Members to increase their defence spending to 2. 5 of gdp. Defence spending to 2. 5 of gdp. More than 9000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year. Official figures show 250 people made the journey in two small boats since monday, taking the tally for 2024 to almost 8800. However, gb news can confirm another three small boats arrived on thursday and making the current total 35 higher than at the same time last year. It comes after a home office u turn on the publication of the number of small boat migrants being prevented from making the illegal journey by french police. And fifa has been french police. And fifa has been threatened with legal action if it does not reschedule next years expanded Club World Cup match. Leicester city and chelsea are now taking part in the 32 team competition. Its scheduled for the United States in june and july. However the International Players union and the world leagues organisation , the world leagues organisation, which inc
Bailey and ex labour advisor matthew laza on my panel this evening and on your marks, get ready. Tell evening and on your marks, get ready. Tell me evening and on your marks, get ready. Tell me whats wrong ready. Tell me whats wrong here. Okay. Keep your eyes peeled. Ill reveal all shortly. Peeled. Ill reveal all shortly. Get ready. Britain. Here we go. Is labour still full of extremists . Next. Extremists . Next. Hello there. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. The chancellors cautioned the bank of england against cutting Interest Rates too quickly. The Interest Rates too quickly. The bank has decided to hold borrowing costs at the same level. 5. 25 for a sixth time. But governor Andrew Bailey suggested a cut could come as soon as next month. However, jeremy hunt has urged the bank not to take risks with inflation. I welcome the fact that the bank of england has obviously thought about this very hard. They take this decision independently and i would much rather that they waited un
Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2pm. Two us airbases in iraq are targeted in retaliation, the iranians say, for the death of general soleimani, killed last week in a us airstrike. As President Trump tweets that there were no casualties and that all is well, borisjohnson warns iran not to retaliate further. We of course condemn the attack on Iraqi Military bases hosting coalition forces. Iran should not repeat these reckless and dangerous attacks, but must instead pursue urgent de escalation. Wade mystery surrounds the crash of a ukranian passenger plane in tehran more than 170 people are killed including three from the uk. The number of homicides
in the uk fell in 2019, for the first time in five years though killings rose in the capital. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. The Football Association is under pressure to review its broadcasting deals, thats after a betting company streamed fa cup matches live over the weekend. All th