Wrongfully convicted of crimes will no longer have their living costs docked from their compensation payments. New compensation payments. New guidance issued by justice secretary alex chow comes into immediate effect today. It immediate effect today. It follows the controversy sparked by the jailing of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Behind bars for a crime he did not commit. He voiced his concerns that expense may be deducted from his compensation in prompting downing street to make urgent amendments. In prompting downing street to make urgent amendments. The make urgent amendments. The National Crime agency is teaming up with social media firms to crack down on posts by people smugglers who are encouraging Asylum Seekers to cross the channel will. The Prime Minister says the new partnership between Law Enforcement and tech giants will tackle attempts to lure migrants into paying to make the journey. Group discounts free spaces for children and offers a false documents are amongst the posts that rishi sunak wants removed to help achieve his promise to stop the boats. Minister for immigration Robert Jenrick told us here gb news that deterrence is key part of the governments plan to tackle the governments plan to tackle the small boats crisis. The small boats crisis. The overwhelming majority of those people coming on small boats are coming from france, from a safe country with a well functioning asylum system. Theyre choosing to come to the uk and that must be in part because of a perception that the uk is a softer touch. Thats why uk is a softer touch. Thats why were changing accommodation. Were changing accommodation. Thats why were making it harder to live and to work illegally in the uk theres been a 50 rise in the number of raids this year by Immigration Enforcement to try and close down bogus employers who are breaking the law by employing Illegal Migrants. Meanwhile , mrjenrick says meanwhile, mrjenrick says the first Asylum Seekers are to be housed on the bibby stockholm barge in the coming days. The immigration minister says around 50 people will enter the vessel in Portland Port in dorset this week. Mrjenrick in Portland Port in dorset this week. Mr jenrick says in Portland Port in dorset this week. Mrjenrick says increasing week. Mr jenrick says increasing the numbers on the barge to the capacity of around 500 is still the plan. Thats despite the plan. Thats despite concerns from the Fire Brigades Union over the vessel. Initially designed to house around 200 people. Well it comes as shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock says a Labour Government would still have to house migrants in barges for short penods migrants in barges for short periods while tackling the backlog of asylum cases. A Labour Government would also continue to place Asylum Seekers and former military bases for up to six months. Kinnock blamed the conservative government for the conservative government for the current asylum situation but could not say how long it would take. A Labour Government to reduce the asylum backlog of 172,000 cases. Uk greens president Vladimir Zelenskyy is accusing russia of bombing a Blood Transfusion Centre in the north west of the country. Mr north west of the country. Mr zelenskyy claims a number of people are dead and others are injured. But the president did not disclose how many fatalities there are. He described the strike in the eastern hockey region as a war crime there. So far been no comment from russia. Well, meanwhile, a University Building was in flames in the donetsk in eastern ukraine, a region now under under russian control. Local authorities blame the shelling on Ukrainian Forces that they claim are now using cluster bombs. The us and cluster bombs. The us and cluster munitions to ukraine. Last month. But kyiv has promised to use them only on Russian Forces , not civilian Russian Forces, not civilian targets. Its an iconic 18th targets. Its an iconic 18th century pub in birmingham has been gutted by a fire just days after it was sold to a private buyer Fire Fighters were called to the crooked house pub just before 1045 last night. The blaze was extinguished but no one was injured. Its affectionately known to many as the wonky pub thats due to its unusual angle, where visitors would enjoy the illusion of coins and other objects seemingly rolling uphill along the bar. Police are appealing for anyone with information about the fire to contact them. About the fire to contact them. The renowned composer carl davis has died at the age of 86. Has died at the age of 86. He first came to prominence in the 19705 first came to prominence in the 1970s after his newly created musical scores for neglected silent films give new life to the old art form. His work in the old art form. His work in the 1927 epic napoleon was given a cinematic release in 2016. Among daviss many other credits was the bafta winning musical score for the bbcs 1995 adaptation of pride and prejudice , starring colin firth prejudice, starring colin firth. This was gb news across the uk on tv, in your car on Digital Radio, and on your Smart Speaker by saying, play gb news now though, its back to nana. Though, its back to nana. Hello. Thank you, rory. Welcome on board. If youve just joined me, its just coming up to seven minutes after 3 00. Im nana akua. This is gb news. We are the peoples channel. Now, before we get into the before we get stuck into the debates the next hour, let debates over the next hour, let me again to my me introduce you again to my panel me introduce you again to my panel. Me head head panel. Joining me head to head in minds is former in a clash of minds is former brexit party mep and reform advisor ben habib. Also former editor of the labourlist Peter Edwards. So coming up, cost of living , inflation and interest living, inflation and Interest Rates , they might be hurting rates, they might be hurting hundreds and thousands across the country, but that hasnt stopped some of countrys stopped some of the countrys top business bosses raking in millions pounds in salaries millions of pounds in salaries and bonuses. Well is that fair . Civil servants are warning that cuts to British Foreign aid could be causing harm around the world, but shouldnt we be looking after our own backyard first . And then more trans ideology being forced on our kids now its the tate britain gallery in london where books promoting gender surgery are available in their Childrens Library and is sir keir starmer a nimby . Now hes being accused a nimby . Now hes being accused of hypocrisy after backflipping again on his stance over the hs2 rail project and then of course, Just Stop Oil as they pledged to disrupt the premier League Season. A new police chief has season. A new police chief has vowed to finally , finally crack vowed to finally, finally crack down on the eco activists. Well, thats coming up in this hour, as ever. Tell me what you think on everything were discussing. You can email gbviews gbnews. Com or tweet me at. Gb news. So or tweet me at. Gb news. So lets do it. Lets go head to head now this afternoon, this story caught my eye. The mail on sunday has revealed that the top bosses of businesses fuelled our current cost of living crisis banks as banks, energy firms and supermarkets. Well theyve raked in more than £100 million in pay perks between them. The bosses perks between them. The bosses of bp and shell are both being paid around about 10 million each, whilst the heads of sainsburys are on nearly £4 million. And the boss of tesco on 4. 4 million. But as customer are faced with the cost of living , double whammy interest living, double whammy Interest Rates of 5. 25 and land at 7. 9, inflation option. Is it fair that these bosses are raking in such enormous salaries whilst the average briton is forced to pay the average briton is forced to pay more . Well, lets welcome again to my panel brexit party mep ben habib is a former won and former editor of the labourlist. Peter edwards. Im going to start with you, ben. Is it fair . Well, i think the word fair is a very difficult word to address. Give and ill give it a go. You know, youve got to look go. You know, youve got to look at the nature of the company and the nature of the activity being performed by the individual. I think when you want to reach judgement on whether theyre being remunerated being appropriately remunerated or not, ive got absolute nothing against entrepreneurs starting their business, running their businesses as ceos making a packet. And i hope that and a packet. And i hope that and i wish them all the best. But but then theres another category of ceos who go from one Large Company to a to another, not adding much value , taking up the adding much value, taking up the post, what i would call sort of serial Public Company listed, you know, listed company directors. And they get paid seven figures routinely without really adding what i would see as value add. And then of as value add. And then of course, theres a much more shocking load of directors of particularly listed businesses , particularly listed businesses, those which have been which have used government money to survive, most recently through the pandemic, took loans from the pandemic, took loans from the government. It took furlough the government. It took furlough scheme money from the government banks, of course, which were rescued by the government. The royal bank of scotland, which we now call natwest, is still 40 owned by the government. And i owned by the government. And i think all those entities which either have a direct it, have had direct handouts from the government bailouts and have had protective blankets, put around them. For example, centrica , them. For example, centrica, which had their costs underwritten by the government when, when, when the cap on on on utility prices was brought in. All those companies have a much greater obligation to ensure that their execut tives are not overpaid because they are not overpaid because they are relying on us, the taxpayer , for their remuneration. And so , for their remuneration. And so there are different categories as some categories deserve everything they get. Others need much closer scrutiny. Much closer scrutiny. Peter the pay is too high and i think the companies have got to show restraint. Ben set out the different groups in which theyre in because theres been direct Public Sector sorry, taxpayer investment, i. E. Me , taxpayer investment, i. E. Me, you and the viewers in rbs now called natwest and in lloyds. Called natwest and in lloyds. And then obviously lots of pubuc and then obviously lots of public support for the energy market. But the question is whats going to be done about it, right . So theyre acting lawfully. If a bank thats 100 privately pays £10 privately owned pays £10 million. Personally , im million. Well, personally, im horrified at that. But the government are not going to pass a law to change that. So i think it shareholders. It comes down to shareholders. Im talking about what im not talking about what Retail Investors , people that Retail Investors, people that own £1,000 because much as we respect them, theyre not big enough to influence. Its about asset managers, other banks , asset managers, other banks, pension funds, the big investors own hundreds of millions and billions of pounds of shares to make their voice heard. And i thought that was thing we thought that was one thing we should learnt from the 2008 should have learnt from the 2008 crisis a big crisis is if youre a big shareholder, dont be passive. Make is heard. Make sure your voice is heard. Stand for your investment, stand up for your investment, but up for customers i yes, but what about the if we look at the tax system there, is there some way that we could penalise of these bosses penalise some of these bosses from earning much money or do from earning so much money or do you think that might become something that deter those something that might deter those Companies Find companies or theyll find loopholes well it depends. If youre looking at business taxation or individual taxation. But to be honest, theres certain parts of politics and certain parts of politics and certain parts of the media that howl uncontrollably when any government considers raising personal taxes. So it is personal taxes. So it is inconceivable that that any main party are going to go into election proposing an income tax rise. Other than maybe the top tier. Tier. But but i dont think i dont think raising the personal tax rates will make any difference because actually what you might find is they get paid, they get paid even more to compensate for the higher tax. But, you know, the higher tax. But, you know, the way the government has recouped some value back from the banking sector, for example, is it since 2008, there have been paying a surcharge of 8 Corporation Tax. The Utility Corporation tax. The utility companies, the producers of oil and gas have been paying i mean, and gas have been paying i mean, a staggering 75 Corporation Tax rate, which personally i think is wrong. By the way , stepping is wrong. By the way, stepping aside from from ceo pay a lot of money they make theyre making money. They lost a lot of money when we locked down. You know, Oil Prices Went into negative territory a while. Territory for a while. Thats alive. I mean, you can lose when you get to lose some of it when you get to a point where making a point where youre making extortionate then extortionate profits and then charging prices, charging extortionate prices, then be. Then there has to be. Reason i say that but the reason i say that theyre being overtaxed we do theyre being overtaxed is we do need companies to invest. Need these companies to invest. You rishi sunak announced you know, rishi sunak announced with great fanfare these 100 new licences the licences for exploration in the nonh licences for exploration in the north at the moment, north sea. Well at the moment, the way the system is set up, i dont think many of these Oil Companies are going to take advantage of the licences because taxed if because theyre taxed to hell if they extract anything and its very for now with you very hard for them. Now with you and have discussed and i have discussed environmental social environmental, social and corporate , esg before corporate governance, esg before with esg , its very hard for with esg, its very hard for them to get money from banks because banks dont want to lend to fossil fuel companies. Its very for them get very hard for them to get insurance their insurance for their rigs offshore for because theres a national theres a net zero insurance alliance. Again ensuring that kind of activity. Ensuring that kind of activity. So, you know, weve got to really look carefully and tread carefully before we have knee jerk reactions to, you know, super large profits or or super large pay packets. Do you think do you not think that theres something more that we could be doing, though . Because obviously, i believe in capitalism. I do. I think in capitalism. I do. I think that you should be paid a certain amount of money. But if you are in a position, for example, some of those like oil and gas and Water Companies and other example people other example of people being paid exorbitant of paid exorbitant amounts of money, not money, these things are not really competitive. Companies are i mean, Water Companies are completely theyve completely i mean, theyve got a mini theyre running mini monopoly. Theyre running a lousy well, thats right. Lousy show. Well, thats right. Billions of gallons of water are leaking everywhere every year. Theyre operating off victorian systems , as you know, because systems, as you know, because they havent invested, because they havent invested, because they havent invested, and theyve out billions in theyve paid out billions in dividends their shareholders. Theyve paid out billions in divi theres their shareholders. Theyve paid out billions in divi theres obviouslyireholders. Theyve paid out billions in divi theres obviously something and theres obviously something gone there. And the gone wrong there. And the regulator, ofwat, is not doing its well. Its job well. May pick up on that point may i pick up on that point briefly . Ben somethings briefly . Ben says somethings gone ben and gone wrong. Now, i know ben and i very different starting i have very different starting points but the points for this debate. But the thing thats gone wrong in some cases, not all of them, is nationalisation. Now thats inapplicable like inapplicable to someone like sainsbury, some sainsbury, but there are some former owned companies former publicly owned companies in suspect in in this list are suspect in future years we might perhaps see royal as well. This see the royal mail as well. This shows privatisation and you shows that privatisation and you give up the profit, but you also give up the profit, but you also give up the profit, but you also give up control and then the state cant afford to buy it back. Well, i kind of agree with you. I mean, theres some things that shouldnt be priva