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2024 GB news is Britain’s election [Music] Channel very good evening it’s 6 o’clock bank holiday Monday JS and Co with me be Turner tonight the Gaza conflict has played a pivotal role in the local election results and now a Muslim pressure group is holding K dama to Ransom over demands to cut military ties with Israel and a whole lot more is it right the international conflict are having such an impact on British politics and of course we’re being told to cycle more and more instead of taking the car but as a speeding cyclist escapes prosecution after a fatal collision with a pensioner has the law failed to keep up with the dangers that cyclists can pose to pedestrians and they’re at it again University students this time from Oxford and Cambridge occupying campus Lawns with prop Palestinian camps in an echo of the protest that have swept America they say it’s because the universities support Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza do you agree with them do they even know do you think what they’re protesting about plus are you pastoral to whatsapps and voice notes or would you rather a good oldfashioned straight talking phone call while a quarter of generations Ed have never answered the phones according to a new survey what does this mean for the future of humanity and relationships [Music] get in touch this evening GB news.com your say all of that in the next hour first so the very latest news headlines with [Music] Ray thanks B of our top stories tonight Rishi sunak says he’s determined to fight and the next general election is not a foregone conclusion the prime minister is calling for Unity among Tor MPS after saying that he believes Britain could be heading for a hung Parliament the conservatives lost hundreds of council seats and the West Midlands mayor Alti results rishy sunak described as bitterly disappointing but he appears to not be giving up what the independent analysis shows that whilst of course this was a disappointing weekend for us that the result of the next general election isn’t a foregone conclusion and indeed actually is closer than or the situation is closer than many people are saying or indeed some of the opinion polls are predi and that’s why I’m absolutely determined to fight incredibly hard for what I believe and for the future country that I want to build and that’s what I’m going to do well labor chair Analise dods says the labor party will win a majority local elections are not a good predictor of general elections if you just look at the overall vote share which is what he seems to have done uh for example very small parties tend to do far better in local elections Independents tend to do better and if you look at the places where labor won where labor picked up support it was in those constituencies that labor will need in order to deliver a majority labor government so I’m afraid Rishi sunak has got this wrong he’s tened he should be listening to that message to actually give people the chance for change libd leader s ed Davy says he’ll table a motion of no confidence in the government in an effort to pressure Rishi sunak to call a June general election s ed claims the disaster local election results show the country has in his words had enough of Rishi sunak and his outof touch government the motion will be tabled when Parliament returns tomorrow new SNP leader John swinny says he’ll seek to build a coalition of the willing to focus on Scotland’s problems but won’t Resurrect The Power sharing deal with the Scottish Greens in his acceptance speech Mr swinny called for Unity and said that the polarization of politics does not serve the country well Mr swine’s appointment was unopposed and he’s expected to be voted in as Scotland’s first Minister later this week Mr swinny paid tribute to his predecessor ago well even a week ago I didn’t think that my future would involve standing here accepting the leadership of the Scottish national party things have turned out differently and before I say any more about my leadership I want to pay tribute to Hamza yusf he’s conducted himself throughout the last year with Grace and with dignity in some acutely difficult circumstances met police detectives have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed in a street fight in East London on Sunday night the 38-year-old was found with a single wound just off of a busy High Road in bethnal green Scotland Yard says that officers are still working to inform the victim’s family with for formal identification yet to take place well in the US Donald Trump has been fined and threatened with jail by the judge in his hush money trial the former US president has been ordered to pay $1,000 for violating a gag order it prohibits him from making public comments about jurors Witnesses and families of the judge and his prosecutors judge Juan mashan described Mr Trump’s actions as willful and has warned him that he could face jail as the f are not deterring him Heineken plans to reopen 62 pubs that closed earlier this year the Dutch company says it will invest almost 40 million pounds creating 1,000 new jobs It also says plans to refurbish more than 600 of its establishments will turn them from tired pubs into premium locals and gun salutes have rung out across the capital marking the first anniversary of King Charles’s coronation a 62 gun salute rang out from Tower Warf 41 volleys were fired earlier by the king’s troop Royal Horse artillery in Green Park in central London the Archbishop of Canterbury has also paid tribute to the king’s sense of Duty after his return to public life and says that crowning him was the privilege of a lifetime for the latest stories sign up to GB news alerts by scanning the QR code on your screen or go to GB news.com / alerts now it’s back to [Music] Bev very good evening it’s 606 I hope your bank holiday hasn’t been a complete wash out and if you are sat in traffic trying to get home stay with us until 7:00 it is Bev Turner this evening and with me political commentator Benedict Spence and former labor advisor and writer Scarlet Maguire thank you both so much for giving up your bank holiday evening to be here on GB news get in touch with us at home GB news.com your say so we are digesting events of Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday the green party is now investigating a counselor who shouted Alo Akbar after being elected and said that Palestine had the right to fight back this is moin Ali he won the gibon and hair Hills award award in leads with more than 3,000 votes Thursday’s local elections have a listen we will not be silent we will raise the voice of we will raise the voice [Applause] of so angry scenes actually there there were people off camera that you couldn’t see basically telling him to put a sock in it uh the green party spokesman has said that they are investigating issues which were drawn to our attention in relation to counselor moin Ali so cannot comment further however we are clear that we never support anything that extols violence but uh Benedict this Gaza issue has played a pivotal role in these local elections we’ve now got a Muslim group holding K starma to Ransom over 18 points that they want to see an acted if labor are going to get uh their votes your assessment of this situation and how we’ve got to this place I mean in the short term it’s not going to it’s not going to prevent Sak sta from becoming prime minister I don’t think uh medium to long term it is a headache for him to have sort of for the labor party to have lent so heavily uh into uh I suppose if you want to say a form of identity politics in certain parts of this country um to have done that and sort of rely on those votes as just being you know sort of a guaranteed thing I think was very foolish um I think they’ll have done that based on the idea that they those votes probably wouldn’t ever go to the conservative party but I think um as we’ve seen with the success of George Galloway and Rochdale and in these local elections actually Gaza is playing a role it is cutting through I think a lot dependent candidates that will stand absolutely if this could be harnessed by a political party or you know just a coalition of people it could cause serious problems for sarm and the labor party in general down the line um as I say short term I don’t think it’s going to block his sort of path but this is I think a very concerning thing because this isn’t I don’t think simply a question of uh uh people saying that what’s happening in gazer is uh unacceptable and disgraceful I think that there is um a broader element to it which does need to concern people which is that this is very clearly a pep project of a lot of people and I don’t say that to be flippant but it is very obvious that a lot of people are taking what’s happening to Gaza uh very closely to heart in a way that they aren’t taking other conflicts around the world to Heart these people have no interest in what’s happening in daur or xinhang or rakine where actual genocides are happening uh these people have absolutely no interest in that it’s the one that involves the Jewish state but one of the things that does need to be sort of pointed out is that a lot of these people are from uh three different backgrounds Bengali Kashmir and Pakistani in general what do those countries all actually have in common they are all neighbors of Israel and sorry not Israel India they don’t get on particularly well with India and they have been to war in the very recent past with India so these people get very angry about Gaza fine humanitarian issues uh around that you can make a Justified case for it what happens if a war breaks out between those between Pakistan and India for example you know the government in India is very aggressively Hindu nationalist it is quite belligerent um you know it’s not in a sort of a conciliatory mood uh when when it comes to Pakistan which is itself also a country in turmoil what is to say that these people might not switch their attention from putting pressure on the labor party over Gaza to say turning their attention to the labor party when it’s in government and saying well you need to be supporting Pakistan over our actual Ally which is India in that situation so Scarlet this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of potentially International Muslim Islamic countries conflicts being brought into the political landscape here I think I think we have to understand that what’s actually really happening is is that a lot of Muslims feel that their fellow religionists that that Muslims in uh in Gaza are being killed are being killed in their thousands and that Britain is not standing up for them enough now this isn’t about foreign things I mean it we we completely accept that Jews feel very strongly about Israel right absolutely no question about it so why can’t Muslims feel equally strongly about Gaza I I mean I think and that’s what we have to understand is that it’s it’s it’s about that I mean I I think I think that um that that that this whole thing about we’re really worried about them putting pressure on kiss Dharma I mean it’s just not going to work is it not going to work because I but I think what what Benedict is saying is that there is a fa a faction of people in this country who are weaponizing this conflict in order to gain more power in this country and ideologically enact out International conflicts which and the power is there more than 4 I have to say one of the things I think yeah it must be said I I do think that the labor party going to win a majority of the next general election but there is a line of thought I know that the tours are sort of clinging on to it desperately saying oh well there could be a hung Parliament there’s not but there is a line of thought that could say that actually it won’t be a large majority you only need a few constituencies to be made up of people who feel very strongly about an issue and I wouldn’t just say Gaza you know it’s something else uh needs we do need to bear in mind is um people who are very Pro rejoining the European Union actually in certain other areas that the labor party is targeting very strongly about that it you you can apply pressure to the governing party if you have the numbers in that sense but again you know you say it’s not about international issues it’s about Muslims feeling very strongly about what’s happening to other Muslims I go back to what I said at the start they don’t care about what happens to Muslims in other genocides where it is about religion what’s happening in Jin Jang and rakan what happened in Sri Lanka to the tamils was about religion ultimately they don’t care about that it’s the one that involves the Jewish State and that I think is very dangerous we can’t actually just you know dismiss it and say ah well it is about you know a religion and they feel justified in this all of that sort of melts away when you consider that they’re absolutely fine when it’s other groups doing it to Muslims that don’t matter so much they’re not absolutely fine and and uh there are no there are no Marchers about what’s happening in they’re not standing they’re not standing for election right can I speak yes right I so what I saying is is is actually the so there are two things the marches are not just Muslims let let’s get this absolutely clear yes there are Jewish are massive not there are Jewish people but there are lots of who can’t speak Hebrew fun enough actually there are Jews who can speak Hebrew but let’s let’s let’s say that there also on the marches there are a lot of people who are secular I mean who were brought people like me who are brought up Christian right so the marches are massive and and they’re inter denominational right so I I just think this whole what worries me is that we’re getting into a Muslims are terrible we we need to be worried about Muslims we need to be worried about the most vote I mean actually you know if if if you look at it I mean I’m not sure that it happens anymore but certainly in the big abortion votes you know the Catholics would do it the any MP you talk about to any MP and I’m sure it’s the same with the conservatives but certainly I know with labor MPS that during the election they have group after group saying we’re not going to vote for you unless you do XY Z so whether the Muslims are better this particular Muslim group and remember to put it mildly it does I mean it doesn’t even involve most of the Muslim labor MPS this group so why are people a little more frightened of this because I think they’re making the people who are frightened are people like GB news and the daily mail it is not people in the labor party what the labor party realizes is that when Kier starma said very mistakenly that uh Israel had a right to stop Aid and food and water getting into Gaza that he was utterly utterly wrong so what what what is it then about the Daily Mail and GB news viewers that might find this concerning I mean I would speculate it’s because we’re fed up with life in this country and when a local counselor stands up to accept his Applause for winning I want him talking about the potholes the rubbish the street lighter all of the stuff that affects British people right now which is grinding us down every day our local Transport Systems not to stand up there and say Al Akbar this is for G this this is a counselor who probably I mean I I have absolutely no idea and it’s the green party who will probably no longer be a green party counselor we’re talking about one counsel who was to put it mildly pretty stupid right I mean it was unbelievable how stupid he was right and and obviously the green party had not checked him out before he became their counselor but but there were thousands of people standing for election and most of them of whatever religion they were are are interested in potholes and the count and the cost of living and to pick up are they Benedicts I I go back to what I said at the start this isn’t about Islam and people being scared about Muslims it’s about Jews and people hating Jews that’s what this is about um ultimately I think that this is a hijacking of what you say hijacking of local issues clearly this is something that matters to a lot of people more than local issues uh to which I would say and I would Echo actually what was just said about the candidate that’s a very stupid thing to care about because actually your standard of living will go down if all you do is try and pass motions condemning Israel at Alm or you know leads County Council or whatever it is that’s not going to change anybody’s life I do think the majority of people in this country are fed up with how it’s being run but this goes to show actually what just a little bit of motivation and a little bit of organization can do in terms of putting pressure on politics at a larger scale well that is a very good point because the Muslim communities are very organized when it comes to politics and in a way you can’t blame them if you look I’ve just said that most Muslim labor MPS do not even support this Muslim vote thing most Muslim councilors do not support it so there are some but if K St feels if K starma knows how engaged the Muslim Community is in this country and he thinks he might need them to get him over the line if he thinks that George Galloway and Independence are sufficiently powerful that they will steal the vote he may have to capitulate some of these Comm you can speculate I’m trying to tell you what’s going to happen that K I’m missing Meg all we’re all speculating no I’m not speculating because actually I do know what’s happening in the labor party and they’re not going to accept this it is really simple yes but how can a a Lobby group feel empowered to make demands like this against kiss Dharma one of which is commit 7% of public sector pension pensions to Islamic funds and I and ethical funds actually F I’ve just said I’ve just said it’s not going to happen right it’s not going to happen anymore anymore than the Catholics hold on than the Catholics who say we will not vote for you unless you oppose abortion right we will not vote for you unless you change timings when when you’re an MP I don’t see those people I did not see those people using abortion 40 people using that at the center of their Council election campaign no I’m saying this is this has always happened you you wait you wait until we get assisted dying right and the churches will say you and you will get lots and lots of Catholics writing saying we will not support you unless you oppose Catholic City dying it has always happened and the people you know the people against for the ethical treat M of animals will say we will not support you unless you oppose Viv section honestly B but they are winning Council seats in the same way um one of these demands issue guidance that Muslims are allowed to pray at school that is related to the Katherine bble sing case recently this is you’re right to say that actually that these uh these communities tend to be a lot more politically organized but I think Scarlet’s also right to say that this probably isn’t going to happen on SEC starms watch because actually I think his record on anti-Semitism in the party proves that he does take that very seriously but that’s why did say it’s not going to happen in the short term I’m thinking more towards the medium term if the labor party is put under pressure say you know he’s housed as leader for some reason say it’s uh he is replaced by somebody who’s a lot more hawkish on Israel you can’t necessarily make those guarantees because of course the previous Labor uh leader was somebody who I think would have capitulated on pressure when it came uh to things like Israel so you can’t make those guarantees I would say that I think sakama has done a pretty good job of trying to root out anti-Semitism in the labor party we have to remember how bad it was but that doesn’t mean that the job is done yet and it doesn’t mean that anti-semites will not try to put pressure on him on other MPS on local councils in any way that they can and we have a problem of islamophobia in the Tory party I mean you know the same it’s oh oh my word it is not the same there is nobody calling for a genocide of Muslims in this country there is no country actually trying there’s no Western country currently trying to you know prosecute a genocide of Muslims and all of this comes after an attack on Israeli civilians by an organized genocidal organization that’s what prompted this and to try no try to alliz it by saying oh that there’s also a problem of islamophobia and the T party they are not the same because this I tell you what show me the Tory counselor that is chanting genocidal slogans you against getting rid of that person does not exist and is both sides Alo abbar is not a genocidal slogan but of course from the river to the sea is he didn’t say that no but we’re talking about this broadly in the round AR we are talking about that he didn’t say that this is one individual but as bever said there are lots of people who are standing but you’re saying what you think they might have said which which I’m saying that no I’m saying what I’ve heard on marches I’ve heard demonstrations I’ve heard now telling me that counselors have said it and they haven’t said it I tell you what let’s just wait let’s wait a year let’s wait and see if cath has actually got in touch and said kiss sty or k kiss arm already capitulated when he got s Lindsay Hoy to change the parliament debates she’s right I’d sort of forgotten that that was about whether the not about capitulating to Muslims actually that was that was a sort of a trickery about a vote and it was about it was actually about not capitulating to the S&P it was it was it was very very I mean to to go into what actually happened where I frankly think that nobody behaved very well I don’t I don’t think theories I don’t think labor behaved well that wasn’t capitulating Benedict is right he’s not going to capitulate but actually I don’t I I just don’t see it happening but what what what we have to do is we have to not not insult the Muslim and what they feel is I mean what a lot of Muslims feel is that labor is not saying enough about tens of thousands people been and also they could say what they want it’s not going to change anything in the Middle East it’s not like Benjamin Netanyahu is suddenly going to say oh moin Ali and leads suddenly he’s been elected and he said I like B right I better stop bombing Gaza I tell you what we’ve also just seen the double standards there though saying we’re not allowed to insult Muslims but Catholics are perfectly acceptable group to beat what their views are that’s perfectly fine to just you I didn’t insult we can’t insult the Muslims but Catholicism that’s that’s fair game what I said about the Catholics is that when abortion came up a lot of Catholics encouraged by their priests wrote I mean this is just a fact wrote to MPS saying we will not vote for you if you if I sat here and I said something got to wind up uh that anyway that’s just for part one the Muslim Council of Britain Secretary General Zar Muhammad has said these election results are a wakeup call to all parties politicians can’t take anyone for granted especially not British Muslims the dissatisfaction with politicians is palpable and the response to the atrocities in Gaza is only the tip of the iceberg right coming up we’re told to cycle more and more of course but as a speeding cyclist escapes prosecution after a fatal collision with a pensioner has the law failed to keep up with the dangers that cyclists can pose to pedestrians this is J onco on J news with me Beth Turner don’t go [Music] anywhere I’m Andrew Doyle join me at 7:00 every Sunday night for free speech Nation the show where I tackle the week’s biggest stories in politics and current affairs with the help of my two comedian panelists and a variety of special guests Free Speech Nation Sunday nights from 7 on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel every Sunday from 11: join Michael Portillo there will be topical discussion looking at the week before and the week to come so kick back and relax at 11:00 a.m. on Sundays on GB news with me Michael Portillo GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel Nana aquer weekends from 300 p.m. JK Rowling has accused politicians of snuggling up to trans campaigners the Harry Potter author has called for an investigation into why political parties are embracing the language of protrans groups so is it time to ditch campaign groups such as those well welcome again to Michael asers former labor party adviser Matthew lza also businessman and activist Adam Brooks I think the cast report is really welcome I think there’s been a huge amount of agreement including from some trans rights campaigners that there’s an awful lot of good in the cast report I think that I’m more concerned about mermaids which is currently under a charity commission uh investigation uh and some of the reports if they’re to be believed like sending out chest binders are more alarming I think on Stonewall which has been has done such great work over the past 30 years uh uh on LGBT Right Said two-year-olds could be trans now that that is one of the most horrifying things I read today actually JK rowand tweeted that out there to say that a 2-year-old can think that they can be another gender when my four-year-old still thinks she’s Elsa on some days you know there’s no common sense and and it to me it’s very very badly phrased it’s very sinister that these people actually believe that these kids want to change gender and and unfortunately out there there are parents that almost see a trans kid as a fashion accessory now and I think this whole um agenda has pushed on people that this is normal to change gender and we have to push back and as I said earlier to be trans is not normal I I don’t agree with that I think I think I think a big step Adam but there are clearly people throughout history uh who who have been it’s not normal behavior is it I think for I think as far as children are concerned children needs to be given the space uh to um to explore the world and that can include experimenting with uh you know um uh breaking previous gender stereotypes that doesn’t mean that people should be sort of labed at the age of two which I completely uh disagree with good afternoon Britain good afternoon Britain weekdays from midday we bring you the most compelling stories from across the United Kingdom and why it matters to you from your doorstep to our inbox that’s right we want to hear from you good afternoon Britain only on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News [Music] Channel very good evening it’s 626 JBS and Co with me Beth Turner tonight keeping me company until 7 political commentator Benedict Spence and former labor advisor and writer Scarlet Maguire now a cyclist who collided with a pensioner could not be prosecuted because speed limit don’t apply to bicycles the man was going 29 M hour he’s doing timed laps around Regent Park in London and he hit 81-year-old Hilda Griffith as she crossed the road as she was trying to reach a pedestrian Island so the legal speed limit there is 20 M an hour and 59 days after the accident uh Miss Griffith died from head injury complications so we are encouraged to cycle more and more aren’t we but the law apparently seems to have failed to keep up with the dangers the bikes POs to pedestrians what do you think Scarlet are you a cyclist I’m a slow I’m a slow cyclist I will never ever be done for speeding and I don’t bicycle that much anymore but what what I find odd about this story is that I remember I mean it was years ago a cyclist being done in Cambridge uh in the middle of the night for exceeding the speed limit and he too was trying to race I mean I think the the big problem with cyclist so there were two problems is one is this guy was part was obviously he was in a peltin there was a whole bunch of them that were obviously trying to practice for racing I mean I think it was at something like 7 a.m. but the terrible problem if you’re trying to cross the road is you don’t hear them I mean that’s is I mean that’s that’s what happened to this woman is that clearly like I do quite often you know she went across the road didn’t look properly and bang um and and I think had she had he’ been going at under 20 I mean of course you know cyclists should stick to the speed limit of course there should be a speed limit but most cyclists do not go over 20 mil hour so although you can’t be done for speeding because that’s got to be only motorized vehicle cyclist can be fined for w and Furious cycling if bodily harm is inflicted on someone due to cycling you can get a two-year prison sentence most cyclists I see are cycling I would say as W and furiously I think in London certainly there is a culture around cycling where actually a lot of people do not behave particularly courteously should we say on that every day I see people jumping red lights always cyclist always men it must be said never women that I see doing always men of a certain age normally wearing light C oh yes do you know what actually having having got very upset about the generalizations of certain people early I’m happy to generalize this kind of cyclist because we all know who it is that we’re talking about I think the motorized vehicle thing I get why that exists but I do think it’s about well it’s a simple question of velocity actually if it doesn’t matter if riding a horse or riding a bike or whatever it is if you’re going at a certain speed and you hit somebody Point Blank you’re going to cause a lot of damage so it does apply to other Road users based simply on the fact that they are Road users it should apply to all I don’t think that it’s a very fair thing and as we say there is a culture we wouldn’t tolerate boy races in the middle of London like we do these cyclists and I do think actually it’s about time simply because of the general culture around uh cycling that I see certainly in the capital city I know that it might be different elsewhere in the countryside and it’s you know perfectly fine to go sort of 30 40 m hour because you’re probably not going to come into contact with a lot of people but in those kind of builtup urban areas actually yeah I think you probably should have to but how do you police that then then we’re starting to go down the route of well cyclists therefore should have a registration plate or they should be wearing something which identifies them this this person um was prosecuted so there was no question that he was he was identified I mean the whole problem but he was in like you say he was in a pelaton he was in a group that were training for an event if you are a cyclist and you run over an old lady you can just cycle away no one’s ever going to know who you are yeah but but I know I mean a friend of mine a friend of mine who was on her way to interview President Obama was run down by a cyclist um and ended up in hospital uh and didn’t do the interview with with with Obama um so she was pretty bitter about it I can tell you and he technically he wasn’t breaking the law I mean she was crossing the road he was and he thought that that shouting at her was good enough and she just assumed it was her husband on there but there’s so much Fury and anger on the roads now cars versus bikes but right there that’s a sort of a opportunities to interview pres the president of the United States do not come along very often not that that should be the thing that sort of determines but it can ruin your day it can ruin your life it can kill you ultimately the end result of is is the same so you know whil I don’t think we do want to go down the route of you know saying have you got a license for this bike and having registration plates and all that if people can’t behave a certain way ultimately there will I think be more tolerance of government getting involved and saying well hang on no if if enough people are misbehaving then that’s what’s going to happen and so you do have to kind of turn around to people and say well look if you don’t want this to happen maybe don’t behave a certain way whilst you’re cycling along because you will ruin it for yourselves and for everybody else but who is this cycle culture for because it’s been subsequent governments it’s not just a Sadi KH issue although he has clearly pushed this through and he loves it started with Boris Johnson actually in his Boris B yeah but we’re talking about actually we’re talking about different sorts there are three different sorts of cyclist that we’ve discussed on this program there’s the pelaton and they were clearly RAC it was at 7 a.m. they par they they were in Regent Park they were tra they were going around the Inner Circle the Outer Circle and and they were training they were train so so when we’re not we’re not talking about the people Benedict is talking about these were people training and tragically there should have been some sort of Safeguard in place in that situation somebody a marshal or somebody watching or or and I think they probably thought that at 7 a.m. it was okay yeah then there’s then there’s the boring cyclists like me and there are an awful lot of us who just who just bicycle and frankly you know the man who mowed down my friend was a boring ordinary cyclist and then there are I I actually I’m more sympathetic to the deliver people because at least they’re working but but there are the people Benedict’s talking about who are just an absolute pain in the ass whether you are a pedestrian or an or I mean as a cyclist I I do find other cyclists can be dangerous Benedict one of our viewers Livy has got in touch and said this country has paid a fortune for bike lanes and that so the cyclist should pay some kind of license and insurance surely they insure them for theft because I was thinking that if you are a pedestrian hit by a cyclist and you can’t work again you’ve got no insurance well it’s not an unfair Point actually again well you can sue them but actually them if you can find them you can sue them but I think you know again people who have other kinds of vehicles you can’t drive them legally without some sort of insurance so maybe if you don’t necessarily need a license or registration plate maybe some sort of insurance would be good but you should be taking that out anyway on on on yourself at the very least because actually bikes do get stolen a lot uh people do get into accidents when it comes but you know the proliferation of cycling in this country I think it comes first and foremost it comes because a lot of the politicians go on to high office uh went to Oxford and Cambridge and there’s a lot of cycling there so ah this works for everybody they go to Europe and a lot of the cities are a lot smaller than our post-industrial cities and they think you can cycle everywhere in Bologna or Amsterdam wonderful everybody should do this and also it’s a like again you you sort of scarlet pointed out that there are several different types of cyclist actually when it comes to commuting it tends to be a young person without many strings don’t have children or anything like that they don’t actually have to cycle long distances so it’s it’s useful for a certain kind of person the sort of person who might want to live within say cycling distance of Westminster in central London it’s the sort of thing that certain people think this is very good it’s not the most practical thing terrible for parents this obsession with cycling is a nightmare for parents because and that’s why I think that these male politicians why why why because my day looks like getting the kids from school with a boot full of Supermarket shopping taking one to a netball team or taking one to a swimming club if we want our children to do activities we need to live in a city where we’ve either got amazing public transport and we do not have it but even if we had amazing public transport we as parents can’t give our children the life that they need and grandparents whilst we’re told to get on bikes in the rain on a cold day no nobody’s telling you to get on you you oh they are if you come on you have a choice no if the TR you don’t have a choice that’s my point is you don’t have a choice B you don’t have choice you just told me you have a car right you have a car live without that’s absolutely fine and you drive your children places so you have a choice I don’t have a car I have a choice I have a choice because actually where I live there is good public transport and for my East West things I take my bike we all we have a choice of course children I mean and actually I taught my kids how to ride a bike I mean I presume you have too no of course they can ride a bike of course they can but I wouldn’t want them going out in London I wouldn’t my eldest does ride an electric bike now and he and it’s CU it’s he can’t afford barely afford public transport so it’s so expensive so he goes out but I will not encourage my daughters to ride bicycles in London not at all and at the when they’re teenagers maybe it’s okay but actually when they’re younger when you want to get them to their activities how are you meant to do that on a bike well then that’s fine you you drive them I mean nobody’s saying that but you but with the UL with low traffic neighborhoods with all the cycle Lanes which means it’s bumper to bumper to bumper it takes hours to get anywhere in this city now and so the who’s part part of the problem is I think we’re talking we’re talking about a lot about cities well no very rarely people actually ever talk about is the countryside where still half of the population live it’s much safer to ride a bike in the countryside but it takes you a lot longer to get to anywhere that you want to go and that’s actually where you know the concentration of uh motor vehicle users if you want to use them is most important because also public transport is where I’m from if you want to get to the nearest city there is one every hour it does not always come exactly on the hour and if you miss it well good luck you got to wait for the next one and they’ve cut back on those Services although actually I would say if you’re in Devon or some places where I was brought up cycling is not safe no it’s not even an option yeah very good point right still to come this evening University students this time Oxford and Cambridge occupying campus Lawns with Pro Palestinian camps it’s echoing those protests that we’ve seen in America they say it’s because of University supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestines we’re going to be debating that in just a moment don’t go any anywhere jubes and Co with me Beth Turner hello there welcome to your latest weather for GB news it’s becoming drier over the next 24 hours but with light winds we could see some fog patches tonight developing and that’s thanks to an area of high pressure moving in which then stays with us for much of the week temperatures Rising particularly by the end of the week into the weekend highs of 24 or 25 in the best of the sunshine this evening time still some heavy thundery showers easing away the rain across Southeast England also moves out of the way most places dry overnight but that allows some M and fog patches to form in places under the cloudiest skies temperatures holding up though around 10 or 11 celius so Tuesday Morning a great start in places still the risk of some light rain and drizzle across central Northern parts of England into Southern Scotland but it does brighten up quite quickly for most parts of the UK best of the sunshine across Southern parts of England and Wales perhaps one or two heavy showers developing here later on in the 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until he makes everyone ride donkeys and I know what you mean it does feel a bit like that doesn’t it right uh talking of donkey Ben Benedict Spence is with me and SC I saw it coming in slow motion like a cycling accident we’ve been discussing actually the solutions to traveling around this city you’ve got it sorted haven’t you Benedict yeah cable cars cable cars bring on cable cars we were all told we’re going to be in flying cars by 2024 that actually we do have to remember that Boris did bring in on cable car and it’s the one bit that’s right there is actually a cable there is a cable right yeah okay so talking of donkeys University students this time from Oxford and Cambridge occupying campus Lawns with Pro Palestinian camps and we saw these similar protests in America this is what Oxford University look like this afternoon now they say it’s because the university support Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza there was also a protest this week as we’ve said in America and and this clip really caught my ey it’s the col Colombia protest leader uh Johanna King slotsky this is what she had to say I mean well I guess it’s ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students um do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you if the answer is no then you should allow basic I mean it’s crazy to say because we’re on an ivly campus but this is like basic humanitarian Aid we’re asking for like could people please have a glass of water just to be clear what what Johanna was asking for there was humanitarian Aid to their protest scholar because she said we we don’t want to starve to death whilst we are encamped in University I mean the stupidity the naivity of some of these students blows my mind no I I think it’s not so much stupidity and ivity as as entitlement and and not look when I was a university student I occupied the vice Chancellor’s office me and quite a lot of other people very successfully we won the day Nursery to stay free and we won hang on hang on hang on were you you were a student at the time yeah did you have children no I had a no but friends of mine had children so you protested in the office to keep the child care facility open at the University yes well that seems fairly logical quite like that it’s not quite the liberation of an entire country I’m sorry Benedict that I wasn’t radical enough you know what actually I admire the fact that you aimed on you aimed for something constructive that could be achieved rather than this big picture stuff yeah but I I I think actually Scarlet’s right this is it I actually quite like looking at these ones at Oxford and Cambridge because the scale is very small and that tells me that the general population of these universities compared to these large American factories which just sort of churn out graduates for huge amounts of money we have a slightly I think better caliber than people at Colombia which is famous actually been famous um for many years now for sort of churning out activist graduates um Scarlet’s completely right this is about entitlement this is about people wanting to make the suffering of Palestinians the murder of of people in Israel about them and actually you see this with every sort of social issue in the United States be it black lives matter or whatever it is that kind of student that suddenly Don you know the the trinkets of the movement you know we we saw that person there wearing a kefia because of course you know having never been to Palestine that’s completely fine cultural appropriation is fine as long as you really care about it that’s what they do they make it all about themselves and you heard the language it’s about humanitarian age you want us to you know suffer and die of dehydration come on honestly this is not what your parents I don’t know whether you saw but um she had one of her fellow students in the background wearing the scarf but also a man wearing a little tiny crop top and little low slung jeans possibly a homosexual who if he was living in Gaza would be thrown off a building purely for having that preference does he get that does they understand what they’re protesting about no I mean I mean obviously not and and um it just you just think I mean as Benedict says don’t make it about about them actually um you know if you’re if you’re really serious about Gaza you have to think what should you be doing and not saying you know we need to be fed too the particularly the campus in in Colombia there were other ones in America they had to cancel Benedict the graduation ceremony yeah so if you’ve been at that University for four years and your parents have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and you want to go up go up and get your doctorate yourg these idiots and they actually spoke and they said well if at this time you think that’s important then you know I can’t help you this is more important how have we created a generation like that I mean honestly the codling of there is literally a book on this called the coddling of the American mind it’s you know it’s a phenomenon that’s been ongoing for some time but as you say you know this is not them that it’s necessarily paying this money this is uh loans in the worst case scenario and often parents are the best uh but what you’ve also seen and I think again this shows you the the different dynamics of play in the United States is the backlash from predominantly it must be said uh Jewish benefactors but not just Jewish benefactors also people who see the behavior and go what on Earth is it that I’m giving vast endowments to these universities for major Wall Street institutions other sorts of companies going do you know what actually we’re going to sever ties with this University if you’re going to continue to facilitate this at which point suddenly the police are called in and this all get shut down 2,000 people have been arrested in the United States because the universities have gone well actually we care more about the money and actually our alumni are saying they’re not going to give us any more endowments they’re not going to hire any of our graduates because they can see them do beh like this this doesn’t do a great deal for our reputation okay let’s hear what Oxford University said the spokesperson has made a statement they say we respect our students and staff members right to freedom of Express expression in the form of peaceful protest we ask everyone who has taken part to do so with respect courtesy and empathy well good luck with that right coming up a course of people aged 18 to 34 have told a survey that they have never answered their phone I’m not joking they much prefer a WhatsApp a text a Snapchat a voice note and what will this mean for the future of humanity yes we’re going to go there don’t go [Music] anywhere Britain’s Newsroom weekday mornings from 9:30 it’s a remarkable story isn’t it aming extraordinary and also she was UNF flappable appar the princess Ro just refused to get out of the car and said I’m not going anywhere extraordinary well Jim Beaton was awarded to George cross for protecting the princess and delighted to say joint us now along with the former head of Ro royalty protection D Davis Jim you won’t remember but I met you some time ago at the Imperial War Museum when Princess an was opening an exhibition to do with the George cross and you were there reunited with her um and you told me then what great admiration you had for the princess cool Under Fire but you didn’t do so badly yourself it was probably my job and also um I had a wee bit of police training not very much but a little bit whereas princess had nothing and yet the way she displayed it you would have thought she’d been highly trained to um deal with any type of that situation even though you’d had some training you took three bullets for the princess you effectively stood between her and a deranged gunman well I was supposed to be a Protection Officer really so um I just tried to fuddle about you must remember that back in 1974 there was no communication and we were extremely lucky that Michael Hills who was outside plan’s house in nearby had got one of the fash Police radios um or radios on his shoulder so he was able to send a message out otherwise who have just been relying in the good old public to phone in and say there’s something happening yeah so times have changed drastically are the newspapers getting you down my wife didn’t divorce me that month struggling to separate the wheat from the chap I know that it’s a bit of a circus at the best of times well don’t worry head lers has got you covered we’ll take the burden of reading the day’s news and if we get depressed who cares it’s an occupational hazard frankly that’s Headliners on GB news from 11:00 p.m. till midnight and the following morning 5: till 6:00 a.m. on GB news the comedy channel just kidding Britain’s News Channel I’m Patrick Christies every week night from 9: I bring you two hours of unmissable explosive debate and headline grabbing interviews what impact has that had we got death threats in the bomb threat and so on job is to do what’s in the best interest of our country you made my argument for me my guest and I tackle the issues that really matter with a sharp take on every story I’m hearing up and down the country that was a beginning not an end Patrick chrisy tonight from 9:00 p.m. only on GB news Britain’s News [Music] Channel now then a course where people aged 18 to 34 have said that they have never answered their phone when asked what they did if their phone rang they said they simply ignored it were these all my children some said they Googled the number or texted their friends and family back rather than calling them what does it mean for the future of humanity Benedict I’m not exaggerating I think this signals a deep problem with the socializing of our young people I mean you you think that it’s potentially going to sort of take us in a direction where you know no one will ever meet their Partners no one will ever have a child and Humanity will die out whereas I think it’s Darwinism I think it’s that kind of person that will die out and actually the strong Survive by going out and interacting with each other the chatty Will Survive Scarlet the chatty will inherit the earth it is amazing that before the telephone was invented we had Humanity isn’t it incredible well it’s amazing we’ve still got Humanity the way things are going with the telephone but when I was young I mean what people always complained about is teenagers always being on the phone and never ever be you never be able to get through to anybody because the teenager was on the phone and actually the thing about teenagers is they are good at communicating and they just choose their meth oh not anymore they’re not they’re not anymore going say famously certainly teenage boys were famously bad at Community well they’ve perfected a manner of communicating between each other using single syllables but yeah but how do how do you teenage girls y yep y an empire was built on how raise a generation of people that can even sell something for a business how do you sell something if you are frightened to pick up the phone when somebody Rings you well then I mean it has to change but what they might be doing different things they might I mean lots of people you know when we all when we all used the phone I knew people who said I just I hate it and I have to use it and you just you you just do it I mean I just think I think I think I think that actually we we do get overhyped about how terrible everything is and how Dreadful the young are they are Dreadful and all Dreadful there’s no good kids out cycling on my street what are they doing out there nobody knows up to no good everyone under 40 is a disaster Benedict and you’re you’re in this category absolutely but I mean I doing wheelies what are we like you know what you know one of the reasons why I think that teenagers and young people won’t pick up the phone and have a voice too conversation because they’re frightened of saying the wrong thing I do think there is something in that actually in in in a sort of way that you can’t quite manage what you’re saying I know this person I speak on television once it’s out of your mouth you can’t call it back you can take your time over actually writing what it is you’re going to write whereas if you say something out loud people interpret it theong way and also the less people interact with each other the less they understand each other’s ticks mannerisms the you know I can see entirely why that is but broadly speaking again I am a bit brutal about this I tend to think that those who are going to push on in life even if they have this sort of phenomenon of not being you know sort of particularly comfortable uh talking on the phone or in person whatever it might be at some point they’ll be forced to grow up and those who are going to be left behind will not grow up except that that generation not being forced to do because part of growing up is having conversations when you’re awkward and you’re shy and you want to avoid conversation that is how you become an adult and have difficult conversations they don’t have to anymore they just you know what do what my daughters do Scarlet to tell their friends where they are they just take a photo of themselves and just send that no words needed we’ve regressed no capital letter we’ve regressed back to the cave painting method of commun when mobile phones first came in and you suddenly realized that that I mean I remember picking up my son from University and in my day we made arrangements no they did it on the spot right because they had a mobile and so they’d go this is where we’re going in 10 minutes time I just think that you know that our children are incredibly adaptable and we don’t have to worry about them and Benedict’s right the ones that want to get on will do I’m all for I mean the number of texts that can be misinterpreted because you can’t hear the voice the ination irony really does not work on the written page um but you can joke about it exactly and that’s I think what this generation they’re going to be they’re in a real mess if they can’t string a sentence together and have a meaningful connecting conversation CU if you just send a message to somebody you don’t know how they are you need to be on the phone sometimes to just pick up everybody who knows me knows that everything I say is sarcastic or sardonic so actually they do interpret the text that way but I think if we’re talking about you know young people growing up we’ve had been having this conversation a lot recently about the use of mobile phones and social media earlier on in life take them away just actually if you’re concerned about them take the smartphones take the social media say it’s I know people say it’s difficult but you are doing it you doing it for the good of your the good of humanity what we’re talking about Scarlet Benedict we didn’t have enough time thank you so much I will be back on Britain’s Newsroom at 9:30 tomorrow morning join me then up next though it’s Nel FR a brighter Outlook with box solar sponsors of weather on GB news hello there welcome to your latest weather for GB news it’s becoming drier over the next 24 hours but with light winds we could see some fog patches tonight developing and that’s thanks to an area of high pressure moving in which then stays with us for much of the week temperatures Rising particularly by the end of the week into the weekend highs of 24 or 25 in the best of the sunshine this evening time still some heavy thundery showers easing away the rain across Southeast England also moves out of the way most places dry overnight but that allows some fog patches to form in places under the cloudiest skies temperatures holding up though around 10 or 11 C so Tuesday Morning a gray start in places still the risk of some light rain and drizzle across central Northern parts of England into Southern Scotland but it does brighten up quite quickly for most parts of the UK best of the sunshine across Southern parts of England and Wales perhaps one or two heavy showers developing here later on in the afternoon temperatures rising to around 20 or 21° a little cooler further north under the cloud particularly northern isand southern