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Its another chilly day and watch out for some hefty, showery rain as well as a bit of snow tomorrow, though, bnngs bit of snow tomorrow, though, brings better news if its drier weather youre after, ill have the shortly. The details shortly. Morning , the details shortly. Morning, im pip tomson. Good morning, im pip tomson. Good morning, im pip tomson. Good morning, im Michael Portillo and this is breakfast on gb news. On gb news. News. So last night, friday, when were all going home ready for the weekend, we were notified that the Prime Minister was going to be making an urgent announcement. And so he did. Announcement. And so he did. Michael portillo, what did you think . Well, i, i thought precisely what youve said was bizarre. I mean, if we have a problem with extremism and if there have to be legislative changes which are both perfectly reasonable points of view, then surely the Prime Minister would go to the house of commons, which is the place where legislate is made. House of commons, which is the place wicommonsate is made. House of commons, which is the place wicommonsate issitting. House of commons, which is the place wicommonsate issitting lastrse of commons was sitting last week. Was sitting week week. It was sitting the week before. Because before. We know that because there was turmoil on both occasions. To come out on occasions. So to come out on a wet friday evening and announce important measures about extremism struck me as very important measures about extr were first told that he was making that announcement, thought hes going to call an election because you dont or even quit. Election because you dont or even quit. Did you think that was a possibility . Was a possibility . Well, i just thought you know, weve so often heard that the podium is going to be positioned outside number 10, downing street, and it normally does presage very important downing street, and it normally does of� sage very important downing street, and it normally does of thee very important downing street, and it normally does of the sortery important downing street, and it normally does of the sort thatmportant downing street, and it normally does of the sort that you rtant news of the sort that you describe. I i also think, you know what also made it slightly bizarre was to talk about extremism on the day that youre responding to a by election in which your party has been annihilated. And by the way, so annihilated. And by the way, so is the chief Opposition Party makes it look as if youre saying the by election and there was a reference to the by election speech, makes it look if youre saying the look as if youre saying the by election symptom by election is the big symptom of extremism. That of extremism. I think that introduces an unfortunate introduces quite an unfortunate confusion the issue , confusion into the issue, because people were saying, well, would say that because well, you would say that because you in you were defeated in the by election. Do you know what i mean . Yes, yes. It kind of cheapensit mean . Yes, yes. It kind of cheapens it because makes it cheapens it because it makes it a to the by election a response to the by election rather a response to rather than a response to everything been everything that has been happening the 7th happening since october the 7th and that, because and indeed before that, because he the rochdale he said that the rochdale by election words he said that the rochdale by eitction words he said that the rochdale by eit wasi words he said that the rochdale by eit was extreme, words he said that the rochdale by eit was extreme, highlyis were it was extreme, highly alarming. Yes. Now thats thats almost criticising the nearly 6000 people who voted for George Galloway, almost 4000 people, sorry, the 12,000. Yes, yes, yes. Isnt it. Its almost saying, well, your votes just weird. Just writing them off in a way which, which is not a good move. I think , to describe a i think, to describe a democratic event as alarming , to democratic event as alarming, to imply that a democratic event and election is a symptom of extremism is very problematic. I mean, of course, you can say that the candidate whos been elected is someone whos espoused extremism. Youd have to make the case very carefully, because George Galloway very because George Galloway is very good back. But you good at arguing back. But you could make that case. But you need be very careful not to need to be very careful not to say that the decision of thousands people is itself thousands of people is in itself an well, lets bring in senior well, lets bring in senior political analyst at orthodox conservatives, david moore, to talk about this. And also political commentator peter spence , for a very good morning spence, for a very good morning to you both. Uh, david, my to you both. Uh, david, my michael described it as bizarre. Michael described it as bizarre. What did you think of rishi sunak speech in the pouring rain in downing street on a friday evening . Evening . Well, i think it was a strong call that there was something very unprecedented going on. Now, we saw mr galloway winning by elections in the past, for example, for the respect party, especially when left especially after when he left the labour party but the labour party over iraq. But what seeing the moment what were seeing at the moment and what we saw was a very toxic by election, where it was decided Foreign Policy decided by a Foreign Policy tragedy , exploiting foreign tragedy, exploiting that Foreign Policy tragedy, using the flags of palestine to basically say, this is what im standing purely on this ticket. And when people ask him what hes actually going to do for rochdale, there wasnt any at all. And what the any answer at all. And what the prime was saying is Prime Minister was saying is this needs more social this country needs more social cohesion. Who is cohesion. Ian, as someone who is a conservative at the a social conservative at the moment, are divided. In moment, we are divided. Were in fear moment and fear at the moment and especially a situation especially over a situation where britain, quite frankly, doesnt political stake doesnt have a political stake anymore, at least not controlling that area. This idea that we can just send in the troops and enforce a ceasefire when the fact the matter is when the fact of the matter is we using diplomatic channels we are using diplomatic channels as secretary is as the foreign secretary is doing moment. So were doing at the moment. So were seeing a by election dominated purely Foreign Policy grounds purely on Foreign Policy grounds and potentially potentially more in so i think the in the future. So i think the Prime Minister had strong Prime Minister had a strong message to say, yes, i agree with michael. It was very unprecedented. Unprecedented. Yes, david, let me pursue that with you. I mean, supposing we agreed with every word that youve just said, every word that prime had that the Prime Minister had said, you know, why not . Why on earth not go to the house of commons . Hed talking about commons . Hed be talking about legislation. He was talking about law. Is not about changing the law. Is not the of commons the the house of commons the place to that . To do that . Indeed. I think the well, indeed. I think the house commons, especially house of commons, especially when can table when other mps can, can table such and again hold such questions and again hold hold the executive account. Hold the executive to account. Absolutely. Think there is absolutely. But i think there is an unprecedented situation in this at moment where this country at the moment where mps standing down because mps are standing down because they fearful mps offices they are fearful mps offices torched are fantastic statesmen and women who who fear they cant run again. Jewish children cant run again. Jewish children who are fear of going to school and all forms of, of hatred from also that, you know, we see people like nick griffin at the far right endorsing mr galloway in that election. So were in a in that election. So were in a country at the moment where fear is rife and that people dont feel they can speak up. And its feel they can speak up. And its about time we have a Prime Minister who can. And i think he is doing that. Minister who can. And i think he is doing that. And during that is doing that. And during that speech, he was heckled speech, he was still heckled from i think its from outside. So i think its about time. Also, the police really start cracking down on extremism, extremism as well. Well hang on, hang on. Well hang on, hang on. He heckled from outside. He was heckled from outside. I thats not an extreme i mean, thats not an extreme missed threat, it . Lets missed threat, is it . Lets lets honest and bring lets be honest and bring in Peter Spencer, political commentator , what did you commentator peter, what did you make of rishi sunak speaking make of it . Rishi sunak speaking from heart or was it all from the heart or was it all political posturing . Political posturing . Oh, very much political posturing. I mean, this wasnt a policy. This was a speech. He policy. This was a speech. He didnt really say anything that he hasnt already said. Hes already had the mob rule stuff, and it already had the announcement about the £30 million for mps securing. He million for mps securing. He did, however, very effectively times away from them. Um, George Galloway and onto him. I mean, you guys are being gloriously rude about the whole thing, but the fact is that the newspapers were rather less critical. Just said, oh, rishi sunak has spoken up. I think what is what is behind all this is a very real fear on his part of George Galloway. Now, of course, galloway. Now, of course, galloway. Now, of course, galloway is a threat to the labour party because of the historic anti semitism, but also i mean, he has i mean , george i mean, he has i mean, George Galloway were the love him or hate him and many people do hate him. He is one hell of a class act when it comes to rhetoric. I mean, hes up there when it comes to most. Using the english comes to most. Using the english language is up there with winston or indeed our Winston Churchill or indeed our esteemed colleague nigel farage, who to deliver brexit who managed to deliver brexit single handedly. And a single handedly. And that is a threat not only to the labour party, also the conservatives um, pete, peter, were you surprised then, given your criticism . Criticism , criticism . Given my criticism, for that matter, that sir keir starmer appeared to very starmer appeared to be very appreciative of speech , kind appreciative of the speech, kind of behind it and said, of rowed in behind it and said, oh were at one with oh yes, were were at one with the Prime Minister the need the Prime Minister on the need to extremism. To fight extremism. Was that surprising to fight extremism. Was that surjlising to fight extremism. Was that suijl think not because because i think not because because starmer, most certainly is also frightened of George Galloway. And i come back to his extraordinary rhetorical prowess. I mean, hes got more going for him when it comes to delivering speeches than starmer or or or or sunak put together. Hes very , very good at it. Now hes very, very good at it. Now he will have one of a platform in the form of the house of commons. Just imagine that Prime Ministers question time when he comes up with something really outrageous. Whos going get outrageous. Whos going to get the is it going to be the headlines . Is it going to be sunak or is it going to be him . Its going to be him. David, the liberal democrats and were were far more and snp were were far more critical and scathing of what rishi sunak had to say. Liberal democrats said tories have sown the seeds of division for years. The snp said they are the architects of the culture war in the uk , i. E. The Prime Minister the uk, i. E. The Prime Minister needs to look a bit more inwardly. Inwardly. Well, quite frankly, the liberal democrats dont like this country. They sold off our sovereignty to the European Union. Also dont like union. The snp also dont like this union either, so i dont take any lessons from them about that. I think is trying to that. I think rishi is trying to unite a country here, a country that concerned about a rise that is concerned about a rise in and domestic in extremism and domestic threats. Also spoke about threats. And also we spoke about mr rhetoric. Yes, he mr galloways rhetoric. Yes, he might impressive at the might be quite impressive at the despatch box, but at the end of the day, lets look at his record on action, supporting proxies this country, proxies that hate this country, that liberal democratic that hate the liberal democratic and values of and also conservative values of this country. He has supported the war ukraine. So hes not the war in ukraine. So hes not an antiwar candidate. Very an antiwar candidate. He very much a putin apologist much has been a putin apologist in the past. Yes. Said it was in the past. Yes. He said it was anideal in the past. Yes. He said it was an ideal. But of course, when putin moved he started putin moved in, he started blaming as per and blaming the west. As per and nato. He also supports hezbollah as these islamist proxy as well. These islamist proxy for iran. And he supported many for iran. And he supported many other dictators as well. So im very much concerned about this result myself. Result myself. Uh, david and peter , um, uh, david and peter, um, thank you very much indeed. Juua thank you very much indeed. Julia i rather wonder whether the speaker of the house of commons, if hes recovered his self belief, might say to the Prime Minister, look, thats the sort of statement that should be made to the house of commons, not on a friday evening in downing street. Really . You think you should pull aside about it . Pull him aside about it . The sort thing that its the sort of thing that speakers the past have been speakers in the past have been very exercised quite very exercised about, quite rightly. Okay will what well, we will see what happens to talk to happens now we want to talk to you well about next wednesday you as well about next wednesday because it is the spring budget. And here on news next and here on gb news next wednesday going wednesday evening, were going to Live Programme to have a special Live Programme from , avon dissecting from whitehall, avon dissecting jeremy hunts spring budget. I think whitehaven think thats whitehaven in cumbria. Yes, yes, you can be part the audience as michelle part of the audience as Michelle Dewberry nigel farage dewberry and nigel farage broadcast. The raf has broadcast live. The raf has sparked fury after announcing its going to retire 30 Quick Reaction alert jets used to protect british skies from potential attacks. Potential attacks. The jets will be grounded despite completing only just 40 of their predicted flying hours, in a move that has been likened to quotes scrapping spitfires before the battle of britain , before the battle of britain, military historian and Defence Analyst chris newton joins us now. Um, analyst chris newton joins us now. Um, chris, analyst chris newton joins us now. Um, chris, there are, now. Um, chris, there are, i think, many people who will make that parallel about scrapping spitfires before the battle of britain. What on earth is going on at a time when were talking about heightened tension . The need to defend the country . We have some highly capable aircraft , but they are quite old aircraft, but they are quite old in design, but theyre still highly capable , and the raf is highly capable, and the raf is telling us its not going to fly them. What is going on . Uh. Good morning. And uh. Good morning. And essentially what the mod is doing is essentially these, um, aircraft , these, uh, typhoon aircraft, these, uh, typhoon aircraft, these, uh, typhoon aircraft that there are parts of the older tranche , tranche one. The older tranche, tranche one. So these were entered service in, uh, from 2003. And effectively, the mods argument is, is that, um, there theyre, theyre going to cost to to, main to maintain and they are they dont have the, the kind of equipment and, and the software of the later tranche two and three aircrafts and therefore to, to keep them is going to be expensive. And the money the £300 million, um , is going to be £300 million, um, is going to be needed to , to spend on on needed to, to spend on on maintaining tranche one could be used on tranches two and three instead. Um i have to say that sounds very rational, but dont you think its a pr disaster . Is this not going to cause outrage . I mean, is it not a mixed message from the government, on the one hand, to be telling us that were in a security crisis and on the other hand, to be retiring capable aircraft . Aircraft . Yes. I outlined the mods position, but i agree with the Defence Select Committee and which says that instead of disposing and stripping of them, these aircraft should be put into , um, a storage and should into, um, a storage and should be held in reserve and should be mothballed , um, in time for, uh, mothballed, um, in time for, uh, you know, a conflict and, and i agree, these aircraft should be kept. Um weve seen in terms of the war of ukraine in ukraine, how important numbers are technology is important. Thats certainly the case. But but numbers are important as well. And will and if we were in a war against russia or a major conventional war, you know, we will need a reserve. We will need , um, our full structures need, um, our full structures need, um, our full structures need to need resilience built into them. So, so in that sense , into them. So, so in that sense, um, we need that. And youre um, we need that. And youre right as well. It does send the wrong message and with regards to, to russia and, and our willingness, if we cant spend this money on, on an operational reserve, it doesnt send a good message to, to russia and, and about our resolve and our willingness to deter major conflict. Chris, instead of retiring them, could, as you mentioned , them, could, as you mentioned, ukraine there could they not go to ukraine to help their war effort . Effort . Yeah, i mean, i mean, this this has been looked at last yeah this has been looked at last year. The problem with, with thatis year. The problem with, with that is , is that these as that is, is that these as michael mentioned uh, earlier , michael mentioned uh, earlier, these are despite their older aircraft , these are still highly aircraft, these are still highly sophisticated aircraft. Um there are also weapons integrated issues as well. With regards to issues as well. With regards to the you ukrainians operating them and ukraine needs, you know, more simpler , uh, you know, more simpler, uh, you know, more simpler, uh, you know, aircraft that they can train on, you know, straight away without , without, you know, away without, without, you know, without , uh, taking into, into without, uh, taking into, into consideration that the highly sophisticated avionics and, and sensors and software which the typhoon has. So, so its a good typhoon has. So, so its a good idea. Its you know, its a nice idea, but its just not practical. And theres also practical. And theres also practical issues with, with runways and how the aircraft is designed as well. So, so i dont so the ukrainians are more interested in f 15s , f 16s. Interested in f 15s, f 16s. These are more suited to ukrainian needs. Ukrainian needs. Chris, thank you very much. Chris, thank you very much. Yeah. Millom millom get my yeah. Millom millom get my words out. Military historian and Defence Analyst thank you so much for talking to us this morning. As a defence secretary, when you heard about this, a former defence secretary, were you surprised and horrified . You surprised and horrified . Absolutely horrified. But i thought chris newton there spelt out that there is a ready u turn. So instead of disposing of the aircraft, which i think would be negligent criminally negligent, i mean, if they really cant afford to run them at the moment, at least put them in a warehouse somewhere so that they can be brought out and used in due course. But i think even that sends a very bad signal, doesnt i mean, we heard a doesnt it . I mean, we heard a very technical explanation very good technical explanation there to why there from chris as to why they cant be used in ukraine, but the not going to the publics not going to understand these why these understand why these why these very capable are being very capable jets are being retired. Disaster. I retired. Um, a pr disaster. I have a feeling the government is going put it right. Okay. And we will let you know here on gb news any updates on that story. Lets bring you some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning , other stories coming into the newsroom this morning, us President Joe Biden has said he hopes to see a deal for a ceasefire in the israeli gaza war in time for the start of ramadan. That comes amid tense ramadan. That comes amid tense negotiations as pressure builds on him to help curtail the conflict. Conflict. An investigation has been launched after three people were injured in south london following reports of a shooting. Police say that they were pursuing a moped that failed to stop near clapham common. A manhunt is currently underway. Manhunt is currently underway. They a driver, has been rescued from the cab of a truck that was left dangling over the edge of a bndge left dangling over the edge of a bridge in kentucky, in the United States, after her vehicle crashed through a barrier. The woman was unharmed , armed the woman was unharmed, armed incredibly, and its not yet clear how the incident happened. Goodness me. Goodness me. Weve talked about this many times, havent we . Knife crime is on the rise in britain and in the year ending september 2023, last year it increased to 50,000 offences. Thats 5, uh, higher , offences. Thats 5, uh, higher, i think, compared to the year before it. Before it. In South Yorkshire, the ministry of justice data shows that two thirds of cautions or convictions for knife crime in the area were handed to first time offenders. Time offenders. Our yorkshire reporter anna reilly has been to a charity run eventin reilly has been to a charity run event in sheffield involving young people to get knives off the streets, giving a helping hand to stop young people from carrying knives. Anthony olatunde founded charity always an alternative after growing up surrounded by knife crime in sheffield, he wants to get knives off the streets of the steel city and lodge an awareness event at showroom cinema. When i was 15, i saw someone get murdered. They got stabbed to death. Fortunately um , but to death. Fortunately um, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal every day im looking over my shoulder every day. You know, someones getting locked up or someones injured. Up or someones getting injured. Surely life cant just be that. I had a few lucky escapes myself, and i thought ive actually had enough. I work more actually had enough. I work more than this. This cant continue to happen. Ive got kids now. I dont to not be for dont want to not be there for them. So i made that decision. Keaton naylor is perienced the pain of losing a loved one to knife crime. His best friend, Louis Phillips , was stabbed to Louis Phillips, was stabbed to death at the age of 15 by a stranger during an unprovoked attack in South Yorkshire. Attack in South Yorkshire. Ever since i lost my best friend, its made me realise , friend, its made me realise, well, knives really arent needed. Well, knives really arent needed. Like theres so much needed. Like theres so much more to life than carrying a knife. Well, just a weapon in general. They were training for Barnsley Football Club , it were Barnsley Football Club, it were doing well, getting grades and that it just applied for college. So it really wasnt a bad lad. Tackling knife crime to prevent further tragedies is a priority for South Yorkshire police. The police are obviously doing a lot in terms of trying to identify and locate and target those individuals or gangs that are prone to violence and use guns and knives. So theres a lot of work around that. But but, um, prevention is really key. The more important thing, how do we stop young people back at showroom cinema, students from a Sheffield High School produced a short film to highlight knife crime amongst teenagers. It was really educational and you really you dont understand how bad knife crime is until like , youre being told the like, youre being told the figure, you know, Something Like this could happen to me, could happen to anyone. But it is concerning and it is something that, you know, that i dont want to happen with recent figures showing 17 of knife crime offenders in england and wales were under 18, its hoped schemes like this will deter children from carrying weapons and oreilly gb news working with. Were joined by former detective chief inspector mike neville. Good morning to you, mike. Thanks for talking to us about this. So knife crime a 5 rise in 12 months and another shocking statistic. The ons has said that teenagers are more than twice as likely to be fatally stabbed as they would have been ten years ago. So thats just appalling. Thats just appalling. Charlie and the police are in a very difficult situation, of course, because many of these knife crime offences are committed young black men committed by young black men against black men, uh, 60 against young black men, uh, 60 of murders in london are young black men. And are they trying black men. And are they trying to stop and search is the best way of reducing knife crime because the officers removed them because of course , if you them because of course, if you look at knife, knife crime is about eight times more than gun crime because knives are far easier to obtain than guns. You can simply go to a shop and buy a kitchen knife. Many of those that you can see on the screen, you could use for cutting bread or cutting meat. Theyre easy to obtain , uh, but the police are obtain, uh, but the police are really handicapped because they face this constant accusation of racism. And when they try to racism. And when they try to deal with it, well, you mentioned stop and search there. Are you saying it should be random . Stop and search . Because if it was , would that not risk if it was, would that not risk creating a lot of anger in the community . Im not suggesting that it should be random at all, but the polices ability to stop and search is constantly criticised. You know, every time they do it, the polices power to stop and search people for example, carrying a knife. If youve been convicted for carrying a knife in the past, that was removed from one of the reasons that you could be stop and search, you had people being knighted. The former Deputy Commissioner of the police was knighted for reducing stop and search. And the more you reduce, stop and search, the more murders there are with knives. So its my question is this whats whats better, a hand in your pocket or a knife in your gut . So thats the you know, thats im sure the you know, thats im sure the second is far worse. Um, mike neville, it was very shocking to see a young man there speculating that he could be a victim of a knife crime. And we saw youngsters making films , um, which warms the films, um, which warms the heart. I think what youre saying is that making films is not as effective as police action. Are you absolutely convinced that of all the policy changes that could be made, stop and search is the most likely to be effective . Be effective . Yes. Um because ive done youth work all my life and i know the value of this and i, i applaud the people involved in these schemes where youre trying to get young people to be different, but the young people wholl be making films are not really young people who really the young people who are in and using these knives, in gangs and using these knives, and just all the time, the and its just all the time, the elephant in the room is a race issue, and youve not quoted the statistics at all around race, as ive said, 60 of knife crime in london, for example , is of in london, for example, is of knife murders are committed by young black men who represent 2 or 2 or 3 of the population of london. And by doing more stop and search, youre actually saving lives. And its not about angerin saving lives. And its not about anger in the community. And we often have these same people shouting and at the at the screen when its really the mothers of the, of the victims, we should be listening to. But, mike, youre talking about black people in london, but we also know that knife crime surging in rural areas crime is surging in rural areas as well. We had knife attacks, uh, seven of them, in a matter of weeks in bristol recently. I just wonder if the root of this is to do with young people being bored, and there arent the youth clubs anymore that they can go to. Theyre missing those sorts of facilities. Sorts of facilities. Well, first off, i disagree that bristol was any any form of rural communities. Its a city. No, i know, im not saying its i wasnt saying that with you, with you, with youth clubs. What . We found a study in sweden. Found you do with a youth. Found all you do with a youth club is you just facilitate a place where gangs can meet. There voluntary there are plenty of voluntary organisations, scouts , cadets, organisations, scouts, cadets, rugby clubs , boxing clubs which rugby clubs, boxing clubs which offer a very structured activity. There the ones that we should be encouraging and thats what ive been actively involved in for the last 30 years. Theyre the ones that can help young whether theyre young people, whether theyre black, white, uh, might, might never talking to us. I thought. I thought he was making a rather strong point, and he was making it from the point of view, as he says, of a lifetime of working with young people. And if were not prepared to identify the nature of the problem because were nervous about being accused of racism, same old, old racism, same old, same old problem, cant identify problem, if we cant identify the thing statistically, the chances are that were going to direct our efforts to the wrong places. Is that not a is that places. Is that not a is that not a worry . No that is i do i do take point. Do take your point. And also see that its not and i also see that its not police. Its not solely the polices problem to get rid of knife crime. Perhaps its, you know, knife amnesties. Parents know, knife amnesties. Parents could perhaps help with that. Could perhaps help with that. But but i do think there arent the meeting places that they they used to be. Yeah. On the other hand, the activities and why do people carry knives . They carry knives to protect themselves because theyre fearful. Fearful. And the gangs have a lot to do with it. Its time to look at the weather. Alex burkill. Very the weather. Alex burkill. Very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news. Weather update. Whilst tomorrow is going to be a drier day for many of us, its a pretty unsettled, changeable story today. Outbreaks of showery rain could be heavy at times. Some thunder mixed in, perhaps hail. Also some perhaps some hail. Also some sleet snow. Across parts of sleet or snow. Across parts of england into wales well. England into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of scotland , also likely to of scotland, also likely to bnng of scotland, also likely to bring hill snow here. Bring some hill snow here. Elsewhere, there will be elsewhere, though, there will be some sunny spells breaking out. But still feel to but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures just but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures just about things. Temperatures just about scraping into double digits, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially towards the coasts later on. And as we go through the evening, that wet weather across northern scotland clears away towards west. But away towards the west. But showery outbreaks sleet showery outbreaks of rain, sleet and across northern and hill snow across Northern England feed into scotland as we go through the night. Otherwise across england, wales across much of england, wales and northern ireland, apart from and northern ireland, apart from a few coastal showers, it is going largely dry and going to turn largely dry and with some clear skies. Were going temperatures going to see temperatures dropping, few places dropping, so a few places dipping freezing, leading dipping below freezing, leading to frost in prone spots. To some frost in prone spots. Also some and freezing fog also some fog and freezing fog patches first thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise as we go through tomorrow. Like i through tomorrow. And like i said, a drier day many said, it is a drier day for many of some rain of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney and shetland at times, and few coastal showers times, and a few coastal showers around. The chance of some around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia. Otherwise though mostly fine, a good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter so although lighter winds. So although temperatures be similar to temperatures will be similar to today, should feel less today, it should feel less chilly. Chilly. Thanks very much alex. Still to come aiden has all the sport. What is happening . Plenty going on. Were going to start with f1 because Christian Horner, to start with f1 because christian homer, the Team Principal of red bull, is in serious trouble, as weve been heanng serious trouble, as weve been hearing in the last couple of days. We get more on that later on the bahrain grand on because the bahrain grand prix day of prix kicks off today. Big day of premier action as well. Premier League Action as well. Could Manchester United be about to manager . Well to change their manager . Well find later. Welcome back. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with pip and michael. So, uh gb views. Weve had a lot of news. Yeah, well the flying in this morning talking about rishi sunaks speech last night in downing street from the little sample that ive seen, more are supportive of the Prime Minister than not out. So, for example , you and i so, for example, you and i come in for quite a bit of criticism. Your criticism of sunak this morning is interesting. Wake up and get out of your london centric bubble. Of your london centric bubble. And then neil says, i think the pm is saying what we all believe. I think he i dont think its about political distraction. Were all genuinely worried that britain is getting undermined by outside so undermined by outside forces. So strong votes for the Prime Minister there, john, uh, says good morning. Good morning. That brainless rishi speech cannot be left unchallenged. We in the uk do protest very well. In the uk do protest very well. What is he asking for . Water cannon, rubber bullets, burning barricades , petrol bombs. Thats barricades, petrol bombs. Thats not london. Galloway won a democratic race fairly and squarely. Our democratic race fairly and squarely. Our parties need to move on. And tony says what a load of waffle. Thats a reference to the Prime Minister, not, um , to the Prime Minister, not, um, to pretend to say that youll do something and then do nothing sums him up. It was to deflect attention away from the rochdale by election it was pathetic. But as i say , i think from the small as i say, i think from the small sample i saw more was supportive of the Prime Minister than not. Yeah, i just its the timing of it , you know, its just the of it, you know, its just the very day that by election result came in months ahead of a general election , this gaza war general election, this gaza war broke out , what, five months broke out, what, five months ago . He could have said this weeks ago. Weve known for a long time ago. Weve known for a long time , and i insist, am i rather pedantic way . That is something that should have been said to the house of commons and i think many people in the house of commons will be saying that next week. Lets through all the lets go through all the latest sports news. There is plenty happening this saturday morning. Broadcaster magee morning. Broadcaster aidan magee is here fill us in. Good morning. Good morning to you both. Can we start with a bit of f1 . We havent discussed it much lately just because the seasons been off everything. I mean off for everything. But i mean this a season this is a season with a difference. Obviously the f1 grand prix starts or sorry, the f1 starts today bahrain f1 season starts today bahrain 3 00. Um, but its been undermined completely this , undermined completely by this, this christian this issue with Christian Horner. Mean its rare that horner. I mean, its rare that f1 gets on the front of the papers. Its rarely the papers. Its rarely gets on the back sometimes days. Its back sometimes these days. Its been and so dull been so processional and so dull in last couple seasons. In the last couple of seasons. But Christian Horner, about a month was he well month ago, he was he was well its a campaign to kind of undermine him basically. There were some there were some messages kind of messages there was some kind of allegations a female allegations from a female co worker into key co worker anonymously into key f1 personnel to try and suggest that there had been some allegedly explicit texts or Whatsapp Screenshots being floated around. And there was it was dealt with internally at red bull hq , hq over in austria , and bull hq, hq over in austria, and we thought wed seen maybe the end of it. And then of course, as we know in the last 48 hours, i think it was 79 google drive files of whatsapp, screenshots were dropped into the inbox of all these f1 , f1 personnel, the all these f1, f1 personnel, the timing is everything here. Michael right on the eve of the of the season, Max Verstappen came out yesterday having finished fastest in qualifying and hes his boss, is and said hes his boss, is clearly distracted. Quote clearly distracted. His quote was fully committed to the was hes fully committed to the team. Also for team. Hes also here for performance, of course, possibly a sidetracked and i think a bit sidetracked and i think that would putting it mildly, that would be putting it mildly, quite on the of quite frankly, on the front of the sun as well. Today geri halliwell, his she halliwell, his wife, she was apparently air while apparently in the air while these while files were these while these files were dropped on the on the bosses. Dropped on the on the f1 bosses. And where you go from and where do you go from here . I mean, i think for we have say mean, i think for we have to say yes, its been dealt with internally supposedly, but this new of allegations, internally supposedly, but this new long of allegations, internally supposedly, but this new long i mean, its tough, though, isnt it . Nothings proven but your if nothings proven but your position becomes untenable. If nothings proven but your positthinkecomes untenable. If nothings proven but your positthink itsles untenable. If nothings proven but your positthink its thejntenable. If nothings proven but your positthink its the world ble. If nothings proven but your positthink its the world we i think its the world we live though, pip. Live in, though, pip. Unfortunately, lots of people lose, and lose lose, lose jobs and lose positions of positions because of allegations, though nothing positions because of alproven. S, though nothing positions because of alproven. I though nothing positions because of alproven. I think though nothing positions because of alproven. I think thorsponsorsng is proven. I think the sponsors have view beforehand. Have to take a view beforehand. Look, is this damaging us . And at the start of the season, when i its under pressure i mean its under pressure anyway, become anyway, f1 because its become so, since that huge race so, so dull since that huge race three years ago between hamilton and verstappen. I mean, max and Max Verstappen. I mean, Max Verstappen won 22 out of 23 races year. Its as races last year. Its as uninteresting as you can possibly get. Were hoping that when lewis goes to when Lewis Hamilton goes to transfers ferrari next season transfers to ferrari next season and a car, maybe and he gets a better car, maybe we see some improvement we might see some improvement there competition. But there in the competition. But its certainly under pressure. Find rather i find it all rather depressing. Have got depressing. Have you got anything tell us about sport . Yes. Uh, Manchester United. So not a week goes we so not a week goes by when we dont mention them. Theyre always good for clicks and everything that. So everything like that. So attracts of attention. Attracts a lot of attention. Big story of the sun story on the back of the sun today. Graham potter. Uh, if i can just hold it up there to camera, potter, the camera, uh, a graham potter, the former and manchester. Former brighton and manchester. So brighton and chelsea manager has with manchester has been linked with Manchester United story united today. Now the back story to michael that to this michael is that dan ashworth, director, ashworth, the sporting director, is newcastle. He is coming in from newcastle. He knows from his time knows potter from his time at brighton and i think hes the preferred candidate to take oven preferred candidate to take over. Ten hag, new over. Erik ten hag, the new owner ineos, jim owner from ineos, sir jim ratcliffe, owner from ineos, sirjim ratcliffe, was asked ratcliffe, was was asked yesterday asked but he ratcliffe, was was asked yest given asked but he ratcliffe, was was asked yest given the asked but he ratcliffe, was was asked yest given the opportunityt he ratcliffe, was was asked yest given the opportunity toe was given the opportunity to back erik ten hag last week in a series of interviews. He declined i felt that declined to do so. I felt that was very telling and you can understand why he wants to replace i mean, theyve understand why he wants to repl. Ten i mean, theyve understand why he wants to repl. Ten home mean, theyve understand why he wants to repl. Ten home matches eyve lost ten home matches this season that never happened in the 26 that sir alex the 26 years that sir Alex Ferguson Manchester United ferguson ran Manchester United with distinction. Then with such distinction. Then theyve against manchester tomorrow against manchester city. That city. I cant see that game resulting anything other than resulting in anything other than a defeat for a resounding defeat for Manchester United against the bitter well. The bitter rivals, as well. And the pressure intensifying around bitter rivals, as well. And the presclub intensifying around bitter rivals, as well. And the presclub because ifying around bitter rivals, as well. And the presclub because the|g around bitter rivals, as well. And the presclub because the result|nd bitter rivals, as well. And the presclub because the result isi the club because the result is a club that thrives on results and this season been getting them. Do you mind me saying modest ali, that i think my presence helps you because you that ali, that i think my presence hknowou because you that ali, that i think my presence hknow nothing use you that ali, that i think my presence hknow nothing aboutu that ali, that i think my presence hknow nothing about sport. That ali, that i think my presence hknow nothing about sport. S01at i know nothing about sport. So what does it drives you what that does is it drives you back to explaining all the bafics back to explaining all the basics. All the basics. He fills in all the gaps, tells us who everyone is. Its important, isnt it . Yeah, because it make sure everyone understands the horrible sport. Its horrible habit in sport. Its so presumptive we think presumptive that we just think everyone stuff they dont. Im very pleased that mr graham plotter didnt seek a career in politics. I imagine politics mr graham plotter. No, no, hes. Thats just no, no, hes. No, thats just thats the headline, thats just the headline, michael. Filling the michael. Oh im filling in the gaps oh, no, i thought gaps for you. Oh, no, i thought his was graham. Graham his name was graham. Graham potter. Potter. But that headuneis potter. Potter. But that headline is plotters in there plotting behind the managers back. Why theres a break thats why theres a break coming will explain coming up. Aiden will explain all the break. All right. All in the break. All right. This is a breakfast on gb news with pip and michael. And heres a reminder of our top stories. Stories. Hi there. But our great hi there. But our great achievement in building the worlds most successful multi ethnic , multi faith multi ethnic, multi faith democracy is being deliberately undermine. And there are forces undermine. And there are forces here at home trying to tear us apart. Apart. The Prime Minister, rishi sunak , issues a stark warning, sunak, issues a stark warning, claiming that extremists are trying to undermine democracy as he calls for the country to. Unite why has the raf retired . 30 highly capable jets used to defend the country from foreign aggressors, such as vladimir putin. A charity in South Yorkshire aims to tackle the scourge in knife crime across the county by creating short films depicting the issue. We will be hearing from those affected about 15 anas sarwar get murdered. Get murdered. They got stabbed to death. Fortunately uh , but what was fortunately uh, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Growing up, violence was normal. The creators of a west end play the creators of a west end play could u turn on plans to hold black only evenings following criticism from number 10. Speculation mounts over the health of the princess of wales, so we will be asking is it time for the royal family to be more open. Were going to be looking ahead very shortly to tonights brit awards and taking you through all the runners and riders that is coming next. A very good morning to you. This is breakfast on gb news with pip tomson and Michael Portillo. Welcome back. You are watching and listening to breakfast with pip tomson and Michael Portillo. Lets take a look at some of the newspaper front pages. The times leads with the Prime Minister urging people to ban extreme highest poison. Ban extreme highest poison. The guardian leads with the Prime Minister saying that democracy is under threat from extremists. Extremists. The daily mail says that rishi sunak delivered a speech that the nation needed to hear , that the nation needed to hear, and the telegraph leads with the Prime Ministers speech saying that democracy is under threat. That democracy is under threat. Finally the i leads with labour leader sir keir starmer saying he is sorry about George Galloway and now joining us to go through whats making the news is the ride from podcast lewis oakley and Showbiz Reporter Stephanie Takyi Stephanie Takyi. Stephanie takyi. Yeah. Um, so actually , yeah. Um, so actually, stephanie, if its all right with you. Yeah, i think we might begin with lewis because , um, i begin with lewis because, um, i think i think we might just pick up on the big story about rishi sunak. I dont know whether youve been listening to the debate in the studio this morning. I dont know what your we in green we were gossiping in the green room, so we were its fresh to me, obviously for anyone me, but yet obviously for anyone that around on that that wasnt around on friday night, this big friday night, we had this big announcement there announcement that there was going announcement from going to be an announcement from , downing street. , um, 10 downing street. General election, we thought general election, whats to happen . Um, but whats going to happen . Um, but no, he wanted to talk to us really about the extremism weve seen the last, and seen in the last, um, days and weeks. And i, ive got to be weeks. And i, ive got to be honest, here, it didnt really do it for me. I know that there were some people that were really, you know, felt that really, um, you know, felt that it was good that a Prime Minister had said this and that it right thing to say. It was the right thing to say. The in said he got what the cynic in me said he got what he wanted. George galloway is only these front only on one of these front pages, and i think that it was about him reclaiming the narrative bit, is narrative a little bit, which is not be completely of not to be completely cynical. Of course. The Prime Minister needs to these things and take a to say these things and take a firm stance. You know, firm stance. But, you know, i was out the was listening out for the buzzwords in there that were like things like like framework and things like this. Are actually this. What are you actually going because think going to do . Because i think this the conservatives this has been the conservatives problem a long they problem for a long time. They can good game and say can talk a good game and say theyre to be firm, but theyre going to be firm, but then completely drop the ball when reality. When it comes to the reality. Actually, just made actually, youve just made a point we had graphically point which we had graphically illustrated went illustrated because we went through the pages through all the front pages there, they were there, didnt we . And they were almost identical. Yeah, they were all they were all on rishi. So pull off the so he certainly did pull off the trick of driving galloway off the front pages. Did. But then again, the he did. But then again, the problem when rishi makes problem is when rishi makes these always these grand gestures, it always comes back critics ism comes back to critics ism towards where its almost towards him, where its almost little late. And you little too late. And rishi, you do talk good talk, but can you do talk a good talk, but can you walk good walk in terms of walk a good walk in terms of trying to combat extremism in the and my problem with it the uk . And my problem with it is its an ideology we now need to be going to the grass roots levels. This has been happening in well over a decade. So in the uk well over a decade. So why rishi feeling like why is now rishi feeling like people are just suddenly going to listen him and be like, to listen to him and be like, okay, were all going to get together and were going to try fight late now. Fight this . Its too late now. Not saying, youre not youre not saying, youre not saying hes wrong. Not saying wrong, im not saying hes wrong, but saying hes too but im saying hes little too late dont if he is late and i dont know if he is the man for the job. I feel like i dont personally have confidence in him, and it feels like ing on the backs like hes trail ing on the backs of like braverman. Of people like Suella Braverman. Hes been saying this for weeks, so i feel like hes just trying to a pr campaign its to do a pr campaign here. Its not something was not something catherine was saying disagreement , saying in complete disagreement, stephanie, believes his stephanie, that she believes his speech was one the best ever speech was one of the best ever given by any Prime Minister it really reminded me of that time in the brexit negotiations where theresa may called a press conference and we thought, what is she going say . And she is she going to say . And she walked and basically said, walked out and basically said, im walked off im trying. And then walked off and just gave that kind of and it just gave me that kind of vibes. I also thought, i vibes. I also thought, and i know it was, you know, an outside of number 10, press outside of number 10, um, press conference, but take questions, outside of number 10, um, press conicowardsuut take questions, outside of number 10, um, press conicowards. Rut tanuestionsns, outside of number 10, um, press conicowardsuut tanuestions as you cowards. Take questions as we need the detail here. We need some scrutiny. You cant just grandstand. Well, they talk this grandstand. Well, they talk this well written speech in rehearsal today. He talked about. Sorry to he talked about. Sorry to interrupt, saying interrupt, louis. Just saying about giving us some some substance. He talked about a framework, didnt he . For police without how much . Without telling us how much . Without framework for police. And police must manage the must, um, control the protests, not just manage them and also police that promise that if someone had come here on a student visa and then made trouble in an extremist way, that they would be expelled, but we know that visa would be revoked. It was like, but then what . Yeah, i mean, no, no, no one gets removed. And stephanie, the one of the gb views that shook me was the one that said, get out of your metropolitan bubble. Yeah. And people know that gb news aims not to be in the metropolitan bubble. So that metropolitan bubble. No. So that one bit for me. One stung a bit for me. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think we ought to move on, okay. Um, stefan, do you think we ought to move on, wanted okay. Um, stefan, do you think we ought to move on, wanted to ay. Um, stefan, do you think we ought to move on, wanted to tellum, stefan, do you think we ought to move on, wanted to tell us , stefan, do you think we ought to move on, wanted to tell us what . N, you wanted to tell us what . Yeah, what keir starmer had been saying yesterday. Well, hes apologised to voters in rochdale following george win. Um, but George Galloways win. Um, but he said it was the right thing for disown his candidate. For him to disown his candidate. Azhar ali, who obviously theyve distanced themselves from him due his anti semitism , due to his anti semitism, anti semitic views. Due to his anti semitism, anti semitic views. Um, again, i feel like following the results in rochdale, it goes to show that voters should not be underestimated and for keir starmer now, he cannot just think that everythings going to go his way. You know, the voters are listening, they are watching. And now hes getting a glimpse of how people are feeling about gaza and about israel. Like George Galloway , even though he George Galloway, even though he is receiving criticism, he did the right thing for rochdale. Clearly yeah. Its almost like labour are trying to suggest that result yesterday was was a bit of a blip. Of a blip. Yeah, no, but actually the ramifications could be massive in terms of the muslim vote. Definitely. And when it comes to the general election now, i hope keir starmer is not resting on his laurels and, you know, with these kind of big points of topics where people are, you know, interested in talking, he now needs to take a stand. Now. He needs to be quite vocal on where his party stands and what his view is. Well, its very interesting to see the pressure on labour finally, their strategy to see the pressure on labour finjust their strategy to see the pressure on labour finjust say their strategy to see the pressure on labour finjust say nothingeir strategy to see the pressure on labour finjust say nothing and rategy to see the pressure on labour finjust say nothing and watch of just say nothing and watch the tories fall over is not going to get them through this gaza mean, hes gaza issue clearly. I mean, hes issued an apology and you sort of think, well, you can understand your hands tied , understand your hands were tied, you stand him down and you had to stand him down and the ballot papers been the ballot papers have been printed. You going to printed. What were you going to do . Um, its very its just very odd now to be having these by elections general elections with a general elections with a general election always election looming. You always want them, get want to say to them, dont get too comfortable. Shoes too comfortable. Keep your shoes on because youll be back out campaigning in no and it campaigning in no time. And it was interesting point you was an interesting point you made think made yesterday, michael, i think where trying where labour was trying to suggest didnt win suggest that we didnt win because we didnt have a candidate, you think candidate, whereas you think that galloway would that George Galloway would still have with very good have been in with a very good shout, labour had. Shout, even if labour had. I do think that and i also think, you know, what does Keir Starmers greatest single claim it hes taken labour it is that hes taken the labour party, away from what party, taken it away from what it jeremy corbyn, got it was under jeremy corbyn, got rid anti semitism. Rid of the anti semitism. And yet when it comes to a by election, they cannot find a candidate who can get 48 hours into the campaign without saying something anti semitic something blatantly anti semitic. Its absolutely extraordinary, isnt it . Uh , louis, shall we talk uh, louis, shall we talk about defence . Yes, yes. yes, yes. Defence spending. So grant shapps, if anyone doesnt know, weve got a budget coming next week. So thats why everyone in the metropolitan league will be talking hopefully talking about. But hopefully around it around the country, because it affects but anyway, affects us all. But anyway, grant is getting early grant shapps is getting in early and has told hunt, look, and has told jeremy hunt, look, weve raise defence weve got to raise defence spending uh, to 2. 5. Spending by, uh, to 2. 5. I believe its 2. 2 currently. Um there are a lot of threats coming our way. Weve got wars. Um going everywhere. Weve had talks about , um going everywhere. Weve had talks about, you um going everywhere. Weve had talks about , you know, trident talks about, you know, trident missiles that cant take off. Weve, you know, got ships that were having to take out of commission because we cant staff them. Were talking this morning typhoon jets that morning about typhoon jets that are retired. Are being retired. Is abysmal situation. It is an abysmal situation. It is an abysmal situation. Really does feel like it really does feel like were not taking this seriously in a in more dangerous world. In a in a more dangerous world. And thing about defence is and the thing about defence is you never have use you hope you never have to use it. Do whilst it. So we actually do whilst theres a lot of things that need funding at the moment, i do actually think to, but actually think we need to, but i think actually probably need think we actually probably need to little further than to go a little bit further than this say, you know, if we this and say, you know, if we ever were war, lets not be ever were at war, lets not be caught pants down, you caught with our pants down, you know, we feed our know, could we feed our citizens, know, could we citizens, you know, could we create . Its just about create . Its not just about missiles and Service People anymore. Need to anymore. We actually need to say, keep country say, could we keep the country running took our running if someone took our internet what would we do . Running if someone took our inte|are what would we do . Running if someone took our inte|are you what would we do . Running if someone took our inte|are you alwayst would we do . Running if someone took our inte|are you always think, d we do . Running if someone took our inte|are you always think, aree do . And are you always think, are you really thinking this thing through . You make really good points. I absolutely what youre i absolutely applaud what youre saying, i think belief saying, but i think the belief in money a bit naive. I mean, in money is a bit naive. I mean, were spending of gdp, were were spending 2 of gdp, were spending £50 billion. Ive been both to defence secretary and shadow chancellor if i were the chancellor, i dont think id give to the defence give more money to the defence department. Money department. They spend the money so appalling really badly. I mean, with 50 billion and they cant get either one of the carriers out to sea with 50 billion. Theyve only. Where they spending the where are they spending the money . Theyre spending money . Yeah, theyre spending it so badly. It going . So badly. Where is it going . For example. Well they, well, for example. Well they, they, they put they, they i think they put either 3 or 5 billion i forget into a vehicle for the army, which , which theyre even which, which theyre not even sure theyre going sure now theyre going to produce made when produce because it made the when they put it into tests, it made people so sick and so deaf that theyre having to rework the vehicle. Billions vehicle. So billions are going into that never see the into programs that never see the light day. But of the light of day. But one of the great mysteries is what happens light of day. But one of the gr it doesnt come out the bottom. Really. Really. Stephanie, were you were stephanie, you were you were certainly agreement some certainly in agreement with some of saying. Of what i was saying. Im not a money you know, im not a money girl at all, but ive just for me, i just think, where is this money coming from . Wasnt it just weeks it was just a few weeks ago, it was announced that this country is in recession. I just in a recession. And i just think, what about the everyday man and their lives . I feel like the be going back the money should be going back to our society, were to our society, like were pumping all this money into ukraine. And me , i just the ukraine. And for me, i just the maths doesnt add up to me. Dont see ukraine our frontline. No, i do, i dont, i dont, michael, because i just think there are people in this country who afford to eat, they who cant afford to eat, they cant to survive. Cant afford to survive. Are the people we these are the people we should be caring about. Dont get wrong, my heart breaks get me wrong, my heart breaks for really does. For ukraine. It really does. You that could dont you think that could potentially any potentially have any ramifications though . Ramifications on us though . Well, maybe im short. Well, maybe im being short. Maybe short. Ukraine. Maybe im being short. Ukraine. Maybe im being short. Ukraine. Maybe sighted. Maybe im being short sighted. But think i live in the but i just think i live in the uk and i see our problems here at home. Um, so for ukraine, its hard for me to connect with its hard for me to connect with it financially. I think youve said youre not a money girl, but i bet you can help us with the brit award. Of course. Am i right in saying now youre speaking my language . Rudders rudders through whos in contention . Through whos in contention . Well, you know what i would like to say this year is going to be the year of the woman, michael, because in 2022, the brits rid of gendered brits got rid of gendered categories. And last year we saw the artists of the year being dominated by all men. So those were headlines that were were the headlines that were coming the but coming out of the brits. But this year theyve rectified it. 57 of the nominations are now going to women, and were going to see Kylie Minogue tonight. Shes going receive the shes going to receive the global award. Shes had global icon award. Shes had a career of over 30 years, so shell be performing on stage as well. One i think people well. One singer i think people should out for tonight should look out for tonight is ray. Up for a staggering ray. Shes up for a staggering seven nominations. Shes already won songwriter of the year. Shes been quite vocal about the Sexual Assault shes faced in the music industry, but theres also other people, such as dua lipa, whos up for three nominations as well. Ray sling stones. Im hoping they can pick an award today. Theyre only up for one, which is for best rock alternative, which will be voted by the viewers at home. So this is their first nominee that they received in over a decade. And are there any good, um, duets happening . I mean, we talk duets happening . I mean, we talk about kylie there. Yeah i mean, for me, one of the iconic performances over the year was was uh, her and robbie was her, uh, her and robbie williams. Yeah, yeah. Which was, gosh, 20 years ago williams. Yeah, yeah. Which was, goshwhen 20 years ago williams. Yeah, yeah. Which was, goshwhen they 20 years ago williams. Yeah, yeah. Which was, goshwhen they did 20 years ago williams. Yeah, yeah. Which was, goshwhen they did kids ears ago williams. Yeah, yeah. Which was, goshwhen they did kids together. Now when they did kids together. I wish there was to i wish there was going to like am about the like i am excited about the brits but i think kylie brits tonight, but i think kylie will be the headliner of the show. Theres dua lipa as well, who performing, and who will be performing, and theres r b act called theres some an r b act called tate will be tate who will also be performing, havent performing, but they havent really star studded really got the big star studded names the brits used to names that the brits used to have. Names that the brits used to have. A of new talent, have. Its a lot of new talent, which is good, and presenting it. It. Kemp , maya it. Kemp, maya jama and roman kemp, maya jama and clara amfo theyre all new presenting line up for the show. Lewis , do you know as much lewis, do you know as much about dua lipa as i do . Uh, probably. Uh, probably. I really not down with the kids. Despite having three kids, but theyre very young, so my area more like, know, area is more like, you know, peppa um, but i thought it peppa pig. Um, but i thought it was interesting what you were saying about the gender roles. So rid of the gendered so they got rid of the gendered roles. Yes everyone kicked off because there werent enough women in it. Now theyve rectified it. But surely rectified it. Yeah, but surely then back then theyve just gone back to. Well, weve have sort of well, weve got to have sort of 50 ish percent men, 50 ish percent women, but we just wont call a male female category. Well, i wont be surprised tonight if we a majority of tonight if we see a majority of the females winning they get the females winning so they get the females winning so they get the but no one the right headlines. But no one likes feel like token likes to feel like the token act. And know, when adele act. And you know, when adele won artist of the year, i think last year, she was like, i still want be a female and consider want to be a female and consider that, oh that . That, oh whos that . Adele. That is adele. That is adele. She is speaking of adele, just magic. She appeared. She is speaking of adele, just verygic. She appeared. She is speaking of adele, just very much,a appeared. She is speaking of adele, just very much, stephanie. Thanks very much, stephanie. Thanks very much, stephanie. Thanks much, well thanks very much, louis. Well talk again later. It is, talk to you again later. It is, of course, the weekend. You might have of lovely plans. Might have lots of lovely plans. Lets what the weather lets find out what the Weather Forecast them. Forecast is doing for them. Heres alex burkill. A brighter heres alex burkill. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Of weather on. Gb news. Hello. Very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news weather update. Whilst tomorrow going to be a drier tomorrow is going to be a drier day for many of us, its a pretty unsettled, changeable story outbreaks of story today. Outbreaks of showery rain could be heavy at times, thunder mixed in, times, some thunder mixed in, perhaps some also some perhaps some hail, also some sleet snow. Across parts sleet or snow. Across parts of England Wales as well. A england into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of scotland also likely to bring some hill snow here. Elsewhere though, will be some sunny though, there will be some sunny spells still spells breaking out but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures just about scraping into double digits, perhaps , and into double digits, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially towards the coasts. Later on. And as we go through the evening that wet weather across northern scotland clears away towards the west. But showery outbreaks of rain, sleet snow across rain, sleet and hill snow across northern feed into Northern England feed into scotland as we go through the night otherwise, much of night. Otherwise, across much of England Wales Northern England, wales and northern ireland, apart from a few coastal showers, it is going to turn largely dry and with some clear skies were going to see temperatures dropping so a few places below freezing, places dipping below freezing, leading prone leading to some frost in prone spots. Also fog and spots. Also some fog and freezing patches first thing freezing fog patches first thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as we tomorrow. And like we go through tomorrow. And like i dner we go through tomorrow. And like i drier day for i said, it is a drier day for many of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney and shetland at times a few coastal showers times and a few coastal showers around. The chance of some around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia otherwise, though mostly fine. A otherwise, though mostly fine. A good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter although lighter winds. So although temperatures be similar to temperatures will be similar to today, should less today, it should feel less chilly. Chilly. Looks like things are heating up boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning. It is 7 00 on saturday the 2nd of march. Today i fear that our great achievement in building the worlds most successful multi ethnic, multi faith democracy is being deliberately undermined. There are forces here at home trying to tear us apart. The Prime Minister, rishi sunak , issues a stark warning, sunak, issues a stark warning, claiming that extremism are trying to undermine democracy as he calls for the country to unite it. Unite it. Why has the raf retired . 30 highly capable jets used to defend the country from foreign aggressors, such as vladimir putin. A charity in South Yorkshire aims to tackle the scourge of knife crime across the county by creating short films depicting the issue. We hear from those affected. We hear from those affected. We hear from those affected. About 50 anas sarwar get murdered. They got stabbed to murdered. They got stabbed to death. Fortunately um , but what death. Fortunately um, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Growing up, violence was normal. The creators of a west end play. Could you turn on plans to hold black only evenings following criticism from number 10 . Speculation mounts over the health of the princess of wales, so well be asking, is it time for the royal family to be more open with us . A very good morning. We look ahead to the start of the formula one season with the bahrain grand prix underway this afternoon. Its also a big day in premier league, with in the premier league, with liverpool and aston liverpool, tottenham and aston villa has the villa all in action and has the blue finally being given blue card finally being given the card. The red card. Morning. Its another chilly day and watch out for some hefty, showery rain as well as a bit of snow tomorrow , though, bit of snow tomorrow, though, bnngs bit of snow tomorrow, though, brings better news if its drier weather youre after, ill have the details shortly. Good the details shortly. Good morning, im pip tomson. Good morning, im Michael Portillo, this is breakfast on gb news. Gb news. So good to have you with us this saturday morning. And were getting lots of comments from you about about rishi sunaks speech in downing street last night, but also the other end of the scale, something much, much lighter, a bit of nostalgia, uh, because because the top ten sounds from the 80s, the 90s, the noughties that we miss the most. So it that we miss the most. So it could be, for example , a vhs could be, for example, a vhs tape being inserted into a video player. Tape being inserted into a video player. Bupa. Yes, michaels doing the sound effects for this one. Rotary phone dialling. One. 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And in went coin. And the and in went the coin. And the and coin made and the coin and the coin made us a sound. Kachunk us made a sound. Kachunk well, unless it came out the bottom, which often did in the phone boxes, was kachunk bottom, which often did in the phone iba as, was kachunk bottom, which often did in the phone iba ba, was kachunk bottom, which often did in the phone iba ba, more as kachunk bottom, which often did in the phone iba ba, more or kachunk bottom, which often did in the phone iba ba, more or less unk bottom, which often did in the phone iba ba, more or less so< bottom, which often did in the phone iba ba, more or less so. And ba ba ba, more or less so. So, uh, we want to hear from you today. This sounds that you missed the most. And michael here will do them for us. John dunne gb views news at gb news. Com do please let us know. Right were going to get serious because Prime Minister rishi sunak , uh, surprised a lot of us sunak, uh, surprised a lot of us by speaking in downing street on a rainy night last night, claiming that democracy is under threat from extremism. Um, in threat from extremism. Um, in the wake of hamass october 7 attack on israel in a speech to the nation in downing street, he said there are forces here at home trying to tear us apart. Lets take a listen to what he was saying. He was saying. I fear that our great achievement in building the worlds most successful, multi ethnic , multi faith multi ethnic, multi faith democracy is being deliberately undermined. And there are forces undermined. And there are forces here at home trying to tear us apart on too many occasions. Recently our streets have been hijacked by small groups who are hostile to our values and have no respect for our democratic traditions, threats of violence and intimidation are alien to our way of doing things. They must be resisted at all times as i lets delve into this a little bit more with political commentator Peter Spencer and local government editor at conservative home, harry phibbs a very good morning to you both. Harry, can i start with you . Uh, quite an unexpected speech from rishi sunak. Uh, was it a good rishi sunak. Uh, was it a good one . Was it welcomed . Or as michael suggested, actually should it really have taken place in the. House of commons . Place in the. House of commons . Well, i think it was welcome. One of the criticisms of rishi sunakis one of the criticisms of rishi sunak is that he will try to , sunak is that he will try to, uh, avoid things that are sensitive and contentious , that sensitive and contentious, that hell either equivocate or try and avoid talking about them at all. I think that this is obviously an unusual thing for the Prime Minister to come out onto the steps of downing street, it means its a street, but it means its a very, um, pro active way of taking on the, uh , issue. And of taking on the, uh, issue. And of course, with, uh, lee anderson, he was, uh, criticised for his, his, um, choice of words. But his, um, choice of words. But people people did also feel, well, at least hes had the courage to confront this , this, courage to confront this, this, um, serious, controversial issue rather than diving for cover. Rather than diving for cover. And, uh, so i thought that it was it was good. The Prime Minister raised it, and i think he raised it in the in the right way. Um, that that important distinction between, um, the, uh, islamist, the jihadist extremists and the ordinary muslims and also saying that the difficulty is not some great sort of conspiracy , uh, that the sort of conspiracy, uh, that the islamists have got sort of control of politicians, but of pandenng control of politicians, but of pandering and, and appeasing to them. And thats what weve seen from, uh, sadiq khan and Lindsay Hoyle and keir starmer and others. So i think , i think he, others. So i think, i think he, i think he made i think he made valid points. And it was good that he, uh, came out and said them clearly. Harry i wonder whether he, um, lacks credibility in certain areas. Credibility in certain areas. I mean, for example, he mentioned the prevent program, but the prevent program has been heavily criticised for putting huge resources into tackling right wing conspiracies and reducing the resources put into combating islamist plots. He talked about taking away the visas from students who came here and then engaged in extremist activity. But we know extremist activity. But we know that the governments record on removing people is extremely poon removing people is extremely poor. So is credibility be a problem with that sort of speech . 7 uh oh. I imam exam imam . Uh oh. I think , of course, uh oh. I think, of course, the problem is that he the people will say, well, hang on, whos the Prime Minister . Whos, whos the Prime Minister . Whos, whos going to deal with all of all of this . And thats often been a frustration over, over many, um , issues, particularly many, um, issues, particularly among conservatives who say, well, look, heres, heres a government that will sometimes come up with some conservative, um, rhetoric that will fail to follow through in terms of policies. I think youre absolutely with absolutely right. With the prevent program. Its prevent program. Indeed. Its worse that in that some worse than that in that some respects, some of the, the funding, was , is was going funding, um, was, is was going to, uh, some of these, some of these extreme groups that it was meant to be, um, combating. So i think that thats that, thats a great concern. Probably the greatest concern is the, um, is the policing , of course. Uh, the policing, of course. Uh, its correct to say that the politicians dont have operational control, um, of the police, but theres considerable, uh, dismay that the police are failing to uphold the police are failing to uphold the law or failing to prevent incitement to violence. And thats thats probably the, uh, single, uh, big issue that that , single, uh, big issue that that, uh, that we need to get on top of maybe we need to have some kind of restriction or in some cases on the number of people who can demonstrate. You will remember mass picketing remember we had mass picketing and um, Margaret Thatcher and then, um, Margaret Thatcher brought in some limit that there could only six a could be only six outside a place of work. So people could make protest , place of work. So people could make protest, but place of work. So people could make protest , but they make their protest, but they couldnt intimidation to couldnt use intimidation to actually prevent people going about their daily lives. I about their their daily lives. I think we need to get that think we need to get to that principle people principle that, yes, people should allowed to protest, should be allowed to protest, but they should not be but no, they should not be allowed to disrupt and intimidate political commentator Peter Spencer. Peter spencer. Keir starmers response last night was was it is right to advocate unity . He was very supportive of the Prime Minister, which i actually found a little surprising. Hmm. A little surprising. Hmm. Yeah, i mean, hes very anxious not to break ranks at this stage , which indeed is this stage, which indeed is something that has very much annoyed a large number of his own mps, as were aware. Thats why keir starmer was particularly worried about, and particularly worried about, and particularly upset about the fact that that galloway has now been elected in rochdale. Um, been elected in rochdale. Um, because of course he will. He will deliver a great deal of firebrand rhetoric in support of the palestinian cause and a great many labour mps will take a great deal of notice of this. But when it comes to rishi sunak speech , i mean, it was a speech. Speech, i mean, it was a speech. It wasnt it wasnt a policy. He it wasnt it wasnt a policy. He didnt really say anything particularly new. It was quite a clever ploy. I think, to do it outside number 10, because it had the effect of ensuring that he got maximum coverage. But i think the, the, the reason for thatis think the, the, the reason for that is his own fear that George Galloways message might just start to resonate on his own side. I mean, lets get real here. The Palestinian Death toll, mainly women and children, is now nudging up towards 30 times the number of people who were slaughtered in the hamas atrocity. And if the israeli tanks roll into to rafah, then were looking at at potentially a humanitarian disaster. And remember that islam is the second largest, uh, religion within the united kingdom, where theres plenty of tory voters who happen to be muslims as well as labour voters. And i think as labour voters. And i think rishi sunak is very anxious to ensure that he doesnt. He doesnt end up with the same sort of headaches as as keir starmer over his stance towards the conflict. The conflict. Harry phibbs uh, who is a local government editor at conservative home and political commentator Peter Spencer. Thank you both for your input this morning and interesting as well, michael, that not long after sunaks speech, George Galloway was asked about it and sunaks talking about, you know, not wanting division. You need to be unified. And George Galloway said he despises him. Yes yes, a very galloway, a very galloway remark. Remark. And we were saying earlier that rishi sunak White Galloway off the headlines this morning, which is true, however , what which is true, however, what doesit which is true, however, what does it matter . I mean, we all know what happened in the by election yesterday. It was the one news story until 6 pm, when Prime Minister suddenly when the Prime Minister suddenly popped when the Prime Minister suddenly popped street. Popped out of downing street. Okay. Will absolutely. Okay. We will talk that later. Keep talk more about that later. Keep your thoughts in well your thoughts coming in as well on vaiews gbnews. Com. Now on it. Vaiews gbnews. Com. Now in a few days time next wednesday. In fact it is the spnng wednesday. In fact it is the spring budget. The last budget we expect, i think, before the general election. Ill make a bet with you on that one. Go on. Well i think well have another one. Oh, you do , have another one. Oh, you do, yes i do. Oh yeah. I think theres going to be another assuming we going to be another assuming we go to october at least. I think therell be another package of measures. The year, measures. Um, later in the year, if the government suddenly finds its more headroom, its got a little more headroom, as a bit more as they call it, a bit more money to spend. As they call it, a bit more mo see,o spend. As they call it, a bit more mo see, im end. As they call it, a bit more mo see, im not. As they call it, a bit more mo see, im not still fully see, im not still fully convinced about an autumn election. Are okay, but hey, ho, maybe just im maybe its just because im desperate it done. Desperate to get get it done. Yeah, well next yeah, exactly. Well next wednesday we are going wednesday evening we are going to a special Live Programme to have a special Live Programme from whitehaven in cumbria focusing on what is in jeremy hunfs focusing on what is in jeremy hunts spring budget. And you can be part of the audience. Michelle dewberry and nigel farage will be broadcasting live. All the details. If youre watching us this morning, are on your screen now. Now the ref has your screen now. Now the ref has sparked fury after announcing it will retire 30. Quick reaction alert jets used to protect british skies from potential attacks. The aircraft will be grounded despite only completing 40 of their predicted flying hours, in a move that has been likened to scrapping spitfires before the battle of britain and a retired British Army Officer and Defence Analyst, colonel simon diggins, joins us now. Simon diggins, welcome very much to the gb news. So uh, lots of people are expressing their shock over this. They find it very confusing that at a time that the risk to our country is rising, that these jets, which are capable, although somewhat elderly , are being retired. Elderly, are being retired. Indeed the proposal, i think, is to scrap them. What has been to scrap them. What has been your reaction to this piece of news . Its two things. One is its of course its normal to retire equipment when its towards the end of its life, but of course, in these instances, these particular aircraft not particular aircraft are not really the end of their really towards the end of their life. Theres still many more years use available to them. Years of use available to them. I really indicates i think what it really indicates is short money is actually how short of money the air is. And we the Royal Air Force is. And we know thats been pressure on the chancellor. And just chancellor. And you just mentioned looking mentioned the budget looking ahead or not more ahead to see whether or not more money can found for the royal money can be found for the royal air think they had air force. I think if they had the money they needed, they wouldnt be retiring these jets. I thats the i think thats really the key thing not necessarily i think thats really the key thinfact not necessarily i think thats really the key thinfact that not necessarily i think thats really the key thinfact that theyt necessarily i think thats really the key thinfact that they have assarily i think thats really the key thinfact that they have not rily the fact that they have not theyre not going to be theyre going to be retired. Its the shortage which is shortage of money which is driving when a driving this. What when i was a minister, there was a very unpleasant expression that was used, ing stumps. So meant when so this meant when a department wanted to demonstrate to treasury was to the treasury that it was having difficulty is because it didnt enough money. It didnt have enough money. It would the most would concoct the most catastrophic scenario. So the Health Department would say that millions of patients were going to be deprived of health care or whatever. Is this a bleeding stump . Is this the raf taking this opportunity to Say Something outrageous . Because i think is an outrageous think this is an outrageous proposal order that the proposal in order that the treasury will have to take another look at the defence budget. Budget. Simon. Oh oh, oh, i think i think, simon, unfortunately has what a shame. What a shame. Have were you were you familiar with that bleeding . No , i wasnt actually. No, i wasnt actually. I mean, it is quite bad taste, but you get this. Yeah. Um and it was absolutely standard practice. I mean, i was in the treasury and i was in departments and you develop a certain cynicism when youre in the treasury because, youre in the treasury because, you know, the tricks of the departments are going use. Departments are going to use. And so, simon, weve got simon back. We think i was saying to you, do you think this is the raf, um, coming up with a sort of catastrophic outcome in order to get more money out of the treasury . Treasury . That is, of course, entirely possible. I mean, shroud waving, is there. The royal navy used to is there. The royal navy used to do same thing with the with do the same thing with the with the with the royal yacht. I mean, those things are those things part the things are, are, are part of the if like the dialogue within if you like the dialogue within whitehall. But think there whitehall. But i think there still a real issue the still is a real issue and the twice the last month weve twice in the last month weve had times in had the times coming out in editorials saying the editorials saying that the chancellor needs find his chancellor needs to find his head minimum of three 3 of head the minimum of three 3 of gdp meet the current threat. Gdp to meet the current threat. And so whether see it as an and so whether you see it as an indicator of if a particular project or project wants to save or actually theres this wider argument, think that issue argument, i think that the issue is the armed forces is still there. The armed forces are short of money. They have been short of money for a number of years. Faced with the range of years. Faced with the range of threats we now of threats weve now we now face, particularly putin, then i think they will use these opportunities to make that point. Um, the aircraft could be put into light preservation. Put into light preservation. Were not very good at that, actually. Its one of the things that other nations do this, if theyve equipment sits theyve got equipment that sits towards its life, but towards the end of its life, but might have some of it, might still have some use of it, they put it into preservation. We tend to get rid of it. And maybe theres a lesson there as well, generally, about how well, more generally, about how well, more generally, about how we defence we manage our defence procurement, think we manage our defence procuralsort, think we manage our defence procuralso a think we manage our defence procuralso a question think we manage our defence procuralso a question about thats also a question about how we do business in the future. Our defence procurement, i think , most people would , i think most people would agree, actually mess. And agree, is actually a mess. And maybe like the end of maybe if you like the end of life care for our equipment, its that conversation its part of that conversation as well. Em i mean, michael was saying that theres a lot of wastage in the ministry defence. The ministry of defence. The money is not you know, the money is not going to the to the right places. Well, i think theres we actually spend quite a lot of money on defence. I was money on defence. And i was looking some i mean own looking at some i mean my own service was the army. I was just looking at some, some figures. We got about. 157 looking at some, some figures. We got about. 157 main we have got about. 157 main battle tanks in, in our, in our, on our inventory of good quality at battle tanks. But the poles have got nearly five times that many. And their defence budget is nearly half of ours. So hes getting really badly wrong in the way in which we actually run our defences that can we can our defences that we can we can end you know, 157 on end up with, you know, 157 on a good day. They have something at 567 main battle tanks on a good day on on a budget thats day and on a, on a budget thats over half half ours. So i over half a half ours. So i think its a massive, massive question mark about how the mod uses money. You and i are in good. Simon, you and i are in agreement on that. Thank you very much indeed. Thats simon diggins. Um yes, of course. One diggins. Um yes, of course. One of the things we do is we try to buy british, and if you try to buy british, and if you try to buy british, and if you try to buy british, that more or less means that you only have one person you can go to any one suppuer person you can go to any one supplier you can go to. And guess what happens when have guess what happens when you have a price goes up. A monopoly . The price goes up. Of course. Of course. Did you feel when you were in government that fighting to get that you were fighting to get money . Well, when i was in money . Well well, when i was in the of defence, i was the department of defence, i was fighting to get money. When was chief and when i was chief secretary the treasury, i was secretary to the treasury, i was fighting going fighting to stop the money going out doon out the door. So you have seen it from both sides. You wear different hats on different days. Yeah. Yeah. Nice crime. That is on nice crime. Now that is on the in britain as we all the rise in britain as we all know. The year ending know. And in the year ending september year, 2023, it september last year, 2023, it increased. By 48,716 offences. Increased. By 48,716 offences. Thats 5 higher compared to the year before in South Yorkshire. Year before in South Yorkshire. The data from the ministry of justice shows that two thirds of cautions or convictions for knife crime in the area were handed to first time offenders. Our yorkshire reporter anna riley has been to a charity run eventin riley has been to a charity run event in sheffield that involves young people helping to get knives off the streets, giving a helping hand to stop young people from carrying knives. Anthony olatunde founded charity always an alternative after growing up surrounded by knife crime in sheffield. He wants to get knives off the streets of the steel city and lodge an awareness event at showroom cinema. When i was 15, i saw someone get murdered. They got stabbed get murdered. They got stabbed to death. Fortunately um , but to death. Fortunately um, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Every day im looking over my shoulder every day. You know, someones getting locked up or someones getting injured. Surely life cant just injured. Surely life cant just be that i had a few lucky escapes myself, and i thought ive actually had enough. I work more than this. This cant continue to happen. Ive got kids i dont want to not be kids now. I dont want to not be there for them. So i made that decision. Key to naylor experienced the pain of losing a loved one to knife crime. Loved one to knife crime. His best friend, Louis Phillips , was stabbed to death phillips, was stabbed to death at the age of 15 by a stranger dunng at the age of 15 by a stranger during an unprovoked attack in South Yorkshire. South yorkshire. Ever since i lost my best friend, its made me realise where all knives really arent needed, like theres so much more to life than carrying a knife. Well, just a weapon in general. They were training for general. They were training for Barnsley Football Club , they Barnsley Football Club, they were doing well, getting grades and that it just applied for college. So no, it really wasnt a bad lad tackling knife crime to prevent further tragedies is a priority for South Yorkshire police. Police. The police are obviously doing a lot in terms of trying to identify, locate and target those individuals or or gangs that are prone to violence and use guns and knives , so theres use guns and knives, so theres a lot of work around that. But, a lot of work around that. But, um, prevention is really the more important thing. How do we stop young people back at showroom cinema, students from a Sheffield High School produced a short film to highlight knife crime amongst teenagers. Crime amongst teenagers. It was really educational and you really you dont understand how bad knife crime is until like, youre being told the figure, you know, Something Like this could happen to me, could happen to anyone. But it is concerned and it is something , you know that i something that, you know that i dont want to happen with recent figures showing 17 of knife crime offenders in england and wales were under 18, its hoped schemes like this will deter children from carrying weapons. Anna riley gb news working with always so anna rileys report, which is also shown earlier in the programme, has brought in some gb views whos helen says that parents should be required to do more to stop their kids carrying knives and should be prosecuted if they fail to do that. Fail to do that. She says police could put up portable metal detectors at school gates , and she also says school gates, and she also says we must not be afraid of the fear of the race card being used. That would be a reference to earlier discussion we had to the earlier discussion we had about the utility of stop and search, and on i a few of you, ive been told, and being a complete softie over this, and i need to get my head off the sand, out of the sand and take off the rose tinted glasses , off the rose tinted glasses, says john. Knife crime is mainly because of black drug gangs at war with each other. But brenda, because i mentioned the issue of youth clubs and boredom. Brenda, good morning. You worked in youth morning. You worked in youth clubs for over 20 years where young people can meet and chill in a well supervised environment. Club was open environment. The club was open seven days a week and you say that this is the way forward. Bnng that this is the way forward. Bring them back sukh it might not solve it , but it bring them back sukh it might not solve it, but it might just help. Um obviously a lack of facilities is certainly not a useful thing. So more facilities. My voice has gone. I think its time for the weather. Alex burkill has the weather. Alex burkill has the. Weather. The. Weather. Hello. Very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news weather update. Whilst tomorrow is going to be a drier day for many of us, its a pretty unsettled, changeable story today. Outbreaks of showery rain could be heavy at times. Some thunder mixed in, perhaps also some perhaps some hail. Also some sleet or snow. Across parts of england into wales well. England into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of scotland. Also likely to bnng of scotland. Also likely to bring some hill snow here. Elsewhere though, there will be some spells breaking out some sunny spells breaking out but a chilly feel to but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures about things. Temperatures just about scraping into double digits, perhaps , and some strong winds, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially towards the coasts. Later on. And as we go through the evening, that wet weather across northern scotland clears away towards but away towards the west. But showery outbreaks of rain, sleet and across northern and hill snow across Northern England into scotland as we england feed into scotland as we go through the night. Otherwise across of england, wales across much of england, wales and northern ireland, apart from and northern ireland, apart from a coastal showers, it is a few coastal showers, it is going to turn largely dry and with skies. Were with some clear skies. Were going to see temperatures dropping, so places dropping, so a few places dipping freezing, leading dipping below freezing, leading to some frost in prone spots. Also some fog freezing fog also some fog and freezing fog patches. Thing tomorrow patches. First thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise as we go through tomorrow, said , through tomorrow, like i said, it day for many of it is a drier day for many of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney and at times, orkney and shetland at times, and coastal showers and a few coastal showers around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia. Otherwise though mostly fine, a good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter winds. So although temperatures similar to temperatures will be similar to today, should feel today, it should feel less chilly. You can do that. Chilly. You can do that. Are you okay . Are you okay . Yes. I was saying actually that coughing is actually quite a common thing on air, but something ive never done. I dont know whether you ever have is sneeze on air. No, for some reason, i think the body stops you sneezing. Yeah. When youre of. Yeah. Maybe when youre kind of. You know, slightly tensed up as one be on television, one would be on television, probably that stops you sneezing, unfortunately sneezing, but unfortunately it doesnt you coughing. Doesnt stop you coughing. Happened to me. Its oh, its happened to me. Its happened a number, happened to me. A number, a number of times. But were okay. Were all were all good. Still to come here on news to come here on gb news breakfast. Serious question this. You know the symptoms this. Do you know the symptoms of ptsd . Well, a third of us apparently dont. And well be finding out more about that in just a moment. Youre with breakfast on gb news good morning with pip and michael. Good morning and welcome back. You are watching and listening to breakfast with pip tomson and Michael Portillo. Michael portillo. It seems that a third of us still dont understand what post Traumatic Stress syndrome is. Thats according to new research, the Veterans Mental Health Charity Combat stress found that 60 of us were able to identify the symptoms, while 11 couldnt. Were now joined by the former army veteran and director of fundraising at combat stress, robert marsh. Um combat stress, robert marsh. Um i was worried myself there that i was worried myself there that i couldnt necessarily identify the symptoms of combat stress. Should we just run through some of those first . For sure . Well, most people were able to identify panic attacks, but things like anxiety not being able to sleep, um , not being able to sleep, um, constantly or trying to avoid the trauma that, um, that caused , uh, ptsd. The other thing is that veterans also talk about hypervigilance. So thats sort of operating your whole life in a very soldierly manner. So that would mean walking down the street looking at rooftops for snipers, looking for tripwires. And when you go into a building working out where the exits are and trying to keep back to and trying to keep your back to and trying to keep your back to a those sorts of things, a wall, those sorts of things, and hyper vigilance must and that hyper vigilance must be not pretty not only exhausting, but pretty frightening, not only exhausting, but pretty frightenir and not only exhausting, but pretty frightenirand how many veterans yeah, and how many veterans do we understand and suffer from . 7 from 7 from ptsd . From ptsd . Yeah, thats a really, really good question. So some of the research well, actually being in the armed forces is protective to your Mental Health. Thats one thing. Right. And we should bearin one thing. Right. And we should bear in mind that for most people, um, serving the armed people, um, serving in the armed forces very positive forces is a very positive experience. Then leaving you experience. And then leaving you have reasonable and have a perfectly reasonable and productive civilian life. But there is a small but significant minority that still help minority that still need help from people like combat stress. From people like combat stress. Um, but about 7 have have ptsd and who leave the armed forces. But those that have served in a combat role , it jumps to about combat role, it jumps to about 17, 17. And what what sort of aid are you able to bring to these people . What sort of practical help . Well, we do a variety of things. So it starts with a helpline and the helpline number is 0800 1381619. And everybody who answers the phone is a trained counsellor. So the help starts there. So the helpline we have loads and loads of online resources that people find very useful. And our website is useful. And our website is combat stress. Org. Uk. And then through to victor, which is our sort of intensive, our intensive programme for veterans who have got complex Mental Health issues and is part of the problem that veterans dont want to admit it. Veterans dont want to admit it. They see it as, as weakness. They see it as, as weakness. They see it as, as weakness. I think there are a number of things. So one is that, um , men things. So one is that, um, men and we 97 of the people we look after are men. So predominantly, predominantly men. Um, a lot of men are not natural help seekers. The military male is even worse. And the culture of the worse. And the culture of the military is you know, can do crack on, get on with it. This is the circumstance youve got. Weve just got to, you know, do this and thats and thats, this job and thats and thats, you how the armed forces you know, how the armed forces have to operate. Um, but i think this of esteem between this parity of esteem between physical health and Mental Health very much coming health is, is very much coming up on the agenda. Yeah. And the military getting much better military is getting much better at. There is at that. But there still is a massive stigma to saying hello, at that. But there still is a masgot stigma to saying hello, at that. But there still is a masgot atigma to saying hello, at that. But there still is a masgot a mental saying hello, at that. But there still is a masgot a Mental Health| hello, at that. But there still is a masgot a Mental Health problem i so youre the fundraiser. You must have a website. Do you want to just mention to us as well . Yeah. So the website is combat stress org. Uk. And what were doing in march is that were doing in march is that were launching our really excellent which is excellent challenge, which is a march walk, run or roll march in march walk, run or roll ten miles on any one day in march. You can sign up for free. Just put in a search engine, march march, combat stress march in march, combat stress and raise vital funds for veterans suffering mental veterans suffering with Mental Health. Health issues. Robert, thank you very much indeed. Um, still to indeed. Thank you. Um, still to come . Uh aiden is going to tell us happening in the sport i yes, indeed. Well be looking ahead to the start of the f1 season with the bahrain grand prix. Sorry, the grand prix. Prix. Sorry, the grand prix. Just hours away. Big day of premier action ahead as premier League Action ahead as well. Could the blue card well. And could the blue card finally the red card . Finally be given the red card . More the. Break . Hello. Welcome back. You are watching and listening to breakfast on gb news with pip tomson and Michael Portillo , and tomson and Michael Portillo, and its tomson and Michael Portillo, and wsfime tomson and Michael Portillo, and its time to go through the latest sports news. Aidan magee is back with us. Marvellous to see you now. You wanted to continue to talk about f1 . Yes, but i wanted to do it outside of Christian Horner. We discussed him last hour. Well do it. Well do it again. Its a big, big day for the start of the season and its in bahrain. We know all the scandal thats going on around it, but lets not ignore the sport on the i think its a big the track. I think its a big time the sport itself. Its time for the sport itself. Its become quite processional pip in the few years. Max the last few years. Max verstappen firmly verstappen has firmly established the lead, established himself as the lead, the name sport the stellar name in the sport hes hamilton, hes usurped Lewis Hamilton, no question lewis question about that. Lewis hamilton doesnt start with ferrari next season, ferrari until next season, so lets can do this lets see what he can do this yeah lets see what he can do this year. His last couple of seasons especially have been beset by problems his car at problems with his car at mercedes, i think ultimately mercedes, and i think ultimately thats move thats whats forced his move and of got a bit kind of and it kind of got a bit kind of tiresome listening to him every, every single race complain about the fifth the car. They finished fifth last meanwhile max last season. Meanwhile Max Verstappen there was that awesome race three years ago, wasnt in 2021 where it went wasnt it . In 2021 where it went right down to the lap. And right down to the final lap. And amid since amid lots of controversy since then, verstappen has gone then, Max Verstappen has gone on to himself as the to establish himself as the number one. Now i hope its not processional this time, he won 22 out races. It was 22 out of 23 races. It was barely worth a mention week by week in the various races because everyone knew what was going to happen. And so i think that Lewis Hamilton, at the age of took the decision to of 39, took the decision to move, wont happen move, although this wont happen till probably till next year, he probably realises drivers realises that with seven drivers championships under his belt, he believes running to believes time is running out to get final has said get those final two. He has said this that in qualifying, this weekend that in qualifying, the his car was much improved. His team mate George Russell said same thing. Well said much the same thing. Well see if that comes to pass, although george say although George Russell did say that verstappen is still out that Max Verstappen is still out in front. If somebody says in front. And if somebody says that, it puts that, yes, okay, it puts pressure person out pressure on the person out in front. It of leads me front. But it kind of leads me to think, oh no, were going to see season. Just like see another season. Just like just this one. So away from just like this one. So away from the it could be the controversy, it could be quite track, quite interesting on the track, but we hope it will be. But we hope we hope it will be. But i suspect next season but i suspect that next season might the one where we see might be the one where we see a real a real battle on the track. Again, back to how it was marvellous exposition. Every word of i understood every word of that. But what dont that. But what i dont immediately are these immediately understand are these two words. Kane pain. That mean . Kane pain . Well, harry kane is england captain of course. He was at tottenham for many years. He was famous for performing extremely well not well on the pitch but not winning trophies. So last winning any trophies. So so last summer he moved to Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich michael is the club. The is a stellar legacy club. Theyre club you go to theyre the one club you go to pip, arent they . Where youre guaranteed trophies. Guaranteed to win trophies. Theyve won last, last 11 theyve won the last, last 11 bundesliga problem bundesliga titles. The problem is gone is that harry kane has gone there in summer. He scored there in the summer. He scored plenty goals. Get me plenty of goals. Dont get me wrong. But they drew last night against freiburg, who are a mid table they mid table bundesliga side. They dont win anything dont historically win anything and them seven and the draw leaves them seven points behind Bayer Leverkusen, who won who again havent won the bundesliga and bundesliga title for years and theyre bayern theyre known as Bayern Leverkusen because they never win so bayer win anything. So if Bayer Leverkusen match this leverkusen win their match this weekend, ten points weekend, theyre ten points ahead munich and you ahead of Bayern Munich and you start given the fact start to wonder, given the fact that kane missed some that harry kane missed some chances well, is chances last night as well, is he a jinx on every club he he is he a jinx on every club he goes to . Because i mean, you know, if you go there the one year you to club and year you go to this club and they i mean, from ten they just i mean, from ten points back and were in march now. Looks very, very now. It looks very, very difficult bayern to difficult for Bayern Munich to be able retrieve that be able to retrieve that situation. He is he the situation. Varne is he is he the player you dont want playing for you . If you want win for you . If you want to win trophies, how long is his contract there . I think its four years. I think its four years. Right. So i mean, hes 30 now i think. Think he is. Mean i think. I think he is. I mean hes got the euros coming up. And get me wrong, its not and dont get me wrong, its not i think theyre not i dont think theyre not performing because there performing because of him. There are problems coach and are problems with the coach and other side, but other areas of the side, but i dont know. Im starting to wonder as wonder whether harry kane, as much as i love him, is a bit of a on side. A jinx on this side. I kanes pain. Do you . I feel kanes pain. Do you . I feel kanes pain. Do you . I feel kanes pain. Do you . I absolutely do. I absolutely do. To come, um, police still to come, um, police force, police force in force, uh, a police force in manchester its biggest manchester recruits its biggest horse. Out more this. Horse. Find out more after this. Thats breakfast thats next. This is breakfast with with and with gb news with pip and michael. Good morning. Welcome back to breakfast. We are talking this morning about some of the sounds that make you nostalgic. Those sounds from the 80s, the 90s, the noughties. Thank you for all the noughties. Thank you for all your thoughts. And michael has your thoughts. And michael has been doing the sounds for us, the very good job. Mary says. What about the sound of records dropping down onto a record deck and the arm moving to play them so thats kind of. How you moving to play them so thats kind of. How you make a moving to play them so thats kind of. How you make a great kind of. How you make a great make a great club dj doing a bit of that, waking up to the milk float in the morning, do you want to have a go at that . I would say its Something Like. You know, im such a deep sleeper. I would never id never sleeper. I would never id never hear that. Hear that. Someone says here for that, its peter. Its peter. Peter says, i miss the sound of the voice of Margaret Thatcher. Well, peter , all you thatcher. Well, peter, all you had to do was ask , ask, ask, do had to do was ask, ask, ask, do you get it . You just had to ask. Wonderful. I love that you wonderful. I love that you recognise that love that. Recognise that love that. Uh, yeah. Thank you for that suggestion. Uh, peter, that was gold. And, uh, what about the Windows Store up . Tune says alan. Dont know if its still exists, but i havent heard it on my laptop. On my laptop. Do like it makes this little beaming sound. Yes i do remember it. I do do. It. I do do. Okay. Okay. And sean reminds us that the telephone box sound, which you were talking about, michael, was called the pips. Yes, but Something Else was called the pips because we used to have a thing called the speaking clock. And you rang a number say at the number and it would say at the third stroke, the time will be 8 00 precisely. Pip pip pip. At 8 00 precisely. Pip pip pip. At the third stroke, the time will be 8 00 and 10s. The third stroke, the time will be 8 00 and 10s. Beep beep beep. Be 8 00 and 10s. Beep beep beep. And believe it or not, thats how we knew what the time was. Honestly, youre youre loving this this morning, arent you . Having a great walk down memory lane . Yes, yes. Memory lane . Yes, yes. Impersonating Margaret Thatcher. Did she ever hear your impersonation . Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. Um, did she once come in the room when i was doing one . She no, did. She we were no, she did. She we were doing all the time. Doing them all the time. That would have been a moment. Okay, were going to go. Okay, uh, were going to go through what the news. Through what is making the news. Writer and podcaster lewis oakley and Showbiz Reporter Stephanie Takyi are here. Lewis, first of all, have you got sound . Probably the internet modem. Oh, that sound that used to come through. I cant do it. But it was that screeching that as you connected to the internet back in 1998. Gosh. Um, stephanie, big, big gosh. Um, stephanie, big, big change of tone. Now. Yes. Now. Yes. Now. Yes. Tone. Yes. tone. Yes. Uh, were going to be talking about the navalny funeral, which must have been a deeply impressive event, mustnt it . Impressive event, mustnt it . It was. And im so glad he got heros funeral that he got the heros funeral that he deserved in russia, because there was many reports that were coming out that whether he was even whether his body be even whether his body would be able to returned back to able to be returned back to russia and then apparently his mother was told that she would have funeral. Have to do a small funeral. Nothing you know, state like. And it seems like thousands of russians defied this. Russians have defied this. What brave people definitely brave. Because 400 people did get arrested for laying flowers outside the church in moscow. And even his team had a problem trying to find a church that will carry out the funeral just over fears of repercussion , over fears of repercussion, actions that could happen. Um but it was a it seems like it was a very heartfelt funeral. As was a very heartfelt funeral. As i said, thousands of russians of people did come by. Unfortunately, his wife and his children couldnt attend the funeral , but they risk children couldnt attend the funeral, but they risk arrest. Dont they . If they returned to russia. But the wife said that she will continue, you know, his legacy and his honour. But they were together for 26 years, so she was like, i dont know how im to do life without you. Im just speechless in admiration of navalny. I mean, how how can anyone be that brave to resist the dictator , to argue against him, dictator, to argue against him, to make the case to be poisoned and, yeah, to go back to russia. And, yeah, to go back to russia. Yeah. To certain imprisonment and to perish in jail. What an incredibly brave. To be honest, i think hes a bigger threat being dead now. Hes a political martyr, isnt he . Yeah, he is, and i think the thousands of russians of people who came out, theres probably more. And think changed more. And i think hes changed the mood of the country ahead of the mood of the country ahead of the elections. Dont know the elections. I dont know if he be able change he will be able to change anything putin, you anything in terms of putin, you know, back in power know, getting back in power again, but definitely navalny has dent on russian. Has left his dent on russian. You must wonder what the takeout is. I think thats the thing. What comes next . Now, obviously, this happens, we obviously, when this happens, we had lot leaders had a lot of World Leaders saying, you know, this wont fly. We will deal with it. Well, i a lot of i havent really seen a lot of action so is the action there. So maybe it is the russian people those russian people and those thousands of brave people that have onto the streets have gone out onto the streets and inspire and what that might inspire the optimist would say, optimist in me would, would say, louis, have found louis, you you have found a story about open ai, which is something again , that i dont something again, that i dont understand. Something again, that i dont uncandand. Something again, that i dont uncand does it have a sound and does it have a sound effect . Effect . You know what . It doesnt have a sound maybe have a sound effect. Maybe thats something they should invest so yeah, openai owns invest in. So yeah, openai owns chatgpt. For that chatgpt. So for anyone that doesnt know that is, its doesnt know what that is, its basically a generative ai where you in things like, um , you can type in things like, um, ive received a parking fine, could you write me an email that you know, against i you know, argues against why i shouldnt it will just you know, argues against why i shoulitlt it will just you know, argues against why i shoulit for it will just you know, argues against why i shoulit for you. It will just you know, argues against why i shoulit for you. And will just you know, argues against why i shoulit for you. And itsl just write it for you. And its pretty good. A few tweaks here and. And pretty good. A few tweaks here and. And theres a lot and there. And so theres a lot you do with it. But you can do with it. But basically elon is suing basically elon musk is now suing openai, parent company. Um, openai, the parent company. Um, because he invested in the company at the beginning. And he said, when set said, well, hold on. When we set out do this, it was to , you out to do this, it was to, you know, as a benefit to know, give ai as a benefit to the public. It was going to be freely now youre freely available. And now youre using it to make a profit. So theres two ways to look at this. The cynic would say, well, elon has seen the money. Elon musk has seen the money. Theyre thinks, theyre making and thinks, give me some of that because i invested. But the optimist would say, well, hes trying to safeguard. Elon has safeguard. And elon musk has been really anti ai for a long time because no one can really predict the impact its going to have. We obviously already having fears of well it will replace peoples jobs. Yeah um, you know where where is al going to lead. And theres a huge fear about it as we approach the election. Much i will be used , how much i will be used, their clips you know , rishi their clips of, you know, rishi sunak saying how much he hates a certain demographic people certain demographic of people and time to and will there be time to disprove and will there be time to dis|actually, this just actually, this was just created ai. Is created by ai. So it is something we need to be savvy about this of, know, about in this year of, you know, more weve ever more elections than weve ever had, this will probably had, that this will probably crop up. Youll voice crop up. Youll hear voice notes, hear videos notes, youll hear videos of people outrageous people doing outrageous things because been generated because its all been generated and itll convincing. So i and itll be convincing. So i think just have to think its just we all have to be more cynical. Like we be a bit more cynical. Like we are media. Dont are with social media. You dont see social media see something on social media and for granted. And take it for granted. You have go to an official source. I know a lot of people swallow a huge amount of disinformation on on social media, dont they . , then thats the fear of well, then thats the fear of ai, because its not being regulated and it seems its regulated and it seems like its just free reign at the just got free reign at the moment. To honest , just got free reign at the moment. To honest, i just moment. And to be honest, i just think, know, a like think, you know, a bit like michael are not michael, people are just not aware of ai and the possibilities it. And i think possibilities of it. And i think whats quite scary about it is the fact that people can just put anything out there now, and people dont know whats real and whats fake anymore. I think the problem is that governments are now talking about legislating , i almost about legislating, but i almost think really legislate think you cant really legislate for hasnt for something when it hasnt finished sort evolving. Finished sort of evolving. What are legislating for . I think are you legislating for . I think that what they could do is bring in a bit watermark, though. In a bit of a watermark, though. If generating images or if you are generating images or videos and it has videos with al and it has a little generated by ai at the bottom, that might go a little bit of, of a way into kind of dispel some of the disinformation side of it. But im optimistic about al. I have to im not. Ive seen too to say, im not. Ive seen too many robo film robot films, and they always take over , but they always take over, but humans always beat the robots in those films. So uh, stephanie, lets talk about mobility scooter was involved in crashes almost every day. More than 100 seriously hurt and nine killed in a year. The latest startling data. Latest startling data. Shocking. Yeah, you would tend to think that theyre safe on the streets because obviously theyre for elderly people or people who need them. But the people who need them. But the data is shocking. And there are calls now that may be potentially be people should be trained on how to use mobility scooters and maybe they might need a license because , as need a license because, as theyre saying, that these accidents going start accidents are going to start rising numbers at the rising up in numbers at the moment. And without the training they are causing a risk to people who arent on mobility schemes and on scooters. And the government has only put £90,000 towards training , and people are towards training, and people are calling for more money towards it. So at the moment, can you get a mobility scooter and yeah, drive it straight away, drive it straight away without a license or anything and if you think about it, if youre driving a car or anything else, youve got a license. So why not for a mobility scooter . Im conflicted on that one though, because what you then say, well, therell be people that wont their license. That wont get their license. And youre your or and if youre in your 80s or hard to around , and then all hard to get around, and then all of a sudden that that life line to is taken to the outside world is taken away. Mhm. To the outside world is taken awethatihm. Its an obstacle. And i do have children, i dont want them to be run over by these things. Im already so worried about the, the, the scooters that people zoom around on Walking Around with scooters that people zoom around 0|double Walking Around with scooters that people zoom around 0|double pram. Ilking around with scooters that people zoom around 0|double pram. And] around with scooters that people zoom around 0|double pram. And] ar0|afterrith a double pram. And now after reading this story, im going to be even more terrified of be even even more terrified of old people mobility scooters. Old people on mobility scooters. But i do have a bit of empathy here. You know, i seen old here. You know, i ive seen old people that really struggle to get a of get around. This is a bit of a lifeline for them, so i wouldnt want to overregulate it. Louis, were running okay, louis, were running out want to say out of time. Do you want to Say Something about equality . But leave yourself time to talk about a horse. Okay, well , its about a horse. Okay, well, its just just jump straight to the horse. Horse. Theres been a the quality survey, which i think is quite interesting, which is basically saying that now half of brits are basically saying its are basically saying that its were a bit unfair to men. Were being a bit unfair to men. Basically, its a global study. And that there and i think that actually there has of a sea change has been a bit of a sea change because had of because weve had years of talking arent talking about things arent fair for we need to for women, and we need to correct that which we do. But actually, seems like and actually, it seems like men and in boys have in particular young boys have been i think that been lost. And i think that whats biggest fright whats been the biggest fright to that young to people is that those young boys people like boys have turned to people like andrew and andrew tate. Yeah and now i think are saying, my think people are saying, oh my goodness, lets, lets um, lets stop that. Turn to the horse. Yeah. And michael, what is the horse story . Michael , i believe that. Michael, i believe that. Michael, i believe that. I believe word flatulence i believe the word flatulence might here. Might help you here. Right . Might help you here. Right . Yeah. Is that right . Yeah. Is that right . Yeah. Is that right . Yeah. I can say surprise. What i can say about. So there is a giant about this. So there is a giant horse in manchester that is the largest theyve in the largest theyve ever had in the force and it keeps force there. And it keeps farting. And thats thats disperse. Thats dispersing. Disperse. Thats dispersing. I can see those lads. I can see those lads. Um, its dispersing , um, you um, its dispersing, um, you know, people that are, that are misbehaving. And i really love misbehaving. And i really love soft power, dont you . They havent got to get their batons out or anything. Just park this horse the people horse near the near the people that are being disruptive and let thing. That are being disruptive and let so, thing. That are being disruptive and let so, so thing. That are being disruptive and let so, so the ing. Of it. So, so the size of it. Im not impressed. Thats it. Must something its must be something wrong with its diet oh, diet or something. Its. Oh, its six foot two inches, which is largest horse thats ever is the largest horse thats ever served. Is the largest horse thats ever sen its is the largest horse thats ever senlts a perfectly normal its a perfectly normal bodily function. Stephanie yeah, i know, i get funny even when humans me , let even when humans around me, let alone, let alone a horse. Well, thats the whole point. Well, thats the whole point. Well, thats the whole point. You wont be misbehaving if this horse is nearby, youll be ducking for cover. Let it let it appear on let let it let it appear on the record that i tried to introduce flatulence so introduce the word flatulence so that avoid what has that we could avoid what has happened ever since. Happened ever since. I think its i think ofcom are right that are all right with that word, though, are they . On front page. Its on the front page. Its on the front page. So. So. So. Ah, yes. Ah, yes. There you go. You were there you go. You were different rules, different rules for newspapers. For newspapers. They strike me down. They strike me down. Okay. So where do you want to okay. So where do you want to go from here . Imitate the horse of a sound of a horse with flatulence. Michael , of a horse with flatulence. Michael, we thank louis and we thank stephanie. And we go to the weather with alex burkill. Alex burkill. That warm feeling inside from box boilers. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Hello. Very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news weather update. Whilst tomorrow is going to be a drier day for many of us, its a pretty changeable pretty unsettled, changeable story today. Outbreaks of showery rain could be heavy at times , some thunder mixed in, times, some thunder mixed in, perhaps , also some perhaps some hail, also some sleet or snow across parts of England Wales as well. A england into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of , also likely to of scotland, also likely to bnng of scotland, also likely to bring hill snow here. Bring some hill snow here. Elsewhere, there will be elsewhere, though, there will be some sunny spells breaking out but still a chilly to but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures just about scraping double digits , scraping into double digits, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially towards the coasts. Later on. And as we go through the evening, that wet weather across northern scotland clears away but away towards the west. But showery outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow across northern and hill snow across Northern England feed scotland as we england feed into scotland as we go through the night. Otherwise across of england, wales across much of england, wales and northern ireland, apart from and northern ireland, apart from a coastal showers, it is a few coastal showers, it is going largely dry and going to turn largely dry and with clear skies. Were with some clear skies. Were going to temperatures going to see temperatures dropping, few places dropping, so a few places dipping below freezing, leading to in prone spots. To some frost in prone spots. Also some fog and freezing fog patches first thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise as we go through tomorrow, said , through tomorrow, like i said, it day for many of it is a drier day for many of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney and shetland times, orkney and shetland at times, and coastal showers and a few coastal showers around. The chance of some around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia. Otherwise though mostly fine, a good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter so although lighter winds. So although temperatures be similar to temperatures will be similar to today should feel less today, it should feel less chilly. Chilly. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news morning to undermined. There are forces here at home trying to tear us apart. The Prime Minister, rishi sunak, issues a stark warning, claiming that extremists are trying to undermine democracy , trying to undermine democracy, and he calls for the country to unite. Why has the raf retired . 30 why has the raf retired . 30 highly capable jets used to defend the country from foreign aggressors, such as vladimir putin, in a charity in South Yorkshire, aims to tackle the scourge of knife crime across the county by creating short films depicting the issue. We hear from those who have been affected about 50 anas sarwar get murdered. Sarwar get murdered. They got stabbed to death. Unfortunately uh , but what was unfortunately uh, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Growing up, violence was normal. The creators of a west end play. Could you turn on plans to hold black only evenings . Hold black only evenings . Following criticism from number 10 on. Speculation mounts over the health of the princess of wales, so we will be asking, is it time for the royal family to be more open with us . Good morning. In f1, red bull chief Christian Horner is under intense scrutiny ahead of the bahrain grand prix this afternoon as Max Verstappen takes pole on the eve of the new season. Its a big day of premier League Action, two and could it be a red card for the blue car . More later this morning. Its another chilly day and watch out for some hefty , watch out for some hefty, showery rain as well as a bit of snow. So tomorrow though, brings better news. If its drier weather youre after, ill have the shortly. The details shortly. Good morning, im pip tomson good morning, im pip tomson good morning, im pip tomson good morning, im Michael Portillo and this breakfast portillo and this is breakfast on news. On gb news. Lovely to have your company this morning. And lovely to have all your messages about your favourite. Not antalgic sounds. Favourite. Not antalgic sounds. Now michaels been doing some of them, but were going to give him a break. Were going to have a to some of the old a listen to some of the old classics. Another way. Classics. Another way. A bit of a clue by the image if youre watching us, but that was, of course, a vhs tape being slotted in, and it just took its time, didnt it . It went in slowly and then it went down. Well, you heard the sound moment ago. Yeah. Very sound a moment ago. Yeah. Very good. Whats the next one . Now, this is such a good quiz. If youre on radio this morning, any thoughts . Its classic. Oh, its an easy one. That one. The rotary phone did it . The rotary phone did it . Yes , i had, i had i had yes, i had, i had i had a more Old Fashioned one to didnt i. Yes. But yes, its strange because i mean when did we use those phones. Those phones. 80s. And i can still remember my home telephone numbers. Oh of course from when i was a child using using those. Now, heres one we were unable to bring you earlier because we couldnt remember what was. Ah. Oh of course. What it was. Ah. Oh of course. Yes , of course that did it. Yes, of course that did it. Yes, of course that did it. Yeah. Yeah. I had a go earlier and my impression was completely wrong. So this is a brand name that is the ringtone of a nokia. Is the ringtone of a nokia. There it is. Oh no no no no. There it is. Oh no no no no. But hopefully thats brought back some memories for you. And theres one for you michael here from from andy meads. Yes. The distant whistle of a Steam Locomotive in the dead of night. Locomotive in the dead of night. Thats more like 1920s, actually. But anyway , he says actually. But anyway, he says its. Difficult to create that its. Difficult to create that sense of tension if somebodys just tuning in this morning to see you doing that, theyre like, what is going on . But the distant sound of a Steam Locomotive is apparently, says andy, hauntingly beautiful. Oh, yes , i agree. I agree with oh, yes, i agree. I agree with that. Thank you for all your thoughts this morning. Do keep your favourite sounds coming in gb views at gb news wgrz. Com now rishi sunak last night, friday evening in the pouring rain he gave a speech. Some of us thought oh, is he going to announce the date of a general election . But no , what he did election . But no, what he did was claim that democracy is under threat from extremism in the wake of hamass october the 7th attack on israel in a speech which was directed to the nation , he said there are forces here at home which are trying to tear us apart, and we can hear part of that speech. I fear that our great achievement in building the worlds most successful , worlds most successful, multi ethnic, multi faith democracy is being deliberately undermined. There are forces undermined. There are forces here at home trying to tear us apart on too many occasions. Recently our streets have been hijacked by small groups who are hostile to our values and have no respect for our democratic traditions, threats of violence and intimidation often are alien to our way of doing things. They must be resisted at all times. Must be resisted at all times. We are joined now by former ukip deputy chair and political commentator suzanne evans. Commentator suzanne evans. Welcome and former labour adviser kevin mur. Uh, so , adviser kevin mur. Uh, so, suzanne, um, weve had a number of views about the utility of this speech. Was it a good thing to do, or was it a good thing to do it in downing street rather than the house of commons . What are your views on the quality of the and the place where the speech and the place where it was delivered and the time of the delivery . Frankly michael, i dont care where did dont really care where he did it, was thinking about the it, but i was thinking about the lack it. Lack of quality in it. I to say, i was furious, i have to say, i was furious, actually, when i heard the speech, because what hes finally woken up threat finally woken up to this threat that have been that some of us have been talking about for decades, and whats he going to do about it . There nothing in that there was nothing in that speech. Talked you speech. He talked about, you know, framework. Speech. He talked about, you know, jihadis framework. Speech. He talked about, you know, jihadis mustramework. Speech. He talked about, you know, jihadis must be1ework. Speech. He talked about, you know, jihadis must be quaking oh, the jihadis must be quaking in their boots. I was absolutely horrified. Here we have a Prime Minister leading minister uh, leading a conservative government that for 13 has ability to 13 years has had the ability to do something about terrorism and extremism and extremism in this country and actually, in many by actually, in many senses, by continuing a flawed continuing to push a flawed doctrine multiculturalism, continuing to push a flawed doctrine sayingiculturalism, continuing to push a flawed doctrine sayingicultlweism, continuing to push a flawed doctrine sayingicultlwe can basically saying that we can invite from all over the invite anyone from all over the world, wherever they come from, whatever British Values whatever lack of British Values they may have, they can carry on behaving in exactly the same way when theyre here. Its not about multi ethnicity, its not about multi ethnicity, its not about having vibrant, diverse about having a vibrant, diverse country. This is the specific country. This is the specific philosophy of multiculture ism which can come here, which says you can come here, but you dont have to fit in. Uh, hes sacked two people who have been warning about this. Have been warning about this. Suella braverman, the former home secretary, and hes removed the whip from lee anderson, the mp whos been talking about this, too. Its hard to take this, too. Its hard to take this, too. Its hard to take this seriously when he comes this man seriously when he comes out. He makes a grand and fine speech with some fine words, but his actions , im afraid, you his actions, im afraid, you know, if youre going to judge politicians by their actions rather their words every rather than their words on every count, sunak has failed, and the conservative government has failed on this. Some would suggest well, some some would suggest that of he said was that parts of what he said was quite tough. I mean, was quite tough. I mean, he was talking about, um, deporting people, rescinding the visas of those who are protesting in an extreme manner. And also when it comes to Suella Braverman and lee anderson comments and on the far left as well , there is a far left as well, there is a suggestion that that sort of rhetoric does not help matters and is also divisive. Kevin mur. It is. I mean, it struck me as slightly unusual, i think, when the Prime Minister um, comes out to the lectern at downing street, you kind of always expect the worst, you always expect the worst, and you expect certainly , um, the holder expect certainly, um, the holder of that office to come out there and, and capsulate the problem that theyre talking about. And i dont think rishi sunak managed to achieve that last night. It wasnt abundantly clear about. Clear what hes talking about. Hes hes hes talking in code. Hes talking a about very talking about a about very dramatic issues, but hes not managing to quantify them. I mean, the first challenge obviously , in fixing and fixing obviously, in fixing and fixing any political problem is to be able to quantify what that problem is. And rishi sunak , i problem is. And rishi sunak, i think, completely failed to do that. Not clear me, and that. Its not clear to me, and i its not clear to the i suspect its not clear to the commissioner the metropolitan commissioner of the metropolitan Police Officers what police or his officers what theyre do theyre supposed to do differently today than were differently today than they were supposed differently supposed to do differently before rishi sunak made that announcement. Youre referring him youre referring to him saying just saying about police must just not about just managing. Its also about policing. That was also about policing. That was quite veiled threat in some ways. Kevin, given your criticism, why was it that keir starmer was so supportive . So supportive . I dont know , as again, what i dont know, as again, what is it . What is the specific problem that were talking about . We seem to be talking a lot about , about . We seem to be talking a lot about, um, a mood , a vibe in lot about, um, a mood, a vibe in the country, a kind of slightly incoherent problem. But lets look at lets look at the other end of the of the evidence scale. You know, how many people are being convicted these are being convicted at these protests how many protests or marches . How many people arrested . You people have been arrested . You know, much damage is being know, how much damage is being done now, done at these marches . Now, theres of theres a lot theres a lot of theres a lot of anger. Clearly in the country about, about going on about, um, about whats going on in legitimate, a in gaza. Thats legitimate, a legitimate protest. Legitimate form of protest. Theres obviously an underlying issue islamism in this issue with islamism in this country and its expression and its malignant expression. And often it bolts itself onto perfectly legitimate political grievances that that specific problem needs to genuinely be addressed. But, i mean, i mean, suzanne , in a sense makes the suzanne, in a sense makes the point, you know, rishi sunak government has been the weakest on immigration that weve ever seen in this country. And its in incorporated an awful lot of this problem in recent years and done very , very little about it. Done very, very little about it. The substance of rishi the substance of what rishi sunak within this kind of sunak said within this kind of kind of confection of kind of, you half measures and kind you know, half measures and kind of elliptical points was about redoubling prevent. Now, you know, strikes it has know, it strikes me then it has prevent failed. Is that what hes saying . Because i mean, if youre going to do a review of something clearly isnt something clearly it isnt working there campus. Working a crack there on campus. Again, this promise again, weve heard this promise for 4 5 years about for the last 4 or 5 years about crackdowns campus activities crackdowns on campus activities and right of free speech, and the right of free speech, and the right of free speech, and students avoid being and to students to avoid being intimidated again. And to students to avoid being intimidated again. Whats intimidated again. Whats happened . Why weve not happened . Why . Why weve not seen deliverable seen some deliverable action on that if the issue is that point. And if the issue is about people coming into this country to cause problems , then country to cause problems, then stop in. I mean, you stop them coming in. I mean, you know, got the know, rishi sunaks got the worst immigration worst record on immigration of any minister in british any Prime Minister in british history. So you know, start looking a little bit closer to home. Rishi. Thats if suzanne come back. Suzanne, a number of our viewers this morning have been saying that thought it really that they thought it was really positive Prime Minister positive that the Prime Minister had speech and those had made this speech and those viewers might criticise you for saying, all youve saying, well, all right, youve youve got about rishi youve got a thing about rishi sunak. Think hes failed, sunak. You think hes failed, but, you know, shouldnt there be someone who be celebration about someone who has a corner here and is has turned a corner here and is now putting forward a clear and positive vision . Would be positive vision . That would be the of what youve the criticism of what youve said, suzanne. Yeah, of course we have to move where we move forward. We are where we are. No good crying over are. Its no good crying over spilt milk. But the fact is, he really hasnt yet outlined very much what hes going much about what what hes going to here. And understand to do here. And i do understand viewers say, finally, viewers who say, yes, finally, hes great. Has hes woken up. Great. He has woken but the problem is now woken up. But the problem is now so much more difficult solve. So much more difficult to solve. I was at unfortunately got caught up in the very first hate march. They are hate march. I think they are hate marches our streets marches on our streets on a saturday the atmosphere was saturday that the atmosphere was horrendous. I had lunch with jewish friends. The march went past. Intimidated. Uh past. They felt intimidated. Uh it was obvious to some of us what was going to happen here, and i cant quite understand why its taken the authorities so long to wake up to this. The police, the clear evidence of two tier policing here, you know, allowing an anti semitic slogans to be beamed onto the house of commons being the pinnacle, perhaps of this so. So theres a huge amount now to do and you know, we all know when a genie is out of the bottle and this genie is well and truly out of the its nigh on of the bottle, its nigh on impossible it in. So impossible to put it back in. So i feel intense frustration that there have been warnings over many about growing many decades about this growing threat british country and threat to british country and the values and now its the British Values and now its going to be a very hard job to actually, as i say, challenge it. Weve had this long march through the institutions, through the institutions, through police forces, through our police forces, through our police forces, through universities , through our universities, through our universities, through all kinds of institutions. This left wing pro institutions. This left wing pro islamist ideology , its going to islamist ideology, its going to be very hard to crack down on it. I want to see his plans. I want to see what what he is going to do about it. Um, but, you know, just a simple fact. Hes tried to stop the boats. Hes tried to stop the boats. Hes failed. Absolutely on that. Again and again, weve seen legal challenges if he cant even and we even get that right and we have a situation where we have had nearly 117,000 people come in on small boats and we dont know what their backgrounds are. Small boats and we dont know what � 2018,yackgrounds are. Small boats and we dont know what2018, theyve nds are. Small boats and we dont know what � 2018, theyve gone re. Small boats and we dont know what2018, theyve gone bear in since 2018, theyve gone bear in mind and bear in mind they have dropped again. But bear in mind, though, that army is only though, that our army is only 77,000 people, and yet have 77,000 people, and yet we have allowed so people we allowed so many people in. We dont know their backgrounds, we dont know their backgrounds, we dont know their intentions. My goodness, a of goodness, hes got a heck of a job on his hand, and im not sure hes the man to do it. I dont think hes tough enough for this job. Kevin, final word from you. Ive just struck by that, by the reference to, to, reference that he used to, to, uh, some communities living parallel lives. Is the kind and this is the kind of phraseology used in the phraseology that was used in the ritchie report the ritchie report into the disturbances back disturbances in oldham back in 2001. Think 2002, 2001. I think it was 2002, perhaps. I mean, you know, 20 years where weve had a kind of an and a problem with, an issue and a problem with, with, you know, elements of our society not in tune with society clearly not in tune with the majority of our society, if i can put it like that. And here we are 20 years later, and weve still this problem, you still got this problem, you know, so, you know, know, so, so, so, so, you know, i it just struck me rishi sunak addressed night lacked addressed last night lacked substance. Think its substance. And i think its probably reflective of the probably just reflective of the fact hes got few weeks fact that hes got a few weeks or months left 10 or a few months left in 10 downing street and hes just kind fired off random kind of kind of fired off random kind of incoherent thoughts this incoherent thoughts at this stage. Theres no stage. You know, theres no substance all. Substance there at all. Thing it did was knock one thing it did do was knock george off the front George Galloway off the front pages. Pages today. Well, perhaps so, perhaps so. Well, perhaps so, perhaps so. I mean, it strikes me if thats if thats the objective. Then again, i mean, you know, it doesnt really say much where the government is at the moment, but if thats if thats its priority , i to say, i think priority, i have to say, i think its astonishing that its its quite astonishing that its taken of george taken the election of George Galloway him wake up. Galloway to make him wake up. You know, im afraid there have far more, have been far, far more, far more things happening have been far, far more, far m on your screen now. The for the Royal Air Force has sparked fury after announcing that it will retire 30. Quick reaction alert jets used to protect british skies from potential attacks. The from potential attacks. The aircraft are going to be grounded despite only completing 40 of their predicted flying hours, in a move that has been likened to scrapping spitfires before the battle of britain. Before the battle of britain. While sean bell, who is a military analyst, joins us in the studio. Um, sean, weve discussed this a couple of times this morning. Discussed this a couple of times this morning. One thought was this morning. One thought was that what is going on here is that what is going on here is that the Royal Air Force is putting forward a sort of catastrophe in order to draw attention to what it claims would be a lack of funding ahead of the budget. Do you think that of the budget. Do you think that may be whats going on here . Absolutely not. No, unfortunately, i, i was a Fighter Pilot in the air force. I actually was fortunate enough to fly typhoons themselves. Amazingly capable aeroplane. But amazingly capable aeroplane. But you might remember going back that the actually saw that the typhoon actually saw its gestation before the end of the cold war and after the cold war, politicians thought there would be some sort of peace dividend, and therefore the whole was whole Typhoon Programme was changed. Original of changed. The original tranche of typhoons that came off the production line were air defence typhoons. Other words , they typhoons. In other words, they were good at height. Were very good at height. Fighter the enemy firing missiles, distance. The missiles, long distance. The next two tranches that came off because the worlds requirements have changed were multi role. They could do bombing as well as fire missiles. So those early tranche that were about to tranche ones that were about to become the only nation that actually operates those aircraft, its only does one job. It doesnt lots of jobs. Job. It doesnt do lots of jobs. I thought you said it did two jobs, which is the one job. Its the air defence role. In other words, its air defence. Exactly what we might need. Exactly what we might need. Also need ground well, we also need ground attack our aircraft attack as well. Our aircraft are currently in falkland currently in across in falkland islands. They do Quick Reaction alert north and also alert north and south also in cyprus theyve been bombing the houthis so back in my houthis as well. So back in my day when we were flying jets, we had jaguars, tornados all doing different roles. Different specific roles. Technology has advanced so much now you can have one now that you can have one aircraft that can do multi role. And challenge unfortunately and the challenge unfortunately our is stupid. He he our chief is not stupid. He he would keep hold as would want to keep hold of as many jets as possible. The harsh reality is these jets now are expensive theyve expensive to maintain. Theyve become bespoke fleet. They can become a bespoke fleet. They can only do one part of the fast jet role therefore if you are in role and therefore if you are in a financially constrained environment which everybody is at its the right at the moment, its the right answer for them to go. It pains me say it, but it does appear me to say it, but it does appear to the right decision to be the right decision compared scrapping spitfire compared to scrapping spitfire fighters before the battle of britain. Britain. Do find that a little bit do you find that a little bit ott . One of the things that i think, um, we the media have been very unhelpful at times is threatening world war iii that were on the brink of some massive world war, and therefore we need to bolster all our armed forces where do you think were at . Well, there is a very distinct argument. I have to say that when was in the ministry that when i was in the ministry of defence, were two threats. Of defence, we were two threats. The threat and the russia the china threat and the russia threat that drove defence spending. Actually look spending. If you actually look at military capable at russias military capable today, had 300,000 today, its had 300,000 casualties and more casualties involved and more involved in the war in ukraine. Its lost most of its main battle tanks. It is not going to be in any fit state to mount a major operation into a european country any time soon. So from a threat country, many threat to this country, many would actual threats would argue the actual threats come as result of what it come down as a result of what it has done in ukraine. Now, in the fullness of time, absolutely fullness of time, i absolutely take weve got to take the point. But weve got to the counterargument is that russia has put its economy russia has now put its economy on footing and we on a war footing and we certainly have it has, certainly have not. No, it has, but you well know, i mean, but as you well know, i mean, russia has sustained growth last year of 3. 6. Its the only economy in europe. Us it beat all of them. But actually, how all of them. But actually, how did do it did it because did it do it . It did it because its spending a huge amount of its resources on defence its own resources on defence spending is sustainable spending that is not sustainable in the tum. Yes, its got in the longer tum. Yes, its got a footing. Yes, it has to do a war footing. Yes, it has to do that create arms, the that to create the arms, the weapons prevail in ukraine. Weapons to prevail in ukraine. But a sustainable model. So sorry michael, i was just going to mention the former defence secretary, ben wallace. He says this is about hollowing out of the military and hes extremely concerned by it. I think theres some really interesting i mean, im a taxpayer like the rest of us. We have to make choices in this country. Interested see country. I was interested to see grant talk in the shadows grant shapps talk in the shadows of margaret talking of Margaret Thatcher, talking about a more about how we live in a more dangerous world than we ever have yet, in have before. And yet, in Margaret Thatchers was Margaret Thatchers day, it was 4 we spent on defence. 4 of gdp we spent on defence. Now its 2. When asked about, well, will you go up to 4 . He went, uh, well, its also how we spend money, but we have spend our money, but we have choices , you know only too well choices, you know only too well we choice in this country. We have choice in this country. Do we have spend our money on nhs and stuff that as nhs and stuff like that as a form military . Of course. Id form of military . Of course. Id want more money spent on want to see more money spent on defence, theres huge defence, but. And theres a huge but i also live in but here. I also live in a country where nato provides most of our defensive capability. 11 of our defensive capability. 11 out of the 31 countries, um , pay out of the 31 countries, um, pay their way, the others dont. I think we should be pushing more pressure on them. I was fantasising, sean, that i was still defence secretary, and listening to your and i was listening to your pitch i was thinking pitch and i was thinking that i was by your pitch on was unconvinced by your pitch on the course, if the typhoons. But of course, if i defence secretary and you i were defence secretary and you were making a pitch, i would give you longer to continue to make case, that will make the case, and that will have another day. Were so have to be another day. Were so grateful for coming in grateful to you for coming in and that. Thank you. And putting that. Thank you. Military sean bell. Military analyst sean bell. Um, time, look at the time, i think, to look at the weather you guessed weather again and you guessed it, burkill. Lovely. It, its alex burkill. Lovely. Thank you. Sir thank you. Sir very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news weather update, whilst tomorrow is be a drier day for is going to be a drier day for many of us, its a pretty unsettled change story today. Outbreaks of showery rain could be heavy at times, some thunder mixed perhaps some hail, mixed in, perhaps some hail, also sleet snow across also some sleet or snow across parts england into wales as parts of england into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of scotland also likely to bring some hill snow here. Elsewhere though, there will sunny spells will be some sunny spells breaking but still a chilly breaking out but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures just about scraping into double digits, perhaps , and some strong digits, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially towards the coasts. Later on. And as we go through the evening that wet weather across northern scotland clears away towards the west. But outbreaks rain, but showery outbreaks of rain, sleet snow across sleet and hill snow across Northern England feed into scotland as we through the scotland as we go through the night. Otherwise across of night. Otherwise across much of england, wales and northern ireland, from few ireland, apart from a few coastal showers, it is going to turn dry and with some turn largely dry and with some clear skies were going to see temperatures so a few temperatures dropping so a few places below freezing , places dipping below freezing, leading frost in prone leading to some frost in prone spots. Also and spots. Also some fog and freezing fog patches first thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as we through tomorrow and like tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as visaid through tomorrow and like tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as visaid , hrough tomorrow and like tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as visaid , itough tomorrow and like tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as visaid , itou a| tomorrow and like tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as visaid , itou a drier rrow and like tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as visaid , itou a drier dayy and like tomorrow morning. Otherwise, as visaid , itou a drier day for|d like i said, it is a drier day for many of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney and shetland at times, coastal showers times, and a few coastal showers around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia otherwise, though fine. A otherwise, though mostly fine. A good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter although lighter winds so although temperatures be similar to temperatures will be similar to today it should less today, it should feel less chilly. Well, hopefully the chilly. Well, hopefully the weather wont be too bad for you. Wherever you are this weekend. Thank wherever you are this weekend. Thank you for all your views. Were getting plenty coming in on rishi sunaks speech last night. Andy says it may have been tough talk, but weve heard rhetoric from him before. He never does what he says and it looks to me just this is not scientific at all, but looks as if its turning against the Prime Minister now, the first batch of messages we had were very supportive of the pm. These less so. Christine, for example, says i laugh out loud with i had to laugh out loud with anguish while listening to the Prime Ministers whose Prime Ministers speech, whose fault rishi . Your fault is it, rishi . Your governments inadequacy. Thats telling us. And david, of course, democracy is under threat. And its not just from extremists. Remember just its not just from extremists. Rememberjust a its not just from extremists. Remember just a few years its not just from extremists. Rememberjust a few years ago remember just a few years ago when supposedly mps when supposedly honourable mps tried overturn the democratic tried to overturn the democratic decision to leave the European Union . Union . Uh, david says , of course, uh, david says, of course, democracy is under threat and its not just from that one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, thats so you did. Lets go for another one. Weve got quite a few here. Liz says rishi, hes all mouth and no trousers , telling us not to no trousers, telling us not to take the law into our own hands. Thank you for all your thoughts. Vaiews gbnews. Com plenty more still to come. Youre with still to come. Youre with breakfast with pip and michael i welcome back. You are watching and listening to breakfast with pip and michael. Knife crime is on the rise in britain in the year ending september 2023. Thats last yeah september 2023. Thats last year. It increased to just under 50,000 offences. Now thats 5 higher compared to the year before. In South Yorkshire. Data from the ministry of justice showed that two thirds of cautions or convictions for knife crime were handed down to first time offenders. Our yorkshire reporter anna riley has this story giving a helping hand to stop young people from carrying knives. Anthony olaseinde founded charity always an alternative. After growing up surrounded by knife crime in sheffield. He wants to get knives off the streets of the steel city and lodge an awareness event at showroom cinema. When i was 15, i saw someone get murdered. They got stabbed to death. Fortunately uh , but to death. Fortunately uh, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Every day im looking over my shoulder every day. You know, someones getting day. You know, someones getting locked up or someones getting injured. Surely life cant just be that. I had a few lucky escapes myself, and i thought, ive actually had enough. I work more than this. Cant more than this. This cant continue happen. Ive got continue to happen. Ive got kids now. I dont want to not be there for them. So i made that decision. Keaton taylor experienced the pain of losing a loved one to knife crime. Im his best knife crime. Im his best friend. Louis phillips was stabbed to death at the age of 15 by a stranger during an unprovoked attack in South Yorkshire. Yorkshire. Ever since i lost my best friend, its made me realise , friend, its made me realise, well, knives really arent needed. Well, knives really arent needed. Like theres so much needed. Like theres so much more to life than carrying a knife. Well, just a weapon in general. A war training for general. A war training for Barnsley Football Club. It was doing well, getting grades and that it just applied for college , so it really wasnt a bad lad. Tackling knife crime to prevent further tragedies is a priority for South Yorkshire police. The police are obviously doing a lot in terms of trying to identify, locate and target those individuals or or gangs that are prone to violence and use guns and knives. So theres use guns and knives. So theres a lot of work around that. But, um, prevent is really the more important thing. How do we stop young people back at showroom cinema , students from a cinema, students from a Sheffield High School produced a short film to highlight knife crime amongst teenagers. Crime amongst teenagers. It was really educational and you really you dont understand how bad knife crime is until like , youre being told the like, youre being told the figure you know Something Like this could happen to me, could happen to anyone. Is concern and it is there is concern and it is something you know , that something that, you know, that i dont want to happen. Dont want to happen. With recent figures showing 17 of knife crime offenders in england and wales were under 18, its hoped schemes like this will deter children from carrying weapons. Will deter children from carrying weapons. Anna riley. Gb carrying weapons. Anna riley. Gb news now the producers of a west end show called slave play , are end show called slave play, are carefully considering plans to hold black only audiences. Hold black only audiences. This comes after the play faced criticism from downing street , as a spokesperson there street, as a spokesperson there said restrict audiences on the bafis said restrict audiences on the basis of race would be wrong and divisive. Divisive. Joining us to discuss and debate this is journalist Claire Muldoon. Good morning. Morning and media commentator peter Stephanie Takyi. Hello so, claire, lets start with you then. What is your reaction when you heard about the noel coward theatre . Potentially holding these performances for an all black identifying audience . Black identifying audience . Well, theres two things black identifying what on earth does that mean . I think its. And the second thing is, i think its divisive. And id actually go one step further. What is stopping people going to the theatre regardless of the race, creed, religion , sex, anything creed, religion, sex, anything is actually how much a ticket costs to the west end. Thats prohibitive. Its financially prohibitive. Its financially prohibitive to go. And im not a fan of, well, lets make it black out then. So if you identify as a black person or a person of colour, you can get or you can you can be invited to watch. Now this is on the back watch. Now this is on the back of jeremy o. Harriss plea that started in broadway in 2019. I think it was. It was nominated for a myriad of tony awards, didnt win one. The reviews have been such that, um, its in parts. Its a good play. Its parts. Its a good play. Its got a central line of based on slavery. The plantation scenes, etc, etc. But do we really need if you are opening up discussion on this, why send a message . Why virtue signal that were having two nights for only those that identify as black publicity stunt . Could it be a publicity . I think so, stephanie. This arises as i understand it, because the play did sometimes play to black only audiences on broadway. So theyre thinking of bringing the idea to the west end. Yeah, i idea to the west end. Yeah, i can already hear gb views saying , but if there were evenings when it was a white only audience, there would be appalling protest. How would be let loose . That was my first thought. When heard about this story. When i heard about this story. I just thought if there just thought instantly if there was all whites event, was an all whites event, everybody would off about everybody would kick off about it. Would play again . It. Would this play again . I agree with claire. Its been divisive , but in america, black divisive, but in america, black americans , they have a very americans, they have a very strong identity because racism was quite big over there in america. So america, when it america. So america, when it comes to doing black events, theres solidarity in theres a big solidarity in america. Theyre very big on black identity. We come into the uk now, black people , we are uk now, black people, we are very much a community and black only events have been happening for decades, but its just been more underground its more underground where its gatherings, nights , its gatherings, club nights, its all its just hasnt been gatherings, club nights, its al|the its just hasnt been gatherings, club nights, its al|the mainstream asnt been gatherings, club nights, its al|the mainstream asnt beso for in the mainstream media. So for this to be coming over here, its very much american idea its very much an american idea trying to be introduced to black people over here. So it is uncomfortable. But also were talking about slavery here. I do not agree that it should be all blacks, but slavery, it triggers different black people in different black people in different ways. Its a new its a new topic which were all venturing now because the media has out there. So for has put it out there. So for some black people , where you are some black people, where you are talking they do talking about slavery, they do feel comfortable when its an all audience. And also all black audience. And also it could uncomfortable sometimes could be uncomfortable sometimes for being in these for white people being in these kind situations well. Kind of situations as well. That sense, are you so in that sense, are you slightly it both slightly having it both both ways. Mean, i do understand ways. I mean, i do understand that in the context of the United States and of europe. Yeah, is something that yeah, slavery is something that was yes so was done to black people. Yes so that be the argument, that would be the argument, would being, as it were, would it being, as it were, a private space. Yeah. I hate this phrase, safe space. Phrase, a safe space. Yeah. That would be the argument. Yeah. Because argument. Well, yeah. Because it is hard, controversial is a hard, controversial topic and different do not and different people i do not speak black people here. Speak for all black people here. Some get some black people, they get triggered slavery and they triggered by slavery and they find uncomfortable having find it uncomfortable having these white these discussions with white people. Other black people. Theres other black people. Theres other black people who feel like should people who feel like it should be discussion. So i do be an open discussion. So i do see why he does want to do a blackout thing, but its not a theme that has been adopted here in the uk. And dont think it really and i dont think it really ought to at all, because i think the, the thing that does prevent people from attending the theatre cost of the theatre is the cost of the tickets, also really if tickets, but also really if theyre trying to make this about which the play is about slavery, which the play is actually surely we need actually about, surely we need as many people as we to can see it. It is only two performances though, but why . Why even do that is virtue signalling. Pip. Were talking about it now. Theres been about it now. Theres been inches column inches in all of the papers this week about it. Yeah, theyve got the publicity. Yeah, theyve got the publicity. Theyve got the publicity. Theyve got the publicity. What would be your message then if you were. Because if you met a black person who said, i would not feel comfortable watching this with a white person, i would be person, i would rather be surrounded by black people. Surrounded by all black people. What would then your would what would then your what would your point . But thats not going to happen. They and they should. They and hopefully video it hopefully get a video of it or watch theatre in the cinema watch the theatre in the cinema because that then would, would would facilitate the less would help facilitate the less triggering of it. It just pretty bleak to say that prepared to sit that youre not prepared to sit next someone of a different next to someone of a different colour , it . Colour, isnt it . It is, regardless of well, it is, regardless of your colour, because weve all well, it is, regardless of you colour,, because weve all well, it is, regardless of you colour, ibecause weve all well, it is, regardless of you colour, i think. E weve all got colour, i think. I think were using the words. What they say . Um, an words. What did they say . Um, an audience is free from the audience that is free from the white gaze. You see, that sounds white gaze. You see, that sounds a provocative , even a little bit provocative, even for me. I didnt know what the i didnt even know what the white was until they white gaze was until they mentioned its mentioned it. So again, its introducing these concepts. Introducing all these concepts. Its not really on its which is not really on peoples minds. Ironically, ironically , the ironically, ironically, the play ironically, ironically, the play in the set has got mirrors, so maybe thats a metaphorical thing its reflected back thing when its reflected back onto people , onto the onto the white people, onto the people who are sitting there watching and kit harrington, watching it, and kit harrington, who is a white actor who plays the plantation boss in one of the plantation boss in one of the acts. So theres a lot to tease out here, but i would you know, if for me , the barrier of know, if for me, the barrier of going to the theatre is the inability to buy a ticket because theyre so expensive and im sorry if, um, Jeremy Harris wants to get under, um, under represented guests to go to the theatre, he needs to go out and speak to all manner of people to get them in. Thank you very much indeed, Claire Muldoon and Stephanie Takyi. Thanks um, we have a statement from the production here. The production says we are carefully considering how to incorporate this endeavour as part of two performances in our 13 week run. And to be absolutely clear that no one will be prevented or precluded from attending any performance of slave play. Thats the end of the quote. Now do stay with us, the quote. Now do stay with us, because we have all the latest sports news coming up with aidan magee and lots more of your comments as well. Comments as well. Keep them coming in gb views at gb news. Com. Hello good morning. Lovely to have you with us this morning on breakfast with pip and michael. Breakfast with pip and michael. So its time to go through all the latest sports news. Uh aidan magee is back with us. Good to see you, aidan. Good to see you both. I want to start on f1. If possible, because its been quite dull. The last few seasons, especially since hamilton and Max Verstappen had that furious verstappen had that that furious tussle in its been tussle in 2021. Its been overshadowed. Its. I think its overshadowed. Its. I think its fair to say, by, uh, incidents or a controversy involving the f1 Team Principal of red bull, Christian Horner. There have Christian Horner. There have been allegations made via via text and via of Whatsapp Screenshots that hes been engaged in, uh, in a relationship or certainly some, some unsavoury texts between between himself and a female colleague. Now, to get the latest on this pip, i wouldnt mind introducing, uh, rosanna tennant, who is the f1 correspondent for live from bahrain. Now, id just like to ask you, uh, rosanna, first of all, where exactly were at with this right now . Weve seen some stories this morning on the front page of some of the tabloid. But where do you see it going . Morning. Yeah, its been a strange one. This overshadowing the start of the f1 season when we should be talking about the teams and drivers in a more positive sort of note and tone. Christian has been at Christian Horner has been at the paddock weekend. Been paddock this weekend. Ive been in lane. Ive watched in the pit lane. Ive watched him wall. Hes been him on the pit wall. Hes been interacting other team interacting with other team members and its been strange to see how conducted himself see how hes conducted himself over few days. It all over the past few days. It all came about that, uh , there were came about that, uh, there were some alleged inappropriate behaviour between himself and a female colleague, as you say. Then that grievance was dismissed. Bull conducted an dismissed. Red bull conducted an independent and rigorous, as they said, and impartial investigation. A kc was brought investigation. A kc was brought in to look at the case. The grievance was dismissed. Essentially, red bull, uh, cleared Christian Horner. And so cleared Christian Horner. And so he to the paddock. Hes he came to the paddock. Hes been acting a Team Principal been acting as a Team Principal as any Team Principal as any normal Team Principal would. Really strange would. And then a really Strange Development the development occurred during the second practice session on thursday. Were running day thursday. Were running a day ahead bahrain, racing ahead here in bahrain, racing tonight rather than tonight on saturday, rather than the normal sunday slot. And it was second practice was during that second practice session received. We session that i received. We received about 149 personnel, and formula one received an email with a link to a drive of messages purporting to evidence that had been used in this investigation. Uh, about 79 investigation. Uh, about 79 screenshots of messages between Christian Horner screenshots of messages between christian homer and the female colleague. Again, Christian Horner came out and denied the allegations against him. And, allegations against him. And, uh, thats kind of where we stand at the moment. Theres been reports that his wife, geri halliwell, the spice girl, has flown out to bahrain, havent seen her yet. Will she be here on race day to support her husband . Tricky time for husband . A tricky time for her, im sure. Time for im sure. Tricky time for christian red bull. Christian homer and red bull. Um, then they out and um, but then they went out and put car on pole position put the car on pole position yesterday, so at least theres been some positive news for the team. Really of team. But its really sort of overshadowing and overshadowing this weekend. And a a dark over a bit of a dark cloud over formula one. Theyre trying to include a of people include a lot of people diversity and inclusion being a hot formula as it hot topic for formula one, as it is so many sports. This is for so many sports. This isnt they need isnt really what they need right trying to encourage right now. Trying to encourage more get the more young women to get into the sport. This isnt what the sport needs. Rosanna, can i ask what was your reaction when you saw the email land in your inbox . How did feel when saw the did you feel when you saw the content, especially . Yeah , there were three um, yeah, there were three emails actually. I received, uh, we all received three of them, uh, different addresses. Uh, different email addresses. Sending out. My reaction it sending them out. My reaction it was , uh, it was odd. We all was, uh, it was odd. We all wondered whether its actually real. We still dont know if these are all, uh, theyve been created somewhere or someone. Created somewhere or by someone. Um, obviously 79 screenshots, messages between christian and the female colleague. My reaction . It was interesting reaction . It was interesting because some of the heads , sort because some of the heads, sort of honchos in the sport, Team Principals, toto wolff from mercedes, zac brown from mclaren, theyve asked for more transparency regarding the investigation. They wanted to know a little bit more about what went on. A lot of people saying trust the saying we have to trust the process, including Max Verstappen, driver. Process, including max ve|it appen, driver. Process, including max ve|it appeodd driver. Process, including max ve|itappeodd theyd driver. Process, including max ve|it appeodd theyd calledeh process, including max ve|it appeodd theyd called for so it was odd theyd called for transparency. Think transparency. I dont think anyone expecting kind anyone was expecting this kind of transparency. But sent of transparency. Um, but it sent the media into a frenzy. The media centre into a frenzy. I can tell you that coming through halfway through a practice were all practice session, when were all focusing on track action, suddenly was something suddenly there was Something Else on. Else to be focusing on. Very much indeed for thanks very much indeed for joining morning, joining us this morning, rosanna. You managed rosanna. We hope you managed to enjoy spite of all enjoy the race in spite of all the controversy thats going on. It does feel an it certainly does feel like an orchestrated attempt, given the timing the event as timing of the of the event as well, we see some well, but we hope we see some good action track as good action on the track as well. And just not just well. And not just not just today, but in the coming season. Its a bit processional in its got a bit processional in the few or rather the last few years or rather messy horrid. Messy and horrid. Something else that was it is Something Else that was got messy. Got really messy. Wonkas chocolate was willy wonkas Chocolate Factory experience. It turned out to be childrens worst nightmare. Apparently were talking on talking about that next here on breakfast and michael. Welcome back to breakfast with pip and michael joining us to go through what is making the news now is writer and podcaster lewis oakley and shows Showbiz Reporter Stephanie Takyi at and lewis, lets start with with motorway restrict asians. Yes. Being scrapped. At being scrapped. At so the 60 mile an hour limit on the m1 and m6 is being scrapped. It was um the speed limit was lowered in 2021. And what they basically found is that emissions have fallen because it was all about being green. And carbon air emissions. It has fallen, but theyre saying its probably because of hybnd saying its probably because of hybrid cars, of electric cars, and theyre just saying that theres no real benefit to keeping it at 60 miles an hour. Now which i do think ive got to say is a good thing, because i think there are so many, um, pieces of legislation and rules brought in to try make sure brought in to try and make sure that things are green and kerb our emissions, that our carbon emissions, that actually, up and actually, when one shows up and they actually theres no they think actually theres no benefit scrap benefit to it, that they scrap it. Think it is important. It. So i think it is important. So it will try and get to this greener future that we say that one didnt really work. Lets get of it. Lets go back to get rid of it. Lets go back to 70 miles an hour. What i just wanted to thats what i just wanted to be on 70mph how it. Be clear on 70mph is how it. Yes, in 70. Yes, would be in 70. Go back up to 70. Yeah itll go back up to 70. Yeah itll go back up to 70. Yeah itll go back up to 70. Yeah i agree its a most unusual example because normally once a regulation is in what is so depressing about you can depressing about it is you can never rid of it, admit never get rid of it, never admit that wrong because, that theyre wrong because, well, want admit well, they never want to admit theyre but its theyre wrong. But also its very to campaign against very hard to campaign against things makes it sound things because it makes it sound like favour more like youre in favour of more motor accidents youre in motor accidents or youre in favour of more pollution. So these things, once theyre in, are difficult get rid of. Does that ten Miles Per Hour make huge difference . Make a huge difference . They as well well they said as well theyve average speed theyve said the average speed is so its not really is 60 anyway. So its not really changing was no changing much. They there was no point doing it. They had a point in doing it. They had a try didnt really do anything. Theyve scrapped it. And another trip memory and another trip down memory lane that in the 70s lane from me is that in the 70s when crisis, we when we had an oil crisis, we had a 50 mile an hour speed limit everywhere. We all crawled around miles hour around at 50 miles an hour because was to say because that was meant to say save on fuel. And for many years, much of the United States had a 55 mile an hour speed limit. And, mean, really limit. And, i mean, its really quite difficult to drive at well, with the amount of with the amount of roadworks our the amount of roadworks on our motorways, 50mph motorways, there often are 50mph speed which i know about speed limit, which i know about only because got only too well because ive got find for. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. For going over the limit. I think i was doing 60 in a 50 and i done. Think i was doing 60 in a 50 and i done. Okay, we wont i got done. Okay, we wont labour on that. So lets talk about lets talk about willy wonka stephanie Willy Wonka Wonka stephanie the willy wonka experience turned into experience which turned into a complete disaster after, you know, willy wonka promises to be a chocolate dream come true. A chocolate dream come true. But for kids in glasgow, they went to this so called immersive experience. They were left in tears. They hundreds of parents spent £35 and they were expecting their kids will be treated to an enchanted garden , treated to an enchanted garden, a twilight tunnel. Were looking at some pictures now, imagination lab, but instead they got this empty warehouse and their kids were given half cups of lemonade, small rations of jelly beans, and most of the kids were left in tears. In tears. And i would hate to be a parent that took their child there. It doesnt look completely compelling. No, not at all. And do you know what we were talking about . I in the last hour and the house illuminati who created production, said that most of the marketing had been generated by ai. So they hadnt actually had all the stuff that they were promising people. The organiser promising people. The organiser now promising to give now is promising to give refunds, but i think thats just horrible. No one wants to expect that event, but especially an that an event, but especially an event children, it can event for small children, it can actually traumatic. Actually prove quite traumatic. This is all. Its an awful story. Youve think about story. Youve got to think about how those children would how upset those children would be. But what i love about this story is that its so awful that now are wanting to now more people are wanting to go. Seen online because go. Ive seen online because they want pictures and they want to take pictures and say, i was there. Look how say, look, i was there. Look how awful is. Awful it is. Do remember that funny do you remember that funny hill was built at hyde park hill that was built at Hyde Park Corner . Oh, yes. Marble corner . The. Oh, yes. No. Marble arch. Built marble arch. It was built at marble arch the end of oxford arch at the end of oxford street. This enormous mountain appeared was the appeared and it was it was the most flop, wasnt it . Most terrible flop, wasnt it . It a bit, actually. It sounds a bit, actually. I did see that. And i and i was going to make a point of going and walking it. Going and walking up it. Of the of curiosity, one of the one of the very few people. But this story reminds us of the santa grottos. Theres been several the years several of those over the years that been. That have been. And just think where where and i just think where where are organisers integrity, are the organisers integrity, you really think you know, did they really think that and kids that the parents and the kids were to in and itll were going to come in and itll be like, wow, were so impressed with this shambles . The idea that i is now i love the idea that i is now an excuse. Yeah, i, i said something absolutely dreadful, my absolutely dreadful, but my speech written by ai. Absolutely dreadful, but my spewell, written by ai. Absolutely dreadful, but my spewell, thatstten by ai. Absolutely dreadful, but my spewell, thats aen by ai. Absolutely dreadful, but my spewell, thats a perfect. Well, thats a perfect excuse, isnt absolutely. Excuse, isnt it . Absolutely. The ate my homework. The dog ate my homework. Lewis in the sun today. Uh, lewis in the sun today. Uh, palisades are blasting these wild conspiracy theories about the princess of waless health. And, boy , are they wild. I mean, and, boy, are they wild. I mean, we dont even. Were not. Well not get into what theyre about. But there is a lot of them, even on my own twitter feed, i kind of thought id hit an algorithm. Why is this all about kate . But there is just such a volume of things that are being generated, and obviously it ties into to know more into people want to know more about whats whats wrong with her and going on. I will her and whats going on. I will say, the palace put say, obviously the palace put out a statement. I think it was yesterday the day before, and yesterday or the day before, and i the tone of that i did think the tone of that statement standoffish. Statement was a bit standoffish. They doing well. They doing well. Youre doing well, but also, as you, therell be as we told you, therell be updates and thats updates at easter and thats stan. Why is it, why is it standoffish . I just felt that that have been more of. That it could have been more of. She for your your she thanks you for your your concerns and know shes concerns and you know shes doing and shes excited to doing well and shes excited to be back after easter as be coming back after easter as we just felt the tone we said, i just felt the tone was off. But, um, was a little off. But, um, i will say , you know, its her will say, you know, its her business. Know that theres business. I know that theres a lot debate. Is it our lot of debate. Is it our business . I think its her business. Think what youve business. I think what youve got to also think is whatever she with, if she were she is unwell with, if she were to out talk about it, to come out and talk about it, she would then become the spokesperson would spokesperson for it. She would then expected to of then be expected to be part of then be expected to be part of the patrons charities the patrons and the charities for, whatever it is. Xl for, for whatever it is. Xl bully talking about except bully talking about it, except her law, king charles her father in law, king charles has about about about his has talked about about about his condition Prostate Cancer condition, prostate and cancer and has done a that was his choice. But its done a huge amount of good. So you could say if kate was more open, it could also do a huge amount of good, could definitely do good. But its not her responsibility. Shes been responsibility. Shes been struck down with something we dont its up to dont know what, and its up to her she wants to make that her if she wants to make that pubuc her if she wants to make that public and do more on it and if she wants to keep it to she just wants to keep it to herself i dont see herself and thats i dont see what problem is. Yeah, what the problem is. Yeah, i think the palace should have kept quiet. Honest. I dont think to be honest. I dont think they needed to release this statement. You statement. And i think, you know, did disclose her know, if kate did disclose her condition, she would become the poster girl for whatever condition has. If youre condition she has. And if youre ill with a sickness, you know, its well wishes, its nice to get well wishes, but think as well, knowing but i think as well, knowing that prying into it that people are prying into it can derail your can actually derail your recovery well. So recovery as well. So maybe i think kate is think thats why kate is choosing to quiet. Choosing to be quiet. Id like any member of the pubuc id like any member of the public to his or her public to use his or her imagination think about imagination to think about what it be really like if all it would be really like if all your medical conditions were all it would be really like if all your every al conditions were all it would be really like if all your every newspaper, s were all it would be really like if all your every newspaper, everye all over every newspaper, every morning. That. Morning. Lets try and do that. Thought exercise to understand what be like. What it would be like. Thats a good, good yeah, thats a good, good idea. We are going to be talking about that um, soon as well. In the next with two royal the next hour with two royal commentators. With us commentators. So stay with us for that. First, your weather with alex burkill. With alex burkill. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers is sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Hello. Very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news weather update. Whilst gb news weather update. Whilst tomorrow is going to be drier tomorrow is going to be a drier day of us, its a day for many of us, its a pretty unsettled and changeable story today. Outbreaks story today. Outbreaks of showery could be heavy at showery rain could be heavy at times. Some thunder mixed in, perhaps hail, also some perhaps some hail, also some sleet or snow across parts of England Wales as well. A england into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of also likely to of scotland. Also likely to bnng of scotland. Also likely to bring some hill snow here. Elsewhere, though, there will be some breaking some sunny spells breaking out but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures just about scraping into double digits, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially the coasts especially towards the coasts later on. And as we go through the evening, that wet weather across northern scotland clears away west. But away towards the west. But showery outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow across northern and hill snow across Northern England feed into scotland as we go through the otherwise, go through the night. Otherwise, across much of england, wales and northern ireland, apart from and northern ireland, apart from a few coastal showers, it is going to turn largely dry and with some clear skies were going to see temperatures dropping so few dipping dropping so a few places dipping below some below freezing leading to some frost spots. Also some frost in prone spots. Also some fog and freezing patches. Fog and freezing fog patches. First thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise, we through otherwise, as we go through tomorrow, said , it a tomorrow, like i said, it is a dner tomorrow, like i said, it is a drier day for many of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney and shetland times, orkney and shetland at times, and coastal showers and a few coastal showers around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia otherwise, though fine. A otherwise, though mostly fine. A good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter so although lighter winds so although temperatures be similar temperatures will be similar to today should less today, it should feel less chilly i 2024 a battleground year. The year the nation decides as the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election. Who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives . Who will rise and who will fall . E y fall . Find out together for lets find out together for every. Every moment. The highs, the lows, the twists and turns well be with you for every step of this journey in 2024 gb news is britains election. Britains election. Channel good morning. It is 9 00 on saturday, the 2nd of march. Today may i bear that our great achievement in building the worlds most successful , worlds most successful, multi ethnic, multi faith democracy is being deliberately undermined. There are forces here at home trying to tear us apart. The Prime Minister, rishi sunak, issued a stark warning claiming that extremists are trying to undermine democracy and he calls for the country to unite Palestinian Solidarity Campaign activists are set to occupy branches of Barclays Bank across the uk later this morning i yeah, as the Prime Minister issues that warning about forces trying to tear us apart, pro palestine campaigner across the country will boycott barclays. Im in wolverhampton with the latest. With the latest. A charity in South Yorkshire aims to tackle the scourge of knife crime across the county by creating short films depicting the issue. We hear from those affected. About 50. I saw someone get murdered. They got stabbed to death. Unfortunately uh, but death. Unfortunately uh, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Was normal. Why has the raf retired aged 30, highly capable jets used to defend the country from foreign aggressors such as vladimir putin. Speculation mounts on the health of the princess of wales. Health of the princess of wales. So we will be asking is it time for the royal family to be more open with us . Morning. Its another chilly day and watch out for some hefty , showery rain as well as a bit of snow. Tomorrow though, brings better news. If its drier weather youre after , ill have weather youre after, ill have the details shortly. The details shortly. Good morning. Im pip tomson. Good morning. Im pip tomson. Good morning. Im pip tomson. Good morning. Im Michael Portillo and this is breakfast on gb news. On gb news. Hope youre well this morning. And yeah, it is quite a snowy morning for many of you. Bristol morning for many of you. Bristol somerset , morning for many of you. Bristol somerset, cumbria. I know youve had a bit of a surprise waking up to that snowfall which marched the second. Do we expect it . Its the start of the. Its the start of spring in the meteorological calendar. I think everyone knows that. It snowed in rochdale yesterday because we saw our reporters standing the snow. Poor things. Well, that that is true. Well, that is that is true. But certainly in in bristol this morning im seeing some lovely, lovely and also from lovely photos. And also from you, been sending in your you, youve been sending in your favourite nostalgic sounds. This favourite nostalgic sounds. This is after a survey that talked about a poll that said its well , its ahead of world hearing day, which is, is tomorrow. And this study found that 69 of us feel that certain noises help improve our quality of life. And its made us yearn for those sounds of the 80s, 90s, the noughfies. Sounds of the 80s, 90s, the noughties. So quick quiz. Were noughties. So quick quiz. Were going to see if we can guess some of the classics. Heres our first sound. Its computer related, isnt it . Yeah i think thatis related, isnt it . Yeah i think that is the sound of your laptop trying to connect via a wire into a thing in the wall, into a plug into a thing in the wall, into a plug in the wall. I think the thing in the thing in the wall. Yeah. The dial up modem. Well done. Lets have the next one. Any any second now. Okay hey. We are were going to try and bring that one to you. Its not silence honestly, but also on this, you know what they are. We dont know what they are. Uh, also on this list. Otherwise i would just fill in. I just. In. I would just. Well, michael has been doing some great sound effects. In fact, you can this one again fact, you can do this one again because contacted because somebody contacted us and miss and said they miss. They miss the tones of a the sound, the tones of a certain Margaret Thatcher. Oh, well, listen , you only oh, well, listen, you only had to say to me that you wanted to hear those sounds again. You to hear those sounds again. You only had to say that to me. Have only had to say that to me. Have you got it . Have you got that . Im not sure. Im on. Great form this morning. I think weve just woken up in 1984. Right. Lets see. Lets try to hear another sound. Oh, try to hear another sound. Oh, yeah. Try to hear another sound. Oh, yeah. Thats when you switch on yeah. Thats when you switch on a computer, isnt it . Yeah oh, apple. Its a certain type of apple. Its a certain type of computer. Think its apple. Oh no no its windows. Is it windows. Its windows. Start up windows. And i think weve just got time a third weve just got time for a third and final one. Its oh now im told that one thats coming up now is very old fashion. And if we dont have fashion. And if we dont have it, michael can do another impression for you. But we do have it here it is. Have it here it is. Oh oh oh. Reminds me, my dear grandparents , we all know what grandparents, we all know what that is. Its a cuckoo clock. Of course its a cuckoo clock. I dont know why i needed to check my piece of paper there. No, its serious. Hes calling a cuckoo clock. Something from the 70s, 80s or 90s that think. Not quite 90s that i think. Not quite accurate. Think probably more accurate. I think probably more like Something Like like the 1850s. Something like that. Nostalgic sounds. Absolutely. Now now, rishi sunak , the Prime Minister, he sunak, the Prime Minister, he gave a speech in downing street last night in the pouring rain. Some people thought he was about to announce a general election, but actually it was to claim that democracy is under threat from extremism. In the wake of from extremism. In the wake of hamass october 7 attack on israel, it was a speech to the nafion israel, it was a speech to the nation and he said there are forces here at home that are trying to tear us apart, and we can hear a bit of the speech. I fear that our great achievement in building the worlds most successful , worlds most successful, multi ethnic, multi faith democracy is being deliberately undermined. There are forces here at home trying to tear us apart on too many occasions. Recently our streets have been hijacked by small groups who are hostile to our values and have no respect for our democracy , no respect for our democracy, traditions, threats of violence and intimidation are alien to our way of doing things. They must be resisted at all times. Must be resisted at all times. Were joined by former ukip deputy chair and political commentator suzanne evans, suzanne , some of our viewers suzanne, some of our viewers think. Thatthat was on e of the think. That that was one of the best speeches that rishi sunak has ever given it was, is he right . It was a grand speech, lots of fine words, a very good demeanour on behalf of the Prime Minister. But whats he actually saying . And this is far too little , far too late. He didnt little, far too late. He didnt really come out with any plan apart from to say that he was going have a robust going to have a robust new framework to, to tackle extremist threats in our country. Well, those jihadis must be quaking in their boots, as at words, i think as at those words, i think i mean, its quite ridiculous. Some that this was a some of us knew that this was a problem decades i think problem decades ago. I think personally, recall the time of personally, i recall the time of the Salman Rushdie affair in the late we suddenly saw late 80s, when we suddenly saw that of people that we had a cohort of people in country whose values in this country whose values were completely odds with were completely at odds with british and yet its British Values. And yet its only now. Theres been only got worse now. Theres been all sorts of reasons for that. I think its partly been huge amounts uncontrolled amounts of uncontrolled immigration countries that immigration from countries that dont have British Values, that dont have British Values, that dont respect womens rights, for dont respect for instance, that dont respect gay also been that gay rights. Its also been that weve had a kind of extreme , um, weve had a kind of extreme, um, left wing march through our institutions , through public institutions, through the public sector, universities , sector, through universities, even through police force. Even through the police force. Ideology judges that have been so frightened and or have or have preached that, you know, the worst thing you can be is racist. Everything has been ramped up since october the 7th, and the statistics show that in terms of anti semitism , um, and anti semitism, um, and anti muslim hatred. So he has a point. He has a point. But the problem is that nothing was done that very 1st march. Anyone who was at that march, and unfortunately, i got myself sort of caught up in it because i was at a conference around the corner from parliament square, and could how and you could see just how hateful it if you were hateful it was. If you were there the middle it. And there in the middle of it. And yet at least i could. And i had lunch jewish friends who lunch with jewish friends who i remember as the march went past, sort covered their faces sort of covered their faces because these because they didnt want these protesters they were protesters to see that they were jewish potentially target jewish and potentially target them. Yet the police didnt them. And yet the police didnt seem to see that. And seem to be able to see that. And they just seem to have a particular blind spot when it comes cracking down on these comes to cracking down on these ideas things . Ideas of what things . Better, of course, religion better, of course, prime yesterday Prime Minister, yesterday identified as identified the problem as extremism. Um, would you like to extremism. Um, would you like to welcome that at as a step welcome that, at least as a step in direction . In your direction . Its absolutely a step in the right direction. Worry, right direction. My worry, michael, as i said, its michael, is that as i said, its too little, too late. Weve had a thats been let out of a genie thats been let out of a bottle here. Weve had a community that has been allowed to get away with so much. The obvious rochdale obvious one, the rochdale grooming gangs. How many years did and the police did that go on . And the police targeted the girls , girls who targeted the girls, girls who were actually the victims of statutory rape rather than the perpetrators. And theres just been this enormous fear and we see anyone that has spoken out about this has been censured. And i think its a bit rich of rishi sunak is it not to come out with this now after he sacked Suella Braverman, after hes removed the whip from lee anderson, two brave people in the conservative party who have actually raised the red flag on this. He actually raised the red flag on this. He sacked actually raised the red flag on this. He sacked them actually raised the red flag on this. He sacked them and now suddenly hes on their side, although on other side they although on the other side they are owed an apology. Say that they part of the say that they are part of the problem that they are sowing problem in that they are sowing the seeds division. No, the seeds of division. No, i disagree with that. I think , um, well, my mum has i think, um, well, my mum has a favourite phrase evil triumphs when good people do nothing. And i thats the problem weve i think thats the problem weve had here. The people who have been trying speak out have been trying to speak out have actually the evil actually been labelled the evil people actually people who people. Actually the people who have speaking out the have been speaking out are the ones have the writing ones that have seen the writing ones that have seen the writing on wall, have seen the on the wall, have seen the threat coming, have urging , threat coming, have been urging, uh, politicians , police, our uh, politicians, the police, our institutions do something institutions to do something about it. Nothings happened. So about it. Nothings happened. So we situation now where we have a situation now where anyone jewish, perhaps anyone whos jewish, perhaps even people who arent, feel they cant go into Central London a saturday. We have london on a saturday. We have seen our universities weve seen in our universities weve seen in our universities weve seen a huge rise in anti semitism. Um, um, you know , anti semitism. Um, um, you know, free speech is a terribly threatened as well and quite right. And so, because most ordinary muslims are not extremists, um, and i think arguably one of the things that we have to look at is we have certain muslim organisations who are pushing a particular line, and theyre not necessarily representative of the whole muslim community. And i think it is shame. So you look at the is a shame. So you look at the prevent, um, terrorist, Anti Terrorist programme, for instance. Its a shame that instance. Its a shame that i think there are fewer referrals to that than there should be from community. But from the muslim community. But you cant you cant blame ordinary muslims for that. Theyre under pressure from theyre under huge pressure from some their leaders who are some of their leaders who are quite dictatorial. Thank you very much well, thank you very much indeed. Evans, to indeed. Suzanne evans, lovely to have you gb news again next have you on gb news again next wednesday. Wednesday. It is jeremy hunts spring budget. What is going to be in it . We are going to talk about it . We are going to talk about it very, very shortly. But first we want to you about we want to tell you about a special Live Programme from whitehaven in cumbria that takes place evening. Place next wednesday evening. And will be dissecting it and it will be dissecting it all. You can be part of the audience as Michelle Dewberry and nigel farage broadcast live. And nigel farage broadcast live. Um, to talk about the budget we have with us now. Um, greg marsh, who is a finance expert. Marsh, who is a finance expert. Um, it seems that every day we hear that the chancellor of the exchequer has less headroom, less margin for giveaways. Is that the direction of travel . There was talk late last year after some very excitable Economic News that suggested perhaps , that we were not going perhaps, that we were not going to be in recession, that perhaps inflation was thoroughly under control of the possibility of a2p cut on National Insurance or even income tax cuts that now seems much less likely. And mood seems much less likely. And mood music recently has been. Well be lucky to get a one p cut to National Insurance , and probably National Insurance, and probably not a lot more than that. The uk not a lot more than that. The uk economy is now technically in recession inflation, although its come down from its highs last year, remains more than twice the bank of englands 2 target core inflation, which is the one that economists really worry about 5 now, while inflation remains high, its really important that the government doesnt let the economy overheat, which means giving back too much money. Tax cuts could run the risk of fuelling further inflation, and the most important thing, as weve heard very consistently from jeremy hunt and rishi sunak, is to control inflation. So im not expecting a lot of big givebacks, but the context of an election later this year. Clearly the government will want to show some leg theyll want to try to get a good amount of good news into the into the budget. What about help for Small Businesses . Greg, i know a lot of them. I think more than 500 of them. I think more than 500 of them. I think more than 500 of them have signed this letter calling for the tourist tax to be scrapped, and also the Energy Bills Discount scheme to be extended, because that has hammered lot small firms as hammered a lot of small firms as well, not only small firms , its well, not only small firms, its also private also hammering private households is the context for the government being wanting to be seen to help Small Businesses , private individuals is also that weve come off the back of a very difficult period. Were still in a very difficult period. The cost of living crisis might no longer be on the headlines in quite the way it was six months ago, but its really affected its still really affected peoples record peoples finances. A Record Number are debt to number of people are in debt to their current suppliers of Energy Services and other things. People cant change suppliers. Shop suppliers. They cant shop around while around for cheaper deals while they debt. Credit card they are in debt. Credit card debt remains at generational highs. All these reasons, highs. So for all these reasons, theres real theres real stress and anxiety around the population still in polling this issue as the number one issue at the ballot box, which means that unless and until people feel ficheh unless and until people feel richer, they will vote with their wallets. So i think there is real pressure the is real pressure on the government to to find ways government to try to find ways of that, that of alleviating that, that anxiety. People are still feeling about their bills. I mean, my firm nous is particularly aware were seeing this all the time. Weve got people coming to us saying, i just cant afford the bills that im seeing every month. Im falling further and further im seeing every month. Im falling 1and er and further im seeing every month. Im falling 1and thats further im seeing every month. Im falling 1and thats athher im seeing every month. Im falling 1and thats a hardr problem. Its rather annoying to me that, course, inflation that, of course, inflation bnngs that, of course, inflation brings extra money the brings extra money into the government because because the thresholds for tax dont move under this government anyway. And so extraordinary polls in people are made poorer. And yet even at the end of that it even so, at the end of that it appears the government appears that the government doesnt any to money give doesnt have any to money give some of our money back. Well youve spectre, youve raised this spectre, which of most which is one of the most important on in the important things going on in the background stealth taxes. Michael. And again, as you rightly look what is what rightly say, look what is what are taxes . Theyre not are stealth taxes . Theyre not some, idea. Its some, uh, complicated idea. Its very means very simple. Inflation means wages increase pace with wages increase to keep pace with inflation. As wages inflation. But as wages increase, if the income tax thresholds dont rise in lockstep with wage increases, it means that just by doing nothing , were all effectively paying more tax. The effect of that stealth taxation is if the chancellor does nothing else, next week, the average uk income earner will effectively. Be earner will effectively. Be about £400 less. Well off. So hes going to have to give a lot of money back to people to make up for those stealth taxes. Well see what he does. The other thing that drives me mad is that at last, now were getting a bit of interest on our savings because we have higher guess higher interest rates. And guess what . Taxed on the what . We are taxed on the interest. Yeah. Thank you very much marsh. Much indeed, greg marsh. It doesnt theres much doesnt sound like theres much that we could look forward to in the we see. The budget, but we shall see. Youll certainly gb news youll certainly see on gb news anyway, now we are going to move on protests , more on to, uh, protests, more protests that are continuing across the country today. Pro palestine protests. And this follows rishi sunak warning, as weve been saying last night, that democracy is being targeted by extremists , being targeted by extremists, that says palestine Solidarity Campaign activists will attempt to occupy branch of Barclays Bank across the uk. The group claims that barclays has quotes some financial ties with Arms Companies supplying weapons and military technology to israel. Military technology to israel. End of quote. Gb news West Midlands reporter jack carson joins us now. Uh jack, tell us exactly where you are and how how how much activity there is expected to be there today. I know youve covered this. I think, before, havent you . Yeah exactly. Havent you . Yeah exactly. Right. Pip. So we a few weeks ago there was a very similar protest in birmingham , but that protest in birmingham, but that was one of a more localised , uh, was one of a more localised, uh, protest. Not necessarily nationwide, but the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign carrying out this national day of action at Barclays Banks across the country, across the uk , from all country, across the uk, from all the way in south wales , um, to the way in south wales, um, to of course, the likes of here in the West Midlands and scotland and the south east as well. They of course are protesting Barclays Bank because they say they hold over £1 billion in shares and provide over £3 billion in loans and underwriting to nine companies. This is all research from that. The palestinian palestine Solidarity Campaign say theyve got, which they say that those loans and that money then underwrites, um, companies who they say have weapons and components and military technology, which is being used in israel, which the campaign say is being used against palestinians. Um, so therefore they want to protest outside these Barclays Banks. Weve seen them many times before. And usually what happens is therell be protesters that go inside the bank, sit down, lie down, holding their campaign slogans. The in birmingham was the one in birmingham was peaceful in terms of the protesters not causing any trouble, but where the trouble may be comes from is the people that trying to about that are trying to go about their lives, go about their daily lives, go about their daily lives, go about their business, try and get money out of the bank because of course, point the bank course, at that point the Bank Security in and allow security step in and dont allow any more customers into the bank. Is where, of bank. And this is where, of course, this, um, speech course, we get this, um, speech from sunak yesterday. Um, from rishi sunak yesterday. Um, which of course is about warning. Of course , that he says warning. Of course, that he says democracy is being targeted by extremists. We heard him yesterday, didnt we, on the steps of downing street about forces at home trying to, he says, tear us apart and that the election of the likes of George Galloway in rochdale yesterday was beyond, uh, was beyond alarming. But taking to twitter after that speech on downing street, um, the ben jamal, whos the director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign , of course, Solidarity Campaign, of course, the leader whos brought these this day of action here, uh, today said that rishi sunak wants to deal with extremists. He should start with the politicians as political commentators religious commentators and religious leaders, he says, and he says that come back to the likes of him when hes kicked Suella Braverman Robert Jenrick and michael gove out of his own party. Jack , thank you very much. Jack, thank you very much. Jack in wolverhampton today outside berkeley bank. Itll be interesting to see how many people are actually protest thing, right . We have some weather to bring you. Plenty of you. Im seeing are waking up to snow this morning. Several centimetres in places, especially in the south west. Uh, there are weather warnings, i think, issued by the met office office. So do watch out how you go, because those roads could dicey here your could be dicey here is your forecast alex burkill. Forecast with alex burkill. Hello. Very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news weather update. Whilst morrow is going to be a drier day for many of us, its a pretty unsettled, changeable story outbreaks of story today. Outbreaks of showery rain could be heavy at times, some thunder mixed in, perhaps some hail, also some sleet snow. Across parts sleet or snow. Across parts of England Wales as well. A england into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of scotland also likely to bring some hill snow here. Elsewhere though, be some sunny though, there will be some sunny spells breaking out still spells breaking out but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures just about scraping into double digits, perhaps , and into double digits, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially towards the coasts. Later on. And as we go through the evening that wet weather across northern scotland away the scotland clears away towards the west. Showery outbreaks of west. But showery outbreaks of rain, sleet and hill snow across northern feed into Northern England feed into scotland as we go through the night. Otherwise, across much of night. Otherwise, across much of england, and Northern England, wales and northern ireland, from a few ireland, apart from a few coastal showers, it is going to turn largely dry and with some clear skies were going see clear skies were going to see temperatures dropping a few temperatures dropping so a few places below freezing, places dipping below freezing, leading in prone leading to some frost in prone spots. Some fog and spots. Also some fog and freezing fog patches. First thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise, go through otherwise, as we go through tomorrow and like said, it is tomorrow and like i said, it is a drier day for many of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney shetland at and orkney and shetland at times and a showers around. A few coastal showers around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia otherwise, though fine. A good though mostly fine. A good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter although lighter winds so although temperatures be similar temperatures will be similar to today feel less today, it should feel less chilly. Chilly. Do stay with us here on gb news. Were going to be talking about the royal family. About the royal family. Obviously very testing times for them at the moment in terms of their health and all of us. Of course wish them well. But how much should we know about whats really going on . I mean, we particularly thinking of catherine, princess of wales, who we know is continuing to do well , but we who we know is continuing to do well, but we dont who we know is continuing to do well , but we dont know that well, but we dont know that much more. Well, should we . What much more. Well, should we . What do you think were going to be talking about that very shortly here on. Breakfast . Welcome back to breakfast with pip and michael. We were just talking to our reporter, jack carson, whos in war hampton this morning. My old Stomping Ground where the palestine Solidarity Campaign activists are , are attempting. We expect are, are attempting. We expect today to occupy branches of Barclays Bank over what the group claims is bankrolling of israel war, israeli war efforts in gaza. Thats what they say. Some of you have given us your thoughts on this. Indeed and, uh , the banks are such and, uh, the banks are such a target for everyone. So olly says, morning. Well, boycotting says, morning. Well, boycotting Barclays Bank acclamation. Mark, how odd. Im surprised they can find a barclays. Theyve closed all but one in lincolnshire and monaco writes in and makes almost the same point. So the absence of branches. I was absence of branches. I was watching the video of the previous protest. I was just previous protest. I was just wondering how would you feel if you were standing at a cash machine trying to get some cash out . And theres a young man there lurking by the cash machine with a great big palestinian flag. Does palestinian flag. Does that constitute intimidation . Constitute an intimidation . Would you feel comfortable . I would you feel comfortable . I think it tells you how difficult it is to define intimidation. Absolutely. I think it depends how many of them there were. If its a group, i would were. If its a group, i would find that more intimidating than if it was a single individual. Okay. But if you were at a cash machine and theres anyone standing right behind you that is potentially frightening. Yeah. A rule of thumb, yeah. As a rule of thumb, whenever im at a cash machine, i always look around me first before put my pin in before i before i put my pin in and vincent, by the way, says, as much as i hate the current conduct of the banks, i think that protesters should that these protesters should be removed by force. We saw pictures of them and we saw pictures of them on the previous protest lying down in the hall one of the down in the hall of one of the banks, pretending to be banks, um, pretending to be corpses covered with palestinian flags. Flags. Thats, uh , talk about knife thats, uh, talk about knife crime, because it is on the rise in britain. And in the year ending september 2023, last yeah ending september 2023, last year, it increased to just under 50,000 offences. Thats 5 higher compared to the year before. In South Yorkshire, data from the ministry of justice shows that two thirds of cautions or convictions for knife crime in the area were handed to first time offenders. Time offenders. Our yorkshire reporter anna riley brings you this story , riley brings you this story, giving a helping hand to stop young people from carrying knives. Anthony allison founded charity always an alternative. After growing up surrounded by knife crime in sheffield. He wants to get knives off the streets of the steel city and lodge an awareness event at showroom cinema. Showroom cinema. When i was 15, i saw someone get murdered. They got stabbed to their full. Fortunately um, but what was strange, it didnt really affect me because i was around that kind of stuff all the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Every day the time. Growing up, violence was normal. Every day im looking over my shoulder every day. You know, someones getting locked up or someones getting injured. Surely life cant just injured. Surely life cant just be that. I had a few lucky escapes myself, and i thought ive actually had enough. I work more this. Cant more than this. This cant continue to ive got continue to happen. Ive got kids now. Dont to not be kids now. I dont want to not be there for them. So i made that decision. Decision. Keaton naylor is perienced the pain of losing a loved one to knife crime. His best friend, to knife crime. His best friend, Louis Phillips , was stabbed to Louis Phillips, was stabbed to death at the age of 51 by a stranger during an unprovoked attack in South Yorkshire. Attack in South Yorkshire. Ever since i lost my best friend , its made me realise, friend, its made me realise, well, all knives really arent needed. Like like theres so much more to life than carrying a knife. Well, just a weapon in general. A war training for general. A war training for Barnsley Football Club. It were Barnsley Football Club. It were doing well, getting grades and that it just applied for college. So no, it really wasnt a bad lad. A bad lad. Tackling knife crime to prevent further tragedies is a priority for South Yorkshire police. Police. The police are obviously doing a lot in terms of trying to identify, locate and target those individuals or or gangs that are prone to violence and use guns and knives , so theres use guns and knives, so theres a lot of work around that. But, a lot of work around that. But, um, prevention is really the more important thing. How do we stop young people back at showroom cinema , students from a showroom cinema, students from a Sheffield High School produced a short film to highlight knife crime amongst teenagers. Crime amongst teenagers. It was really educational and you really you dont understand how how bad knife crime is until like youre being told the figure you know, Something Like this could happen to me. Happen to anyone. There could happen to anyone. There is concern is something is concern and it is something that , you know, i dont that, you know, that i dont want to happen with recent figures showing 17 of knife crime offenders in england and wales were under 18, when its hoped schemes like this will deter children from carrying weapons. Weapons. Anna riley gb news, working with always an alternative. With always an alternative. Well, we played that video a number of times this morning. Its obviously an extremely important issue. Um and one must applaud everyone whos making good efforts to make an improvement. But as good efforts to make an improvement. But as i good efforts to make an improvement. But as i listened improvement. But as i listened to it and saw what it was about, i wondered whether a lack of awareness was really our problem. Is it a lack of awareness . It seems to me that awareness . It seems to me that people are pretty aware that we have this terrible problem. What we actually need is a law enforcement, isnt it . And this is the point that earlier in the programme were debating with, i think a former Senior Police officer, he was lamenting , he officer, he was lamenting, he was saying that, uh , going easy was saying that, uh, going easy on stop and search has made the problem worse. Of course, stop problem worse. Of course, stop and search was scaled back because there were allegations that people were being profiled. So members are young, black men in particular, were being stopped quite frequently. On the other hand, he was pointing out that many of the crimes most of the crimes, i think he said the victim is a black person and very often the perpetrators, a black it black person as well. So it raises the question as to whether our wish to be whether in our wish to be entirely , uh, pristine, in entirely, uh, pristine, in a position where no one can accuse us of racism, what we actually risk is more young black men being killed. Being killed. And there are children as young as nine years old carrying knives for protection. Thats why most of them appear to do it. And there was the gentleman in that, in that vat there that was saying its just a normal thing. It just it just happens. We just accept it and we cant accept it, can we . I mean, theres also the debate about should it be a mandatory prison sentence. Um i mean, the actor idris elba, hes heavily involved in, in the campaign, isnt he against knife crime . And hes hes not in favour. He does not think thats the answer i i i mean, really, its so depressing i think are we at 1000 deaths in london since the mayor became, um, mayor . Something like that. Its really very, very depressing. Anyway, um , we will be moving on. Uh, do um, we will be moving on. Uh, do stay with us, because in our last half hour, were going to be talking about whether graffiti can be copyrighted. And that follows an enormous row that follows an enormous row that has broken out about some graffiti that whose copyright may have been violated. Thats may have been violated. Thats coming up soon. This is breakfast on gb news with pip and michael i a avery a very good morning. A very good snowy morning to some of you. You are watching and you. You are watching and listening to breakfast with pip and michael , the princess of and michael, the princess of wales has not been seen in pubuc wales has not been seen in public since her abdominal wall. Sorry Abdominal Surgery , but sorry Abdominal Surgery, but social media has been ablaze with conspiracy theories about what has really happened to her royal family has always been a closed book when it comes to internal matters. So today we internal matters. So today we are debating should the royals tell us more . Tell us more . Were joined by editor in chief of majesty magazine, ingnd chief of majesty magazine, Ingrid Seward , who believes the Ingrid Seward, who believes the royals well , they shouldnt come royals well, they shouldnt come clean and royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams , who Richard Fitzwilliams, who believes they should. And believes they should. And richard explain yourself please. Good morning. Surely its an absolutely none of our beeswax. Absolutely none of our beeswax. Well, i think that this raises a fundamental question. Raises a fundamental question. And that is the right to privacy of the head of state. And also, of the head of state. And also, of course, the future queen. Now, if you look at the 2012 European Court of human rights decision, um, against, um, uh, princess caroline of monaco, there it was decided and i think that this was quite relevant , that this was quite relevant, that this was quite relevant, that the press had a right to pubush that the press had a right to publish so long as they could prove it in the Public Interest. Now of course, you could argue if the head of state, where does this Public Interest start . And how do we continue to, for example . I mean, we know that king charles may and the palace spin on when he has prostate problems. Spin on when he has prostate problems. Um, this was tremendously helpful. It raised tremendously helpful. It raised awareness. Now regarding cancer, of course, this is a terribly difficult and sensitive area, but here what do we find . We find that theres a tremendous amount of speculation. Should he in fact be specific . I dont think that he necessarily should be specific. But i do think be specific. But i do think that, for example , when prince that, for example, when Prince William doesnt turn up to a Memorial Service for his godfather, a former king, uh, when its only five minutes away from where hes living, he knows that this is going to fuel speculate. Nation were already nervous about the king having canceh nervous about the king having cancer. Were already nervous also about the fact that we havent seen catherine since december. So its a matter of finding a balance and that balance seems to me to have been somewhat lost. Hence the fact that this is a subject. Its that this is a subject. Its a scary subject. Its very difficult. But if you look at the fact its not going to go away because as we look forward, its a nightmare for royal planners. Royal these are human beings. Of course , but on the beings. Of course, but on the other hand, we have its only a sensible to keep us informed to a certain degree. And it is the argument about where that degree begins and ends. Im not suggesting weekly or monthly bulletins are automatic , but i bulletins are automatic, but i do think we should be kept more informed. On the whole, you have informed. On the whole, you have to get this balance and they seem to have lost it. Um, ingrid , i start from the um, ingrid, i start from the position that many people lack bafic position that many people lack basic human empathy for the royal family and you have to ask yourself , royal family and you have to ask yourself, uh, any one of you out there whos listening or watching, would you like to have your medical records splashed across the front pages of the newspapers . Newspapers . Well, medical records have traditionally always been completely private and doctors are very, very careful about that. Um i think i do agree with richard, though. In the case of the king, as our head of state, that, um, we have, you know, we do have a right to know about his health. I mean, i think the king basically a king has no private life. Um, so what what private life. Um, so what what king charles has done is hes hes allowed, um, his advisors to give bulletins on his health. I think perhaps we could. I think theyve timed it quite well. Were getting them and were seeing pictures of him. And then theres a moment where hes looking at get well, cards. So thats all very positive. We know he wont be at the, uh, Commonwealth Service on march the 11th. Hes recorded a video message. So we i mean, those that care know, we know whats going on with with catherine. I think as a future queen, you know, shes not queen yet. Shes the princess of wales. And i think she has an absolute right for privacy. Um, weve had an for privacy. Um, weve had an announcement of whats happened to her. I dont think that we need to know any more. Of course, everyones going to speculate. But the more we know, the more theyre going to speculate. So if we had a little bit more information about her condition, wed want to know more. So i think that a line has to be drawn somewhere. And i think the palace have kind of got right. Got it right. It is part of the issue , it is part of the issue, richard, because were looking at a slimmed down monarchy now. At a slimmed down monarchy now. So because theres fewer of them on the front line, its so notable, noticeable when one is missing. Missing. Yes. Theres no doubt that this idea of a slimmed down monarchy and i think that, um , monarchy and i think that, um, Princess Anne rubbish did , uh, Princess Anne rubbish did, uh, relatively recently and she was absolutely right to do so. I mean, the palace was undergoing a review of patronages and weve yet to hear. I a review of patronages and weve yet to hear. I mean, its impossible really for planners. I do think that its tremendously difficult because in the weeks and months ahead, as we hope, trips abroad , which as we hope, trips abroad, which are very important as our top a form of soft power. The royal form of soft power. The royal family trips , uh, this is going family trips, uh, this is going to be difficult and how you balance it and what people know, i mean , ingrid is of course, i mean, ingrid is of course, absolutely right that, uh, catherine has a right to privacy. Its a matter, however, that if , for example, someone that if, for example, someone disappears or appears to disappears or appears to disappear for a very long period , i do think its a good idea. For example, sometimes the photograph, sometimes something it neednt be an official statement. You know, as i say , statement. You know, as i say, the essential thing one must realise is, of course, the royals being, um, private bit and also public. They have a right to a private life, but equally you get the rumour mill going over and of course were in a different era now. I mean , in a different era now. I mean, one thinks of the historical precedence and when george v injected with morphine so that the times would carry the story , the times would carry the story, which was utterly bizarre, george vi, not knowing that he had cancer , much less the had cancer, much less the public, and of course , the late public, and of course, the late queen in 2021, it was journalist who discovered she was in hospital. I who discovered she was in hospital. I think that who discovered she was in hospital. I think that the hospital. I think that the palace have got a much better balance, but it does seem that there is a certain hysteria, and in the era of , there is a certain hysteria, and in the era of, of, uh, you there is a certain hysteria, and in the era of , of, uh, you know in the era of, of, uh, you know what all potential paparazzi with our iphones and online and so forth, you do have to get a balance. Its just that i feel balance. Its just that i feel that we should get more a somewhat more information. Thank you very much. Ingrid seward and Richard Fitzwilliams. Um, still to come, well be discussing what is fake and what is fact with andrew. Youre going to love this. Youre going to love this. Okay . And thats going to be next. So come back and see us again. Welcome back. You are watching and listening to breakfast with pip and michael. And it is time for another episode of andrew reborns fakel fact. And we are wondering andrew, very good morning to you. Good morning to you both. Good morning to you both. Are you going to deliver light us with. Its an absolute delight. Can i say how much im enjoying breakfast with with pip and michael . The pm is going to be brilliant. Um, as you know, today basically the launch of today is basically the launch of a google come up with our a google have come up with our own elections own fact checker about elections because were going to have more elections. The mother of all elections. The mother of all election weve most election years, weve got most of about 4 billion of the world. About 4 billion people going to polls. People are going to the polls. And in 2017, fake news was the word. Collins was two words of the year. I word. Collins was two words of the year. I was the word of the yearin the year. I was the word of the year in 2023. Combined the both. Year in 2023. Combined the both. And were living in a diseased information world. So the whole idea about andrew eborn fake or fact is to look at stories in the news and say, okay, this is whats true and this is whats different. And what weve done. Michael on this michael pitts, a regular on this sort game show, what weve sort of game show, what weve doneis sort of game show, what weve done is basically, at those done is basically, look at those stories and come with stories and try and come up with particular because particular themes now, because if passion for trains, if your passion for trains, we thought week were thought that this week were going some of the going to look at some of the glorious things and the glorious train things and the first one then is, does this viral clip, its gone all over the world, viral clip of um, show. The very first train, show. So the very first train, then heres this viral clip and it looks a bit like this. This is the very first train it says on social media. Its extraordinary claim that basically this is december basically this is on december the 1809. And they say the 24th, 1809. And they say that this is a clip of the very first train. Ill let pip go first train. Ill let pip go first because michaels a bit of an expert. So what do you reckon, pip . Im going to say no because im not sure. Could you get those sorts of pictures in 1809 . Quality very good. No, no, no, you could not. Okay. So michael, youre also saying its a fake. Its absolutely a fake. One its absolutely a fake. One of the very earliest pieces of film that was ever made was made by what they called the lumiere. By what they called the lumiere. They were the lumiere brothers. Very good. And it was a train coming into a station in southern france. Absolutely. Their mother, the lumiere brothers was lumiere brothers mother, was arriving on the train. Yes. And so of the very earliest so one of the very earliest pieces of cine film is indeed of a train arriving. Its certainly its but its certainly its certainly that do you certainly not that one. Do you know train . When know the very first train . When was very train which was the very first train which carried passengers . A train . What you mean by a train . I would say the first locomotive was a what was his name . Trevelyan. Yes absolutely. Trevelyan. Yes absolutely. Yeah. And i would say it must have run in cornwall in his nafive have run in cornwall in his native cornwall. Well, yeah, was basically well, yeah, it was basically in and did that 21st of in wales and we did that 21st of february, was the first february, 1804 was the first one, the actual first passenger steam train was locomotion number one, which was stockton and darlington railway. Okay. And darlington railway. Okay. And weve got a picture of that as well. This is the very first steam if you go to the steam train. If you go to the Railway Museum weve got one of those. There we are. Thats what it looks like. And that that happened basically in 1825. Happened um, basically in 1825. So next so its almost 200 years next yeah so its almost 200 years next year. How fast it year. Do you know how fast it used to go . But i would say about 30 miles an hour. That cant be. Obviously but that cant be. Obviously that real either, that cant be real either, because didnt have because we didnt have photographs in. Well, was taken in the well, this was taken in the centenary so that centenary years. So that particular photo was from 1925. And you say how fast do you think it was 30 miles. 30 miles, pip 2020. Its actually only 15 miles an hour. So its almost quicker to run. I would have thought you mentioned the lumiere brothers. Yes and it was in fact that first movie, which we have. Its a glorious thing. And weve got a little clip of that well, because thought that as well, because i thought wed i have ive been doing my homework for you this. This homework for you like this. This is is wonderful. This is is so this is wonderful. This is the very um, real film the very first, um, real film they had. And the days they had. And this is the days when they used to have films about sort 50s or so, um, and about sort of 50s or so, um, and the urban myth is an urban legend, almost. Is that audiences used to run scream thing from the cinema when they saw this train coming towards them. So michael and pip is that fake or fat . Did audiences in paris when they first saw this film run screaming from the cinema . I i have been told that people were very impacted by it. They were frightened by it. So i dont know about running screaming, but ill go for a yes. Youre going for a yes. Youre saying its fact. Pip and i will go, no. Well, i can tell you, michael, you are absolutely wrong. And pip pip is right because what happened is an urban. Its a myth. And what they sort of called it is, uh, cinemas found a myth, they call it. And they had all these professors in germany looked at it and actually the first screening was only about seven foot high, the screen. So it wasnt very big. It was very wasnt very big. It was a very great picture. There was no sound at all, actually. I was surprised by how good the quality was. I think weve enhanced well, i think weve enhanced it bit for you. The it a little bit for you. The brilliant at news. They Brilliant Team at gb news. They know to do, so move us on know what to do, so move us on to the next one. Andrew, because okay, very good time. Problem at all. So a oh no problem at all. So a train singapore, a singapore train in singapore, a singapore a here i love it. The a singapore here i love it. The end of the pier show training singapore when drives singapore when it drives past residential areas. Little blinds blank dont have to blank out so you dont have to see the people. Is that complete rubbish . Rubbish. You rubbish . Complete rubbish. You say absolute say thats fake pip absolute fact, fact. Well pip fact, absolute fact. Well pip is absolutely again. You absolutely right again. You still and got still ahead and weve got a little video of that very quickly. Video the quickly. Got a video of the singapore this is the singapore thing. This is the singapore thing. This is the singapore driving past. Singapore train driving past. Look we blind out. Look there we go. It blind out. So you dont have to see the residential people. How good is that. Residential people. How good is that. Do we have residential people. How good is that. Do we have time for one very quick one. Yes we do. Oh, a very quick one. Yes we do. Oh, a very quick one. Okay. Now this is a fake or fact. Then heres an image. And ive deliberately done because its a michael done this because its a Michael Portillo which portillo train which ive managed its the managed to find. Its is the most gloriously colourful train in it is. On in india. Here it is. On beautiful. Doesnt that look beautiful. Doesnt that look wonderful . Michael wonderful . So its Michael Portillo your portillo inspired by your sartorial michael oh, sartorial elegance. Michael oh, um, so this is a train basically , which was decorated to celebrate whats called the anaam, which is the harvest festival. As you all know, in kerala, in india. So is that fake or fact . The kerala train . Fake or fact . The kerala train . I would like to say yes. I would like to say yes. Okay. Youre saying thats fact . Yes. Michael well, i better go the other way and see whether i can at last a point. Last score a point. Youre going to youre going to say its fake. Well, i can tell you faked up. Are you absolutely. Its a generated tell you faked up. Are you absclutely. Its a generated tell you faked up. Are you absci love. Its a generated tell you faked up. Are you absci love the. A generated tell you faked up. Are you absci love the ideagenerated tell you faked up. Are you absci love the idea of|erated tell you faked up. Are you absci love the idea of michael and i love the idea of Michael Portillo train. But oh lets have tube trains looking like this. Well thats glorious. Say, this is genuinely i must say, this is genuinely a interesting exercise, a very interesting exercise, isnt because youre isnt it, because youre so easily these things. Easily fooled by these things. Always say that well, they always say that the a lie travels the basically a lie travels around the world, halfway around the world before the truth has got boots on and never let got its boots on and never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. And this is why we are obsessed that sort of are obsessed with that sort of stuff. So thats what do on stuff. So thats what we do on andrew or fact. Andrew gwynne fake or fact. We look at stories and its a look at those stories and its a pubuc look at those stories and its a public service. What i also love is that people are starting to suggest and suggest themes. They come in and say, oh, check out this or say, oh, check out this story or that and on and so that story and so on and so forth. And as i say, we live in a diseased information world, and elections be and with elections there can be more videos coming out, more fake videos coming out, more fake videos coming out, more recordings and so on more fake recordings and so on and so forth. Im so pleased that by well, im so pleased that by an amazing coincidence, you thought a train theme this thought of a train theme this morning. The course morning. Now, during the course of the programme, we have been talking about nostalgic sounds. Sounds. End sounds. Um, were going to end up now by listening to some of those sounds yeah, take those sounds again. Yeah, take it hey. It away. Hey. So. So that was a vhs tape. So. So that was a vhs tape. So. So that was a vhs tape. Being slotted in brings a tear to my eyes. Okay lets lets hear the next one. Of course, a rotary phone. In fact, lots of us still buy these phones because theyre vintage. Phones because theyre vintage. And there we are. Theres a very similar one. Not quite the same, but very similar one we have in the studio. Thank you. Model andrew. It was simply called a dial rather than a rotary. And we rather than a rotary. And we used to say were going to dial a friend. It was it became verb. Yeah. Right. And youd always answer the with your answer the phone with your telephone number. Oh heres another one. This one is still played when you go to the opera or the theatre. They want to make the point. You must off your mobile you must turn off your mobile phone. Still play that phone. They still play that because kind generic, because its kind of generic, but in fact the nokia but it is in fact the nokia ringtone. Lets have one more at least. So this is this is me in a hotel room with my first laptop, trying to send my copy down the line to a newspaper that will otherwise not pay me any money at all. And something very old. On no. Very old. On no. Yeah, a Windows Start up, Windows Start up, Windows Start up. We remember that so well. And here is one that is quite Old Fashioned but brings back so many memories for. Us. Well, i, i think that particular sound clue is a way of telling us that we have come towards the end of our program, and i must say, to be my second breakfast with pip. Ive enjoyed it. So much. Thank you for looking after me. Pleasure sorry if ive let the side down from time time. Side down from time to time. At darren and emma not at all. Darren and emma are here with saturday morning live great day. Live next. Have a great day. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Hello, very good morning to you. Im alex burkill here from the met office with your latest gb news weather update. Whilst tomorrow going to be drier tomorrow is going to be a drier day of us, its a day for many of us, its a pretty unsettled, changeable story outbreak of showery story today. Outbreak of showery rain could be heavy at times. Some thunder mixed in perhaps some hail, also some sleet or snow across parts england snow across parts of england into as well. A swathe of into wales as well. A swathe of rain making its way westwards across northern parts of scotland, also likely to bring some snow here. Elsewhere, some hill snow here. Elsewhere, though there be some sunny though, there will be some sunny spells breaking out but still a chilly feel to things. Temperatures about scraping temperatures just about scraping into double digits, perhaps , and into double digits, perhaps, and some strong winds, especially towards the coasts. Later on. And as we go through the evening, that wet weather across northern scotland clears away towards west. But showery towards the west. But showery outbreaks of rain, and outbreaks of rain, sleet and hill across Northern Hill snow across Northern England feed into scotland as we go the night. Otherwise go through the night. Otherwise across england, wales across much of england, wales and northern ireland, apart from and northern ireland, apart from a few coastal showers, it is going to turn largely dry and with skies. Were with some clear skies. Were going temperatures going to see temperatures dropping, few places dropping, so a few places dipping freezing, leading dipping below freezing, leading to some frost in prone spots. Also some fog and freezing fog patches. First thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise as we go through tomorrow and like i said, a drier day for many said, it is a drier day for many of perhaps some rain of us. Perhaps some rain reaching orkney at reaching orkney and shetland at times, coastal showers times, and a few coastal showers around. The chance of some around. Also the chance of some rain affecting east anglia. Otherwise though mostly fine, a good chance that well see some brightness breaking through and lighter winds. So although temperatures will be similar to today, should feel less today, it should feel less chilly. Chilly. Looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning, im darren grimes, alongside the beautiful emma webb, and were standing in for ellie and pete this morning on saturday morning live. Its great to have your company this morning. And do we have an action packed show for you . We have all the days top stories with our panel the days top stories with our panel. The fallout from the rochdale by election rishis rochdale by election and rishis speech last night is democracy under threat. All that and more. Under threat. 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