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Across the uk. How will the rest of the weekend pan out . Well, you can the details you can find all the details with me a little later on. Good morning, im Stephen Dixon im ellie and dixon and im Ellie Costello and this breakfast on. This is breakfast on. Gb news. And you know, when honours are given out, i do. Yeah. Unfortunately, i havent been the recipient. No, but i get a bit peeved when its all people who get get it for services to broadcasting or services to acting or services to politics and all that stuff, because theyre basically just doing their job. Yeah, right. Yes. I think you should get them for doing things that are. And one thing which that are. And one thing which you to say, i dont you always used to say, i dont know if you do, but know if you still do, but police, police, lollipop men and women. Were often would get women. Yeah were often would get something. And always thought something. And i always thought thats great because theyre doing voluntarily. And was doing that voluntarily. And was that not paid position. No i think i think its voluntary. You might correct me from but you know, and people tend to be doing it in their own after theyve retired. Dont realise that. Thats i dont realise that. Thats lovely. Mirror lovely. Anyway in the mirror this theres this brian this morning, theres this Brian Andrews morning to you. So years old and he so hes 86 years old and he is retired after 24 years of doing the job. He used to always greet the children with a joke or a song. Apparently this is in, anlaby in east yorkshire. Hes been doing it since 2000. Hes been doing it since 2000. Hes leaving because of health reasons. He said some of the reasons. He said some of the kiddies in the younger years when i started have got children of their own. Its been a pleasure. Theyve made my life wonderful. They held a special assembly at the school for him. Lovely is that . Oh how lovely is that . Oh how lovely is that . 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Our main news today is about the metropolitan police whove apologised for causing causing further offence with an apology about an officers use of the tirm openly jewish to an anti Semitism Campaigner who was near a pro palestine march. You are quite openly jewish. This is a pro palestinian march, right . Im not accusing you of anything , right . Im not accusing you of anything, but im worried about the reaction to your presence. The reaction to your presence. Well, the chief executive of campaign against anti semitism was wearing a kippah skullcap when he was stopped from crossing a road near the demonstration in london last saturday. Lets talk to political commentator Peter Spencer who joins us now. Look, its a delicate issue in a sense as far as the government goes, because theyre trying to balance the rights of people who want to protest against the rights, who are, anti that particular protest. But to say to someone you are quite clearly, openly jewish, you shouldnt be in this area , cannot be right, can it . Area, cannot be right, can it . And how how do politicians deal with that . Do we think the fact is that the world is inflamed and on tenterhooks . Is the conflict in the middle east about to explode into something much, much bigger . And what we have in london is , is an what we have in london is, is an echo of that tension in microcosm. Now, when it comes to microcosm. Now, when it comes to this specific thing, a thing , this specific thing, a thing, this specific thing, a thing, this specific thing, a thing, this specific incident, it has to be said that the police are not noted for their linguistic dexterity. Anybody else would say, the bloke was walking up the road and they have to say, the road and they have to say, the individual was proceeding in a northerly direction. I mean, they , theyre not good on on they, theyre not good on on words and openly jewish sounds. It has a sort of a connotation of saying like, youre openly 93v of saying like, youre openly gay. Well, look, they changed the law now, so youre allowed to be gay, but they still place that inflection on the on the terminology. That said , you terminology. That said, you watch that video and the Police Officer in question was very clearly not trying to be horrid to this man. What he was trying to this man. What he was trying to say was, look, youre in some danger because you are wearing a kippah skullcap and there is a demonstration going on which is opposed to the actions of the israeli government. And so the policeman, to some extent, was placed in an absolutely impossible situation. And i have to say that that that were going to were this situation will perpetuate until things in the middle east, god willing, simmer down a bit, peter, we were talking, just over a month ago now, werent we, about the governments counter extremism commissioner warning that london had a no go zone for had become a no go zone for jews, that that was a warning about six weeks ago. Well, this would suggest that thats true, isnt it . This man was not there, in his position to counter protest. He was actually just trying to cross the road. He says , after leaving the road. He says, after leaving the road. He says, after leaving the synagogue. And that would suggest it a no go zone. Suggest it is a no go zone. It is a come back to it is a very , very tense situation, no very, very tense situation, no go zone. I mean, those words themselves have got sort of rather powerful and decidedly scary connotations , but the fact scary connotations, but the fact is that when youve got a bunch of people, a large bunch of people feeling extremely upset about a certain thing, then it is unfortunate, that you get someone of, of potentially the opposing view to be close by. I mean, i mean, i mean, i dont usually hold a great candle for knacker of the yard , but on this knacker of the yard, but on this occasion, i do feel that they are placed in an extremely difficult position and thus far i would add that i think theyve actually handled that, handled the situation the overall situation of protests and counter protest with a great deal of skill and delicacy because of the fact that, you know, there have been suggestions in the past, well, you cant have these demonstrations. Youve got to break them up. And they very wisely thought, if we try to do that, well have to bring the army in. And, they will carry army in. And, so they will carry on situations on having difficult situations and, potential and, and, and potential confrontations. And they are doing the very best they can in a bordering on impossible situation. Okay, peter, for now , thanks okay, peter, for now, thanks very much indeed. Well, the metropolitan Police Released an initial statement saying in recent weeks, weve seen a new trend emerge with those opposed to the main protests appearing along the route to express their views. The fact that those who views. The fact that those who do this often film themselves while doing so suggests that they must know their presence is provocative, that theyre inviting a response , and theyre inviting a response, and theyre increasing the likelihood of an altercation. Altercation. Well, the metropolitan police then deleted that first statement and released a fresh one, saying, we have reflected one, saying, we have reflected on the strength of the response to our previous statement. But to our previous statement. But in an effort to make a point about the policing of protest, we caused further offence. This was never our intention. We have was never our intention. We have removed that statement and we apologise. Being jewish is not a provocation. Jewish londoners must be able to feel safe in this city. I mean, this is the issue when you listen to what the Police Officer is saying. I think peters got a point when in a way, the Police Officer, apart from saying openly jewish, you know, the Police Officer has a point in saying, well, this could be, you know, this could be provocative in the circumstances , but the man has circumstances, but the man has a right to be there. I mean, right to be there. I mean, thats the point. Hes got a right to be there. The fact he is jewish is shouldnt actually play is jewish is shouldnt actually play into it. You know, the fact, you know, if somebody else who was, very pro pro israel, or i mean, in his case, he would argue, well, im just anti im anti anti semitism , then who anti anti semitism, then who wasnt wearing a kippah was just stood there. Would anything have been said . No and this is the problem. It is slightly nuanced in a way i wouldnt want to see this. This Police Officer hung, drawn and quartered over, over what he said. But clearly what it wasnt right. It wasnt right. No. Well, it wasnt right. I you can see what peter said. Peter spencer is saying hes not being horrid. Hes trying to keep that man safe. Thats probably what hes trying to do. If we give him the benefit of the doubt. But you would think thats not this mans problem. That every right to that man has every right to cross street his home cross the street in his home city and feel safe to do so. It should be the pro palestinian should be on the pro palestinian marches. Its their responsibility to not be violent, to not to be violent. Exactly. Yeah but it didnt come across that way. So thats the response from the metropolitan police. Is that enough . What do you make of that story . Do you let us know what you think . Gbnews. Com yoursay back now to the United States, where a man set on fire outside set himself on fire outside a courthouse in new york, where former president Donald Trumps hush money trial is underway . Yes. Police have identified the man as Maxwell Azarello from florida , who is in his 30s. Hes florida, who is in his 30s. Hes been taken to hospital and is in a critical condition. Well, the Trump Campaign released a statement offering its condolences to the traumatised witnesses after the blaze. Well, joining us now from washington is us political analyst eric ham. Good to see you this morning, eric. And this is absolutely traumatising isnt it. Oh it certainly is. I mean ive actually been at outside that courthouse where donald trump is now. And of course there have been protests and demonstrations, but certainly no one ever thought that you would see an individual who would actually set himself on fire. And so i can only imagine how that must have been. Just deeply traumatised, traumatic for many of the people who were there and were actually had to witness that, just kudos to those who actually jumped into action to try to save that mans life. I mean, the thing is here, its very difficult to understand what the man was trying to achieve. Isnt it . His . I mean, he was sort of anti trump and anti biden, it would seem all all at the same time. I mean, clearly a disturbed individual. Clearly a disturbed individual. Oh, absolutely. I mean, i think its a horrible a horrific situation that we saw play out today. And of course, no one knows really what was going through this individuals mind to make him do Something Like that. But of course, we know if the idea was to just protest, you know, his conditions or to , you know, his conditions or to, you know, his conditions or to, you know, his conditions or to, you know, illustrate just how deeply, problematic the country is right now. I think it there were probably more constructive ways to do it. And so i think thats what we see playing out. Thats what we see playing out. And for people who havent seen the videos, and i wouldnt suggest you do, because it is very distressing and traumatising. Can you just explain exactly happens . Explain exactly what happens . Because quite a few because it does take quite a few seconds , doesnt it, before seconds, doesnt it, before people realise what people start to realise what what happened . What has happened . Well, mean, i wasnt there , well, i mean, i wasnt there, so i mean, you know, i dont know, i, i what, what, what led this individual to, to do what he did in terms of how he just set himself on fire. We do know that he, because of the trial , that he, because of the trial, there is a number of First Responders that are there just for the sake of the trial. And we know there are protester demonstrations. So its a very locked down situation. Its, you locked down situation. Its, you know, press are everywhere. And so we know that they were able to move in very quickly, but still its just a very, distressing situation. Distressing situation. Is this an indication then, of just i mean, just how tense are things in the United States in the run up to november . And with i mean, theres so much going on globally. Theres so much pressure on biden at the moment. Obviously, trump, with his trials and being controversial yet popular as he is. I mean, really, can you cut the tension with a knife in the states . Oh, absolutely. You can. But you know, its not just tension. Theres also just deep unease. And anxiety, people are people literally dont know what direction the nation is actually going in. In fact, we know elections are always about the future. Theyre always about the future. Theyre always about the vision that candidates will lay out in terms of where they want to take the country. But what we are seeing play out right now is Many Americans literally do not know where the nation is headed. And of course, as you mentioned, you know, you see a war taking place around us. And of course, evenin place around us. And of course, even in our own backyard, theres so much unease of the border is extremely porous and vulnerable right now. And so americans are dont know where to turn. And i think thats just only creating more tension , more only creating more tension, more anxiety. And its only increasing the polarisation that were seeing play out right now. Okay. Okay. Eric ham , thank you very much eric ham, thank you very much for your time. Thank you , for your time. Thank you, talking about those problems, global problems, which are affecting everybody actually, it causes unease for all of us anyway, World Leaders are calling for calm and de escalation in the middle east after, as we reported yesterday, israel launched air strikes against iran. Well, according to reports, three drones were shot down with explosions heard at an air base near the city of isfahan. Now, the strike thought to be in response to last weekends attack when iran fired drones and missiles at israel. And missiles at israel. Well, joining us now is defence editor at the Evening Standard , robert fox. And, standard, robert fox. And, robert, is it safe to say that we can all breathe a sigh of relief for now . I think youre right that theres a pause for reflection now for very good reason, because theres been some very interesting israeli comment, not part of the government or the military set up in the more liberal press. Things like the times of israel, very good online paper, haaretz, which i look at every every morning, both available in english, are saying that, you know, that a lot of this wasnt really long term preplanned action reactions going on. And i think that this is whats so fascinating is both tehran and tel aviv , jerusalem are thinking tel aviv, jerusalem are thinking where they are. They have sent where they are. They have sent signals to each other which they understand the strike. It starts. There were three things we have to go through the strike on the damascus consulate , which on the damascus consulate, which actually hit hit much harder, i think, than the israelis expected, because they they hit a command cell of the elite of the revolutionary guard corps. And this really hit that element, which is the elite, very active outside iran, very, very active outside iran, very, very hard indeed. Thats why very hard indeed. Thats why there was going to be an extreme reaction. It was extreme, though mild in effect. But it was extreme in that it was an attack on israeli territory from iran. On israeli territory from iran. What how do they do it . They do it with swarm tactics. See it with swarm tactics. See whether it works. This is what weve got. Lets see how you respond to that. And israel has responded, and i think this has been really clever, whether by accident or by design, by the israeli authorities. They havent said what they really did. Now you have reported that they were drones. The Israeli Press is reporting it was a strike around isfahan on a key area, sending a signal by three very precise air launched missiles from aircraft. I think it was a bit of both, a lot. There was a lot of now you see me, now you dont. Now lets see where we are. And you get the chorus of the backers around saying, be careful , do this chorus of the backers around saying, be careful, do this and do that. But the two principal players are eyeballing each other. And the interesting thing is , neither is blinking so far, is, neither is blinking so far, but neither seems to want to go crazy. Which is reassuring. Crazy. Which is reassuring. Which is unusual for me to say that. Well, yeah, it is. I mean , well, yeah, it is. I mean, whats also interesting, this is iran has talked about the attacks coming from within the country , from infiltrators, country, from infiltrators, which is a its intriguing, but b does that then give them a bit of a get out clause to say we dont necessarily need to respond . Respond . Well, i dont want to sound partisan here. Its not nonsense. It has happened in the past. Copter drones have been launched from within and this is the thing that really worries the Iranian Regime because there are dissident groups we know that is active there and there are would you believe it . Racial tensions between the azeri minorities in the north, which are a big minority, and the farsi, the persians, and there is a sense that i think the caution of the Iranian Regime reflects that, that particular part of the regime revolution in 1979, theyre very, very old indeed , theyre very, very old indeed, and they are coming to an end. I mean, the grand, the ayatollah, the supreme leader, cannot be around forever. And hes looking around forever. And hes looking desperately for a successor. Theyve mentioned his son. Im talking about ayatollah khomeini. And thats not going down too big either. Its very, very interesting. What one wants to know is what the israelis are saying to the americans at the moment. With regard to gaza, moment. With regard to gaza, i think the americans have been saying, get it wrapped up. I think that the israelis are saying, weve got to go into rafah because thats where the remaining command and it is difficult and, of, yahya sinwar and his team of hamas are. But theres that. But its very interesting how in the United States i dont want to make it too complicated how, the israeli iran issue and ukraine are going together. And that comes possibly could come up today to the floor of the house as to whether theyre going to give, extra for money further further support for israel. It will be a back up, particularly for things like the iron dome system, but more desperately needed is air defences, for ukraine, that message appears to be getting through, and i think there will be a package. It will come to be a package. It will come to the house in the next few days because things are pretty desperate. But again, absolutely against the odds. The ukrainians are fighting back. Okay. Robert fox, good to see okay. Robert fox, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much indeed. Heck, a lot of heavy stuff this morning to get through. Lets see what the weather is going to be like for you. Because i have to say it was a cold start where i woke up this morning. It was miserable yesterday, so i hope its better today. Annie a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news. News. News. News. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. Latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across. Actually, across eastern areas. Actually, theres be cool theres going to be quite a cool feeling breeze with this northeasterly off northeasterly wind coming off the that will bring the north sea. That will bring some to eastern areas some cloud to eastern areas through this morning. Elsewhere though, and though, it should stay dry and bright. However, we head bright. However, as we head towards i think more towards lunchtime, i think more in of cloud will bubble in the way of cloud will bubble up western areas. Parts up across western areas. Parts of into the midlands as up across western areas. Parts of butinto the midlands as up across western areas. Parts of but itto the midlands as up across western areas. Parts of but it should iidlands as up across western areas. Parts of but it should stay nds as up across western areas. Parts of but it should stay dry as well, but it should stay dry through of day and it through much of the day and it will feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine. Later this evening sunshine. Later on this evening well see parts of well start to see parts of scotland see some rain arrive as this area of pushes from this area of rain pushes in from the will bring the north. That will bring thicker to many areas thicker cloud to many areas of scotland as well. That area scotland as well. And that area of is going to sink of cloud is going to sink southwards through this evening, covering many of northern covering many areas of northern england, will england, and that will likely sit across parts of the midlands, into the midlands, possibly into the southeast. Sunday morning. Southeast. By sunday morning. This drizzly will likely this drizzly rain will likely affect Northern Areas of england, southern scotland as well, through sunday morning as well. Going to be well. But its going to be fairly light. But where the skies its going to skies stay clear, its going to be another chilly night. Tonight we touch of frost we could see a touch of frost developing once again. As i said, is bit of said, there is a bit of uncertainty how widespread uncertainty in how widespread this it could this cloud will be. 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Watching on demand. Good luck. Now data reveals a thousand shoplift offences are carried out every day. Find out more in out every day. Find out more in just a moment. 626. Good morning to you. Now, the labour party has called on tories to scrap their shoplifters charter because new analysis reveals a thousand shoplifting offences are committed each and every day. Well, this comes as data shows that charges for such offences have dropped more than a quarter over the last five years. Lets talk to former detective chief inspector mike neville. Morning to you, mike, whats going on . Well, good morning, steve. And whats going on is that thats a thousand that are reported. Only shopkeepers think i cant be bothered reporting this. Probably ten times as many. Now, theresa may introduced a law where if a shoplifting case was the value was under £200, it wouldnt be a case that could go to the crown court. And it would be dealt with by post. Well, of course, what the shoplifters know is that you do ten times £199. 95 added to all this, youve got the police who are just not focused. So at the very top yesterday you had gavin stevens, whos the former chief constable of surrey and the head of the National Police Chiefs Council , National Police Chiefs Council, saying that the police should admit to being institutionally racist rather than catching criminals. And at the bottom end , youve got about 70 of officers who literally havent had an arrest in one year. So its this complete lack of focus on on crime. And what its left on on crime. And what its left with is the public and people who own shops are just left where crime is allowed to flourish and criminals can get away with what they want. Yeah and people working in shops being affronted with with levels of violence, sometimes people stealing from i mean, it stealing from them. I mean, it is really disturbing. Is really disturbing. Youre absolutely right. Because what happens here is that the drug addicts or the drug addicts are organised gangs. They feel theyre entitled to steal. And he showed some coffee there. I was at a co op in croydon. And you actually asked for coffee. You couldnt buy it on the shelf. You had to go around and ask the shop keeper for it. So shop workers are left with these threats of violence and communities are just feel unsafe. If you cant go to your local shop without thinking somebody is going to be in there stealing. Even my wife went to the shop the other day, just a small shop, and suddenly the guy shouted, theres shop shouted, oh, theres a shop lifter the in the in the in lifter in the in the in the in the the door. How the premises. Lock the door. How frightening your frightening is that for your average member of public . It average member of the public . It just a sort of lawless just shows a sort of lawless britain where things arent working. Whats the key to i mean, whats the key to tackling this then . Is it a case of saying we, the police, need to be more involved and, and, and even with the smallest of offences, you know, someone needs to be detained like, like we used to do. You put them in the back office and the police need to be called . Or is that ultimately a waste of time for an overstretched force . An overstretched force . Well, one of the things, stephen, you have is that nearly every shop has high quality cctv which records offences , which records these offences, and yet the police have no system to deal with images like they have a National Fingerprint and a national dna database. So and a national dna database. So if you commit crimes in belfast, bolton and bournemouth, youre identified by fingerprints and dna. You were an organised dna. If you were an organised thief and you travel to belfast, bolton and bournemouth and you get captured on cctv, theres no way that those images will be matched. Now. I had a team at the yard and we used to match people by faces and one prolific shoplifter. We caught him 43 times. That means he goes to jail. So what times. That means he goes to jail. So what the times. That means he goes to jail. So what the police need to jail. So what the police need to do is be a bit more savvy, use technology and catch these prolific thieves. You know, the shopkeeper can put up with a kid who steals a twix. Its the characters who are stealing ten, 20 times a day who are just wrecking profits, and also often the ones who are the most violent and bringing misery to communities. Communities. And what do you find in your experience, mike, who is doing the shoplifting . Is it sophisticated gangs that youve mentioned . Is it drug addicts or is it, you know, we are in the middle of a cost of living crisis. Is it people shoplifting out of desperation often . I dont think many people are shoplifting out of desperation. Theres banks all sorts theres food banks and all sorts of things. Theres very few old of things. Theres very few old ladies stealing can of cat ladies stealing a can of cat food, people are drug food, mostly people are drug addicts. Theyre stealing things which very to easy sell on, which are very to easy sell on, like coke, coffee and things like coke, coffee and things like that. At the extreme. I deau like that. At the extreme. I dealt with a pub once where you ordered food on the menu , and ordered food on the menu, and the shoplifters went and stole it from the Marks Spencers it from the marks and spencers garage that was garage opposite. So that was very then got very organised. And then you got organised gangs who will target high which can then high value goods, which can then be sold ebay and other other be sold on ebay and other other internet sites. So i dont think theres very many people shoplifting because theyre starving. But you have both political mainstream parties who failed on this, and theyre only offering seems to be im not as bad as the other one. Oh, well, were going to be to talking the labour party about that a little bit later on. So well put that to them. Mike good you. Mike neville, good to see you. Thanks much thank you. Now its time to go through all of the sports news. Aidan magee is here with us. Morning. Morning to you both. Morning to you both. Have bit of this should we have a bit of this fa controversy . Fa cup controversy . Yeah. I mean, look, first of all, we should say its a great day for cup and the great day for the fa cup and the great weekend over the next 48 hours or man city played chelsea or so. Man city played chelsea at 515 and coventry, at 515 and tomorrow coventry, who been fa cup who havent been to an fa cup semi finals they semi finals since 1987 when they won face man united at won it. They face man united at wembley but whats wembley at 330. But whats brought whole fa cup brought the whole fa cup argument into focus this week is because, well, its the fas announcement earlier in the week that theyre going scrap that theyre going to scrap replays. Now touched on it replays. Now weve touched on it earlier in the week as, as you know, rishi sunak has know, but now rishi sunak has weighed argument. Now weighed into the argument. Now keir come into it as keir starmer has come into it as well. Now can tell its an well. Now you can tell its an election year, cant yeah, election year, cant you . Yeah, because theyre on because theyre seizing on something and something very popular and having felt. Now having their opinions felt. Now the the crux. The just the crux. No doubt theyre both on the side the fans are side of the of the fans are they. They indeed. Yeah. Yeah they are indeed. Yeah. Yeah yeah. Almost like youve yeah. Its almost like youve seen of thing before. Seen this kind of thing before. So they want to ban its so look they want to ban its been announced that fa cup replay banned. Replay is going to be banned. They source of income they are a huge source of income for league clubs. The big for lower league clubs. The big clubs just dont want them because extra aggravation. Because its extra aggravation. It youve got to their it means youve got to their worry player if worry is player welfare. If youre a manchester youre youre a Manchester City, youre your seasons now where youre through seasons now where youre youre between 62 youre playing between 58 and 62 matches. It a heavy workload, matches. It is a heavy workload, but have big squads. They but they have big squads. They should able to get through should be able to get through these in go. So if these matches in one go. So if we what what rishi sunak we look at what what rishi sunak said, his spokesman said said, i mean, his spokesman said yesterday and goliath yesterday david and goliath fixtures of the magic fixtures are a part of the magic of cup, and we know that of the cup, and we know that replays have been a welcome source income lower source of income for lower league clubs. He did caveat everything a everything by saying its a decision for football decision for the football authorities, though, to authorities, though, as to whether gets whether the decision gets reversed, said its reversed, keir starmer said its the wrong decision and hes urged the fa to have a rethink. If look at barrow in league if you look at barrow in league two, called it simply two, theyve called it simply unacceptable. Are there. Two, theyve called it simply unacc you ble. Are there. Two, theyve called it simply unaccyou look are there. Two, theyve called it simply unaccyou look at are there. Two, theyve called it simply unaccyou look at theare there. Two, theyve called it simply unaccyou look at the words. � e. Yeah, you look at the words. Yeah, you look at the words. Yeah, but if look well its yeah, but if we look well its going to affect clubs like that. It really does affect communities. A big communities. They had a big replay year or big replay the other year or the big match that year against aston villa, a friend of who villa, and a friend of mine who lives in barrow said it brought the town, it woke it up. It really was alive. Was really did. It was alive. It was absolutely fantastic the absolutely fantastic for the area actually learn area and people actually learn about area because the bbc about the area because the bbc go there they a little go there and they do a little historical pieces about all the history of area, and history of the of the area, and people learn about that stuff, and thats a good thing. People learn about that stuff, and havethats a good thing. People learn about that stuff, and havethatssaidood thing. People learn about that stuff, and havethatssaid00 league exeter have also said in league two condemn the two that they condemn the decision. Lets see decision. So look, lets see what efl, though, what happens. The efl, though, have that werent have said that they werent consulted the consulted over any of this. The fa released statement fa released a statement yesterday saying all yesterday saying this is all agreed last year efl agreed in the last year the efl were side, saying were on side, efl are saying theres no theres no formal consultation the clubs consultation and that the clubs are themselves consultation and that the clubs are benefit themselves consultation and that the clubs are benefit all mselves consultation and that the clubs are benefit all the lves consultation and that the clubs are benefit all the clubs at the benefit of all the clubs at the benefit of all the clubs at the the pyramid. So i the top end of the pyramid. So i think going and run think its going to run and run a bit. This one, i think a little bit. This one, i think we might see a decision sometime over summer, but it does over the summer, but it does seem unfair right now over the summer, but it does seem ive1fair right now over the summer, but it does seem ive seenight now over the summer, but it does seem ive seen you now over the summer, but it does seem ive seen you think back because ive seen you think back to great fa cup to some of the great fa cup ties, even involving ties, not even involving lower league think some league clubs, but think of some of the great great ties between ryan giggs his shirt ryan giggs took his shirt off and at and started waving around at the top of his when top of his, top of his fist when they won replay against they won the replay against arsenal. Aston against at arsenal. Aston villa against at aston 1999. You think arsenal. Aston villa against at as some 1999. You think arsenal. Aston villa against at as some of 1999. You think arsenal. Aston villa against at as some of the 999. You think arsenal. Aston villa against at as some of the great ou think arsenal. Aston villa against at as some of the great matches. Of some of the great matches. Some of them were, a lot of them were think that were replays. So i think that people traditionalists were replays. So i think that pe0|want traditionalists were replays. So i think that pe0|want seetraditionalists were replays. So i think that pe0|want see the tionalists were replays. So i think that pe0|want see the fa nalists were replays. So i think that pe0|want see the fa cup ts and want to see the fa cup thrive as a tradition will want to retain yeah, yeah. To retain them. Yeah, yeah. Have a word on the snooker . Its underway today. Ellie. Yeah, exactly. Sheffield in sheffield. Yeah. Well this is interestingand did a, did an came out and did a, did an interview yesterday. Its been at the crucible the 80s, i at the crucible since the 80s, i think even going back, think maybe even going back, before saudi before that. But saudi is circling. Wants supplant circling. It wants to supplant the take the world champions and take them eddie hearns them over there. Eddie hearns argument theres three argument is that theres three years still the current years to go still of the current contract. So theres a while to go yet. Theres plenty of discussions but saudi discussions to be had, but saudi sees the World Snooker championships face it, championships and lets face it, its a sport that needs a its a its a sport that needs a little bit of a revival. If you look stellar in look at the stellar name in snooker is Ronnie Osullivan. Hes nothing wrong hes 50 next year. Nothing wrong with course. But if you with that of course. But if you look darts, for example, look at the darts, for example, their is what, 16. And their superstar is what, 16. And so can see future there. So they can see a future there. Someone to build marketing around. Almost like but but its almost like but but ronnie sort of signed Ronnie Osullivan sort of signed over to the side hasnt over to the saudi side hasnt he. Hes setting up the Ronnie Osullivan school osullivan school. School yeah he is, he is and thats fine. But there are plenty of other. Hes made his money. Thats and have a few thats fine. And so have a few others the top. But it was others at the top. But it was the same in darts. Phil taylor when i used to interview him, he used do interviews with me to used to do interviews with me to promote though promote sport, even though he didnt need to play the sport for it was its for his own benefit. It was its for his own benefit. It was its for other other players. The for the other other players. The other players in snooker need to earn than theyre earn better money than theyre earning eddie hearn said earning now, eddie hearn said yesterday. 3 or yesterday. I can earn them 3 or 4 more saudi can 4 times more in saudi than i can in small in sheffield. Its a small arena. He criticised the uk arena. He also criticised the uk government not promoting government for not promoting enough encouraging enough enough or not encouraging enough elite sporting events over here. On side of that, you on the flip side of that, you say, this already say, well, this is already a mature nation. Mature sporting nation. We already lot of elite already have a lot of elite events already, so why should we push boat to make push the boat out to make snooker as big as any bigger than it already is . It should find the find its own way in the marketplace. Problem find its own way in the markecourse, problem find its own way in the markecourse, is problem find its own way in the markecourse, is stephen, roblem find its own way in the markecourse, is stephen, thatem is, of course, is stephen, that its very find snooker its very hard to find snooker coverage. You have to coverage. Now you have to discover all these different multiple multicoloured buttons to it on, behind and to find it on, behind and sometimes even behind a paywall. So were kids so whereas when we were kids snooken so whereas when we were kids snooker, 22 Million People watched title watched the world chart title World Championship in 1985 between Dennis Taylor and steve davis, and that was 130 in the morning, 22 Million People watching. Those days are long, long gone. But it was at least long gone. But it was at least accessible. And so i think snooker does have some some thinking to do. Its always compared against darts compared against against darts because its a similar kind of audience, of audience, similar kind of demographic. And i think theyll demographic. And i think theyll look see the success look back and see the success that had earlier the that darts had earlier in the year with the of stars year with the number of stars coming maybe they need coming through. Maybe they need to i to revitalise it at some time. I know dealt with know people who dealt with snooker ten, 15 ago very, snooker ten, 15 years ago very, very stuffy, very stuck their very stuffy, very stuck in their ways maybe need ways and they maybe just need a little push. And if that means bringing world away bringing the world title away from sheffield and to saudi, maybe, not. Maybe maybe, maybe its not. Maybe that its what it that could be what its what it needed. Also you still get needed. And also you still get other still other tournaments that still could place, big could take place, big tournaments, still take tournaments, it still could take place like crucible. Okay, thank you. Let okay, aiden. Thank you. Let us you think about us know what you think about that. Controversial . That. Is that controversial . I think they need a luke littler snooker world. I think they need a luke littwell, snooker world. I think they need a luke littwell, sno needvorld. I think they need a luke litt well, sno need a rld. I think they need a luke litt well, sno need a new well, they need a new steve davis, they . Yeah davis, dont they . Yeah he was known as interesting, wasnt he . He was boring. Yeah. What was 19, yeah, yeah. What was he, 19, he was pretty young when he came through, but he won seven titles. Hendry has eight. Osullivan, we should say, is going eighth title to hendry. Yeah. Yeah. Stephen hendry, excellent player. Yeah. Scottish from player. Yeah. Scottish guy from edinburgh wonderful. Player. Yeah. Scottish guy from edinburgup wonderful. Player. Yeah. Scottish guy from edinburgup tonderful. Player. Yeah. Scottish guy from edinburgup to now. Ful. Hes up to now. Hes up to now. Still around the hes still around the circuit. Senior playing seniors. So we need teen sensation. So we need a teen sensation. Thats what we need. Yeah. Now anyway let us know what you gb comments you think. Gb News Comments slash your say. Now do stay with papers now do stay with us papers next and next with Winston Davies and candice i at 20 to 7, lets have a look at some of the front pages for you this morning. Yes. The guardian leads with calls for calm after israeli strikes hit iran yesterday. Telegraph has Scotland Yard being under fire after a jewish man was threatened with arrest for walking near pro Palestinian Protesters , as the times leads protesters, as the times leads with tories plans to cut stamp duty mail, has rishi sunak plans to axe benefits after a year on the dole . Well, joining us now the dole . Well, joining us now to go through whats making the news this morning is social campaigner Winston Davies and writer commentator candice writer and commentator Candice Holdsworth. Really good to see you both this morning, where should we begin, candace, should we start with the telegraph front page . And its also our top story. This morning. This is Scotland Yard under fire, after a Police Officer referred to a jewish man as being openly jewish man as being openly jewish and threatening him with arrest. Yes. So, like you say, arrest. Yes. So, like you say, this is an enormous story. So its covered on the telegraph front page. And the chief executive of the campaign against anti semitism, gideon falter, was walking through Central London after coming back from synagogue. He was wearing from synagogue. He was wearing his yarmulke, which is the traditional religious headwear worn by observant jewish men and a Police Officer said to him, you are openly jewish. At a pro palestinian protest. I am looking out for your safety. I think that you should leave. And obviously the response from people is no one should be afraid to walk in Central London whilst displaying their and fact of their religion and the fact of their religion and the fact of the matter is, these protests should be about, the matter is, these protests should be about , well, the matter is, these protests should be about, well, how the matter is, these protests should be about , well, how they should be about, well, how they present themselves. Theyre about criticising the actions of the israeli government. It shouldnt be for ordinary british jews to have to avoid those places. And if they have to, then thats very worrying. And what about the threat of arrest . Yes, i think thats significant. Yes, thats hugely significant. Well thats the thing. The way that this Police Officer handled it was really crude and clumsy because i think on the one hand theyre sort of thinking on a small scale. This could break out into a fight. But ignoring bigger but hes ignoring the Bigger Picture of ordinary people, and particularly who are particularly people who are religious, should be able to go wherever they like in Central London. And they shouldnt have to worry about threats of violence or the police threatening to them if threatening to arrest them if they them on. Its a very they move them on. Its a very disturbing incident. And the police apologised for it, police have apologised for it, but i think it raises a lot of questions, yeah. Questions, yeah. What do you make of it, winston . I mean, i think the metropolitan police are under a massive pressure. Theyve been having demonstrations after having demonstrations week after week months, and week for six odd months, and i think im to training and think im down to training and trying get the officers to trying to get the officers to understand to communicate in understand how to communicate in these messages to both the protesters and, you know, jewish people that are walking about their daily lives and how they can navigate that. So, yeah, i think that, like, you know, people should have the right to be able to go wherever they want in which in this country, which a democratic we be democratic country, we should be able we want. But able to do whatever we want. But at the same time, its a case of balancing out so that we balancing that out so that we dont you know, outright, dont have, you know, outright, you and flare you know, punch ups and flare ups street. Ups in the street. Its a i mean, i think hes the Police Officer in a sense is right to you know, just be right to say, you know, just be careful. You know, this this may careful. You know, this this may be problematic. Just be careful. Be problematic. Just be careful. But to sort of then in effect, say you are in the wrong for being here. But if you and if you dont go are threatening you with arrest. Yeah. With arrest. Yeah. I think were fingers were pushing. You know, the thing is, is again your protesting like peaceful protesting. We can all protest. Can have protesting protest. We can have protesting loads different different loads around different different areas and subject matters. But its about doing that in a way that know youre not going that you know youre not going to going physically to be going out physically attacking or attacking other people or causing, people causing, you know, people to feel youre feel uncomfortable. If youre walking your kids Walking Around with your kids and threatened, Walking Around with your kids and right. Threatened, Walking Around with your kids and right. No,1reatened, Walking Around with your kids and right. No, winston, thats not right. No, winston, the mail looking at these plans to crack down on benefits if youre on the dole for more than a year, youre going to get me going. Good. So the Prime Minister, rishi, has come out yesterday, said that its going to be the biggest welfare crackdown of generation and that Unemployed People are going to be forced back into work after 12 months, if dont take up work if they dont take up work thats been given to them, like, look 100 if youre not working, if youre on benefits, you should be actively trying to work. And if youre suffering from Mental Health issues, your depression and whatnot, then yeah, you should be. You should be getting support. But the problem got is waiting problem weve got is nhs waiting lists have been decreasing. Lists have not been decreasing. Theyve and theyve been increasing and theyve going theyve said that theyre going to nhs waiting list to get the nhs waiting list under at the moment under control. At the moment weve Million People under control. At the moment wevare Million People under control. At the moment wev are waitingillion people under control. At the moment wev are waiting for� n people under control. At the moment wev are waiting for mentale that are waiting for Mental Health treatment from the nhs, and are not being and their issues are not being resolved. And rather than resolved. And rather than saying, you know, help saying, you know, lets help them, these , the them, you know, these, the people that been going, people that have been going, waiting , being unemployed waiting for, being unemployed has gone up. The people that are waiting to be on long tum sick leave has gone up since the pandemic. But the argument is, and youre quite right, stuff needs to be addressed. And if there are problems, they to be are problems, they need to be looked all the rest of looked at and all the rest of it, the argument here is saying, well, there are people using it as people as an excuse. There are people who you know, and who are saying, you know, and its if it says here if its not as if it says here if they to find a job, its they fail to find a job, its more if youre jobs and more if youre offered jobs and you say, no, i dont want to do that one. The thing is, i think for but the thing is, i think for me, saying theres a direct me, im saying theres a direct correlation between covid and these people that are on long tum and with the tum unemployment. And with the health, Health Issues and health, Mental Health issues and health, Mental Health issues and health. My thing is Health Issues. My thing is saying, well, yeah, thats what it says. Its a direct correlation since covid theyve gone third. So weve got gone up by a third. So weve got 2. 8 million think. It now 2. 8 million i think. Is it now that on long tum sick leave that are on long tum sick leave and unemployed. Like, and unemployed. So its like, can we not help these people . Can we not find some way to give them support rather than saying, rather well, rather than saying, well, you know out to work. Know what, just get out to work. Lets get the nhs waiting list down support these down and lets support these people. That. No down and lets support these pe0|wants that. No down and lets support these pe0|wants to that. No down and lets support these pe0|wants to be that. No down and lets support these pe0|wants to be benefits. One wants to be on benefits. I grew up on benefits. I wouldnt want on benefits. No but want to be on benefits. No but some people dont. They might want to well, they might not want to be benefits, but they dont be on benefits, but they dont want have because you want to have a job because you do get families where its generation generation that generation after generation that never have a job. Problem ive got with it never have a job. that problem ive got with it never have a job. that rishi lem ive got with it never have a job. that rishi sanders got with it never have a job. that rishi sanders ist with it never have a job. that rishi sanders is saying,t is that rishi sanders is saying, lets you lets lets not what do you say . Lets not where is. Not have normal where it is. Lets not fight day. Lets not fight every day. Problems excuse to not problems are no excuse to not finding yeah rishi doesnt finding work. Yeah rishi doesnt know what everyday problems are. Hes everyday hes never experienced everyday problems. Hes a multi millionaire with a silver spoon mouth. Spoon in his mouth. He now. He. Well, he is now. He. Well, he is now. He. Even get elected. He didnt even get elected. He given the premiership. He was given the premiership. The Prime Ministership a the Prime Ministership on a plate. He didnt even plate. He didnt. He didnt even win to get that. Win an election to get that. Hes been given everything all of do you of his life. How do you understand its like for understand what its like for a normal person . Oh, candice, no, mean, normal person . Think candice, no, mean, normal person . Think thatcandice, no, mean, normal person . Think that thiince, no, mean, normal person . Think that this isz, no, mean, normal person . Think that this is really mean, i think that this is really important. This i think that this worklessness crisis ballooned worklessness crisis is ballooned out and i dont out of control, and i dont think the department of work and pensions actually very good pensions actually had very good data i mean, lot of data on this. I mean, a lot of this was revealed by number crunching the spectator that crunching by the spectator that revealed of revealed the actual extent of the where youve got the problem, where youve got cities now, where youve got almost quarter of the almost a quarter of the population sickness population claiming sickness benefits, i just dont think benefits, and i just dont think its those people. I its good for those people. I mean, i know people with severe psychiatric who work, psychiatric conditions who work, andifs psychiatric conditions who work, and its very fulfilling for them, its actually very them, and its actually very good and its actually good for them. And its actually good for them. And its actually good mental good for their Mental Health because something that because they have something that is something that is positive and something that they and i think they can work for. And i think just leaving people to sit at home for their the whole of their lives, in some cases never being to achieve anything being able to achieve anything is so damaging. So but so in that sense would you support the idea of saying, you support the idea of saying, you know, for 12 months if youre not taking a job which is available, that job is, available, whatever that job is, then we cut your money . Absolutely. Yes, i do, yes, absolutely. Yes, i do, i do, i do agree with that because i think theres been a number of reports now people saying reports now with people saying that reason i am on these that the reason i am on these benefits and the reason im not getting a job is itll be stuff like, i just dont like being told do or dont like told what to do or i dont like the i dont want the pressure, or i dont want to get in morning. And those get up in the morning. And those arent excuses. I mean, arent valid excuses. I mean, the fact of the matter its the fact of the matter is, its not fair taxpayers either. Not fair on taxpayers either. You have get up to work to you have to get up to work to spend away their spend time away from their children who are also dealing with strains. With stresses and strains. I dont want get up for work. No, id say i think we can all relate to that feeling, cant we, candice, lets stay with shall and times cant we, candice, lets stay viwas shall and times cant we, candice, lets stay viwas an shall and times cant we, candice, lets stay viwas an undercoverlnd times cant we, candice, lets stay viwas an undercover schoolgirl1es i was an undercover schoolgirl at 26 is the headline about this more this is quite an interesting story. So this is in the times and its the real life drew barrymore. So, you know, from, have you ever seen the film never been kissed . Yes. It was in the yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, i in the yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, i love that film. Yeah. Well remember that film. Yeah. Like it was 2000 about it was very 2000 about a journalist who goes undercover in sort of expose in a school to sort of expose the system and its the School System and all its failings. It was based on the life of this woman, shan jones , life of this woman, shan jones, who that in 1992. She who did just that in 1992. She attends a high school because she wanted to show that there was severe underfunding in the California Public School System at time. But whats quite at the time. But whats quite interesting is, is that the people she went to school with were really angry with her for it, because she had pretend it, because she had to pretend she was one them, and she had she was one of them, and she had to and they told to befriend them, and they told her secrets. And can you her their secrets. And can you imagine being teenager and you imagine being a teenager and you form friendship with form this friendship with someone, you discover someone, and then you discover that actually 26 years that theyre actually 26 years old theyre not. Theyre old and theyre not. Theyre some undercover some sort of undercover investigator. I mean, i think at that, such a formative age that would disturb you quite a lot come on. It would. It would. Oh, my god, i think it would. I that would freak me out as a teenager. Teenagen oh, im just impressed she got away with being a school girl at the age of 26. Yeah oh dear me. Yeah. Oh dear me. Yeah. So. Well itd be interesting to get her perspective on it from, from from that i just, i dont know what youre so upset about because they shared what sort of lipstick they liked to wear. Well, i dont know. I think girls at that age are forming very close friendships andifs forming very close friendships and its sort of where you kind of form your of, like, of form your idea of, like, other people think if other people and i think if someone came into your life someone like came into your life and was to you like and was able to fool you like that, wouldnt like that, i. I wouldnt like that. Understand youre i understand what youre saying. Know if saying. Now, i dont know if youd be allowed to do it these days. Youd be allowed to do it these day no, mean, again, were no, i mean, again, were talking Mental Health talking about Mental Health issues like that. Talking about Mental Health issuesthis like that. Talking about Mental Health issuesthis would like that. Talking about Mental Health issuesthis would be e that. Talking about Mental Health issuesthis would be a that. Talking about Mental Health issuesthis would be a ring. Well, this would be a ring dinger for compensation claims. And should. Well, dinger for compensation claims. And what. Should. Well, dinger for compensation claims. And what. In ould. Well, dinger for compensation claims. And what. In ouldworld, thats what. But in the world we live it could be. Live in now, it could well be. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Claim for sure. Claim for sure. Imagine all the you would i imagine all the you would have loved it if youd found out someone school with someone you went to school with wasim not saying nothing. Im not saying nothing. Im not saying nothing. Yeah, winston , the guardian, yeah, winston, the guardian, can we have a look at the israeli iran situation, its been hyped up on. I mean, the mirror is saying the world waits on around what the guardians headune on around what the guardians headline is, but i mean, actually, this has been quite cleverly played that we thought it was all kicking off first thing yesterday morning and actually its been cleverly played that both sides have been able to sort of have their say if you like, but its not going anywhere. Its like i said, it blew up yesterday. I mean, sorry, excuse the pun, but yeah. No, it went off yesterday. And its off yesterday. Right. And its like feels like weve got like it feels like weve got this tat going on. Its like this for tat going on. Its like posturing, know, well, posturing, like, you know, well, im, not im not scared. Im, im not im not scared. Youre not scared. I didnt youre not scared. So i didnt didnt nothing and youre not scared. So i didnt did|kind nothing and youre not scared. So i didnt did|kind ofothing and youre not scared. So i didnt did|kind ofothingbut and youre not scared. So i didnt did|kind ofothingbut ared its kind of just. But we are waiting to what happens waiting to see what happens because like a bit of a because it is like a bit of a game of chess at the moment, weve the at the g7 meeting, weve got the at the g7 meeting, Anthony Blinken saying were committed israels security, committed to israels security, but to but also committed to de escalation and is also despite this confrontation , he despite this confrontation, he remains intensely focused on gaza. So its just kind of like youve got these sort of dualities going on between , you dualities going on between, you know, israel and iran and all of the proxies that are around. And then youve got the whole issue of, you know , huge issues going of, you know, huge issues going on in israel and gaza for the last six months. So i think its going to be one of those ones were going to keep an eye on, you know, intensely over the next few days to see what actually if theres any actually happens, if theres any response, if, anything, response, if, if anything, i think theyve given think theyve both given each other save face a other the chance to save face a little bit and calm down on this. I mean, thank heavens its a real game of chess. Its sort of anticipating your opponents next move, but also thinking several moves ahead. And theyre both in a very interesting position because israel doesnt want to alienate its allies and actually , after the iran strike, it was actually left in quite a strong position because all these people who had at one point had been saying, youre going too far, need to scale back now, far, you need to scale back now, really out in support of really came out in support of israel, which which was really good because at one point it was starting to look it was starting to look like it was getting isolated. And getting a bit isolated. And iran, contrast, looked like iran, by contrast, looked like the but irans dealing the pariah. But irans dealing with so many internal i with so many internal issues. I mean, really whats mean, thats really whats motivating thats why motivating them. Thats why theyre do they theyre doing this. How do they respond, though . How do iran respond, though . How do iran respond this . Respond to this . Well , hopefully. Well, hopefully. Well, hopefully. Well, hopefully. Well, i mean, theyve played it much that maybe they it down so much that maybe they can get away without responding at all. Know , which is probably the i know, which is probably the way theyre play it, way theyre trying to play it, because is so interesting because what is so interesting is countries is the way that both countries have mean, israel hasnt i mean, israel hasnt confirmed anything they havent i mean, israel hasnt confianything,thing they havent i mean, israel hasnt confianything, which they havent i mean, israel hasnt confianything, which is|ey havent said anything, which is interesting of itself. Interesting in and of itself. And iran just totally downplaying the attack, saying, yeah, been handled. Yeah, everythings been handled. Airspace is reopened. Nothing to see here. I think theyre probably both of them are more comfortable in the shadow wars and going through proxies. Yeah. Than are head to head than they are head to head because they know dangerous because they know how dangerous that because that was that could be, because that was iran of the shadows iran coming out of the shadows with strike israel. With that strike on israel. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Lets ght. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Lets cheer ourselves up. Should we, with something a little bit lighter, please , little bit lighter, please, well, its not going to make you smile, rats. Zilla. Smile, though, rats. Zilla. Oh, well, thats in the daily star. Yeah. So this is a story in the daily star. Apparently, refuse workers have claimed that there are rats the size of cats. Now in bins. In bins . Yeah but they put it down to cuts to pest control. And the fact that bins are collected fortnightly, not weekly now. So they theyre eating and theyre getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I saw a if i saw a cat sized rat, i dont think i would ever recover that id run disturbing. That would be, oh, we had them. We had a rat in our house at university and it leapt out of the stove. Ill never forget it. And me and my housemate just ran screaming down the corridor. I mean, it was so funny. Theyre brazen. They are the problem now. How. Now. Theyve got no fear. Theyve got no fear. Youve just got to suck it up and deal with it. Ive been. Ive been ive been a ive been a plumber for 15 years. Right you see and you come you see a few and you come across them and its just like, yeah, all right, its true yeah, all right, mate, its true what say, that youre never what they say, that youre never six from million. Yeah, six foot from a million. Yeah, everywhere. Once the everywhere. I was once in the loft and i was loft doing some work, and i was just cracking on with it, loft doing some work, and i was just i cracking on with it, loft doing some work, and i was just i couldacking on with it, loft doing some work, and i was just i could smell on with it, loft doing some work, and i was just i could smell the with it, loft doing some work, and i was just i could smell the smell. I and i could smell the smell. I was smelling it, smelling it. Next got torture. Was smelling it, smelling it. I\had got torture. Was smelling it, smelling it. I\had a got torture. Was smelling it, smelling it. I\had a look. Got torture. Was smelling it, smelling it. I\had a look. Andjot torture. Was smelling it, smelling it. I\had a look. And its torture. I had a look. And its a decaying, rat or mice or something. Sitting there by something. Just sitting there by my and, you just get my head and, you know, just get on with it. How big do get . How big do they get . How big do they get . I this was this was big. I know this was this was big. I know this was this was big. Like a cat. Well, yeah. Not like cat. Well, yeah. Not like a cat. No, mean big. No, but i mean big. I dont that. Oh, i dont like that. Oh, i dont like that. Theyre incredibly intelligent rats. Yeah, they are. They are. Yeah, they are. Theyre intelligent theyre very, very intelligent around theyre very, very intelligent arourfeel i do feel sorry for i feel i do feel sorry for them sometimes theyre them sometimes that theyre quite remember my quite maligned. I remember my neighbour put birdseed in neighbour put out birdseed in the and eventually it was the winter and eventually it was just all rats eating it. And just all the rats eating it. And then made her take the then everyone made her take the birdseed thought, but birdseed down and i thought, but they need to eat. And they also do need to eat. And i know thats really soft of me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is. Yeah. On. Theres a park near come on. Theres a park near me and have to go through me and you have to go through the to get to the shops, the park to get to the shops, and theres so many rats and theyre and they dont theyre brazen and they dont hide bushes. Hide in the bushes. Come out run and they come out and run and scurry by your feet. And i wont walk the park anymore. Walk through the park anymore. You ever bit by one . No, but thats what. So there we are. So there we are. Think about it. Think about it. But they definitely yeah, but they definitely could bite me. Theyre not scared, they . Would theyll never would they . Theyll never nibble you you smell nibble of you unless you smell like or a biscuit. Like a chip or a biscuit. Well, i probably do smell like biscuits. Probably like chips or biscuits. Probably the you go. The problem. Yeah. There you go. But do. But no, i do. I worry about it if youre i do worry about it if youre a rat fan this morning, if youve rats, youve got rats. As pets, then let us know. I dont know you like them. Youre being weird, i like them. Youre being weird, i like the its. Its. Its. Youre saying theyre intelligent. Im not. Lovely. Im not. Rat. I want one im not anti rat. I want one living in the house. Im not anti rat. I dont think these wicked, evil things that we all must exterminate like mad. Horrible. Anyway. Anyway there you go, candice and winston. Thank you both very much indeed. Well see you later on. And annie has your for weather you. Weather you. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. Latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be the west, sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across. Actually, across eastern areas. Actually, theres quite cool theres going to be quite a cool feeling this feeling breeze with this northeasterly coming northeasterly wind coming off the will bring the north sea that will bring some areas some cloud to eastern areas through this morning. Elsewhere though, it stay dry and though, it should stay dry and bright. However, as we head bright. However, as we head towards lunchtime, more towards lunchtime, i think more in cloud will bubble in the way of cloud will bubble up areas, parts up across western areas, parts of the midlands as of wales into the midlands as well , but it of wales into the midlands as well, but it should of wales into the midlands as well , but it should stay of wales into the midlands as well, but it should stay dry through of the day it through much of the day and it will fairly in the will feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine. Evening sunshine. Later on this evening well see of well start to see parts of scotland , see rain arrive scotland, see some rain arrive as rain pushes in as this area of rain pushes in from north. That will bring from the north. That will bring thicker many areas of thicker cloud to many areas of scotland and that area scotland as well. And that area of to sink of cloud is going to sink southwards evening, southwards through this evening, covering areas of northern covering many areas of northern england, likely england, and that will likely sit parts of the sit across parts of the midlands, possibly into the southeast. Sunday morning. Southeast. By sunday morning. This drizzly rain will likely affect Northern Areas of england, southern scotland as well, through sunday morning as well. But its going to be fairly light. But where the skies its going to skies stay clear, its going to be chilly night. Tonight be another chilly night. Tonight we see touch of frost we could see a touch of frost developing once again. As i said, is of said, there is a bit of uncertainty in how widespread this will it could this cloud will be. It could cover southeastern areas, cover more southeastern areas, but as the day progresses, i think therell be better chance of brighter spells developing, particularly south of brighter spells developing, particultnorthwest south of brighter spells developing, particultnorthwest, south of brighter spells developing, particultnorthwest , whereth of brighter spells developing, particultnorthwest , where its and the northwest, where its actually going to be the warmest through the rest of the weekend. However for this central slither, stay slither, it will likely stay fairly and little bit fairly dull and a little bit cooler for of the day, with cooler for much of the day, with a chance of drizzly rain. A chance of some drizzly rain. Have day. Bye bye. Have a great day. Bye bye. Warm feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning to you. 7 00 saturday, the 20th of april. Today quite openly jewish. This is a pro palestinian march. Im not accusing you of anything, but im worried about the reaction to your presence. The metropolitan police issue another apology after officers threatened to arrest a jewish man wearing a kippah as he walked through Central London dunng walked through Central London during a pro palestine protest. During a pro palestine protest. Shocking scenes as a man sets himself on fire outside the trump hush money trial in a political protest against the establishment leaders around the world. Call for calm in the middle east after tensions rose following an israeli strike on iran. Is the british fry up toast . Well, according to new research, gen z gen z turned their backs on the breakfast they are deeming it to be too fatty. Get deeming it to be too fatty. Get a grip. On the eve of the much anticipated London Marathon, were going to be talking to the family of our very own Christopher Hope. Theyre taking part this years event for part in this years event for a very reason. Very special reason. Good morning. Its another big day of premier league action. Could a 15 year old debutant have a bearing on the title race in tennis . There was more disappointment for Britains Emma Raducanu as she bowed out of the stuttgart open at the quarterfinal stage, will also be looking ahead to the chinese grand prix. Morning. A bright good morning. Its a bright but start for many of us but chilly start for many of us across the uk. How will the rest of the weekend pan out . Well, you can find out all the details with me a little later on. Morning you. Good morning to you. Im Stephen Ellie Stephen Dixon, im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on. On. Gb news. This story about the fry up is really upsetting me. Oh is it really . Yeah. Do you like a fry up . Yeah. Do you like a fry up . I love a fry. You know, i do every every saturday and every sunday. I had to have a fry up. Do you . Every weekend. Do you . Every weekend. Yeah. Every weekend. Its my weekend and weekend breakfast. Oh. And then dunng weekend breakfast. Oh. And then during have granola during the week id have granola and to and and fruit and yoghurt to try and be a bit healthier. You know, its all about balance. People up myself. I do like a fry up myself. I do like a fry up myself. You so do you. Well, yeah, you so do you. Well, a poll of those aged 18 to 34 found almost 15 never touched a cooked maybe found almost 15 never touched a cookeor maybe found almost 15 never touched a cookeor a maybe found almost 15 never touched a cookeor a year. Maybe once or twice a year. Youve never lived. Youve never lived. Youve never lived. You find it to be too fatty. A similar were concerned a similar number were concerned about the calorie of about the calorie intake of goodness sake. And 89 said they experienced food guilt after wolfing down the breakfast. 89. Thats almost everyone that eats a fry up. Feels bad about it. Feels bad about it. You wouldnt want it every day. No, you couldnt have it every day. Couldnt have it every day. Couldnt have it every day. But its a couple of times week. Oh its lovely. Thats nothing. Fry bread. You just have fry bread. You just have fry bread. No no no no. So toast. Yeah. About. What about. What about. Know, ive never been you know, ive never been that on fried bread. That keen on fried bread. What do you in your veggie . What do you have on your fry 7 up. Up . Well, its exactly the same. You veggie bacon. You you can get veggie bacon. You can sausages. You can get veggie sausages. You know, you beans. Wouldnt your black pudding. Obviously. Obviously. No, a black pudding. You no, not a black pudding. You can black can actually get veggie black pudding. You wouldnt have it, but, beans and egg and but, you know, beans and egg and toast fried. Toast and fried. Lovely. Lovely. So do like a scrambled so do you like a scrambled rather than a. I like a scrambled but fried egg on a, on a fry up Barbecue Sauce like, or brown sauce or like, or brown sauce. No ketchup and lots and lots of beans. Thats the way it should be. That makes me sad. I think its an iconic dish. Its part of being british. Is having au hash brown english. Adrians been in touch. Hi. Adrian says love full adrian says i love a full english, toast . English, fried bread or toast . Must hash browns. Yeah. Must have hash browns. Yeah. Hash browns. Yeah. Im mad on hash browns. Im not mad on hash browns. Im not mad on hash browns. Oh, no, i love a hash brown. I only have it once a week, though. Yeah, yeah, well, i think thats the trick. I think you have a weekend i think if you have a weekend treat, its a really nice idea. But theres a chef whos but theres a chef here whos also perfectly also saying its perfectly possible traditional possible to create a traditional fry little more fry up thats a little more guilt little more guilt guilt free, a little more guilt free. I use the free. Yeah, so i use the air fryer for my sausages. Now, theyre bit better for theyre a little bit better for you. Yeah. So it is possible, you. Yeah. So it is possible, just to you off your just to put you off your breakfast, youre thinking breakfast, if youre thinking of gorging morning, has gorging this morning, fred has been apparently been in touch, saying apparently there million rats in there are 120 million rats in london. So there you go. And xiangqi commanders been in touch saying i had a pet rat. They are so lovely. Would sit on my shoulder watching tv, cleaning my ears , then in the cleaning my ears, then in the kitchen i would run a tap and jump kitchen i would run a tap and jump off and they would shower under the tap. They put on my leg. No probably not. Theyre very intelligent. The rat would shower. The rat would shower. The rat would shower. Yeah, they have to have a wash under the tap. Right. Okay all right. Okay all right. Okay there you go. Change your mind havent you . Mind now, havent you . Dont well, i dont know. Well, i dont know. That sounds cute, im that sounds quite cute, im not about them cleaning not sure about them cleaning your yeah. No your ears, though. Yeah. No anyway, those views coming your ears, though. Yeah. No anonay, those views coming your ears, though. Yeah. No anon the those views coming your ears, though. Yeah. No anon the fry those views coming your ears, though. Yeah. No anon the fry up. Se views coming your ears, though. Yeah. No anon the fry up. So views coming your ears, though. Yeah. No anon the fry up. So the vs coming your ears, though. Yeah. No anon the fry up. So the rats ming your ears, though. Yeah. No anon the fry up. So the rats orng in on the fry up. So the rats or anything youd like to talk about today at gbnews. Com yoursay metropolitan gbnews. Com yoursay apologisedatropolitan gbnews. Com yoursay apologisedatrocausing has apologised for causing further offence with an apology about officers use of the about an officers use of the terms openly jewish to an anti Semitism Campaigner who happened to be near a pro palestine march. This is what happened. You are quite openly up to it. This is a pro palestinian march, right . Im not accusing you of anything, but im worried about the reaction to your presence. Presence. Presence. Well, the chief executive of campaign against anti semitism was wearing a kippah, skullcap when he was stopped from crossing a road near the demonstration in london last saturday. Lets talk to former Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley, who is here. Morning, peter. Good morning. Watching that interchange exchange. I mean, what do you whats your view . Its yet another appalling exchange between a metropolitan Police Officer and somebody who is expressing concerns about these pro palestinian marches. These pro palestinian marches. I mean, lets break down some of the language where he expresses concern about his presence. There surely a Police Officer who is intending to keep the peace would be concerned for that persons safety and might suggest to them that there might be a better place where they can observe the march from where they could be better protected, not about their presence. Surely not about their presence. Surely there is an absolute right of somebody to observe a protest that they fundamentally disagree with. Its appalling. And the metropolitan police are increasingly being regarded by many swathes of the london pubuc many swathes of the london public as taking a side , and public as taking a side, and its not their side. And he also threatened this man later on with arrest. And thats a really important element, isnt it . This story, its utterly appalling. Appalling. People have a right to go and express their contrary view to a demonstrator. The express their contrary view to a demonstrator. The man is simply standing there and observing. If there is any kind of police duty to be fulfilled here, it is a duty of keeping that man safe whilst allowing him to observe, and by his very presence be there. Contrary to the views of those who are protesting. Those who are protesting. I mean, theres the concern would seem to be, well , you would seem to be, well, you know, it could cause some trouble. Well, presumably the trouble. Well, presumably the trouble. Well, presumably the trouble is concerned about would be coming from the other side. Therefore you police, there them more strongly, vigorously, wouldnt you . Robustly , robustly. And we robustly, robustly. And we know through the number of arrests that have been made whilst these marches have gone on since october last year, that some people that go there express vile, murderous, genocidal views and want to see an end of the state of israel, many people have been arrested for displaying placards for chanting and for other crimes connected to these protests. The connected to these protests. The metropolitan police are quite fundamentally sacrificing their independence. I think its very difficult for the met police to now turn round and say we police without fear or favour, because there appears to be a lot of favour being granted towards certain people, expressing certain people, expressing certain political views. Certain political views. I mean, the wording of this is really interesting. You look openly jewish. I mean, it sounds as though theres something wrong with looking openly jewish. You can imagine a Police Officer saying, look, youre openly drunk, youre openly hi, youre you know, theres something wrong with your behaviour. Theres wrong behaviour. Theres nothing wrong with looking if you with looking religious. If you are. Through central are. And walking through Central London or being openly black or openly brown or openly gay or openly brown or openly gay or openly straight or openly supporting one Football Team or another. And so it goes on and on and on and on and on. This language is beyond clumsy. Its utterly is beyond clumsy. Its utterly appalling. And this comes from a sergeant , a appalling. And this comes from a sergeant, a police leader. 86 of Police Officers are in the lower rank of constable. Thats lower rank of constable. Thats a sergeant. Thats a supervisor. No wonder the metropolitan polices reputation has absolutely tanked. I mean, thats the i did see something online last night where someone sort of took the words and removed jew or jewish and put black in there and said , and put black in there and said, you know, would this ever happen . You cant, you know, a black man cannot observe a, a racist march or whatever it may be because youre open , you be because youre open, you know, youre obviously black and you may cause problems by being here. I mean, that would never happen. And so it just seemed remarkable that it would happen when it comes to someones religion. Share your religion. I dont share your confidence, steven, you say confidence, steven, when you say it happen, look at it would never happen, look at the look the police. The look at the met police. Its utterly shambolic in now its utterly shambolic in regards to this public order protest policing. And i know and i read it every day on social media where Police Officers who quite courageously and some of them often thoughtfully step forward and talk about the complexities of public order policing. Theyre making it more complex. Theyre making it more difficult because so many people think they are fundamentally not impartial. All that theyve impartial. All that theyve chosen a side. And many of us quite rightfully, think we know what side theyre on. When you say theyve chosen a side, is that coming from is it coming from the rank and file . Is it from from the is it coming from from the senior members of the met, or is it that middle Management Level policing is a disciplined organisation many organisation with many, many ranks the sergeant . Ranks above the sergeant . Thats theyre speaking so dreadfully to that jewish man. These orders, these directions come from above. These public order protests are a huge policing operation. I understandably, with some times thousands of Police Officers on the ground. But there are instructions handed down. There are rules that strictly should be applied and there is a way to do it. And there is also a way, as we quite clearly see here, how not to do it. Lets get your reaction to this statement. Should we, peter . Because there have been two. This is the initial statement from the metropolitan police saying in recent weeks, weve seen new trend emerge, with seen a new trend emerge, with those opposed to the main protests appearing along the route to express their views. The fact that those who do this often film themselves while doing they must know doing so suggests they must know that their presence is provocative, that theyre inviting a response, and that theyre increasing the likelihood of an altercation. Likelihood of an altercation. Well, the deleted that and then put out a new statement saying weve reflected the saying, weve reflected on the strength to our strength of response to our previous statement in an effort to make a point about the policing protests, we cause policing of protests, we cause further offence. This was never policing of protests, we cause furtintention e. This was never policing of protests, we cause furtintention. This was never policing of protests, we cause furtintention. We|is was never policing of protests, we cause furtintention. We removedever policing of protests, we cause furtintention. We removed that our intention. We removed that statement and we apologise. Being jewish is not a provocation. Jewish londoners must be able to feel safe in this city. Peter. Its utterly abysmal, isnt it . That first statement, which theyve deleted , of course, but theyve deleted, of course, but is now there forever and a day, because so many of us have saved it. Its fundamentally appalled looking. People have a right to go to a protest and express a contrary view. We are supposed contrary view. We are supposed to live in a democracy where the police are supposed to impose the law without fear or favour, and to actually allow protest and to actually allow protest and counter protest. If somebody stumbles across a protest or somebody deliberately attends a protest to offer a contrary view, that is a fundamental right enshrined in law and now with these kind of statements that come out via the police media machine, where so many people with all these degrees, because you remember now how we have such a highly educated Police Service because they all need to have degrees. Well, ive need to have degrees. Well, ive got to tell you, theres so much about policing that cant be learned books and that these learned in books and that these people fundamentally failed people are fundamentally failed to grasp. Okay, peter, see you to grasp. Okay, peter, good to see you. Thank you very much indeed. If youve got a view on that , let youve got a view on that, let us know. Gb views gb news. Com your say were still getting used to that. Yes, we. yes, we. And now a man has set himself on fire outside the courthouse in new york, where former us president Donald Trumps hush money trial is underway. Police identified the man as Maxwell Azarello from florida in his 30s. Hes been taken to hospital and the latest were getting from the police on this is that hes in a critical condition. Well, the Trump Campaign released a statement this afternoon offering its condolences to the traumatised witnesses after the blaze. Earlier, we spoke to us political analyst eric ham. No one ever thought that she would see an individual who would see an individual who would actually set himself on fire. And so i can only imagine how that must have been. Just deeply traumatised, traumatic for many of the people who were there and were actually had to witness that, just kudos to those who actually jumped into action to try to save that mans life, i mean , the thing is here, life, i mean, the thing is here, its very difficult to understand what the man was trying to achieve, isnt it . His i mean, he was sort of anti trump and anti biden, it would seem all all at the same time. I mean, clearly a disturbed individual. Disturbed individual. Oh, absolutely. I mean, i think its a horrible, a horrific situation that we saw play horrific situation that we saw play out today. And of course, no one knows really what was going through this individuals mind to make him do Something Like that. But of course, we know if the idea was just to protest , you know, his protest, you know, his conditions or to, you know, illustrate just how deeply, problematic the country is right now. I think it there were probably more constructive ways to do it. And so i think thats what we see playing out. And for people who havent seen the videos, i wouldnt suggest you do because it is very distressing and traumatising. You just traumatising. Can you just explain what happens . Explain exactly what happens . Because it does take quite a few seconds, doesnt it, before people start to realise what what happened . What has happened . Well, i mean i wasnt there, so i mean , you know, i dont so i mean, you know, i dont know, i, i or what what was , know, i, i or what what was, what led this individual to, to do what he did in terms of how he just set himself on fire. We do know that he, because of the trial there is a number of First Responders that are there just for the sake of the trial. And we know there are protesters demonstrations. So its a very locked down situation. Its, you locked down situation. Its, you know, press are everywhere. And so we know that they were able to move in very quickly. But still its just a very, distressing situation. Distressing situation. Well, World Leaders call for calm and de escalation in the middle east after israel launched air strikes against iran. According to reports, three drones were shot down, explosions heard at an airbase , explosions heard at an airbase, all near the city of isfahan. Well, the strike was thought to be in response to last weekends attack, when iran fired a barrage of drones and missiles at israel. Lets talk to retired British Army Officer and Defence Analyst , colonel simon diggins. Good to see you. This morning, simon. And we do seem to be in a situation now where we still have very little clarity as to exactly what happened. And yet both sides are remaining comparative , overly calm. Comparative, overly calm. No, quite. Its very interesting. The israelis very give way very Little Information about what theyve done. So, for example, attack that example, the attack that preceded the iranian barrage, the attack onto the iranian consulate in damascus. Israel didnt claim the attack nor did they comment on it. And they very rarely comment on attacks theyve carried out into syria or into into iraq. Now iran, when it attacked israel, was the opposite. It it made a huge noise about it because it wanted to make a point about what it was trying to do. But no, we dont know very much about the actual details because the israelis arent giving it away. And in the interests and its been in the interests of the iranians to play the whole down. Talked whole thing down. They talked about quadcopters , about several quadcopters, assaults launched from inside iran , from disaffected groups, iran, from disaffected groups, pro israeli , disaffected groups. Pro israeli, disaffected groups. But theyve tried to play it down. And the israelis arent giving very much away. This all helps, though , in terms of the helps, though, in terms of the de escalation, because clearly this is an incident where if the rhetoric increased, then the danger of escalation grows. I mean, the response from both countries is really interesting, isnt it, because it does allow them to come back down that escalation ladder , so down that escalation ladder, so to speak. And would you would you say that iran and israel feel more comfortable in the shadow wars that they have been partaking in than this state on state action that weve seen in the last week or so . The last week or so . Eddie, i think thats absolutely the point. Up until now, there have been operating this kind grey of this kind of grey zone of assassinations , use of proxies, assassinations, use of proxies, lots of propaganda and that sort of area. And theyve so far avoided state on state conflict, israel, we presume its israel, broke that taboo when it attacked the consulate. And while the consulate was being misused, its been used as a base for, for iranian irgc generals and the like. Nonetheless, the convention and is a convention is that embassies are sovereign territory. And so by attacking territory. And so by attacking that consulate effectively, israel had broken the taboo about attacking, Iranian State territory. And so iran then felt the need to respond in the way in which it which it did. And israel has gone back. But so they broke that taboo. But now, as you say, theyre kind of theyre re establishing what theyre re establishing what they call a position of kind of mutual deterrence, which is that we away from each we will stay away from each others state territory, but below or beneath the below the line or beneath the line , grey warfare, hybrid line, grey warfare, hybrid warfare, whatever you choose to use will continue. How much, pressure do you think theres been on, i mean, particularly israel, because obviously our lines of communication with iran are very difficult , but from from the difficult, but from from the west, i mean, from the visit from lord cameron. Weve obviously had lots being said from the white house. Will that have made an impact . No, i think enormous impact. Its one of the leading israeli commentator this morning he said he said that netanyahu was correct , uncharacteristically correct, uncharacteristically quiet. And i think people have right from the very beginning of this conflict, there has been this conflict, there has been this concern that, you know, that it would spread into something much more regional, much more impactful across across the middle east and therefore across the rest of the rest of the world. So when we have had this exchange, hes been working very hard to de escalate and netanyahu been working very hard to de beenate and netanyahu been working very hard to de been phonednd netanyahu been working very hard to de been phoned up,1etanyahu been working very hard to de been phoned up, satinyahu been working very hard to de been phoned up, sat on,hu has been phoned up, sat on, visited people, said to him, you know , control this. I mean, know, control this. I mean, Anthony Blinken said yesterday that , you know, they want this that, you know, they want this to be de escalated. Israel is to be supported , protected, but be supported, protected, but this should be de escalated. And then for the focus to return to what they see as the key issue with what going on in gaza. With what is going on in gaza. So i think netanyahu been so i think netanyahu has been under enormous pressure externally, internally, his pressures are slightly different. I mean, there have been many members in his cabinet who been arguing for who have been arguing for a massive, decisive response against iran. And so hes had to against iran. And so hes had to face them down and also without giving the sense that he has no control of what goes on in his own country, also recognise control of what goes on in his owrworld ry, also recognise control of what goes on in his owrworld ry, a|which ognise the world pressure which has been try and to de escalate been to try and to de escalate the situation. Yes, its a difficult balance for netanyahu, colonel, would you to say that we you say its safe to say that we can breathe a sigh of relief with this, that we have come back from the brink, or is it a case that iran is, as prides itself, hasnt it , case that iran is, as prides itself, hasnt it, on case that iran is, as prides itself, hasnt it , on its itself, hasnt it, on its strategic patience . Do you think it could be a case that theyre just biding their time and well see a response . But it will be in several time. In several weeks time. They they might try and they might they might try and do that. I think strategically, actually, more actually, the much more interesting thing to come out of the this, exchange was that the this, this exchange was that the this, this exchange was that the coalition, the extraordinary coalition of basically of Sunni Arab States linked with the us, unked arab states linked with the us, linked with israel in order to provide and effectively to protect israel against an iranian attack. Now, thats the real strategic prize. So when biden spoke to netanyahu and said, take the win , he didnt said, take the win, he didnt just mean that a tactical defeat of that barrage of iranian missiles and drones, what he actually said was the real win is actually weve now got this whole grouping of people, despite the very deep concerns many arabs about whats many arabs have about whats going on in gaza. Nonetheless, they came together in to order defeat iran and actually stop iran. Thats the real strategic prize for netanyahu, whether iran has also effectively had to sort of lick, lick, lick its wounds and recognise just how much, anger its caused in the middle east and how angry people are with them and therefore how they theyre going to be resisted. Again, i think its hard tell there there are hard to tell there there are more regimes try to more complex regimes to try to try and analyse, but those are the strategic of gains the real strategic sort of gains and losses over, over this, not just that tactical defeat the just that tactical defeat of the missile. Missile attack. Okay. Colonel diggins, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Appreciate you very much indeed. Appreciate that. Loads of you are getting in about the situation in touch about the situation down in london with, a man being threatened with arrest because he happened to be jewish and was near a palestinian protest march , starbreaker says should a protest that is a danger to the pubuc protest that is a danger to the public be taking place in public . Lots of people. Lots of people. Lots of people. Its a valid point. Yeah. And a lot of people saying , get a lot of people saying, get peter Peter Bleksley back in the mic millom and get peter back to work in the metropolitan police. Work in the metropolitan police. Well, i dont think hed want to 90, well, i dont think hed want to go, and peter cahill says Peter Bleksley gets it. Been there, seen it , done bleksley gets it. Been there, seen it, done it. And theres a theres a lot of that. Its the whole idea of you need sort of people with experience who get on with it, no nonsense approach i yeah. I wonder if that is where were lacking. Yeah, well do keep those views coming in on any of the stories that were talking about this gbnews. Com this morning. Gbnews. Com slash usa, now get a on usa, now lets get a check on your annie. Your weather with annie. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across eastern areas. Actually, theres be quite a cool theres going to be quite a cool feeling breeze with this northeasterly off northeasterly wind coming off the that will bring the north sea that will bring some cloud to eastern areas through morning. Elsewhere some cloud to eastern areas through it morning. Elsewhere some cloud to eastern areas through it should1ing. Elsewhere some cloud to eastern areas through it should stay elsewhere some cloud to eastern areas through it should stay dryewhere some cloud to eastern areas through it should stay dry and re though, it should stay dry and bright. However, head bright. However, as we head towards lunchtime , i think more towards lunchtime, i think more in the way of cloud will bubble up western areas, parts up across western areas, parts of the midlands as of wales into the midlands as well, but it should dry well, but it should stay dry through the day and it through much of the day and it will feel fairly pleasant the will feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine this evening will feel fairly pleasant in the sunsistart this evening will feel fairly pleasant in the sunsistart see this evening will feel fairly pleasant in the sunsistart see partszvening well start to see parts of scotland some arrive as scotland see some rain arrive as this of pushes in from this area of rain pushes in from the that will bring the north. That will bring thicker to areas of thicker cloud to many areas of scotland as and that area scotland as well. And that area of going to of cloud is going to sink southwards through this evening, covering many areas of northern england. Will england. And that will likely sit of sit across parts of the midlands, into the midlands, possibly into the southeast. By sunday morning. This drizzly rain will likely affect Northern Areas of england, southern scotland as well through sunday morning as well. But its going to be fairly light. But where the skies stay clear, its going to be another chilly night. Tonight we of frost we could see a touch of frost developing as developing once again. As i said, a bit of said, there is a bit of uncertainty how widespread uncertainty in how widespread this be. Could this cloud will be. It could cover more southeastern areas, but the progresses, but as the day progresses, i think therell be better chance of brighter spells developing, particularly the south particularly across the south and the northwest, where its actually be warmest actually going to be the warmest through the rest of the weekend. However, central however, for this central suther however, for this central slither , it will likely slither, it will likely stay fairly and little bit fairly dull and a little bit cooler much of the day, with cooler for much of the day, with a chance of drizzly rain. A chance of some drizzly rain. Have day bye bye. Have a great day bye bye. A brighter outlook boxt a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Well, some breaking news in the past few minutes. New york the past few minutes. New York Police Department have just confirmed two gb news that the man who set himself on fire outside the trump trial has died in hospital. Maxwell azarello, was declared deceased by a hospital staff. Thats what police told gb news in a phone call. No time of death was given. Okay, more on that. Of course. Coming up. But coming up for you, were going to have a look at all the sports news and all the latest headlines as well. 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Full terms and Privacy Notice gbnews. Com forward slash win. Please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Watching on demand. Good luck. Yes, good luck indeed. Now yes, good luck indeed. Now its yes, good luck indeed. Now wsfime yes, good luck indeed. Now its time for all the sports broadcaster aidan magee is here with us. Good to see you this morning, aidan. Good to see you both. I want to start on a 15 year old boy. I say boy, well, hes still a boy, isnt he . He plays for wolverhampton wanderers. His name to learn that name. Weve got to learn that name. We have indeed. Weve got to learn that name. We well, indeed. Weve got to learn that name. We well, you ed. Weve got to learn that name. We well, you know, listen, not well, you know, listen, not necessarily because necessarily though, because weve breakthrough necessarily though, because wevetheyve breakthrough necessarily though, because wevetheyve not breakthrough necessarily though, because wevetheyve not quite. Through necessarily though, because wevetheyve not quite. Througit. Acts. Theyve not quite made it. But lets lets not, cast but lets not lets not, cast any doubt over his career at this but its 15 years this stage. But its 15 years and 344 days. Wolverhampton wanderers have ten fits outfield players today, so hes been called out of a science lesson yesterday. So bear in mind i mean hes what can we do that though. Can he i mean that age play for the. Yeah hes not the youngest. So arsenal who the wolves opponents today. Big game by the way because you know way because its a you know well an effect on the well have an effect on the title ethan he title race Ethan Nwaneri he played aged and 181 played aged 15 years and 181 days in september 2022 against brentford. Remember rooney was playing at 16 back in 2000, 2002. So rooneys in the top 20. This one will go in at number two. I believe if he plays, i think theres a good chance hes going to hes going to start the match. But gary gary oneil, his manager whos suffering this having to juggle all these injury hes injury crisis, says i hope hes had fun with us on friday had more fun with us on friday when he trained with us, than he would science. Would have had in science. Think, yeah, i think and so i think, yeah, i think thats a slightly reckon it depends what science it is. I mean, physics is quite fun wasnt it . Yeah, but i love science. Yeah, but i love science. Yeah, but i love science. Yeah, it was good. Was good. But i mean best of luck to him. I mean what to be him. I mean what a thing to be doing at 15. Exactly. Periodic exactly. From the periodic table the league table to the premier league table to the premier league table. Table. worked on that oh, youve worked on that one, you . One, didnt you . Formula is there. The formula is there. The formula is there. Get out. Oh. Get out. No , itll be an but no, itll be an extraordinary story, i think. And look, obviously you get and look, hes obviously you get these sometimes who are these players sometimes who are a have growth a bit who have growth spurts. They maybe grow a little bit earlier you might earlier than, than you might expect their age. Hes expect for their age. Hes obviously up to it because i dont care what anyone says , no dont care what anyone says, no matter players youve matter how many players youve got, being promoted at got, if youre being promoted at the age to play a first the age of 15 to play a first team game against arsenal, and as bearing on the as i say, a huge bearing on the title arsenal to win title race. Arsenal need to win today. I think its today. Otherwise i think its curtains in terms of curtains for them in terms of the league. The premier league. But brilliant well know brilliant story and well know tonight whether on. The tonight whether hes on. But the thing kick off. Thing is its 730 kick off. I mean hes got i hope he mean if hes got i hope he hasnt got paper round in the hasnt got a paper round in the morning anything morning or anything like that because to its because hes going to be its going a late finisher for going to be a late finisher for him isnt it. Yeah. Hes lucky hes not a school night i suppose. Well well yeah. Lovely. That made of a hero in made you a bit of a hero in assembly wouldnt it . Me, there oh goodness me, there was a kid, with who oh goodness me, there was a kid, playing with who oh goodness me, there was a kid, playing our with who oh goodness me, there was a kid, playing our locali who oh goodness me, there was a kid, playing our local club, was playing for our local club, gillingham, he gillingham, very young, and he just assumed this just automatically assumed this exalted and why exalted status. And. And why not . Think not . Well, yeah, i think he played glenn hoddle played against glenn hoddle in a testimonial like played against glenn hoddle in a testirit nial like played against glenn hoddle in a testirit was. Like played against glenn hoddle in a testirit was. Absolutely. Like played against glenn hoddle in a testirit was. Absolutely. Thats that. It was. Absolutely. Thats how back we were going how far back we were going actually. But, but extraordinary how far back we were going actuaiand ut, but extraordinary how far back we were going actuaiand ut, lsay,xtraordinary how far back we were going actuaiand ut, lsay,xtraor well, sad. Well, sad. But you know what . Yes, but you know what . She got the quarterfinals clay got to the quarterfinals on clay in up last in stuttgart, backing up last weeks well. She weeks performance as well. She lost swiatek, who is lost to eva swiatek, who is a four slam winner, she four time grand slam winner, she took a tie break in the took it to a tie break in the first set. I think thats a pretty respectable , pretty respectable, representation of what shes done or where shes at in terms of her injury problems. I mean, dont forget she dropped to 303in the world. This is a us open winner early. And so these open winner early. And so these notable victories, shes chalking up over the last couple of weeks are helping her to rise up the up the rankings. And, you know, its just in time. Shes playing these clay court matches. Just in time matches. Its just in time for the french open. As we the french open. And then as we know that, less so know soon after that, less so i think 3 or 4 weeks that, think 3 or 4 weeks after that, weve wimbledon. Could be weve got wimbledon. It could be shes return to top shes timing her return to top level tennis just at the right time, because , you know, you time, because, you know, you need to be in some decent form to go into those matches. I dont shes going to be dont think shes going to be troubling slams next troubling the slams in the next couple, by the couple, but who knows. By the time she gets match fitness time she gets the match fitness under and she the under her belt and she gets the match match practice in, then who could who knows . September. She could have a tilt at the us open, which she famously which of course she famously won age was back in, age 18. I think it was back in, back in and she didnt back in 2021, and she didnt even a set the even drop a set on the way there. So we shes on her there. So we hope shes on her way still plenty of way back. But still plenty of work for her. Work to do for her. , lets have a at okay, lets have a look at the should yeah. The f1. Should we, yeah. Thats well, look, max thats right. Well, look, Max Verstappens won the sprint race. Now, we talked about. Oh, its a new edition. Its a new its a new edition. Its a new addition to the f1. So we saw about that. We discussed the snooker earlier on didnt we. And discussed how sports need snooker earlier on didnt we. Anevolveiscussed how sports need snooker earlier on didnt we. Anevolve. Cussed how sports need snooker earlier on didnt we. Anevolve. Welled how sports need snooker earlier on didnt we. Anevolve. Well the w sports need snooker earlier on didnt we. Anevolve. Well the sprint rts need snooker earlier on didnt we. Anevolve. Well the sprint race eed to evolve. Well the sprint race is a new addition that. Is a new addition to that. Verstappen has just pipped or yesterday pipped. Lewis hamilton to that. Weve got qualifying starting at 8 00 this morning. I still would back Max Verstappen , still would back Max Verstappen, darryl in the gallery has a massive grand prix f1 fan and i think hed go along with me in saying that a couple of weeks ago. I think he was three grand prixs weve had so far. Verstappens won two of them. I think its still going to be quite processional. Be quite processional. It might be interesting. Quite processional. It might be intere hamilton ferrari, Lewis Hamilton joins ferrari, but chinas set to but nonetheless chinas set to put on a magnificent show as you might, might expect, and but encouraging Lewis Hamilton , encouraging for Lewis Hamilton, second in the sprint race signs of life there signs that he still has the ambition, at the of life there signs that he still of|s the ambition, at the of life there signs that he still of 39,ie ambition, at the of life there signs that he still of 39, toambition, at the of life there signs that he still of 39, to g0 ition, at the of life there signs that he still of 39, to g0 iticandt the of life there signs that he still of 39, to g0 iticand wine age of 39, to go on and win more, more honours in the sport. And he wants overtake michael and he wants to overtake michael schumacher, those schumacher, of course, on those record wins. Schumacher, of course, on those rec i cant believe hes 39. Was the i know he was the breakthrough wasnt he . Breakthrough act, wasnt he . Yeah, was a breakthrough act. Yeah, he was a breakthrough act. When . That when . When doesnt seem that long time waits for no man. No, no time waits for no man. No, no time waits for no man. Auburn all woman old. Auburn all woman shows old. Well know does. Well yeah i know it does. Indeed. Lovely. Adrian. Indeed. Indeed. Lovely. Adrian. Thank indeed. Thank you very much indeed. You. Thank you. Thank you. Right. Weve got much more coming up for you, including talking to the shadow policing minister alex norris. Thats in a couple minutes well, were going to talk to the shadow policing minister in just a couple of minutes. But in the meantime, lets see whats in the papers with social campaigner davis and campaigner Winston Davis and writer candice writer and commentator Candice Holdsworth. Good morning, you two. Winston, lets have a look at the labour before we chat to them. Should we, the hiring social influencers. Well yeah. So labour are turning to influencers to try and win young voters through tiktok, theyve hired a dedicated employee to work with influencers to send out a positive message about labour, and, and yeah theyve, theyve realising that theres a lot of people that are using it. So so yeah theyre trying to. Well i mean im not im not surprised. Im not surprised. Surprised. Im not surprised. Yeah. We know that. We know 18 24 year olds almost 18 to 24 year olds almost primarily their news from primarily get their news from tiktok now. And social media and tiktok now. And social media and tiktok highly tiktok has become highly influential in that particular demographic. The only thing i would say is, is it will it translate to votes . Because, i mean, older voters, we know they turn up and they vote and they do theyre supposed do, do what theyre supposed to do, but less but younger people are less engaged. Soi but younger people are less engaged. So i mean, you engaged. Yeah. So i mean, you have to really i think you shouldnt shouldnt it shouldnt you shouldnt put it all in on one particular demographic. Mean, need to demographic. I mean, you need to have a balanced approach. Although people are saying that labour does have more policies that benefit younger people. Oh, yeah. Yeah so thats that is their demographic to an extent. Isnt it lovely. Right. Thank you both. Dont go anywhere because were coming back to you, but in the meantime , we are joined by the meantime, we are joined by shadow policing minister alex norris , who joins us now. Good norris, who joins us now. Good morning. Nice to see you, i want to kick off with this incident thats being reported all over the papers this morning. Weve been talking about it a lot this morning. And the boss in effect of the, campaign against anti semitism , being stopped at anti semitism, being stopped at anti semitism, being stopped at a protest, a pro palestine protest in london by a member of the metropolitan police because he was openly jewish. She used their terms, this cannot be right, can it . I mean, and what would labour do to change how the metropolitan police seems to be operating at the moment . Be operating at the moment . Well, first of all, morning, stephen. Thank you for having me. Yeah. I think it is abundantly clear that whats happened in this case is wrong, the met police have now accepted its wrong. So thats, you know, that is a good thing. You know, it isnt for politicians to do operational policing, as you know. You know, police must feel that they can, keep safe and to organise these types of, Public Events in a way that is safe. However, it must, you know, there can be no place for hate in this. And if there is racism in this. And if there is racism in this. And if there is racism in this case, anti semitism, there cannot be that sort of thing. So you know, whats happenedis thing. So you know, whats happened is wrong. And were glad that the police have accepted , okay. Miss accepted that, okay. Miss norris, here to talk accepted that, okay. Miss norris shopliftinge to talk accepted that, okay. Miss norris shoplifting. To talk accepted that, okay. Miss norris shoplifting. This|lk accepted that, okay. Miss norris shoplifting. This is about shoplifting. This is analysis by your party revealed more than 1000 shoplifting offences are being committed across england and wales every single day. How would the labour single day. How would the labour party fix this . Party fix this . Hi, ali. Yeah. I mean, what were seeing is staggering levels, you know, nearly a thousand incidents every single day of shoplifting. Thats on day of shoplifting. Thats on top of pushing a thousand incidents of violence and abuse against retail workers every day, well , you know, these day, as well, you know, these these things havent happened by accident. A direct accident. Theyre a direct impacts of having cut, as the government 10,000 government have 10,000 Neighbourhood Police about the £200 limit where crimes are theft under £200 has been downgraded. So for us we want to reverse those changes. Our commitments 13,000 more police and Police Community support officers in communities. So theyre theyre detecting and deterring crime. And then to deterring crime. And then to remove that limit to say to people, were going to take shoplifting serious , whatever shoplifting serious, whatever it is. Course, were is. And of course, and were pleased have the pleased to have moved the government after government on this after years and years of campaigning, we want standalone offence want to see a standalone offence around violence against retail workers. Think if you put workers. We think if you put those three things in place, you could dent in this could really make a dent in this issue theres actually a bigger but theres actually a bigger question there, question here, isnt there, as to i mean, people arent just doing because you doing it because theyre, you know, they can now. And know, they they can now. And this idea that its a free pass for shoplifters, theres something bigger going on, isnt there . There . No. Well, i mean, im not sure i quite agree , you know, sure i quite agree, you know, what we do know now is that certainly with the under £200, lets face it, that covers a lot of things. That covers your airpods, your jeans, your football shirts and that actually, whether its people who are stealing to feed a habit and then reselling to in order to get for money that or what weve seen a huge explosion of in recent years , which is in recent years, which is organised crime. Realising that this is a great and fertile area of for so theyre, of work for them. So theyre, you cases you know, were seeing cases where retailers of where i talk to retailers of gangs go on a weekend where i talk to retailers of gangjust go on a weekend where i talk to retailers of gangjust go go on a weekend where i talk to retailers of gangjust go up go on a weekend where i talk to retailers of gangjust go up the on a weekend where i talk to retailers of gangjust go up the m1 a weekend where i talk to retailers of gangjust go up the m1 andeekend where i talk to retailers of gangjust go up the m1 and down and just go up the m1 and down the and get off at every the m1 and get off at every junction and those shops junction and turn those shops over nothing over because they think nothing will think that will happen and they think that this really soft crime will happen and they think that this and sally soft crime will happen and they think that this and untilsoft crime will happen and they think that this and until you crime will happen and they think that this and until you take; type. And until you take the field thats not field and say, thats not acceptable, going acceptable, were going to keep seeing of you seeing this. And of course, you know that leads to is know what that then leads to is a terrible environment for staff. To work a terrible environment for still. To work a terrible environment for still if to work a terrible environment for still if that, to work a terrible environment for still if that, if to work a terrible environment for still if that, if theyre to work in it if that, if theyre subject to violence abuse. Subject to violence and abuse. And weve my and then what weve seen in my town shops because town where we lose shops because retailers think retailers look at it and think theyre financially theyre not financially viable, you to you know, thats devastating to communities like mine. Mr i wanted to ask you about this story about labour wooing influencers an to win influencers in an effort to win Younger Voters through tiktok. So youve hired a dedicated employee to work with influencers to kind of seed positive messages about sir keir starmer on platforms like tiktok and instagram. And youre also offering training, we understand, to labour candidates on how they can produce influencer style content, tell us a bit more about this plan and do you think its a good use of party money . Well, first of all, i think of all the Parliamentary Party and future labour candidates. Im probably the number one person who needs that social Media Support and training. I cant say im on tiktok. Im not even on instagram, which gets me pelters from my mates. Nevertheless, these are important outlets now where i think it was. Candace previously just said that for young people, thats where theyre getting their you we want their news, you know, so we want to talk of all to talk to people of all demographics our offer demographics to put our offer forward. So you have go where forward. So you have to go where they so in this case, you they are, so in this case, you know, we know that these are theres been a huge rise, i have to influencers and to say, influencers and influencer not influencer culture is not something awful lot something i know an awful lot about. Something i know an awful lot about. But we know that they about. But we do know that they are important. So are really, really important. So i a surprise i dont think its a surprise that parties ours that Political Parties like ours are space. Are entering into this space. , and i can totally yeah, and i can totally understand that. You understand that. But do you think will trust what think people will trust what they see online when they know that are taking cash that that people are taking cash from Political Parties in order to promote these sorts of videos . I mean, at what point, whats the difference between an authentic endorsement and something being deceptive . Something being deceptive . Well, what weve seen in recent years, which is really important , is recent years, which is really important, is that for influencers, if they are taking paid content, they have to they have to indicate that and put that on their on their messages. So those who are following them can see what is something they when they say theyre using something that , that thats a something that, that thats a brand theyre using because brand that theyre using because of because its of their choice or because its a partnership. A paid partnership. So there will distinction. There will be that distinction. There already so already is that distinction. So thats a, you know, that gives information so people can make their judgements their informed judgements based on quite we see im quite sure we shall see you dancing about on tiktok before. Before too long alex. You know youre going to be doing it. You know youre going to be doing it. Really good to see you. Thank you very much indeed. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. Yes, i hate all of that. Yes, i hate all of that. Yes, i hate all of that. Well, you did you did one with me i did, yeah, but that was on your tiktok. I wouldnt know how to. I wouldnt know how to. Do a dancing you wouldnt do a dancing video with me . No, mean, its just no, no, i mean, its just like. Like. Id love that. Id love that. Ive. Ive interest ive. Ive no real interest in thats the thing. In it. Thats the thing. Youd love it as well. I know you. I think youve reached a point where just like, i think youve reached a poi|why1ere just like, i think youve reached a poi|why bother . Just like, i think youve reached a p0lino,� bother . Just like, i think youve reached a p0lino,� botpeople just like, i think youve reached a p0lino,� botpeople lovelike, i think youve reached a p0lino,� botpeople love you on no, the people love you on that one. No, the people would love would. Love you. No they would. Anyway, dont go anywhere. Weve got more papers coming anywhere. Withe got more papers coming anywhere. With winston ore papers coming anywhere. With winston ore pcandace � ning up with winston and candace in just right. Lets go through the papers. Then once right. Lets go through the papers. Then once again right. Lets go through the papers. Then once again with papers. Then once again with candace and winston , now, candace and winston, now, wheres this phone story that weve been talking about . Telegraph. Page 12. Oh, there you go. Yeah. So this is a story in the telegraph. The actress. So sophie winkleman, she wants to Ban Technology in classrooms completely. She thinks that schools kind of use it as a gimmick to impress parents, to say, we have all this technology. But she thinks it doesnt really. Its not, well, evidence that it improves their learning. And thinks that screens that it improves their learning. Ancdamagingthinks that screens that it improves their learning. Ancdamaging. Iinks that screens that it improves their learning. Ancdamaging. And that screens that it improves their learning. Ancdamaging. And i1at screens that it improves their learning. Ancdamaging. And i knowreens that it improves their learning. Ancdamaging. And i know that. Are damaging. And i know that people have a variety of views on this as well. You know, how much should younger children be able use smartphones . You able to use smartphones . You know, what is doing their know, what is it doing to their childhood . It affecting their childhood . Is it affecting their Mental Health . I know theres a lot thats out of lot of data thats come out of the us that said that girls are particularly impacted particularly negatively impacted by social media by using social media excessively, personally , excessively, and me personally, ive started to find my views becoming a bit more liberal on this because i just, i becoming a bit more liberal on this because ijust, i dont i think we have to help them navigate this reality. I think things have become very suffocating for children. I think were were sort of going through a phase now where were very of world around very afraid of the world around us, there is so us, maybe because there is so much uncertainty in the world and all new, and there is all this new, unprecedented technology. And i think parents, the think for a lot of parents, the urge is to just sort of shut it down. I wonder if when down. But i just wonder if when they to age 18, theyll they get to age 18, if theyll be able properly because be able to cope properly because they just havent learnt those skills now. Skills are just now. Winstead well, ive just banned my teenage son from his phone, from his computer, from everything on the. Yeah, on the bafis everything on the. Yeah, on the basis that hes just had his School Report and hes looking like hes on a downward trend and i can see he used to read for hours, like he said, love reading all the different books. And then hes been using the phones the computers the phones and the computers for the last its last couple of years. And its literally affected his his literally affected his both his attention his desire to want attention and his desire to want to read. Now just to read. And now hes just constantly cant help it. Constantly he cant help it. These apps and these these these apps and these phones, are made phones, they actually are made to release little bits of dopamine. So you become addicted to it. Theres a thing called dopamine labs in america where they have a whole they literally have a whole Company Based dopamine Company Based on dopamine release apps to get release of on these apps to get people addicted. Yeah, yeah. This idea that thats where this idea that children are developing in a way that never did million that we never did million percent, theyre changing. Theyre literally theres a theres called gabor mate, theres a guy called gabor mate, hes canadian psychologist and hes a canadian psychologist and developmental , and developmental psychologist, and he talks about how our literal neural biological wiring is being affected by the use of social media. And its like we, we, we as people, im talking about parents. But actually, you know, im probably just as addicted to my phone as well, you know, because using it you know, because im using it so you cant you almost so much and you cant you almost cant it. Yeah. Theres cant help it. Yeah. But theres a difference, there, a difference, isnt there, between what we do as between sort of what we do as adults to fully formed. Yeah , fully million percent yeah, fully million percent children. So in that sense, if youre saying, well help your children navigate it, isnt it better well, them better to say, well, let them cope with it as we had to cope with it . Cope with it as we had to cope witiyeah , i think theyre grown. Yeah, i think theyre grown. Yeah, i think theyre grown. Well, there there were well, there was, there were im though , because i im not sure though, because i just i think adolescence just i do think adolescence is a highly sociable time. So i mean kids are going to of course use this technology because theyre going drawn it because going to be drawn to it because it them what they it helps them do what they naturally do , which naturally want to do, which is to peer groups. To form their peer groups. And there writer there was a writer in the spectator, zoe strimpel, this week, was saying how when week, who was saying how when she was a teenager, she begged her parents own phone her parents for her own phone line so could basically just line so she could basically just spend hours and hours and hours and and hours talking and hours and hours talking to her said didnt her friends. She said she didnt do she didnt read. I mean, she got it. Her parents were stupid enough to i know than sense, i know, know money than sense, i know, but the thing is, is i think teenagers have always been like this. I dont think this is anything new. I dont think this is unprecedented. And i worry is unprecedented. And i worry that we are just sort of having a panic about it. And a bit of a panic about it. And whereas in the past, think, whereas in the past, i think, parents would have just sort of been like, okay, lets help them, lets let them figure it out. Is a sort of out. This is a sort of experimental phase. Think now experimental phase. I think now parents want to manage everything. That. Everything. We know that. We know research by know that from research by Jonathan Haidt in the us who says that, you know, University Students are becoming are actually done of studies actually done a lot of studies into it by the age of 18. When they get to university, theyre actually lot mature and actually a lot less mature and have less Life Experience have a lot less Life Experience than, did 20 or 30 than, say, children did 20 or 30 years before them, yeah. Theres not leaving their bedrooms. Yes. Well, theyre in their bedrooms. Thats true. But i think its also parents as well are a lot less trusting of children. There is this whole phenomenon of helicopter. Helicopter parenting. Yeah, i suppose i mean, winston, i think for me its the fact that it can affect it will it affects everything, doesnt it . Phone addiction it . Mobile phone addiction with children. You look at children. I mean, you look at children, obesity children. I mean, you look at children, a obesity children. I mean, you look at children, a whole obesity children. I mean, you look at children, a whole lot besity children. I mean, you look at children, a whole lot through the numbers a whole lot through the roof. Its because theyre moving. They get out, need to they need to get out, need to get 100. They need to get get image 100. They need to get out nature, into playing, out into nature, into playing, being to face interaction being face to face interaction with their peers, children, exploring the world, you know, coming , you exploring the world, you know, coming, you know, failing, falling off a tree and hurting themselves scratching themselves and scratching something and really actually, you know, getting the you know, getting out into the world massively world like its massively important. And it said as us as as as adults , its kind as parents, as adults, its kind of like going, okay, we can see what challenges are and what the challenges are and actually, know what . If we actually, you know what . If we need our children need to stop our children from using for period of time, using this for a period of time, like, going to ban my like, im not going to ban my son but, know, son forever, but, you know, for the next, know, two the next, you know, month, two months, going say, right, months, im going to say, right, were to control this were just going to control this for bit. Understands. For a bit. So he understands. And him, look, and ive said to him, look, i love you. This is about helping you. Not punishing you. This is not about punishing you. You dont understand the damage as damage its doing to you. So as parents, to be parents, weve got to be responsible that use responsible to manage that use of social media and of time on social media and phones. Yeah, its to phones. Well yeah, its hard to argue with that. Im sure some you will but im sure some of you will anyway. Candice winston, thank you. Good see you you. Its been to good see you this morning. Well see you in the next heres the weather. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across eastern areas. Actually, particularly through today and across igoingi areas. Actually, particularly through today and across going to reas. Actually, particularly through today and across going to rearquiterally, particularly through today and across going to rearquiteralcool theres going to be quite a cool feeling with this north feeling breeze with this north easterly off the easterly wind coming off the nonh easterly wind coming off the north will bring some north sea. That will bring some cloud to eastern areas through this though, this morning. Elsewhere though, it and bright. It should stay dry and bright. However, as we head towards lunchtime, think more the lunchtime, i think more in the way cloud bubble way of cloud will bubble up across parts across western areas. Parts of wales midlands as well, wales into the midlands as well, but it should stay dry through much of the day and it will feel fairly in sunshine. Fairly pleasant in the sunshine. Later evening later on this evening well start parts of scotland, start to see parts of scotland, see some rain arrive this see some rain arrive as this area pushes from the area of rain pushes in from the north. Bring thicker north. That will bring thicker cloud areas of scotland north. That will bring thicker clowell areas of scotland north. That will bring thicker clowell. Areas of scotland north. That will bring thicker clowell. And areas of scotland north. That will bring thicker clowell. And thatas of scotland north. That will bring thicker clowell. And that area scotland north. That will bring thicker clowell. And that area of otland north. That will bring thicker clowell. And that area of cloud as well. And that area of cloud is going sink southwards is going to sink southwards through covering through this evening, covering many northern england, many areas of northern england, and sit across and that will likely sit across parts of the midlands, possibly into by sunday into the southeast. By sunday morning. This drizzly rain will likely affect Northern Areas of england, southern scotland as well, through sunday morning as well. Its going to be well. But its going to be fairly light. Where fairly light. But where the skies clear, to skies stay clear, its going to be another night. Be another chilly night. Tonight we frost we could see a touch of frost developing once again. As i said, there is a bit of uncertainty in how widespread this cloud will it could this cloud will be. It could cover areas, cover more southeastern areas, but as the day progresses, i think therell be better chance of spells developing, of brighter spells developing, particularly across south particularly across the south and , where its and the northwest, where its actually going to be the warmest through the rest of weekend. Through the rest of the weekend. However for this central slither, likely slither, it will likely stay fairly a little bit fairly dull and a little bit cooler for much of the day, with a chance drizzly rain. A chance of some drizzly rain. Have bye bye. Have a great day bye bye. Outlook with boxt a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on not jewish. This is a pro palestinian march. Im not accusing you of anything, but im worried about the reaction to your presence. The metropolitan Police Issued apology after officers issued an apology after officers threatened to arrest a jewish man wearing a kippah at a pro palestine protest. Katherine forster has the latest. Yes, the met police have admitted that they did get this wrong. But a comment made by the wrong. But a comment made by the governments counter extremism tsar last month that Central London was becoming a no go area for jews seems perhaps to be coming true. Ill bring you more shortly. Shortly. Gb news can confirm the man who set himself on fire outside the trump hush money trial has now died in hospital. Now died in hospital. World leaders call for calm in the middle east after tensions rose following the israeli strike on iran yesterday i why is emma why is the british fry up toast . Well, according to new toast . Well, according to new research, generation z turn their backs on the breakfast classic, deeming it to too be fatty. On the eve of the London Marathon, were going to be talking to the family of Christopher Hope , who are taking Christopher Hope, who are taking part in this years event for a very special reason. Good morning. Its a bright but chilly start for many of us across the uk. How will the rest of weekend pan out . Where of the weekend pan out . Where you can all the details you can find all the details with a little later on. With me a little later on. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im ellie and this is Ellie Costello and this is breakfast. Gb news. Breakfast on. Gb news. Just had this message in from matthew on gbnews. Com yoursay weve been talking about shoplifting this morning. He says, good morning. I was says, good morning. I was recently in a well known high street bakery chain. In walked a lad with a hoodie. I wonder which one that was. I wonder which one that was. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yes, yes. In walks allowed with a hoodie he helped with a hoodie on. He helped himself to two drinks and some sandwiches and then walked straight out of the shop. I reported this to a member of staff. Told that this staff. He told me that this person regular shoplifter. Person was a regular shoplifter. Head had instructed staff head office had instructed staff that shoplifters are left that shoplifters are to be left alone. Alone. Just let them do what they like. Its very odd. Its very. Like. Its very odd. Its very. And i know weve been talking about it this morning, a thousand shoplifting events happen every day. Apparently, happen every day. Apparently, according to the latest figures and the people weve talked to, including the labour party this morning, say, well, yes, more needs to be done. Its, you know, organised crime and drug addicts and all this sort of thing. And im sure that is a big part of it. But you do see a lot of people like in this case, theyre not part of organised crime. Theyre not necessarily crime. Theyre not necessarily got an addiction. Theyre just getting to the point of thinking, well, this is just what you can do. I saw someone in sainsburys doing with a load of booze. Did you walking out with load it and he got with a load of it and he got collared. And they took it all off him. Oh thats good, but of course then he just walked out the shop. Oh, nothing. Oh, nothing. Nothing. So nothing actually happens even happens with the police even called . Know , and he called . I dont know, and he kicked up a fuss. Did he . Get off get off me well no. Off me . Get off me well no. Youre walking out with the audacity. Bottles of vodka audacity. Five bottles of vodka and. So its. And. Oh crate of lager, so its. I think its just kids now a lot. Is it . A lot of it. Kids just thinking they can do what they like. They just know they can get away with it. Perhaps therell be consequences. Be no consequences. Very worrying. Its very worrying. Its very worrying. But is brazen, isnt it . But that is brazen, isnt it . Just to walk in daylight. Just to walk in broad daylight. Help yourself lunch. Walk help yourself to lunch. Walk out . Yeah. Yeah, very, very odd. Yeah, very, very odd. Says police are yeah. Adrian says police are deaung yeah. Adrian says police are dealing with mental dealing mostly with Mental Health now. They cant attend lesser well, weve been lesser crimes, well, weve been talking about phone addiction this what it means this morning and what it means for. And weve had a for children. And weve had a message in can i find it now from jeremy and 15, who said, sadly, my goddaughter is 11 and cannot tell the time on a traditional wristwatch. Now, this should have been that should have been taught at school. I hate to say really, even before school it should have been taught at home. And this is where we blame a lot of it on schools, and a lot of it is down to parenting. I was taught, i remember, i remember it well, a big plastic clock with numbers. With numbers. Yes, i remember that as well. Yes, i remember that as well. Yeah. Yeah. Before i learnt, i learnt how to tell the time before i went to tell the time before i went to school. Yeah. And when the big hand points the little hand points up and the little hand points up and the little hand points seven, you have points to number seven, you have to to bed. Thats what remember. And it still applies. Now and it still applies. Now it actually does still apply now on this shift. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I think yeah. Its but i think parents are getting i know parents are getting i know parents busier now and parents are busier now and normally parents are normally both parents are working now all rest of working now and all the rest of it. Youve got to do a lot it. But youve got to do a lot of this stuff at home. You cant expect everything to be taught at school. Yeah. Yeah. As winston was saying, and as winston was saying, i mean, a lot of it just comes down to parental responsibility, doesnt i mean, was doesnt it . I mean, he was saying his sons saying hes seeing his sons grades therefore the grades slip and therefore the phone is his phone is gone, as is his computer. Yeah, perhaps thats the it needs to be done. The way it needs to be done. Youve got to be quite right. Youve got to be firm. Firm fair, i think. Firm. Firm to be fair, i think. Yeah, all that one. But then again, i havent got children to deal with. No, neither do i. So maybe its to say that. Its easy for us to say that. Controlling the dog, enough controlling the dog, frankly, rex, frankly, mr rex, oh, lots of people messaging about christopher our about Christopher Hope, our political editor, the political editor, doing the marathon with his marathon along with two of his children. Were to be to children. Were going to be to talking two children a talking those two children a little bit this morning little bit later on this morning. Theyre doing for a very. Theyre doing it for a very good well tell you more later. Yeah. Theyre a lovely family as well, so dont miss that. And do your views coming in on do keep your views coming in on any the stories that were any of the stories that were talking about today. Gbnews. Com yoursay the metropolitan police now, the metropolitan police has causing now, the metropolitan police has offence causing now, the metropolitan police has offence with ausing now, the metropolitan police has offence with an;ing now, the metropolitan police has offence with an apology further offence with an apology about use of the about an officers use of the terms openly jewish to an anti Semitism Campaign who was near a pro palestinian march. This is what happened. This is what happened. You are quite openly jewish. This is a pro palestinian march. Im not accusing you of anything, but im worried about the reaction to your presence. Well, the chief executive of campaign against anti semitism was wearing a kippah, skullcap when he was stopped from crossing a road near the demonstration in london last saturday. Well, the shadow policing minister, alex norris , spoke to minister, alex norris, spoke to us a little earlier. There can be no place for hate in this. And if there is racism in this case, anti semitism, there cannot be that sort of thing. So you know whats happened is wrong. And were glad that the police have accepted that. Were glad that the police have acc well, that. Were glad that the police have acc well, that political well, our Political Correspondent, Katherine Forster is here now. I mean, this certainly whichever way you look at it, this what happened cannot be right. Theres got to be very Big Questions about how policing of these events is managed. Yes, because these protests have been going on for, well, six months, ever since october. The seventh. And, you know, the protesters , the pro Palestinian Protesters, the pro Palestinian Protesters, the pro Palestinian Protesters have the right to march in their tens or sometimes hundreds of thousands freely through Central London. And so also jewish people must have the right to go about their daily business as normal. But it does business as normal. But it does feel very much like a comment made by robin simcox, who is the governments, counter extremism tsan governments, counter extremism tsar. Last month he said that , tsar. Last month he said that, areas of Central London on the days of the protests were increasingly becoming no go areas for jews. Increasingly becoming no go areas forjews. Now increasingly becoming no go areas for jews. Now that cannot be right. And as as you say this, this gentleman, gideon falter, the chief executive of the campaign against anti semitism, was wearing his skullcap because hed just come from a synagogue and hes told that his presence is provocative and antagonising. And as we just heard there, the Police Officer said, well, im not accusing you of anything. Why would you even think of accusing him of anything . Hes just trying to go about his business. So it is difficult for the police. Theyre trying to tread a difficult line, but it does seem that too often , they, they take that too often, they, they take issue with with the wrong people. And what we had yesterday was this sort of non apology from the assistant commissioner, matt twist, who said that, the presence could be provocative. He they then had to apologise for that because you cannot have it both ways. If people can march against the war in gaza, jewish people can walk around london on the same day. Youve got to have both or you have neither. You know, we live in a free country, supposedly. So i do think this is quite shocking. Now the government are up in arms. Theyve written to, sadiq khan. Theyve written to the metropolitan police this is james cleverly, the home secretary. People like Suella Braverman , who call these braverman, who call these marches hate marches of course, most people on the marches would say theyre just wanting peace in gaza, she is also saying that, you know, the balance is completely wrong here. So been this second so theres been this second statement now from the metropolitan police apologising for that first statement, hasnt there . Yes. So a mess. So a mess. So i mean, the first statement was a nightmare. A victim blaming wasnt it really. Exactly. Victim blaming. So exactly. Victim blaming. So you know, if you can march , as you know, if you can march, as people do saturday after saturday after saturday, it is not okay to then say to jewish people, actually, you shouldnt be here. Why should they not be here . They was a provocation to be there. Yeah. Yeah. Every right to be there. So i think it is difficult for the police, but it does seem to be, that there are a number of these incidents and of course, they get picked up on social media and then we all hear about them where they absolutely do get, the balance wrong. Okay. Okay. Catherine bannau, thanks very much indeed. Now, the man who much indeed. Now, the man who set himself on fire outside a courthouse in new york, where Donald Trumps hush money trial is underway, has died in hospital. Us gb news has confirmed this with new York Police Department. With new York Police Department. The Police Identified the man as Maxwell Azarello from florida, who was in his 30s. Lets talk to commentator on us and international politics, professor scott lucas. Good morning to you, scott, i mean, this is a tragic case that someone who seemed to be disturbed has has self immolated and died in this way. Disturbed has has self immolated and died in this way. And it and died in this way. And it raises a question, though, doesnt it, about just how intense the situation the atmosphere is becoming in the United States. United states. That it has been the case before, that people have committed , self immolation over committed, self immolation over various issues , you could think various issues, you could think about it happening during the vietnam war, for example. Well, vietnam war, for example. Well, in this case, mr azzarello , in this case, mr azzarello, appeared to be a conspiracy theorist, he had pamphlets about ponzi schemes, about the mob being in control of, new york citys educational institutions. Citys educational institutions. But what makes it different . I think in the 21st century is simply the speed and the scope of social media and the way that that people will spread ideas or spread conspiracy theories so quickly, and how dialogue can very quickly be replaced by division and by shouting, i have to emphasise for viewers here that although mr azzarello set himself on fire outside the courthouse where the first of Donald Trumps criminal trials are proceeding it, it has no connection with the criminal trial itself. He just simply chose a spot where he could get a lot of attention. But on your broader point, yes, american politics has become a lot more polarised. Thats been the case since the late 20th century, even before social media developed. We can discuss why, and in large part donald trump, his own style, his own way of, of using social media has sort of using social media has sort of accentuated that polarised asian, even before we talk about the legal and political significance of the trials that are starting this year , are starting this year, professor, im very, very sad to hear that this individual has lost his life, but so traumatic as well. For those bystanders , as well. For those bystanders, those witnesses that saw this, this horror play out in front of the courthouse. And were also heanng the courthouse. And were also hearing that Police Officers suffered injuries as well. Suffered injuries as well. Yeah, there were some injuries, from people from smoke inhalation that were trying to, you know, treat this man on the scene, trying to save his life. There it it is the case that when you get a charged atmosphere , you have the atmosphere, you have the question of security. And i have to emphasise that despite the warnings or the concerns that we might have a lot of security incidents around Donald Trumps trials , that has not occurred. Trials, that has not occurred. It just so happens in this case that one individual chose this as the setting for what happens. I think theres a discussion here. Youve been having it on other fronts about Mental Health, about how people in this era where everything comes out of so fast and so loud , can of so fast and so loud, can protect Mental Health. I think its a case where im hoping that in my native country, in the years to come, we get back to discussing the issues in a calmer way, in a way where we have a lot more respect and tolerance rather than in all caps tweets that says im right, youre wrong, and thats the way it has to be. Yeah, i think thats a valid point, to be honest. Scott. Luke, its good to see you. Thank you very much indeed i do. Theres a theres a lot to be said for and its, it is the its not all about social media, but its that social media idea the that you know, you see something and you believe it. And so there is a lack of sometimes i think people hear what they want to hear sometimes from people as well. Actually, on that point, you know, that discussion we were having at the top about about children and all the of it, you see, fiery the rest of it, you see, fiery red dragon. Good morning to you. Message in on gbnews. Com yoursay saying, stephen, stop excusing parents. Schools are not there to parent. They they are there to parent. They they are there to teach which is which is a which is the exact opposite of what i said. I agree with you entirely. Yeah, i think its all about parents. So its, its theres an element of sometimes that you mishear something or you hear what you want to hear and, and then off you go. And we are in the era, arent we, of misinformation , we, of misinformation, disinformation. Anybody can put information out there that may not necessarily be correct. No. And its what you believe. And its interesting that were talking about labour as well. This morning you know, using tiktok and get to a using tiktok to try and get to a younger the Younger Voters, which is a perfectly valid thing to do. I dont have an issue with that at all. Youve got to youve got to go where where your people are consuming information. Its the idea that at so many young people are getting news from tiktok. I getting news from tiktok. I mean, as i say, you can put anything on that. I mean, its anything on that. I mean, its the same with facebook and all the same with facebook and all the rest of it. I have people that i know who message me constantly, thinking i know everything about the news, saying, oh, you this . Saying, oh, have you seen this . Have seen this is happening . Have you seen this is happening . And this is and its not, its nonsense. Some of it is outright nonsense. Some of it is outright lies, but theyve seen it on know its on facebook. Its on facebook. It must be true because theres no verification, is there . Anyone e anyone can is there . Anyone can put i mean, anyone can put anything there thats the anything out there thats the problem. Other is you problem. The other issue is you create own echo chamber, create your own echo chamber, dont the dont you . You never see the other the story, you other side of the story, you rarely see the whole story. You just a certain specific view just see a certain specific view of events. Thats the issue with social media, which is not healthy. And its what we try to do on here is, is providing a platform for all views , some of which for all views, some of which obviously you dont get on other platforms. I mean , its why we platforms. I mean, its why we exist. Its not saying you should agree with those views. Should agree with those views. Its about saying this is the whole picture. Now you make up your own mind. Thats the thats the point of it. Its not pushing an agenda. Itsjust pushing an agenda. Its just giving you the information to deal with. Yeah, thats what were trying to do. So do keep your messages in morning. Messages coming in this morning. Gbnews. Com yoursay oh, just so quickly on something slightly lighter , slightly lighter, but lighter, slightly lighter, but pauune lighter, slightly lighter, but Pauline Brown on smartphone says, im wondering if winston, whos doing our papers this morning, could come round and ban my 52 year old husband from his phone. Hes constantly on it, either playing football manager or stick cricket or reading fake news. I rarely get a response from him apart from a grunt, and its driving me crazy. On grunt, and its driving me crazy. Oh yeah , youve got to crazy. Oh yeah, youve got to ban him, take it off him. Ban him, take it off him. So there are lots of adults who are very addicted to their phones. Its not just the kids, but at least we are fully formed. At least all of our brain has fused together. Well, just about just about. Well, just about just about. Well, just about just about. Im not sure. In my case, theres no old mine. Theres a way to go yet. Well, yes, but i mean, it is a problem, isnt it . And it meant to be addictive as as winston was explaining. Its dopamine hits, isnt it . Yeah. You were a youtube scroll thing. Youtube hole. Call them at home. Yes, but thats the only thing that gets you. Yeah, because i dont really look at the social media now. Ill have a quick glance through of a very quick glance through and see if anyone sent the sort of direct message or something, but that is probably a healthy approach. Id it takes about five id say it takes about five minutes to go through social minutes to go through my social media, and that is it. And media, and then that is it. And i put it down. Probably a very yeah, its probably a very good do it. So yeah, good way to do it. So yeah, there you go. Anyway, lets get back to the news morning because world news this morning because World Leaders calling calm and leaders are calling for calm and de escalation the middle de escalation in the middle east. Launched east. After israel launched airstrikes iran yesterday. Yes. Yes. According reports, three according to reports, three drones down with drones were shot down with explosions an airbase drones were shot down with explctheis an airbase drones were shot down with explcthe city an airbase drones were shot down with explcthe city of an airbase drones were shot down with explcthe city of ispahan. Irbase near the city of ispahan. Well, the strike, thought to be weekends be in response to last weekends attack a barrage attack when iran fired a barrage of drones and missiles directly at israel. Well , at israel. Well, earlier we spoke to retired British Army Officer and Defence Analyst colonel simon diggins. The israelis very give way, very Little Information about what theyve done. So for example, the attack that preceded the iranian barrage, the attack onto the iranian consulate in damascus, israel didnt claim the attack, nor did they comment on it. And they very rarely comment on attacks theyve carried out into syria or into into iraq. Now, iran, when it attacked israel, was the opposite. It made a huge noise about it because it wanted to make a point about what it was trying to do. But no, we dont know very much about the actual details because the israelis arent giving it away. And its been interests of the been in the interests of the iranians to play the whole thing down. They talked about several quadcopters, assaults launched from inside iran, from disaffected groups, pro israeli, disaffected groups, pro israeli, disaffected groups. But theyve tried to play it down. And the israelis arent giving very much away. This all helps, though, in away. This all helps, though, in terms of the de escalation , terms of the de escalation, because clearly this is an incident where if the rhetoric increased, then the danger of escalation grows. Escalation grows. I mean, the response from both countries is really interesting , isnt it, because interesting, isnt it, because it does allow them to come back down that escalation ladder, so to speak. And would you, would to speak. And would you, would you say that iran and israel feel more comfortable in the shadow wars that they have been partaking in than this state on state action that weve seen in the last week or so . Eddie, i think its absolutely the point. Up until now, there have been operating this kind of grey zone of assassinations, use of proxies, lots of propaganda and that sort of area. And theyve so far avoided state on state conflict. Israel, we presume its israel broke that taboo when it attacked the consulate. And while the consulate was being misused , its been used as misused, its been used as a base for, for iranian irgc generals and the like. Nonetheless, the convention and is a convention is that embassies are sovereign territory. And so by attacking territory. And so by attacking that consulate effectively, israel had broken the taboo about attacking, Iranian State territory. And so iran then felt the need to respond in the way in which it which it did. And israel has gone back, but so they broke that taboo. But now, as you say, theyre kind of theyre re establishing what theyre re establishing what they position of kind of they call a position of kind of mutual deterrence, which is that we stay away from each we will stay away from each others state territory, but below the line or beneath the line , grey warfare, hybrid line, grey warfare, hybrid warfare, whatever tone you choose to use will continue. How much, pressure do you think theres been on, i mean, particularly israel, because obviously our lines of communication with iran are very difficult , but from from the difficult, but from from the west, i mean, from the visit from lord cameron. Weve obviously had lots being said from the white house. Will that have made an impact . No, i think enormous impact. Its one of the reading a israeli commentator this morning, he said, he said that netanyahu was uncharacteristically quiet. And i think people always right i think people have always right from the very beginning of this conflict, there has been this concern that, you know, that it would spread into something much more regional, much more impactful across across the middle east and therefore across the rest of the rest of the world. All right. Well keep you up to date with that of course. Oh, now look at that. If youre now look at that. If youre watching on television, look how that line across the top of our headis that line across the top of our head is at a wonk. Oh, yeah. Now you know why that is . Its because sebastians just been here playing with the cameras, and we were pulled apart. Were pulled apart. We were pulled apart. We were pulled apart. Told sitting were told we were sitting too close together. My mom always does say that she. Are you sat on stevens she. Why are you sat on stevens lap . No, i know, sorry. Why not . Its because literally end up its because we literally end up like this. We wi i dont, we just get cosy. Its its nice. Its fine. Its nice. I it like that. I like it like that. I like it like that. Its nice. But as i say, its nice to have people who get on. We. Yeah. Well weve got telling off. Im told to sit apart. But look, were rebelling already. Were rebelling and youve already. Aere rebelling and youve already. Aere retcamera. Nd youve already. Aere retcamera. Welljve already. Aere retcamera. Well get it got a wonky camera. Well get it all out for you all straightened out for you dunng all straightened out for you during weather annie. During the weather with annie. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across eastern areas. Actually, theres going to be quite a cool feeling breeze with this northeast off the northeast wind coming off the nonh northeast wind coming off the north will some north sea. That will bring some cloud to eastern areas through this elsewhere, though, this morning. Elsewhere, though, it and bright. It should stay dry and bright. However, as we head towards lunchtime, think in the lunchtime, i think more in the way cloud will bubble up way of cloud will bubble up across areas. Parts of across western areas. Parts of wales midlands well, across western areas. Parts of walit midlands well, across western areas. Parts of walit should midlands well, across western areas. Parts of walit should staydlands well, across western areas. Parts of walit should stay dry|ds well, across western areas. Parts of walit should stay dry throughzll, but it should stay dry through much day and it will feel much of the day and it will feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine. Later this evening well later on this evening well start see parts of scotland start to see parts of scotland see arrive as this see some rain arrive as this area of rain pushes in from the north. That will bring thicker cloud scotland cloud to many areas of scotland as that area of cloud as well. And that area of cloud is going sink southwards is going to sink southwards through evening, covering through this evening, covering many northern england, many areas of northern england, and likely sit across and that will likely sit across parts midlands, possibly parts of the midlands, possibly into sunday into the southeast by sunday morning. This drizzly rain will likely affect Northern Areas of england, southern scotland as well, sunday morning. As well, through sunday morning. As well. Going to be well. But its going to be fairly light. But where the skies clear, its going to skies stay clear, its going to be chilly night. Tonight be another chilly night. Tonight we see a of frost we could see a touch of frost developing as developing once again. As i said, is a of said, there is a bit of uncertainty in how widespread this cloud be. It could this cloud will be. 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Yeah. Me too. Looks good, doesnt it . Cant enter though. Cant enter though. Oh, maybe next year. Well, you can win it for us. Well, is the english fry up . Toast. Were going to be talking about that next. Cheers now, are you having your fry up . This morning . You love a fry . You love a fry . I do, im going home to a fry up after this. Im a big advocate of a fry up. As are you. Yeah, like a fry up . Yeah. One that often . Once a week. Once a week. No, not quite. Once a week, maybe once a fortnight. Well, its been the breakfast of choice for many for years. Fry ups, though, may be falling out fashion. Out of fashion. Yeah. Yeah. Me. A survey has found dear me. A survey has found 25 of to 34 year olds rarely 25 of 18 to 34 year olds rarely have a fry up, whilst1 25 of 18 to 34 year olds rarely have a fry up, whilst 1 in 10 have a fry up, whilst 1 in 10 have never had one. What . Oh, dear. Well is the engush what . Oh, dear. Well is the english fry up toast . Thats the question. Were asking this morning. Well, joining us now is celebrity chef theo michaels, who loves a fry up, and nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert , who thinks the english lambert, who thinks the english breakfast is outdated. Well very good morning to you both. Rihanna. Well start with you. Why is it outdated . Why is it outdated . Well, i can see both sides of the coin. First of all, there will still be people out there that love the fry up, which is fine. But i also think theres another generation coming through of people that perhaps want traditional on want a less traditional take on it. Still love their it. So they still love their fried they still perhaps fried eggs. They still perhaps love the traditional baked beans on nice toast, on the plate. Some nice toast, or grandparents actually used or my grandparents actually used to fried bread, you know, to have fried bread, you know, like fried in the morning like fried toast in the morning as but nowadays people are as well. But nowadays people are more their halloumi the more about their halloumi in the morning avocado. Morning or their avocado. On, rhiannon, come oh come on, rhiannon, come on. Youll be, youll be, youll be saying avocado on toast next. I mean, its nonsense. Well, i think avocado is a bit expensive for most people, to be honest at the moment. And it is imported, but i do think theres different ways of mixing up your breakfast in the morning. With my kids. Morning. I know with my kids. Come on, i can see, i theo, come on, i can see, i can see youre very frustrated by this. I am its sacrilegious. I am its sacrilegious. I am its sacrilegious. I think the great i mean, i think the Great British up, right . This is british fry up, right . This is woven. Is a thread of our woven. This is a thread of our culture. Its something weve grown with. And i love grown up with. And i love nothing more a greasy spoon nothing more than a greasy spoon fry up. And i want eggs, bacon, beans, bubbles , squeak. Black beans, bubbles, squeak. Black pudding. The whole works. I dont want dont, i dont dont want it, i dont, i dont want fat free. I dont want skimmed milk. I dont want avocado. I full works fry avocado. I want a full works fry up. And avocado. I want a full works fry up. And im devastated. That was up. And im devastated. That was it. 10 of that age group have never had a fry up, i never have. They dont know what theyre missing. They dont. My heart bleeds for them. I implore you, go out today to your local cafe, order the biggest fry up and itll change your life. I mean, the point is, rihanna. I mean, wouldnt be rihanna. I mean, it wouldnt be good for us if you were doing it seven days a week. But if you do it every now and then. Theres nothing wrong with that, is there . No. Exactly its totally fine. You know, ive got people that love a fry up. My husband loves fry you know, loves a fry up. You know, youve got embrace you like. Got to embrace what you like. Theres that if you theres research that if you dont yourself enjoy dont allow yourself enjoy things, more likely things, youre more likely to overeat them so its overeat on them anyway. So its all about moderation, isnt it . And thats such a boring and i know thats such a boring word to but im not anti word to people, but im not anti fry up and im not pro up. Fry up and im not pro fry up. Im whatever want to im just whatever you want to do. Your life, but make do. Enjoy your life, but make sure youve got a good balance of items that are great. Of the items that are great. So rihanna, sorry to interrupt. Can just clarify interrupt. Can i just clarify that saying that youre so youre saying do not up every single not eat a fry up every single morning . Yeah. Probably not. No, absolutely. Probably not. The breakfast to start the best breakfast to start the day for heart health. But day for your heart health. But to be honest, your health is your next thing you know. To be honest, your health is youyoure thing you know. To be honest, your health is youyoure thing yto know. To be honest, your health is youyoure thing yto be ow. To be honest, your health is youyoure thing yto be saying, youre going to be saying, dont include the bloody dont dont include the bloody mary actually, thats a good well, actually, thats a good source of iron some people source of iron for some people as a little bit i mean, as well. A little bit i mean, with the alcohol and probably not the best idea single not the best idea every single morning. It morning. But, you know, it really depends youre really depends what youre looking your dish as well looking at in your dish as well every morning. And youve got to do look my do whats right for you. Look my job nutritionist. So im do whats right for you. Look my job to nutritionist. So im do whats right for you. Look my job to sit ritionist. So im do whats right for you. Look my job to sit here ist. So im do whats right for you. Look my job to sit here and so im do whats right for you. Look my job to sit here and say,n do whats right for you. Look my job to sit here and say, look, going to sit here and say, look, there are some items on a fry up which do contain nutritional benefits. Are others that which do contain nutritional benfull. Are others that which do contain nutritional benfull of are others that which do contain nutritional benfull of saturated thers that which do contain nutritional benfull of saturated fatrs that which do contain nutritional benfull of saturated fat and at are full of saturated fat and not great long time health. Not great for long time health. But once a week, totally fine. Yeah. I mean, youre chef, yeah. I mean, youre a chef, arent are you of the school of so are you of the school of thought that you can make a traditional fry up, you can do it a healthier way . Is that it in a healthier way . Is that something that youd support, or do you should go for do you think you should go for your traditional fry up everything lots of everything in one pan, lots of oil, lard, lard, lard. Right, so you know, im all right, so you know, im a bit of both, if im honest. I guess im sort of by by breakfast, i think, well, i guess where it is, is for me, theres a, there is a general tradition of a greasy spoon fry up and we and i remember going to our local theres a to our local theres like a truckers a grease, truckers cafe with a grease, a proper greasy spoon, but the proper greasy spoon, but at the same there is something proper greasy spoon, but at the sam you meant black pudding. I got them up some bizarre them mixed up some bizarre reason. Alcohol, black pudding. Do a of do you still make a lot of those . Because im interested. I feel like thats one key component the that component of the fry up that perhaps is dying out. The black pudding, is the iron rich part. You know, i think actually the black pudding is the black pudding bit is slightly and i think slightly dying out, and i think thats a real shame thats thats a real shame because actually that black pudding, theyre pudding, white pudding, theyre Real Products real traditional, products of, of the but its the same of the uk, but its the same here struggling with this conversation. But its the same with like bubble and squeak as well. You know, a lot of stuff come lot food is created come a lot of food is created for a reason. Theres a reason it exists, you know, and bubbles squeak was a way to use up cheap leftovers, mashed potato, leftovers, use up mashed potato, use a bit of cabbage , you use up a bit of cabbage, you know, and black pudding was a great way to, you know, if you butchered beef. Butchered a beef. Right, not yet. All right, well, not yet. All right, well, not yet. Okay. Well im glad to say were out of time now. Now weve come to butchering. Were out of time now. Now weve conyeah, utchering. Were out of time now. Now weve conyeah, the hering. Were out of time now. Now weve conyeah, the vegetarians struggling. Ive got limits , theo ive got my limits, theo michaels, Rhiannon Lambert. Really you this really good to see you this morning. I have to say, there is morning. I have to say, there is a place near me called the super sausage is there, which sausage cafe. Is there, which sells super sausages , as you can sells super sausages, as you can imagine, is like a its like a truckers cafe. Its like a truck stop. Do you find yourself at the super sausage cafe very often. I may be popping in later, giving you the appetite. Have we . Yeah. Have we . Yeah. Oh, dear. Well, theo. Black pudding. Its right . Pudding. Its blood. Right . Yeah, right. Pig blood. Thats right. Pig blood. Yeah, yeah. It wouldnt be for me and no, it wouldnt be for me and i like that were out of i like, i like that were out of time. Oh sorry. Yeah youre being told off. Youre being told off. Yeah. Sorry. For the second time last ten minutes. Time in the last ten minutes. Its happening a now. Our its happening a lot now. Our very Christopher Hope is very own Christopher Hope is running tomorrows london very own Christopher Hope is running t alongws london very own Christopher Hope is running t along with ondon very own Christopher Hope is running t along with hison marathon along with his children. To talking children. Well be to talking them just couple of them in just a couple of minutes. Now its the London Marathon. Tomorrow it is. Tomorrow it is. We wont be running, will we . We wont be running, will we . No, we will not. No, we will not. No. You couldnt pay us. But someone who is our very own Christopher Hope, who not only is lovely, but also very athletic. Is running the athletic. And he is running the London Marathon along his London Marathon along with his daughter sapphire son daughter sapphire and his son barnaby. Yeah. Raising money the theyre raising money for the Charity Family Charity Scope after the family were a crash , in which were rocked by a crash, in which pollyanna, their sister , lost leg. Oh, well, joining us now is christophers daughter, sapphire, and his son, barnaby. So good to see you both. And it tomorrow is just going to be absolutely incredible. How are you both feeling, excited. You both feeling, excited. Definitely. Really nervous though, its my first marathon, but barnaby , i did it in 2021. But barnaby, i did it in 2021. I was a lot more trained up then, but but itll be good fun. Itll be good fun. The crowds are amazing. So were looking forward to it. Fun, barnaby. Fun are you mad . Were confused. Were confused. Yeah. I mean, if youve done it before, how hard work is it after. After you. Its hard work. But after you finish, you realise it was one of the best days of your life. So its. Its definitely worth doing whether youre trained up or not. I think so, but just not like i was last time. Sapphire, whats the training been like . Have you all trained together . Have you been training with your dad or how has it worked . Well, ive been at university in bristol, so im barnaby, has been at home, dads been at home, so theyve kind of been running together, but ive been running together, but ive been running by myself. And then in the university holidays, when ive come back, been ive come back, ive been running dad, has running with dad, which has definitely made it easier. Yeah hes a little personal hes like a little personal trainer as i cry trainer cheering me on as i cry my through 30 k he my way through 30 k and he speeds off and does another ten. Yeah, hes definitely the fittest. Thats like us. Like Army Marshall thats like Army Marshall with training. Hes hes with this training. Hes hes off doing 30km weekend, off doing 30km every weekend, even not doing even when hes not doing a marathon. So yeah, hes good. Hes good training. Hes hes good at training. Hes a lot than we lot more disciplined than we are. Hopefully it are. Hopefully, hopefully it comes age as well. Comes with age as well. Yeah i mean got a lot yeah i mean hes got a lot a lot, a lot of years behind him a lot, a lot of years behind him a lot of years. Tell us about pollyanna and obviously what happened to her and why you now want to raise money for scope. Yeah. So, pollyanna obviously lost her leg when she was two, and shes. Since shes been a below, below the knee amputee on her right leg, and shes just faced quite a lot of stigmas, id say, in society, i personally have noticed how, disabled people are treated. Theyre often looked at differently , and ive seen the differently, and ive seen the way people look at pollyanna and, we found scope and we wanted to run the London Marathon this year, and i just thought it was absolutely perfect, and theyve been really, good. They fight really, really good. They fight for disability and for disability equality, and they campaign relentlessly to create a Fairer Society for disabled people. Palsy is disabled people. So palsy is really excited that were running scope as well, shes running for scope as well, shes really been trying to do a lot more like stuff on social media about, disability equality and stuff like that. So shes really excited to. Will she be going oh, and will she be going along support tomorrow . Along to support you tomorrow . Shes actually travelling no, shes actually travelling in right now. Shes on in australia right now. Shes on her gap. Selfish really, isnt it . Selfish really, isnt it . Is extremely selfish. This is extremely selfish. This is extremely selfish. Youre all doing such a wonderful thing. And shes not. Wonderful thing. And shes not. Shes not there to see it. Shes not there to see it. Shes not there to see it. Shes just having a lovely time well, look the best for time and well, look the best for her. Best luck to you in her. The best of luck to you in terms of fundraising. How are you getting on . Good. Weve smashed our good. Weve weve smashed our £5,000 so were who we £5,000 target. So were who we smashed it yesterday actually. But obviously if anyone wants to donate more wed be super donate any more wed be super super great. Weve the t shirts on. Yeah oh yes. So how do people how do people support you. Just through our so just through our justgiving its i think justgiving link, its i think its just giving. Com slash slash ihope its just giving. Com slash slash i hope or something. If you search it up youll be able to find it, and yeah, its just through there. And whats the plan for tomorrow. Whats the plan tomorrow . Are we. Im sorry i keep cutting you off. Whats the plan for tomorrow . We all. Are we running together or are we all running together or are we all running together or are we start together . And we going to start together . And then dads going go out ahead . Well, optimistic. I id well, optimistic. I said id be faster, i think im be faster, so i think im starting a earlier wave. Starting in a earlier wave. Dad, dad and i are in the same wave, but hes already told me hell the first six miles me hell do the first six miles with me and then and then go. I. I. Im too slow. Im slow. Im too slow. Im too slow. To. Im going to go im going to. Im going to go off. Im i did it in 2021. And i managed to go off in between waves. So i went off far too fast, completely on my own, waves. So i went off far too fast, cis1pletely on my own, waves. So i went off far too fast, cis a letely on my own, waves. So i went off far too fast, cis a bitely on my own, waves. So i went off far too fast, cis a bit surreal,y own, waves. So i went off far too fast, cis a bit surreal, butvn, waves. So i went off far too fast, cis a bit surreal, but ill which is a bit surreal, but ill try and stick with the crowds tomorrow. Yeah, luck. I think yeah, good luck. I think youre crackers. Yeah, but youre all crackers. Yeah, but good luck you, sapphire and good luck to you, sapphire and barnaby. Very much barnaby. Thanks very much indeed, and lovely to meet you. So like their dad. They do, they do. I love it when that happens, dont you . Yeah, yeah. Just like. When that happens, dont you . � look yeah. Just like. When that happens, dont you . � look like 1. Just like. When that happens, dont you . � look like christopher ke. When that happens, dont you . � look like Christopher Hope, you look like Christopher Hope, baby Christopher Hopes baby. Chriss chris is baby chriss and chris is full of talents, isnt he . I didnt know was any good i didnt know he was any good at running. I be honest. At running. I gotta be honest. Very good. Very good. Very good at running. Very good at running. Yeah, some people have it all. Would you . Yeah, some people have it all. I would you . Yeah, some people have it all. I find nould you . Yeah, some people have it all. I find it uld you . Yeah, some people have it all. I find it veryou . Yeah, some people have it all. I find it very impressive, i find it very impressive, actually. But wont catch us actually. But you wont catch us doing it, would you . Not in million years. No, not in a million years. But luck to anyone whos but best of luck to anyone whos taking all that taking part and all that fantastic raised for fantastic money being raised for charity Great Charity as well. Its a great its great thing. Be good for its a great thing. Be good for scope as well. Im losing my voice. On choked up. The emotion it all choked up. The emotion of it all is emotion it all. Is the emotion of it all. Im very emotional because Candice Holdsworth sat to Candice Holdsworth sat next to me because prepared time for the papers this morning with Winston Davis and Candice Holdsworth. Morning, you two. Lets talk football. Winston. Should we in the times . Yeah. Weve got an all girls Football Team. Has won the league going unbeaten. The league going unbeaten. The invincible queens park ladies down in bournemouth have won the under 12 League Without being beaten all season. Wow yeah. And they had to appeal. They wasnt allowed to enter the league. And then the manager appeal then the manager had to appeal it to say that they it in september to say that they were to play and were good enough to play and they played and they won and didnt beat. They played and they won and did so beat. They played and they won and did so thats at. They played and they won and did so thats something thats so thats something thats going to be made into a film. Be. It should be. Yeah. Are you all for it, girls football. Yeah. 100 like let them play i mean but in but girls football. Yeah. 100 like let � but1 play i mean but in but girls football. Yeah. 100 like let but against mean but in but girls football. Yeah. 100 like let but against them but in but girls football. Yeah. 100 like let but against the boyst in but girls football. Yeah. 100 like let but against the boys iin but girls football. Yeah. 100 like let but against the boys i think but but against the boys i think that well see what happens when they get under 15. Under 16 . Like you couldnt do it. Like you couldnt do it. Then changes, but. Well then it changes, but. Well i mean thats what i i mean thats what i mean. I suppose be the best suppose they might be the best test, they. Test, wouldnt they. I just wonder when yeah. I just wonder when puberty kicks boys just puberty kicks in and boys just start so much bigger and start getting so much bigger and stronger because do know stronger because we do know before boys and girls before puberty, boys and girls quite strength, before puberty, boys and girls quite and strength, before puberty, boys and girls quite and like, � ength, before puberty, boys and girls quite and like, you h, before puberty, boys and girls quite and like, you see actually. And like, you see a lot of lot taller than lot of girls a lot taller than boys. But then the boys just shoot up and start getting a lot bigger. Yeah so well see. Think the way the worlds i think the way the worlds going, though, we know. It going, though, we never know. It might all, you know, no sex, might be all, you know, no sex, anything. Might anything. You know, you might be just girls, and women. If you had mixed teams, it wouldnt matter, would it . It might do. Mean, know, the worlds i mean, you know, the worlds changing every few it changing every few years. It keeps more more and keeps changing more and more and more. Youre not dead set more. So youre not dead set against no. See, you against it . No. Well see, you know, they get beaten, know, see if they get beaten, you every next you know, every game next season, they will then season, maybe they will then maybe to them to decide. Maybe up to them to decide. Maybe say, actually, do you maybe they say, actually, do you know no. Well play with know what . No. Well play with girls. Know what . No. Well play with girlyeah. Tell you. Well, yeah. Ill tell you. Well, well good on him. Yeah. Good them. That well good on him. Yeah. Gia d them. That well good on him. Yeah. Gia bit. Them. That well good on him. Yeah. Gia bit. Ahem. That well good on him. Yeah. Gia bit. A good that well good on him. Yeah. Gia bit. A good film, that story a bit. A good film, candice, lets talk about smacking shall we . In smacking children, shall we . In the telegraph. Yes. Telegraph columnist so the telegraph columnist william he the william sitwell, he supports the latest paediatricians latest calls by paediatricians to ban smacking, which is illegal in scotland and wales. But isnt in england. And he says that he was smacked and he he had corporal punishments and he had corporal punishments and he went through all of that when he went through all of that when he was younger. But the first time he actually smacked his son, he said he was filled with overwhelming guilt because he smacked sons hand he smacked his sons hand and he didnt listen. He said, if didnt listen. And he said, if you do it again, ill smack you again. His son just gave him again. And his son just gave him his hand. And he said the guilt he felt parent was immense. He felt as a parent was immense. Oh, get a grip. But i just why . Why has parenting changed so much . Because yeah, much . Because quickly. Yeah, yeah. The rod and spoil the spare the rod and spoil the child. Because dont think our because i dont think our parents our parents generation or our grandparents felt any guilt at all physically punishing all about physically punishing children. Think our children. But i think our generation agonises over it. Its levels of it. Its levels of it. It. Its levels of it. I it. Its levels of it. I mean, some some people are very severely punished and physically , which obviously they know the questions about that, but its whether its just a gentle, you know, just a just a smack. Exactly. And, and i dont think parents should be criminalised for that. So i would never support smacking would never support a smacking ban. I mean, id say refrain from doing physical punishment because my because generally, in my experience, youre experience, it means youre overwhelmed cant handle overwhelmed and you cant handle the i dont think the situation. But i dont think that should to face that parents should have to face serious repercussions just for, you quick. Yeah, i mean, you know, a quick. Yeah, i mean, it really clipped around the ears. Yeah. Sort of thing. Sort of thing. What do you think, winston . What do you think, winston . Discretion appearance. I mean , cant be punching or , look, you cant be punching or hitting them with planks of wood, you know, but if you decide that, you know, a swift smack is going to stun your child changing how theyre child into changing how theyre behaving in that moment. Fair enough. Im not like , its not enough. Im not like, its not something i do. But i think, again, you cant criminalise parents for deciding how theyre going their children , going to raise their children, again, youve got that line of whats for the whats maybe whats good for the whats maybe good for the child and then abuse. And youve like, you cant going nowhere near that. You need sometimes you need the of it. I was the threat of it. I was constantly threatened and still am, my because its a am, by my mother because its a running joke. Now, if i misbehave, i would. Will smack misbehave, i would. I will smack your in public. Your legs in public. We always used to get. Ill bang your heads together. Yeah, but the thing is, though, i still say that to me. I think the thing is, i was. I was probably hit on the other side of it. Yeah. Yeah. And actually i become an angry young man i my angry young man and i my reaction to young, young reaction then to young, young men, been being young men, ive been being a young boy. I remember punching of a young and because its young kid. And because its thats yeah. Thats what i started. Yeah. Thats started to as thats what i started to know as my reaction. Dont, my reaction. Yeah, i dont, i dont get what i, what im wanting. You know, parent doesnt get what theyre wanting. Oh well, your action is, you know, a kid even thinking know, as a kid not even thinking about it, youre just like, right, i know it. Its interesting. And then thats a sorry. Go on. Was going to say you no, i was going to say you say you like gabor mate as well, the psychologist. Really the psychologist. And he really does about you know, does talk about that. You know, you to learn to try and you have to learn to try and sort of you have to try and understand children understand why behaving why theyre behaving the way theyre think it why theyre behaving the way th true think it why theyre behaving the way th true that think it why theyre behaving the way thtrue that some think it why theyre behaving the way thtrue that some people 1ink it why theyre behaving the way th true that some people will it is true that some people will just resort to physical means because theyre not theyre struggling to their struggling to relate to their children struggling to children and struggling to communicate with them. Its finding that but but its finding that balance, isnt it . You balance, isnt it . And as you say, you dont want sort of say, you dont want that sort of behaviour, doesnt mean behaviour, but that doesnt mean you ban everything. No, you have to ban everything. No, its its finding the its finding its finding the balance is your discretion, can we pandas . Winston, we talk about pandas . Winston, in star . Because in the daily star . Because we have problems with have constant problems with pandas. Have constant problems with paryeah, big issues with yeah, some big issues with pandas. Issues with. Pandas. Big issues with. Might have found key. You might have found the key. Well, a study in 2021 found that, pandas with Good Gut Health performs more sexually and said that it might be a way of helping, humans as well by having a good, good, as you say , having a good, good, as you say, a good bacteria in their gut. But how does what i cant work out with pandas is they only eat one thing. Bamboo. Yes. How are they having a varied diet . So i think well go back to humans. They say youve got eat 35 varieties of different plants in a week get the right in a week to get the right amount of polyphenols in your system. Actually system. And then that actually then you to, to, to have then helps you to, to, to have a better gut. You can eat, fermented, food thats got live microbes in it, right. And high fibre. I cant keep up with everything youre meant to be eating. Thats meant to be good for you. I mean, how many . 35. Ive got a thick book im reading at the moment. I think by the time i get to it, i might be 60. So its. Well, then you wont be bothered anyway. Yeah. Then bothered anyway. Yeah. By then possibly, dont possibly, there you go. I dont know, all very know, it all gets very complicated , but if it if it complicated, but if it if it helps if anyones got issues. Yeah look into your gut health. Look into your gut health. Look into your gut health, candice, lets talk about this protest across the Canary Islands today. Yes. Yeah. So this is in the guardian. And this is, residents of the Canary Islands, particularly tenerife, are starting to get very irritated with the amount of tourists that are coming over. Well, ill tell you whos there at the moment. Whos there . Patrick christys and emily carver. I know, know a few people i know, i know a few people whove gone to tenerife, so be very annoyed them. Yes, but very annoyed with them. Yes, but i this is a general trend now. I dont blame them. I dont blame them. Mean, lot of these places i mean, a lot of these places who have sort of, seen like this huge in like the cheaper huge rise in like the cheaper Package Holidays of Package Holidays are sort of pushing youve pushing back now. So youve got, amsterdam, theyre banning the, the, building of new hotels , the, the building of new hotels, various places in spain are saying that locals are being pnced saying that locals are being priced out of the rental market. Theyre also saying youve got water shortages because you see such explosion the such an explosion in the population. And venice population. And even venice apparently just felt like they were completely were getting completely overwhelmed. Difficult, overwhelmed. Its difficult, though, because that their though, because that is their economic that is economic model. Yeah, that is how they make money. But the locals dont like it. They feel like their way of life is being really disruptive. Yeah, disrupted. Yeah. Its interesting because we sort of get the general is, general reaction over here is, how you you dont want how dare you say you dont want us . And yet if it was the other way around, we get fed up with tourists dont we . 100. I mean, look, if again, if we took tourist leave in the took away tourist leave in the uk to to these places and uk to go to these places and there, you know, people there, you know, these people that rely tourism didnt have that rely on tourism didnt have their couldnt feed their business, couldnt feed their business, couldnt feed their family. Theyll be their family. Theyll soon be saying, come back, saying, oh, can you come back, please . Yeah. So its like its probably balance it . Please . Yeah. So its like its pro youy balance it . Please . Yeah. So its like its pro youy bthose it . Please . Yeah. So its like its pro youy bthose local it . Please . Yeah. So its like its pro youy bthose local people you want those local people to able afford their own to be able to afford their own homes put food on table, homes and put food on the table, but, you we have a maybe but, you know, we have a maybe they should holiday , bring they should go on holiday, bring a different clientele. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, dont mixed results. Oh, dont mixed results. Its the same in wales and cornwall where they second cornwall where they ban second homes. Saying locals homes. They were saying locals were out, but were getting priced out, but theyve since discovered locals actually arent buying the actually still arent buying the houses and theyre houses anyway. Oh, and theyre losing the business. Losing a lot of the business. Thats interesting right. Losing a lot of the business. That hats interesting right. Losing a lot of the business. That note,interesting right. Losing a lot of the business. That note, we resting right. Losing a lot of the business. That note, we rest outright. Losing a lot of the business. That note, we rest out of 1t. On that note, we are out of time. Winston. Candice, thank on that note, we are out of timebothiston. Candice, thank on that note, we are out of timeboth very. Candice, thank on that note, we are out of timeboth very much. Ce, thank on that note, we are out of timeboth very much. Ce, thmuch. You both very much. Very much. Go improve your gut go off and improve your gut health as we get a check on the weather with annie shuttleworth. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boiler is sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. Latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across eastern areas. Actually, particularly through today and across ygoing] areas. Actually, particularly through today and across going to reas. Actually, particularly through today and across going to be ;. Actually, particularly through today and across going to be quiterally, particularly through today and across going to be quite1a|cool theres going to be quite a cool feeling breeze this north feeling breeze with this north easterly wind coming off the nonh easterly wind coming off the north sea. That will bring some cloud to eastern areas through this morning. Elsewhere, though, it stay and bright. It should stay dry and bright. However, we head towards however, as we head towards lunchtime, the lunchtime, i think more in the way cloud will bubble up way of cloud will bubble up across areas. Parts across western areas. Parts of wales as well, wales into the midlands as well, but should stay dry through but it should stay dry through much and it will feel much of the day and it will feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine in. This evening well in. Later on this evening well start see parts of scotland start to see parts of scotland see some rain arrive as this area rain pushes from the area of rain pushes in from the north. Will bring thicker north. That will bring thicker cloud to many areas of scotland as that area of cloud as well. And that area of cloud is going southwards is going to sink southwards through evening, covering through this evening, covering many areas of northern england, and across and that will likely sit across parts midlands, possibly parts of the midlands, possibly into by sunday into the southeast. By sunday morning. Drizzly rain will morning. This drizzly rain will likely Northern Areas of likely affect Northern Areas of england, scotland as england, southern scotland as well morning as well through sunday morning as well. Be well. But its going to be fairly the fairly light. But where the skies clear, going to skies stay clear, its going to be chilly night. Tonight be another chilly night. Tonight we could see a touch of frost developing once again. As i said, there is a bit of uncertainty in how widespread this cloud will be. Could this cloud will be. It could cover more southeastern areas, but progresses, but as the day progresses, i think better chance think therell be better chance of brighter spells developing, particularly across the south and northwest , where its and the northwest, where its actually going to be the warmest through the rest of the weekend. However this central however for this central slither, it will likely stay fairly little bit fairly dull and a little bit cooler for much of the day, with a some drizzly rain. A chance of some drizzly rain. Have day bye. Have a great day bye bye. A outlook with boxt a brighter outlook with boxt solar. Weather solar. The sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning to you. Its 9 00 on saturday, the 20th of april. Today quite openly jewish. This is a pro palestinian march. Quite openly jewish. This is a pro palestinian march. Im not accusing you of anything, but im worried about the reaction to your presence. The metropolitan Police Issued an apology after officers threatened to arrest a jewish man wearing a kippah as he walked through Central London dunng walked through Central London during a pro palestine protest. Catherine forsters got the latest. Yes, the met police have admitted that they did get this completely wrong, but last month the governments counter extremism tsar said that london, on the days of these protests, is becoming a no go area for jews. Is he right . Ill bring you more details shortly. You more details shortly. Gb news can confirm the man who set himself on fire outside the trump hush money trial has now died in hospital. World leaders call for calm in the middle east after tensions rose following the israeli strike on iran yesterday i is the british fry up toast . According to new research, generation z turn their backs on the breakfast classic, deeming it too fatty. It too fatty. Good morning. Its fa cup semi final weekend and the row over fa cup replays shows no sign of letting up, with Prime Minister rishi sunak and his labour counterpart sir keir starmer weighing in with their takes. Well be joined by a former chelsea favourite to look ahead to their clash tonight with Manchester City at wembley. A bright but morning. Its a bright but chilly start for many of us across the uk. How the rest across the uk. How will the rest of the weekend pan out . Well, you find out the details you can find out all the details with a little later on. With me a little later on. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon im Ellie Costello and dixon and im Ellie Costello and this breakfast on. This is breakfast on. Gb news. Dear me, loads of you getting in touch , on a whole host of touch, on a whole host of issues, you all lack a fry up. Ill tell you that for nothing. Oh, now my computers crashed. Oh, now my computers crashed. Oh, now my computers crashed. Oh, there you go. There you go. Thats a good timing for you , thats a good timing for you, loads of people fry up. They dont like hash browns. Oh dont like hash browns. On because theyre american. Oh, well, thats very true, actually. Are you still having black pudding . Thats what we want to know the answer to. Oh, here we go. Dawn says. In leicester we no longer have traditional butchers and cant traditional butchers and i cant find anyone sells the old find anyone who sells the old horseshoe of black horseshoe shape of black pudding. Lovely. Ive been pudding. Its lovely. Ive been eating childhood. Eating it since childhood. Horseshoe pudding . Horseshoe shaped black pudding . Sure. What . Shes like a cumberland sausage thing. Yeah well, eric saying you have to order online also love horseshoe black pudding. Boiled. Oh, with lashings of mustard. Is that a thing . Mustard. Is that a thing . But i dont know. My brother likes it. He fries it. Yeah, ive had it fried before. Im not mad. Or black pudding, actually, i think if you know, its not. Yeah, its a bit. No. So there you go. Oh no. So there you go. On margots off to tenerife on tuesday because theres a big protest there, because they dont want us to go over really too many tourists got a population of 2. 2 million and 13. 9 Million People go there every year. So i sort of understand it to an extent. You retain that information very well. You just retain that . Yeah. Something. Margots off yeah. Something. Margots off to tenerife on tuesday. Shes she the time. But she she goes all the time. But she must agree there some who must agree there are some who just behave. So there you just cant behave. So there you go. Oh steven not this steven i bet you wish it was you Steven Butler says just ordered a full english. On right. And debbie big bird says yes come to stoke. We have loads of horseshoe black pudding horseshoes. This horseshoe thing come from i dont know, ive never heard of it until literally now. You all have obviously. Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. Keep your so there you go. Keep your thoughts coming through. Gb views news. Com slash your views gb news. Com slash your so. Oh theres so many on on fry ups. We always get you going on the food. Thats what it is. Youre very aligned in this way arent we. Your tummy is rumbling. Its really rumbling im very sorry if you can hear it on my microphone. Its very loud this morning. Its very loud. Im going to fry up. Wed be going home to fry up. Wed be pleased. Yeah. There you go. Fine after that. Youll be fine after that. Yeah main news this yeah right. Our main news this morning, metropolitan police morning, the metropolitan police apologising for causing further offence original offence because of an original sort of apology about an officers terms. Officers use of the terms. Openly jewish an openly jewish to an anti Semitism Campaigner was anti Semitism Campaigner who was near march. This near a pro palestine march. This is happened. Near a pro palestine march. This is happened. You are quite is what happened. You are quite openly jewish. Is a pro palestinian this is a pro palestinian march, right . Im not accusing you of anything, but im worried about the reaction to your presence. Presence. Well, the chief executive of campaign against anti semitism was kippah skullcap was wearing a kippah skullcap when he was stopped from crossing a road near the demonstration in london last saturday. Well, the shadow policing minister, alex norris, spoke to us earlier. There can be no place for hate in this. And if there is racism in this case, anti semitism, there cannot be that of so you know that sort of thing. So you know whats happened is wrong and were glad that the police have accepted that. Well, gb news Political Correspondent forster correspondent Katherine Forster joins theres a lot joins us now. And theres a lot to unpack here, isnt there, catherine . Because only catherine . Because its not only that exchange, which that initial exchange, which weve clip of, but weve just seen a clip of, but then the handling of the situation by the metropolitan police basically police since, yes, it basically has worse and worse and has got worse and worse and worse for the metropolitan police. Worse for the metropolitan pol this worse for the metropolitan polthis because, this gentleman this because, this gentleman had been leaving the synagogue. He was spoken to by the officer that youve seen. He was then later spoken to by another officer who basically threatened to arrest him. The police s put out an apology. Well, sort of apology , well, sort of apology, supposedly an apology last night, but the assistant commissioner , matt twist, said commissioner, matt twist, said that the presence of a jewish people near the march could be provocative. Provocative. Thats not surprisingly, led to a huge backlash , saying, to a huge backlash, saying, well, youre victim blaming effectively here at this jewish person is not the problem. The police then issued another statement, sort of apologising for the apology , if you like, for the apology, if you like, and theyve said being jewish is not a provocation. Jewish londoners must be able to feel safe in this city. But i do find the fact that they are issuing a statement saying being jewish is not a provocation is quite something, isnt it . Because we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion in this country. The fact that they are country. The fact that they are even saying that is really quite significant. Now the government, very unhappy with the polices handung very unhappy with the polices handling of this. The home secretary , james cleverly, has secretary, james cleverly, has written to the met police, also to sadiq khan Suella Braverman the former home secretary, who called these marches hate marchers , has also been getting marchers, has also been getting involved. And she has said if the police are failing to enforce the law out of fear of the reaction of the mob, they are no longer policing without fear or favour. And i have to say thats a fair point. Its very hard to argue against that, isnt it . I mean, im not saying that its right. I dont think Suella Braverman is right when she calls them hate marches because there are a lot of people there who who arent there for that reason, presumably. I mean, that should be the case, but if theres significant fear that someone, a jewish person being in the vicinity is going to generate hate, then something isnt right, something isnt right, and the point is, you know, it does feel a bit like double standards, doesnt it . So , yes, i think youre quite so, yes, i think youre quite right, there are elements of hate on these marches, but the vast majority of people just want the killing in gaza to stop. You do. Ive been to a lot of these marches. You do see some jews at these protests as well. But have to say, obviously thats not not very many. But you do occasionally also see jewish People Holding placards saying jews against the genocide in gaza, as some people see it. So its very difficult. But, you know, its only a few weeks since rishi sunak stood outside downing street warning of the rise in extremism, saying to the marchers dont let extremists huack marchers dont let extremists hijack your marches and also to the police to be tougher. This war thats going on thousands of miles away is having very, very big consequences for us here in london. And, you know, the government has put a lot of money into supporting jewish communities. It also the communities. But it is also the case. Been a huge rise case. Theres been a huge rise in anti semitic attacks, anti islamic also. But, you know, a lot of jewish people simply will avoid Central London on the days of these protests for exactly the reason that weve seen. And thats a really sad state of affairs. It is. Katherine forster, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. And on that. David critchfield has just touch saying he just been in touch saying he says Police Officer was says the Police Officer was wrong. Was giving into the wrong. He was giving into the mob. Was no longer policing , mob. He was no longer policing, i should point out, not that ive got them right in front of me , some people emailed in me, some people have emailed in saying thought the police saying they thought the Police Officer the correct officer behaved in the correct way. You know , there way. Okay, so, you know, there are two arguments being put forward to us from from you this morning. The vast majority of you, thinking it wasnt handled correctly. And you can keep your thoughts coming through gbnews. Com slash your. So well get my head around that very shortly. Yeah. Shortly. Yeah. Me too. Now, the man who set himself on fire outside a courthouse in new york where Donald Trumps hush money trial was underway, has now died in hospital. Hospital. Yeah, gb news was able to confirm that with the nypd police have identified the man as Maxwell Azzarello from florida, who was in his 30s. Well , florida, who was in his 30s. Well, earlier, we spoke to an expert in us and international politics, professor scott lucas. Politics, professor scott lucas. In the case before that, people have committed, self immolation over various issues, you could think about it happening during the vietnam war, for example , in this case, war, for example, in this case, mr azzarello , appeared to be mr azzarello, appeared to be a conspiracy theorist, he had pamphlets about ponzi schemes, about the mob being in control of, new york citys educational institutions. But what makes it institutions. But what makes it different, i think, in the 21st century is simply the speed and the scope of social media and the scope of social media and the way that that people will spread ideas or spread conspiracy theories so quickly , conspiracy theories so quickly, and how dialogue can very quickly be replaced by division and by shouting, i have to emphasise for viewers here that although mr azzarello set himself on fire outside the courthouse where the first of Donald Trumps criminal trials are proceeding, it, it has no connection with the criminal trial itself. He just connection with the criminal trial itself. He just simply chose a spot where he could get a lot of attention. But on your a lot of attention. But on your broader point, yes, american politics has become a lot more polarised. And thats been the case since the late 20th century, even before social media developed. We can discuss media developed. We can discuss why, and in large part donald trump, his own style, his own way of , of trump, his own style, his own way of, of using social media has sort of accentuated that polarisation , even before we polarisation, even before we talk about the legal and political significance of the trials that are starting this yean trials that are starting this year, professor, very, very sad to hear that this individual has lost his life, but so traumatic as well. For those bystanders, those witnesses that saw this, this horror play out in front of the courthouse. And were also heanng the courthouse. And were also hearing that Police Officers suffered injuries as well. Suffered injuries as well. Yeah, there were some injuries, from people from smoking inhalation that were trying to, you know, beat this man on the scene, trying to save his life there, it it is the case that when you get a charged atmosphere, you have the question of security. And i have to emphasise that despite the warnings or the concerns that we might have a lot of security incidents around Donald Trumps trials , that has not occurred. Trials, that has not occurred. It just so happens in this case that one individual chose this as the setting for what happens. I think theres a discussion here. Youve been having it on other fronts about Mental Health, about how people in this era where everything comes out of so fast and so loud can protect Mental Health. I think its a case where im hoping that in my native country, in the years to come, we get back to discussing the issues in a calmer way , in a way where we calmer way, in a way where we have a lot more respect and tolerance. Tolerance. Now, back here, its Saint Georges day next week, and hundreds of military and naval cadets are marching alongside members of the Royal Society of saint george in honour of englands fallen servicemen and women. Well, this comes as the Patriotic Group celebrate their 130th anniversary, lets head to the cenotaph in london. Will hollis is there for us . Morning. Will good morning. Yes, well, will good morning. Yes, well , for good morning. Yes, well, for more than 100 years, the cenotaph has been the nations focal point for remembrance. But it is also used to mark days of National Significance , Like National significance, like Saint Georges day, which, of course, is next tuesday , the course, is next tuesday, the 23rd of april. And there are going to be a number of celebrations happening in towns and cities, not just here in england, but across the uk and even further afield as well. But this is the national focus. Even further afield as well. But this is the national focus. And this is the national focus. And later today were going to be seeing a parade organised by the Royal Society of saint george. And nick, you are the chairman of that society. Just describe for you doing this for me why are you doing this today for Saint Georges day . I think its a very well, i think its a very important day to celebrate, the royal george have been laying a wreath at the cenotaph since 1921. So just after it was, it was built, and its a great way of commemorating those who sacrificed so much for us, in the last 30 years, weve added a cadet parade to it. So its great to get the younger generation, the cadet, the youth involved and, and give them something that theyll always remember and i suppose it inspires hope for the nation, seeing that young people are so proud of saint george and willing to take part in this. Where saint george now in where is saint george now in engush where is saint george now in english society, the english society, and whats the role Royal Society of role of the Royal Society of saint george . Role of the society, as the role of the society, as was founded 130 years ago, was to celebrate england and englishness. And i think today its even more important to do that with the with a lot of the challenges we have today with people undermining who we are as a nation and our history. So we need to stand up and celebrate and use Saint Georges as a unifying figure, not a divisive figure. And i think theres too much divisiveness around. So how do we bring that together and celebrate we are a celebrate who we are as a nafion . Celebrate who we are as a nation . Our history, traditions and , the Royal Society of and ideals, the Royal Society of saint george, as ive been told, is non political, open all is non political, open to all sorts faiths backgrounds. Sorts of faiths and backgrounds. But say english values, but when you say english values, englishness and traditions, what is youre describing . Is it that youre describing . Is a challenging well, that is a challenging one. Its tolerance. Its, its belief in, in our country and our history , we are a nation our history, we are a nation thats very diverse. Theres no thats very diverse. Theres no true english people. Were all over the years, weve developed into a nation and have a proud history that we want to share and build on, ahead of Saint Georges day. What do you want people to take away . As we do remember, englands patron saint, somebody thats been the patron saint since as early as the 14th century. But his history goes back much further. History goes back much further. It does mean saint george stands for valour, for , for, stands for valour, for, for, whats the word . Its that unifying figure that that figure that we can all get behind and celebrate and, and be proud of who we are. And thats something that we maybe need now more than ever, as you say. Absolutely. I think with the absolutely. I think with the challenges were facing, we need to look ahead together. How do to look ahead together. How do we improve that . That we improve that . That patriotism, patriotism, english patriotism, patriotism, english patriotism has been conflated with nationalism, and that is a challenge for us, if youre a proud welshman, scotsman, irishman, no one worries. But if youre a proud englishman, people take a step back. So this is an attempt to step forward and say, no, were english. Were proud of being english and look to the future positively. Yeah, thats something that you dont need to worried you dont need to be worried about or concerned about. Its okay be proud and patriotic okay to be proud and patriotic to be english in your view. To be english in. In your view. Absolutely. Weve got a very proud history the last 100 proud history over the last 100 years or 2 or 300 years through industrialisation , even through industrialisation, even through scientists, explorers, inventors , medical, you know, arts. Theres so much this country has done and we should celebrate that. And remember that and look at it in a balanced way, i think. And as i just said a moment ago, its not just here in london, its not in places like nottingham or around the rest of the country. Its also in different parts of the world, in places like australia and america. Why you think that america. Why do you think that people around the want to people around the world want to celebrate saint, not celebrate our patron saint, not just here in london . Well, the society goes back over 250 years in america. And over 250 years in america. And so there are lots of people who have links to this country and want to celebrate that and remember that, like a lot of expats, i think you tend to be more proud of your home country when overseas, when youre overseas, but i think its important try and think its important to try and remember it here. Weve got a lot of branches in the uk. They have done. Theyre having events all country at all all around the country at the bolton had the moment. Bolton branch had a big yesterday. On monday, big event yesterday. On monday, the city of London Branch are having a big event in guildhall. So it is alive and well. It having a big event in guildhall. So it is alive and well. It is struggling in some places, but its something we want to turn around and really build on and then celebrate who we are and what we stand for. Nick hewer, chairman of the Royal Society of saint george, thank you much. I know thank you very much. I know youve a very busy day. Thank you very much. I know youve goingyery busy day. Thank you very much. I know youve goingyenbery day. Thank you very much. I know youve goingyenbe ay day. Thank you very much. I know youve goingyenbe a moment of theres going to be a moment of silence, well wreath silence, as well as wreath laying just a few hours, as laying in just a few hours, as well as hundreds army and well as hundreds of army and naval passing down naval cadets passing down whitehall the cenotaph later whitehall at the cenotaph later today. E� f stuff. Well, brilliant stuff. Well, hollow. To see you hollow. Its good to see you this morning. Thank very this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Now it looks quite nice right now it looks quite nice at cenotaph. At the cenotaph. Does look nice and sunny. Lets see what the weathers going to do for you today. Heres annie. Warm feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across eastern areas. Actually, theres going to be quite a cool feeling breeze with this north easterly wind coming off the nonh easterly wind coming off the north that bring north sea. That will bring some cloud through cloud to eastern areas through this elsewhere though, this morning. Elsewhere though, it and bright. It should stay dry and bright. However, we towards however, as we head towards lunchtime , think more in the lunchtime, i think more in the way cloud will bubble up way of cloud will bubble up across areas. Of across western areas. Parts of wales into midlands as well, wales into the midlands as well, but should stay through but it should stay dry through much of the day and it will feel fairly in sunshine fairly pleasant in the sunshine later on this evening well start parts scotland, start to see parts of scotland, see rain arrive as this see some rain arrive as this area of rain pushes in from the north. Will bring thicker north. That will bring thicker cloud to many areas scotland cloud to many areas of scotland as and that area of cloud as well. And that area of cloud is sink southwards is going to sink southwards through this evening, covering is going to sink southwards througareas. Evening, covering is going to sink southwards througareas. E\ northern yvering is going to sink southwards througareas. 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It could cover more southeastern areas, as southeastern areas, but as the day i think therell southeastern areas, but as the daybetter i think therell southeastern areas, but as the daybetter chance think therell southeastern areas, but as the daybetter chance ofink therell southeastern areas, but as the daybetter chance of brighterll be better chance of brighter spells particularly spells developing, particularly across and across the south and the northwest, where actually northwest, where its actually going the warmest through going to be the warmest through the of the weekend. The rest of the weekend. However, this central however, for this central slither, will likely slither, it will likely stay fairly and little bit fairly dull and a little bit cooler for of the day, with cooler for much of the day, with a of some drizzly rain. A chance of some drizzly rain. Have day by by have a great day by by a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. 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Lines closed at 5 pm. On the 26th of april. Full terms and Privacy Notice gbnews. Com forward slash win please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Watching on demand. Good luck. Yes, good luck indeed. Were very jealous, arent we . We are. Very jealous, arent we . We are. Wed like to go away next year. Still to come. Do stay with us. All the sporting news with all of the sporting news with aidan. Thats. Next. Welcome back to breakfast. The time is 9 24 at sports time. And aidans with us. Good morning. It is indeed. Yeah. So i want to talk about the fa cup replay situation because its very rare that a football story involves or ianes football story involves or invites the contributions of the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition. Now as we touched on earlier on, stephen, this is an election year. So is prone to happen, isnt it . On the side of the fans . Yeah totally. Yeah. Well, exactly. I mean, it is a bit controversial. It does seem as if the teams at the top of the table want to preserve themselves and limit the of games that they the number of games that they have. Really want to have. They dont really want to be to gillingham on be going to gillingham on a tuesday night if can tuesday night if they can possibly avoid it. My argument would if these squads are would be if these squads are good enough, should really good enough, they should really be dispatch the teams in be able to dispatch the teams in the outside the lower league or outside the premier league quite comfortably. Caused comfortably. Whats also caused some throughout the some some anger throughout the pyramid, that at the pyramid, steven, is that at the end season, clubs like end of this season, clubs like tottenham Newcastle United tottenham and Newcastle United will days end will be within days of the end of the season. Well be going to the east australia or the far east or australia or america play lucrative america to play lucrative friendly, so if theyve got time in to do that, then in the schedule to do that, then surely theyve got time in surely theyve got time to in the schedule play a replay in the schedule to play a replay in january, havent they, or february. Give lifeline january, havent they, or fe a uary. Give lifeline january, havent they, or fe a club give lifeline january, havent they, or fe a club that give lifeline january, havent they, or fe a club that mayve lifeline january, havent they, or fe a club that may be lifeline to a club that may be struggling . Think example struggling . I think the example was united. There was hartlepool united. There were £5 million in debt a couple of ago. Fa cup replay of years ago. An fa cup replay against one of boys against one of the big boys really did wipe out. It really did wipe that out. So it does difference. You does make a difference. You know, when barrow got to know, you saw when barrow got to the got plum tie against the got got a plum tie against aston villa a few years ago. What it did for the town. Yeah. They spoke this morning they spoke out this morning or yesterday said was yesterday rather and said it was they outraged what was they were outraged by what was going it is having an going on and it is having an effect down the pyramid. Its you know, i find it a little bit unedifying. I think its about greed the clubs. The greed for the top clubs. The Sheffield United manager yesterday, chris wilder, said the dont want to the big boys just dont want to play the big boys just dont want to play these fa cup replays. Theyre the bringing the theyre the ones bringing the money into game and so their money into the game and so their decision holds. Sway. Decision holds. Holds sway. Yeah. I mean. Yeah. What about what i mean. What big clubs saying what are the big clubs saying about it then. Well the big clubs have not. Well theyre speaking, theyre hiding premier League Hiding behind the premier league right league right now. So the premier league came a statement came out with a statement yesterday that was yesterday saying that this was a tripartite agreement. So it involved efl, the fa involved the, the efl, the fa and the premier league. The efl then responded saying hang on then responded by saying hang on a we werent involved in a minute, we werent involved in this. In these this. Where were we in these discussions . So theres a round taking between the taking place between the three major governing bodies of domestic thats domestic football. And so thats what involvement what invited the involvement of the and the the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition. And theres want to bring theres somebody i want to bring in this actually, in on this actually, specifically. And thats the former gary former chelsea defender, gary chivers, gary, the chivers, because gary, the fa cup have caused great cup replays have caused a great deal this week, deal of consternation this week, in your perspective in terms of your perspective as a player , is it time a former player, is it time they, they left schedule . Do they, they left the schedule . Do you think they had their day . I dont think so. I think its, you know, everyone loves the fa cup. Everyone loves playing in it, and for these, for these little clubs, what you call the little clubs, sometimes they, they do well against the big clubs. They knock the big clubs but also its all clubs out. But also its all about the replay. If they get a replay, its so much extra revenue that that keeps clubs surviving. Surviving. Really, i remember you really, gary, i remember you taking for brighton in 1991 taking part for brighton in 1991 and an fa cup replay against liverpool. I think it was round five back then. I mean, that was an era when brian were really struggling. Not struggling. Its not the brighton today we know brighton of today that we know that lifeline to the club that was a lifeline to the club financially, wasnt it . Aided it kept the club it aided it kept the club going, and we, we was i think we was two nil down. We got back to two all and we could have won it with, with mike small, in the last five minutes. But the replay, i think the revenue from the 45,000 or 40,000 that was anfield. And going back to the anfield. And going back to the old goldstone, it really kept the club going for the next 5 or 6 months. You know, it paid wages. And what do you think about what i just touched on with steven there, the big clubs immediately as the season finishes, theyre going away to australia, america , to the australia, to america, to the far east and elsewhere to play lucrative friendlies. It makes lucrative friendlies. It makes a mockery of the fact that they dont have time for fa cup replays in their schedule, doesnt it . Really, really does, you it really, really does, you youve got to look at the whole situation and, and the clubs that are, that are saying like, yeah, we want replays are the smaller clubs. And like i said before , it just keeps the whole before, it just keeps the whole thing ticking over. Theyve got money coming in. They know theyre playing against a big club. But for the team like brighton at that at time brighton at that at that time i think we had i think we played man united in the league cup as well. So it was the revenue for well. So it was the revenue for the club for a whole year. And can i ask you about the turning our attention actually to against to chelsea today against manchester there a good Manchester City . Is there a good time face Manchester City as time to face Manchester City as far as your old club is concerned, a huge psychological blow knocked out the blow of being knocked out of the champions earlier in the Champions League earlier in the week madrid. Week against real madrid. Never find a better youll never find a better time play city after all time to play man city after all the travelling and all the games theyve had. The thing in midweek, playing against real madrid, i mean, what a game that was. But the one thing that surprised me, aiden and there might be a little chip in guardiolas, mettle is when it came to the last five minutes, the substitution of Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne coming off when you know, theyre two penalty takers. So it must have been a shock to him as well. And just quickly tomorrow Gary Coventry go up against Manchester City under pressure erik ten hag. But surely hell never have a better chance to reach an fa cup final as it did last year. Yeah, i mean its a great its a great opportunity. Then again, coventry going to wembley revenue, you know, getting all that gate receipts and things like its brilliant for them and, no better time to play man city. But for coventry , no city. But for coventry, no better time to be playing united because they havent been doing so well in the premiership. So listen, gary, thanks very much for us on gb much indeed forjoining us on gb news morning. Its great to news this morning. Its great to hear insight about the fa hear your insight about the fa cup hear stephen as cup and good to hear stephen as well, that, it does provide a lifestyle lifeline. Do you think this decision could i do think it could change . I do think it could change . I do think it could change. Think its i was going to i think its i was going to ask, it . Ask, is it . Well, look, sunak said well, well, look, sunak said its for the football its one for the football authorities. You something ill tell you something crucial here. I think theyve tried rush this through ahead tried to rush this through ahead of onset of the regulator, of the onset of the regulator, because dont think because i dont think the regulator and regulator would like that. And i think to rush think theyve tried to rush rush it before regulator it in before the regulator comes, comes pass. Comes, comes to pass. Right. Comes, comes to pass. Oh, it. Comes, comes to pass. Oh, well, fingers crossed it doesnt happen. Erling haaland a doubt for Erling Haaland is a doubt for manchester today as well. Manchester city today as well. So he could tip the balance. Chelseas favour you never know. Good aiden thank good do good do aiden thank you indeed. You very much indeed. And were talking a lot about fry ups this morning or cooked breakfast. Need fry ups this morning or cooked br yeah, but need the beans yeah, but you need the beans to all up. To mop it all up. Yeah, i do like a few beans. Anyway, keep your thoughts coming were going coming through. Were going to be about up in be talking about the fry up in just minute. And were talking about food. A lot this morning. Yes. Our favourite topic. Yes. Our favourite topic. Yeah, well, actually, and ive just found this in the star. Oh, go on, if youre of an age. Apparently the food of the 70s is coming back for levant. So volvos quiche trifle , prawn cocktail. These are all good things. These are all good things. And , cheese and pineapple on sticks. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thats not such a good thing. Thats not such a good thing. Oh no no no thats fantastic. Oh no no no thats fantastic. No, you cant. No pineapple shouldnt be with anything savoury. No no no, it works really well. It works really well. But cheese ive had a falafel in years. See where ive got irish family that it never went out of style. Oh didnt it . Oh didnt it . And if you are irish and you can relate to this every irish wedding, its never gone out of style here itd be style there, but here itd be great see more of them on the great to see more of them on the menu. I like a chicken one. Oh, right. Well, its not good for me, but cheese and cheese and pineapple on sticks and trifle. Got lot of time for ive got a lot of time for trifle, but apparently now i was in in norfolk this week, in cromer in norfolk this week, and lives and alison gross, who lives there, know why. There, i dont know why. Know how youve got i dont know how youve got yourself quoted in the papers, but go. She put on but there you go. She put on a 70s dinner party at most people who had tried fondue who came had never tried fondue or how can you never or trifle. How can you never have trifle . Yeah. Thats have tried trifle . Yeah. Thats weird. Is one of the best weird. Trifle is one of the best things that god ever invented. Well, would you still have trifle quite regularly . Yeah. Trifle quite regularly . Well,eah. Trifle quite regularly . Well, 31h. Trifle quite regularly . Well, 3 or 4 times a year. Yeah. I well, 3 or 4 times a year. Yeah. I mean, not, you know, my mom makes good trifle. Does she still them does she still makes them very often. Does she still makes them veryeah. 1. Does she still makes them veryeah. She does. Well she does yeah. She does. Well she does a chocolate version and she also does traditional does the traditional sherry. I found the sherry a bit intense. Well, does put fruit in well, does she put fruit in the jelly . Mum let know shell be mum let me know shell be watching shouldnt. Watching because she shouldnt. Fruit . Cant fruit or fruit . Trifle cant be doing with. Well. No fruit in there. Well. So no fruit in there. Well. So no fruit in there. No sherry. No sherry. Let me know. Shell be mum let me know. Shell be texting now. Ill let you know. On. Jean. Joan. Joan come on. Jean. Joan. Joan this always happens. Youre always naming it wrong. I get it wrong every time i try and think what sounds best. And i always make the mistake. Yeah, it sounds nice. Northern, isnt it . Jean . Jean, its probably it jean, its probably what it is. Yeah yeah. Anyway, those views anyway, do keep those views coming let us know your coming in. Let us know your trifle recipes. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Or no fruit, thats the fruit or no fruit, thats the big thing. Well, sherry or no sherry, i actually prefer no sherry in the trifle. But fruit. No trifle. Yeah, but no fruit. No tart the cherries. Anyway tart with the cherries. Anyway day from. Talk about breakfast shall we talk about breakfast puddings breakfast . Shall we talk about breakfast pucyes. S breakfast . Shall we talk about breakfast pucyes. Very 3reakfast . Shall we talk about breakfast pucyes. Very good. 3st . Shall we talk about breakfast pucyes. Very good. Yes yes. Very good. Yes yes. Very good. Yes whilst its been the breakfast of choice years, breakfast of choice for years, fry falling out of fry ups may be falling out of fashion. Fry ups may be falling out of fasireportedly ridiculous. Reportedly ridiculous. Reportedly ridiculous. To 34 year olds. 25 of 18 to 34 year olds. Well actually, you fall into that, dont you . Anyway, rarely have a trifle, a fry up or a trifle. Actually. Probably. Probably 1 trifle. Actually. Probably. Probably1 in trifle. Actually. Probably. Probably 1 in 10 trifle. Actually. Probably. Probably1 in 10 have never probably 1 in 10 have never even tried the classic breakfast. I find that hard to believe. Believe. So is the english fry up toast. Earlier, we spoke to toast. Earlier, we spoke to celebrity chef theo michaels, who loves a fry up, and nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert, who the english breakfast who thinks the english breakfast is outdated. Is outdated. Theres another generation coming through of people that perhaps want a less traditional take on it, so they still love their fried eggs. They still perhaps love the traditional baked beans on the plate, some nice toast, or my grandparents actually used to have fried bread, you know, like fried toast in the morning as well. But nowadays people are more about halloumi in the about their halloumi in the morning their avocado. Morning or their avocado. Come on, rhiannon, come oh come on, rhiannon, come on. On. On. Youll be, youll be, youll be saying avocado on toast next. I mean, its nonsense. Well, i think avocado is a bit expensive for most people, to be honest. At the moment. Bit expensive for most people, to be honest. At the moment. And to be honest. At the moment. And it is imported. But i do think theres different ways of mixing up your breakfast in the morning. I know with kids. Up your breakfast in the mo theo. I know with kids. Up your breakfast in the mo theo. I knovon,th kids. Up your breakfast in the mo theo. I knovon, ii kids. Up your breakfast in the mo theo. I knovon, i can kids. Up your breakfast in the mo theo. I knovon, i can see,. Up your breakfast in the mo theo. I knovon, i can see, i theo. Come on, i can see, i can see youre very frustrated by this. Am sacrilegious. I am its sacrilegious. I mean, i think the Great British fry up, right . This is woven. This is a thread of our culture. Its something weve grown up with and i love nothing more than a greasy spoon fry up. And i want eggs, bacon, beans, bubble and squeak, black pudding. Whole works. I pudding. The whole works. I dont want it. I dont i dont want fat free. I dont want skimmed dont want skimmed milk. I dont want avocado. A full works fry avocado. I want a full works fry up. And avocado. I want a full works fry up. And im devastated. That was it. 10 of that age group have never had a fry up. I never had. They dont know what theyre missing. They dont. My heart bleeds for them. I implore you, go out today to your local cafe. Order the biggest fry up and itll change your life. I mean, the point is , i mean, the point is, rihanna. I mean, it wouldnt be good h rihanna. I mean, it wouldnt be good if you were doing it good for us if you were doing it seven days a week. But if you do it then. Theres it every now and then. Theres nothing that, is there . No, exactly. Its totally fine. You know, got people fine. You know, ive got people that a fry up. My husband that love a fry up. My husband loves a fry up. You know, youve got to embrace you like. Got to embrace what you like. Theres research that if you dont allow yourself enjoy things, youre more likely to overeat its overeat on them anyway. So its all moderation, isnt it . All about moderation, isnt it . And know thats such a boring and i know thats such a boring word people, but im anti word to people, but im not anti fry up im not pro fry up. Fry up and im not pro fry up. Im just whatever you want to do, your life, make do, enjoy your life, but make sure youve a good balance sure youve got a good balance of the items that are great. So rihanna, sorry to interrupt. Clarify so rihanna, sorry to interyoure clarify so rihanna, sorry to interyoure so clarify so rihanna, sorry to interyoure so youre larify so rihanna, sorry to interyoure so youre saying do that youre so youre saying do not a fry up every single not eat a fry up every single morning . Yeah. Absolutely. Probably not no, absolutely. Probably not the breakfast to start the the best breakfast to start the day for heart health. But day for your heart health. But to health is to be honest, your health is your you know. Your next thing you know. Going to be saying youre going to be saying dont. Dont include the bloody mary either. Well, actually, a good well, actually, thats a good source for some people source of iron for some people as well. A bit. I mean, as well. A little bit. I mean, with the alcohol and probably not best idea single not the best idea every single morning. But, you know, it really what youre really depends what youre looking your well looking at in your dish as well every morning. And youve got to do right for look, do whats right for you. Look, my job as a nutritionist. So im going sit and say, look, going to sit here and say, look, there some items a fry up there are some items on a fry up which do contain nutritional benefits. Are others benefits. There are others that are of saturated fat and are full of saturated fat and not for time health. Not great for long time health. But totally fine. But once a week, totally fine. I mean, theo, youre a yeah. I mean, theo, youre a chef, arent you . So are you of the school of thought that you can a traditional fry up, can make a traditional fry up, you it in a healthier you can do it in a healthier way . Is that something that youd support, do think way . Is that something that youshould rt, do think way . Is that something that youshould go do think way . Is that something that youshould go fordo think way . Is that something that youshould go for your think you should go for your traditional up everything traditional fry up everything in one oil, lard, lard, one pan lots of oil, lard, lard, lard, all right, so, know, lard, all right, so, you know, im bit of both, if im im a bit of both, if im honest. I guess im sort of by by breakfast, i think, well, i guess it is, is for me, guess where it is, is for me, theres a, there is a general tradition of a greasy spoon fry up and we and i remember going to our local there was like a truckers grease, a truckers cafe with a grease, a proper greasy spoon, but at the same something same time, there is something nice about a more, lets call it a eloquent fry up, where a more eloquent fry up, where maybe you know, the maybe its just, you know, the Quality Ingredients are quality of the ingredients are slightly fat slightly elevated. Maybe the fat isnt quite slippery over the isnt quite as slippery over the plate, there is place for plate, so there is a place for it, for sure. But i think the fry up itself as a concept, i mean, this is this is sort of unique. Well, lets know what you think about that. Is the british fry toast. Do you know the thing i mean . God love her. Shes a nutritionist. And so its just the fact she says in that rihanna was saying, would you believe my. My grandparents even used to fry bread . It was like fried toast. Yeah, its a thing. Yeah, its a thing. Yeah, its a thing. Its a thing, rhiannon. Maybe not in your house, but certainly in ours. Yeah. My mothers been in ours. Yeah. My mothers been in touch. Oh, good. I knew she would be calling joan. Morning. Joan actually called herself jane here. , shes adding the confusion. So jane here. Her name is jane. Anyway my favourite jane. Anyway say, my favourite chide. My favourite trifle is chide. My favourite trifle is sherry trifle with lashings of sherry. And you said she had raspberries. You said she had a bit of an issue with the sherry. Well, yeah. My other speciality is a chocolate trifle with black cherries. I can recommend both. Highly. Yeah well, very highly. Is recommending she says she is recommending her own. Her own. Yeah, she. Yeah, she. Yeah, she does recommend her own. Chocolate trifle own. And the chocolate trifle has something in it. Thats has something in it. But thats also a dish. Whats that . Kirsch. Whats that . Thats kirsch. Whats that . Thats kirsch. Right. Thats spelled that right. Thats spelled that right. That . What is that . What is that . Like a cherry brandy its like a cherry brandy sort of thing. There you go. I told you thered be alcohol it. Thered be alcohol in it. So. Well, yeah, i heard yeah. So. Well, yeah, i heard that take your fancy. That those take your fancy. Well, ill tell you yeah, well, ill tell you what i do. Well, i like a black forest gateaux with cherries and chocolate. Very nice. Go, mum, you know are they . Go, mum, you know whats order next weekend whats on the order next weekend if im in. Oh, i thought you meant for me. Well em well get joan. Well get joan. Yeah. You. Well get it yeah. For you. Well get it on order. All right. All right. Oh, can do yeah. Oh, can we do that . Yeah. Joan been joan, joan youve been told joan, joan, jane, whatever you joan, jean or jane, whatever you want call yourself today. Want to call yourself today. Excellent. Right. Saturday morning is next. And, morning live is up next. And, boy, have got a treat for you boy, have we got a treat for you today, because only is ben boy, have we got a treat for you todaystephanie only is ben boy, have we got a treat for you todaystephanie takyi1ly is ben boy, have we got a treat for you todaystephanie takyi is is ben boy, have we got a treat for you todaystephanie takyi is on ben boy, have we got a treat for you todaystephanie takyi is on the team. Good morning. Good morning to you. You. What combo. What a combo. What a combo. I know i know im i know i dont know if im going to be bens sidekick or the the show. Im im the star of the show. Im im trying to work out. Course. Trying to work out. Of course. Thank you. Nothing but the star, darling. What have got coming up what have you got coming up on show . Youtube . On the show . Youtube . Some really interesting yeah. Some really interesting stuff. Marathon, stuff. Weve got a marathon, man. A 60 year old whos doing his marathon. He did his his 120th marathon. He did his first one in london in 1981, and he reckons the secret to longevity for 60 year olds is blackcurrant extract. Oh, really . Oh, really . Yeah. Very strange. Normally its like cigarettes or like a sherry a day or something. But he reckons its blackcurrant, he said the supplement has allowed him maintain peak him to maintain peak performance. On him to maintain peak performance. Oh yeah. Amongst younger rivals. So yeah. There we go. What do you think the secret is there then the sugar. I dont know what it is, but apparently it helps the muscles when youre doing enduring races, so itd be interesting to find out what hes got to say. That good. Well, you that would be good. Well, you managed clock up 280,000 managed to clock up 280,000 miles in his lifetime. Wow. With the of marathons that the amount of marathons that hes we need to go hes done, maybe we need to go and some blackcurrant and get some blackcurrant extract for the show. That would nice. That would be nice. That would be nice. Actually, might become actually, i might become hooked it eventually. Yeah hooked on it eventually. Yeah but weve our greatest but also, weve got our greatest briton, mark wynter. He briton, who is mark wynter. He is a male Breast Cancer survivor , and hell be talking why its important for men check their important for men to check their breasts. And hell be walking a fashion to promote fashion show to promote awareness for it. Something we never think about. You know, we never talk about that. We always that. I think we always talk about checking their about women checking their boobs. Never think, boobs. But we never think, actually, Breast Cancer does affect well. And think affect men as well. And i think we all have breast tissue, dont we . Yeah. Yeah. And i think a lot of men just dont feel comfortable with talking it. So i think talking about it. So i think its quite brave hes its quite brave that hes coming on speak his coming on to speak about his own journey through it. Also, im sure if and also, im not sure if youve seen this story this morning. Theres rise morning. Theres a rise of botox, which male botox, botox, which is male botox, botox, which is male botox, botox, men who get botox. Right. So yeah, were going to be getting into that. Is it getting stuck into that. Is it acceptable . Male grooming is acceptable . Male grooming is a gateway to further things. I think once you start doing botox, then youre going to start moving on other things. Botox, then youre going to sthinkioving on other things. Botox, then youre going to sthink iting on other things. Botox, then youre going to sthink it becomes other things. Botox, then youre going to sthink it becomes ather things. Botox, then youre going to sthink it becomes a bitr things. I think it becomes a bit obsessive a and obsessive after a while, and then you start trying to find different tweakments, but each their whatever people their own. Whatever people want to to make them feel happy, to do to make them feel happy, why as as safe. Why not . As long as its safe. Are on then . Are you hooked on it then . Me . Need to look me . I dont need to look about 12. He still got views. Hes still got youth on his side. Ive got my sauna in my garden. I drink green juice garden. I drink my green juice in the morning and thats about it. Oh. Gm pl elm p to the idea would you be open to the idea of if you needed it . Of botox if you needed it . Yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely. I, if and when id start if i, if and when id start looking a bit more haggard. I mean, since kids, im starting to downhill a bit, yeah, to go downhill a bit, but yeah, im open to it. No problem with it i have no problem with it because, yeah, do the you because, yeah, you do the you can the eyes, cant you, and can do the eyes, cant you, and all that sort of thing. And but im really expressive. So ill be scared that angry and that im like looking angry and then just, just look. Yeah. Then ill just, just look. Yeah. To be frozen. I dont want to be frozen. I dont want to be frozen. No. Just gets a bit too much sometimes. I think its quite nice though. I think for men to take pride their appearance and. Pride in their appearance and. I mean, they want to yeah, i mean, if they want to do it to a certain extent, i think you still want to keep that, know, little bit of that, you know, a little bit of rough readiness about you. Rough and readiness about you. Well. Well, youve got oh, well. Well, youve got plenty of that. Youve got plenty. Youve got plenty. I sounds like a great show. Youtube packed. Yeah, packed. Yeah, packed. Botox. Why im not allowed botox. Why no, been banned. No, no, its been banned. If i was ever to think about having botox. Ive been told. Ive been told. No, ive been told. No, youre not doing it. No, i dont think you need it. Dont need it. You dont need it. You dont need it. Oh, am wrinkly and oh, i am looking wrinkly and a like. But just like, a bit like. But its just like, well, getting older, so what well, im getting older, so what can you do . And ageing yeah. And youre ageing gracefully oh am i, yeah. I said to today hair and skin. Its lovely isnt it. Its lovely isnt it. Yeah. Youre a silver hunk stephen. Oh. Oh stephen. Oh. On silver. On silver. What sim stephanie. What have you on more often i love it. Yes. Oh yes. Oh yes. Doing this every week youre doing this every week now. Yeah, right. Well see you two bit later on, still two a little bit later on, still to weve got fake or facts to come. Weve got fake or facts with eborn and its a with andrew eborn and its a taylor yes. Youre yes. No. Youre pulling my leg. No. Youre pulling my leg. Im not, i cant wait. No im not, i cant wait. Thats next. 2024 a battleground year. 2024 a battleground year. The year the nation decides. The year the nation decides. 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 their lives . Who will rise and who will fall . Lets find out together for 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. Channel. All right. Time for fake or fact with andrew eborn, our favourite futurist whos here. And were going all taylor swift. I love it, and ill tell you why is because the new album was out yesterday. Its done 200 million streams on spotify. Can you that already 24 you believe that already 24 hours, which broken all sorts of records and swiftly shes got her eras tour coming, which is 1 billion tour. Shes shes going out with her famous footballer, the american footballer, the american football so she didnt football stuff. So she didnt use the time. Now ellies use all the time. Now ellies told really told me that shes really chomping at this one because shes a bit a swiftie. Yeah, shes a bit of a swiftie. Yeah, so off we then. Weve got the so off we go then. Weve got the graphics first thing, then, graphics the first thing, then, mother played def leppard mother andrea played def leppard non stop she was pregnant non stop when she was pregnant with taylor swift. Def leppard non stop. I know you do. I know you do. I thought id give you go. Yeah, i think thats a fact, a fact. Are you both saying facts . Oh, yes. Okay. Im going to give you both point. Is good. You both a point. It is good. And they are. And in fact, and there they are. And in fact, they performed and they performed together. And this of them. And this is a picture of them. And do know what they sang for do you know what they sang for an bonus thats the an extra bonus point, thats the fearless album shes singing. There is. There she is. Amazing. A its amazing. So its a glorious wonderful glorious stuff. So a wonderful picture taylor picture of them. Okay. Taylor swift named afterjames swift is named afterjames taylor, keeping musical taylor, keeping the musical theme, one her parents theme, one of her parents favourite taylor, favourite artists, james taylor, one of the parents favourite artists. Fact, fake or fake . Fake. Come on, ill say fact. Youre gonna say fact. Well, ellie is absolutely right. It is named afterjames ellie is absolutely right. It is named after james taylor. Ellie is absolutely right. It is named afterjames taylor. And in fact, weve got a picture of them on stage together. They performed fire and rain at, get a bonus point if you know where that is. Do you know where that is, nashville , Madison Square is, nashville, Madison Square garden. Thats not bad. Win them all. You cant win them all. You didnt win that one, whats interesting. Okay. Taylor swift then a Christmas Tree then grew up on a Christmas Tree farm in reading, pennsylvania. Thats true. And her job. Her thats true. And herjob. Her job. Do you know what her job was . Was . No. I get an option. No. I get an option. Well, you might do the picking praying mantis or making sure the needles werent too sharp, making sure the needles werent too sharp. Okay, werent too sharp. Okay, stephen, firstly, is it true . Did you grow up on a Christmas Tree farm . Well, yes, because ellie knew that. And the job was ellie knew that. And the job was it making the know, praying, picking up praying mantises . Picking up praying mantises . Well, i could tell you that ellie absolutely wrong ellie is absolutely wrong because stephen got it right. He beat a swiftie. Well beat her on a swiftie. Well done. Was. She had to take done. It was. She had to take off the little praying mantis things and got off the little praying mantis trlittle and got off the little praying mantis trlittle of and got off the little praying mantis trlittle of lshowing got a little clip of her showing this a little girl, this is her as a little girl, and inspired this particular and it inspired this particular song. Heres the clip. We havent it. Oh, we havent got it. Oh, we havent got it. Okay. Thats okay. What its like. You know what its like. You know what its like. Know what its like. Well we know what its like. Well i got the next clip. I hope we got the next clip. This is her very recently. This year grammys. Did she year at the grammys. Did she combine politics with a wonderful, glamorous thing on the declare that the red carpet to declare that trump won the democrats and the cheated we are. Cheated banner there . We are. Shes got her. This is her. This is the it which went viral. All oh, thats fake, thats fake. Shes a democrat. Shes a democrat. Shes a democrat. Are you both saying its fake . Yeah. Its fake. Its fake. Okay, ill give you both. It okay, ill give you both. It is. Shows how realistic is. But it shows how realistic this thing is. Im talking this thing is. And im talking about up to the about the lead up to the elections whats going to elections is whats going to happen. More happen. Were going to get more of and of these deep fake things. And actually though for actually youre right though for actually youre right though for a she normally a bonus. Then she normally didnt get involved with politics dixie politics because the dixie chicks are. You remember. Oh yeah. What yeah. Yeah. Remember what happened they out happened to them. They spoke out against invasion of against bush and the invasion of iraq got trashed. They iraq and they got trashed. They basically the audience. Basically divided the audience. Now, taylor swifts movie, now, in taylor swifts movie, they get they talk about dont get involved with politics. But she did involved politics for did get involved in politics for a when did she get a bonus point. When did she get involved in politics . What involved in politics . And what did of you last did she say . Either of you last election, okay. Was it about the abortion well it was im abortion issue . Well it was im going to give you a it was the midterms thing, and she talked about this person being in about this person being trump in about this person being trump in a the particular republican was the particular republican was turning around was turning around and she was against rights. Was against gay rights. She was against gay rights. She was against and and so against women and so on and so forth. Taylor swift basically forth. So taylor swift basically came said, dont came out and said, i dont normally get involved in politics, going this politics, but im going to this time thats what happened. Time and thats what happened. So against that so it was against that particular so donald particular republican. So donald trump, basically turned trump, he basically turned around i like around and said, well, i like taylor 25 less today, taylor swift 25 less today, which always glorious , which is always glorious, wonderful stuff then. Okay, have a look at this one then. Yeah, very quick one. The dress that she the carpet, however, she wore on the carpet, however, was an easter egg, an easter egg for the release of the first single from the new album. Is that fake or fact . That fake or fact . I want to say fact. I want to say fact. Fact . Fact . Stephen. All right, ill go fake. Youre going to go fake. Well, ellie gets it right. It was an easter egg. I think ive got a picture here of the first video. We were talking about this one as well. This is the first theyve got. First video which theyve got. Do we have that . No, no, it doesnt matter the first do we have that . No, no, it doesn okay. ter the first do we have that . No, no, it doesnokay. ter one the first do we have that . No, no, it doesnokay. ter one youllrst them. Oh, no. Were time. Oh, no. Were out of time. Out of time. I can were out of time. I can declare that actually. Surprise, surprise. Week. Surprise. Its a draw this week. You both did incredibly. Your math wrong. Youve done your math wrong. There there you go. It was. It was ellies. This weeks winner. Congratulations, it was ellies. This weeks winbrilliantjratulations, it was ellies. This weeks win brilliant stuff. Itions, it was ellies. This weeks win brilliant stuff. Andrew. Brilliant stuff. Andrew. Thank you. Well see you tomorrow. And stephanie are tomorrow. Ben and stephanie are up next. With a brighter outlook. With boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news weather update. This weekend will be dry for many of us. The best of the sunshine will be in the west, particularly through today and across eastern areas. Actually, theres to be quite cool theres going to be quite a cool feeling this feeling breeze with this northeasterly coming northeasterly wind coming off the that bring the north sea. That will bring some cloud to eastern areas through elsewhere, through this morning. Elsewhere, though, dry and though, it should stay dry and bright. As head bright. However, as we head towards , i think more towards lunchtime, i think more in the way of cloud will bubble up across western areas. Parts of into the midlands as of wales into the midlands as well, should stay dry well, but it should stay dry through the day and it through much of the day and it will fairly pleasant the will feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine this evening sunshine later on this evening well start to see parts of scotland, rain arrive well start to see parts of scythisid, rain arrive well start to see parts of scythisid, of rain arrive well start to see parts of scythisid, of rain rain arrive well start to see parts of scythisid, of rain pushesive well start to see parts of scythisid, of rain pushes in; as this area of rain pushes in from north. That bring from the north. That will bring thicker to areas of thicker cloud to many areas of scotland well. And that scotland as well. And that area of going sink of cloud is going to sink southwards through this evening, covering northern covering many areas of northern england, likely england, and that will likely sit of the sit across parts of the midlands, possibly into the southeast. By sunday morning. This rain will likely this drizzly rain will likely affect Northern Areas of england, southern scotland as well through sunday morning as well. But its going to be fairly light. But where the skies clear, going to skies stay clear, its going to be chilly night. Tonight be another chilly night. Tonight we a touch of frost we could see a touch of frost developing again as i said, developing once again as i said, there a bit of uncertainty in there is a bit of uncertainty in how this cloud will how widespread this cloud will be. It could cover more southeastern areas, but as the day , i think therell day progresses, i think therell be better chance of brighter spells developing, particularly across the south and the northwest, its actually northwest, where its actually going the warmest through going to be the warmest through the of weekend. The rest of the weekend. However, central however, for this central slither, it will likely stay fairly and a little bit fairly dull and a little bit cooler for much of the day, with a of some drizzly rain. A chance of some drizzly rain. Have great bye bye. Have a great day bye bye. That feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. Very good morning to you. Im ben leo, alongside steph takyi. And this is saturday morning live. Its so great to have your company this morning. We have an action packed show for you. We do indeed. All of the days top stories with olympian and broadcaster kriss apprentice Kriss Akabusi and apprentice winner marnie swindells. The labour party have shared new analysis today showing that a thousand shoplifting offences take place every day, equating to almost one theft per minute. Well be discussing these stats with a former Police Officer and the director of a charity for those facing poverty, and theres some bad blood wink wink amongst concert goers as more than £1 million could already have been lost in the uk to fraudsters pretending to offer taylor swift tickets are the scammers going to scam, scam, scam . And dont forget we want to hear from you. We would love to hear from you. We would love to hear what you think. Send your views and post your comments by visiting gb news. Common dorsay. Scam scam scam, by the way, is that is that a hint to taylor swift . Yes it is. Players are gonna play, play, play. Are you a taylor fan, ben . Look, i dont hate no, look, i dont hate her. Its completely my bag. Its just completely not my bag. Just like beyonce, im more. Im more punk rock. Just like beyonce, im more. Im more punk rock. Bit more sort of like punk rock. Bit of blink182. More sort of like punk rock. Bit of ldonti2. More sort of like punk rock. Bit of [dont worry. The end of dont worry. By the end of this i will convert this show, i will convert you into swiftie. Into a swiftie. Right, well what all right, well see what happens. Speaking, happens. Well also be speaking, by to a man who by this by the way, to a man who by this time tomorrow running time tomorrow will be running his marathon. Reckons