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
Media, if people dont believe us. One of the reasons they dont believe us is because of the way the last election was covered, which was overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate over another. That is not surprising given that there is no politically diversity in the press corps. Politico did a study on this. How many registered republicans in the White House Press corps . Zero. Thats a huge problem, dont you think . Im a registered independent. I think it is important to be neutral when you are covering politics in the white house. Tucker do you i agree with you. You think of the people covering the white house are objective . I do. We went to read their twitter feeds . I cant speak for every member of the association. s i think it is very important to be neutral. I think it is important to report the facts, it is important to report robustly with the president is doing. I think you should do that regardless of whether the president is a republican or a democrat. Tucker i agree with th
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Msnbc are fake news. Fake news. And they are sitting and they are wishing in washington. They are watching right now. They are watching. And they would love to be with us right here tonight. But they are trapped at the dinner, which will be very, very boring. But next year, maybe we all make it more exciting for them in washington. We have a good chance of showing up here again next year, too. Tucker will he make that dinner great again . Meanwhile, at at the dinner it, White House Correspondents Association president jeff mason used his speech to complain about the president s treatment of the press. Watch. Tonight looks a little different. But the values that underpin this dinner have not changed. In fact, i think they have been reinforced. We are here to celebrate good journalism. We are here to celebrate the press, not the presidency. And i am happy to report, for anyone who is interested, that this dinner is sold out. Our job to report on facts ande, that is who we are. We are not