So, how do you feel about this . And deeply distressing images of the latest victim of a dog attack. A little five Year Old Girl circulating today, the same day that we just heard a couple of escaped jail after their dog mauled their baby to death. Apparently theyve suffered enough. Apparently theyve suffered enough. Who is to blame for this enough. Who is to blame for this rise in dog attacks . Is it the dog or the owner . And if its the latter, are we being harsh enough when it comes to punishment . Enough when it comes to punishment . And in todays episode the world has gone episode of the world has gone mad , nhs staff could find mad, nhs staff could find themselves potentially prosecuted if they use the wrong pronouns of a patient. Please stop the bus. I want to get off, but before i do ill be discussing those topics with Peter Hitchens and alex dean after the news with Polly Middleton first. Michelle thank you. Good evening. The top story on gb news tonight, police in Northern Ireland say theyre confident that leaked data of officers and staff is in the hands of dissident republicans. Earlier, sinn fein confirmed that a redacted version of the police data that had been posted on a wall facing its offices was described as sinister last week , the details of 10,000 Police Officers and staff were published online by mistake. Published online by mistake. Chief constable simon byrne said police are now operating under the assumption that the data will be used to generate fear and uncertainty. And uncertainty. We are now confident that the Workforce Data set is in the hands of dissident republicans and is therefore a planning assumption that they will use this list to generate fear and uncertainty as well as intimidating or targeting officers and staff. I wont go officers and staff. I wont go into detail for operational reasons, but we are working round the clock to assess this risk and take measures to mitigate it. Mitigate it. Well, in other news today, bidders for the high street retailer will have been given until wednesday to put forward offers to buy the firm. The general goods chain fell into Administration Last week, putting the future of its 400 stores and around 12,000 jobs at risk. Its understood administrators from pwc have set the deadline to try to secure a dealin the deadline to try to secure a deal in a bid to try to prevent redundancies. Shoppers in redundancies. Shoppers in nottingham said theyre disappointed. Disappointed. Very sad because wilko has been around forever here. Its the first place that you think of going to when you want a bargain on a bit of a shock really. Another shop to go when its actually one that you can go where little bits like if b m havent got it. Wilko cruiser nine times out of ten got it. Its unfortunate that you know a shop like this, which actually serves the community really well , the league is being taken out from underneath it. I was very, very shocked because its in the right place for people shop , shop and it for people to shop, shop and it has very good stuff. The staff are very friendly and i think theyve got a good range of stuff that they sell and im just very sad that its closing in london, two men have been stabbed in what police are treating as a homophobic attack outside a nightclub in the south west of the city. They were targeted while standing outside the venue on clapham high street last night. Both were treated in hospital and then later discharged. And and then later discharged. And police are still searching for the suspect. Now a mother and the suspect. Now a mother and a father have been spared jail over the death of their three month old daughter in lincolnshire kyra. King was attacked by the familys dog , a attacked by the familys dog, a siberian husky, in march last yeah siberian husky, in march last year. The animal, one of 19 kept by the couple, jumped out of their vehicle and left the baby with head and neck injuries. Her parents, vince king and karen alcock, performed cpr on their daughter in an attempt to revive her. The judge described the case as tragic as he handed them suspended sentences. For now , suspended sentences. For now, the government is trying to clarify when officials were made aware of the legionella concerns on board the bibby stockholm accommodation barge. Thats after Dorset Council said home Office Contractors were told traces of the bacteria were detected on day one as the Asylum Seekers boarded. All 39 Asylum Seekers boarded. All 39 migrants have been removed from the vessel. Downing street says it expects them to return as soon as possible. The government soon as possible. The government set to announce new plans to ensure cancer is detected in people much earlier performance targets will be scrapped and replaced with a new, faster diagnosis standard, which will see patients whove been urgently referred receiving a diagnosis within 28 days. Patients with cancer will then start treatment within nine weeks from the date of the referral. The nhs believes the proposals will help save more lives, but Cancer Research uk says current missed targets represent years of underinvestment by the government and that comes as Junior Doctors in england continue their four day strike. Its estimated a million procedures and appointments will be cancelled and rearranged due to the strike action. The walkout started on friday and ends at 7 00 tomorrow morning. Its the fifth round of strikes by bma members since march in their dispute over pay. And as their dispute over pay. And as youve been hearing , network youve been hearing, network rail has released a video of dangerous behaviour at Railway Level crossings. If youre watching on tv, take a look at this cctv compilation. On this cctv compilation. On showing a person doing press ups on the railway dog walkers, sitting their pets on the tracks to pose for photographs and children putting stones on the line. Nearly 50 cases of misuse have been reported by train drivers. All were caught on camera in worcestershire and the west midlands. So far this year. Network rail says its trying to raise awareness and discuss people from risking their lives on the railway. Youre with gb on the railway. Youre with gb news across the uk on your tv , news across the uk on your tv, in your car, on your Digital Radio and on your smart speaker. Now, by saying play gb news this is britains news. Channel thanks for that, polly, our Michelle Dewberry and im with you till 7 00. I was my eyebrows were raised at that last story in the news headunes at that last story in the News Headlines there. When it comes to people doing stupid things on train lines, the telephone , did train lines, the telephone, did you notice how many times the smartphone played a part in some of those antics . If you ask me, of those antics . If you ask me, those smart phones have so those smart phones have made so many anything smart many people anything but smart at anyway. Are smart, im at anyway. People are smart, im pleased to say. Joining me tonight , the columnist for the tonight, the columnist for the mail on sunday, Peter Hitchens, is me and the pr is alongside me and the Pr Consultant alex steen. Do you see i did there . I did. See what i did there . I did. I did not sure i deserved it, but i liked it. Very smart. You know the drill, dont you, this the drill, dont you, on this programme . Its not just about us very much about us three. Its very much about you home as well. Whats you guys at home as well. Whats on mind tonight . Ive got on your mind tonight . Ive got a lot coming your way. Whether on your mind tonight . Ive got a lot the ing your way. Whether on your mind tonight . Ive got a lot the nhs our way. Whether on your mind tonight . Ive got a lot the nhs and nay. Whether on your mind tonight . Ive got a lot the nhs and nay. Pronoun its the nhs and the pronoun usage, laughable if you usage, theyre laughable if you ask but very serious ask me, but very serious nonetheless, because people can get a bit of trouble get into a little bit of trouble if if they happen to get if they if they happen to get those pronouns also those pronouns wrong. Also i want to about the want to talk to you about the five plan when it comes to five year plan when it comes to migrant accommodation. Did you realise to be half realise it was going to be half a potentially that were a decade potentially that were planning this a new planning for . So is this a new normal . Do think to normal . What do you think to that . Is, ive got all of that . If it is, ive got all of that . If it is, ive got all of that coming your way, plus dog attacks lot so shall attacks and a lot more. So shall we stuck in the usual way as we get stuck in the usual way as gbviews gbnews. Com how you gbviews gbnews. Com is how you get a of me on the email or get a hold of me on the email or tweet me at gb news. Now 22,500 soldiers have apparently failed their fitness tests. Army chiefs have said that this is a failure of leadership over the past three years. Now the reason this caught my eye is because the National Risk register has also recently been released as well. It says that theres 89 key threats to the uks security and safety , and its across a whole safety, and its across a whole spectrum of different things, whether its Cyber Attacks or whatever. But it got me thinking. Or alex d tn if threats do present themselves, which of course they will, that is an unfortunate part of life. Do you think that the uk is fit, ready and able to defend ourselves . I think were a lot more fit and able than some would think. And i think just like we surprised the world in some ways when the argentines seeking to catch us at what they perceived as a very weak and decayed point in our National Cycle , tried to in our National Cycle, tried to seize the falklands on my mind because falklands day was yesterday. And britain certainly shocked the argentines with their ability to defend them. So their ability to defend them. So the that arises in my the question that arises in my mind i dont if this is mind is i dont know if this is the 90th risk on risk the 90th risk on the risk register you were just talking about. Do again . About. Could we do that again . And to that end, i actually dont regard the news youve and to that end, i actually dont highlightingews youve and to that end, i actually dont highlightingew these le been highlighting of these soldiers their fitness soldiers failing their fitness tests. I dont that as tests. I dont regard that as a bad i regard it as a good bad thing. I regard it as a good thing we still have thing that we still have the standards theyre to standards and theyre willing to talk about the fact people have failed them because if youve got this got Something Like this happening, can hold happening, at least you can hold people standards and seek to people to standards and seek to get most believe get them fit again. Most believe me, of the time in the me, most of the time in the pubuc me, most of the time in the public sector, you find public sector, if you find people failing standards, people are failing standards, they the standards, they change the standards, not they change the standards, not the god our the people here. God bless our army. Were going to army. They say were going to get fit. Army. They say were going to geti fit. Army. They say were going to geti respect your ability to see i respect your ability to see the in that. I can the positives in that. I can tell you that. Peter, do you share the optimism . No, its several points. The falklands , we very, very nearly falklands, we very, very nearly lost and it was only because the conservative government at the time had failed to sell off and get rid of several important ships that the navy were able to mount the rescue operation. The task force which took the falklands back. It was a very close run thing. And we very nearly lost it. And its an illustration of the best known fact. All military planners, all wars come out of the blue as surprise or in a shape you werent expecting. And to deal with that, you have to have of properly trained, competent , properly trained, competent, reasonably sized armed forces with the very wide range of abilities. I dont think we have that. I think ever since the end of the cold war, governments of both parties have used the opportunity to back on opportunity to cut back on military , naval and air force military, naval and air force spending to the point where we now simply dont have adequate defences. Certainly in military terms, the that 22,500 figure of those who didnt pass the fitness test, thats more than a quarter of the army that we have now. Our army quarter of the army that we have now. Our army is so quarter of the army that we have now. Our army is so tiny, its now. Our army is so tiny, its smaller than the one which hitler allowed. Vichy france to maintain after they surrendered in 1940. Its that small. The navy, which i feel very strongly about because my father was in it, is a again, a pitiful shadow of its former self. When i was a defence reporter in the 1980s, it was always stated that the navys Surface Fleet of destroyers and frigates would never fall below about 50. And now its way below that and a quite a large number of those. I think are probably tied up alongside not really able to move and there are major problems with retention in all the Armed Services of the crucial ncos and experienced officers who keep armed forces together. And i officers who keep armed forces together. And i think were were neglecting it to the point where it is becoming a serious crisis and it needs to be addressed. But it costs a lot of money to maintain to date money to maintain up to date armed forces. And we have cut that the 60s, 70s and 80s. It that in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It was still the case, i think that we spent twice as much on defence as did on education. Defence as we did on education. Now other way round. Now its the other way round. But schools, but our our schools, particularly it doesnt particularly good. It doesnt seem that no disagreement seem to me that no disagreement from and no from me on headcount and no disagreement on spending. I think in the current environment its plain there are so threats facing so many threats facing young britain west that britain and the wider west that we should be upping spending we should be upping our spending on defence. But one of the things that does reassure me somewhat is it in wear, which area would you increase your spending on . What the on the ground, what the boots on the ground, the military aircraft . Where would that . Would you spend that . , thank goodness these i mean, thank goodness these things arent entirely up to me, but i certainly think the military needs more resource. And obvious to me is and two obvious things to me is upping headcount in soldiers upping the headcount in soldiers who at pointy end. Who operate at the pointy end. So i would have i would have more in our military. Though . E though . Why, though . Because the pushback that be, well, pushback to that would be, well, why all these boots why do you need all these boots on the ground when youre a member of nato . Because we deploy all time and deploy our army all the time and its of the properly its one of the few properly trained ones. Its one of the few properly trai soi ones. Its one of the few properly trai so thats ones. Its one of the few properly trai so thats part. Its one of the few properly trai so thats part one. Its one of the few properly traiso thats part one. But part so thats part one. But part two is that i would spend a great deal more on what the ukraine conflict has demonstrated so useful, demonstrated to be so useful, which technology, which is drone technology, unmanned vehicles and so Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and so forth, because ability to forth, because the ability to deliver quickly deliver ordnance very quickly without risk to a single without risk to even a Single Person on your side seems in the modern media age to be highly attractive to the person launching an offensive , but also launching an offensive, but also highly on the other highly effective on the other side. Its clear that russia fears few things in the course of conflict with ukraine. Of their conflict with ukraine. They fear. Dont they dont fear. They dont fear their death but they their own death count. But they do single raids by drones. Do fear single raids by drones. And that has really put it up them in a way that other things have. Do they fear that . I wouldnt know. Im not sure theyre particularly i dont think russia worries very much about British Armed forces. I have say its not weve had have to say its not weve had to scramble to raaf jets, is it today or is that news today . We always talk about this melodramatic able melodramatic scrap able intercept. What happens is some some russian planes fly, some way past our airspace and we send up some aircraft to go and fly alongside them. It isnt actually the big drama that its made out to be. I believe that aside, you mentioned nato, one of the interesting things about the because was the falklands is because it was out nato area and nato out of nato area and nato members not have any any members did not have any any desire or responsibility to help britain against it. It was quite a struggle to get the united states, which was very divided on the issue, to give us the support which most people expected them to give us at that time. You might well be on your own. Its insurance policy. Own. Its an insurance policy. Most of the time when you spend money on insurance, it goes down the drain until you really need it. It hasnt gone it. Whereupon it hasnt gone down thats what down the drain. Thats what thats what defence spending is about. Certainly the army is about. We certainly the army is absurdly it simply isnt absurdly small. It simply isnt an effective size anymore. An effective size anymore. International experts are beginning to say no longer deserves to be called an army. We need to do something about that. And we spent i think its something in the region of four and a half to 5 billion on the ukr