Or good evening to you this is our international. Ok we start with breaking news this hour because Islamic State has just claimed responsibility for yesterdays attack in Central London 2 people were to death 3 others were left injured its since been revealed that the suspect recently served time for previous terrorist later defenses the british Prime Minister is criticize the practice of automatic Early Release. Its clear to me that. This guy was. Served half of his sentence use out on automatic Early Release and i have long said that this system simply isnt working it does not make sense for us as a society to put it in putting terrorist people who have convicted of terrorist offenses a serious violent offenses out on Early Release im quite clear that its the job of the joint terrorism analysis to assist threat level. Credible for a long time as being civil which means an attack is fighting like a couple weeks ago it was taken to reduce that to substantial which Research Back is likel
So lets think about some real world use cases. So, i am in the Counter Terrorism business and i know that there are five individuals in central london, where were sitting right now, that want to do harm on a massive scale to the public. Would you have public support to use facial recognition to try to intercept that group of individuals before they could do harm . I would suggest almost categorically that you would. An opposite example now. An individual is being kicked out of the pub for drinking too much on a saturday night. The pub has taken a photo of that individual. Should that individual be prevented from getting into that establishment and other establishments because of that incident . I think you would have very little public consent for that example. Do you support it . And we have more news of a nursery nurse who has been released from jail after serving ten years. That news is breaking now. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. What do you think
And youll never guess what has upset ursula von der leyen, the president of the European Commission shes not particularly happy. Why people were forbidden from flying eu flags at eurovision. Yes, eurovision was more stringent on this stuff than the last night at the proms. Shes kicking off over eurovision, shes kicking off so her representative, one of the spokespeople at the European Commission, has accused eurovision bosses of handing a gift to their enemies of europe with this flag band. So were no European Union flags were allowed to be flown. And theyre saying this is handing, this is handing a gift to the enemies of europe , to the eurosceptics. Europe, to the eurosceptics. I love this quote. The quote from her official spokesman is it is certainly regrettable to ban the flag. That is the flag of all eu members and other council of union members. I cannot find why the logical explanation for why the ebu is doing this and what does this serve . Well, of course, the explanation is
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