Picking a tin of diet coke. Basically, it was a tin of diet coke from a self service fridge and taking up to a till where they scanned it. I was expecting a tip in a supermarket, you know, its one of those coffee bars america does coffee bars. Did you tip, did i . No, i asked for an explanation. It went down very well. Then i asked for an explanation as what they had done to deserve a tip. But all this is coming over here now. What was their reaction . What was their reaction . Its going to be punch ups. They thought i was very rude. British person didnt care. Sent you packing back across the atlantic. Yeah, well, thats why im here. Lets know what you think about that. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Ill be on there in a second. Dawn will as well. So well try and read your comments as they come in. But first, heres your News Headlines with sam. Ben and dawn, thank you very much. Good morning from the much. Good morning from the newsroom. Itsjust much. Good morning from the newsroom. Its just after 10 00. A look at the headlines this morning, and well start with some breaking news coming to us this morning out of east london, where two criminals have been sentenced for smuggling migrants into the uk. We understand , into the uk. We understand, using lorries and planes. Morteza hillage and kreshnik cadena are part of a major albanian crime network, arranged at least nine migrant trips in 2016 and 2017. The National Crime agencys eight year long investigation revealed the two men provided counterfeit documents and safe transport, charging £10,000 per migrant to make the journey. Theyve now received a combined sentence of five years and two months at Southwark Crown court. In other Southwark Crown court. In other news, israels Prime Minister is promising to return all hostages. He says, living or dead, after the bodies of three people were recovered yesterday in gaza, all of those three hostages recovered were thought to have attended the nova Music Festival on october the 7th last yeah festival on october the 7th last year. The father of one of the hostages says her return is a form of closure. Israel still thinks about 100 other hostages may be alive , while another 30 may be alive, while another 30 are understood to be dead. Are understood to be dead. Meanwhile, here in the uk, thousands of pro Palestinian Protesters are set to march through Central London this lunchtime. The demonstrators from stop the war and Palestine Solidarity Campaign are calling for an end to the conflict between israel and hamas and for a ban on arms sales from the uk to israel. Well, as we heard at to israel. Well, as we heard at the top of the programme from dawn, the number of cases of a waterBorne Disease in south devon caused by a microscopic parasite are expected to rise for at least another two weeks. Confirmed cases of cryptosporidium in the brixham area have more than doubled, with another 100 people reporting similar symptoms. People have been told to boil their tap water before drinking it and bottled water has been handed out at collection points well. South west water has now apologised and they are giving affected residents compensation of £115. Meanwhile, more than 30 protests are being held on beaches and rivers across the uk today to raise awareness of sewage pollution. Campaign group sewage pollution. Campaign group surfers against sewage are demanding more action to clean up the nations waterways. Theyre also calling on paddleboarders to join them at one of their paddle out protests across the country today, olympian and keen paddle boarder Dame Kelly Holmes is one of the famous faces set to join a demonstration. The triple lock demonstration. The triple lock on pensions will cost households an extra £10 billion a year by 2034. Thats according to reports in the telegraph. Reports in the telegraph. Pensions are raised every year by an amount linked to inflation in wages, or by a minimum of 2. 5. The obr predicts that spending on the state pension will exceed £150 billion annually in real terms, within the next decade. Economists, though, are warning this will place an unstable burden, they say, on taxpayers possibly forcing people to work longer and pay for the increase. Currently the full state pension is just over one £221 a week. That was following an 8. 5 rise in april. The health and social in april. The health and social harms caused by alcohol in england cost the taxpayer more than £27 billion a year, according to new estimates. According to new estimates. Thats a 40 increase in the last ten years. The institute of alcohol studies says the cost of crime and disorder linked to drinking costs more than £14. 5 billion alone, and on Health Alcohol related harm cost the nhs just under £5 billion. Thats enough to pay for the salaries of almost half of all nurses in england. However, the nurses in england. However, the dnnks nurses in england. However, the drinks industry says the data doesnt consider the £46 billion in direct economic benefits to the uk. And finally, if you didnt see the Northern Lights last weekend, well, there could be another chance on the way. The green, purple and blue scenes are expected to light up uk skies again in around a fortnight. The huge sunspot fortnight. The huge sunspot cluster that hurled energy and gas towards earth last weekend is now rotating back towards us, and that will release a solar flare towards us in about two weeks time. For the latest weeks time. For the latest stories do sign up to gb news alerts. You can scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Common alerts. Very good morning to you. 1006 ben and dawn with you on saturday morning live. We were just saying about the Northern Lights. I missed them because i was in bed. I missed them. You were in america, i was in america and they looked lovely and i did. I was lucky enough to see them once, actually, in the Arctic Circle are in an igloo. Well, i went to iceland in january to see them and i didnt see them, so thats my luck. Oh really . And i was asleep this time around. So there we go. Im never going on holiday with you, ben. Sorry. I know you kindly asked me, but its not happening. Right. Okay. Right, big show coming up, including lots of showbiz news. Can you guess which former queen of mean from a famous tv game show is now dating the queens ex husband . Let us know. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Dawn knows, but shes not going to be spinning the beans. Im not going to. Im not. No, no, im not going to give the game away because its quite a fun quiz to do, isnt it . Yeah, definitely a bit of a weird one, though. Strange, strange link up. Very strange. Quite a nice couple, though. Quite a nice couple, though. Yeah, yeah, well see what you guys think were going to reveal all very shortly with Eddie Phillips and showbiz. But for now, lets get to the top story of the day, which is new provisional data, which has just been released from the home office. It shows that the number of Illegal Migrants crossing the engush of Illegal Migrants crossing the English Channel has reached a new record, with 9861 attempting the crossing so far this year. Oh god, the 117 arrivals on thursday means that a new record has been set for the number of migrants arriving in the country in the first five months of any calendar year. Good start. Okay, so our Political Correspondent olivia utley is here with us in the studio. Good morning olivia. Nice to see you with us. What does this mean for rishi sunaks pledge to stop the boats . Because its not a good start for him, is it . Especially in what is a very pivotal couple of months coming up . I mean, this is an absolutely huge headache for rishi sunak. Sunak has been making the point for quite a number of months now that his stop the stop the boats plan is working, and actually until now, it looked like the data was backing him up. Last yean data was backing him up. Last year, arrivals on small boats were down 41 on the year before, and although the rwanda plan obviously hasnt yet been implemented , covid rishi sunak implemented, covid rishi sunak did manage to strike a deal with the albanian Prime Minister, which meant that all albanian migrants coming here got sent back immediately because albania is deemed to be a safe country. Is deemed to be a safe country. And for a while it looked like that strategy was working pretty well. But over the past five months of this year, that number has gone up and up. The Prime Minister says thats because were now seeing an influx of vietnamese migrants coming over here, which does , in a way here, which does, in a way underline exactly the point that rishi sunak is making in that you cannot make bilateral deals with countries over and over again, because whatever you do, there will always be there will always be a flow of people who desperately want to come for britain from countries all over the world. So you cut off one supply and another will just pop up in its place, which is why conservative politicians have been saying for such a long time now that we need a solution like offshoring migrants in rwanda or another third country. Obviously that plan hasnt worked yet. It has now got through those final stages in parliament after a lot of, ferrari and we can expect to see migrants taking off for rwanda in the next sort of 6 to 8 weeks. The problem is that makes it pretty late for the Prime Minister. He wanted flights off the ground by the spring. Well, its the 18th of may now. I think most people would say that spring ends on the 31st, and the longer he leaves it, obviously the closer we get to an election and the more unlikely it is that people will actually see the dividends of the rwanda scheme before they vote. And labour are trying to capitalise on that. This week, arent they . With sir keir starmer coming out with his labours first steps, which im assuming is just before labours first day at big school. Solid first day at big school. Solid food, who knows. But thats one of his 5 or 6 pledges. I lose the plot with how many pledges are actually making these days, but theyre trying to gain some ground on the migration situation, arent they . Situation, arent they . They are sort of. Quite belatedly, labour has seemed to realise that this is an issue which really, really resonates with the British Public so far. Labours plan essentially involves hiring 1000 new caseworkers in the home office to try and clear the backlog and get those migrants processed quicker. I mean, the Yvette Cooper has a nice way of phrasing. I think she calls it an army or something, some sort of similar military, simile , an of similar military, simile, an army of people clearing the backlog. It does really come down to more pen pushers in the home office. And i think there will be quite a lot of voters who arent really sure if that as a policy will cut the mustard. Okey doke. Shall we move on to some other stories in the papers doing the rounds today were joined by ceo and founder of youth vote uk, alex cairns. Good morning alex. Good to see you. Good morning. Rent controls, the shadow chancellor would give Councils Powers to cap rent rises. Good idea. Bad idea. I think its a good idea. Idea. I think its a good idea. So i think its a good idea. So a lot of people forget for a long time there was actually legislation that was put in place to actually cap rent, i think, to the late 80s. It was obviously changed. I know a lots happened since then, but actually were seeing now landlords really are kind of taking the mick with rent. You know, a lot of people that rent clearly cant afford to buy you know, its a very difficult situation. The average rent price in london is about £1,200. You know, for a lot of young people that i know every year its going up by, you know, seven, eight, 9 in some cases. And actually their wages arent going up in line with that. So actually i know, you know, a lot of people will argue, but landlords you know, its a free market. Landlords should be free to do what they want. But actually if its forcing people to have to move away, you could argue its kind of irresponsible to not have any legislation. So in defence of landlords, right. Interest rates have right. Interest rates have rocketed. We had years of nought percent, 0. 25, pretty much 0 free money. Now weve been at 4, 5, 6, even up to 8 in some recent times on buy to lets and yet wages havent gone up. But thats not landlords fault, is it . The landlords still have to pay it . The landlords still have to pay their mortgages and theres an illusion , i think, that an illusion, i think, that landlords are these rich barons with multiple homes. A lot of them have just inherited houses from dead parents. Theyre struggling to pay the mortgages on their own properties, let alone buy to let. So why should landlords subsidise tenants whose wages arent going up . Because i think, you know, were going to have a situation where if there isnt legislation, there, theyre going to constantly see tenants coming in, cant afford to stay and being moved out. Actually, to be honest, i think theres an argument to be said for both parties here because if there is some legislation put in place, i think landlords would actually look at, okay, you know, for example, if we cant put it up by more than 5, potentially, theres other ways that we can monetise it. But i think actually im not going to be sympathetic with landlords because i think im just not because i think im just not because i think a lot of stories ive heard, you know, a lot of people i know, you know, the work that organisation have said countless times that landlords arent interested in their, you know, their wage increase. Know, their wage increase. Theyre just interested in making more money. And i think its a tough time for everyone. Its a tough time for everyone. I think just, just ive covered this story before and i completely see where youre coming from, from from a sort of ideological perspective. But in ideological perspective. But in practice it doesnt work. Its been done in scotland. Nicola sturgeon introduced a very similar policy in 2022, and actually rent rises have gone up quicker in scotland than in the rest of the uk. Rent rises have gone up by 10. 8 since 2022, compared to 8. 6, and thats in london and londons pretty much the highest place in the rest of the highest place in the rest of the uk. Now why is that . Its because if you introduce a rent cap then landlords, they just leave the market. 17 of landlords have either sold in scotland in the last two years, or are planning to sell over the next year. And ideally, obviously, you get into a situation where those houses go on the market, they flood the market, meaning that the price of those houses goes down and people who were renting are able to buy in practice. We know that doesnt work because people just dont have the deposits. So instead what you get into is a situation where theres a smaller supply of houses and just as many people renting. And so counterintuitively , you get so counterintuitively, you get rent prices going up. This story comes from rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor has suggested that it might be applicable in some areas, but instantly it was cold water poured on it by the labour party, saying, this is not a labour policy. So there seems to be some division in the labour party as well as in the conservative party. Absolutely. And i think we should be a bit careful about that. Rachel reeves has suggested that she personally might be in favour of the idea, but what shes actually said is that she wouldnt rule out allowing councils to introduce rent control if they wanted to throughout the country, which obviously is a very different kettle of fish from what Nicola Sturgeon did, which was introduce rent controls herself throughout scotland. So its a very different situation. And as very different situation. And as you say, dawn, labour have already poured cold water on this. But if it is a sort of pet project of the shadow chancellor, you can see it happening anyway. But its interesting because actually, you know, we when we poll young people, a lot of young people are in favour of it. I think actually it polls well, and i think labour have actually got to look at this and think, can we sit down with landlords, can we sit down with potentially lets be honest, a majority of people that rent are tend to be younger because obviously, you know, theyve not got on the housing ladder. And actually theres got to be a way of finding a solution because at the moment there isnt a solution and people are having to move further and further away because they cant afford their rent price, and then people cant afford to buy. So, you know, they cant all move backwards. Mum and dad, theres no solution. Ive got, ive got, be well, yeah. Build more houses. I do have massive sympathy for the Younger Generation because they are not going to be owning their own homes, which means they wont have families. The birth rate is going to continue to fall, and unless youve got help from mum and dad or you get lucky with investments, youre just not going to own homes. So i do get it. But it also does make me laugh. You know, young people especially are all quite happy with open borders and uncontrolled mass migration, and yet they dont equate the two, you know, whilst were not building more houses and the government isnt, you know, Building Properties and homes for people, you cant then also be happy to have a lot of people come into the country. But should we move on to a very interesting story, to say the least, this teacher, rebecca joynes, whos been convicted of Sexual Activity with two teenage boys, 15 and 16 year olds, two lads, she taught it. Shes lads, she taught it. Shes probably going to get a prison sentence when shes sentenced in july. Is it different that its a woman and not a man . Should we be treating her differently . I mean, not really. Be treating her differently . I mean, not really. I dont think there is the argument that she has a baby and, you know, is it right to. She had a baby with one of the 15 year olds, which is not a great situation, but the situation now is that she is