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Good evening and welcome to Navaralive.

My name is Stephen Methan and tonight I'm joined by Dr Mike Bancolle. Mike, how are you doing?

Yeah, very well. I'm so glad this team is back. Just last week we actually reflected on how I was the co-host for your first show. So we've come full circle. Delighted to be on the show with you tonight.

Yeah, indeed you were. And it's been a very long time since we have been on the show together.

And I'm really, really excited about it.

Coming up tonight, Russia violates the partial ceasefire it agreed to just yesterday.

Israel's brutal assault on Gaza intensifies.

And a Navarra media exclusive on how the police spent three million pounds

cracking down on one, just one, peaceful protest. Let's go to our first story. Kier-Starmer's

Labour government announced the full scale of their cuts to disability and incapacity benefits

yesterday, and ever since, Labour ministers and MPs have been appearing on our screens,

absolutely revealing themselves to the public. On Channel 4 News, work in pension secretary,

Liz Kendall, the actual architect of the biggest bonfire of benefits since the austerity government,

was asked how many people would lose their benefits as a result of the plans.

What people have actually told us is around a third of people on sickness and disability

benefits say they want to work at some point in the future, particularly if their health

improves. And around 200,000, 200,000 say they would work right now if they got the right

support. Now, under the Tories, they were written off and then blamed to get a cheap headline.

We say no more of that. We are investing at one billion pounds in employment support.

I think that that is the biggest investment in sick and disabled people's opportunities to work that we've ever seen, to get them on a pathway to success. And what I would say to your viewers is this. I know for some people, getting out of bed in the morning is a major achievement, getting out of the house, going along to a voluntary or community group, you know, let alone work and skills. That's what you mean. It is a pathway, but I do not accept the current system

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