiple addresses were victims. Multiple addresses were raided and some suspects were pulled off flights at manchester and luton airports have been identified as involved in lab host, an online phishing platform which allows users to set up fraudulent websites in order to impersonate Online Services such as banking. This is now the front page greeting any would be cyber criminal trying to access the services of this illegal online site. The this illegal online site. The website labour seat is part of a hugely worrying development in cyber crime. It aimed to provide an easy step by step guide on how to download and use fake sites your page has installed, and youre ready to spam. And youre ready to spam. Make sure to check that it works before starting your spam. Works before starting your spam. Stay safe and good spamming unsuspecting members of the public would then believe those sites were pages from legitimate businesses like banks and retailers, all with the aim of phishing or fooling victims into revealing personal details which would be used to commit fraud. There are unfortunately many enabling services to fraud. Many enabling services to fraud. However, together with our Law Enforcement partners, we are tackling them to take out an enabler means that we are able to take it out at source and this, we hope, will send out a message to those using Similar Services that we can get their data and we will be onto them. Data and we will be onto them. Law enforcement have identified at least 70,000 victims of this latest cyber scam in the uk alone. The lab host site made more than £1 million from 2000 criminals who subscribed to download its services. Those attempting to access the site now are faced with a bit of online trolling from Law Enforcement. Youve targeted victims all around the world. The police. There may not be too happy with you. Think carefully about where you. Think carefully about where you. Think carefully about where you go on holiday next. That was your 2023 lab host wrapped lab host is dead now with that illegal site now infiltrated and disrupted by authorities , dozens disrupted by authorities, dozens of those. It was training and equipping in the art of cyber fraud are in Police Custody and likely facing prosecution. Mark white, gb news. Well, at 6 11, lets take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. Well the governments flagship illegal migration policy, the rwanda bill, had another major setback, suffering another major setback, suffering a fourth defeat in the house of lords peers, maintaining pressure on the government over the deportation plan with continual demands for reassurances in the form of amendments, house of lords ignored ministerial calls to back down and insisted on further revisions to the safety of rwanda. Bill. Bill. Prince william is to return to official public duties today for the First Time Since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis. He is set to visit a surplus Food Distribution charity, surplus to supper following, followed by a youth centre in west london, which benefits from the organisations deliveries. Samantha davies, founder of the dwarfism Charity Little people uk. Shes the wife of the people uk. Shes the wife of the actor warwick davis. Shes died actor warwick davis. Shes died at the age of 53. In a statement , mr davis paid tribute to his favourite human. The couple met on the set of the film willow in 1988 and married three years later. Now theres been chaos in the uae as thousands of uk travellers are struggling to get home after Dubai International airport was closed due to flash flooding. Yes, some pretty serious flooding as well. Passengers flooding as well. Passengers told to stay away unless absolutely necessary after it was hit with more than a years rainfall in just 24 hours. Well, one man has tragically lost his life as a result of the torrential weather. Lets talk to british expat chris bryant, whos there for us this morning. Chris bryant, whos there for us this morning. Great to see you, this morning. Great to see you, kyrees. Whats the situation . Kyrees. Whats the situation . Whats been going on . Oh my goodness. It has been chaos indeed. Weve seen so much happening in 24 hours. I think were still in shock. The roads have been flooded, cars are still stranded in the streets , still stranded in the streets, you can see the aftermath of blown down, signs and boards all over the city. Unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. Some peoples homes have been flooded. It homes have been flooded. It really has been a very scary time for us all here. Kyrees how have you been affected as your apartment been flooded . Have you been able to get out and about . Oh goodness no. In the words of batten down the hatches, we was closing the windows and doors with all of our force barricading ourselves in with towels , its safe to say some of towels, its safe to say some of the older apartments in dubai have not been built for this weather, so we have a very big laundry bill, coming our way for the towels and blankets used to stop the rainfall coming in. I mean, presumably somewhere like dubai just isnt built for this. Hasnt got the, i dont know, even the sort of the drain edge to deal with this level of rainfall in such a short amount of time. Correct . I mean, we are in the middle of the desert, and the middle of the desert, and the Sewage Systems have been thought about. Its something that a lot of people have reached , researched. But you reached, researched. But you must remember, if its not going to filled with water, it will to be filled with water, it will be filled with sand. So we have to have a compromise. Was to have a compromise. We was never expecting type of never expecting this type of rainfall. Been over 75 rainfall. Its been over 75 years weve had such years since weve had such rainfall the uae and 75 years rainfall in the uae and 75 years ago. What you see now was just a vision , just a dream. Vision, just a dream. And what the authoritys been telling you there. I mean, were heanng telling you there. I mean, were hearing about the airport there and the disruption to people trying to get out, but what advice are you being given . The advice weve been given from our local authorities, has been to stay safe and stay indoors for as long as possible to stock up on all utensils and food just to make sure you are safe if you are trapped anywhere. And also just to kind of look out for one another as well. Well. Okay. And look. Kyrees. Really good to see you this morning. Thats what things improve, pretty quickly. Thanks very much indeed. Heck, have you seen the videos . Oh, its terrible. I mean, honestly awful. I mean, honestly awful. I mean, honestly awful. I mean, you see that little if youre watching on the tv, theres one of the videos, theres one of the videos, theres a little cat i thought that would affect you hanging on to little timmy, hanging on to a car door handle. Right up waters, right up there. Thank heavens someone there pick heavens someone is there to pick him her up. Him up or her up. Looks like a little timmy, it looks like a little timmy, doesnt bless it. I mean, it doesnt it . Bless it. I mean, it is such, such a worry for People Living because, as living there because, as you say, the infrastructure just isnt designed for level of isnt designed for that level of rainfall. Theres rainfall. No. And theres so many expats living many people, expats living out in koresh. And i was in dubai like koresh. And i was starting to see the videos on social media. Have been a social media. Must have been a few it was, oh few days ago now. And it was, oh please, its just storm, but please, its just a storm, but it has obviously, as we can see from the pictures on the screen, become quite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past quite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple uite serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple ofe serious in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple of days ous in from the pictures on the screen, bec� past couple of days , us in the past couple of days, flooding across dubai and its affected a lot of peoples homes. You cant even get around. A lot of people have lost their cars in the water, awful. Awful. Yes. Pretty grim. Thankfully. Whatever we want about the weather over here, its not as bad as that at the moment at least. Lets get the forecast with aidan mcgivern. With aidan mcgivern. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching Northern Ireland later in the morning. And then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier places then, cloudier in many places then, but but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it will feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the and the rain , and with the wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even. And it will be followed by showers, bluster showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday. Areas of cloud moving south some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. Wind will be scotland. The wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast, and therell be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. Showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. Elsewhere, brighter spells some sunshine spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. News. Now theres still time to grab your chance to win a greek cruise, travel goodies and a £10,000 tax free Cash Bank Balance boost. Yes, very good tax free tax free cash. Bank balance boost. Oh, its easy for us to say at this time of day its only 6 19. Anyway. Its a whole lot of money. 20 grand in total. Here are the details. Dont miss your chance to win our biggest prize. So far. Theres an incredible £10,000 in tax free cash to spend. However you like. Plus, courtesy of variety cruises, a bespoke seven night small boat cruise for two worth £10,000 with flights, meals , excursions and drinks meals, excursions and drinks included. Your next holiday could be on us. Choose any one of their 2025 greek adventures and find your home at sea. Well also send you packing with these Luxury Travel gifts for another chance to win a prize worth over £20,000. Text win to 63232. Texts cost £2 plus one Standard Network rate message or post your name and number two gb04, po box 8690. Derby dh1 nine two. Uk only entrants must be 18 or oven uk only entrants must be 18 or over. Lines closed at 5 pm. On the 26th of april. Full terms and Privacy Notice gbnews. Com forward slash win please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Watching on demand. Good luck. And on that note, the daily mail ive got something very important today so you can go for a cheap summer getaway, because obviously that cruise, that giveaway is the next summer. Yeah, this this summer. All right. Well, that isnt cheap. Its ten grand. That real luxury. So no, that is real luxury. So if we need to be a bit more budget this summer, ive got the answers for you. You dont win that. Then weve. Weve got a good trick up our sleeves this one. This is sleeves with this one. This is the ten european bargains the top ten european bargains for 2024. And is for summer 2024. And greece is the answer. For summer 2024. And greece is the answer. Coming in at number one is the island of kalymnos. Yes. Now £847. Yes. Now £847. I mean, its not cheap. That is correct. Is correct. But it is per person, that is based on a seven night package. Average price per person. Yes, but you do need to fly into cos and then get 40 minute ferry. Its not quite easy, is it. But thassos comes in next and then lefkada. So all greek islands, this is the way to do it. And then spain. Costa brava. Yes. Then spain. Costa brava. Yes. Comes in at number four. I was quite surprised. At number six is amalfi coast. Oh, thats meant to be. Oh, thats meant to be. I think that would be very expensive. You think so . Its meant to be lovely, isnt it . Its that. And thats all capri and all those. Yes. Yeah. Im going to a wedding there. Are you . And it wasnt cheap. Let me tell you that. Venetian riviera. I wouldnt have cheap have thought that was cheap ehhen have thought that was cheap either. Its still either. 900. Still, its still £1,000 thats cheap. £1,000 per person. Thats cheap. Yeah, for a week. For week away, though. Thats not too away, though. Thats not too bad. Its. Its a lot of money. Yeah, ive got a family about it. Yeah. No thats true. Theres a few of you. It is very, very expensive. But this is from which. And theyre saying travelling in the Summer Holidays is notoriously, notoriously expensive. But this notoriously expensive. But this is, this shows that if youre flexible on a destination , you flexible on a destination, you can hundreds of pounds. Can save hundreds of pounds. Apparently the ten apparently theres the ten cheapest places in europe. Right. And greece your answer i oh, there you go. Well, there you go. If youre planning there, we dont think were going to get summer holiday. I dont think we are. I dont think we can go away on holiday this year because there could be an election called at any time weve had it, anyway, maybe we should permanently. Should move abroad permanently. Wouldnt it . Thatd be nice, wouldnt it . Thatd be nice, wouldnt it . Thats what prince because thats what prince harry done officially. Now, harry has done officially. Now, cutting uk will cutting ties with the uk will give all the details. Just 624. Good morning. Its emerged prince harry has now declared the United States as his new country of residence in official documents. Im not sort of. I mean , yeah, no, i lived there mean, yeah, no, i lived there for years. I wasnt shocked by this. No but no. Critics have warned that the move signals the duke is distancing himself further from his family. Well, hes lived in california with his wife since 2020, so i dont think i mean, if hed put his country of residence as the uk had a bit a bit miffed. Anyway, were joined now by Foreign Correspondent sarah firth. Good to see you this morning, sarah. So what do you make of this . Is it much of a story prince harrys lived in the usa since 2020 for years. I mean, its right, isnt it, that he should declare the United States as his country of residence . Residence . Yes. Good morning to you both. Youre absolutely right. Its not new information because, of course, in 2020, when the duke and duchess of sussex stepped back from their royal duties, prince harry left the uk and he came and eventually made a new home in, Meghan Markles home of Meghan Markles home state of california. So the duke and duchess of sussex have been living there , where they are now living there, where they are now with their young family. But this the first this is the first sort of official documents that have been seen , in filings for one of been seen, in filings for one of the duke of sussexs companies. Its a Sustainable Tourism initiative that he has a 75 stake in called travalyst. And these are documents, documents that were filed with Companies House back in the uk. And so its the first time that its been seen, as the change officially on those documents , officially on those documents, youve got where it says new country of residence states usually resident. Hes got the usa now instead of the uk now. The duke of sussex has actually listed his, date of residence in the usa as june 2023. But as weve said , he has been here weve said, he has been here a little bit longer. So its not new information, but its these formal documents that have been filed with the uks Companies House for his business, clearly the duke of sussex, you know, making it known that he feels comfortable here in the usa in his new home. I mean, so as you say, this is now on formal documents. It does feel somewhat official, even though, as you say, its not new information. Critics are saying that it creates more of a distance between him and his family. How true do you think thatis family. How true do you think that is . Thatis . Well, its a difficult one because the relationship has been very fraught. And of course, back home right now, youve got his family dealing with a number of very Difficult Health situations, both with king charles and with princess catherine. So its a difficult moment for sure. For the royal family youve had, as we said, the duke and duchess of sussex stepping back and really being away from the uk for a large amount of that time since 2020, when they stepped back as working royals. Now a lot of royal watchers and theres been a lot of commentary as well around potentially this is the date that hed, listed on Companies House documents for this, business of his. He had this, business of his. He had put, as we said, june 2023 as the date. And a lot of people have said that actually coincides with the date that the couple vacated their Frogmore Cottage residence, which, of course, they were asked by king charles when he became to king vacate, theyd been there for three years since their marriage. So a lot of people pointing perhaps to that being behind the reason that they dont have that uk residence anymore. Theyve uk residence anymore. Theyve been quite vocal as well in the past about, you know, feeling that that was their safe space in the uk, so potentially thats maybe behind this more official, documentation actually stating that , it is documentation actually stating that, it is the usa that that the duke of sussex now considers home. Okay. So firth, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Much indeed. Very good, shes very good, isnt she . Shes very good. She managed to talk 3 minutes or 4 minutes about. Not a lot. Thats about. Not a lot. Thats a professional for you, i tell you. Its also very good about talking for minutes with nothing much to say. Its paul coyte. You know what . Ill take that. Because what i was expecting was from one professional to one whos a complete amateur. No , complete amateur. No, no, no, thats what i was expecting. As if id. As if id. You as if id. You me asif|d. you n as if id. You i was away . So what . It was you missed me, right . Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right, lets have a look at ohanley. See you gloated. Was he on bobsleigh, by was he on the bobsleigh, by the there wasnt him on the the way . There wasnt him on the bobsleigh, was was he bobsleigh . I think he probably was, because then the. Because think they yeah, because i think they have. They go and its have. Oh, and they go and its actually not him. Oh it actually not really him. Oh it might he was probably america might be he was probably america at the time. Yeah. Youve you smug yeah. Youve been you smug this morning. Mainly because im not arsenal. You not because of arsenal. No you are are dancing the newsroom. Thing was not first thing i was not honestly, i was not. Manchester city with city first was starting with manchester this. Manchester city. This is this. Do it without smiling. Do it without smiling. Okay . I cannot warm myself up. Look, its been its difficult the champions difficult because the Champions League teams to league we want english teams to do in the Champions League do well in the Champions League more less. But this is the more or less. But this is the quarterfinal of the Champions League. Play league. Manchester city play real three all real madrid. It was three all after the first leg and now we go into second leg, which go into the second leg, which was at the etihad. You think the hard had been in hard work had been done in madrid, went ahead madrid, but madrid went ahead after minutes and then city after 12 minutes and then city attacked attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked but couldnt get a goal attacked but couldnt get a goal. Kevin de bruyne scores after 76 minutes. So were thinking maybe its going to be okay. But went to extra time then went to penalties. 120 attacks for Manchester City compared to real madrids 19. Compared to real madrids19. Man city had 18 corners to real madrids one, so it gives you an example what the game was like. And then when it came to penalties, Julian Alvarez scored the first one for man city. Luka modric, whos now 76 years old, still playing for real madrid. Still playing for real madrid. He missed. And then were thinking, okay, its looking good. But then two misses Bernardo Silva hits a terrible penalty. See its all the thing about penalties is you know you get oh its a lottery. Its not a lottery because theres a lot in there. Thats how you deal with the situation. And youve got to go up and youve got to think about where youre going to hit the penalty. Dont change your mind. Get in the net back of the net. Thats thats kind of like the main thing of it. But Manchester City didnt do that. Then with, with Bernardo Silva and mateo kovacic, they went forward it was all forward and then it was all oven forward and then it was all over. So real madrid have gone through, unfortunate through, which is unfortunate for go on. Arsenal for arsenal. Yes. Go on. Arsenal were knocked out by Bayern Munich yesterday. Harry kane, playing for Bayern Munich, had a00 well you see that. No no no a00 well you see that. No no no quiet game for harry and arsenal. It was that was cagey. It was a really difficult game. They looked very tired at the end but Bayern Munich came through after the draw at at the emirates. So now Bayern Munich emirates. So now Bayern Munich are through. They will play real madrid in the semi final and weve got the other one as well, which is dortmund versus Paris Saint Germain. How did i do. Yeah, you did very well on that. Actually. You less that. Actually. You were less smiley about us. Im not happy about im not not happy about arsenal out. Arsenal going out. Its good. Its very good. Its very good. Its very good. Its thrilled, should we talk about favourite team, which about my favourite team, which is leverkusen . About my favourite team, which is yes. Leverkusen . About my favourite team, which is yes. I. Everkusen . About my favourite team, which is yes. I knowusen . A big fan about my favourite team, which is bayer. Knowusen . A big fan of bayer. I am, i am a big fan of the german bundesliga. Thats correct, i know. Well, the is, always know that the thing is, i always know that youre a bundesliga specialist, and why you always and thats why you always take us bundesliga. But us back to the bundesliga. But bayer see this. Bayer leverkusen see this. Youre to be torn because youre going to be torn because Bayer Leverkusen playing Bayer Leverkusen are playing west west ham west ham tonight. So west ham are by leverkusen, are two nil down by leverkusen, who only at who won the bundesliga only at the weekend. And usually it was the weekend. And usually it was Bayern Munich. But they won it for 11 years on the trot. Bayer leverkusen have won it completely out of the blue. So they are playing west ham. They havent havent lost all havent won, havent lost all season, its at london season, but its at the london stadium , so we wish west ham stadium, so we wish west ham well, which is in the europa league, and liverpool who league, and also liverpool who are down against are four nil down against atalanta. So who would have atalanta. So who would have thought last week at anfield. So now theyve got to go to italy and try and turn that around in the europa league. And also do you think they can. Well its a big ask. It is a huge ask. But you never know. You never know. But the thing is its all about the coefficient as as you. Well know there ali i do the coefficient which means that team which means that a german team or an team is fifth or an english team is fifth place in the premier league, could get into the Champions League which like league next year, which is like either villa spurs are either aston villa or spurs are you following me so far . No is the answer, the coefficient, the answer, but the coefficient, it basically means which it just basically means which country . Germany or country . Either germany or england do better in europe, and whoever does better by the time we get to the finals will then get an extra place in the Champions League for next year. See, excellent. Oh i see, excellent. Oh i see, excellent. What talking no idea what youre talking about, what . I know about, you know what . I know what talking about it. What im talking about it. Thats all that lost myself thats all that i lost myself halfway through it. Raducanu. Emma raducanu. Emma raducanu. Yeah. Raducanu. Do you yeah. Emma raducanu. Do you know the up. Know what on the up. Really pleased for her. Im really pleased for her. Im really pleased for her. Im really pleased for her. Im pleased for her as well. Because, you know, its all very easy not Emma Raducanu. She easy to not Emma Raducanu. She won she was, won the us open when she was, when was like 18, 12. Yeah, when she was like 18, 12. Yeah, yeah. She was so young and yeah. And she was so young and then so many injuries and everyone thinking, its then so many injuries and evera ne thinking, its then so many injuries and evera flash thinking, its then so many injuries and evera flash the looking and much better for looking good and much better for Emma Raducanu. So really Emma Raducanu. So were really hopeful for and its a she i mean shes picking up a bit of momentum, isnt she . Thats got to be good i mean thats got to be good for the spirit. Yeah i think so. Yeah i mean momentum three it is three. So the momentum is three. Yeah. So the momentum i what youre doing. Youre i see what youre doing. Youre just going that sport just going down that sport momentum arent you. Thats just going down that sport mom youre arent you. Thats just going down that sport mom youre doing. Ent you. Thats what youre doing. I just yeah all yeah i just yeah its all about momentum want to see her about momentum i want to see her do well. Want to see her do well. I want to see her do well. I want to see her do well. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. Me too. I feel like people have been quite harsh towards her. I think so i think so its like, oh, so too i think so its like, oh, well, its just a flushing again. Know, to spend too much you know, to spend too much time youre time modelling. I mean, youre going obviously when going to get obviously when youre going going to get obviously when yo get going going to get obviously when yo get all going going to get obviously when yo get all these going going to get obviously when yo get all these deals. Going going to get obviously when yo get all these deals. Of|oing to get all these deals. Of course we all have that, but we just have to you know, come apart. I dont think you win the us open on a fluke, do you . Anyway, thats just im not tennis thats just me. Im not a tennis expert, youre a youre a bundesliga. I know i cant be everything, do we have time to talk about Ronnie Osullivan . Ronnie i do, yeah, yeah. Ronnie osullivan, World Snooker championship the weekend. Ronnie signed a deal now. Ronnie has signed a deal with arabia. Its three with saudi arabia. Its a three year deal. Theres ronnie there looking isnt he . Yes, looking thrilled, isnt he . Yes, there is. Yeah. So what am i there he is. Yeah. So what am i going to do. Am i going to put the black or am going to put the black or am i going to put the black or am i going to put the pink. Thats the in his the pink. Thats the look in his eye. Anyway, three year deal eye. But anyway, three year deal in saudi arabia. Now this is interesting theres interesting because theres going Ronnie Osullivan going to be a Ronnie Osullivan academy which going to be a Ronnie Osullivan acinteresting which going to be a Ronnie Osullivan acinteresting it . Which is interesting isnt it . Packed. Why yes, im itll be packed. Why yes, im sure it will be. Hes hes. And what this is the quote he says ive given everything to and im everything to snooker and im grateful to be able to give something back. Isnt that lovely of him . To grow the sport in new markets . Its all in his heart. Hes gone to saudi arabia of places. Of all places. We know how much dough there is involved in this. I would have thought be i would have thought hed be doing for wouldnt he . Doing it for free, wouldnt he . Wasnt it for the wasnt he doing it for the goodness of his heart . Its giving back. Its giving back. Its giving back. Its giving back the young its giving back to the young snooker of riyadh to snooker players of riyadh to try and them. Its all about and get them. But its all about growing the sport. But saudi arabia, places. Yeah. Arabia, of all places. Yeah. Well i i mean yeah. Well i dont i mean i dont blame him. Everyone else is you know, it seems that all the sportswashing , it all seems to have gone out the window. Only a couple the window. It was only a couple of years ago that we had rafa nadal or Roger Federer saying, im not going to play tennis in saudi now. Live golf, saudi arabia now. Live golf, tennis, everything, tennis, football, everything, and snooker and now snooker. So now snooker as well. What next . He wants a slice of the pie. He wants a slice of the pie. For those of us who dont have a load of money. Yes. Yes. Richard wilde has been in touch holidays and cheap touch about holidays and cheap holidays because were so cheapest the papers. Cheapest one in the papers. According like best according to which was like best part £900 per person for a part of £900 per person for a week. Richard wilde has been in touch and says you can go to malta for £60 per person per night, half board. Well how are you going to get there . Is that that including flights. You need a flight on top. Thats not bad is it £60. Yeah. Whats the point. Thanks richard for that. Itd be richard likes it. Okay with richard. Okay with richard. Richard let us know how much the flights are looking like. Please. You can be our travel agent morning. Im going to agent this morning. Im going to malta. Agent this morning. Im going to maidude. Agent this morning. Im going to maidudjeez, a plane, if i were you. Ive never been. Im quite excited. Also, malta is on is excited. Also, malta is on is number 10 on the list of the top ten european bargains. When is it . Youre going exactly june. Just for everybody to avoid malta at a certain point. Oh oh, the head. Laughter i know its going to be raucous. You imagine . She ended up can you imagine . She ended up getting deported. What . What . I e i can see, it coming how. Now. They got george cross, dont you. Its malta g. C. Because its the only that has its the only place that has actually a george cross from actually got a george cross from the wall. So its malta gc. Yeah. I did not know that. There you i didnt know that. You go. I didnt know that. Thank you. Paul coyte. Yes absolute pleasure. Thats what im for. What im here for. Hes full of the fun facts isnt hes full of the fun facts isnt one hes full of the fun facts isnt one for you paul. How heres one for you paul. How much would be willing to pay much would you be willing to pay for a cup of coffee, probably. Ive too much. Ill ive paid too much. Ill probably up to about £4. Really . Oh, no. Oh, no. Youd have a heart attack anyway, most anyway, the worlds most expensive landed expensive coffee has landed in britain, apparently. Oh, here we go. Oh, here we go. Its 20 to 7. Lets have a look at some of the newspapers for you. The tories trail labour on defence, tax, migration and brexit. According to a new poll in the mail today , the guardian in the mail today, the guardian says brexit is to blame for uk drug shortage thats putting lives at risk. In the telegraph , lives at risk. In the telegraph, a dozen Police Officers investigating the labour deputy leaders Financial Affairs after she sold her house for a large profit and didnt pay any Capital Gains tax because she says she was living there. She says she was living there. She denies all the allegations. But anyway, that story rumbles on. It certainly does. In the express this morning, the lords have defied the will of the people again, they say, as they send the rwanda asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the he rwanda asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the houseinda asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the house ofa asylum bill back people again, they say, as they se the house of commons. Yill back to the house of commons. Better watch out and you better watch out because big cats do walk among us, according to the star. But its okay because if you gently chat to a wild puma, itll be all right. Yes. Dont run stroking under the chin. Yeah. Dont run is what i read this morning, which is very good. Yeah you have to just treat it like timmy. Yeah, just chat to it like timmy. Exactly. Chat to it like timmy. Okay. Y. Chat to it like timmy. Okay. Well joining now is okay. Well joining us now is psychotherapist Lucy Beresford and political commentator Andy Williams. Good to see you both this morning. And andy, lets start with the front page of the mail shall we. The tories trailing labour on defence, tax, migration, brexit even the migration, brexit and even the nhs everything. Nhs on everything. Yeah theres poll that yeah, theres a new poll that shows on every single vital shows that on every single vital issue, as they put it, labour lead the conservatives only 8 of people are satisfied with the government , even on government, even on traditionally strong tory areas like defence, like brexit, like managing government debt, labour our lead. Labour leads 35, 35 ahead on the nhs. They are ahead on every single thing. So it makes pretty grim reading. Its like on defence. Yeah, i mean it is it is disturbing for the tories on what traditional tory topics 15 trust the tories, 22 trust laboun trust the tories, 22 trust labour, 42 say i wouldnt trust either. So its hardly a, you either. So its hardly a, you know, a ringing endorsement. I think thats right. Its not a ringing endorsement. And the other thing i would say to caveat this poll is that it is conducted by lord ashcroft. He does have a of trying to does have a habit of trying to undermine sunak. I think, undermine rishi sunak. I think, lets be honest, thats the purpose of this poll. But to not purpose of this poll. But to not be leading on any area whatsoever , even on those whatsoever, even on those traditional and also this isnt an outlier poll that you know, most of the polling for the last two years. Dont think tories have i dont think the tories have been on any published poll been ahead on any published poll for over two years. And the problem with this is that it sets the narrative. You have a sense, which is that actually the conservatives cant do anything the anything right. And the only the only psychological issue is if a number of voters think, oh, well, actually its not worth me voting then, because its obviously going to a labour obviously going to be a labour landslide therefore i dont landslide and therefore i dont have vote. Thats the only have to vote. So thats the only thing labour might to thing that labour might have to consider all these polls consider. If all of these polls are saying the same thing, whats impact to be on whats the impact going to be on actual day . Actual polling day . Yeah, interesting british values. Now what i mean, how do you define british values, who whose values and general outlook on life do you think are closer to those of the British Public as a whole . Conservatives 13. Labour whole . Conservatives 13. Labour party 31. 42 say neither or nehhen party 31. 42 say neither or neither. Thats great. Thats thats interesting. Yeah. Thats interesting. Yeah. Theres a great poll the other day and maybe ill find it for the next hour where they looked at, who would you trust most to do things like put up a shelf, do you most like to go shelf, or do you most like to go to the pub with, or who would you trust to cook the roast you trust to cook the best roast dinner out rishi sunak and dinner out of rishi sunak and keir and Keir Starmer Keir starmer and keir starmer loving all of as well. So loving all of those as well. So there we are. Thats the thats there we are. Thats the thats the real quiz. As they say in the real quiz. As they say in the office. Wouldnt trust either i wouldnt trust either of them put a shelf, would you . Not be perfect . Not be perfect . No. Neither of them look particularly like good shelf putter uppers. Is that need leading the is that you need leading the country. Thats what doesnt m atter. Matter. Yeah, i think i think youre right. I think youre right. But i judge that same poll i cant judge that same poll rishi top for rishi sunak, came out on top for helping save money he helping you save money that he would where to go to get would know where to go to get a bargain or Something Like that. Yeah, sounds about right. Bargain or Something Like that. Yaneah, sounds about right. Bargain or Something Like that. Yaneah, yeah,ids about right. Bargain or Something Like that. Yaneah, yeah, lucy, out right. Bargain or Something Like that. Yaneah, yeah, lucy, the right. Yeah, yeah, lucy, the guardian this morning, looking at brexit is getting at brexit. Brexit is getting a bit of hammering and a lot of bit of a hammering and a lot of the papers actually today. But this is about drug shortages in the uk, i think theres been a bit of a mix up at the guardian, between causation and correlation that actually what theyre saying is that there is truly a deficit in the number of drugs that we can get hold of, particularly for things like adhd. Some epilepsy drugs speak to any woman over the age of 50 whos been struggling to get hrt. That has been a problem, but it has also been a problem in other European Countries as well. And as the guardian points out in their article, the adhd shortage been since shortage has been only since last year and we actually left the eu in 2020. So the idea that this is all down to brexit isnt accurate, right . But it does beg the question what do we do about it . Because you say the adhd one is hugely problematic, actually, for a lot of people who are suddenly finding youre not even meant to just immediately come off some of these drugs and that their suppliers just stop, or a lot of gps are not prescribing them because they know that theyre not available. And that, again, that that has been the case for about 12 months. Paul rees, the chief executive the National Executive of the National Pharmacy said that pharmacy association, said that more this idea more worryingly, is this idea that shortages of that actually shortages of medicine is what were getting used to. Its the new normal. Used to. Its the new normal. But i would stress that actually isnt uk wide problem, isnt just a uk wide problem, its actually across europe as well, thats to do with all well, and thats to do with all sorts things supply sorts of things like supply chains china, supply chains chains from china, supply chains from , sort of balkan states and from, sort of balkan states and also just, i suppose more people being prescribed these, these drugs, which is very tricky. Yeah. Yeah. Andy, what do you make of it . Andy, what do you make of it . Well, i think, you know, the Nuffield Trust are concerned about this. The Epilepsy Society are concerned about this. The National Pharmacy association are about this. So are concerned about this. So there obviously an issue there is obviously an issue whether or not brexit to blame. You who knows. Yeah. Its you know who knows. Yeah. Its a Start Licensing manufacture over here or generics or here or things or generics or whatever we need to do because its not right , potholes. A e its not right, potholes. A e making the times again , the what making the times again, the what the hs2 cash with billions upon billions were saving by not building hs2 past birmingham, so it should be used to sort out the roads apparently. Yes. So last autumn, 8. 3 yes. So last autumn, 8. 3 billion of money that had been earmarked for hs2 was diverted to , tackling potholes, which to, tackling potholes, which i think a lot of people would , think a lot of people would, welcome, because it is one of the issues that actually most bothers people day to day in their lives, but only 300 million so far has been allocated to actually doing anything, which leaves £8 billion to be spent. And it says that the times says that that money is going to be spent over an 11 year period. Well, presumably we havent got that. Money isnt just sitting in bank account, is sitting in a bank account, is it . Mean, you know, its no it . I mean, you know, its no but years, i mean, who who is but 11 years, i mean, who who is driving down to the end of their road every morning and going, oh , look to that being , i look forward to that being resolved ten years. Resolved in ten years. Not how it works. Thats not how it works. Thats not how it works. So, you know, thats not how it works. No but its frustrating for people. Its frustrating for people when theyre driving down a road and have dodge all of and they have to dodge all of these potholes. Yes, but been told. Yes, but theyve been told. Yes, but theyve been told. If youre saying over an but if youre saying over an 11 its fixing 11 year period its about fixing the now then the issues now and then maintaining the roads for 11 years . Absolutely. Cynic , thats not but you old cynic, thats not how the government has positioned it, though, is it . The government said no. The government said last autumn we are giving £8. 3 billion to tackling potholes over the next ten years. Thats not how they put it. That was in the small print. Print. How do we know were in an Election Year . Because were talking about potholes . Oh yeah. It gets down to the real basics. Its what People Councils have budgets that end up kind of running until the end of march. So in a new council so were in a new Council Budgetary framework. Every Single Council should make that a priority if they want their local council. Weve got a local elections in two weeks time. Yeah. Get down onto those roads. Yeah. Get down onto those roads. Get digging. Oh, heck. Two weeks today. Two weeks today. Yeah. Were going to be busy. Lucy, this ones a bit of a worry, isnt it . In the times, photo booths install panic buttons for women who need to call for help. No, but this is a really good thing. So basically what theyre saying is, is that its another initiative to try to find some safe spaces where women who are at risk have the opportunity to be able to seek help. So youve probably heard of the idea ask for angela. You go into clive, it gets a bit confusing though. Who should i ask for exactly . Am i saying the right name . But in in the sort of toilet cubicles in in bars, in pubs, in hospitals, you can often see a sign on the back door saying if youre in danger and you need to somehow tell us, use this phrase. And whats happening here, particularly in italy. They trialled this. They called them pink booths , but i hope them pink booths, but i hope actually that doesnt. I hope they dont change the look of these booths, because you want them to look as anonymous as possible. But its the idea is that if youre a woman and youre in danger , you can go youre in danger, you can go into those booths, press a particular button, and actually get through to a helpline so get put through to a helpline so that actually say , im that you can actually say, im in danger. I cant use my phone. My in danger. I cant use my phone. My partner is theres coercive control and theyre trying to control and theyre trying to control please can you help . Control me. Please can you help . So actually its a great initiative. Good thing how common a problem is it . Unfortunately, its a very big problem. And it got worse dunng big problem. And it got worse during covid. It got worse dunng during covid. It got worse during the lockdowns. And also there are so many the cost of living really does actually exacerbate things like this, because financial worries can make partners very , very kind of make partners very, very kind of escalate the abuse. So and unfortunately it doesnt get talked about enough because people feel so ashamed. They feel that they ought to be Strong Enough to walk away from a particular relationship, that perhaps they that somehow theyre to blame and theyre not theyre to blame and theyre not theyre not to blame. The way in which the coercive control reduces your sense of self worth and diminishes you crushes your spirit. So i think we need anything we can do to help women in this predicament, because actually, i know first hand that its that its a really its a really big issue. Really big issue. Yeah, its a great initiative, andy, lets have a look at Wind Turbines, shall we . Apparently to be taller apparently going to be taller than shard. Than the shard. Yeah. This is a German Company thats proposing to build Wind Turbines that are up to 365 metre tall. Theyre planning to build a thousand of them in the south of germany. Wow. So anybody who doesnt like the look of Wind Turbines. And i know its a common complaint. People think theyre ugly. People think theyre ugly. People think theyre eyesores. People think theyre eyesores. Theyre not ugly. Theyre not ugly. I dont think they quite like them. I quite like them. So maybe ill bavaria, where ill move to bavaria, where therell thousand. Maybe therell be a thousand. Maybe you should. By 2030, you can sit and watch them out of window. Watch them out of your window. I its quite soothing. I think its quite soothing. I think its quite soothing. And you think i look. And you think i look. Agree, and i i would agree, and i look, i know people the idea of onshore. Is yeah. Onshore. Is it. Yeah. Onshore. Onshore wind. Yeah. Onshore wind. Yeah. Onshore wind. And people dont stuff being dont like new stuff being built. That. But dont like new stuff being built. That. But in terms built. I get that. But in terms of power generation, its they look better than a power station. They look better than all blooming pylons all the blooming pylons everywhere the rest of everywhere and all the rest of it. Got to do something. It. Ive got to do something. So, and this is quite i think so, and this is quite smart because not only is it is it wind, but also there are solar panels on these turbines. Oh double whammy oh really . Its a double whammy that solar that is quite Getting Solar Energy so i think its energy as well. So i think its quite smart. But the idea that you of thousand you have sort of a thousand shard height or higher shard height buildings or higher in one place is quite, quite startling, but presume theres lots of space in the south of germany . Yes. Is loud . Is it loud . Is it loud . Andy . I have no idea. Andy . I have no idea. Is it . Is it . Is it . I imagine it would be a thousand of them. Are they all just in the same field then . Presumably like a forest, a forest, a forest of turbines . It might be quite a nice sight, actually. Seeing them all together like that. I dont know, something. Know, youd hear something. Even if its not i think so, even if its not the local bird population. No. No. Theyre going avoiding theyre going to be avoiding that plague. That like the plague. Ever stood have you ever stood underneath one, no. Oh, you do. Oh, you should do. Oh, you should do. Are you allowed to. Its. Are you allowed to. Its. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Its oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Its phenomenal because although obviously long obviously the blades are a long way you you, if way off from you when you, if you up and look right up you stand up and look right up like that, it it does feel like that, it does it does feel like that, it does it does feel like theyre just heading for you. You doing standing what are you doing standing under sort of. Me under the wind meet me under the wind turbine 6 00. Meet me under the wind turioh, 6 00. Meet me under the wind turioh, 6have do. If youre oh, you have to do. If youre a northerner. Its fascinating. But no, its fascinating. But no, its fascinating. Do you can tell us . Do you can tell us . Well, you hear them, but well, you can hear them, but its not loud. Loud . No. Just like a whoosh. Loud . No. Just like a whoosh. Whoosh. Loud . No. Just like a whoosh. Thats h. Loud . No. Just like a whoosh. Thats right, gentle thats right, a gentle whoosh, lucy, lots of middle class smoking. Class young women smoking. No, i just the idea for a just love the idea for a professional service. Yes, yes, its too late. Actually, my thesis on you already. Oh. Yes. Middle class young oh. Yes. Middle class young women are taking up smoking. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Researchers are really confused by this because , as we confused by this because, as we all know, that smoking is bad for your health. But it just seems that there is a cohort of women who are not only continuing smoking despite all of the health risks, but they are it in a really are doing it in a really interesting way. Theyre using roll than theyre roll ups more than theyre smoking cigarettes, and smoking normal cigarettes, and what theyve often said to the researchers is that its something to do with actually mitigating anxiety that you might have in social situations, which is really interesting because smoking is really an aural gratification. Its about the way in which you soothe yourself orally. But if youre also fiddling around with the bits and bobs that are that you have to do to roll up your cigarette, i have never done it. Clearly. I think thats really obvious, that actually it gives your hands something to do, which is why mobile phones have also become part of our kind of, toolkit for managing our anxiety, because it gives our hands as well as our eyes and brains, something they should roll up something else, shouldnt they . Thats healthy. Thats healthy. Paper . Like some paper . Like some paper . Yes just roll up paper. Not. Yes just roll up paper. Its very bad for you to smoke. Its very bad for you to smoke. Well it is, its paper, but its got tobacco stuffed in it. Thats bad, isnt it . Well, thats bad, isnt it . Its a bad thing. Weve got to say. Obliged say that. Say. We are obliged to say that. Youre born after well, if youre born after 2009, you never be allowed 2009, you will never be allowed to it. No. So there we are, to do it. No. So there we are, look, weve just got time to squeeze in a coffee. Youll take me a coffee after work, me for a coffee after work, andy, £265 for a coffee in mayfair. No, not every all about. Not everywhere in mayfair, but at this specific coffee bar. Its called shot. A small, dimly lit coffee bar decked with marble walls and tables in mayfair, the worlds most expensive coffee for £265. Is that for like an espresso . Its like a shot. Is it £265 a shot . Yes it is. No. And it is needle. Well, its orange and gold or something. Its from japan. And apparently japanese coffee is very rare, which explains why its so expensive. But i mean, i love it with an espresso. Love it with an espresso. Please. Absolutely. Well, were were. No you are. No you are. Thatll be how much is that . £530. I mean, really, no , it is £530. I mean, really, no, it is astonishing. I mean £4 for a coffee in london these days. Youre kind of nudging the £4 mark, but 265. Yeah. Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous. Its a little bit too much. Whos buying that . I dont people with more money than sense, obviously. Clearly. Clearly. I know it sounds horrible, but i hope this company goes out of business. Yeah, its just so charitable. Disgusting charitable. Its disgusting though. It . Andy. Though. That, isnt it . Andy. Lucy, thank you very much indeed. Very much. Lets have a look weather now with aidan. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching Northern Ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where itll feel pleasantly warm. 15, perhaps 16 pleasantly warm. 15, perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and that rain wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday. Areas of cloud moving south. Some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. The wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and therell be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. Showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. Elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Away. Good morning to you. Its 7 00 on thursday, the 18th of april. Today, another scandal hits the tory party as the mp mark menzies loses the whip over claims he misused Campaign Funds i us rishi sunak cant afford another headache. But thats exactly what hes got with mark menzies losing the whip. Find out more with me very soon. The prince of wales will today return to official public dufies today return to official public duties for the First Time Since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis. Well, travel carnage continues in dubai as flash flooding devastates the city. We spoke to one british expat earlier on. Unfortunately , some people unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties, some peoples homes have been flooded. It really has been a very scary time for us all here. Law enforcement bust an illegal website used by cyber criminals to defraud thousands of uk victims. 70 Asylum Seekers are moved out of a former raf base after major safety risks emerge. Major safety risks emerge. 70 residents of former raf wethersfield are now back in Expensive Hotels over fears due to contamination and unexploded ordnance. Ill have the details with smoking set to be banned for those born after 2009 over health risks, were asking is it time for the government to get tougher on alcohol too . Well be debating that shortly. And in the sport , in the and in the sport, in the Champions League, Manchester City are knocked out on penalties to real madrid , whilst penalties to real madrid, whilst arsenal lose to Bayern Munich. Now, with the olympics in paris this year, nobody wants the Commonwealth Games in 2026, so glasgow could be the answer. And glasgow could be the answer. And personally, as sport pastimes and fashion specialist here gbnews, ill be combining all three with olympic Opening Ceremony clothing. Ceremony clothing. Its a beautiful start out there for many places and theres more sunshine to come this weekend , but before that this weekend, but before that happens, there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on gb news is. The expensive coffee we were talking about a minute ago. £265 per shot. Its in mayfair in london. I mean, who is going to buy it . Well, frankly , who . Buy it . Well, frankly, who . I was thinking of you because when we went to a coffee shop, which we probably shouldnt name. No, but close to here, it was. How much for coffees . It was for coffees. We went it was for coffees. We went with paul coyte and his daughter and think 2 or 3 of you had and i think 2 or 3 of you had like a croissant or something, and it was about £38. And you, you almost had a heart attack. I almost died, and its literally, its literally just like a little coffee shop and bakery and the coffee comes out like this, doesnt it . Yeah. Yeah. I mean, pastry comes out like this. I wasnt even paying. I wasnt even paying. I wasnt even paying. No, i wasnt paul coyte was paying no, i wasnt paul coyte was paying paul coyte. I mean, i nearly died paul coyte i had to pick him up off the floor. It was about £38. Oh, paul paul coyte more paul coyte. Thats a difficult thing to say. Its a disgrace. Its a disgrace. Its a disgrace. I know it is. I know it is. Its an absolute disgrace. Anyway, £265 for a shot of coffee. I mean, that takes the biscuit, doesnt it, ben purdy . Hi ben says the nhs hierarchy, we drinking it to hierarchy, we are drinking it to reduce yeah. Good. Reduce stress, yeah. Very good. Yeah yeah. John andrews has said, has ellie brought any cookies or ellie brought you any cookies or cake today, steve. No, no its not. No, no its not. No, no its not. No, no. And earlier on we were talking about smoking and young women taking up smoking. And to i had say smoking is bad. Dont do it, david. Davids been in touch. Said if gb presenters are obliged to say smoking is bad then its all about the nanny state winning the day. There are certain guidelines that you cant promote things which are known to be bad. Why . There are warnings on cigarette packets. Everybody knows its bad, what you cant do is bad, but what you cant do is promote it as a thing. So im just its just got cover just its just got to cover our backs. There rules and regs, backs. There are rules and regs, whether like them or not. Whether you like them or not. Youve got to be there. I mean, it makes sense in a way you cant sort of you dont know whos watching. Kids are watching. Got youve got watching. Youve got youve got to just, also been talking to just, weve also been talking about travel destinations. About cheap travel destinations. Some of greek apparently some of the greek islands are the cheapest places to according to to go this year, according to which been in touch, which marys been in touch, saying malta. She just moved back from malta after 11 years. Its full of Building Work and cranes. Its cheap for a reason. Be very careful where you stay. Be very careful where you stay. Greedy developers have spoilt it, she well, maybe thats it, she says. Well, maybe thats why cheap for sure. Why its cheap for sure. We talk about wind and we talk about Wind Turbines in the papers as well. They look in germany, building ones shard, a ones higher than the shard, a thousand paul farrow thousand of them, paul farrow says. Ive heard this says. And ive heard this before. I mean, ijust dont know how true it is. Wind turbines. Turbines are not eco friendly. They use vast amounts friendly. They use vast amounts of oil for lubrication and maintenance. Yes. Plus, he says, maintenance. Yes. Plus, he says, we have nowhere to store the energy thats produced. Energy storage is a big problem and theres all these claims that it would take a wind turbine a decade or something to recoup the amount of carbon thats used in their manufacture. Theres all this sort of thing. Its the same with batteries for electric cars and all the rest of it. How you balance all that out into doing something which is actually sustainable, i dont know, i dont know. So there you know, i dont know. So there you go. The know, i dont know. So there you go. The oil for lubrication, maybe they use eco oil i dont know, its a pathway isnt it . You do wonder how. You do wonder how. Because i tell you what. Because all the electric cars and all the rest of it, you know, all well and good. All fine. But you see, you see, if you see mcdonalds trucks on the motorway, they all say were dnven motorway, they all say were driven using eco diesel oil. Yeah. Yeah. Biofuel and biofuel from the from the fat that they use to fry your chips and chicken. And i saw something the other day saying it was being powered by food waste. And cow manure , food waste. And cow manure, apparently. So if you can do all of this to fuel lorries and cars and things, why arent we doing it with our Wind Turbines . And doesnt the king have a car that he runs on cheese and wine, or have i made that up . Not cheese. I dont think its cheese. Wine though. Wine, wine dont have. You wine, wine i dont have. You should the line. I dont should hold the line. I dont think ive millom more cheese in the engine. Add the cheese. Add the cheese. It is cheese and wine. It is cheese and wine. Exactly. Prince charles reveals his car runs on cheese and wine. His car runs on cheese and wine. I retain this sort of information. I was used to. I was used to. Well, just cheese stew. Well, i cant, i dont run it. Shove a slice in. Yeah, he says white wine and way, way, oh cheese way. Way, way, oh cheese way. The cheese process. The cheese process. Oh, there you go. Oh, there you go. I had the right idea. Someone said, oh, i had the right idea. Someone said on social media, this is in the guardian. I hope he drives carefully. Yes, very carefully. Oh very good. So he does technically cheese and wine. Run it on cheese and wine. What a waste of cheese and wine. Though, to be fair, maybe its the waste products of cheese and wine. Yeah thats fine actually, im getting out another batch, another champagne. Another bottle of champagne. Oh, yeah. Dear. Oh, yeah. Dear. Oh, yeah. No, hes probably got the money to do that, hasnt it . But theres all these sort of things that we can do, right. And bio diesel. Im all, you know, wine. Youre all for it. It works well. Let us know your thoughts. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Im still getting on that. Yeah. Well done. Yeah. Well remembered, right. Yeah. Well done. Yeah. Well remembered, right. Lets kick remembered, right. Lets kick off with the news. Which is bad news for the government again, because theres another scandal hitting the tory party. The mp mark menzies has lost the party whip over the alleged misuse of Campaign Funds. Now it is quite a complex story. This one. Yeah it is. Number 10. Have launched an investigation into the matter. Menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the house of commons, hes issued a statement saying i dispute the allegations put to me. Saying i dispute the allegations put to me. Ive saying i dispute the allegations put to me. Ive complied with put to me. Ive complied with all the rules for declarations , all the rules for declarations, as theres an investigation ongoing, i wont comment any further. Well, were joined now by our Political Correspondent , olivia Political Correspondent, olivia utley. As we were just saying, libya, this is a little bit complicated. So you can explain all of this to us, but it is essentially another scandal to hit the tory party in an Election Year. And its a real headache for rishi sunak, isnt it . It . It definitely is. And it has the whiff of quite a big scandal. It is complicated, but what it boils down to is that mark menzies used £14,000 of money donated to the conservative party ringfenced, obviously for use in campaigning for his own personal use. Thats the allegation that the Times Newspaper has made today. There newspaper has made today. There is also an allegation that mark menzies called his former Campaign Manager, a 78 year old woman, in the middle of the night, three in the morning and asked her to transfer him £5,000 from Campaign Funds. She didnt, from Campaign Funds. She didnt, and in the morning he asked for it to be transferred, from, from his new Campaign Manager, and she did indeed transfer it. His new Campaign Manager, and she did indeed transfer it. Now, she did indeed transfer it. Now, its not clear if he was being blackmailed, but i think that is the suggestion at the moment. Altogether this amounts to tens of thousands of pounds. And what makes this particularly worrying for rishi sunak and for the conservative party is that the allegations were actually made three months ago, but until today, the story hasnt broken. And obviously mark menzies has only just been stripped of the conservative whip. Why has it taken so long . Theres going to be a lot of questions for simon hart, the chief whip, and for the Prime Minister himself. For the Prime Minister himself. For the time being, though, it is very bad news for rishi sunak. Hes already lost six conservative mps , quite a lot of conservative mps, quite a lot of them, through scandals most recently have caused a William Wragg he cant really afford wragg and he cant really afford to be haemorrhaging mps in the run up to a general election. Okay, olivia , thanks very okay, olivia, thanks very much indeed. Well, the conservative party have also issued a statement saying the conservative party is investigating allegations made regarding a member of parliament. This process is rightfully confidential. The party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them. Them. Now the home office has been forced to move Asylum Seekers out of a former raf base in essex after safety concerns were raised about the site. Well, our reporter ray addison is there for us now. Good to see you this morning, ray, and tell us more. Ray, and tell us more. Well, its interesting, isnt it, because this site was assessed as safe and fit for purpose by the home office, just a matter of ten months ago. And now, of course, after theyve ten months after theyve moved in a reported seven vie Asylum Seekers have been moved out and back into those Expensive Hotels that we know the government is very keen to stop using. Now. Why have they gone . Well, of course, those safety risks have been raised. Concerns over the potential for radiological contamination and, very worryingly, particularly for the residents inside unexploded ordnance as well. Now this former raf airbase is currently being used as one of the home offices largest mass accommodation sites. It can accommodation sites. It can accommodate up to 800 people. However, they wont tell us exactly how many people are here at the moment, but they exactly how many people are here at the moment , but they received at the moment, but they received planning permission to use this site for three years and they got that last month. They got a special Development Order or an sdo, which circumvented , council sdo, which circumvented, Council Planning permission. And there were concerns raised in this sdo at the time, of risks of contamination from gases, radiological contamination , and radiological contamination, and that unexploded ordnance, ordnance that weve been talking about as well. Of course, its not the only site where weve had this problem, raf scampton as well, in lincolnshire, that was expected to open this month but has been reportedly, been delayed now until june. Now, ive been here for about an hour this morning, and i did get the chance to have a quick , chance to have a quick, conversation as they were walking off with a couple of residents here this morning. Heres what they had to say. Another quick chat. No, no. Another quick chat. No, no. Are you guys worried about the contamination on the site . Where contamination on the site . Where are you off to . Yeah where are you going . Working. Oh, what job do you have . Well, its interesting there. I dont know if you sort of hard to work out. I was trying to figure out if they said they were going walking or working. It sounded like working. Ive listened back to it a couple of times now. Of course, Asylum Seekers, their claims seekers, having their claims processed not allowed processed are not allowed to work, there be some work, so there might be some questions there. A home questions raised there. A Home Office Said Office Spokesman said wethersfield for asylum wethersfield is safe for Asylum Seekers, were working seekers, and were working at pace ensure abide by the pace to ensure we abide by the conditions special conditions in the special Development Home Development Order. The home secretary, know , has been secretary, we know, has been ordered initiate a programme ordered to initiate a programme of intrusive ground investigations to assess contamination. Who knows . As that process continues, its possible we may see more residents here having to be moved back into hotels. I also reached out to Braintree District Council, Graham Butland is the leader and he said that the council has written to the home office requesting urgent copies of all the relevant technical documents and plans under the sdo to support their duty in safeguarding the interests of the local community. Okay, ray addison, thank you very much indeed. Very much indeed. Well, in response, the home office has had this to say. We have always been clear the use of asylum hotels is unacceptable, which is why we moved Asylum Seekers to former military sites, which we ensure a safe to accommodate Asylum Seekers prior to use. Well, or seekers prior to use. Well, or perhaps not in this case. I mean, unexploded ordnance are heck beggars belief. It really does. Now, dozens of suspected cyber fraudsters have been arrested across the uk after authorities brought down an illegal website used by thousands of criminals to defraud victims worldwide. Well, police have identified at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone as sophisticated online enablers train criminals to set up fake websites to scam victims into handing over their personal details. Mark white has the details. Mark white has the story across the uk. Dozens of suspected cyber criminals had a rude awakening as Law Enforcement here and around the globe moved in to smash a multi Million Pound onune smash a multi Million Pound online scam that defrauded many thousands of victims. Multiple thousands of victims. Multiple addresses were raided and some suspects were pulled off flights at manchester and luton airports. You have been identified as inaya in lab host, an online phishing platform which allows users to set up fraudulent websites in order to impersonate onune websites in order to impersonate Online Services such as banking. This is now the front page greeting any would be cyber criminal trying to access the services of this illegal online site. The website lab host is site. The website lab host is part of a hugely worrying development in cybercrime. It development in cybercrime. It aimed to provide an easy, step by step guide on how to download and use fake sites your page has installed and youre ready to spam. Make sure to check that it works before starting your spam. Stay safe and good spamming unsuspecting members of the public would then believe those sites were pages from legitimate businesses like banks and retailers. All with the aim of phishing, of fooling victims into revealing personal details which would be used to commit fraud. Fraud. And there are unfortunately many enabling services to fraud. However, together with our Law Enforcement partners, we are tackling them to take out an enabler means that we are able to take it out at source, and this , we hope, will send out this, we hope, will send out a message to those using Similar Services that we can get their data and we will be onto them. Law enforcement have identified at least 70,000 victims of this latest cyber scam in the uk alone. The lab host site made more than £1 million from 2000 criminals who subscribed to download its services. Those attempting to access the site now are faced with a bit of online trolling from Law Enforcement. Youve targeted victims all around the world. The police. There may not be too happy with you. Think carefully about where you. Think carefully about where you. Think carefully about where you go on holiday next. That was your 2023 lab host wrapped lab host is dead now with that illegal site now infiltrated and disrupted by authorities , dozens disrupted by authorities, dozens of those it was training and equipping in the art of cyber fraud are in Police Custody and likely facing prosecution. Mark white, gb news. Mark white, gb news. Now theres chaos in the United Arab Emirates as thousands of uk travellers are struggling to get home. Never mind the people who live there. Yeah, after all this dreadful weather and flash flooding closed the airport and theres just roads, absolutely flooded cars abandoned and everything. Its been horrific. It really has. It really has. Well, the airport has urged passengers to stay away unless absolutely necessary. After it was hit with more than a years worth of rainfall in the space of 24 hours, one man has lost his life as a result of the bad weather. And earlier we spoke to british expat kyrees bryant. British expat kyrees bryant. Oh my goodness, it has been chaos. Indeed. Weve seen so much happening in 24 hours. I think were still in shock. The roads have been flooded , cars roads have been flooded, cars are still stranded in the streets, you can see the aftermath of blown down, signs and boards all over the city. Fortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. Some peoples homes have been flooded. It really has been a very scary time for us all here. Kyrees how have you been affected as your apartment been flooded . Have you been able to get out and about . Oh goodness me. In the words of batten down the hatches , we of batten down the hatches, we was closing the windows and doors with all of our force barricading ourselves in with towels, its safe to say some of the older apartments in dubai have not been built for this weather. So we have a very big laundry bill, coming our way for the towels and blankets used to stop the rain from coming in. I mean, presumably somewhere like dubai just isnt built for this. Hasnt got the, i dont know, even the sort of the drainage to deal with this level of rainfall in such a short amount of time. Correct. I mean, we are in the middle of the desert, and the middle of the desert, and the Sewage Systems have been thought about. Its something that a lot of people have researched. But you must researched. But you must remember, if its not going to be filled with water, it will be filled with sand. So we have to have a compromise. We was never expecting this type rainfall. Expecting this type of rainfall. Its over years since its been over 75 years since weve had rainfall in the weve had such rainfall in the uae and 75 years ago. What you see now was just a vision , just see now was just a vision, just a dream. And what the authoritys been telling you there. I mean, were heanng telling you there. I mean, were hearing about the airport there and the disruption to people trying to get out, but what advice are you being given . The advice weve been given from our local authorities, has been to stay safe and stay indoors for as long as possible , indoors for as long as possible, to stock up on all utensils and foods just to make sure you are safe. If you are trapped anywhere , and also just to kind anywhere, and also just to kind of look out for one another as well. Well, talking there about the horrendous weather in dubai, do you let us know if youve been affected by that . By the way, if youve been out there on holiday or know, that have or you know, people that have been know. Wed love been do let us know. Wed love to to you. Actually, gb to talk to you. Actually, gb views tell me gb news gbnews. Com yoursay. Thats it, but least we can say the but at least we can say the weather be bit weather here might be a bit miserable, as miserable, but its nothing as bad weve been seeing in bad as what weve been seeing in dubal bad as what weve been seeing in dubai. Mcgivern has dubai. Aidan mcgivern has all the details. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers. Sponsors of weather on gb news is. Weather on gb news is. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching Northern Ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it will feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and with the wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday. Areas of cloud moving south. Some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. The wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and therell be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. Showers by the as well. Showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. Elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Now dont miss out on your chance to win a £10,000 greek cruise, a Luxury Travel bundle and a whopping £10,000 in tax free cash. Yes, its our biggest prize of the year so far, and heres how it could all be yours with thanks to variety cruises, a Family Company sailing since 1942, you have the chance to win a £10,000 seven night small boat cruise for two with flights, meals, excursions and drinks included. Youll be able to choose from any one of their 2025 greek adventures and explore greece like never before. Plus, youll also win £10,000 in tax free cash to make your summer sizzle, and well pack you off with these Luxury Travel gifts for another chance to win a prize worth over £20,000. Text win to 63232. Text cost £2 plus one Standard Network rate message , Standard Network rate message, or post your name and number to gb04, p0 or post your name and number to gb04, po box 8690. Derby dh1 nine, double two uk only entrance must be 18 or over. Lines closed at 5 pm. On the 26th of april. Full terms and Privacy Notice gbnews com forward slash win please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Watching on demand. Good luck. You can do it. Yeah, i was just i was just going to say though for that, for those of you who you know, i mean its very, very fancy prize, that one. Most of us havent got that sort of money. However looking after money and have after your money and we have been talking scams today. Been talking about scams today. Christophers touch. Hi christophers been in touch. Hi christopher. I was christopher. He says i was scammed yesterday on facebook. Oh, bank did their job oh, but my bank did theirjob and stopped the transaction. Well good good for you. Thank. The banks are good when they do that sort of thing, so there you go. So loads of you getting in touch as well. A whole host of different issues. Gb news communist tonys been in touch. Lee. Drake. Oh. Morning, lee. Very good, pat stedman, loads of you getting in touch. So were reading through all of them . Yes. Do keep them coming in. And youll also have an opinion on this one. Should there be stricter rules on alcohol. Were going to be discussing that next. Welcome back to breakfast. The time is 7 28. Now, smoking is said to be bad for those born after 2009. And critics have pointed out the negative impacts that drinking can also have on your health. Yeah, well, of course, if youre over 18, you can buy and dnnk youre over 18, you can buy and drink alcohol, we know that. So were asking should the government get tougher on drinking now . Well, joining us now is the owner of the sanden, kate stewart and the author of im never drinking again. Dom mcgregor. Good to see you mcgregor. Very good to see you both. I think its quite clear which side of the debate both of you sit on. Kate, lets start with you, shall we . Do you think that the government needs to get stricter with alcohol . Thing is, with alcohol, the thing is, with alcohol, its been around forever for absolute first pub was absolute ever. The first pub was established and pubs established in 1947 and pubs bnng established in 1947 and pubs bring £100 billion revenue into the economy every single year. The Hospitality Industry employs 3. 5 Million People. Its like everything. Everything is good everything. Everything is good in moderation and you know , we in moderation and you know, we need pubs. During lockdown, people were craving to be together and thats what pubs are for. They offer socialising, they offer coming together and we need them in this country. Its hard to argue against that isnt it . Mean, so that dom, isnt it . I mean, so how i mean how would you how do i mean how would you regulate alcohol more in your with without damaging an industry , i kind of, really industry, i kind of, really disagree with the fact that the only way people can get together is at pubs. You know, theres plenty of ways people can spend time together, healthier time together, and healthier time together, and healthier time spent together time can be spent together rather being centred rather than being centred on alcohol, just because alcohol, and just because somethings been around since for doesnt mean its for 500 years doesnt mean its the do, you know, the right thing to do, you know, we more insights more we get more insights and more data and the world data on things, and the world changes a little bit, and we wake up to these, issues that alcohol faces, alcohol is already the trajectory already on the same trajectory as anyway, people as smoking. Anyway, young people arent pubs are arent doing it, pubs are closing record rates, so , i closing at record rates, so, i think from my perspective, when were taking a step back. Forgive me. Don, pubs are closing at record rates. Thats absolutely. Its not because people dont want to drink, is it . Its because theyre buying it . Its because theyre buying it elsewhere. It elsewhere. Yeah, thats obviously true. But we take a step and but if we take a step back and watch, actually but if we take a step back and watch, about actually but if we take a step back and watch, about here actually but if we take a step back and watch, about here is actually but if we take a step back and watch, about here is anactually talking about here is an addictive drug. Which costs lives and is highly addictive. And, all the data points to alcohol dependency, not just addiction as a killer. Okay, kate, what do you say to that . Its addictive, and it costs lives. So the thing is, its like everything, isnt it . So if people are not drinking in pubs, if youre drinking in a pub, youve got a public and a licensee there to say, were not serving more, youve had serving you no more, youve had enough. Home, you can to enough. At home, you can go to supermarkets, you can buy as much you want and you much alcohol as you want and you can much as you want. I can drink as much as you want. I also cic, which is recovery also own, cic, which is Recovery Housing whove housing for people whove suffered so suffered from addiction. So i see sides it. The people see both sides of it. The people who Service Users who live in my properties, they live by pubs. It doesnt bother them. They know addiction know theyve got an addiction on. The know theyve got an addiction on. The thing that has to be doneis on. The thing that has to be done is that people need educating. So when youve had enough, enough. But as i enough, its enough. But as i said in a pub, there is someone there to say, no, youve had enough. The there to say, no, youve had enough. The doors closed, you can sit in your house and drink all night. No one stops you. We need pubs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Im not disagreeing about having places for people to come together, but when we look at alcohol, what alcohol is, its an emotional reaction. How people , live their lives. And people, live their lives. And weve marketing which is weve got marketing which is pushing connection pushing emotional connection with and with alcohol constantly, and people will drink in pubs, but also people will then hide their addiction as much as they can at home. And, its actually not the pubs thats the issue. Its the alcohol in general, where we have drinking from young have people drinking from young ages and increasing the chance of dependency up 50 by the of dependency up to 50 by the time 21, 22 years old. Time the 21, 22 years old. But what about free choice dom . You know, and i, you know, i dont drink anymore. I used to i dont drink anymore. I used to you used to love a drink. I dont drink any more. I had a dnnk dont drink any more. I had a drink for 20 years. However, i wouldnt want to stop other people from having a drink if they enjoy it. Weve got. Weve got a right to make our own decisions, havent we . 100. And i think that im actually against the banning of anything. You know, were all old to make own old enough to make our own choices , but when weve got the choices, but when weve got the amount and we take the betting as similar when weve as a similar example, when weve got amount of money spent in got the amount of money spent in marketing, these marketing, pushing these products constantly 24 products to people constantly 24 seven, reason people seven, theres no reason people fall form addictions in these spaces. We look at spaces. So when we look at strict, around strict, stricter laws around alcohol, has to alcohol, it for me it has to look at the marketing of it, but also access to it from, different times and different ages. I think scotland have introduced lot regulations introduced a lot of regulations which actually quite good which are actually quite good for people. What do you make of kate, what do you make of that . Think as well it is if i just think as well it is if youve got an addictive personality, you arent going to get that from anyway, it doesnt stop. No way. Were talking about people who consume far too much alcohol. Yes, people need much alcohol. Yes, people need educating, and maybe there should be stipulations on the advertising advertising to young people. The age restriction is people. The age restriction is 18 and should stay 18, and i just think it is all based on education, but fundamentally its peoples choice whether they drink or not. And theres absolutely millions of people outside the uk who do drink in moderation. And drink correctly. Yeah, i think the one thing i would say about the education piece is its very difficult to educate people 1819 year old and they dont know actually the full of things. By full impact of things. And by the time actually theyve been drinking one two years, they drinking for one two years, they could youve one eighth of issues. Youve got one eighth of people been proven to people who have been proven to have gene which is leaning have a gene which is leaning towards were towards addiction. So were speaking i think thats speaking about, i think thats what 5 Million People potentially the could potentially in the uk who could face the face addiction problems in the future. Unfortunately, future. And unfortunately, sometimes thats already hardwired by the time they get to 18 years old. Well, maybe so, maybe so. And ive got sympathies with people like that. I just think its just its the big brother element of it all. Yeah. Isnt it i dont know. Anyway, look, don mcgregor, thank you very much indeed. See you, kate indeed. Good to see you, kate stewart. Always stewart. Delighted its always good, we someone good, kate, when we have someone with northwest accent on, with a northwest accent on, im saying more. Love it saying no more. But i love it because it reminds me of being back up home. Hey, im north west as well. Oh, there you go. Well, there you go. Youve got two of you then for the price of one. Two for the price of one. Two for the price of one. We cant eat you overly clearly in the here in the studio, dom. But i didnt pick up on that. But thank you, so there you go. Its like a northwest here. Yeah northwest fiesta here. Yeah drinking yes. Drinking and not drinking. Yes. Whichever. Actually, i whichever you fancy. Actually, i do people need drink in do think people need to drink in moderation. Do not overdo it, moderation. I do not overdo it, but, you cant. Moderation. I do not overdo it, but, you cant. You cant be big but, you cant. You cant be big brother over it all. Yeah, nanny. Statism of it all. Statism of it all. Youve got to. Youve got to let people make their own decisions. We know its harmful, dont we . Just like we know junk food is harmful or. Yeah, its got to do it, you know, in moderation. Know, all in moderation. Thats we were saying. Thats what we were saying. Thats what we were saying. As, steve miller would and as, steve miller would say from a former families presenter. A little bit of presenter. Yeah, a little bit of what fancy you good. What you fancy does you good. He does say that. Oh, he does say that. Oh, he does say that. He does say that hes not a northerner. Is the theres theme this is the theres the theme anyway. Anywhere. Anyway. Look, dont go anywhere. Weve sport heading your weve got all sport heading your way a minute with paul way in just a minute with paul coyte. Welcome back. Its time to go through all of the latest sports news. Paul coyte is here with us. Us. Us. Hello . Hello, hello. Wait. Hello . Hello, hello. Wait. Hello . Hello, hello. Wait. Where should we start . Should we go with. Start with the football Champions League last night. I think we should. Yes. I think we should. Yes. Okay. Arsenal. We want to mention arsenal. Arsenal . Arsenal out the champions arsenal are out of the Champions League. Theyre beaten bayern league. Theyre beaten by Bayern Munich, stadium munich, at the Allianz Stadium last night. Munich, at the Allianz Stadium last night. So munich, at the Allianz Stadium last night. So unfortunately last night. So unfortunately arsenal are out. They could have made it the semi final. You made it to the semi final. You know it was such a good game at the emirates and then theyve gone to munich and lost one gone over to munich and lost one nil and so anyway thats all over for them. Manchester city against real madrid again this was another game that was hanging in the balance, real madrid ahead early. Madrid went ahead very early. Thenit madrid went ahead very early. Then it was just all Manchester City just surging forward, surging forward. Could they get that goal . They finally did. 76 minutes Kevin De Bruyne to minutes Kevin De Bruyne went to extra time. Went to penalties. The dreaded penalties which i say dreaded. Theyre only say dreaded. Theyre only dreaded if you lose. If you win, its fantastic. At penalty its fantastic. At penalty shootout Bernardo Silva, youd expect to score. Probably expect him to score. Probably one of the worst penalties ive ever just at the ever seen. Just straight at the keepen ever seen. Just straight at the keeper. Little loopy donkey keeper. A little loopy donkey drop straight into the keepers hands. I think its a donkey drop, i dont know. Yes. Never heard of one of those. No its just like that. Itsjust just just like that. Its just just so straight to him. Its just like it was just like, there you go. And hes like, there you go. And hes like, oh, thanks very much. It was like, what you thinking, was like, what are you thinking, matteo that was saved Matteo Kovacic that was saved as well. So thats it. Its out for their the champions and its all over so Bayern Munich over for them. So Bayern Munich will play madrid in one will now play real madrid in one semi final. Then weve got semi final. And then weve got borussia will Borussia Dortmund who will play Paris Saint Germain other Paris Saint Germain in the other semi final. Do still have semi final. But we do still have engush semi final. But we do still have english teams in the europa league, just about league, right . Just about hanging on liverpool, who lost four nil against atalanta. Four nil against atalanta. Theyve got to play over in italy so thats tonight. So you know what do you think theres a chance. Well three nil four nil deficit for. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thats no. Thats no. Well basically they turned over when they were losing three nil to real madrid. This was a few years ago but i dont know. Its going to be tough over there. And then youve got west ham. We wish them well who are playing ellies favourite team. Who are Bayer Leverkusen in the bundesliga . In the bundesliga, they used to call them Bayer Leverkusen because they never win the title and they now have. And now theyre doing great. And now theyre doing great. Dont know why they did i dont know why they did because i know where the because i dont know where the never actually a german word , never is actually a german word, but thats what they did call them. West them. But theyre playing west ham nil up. Ham tonight. Theyre two nil up. So west ham nil down so if west ham were two nil down west are. So hopefully west west ham are. So hopefully west ham that over. And ham can turn that over. And aston villa playing lille in the conference. Right. Which aston villa playing lille in the conferenthe right. Which aston villa playing lille in the conferenthe fashion. � |ich actually the fashion. I think we should do yeah i think we should do a bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. Olympic fashion. Bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. It. Ympic fashion. Bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. It is. Pic fashion. Bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. It is. Iic fashion. Bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. It is. I mean ion. Bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. It is. I mean it1. Bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. It is. I mean it is, it is bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. Parisi mean it is, it is bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. Paris olympics. S, it is bit of fashion. Olympic fashion. Paris olympics. If it is not the paris olympics. If its not fashionable theres going to be a i so should we look at i agree. So should we look at what what parisians, the what what parisians, what the french to be wearing french are going to be wearing for Opening Ceremony, thats for the Opening Ceremony, thats all. Through it, all. Ill talk you through it, its bellucci. Theyre its designer bellucci. Theyre the wool suit with coloured the Navy Wool Suit with coloured silk lapel, tuxedo inspired outfit using noble materials and patina effects. You know what patina effects. You know what patina effects. You know what patina effects are . No, its kind of like a little metallic. Reflective effect. Oh, is that whats on the colour . Thats thats it. Thats thats it. I just like that. I just like that. Well, it looks like a magicians outfit. Do you think so . I like it, i rather like it. So the whole the shoes. Oh, no, i like the shoes. Yes. Yes. All right. The blazers horrific. Like you dont like it. No. Like you dont like it. No. Red and blue motif inspired by the french flag. Women will have a cutaway sleeve. The trainers are dreadful, too. So there we are. Okay. Oh, youre in the french team, youre not in the french team, then, it . Then, isnt it . No, i think, what about america . Should we go to usa . Oh, yeah. Theyre wearing. Oh, dread. Oh, no. Ralph lauren, you know ralph lauren. Its got usa written oh, its got usa written a stitched on in to too. Its the classic preppy looks. Its the classic preppy loo oh love that. Oh i love that. Oh i love that. Thats nice. Thats nice. Sporty and stylish designs. And red, white and blue made with consideration with a thoughtful consideration of manufacturing of material and manufacturing choices. That 19 i choices. No, i like that 19 i like that look. Thats not oh i like that. Oh id buy that myself. No see all the time though. Is it just its been is it just like its been bought out of a shop . Yeah. Which is why i like Tommy Hilfiger or whatever its called. Yeah. So. So what do we think then. So for the french one, you like the french like the french one . French one . I like the french one. Not mad . Youre not mad . Youre not mad . Of you know the us. Both of you know the us. Both of you know the us. You go with the american. You go with the american. Thats lovely. Thats lovely. Thats lovely. That is all right. Well, in that case, i will go with australia have australia and canada. Well have a oh, yeah, look a look at those. Oh, yeah, look at those. Yeah. At those. Yeah yeah. I think the usa one will be tough to beat. Okay. Give throw it out there. Give throw it out there. Now theyve just pulled a jumper denim jacket jumper on and a denim jacket i mean theres a denim jacket. Yeah. E 9 theyre the type yeah. Theyre the type that lovely. Theyre the type that would the jumper or the would wear the jumper or the sweater. Theyd around sweater. Theyd tie it around their like no. Their neck. Oh its like oh no. You your socks around your you tie your socks around your ankles. No thats a good look ankles. No no thats a good look for you. Got to wear it. Thats a good look. Thats a good look. Yeah. Its preppy costello yeah. Oh its preppy costello and afterwards. And you can keep it afterwards. Multiple use you know its multiple use you know youre ivy league i know youre so ivy league i know i dont even know what that means. No, i know, but i like the sound of it. I like i honestly, i like it. I honestly, i dont when we clash over dont like it when we clash over things. P can have the things. Can have the ugly no, you can have the ugly french one and ill have the ralph lauren. I dont want to dress the same. No, no, i dont want to dress the same. Although do every day. Although we do every day. Although we do every day. I just say can i just say im disappointed in you . Can i just say im disappc disappointed can i just say im disappcdisappointed in can i just say im disappc disappointed in you. Im disappointed in you. Youre poor. In youre very poor. Taste in olympic fashion. Youre very poor. Taste in olywell,fashion. Youre very poor. Taste in olywell,fasit on. Youre very poor. Taste in olywell,fasit makes it better, well, if it makes it better, im disappointed of you. Thanks very much oh, thanks very much indeed. Oh, thanks very much indeed. Thanks, dad. Thanks, dad. Right. Well later right. Well see paul later with more fashion news, still to come. Jeff. Jeff. Jeff. Jeff from what come. Jeff. Jeff. Jthatleff from what come. Jeff. Jeff. Jthatleff called m what come. Jeff. Jeff. Jthatleff called m vclothes was that show called the clothes show . Yeah, show . The clothes show. Yeah, yeah, pet shop boys, the theme no. Pet shop boys, the theme tune that. Right. Very tune to that. Thats right. Very good. Oh, thats going back about now. You had about 40 years now. Have you had to renew Car Insurance to renew your Car Insurance recently . Its very recently . Because its very expensive. Telling me breaking news. Extortionate. Its crazy. Anyway, well talk about it in the papers in just a moment. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse you. Excuse you. Excuse you. Excuse me, i do apologise, time for the papers this morning with political commentator Andy Williams and psychotherapist lucy , who thinks shes Lucy Beresford, who thinks shes having a Group Session here this morning with us. We might need it. We might need it. We might need it. Andy, we might need it. Andy, lets have a look at the times. Should we . Tory mp scandal . Yeah. So i mean were getting excuse me. Very used to these. Another, mp , scandal. I think another, mp, scandal. I think the really interesting thing here is that the conservatives won a majority of 80 in 2019, and theyve lost so many mps thats now down to 49. I mean, there are now 18 independent mps because so many people have been suspended or have lost the whip. So this is just another the latest in a long line of people who have, come a cropper. And its another headache for rishi sunak. Well, so were going to be a little bit careful what we say, but theres a lot of questions to be answered about this one. But anyway. All right, lets move swiftly on then to lucy and, rishi sunak banning smoking for anyone born after 2009. Weve been asking about alcohol this morning. Weve been asking about alcohol this morning. Apparently he this morning. Apparently he wants to go for phones next. It is interesting that his legacy could very well be about the things that he banned, rather than the things that he built, the things that he created. But nevertheless, some research of parents suggested that 83 of them felt that smartphones were damaging and harmful to their children. Now, you could argue if youre the parent, its up to you as to whether you get a phone for your kid. But so many parents dont want their child to be the only one in the classroom that doesnt you know, doesnt have, you know, i remember days when you were remember the days when you were the didnt the only person that didnt watch for you know, watch itv for example, you know, if had super strict parents. If you had super strict parents. So there is that peer pressure. But is a book by jonathan but there is a book by jonathan haidt. Hes a psychologist. Rishi sunak apparently is telling everyone to read this book, and its talking about how smartphones have basically almost rewired brains almost rewired the brains of children. Children. And we know from the acas thats true. Yes, absolutely. Well, it its had the effect on adults as well in terms of attention span, in terms of the way in which you seek affirmation and the diminished moment of your life that actually you, you , you are that actually you, you, you are engaged with people who wouldnt know you if they passed you in the street. And do have the street. And do they have their interests heart . Their best interests at heart . And report in and the cass report in particular, last week highlighted how poor the highlighted just how poor the Mental Health is, particularly for women. And what for young women. And what jonathan haights book really emphasises how women are, emphasises is how women are, particularly on platforms like Instagram Tiktok , which are instagram or tiktok, which are way more visual that actually thats really affecting women and young girls in their body, their body confidence. So so absolutely, i would applaud banning smartphones. For anyone under the age of 16. I just think i cannot see any rationale for a child needing a phone banning smartphones or banning social media, banning banning smartphones in general, because there are all sorts of things that you can have on phones like games. And it is interesting. There some research out there was some research out recently showed that young recently that showed that young men are less likely to have an injury than 50 year old men, and obviously that used to be reversed because young boys would go out and climb trees and they would, you know, do really physical things. But now theyre just sitting at home on their phones and thats not healthy. Were breeding were were breeding a generation of people who dont have the social skills to function in adult life. And it would be it would be affected by banning smartphones. All right. All right. You can see with teenagers, cant you . I mean, when im talking to teenagers in my family, for example, they wouldnt pick the wouldnt want to pick up the phone doctors phone to make a doctors appointment wouldnt appointment or they wouldnt want ring a family member. Want to ring a family member. Its almost lost, isnt it . Its almost been lost, isnt it . Because its all instantaneous messaging, whatsapp because its all instantaneous mesyeah,], whatsapp because its all instantaneous mesyeah,], snapchat,hatsapp and yeah, and snapchat, and theyre obsessed with tiktok. I think im and i mean, i do think im sure we all feel that being on your smartphone is incredibly addictive. You i know that addictive. You i know that i instinctively just reach for my phone, mindlessly scroll, you get lost in twitter and youre sort just wasting time. Sort of just wasting time. I mean, it does. I think were kind of all gripped by it for sure, but it kind of goes back to gratification to the gratification thing. Gratification again, not all gratification at but terms at this time, but just in terms of gratification where of the gratification where everything instantaneous. Everything is instantaneous. Is that sounds that actually the little sounds that actually the little sounds that on your phone when that are made on your phone when you get a Whatsapp Message or when you get a text that actually your brain responds to that positive and that its something positive and therefore really hungry therefore youre really hungry for and weve the for that. And weve lost the skills actually having skills of actually having joy in different skills of actually having joy in diffwell, went down a youtube well, you went down a youtube hole the other day, didnt you . Lost you lose an hour . Hole the other day, didnt you . Los somethinglou lose an hour . Hole the other day, didnt you . Los Something Like ose an hour . Hole the other day, didnt you . Los Something Like that. N hour . Something like that. Something like that. What were you watching . What were you watching . Was little shorts. It was a little shorts. Oh, the where they the little shorts where they just up. Now just keep popping up. And now that people that is addictive. A lot people in little shorts. Thats what i was yeah, the no was going to say. Yeah, the no the little. But its videos. He means. But its videos. He means. But its videos. He means. But you do. And you do end up just getting stuck on that. I know, but i dont use my phone anywhere near as much as i used to. Really. Really. So the man with the phone literally by him. Yes but hes also medical but hes also a medical device because my device because it monitors my blood is blood glucose, which is why i have okay, so there you go. Have it. Okay, so there you go. Youre a lot better on oh, so youre a lot better on your phone, you . Your phone, are you . Yeah, because not really yeah, because im not really going social media, you know. Yeah, because im not really goiihave social media, you know. Yeah, because im not really goiihave you al media, you know. Yeah, because im not really goiihave you deletedi, you know. Yeah, because im not really goiihave you deleted the u know. Yeah, because im not really goiihave you deleted the apps w. Have you deleted the apps from phone . From your phone . Because still post no, because i still post stuff there. Anyways, stuff on there. But anyways, someone else does it. Good. Oh very good. Oh very good. So there you go, people. Hes got people, i have people. So there you go, people. Hes got peop|doi have people. So there you go, people. Hes got peop|doi havforeople. So there you go, people. Hes got peop|doi havfor me . E. What do that for me . What do that for me . Should we talk about andy, should we talk about liz new book . Im so liz trusss new book . Im so glad you asked, has given glad you asked, she has given interviews everywhere, i think, including longer including on spent longer promoting the book than she did in office. She has. Yes, she has. She absolutely has, because she loves nothing more of her own more than the sound of her own voice. And according to the guardians review, i mean, i should say, by the way, its not just the guardian who has panned this book. Its pretty much every single newspaper, including the times yesterday, every single newspaper, inclucfrom he times yesterday, every single newspaper, inclucfrom whoever yesterday, every single newspaper, inclucfrom whoever serialised it apart from whoever serialised it risible hubris, shameless, petulant and cliche ridden , petulant and cliche ridden, yeah, i kept writing. How did you not know in the margins of chapters about her time in office . I mean, this is just im not going to read the book, by the way. I dont not going to read the book, by the way. I dont think i need to. I dont think anyone is number four in amazon. You dont need to read it because so many other people are buying dont whether because so many other people are buying are dont whether because so many other people are buying are going whether because so many other people are buying are going to whether because so many other people are buying are going to wit, her because so many other people are buying are going to wit, but people are going to read it, but they buying it and then they are buying it and then itll the most donated into itll be the most donated into charity 2024. Charity shops in 2024. Have the ring of it does have the ring of £0. 99 sort of petrol station, bargain bin. Yeah. About it doesnt it . One thing doesnt it . I mean, one thing that thought was remarkable that i thought was remarkable about is the, so about this is the, the so you know, youre commissioned to know, you youre commissioned to write book, given an write a book, youre given an advance. Advance she advance. The advance she was given for this book. Could not given for this book. I could not believe it was. Believe how small it was. Know. Do you know. No. Do you know. No. £1,500. Go on. £1,500. Go on. £1,500. Really . Really. Oh, really . Really. Oh, really . Really. 1993, margaret so in 1993, margaret thatchers for her thatchers advance for her memoirs was three, 3. 5 million. In 1993, blair got 4. 6 million. Liz truss 1500. I mean, its embarrassing. Well, yeah. But if she if she gets the sale , shell make the gets the sale, shell make the money anyway. Its only an advance on the money. You would. I mean, look, shes going to be fine for money because shes someone for some someone somewhere for some reason, is paying her 50 grand a p0p reason, is paying her 50 grand a pop to speak about. Really . Goodness knows. What about the disaster . The bonfire of premiership. About the disaster . The bonfire of youremiership. About the disaster . The bonfire of youre notship. Are you, andy . No, im not. No, im not. Shes a shes a shes an embarrassment. Shes an embarrassment. Shes an embarrassment. And actually, i think so than anything think more so than anything about current government, think more so than anything ab0|is current government, think more so than anything ab0|is the current government, think more so than anything ab0|is the person government, think more so than anything ab0|is the person who,nment, think more so than anything ab0|is the person who, whent, think more so than anything ab0|is the person who, when you she is the person who, when you look polling and focus look at polling and focus groups, keeps coming liz groups, it keeps coming up. Liz truss okay, well there you go. You may disagree. Get in touch. Gb views commun or say is the weather. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching northern later in the Northern Ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier many places then but cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england where it will england as well where it will feel warm. 15 perhaps feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind the rain and with the wind and the rain and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. Overnight with the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday. Areas of cloud moving some showers moving south. Some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. The wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and therell be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. Showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. Elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on claims he misused Campaign Funds i a a bizarre story with all sorts of twists and turns and another big headache for rishi sunak. What will happen next . Find out more with me very soon. 70 Asylum Seekers are moved out of an ex raf base after major safety risks emerge. Major safety risks emerge. 70 residents of former raf wethersfield are now back in Expensive Hotels over fears of contaminate and unexploded ordnance. Ill have the details. Ordnance. Ill have the details. The prince of wales will return to official public duties today for the First Time Since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis after three and a half weeks of looking after his wife and children. Prince william is visiting a charity that distributes leftover food to communities who need more shortly. Need it. More detail shortly. Time for a boost to defence spending. While the chancellor , spending. While the chancellor, jeremy hunt, admits that European Countries must step up. Well be speaking to the defence secretary, grant shapps, later this hour. The travel carnage in dubai flash flooding devastates the city. We spoke to a british expat this morning. Unfortunately , some people unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. Some peoples homes have been flooded. It really has been a very scary time for us all here and in the sport this morning. The Champions League is now the premier league less after Manchester City and arsenal both go out. Emma raducanu is on a roll. Shes beaten the former world number one and also were on catwalk with more olympic fashions. Its a beautiful start out there for many places and theres more sunshine to come this weekend, but before that happens there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on. Gb news. Breakfast on. Gb news. And were talking about banning things because obviously smokings being banned or phased out. And weve talked about alcohol this morning. Well should it apply to alcohol phones apparently for teenagers. I dont necessarily disagree with after i think there is a problem there, but youre not happy daryl and Jodie Singleton say ban this, ban that. Stop dictating how we live our lives. I think thats a i mean, its a fair point. We as much as some fair point. We as much as some things need to be controlled to an extent, i dont think we should just be banning everything. And uther says ban getting up in the mornings. If you stay in bed, youre a lot safer. Yeah , well, yeah. Yeah, well, yeah. Yeah, well, yeah. Well, there you go, i think so, i think thats probably a fairly , fairly good point, fairly, fairly good point, actually. And there was some lovely messages about how smart we look this morning, i cant find this morning, but i cant find them so thank you to them now. So thank you to whoever said we looked whoever said that we looked smart are smart this morning. We are making effort and making an effort to try and coordinate. Thank you. Somebody said very good said that wed be very good wedding guests todays wedding guests in todays professional said professional wedding guests said professional wedding guests said professional you professional wedding. Oh, you saw as well . I saw that saw that one as well . I saw that one. So many of them. If we lose our jobs here, if we lose ourjobs here, which, frankly, is looking likely, i should imagine , by our likely, i should imagine, by our performance. Well, yeah, we should set up as professional wedding guests. Yeah. How much would you pay to have us come to your wedding . Let us know. Yeah. Might be might a very Good Opportunity might be a very Good Opportunity for a sideline. That for us to be a sideline. That could be a little hustle. Could be a little side hustle. You know, be up for that. You know, id be up for that. Love a wedding. Just turn up, the food just turn up, eat the food and at people. I know you and smile at people. I know you like a wedding as well, dont you . Getting paid you . Well, if i was getting paid to youd be up for it. To go, youd be up for it. Yeah, were talking about expensive coffee. Apparently, the cup, coffee the most expensive cup, coffee in is australia and in the world is australia and new zealand. Really, yep new zealand. Really, steve . Yep coffee in the uk is just poor quality, but actually more quality, but its actually more expensive in australia and new zealand. Well, not more expensive than that one that has arrived in mayfair now, which is £265 a shot. Yes. Imagine ordering a double espresso and milk. Thatll be £530, please. Yeah. Plus. Plus your milk and sugan plus. Plus your milk and sugar, im sure. Yeah, yeah. Why get free milk , right . Why get free milk, right . I mean, can you imagine . Thats what i cant understand. Im all what i cant understand. Im all for free. Im all for people having loads of money. They earn it or win it or whatever. Fine. Fair enough. But why would you spend that much on coffee . Its more money than sense, isnt it . Coffees expensive enough . Yes isnt it . I saw somewhere in london the other day, actually. Sorry. The albanian, cafe. And they were doing coffee for £1. 50, and i thought, that is incredible. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. There you go. But it is just hot water. But it is just hot water. Well, a little bit coffee beans, but theyre making a great profit on that. Yeah. There you go. Anyway, keep your views coming in on that story or indeed anything that were talking morning or talking about this morning or just where you are and just tell us where you are and what youre to. What youre up to. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Yeah. Now now, our main news this morning and theres another scandal hitting the party. Hitting the tory party. Mp mark has lost the mp mark menzies has lost the party whip over the alleged misuse of Campaign Funds. Yes number 10 have launched an investigation into the matter. Menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the house of commons. Well, he a statement well, he issued a statement saying dispute allegations put saying i dispute allegations put to me. Well go through those in a moment. I fully complied with all the rules for declarations as theres an investigation ongoing. I will not comment further, but it is a complex issue. This one certainly is. Issue. This one certainly is. And to this one certainly is. And to unpackit this one certainly is. And to unpack it all for us is Political Correspondent olivia utley , who is live for us now in utley, who is live for us now in westminster. Very good morning to you, olivia. So another scandal to hit the tory party in. Its a real headache for rishi sunak. Rishi sunak. Well, absolutely. If this investigation proves that mark menzies did what he is alleged to have done, then it will be a huge scandal for the conservative party. I should say straight away. He does dispute all of the allegations. Essentially what hes been accused of is , taking £14,000 of accused of is, taking £14,000 of money donated for a concert, his conservative Party Campaign and using it for his own purposes. In part, it seems to pay some private medical bills. Hes also accused this very, very strange story of calling his former Campaign Manager, a 78 year old woman, at 3 00 in the morning and demanding that she transfer him £5,000 from the Campaign Account into his own personal account into his own personal account because he said he was being held by bad people and needed to pay them £5,000 to be released. This lady would not, transfer the money at 3 00 in the morning. So later in the day , mark menzies rang his Current Campaign manager, a woman called shirley and that shirley green, and asked that she transfer that £6,500. He eventually got the money, but various, tory volunteers had to use their own personal funds , use their own personal funds, apparently to help him out with this claim , obviously, if he is this claim, obviously, if he is found to be guilty of this, then it will be construed as fraud. The problem for rishi sunak is that the conservative party didnt seem to take it very seriously at first. These allegations first emerged three months ago and were only just heanng months ago and were only just hearing about it now. Hearing about it now. Okay . Okay, olivia , for now, okay . Okay, olivia, for now, thanks very much indeed. Well, the conservative party have issued a statement saying theyre investigating allegations regarding allegations made regarding a member of parliament. Its confidential. The party takes confidential. The party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them. Matters put to them. Now, the home office has been forced to move Asylum Seekers out of an raf base in essex after safety concerns were raised about the site. Well, lets talk to our reporter , ray addison, whos reporter, ray addison, whos there for us. So whats the problem with the site . Ray morning to you both. Yes, well, this site was assessed as safe and fit for purpose. Ten safe and fit for purpose. Ten months ago, Asylum Seekers started moving in here. But now we have these major safety concerns. Safety risks have reportedly been identified, including the possibility of radiation on the site and also unexploded ordnance. Whats unexploded ordnance. Whats ordnance . Its artillery shells and things like that. A lot of things that we certainly wouldnt want to suddenly go bang. Now this site is one of the home offices largest Asylum Seeker accommodation locations. Seeker accommodation locations. It has a maximum of 800. Originally, the plan was to have 1700 here, but they decided to reduce that figure and actually its getting quite busy. The longer i stay here today i can see its quite a busy site, a number of vehicles coming and going, plenty of security guards as well, but so far no signs of anything more concerning than that. Anything more concerning than that. Hazmat suits and the like. That. Hazmat suits and the like. Although maybe that is just a matter of time. Last month though, they got planning permission to use this location for three years. They were granted a special Development Order, an sdo , in order to order, an sdo, in order to circumvent Council Planning permission. And there were permission. And there were concerns raised in that sdo about the risk of contamination. And it does appear that some of those risks have now been realised, necessitating at least 73 having been moved back into these Expensive Hotels. Now, earlier on, i got the chance to, shout a few words at a couple of the, residents here as they went on their journey. This is what they had to say. Another quick chat. They had to say. Another quick chat. No, no. Are you guys chat. No, no. Are you guys worried about the contamination on the site . Where are you off on the site . Where are you off to . Yeah where are you going . Working. Oh. What job do you have . Well, braintree district have . Well, Braintree District Council , have . Well, Braintree District Council, were have . Well, Braintree District Council , were offered the chance council, were offered the chance to have an interview. They declined that, but theyve given me a statement. They said theyve to home theyve written to the home office requesting copies office requesting urgent copies of all relevant technical of all the relevant technical documents plans under that documents and plans under that sdo in sdo to support our duty in safeguarding interests of safeguarding the interests of the local community and those living working on the site. Living and working on the site. Okay. Ray addison, thank you very much indeed. Very much indeed. Well, the home office has responded saying, weve always been clear the use of asylum hotels is unacceptable , which is hotels is unacceptable, which is why we moved Asylum Seekers to former military sites, which we ensure a safe to accommodate Asylum Seekers prior to use. But Asylum Seekers prior to use. But if theyre being moved out, oh well, its not safe is it . It cant be, can it . Otherwise, why are you moving them out anyway . Interesting. Now Prince William is to return to official pubuc william is to return to official public duties today for the First Time Since the princess of wales revealed her cancer diagnosis, hes going to visit a surplus Food Distribution charity, followed by a youth centre in london, which benefits from the organisations deliveries. Well , deliveries. Well, were joined now by our royal correspondent, cameron walker. Good to see you this morning, cameron. And its going to be really good to see Prince William today. Yes, it certainly is. We havent seen him for more than three a half actually. Three and a half weeks actually. His george, charlotte his children, george, charlotte and louis were back at school yesterday. Course, this yesterday. Of course, this is the to the first time were going to see the princess of see him since the princess of wales. As you disclosed wales. As you said, disclosed her diagnosis the her cancer diagnosis to the world. So hes taking after his father a bit. King charles launched the coronation food project support Charities Project to support charities feeding disadvantaged communities. Back feeding disadvantaged communities. Back in feeding disadvantaged communities. Back in november, communities. Back in november, Prince William doing something slightly. Hes slightly different. Hes visiting a surplus Food Distribution called distribution charity called surplus to supper in surrey, which distributes over ten tonnes of food per week. Waste wasted food to food banks, schools, care homes, religious organisations and youth centres. So its going to be volunteering there, packaging up the food and then hes going to be taking it to a youth centre in west london. Now Kensington Palace says reducing food waste says that reducing food waste has a considerable number of environmental benefits, including reducing emissions from landfill that contribute to climate change. It also added that protecting the environment for future generations , if one for future generations, if one is one of Prince Williams key priorities, of course he launched earthshot prize in launched his earthshot prize in 2020. Of the categories in 2020. One of the categories in thatis 2020. One of the categories in that is build a waste free world. Yeah, and well, all well and goodis yeah, and well, all well and good is doing something today that he believes in and fine can get the message across. But for most of us were just going to be saying, well, hes back on his feet. Hes you know, hes hes getting on with with the job after what must have been i mean, obviously our hearts go out to catherine, but i mean, it must be an incredibly stressful time for him. It certainly is. And i think theres a burden theres been a huge burden placed on Prince William even before the princess revealed her cancer diagnosis, the speculation around herself and her family was vast and Prince William had to pull out of that Memorial Service for his godfather, King Constantine of greece. The reason i understand greece. The reason i understand is because of kates cancer diagnosis. So it has been a really difficult time for him because he has had to balance his royal duties with his private family as well. And theres been huge pressure for Prince William, i think perhaps to do more public engagements. I think post kates cancer diagnosis, i think the british pubuc diagnosis, i think the British Public and the media and social media trolls did take a step back and give the princess, the prince and her their children the privacy they needed to come to terms with that cancer diagnosis. But this is Prince William keeping calm and carrying getting on with carrying on and getting on with the job, i think. Now post easter break. Cameron , easter break. Okay, cameron, thanks indeed. Thanks very much indeed. Been chaos in the now theres been chaos in the United Arab Emirates as thousands of uk travellers are now struggling to get home after Dubai International airport was closed due to flash flooding. Well, the airport urged passengers to stay away unless absolutely necessary after it was hit with more than a years worth of rainfall in just 24 hours. Well, one man has tragically lost his life as a result of the bad weather earlier. We spoke to one british expat. One british expat. Definitely. Some people are still stuck in their properties. Still stuck in their properties. Some peoples homes have been flooded. It really has been a very scary time for us all here. Well, lets talk to weather journalist nathan rao, who joins us now. Nathan, theres been all this talk about about cloud seeding, which may have caused some of this. Just tell us whats going on, right . Yes. I mean, first of all, this is this is an unprecedented amount of rain that theyve had in the United Arab Emirates , in the United Arab Emirates, which is, of course, a desert, now cloud seeding has been suggested as a possible cause for this deluge. There is some dispute, but cloud seeding is a type of Weather Modification thats used to artificially trigger rain in places where they dont get a lot , rain forms they dont get a lot, rain forms within clouds on tiny , tiny within clouds on tiny, tiny particles called nuclei. That is what a rain droplet is. And these can be salt particles or dust particles. And in places where they dont get a lot of rain, like dubai, like the United Arab Emirates, they go up in planes and they seed these clouds, usually with silver iodide, to form these particles and to encourage the rain to fall. And this is used in places where drought is a problem or to encourage places where irrigation is a problem. The irrigation is a problem. The issue that we have is dubai is a desert and its infrastructure is not used to this amount of rainfall. As you mentioned, theyve had actually a year and a halfs amount of rain in less than a week, and the infrastructure cant cope with it. So there is a dispute now going on about whether this was simply a usual low pressure system. There was, after all, a storm forecast in the area. A storm forecast in the area. A storm was seen coming in, but there was also sightings of cloud seeding drones, cloud seeding planes around the area in the run up to the week, which is being suggested as a cause for this. But there is some dispute over that. Dispute over that. I mean, there is an understanding though, isnt there, that this is unprecedented. This will go down in history. Do unprecedented. This will go down in history. Do you think that dubai should be preparing itself for this to happen again, or do you think this is a one off event . Well my stance is if its happened once, it can always happened once, it can always happen again, if we look at the causes this rain , as weve causes of this rain, as weve suggested, theres, theres been suggestions about cloud seeding. Suggestions about cloud seeding. Theres also been suggestions. Its a normal weather event. But we also the debate we also get into the debate again the changing climate again about the changing climate around the world and our countries all around the world going to start experiencing weather phenomenon that they dont usually get this. I can be very confident in saying is a weather phenomenon that dubai or the United Arab Emirates do not usually get. Dubai usually gets around three inches of rain a yeah around three inches of rain a year. They rely on their water through, seawater desalination and groundwater supplies. Rain is very, very infrequent in dubal is very, very infrequent in dubai, and this is absolutely unprecedented. So should they unprecedented. So should they prepare for more of this to come . Well, i think the chaos that were seeing at the moment, which reveals that they simply are unprepared for rainfall like this, may suggest that it wouldnt be a bad idea to become prepared for it, but its again, that balance of how much rain does dubai get in a year . Only about three inches. Whether the cost would cause , you know, cost it would cause, you know, involve restructure the involve to restructure the infrastructure with rain infrastructure to deal with rain like we have in the uk where we get loads of it. Okay. Nathan rafe, good to see this morning. Thank you see you this morning. Thank you very yeah. Very much indeed, yeah. I mean, its a worry well, i mean, its a worry the amount thats gone down there. Yeah just just a quickie. Just, just in case the bosses are listening at the moment or watching. Gene has been in watching. Gene has been in touch. So, steven, dont joke about losing your job. Gb news about losing yourjob. Gb news would lose viewers if that happened. There you go. Dont get any ideas. Im just saying hes here to stay. Just saying that loud and clear. Good news here. Were going to be here all weekend. Weekend . Yes weekend . Yes so you dont have to miss a thing. Friday saturday, sunday. Yeah friday saturday, sunday. Yeah perfect. Have good perfect. Well have a good time. Hopefully is. Right. Time. Hopefully it is. Right. Shall we see what the weathers going over here . Is aden. Going to do over here . Is aden. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching Northern Ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia , southern midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where itll feel pleasantly warm. 15, perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and that rain wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away , so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers , blustery followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight. With the breeze. Overnight. With the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday. Areas of cloud moving south. Some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. The wind will be feeling cold with that wind. Strongest along the north sea coast, and therell be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. Showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. Elsewhere, brighter spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Now theres still plenty of time to grab your chance to win a greek cruise for two travel goodies and £10,000 tax free Cash Bank Balance boost. Yes, Cash Bank Balance boost. Yes, heres all the details you need. Dont miss your chance to win our biggest prize so far. Theres an incredible £10,000 in tax free cash to spend however you like. Plus, courtesy of variety cruises , is a bespoke variety cruises, is a bespoke seven night small boat cruise for two worth £10,000 with flights, meals, excursions and dnnks flights, meals, excursions and drinks included. Your next houday drinks included. Your next holiday could be on us. Choose any one of their 2025 greek adventures and find your home at sea. Well also send you packing with these Luxury Travel gifts for another chance to win a prize worth over £20,000. Text win to 63232. Text cost £2 plus one Standard Network rate message , or post your name and message, or post your name and number to gb04, po box 8690. Derby dh1 nine, double two uk only entrance must be 18 or oven only entrance must be 18 or over. Lines closed at 5 pm. On the 26th of april. Full terms and Privacy Notice at gbnews. Com win please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Watching on demand. Good luck. You like that music, do you . You like that music, do you . I love the greek. I love the greek. You do know were back on the television . Yes, were back on the television. Youre such a natural mover. Thank you. Youre a natural mover. Dont take the mickey out. Dont take the mickey out. Dont take the mickey out. Can you dance . Ive never. Can you dance . Ive never. No, for not love nor money. No, for not love nor money. Oh, ive never actually been to a party with you. Well, i did invite you to my 30th. You didnt come, did you . No, i didnt go. Where was i . I dont know , oh. I dont know, oh. Had a better clearly. Had a better clearly. Yeah. My cousin was getting married that weekend. I forgive you them. I might forgive you them. I might forgive you them. I might forgive you them. I had to go. So i had to go. So i had to go. You are invited to my wedding though. e very much though. Very much indeed. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much indeed. You be coming to that will you be coming to that one, or will you have a better, better invite elsewhere . Busy. Better invite elsewhere . Yeah, busy. Better invite elsewhere . Yeah, i� usy. Better invite elsewhere . Yeah, i think were busy. Yeah, i think were busy. There. Weve no, well be there. Weve already the the time already taken the book. The time off, you . Off, have you . Well, im very impressed with you. Its miles away, but, you know, its a long way away. Yes, we will there. We will be there. Perfectly. Suitcase. Perfectly. Suitcase. Celebrating. Pushing just celebrating. Pushing her down the aisle. Are you pushing me . Why are you pushing me . Why are you pushing me . Running . Running . Down. Thats nice. Running down. Oh thats nice. Running down. Oh thats nice. Right. Yeah romantic. Thats right. Yeah romantic. Thats right. Yeah romantic. Look we from anyway, look how we go from that to shapps. Anyway, look how we go from that to shapps. I do anyway, look how we go from that to shapps. I do not that to grant shapps. I do not know, but were going to be. To try. Were going to try. Were going to try. Going to be talking to were going to be talking to the secretary in a few the defence secretary in a few minutes, and going to have minutes, and were going to have paul all your sport paul with all your sport as well. Time for the sport this morning with mr paul coyte. Good morning with mr paul coyte. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning to you. The Champions League champions are out of the Champions League. Well, Manchester City, three. We all. It was in that first leg overin all. It was in that first leg over in madrid. Came back to the etihad. Any thinking this you know where they want to know this is where they want to do. Want to play at home do. They want to play at home for second leg and real for the second leg and real madrid scored early. Was madrid scored early. It was a real fight. Man city just kept kept at them. Know it was kept at them. You know it was a wave after wave but managed to get a goal 76th minute with Kevin De Bruyne. Then it went into extra time, went to penalties. Unfortunately it went the way of real madrid and thats thats the way it goes. Well, it is the way it is, the way it goes. Disappointing though. Disappointing and bad news for arsenal as well. Bad news for arsenal as well. Arsenal are out to buy munich. I wonder youve got harry wonder whether youve got Harry Kane Eric dier both kane and eric dier both ex Tottenham Hotspur players. Yeah, bayern yeah, that played for Bayern Munich and they probably quite enjoyed that. They would have enjoyed that. They would have enjoyed probably even more enjoyed that. They would have endbuti probably even more enjoyed that. They would have endbut theirobably even more enjoyed that. They would have endbut the mostly even more enjoyed that. They would have endbut the most important re enjoyed that. They would have endbut the most important thing so. But the most important thing is bayern have been is that Bayern Munich have been pretty this year. I mean, pretty poor this year. I mean, harry kane had a brilliant harry kane has had a brilliant season, as far as as ellie season, but as far as as ellie goes, the bundesliga is concerned. It hasnt been very good because who won the title this year, Bayer Leverkusen by a leverkusen who were known as by leverkusen who were known as by leverkusen by a never kooser. But now they have. So they won the title by munich, have now got the Champions League class. Isnt it just isnt it answers to you by leverkusens manager, whos been tipped for taking over at liverpool . Yes. Xabi alonso , thats yes. Xabi alonso, thats correct. But he said that he wants to stay at Bayer Leverkusen. So all but i wonder i just wonder, you know when liverpool where he played come knocking. Its the same as Bayern Munich. He played for Bayern Munich. He played for Bayern Munich. He played for Bayern Munich as well and theyre both looking for managers summer. So its managers in the summer. So its going take a lot for him to going to take a lot for him to be able to go. Actually, you know what, im going to stay where am because hes where i am because hes performed there. So performed miracles there. So well how go. I did, well see how things go. I did, say goals. Know say for goals. I dont know where but its where that came from, but its only three. Its only three that liverpool to get back liverpool have got to get back against atalanta tonight. So three goal deficit. So three goal deficit. Its a three goal deficit so its a three goal deficit over and in italy. Its over and over in italy. Its very possible theyve done it before against real and before against real madrid. And liverpool great side. They liverpool are a great side. They need to be theyve got to be hungry for that. And early goal. And early goal. You never know how it goes. Its the as west ham. Its the same as west ham. Theyre playing bayer theyre playing at home to Bayer Leverkusen all leverkusen who are unbeaten all season. So theyre two nil down. Season. So theyre two nil down. They need to beat them. And also then it all affects the coefficient and well leave the coefficient and well leave the coefficient for now. And anyway aston villa they go away to france. Theyre playing in lille and they are two nil two one down i should say, in the conference. Oh its all very confusing. Yeah, but its also, you know, were not looking strong, are were not country. Are we . Were not country. Know what is a bit of you know what it is a bit of a worry. I dont think weve always got teams either. In the final semi final and nobody is certain of , of final semi final and nobody is certain of, of moving on. So. So it is a bit of a worry. Should we just tennis with good news. Weve got some good news for you emma. Looks like shes Emma Raducanu. Looks like shes back right. People have been back right. People have been knocking. They have knocked her a lot. They have knocked her a lot. Theres been radacanu knock us for a long time and we are not going to stand for it because i believe in her. So Emma Raducanu beat angelique Emma Raducanu she beat angelique kerber, world number kerber, former world number one in stuttgart one, in the stuttgart open, six one, six she very well, six two. She did very well, third win in a week. So who knows, maybe shes coming back. Do you want to do some fashion . No, are out of time, im afraid. Am i going save this for tomorrow . Yes. You are. Yes. You are. Okay. More olympic fashion i have for you tomorrow. I dont want lose you can only want to lose it. You can only have much of a good thing. Yeah. See you tomorrow. There you 90, see you tomorrow. There you go, paul. You. Coming up, go, paul. Thank you. Coming up, were going be talking to the were going to be talking to the defence good morning. It is 833. In this Election Year , on your election Election Year, on your election channel, everythings everything is highlighted by the election. And of course, that means looking at, not polls, just about whos leading , but also about whos leading, but also about whos leading, but also aboutin about whos leading, but also about in what areas are parties trusted. Lets talk to the defence secretary, grant shapps, who joins us now. Really good to see you this morning, minister, can i you have seen this big spread in the in the mail today. And one of the key points in this is that defence, according to this survey, the general pubuc to this survey, the general public think defence is better left in hands of the labour party than the conservative party. Now that is. Quite party. Now that is. Quite something. You are normally the party trusted on defence. Yes. What is going wrong . I think thats in the context of the wider polling and i saw that which also of that poll which also says, of course, of people dont course, that 45 of people dont want see starmer as prime want to see starmer as Prime Minister. So you can you can take any way you like on take it any way you like on defence, particularly, would defence, particularly, i would say, the obvious say, to point out the obvious keir supported twice keir starmer supported twice jeremy corbyn, who wanted to pull us out of nato and abandon our nuclear defence, so i dont think that it is the case that labour would or could be trusted on defence, not least because they have 11 members of his shadow team who themselves voted against our nuclear deterrent. So i dont think they are credible when it comes to being the party of defence, though it is the backdrop to this, not that you know, we know the armed forces are struggling, we know numbers are down, we know equipment isnt available to a lot of these soldiers. I mean, particularly you look at the number of tanks weve got where people are, you know, theyre really struggling to get hold of tanks. A lot of the household what household divisions and what have mean, this its have you. I mean, this is its hugely problematic. And what were not is anything were not seeing is anything improving under the government. To of take some i have to sort of take some issue with this actually, because apart from anything, im going to see our challenger three tank later today, up in, telford, which is our latest and will be the best tank, best tanksin will be the best tank, best tanks in the, in the world. Were also spending more on defence in cash terms than weve ever spent and increase the spending this year. We are one of only two countries in the world who actually go out and use our defensive ability for example, against the houthis, or even on saturday night, where the fantastic raf were defending israel from those incoming missiles and attacks from drones. So we are prepared to use our armed forces. And of course, its the second biggest one in nato. So we are we are not small or minnows in this. Of course, we can always do more. Im defence secretary. I want us to do more. Were pledged to get to do more. Were pledged to get to 2. 5 when conditions allow, and i want to get to that point. But i think claim that labour but i think to claim that labour are somehow the party of defence when their own shadow foreign secretary voted against trident and their own deputy Prime Minister, angela rayner, voted against trident is, somewhat ridiculous. We dont think that they can be trusted on defence. Of course, its my job to demonstrate that point. Demonstrate that point. I mean, on the topic of spending in defence, the treasury confirmed there would be no increase in defence spending before the general election. I mean, you must be so disappointed by that answer, considering that the threats that seeing from russia, that were seeing from russia, china iran and, as you say, china and iran and, as you say, the events of saturday night, what i think is really important is the kind of direction of travel. And we have already said and the Prime Minister has repeated chancellor as well, we want to get to 2. 5. Well do it when conditions allow us to do it. But in the meantime, i think its probably important to understand we have actually even at this last budget, 1. 8 real terms increase in our defence budget. So, defence secretary, of course, i want to see more money win whatever secretary of state you are, whichever position ive been in in the past, whether its been in transport or in energy or or several others, ive always fought for and i have to say one on budgets for those areas. But the important thing is we do care about defence of the care about the defence of the realm. Understand its the realm. We understand its the first task of government and first task of any government and we have an armed forces, well equipped that we can be proud of in this country. And the proof of the pudding is we are the ones going out and defending freedom of navigation at sea, in the red sea, helping israel in its own defence on saturday night, and many other examples like that where we are ukraine. I mean, no country as president zelenskyy has said to me directly, no country has stepped up, done more, been prepared to give more , in terms of its give more, in terms of its leadership as well as the biggest package ever this year, rishi sunak and myself are given who ukraine bigger than was given under even boris johnson. So, you know, no one should doubt how much were stepping up to help defend in this world, in british interests. Yeah. What about the what about defending the uk in all of this . Its a valid point that people raise, isnt it, because we are providing an awful lot to places like ukraine and we are supporting , putting in the supporting, putting in the defence of israel . Certainly vie to an extent and thats, you know, controversial issue in and of itself for some people , but of itself for some people, but what about the threat here in the uk and how capable we are actually of defending ourselves . Because that seems to be the one part which is , you know, a part which is, you know, a little bit lacking at the moment i well, some of that is because in part we dont , richard tice, in part we dont, richard tice, the reasons of national security, all our layers of defence, some are known about , defence, some are known about, for example, the quick, Quick Reaction that we have through the typhoons constantly available and ready to scramble, but we also have other forms of defence as well. Its islands and other things which i cant go into. Of course, were always wanting, always reviewing this. Ikeep wanting, always reviewing this. I keep a very close eye on what else we could be doing. The big difference between, say, the United Kingdom and israel that was recently attacked is the uk is in nato. And article five of nato says that if one country is attacked, then the 31 others all immediately come to its assistance. And its one of the reasons the nato countries dont tend to be attacked. In fact, never attacked , because of this. Never attacked, because of this. So, it does mean that there we have an additional layer of protection, even over and above the immediate, physically obvious protection. But always keep that under review. Always looking to do more, but britain is a force for good when it comes to not only our national defence, the jobs that brings, but also international defence. And i think we should be very proud of our Service Personnel who do a phenomenal job. I think last year we operated if im correct, in 69 Different Countries around the world. Scale of this is perhaps something that most people are not familiar with, on the situation israel and situation between israel and iran, your colleague lord cameron has met with Benjamin Netanyahu , whos made it clear netanyahu, whos made it clear that israel are going to make their decisions in terms of their own decisions in terms of retaliation. Your retaliation. Whats your understanding of what israels response will look like and are you concerned about what this for tat will eventually lead to . Considering the front page of the eye this morning, considering the front page of the eye this morning , the the eye this morning, the advancement of the Iranian Nuclear program in the past few years, i think iran has been worrying for us years. And the nuclear program, we know that the last report out was 83. 7 enriched uranium. Thats incredibly theres no civil use for that. Thats only for a military potential use. And weve just seen what irans done. Theyve just attacked a democratic country in the middle east. Iran themselves are autocratic or theocratic country who say they want to destroy that country. So i dont think that country. So i dont think theres any doubt at all. Iran is bad news. They sponsor, all the three hs, the hamas baluchis, and of course, hezbollah in the middle east. The bad news is, of course, absolutely wrong that israel was attack. Thats why we took part in the defence of israel on saturday night. What weve been saying to israel is we have to be careful here not to get into a spiral simply leads to a further regional conflict or something, if anything. And its important to therefore ensure that the response which we absolutely accept israel is going to make, we understand that. But that it is a response that. But that it is a response thatis that. But that it is a response that is intelligent, well thought through , and that is the thought through, and that is the point weve been making. And i think that israel, is perfectly within her rights to defend herself. If that was the uk herself. If that was the uk attacked by 300 drones, ballistic cruise missiles on saturday night, youd be expecting to us respond as well, if we can, we broaden it out a little bit. I mean, we all understand how politics works to an extent at least. And you know, youve got to get on with your job. Know, youve got to get on with yourjob. Youve got a job to do. Youve got to get on with it. Youve got to plan for what you will do when you win the next election. From your perspective , election. From your perspective, we totally get that. But when you look at all polling, you look at all the polling, when look the fact when you look at the fact theres been another scandal with losing and with mark menzies losing and having to lose the party whip and all that going on, over the last day or so , how do you even last day or so, how do you even begin to deal with that . Because everybody expects now , everyone everybody expects now, everyone with any political nous nous is expecting there to be a Labour Government whenever that election is called. How do you even put forward an argument to try to counter that . Try to counter that . Well, first of all, yeah, i get all my job as defence secretary, defending the realm, making sure this country is safe i but youre right, the politics all continues as well. Id say this i think most people recognise that we have been through extraordinary , difficult through extraordinary, difficult times. Weve had the covid pandemic, weve had this war in europe. Weve now got this conflict in the middle east. All of has big impact, of this stuff has a big impact, not the economy, but not least on the economy, but weve a Prime Minister in weve got a Prime Minister in rishi who has gone out, rishi sunak who has gone out, done right thing, saved done the right thing, saved millions jobs during the millions of jobs during the pandemic , is very good at making pandemic, is very good at making difficult decisions , for difficult decisions, for example, on the Northern Ireland situation, in order to get that resolved. And actually theyll look at him and theyll look at the alternative, keir starmer, who, you know, just last night ordered his lords, his peers in the house of lords to vote again against the rwanda scheme and in doing so has tried to shoot down legislation which is, as far as i can work out, the only solution out there to stop the trade in people in human trafficking, with gangs bringing people across the channel and i dont hear any alternative to that. Dont hear any alternative to that. The in fact, i dont hear any alternative to that. The in fact, i think he i think he is terrified that the rwanda scheme would somehow work. And you know, i dont understand what his alternative is. Easy to snipe from the sidelines. Ive been in politics long enough to know, and i was Party Chairman once for David Cameron in the run up to the 2015 election, where id sit on shows like this and sometimes they graphics up behind me they put graphics up behind me to it impossible to demonstrate it was impossible for us to get an overall majority in 2015. Of course, we know now through history, thats exactly what happened. So you look for all the pundits, for all the commentators who say this all over. All the commentators who say this allover. I all the commentators who say this all over. I would say, this is allover. I would say, dont , dont, dont second guess dont, dont, dont second guess the British Public people actually have their say over it because that same poll you were , because that same poll you were, you know, quoting from at the top of the program, about what people think, also says that 45 of people do not want to see keir starmer, Prime Minister. So i we still in i think we are still in absolutely with the shot, except were underdogs. Accept were the underdogs. I accept that, but i think we have a Better Program on defence and job creation and Everything Else than labour party. And when than the labour party. And when it to actually stopping it comes to actually stopping the they even have the boats, they dont even have a plan. The labour party and a plan. The labour party and they keep voting against it. 119 times counting up until and times and counting up until and including last night in the house of lords. And i think people start to realise labour are not the solution and theyll look again at us and realise weve taken some difficult decisions, but get everything right. Our and right. Were trying our best and i were better news for i think were better news for the future of this country than laboun okay, just before we let you 90, okay, just before we let you go, i wanted to ask you about raf wethersfield in essex. Its an raf base. Asylum seekers have an raf base. Asylum seekers have been moved out of there after safety risks were found, including radiological contamination and unexploded ordnance. I mean , do you have ordnance. I mean, do you have any understanding of what has happened there . Because it happened there . Because it doesnt look good, does it . Weve got the likes of bibby stockholm, which wasnt safe for Asylum Seekers, and now raf wethersfield. I mean, it looks as though accommodation for Asylum Seekers isnt fit for purpose, but first of all, i should just stop it by saying one of the reasons we want to stop this illegal trade in people crossing the channel at the rwanda bill is a very important part of that is to prevent us from needing accommodation in the first place. f thats the first i mean, thats the first thing to say. Secondly although its raf front of it, its got raf in front of it, thats actually office thats actually a home office and obviously and site. Theyve obviously found safety issue found a health and safety issue there. Not familiar with the there. Im not familiar with the details. Ive seen this details. Ive just seen this this morning, theyve this morning, but theyve obviously health and obviously found a health and safety it looks to me safety issue. It looks to me like theyve very quickly like theyve acted very quickly and out of there and moved people out of there whilst that. Whilst they take care of that. But brings me back to the but it brings me back to the point before lets stop the illegal trade in people. Lets pass this rwanda bill. Lets stop messing around as donald was telling his lords to do last night by chucking this out again. So the commons is going to have to go and come back and vote on it. Weve already voted for numerous times, and lets for it numerous times, and lets actually break this illegal chain people brought chain of people being brought here, we wont need here, and then we wont need this accommodation in the first place. Grant shapps as always, to good see you. Thank you for your time today. Thank you very much indeed. Do let us know what you think about anything that grant shapps was saying there. Gbnews. Com yoursay right, were going to take a short well, we can have a quick whip through the papers with political commentator Andy Williams and psychotherapist Lucy Beresford. Good morning to you both. Good morning. Lets talk relationships. Lets talk relationships. Lets talk relationships. Lucy. Lucy. Yes, yes. In south korea , yes, yes. In south korea, women are actually forgoing sex, dating, marriage and children. Dating, marriage and children. Why . And those four words begin with the letter b. So theyre known as the four b generation. Well, i think what this speaks to is the general fluidity of relationships. There this relationships. There was this fantastic research from Ashley Madison which the madison recently, which is the marriage dating website. And they found that there the number of people who are signing up most for that site are not married people at all. They are under 29 and theyre looking for fluid relationships. They dont want commitment. They want they want commitment. They want they want their emotional and their sexual needs met, but they dont want them in a formal relationship. Oh oh, ive had enough. The relationship. Oh oh, ive had enough. The women of south korea, as i say, crack that whip. What do you make of andy . What do you make of andy . Maybe people just think its more hassle than its worth. I dont know, i couldnt possibly say. I think people still want connection. They dont necessarily want long time commitment. Going commitment. And if youre going to live 120, which the gen to live to 120, which the gen z generation are going to, can you see yourself with the same person that you meet when youre 20 . Well, at that age, though, if you dont want a soul mate, you dont want children. Its long time to be in and its a long time to be in and out of casual things, is it not change their mind when theyre 50 . A bit too late. Maybe thats a bit too late. Well, exactly. Well, exactly. Well, theyve done it. Well, theyve done it. Do you think we might move to a where people see a bit a stage where people see a bit like you used to have one like how you used to have one workplace, career,. And now workplace, one career,. And now you have sort of 2 or 3 careers and 5 or 6 workplaces maybe, maybe change. Maybe societal change. And people have 3 or 4 people will just have 3 or 4 long time relationships. Yeah. Portfolio get married next yean portfolio get married next year. Yeah. No, im not talking about myself. Year. Yeah. No, im not talking aboimnyself. Year. Yeah. No, im not talking aboim delighted to be getting im delighted to be getting married to one person forever. I just sort of think married to one person forever. The i just sort of think married to one person forever. The situationships,hink married to one person forever. The situationships, dont its the situationships, dont they . People call them. Oh do they. Yeah, but the divorce rate is maintained at the same level that it always was about. One is the rate. One is the rate. Well its nearly 50 in the western world. And as a result more people are having their second relationships when theyre about 45, 50, 55, and theyve still got 40 years with that other person. So you can have a really durable relationship in your later years. Very fluid. I dont know what to make of it all. No, i dont know either. Let us know what you think. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Andy putting tomato sauce on pizza is an american invention. According to food experts. A new book has suggested that actually, tomato on pizza was an Italian American thing, not an Italian American thing, not an italian thing. Oh, what did they put on it instead . Pesto or something, so it was, a piece of plain focaccia topped with various ingredients, but not a tomato sauce. Oh, its been upgraded then. Oh, its been upgraded then. It has. But, i mean, i mean, ihave it has. But, i mean, i mean, i have to say, i so perhaps controversially, i just think pizza is rubbish. Andy, do i go to. Thats because, you know , thats because, you know, like cheese. I just i like cheese. Ijust i dont like cheese. I just i dont like cheese. And therefore pizza is just for me is a vehicle for cheese. Which is worse food a waste of time. Time. Oh, i had a pizza last night. Did you end of our little holiday. So. Yeah. Get a takeaway. Yeah. Oh how do you feel this morning . How do you feel this morning . Fabulous. Do you not make you feel really thirsty . Oh, yeah. But its worth it. Whoa but its worth it. Whoa love it. Love it. Andy, ive never heard someone say they dont love pizza. No. Sorry sorry. No. Sorry sorry. Yeah. Im sorry. Yeah. Im sorry. No time for that here. No time for that here. No time for that here. No. No. No. Very upsetting. So were going to talk about Car Insurance instead. Yeah. Yeah. So lets talk about something really are really interesting. People are not taking Car Insurance not taking out Car Insurance because cant afford it. Because they cant afford it. Its so expensive. Its so expensive. To have it legally. And to have it legally. And to have it legally. And to have it legally. And the problem. There and thats the problem. There are many people who live in are so many people who live in areas transport links areas where the transport links areas where the transport links are rubbish, so they need are really rubbish, so they need their you if youre a their car. You know, if youre a community you in community nurse, if you work in any kind industry where any kind of industry where youre moving around, you dont necessarily just go to one workplace, but have move workplace, but you have to move around. Your car, around. You might need your car, but afford it. And but you cant afford it. And people not making claims on people are not making claims on their because first of their insurance because first of all, theyll lose their no claims bonus. I mean, my insurance last summer tripled, just tripled and my car is worth less than my insurance. Have you rung them up . Have you rung them up . Have you rung them up . Yeah. Ive changed. Yeah. I mean i definitely went to one of those web comparison sites and got a better deal. I always ring them up and theyll drop it by 50. They just do. And were out of time. Andy. Lucy thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Heres your weather. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching Northern Ireland later in the morning. And then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier places, then cloudier in many places, then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where it will feel pleasantly warm. 15 perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away, so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. Overnight with the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday with areas of cloud moving south. Some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. The wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast , and strongest along the north sea coast, and therell be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. Showers by the afternoon, confined to the east of england. Elsewhere, brighter spells sunshine spells emerging, some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. 9 00. Thursday, the 18th of april. Today, another scandal hits the tory party as the mp, mark menzies loses the whip over claims he misused Campaign Funds. Misused Campaign Funds. A huge headache for rishi sunak as yet another conservative mp loses the whip. What does it mean for his electoral chances . Find out more with me very soon. 70 Asylum Seekers are moved out of an ex raf base after major safety risks emerge. Campaigners at former raf wethersfield say the government ignored their serious safety concerns and now theyre paying the price. Ill have all the details. Details. The prince of wales returns to public duties today for the First Time Since princess catherine revealed her cancer diagnosis, cameron walkers got the latest. Well, after three and a half weeks of looking after his wife and children, Prince William is visiting a charity which distributes leftover food to communities who need it. More details shortly. Details shortly. Travel carnage continues in dubaias travel carnage continues in dubai as flash flooding devastates the city. Earlier, we spoke to one british expat. Spoke to one british expat. Unfortunately, some people are still stuck in their properties. Some peoples homes have been flooded. It really has have been flooded. It really has been a very scary time for us all here. Law enforcement take down an illegal website used by cyber criminals to defraud thousands of uk victims. Well, this marks an alarming new development where tech savvy criminals are teaching others how to trick members of the pubuc how to trick members of the public into handing over sensitive personal details. Sensitive personal details. Its a beautiful start out there for many places , and there for many places, and theres more sunshine to come this weekend. But before that happens , there is some rain to happens, there is some rain to talk about in the forecast coming up shortly. To you. Im stephen morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on. This is breakfast on. Gb news. For those of you getting in touch on Car Insurance, we only mentioned it briefly at the end of the papers. Its because its a disgrace. Its because its a disgrace. Is a disgrace. John sharp it is a disgrace. John sharp says my insurance went up by 160 18, but he did get it cheaper by shopping around. Yeah , see, that didnt work yeah, see, that didnt work for me. Ive just bought bought new Car Insurance. Its tripled in price and my mum did the ringing up for me. Shes good at the bathroom. Oh. Is she. I didnt work. I think they gave us £20 off. I mean, work this time around. I didnt get it. Thats the other thing. You cant really shop around. I didnt get as much off this time. I always ring up and say, no, im paying that. No, no, im not paying that. Usually that works. Yeah. But usually that works. Yeah. But usually that works. Yeah. I mean, i mean, costs have gone up everything, its gone up for everything, but its the people are now the fact that people are now saying, youve saying, because youve got to have its legal have car, its a legal obligation, but people saying theyre claims, which obligation, but people saying th what claims, which obligation, but people saying th what they claims, which obligation, but people saying th what they want. Claims, which obligation, but people saying th what they want. Well,|s, which obligation, but people saying th what they want. Well, they1ich is what they want. Well, they cant to because they cant afford to because they cant afford to because they cant lose the no cant afford to lose the no claims and it going up next year even because youve made even more because youve made a claim. You seem a bit of a con like get insurance. Like that. Get the insurance. But make a claim then you but if you make a claim then you know months time youre know in 12 months time youre going pay the price. Youll going to pay the price. Youll probably pay it all back. Plus some. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Loads of you getting in touch on drinking as well. We had a debate it was debate earlier about it was about smoking about banning of smoking actually it. For actually wasnt it. For if youre after 2009 you wont youre born after 2009 you wont ever smoking. So our question ever be smoking. So our question this was should we ban this morning was should we ban drinking . Should get tough on drinking . Should we get tough on drinking . Should we get tough on drinking as well . Lartey drinking laws as well . Lartey says young not all seem to says our young not all seem to need to have alcohol to have a good time. Good time. Shes in is in the psyche a little bit , which you can little bit, which you can question and criticise but should we really be bringing in more restrictions on it . I dont think so. Some people like a dnnk think so. Some people like a drink el sisi, some whined a bit. I know some people have problems with drink, but if you, you know, youve got to. Weve got to learn how to handle it properly, stewart says. Im a recovering alcoholic. Im two years sober. Its a massive uk and massive problem in the uk and needs addressed, and there needs to be addressed, and there needs to be addressed, and there needs be training for bar and needs to be training for bar and shop workers to know how to shop workers to know how much to serve somebody. And patricia serve somebody. Oh, and patricia says worst thing to help says the worst thing to help drinkers was cheap booze in supermarkets. Should be an supermarkets. That should be an off only. Off licences only. Well, thats not a bad idea. Well, thats not a bad idea. Thats not a bad idea, though. I mean, it all means its going to cost us all more, you know . But maybe instead of coming down on pubs, you come down on cheap booze and supermarkets, i dont know, would you come down to anything all . Let us know to anything at all . Let us know what you think. Your what you think. Keeping your store. Com slash your say. Say dont forget just gonna say dont forget that dont the that last bit. Dont forget the last right, lets have last bit. All right, lets have a at politics you this a look at politics for you this morning. Because theres another Scandal Party scandal hitting the tory party and of their mps, mark and one of their mps, mark menzies, the whip over menzies, has lost the whip over the alleged misuse campaign the alleged misuse of Campaign Funds. The alleged misuse of Campaign Funds. Is a the alleged misuse of Campaign Funds. Is a complex story. This one . Yeah, it certainly is. Number 10 have launched an investigation into the matter. Mark menzies is now no longer a member of the tory party and will sit as an independent mp in the of commons. The house of commons. Lets head to westminster, should our political should we and our Political Correspondent olivia utley. Morning to you, olivia. Break this down a little bit for us because its all about money and weird late night phone calls and being held hostage. Apparently vie. Well, exactly. I mean, its a its a complex and frankly, quite bizarre story that we are heanng quite bizarre story that we are hearing essentially whats alleged to have happened is mark menzies, the conservative mp, one of rishi sunak trade envoys, has apparently used £14,000 worth of tory Campaign Funds for his own personal uses. Now there are various different episodes in which he is accused of embezzling this money. But the most interesting one, perhaps, and the one that the Times Newspaper who broke this story led with, is that he called his former Campaign Manager at 3 00 in the morning and said that he needed her to transfer him £5,000 of Campaign Money because he was being detained in his flat by bad men who wouldnt release him unless he paid them off. The former Campaign Manager refused to pay up, and a bit later in the day , mark menzies later in the day, mark menzies called his Current Campaign manager, now asking for £6,500. Now the details arent quite clear, but what it sounds like happenedis clear, but what it sounds like happened is that mark menzies went on a internet date with a man who took him back to his flat. It might have then mark menzies may have then been sick and someone demanded £5,000 for and someone demanded £5,000 for a clean up. There is also questions swirling, of course, as you would expect about potential blackmail. Whats so potential blackmail. Whats so bad for rishi sunak about this . Apart from the fact that hes lost his seventh mp now . I think it is in in just two years is that the conservative party were informed of these very, very serious allegations three months ago, and yet the story is only just coming to light and menzies has only just lost the whip. Why why was that . I think its going to leave rishi sunak open to allegations that he was too weak to do anything about it. Okay, olivia, for now, thanks very indeed. Very much indeed. Well, the conservative party have also issued a statement. Have also issued a statement. They say the conservative party is investigating allegations made regarding a member of parliament. This process is rightfully confidential. The party takes all allegations seriously and will always investigate any matters put to them. Them. Now the home office has been forced to move Asylum Seekers out of an ex raf base in essex after safety concerns were raised about the site. Raised about the site. Well, our reporter ray addison is there for us and ray, what was wrong with the site . What was wrong with the site . Well, this is looking like a bit of a pr disaster for the home office and the government. Just ten months ago, this site had been assessed as safe and fit for purpose, Asylum Seekers had started to move into it. And now were hearing that 70 have moved back out again and into those Expensive Hotels that the government is very keen to stop housing people in due to the identification of safety risks, namely radiation and unexploded ordnance. Now this is one of the home offices largest accommodation sites for Asylum Seekers. It can house a max of 800 people. Originally the plan was 1700, but locals objected to that and they changed their mind and capped it at 800. We dont know how many people are actually in here because the home office say its not their policy to provide that kind of information, but a maximum of 800. Now, last month, they got planning permission to use it for a further three years. That was through something called a special Development Order that circumvents the permissions from the local council. And there were concerns raised in that sdo about the risk of contamination. And it would appear that those risks have now been realised. Risks have now been realised. And as i said, theres, up to 800 residents behind me. Theyre going about their daily business today. They are allowed to come and go freely. I grabbed a quick word with two as they went down the road. Another quick chat. No, no. Another quick chat. No, no. Are you guys worried about the contamination on the site . Where contamination on the site . Where are you off to . Yeah where are you going . Working. Oh, what job do you have . Do you have . Now, one of the things i thought was interesting about that, short exchange i had there with those two gentlemen was when i asked where they were going. One of them appeared to say that they were heading to off work. And, of course, Asylum Seekers who are waiting to have their claims processed are not allowed work. Were aware of allowed to work. Were aware of that now, Braintree District Council have said that theyve written to the home office requesting urgent copies of all the relevant technical documents and plans for the sdo. Their key emphasis, they say, is safeguarding not just the residents inside this base here, but also those in the local to community ray hudson, thank you very much indeed. Very much indeed. Now, dozens of suspected cyber fraudsters have been arrested across the uk after authorities brought down an illegal website used by thousands of criminals to defraud victims worldwide. Defraud victims worldwide. Well, police have identified at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone. A sophisticated online enablers train criminals to set up fake websites to scam victims into handing over their personal details. Lets talk to our home and security editor mark white, whos been covering all of this. I mean, clearly a sophisticated setup here. Mark, how big an of an operation would it have been to shut this down . Well, it was a huge operation. The Law Enforcement authorities had been infiltrating this particular website for almost a couple of years now , gathering enough in years now, gathering enough in the way of information to be able to move, to bring that site down to and arrest close to 40 suspects in the uk and abroad. It is a very alarming departure, though, in terms of what is happening in cyber fraud, because what youve got effectively are tech savvy criminals , passing on that criminals, passing on that knowledge to those people who would want to commit fraud but perhaps dont have the sort of, technological know how to be able to set up these fake sites to scam people for information. And this , is called lab host. And this, is called lab host. The site, did just that. These criminals would pay a subscription of around 2 or £300, for and that, they would get a step by step instruction on, and fake websites supplied to them. So step by step instructions about to how set up these websites. And the aim of this was all around phishing. This is of course, the task of , this is of course, the task of, trying to convince people that you are a legitimate bank or retailer, and you need the customers details for whatever reason. And of course, it does work. It, people fall for this work. It, people fall for this kind of scam all the time and hand over sensitive details that can be then used to commit fraud, against you. And there are , its estimated at least are, its estimated at least 70,000 victims in the uk alone, many thousands more around the world, and 490 odd thousand, sort of banking details, have been sort of harvested by these criminals. So a very worrying development. And sadly, although this lab host, site has now been interrupted and taken down, there are many other such sites now, springing up. Yeah, it certainly is very alarming. Mark we also understand youve got some breaking news out of germany this morning. Yeah. Details just coming through. And theres a very worrying development tonight out of bavaria in southern germany with reports that two german russian nationals have been arrested by German Federal police, accused of plotting to attack military installations in, in germany with a view to undermine support for the war in ukraine, these two men were arrested. Today by federal police, they had been monitoring their activities. According to German Federal police, one of the men had been meeting regularly since october of last yean regularly since october of last year, with an individual who police have identified as being connected to the russian secret service. And, they had discussed a number of plots, including bomb and firebomb attacks at us bases and also at a base that has been teaching ukrainian Service Personnel how to operate tanks that germany is supplying. Germany has now become , the germany has now become, the second largest supplier of weapons , to ukraine in recent weapons, to ukraine in recent months. So a very worrying development. More details coming in the minutes and hours ahead. Okay, mark, for now, thanks very much indeed. Well, britains newsroom is coming up at 930 this morning. Andrew pierce and Carole Malone are here to tell us all about it. Morning, you two. How are you . Yeah. Were good. How are you . Very well. Whats coming up in the program . We are talking about whats going on in scotland with our kids. Shocking the kids. Shocking story in the front of telegraph today. Front of the telegraph today. Just shocking. This its just shocking. This is this a a group called this is a its a group called the lgbt youth group of scotland. And they had £1 million last year from the scottish and theyre scottish government. And theyre talking as young four talking to kids as young as four and them theyre and asking them if theyre gay, trans lesbian. How do trans or lesbian. I mean, how do they know at four this is just insidious. And this this is hot on the heels of the acas report, who warned caution with with young kids and read gender. And yet are going ahead yet here they are going ahead with it. So theyre going to have a trans champion, an lgbt champion at of four. At the age of four. Unbelievable. I was into jack and and humpty dumpty. And jill and humpty dumpty. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. Well , nor should think. Stop it. Were also. Were also talking to a trans marathon runner whos run as a man, runner whos run as a man, a woman runner whos run as a man, a woman and non binary. Non binary, whatever hes going. What does that mean . Yeah exactly. So and of course, this is all on the back of the culture secretary this week, lucy frazer, saying, this is all this nonsense has to stop. You have to run one either. Yeah, well to run one or either. Yeah, well , well, yes. Men who transition to , to, to, to females, they to, to, to, to females, they cannot enter a race against a woman because theyve got an unfair advantage. Well, some, some sports bodies already have said that. Thats the thing. There are thats the thing. But there are others havent. Football, others who havent. Football, darts im also looking at darts and im also looking at the fallout from rwanda, the house how many more house of lords, how many more times delay times are they going to delay this legislation . As takes. As many as it takes. I suppose thats exactly, but itll it will go next week. But i mean, its supposed to be thats be emergency legislation. Thats what said in what the Prime Minister said in november. Now april. November. But its now april. How can it go if theyre still knocking it back . Well, the end, they have well, in the end, they have to give in because its the elected the commons has elected will of the commons has to has to right to prevail. Okay has to right you too. Well see a little bit later on. Thank you very much indeed to get out because we need to get you out because we need to tell our lovely viewers and listeners about their chance to winyou cant andrew. You cant have it, andrew. £10,000 greek a luxury £10,000 greek cruise, a Luxury Travel bottle and a whopping £10,000 in tax free cash. Yes, its our biggest prize of the year. So far. Yes, its our biggest prize of the year. So fan and heres how could all be yours with how it could all be yours with thanks to variety cruises, a family sailing since Family Company sailing since 1942, you have the chance to win a £10,000 seven night small boat cruise for two with flights, meals , excursions and drinks included. Youll be able to choose from any one of their 2025 greek adventures and explore greece like never before. Plus, youll also win £10,000 in tax free cash to make your summer sizzle, and well pack you off with these Luxury Travel gifts for another chance to win a prize worth over £20,000. Text win to 63232. Text cost £2 plus one Standard Network rate message , Standard Network rate message, or post your name and number to gb04, p0 or post your name and number to gb04, po box 8690. Derby dh1 nine, double two uk only entrants must be 18 or over. Lines closed at 5 pm. On the 26th of april. Full terms and Privacy Notice at gbnews. Com win. Please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck i 921. 921. Now. I 921. Now. Prince 921. Now. Prince william returns to official public dufies returns to official public duties today. For the first time duties today. For the First Time Since catherine revealed her cancer diagnosis. Yes, hes set to visit a surplus Food Distribution charity, followed by a youth centre in london, which benefits from the organisations deliveries. All right, lets talk to our royal correspondent, cameron walker. It is. I have to say, i dont know why, but its going to be lovely to see him out and about and, and sort of getting back to it in a way it will. Yeah. We had a brief appearance from him and his oldest son, Prince George at the football match, the aston villa football match, the aston villa football match, the aston villa football match week, but football match last week, but this will the first time hes this will be the first time hes back public duties post the back on public duties post the princess of wales disclosing her cancer diagnosis. Yes, its been a very difficult time for him, but hes very much keeping calm and carrying on, so hes visiting a food surplus distribution called visiting a food surplus distributtor called visiting a food surplus distributto supper called visiting a food surplus distributto supper inalled visiting a food surplus distributto supper in surrey , and surplus to supper in surrey, and they kind of distribute ten tons of food per week to communities who need it. So churches, food banks, care homes and the like. Banks, care homes and the like. And hes going to be volunteering there, packaging up all the food , and then hes all the food, and then hes going to delivering it to a going to be delivering it to a youth centre in in west london. Kensington palace says that this is one of his priorities reducing food waste and the environment, taking a leaf out of his fathers book, i might add, who launched the coronation food project november doing food project in november doing something similar but something very, very similar but of course, kind of all adds of course, this kind of all adds into Prince Williams overall aims with the earthshot prize, his environmental prize trying to repair the planet over the next decade. One of those categories is build a waste free world. So it all kind of ties in today. Certainly does. And can i talk to you about this prince harry story . Thats over quite a few of the front pages this morning. Harry officially registering america as his official home. Yes, ive got the companys house document here in my hands that proves it. Prince Henry Charles albert david, duke of sussex, has officially changed his country of residence to the United States. The change actually happened though, last yean actually happened though, last year, but its just it was published officially yesterday. I mean, look, its front page of the mail this morning. The sun. Yeah. The sun. Yeah. Oh, and the sun. Yeah yeah, if he put country of residence United Kingdom when hes never here, wed have something to moan about, wouldnt we . I think so, i think hes probably damned if he does, damned if he doesnt. To be honest, this appears to be a bit of a formality. This is the companys documents for companys house documents for travalyst, the company companys house documents for tra setst, the company companys house documents for tra set up the company companys house documents for tra set up kind the company companys house documents for tra set up kind of the company companys house documents for tra set up kind of to 1e company companys house documents for tra set up kind of to make1pany companys house documents for tra set up kind of to make ecoy he set up kind of to make eco travel a possibility, supporting local communities the local communities around the world, the company he world, so thats the company he set up for that . Again, i think because its just a formality. I feel like perhaps we might be making making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill here, but it does a very clear, but it does show a very clear, cut of ties from the United Kingdom because its now in black and white that prince harry resides in the United States and appears to suggest that hes not going to be returning to britain any time soon, which was the original plan, perhaps in 2020, splitting the time between the two countries. Do you think it means anything the distance anything for the distance between family family between the family and family relations . Harry maintains between the family and family rel loves . Harry maintains between the family and family rel loves his harry maintains between the family and family rel loves his family. Y maintains between the family and family rel loves his family. Ofnaintains between the family and family rel loves his family. Of course. S he loves his family. Of course. He over the to the he flew over to the to the United Kingdom following King Charless diagnosis charless cancer diagnosis for a very short of time. But charless cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly of time. But charless cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is of time. But charless cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is stillf time. But charless cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is still atime. But charless cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is still a bite. But charless cancer diagnosis for a very sclearly is still a bit of5ut there clearly is still a bit of a risk. Understand that a risk. We understand that Prince William and harry have not been on speaking terms for some time you mention some time. Any time you mention prince harry to sources to prince harry to sources close to prince harry to sources close to Prince William, barrier Prince William, youre a barrier goes not to goes up. They do not want to talk about harry, and talk about prince harry, and i dont see way out of it, to be dont see a way out of it, to be honest. At this stage, i think prince were going to see prince harry were going to see at the Invictus Games next month here the United Kingdom, the here in the United Kingdom, the Service Years since Service Marking ten years since those that he set will those games that he set up. Will other members the royal other members of the royal family him in that . Family support him in that . Well have to wait see. Well have to wait and see. Okay, cameron, you very well have to wait and see. Okindeed. Eron, you very well have to wait and see. Okindeed. Eron, to you very well have to wait and see. Okindeed. Eron, to yyou. Ery much indeed. Good to see you. Yeah, to see you. Thats yeah, good to see you. Thats it from us today. Were back tomorrow from 6 am. And britains newsroom is up next with carol. With andrew and carol. Outlook with boxt a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on. Solar, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A chilly start in many places today. Cloudier in the north with some outbreaks of rain moving in this morning, especially for northern and western scotland. But a few light outbreaks of rain reaching Northern Ireland later in the morning and then this area pushes into Northern England and eventually north wales by the middle of the afternoon, turning cloudier in many places, then but staying sunny in the east midlands, east anglia, southern england as well where itll feel pleasantly warm. 15, perhaps 16 celsius not feeling pleasantly warm in the northwest with the wind and the rain , and that rain wind and the rain, and that rain tends to topple its way southwards during the evening, but it also tends to fizzle away , so not a great deal of rain reaching the south or parts of wales even, and it will be followed by showers , blustery followed by showers, blustery showers as the wind picks up overnight with the breeze. Overnight temperatures will stay up in the mid to high single figures so generally frost free, but its going to be a blustery start to friday. Areas of cloud moving south. Some light showers for many places. The most frequent showers will be affecting the far north of scotland. The wind will be feeling cold with that wind strongest along the north sea coast, and therell be some big waves along the north sea coast as well. Showers by the afternoon. Confined to the east of england. Elsewhere, brighter spells emerging some sunshine and highs of 14 or 15 degrees that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Away. Away. Away. 930 on thursday, the 18th of april. This is britains newsroom on gb news with Andrew Pierce and Carole Malone. And another rwanda said back the house of lords has delayed the house of lords has delayed the passing of the governments rwanda bill until next week. Rwanda bill until next week. Will this political ping pong ever end . Ever end . Shocking. In scotland, scottish primary schools are appointing children as lgbt champions and being encouraged to ask pupils as young as four if theyre gay, lesbian or trans wicked, frankly. And well be joined by the transgender marathon runner who has competed as a man, a woman, a nun and a non binary runner. Shell be at the London Marathon this weekend to and goodbye to britain. Dont say good riddance , dont say good riddance, malone. Prince harry declares the United States to be his new country of residence. What will his family think . Relief i think, okay. Is that where you are . Do it. Can a leopard change its spots . Teenage tiktok prankster missy issued a public apology to those who were affected by his online pranks last night. Speaking to pastor christies take a listen. I apologise to all the victims in the past that ive, may have caused distress to you may have caused distress to you may have caused distress to you may have harassed, may have, mentally tormented type mentally tormented in any type of way

© 2024 Vimarsana

vimarsana.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.