here's what's leading the news today switzerland have won the eurovision song contest. >> the ceremony marred in chaos and scandal. let's get the latest from charlie peters . latest from charlie peters. >> all peaceful this morning in malmo in sweden. but last night was a mixture of partying and protest, with thousands demonstrating an anti—israel marches outside the arena and

concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, natalie elphicke. >> as it's alleged that she lobbied a formerjustice lobbied a former justice secretary over her ex—husband's sex abuse trial . sex abuse trial. >> and harry and meghan continue their not so royal tour of nigeria. it's a couple open up on their family life and glorious weather returns to the country today with the hottest day of the year expected. >> but for how long can we expect the sunshine belem? >> for most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing . find out where with developing. find out where with me in a little bit. >> good morning. it was a huge day at the bottom of the premier league as nottingham forest all but confirmed their survival at the expense of luton and burnley at the other end , manchester at the other end, manchester city edged closer to retain their title, as did celtic north of the border with their win over rangers. meanwhile, england's legendary bowler jemmy anderson confirms his retirement from test cricket . more later

from test cricket. more later. >> well, a very good morning to you. it's a delight to have your company now. their slogan. >> i thought you were going to say delight to be working with nana akua. >> i don't need to say that. it's obvious. it's a delight to be with nana, and it's a delight to have your company now. their slogan may be united by music, but this year's eurovision was anything but a scandal, and chaos engulfed the competition. >> now, in the end, it was switzerland's act nemo. i watched it, actually. i mean, i was lying in my bed sort of half in and half out because i knew i had to get up early. but nemo, everyone was expecting me. he walked away with the trophy, the country's first win since 1981, when celine dion won celine dion. i didn't know she was. >> she was swiss. apparently she's not. she just adopted the country, which is quite convenient for the swiss because she's got a great voice anyway. but all eyes were on israel on eden golan, who placed sixth. in the end, her act was booed by

fansin the end, her act was booed by fans in the arena, scoring a 323 points. however, from the public vote, with a full 12 points coming from uk viewers . coming from uk viewers. >> yeah, i voted for her. and of course the uk's olly alexander ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder. 18th place. i mean it was awful. i've got to be honest, his voice, his vocals, something either had gone wrong, but actually, to be honest, there was a little clip of him on social media and it sounded just as bad. yeah, he got he got nil points. no points from the public. >> we're now joined by gb news reporter charlie peters, who is in malmo, the scene of the crime, as it were. charlie, huge protests outside , but the show protests outside, but the show went on inside the arena . went on inside the arena. >> that's right. martin and i think the european broadcasting union, the ebu , the organisers union, the ebu, the organisers of the event in a way will be pleased that it was switzerland that came out on top last night. the neutral country in a debate and a contest that has been marked by political controversy

and, of course, significant discussion around the involvement of the israeli contender eden golan. she placed fifth in the end, securing very high numbers in the public vote around europe. but it was the swiss act, as you said, that came out on top with a significant jury vote. the croatian contestant lasagne baby, who was the bookies favourites to win the odds on favourites to win the odds on favourite by quite a considerable margin, coming second. but they also topped the pubuc second. but they also topped the public vote. the jury is not backing them up in the end, but while the contest went on, it wasn't devoid of more of that political discussion that we saw throughout the week . ahead of throughout the week. ahead of the grand final, some of the contestants used their performances as an opportunity to make brief, performances as an opportunity to make brief , political or to make brief, political or stark comments in contrast to what they were intending to deliver. it wasn't just the singing or the performance that they went to on discuss. and of course, before the actual final

went ahead, it was chaos in eurovision with the finnish and the norwegian jury announces removing themselves from the competition in quite stark fashion, saying that they couldn't involve themselves with the competition, one of them saying it didn't feel right, and what is assumed to be a dig towards the israeli camp. and we also saw the dutch contestant disqualified just eight hours before the final began, which was completely unexpected and unprecedented in the history of the competition. while all that went ahead last night as the grand final kicked off, we were outside the arena where significant protests and scuffles between members of the pro—palestinian demonstrations that have been here all week started to erupt, with the police force there. both swedish and danish police were in place, with denmark just on the border here on the south of sweden, with copenhagen nearby , they with copenhagen nearby, they came across the bridge to

support their swedish colleagues in what was a significant security and policing operation. we saw counter—terrorism officers riot vans, helicopters buzzing overhead throughout and also armed officers on the roofs, keeping an eye on proceedings from above and throughout that demonstration we saw earlier in the day a peaceful march from the centre of the city to the west. but it was the actions later on in the evening which became slightly more sour, with some scuffles and many arrests between the police and those present and those protesters . those protesters. >> oh yeah, thank you very much for that. that's charlie peters . for that. that's charlie peters. he's there in sweden. interesting in it. but i've got to say, there are people who are saying that perhaps he's been sabotaged olly alexander, because he was out of tune, and where his when, where his performance was. i don't mean to be horrible to charlie because, you know, this is just simply the fact that i was listening

and this is actually a song contest, not a performance about jumping in a toilet with lots of men, which is what it was the performance and dangling upside down. i mean, he'd forgotten about his vocals, frankly. >> well, i saw that that, comment piece that you wrote in the mail, i think. i think you nailed it. you know, it basically became a vanity project. his voice was all off. it was very lewd. it was very over the top. and the vote that matters the most to me is the pubuc matters the most to me is the public vote. nul point. you know, nobody voted for it. i think the public spoke . you got think the public spoke. you got it right. and they echo your sentiment. >> nana thank you for that. well, i shouldn't be saying because i wanted us to win, but not with that. not with that wasn't good enough. >> i was also really sort of gave me a great amount of hope that the public voted overwhelmingly for israel. number two, in their in their vote. and i think that was a vote. and i think that was a vote for the 20 year old woman who was bullied by that mob. greta thunberg somebody complained for her entire career about being bullied by people suddenly being the bully. >> well, she's just jumping on bandwagons because she's becoming less and less relevant, isn't it? and the other thing

that actually irked me a bit about this thing was people saying, oh, i'm not binary, i'm this, i'm that. look, i don't care what you are. i'm non—binary. something that's literally was invented about three years ago. i mean, that's the first time i heard of it. >> i think everybody there was non—binary. it's part of the job description there. i mean, who cares? >> nobody's interested. it was literally , oh, i'm another literally, oh, i'm another non—binary. can you sing? can you sing? >> let's move on to some politics. yes. that's new. labour mp natalie elphicke has been accused of lobbying ministers in a blatant attempt to interfere in a former husband's sexual assault case. >> then justice secretary sir robert buckland alleges that she asked him to move the 2020 trial of charlie elphicke to a lower profile court, apparently to spare him public scrutiny . spare him public scrutiny. >> well, mr elphicke ended the marriage when her husband was convicted of sexually assaulting two women and then jailed for two women and then jailed for two years. >> well, she did sort of stand by him for a while, though, didn't she? and saying it's because they were attracted to him and he's attractive. a

labour party spokesperson said she totally rejects the characterisation of the meeting . characterisation of the meeting. mr elphicke defected from the conservatives to labour last week. >> well, let's get the thoughts now of local government. editor of the conservativehome harry phibbs harry, welcome to the show top of the morning. so the scandal rolls on and this dramatic defection and it now appears that people briefing against miss elphicke are from within the conservative party. of course, she completely denies these allegations, but nevertheless, it's not a good look, is it ? look, is it? >> no. i think that the this defection has completely backfired. i mean, even even before these revelations, i mean, just to be patriotic for a moment, it's one of the great things about this country that we do have an independence between the, government and the and the judiciary. and you can't just have, ministers ringing up saying, oh, sack this judge , get saying, oh, sack this judge, get a different judge for that case, arrest this person , release that arrest this person, release that that that person, change the

change the date of the trial. change the court. it's happening in, i mean, a lot of other countries, this this would be perfectly normal, but but it should be clear to most people that that that that that's an outrageous, demand to make . and outrageous, demand to make. and for a member of parliament to, just to think . right. she'll go just to think. right. she'll go ahead and, and do that also , ahead and, and do that also, getting getting the meeting under false pretences, saying to the chief whip, mark spencer, oh, no, it's just to discuss, the judiciary generally is not to raise, my ex—husband's case specifically. and then she was given the meeting on that basis with the justice secretary, robert buckland, and then just brazenly went in with, with these, with these outrageous demands for, special treatment and went out quite promptly with a, with a flea in her ear, what's, what's the word on the street at the moment for the conservative party? are they pleased to have got shot of her? really because she's not really, i'm sure it feels like it's backfired for the labour party, for sure, but are the conservatives saying good riddance? >> yes, i think it's. i think

it's important to say that there's nothing wrong with, defection if it's a, if it's a genuine defection , if it's, if genuine defection, if it's, if it's something where people, people have changed their views. i mean, back in margaret thatcher's, time , some of her thatcher's, time, some of her most articulate supporters were former social. there was paul johnson and woodrow wyatt, brian walden. and you talked about the talk about the zeal of the convert, don't you, that those those people were very much , those people were very much, welcome with open arms because because of their, their genuine, conversion and of course, it can can happen happen the other the other way people, people change their views. but this nobody believes was a genuine intellectual conversion, that she sort of suddenly from , from she sort of suddenly from, from a few days before was, was campaigning for the, conservative candidate and the police and crime commissioner elections and putting, putting out general the general sort of conservative party messages, you know, support rishi sunak stick to the plan. don't trust keir

starmer and then just days later, were supposed to think that she suddenly had this had this, remarkable . able, sort of this, remarkable. able, sort of damascene, change of heart. so, so nobody, takes takes it, i don't think on either side of the house takes this as, as a, as a, as a, as a serious, genuine exercise . and so it genuine exercise. and so it demeans everybody really. but it makes the labour party , look makes the labour party, look very cynical to have got embroiled in it. >> now, the thing is, harry, a lot of people are joking that if natalie elphicke was any more right wing, she'd be off the white cliffs of dover. and like now she's joined the labour party . and okay, i spoke to tom party. and okay, i spoke to tom tugendhat earlier in the week and he said , okay, the labour and he said, okay, the labour party is a broad church, but if they get any more of a broad church, they'll have to throw bar mitzvahs . and the point of bar mitzvahs. and the point of the matter is this is the party. now that has john macdonald and zarah sultana and now natalie elphicke. is that a good message to send out to voters ? is that, to send out to voters? is that, hey, if you're a conservative

and you voted for brexit, you want to control immigration just like natalie elphicke, you're welcome to us. or is it now just simply getting a bit absurd ? simply getting a bit absurd? >> well, i think it is. she was, a member. whether she still is, i presume she'd be. she should cancel her sub to the european research group. you know, those, those staunchest brexiteers in the in the conservative party who, when, when theresa may was , who, when, when theresa may was, was having this, phoney, version of brexit that was still have left the european union telling us what to do. there were these, staunch brexiteers like your colleague sir jacob rees—mogg staunch brexiteers like your colleague sirjacob rees—mogg in this group, the european research group, who are the true believers in brexit. and natalie elphicke was a signed up member of that , so, i mean, she hasn't of that, so, i mean, she hasn't she hasn't explained why she's, why she suddenly, suddenly become a, a socialist and wanting us to have, closer , wanting us to have, closer, links with the european union . i links with the european union. i don't think anybody i don't even

think she would have written that statement saying saying why she was joining the labour party. it was probably written written for her by some, labour party spin doctor. i know, i think it's i think even, but i say even before today's, revelations of her making this terrible, misjudgement about about wanting judicial interference. it was it was it already really backfired. and now i think the a lot of the labor party people will, you know, will be deeply embarrassed by what's happened, slightly amusing, isn't it, really. i mean, she's not really i don't think she's a benefit to the party at all. and as you said, there are many extremes, harry. really good to talk to you. that's harry phibbs there. >> thanks very much. now it is 6:14. let's have a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom today. a ban on jobs dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion in the civil service has been announced. >> finally, under new plans, there would be no more jobs

devoted to inclusive in whitehall, outside hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related work. >> writing in the sunday telegraph today, cabinet minister esther mcvey claimed pubuc minister esther mcvey claimed public money was being wasted on what she described as woke hobby horses . horses. >> well done esther. right now tens of thousands of palestinians have been fleeing rafah in anticipation of the expected israeli assault on southern gaza. they've been told to move on to so—called expanded humanitarian zones on the west coast, and it prompted fears of a wider invasion of rafah, despite calls for restraint from the un, the uk and other allies and humanitarian organisations and humanitarian organisations and drivers on the m25 in london are being urged to stick to diversion routes during the weekend closure as a new bridge is installed. >> the motorway, which is britain's busiest, closed in both directions between 9 and 10 on friday evening and is set to reopen at 6 am. tomorrow

morning. >> i can just see that people on the m25 saying, oh, forget this, i can't be other than just going on the diversion route, don't do it. if you just tuned in, it's just coming up to 15 minutes after 6:00. this is gb news. it's the breakfast show with me, nana akua and martin daubney. now an official scheme to deliver portraits of the king has been extended. it now includes hospitals, coast guard centres, job centres, universities, church of england churches and other public institutions. gb news political correspondent olivia utley sat down with the deputy prime minister, oliver dowden, to find out more. >> can you explain to gb news viewers what the scheme is and why you're expanding it? >> yes. well, following the coronation last year, we thought it would be appropriate to make sure that public institutions up and down the country could have and down the country could have a portrait of his majesty the king. he is after all, the ultimate public servant. and just as portraits of his late mother hung in buildings up and down the country, so too already

are these portraits hanging in many thousands of buildings. and so today i'm announcing a further extension so new institutions can have a portrait of the king, whether that's hospitals , whether it's the hospitals, whether it's the church of england churches, coast guards and others. more pubuc coast guards and others. more public institutions will be able to hang a portrait of the king. >> will you be expanding the scheme to include other places of worship like synagogues? >> not at this stage. we've taken the decision that because the king is the supreme governor of the church of england, he leads that institution in the way that he does many other pubuc way that he does many other public institutions. so it's appropriate to have a portrait of him are being provided by the government. of course, we would very much welcome other institutions having a portrait of the king. and indeed, when i attend synagogues, one of the things we do at the end of almost every service is to sing the national anthem. so i know how committed the jewish community is to the king. >> why did it take a labour mps

intervention for you to take this step in expanding the scheme? well actually, i initiated this scheme many months ago and agreed funding with the treasury. >> many thousands of institutions have taken it up, but because we've managed to run this contract so efficiently and get the cost of individual portraits down, it means there's essentially headroom in the contract to be able to open this up to further institutions. it had always been my hope that we could extend it further, but we just had to see what the take up was in the initial phase. >> what do you make of channel 4? refusing to hang a portrait of the king in their studios? >> well, i find it a little disappointing and somewhat, i'm afraid to say, unsurprising. the king is a unifying figure for the entire nation. i hope they reconsider that . reconsider that. >> well, let's see how many other institutions refuse or cancel these portraits. moving on. meghan markle has opened up about her children during the second day of the duke and duchess of sussex's tour of nigeria. >> now, this came after harry and meghan met with nigeria

unconquered, which creates the country's team for the invictus games. >> now , the couple watched >> now, the couple watched a game of sitting volleyball before harry was invited and played a few rounds with the team himself . team himself. >> well, joining us now is former royal correspondent michael cole. michael good morning. lovely to see you this morning. lovely to see you this morning . he's looking very red morning. he's looking very red i think. have you been out in the sun? have you been out in the sun, michael do i do i look a little bit red faced this morning? >> i, i did sit in the sun yesterday and my goodness you know, nice to see the sun again. good morning nana. good morning martin. yes, not as sunny as it is in nigeria where the tour, the, the sunshine tour of the duke and duchess of sussex carries for on its third day. and isn't it amazing, the magic of monarchy, carries on even 61 years after, nigeria , the most years after, nigeria, the most populous country in africa, became a republic . and everybody

became a republic. and everybody is there very, very keen to see the khalife , the two and indeed the khalife, the two and indeed the khalife, the two and indeed the meghan . the duchess has been the meghan. the duchess has been addressed as princess and i'm quite sure she enjoyed that. she's been saying quite a lot gnaana about, the 43, nigerian , gnaana about, the 43, nigerian, heritage antecedents that she has. and i'm just wondering, does that mean that 57% is german? because i think her father, thomas markle, is descended from german immigrants to the united states of america. all of this goes on there. she is speaking to women in leadership, in abuja , the leadership, in abuja, the capital of nigeria. and there they are out meeting people. of course, this is , an not a royal course, this is, an not a royal visit. it's a visit by two private royal personages, both of them there, in their personal

capacity . and, what i think this capacity. and, what i think this is very important for is netflix. of course, this produces a lot of good new material for their netflix offerings , their, their podcasts offerings, their, their podcasts and their other programs because they have a very big contract, $100 billion with netflix to produce new material. and you can't do that if you're forever sitting within your california camelot on a hilltop at montecito . so you've got to get montecito. so you've got to get out there with the people. >> yeah, it's funny that, isn't it? because i thought on her cv she put down she was caucasian. that's what a lot of people are saying, apparently. so when she was a lot younger, searching for work, apparently she referred to herself as caucasian. so that's quite interesting. >> sudden. she's coming out as partially nigerian. what's been really interesting about this, michael, is that prince harry, spared by name of his book. he's looking very much like a spare part on this tour. looking very much like a spare part on this tour . this is

part on this tour. this is turning into the meghan tour. it's all about her talk about her homecoming. i feel at home here talking to nigerian schoolchildren. say, i see myself in you. she was brought up in los angeles. >> it's. it's an extremely good point . she says she hopes she point. she says she hopes she will be a very good role model for them all. i'm not sure whether they do. associate themselves immediately with the hollywood actress in a in a in a soap opera called suits. but maybe they do. and, she also said that she would be she would have to dress more colourfully to fit in with the local community. what is interesting, i mean, one of the great features of nigeria, if you go there, you go to the markets and you interact with the fabulous market women who are really part of, particularly lagos , that is of, particularly lagos, that is of, particularly lagos, that is of course, the most, the biggest

city. and that's the place where you go. i don't think they're going there at all because she did. if you remember, when they went to fiji, she had a little collapse. we weren't quite sure what caused it all. when she was in the market. so there are it's very much, a structured tour, but it's very much not a royal toun but it's very much not a royal tour, i mean, there's always a lot of protocol involved in everything. no royal personage in this country ever goes outside the country without the approval and recommendation of the foreign and commonwealth office, and it's all signed off by the prime minister, but off they've gone, mainly to promote invictus and three cheers for invictus. that was a brilliant innovation. but of course, it was an innovation . before meghan was an innovation. before meghan it was all pre meghan . it was all pre meghan. everything good that prince harry has done his two tours of duty in afghanistan with the army, setting up sentebale, the brilliant , african charity which brilliant, african charity which helps people in southern africa , helps people in southern africa, young people in southern africa and of course, invictus , ten

and of course, invictus, ten years old now, that was all before he met meghan . before he met meghan. >> yeah, well, of course there's not a royal tour, but she's being referred to as princess, isn't it? >> which is the best of both worlds, isn't it? >> yes, i'm sure she's. i'm sure she's rather pleased about that because i think it came as a shock to her when she married prince harry, that she wasn't naturally going to become a princess. but in this country, we don't have too many princesses. the queen, the late queen saw to that and she was a royal duchess. well, and with hrh in front of her name, that's pretty good. that's big medicine in royal terms. so she should have been satisfied with that. >> yeah. michael cole, lovely to talk to you this morning. thank you so much. that's michael cole, royal correspondent. yeah, i mean she's i just i feel i know they need to try and make a living. you know what i mean? but this looks like a royal toun but this looks like a royal tour. that's. they didn't want tour. that's. they didn't want to do this. and they're doing exactly what they said they didn't want to do. >> yeah. precisely and it just just seems they want all the baubles. they want all the treatment. they want all the vip

security, you know, all this. woe betide me. i feel your struggle. she hasn't ever struggled in her entire life. and. >> and the worst bit about it is she looks. she's being compassionate and loving. well, then, if she's that compassionate and loving, what about her dad? who has had a stroke? he's had a heart attack, hasn't he? and on either of those occasions, she didn't didn't go and see him. it'sjust terrible. >> yeah, well, she's, busily promoting herself again. i think that's what she's best at. jam. not pickle. all right, well, stay with us, ladies. well, still to come up next, it's your weather with craig snell. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . sponsors of weather on . solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news, weather forecast from the met office. looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine. but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away,

so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. but for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. and these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the sunshine feeling very warm. highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner . into down towards the south eastern corner. into this evening. the showers continued to rumble on, especially across parts of northern england and scotland . northern england and scotland. some torrential downpours developing here overnight elsewhere turns drier but fairly cloudy . but under the cloud it's cloudy. but under the cloud it's going to be a mild night. temperatures for most of us staying firmly in that double figures. so for most it should be a dry start on monday. still some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad . but then down towards the tad. but then down towards the southwest we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset come the afternoon. elsewhere, a largely

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nana. >> welcome back. it's bang on 630. you're watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. >> now, have you been enjoying a hot weather or the hot weather this past weekend? but that could all be about to change because, of course, the met office have released yellow thunderstorm warnings in parts of the uk for today, and people in these areas are expected to face some disruption, especially to travel. >> we're now joined by meteorologist and commentator and friend of the show, jim dale. jim, he's no friend of mine. >> nice teasing you, jim. we've started now. >> jim, it's britain. the sun comes out and very soon after it rains. this is normal, right? >> yeah. three days. three fine days in a thunderstorm. is the old saying , days in a thunderstorm. is the old saying, isn't days in a thunderstorm. is the old saying , isn't it? and we're old saying, isn't it? and we're more or less on track, not everywhere though. look, the eastern part of the country where more or less where i am.

certainly where you are in london, there you get a decent day out of it. another decent day, so maybe four days in a row, which is extremely unusual, but nonetheless , we're there, but nonetheless, we're there, i think i've just seen the forecast there, i would agree, maybe 25, 26, 27 in london. and yesterday we got a 25.9in eastman. so down in sussex , many eastman. so down in sussex, many places saw or saw 24, 23, 24 so beautiful temperatures. but yeah you're right, beautiful temperatures. but yeah you're right , the thunderstorms you're right, the thunderstorms are not arriving yet, but they will arrive during the course of the late morning into the afternoon, primarily in western areas and some central areas. later my favourite weather, by the way. thunderstorms, i love them, and i hate them because you don't want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. of course. >> no, no. yeah, that's a good point there, but, jim, is this weather then, because this is these are the right sort of temperatures we're expecting after all, it is may and it should be heading towards where

in the summer now ish, aren't we. >> no, we're not in the summer yet. we've got some coming to him. yeah. we're getting well we're getting there. but sometimes we do get this in. even in april, we can sometimes get this kind of weather, so it's not that unusual, but these sort of temperatures, when you get to 27, 25, 26, 27. yeah, they're well above the average. so when we sink back down to 17, 18, 19, 20 tomorrow, that's more more in line with the average, so, so kind of goes with the flow. and we've been short in short supply. you might have noticed, of decent weather of late. so in one shape or form, it's nice to have seen it. i think people appreciate it. they've got out. i've noticed i'm standing out here in at shirt and it's, you know, it's what is it, 7:00 in the morning, nearly, a couple of things about thunderstorms. i want to give you a couple of little facts and myths, if i may, before we disappear, first thing is that little warning. lightning can strike from up to ten miles away. so if you can see a thunderstorm in the distance and

you're thinking, oh, we're safe, ten miles is about the stretch of it. and that is absolutely true. second one, you've heard a sheet lightning . yeah. there's sheet lightning. yeah. there's no sheet lightning . it's thought no sheet lightning. it's thought lightning behind the cloud. it's where you're observing it from . where you're observing it from. so there's no sheet lightning. it's fault lines. it's normal lightning if you like. so cheat sheet lightning does not exist. and the other one, lightning is not attracted to metal. did you know that? no no. >> well, jim, what's been astonishing, what's been astonishing, what's been astonishing about this weather report, jim, is that you said the weather's great. we're enjoying it. you know, and it's about to change. not mentioned. never mentioned climate change. i was waiting for it. people were choking on their cornflakes. >> i'm actually on a programme tonight. i'll mention it tonight on the andrew doyle show, are you saving us? >> yeah, i'm going to save it because i'll mention it there. look, this this where we are. but i should say 51.1 in mexico. so, was it yesterday or the day before ? all time may, may record

before? all time may, may record and to be honest with you, i look at this every single day records at about 106 countries so far in may, just in may that have either hit a monthly record or an all time record. that's 106. that's 50% of more than 50% of the entire country . so it of the entire country. so it might not necessarily be happening here, but damn well happening here, but damn well happening elsewhere, that's for sure. >> well, where was that 51.1 temperature taken though? >> was it in the airport on the runway? because that's what often happens, isn't it? >> i can't remember the place he begins with g. >> but, but but nonetheless, it wasn't just that mexico is absolutely baking at this moment in time. 51.1 think about that for a second. we got 41 two years ago. 51 it's a different world completely. you can't you can't work live. it's very difficult. on climate change guys because because it will continue . i because it will continue. i don't want to get into this conversation, but we're in it. i guess we would with the dream team, there we go.

>> yeah. will you make sure you don't get struck by that lightning? jim, while talking about climate change? none of us would want that. always a pleasure to speak to you, my friend. you take care an absolute delight. now it's time to go through all the latest sports news. now shouldn't laugh. i love him to bits with broadcaster aidan magee, who joins us now in the studio. aidan, morning to you both. >> to good see you. >> i've got my nottingham forest, celebratory red tie on. not quite. time to get the champagne flowing. didn't quite happen. guaranteed survival yesterday. but there's a lot of action at the bottom of the table. the premier league, there was indeed. >> but i think nottingham forest are pretty much home and hosed, which is just as well, given the weather yesterday as jim was just describing just a few moments ago. but if we look at it, they kicked off late. luton had to go to west ham, burnley were also in london at tottenham. burnley had to get a win. it wasn't. it wasn't enough to get a draw there. they took the lead through larsen, bruun larsen and they were they were turned around in the end by by tottenham. that was them done and dusted. the definition of definition of insanity is doing

the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. it's a horrible cliche, but it's certainly, a apt in burnley's case because they just keep trying to play out from the back martin. and they keep getting done time and time and time again throughout the season. and you know what a lot of top clubs will be looking at vincent company given what he did as a manager last season. but they're looking at him this season and say okay, he's got principles and he sticks to what he believes in. but one of the key elements of any management, in any job is that you show adaptability from time to time. they simply weren't good enough and they gave away. so many goals and eventually it tells. and that's why they've gone down with with two games to spare. luton, meanwhile, made a really good fist of it, i'd say over the course of the season as well. they went one up. yeah, six minutes. they took, they took the lead a good good performance overall at west ham actually, but at least they gave it a go and they'll come down as a stronger club. and there is still a very, very remote possibility they could they could overturn nottingham forest with a trip. but it needs a 12 goal goal swing. and then later in the day, as you well know, chelsea went to nottingham

forest. you never really know what chelsea you're going to get. but they did manage to get the win at the end. but forest did very well. quite celebratory mood, a party atmosphere at nottingham forest. and you know what? it allows them now to move on. it's been a difficult season off the pitch and it allows a clean slate for next season. as i said yesterday, the premier league is excel centre existential. it's more important often to just to be in it than it is to actually do something in it. and now, with another season behind them, with two years behind them, now they can look towards the top of the table. >> i will say, as a forest fan, you know, full commiserations and respect to burnley and luton and respect to burnley and luton and sheffield united. you know, it's a it's a nightmare down there. it feels almost like a primaeval swamp. yes. that battle for survival every year is so intense now. nobody money at stake as well. >> the money at stake i mean that that will have i mean, you know, when you look at vincent company at burnley, i mean, if i was his ceo or if i was his director, i'd say, look, £150 million at stake here. you can have to change things around to try and get this result. but nonetheless, at least they went down fighting right quick minute man city of course they edged it yesterday. >> well they thumped it . >> well they thumped it. >> well they thumped it. >> they did. >> they did. >> and they're looking like no no no bookies favourites. just a storm the next premier league. >> yeah i mean look they've got two games left. tottenham is

going to be tricky because although tottenham on on the 14th of march i think it's tuesday. i think it is. i think there's lots of pressure on tottenham to try and get a result there. they don't want to roll over just to stop arsenal winning the league, but nonetheless, man city made inroads into the goal difference yesterday. there is a possibility that if arsenal win today at old trafford at 430, we could have a situation where city draw at tottenham . don't city draw at tottenham. don't forget they've never won there in the premier league. in fact, at the new stadium, in fact, they never even got a point. so it's possible they just could get a draw. and then in the final day, next weekend, next sunday, it comes down to a shootout in terms of goal difference because they're level on points. so it could be really exciting. we're hoping that's how it plays out. arsenal have to go to old trafford today to get a result. and i look a look at this today's old firm derby as well. martin celtic two nil up before half time celtic get a goal back and then they get a man sent off. it was just so needless and ridiculous and that's why that celtic are now six points ahead and looking at their 12th title in 13 years, alan stubbs says yesterday it's all about mentality , it's all all about mentality, it's all about temperament. he called a man sent off before half time

away from home in the old firm. you're asking for trouble and they're going to pay for it. >> superb loads to get our teeth into the aidan magee. thank you very much. see you next time. cheers. >> i have no idea what just went on there. just rolled my eyes back into my head. right. well, stay with us still to come. we'll be going through the front pages with susan holder and tom slater in making the news. that's next. this is breakfast on gb news with martin and .

nana. welcome back. good morning. 42 minutes after 6:00. this is gb news. you're listening to breakfast with me. nana akua and martin daubney. >> let's take a look at some of the newspaper front pages this morning, starting with the sunday times. and they lead with the former justice secretary accusing natalie elphicke of asking him to interfere in the sexual assault trial of her

ex—husband. >> yeah, it's not great, is it? now the observer leads with terrified palestinian families who are fleeing rafah as israel prepares for a military assault and the sunday people leads with repeat knife crime offenders not being jailed despite tory promises to imprison them. hmm'hmm front page of the telegraph and that leads with the civil service diversity roles being scrapped to crack down on woke spending . down on woke spending. >> and the mirror leads with soap favourites helen flanagan opening up about her psychotic episode. >> wow . >> wow. >> wow. >> well, joining us to go through what's making the news is editor of spiked, tom slater, and author and journalist susan holder. welcome to you both. >> tom, let's start with you, it seems to be the most disastrous day in the history of politics. certainly in recent times, nobody seems to want natalie elphicke, and she's back on the front pages again. >> yeah, it's hard to work out the method to the madness here. i think a lot of people on the labour side, on the tory side, have been wondering why this mp,

very firmly on the right of the tory party, was welcome with open arms by labour i mean there was a political aspect to this. but then there was also her track record. everyone knew about stories like this. so this is more detail on the mail on sunday about her efforts to try to influence. it seems the case involving her ex—husband, charlie elphicke, who she kind of inherited the seat from. so we'd already known that her and a few other tory mps had written letters to some of the judges who were presiding over this case on house of commons letter headed paper, which is an outrageous interference in the process. but now we're also learning that robert buckland, when he was justice secretary, that she had a meeting with him and basically complained about the fact that the judge was too high profile. therefore she was more likely to throw the book at him, etc, etc. and given the fact that keir starmer has this reputation that he's tried to build for himself as mr rules, as mr straight and narrow, also former head of the crown prosecution service. it just looks terrible. and you do wonder what was the benefit of all of this other than upsetting the left of his party, which is

what he did. >> she said that she's not going to sit anyway, so she's going to stand down after the election anyway. so what was the point? i don't quite understand why she was just just to have the moment, wasn't it, to kind of poke rishi sunak in the eye kind of publicly. >> and that seems to be the kind of kind of thing, the thing i thought was the person that she was involved, that she was complaining about was called lady justice whipple, which is like something out of downton abbey, isn't it? really? but the whole thing is just so unedifying for everybody, really, even in that speech that she did it before keir starmer spoke in dover, it was almost as though the wind was blowing through her hair and it was quaffed perfectly. >> the she just, she's just not a kind of a credible kind of person that i always obviously kind of fairly glad to see the back of her and most of labour don't want her either, but thought it was a good idea or somebody thought it was a good idea just to make that kind of point. >> that oh well, you point. >> that oh well , you know, you >> that oh well, you know, you can't even keep her sort of thing, but but actually, they don't even want her. so it's she's in a very difficult position. >> it looks so unprincipled. >> it looks so unprincipled. >> doesn't it, on both sides. >> doesn't it, on both sides. >> but she's that's her stock in trade is looking unprincipled is

kind of where she comes from. so. so nothing nothing surprises there. >> it does feel like we've got like two types of politicians. now you've got keir starmer who doesn't have any political positions whatsoever other than i would like to be prime minister. and then people like natalie elphicke, who claim to believe very passionately in things like stopping the boats and yet will happily join a party who have no plan for that . party who have no plan for that. really no credible plan for that. >> well, well, he did have a plan, didn't he? it was. he was it counter border control or whatever he called elite control? >> i don't forget as well. this is also the woman who was trying to interfere in the process of sexual assault claims against her husband. but then once he was found guilty, she left him. so, you know , well, she stuck so, you know, well, she stuck with him for about almost two years, but then she left him. >> yes. >> yes. >> i reckon the whole thing is just an attempt by her to rinse her reputation away from being with the conservative party because, you know, she was the mp for dover, literally the landing pad of thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants . thousands of illegal immigrants. she didn't do anything to stop it. and now she's going to i think she wants to say, well, it wasn't my fault. it was rishi sunak's fault. and i'm going to step away from politics and still live in the area and try and reinvent my public image.

>> just my thoughts. all we can hopeis >> just my thoughts. all we can hope is that we don't see her on strictly or i'm a celebrity get me out of here next year. >> now you've said it. it's going to. >> i know, sorry, i'm sorry, i apologise. >> i feel sorry for the constituents, actually. >> but to be fair, i don't think i'm the first person to think of it. i think she's ahead of me. >> yeah. you're right. >> yeah. you're right. >> yeah. you're right. >> yeah. ever the self—publicist. let's move on to a more sombre story indeed. sue's front page of the observer. the ongoing situation in rafah. yes. >> so. yeah, it's kind of the scenes that described on the in the front page piece of the observer are kind of biblical, really, of people. the roads leading out of rafah choked with columns of young, old, sick and healthy riding, overloaded pickup trucks, battered cars, ponies , carts, hand—pulled ponies, carts, hand—pulled trucks. the thought of it, people just moving en masse to somewhere that there isn't actually any, any support or anything to go to, yeah, it's just it's just completely terrifying, biden also, it says in the piece has decided to pause delivery of bombs that he was going to give. but now he's

not going to give, because he, benjamin netanyahu , is not benjamin netanyahu, is not listening to what he's saying to kind of pull back and to hang fire slightly, yeah . i don't fire slightly, yeah. i don't know what else there is to say on this other than it's just war, completely horrible. >> well, tom, what do you think? what are israel to do, though, you know, because hamas are still firing rockets. they were even before october the 7th. the reason israel doesn't look like gazais reason israel doesn't look like gaza is because it has an iron dome as opposed to tunnels. and what are israel to do? >> well, this is the difficult situation, isn't it? because you're confronted with images like that and you're just reminded that war is hell. it's terrible. there's always civilians who get caught in the crossfire. there's always more civilians who die than actual military personnel. that's a horrendous fact of war. but as horrible as those scenes are, you are reminded of the fact that the people who committed october 7th are held up in rafah. the head of hamas is there. many of the hostages are there, yahya sinwar , they there, yahya sinwar, they reports reckon that he's basically surrounded himself with a human shield of hostages, and that's why this war began. it wasn't because of the fact

that the idf woke up one day and decided they need to start pummelling gaza. it's the fact that this genocidal terrorist group on their border who they'd been trying to up until that point, they'd fought various skirmishes against, had demonstrated just what they were capable of if given half the chance. capable of if given half the chance . so, you know, everyone chance. so, you know, everyone wants this to end as soon as possible, but i think the demand has to be not. israel needs to buck up its ideas or more. hamas needs to surrender and to give over the hostages . i just find over the hostages. i just find it odd that the discussion is never really in that frame. >> it seems so. one sided onto israel, but nobody's saying hamas should surrender and we will. we will make sure they do whilst they're the leaders are all holed up in qatar. but of course, it all infiltrated the eurovision song contest, which is what we saw. what were your thoughts on that? and did you watch any of the eurovision? >> i didn't watch any of it, i will admit, but i had been following some of the politics of it because it was impossible not to. it was there was so much this year, and one thing that i thought was really striking was obviously in the run up, as you've been talking about on the show this morning, the protests that you saw in malmo also just the really snide treatment of

the really snide treatment of the israeli entrant , eden golan the israeli entrant, eden golan there, who's on screen at the moment, who you had people making sneering faces. the greek contestant making sneering faces while she was speaking at the press conference, there was another finnish artist who got caught kind of sharing a backstage dance with her. when this clip went out. he then issued a basically a retraction saying i didn't agree for this video to go out. i'm not making a political statement and it was just deeply unpleasant to borderline anti—semitic. what was going on. and so what we saw with the votes was interesting because israel came top on the uk vote. many other ones as well , and if it was just a public vote, could have done even better than fifth place as it did last night. >> the whole notion of pro—palestine politics seems to infiltrate literally everything . infiltrate literally everything. yeah, and it infiltrated this. what do you make of the scenes of greta thunberg , who, by the of greta thunberg, who, by the way, has always complained about being bullied? her entire life, suddenly becoming one of the things? >> i think it was absolutely outrageous that there were more people protesting outside the israeli entrant for eurovision hotel room than there actually

was. there were 9000 people in the stadium, and i did watch the whole show last night, not the voting, but i did watch all the performances and what she actually did as a performance was incredible . yeah. she was. was incredible. yeah. she was. she gave a brilliantly composed performance while sections of the audience were booing her. it was it was a very good song, very well sung. >> unlike ours, unlike ours. >> unlike ours, unlike ours. >> you said it first, but i can't help but agree with you, yeah. olly alexander unfortunately did. i mean, i thought it was a weak song. i think it was. too much time was spent on the staging and singing a box turned out. wasn't so good for the sound. was it? because we couldn't hear him very well and it got nil points? i'm not surprised. i'm not. i'm not at all surprised. i don't know what we were thinking. not a sausage, but no, i do think, i do think the treatment of the israeli entrance has just been absolutely outrageous. >> and it's been called the most toxic eurovision of all time. and isn't it funny how the winner, they sort of know carp on about the fact that the code by nemo. nemo mattila, the first ever non—binary winner, wasn't

everybody non—binary? >> well, they had conchita . >> well, they had conchita. what's her name on the birth? yeah, yeah , i don't think it's her. >> is it because you're non—binary? i mean , when i was non—binary? i mean, when i was youngen non—binary? i mean, when i was younger, that would have been an inqu younger, that would have been an insult being called it. but this is now one of the categories. yeah. well, yeah, some people i don't know what to call it was a great performance by the one, the one that won though. >> it was, it was quite a breathtaking performance actually. yeah. >> they won that rotating. yeah >> they won that rotating. yeah >> singing on a spinning top. and he sang very well considering he was also trying to keep his balance all the way throughout. it was, it was very clever. >> i'd like to see olly alexander give that a go. >> just, just very quickly. >> just, just very quickly. >> there's a quote given by the, by nemo mettler. yeah, and he said, this victory represents a big moment for the lgbtq+ community, so i can't get it out, which has for a long time treated eurovision as a safe haven. a safe haven, unless you're jewish. >> yes. yeah. i think it's one one after another. >> we see these supposedly very inclusive spaces or institutions just make this exception where jewish people or israelis are concerned. and i think, you know, this ugliness can't be

repeated. but i think it's going to play out again. and again. as long as israel are still in the competition, i can't understand why these people can't see outside themselves. >> first of all, lgbt, q plus, plus or whatever it is that is divisive . each letter for divisive. each letter for different types of yes. i mean that's branding yourself and then you are excluding someone when you're all about inclusion . when you're all about inclusion. yeah, yeah. >> and all of this, we include everybody all apart from you . everybody all apart from you. >> but that's okay because we hold the moral high ground. i think it's insipid. it's nasty. >> all right, so what we got next from you? king offered harry a royal residence for his visit. >> well, who would have thought it apparently, yes. apparently the king did offer harry a royal residence to stay while he was here, because he knows he does not have a uk base. they obviously took frogmore cottage back , after they they stepped back, after they they stepped back, after they they stepped back and went to montecito, but harry turned it down and decided to stay in a hotel, which presumably he thought was safer and more secure than a royal residence. i don't know who who can fashion through the thinking of harry. nobody can kind of quite work it out .

quite work it out. >> meanwhile, the king had a little cup of tea with david beckham . beckham. >> apparently he did. well, i mean, that would have been in the diary and that would have. and also i mean, it's another recollections may vary moment, isn't it, that people on the close to the king are saying there was no request from harry to actually particularly see him? there was no invitation from him to go to the invictus, ceremony that he was holding . ceremony that he was holding. and harry saying, oh, it was it was a snub. i of course, i want to see him. i also think that the interview that harry did a while back where he said, where somebody said to him, oh, now you know that your father is ill, does is that going to mean that you kind of patch things up? are you going to. oh, well, of course, illness always brings families together, he said. have you told your wife exactly. did you told your wife exactly. did you know did you know her dad had several heart attacks and you've never seen him since you married her? it's just, you know that if they don't stick by what they say. >> no, they don't. and he honestly. i mean, harry must be looking on at his wife and thinking , seriously, looking on at his wife and thinking, seriously, you're looking on at his wife and thinking , seriously, you're not thinking, seriously, you're not going to see your dad. i mean that that's not good, is it? >> well, i just think if anyone

was advising meghan and i know she's had many pr advisers and they don't seem to last very long, but the one thing you would say to her is it would actually, you know, for your own peace of mind for your dad's and actually it would look really goodif actually it would look really good if you just made something. you don't have to agree with everything he does. you don't have to kind of see him every week, but just do that. and it would, i think we'd all think, well, yeah, i get why you're going back to see your dad and maturity. it shows a maturity andifs maturity. it shows a maturity and it's the right thing to do. >> you start behaving like a child. what are you any thoughts on harry and meghan? >> well, it's one of those things, isn't it? where because of the fact that they've made such a they dragged their relationship with the royal family on even on a personal basis. so into focus, that it's now become a running story. so any time harry or meghan, even you know, touch, touch over in the uk, there's always going to be this discussion about is there going to be a meeting? so on. yes, there's the human side to this, which is you just wish they could patch things up, but it's also they've made they've put the spotlight on this relationship. so much so by making it so fractious and talking about it so openly in public, you know, now i feel a bit awkward about harry in his

love beads. >> oh , no, these beads are put >> oh, no, these beads are put around him. a little bit of cultural appropriation, perhaps. >> well, actually, now you mention it. yeah, it's a good point, isn't it? >> yeah. thank you very much, tom slater. susan, we'll see you, of course, in the next hour for more of the same frivolities i >> -- >> superb. well, listen, if you've just joined us. welcome on board. this is gb news. it's breakfast with nana akua and martin daubney. stay tuned. but up next, it's the weather with craig snell . craig snell. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast from the met office. looking ahead to today , most of looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. but for northern ireland, a scattering of showers

developing and come the afternoon, many western and northern parts seeing some showers. and these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the sunshine feeling very warm. highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner . into down towards the south eastern corner. into this evening. the showers continue to rumble on, especially across parts of northern england and scotland. some torrential downpours developing here overnight. elsewhere turns drier but fairly cloudy, but under the cloud it's going to be a mild night. temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. so for most it should be a dry start on monday. still some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. but then down towards the south—west we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. come the afternoon . elsewhere, a largely afternoon. elsewhere, a largely dry picture. best of the sunshine over towards the east. but for all of us feeling a

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the music was heard in the end. >> thanks, charlie. more on that later. of course. and there's also concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, natalie elphicke, as it's alleged she lobbied a former justice secretary over her ex—husband's sex abuse trial. >> harry and meghan continue their not so royal tour of nigeria as a couple open up on their family life and a large increase in whooping cough deaths. >> is that worrying doctors as they encourage parents to get their babies vaccinated? >> and of course, it's glorious weather. it's returning today across the country with the hottest day of the year expected. but for how long can we expect the sunshine ? we expect the sunshine? >> and then, for most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. find out where with me in a little bit now. >> very good morning to you once again with matters at the bottom of the premier league all but settled, we turn our attention

to the first leg of the championship play offs today as leeds travel to norwich at midday and west ham follow them by hosting southampton this afternoon. we'll also hear about afternoon. we'll also hear about a 17 year old girl from saint albans , who smashed a 45 year albans, who smashed a 45 year old 800 metre record in belfast . old 800 metre record in belfast. more later . more later. >> a very good morning to you . >> a very good morning to you. wonderful to have your company. it's wonderful to be working with you. nana. >> oh, thank you very much. >> oh, thank you very much. >> too long. let's kick into the show because their slogan may be united by music, but this year's eurovision was anything but a scandal and chaos engulfed the competition in. >> in the end, it was switzerland's act nemo who walked away with the trophy, the country's first win since they won with celine dion. >> but all eyes were on israel's eden golan, who placed sixth. her act was booed, however, by fansin her act was booed, however, by fans in the arena, scoring a 323 points from the public vote with a full 12 points coming from uk

viewers. well done . viewers. well done. >> well, yeah, i voted for her and the uk's olly alexander ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder . 18th the bottom of the ladder. 18th placed receiving no points from the public. >> well, we're now joined by gb news reporter charlie peters, who's live on the ground in malmo. so charlie, welcome to the show. the show went on despite thousands of protesters outside. in fact, it seems to be more people outside than there were inside the arena . were inside the arena. >> i think there almost certainly were as a 15,000 strong arena. and all week this week , we have seen significant week, we have seen significant protests here in malmo in southern sweden, people marching against the inclusion of israel in eurovision, in particular the singer eden golan just 20 years old. the israeli russian singer who last night placed fifth in the performance. now the bookies had her as a potential second place finish and britain was actually one of 15 countries to give eden a maximum 12 points as

they came second in the public vote, fifth overall. now, it's certainly the case that the politics and the protests definitely drowned out the event last night. switzerland coming out on top and throughout the competition, they couldn't even keep that politics away from the inside of the arena, with some of the contestants using their grand final moment to use an opportunity to make a quick statement or a quick speech about politics, or about a potential reference towards the war in the middle east. and that's been the sort of mood here throughout the week. i mean, just now, as i'm stood here, there's a flag behind me, the eurovision flag saying united by music. but all around this square in central malmo, there are flags and posters and stickers about the war in gaza, about israel's response to the october 7th attacks. just by me, actually, there's even a poster of benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, being

worn as a mask over a photo of adolf hitler, so extremely controversial and charged protests throughout the week. i mean, yesterday we saw members of the pflp on the march. that's the popular front for the liberation of palestine. that group's actually banned in the european union, the united states, japan and canada. it's a proscribed organisation for its links to terrorists. but it was seen on that march towards the arena yesterday. and many of those protesters actually migrated away from their main march through the town centre. and arrived at the arena just as the competition started. that saw a swell of riot police turn up at the arena where we were covering the start of the event. both swedish and danish police getting involved . we're on the getting involved. we're on the border with denmark, just over the bridge from copenhagen , and the bridge from copenhagen, and many of those protesters were arrested. we saw some being pepper sprayed, many scuffles with the police here as a helicopter and armed officers

and officers on the roofs maintained observation of the situation . it was very intense situation. it was very intense and they were kettled away from the arena before new groups of protesters would arrive and recycle that process. but all of that was going on was behind us, the music was being heard and the music was being heard and the competition went ahead without. i think the organisers are very happy to say any internal scuffles ? internal scuffles? >> wow. i mean, is it all peaceful there now, charlie ? now peaceful there now, charlie? now everything's now. the concert has ended . has ended. >> well, it's, 7 am. on a sunday morning, so. yeah, it's pretty cosy, but . and it's pretty cosy, but. and it's beautiful weather here in malmo . beautiful weather here in malmo. everyone's having a lovely time, and i don't think anyone else is here. oh, there's one person walking past now, but it's been a very quiet morning. but i think, i think as the day goes on, we could see some reaction to what happened yesterday evening with, of course, israel placing as high up as they did those 15 countries, giving them the maximum 12. all that debate

about the competition going on, so much anger directed towards israel by protesters. but it seems that across europe there is still significant support for the israeli entry . the israeli entry. >> okay. charlie peters, our man in malmo, excellent report as even in malmo, excellent report as ever. thank you very much for joining us this morning on breakfast. of course, not everybody. >> i'm thinking everyone's up like us, but they're not, are they? but to be fair, this is they? but to be fair, this is the thing with these people. they come out, they protest, and they behave in such a rabid fashion. then the next day, they just sit down and have a cup of tea, you know what i mean? and they feel they hold the moral high ground, which i even if you're protesting about something like this, i think, i, you know, besieging a poor young girl in a hotel room so she can't go from one place to the other booing while she's performing . there's no there's performing. there's no there's no positive edge to that. you're not doing a good thing. it's supposed to be a singing contest. >> yeah, when charlie's like, saying they're, you know, proscribed terrorist organisations who are banned in the european union or outside

making out. >> they're the good guys. >> they're the good guys. >> and it's just and supposedly, i mean , queers for palestine. i mean, queers for palestine. how ridiculous is that? and you know, not that palestinians don't accept people who are gay , don't accept people who are gay, but we also know that it's not very welcoming to people who are homosexual. so it seems an odd, odd thing , an odd combination. odd thing, an odd combination. >> the politics is just completely got in the way of the contest this year. and let's discuss that now, because we're now joined by lifelong aberfan. vaughn davis, welcome to the show, vaughn . and no doubt show, vaughn. and no doubt you're slightly dismayed, as many of us are, that we're talking about the politics and not the performances, not the actual, spectacle itself, but what was going on outside. some people are calling this the most toxic eurovision in history. would you agree, vaughn? >> you're balling nana and martin, it's the morning after the night before . you got me up the night before. you got me up early, it was, it was a great contest, actually. and because it's full of the glitz and glamour that it's normally associated with eurovision and.

yes, i mean, the song from switzerland , it's the first time switzerland, it's the first time they've won in 36 years, and it was the bookies favourite and i was the bookies favourite and i was voting for croatia actually, and they came second. so it was and they came second. so it was a close , closely knit contest, a close, closely knit contest, some great songs in there. the politics. well they always get in the way, somehow or another. but, you know, at the end of the day, the israeli song, we've got to say that, you know, it was a good song. it deserved to be fifth place. so it's a little bit unfortunate , but when the bit unfortunate, but when the politics get into it. but hey, that's good publicity and that's what eurovision is all about. >> what did you think of the british entry olly alexander ? british entry olly alexander? >> well, you know, i started following the, the contest in about march. if we go back to 1974. i was 12 years old when abba won . and of course, the abba won. and of course, the format in those days was very much , an orchestra, a live much, an orchestra, a live orchestra, a conductor , and the

orchestra, a conductor, and the most of the people in the audience, about 900 people. the guys were dressed in dinner suits and the ladies had long dresses. move on now to a 9000 seater stadium, and it's all sort of glitz and glamour. olly alexander. yes, it was a good song, but it had its, gay overtones. and i think some of the countries don't like that. and that was one of the reasons why it got nul points in the pubuc why it got nul points in the public voting, the fact that it came 18th out of 25, is not to be sort of sniffed at. we normally end up in the bottom . i normally end up in the bottom. i was hoping for a top ten placing for olly because it was a good performance, but i think overall when i listen to it on playback, the vocals somehow let him down and you know, you're watching the show there and you're thinking to yourself, come on, you can do it. come on, there's only another minute to go. and that's not what, a good song is all about. so i think of the day, you know, the other

countries , they fine tune their countries, they fine tune their acts , we were lucky to come acts, we were lucky to come 18th, to be honest with you. >> yeah. that's true, isn't it? >> yeah. that's true, isn't it? >> i was watching it going. come on, come on, sing in. tune i'm waiting for the key change. but it's all like, yeah , nothing good. >> very interesting, don't you think, vaughn, that, the public really rallied behind the israeli entrant. and in that sense, i think people could see what was going on outside the arena. they could see a 20 year old woman being barricaded into a hotel room, and the public spoke in solidarity. i thought that was a wonderful thing , very that was a wonderful thing, very much so. >> but as i say, the israeli song was a good song, so it deserved those points in the first place, you know? and i was, i was in stockholm on april the 6th for the 50th anniversary of waterloo, and i met up with benny from abba, and i asked him about the forthcoming eurovision song contest, and he did remain tight lipped about it, but i

think they used that. abba used that as a platform to promote the voyage show, which has already been seen by over 2 million people in london alone , million people in london alone, i don't think a lot of people were expecting them to turn up, but at the end of the day, if they had turned up, they would have upstaged the contest. and the main thing was about the actual contestants. the 25 contestants in the eurovision song contest? >> yeah . perhaps they should >> yeah. perhaps they should have shown up and then they could upstage the protest as well . well. >> i wonder, i wonder, vaughn, i wonder, i wonder vaughn, what do you think? i mean, you know sweden, of course. it's the home of abba. they in many ways just define what eurovision stands for. that unity, that harmony, that cross continental coming together. what do you think abba would make of this spectacle of what's been going on in the last few days about the palestine protests, taking over this? what would they make of it? >> i don't know , really, to be >> i don't know, really, to be honest with you. they always sort of seem to keep that side of it away from them because, you know, when abba were successful in the 70s, there was a movement in sweden that really

sort of undermined them. it was a movement that didn't really want to promote , pop or an want to promote, pop or an industry outside of sweden . so industry outside of sweden. so there was always an underground movement that they had to contend with, but they would have just probably ploughed on with it. and, made sure that their song was heard. so, as i say , you know, there has been say, you know, there has been a lot of politics in this particular competition. but then again, the world is not a happy place like it was when abba won 50 years ago. >> i guess changed, i guess changed, haven't they? >> yeah. you make a good point, vaughn. lovely to talk to you. that's vaughn davis. he's a lifelong abba fan. yeah, i years ago, when abba, i remember this documentary about them that followed them on this, on their journey and their private jet as they went from concert to concert. i wanted to be them. i wanted to be the blonde one. nobody wanted to be the one with the dark hair. we all wanted. i wanted to be the blonde one. >> well, i quite fancied the dark one. the dark haired one more. >> did you?

>> did you? >> yeah. i think it was like . >> yeah. i think it was like. it's an overshare. it's breakfast. sorry, but i just think they were the original sort of supergroup that we all know happy we could relate to. whereas now you look at olly alexander, i mean, unless you're of a certain persuasion, you can't relate to that. it's not it's not welcoming. >> but i think even people who are of that persuasion looked at that and thought, oh, that's a bit off. i've spoken to many who, you know, who feel that that that wasn't a great performance. the whole toilet scene, i think, was a bit cliche. and, you know, even for , cliche. and, you know, even for, you know, i maybe it's because i'm old. i'm looking at that thinking, oh, that's a bit much, but even my daughter was thinking, oh mum, this isn't very good. so i don't really know what what they were thinking putting that forward for this country. i was embarrassed by the performance of honest the public, you know, back that up nil point. >> i think that sums it up. >> i think that sums it up. >> and vaughn said he was lucky to come 18th. i think he was very lucky to come 18th as well. >> okay. moving on to a bit of politics now. and new labour mp natalie elphicke has been accused of lobbying ministers in an attempt to interfere in her

former husband's sexual assault case. >> then justice secretary sir robert buckland alleges that she asked him to move the 2020 trial of charlie elphicke to a lower profile court, apparently to spare him public scrutiny . spare him public scrutiny. >> miss elphicke ended the marriage when her husband was convicted of sexually assaulting two women and jailed for two years. >> well, a labour party spokesperson said that she totally rejects the characterisation of the meeting. miss elphicke defected from the conservatives to labour last week. >> let's now get the thoughts of political author owen bennett owen. welcome to the show. very good morning to you. this scandal rolls on. it's now been a week. it's been on the front pages practically every day. it makes you wonder if the whole thing has just been a disastrous spectacle. it's backfired. it seems that nobody really wants ownership of natalie elphicke , ownership of natalie elphicke, the tories now seemingly briefing against her. this is clearly a leak from within their ranks. in an attempt to discredit her. she clearly has rejected this. but we're in the

extraordinary situation, owen, of the labour party now coming to defend ed, natalie elphicke against what a very serious allegations . allegations. >> yes. i mean, this was to be expected there would be some kind of blowback, excuse me, against her defection from the tories. and the question is, do you go on the issue? she defected over or do you go to go on the character of the person and they've chosen to go with the latter. and i think there's sort of two reasons for this. number one, it's to stir up a little bit in the labour party ranks. we know there's many labour mps and supporters and people within the party who are not happy that natalie elphicke has been allowed to join . they has been allowed to join. they see her as someone who was on the right of the tory party and therefore does not hold any views. they feel with the core labour party membership. and the other thing the tories are trying to do is scare any other defectors, saying don't you dare , because we've got the little black book of what you've been up to, and we will make these things public. so thinking of jumping ship, don't do it. >> i'm struggling to work out what she was hoping to gain, or

what she was hoping to gain, or what the gains are of her defecting in that way. what do you see as a possible benefit that the labour party might get out of having natalie elphicke in their party for a very short moment, because she plans to step down after the election? >> yeah, that's an excellent point . you know, what does she point. you know, what does she have to gain? it's difficult to kind of work that one out, other than a degree of notoriety as to what the labour party gained. well, it allows keir starmer this week to stand in dover and set out his plan for tackling the small boat crossing, which includes the scrapping of the rwanda scheme . the complaint rwanda scheme. the complaint against labour is being they haven't got a plan to deal with the small boats. this allowed him to say, look, our plan is so good that even the mp for dover is backing it and she's she's defected over. now, obviously the tories want to discredit that and say, no, no , no. she's that and say, no, no, no. she's doing it for a myriad of other reasons. but i can see that keir starmer probably started from the end of this and worked backwards . how do i the end of this and worked backwards. how do i stand in the end of this and worked

backwards . how do i stand in the backwards. how do i stand in the constituency of dover and say that my plans are really have got a lot of support from the mp here? oh, i can get the mp to defect as opposed to thinking, well, we really want, you know, natalie elphicke to join our party. i don't think that was ever on the to do list at the beginning of the month. >> i wonder if there's something a bit more obvious and self—serving about all of this. and it's this on friday, when natalie elphicke was with sir keir starmer in deal, trumpeting the plan to stop the boats if they'd looked out the window, 200 dinghies rocked up and so is this 200 people on dinghies. beg your pardon? is this actually natalie elphicke deciding at last orders to say, well, i couldn't stop the boats and i'm just going to say, well, it wasn't my fault. it was rishi sunaks fault. nothing to do with me. honest nothing to see here. leave out the side entrance, get into another career and make out historically that she was one of the good guys. when we all know the good guys. when we all know the truth. and that is, she dramatically failed as the mp for dover. >> i mean, i, i totally

understand the argument and i think it would hold up more if, if she was planning to stand again as a labour mp and say, look , this plan didn't work from look, this plan didn't work from rishi, i think labour will will really work. so therefore i'm going to put my money where my mouth is, but there may be, like you said, it's just her being totally self—serving . and of totally self—serving. and of course what what the tory party don't want is continued discussion about the fact that their policy on small boats isn't working. so they want to keep talking up the character of natalie elphicke. they want to talk about that kind of stuff, because they don't want to talk about the substance of this, because, as you know, and as gb news flags up frequently , the news flags up frequently, the policy in this area just hasn't worked . it hasn't delivered what worked. it hasn't delivered what rishi sunak hasn't worked by rishi sunak hasn't worked by rishi sunak's own definition of it working rather. so i think that they're they want to keep shifting this on to actually nasty elphicke herself as opposed to the issue she defected over an interesting thank you very much. >> good to talk to you. that's erin bennett. yeah maybe it's sort of a sort of subterfuge . sort of a sort of subterfuge. like a distraction. yeah. they've got natalie elphicke. he's announced this policy or

this new border control and border security guard, which is partly what we already do anyway. yeah, apart from maybe the involvement of m15. but i thought they would get involved if necessary. and by talking about this and then accepting natalie elphicke, people are now looking at all the scandal around natalie elphicke and not sort of dissecting sir keir starmer's policies, which makes him a very astute politician , him a very astute politician, frankly. and somebody i wouldn't want to play chess against. >> yeah, but why would she want to put herself in that position? >> she must have known that all this dirt will be dragged out. i mean, it had been put to bed and it's all out in the open again. she's having everything sort of gone through with the forensic comb, and i just cannot see what, what she would get out of this. >> well, you could also . well, i >> well, you could also. well, i suspect because it seems as in that book , mayor of that book, mayor of casterbridge, i don't know whether you ever read it, but the lines that we were taught is character is fate, because earlier she did the same sort of thing standing by her husband who was arrested and imprisoned and said it was because he was

attractive. they were attracted to him and he's attractive , to him and he's attractive, which is false. >> apologise for that earlier in the week because jess phillips, labour mp, complained because she's campaigned forever about victim blaming and women's rights. you know, women's being victims . and so everything about victims. and so everything about this was guaranteed to be dragged back. and that's where we are. >> well, she's attention seeking. let's have a look at some of the other stories that have come into the news from. >> and a ban on jobs dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion in the civil service has been announced and under new plans, there will be no more jobs devoted to inclusivity in whitehall outside of hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related work . diversity related work. >> writing in the sunday telegraph, cabinet minister esther mcvey claimed public money was being wasted and what she described as a woke lobby hobby horses as woke hobby horses and tens of thousands of palestinian jews have been fleeing rafah in anticipation of an expected israeli assault on southern gaza and they have been

told to move to a so—called expanded humanitarian zone on the west coast. >> this prompted fears of a wider invasion of rafah, despite calls for restraint from the united nations, the uk and other allies and humanitarian organisations and drivers on the m25 , five in london are being m25, five in london are being urged to stick to diversion routes during the weekend closures as a new bridge is being installed now. >> the motorway, which is britain's busiest, closed in both directions between junction nine and ten on friday evening and is set to reopen tomorrow morning . morning. >> and it's important to stick to those routes, those diversion routes, because if you don't, you get an ulez fine . oh will you get an ulez fine. oh will you. yes, it's on the ulez route. and if your satnav says, oh, get off the route and go this way. £12.50 fine. if you don't pay it, £60 fine, £120, you can thank me later. don't leave the diversion route you

will get. >> did you say £12.50? fine. correct? >> yeah . just. >> yeah. just. >> yeah. just. >> just for some people might look at that and go, oh, £12.50. it's all, that's all it is. >> yeah. but if you don't pay it straight away £60 then it doubles £120. a lot of people might not know that that far out in the m25 is where the ulez goes through. it does so . goes through. it does so. >> so they're using. so that diversion is on the ulez route. so it's because you're on the ulez route that you'll pay £12.50, not because you've gone on the diverted route. >> no. >> no. >> so the diversion route is in ulez now the ulez fine has been has been switched off for the penod has been switched off for the period of the diversion . except period of the diversion. except if you leave the actual designated diversion route. so if you go onto onto waze or one of your apps. oh, that that way it's quicker, you're gonna get nicked. so don't go off the route. >> nonetheless, of course, your car is compliant, which apparently nine out of ten are, but i don't know whether that's quite right . quite right. >> it's average save gb news viewers £12.55. >> and also don't go on the diversion off the route anyway because if you're not meant to

go on the other bits, then you could find yourself in a bit of trouble as well. >> anyway, let's get your weather now with craig snell. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . sponsors of weather on . solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> good morning and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast from the met office. looking ahead to today , most of looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. actually for some northern and eastern parts. quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. but for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. and these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the sunshine feeling very warm. highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner . into down towards the south eastern corner. into this evening. the showers continue to rumble on,

especially across parts of northern england and scotland. some torrential downpours developing here overnight. elsewhere, turns drier but fairly cloudy but under the cloud it's going to be a mild night. temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. so for most it should be a dry start on monday. still some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. but then down towards the southwest we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. come the afternoon . elsewhere, come the afternoon. elsewhere, a largely dry picture. best of the sunshine over towards the east. but for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good morning. if you're just tuned in. welcome. this is gb

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nana. welcome back. it's bang on 730. you're watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. >> right. well, officials are facing calls to improve vaccine rates for whooping cough over fears that the cost of living crisis is contributing to the low uptake .

low uptake. >> data shows that the rates of people taking the vaccine is at the lowest level in the 10% most depnved the lowest level in the 10% most deprived areas in england, and this comes after it was revealed that the uk could be experiencing its biggest outbreak of whooping cough in two decades. well, we're now joined by nhs gp doctor david lloyd. welcome to the show doctor lloyd. thank you for joining us. so very, very concerning statistics out this week. five babies have died this yearin week. five babies have died this year in the uk. the uk health security agency is saying there are now 2793 cases across england so far this year, more than three times the amount of the previous year. what do you think is driving this ? think is driving this? >> i well, it's interesting you talked about about, deprivation and its link, i think the main dnven and its link, i think the main driver, of course, is that it's a very contagious disease , so it a very contagious disease, so it spreads very rapidly, and so the measures that we use to counteract covid were also very

good at keeping whooping cough levels at historically low levels, as well . so during the levels, as well. so during the covid years, we had very little whooping cough , and now that whooping cough, and now that we're all mixing again, and we've got this low what we call herd immunity, then an awful lot more people are mixing and spreading the condition, which is very easy to spread , just is very easy to spread, just like it is with covid or cough, coughs and colds or measles. it's spread by droplets in the air. so it's, so it's not. it's not, i don't think we were not expecting such a large rise in whooping cough after the pandemic. >> really? >> really? >> has there also been an element of the fact that people haven't been going to for their vaccinations because they're missing schedules, because of the dire state of the nhs and also a level of immigration from people who may not be protected from this disease . from this disease. >> so i think that one of the things that we in general practice really do concentrate on is really trying to get people into to do vaccinations. there are we've got two, two

possibilities with whooping cough. we like to get our young babies are over at eight, 12 and 16 vaccinated against whooping cough. and that's part of the routine system, but we've also got a good system for vaccinating pregnant women as well, so that we give the newborn babies some extra protection, by having, a, having, by vaccinating the mother as well. and that, unfortunately, is a low level people . i think pregnant women people. i think pregnant women get slightly concerned about having vaccinations while they're pregnant in case it may harm their baby, whereas of course it's the complete opposite. it's the young babies under 12 weeks, eight weeks that are dying because they get these terrible, episodes of coughing where they actually stop breathing and they become very ill indeed. >> and doctor lloyd, i spoke to an nhs doctor on friday who was trying to raise an awareness project in west london. and she did say that there has been a difficulty with people who've come to the uk from other

cultures , other countries that cultures, other countries that don't have that heritage of vaccination and they don't have that in their country. and an astonishing statistic that leapt out so that 51% of the cases that we're talking about here today are children aged 15 and older. these aren't babies now. these aren't mothers who've been vaccinated to give birth to safe children. these are these are teenagers. and they many of these have come in from other countries and therefore they don't have that culture. how do we get to those people? they're very stubborn to reach. >> so if they register with a gp, which i hope they will do and we certainly will, will offer no barriers to that. the preliminary checks will do will be to check the vaccination histories of all our new patients and make sure that they are vaccinated and kept up to date because incomplete vaccination schedules, as you say, put people at greater risk . say, put people at greater risk. it's a horrible condition to have as an adult or as a 15 year old, but it's not going to kill

you. but you do cough for months and months and months and retch and months and months and retch and vomit. and it's not a pleasant condition to have, but getting those pregnant mums vaccinated and getting those early courses started is the key to avoiding death. >> okay. >> okay. >> and i want to ask you , >> and i want to ask you, doctor, what are the sort of very earliest signs of the illness and what is the treatment for it? >> well, they are very a very good question because in fact, the just like measles, just like coughs and colds and viruses, it doesn't look any different in the first few days. it's really about day 14 that john begins to suspect it , but traditionally suspect it, but traditionally we've been very bad at diagnosing whooping cough early on in the condition. i was at a course the other day and he said , well, if you haven't diagnosed a case of whooping cough in the last year, then you've you've missed at least one. so it's the it's day 14. that's the key time. but the trouble is it's day 21, that you then can't do anything about preventing the spread. we really like to get antibiotics in early to prevent the spread. it doesn't do much for the illness, but it helps

prevent the spread and avoid vulnerable people getting whooping cough as a result of that case. >> and the treatment for it. >> and the treatment for it. >> so there's a common antibiotic we use for treating coughs and colds, which will reduce the infectivity of people with with whooping cough. but it doesn't do an awful lot of good i'm afraid, for the symptom. >> wow . okay. doctor david >> wow. okay. doctor david lloyd, thank you for sharing your expertise with us this morning on breakfast. >> right. >> right. >> still to come, aidan magee will be here with all the latest sports news. that's next. this is breakfast on gb news with martin

nana. good morning. welcome back. you're watching and listening to breakfast with nana and martin on gb news. >> sounds . go on gb news. >> sounds. go through all the latest sports news now with broadcaster aidan magee in the studio. so we covered off the premier league last time. now it's the ticket to get into the

premier league. we start the championship play offs. a ticket worth a quarter of £1 billion if you make it through. >> yeah, i mean that's what luton town estimated it to be worth to them last summer. different clubs will have their own calibration of that. they'll have a different index in terms of what it's worth. it could be to do with what your wage structure is. all the rest of it. but i mean, i remember covering hull city's promotion at wembley in 2008. they estimated at 70 million, and we thought that was outrageous back then. then it went to 100. and it's all estimates. of course, but with the tv money and the bloating of the of financial budgets and also the costs that you lose by going up, then you know, it really is it can it can make or break a club over a ten year period. i mean, i mean, if you look at luton town, for example, they'll go down. but if they're going to build a stadium then that unlocks all sorts of financial potential going forward. they've been talking about building a stadium since the 1980s, and this is game changing for them, even though they've gone down after one season. but today, four decent clubs involved and we've got norwich versus leeds, norwich the first out of the blocks at carrow road, 12:00 and that's third against six. now the diff, the points differential between

leeds and norwich. this is why leeds and norwich. this is why leeds will may well feel defeated, deflated even though, even though daniel farke, the former norwich manager, has said this is a new season now, forget what's gone. that's easier said than done. when you finish 17 points ahead of the team that you're playing, the team that you're playing, the team that you're playing, the team that you're playing goes into it thinking we've got nothing to lose. but if i look at the actual form, i mean, southampton and west brom at the hawthorns is the game. later on after that. 215 so it's really going to be a feast of football today in the championship. but if you look at it's always said, isn't it? i don't have forest's worth going into the playoffs two years ago, but it's always said that it's good to have form going into playoffs at the right time. look at this stat, if you will. leeds, southampton, west brom, norwich in the last five games, that's 20 games between them. only ten of those have been won, six of them, sorry , been won, six of them, sorry, ten of those have been lost. only six have been won. the rest have been drawn. nobody's got any real, real form here. norwich have lost one of the last five, but they've also drawn a couple. leeds have lost. they capitulated at qpr four nil. they lost them to blackburn. they lost at to home southampton. west brom haven't got much form either so i can't predict which way it's going to go. norwich's form since christmas has been better than

anyone else's. they've they've crept up on the on the back burner really and sort of sneaky. they didn't really sneak into the playoffs. they got in quite comfortably in the end. but i would tip them given given their playoff history in the last ten, 15 years or so, i think norwich would would be well placed. they're my tip anyway. put it that way. i'm not even a gambling man. interesting. >> because, about a month ago leeds united looked destined to sail through. they were they were just winning. they were on a roll. and then i think ipswich, who i had a few quid on to go. yeah. they got a last minute goal i think against southampton and leeds just fell apart. well when it mattered they, it's all about, it's all about timing. >> i mean you look at southampton their form has been quite patchy over the last couple of months. but they had a massive, i think 2223 match unbeaten run in the middle of the season. so, you know, if only the season could end there. it's all about when you time your run. it's not as easy as not as easy as it sounds certainly. >> and if norwich and ipswich 9°, >> and if norwich and ipswich go, wow, we'll have a sort of finland spectacular . we will now finland spectacular. we will now then. cricket. we talked we spoke yesterday about jemmy anderson retiring but now he's remaining on. >> well no he's remaining remaining on in the, in in the county game. but he's leaving. leaving the test game. he's international level. he has confirmed that he's going to

retire. he feels happy about it. he said he felt that going into the ashes next year at the age of 43, felt like a bit of a stretch , you know, he started stretch, you know, he started his england career in 2002. martin so he's been around a long, long time. and they say you're a long time retired, but you're a long time retired, but you also have to learn when to get off the carousel at some time. he's had a magnificent career with england. 700 wickets in 187 test matches. that puts him third behind people like muttiah muralitharan in the overall wicket taking. so, so, you know, an outstanding career and somebody who probably can continue coaching, perhaps if he has talks with with bas. but brendon mccullum, the england coach , if he could maybe stay on coach, if he could maybe stay on there and hopefully you can tap into that knowledge as time goes on. >> but what a career he's had and he deserved that coaching role and he won't have to worry so much about his body letting him down. well, as we all do a certain age. yeah, great stuff as i've aidan magee looking forward to the championship play offs. top man. see you in the next hour. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you so much. right still to come, we'll be going through today's top stories with suzanne holder and tom slater in making the news. that's next. this is

nana. >> welcome back. 746 is your time. you're watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. now, before we go through the papers. got a quick view here. we did a section on whooping cough. we had a gp on the screen. shauna said this. very funny. so that's what a gp looks like. i haven't been able to one see in about six years because of the nhs mess created by 14 years of cuts and also lockdowns . and also lockdowns. >> well, sue's made a point which we both mentioned to the gp who was there. whooping cough has everything to do with those coming to this country. they don't vaccinate against it and when they come here they don't speak our language . not only speak our language. not only that, they don't know the ramifications of whooping cough or the seriousness of the disease. yeah, a lot of some of these older illnesses that we have got rid of are coming back. things like polio as well, obviously pushed by the fact that we have a mass migration

issue going on here. >> the gp didn't really want to talk about that, but he made him do it. that's what we're here to do. anyhow, moving on. joining us to go through what's making the news is the editor of spiked, tom slater, and the author and journalist susan holder. welcome back to you both. our favourite part of the show. let's start with this, susan. esther mcvey is having a p0p susan. esther mcvey is having a pop at diversity jobs. they're going to be scrapped. tell us all about it. >> yes. so she's planning to make a speech in westminster tomorrow and i mean, esther was mocked, wasn't she, when she got the cupboard. new cabinet position. as the minister for common sense. i have to say, having read this piece and the piece that she's written in the telegraph, i'm finding it hard to find anything that she's saying. not not common sense. it is actually a very common sense sort of point of view. so she's not talking about scrapping diversity, just to be clear, she's talking about scrapping the jobs that are solely dedicated to finding which kind of person needs to be in which kind of job because of the things that they've got as their as their traits, rather than their talents or their experience, she's also planning to summon, they've they've had a review which has identified £27

million worth of spending across whitehall on this sort of thing, and she has summoned the heads of departments and quangos , of departments and quangos, which have spent the most on equality and diversity schemes, for a meeting . i would quite for a meeting. i would quite like to be a fly on the wall in that meeting because they have to defend how how their spending has benefited taxpayers. >> £27 million. >> £27 million. >> i know it's crazy madness and obviously the argument is often made is, oh, this is a drop in the ocean. you know, if you look at the billions that the government will charge for it, charge for in respect to certain ministries . charge for in respect to certain ministries. but at charge for in respect to certain ministries . but at the same ministries. but at the same time, given how tight things are at the moment, the idea that that 27 million couldn't be put to better use is beyond me. and also you're dealing with a lot of times you know, workplaces which are already quite diverse. what are these managers there to do? i mean, and also i think a lot of the time as well, i think this is kind of political activism masquerading as just human resources, because you look at the kind of powerpoint presentations or the sessions that they have to go through, andifs that they have to go through, and it's just trying to indoctrinate them in all these weird identity politics ideas rather than actually just

deaung rather than actually just dealing with. >> and also, if you add up all those little bits, they then make a lot of money. so you add up 27 million. >> and i will say though i do think we have things have moved on and we do we should kind of give credit to that. and i do think there has been a certain kind of push and we can joke about it and say it's all a load of nonsense. it's not all a load of nonsense. it's not all a load of nonsense, because as a woman, i can remember looking at a lot of kind of institutions and things and thinking, well, it's very kind of, you know, pale, male and stale and we should not and it shouldn't be. so i can see that you do need to see people represented . but what you people represented. but what you you also need is you want people represented who are talented and good at their jobs. otherwise good at theirjobs. otherwise they're not representing you properly. so you hear this all the time. and that's the problem. i think , of where the problem. i think, of where the diversity office are not always getting it right. >> the other problem with it as well, which i found a lot, being a black woman, is that once they've got their black person, there's no more room. so you think right, they've got one black person. oh, i can't have another one. exactly so this diversity is supposed, oh, we've got the black person. we've got a disabled person. now we've got this, but we don't need any more. >> but don't you think that the

diversity thing though, tom, talking as two men and we are male and i don't think we're stale. no, you're not, but diversity does seem to mean less people like us. it it seems to be. >> there are a lot of you around already . i think we should move already. i think we should move the argument. really i would, i would almost flip it on its head, though, because i think the diversity agenda is also a big problem for ethnic minorities within organisations , minorities within organisations, because you create this kind of mindset of like, am i here on merit? >> am i here because i'm ticking a box? well, you know, there's that sort of when you . introduce that sort of when you. introduce kind of racial or gender or other preferences into hiring, it's a big problem for the workforce in general. and i think if you've got common sense schemes to make sure that you're removing barriers to anyone being able to access those jobs, that's perfect. anything else, i think becomes fraught with peril and becomes very divisive. >> and i will say, what you've just said, there is exactly it. because when i joined gb news, are you only there because you're black and this and that? no, no, no, i've had 30 years experience. yeah. and i'm damn good. right. let's move on to labour's 225 council tax

bombshell , labour's 225 council tax bombshell, tom. >> well, this is basically bound up with this long running story about what is labour's workers rights package going to be. so there's been various reports about has it been watered down. has it been actually less than it's actually been sold? and the angle here in the sunday express is that this plan to boost trade union rights would actually end up costing the average household an extra £225 a year each in council tax, presumably just because of the trickle down of all of these different measures and the impact that has on cash strapped councils. >> i mean, it's one thing zeu's having union members pay for a boost of union rights, but having rank and file punters, council tax payers cough up, that's going to stick in the craw. >> yeah, it is a difficult one though. i think angela rayner is kind of pushing for this, and again, at the heart of it the instinct is good isn't it. because social care in particular is very underfunded. and this is one of the things that would be a consequence that they that social care would be, would be better paid. and no one would be better paid. and no one would disagree that that is a good thing. the problem is how

to do it with any labour policy is how are you going to fund that, but actually at the moment we've got 152,000 vacancies in, in that kind of area. and and 28% turnover of people kind of constantly leaving . something constantly leaving. something does need to happen there. and however it happens then i do think it would be a good thing to try and look at social care and pay, but to give the unions too much power on that and then it affect taxpayers. if we don't get the benefit in the long run, that's a worry. >> certainly . look, tom, let's >> certainly. look, tom, let's get back on to sinking our fangs into the eurovision song contest. can we? because, i mean, it happened last night. the politics totally overshadowed the performances beforehand . and we heard from beforehand. and we heard from our man charlie peters in malmo on the ground, said there were more protesters outside than there were audience members inside. and the latest stink. you want to look at here is eurovision kicked out the netherlands fella because he kicked off? >> yes. this is a gentleman called joost klein. i'm probably mispronouncing his name terribly, but for the first time in eurovision history, someone who had made the final was

disqualified. the reason for this ? some of the details are this? some of the details are a little bit sketchy, but essentially he made a allegedly a threatening gesture. a female camerawoman photographer, because the fact that he'd just gotten off stage, he was being filmed and he took offence to the fact that he was being filmed, doesn't seem a particularly stand up guy. >> anyway, seemed ticked off about israel may day in a press conference as well. >> exactly. made this kind of snotty comment about the fact that maybe it's a question for the broadcasters as to how divisive that comment wasn't. >> the israel comment wasn't the reason? no it was not the reason they give it was this set to with the with the photographer. >> but is there more controversy around this year's eurovision? i can't remember one that has produced this many kind of disqualification is quite rare, but of course it's not made the headunes but of course it's not made the headlines as much because of all the israel controversy. >> but but yes, it's a female member of staff who complained about the gesture that he made and found him his behaviour threatening, and that's the reason that they're giving that they were disqualified . they were disqualified. >> and so and the police are involved as well. so it's something which has been quite serious. >> well, it will start unravelling throughout the day, i should imagine . tom and susan,

i should imagine. tom and susan, thank you very much for the call. >> it the most toxic eurovision in history. can we just get back to the singing next year? wouldn't that be nice? >> that would be good. but at least i suppose in some respects we did, because our entrance got nil and i think deservedly sorry, but, let's get an update with your . weather. with your. weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast from the met office. looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts . quite a murky eastern parts. quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. but for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. and these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places , and warnings are in

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demand, of course. and chaos and scandal. let's get the latest from charlie peters. he's there live . live. >> well, it was protest and politics that dominated the eurovision contest. last night. switzerland took the crown, but israel, which was being protests , came second place in the pubuc

, came second place in the public vote. >> cross—beds charlie shortly. but before that concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, of course, natalie elphicke, as it's alleged that she lobbied a formerjustice secretary over her ex—husband's sex abuse trial. >> yes, sir keir starmer took the calculation that it would be positive to have the dover mp on labour's side. but more damaging allegations today . labour's side. but more damaging allegations today. i'll bring you the details shortly. >> harry and meghan continue their not so royal tour of nigeria as a couple open up again on their family life and a large increase in whooping cough deaths is worrying doctors as they encourage to parents get their babies vaccinated . and their babies vaccinated. and glorious weather today returns wonderful. so apparently going to be the hottest day of the year , but for how long can we year, but for how long can we expect the sunshine belem. >> for most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. find out where with me in a little bit.

>> it's over to arsenal today as they travel to old trafford to face manchester united, aiming to return to the top of the premier league after rivals manchester city edged a step closer to a fourth successive title with a win at fulham. we'll also hear about the 17 year old girl from saint albans, who smashed a 45 year old 800 metre record in belfast. more later. >> well, it was the show. hope you're having a very sunny sunday morning. i'm delighted to be here with nana akua. it's a delight to work with you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> now moving quickly on, their slogan may be united by music, but this year's eurovision was anything but a scandal and chaos engulfed the competition. >> well, in the end it was switzerland's act nemo who walked away with the trophy, the country's first win since they won with celine dion. >> but all eyes, of course, were on israel's eden golan , who on israel's eden golan, who

placed sixth and her act was booed by fans in the arena, scoring a 323 points from the pubuc scoring a 323 points from the public vote, with a full 12 points coming from uk viewers. >> well done. and of course, the uk's olly alexander ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder. 18th place, which some feel was generous, receiving no points from the public. >> we're joined now live by gb news reporter charlie peters, our man in malmo. so charlie , we our man in malmo. so charlie, we spoke earlier about the fact, astonishingly, there seemed to be more people protesting outside than there were even inside the arena. and as you told us earlier, some very unsavoury characters in their midst . midst. >> yes, martin, it was quite a bizarre scenario, to be honest with you, because we're spending much of the afternoon walking through malmo with the main procession from the city centre here. just about 20 hours ago, it was a significant scene of protest as thousands started to gather in the city centre. but we saw a major protest continuing throughout the city,

protesting against what they've described as israel's genocide in gaza . they also called for in gaza. they also called for many of the protesters, called for israel to be removed from the competition. the competition browning, of course, is united by music. there's a sticker nearby me here in the city centre that says eurovision united by genocide. of course, the claims that israel is conducting a genocide in gaza have not been found by international observers. but this is the line being pushed by pro—palestinian protesters. and so there was this strange scene when we reached the arena eventually in the evening, where there were tents , geopolitical there were tents, geopolitical tensions going on and scuffles between protesters and the police, counter—terrorism officers, armed policemen, we saw helicopters and we also saw armed police watching us from the roofs. while this tense discussion about israel's role in the world and also its place in the world and also its place in this competition, went on, meanwhile, you speak to people who are queuing to get in to the

arena dressed in flags, having a dnnk arena dressed in flags, having a drink , and they were discussing drink, and they were discussing whether or not they were looking for forward to bambie thug or lasagne baby. it was a completely strange scenario , completely strange scenario, having that mix of perspectives and worlds all clashing at once outside malmo arena . outside malmo arena. >> it was all very odd. charlie peters, thank you very much for joining us. he's there, live in sweden. we're now joined by doctor eurovision, paul jordan . doctor eurovision, paul jordan. paul doctor eurovision, paul jordan. paul, welcome. so good morning. your take on eurovision then was it did it bring more than you expected? and the political piece of it, i mean, what were your thoughts on all of that . your thoughts on all of that. >> yeah, i've got to say it was a strange contest. you know, eurovision is meant to be joyous. it's meant to be fun. it's meant to be engaging. and last night, as the show began, i just had this horrible feeling of dread. and i almost wanted it to be over. and that's not like me. and it's not like eurovision

day. so, yeah, it feels feels very strange. there's lots of things going on in the world. eurovision is an opportunity to escape things in the world. but, yeah, i think the organisers are probably breathing a sigh of relief this morning. >> and paul, let's talk about olly alexander's. let's face it turned out to be a complete flop. got nil points. the worst possible endorsement from the pubuc possible endorsement from the public vote. >> well, that's the tricky thing, though. we don't know what happened there because, you know, technically, you know, some songs get, you know, countries give points to ten countries. you've got 1 to 8, ten and 12. technically, the uk could have been 11th with everyone and still receive zero. it was a risky performance. he's you know, he's a showman, but i imagine , you know, for some imagine, you know, for some countries it might have just been a little bit too much, a little bit too risky, i don't know. it's going to be a difficult one to, to, to look at because the uk is invested in the staging. you know, often the uk acts have been accused of not

being very good on stage. you know, very bland. and, the uk pulled out all the stops this yean pulled out all the stops this year, but it might have just been a little bit too sexual for some, come on, be honest, paul, he was out of tune, he the key change was the best bit about it, he's really quiet in the mix. and the performances either side of him were far better. in fact, all of the performances , fact, all of the performances, in my view, i did listen to the whole thing, even though i was sort of in and out of sleep. but let's be honest, it was a terrible song and the vocals were awful. >> i thought the song was perfectly okay. it's not not amazing, but, it was perfectly okay. and the juries voted for him, so if he was out cheating, the juries wouldn't have given him any points. but you're right, you know, he was sandwiched between a couple of good numbers, it's tricky, you know, he's not the world's best singer, but he's a showman. it's a shame. a lot of pressure on him this year. a lot of pressure on all the artists. given everything going on with israel as well, you know, wish them all the best, i think we need to

regroup and think about what we're doing, sam ryder really, you know, pulled out all the stops and he came second. he was amazing, we need to recreate that magic. well he could sing. >> that's true . >> that's true. >> that's true. >> and, paul, which is important i >> -- >> paul is. we forget, don't we? it's actually about singing . it it's actually about singing. it became about the politics. paul has been called the most toxic eurovision of all time. not only what was going on outside and not only the disgraceful scenes of the israeli candidate being more or less barricaded into a hotel room, but the dutch contestant being disqualified . contestant being disqualified. and as a longtime observer and superfan of the eurovision, paul superfan of the eurovision, paul, this must make your heart sink. can we just get back to making it about the music ? making it about the music? >> well, it did, you know, as i said, you know, like this yesterday morning, i was like, what on earth is going on? it's meant to be a fun day. and i had this sense of dread. but, you know, i've been to eurovision for many, many years, and in 2012 it was in azerbaijan.

that's a dictatorship. and they hosted eurovision, you know , hosted eurovision, you know, politics has come into it and it's gone out of it as well. let's hope we get back to the music next year. and, you know, i wish i wish people would remember this is a song contest. these singers are not politicians and, they're not necessarily responsible for the actions of their governments. well, exactly . well, exactly. >> doctor eurovision, that's paul jordan, thank you very much i >> -- >> good stuff. >> good stuff. >> now moving on to a bit of politics. and new labour mp natalie elphicke has been accused of lobbying ministers in an attempt to interfere in her husband, former husband's sexual assault case. >> then justice secretary sir robert buckland alleges that she asked him to move the 2020 trial of charlie elphicke to a lower profile court, apparently to spare him public scrutiny , and spare him public scrutiny, and miss elphicke ended the marriage when her husband was convicted of sexually assaulting two women and jailed for two years. a labour party spokesperson said she totally rejects the characterisation of the meeting. miss elphicke defected from the

conservatives to labour last week . week. >> let's get our thoughts now about political correspondent katherine forster, who joins us in the studio. catherine, welcome to the show. always a pleasure. do you think the labour party might be looking back on this defection and thinking, maybe it wasn't such a goodidea? >> well, there's certainly been a huge amount of criticism, not least from, you know, labour mps themselves, some of whom are absolutely horrified that sir keir starmer chose to take a very right wing conservative mp and be one who comes with a lot, and be one who comes with a lot, a lot of baggage. so this latest story front page of the sunday times, just to zoom back a little bit , her times, just to zoom back a little bit, her husband natalie elphicke's husband charlie elphicke, was previously the conservative mp for dover . elphicke, was previously the conservative mp for dover. he was charged with very serious sexual offences and then she replaced him, in a not very transparent process as mp and continued to support him. this

latest allegation is that just before his trial and he ended up going to jail for two years for very serious sexual offences , very serious sexual offences, she went to the then justice secretary, sir robert buckland, and basically tried to get his . and basically tried to get his. trial moved to a less high profile court with a less high profile court with a less high profile judge. now, we have supposedly we should have the separation of powers in this country. you know, legislative parliament, the executive, the government, the judiciary. so she was really trying to interfere in a way that she should not. and robert buckland was having none of it. now it's also alleged that after he was in jail, she later tried to intervene again, complaining about conditions in the prison, basically, that his bed wasn't comfortable enough and that his pillows were not comfortable enough. pillows were not comfortable enough . so now worth saying, enough. so now worth saying, worth saying that that has been

discounted. well, they've saying that this is nonsense. labour have said that natalie elphicke totally rejects that characterisation of events. and why didn't the conservatives raise it at the time? but certainly, you know, keir starmer has made the calculation that getting this woman who was on the front line of the small boats crisis over to labour, that all people at home are going to take is, oh my goodness, even rishi sunaks . goodness, even rishi sunaks. local mp thinks he can't stop the boats and keir starmer is going to do a betterjob. but my goodness, there's been a lot of a lot of fallout from this. >> but what is the benefit to natalie elphicke? because keir starmer, he's, as you said, going to have this conservative member of parliament who is heavy on stopping the boats. hopefully some of that will rub off on him or hopefully the rest off on him or hopefully the rest of it doesn't. so what is the

benefit to natalie elphicke? she's going to step down. it's honestly a bit of a mystery because we know they've already selected their candidate for doven selected their candidate for dover, so she's not standing. >> she's stepping down. initially there was some thought that maybe labour had offered her a peerage . they've said her a peerage. they've said categorically that's not the case now . she has said she's case now. she has said she's very interested in housing. she rather than being a nimby, she's more of a yimby. she thinks that the conservatives have let the country down in not building enough homes. she feels very strongly about that. so in her sort of statement that she put out her letter, that seems to be a factor. she seems to be hoping to be able to influence and work with labour on that. but it seems like she's not going to have an official role on that ehhen have an official role on that either. so it's very, very curious. >> i think it's fair to say it's just been the most calamitous defection ever. >> i think normally when somebody goes over to the other side, the people that they're going to welcome them with open

arms and the other side are horrified. but the conservatives largely are mystified but also think it's a real misstep by laboun think it's a real misstep by labour. there's plenty of labour mps jess phillips, rosie duffield, women who are very concerned about safety of women and girls that look, how can you take this woman who stood by, charlie elphicke? he . went to charlie elphicke? he. went to jail, she rubbished the victim. she said that, you know, he was attractive to women, that he'd had an apology earlier in the week, didn't they? >> jess phillips complains so much and certainly that that they were forced to apologise. >> yeah, but she stood by him for a long time and she said that, you know, he'd he'd had injustice heaped upon injustice, that he'd been thrown to the wolves rather than thinking, hang on a minute, you know, why are these women saying these things now? her mother says, oh, she stood by him because she was a good catholic. but certainly i think it's very problematic. but for all the outrage in westminster, what are people at home going to take for this? are they really going to register

this or are they just going to see a very hardcore . tory mp see a very hardcore. tory mp going over to labour? >> i think what they're going to see is they're going to slightly forget keir starmer's. what is it? border control thing. >> elite border control unit. >> elite border control unit. >> i think it's almost like subterfuge isn't it. so you're not going to focus too heavily on what he's doing. and we're all talking about natalie elphicke okay. >> katherine forster excellent as ever. thank you forjoining as ever. thank you for joining us in the studio. cheers now, you may have been enjoying the hot weather this past weekend, but that of course, because it's england that could all be about to change. >> yes, of course. the met office have released yellow thunderstorm warnings in parts of the uk for today. >> people in these areas are expected to face some disruption, especially to travel well now. >> joined by weather journalist nathan rao. and nathan, welcome. so we're having unseasonably warm weather which is good and but now thunderstorms give us some more detail on. >> yeah i think first of all we should concentrate on the fact that for the last few weeks and

even months, we've been desperate for the warm weather, and it is finally here. we have the hottest day of the year yesterday, and it could be even warmer today at 27. so looking on the bright side, if you are in the sunshine today, a little bit of light relief after the horror show of the eurovision yesterday to get out in the sunshine. but yes, as you mentioned, when we get three days of very warm weather or any length of time of very warm weather, it usually does go crash, bang, wallop, and that is exactly what it's going to do . exactly what it's going to do. >> i'm not going anywhere like we're surprised that we actually have any heat in this country. >> it's true nathan, it's fair to say we had the wettest april, probably of all time . it rained, probably of all time. it rained, it seemed, every blinking day. then we get a few days of sun and of course it's going to rain again. is the weather off kilter? nathan, you and i talk a lot about the fact we seem to be going through dramatic periods of increased wet weather. can we just have a heat wave now, please? yeah well, i'd love to promise you a heat wave. >> i mean, in terms of your

question of whether the weather is off kilter, what we're seeing at the moment isn't really. i mean, yes, the average the temperatures are above average, 27 is pretty well above average for may, and you mentioned we've had a very, very wet period over the past few months, 11 named storms that have brought in a lot of rainfall in fact, on that note, with these thunderstorms this afternoon, which are going to be down the west side of the country, there is going to be a bit of rainfall with that, quite a lot, up to two inches of rain in parts. so with the water tables where they've had a lot of rain over the past few weeks still very high, there may be a risk of flooding and some disruption from that. so an unusually wet and windy storm season, and now we've got a very warm period. the fact that it's going to go bang with thunderstorms, that's not so unusual, but as i said, you know, where you get some good weather today do make the most of it. because as we go into the week, i'm afraid to say the high pressure which brings the lovely warm, sunny weather that we're always so desperate for at this time of year is going to vanish and low pressure, which brings

in the wet and windy stuff that we hate, is going to make a reappearance and that is going to stick around for the rest of the week. so temperatures down a bit from tomorrow and some more wind and rain on the way. so get out and make the most of it. but also just a note, be careful of the pollen levels because if you're anything like me, you've been sneezing and dribbling for the last day or so with the with the last day or so with the with the hay fever, you know, now you've said that it's psychosomatic. you've mentioned it. now i'm going to be sneezing because you've just mentioned it, nathan. thank you. yeah, well, nathan always a delight to have you on the show. >> and it's my local park fair today. i'll be down there having a few bevvies 100. >> yeah, well good morning. if you're just tuned in. welcome it's just coming up to 19 minutes after 8:00. let's have a look at some of the other stories that are coming into the newsroom. >> and a ban on jobs dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion in the civil service has been announced. and under new plans, there will be no more jobs devoted to inclusivity in whitehall, outside of hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related work .

diversity related work. >> well done esther, writing in the sunday telegraph, cabinet minister esther mcvey claimed that public money was being wasted on what she described as woke hobbyhorses and tens of thousands of palestinians have been fleeing rafah in anticipation of an expected israeli assault on southern gaza. >> they have been told to move to a so—called expanded humanitarian zone on the west coast. this prompted fears of a wider invasion of rafah . despite wider invasion of rafah. despite calls for restraint from the united nations, the uk and other allies and humanitarian organisations and drivers on the m25 in london are being urged to stick to diversion routes during the weekend closures as a new bndgeis the weekend closures as a new bridge is being installed. >> the motorway, which is britain's busiest, closed in both directions between junctions nine and ten on friday evening and it's set to reopen tomorrow morning. so you might

as well just stay at your house or something. don't get on the roads and drive. it's going to be hot and humid . and it's just, be hot and humid. and it's just, you know, stay at home. >> dodgy m25. i think getting your garden get out and about, walk your dog or like me, get to your local park and have a few beers with the boys. i've got a couple of views here, this one is. oh, isabel says great to see nana and martin this morning. thanks, isabel. and paul says if the eurovision contestants put, put as much effort into the songs as they do, virtue signalling, maybe the songs would be more memorable and less dross. >> yeah. and alan adds this. and in fact, we had jay from bucks fizz on the show yesterday. i don't think i've watched eurovision song contest since bucks fizz won it. bring back the fizz. >> bring back the fizz, indeed. but not just yet because it's early morning. and welcome. if you just joined us, get an update with some weather. yeah. why not? >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb

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watching on demand. good luck! >> well, still to come. there are calls to improve vaccine rates amid the uk's biggest outbreak of whooping cough in two decades. we'll be discussing that next. this is breakfast on gb news with martin and .

nana. welcome back. you're watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. >> now, officials are facing calls to improve vaccine rates for whooping cough over fears the cost of living crisis is contributing to low uptake and data shows that the rates of people taking the vaccines is at the lowest level in the 10. >> most deprived areas in england. >> this comes after it was revealed the uk could be experiencing its biggest outbreak of whooping cough in almost two decades. >> well, we're now joined by

senior clinical lecturer at the university of exeter medical school, doctor bharat pankhania. bharat, welcome to the show. it's very good to talk to you again. it's been a long time. haven't spoken to in a while. what? bharat, what are we putting this to? down the fact that the. a lot of people are getting whooping cough, which is unusual. really this is multifactorial , nana. and it has multifactorial, nana. and it has many issues , surrounding why the many issues, surrounding why the uptake is low. so there has been a growing trend of low vaccine uptake for some time. add to this the difficulty of ready access to general practice is a big contributing factor. and remember, in deprived areas there's a lot of pressure. also on primary care services. and then there , you know, it's then there, you know, it's a rhythm. it's a pattern. when you miss your first appointment, you are more likely to miss your second, and you are more likely

to miss your third as well. so when i was a practising consultant, communicable disease control, what i used to do was work with the gp practices and say make it open access in other words, whenever a patient turns up , try and get them immunised up, try and get them immunised because they don't have that, that pattern of we can only come here between 10 and 4 pm, that sort of thing. >> maybe they need to do it in schools. would it be practicable for them to do it in schools? because a lot of the time they do stuff like that. don't they go to schools, get these vaccinations done. >> so, so this 6 in 1 vaccine that we give is a childhood vaccine given at eight weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks. so it really is in early days of life, and it's very much in the hands of, you know, the little babies carers to get the baby either at the child clinic, toddler clinic or gp services. >> doctor pankhania the figures

are alarming. five babies have died this year, now 2793 cases across england alone so far this yeah across england alone so far this year. that's three times more than the previous year. and another alarming stat 51% of these cases are of people age 15 and older. this is not just solely now down to babies . solely now down to babies. therefore, do we have to address the fact we spoke to an nhs doctor last week who works in an outreach project in london and said often times what she's experiencing is people coming into the country from overseas territories who don't have that heritage of baby vaccination, early doors. and so we're kind of picking up the pieces in the uk later on down the line. is this an illness like measles? like others that we thought that we'd stamped out? and now, because of the changing demographics of the uk, that's no longer the case? >> no. there's again, a lot of multiple factors at play here.

so for example, the 15 year olds, etc, getting these infections are a function of they missed their vaccines when they missed their vaccines when they were babies. then there is also a small minor point that can also happen , which is the can also happen, which is the vaccine efficacy. sometimes can drop off and then you start seeing cases later on. and if that happens, there's always a booster campaign that we can do. but look, the bigger picture is this. these are serious infectious diseases that can make you very ill. six of them are easily vaccine preventable . are easily vaccine preventable. and what we ought to be doing is making ready access for young mothers to take their children to those clinics, or set up mobile clinics to immunise these little babies , and it protects little babies, and it protects them very much so for the rest of their life, mostly. >> thank you, doctor bharat

pankhania , really good to talk pankhania, really good to talk to you. >> superb. now still to come, aidan magee g will be here with all your latest

nana. >> welcome back. it's fast approaching 35 minutes after 8:00. this is gb news. you're watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. >> and now let's go through all the latest sports news. and i'm here with broadcaster aidan magee. always a pleasure. so premier league , all eyes on the premier league, all eyes on the bottom of the table. and of course my team nottingham forest yesterday. technically all but safe but a couple of teams sadly went down. >> they did so burnley went to tottenham needing a win. a draw certainly wasn't good enough and neither was a defeat. they took the lead through a lot, braun

larsson but it wasn't enough. tottenham turn that one around their first half to a run of four straight defeats. and then of course luton earlier in the day went to west ham, lost three one. david moyes last game at the london stadium. very emotional departure for him but also rob edwards, the luton manager, very emotional as well. they've given it a really good shot this season. they didn't spend big on players because they know that if they want to come back up next season, they're not going to be saddling big, big wages. and as we've discussed in the last hour about what the what the promotion is, the premier league is worth £250 million is what luton estimated it at last summer. they can change their stars with this money, martin, because they can start building that stadium. they've been talking about building since, since the 1980s. what it meant though, of course, with sheffield united already having gone down, is that nottingham forest, despite all the travails off the pitch this season with the points deduction, have managed to stay up. they went into the chelsea game at 530, knowing that the job was was pretty much done, but again, they made a really good fist of it. probably should have won against chelsea actually, as you know. but, but look, they've managed to stay in as we said, as we said yesterday, it's existential. you

have to stay in this division. and the more time you spend in the division, historically, the stronger you get. yeah. and then next season, instead of looking at maybe bottom, bottom six, you can maybe look towards mid—table. and that's certainly what forest will be hoping for. and the owner, marinakis, will certainly be looking towards that forest a21 up, the crowd you know, in the city ground were getting, you know, very, very excited. it ended up being three two defeat. you know that's the way it goes. chelsea fantastic squad. commiserations to luton and burnley, you know as as a team you're a qpr fan. we all know how tough the battle for survival. it's almost primaeval. it's like darwinian . primaeval. it's like darwinian. it's such a scrap. >> it is. it's exciting though. but it's also the first time that we don't know what it says about the gap between the premier league and the championship. i always felt that it was a bit overblown, actually. i mean, lots of clubs have come up from the championship and more than held their own, but this is the first time since 1998 it looks like now, barring a 12 goal swing, of course, against nottingham forest, that all three teams come up from the championship will have gone straight back down. so sad to see that, but hopefully it will just be an aberration. >> okay, now let's look ahead.

now of course all eyes on man u arsenal today and the battle for the premiership title. >> yeah. so man city did their job yesterday. they went to the top of the league for the first time in a few weeks by winning at fulham. they won comfortably as well. josko gvardiol scoring as well. josko gvardiol scoring a couple of goals for city as a winger. even though he's a centre back. that's how confident that pep guardiola is in the adaptability of his players. but arsenal go to man united today. i think they've only won once there in the league, martin since 2006. so we talk about man city's wretched record at tottenham. they go there on tuesday. arsenal don't travel to old trafford very well, certainly since the days of the prime day, prime years of arsene wenger's time. so that'll be a tough one for them today. and then we could get a situation where if man city were to draw at tottenham, assuming arsenal were to win today, we could get a shootout on the final day, which comes down to goal difference. that would be tremendously exciting. i want to touch as well on the old firm in scotland, a big title race up there as well. rangers had a real chance to bloody the noses of celtic yesterday and take the take the initiative in the title race, celtic managed to win two

one and look, they blew it for themselves, alan stubbs said yesterday. it's about temper, it's about focus, it's about holding your own and holding a nerve. on the day they didn't manage to do that, rangers, they missed their chance very much like 9697. when we talked about early on, celtic had that brilliant form outside of the old firm matches. they just could not beat rangers. it's the same in reverse this time. celtic needed a point now at kilmarnock on wednesday to go and win it to win their 12th league title out of 13 aidan magee. >> i'm afraid we have to blow the final whistle there. always a pleasure to see you in the studio. cheers. >> that was a nice little link blow in the final whistle. >> are you relieved with that nana? >>i nana? >> i don't know what's going on next time.

martin. >> welcome back. it's 842. you're watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. >> right. well, joining us now to go through what's making the news is editor of spiked, tom slater, an author and

journalist, susan holder. >> welcome back for now, tom, this story really leaps out from today's mail on sunday. black markets, puberty blockers. yes >> a really interesting investigation here. so as everyone will know by now, the cass review recently led to the banning of puberty blockers, in terms of the nhs, they've actually been banned for some time already, but since then they've also been banned in private clinics . even north of private clinics. even north of the border in scotland, there's a clampdown on them. and so , a clampdown on them. and so, naturally, people who are convinced that they are the wrong gender are turning to the black market, turning to the internet. so what this investigation did was that they they posed as a child trying to buy a young teenager essentially looking on places like reddit, looking on places like reddit, looking on places like reddit, looking on various different social media sites, and very easily was able to buy quite large quantities of puberty blockers. there's a gentleman here by the name of serck—hanssen varda, who is someone who is running one of these kind of dodgy companies out of turkey, but there are all kinds of other outlets as well. so it's one of those as ever, you can announce a policy in the

way of banning puberty blockers. everyone now agrees he's half sensible that that is the right route to go down. but the problem is because, you know, you do have these kids who have got this idea in their heads who have been listening to various onune have been listening to various online influencers. often influencers are pointing them in the direction of where they can get these drugs as well, that it's going to be a big game of whack a mole. now, to make sure that kids aren't accessing this stuff with even fewer safeguards than existed before her. >> so it's no surprise that the internet steps in. and the black market, the dark web, i mean, you can get anything on the internet. yeah, in a sense, this is a sign of the times. no surprise. >> it is no surprise. and tom's right. you know, the fact that it can be so unregulated to go that way rather than having access to it through some sort of formal kind of way. but maybe the only thing to do, i think, to, to stop this is to talk to children more and listen to them more and more counselling in place and more kind of in the process. before you get to the point where you think you actually kind of are needing those drugs. i mean, it is obviously like you says, any,

any half sensible person would never agree that anyone under 18 should be accessing these any old garbage, but they could be. and the danger? >> well, i think that will put a lot of people off. and the fact that it's gone on the black market is not a good thing, but it does protect. >> it's a very extreme situation that you're going to be able to do that. i would, i would think, but it is very dangerous. i mean, it's dangerous what the drugs do to you when they're correct drugs and it's but it's even more dangerous if they're doing something completely different, which you don't know what they're going to be. >> well, they don't know what they're doing. and the suzanne paloma faith's dating checklist. okay. paloma faith. >> i love paloma faith, but did you know she's on a she's on a dating website for celebrities. there's a dating website for celebrities. that's a bit odd, isn't it? it's called raya. you have to be a celebrity to try and get a date with. well, that's not on her list. >> they're very fussy, though. they won't let you on. not everyone can just. you can't be a celebrity. i'm going to go on there. they decide whether they're going to have you or not, whether you're a celebrity. >> but on her list, if is not, you have to be another celebrity. that's not a list you can't wear ugg boots. she doesn't want anybody tory. she

doesn't want anybody tory. she doesn't want anybody tory. she doesn't want anyone. tory. there you go. you're out. she doesn't want anyone to take more than 25 minutes to get ready. you're definitely out there. i mean, that's five. 11 is her minimum height requirement. and if you haven't done or aren't doing therapy, she doesn't want you. oh, my god, she sounds like a nightmare. she does sound like a bit of a nightmare, i have to say, but i think lists and we all have kind of ideals of what we would and wouldn't want in general. but if i look back at what i thought i would end up with when i was young, i wouldn't have put smoker , which wouldn't have put smoker, which my husband now was then. he isn't now, but he was then. i wouldn't have put 20 years older. that wouldn't be something that you'd require. i wouldn't have put, you know, lead singer over of a rock band. i didn't it wasn't on my list. >> my mum's got a list. she's in her 70s. she went to bring me a billionaire who looks like a horse. she doesn't care what she's got because nobody would want him. she can have him. is the thing alone. she just. >> they exist . all these lists. >> they exist. all these lists. >> they exist. all these lists. >> all these lists don't. don't have any kind of all of them have any kind of all of them have make any room for chemistry

. and the fact you just spark with somebody and it doesn't matter what's on your list, it just won't necessarily go that way. >> the therapy thing was odd. the therapy thing is, i mean, does she stipulate what kind of therapy? no, therapy. not in this piece about mental health, presumably. >> no, it's not aromatherapy. >> no, it's not aromatherapy. >> i think i could be better off with somebody who doesn't in a way, if she's looking for the perfect person, somebody who maybe doesn't need therapy, but that's the perfect. >> it doesn't make them. >> it doesn't make them. >> somebody doesn't make has had therapy is not the perfect person. >> no. and if that if you think that's the perfect person, your standards are low there. >> it's like that idea now that if you're not in therapy, there's something wrong with you, which i find very, very something wrong with you in therapy. >> nothing wrong to admit that, but that's quite telling. >> and i think there's a broader discussion here that she wouldn't date a tory voter. how ridiculous. the whole kind of. i'm not. look, the thing is, my miss is, you know, is politically very different from myself . so what? yeah. why do myself. so what? yeah. why do you have to date somebody who agrees with what you think about? isn't that. >> i think that's i think that sounds kind of quite a bit about her as well, actually. not in a mean way, but she obviously

wants people who are not even a first date conversation. >> that is it. >> that is it. >> who wants somebody who's going to challenge me a little bit, at least not just let me get away with blue murder. >> yeah, right. >> yeah, right. >> tom, let's move on to this one, perhaps no surprises to parents or indeed anybody who watches people walking out in the road, staring at their phones, about to get splattered by a car. uk is the mobile phone addiction . addiction. capital >> no, exactly. this is really interesting. actually. there's been a survey by more in common who have found that british adults use their phones more regularly. they're also more likely to favour restrictions for their children then france, germany, america. it's poll of 8000 people. and what's interesting about this as well is the fact that it's suggesting that, first of all, adults and children don't really use their phones any more than one another. so there's often this panic about young people using social media. and one thing you do think about that is obviously they're getting their cues from their parents as well. so while there's often a panic about how young people are getting to onune young people are getting to online and so on, you know, staring at their staring at their instagram feed when they should be having a conversation around the family dinner table

that's not come out of a vacuum. and i think that's often something that's missed, so one of the things that it puts down to why britain is particularly bad for constantly checking phones and so on is because the fact that unlike places like france, where you basically have almost legal restrictions on not being able to email people after hours at work and so on, that doesn't really exist here. but there's clearly also a cultural problem anyway, across the board with, you know, we panic about young people using mobile phones, and yet everyone's, you know, guilty of this. >> i took my daughter off all the time, but i'm a total, utter hypocrite. >> but it is about the effect on developing minds we don't know. and that constant scrolling and the kind of that looking at a screen and not looking up and being in the world, when you see in very small children, my son is 29. when i when my son was little and we took him out and we went to the restaurants or we went, we were going out or you're travelling or you're on an aeroplane, there was not a screen i could put in front of him, and you had to have colouring books. you had to talk to him, you had to play activities. i can make you one of those little things like that in two seconds. you still make that? i can do it any, any way you want. because. because you can. you just you just have to do things to occupy them. and

people now do use them as babysitting devices all the time. and really will panic if, if they don't have a screen to put in front of their child, even on a just a short tube journey. i've seen people just standing there with phones in front of their child's faces, and you do think that screen in their face all the time? they don't always ask for it. it's just given to them and i do think that is a big worry about how that's going to affect their attention spans and their development as they get older. >> i see kids who are still in buggies, who the mums on the trains give them a phone. they do , and if the phone falls off, do, and if the phone falls off, the kids are. >> exactly. yeah. and they can't do without a phone before they can even walk. oh my son, if you're not at that early door. >> and it's not that you can't blame the children for this. they're not asking for that parents. and i do understand it's, you know, having a child, it's, you know, having a child, it's hard work. and you do have to do an awful lot of things to keep them. but you know, the days are long, but the years are short. i hate it when people are pushing buggies on their phones and not attending to their kids. >> i find that a bit, but i just give my son. he's six now. he plays with lego tv off everything, low tech on the and the lego. >> do you know what they want more than anything? human interaction. they do talk to them. >> that's what they want. love me. >> talking of which, let's get

on to the african penguins. >> we need african penguins because they've been on the list all morning. we've talked about african penguins all morning. >> we haven't got to it. we can't let it be one of those stories we don't do. >> tom. >> tom. >> that is the definition of drop the dead donkey. no, the comedy show drop the dead donkey is about the story that's at the bottom of the list and never gets gets. we're doing it with the penguins. >> let's not drop the african penguins. >> penguins? >> penguins? >> so there are concerned that the african penguins that we've heard so much about already on this show this morning could disappear. so there's, penguins are particularly visit a particular beach in south africa and there's worried that they're they could basically disappear by 2035. there used to be about 100,000 of them about 100 years ago. now they're down to about 10,000. naturally, they're blaming the climate , blaming the climate, overfishing, a few other things. but, but nobody fishes for penguins. >> no, apparently. >> no, apparently. >> is it directly the fish they eat? it seems like. so as ever, cause for concern. this is something that i think most people can agree is should be something that is tried to rectify. but, you know, oftentimes you see these kind of panicked headlines, but there are things that can take place. you know, every generation there's a particular species that people are particularly worried about could be humpback whales. 20, 30 years ago, they

bred back . bred back. >> we're all going to die out a while ago and that just hasn't happened. >> yeah, there's too many of them. >> and even the panda that is. isn't the panda the sign of the wwf world wildlife. and actually that actually isn't endangered anymore because but because it's because of things like this. because we talk about it. because we talk about it. because attention is brought to bean because attention is brought to bear. but i was very confused about where you find penguins. and because is it the arctic or the antarctic? and it's the antarctic, isn't it? you you'd never find a penguin next to a polar bear. that's true, isn't it? because the polar bears are north and they're south. >> so what about the african penguins? and where are they? i didn't think they even had penguins in africa. >> yeah, in south africa. >> yeah, in south africa. >> yeah. that's right on the. >> yeah. that's right on the. >> and there in australia, anywhere southern hemisphere you find a lot of people bless them on this. >> wonderful. right. let's get stuck to the eurovision. >> one last pop because come on. >> one last pop because come on. >> we've been talking about all morning. we absolute calamity. the politics overtook the performances once again. >> but you know what the performance some of the performances were good and we haven't spoken about this. and i would quite like to because it is a song contest and the one i would have voted for would have been france. so the french

singer sang no fancy tricks. he was a good singer. he had a good song. >> i heard that, what a beautiful voice. he stood back from the mic a cappella as well, and did a cappella with no music. >> you could have heard a pin drop. it was. it was a real moment. it was actually like real spine chilling stuff. i thought it was beautiful. he came fourth. yeah, he was in the top five, so i wasn't the only person to think. but there were some mad things as as eurovision always is, there was a man dancing with no pants on or the camera kind of angles covered up the fact that he was naked from the fact that he was naked from the waist down, pretty much. and then a pair of denim shorts were delivered on wires that shot fireworks out when he put them on. you see, wouldn't you? you're looking at me like i'm making this up. yeah, i couldn't make that up. drinking. >> did this happen? >> did this happen? >> this actually happened. there was also there was also . and was also there was also. and yeah, the i'm now i'm now thinking it's myself. i know it wasn't. i actually know did i see that. no. i mean he did. was that a dream? >> i see it was it was finland.

>> i see it was it was finland. >> yeah. it was called no pants, no rules, no pants. >> you see, there was dua lipa type thing, but not dua lipa. >> but do you know what dua lipa i thought of dua lipa while i watched the whole show. >> there was a lot. there were a lot of men dancing in pants. there was one that had very big pants at the front, but when they turned around there was g strings. you see, i do think things have gone too far. >> it's gone a bit much. >> it's gone a bit much. >> it's gone a bit much. >> it has gone a bit much. but this is the beauty of eurovision. but the, the musically there were some things that were quite good. i do think the one that won, he sang, he sang a good song, you know, on a, on a spinning top. that was quite good. >> i quite like norway's entry. it was like a sort of norway are always good, aren't they? very good. it was like a mystic kind of whoa, really high notes. nothing that ollie, nothing that olly alexander could reach nil point for the uk. >> and maybe there's the answer that we should have less men in pants. yes, more women in pants. >> like the good old days. just singing. no no, i'm going to. >> no, i'm going to fight that back.i >> no, i'm going to fight that back. i don't think we should have i don't i don't think we should have women dancing in their pants either. i don't think we need to see anybody dancing in the pants. i think we

need to have good songs brilliantly sung. that would be a good song contest. >> and unfortunately, that's what went wrong with the uk's entry, which is very tragic that olly alexander. poor guy. never mind olly, not next time, maybe next time we can get a musician who can really sing . who can really sing. >> susan tom who weren't dancing in their pants have been great all morning. >> although it is quite hot. yeah, which is your weather with craig snell ? craig snell? >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast from the met office. looking ahead to today , most of us ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine . but for northern some sunshine. but for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. and these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in

places , and warnings are in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the sunshine feeling very warm. highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner . into down towards the south eastern corner. into this evening. the showers continue to rumble on, especially across parts of northern england and scotland. some torrential downpours developing here overnight. elsewhere turns drier but fairly cloudy, but under the cloud it's going to be a mild night. temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. so for most it should be a dry start on monday. still some showers up across scotland , some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. but then down towards the south—west we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. come the afternoon . elsewhere, a largely afternoon. elsewhere, a largely dry picture. best of the sunshine over towards the east. but for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east.

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gb news. >> good morning. it's fast approaching. 9:00. it's sunday. it's the 12th of may. >> and this is breakfast. of course, with nana akua and martin daubney. and here's what's leading the news today. >> switzerland have won the eurovision song contest, a ceremony marred in chaos and scandal. let's get the latest from charlie peters. he's there. live >> good morning. from sunny sweden, where last night protest and politics threatened to overshadow the music in the party. >> now we'll cross back to charlie live for more updates. but before that, concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, natalie elphicke, as it's alleged that she lobbied a former justice secretary over

her ex—husband's sex abuse trial, she's probably getting so much attention this is the most she's had for many years. >> harry and meghan. now they continue their not so royal tour of nigeria as the couple open up on their family life and glorious weather returns across the country today with the hottest day of the year expected. >> but for how long can we expect the sunshine to continue for them? >> for most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. find out where with me in a little bit. >> warms the show. always . >> warms the show. always. a delight to have your company and delightful to be joined by nana akua this one. yes. superb. now their slogan may be united by music, but this year's eurovision song contest was anything but. a scandal and chaos engulf . the competition.

chaos engulf. the competition. >> in the end, of course, it was switzerland's act nemo who walked away with the trophy, the country's first win since they they won with celine dion. but all eyes were on israel's eden golan, who placed fifth. >> in the end, her act was booed by fans in the arena, but she scored a 323 points from the pubuc scored a 323 points from the public vote with a full 12 points coming from uk viewers. >> absolutely . and the uk's olly >> absolutely. and the uk's olly alexander? well, he ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder 18th place, which . some say is quite which. some say is quite generous, receiving no points from the public. >> and we're now joined by gb news reporter charlie peters, our man in malmo. so, charlie, the protests outside were so big they numbered more than the people inside the arena. and charlie, tell us about some of the unsavoury characters in their midst . their midst. >> well, it was a significant scuffle outside the arena last night as the eurovision grand final, as it's known, kicked off at 9 pm. we did see several of

the protesters who were part of the protesters who were part of the main demonstration in the town centre earlier yesterday afternoon, migrate over to the arena as the show started, and they went through a very unique and interesting strategy, i think, where they started pushing back against the police and the police, both danish and swedish, in a joint effort, would kettled them away and then we'd see a fresh wave of protesters come in and take their place constantly forcing their place constantly forcing the police to move them around so that they couldn't get rid of the entire protest. in one move, there were several arrests. we saw some punches thrown, pepper spray was used by the police. we saw one man receiving treatment outside the arena after the first round of scuffles , and it first round of scuffles, and it went on for some time, and this was part of a thousand strong protest. but amid widespread condemnation of eurovision by many of the pro—palestinian groups who have said that israel should not have taken part in last night's event, but it went ahead and eden golan did sing her track at the event, called

hurricane . it had to be changed hurricane. it had to be changed from october rain, which the organisers, the ebu, said was too political because it referenced they thought the war that had started on october the 7th when hamas committed those atrocities in southern israel. so she changed the track, went ahead and performed. and while there were several loud demonstrations in malmo yesterday , many critics this yesterday, many critics this morning have said that the silent european majority were heard through the voting, with israel placing second in the overall public vote. second only to croatia there, and it was the jury to croatia there, and it was the jury vote that saw eden golan finish fifth in a hotly contested competition. last night here in southern sweden. >> and charlie, extraordinary scenes greta thunberg, who's complained for most of her life about being bullied and harangued as a woman, yet she was outside doing precisely that to eden golan inside, as you said. and charlie, you mentioned to us earlier, a proscribed terrorist group was marching

yesterday. tell us more about that. >> well, the pflp was out in force yesterday. the popular front for the liberation of palestine. and this group is a marxist—leninist organisation based predominantly in the west bank. but it has support around the world, particularly in the in the arab diaspora, in europe, where several people there were gathering with their flags here in malmo. and one man told me that several members from the west bank who'd left and moved into europe were actually on the march. now, this group is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the united states, canada, japan and throughout the european union, which of course, sweden is a part of. so controversial to see several of those flags flying . several of those flags flying. we also saw flags for communist representation in sweden. and at the back of the march, we also saw a group called queers for palestine, right at the back of the train of protesters as they moved through central malmo

greta thunberg also seen yesterday and on thursday in those major demonstrations, part of a recent trend that we've observed with environmentalist groups and agitators joining up with pro—palestinian demonstrations, critics of this movement have said that they're just taking advantage of much of the attention that the pro—palestinian cause is receiving at the moment, not necessarily understanding a link between the green cause and the situation in gaza and the west bank. but those who are part of this new movement, which we've seen an alignment between the greens and the pro—palestinians , greens and the pro—palestinians, they've said especially on gb news, they've said that they are fighting against two different genocides. they think there's a genocides. they think there's a genocide in gaza and a genocide being caused by the environmental crisis. of course, both of those claims very sternly contested, are charlie peters. >> thank you very much. it's like genocide has become the new word because before it was racist, everyone was called a racist. now everything they're calling things genocide. i think

it's very been used very liberally, without i don't think i think i don't think it's the right word to be using for that at all. >> and an astonishing statement, switzerland, one of their people put a statement out saying that the eurovision song contest has always been a safe haven for anybody from the lgbtq community, but it appears now it's not a safe haven if you happen to be jewish. >> i know it's such hypocrisy andifs >> i know it's such hypocrisy and it's incredible. they don't appear to be able to see what they're doing as quite hypocritical, especially the whole notion of queers for palestine, which, as we know , palestine, which, as we know, they're not so favourable towards those who are homosex , towards those who are homosex, but it's one way of putting it. >> i mean, you probably wouldn't last five minutes in palestine in if hamas were in control. the politics totally taken over the event this year overshadowed it utterly . and let's move on now utterly. and let's move on now and get the thoughts of gb news presenter camilla tominey. camilla, welcome to the show. of course, the camilla tominey show 930 directly after this, the most watched politics show on a sunday morning. fantastic viewing figures with excellent guests. what's on your menu

today ? today? >> well, quite a lot as you'd imagine . >> well, quite a lot as you'd imagine. martin. >> well, quite a lot as you'd imagine . martin. lovely to see imagine. martin. lovely to see you and nana presenting breakfast. we've had pretty busy week, haven't we? the natalie elphicke defection continues to dominate the sunday newspapers , dominate the sunday newspapers, so i'm going to get the perspective from both the conservatives and indeed labour. i'm going to be speaking to deputy foreign secretary andrew mitchell. of course, we will cover all of the foreign affairs. we'll talk about what's going on in the middle east. we'll talk about ukraine. but i also want to ask him whether natalie elphicke is a loss to his party. i think the labour leader, keir starmer, might be scratching his head this morning wondering if this was a good idea. we've now got coverage in the sunday times and the mail on sunday about natalie elphicke having put pressure on former justice secretary robert buckland after her ex—husband charlie elphicke , was convicted charlie elphicke, was convicted of sexually assaulting two women, labour, we think knew this at the time and there's been some question marks raised about sue gray and whether she knew this was going on when she

was looking after sort of mps ethics and propriety. so i think what seemed to be a promising story earlier in the week, this idea of a conservative, quite a right wing conservative crossing the floor to labour, is now come back to bite starmer . i'll be back to bite starmer. i'll be speaking to jonathan ashworth about that. i'll also want him to cost up angela rayner's new deal for workers plan. there's an interesting story on the front of the sunday express this morning, guys saying that that plan and she wants to give all workers a pay rise. obviously the trade unions are all over it. how much will it actually cost ? because the policy cost? because the policy exchange seems to think that pay rises up to a minimum of £15 an hour for public sector workers will cost 9 billion. and i'd like to know from jonathan ashworth , who's kind of labour's ashworth, who's kind of labour's resident attack dog these days , resident attack dog these days, how much that's actually going to cost the taxpayer because the policy exchange thinks it's going to put £255 on people's council tax bills. >> yeah, camilla, we covered that story in the paper review earlier, and we were just astonished to believe this, this

notion, okay. you know, paying your union dues. if you're a union member to get a result is one thing, but expecting the everyday taxpayer, the rank and file briton who might not sign up to this to cough up for the bill, it's an astonishing thing to expect. is this a taste of what the labour party might be offering us? camilla >> well, who knows, and i'd like to know from jonathan ashworth. i mean, they're often batting off my questions by saying we haven't come up with the manifesto yet, but i mean, he should be able to answer the bafic should be able to answer the basic question, which is, are you going to tax people more to pay you going to tax people more to pay for these big spending plans ? because rachel reeves, the woman who wants to be the first female chancellor herself, has been saying in the week the economic picture is dire , for economic picture is dire, for the conservatives are gaslighting voters when it comes to the state of the economy, so they're not going to inherit any money. therefore one wonders how they're going to be able to pay for some of these pledges . they for some of these pledges. they also keep on mentioning the windfall tax, which seems to have been spent in their minds about 100 times. i'm also going to just test the music of how tories are feeling at the moment

, but i'm going to be speaking to george eustice, who is the former environment secretary who has decided to stand down at the next general election and then also speak to boris johnson ally conor burns, who's deciding to run even though he's in quite a marginal constituency of 10,000. i just want to know, after elphicke and with everything that's being said about rishi sunak's plan not working, what they make of the state of the conservatives i note richard holden, the party chairman, has given an interview to the sunday express today saying we can still win the next general election. we've got this great plan that's going to blow starmer out of the water. do these two mps agree? >> oh, camilla, i'd also be interesting to find out about labour's plans to add the 20% vat onto private schools or independent schools, because it seems that lots of people now, they've got a 2.7% reduction already in parents applying for these schools, and they're expecting that in september. thatis expecting that in september. that is set to get worse . our

that is set to get worse. our labouris that is set to get worse. our labour is still focused on that because it seems to be a law of diminishing returns . diminishing returns. >> i agree, and interestingly, i did speak to one of keir starmer's closest aides about this fairly recently, said he is vehemently sticking to this pledge . to scrap vat relief for pledge. to scrap vat relief for private schools. but i've never been able to get an answer nana to the question of what labour will do with the children who do not go to private school this september because the parents can no longer afford the fees. so we've seen applications already down by 2.7. that means that all of those children will now have to be accommodated into the state sector. i've asked this of bridget phillipson, the shadow education secretary, repeatedly if, as the independent schools council predicts, 40,000 kids may not end up continuing with their private schooling because their parents can't afford it, where are they going to be accommodated? a labour going to put up temporary classrooms ? put up temporary classrooms? because, let's be honest, even if they're not in power by september, we're expecting an election later than that. these

parents will probably pull the kids out now, expecting there to be a labour government . be a labour government. literally. what happens to these kids? >> camilla, just finally reflecting on the natalie elphicke defection, do you think it's been the most disastrous defection of all time? it seems that nobody is happy about it. the voters aren't happy . the the voters aren't happy. the conservative party are unhappy. the labour party sure is damned. aren't happy. is anybody happy? it seems to have been a terrible miscalculation all across the board . board. >> yeah, it does seem to have been self—defeating. i mean, initially when that news broke at just before prime minister's questions, everyone was like, what? because she had been associated with being quite right wing, and she'd been so critical of labour that my first reaction was, well, if she's defected, it must have been to reform. she's in dover. clearly, immigration is a worry down there to then find out she's gone to labour, a party that she spent most of her political career attacking . then you've career attacking. then you've got people in dover. i mean, you have to think of the constituents . i have to think of the constituents. i mean, have to think of the constituents . i mean, this is constituents. i mean, this is sort of shows the worst of

politics. does it does she really think that the good people of dover are quite happy to wake up one morning with a tory mp and then the next labour? we had some readers writing to in the telegraph, and the day after she defected , some the day after she defected, some of them were receiving tory leaflets through their door from natalie elphicke, praising rishi sunak and attacking keir starmer. and now she's changed sides. it's bizarre. >> yeah, camilla, it will be funny if it weren't so tragic. but anyway, fantastic show coming up as ever. camilla tominey show 930 straight after us. make sure to stay glued for that. us. make sure to stay glued for that . thanks, camilla. always a pleasure. >> right, well, it is time now for the great british giveaway and your chance to enjoy a spectacular summer with an extra £20,000 cash in your bank. it's the biggest cash prize of the year so far. and here's how it could be yours. >> you really could be our next big winner with an incredible £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer. what would you

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nana. >> good morning. if you've just tuned in. where have you been sleeping in your bed. yes. that makes perfect sense. it's just coming up to 19 minutes after 9:00 this morning. you're watching and listening to breakfast with me and martin nana akua martin. >> thank you very much. now, an official scheme to deliver portraits of the king has been extended. it now includes hospitals , coast guard centres, hospitals, coast guard centres, job centres, universities, church of england churches and other public institutions . well other public institutions. well gb news political correspondent olivia utley sat down with deputy prime minister oliver dowden to find out more . dowden to find out more. >> can you explain to gb news viewers what the scheme is and why you're expanding it?

>> yes. well, following the coronation last year, we thought it would be appropriate to make sure that public institutions up and down the country could have and down the country could have a portrait of his majesty the king. he is, after all, the ultimate public servant and just as portraits of his late mother hungin as portraits of his late mother hung in buildings up and down the country, so too already are these portraits hanging in many thousands of buildings. and so today i'm announcing a further extension. so new institutions can have a portrait of the king, whether that's hospitals, whether that's hospitals, whether it's the church of england churches, coast guards and others. more more public institutions will be able to hang a portrait of the king. >> will you be expanding the scheme to include other places of worship like synagogues? >> not at this stage. we've taken the decision that because the king is the supreme governor of the church of england , he of the church of england, he leads that institution in the way that he does many other pubuc way that he does many other public institutions. so it's appropriate to have a portrait of him are being provided by the

government. of course, we would very much welcome other institutions having a portrait of the king. and indeed, when i attend synagogues , one of the attend synagogues, one of the things we do at the end of almost every service is to sing the national anthem. so i know how committed the jewish community is to the king. >> why did it take a labour mps intervention for you to take this step and expanding the scheme? >> well, actually, i initiated this scheme many months ago and agreed funding with the treasury. many thousands of institutions have taken it up, but because we've managed to run this contract so efficiently and get the cost of individual portraits down, it means there's essentially headroom in the contract to be able to open this up to further institutions. it had always been my hope that we could extend it further, but we just had to see what the take up was in the initial phase. >> what do you make of channel 4? refusing to hang a portrait of the king in their studios? >> well, i find it a little disappointing and somewhat, i'm afraid to say, unsurprising . the afraid to say, unsurprising. the king is a unifying figure for the entire nation. i hope they

reconsider that. >> yeah, that channel 4 refusing to put a portrait of the king in the studio. >> yeah, they did that at magdalen college, i think at oxford university in 2021. they they voted to take down a portrait of the queen, the late queen elizabeth the second, because they said it reminded them of our colonial past. i wonder how many institutions won't take them up on this offer for that precise reason, universities might think they have a portrait of the king. is racing or you know what i mean? there's this absurd. >> really. look, it's the king. he's the king of the united kingdom. this is our country. so a little bit of patriotism wouldn't go amiss. it's not racist or being. you're not being a colonialist or whatever it is by putting that up there that he represents this country on a global scale, that's all it is. >> if they agree the wokeist that run these organisations now, they might find something as innocent as a royal portrait triggers them. >> well, a lot of them are

benefiting from so—called slavery. in fact, some of us are actively participating in it by using laptops, ipads and everything else. >> right. well, staying with the royals now, meghan markle, of course, has opened up about her children during the second day of the duke and duchess of sussex's tour of nigeria. >> now, this came after harry and meghan met with nigeria the unconquered, which creates the country's team for the invictus games, and the couple watched a game of sitting volleyball before harry was invited and played a few rounds with the team himself. and earlier we spoke to former royal correspondent michael cole . correspondent michael cole. >> magic of monarchy, carries on evenin >> magic of monarchy, carries on even in 61 years after, nigeria and the most populous country in africa became a republic and everybody is there very, very keen to see the khalife , the two keen to see the khalife, the two andindeed keen to see the khalife, the two and indeed the meghan . the and indeed the meghan. the duchess has been addressed as princess and i'm quite sure she enjoyed that. she's been saying quite a lot nana about, the 43,

nigerian , heritage antecedents nigerian, heritage antecedents that she has . and i'm just that she has. and i'm just wondering, does that mean that 57% is german? because i think her father, thomas markle, is descended from german immigrants to, the united states of america. all of this goes on there. she is speaking to women in leadership, in abuja, the capital of nigeria. and there they are out meeting people. of course, this is, an not a royal visit. it's a visit by two private royal personages , both private royal personages, both of them. there in their personal capacity. and, what i think this is very important for is netflix . of course, this produces a lot of good new material for their netflix offerings, their, their podcasts and their other programs because they have a very big contract, $100 billion

with netflix to produce new material. and you can't do that if you're forever sitting within your khalife to camelot on a hilltop at montecito. you've got to get out there with the people how. >> now. >> that's it from us today. breakfast will be back tomorrow at 10 am. i'm back at three, but up next is camilla tominey martin. it's been a pleasure. same here. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for your company. stay tuned . stay tuned. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast from the met office. looking ahead to today most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. but for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the

afternoon, many western and northern parts seeing some showers. and these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the sunshine feeling very warm. highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner . into down towards the south eastern corner. into this evening. the showers continue to rumble on, especially across parts of northern england and scotland. some torrential downpours developing here overnight. elsewhere turns drier but fairly cloudy but under the cloud it's going to be a mild night. temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. so for most it should be a dry start on monday. still some showers up across scotland , some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. but then down towards the south—west we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. come the afternoon . elsewhere, a largely afternoon. elsewhere, a largely dry picture. best of the sunshine over towards the east. but for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs

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gb news. away. >> good morning. welcome to the camilla tominey show on this beautiful sunday morning. great to have your company as ever. another week in westminster, another defection from the tory party to labour right wing conservative mp natalie. natalie elphicke's decision to cross the floor of the commons has sparked controversy, and i'll be getting the reaction from both sides of the reaction from both sides of the house. i'll be speaking to deputy foreign secretary andrew mitchell about the government's rwanda plan, the war in gaza and whether rishi sunak can win back tory voters . i'll be joined by tory voters. i'll be joined by labour's jonathan ashworth, the shadow paymaster general, to

discuss keir starmer's plan to stop the boats. will