Groups. Also tonight. Should uk universities call in the police to break up gaza protest camps. 7 meanwhile. Hes invisible. So meanwhile. Hes invisible. So ive got the latest from harry and meghans cosplay royal tour on my panel tonight, its daily express columnist Carole Malone, former labour mp bill rammell and political commentator suzanne evans. Oh, and eurovision really was the stuff of nightmares. The world has spoken. The queers are coming. Queers are coming. Strap yourselves in. Lets do this. Your millions wasted on bbc bailiffs. Next. Bailiffs. Next. Ben. Thank you. Im Tamsin Roberts in the gb newsroom. Here are the top stories. Rishi sunak has warned that giving sir keir starmer the keys to number 10 would leave the country less safe. The labour leader rejected the Prime Ministers claim, saying that as a former director of Public Prosecutions, he knows the importance of Security First hand. But rishi sunak says only the conservatives have bold ideas for the future. Despite having 14 years with nothing to do but think about the future , labour have almost the future, labour have almost nothing to say about it. No nothing to say about it. No plans for our border, no plans for our Energy Security, no plans for our economy either. And no principles either. Keir starmer has gone from embracing Jeremy Corbyn to Natalie Elphicke , all in the cynical elphicke, all in the cynical pursuit of power at any price. So labour have no ideas what they did have. Theyve u turned on. The Health Secretary has defended the governments record on Maternity Care after a major new report revealed endemic failures at hospitals. It found mums to be are often treated as an inconvenience , with some an inconvenience, with some women mocked or shouted at and even denied pain relief. The birth trauma inquiry is calling for a National Plan to improve services, led by a new maternity commissioner, who would report directly to the Prime Minister to the us. 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He admitted her murder and having a blade made from scissors, but denied carrying out similar attacks in the days before her death , the king has officially death, the king has officially handed over the role of colonel in chief of the Army Air Corps to the prince of wales , in to the prince of wales, in a rare engagement involving both the current monarch and his heir, his majesty formally handed over the title hes held for the past 32 years. The king said it was a great joy to meet servicemen during todays visit to Middle Wallop in hampshire. Prince william will now represent the armys air wing, which includes the unit once served in by his brother. Those are the top stories, and for all the latest, do sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Now its back to ben. Back to ben. The bbc is spending an astonishing, astonishing £42 million of public money chasing licence fee payments from the poor and vulnerable. In a gb poor and vulnerable. In a gb news exclusive, i can reveal the massive spend is going on the beebs quote simple payment plan service to collect the newly increased licence fee, which is now £169. 50, having jumped, of course , from £159 last month. Course, from £159 last month. Details of the contract have been published in a tender, which makes clear how the bbc will target skint households who arent paying up. It says the arent paying up. It says the simple payment plan provides a Payment Scheme for a selected group of customers that is simple, affordable and flexible to deliver against these key features. The plan has been designed to, quote target low income households to help increase revenue income and reduce both first time prosecutions and repeat offending, it adds. It will also allow customers to spread their payments over the 12 month term of their licence, which ever ferm wins. The contract will have responsibility to collect the fee and make sure its paid by threatening fines and bailiffs. One gb news viewer. An bailiffs. One gb news viewer. An 84 year old woman got in touch with us after receiving what she described as frightening letters from the bbc, pressuring her to sign up for the new payment plan. The letter, which ive seen it, reads your tv licence has been cancelled because youve not paid for it. Now time is running out. You can make a fresh start by joining the simple payment plan, but if we dont hear from you as soon as possible, well pass your details to one of our enforcement teams. If they find evidence youre breaking the law, you risk prosecution and a fine of up to £1,000. Collectors chasing licence fee payments have also repeatedly been accused of bullying the vulnerable, including war veterans and a young mum in a womens refuge. So as a reminder, thats £42 million of licence fee money. Your money being spent to demand societys poorest and Vulnerable People pay poorest and Vulnerable People pay nearly £170 a year to bolster bbc coffers. And what bolster bbc coffers. And what are we getting for our buck. 7 not are we getting for our buck. 7 not a lot. By the looks of it. Over the weekend, the writes on metro newspaper bizarrely claims that doctor who, whose new star is black and gay, by the way, was never made for straight for straight white men. I guess the bbcs hyper woke agenda is now an open secret, of course, and then theres gary lineker, who is ludicrously paid £1. 3 million to talk about football. And when hes not doing that, he plays up to the hard left with deeply offensive comments like this from saturday. Constant images of children losing their lives day in, day out. Now, obviously we all know what you know. October 7th happened and you know the hamas thing, but the hamas thing. Good grief. And isnt the great selling point for the licence fee the facts that theres no ads. 7 well, licence fee the facts that theres no ads . Well, apparently listeners of bbc podcasts can kiss that goodbye. The beeb have plans now to include ads on their programmes when theyre streamed via Third Party Platforms such as spotify and apple. 20 Media Organisations have written to the culture secretary to demand it doesnt go ahead, including the Production Company owned by guess who. Yep, gary lineker. Its not like lineker to make things difficult for his employer, is it . Well, if the bbc are so desperate for revenue instead of targeting poor people, how about they start by getting his outrageous wage bill off their books . Lets get the off their books . Lets get the thoughts of my panel now. Tonight im joined by daily express columnist Carole Malone, former labour minister bill rammell, and political commentator suzanne evans. Good evening to the three of you. Carole lets start with you. £42 million targeting the most needy and vulnerable in society. Have and vulnerable in society. Have they lost their morals, the bbc . Yeah. You know , its. I find yeah. You know, its. I find it astonishing that, you know, when an elderly person gets that kind of letter, it is terrifying. You know , other terrifying. You know, other people of different ages might not feel quite so scared, but elderly people get really, really frightened over that stuff. You know, it would worry them 24 over seven. Theyd be terrified theyre going to be prosecuted. And at that age, you know, these are were talking a vulnerable, sick people. This is shocking. And, you know, you mentioned how much theyre spending on 42 million on hunting them down. You know, the bbc gets 4 billion a year from licence fee money, but it spends nearly 100 million of that, both on its outlandish salaries for its backroom staff and celebrities like gary lineker, who you pointed out there and its it spent last year nearly £30 million in pay offs for people who are leaving the organisation. Outrageous. This organisation. Outrageous. This is this is squandering licence payers money. And you said what do we get for it . I think we get a lot of great things from the bbc. I do, but i dont think we get enough things to justify a £4 billion and i certainly cant stomach their News Coverage anymore. And if i was jewish in this country currently, i wouldnt be able to watch the bbc. Well, there we go. Of course. I mean, theyve got a litany now of errors to do with the israel gaza war, not least in december when they said israel bombed that hospital in gaza. Nick robinson, their radio four star on twitter saying that israel was murdering palestinians. Bill rammell your thoughts on the beeb . Well, and yet and the polling evidence backs this up, the vast majority of people, particularly in a time of crisis, still trust the bbc for its News Coverage more than any other broadcast organisation. And lets get the costs into context. You say that what the polling evidence. What the polling evidence. What polling evidence, because i havent heard that because i havent heard that because every year , 1. 5 to 1. 7 because every year, 1. 5 to 1. 7 Million People hand in their licences. They dont want them licences. They dont want them any more. So what is this polling. Look, look at the detailed polling evidence. And it shows that people gravitate towards the bbc because they trust it. Put the costs in context as well. The licence fee is about £3 a week. It has to be taken on board because otherwise the bbc cant function compared that to other organisations like sky that i pay organisations like sky that i pay eight times that amount to. I do that willingly. You cant compare them. Its commercial. The bbc is the state broadcaster. It is the state broadcaster. It is funded by the state. The two arent comparable. The bbc could do and say what it wanted for me if it funded itself, but it does not. The difference is youre not going to be threatened with jail if you dont pay your sky. Theyll just cut you off. Suzanne, you have to pay your taxes as well. And we chase people for paying their taxes £3 a month. Its great. Bill if you actually want it. £3 a week if you want it now. I used to work for the bbc. I used to be very proud to work for the bbc. Carol, you mentioned you cant listen to the news now. The one thing i absolutely loved was on the odd occasion when i worked for the today programme on radio four, so proud of that programme. I cant listen to it now. Im screaming at it within 10s. Now. Im screaming at it within 105. If i now. Im screaming at it within 10s. If i turn it on, its not good for my Mental Health because its so unbelievable. I think, suzanne, you may have shifted rather than the bbc. No no no no, your heads down a manhole. I was, you know, committed to objective responses. All equal broadcasting. Its not like that. Its not like that. One side. Let me just let me just show you a clip from david cameron. Lord cameron speaking to the bbc. Well get that in just a second. But were talking about the trust of the bbc brand that they as i said, they have a litany, most recently, infamously, of their absolutely torrid coverage of the israel gaza war. So they cant even call hamas a terrorist organisation. They cant bring it upon themselves despite the atrocities they do now call it a terrorist organisation. Look , only the bbc make look, only the bbc make misjudgements , as do not misjudgements, as do not occasionally, not occasionally. Lets play this clip. Lets play this clip. Lets play this clip. You see what hamas are prepared to do. You just realise prepared to do. You just realise the terrible , dreadful, inhuman the terrible, dreadful, inhuman people, frankly, that we are deaung people, frankly, that we are dealing with. And maybe its a moment, actually for the bbc to ask itself again, shall we describe these people as terrorists . They are terrorists. If you kidnap grandmothers, you kidnap babies, you rape people, you shoot children in front of their parents. What more do they need to do for the bbc to say, look, these are terrorists. They really are. Bill rammell youre saying that theyve changed that now . Thats not true because i was listening to a news bulletin this morning and they still said, to according government, according to the uk government, hamas is a terrorist organisation. Why can they not organisation. Why can they not bnng organisation. Why can they not bring it upon themselves to call that death cult . I have seen bbc journalists referring to hamas as terrorists and of course they should be referred to as terrorists. But compare and contrast the bbc with its news, editorial standards, its reliance on independence compared to other news broadcasters and the streets ahead. You have to be joking. Youve got a very short memory brexit. I mean, for what . No, let me say, because youre saying that the brexit, for one, the coverage of boris and partygate for another totally ignored what keir starmer not justified at all, and the coverage of israel. Wheres the wall to wall coverage of Angela Rayner . Coverage of Angela Rayner . Thats not happening on the bbc. Exactly. Nick robinson with angela raynen Nick Robinson with Angela Rayner, who was supposed to be drilling her down on on the two houses business, wished a happy birthday that day instead, he had no intention of giving her a hard time. They do not give labour politicians a hard time. Its clear every day of the week they are challenging and scrutinising labour politicians, tories and look , im a lover of tories and look, im a lover of gb news, right . I appear here quite often, but i think most objective people, when theyre contrasted with the bbcs News Coverage and gb news and asked which is the most reliable and independent you choose the bbc. Ive just given you tons of examples about how they are. They dont even do what they are professing to be good at, which is accuracy when it comes to bias. They had three people on a newsnight panel last year discussing whether this tv station should be shut down. All of them sat there saying yes, they had to apologise for that. Thats one small example. How theyre not doing their job properly is if you want to watch the bbc, thats fine, pay for it. What i object to is having to pay what i object to is having to pay not to watch the bbc, but to pay pay not to watch the bbc, but to pay the bbc. So you can watch everything else. And thats the problem. And thats why i, having previously been a passionate defender of the licence fee, because i think the bbc did, you know, and we just had four tv channels, gave a great output. But now weve got so much other choice. If the bbc is that good, it should be able to stand on its own two feet in the commercial. And just finally, bill, hold on in around the world, the bbc is respected and the reason we fund it via a licence fee rather than taxation, is that it has independence from government and Civil Servants and i think thats the way it should be. Its not independent to support one Political Party, it doesnt support one Political Party. It bashes all the parties. It bashes all the parties. You would say that because because your left wing and you probably like the coverage again. But a lot of people rail against some of the coverage on the bbc. I listened to it. Now its obvious is obvious. Its clear. It is the last word. Last word. Last word. Yeah, its independent. Its independent from government. And thats the way it should be. Yeah okay. All right. Feisty start now look, a tv licensing spokesman said our simple payment plan is designed for people in financial difficulty. It is the most affordable way to pay it is the most affordable way to pay for a tv licence, as it allows eligible customers to spread the cost of a licence fee evenly. This six Year Contract ensures we are able to continue offering the simple payment plan when the current contract ends. For £32 million of your money, by the way. Anyway, coming up, the greens had their allahuakbar moment, but now the lib dems , moment, but now the lib dems, theyve been accused of breaking equality laws after a christian candidate was deselected. So is there a double standard when it comes to faith in british politics . Ex lib dem mp and party chair mark oaten is live on that very, very shortly. But up next, should protesters like Just Stop Oils eco mob be banned like terror groups . Thats what a new government report is recommending. And Just Stop Oil spokesperson jill tavner does battle right here, right now with local government editor of conservative home harry phibbs in our head to head. Thats next. This is Patrick Christys tonight with me, ben leo only on Patrick Christys. Tonight with me. Ben leo. Only on gb news coming up. Are christians being pushed out of politics because of their beliefs. But first, should groups like Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action be banned . Akin to terror groups . Its time now for the head to head. And theyve wreaked havoc across the country for years. But a government commissioned report has now